Tiger - Venture Co.

So last night we had a treasure hunt well planned by Kiaras. Besides Kiaras, Zaigerne, Irvana and Naarman also had roles and lines and places to be. Everything was planned and i had even been used as testsubject to avoid mistakes. Only thing i had to do was to take a lot of screenshots and rapport back to the people today. But then...1 minute before the race started, both Zaigerne and Naarman had to go! I could take over Naarmans part fairly easy and his pc stands right behind mine so changing from one character to another wouldnt be a problem. Zaigerne on the other hand had a very significant role and was suppose to be more than one place during the hunt. Plus even though Zaigerne and Kiaras´ pcs are in the same house...one is upstairs and the other is downstairs. So poor Kiaras had to run up and down from one char to another all night!

It also messed everything up in the beginning of the race because Kiaras had to send out a letter to all players before time - cause that was originally Zai's job since Kiaras wouldnt be able to make it in time. So people raid their mails and thought that was the first thing they should do and just took of before Kiaras could give them the first task. When everybody came back and got their real instructions - they still went for the second part of the quest first! SUre you could do it in the opposit way around, but it meant that Kiaras' directions would be very confusing when they returned. And poor Brem who seemed to be the only one starting out as he was suppose to got confused because he was the only one still in grom gol and not swamp of sorrows. But you got to give the mighty warrior credit for being so smart. Zirrath got some extra stress added to his quest as he had to fight his way through some alliance before being able to continue.

Because people didnt actually followed eachother, but came one by one, we realised that Kiaras couldnt be at her second post in Thunder Bluff in time for the first arrivers and still be there for the last ones in Grom Gol. We had no idea where people were cause we threw them out of the raid so they didnt have any looting issues - so we couldnt tell if everybody was threw the posts.
So i had to run to TB and take Kiaras place in the pool, quickly making macros before the first one got there. Problem was that the person i had to send them to was Naarman...who at the time also was me! lucklily Naarman returned just before the first contestant arrived at his post. I send the first 2 people to Zai in UC, but he was still in Ogrimmar - so we had to change some more in the plan! In the end everything turned out right even though a few people actually got the wrong instructions from time to time ^^

But i think Kiaras did very well running up and down those stays, doing her greatest multitasking job ever! (you should put that on your raceme: "i can control 2 chars in wow at the same time even thought the pcs are on different floors!"). And i also think we addapted well to the quick changes we had to make.

Another thing we had to decide during the treasure hunt was...well the rules. Some people already had the items required for the quests or bought them in AH instead of killing mobs. SO was it cheating or was it cleaver? WEll, in a normal quest the npc's dont care if you bought the items, so we made the same rule here. But we should have made the rules clear from the beginning so everbody knew what opportunities they had. TO make it clear: Our winner Levi didnt cheat - cause there were no rules. And though he did sneak on to our very very secret channel on TS we threw him out before he could hear anything. Next time we are gonna make a long list of rules before the race though, to avoid any misunderstandings like these.

Apart from all the confusion, the "questgivers" had a good time and i hope all the contestants had fun as well. If people are up for it there will be yet another event -not quite like the treasure hunt but similar in some ways - and hopefully planned even better.

I would like to say good job to the people that completed the quest and also to the ones helping out by playing questgivers. But most of all thanks to Kiaras for putting this event together and using her time at work for making up all the details ;)

And grats to the winner: Levius!