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Tomorrow's Un-Live Event
ONLY ONE DAY LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have attemped some ambitious projects in the past, but attempting to create a game-wide live event adventure with music.... in less than two weeks... well, this is one train wreck you will not want to miss. All you need to do is be in game on Friday... it starts at 8pm EST (5pm PST) but you should log in a little early. We will tell you how to get to the event from there!

If you are not able to make the event we are going to make it replayable -- but trust me, you will not want to miss our FIRST ever live adventure! Sure, we may pull a "Titanic" with our entire server cluster... <Kaaaaaaaaa-rash!>... hmm, wait.. was I really about to use watching us crash down in flames as a selling point for coming to the event?

How this all came to be... STORY TIME!
I promised that I would tell you the story behind this... it started two weeks ago when I was in New York on a SOOUS* mission. During my trip I saw many wonderous things (including a ball room full of Verizon executives doing the Macarana and the Electric Slide**) At the end of the quest Safiria had arranged a not-work-related-in-any-way dinner with Voltaire and myself***. We were telling stories and I told him about some of the things we were doing in the game. Specifically about how I wanted to try doing live events with guest stars. He asked me, "So when would you be ready to do something like this?". I looked him dead in the eyes and said, "There is another Friday the 13th in two weeks." And there you have it... LOL, that is EXACTLY how I keep getting myself in trouble like this. So Cysero and I wrote up an adventure based on Voltaire's lastest CD, To the Bottom of the Sea. Miltonius and J6 went to work on the art while Zhoom and Minimal attempted programming huge new features in the game to make this possible. Voltaire went to a recording studio on Monday and recorded sound bytes, dialog and... yes.. Voltaire will be our FIRST talking NPC in the game. We are just one day away and we are still waiting on a lot of the pieces to come in (like the boss fight mini-cutscene) so we can finishing putting them together. Do not worry.. I am sure we will be ready to test at um... <checks wrist sun dial> 7:50pm tomorrow! It is going to be close -- check back for more -- this is going to be interesting!

* The only organization that has a worse acronym than the Secret Order of Undead Slayers is the Sincerely Ubiquitous Champion Knights.
** As scary as this is, it is 100% true.
*** Safiria was sooooooooooo jealous that she was not there.

Friday the 13th Un-Live Event!
Happening THIS Friday at 8pm EST
Who would be crazy enough to board a ghost ship at night on Friday the 13th and sail through monster-infested waters in search of an uncharted island containing a cursed instrument? What.. you? Are you insane?!?!!?!?!! Good! You are hereby invited to join us on our first ever live musical event featuring VOLTAIRE!

How else could we top the last Friday the 13th? The ghost ship and its crew of undead pirates will arrive this Friday. We will set sail after the sun sets at 8pm EST. They say dead men tell no tales, but these salty boneheads will not stop talking about the cursed Guitar of Skull Punch island! It is said that whoever obtains the guitar will be be granted fame, fortune and... immortality! We are going to help Voltaire get it! Prepare yourself for a live adventure unlike anything every done before!

An Un-Live Adventure!
We would have called it a Live Event if not for all the undead! Musical guest Voltaire will be playing three songs from his newest albumn while Artix, Safiria and AQW Team try to survive the adventure with you. Be a part of history and experience it in real time as the event is broadcasted to all event rooms, on all servers. Following the live event, we will release a replayable version of the adventure (But trust me, you want to be there live as it is happening!) There is a good chance that this event will bring down our entire gaming nextwork... and because it is live... ANYTHING can (and probably will) happen.... see you Friday!

The Lab Plague
Not to be confused with the Lab Plaque
We are sick*.... <cough> <sniffle> <nose blow> <cough> The lab has become a highly infectious place this week. Thyton, Safiria, Cysero, Zhoom, and well over half the team are in home** with fevers and sore throats. I would cast heal... but I am sick too! <cough> <hack> <slash***> <cough> Do not worry, just because the ENTIRE AQWorlds that works here at the lab is incpacitated -- we still have a release coming for... <falls over and faints saying one word> "Reeeeens....****"

* "...and twisted!" Hey! That is not what I meant.
** Believe it or not we do (occassionally) leave this place to sleep, eat, and um... well.. we do sleep at home.
*** Battling undead germs
**** At least it might have been Reens. Could have been REEMS (maybe he was out of paper) or RINSE (Like he forgot to wash his hands after blowing his nose) or.. or...

Rescue Reens-gers!
Here we go again....
Fortunately, the majority of the AQworlds team works remotely. Reens and the team have an exciting release for you today. Go on a quest for King Alteon with new things including:

* Forest of Chaos (Brand new Map & Quest)
* Chaorrupted Bear Cub Pet
Barbarian Tribesman Armor
* Bear Skin Cloak
* Feral Druid's Headdress
* Chaos Bear Head
* Bear Clawed Axe

Coming tonight!