Christmas Contest '05

[Dalla]

The DA/EiE alliance is proud to announce its Christmas Contest 2.0. In keeping with the tradition set last year we would like to announce the 2005 Christmas Contest. Last year was such a rousing success and generated such interest we would like to keep the tradition alive. All of the alliance members that participated had a lot of fun reading all of the entries and participating in the raids that we are happily doing things again this year.

This year's contest will be almost the same are last year, and will again have some really GREAT rewards. The rules are basically the same as last year and will be as follows.

1) Each participating guild or alliance will be permitted one submission ONLY so get together and come up with one really great one.

2) Each submission should be in some type of story format. It can be about how your guild had troubles with a mob. It can be Lore related to EQ Lore itself. It can even be about how one particular member of your guild keeps acting like Gilligan and messing things up for you so you cannot beat even the most basic mob in Crushbone. Obviously the more creative stories will win. Special consideration will also be given to the manner in which the stories are told.

3) Please post the submissions on this thread by no later than Midnight EST December 4th. Winners will be announced on or about Christmas Day.

4) Now for the meat & potatoes. There will be rewards for First, Second and Third place. First prize will have its choice of us killing a mob for you and you reaping all the rewards from that mob, getting an Anguish Orb to complete one Epic 2.0 for one person in your guild, or getting Two OOW Ancient spells for any one member or one each for two members of your guild. Second prize will have their choice of the two remaining items and Third prize will be the remaining item.

There are some stipulations:
If you choose the mob, it must be a non-instanced and open zone mob. It can be a progression mob and it can also be to a zone that requires a key to access, but you must be able to get your members in to the zone by yourself as we cannot guarantee enough people to 85% your guild in.
In order to loot the Orb & Ancient spells you must get all 7 Signets from OOW by yourself in order to allow you to get Anguish access, but we WILL provide you with a Seal of Mastery: All in order to loot the items.

Good luck to all and we are looking forward to reading this year's entries with as much enthusiasm as we completed last year's quests.