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Originally Posted by Ele
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Yeah, the GMs watching the first attempt after awakening on Rallos despawned him (since hp regen was bugged and they figured it was an exploit anyway since he wasn't supposed to be killable). After outcry from RZ, the GMs reset it and allow them to gather and do another attempt (hp regen bug was still active) and they killed Kera on the second try.
Al'Kabor (EQMac) also had him reset in 2013.
Al'Kabor kept him sleeping for 12+ years. Then a select group of individuals woke him in January 2013.
The community outcry got him reset, then they woke him as a community event the night (or a few days?) before the server went offline permanently in November 2013. |
Funny thing about Al'Kabor was the server came down every other Wednesday around 5-6AM EST, as a means to keep the server regular and serve as a full repop.
When the server came down after the sleeper awakened, it put him back to sleep naturally without Hobart intervening at all. So ironically, just because of how the server was set up to reset itself bi-monthly, it would've put him back to sleep on its own.
Also it was awoken twice on Al'Kabor. In the situation listed above and in the final week of Al'Kabor it was awoken again. Everything was bugged to hell in both scripts. Skyshrine was populated with Dougs, no new quests worked, etc.
The RZ situation they were "exploiting" the fact that NPCs weren't regening HP in combat. While this is a bug, it's sort of tough to call it an exploit since there is no workaround. You aren't purposefully doing something out of the ordinary to get an advantage, the game was just broken. Everyone fighting Orc pawns were exploiting too because they weren't regening. There's no way around it when the game has such a bug.
But they reset it before he was killed, then apologized and let them try again, before the bug was fixed. At which point they killed it. So they never killed and woke him twice, the GMs just de popped their first attempt.