The Hole is being rebooted?

[Troy]

That mean it's going live?

[Swish]

It was just a listing of the majority of non-Kunark zones, who knows? Funny time to open it I'd say.

[Rogean]

Well I was going to open the hole but I couldn't decide on a good GM Event. GM Event Preparations A through G involved too much asskicking, however on the whole I think Preparation H feels good.

http://www.rogean.com/images/drevil.png

[bakkily]

rogean, if you do a event, i will seriously donate, if one is done, other wise, i still think i will after getting some over time done

keep up the great work rogean and the other devs! and uthgaard

and amelinda and hobby for being awesome GMS! great work all

[Tewaz]

Nothing but Win.

[Tewaz]

I want to go watch Austin Powers now.

[Swish]

Well I was going to open the hole but I couldn't decide on a good GM Event. GM Event Preparations A through G involved too much asskicking, however on the whole I think Preparation H feels good.

http://www.rogean.com/images/drevil.png

Undead and golems with frickin' laser beams, that's what's needed :D

[M.Bison]

Preparation H feels good.

http://www.rogean.com/images/drevil.png

This made me lol pretty hard.

[Hasbinbad]

Hasbinbad says, 'H is for Hole.'

[Slave]

I was going to comment but then I saw what Rogean did there and it sort of humbled everyone in the entire community.

[Tiggles]

Hole came out the same time as epics right?

[Jomar]

Negatory.

JUNE 22, 2000
The Hole:

We are pleased to announce the opening of The Hole, a high-level dungeon on the continent of Odus. The Hole is a complementary addition to EverQuest, available to all subscribers regardless of their Kunark status. The files necessary to enter The Hole are available via the "Optional Patch" button at the bottom of the patch program interface. The files are quite large (about 9MB total), so if the download is going slowly, you may want to postpone downloading the files until later.

As mentioned above, The Hole is a high-level dungeon, designed to support characters starting at about level 40. It should be regarded as extremely dangerous. As a note, jumping in The Hole from Paineel is NO LONGER A SHORTCUT TO TOXXULIA FOREST. The GMs will not recover corpses for people who fall, or jump, or attempt to levitate into The Hole.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2000
New Epic Quests:

We are pleased to announce that we have implemented new "Fiery Avenger" style quests for every class in the game (including paladins). The ultimate reward for each quest boasts a custom model with unique particle effects. We think that you will be pleased.

[Numbers_]

Heheh, I like how 9mb was "quite large" back then. One thing I do not miss from that era is my 56k.

[Kuriin]

Earthlink was freaking fantastic back then. Always reliable. Don't think I ever went LD with it. My T1 connection from SBC Yahoo! or whatever was fast but so shitty!

[skorge]

i remember trying to play first person shooters on dial up bak then in 98/99 (Delta Force)...you literally had to aim like 10 foot in front of the person to get a kill, lmao...eventually u got used to it and started to pwn people (you basically became a mind reader)

[Rogean]

Rainbow 6 Classic is where it all started. (Not even Rogue Spear.. I'm talking the original original)

[YendorLootmonkey]

Rainbow 6 Classic is where it all started. (Not even Rogue Spear.. I'm talking the original original)

That's right... to the fallen Rainbow 6 teammates we've lost along the way...

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[YendorLootmonkey]

The Hole Opening Event...

Hordes of level 50 "a mangy rats" size x5 overrun the continent of Odus.

[Doors]

lol I remember that game. Old skool.

[Polixenes]

Spawn earth elementals everywhere including some Ixiblat sized ones?
Random gems depending on mob level, rare loot = key to the Hole.

[Cone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPy4crWuCA

have terminators come out of the hole

[ojamajoe]

Start with an earthquake. Camera shake on Odus, global emotes. Then Throw some elementals and heretic ghosts in Toxx. Put in a temporary npc, faction neutral, a Heretic (or maybe just Erudite)Investigator, who will task the pc's to kill the new threats and return to him with information (drops: a tattered banner of Old Paineel, an archaic Heretic coin, a shattered / twisted key, and the like) concerning them and their origin.

Once he gets a few of them, our npc can make his grand announcement that these creatures are escaping the ruins of Old Paineel, and it is up to our pc's to check this out... but, since the hole had been sealed so thoroughly and long before the earthquake cleared the debris, nobody is known to have a key to the magical seal which had been placed by the fleeing Heretics of old.

This equals a big fat quest to find the key, (and, of course, return it to our pal the npc) which can be in any number of places (whole, or in parts). Certainly one can imagine that Miragul might have had one, the Oracle of K'Arnon might have one in exchange for some previously uncatalogued knowledge, etc...

At any rate, once the Investigator has been given the key he can hand out titles or some such to the weeners, and proclaim his confidence that the city fathers of Paineel will deal with the unrest emanating from the Hole; while "wink, wink - nudge, nudge letting everyone know that anybody with further interest (and plat to back it up) can talk to his "sister", Rallia Hapera about procuring a copy for their very own.

Or, something like that.

[Ichven]

Loving the tags.

[Trystych]

Rainbow 6 Classic is where it all started. (Not even Rogue Spear.. I'm talking the original original)

Quake 1 on Mplayer is where I got my gaming start, moved on when 1/2 the people left to play some game called Everquest.

[Humwawa]

There's some documentation on an actual Hole Opening GM event.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=55583

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=55584

The actual event was called "The Hole Uncovered." (lol)

Several items were handed out, one of which was this -

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=2120

Lore-wise, the Hole was sealed in order to quarantine a contaminated section of Old Paineel, where a ruptured planar portal was spewing out massive amounts of elementals from the Underfoot. The series of books should tell you pretty much what happened to break the seals.

[bakkily]

nice research humwawa!

[luego]

Or, something like that.

Nice work
very thoughtful

[Cyrano]

I agree, preparation H does feel pretty good on the hole.