Oh, you could tame animals to make them your pets.
One Halloween I logged into UO, and my character had been transformed into a deer, as some kind of a sick joke! All my inventory was gone, and all I could do was deer stuff.
Then some bastard came along and TAMED ME. That totally sucked! I had to follow him around obediently all day. I guess I'm lucky he didn't skin me and make me into leather armor.
You changed back the next day. I have fond memories as a kid of all the holiday events. You usually could do a special task that awarded you a cool, decorative item for your house. I think most MMOs have something similar now - but back then it was brand new!
edit: I remember on Christmas you were assigned a "team", red or green elves. And there was a giant snowball fight.
Ahhh it was part of Hallowe'en, not sure why I didn't realise. That's actually really cool :D I wasn't into RPGs, had awful internet and was in my early teens in UO's heyday so I never got into it, but that does sound kinda fun.
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Oh, you could tame animals to make them your pets.
One Halloween I logged into UO, and my character had been transformed into a deer, as some kind of a sick joke! All my inventory was gone, and all I could do was deer stuff.
Then some bastard came along and TAMED ME. That totally sucked! I had to follow him around obediently all day. I guess I'm lucky he didn't skin me and make me into leather armor.
That's incredible. What happened next? Was it a temporary thing, or was your character doomed to live as a (tame) deer forever?
You changed back the next day. I have fond memories as a kid of all the holiday events. You usually could do a special task that awarded you a cool, decorative item for your house. I think most MMOs have something similar now - but back then it was brand new!
edit: I remember on Christmas you were assigned a "team", red or green elves. And there was a giant snowball fight.
Ahhh it was part of Hallowe'en, not sure why I didn't realise. That's actually really cool :D I wasn't into RPGs, had awful internet and was in my early teens in UO's heyday so I never got into it, but that does sound kinda fun.