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Special events are one of the great things about Stendhal, they can be organised either by [[Stendhal:Administration|admin]] or players, and they takes different forms. 
== Raids ==
A raid is a special event where players are invited to help kill swarms of creatures which suddenly appear in one place. Usually an NPC shouts about needing help and tells you where it is needed.

There are [[StendhalFAQ#Raids|frequently asked questions]] about raids.

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File:T_raid_10_20210704.png|Angels during raid on July 4th 2021
File:T_raid_09_20210704.png|Gashadokuro and elder skeletons during raid on July 4th 2021
File:T_raid_08_20210704.png|Dragons during raid on July 4th 2021
File:T_raid_07_20210704.png|Gashadokuro and skeletons during raid on July 4th 2021
File:T_raid_06_20210704.png|Giant gnomesses and amazoness during raid on July 4th 2021
File:Raid20070610.png|Semos plains raid 10th June 2007
File:Raid200712.png|Ados city raid December 2007
File:Susiraid200910.png|Finding the lost girl <npc>Susi</npc> October 2009
File:New year revolt.png|New year revolt - impressions 1st January 2010
File:New year revolt final.png|New year revolt - final meeting in semos townhall 1st January 2010
File:Raid060110.png|Harold raid - impressions 6th January 2010
File:Harold raid 09.PNG|Harold raid - final meeting 6th January 2010
File:Raid20100306.png|6th March 2010 raid to say thank you for help with [https://stendhalgame.org/news/client-quality-week-43.html ongoing client quality week]
File:Raid20110102.png|There were raids on 1st, 2nd and 3rd January 2011 to welcome in the New Year. Here a player gives <npc>Bobby</npc> a <item>balloon</item> after the raid.
File:Raid20110105.png|Players like to meet after raids, e.g. in Fado tavern
File:Raid_20110819.png|Winners of simple Orcs raid near gnome village at 19th August 2011. Orcs had no chances against our brave warriors. Many thanx to <player>Lunga</player> who helped to low-level players.
Image:T_raid_01_20210704.png|Heroes repulse creatures that raid the plains near Jenny's windmill on July 4th 2021 in the aftermath of a [https://arianne-project.org/news/server-compromise-2021-07-02.html strange incident.] 
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== Show fights ==
In a show fight creatures are pitted against each other in battle. It can be one on one battles against evenly matched creatures, or one strong creature against many weaker ones. Sometimes players can bet on the outcome of the battle. Of course these fights are held within enclosed arenas so that there is no danger to watching players.


== Quizzes ==
Pub quizzes are quite popular! Here are some sample questions from the first ever quiz:
*What is Ceryl's job?
*Where does Hackim Easso work?
*What's the missing girl from Ados called?
*Who is the housewife with a rat problem?
*What herb did Ilisa need to make Tad better?
*What is the name of the berry that sheep eat?

<gallery caption="Past Quizzes">
File:Quizgame_20070304.png|Back in March 2007, was the first ever Stendhal quiz, organised by <player>superkym</player>.
File:Quizgame_20070304_1.png|Can you see some famous names who attended this first quiz on 4th March 2007?
File:Stendhal quiz 1.PNG|<player>Maja</player> organised a nice quiz in the tavern in early 2009
File:Stendhal quiz 7.PNG|<player>Maja</player> organised a nice quiz in the tavern in early 2009
File:Quiz240110.jpg|<player>erdnuggel</player> and <player>Bluelads4</player> made a quiz in Semos city on 24th January 2010
File:Quiz16102010.png|<player>Bluelads4</player> did a quiz in Semos Tavern on 16th October 2010 where every answer could be found on the webpage or wiki
File:Quiz20101218.png|A Christmas quiz designed and run by <player>Bluelads4</player> on 18th December 2010 was a great success!
File:Quiz20110313.png|<player>superkym</player> made a quiz on 13th March 2011 using lots of map representations, bits of images to guess and creatures noises to decipher. 
File:Bildschirmfoto-4.png|<player>Bluelads4</player> ran a group hunt and a quiz round after that on the 12th June 2011. Players had fun and won lots of nice items!
File:2011-11-19 quiz.png | A short quiz on 2011-11-19 given by <player>Bluelads4</player>. Really nice prizes!
File:2011-11-19 race.png | A "Fish Race" handled by volunteers:<br><player>madmetzger</player> and <player>jesco</player>.
File:The Quiz.png | 2011-02-11 quiz given by [http://stendhalgame.org/character/Bluelads4.html  Bluelads4 ]
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== Weddings ==
Yes, you can get married in Stendhal! To find out more see the [[StendhalFAQ#Marriage|FAQ]] or (spoiler) [[StendhalQuest#Marriage|quests]].
<gallery caption="Weddings">
File:Teddyhase20070529.png|<player>Teddy</player> and <player>Hase</player>'s wedding 29th May 2007
File:Kiherukymara20070609.png|<player>kiheru</player> and <player>kymara</player>'s wedding 9th June 2007
File:LightLanSusie20071205.png|<player>LightLan</player> and <player>susie</player>'s wedding 12th December 2007
File:Yoradolya.jpg|<player>yorad</player> and <player>olya</player>'s wedding 19th March 2009 
File:Geomacemily20100228.png|<player>geomac</player> and <player>emily</player>'s wedding 28th February 2010 
File:Dinemort20100306.png|<player>dine</player> and <player>mort</player>'s wedding 6th March 2010
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==Hunts==
Hunts can take the form of a treasure hunt, hunt the cat, scavenger hunt and more! For example <player>Grannie</player> played a game of hide and seek with the players. She shouted clues and waited hidden to see who would turn up.

<gallery caption="Past hunt type events">
File:Hideandseek.png|<player>Grannie</player>'s hide and seek, 3rd July 2008
File:Deenie.jpeg|The first cat which <player>geomac</player> lost was called deenie, and <player>snakevip</player> found it, 24th January 2010
File:The Hunt2.png | [http://stendhalgame.org/character/Bluelads4.html  Bluelads4 ]organised a quiz and  hunt 2012-02-11
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==Parties==

Sometimes we just have a party!

=== Mixed parties ===

<gallery caption="Past Parties">
File:Beach20070704.png|Beach Party 24th June 2007 on [[Athor]]. Skinnydipping photo not included
File:Volleyball20070704.png|Volleyball at Beach Party 24th June 2007
File:DrunksParty.jpg|Spontaneous Party in [[Semos]] - check out Priest's reaction...
File:YorikParty20100308.png|<player>Yorik</player> held a party in his own [[StendhalHouses|house]] on 8th March 2010
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=== Summerparty 2011 ===

On the 7th of august, players meet up for a summerparty on Athor Island. At 15.30 h servertime, most of them met infront of Semos INN and walked to the ferry on Ados coast. After some issues caused by boarding on the ferry, the group was splitted into two groups... But that wasn't a problem at all. At the end, the party went over 2 hours long and included games, performances and a funny fish race. Some pictures can be found here of it:

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File:Fish_race.jpg|A fish race between two teams ended in a draw after 6 rounds.
File:Athorbeachparty2011_storytelling.jpg|Storyteller told his scary story of how he turned into a wolf.
File:Athorbeachparty2011_coreography.jpg|A choreography led by Bluelads4 was nice to watch although we'll have to train synchrony.
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== Other events ==

===Plays and Singing 2007-12-19===
<player>Kymara</player> wrote a small play about the story of the evil <creature>Vampire Lord</creature> and how he captured his <creature>Vampire Bride</creature>. Everyone loved it! The cast was:
{|border=1
|-
||Sir Tembells||<player>kiheru</player>
|-
||Lady Tembells||<player>bleutailfly</player>
|-
||Vampire Lord||lordjuan
|-
||Narrator||<player>superkym</player>
|}
After the play we had acts from other players, including <player>gummipferd</player> who did some uncanny impressions, <player>Bluelads4</player> who did a dance and <player>kitty12</player> who sang songs.
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File:Song20071217.png|Kitty's song
File:Dancing20071206.png|After a the acts we had some dancing fun inside the pen
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=== Clone Wars 2010-02-20 ===
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Image:Clone-wars-01.png|Suddenly a huge number of clones showed up at Semos' bank. Quickly a number of normal people formed a line of protection.
Image:Clone-wars-02.png|Oh, oh, it seems like things went horribly wrong somewhere...
Image:Semos_bank.png|Luckily the clones disappeared shortly after and everything went back to normal. The citizens of Semos are now forewarned.
Image:ArtistsImpression.png|Here is the artist's impression of what happened based on the descriptions of the event
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===Spring Festival and Tournament 2010-03-27===
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File:Party20100327.jpg|<player>emily</player>'s Spring Festival with Tournament on 27th March 2010
File:winners.jpg|Winners of the Tournament on 27th March 2010
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Results of the Tournament at the [[Stendhal_Events/SpringFestival201003|Spring Festival 2010]]


===Mine Town Revival Weeks October 2010===
The Semos Mine Town Revival weeks started on the 23rd October of 2010 with some nice new mini games included and some special quests to do. 

One of the new quests, the nine switches game infront of the [[Semos Mines]] entrance, gave some nice looking balloons to players who solved the little riddle of switching the arrows into the right direction. 

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Image: Revival_Weeks2010.jpg|Some players who solved the nine switches game presented her balloons in the [[Semos]] bank
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===Christmas 2010===
Santa found his way back to Faiumoni and delivered some presents to players who met him at different places. The players enjoyed the beautiful decorated city of [[Semos]] and played different [[Stendhal_Events#Quizzes|games]] for greeting the season.

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Image: Santa.jpg|Santa wanted to cuddle some sheeps and went into their fenced area :)
Image: Christmas 2010.jpg|This picture shows some players who stand infront of a wonderful decorated tree in [[Semos]], some met Santa already :)
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=== Enjoying some bank chat in May 2011 ===
Some players showed up in the bank on sunday, 22 may and had fun while talking around a bit. They got the idea  then of preparing some lovely screenshots which show, that love is everywhere around, especially in the Stendhal community, especially in spring and on the border to a hopefully hot summer 2011.! :)   Here are the pics they made:

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Image: Heart.jpg
Image: Heart_2.jpg
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=== Maze Runner Reward Challenge ===

<player>geomac</player> organised a Maze Challenge in October 2011.

Each day from October 01 to October 15, players went to <npc>Haizen</npc> and completed the maze to accumulate points. Maze scores were compared and the top runners awarded.

<player>cuddle</player> won the Challenge, and the full results are at https://stendhalgame.org/news/maze-runner-reward-challenge-76.html

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File:Geomac Maze Challenge Bank 20111016.png|Prize announcements in the bank
File:Geomac Maze Challenge 20111016.png|Winners gather at <npc>Haizen|Haizen's</npc> hut
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===Foretaste of Paper Chase 2013===

<player>soniccuz</player> created a pre-paper chase event in Semos City on 03. October 2013.

Paper Chase is a well known event which takes place each year during the Mine Town Revival Weeks around Semos Minetown. In October 2013, just a few days before the Minetown starts its famous event again, soniccuz created his own paper chase in Semos city in which he filled the temple with money all over the place and leads players to this treasure with scattering money arrows all around the city which all lead to the temple.

Thank you soniccuz for creating this event! :)

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File:arrowbank.png|The first arrow to follow could be find next to the bank in Semos City.
File:arrowblacksmith.png|Following the first arrow, the next one led to the east of Semos city.
File:arrowinfrontoftavern.png|The third arrow was placed infront of the tavern.
File:arrowtotemple.png|The top of last arrow points to the Temple entrance.
File:rebuildingarrow.png|Soniccuz had to rebuild the arrows a few times to prevent the money from disappearing.
File:treasuretemple.png|Money all scattered around in Semos temple. The treasure of this pre-paper chase event.
File:Treasureupperpart.png|The temple was filled up to the top.
File:playersfollowarrows.png|Some players started to follow the money arrows.
File:templemoneygone.png|Players found the treasure and enjoyed exploring its contents!
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=== Mine Town Revival Weeks 2013 ===

In october 2013, warriors all around Faiumoni celebrated the Mine Town Revival weeks again, five years after young girl <npc>Susi</npc> has been rescued from her kidnappers. The festival took place at Semos mine Town with a special Paper Chase made by <npc>Fidorea</npc>, some snacks by <npc>Caroline</npc>, a new Sokoban field by <npc>Hiro</npc> and even more games. A great event with beautiful nice people around! :)

=== Mine Town Revival Weeks 2020 ===

When in October 2020 the people of Faiumoni were looking forward to the Mine Town Revival Weeks they had to see that [[Stendhal_Quest/Mine_Town_Construction|nothing was ready set up as usual]]. Klaus who usually supervised the construction and ensured that everything was running smoothly and silently so that nobody was really noticing the construction work had to confess that supplies were low and if the heroes would not help and provide these, the Mine Town Revival Weeks couldn't take place. So a lot of heroes helped out and provided the needed supplies. So the Mine Town Revival Weeks started only a bit later that year.
<gallery>Image:Mine_Town_Construction-2020.png</gallery>

=== Troll Invasion ===

In May 2021 a bunch of evil trolling players invaded Semos City to molest the good players and block the entry to Semos Bank. But good players joined forces, pushed the evil trolls out of the way and jailed them behind Xoderos' smithy. After four hours the evil trolls vanished into thin air. Are they gone for good?

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File:TrollInvasion2.png
File:TrollInvasion3.png
File:TrollInvasion4.png
File:TrollInvasion5.png
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== See Also ==

* [[Ideas for Stendhal/Events]]