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Special events are one of the great things about Stendhal, they can be organised either by 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 frequently asked questions about raids.

Past Raids
Semos plains raid 10th June 2007
Ados city raid December 2007
Finding the lost girl <npc>Susi</npc> October 2009
New year revolt - impressions 1st January 2010
New year revolt - final meeting in semos townhall 1st January 2010
Harold raid - impressions 6th January 2010
Harold raid - final meeting 6th January 2010
6th March 2010 raid to say thank you for help with ongoing client quality week
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.
Players like to meet after raids, e.g. in Fado tavern

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?

Past Quizzes
Back in March 2007, was the first ever Stendhal quiz, organised by <player>superkym</player>.
Can you see some famous names who attended this first quiz on 4th March 2007?
<player>Maja</player> organised a nice quiz in the tavern in early 2009
<player>Maja</player> organised a nice quiz in the tavern in early 2009
<player>erdnuggel</player> and <player>Bluelads4</player> made a quiz in Semos city on 24th January 2010
<player>Bluelads4</player> did a quiz in Semos Tavern on 16th October 2010 where every answer could be found on the webpage or wiki
A Christmas quiz designed and run by <player>Bluelads4</player> on 18th December 2010 was a great success!
<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.
<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!

Weddings

Yes, you can get married in Stendhal! To find out more see the FAQ or (spoiler) quests.

Weddings
<player>Teddy</player> and <player>Hase</player>'s wedding 29th May 2007
<player>kiheru</player> and <player>kymara</player>'s wedding 9th June 2007
<player>LightLan</player> and <player>susie</player>'s wedding 12th December 2007
<player>yorad</player> and <player>olya</player>'s wedding 19th March 2009
<player>geomac</player> and <player>emily</player>'s wedding 28th February 2010
<player>dine</player> and <player>mort</player>'s wedding 6th March 2010

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.

Past hunt type events
<player>Grannie</player>'s hide and seek, 3rd July 2008
The first cat which <player>geomac</player> lost was called deenie, and <player>snakevip</player> found it, 24th January 2010

Parties

Sometimes we just have a party!

Mixed parties

Past Parties
Beach Party 24th June 2007 on Athor. Skinnydipping photo not included
Volleyball at Beach Party 24th June 2007
Spontaneous Party in Semos - check out Priest's reaction...
<player>Yorik</player> held a party in his own house on 8th March 2010

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 cost 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:

Other events

Spring Festival and Tournament 2010-03-27

<player>emily</player>'s Spring Festival with Tournament on 27th March 2010
Winners of the Tournament on 27th March 2010

Results of the Tournament at the Spring Festival 2010

Clone Wars 2010-02-20

Suddenly a huge number of clones showed up at Semos' bank. Quickly a number of normal people formed a line of protection.
Oh, oh, it seems like things went horribly wrong somewhere...
Luckily the clones disappeared shortly after and everything went back to normal. The citizens of Semos are now forewarned.
Here is the artist's impression of what happened based on the descriptions of the event

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:

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.

Kitty's song
After a the acts we had some dancing fun inside the pen

Mine Town Revival Weeks 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.

Some players who solved the nine switches game presented her balloons in the Semos bank

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 games for greeting the season.

Santa wanted to cuddle some sheeps and went into their fenced area :)
This picture shows some players who stand infront of a wonderful decorated tree in Semos, some met Santa already :)

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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