Huge gnome invasion on Burning Beach

As of 15:35 Syrnia time, there is a large Halloween gnome invasion at Burning beach.

There are 1496 Halloween gnomes left. Attack (598 minutes left until capture.)

Halloween invasions earlier

In the early hours of the morning the following invasions took place:

There is an Halloween gnome invasion at Hawk mountain.
There is an Halloween gnome invasion at Franer mines.
There is an Halloween gnome invasion at Ogre lake.
There is an Halloween gnome invasion at Endarx.
There is an Werewolf invasion at Ancestral mountains.
There is an Werewolf invasion at Nabb mines.
There is an Halloween gnome invasion at Port Calviny.

Heerchey Dock Orb

The Heerchey dock orb is the other new item in the game.

[0]01:01 For their efforts in stealing the witch's prized possessions at Port Senyn, the following players were rewarded:

[0]01:01 peggy got a Heerchey docks teleport orb. Shampalwe got a Heerchey docks teleport orb. SilverTree got a Witch hat. The rewards will apear within 15 minutes.

The rose gate jail

Halloween update

The witch appears in random locations and you can thieve her.

So far players have got burnt fish, a beryl, an amber, eggplant seeds and pumpkin seeds from her.

120 seconds jail time if you fail.

[0]00:46 For their efforts in stealing the witch's prized possessions at Castle Rose, the following players were rewarded:
[0]00:46 mightywhite got a Witch hat. Ragadraft got a Witch hat. Theta got a Witch hat. The rewards will apear within 15 minutes.
[0]00:46 The halloween witch was spotted on her broomstick, heading to Remer island.

New items

Exculsively, here is one of the new items, a Witches hat!

Halloween 2008

It appears that party island will not be open for halloween like last year

Halloween 2008 is here! This day has brought Syrnia an unwanted visitor. The activities will begin at 00:00 Syrnia time on October 31st, and will last all day. Party island has not been opened, instead nearly all islands will be visited by this stranger (Kanzo and skull island too).

Today you'll be able to collect some nice items, of which 2 new and unique items.
Hint: Every 15 minutes the strangers location will be announced. Find her and annoy her. Make sure to be close to her when she decides to take off!

A few more events might be added over the day (invasions etc.).

More info as it becomes available...

[2] 00:16 (Mod)manda: Halloween Event 2008 will be starting...maybe a little later than originally hoped for, please be patient

Elven casino - Launch-a-Gnome

The elven casino in Penteza has five games although some of them are locked until you have played the other games for a while. As I was in the area I had another go at unlocking the next game today.

I already had Creature intelligence research and the Lottery available so I used some casino chips I had got as drops in Exella plains and started to play the Creature research. This game had me clicking for ages before and the same happened again today, although I only clicked on the left choice of the two and won about 30 chips.

Eventually I unlocked Launch-a-Gnome. I'm not sure if it unlocks by winning x amount of times or just by playing numerous times.

It costs 3 chips to launch a gnome and it it hits the centre you win 147 chips. There is no skill involved, you just click the launch button and a random picture appears with an X where the land landed. I used 100 chips and did not win.

Pirate Invasion

At Around 6:00 - 6:10am Syrnia time A pirate invasion was launched

Xanso = Roughnecks (Captured)
Mentan = Dreads (Captured)
Franer Mines = Keelhails (Captured)
Berian = Pirates (Defeated)

Halloween and party island

Just a reminder that Halloween is approaching and Party island is expected to open for the occasion.

Going by past events, Party island will be open at 00:00 on the 31st of this month. That's late Thursday night/Friday morning.

Currently there are no hints as to whether the event will be the same as last year although I expect it will be similar with a few additions ;)

You can read about last years event here.

Syrnia Celebrities 2008

Aquadark has created a popularity contest on the syrnian forums.

The four categories are:

• Most Helpful Syrnian
• Most feared Syrnian
• Syrnia President 2008
• "Do Not repeat this at Home" winner

Read the full thread here.

Arena Schedule

Here you are

At 2008-10-23 20:01 Level: 20 - 29
At 2008-10-24 16:31 Level: 30 - 39
At 2008-10-29 17:31 Level: 30 - 39
At 2008-10-29 22:31 Level: 10 - 19
At 2008-11-02 06:01 Level: 10-19

As of time of Post :)

Pirate Invasion

Pirates invaded before 8:00 Syrnia time this morning

Port Dazar = Roughnecks (Defeated)
Aunna = Keelhails (Captured)
Nabb Mines = Pirates (Defeated)
Lemo Woods = Dread Pirates (Defeated)

Bat invasion on Exrollia

As of the time of this post, Grey and white bats are invading various locations on Exro.

Pirate Invasion

According to this Post there was a Pirate invasion at Nabb Mines on the 17th of October.

Nabb Mines = Unknown (Unknown)

I don't have any details on which pirates invaded.

Pirate Invasion

The Pirates invaded Webbers Island at around 7:30 am Syrnia time.

Sorer Mines = Pirates (Captured)
Web haven = Dreads. (Defeated)
Silk Woods = Roughnecks (Defeated)
Sorer Lair = Keelhails (Defeated)

Thanks to Mon Mon nooN for the Details on the Roughnecks

List Of Minor Tweaks.

Rictor has made a list of Minor Tweaks that could be added to Syrnia, you can find a list of them at this forum post. If you've got an idea for Syrnia just add it to his list (be sure that there isn't another idea like yours)

Ps. Sorry for all the re-edits, trying to get the text to be viewing a normal size

Syrnia Corner now has another writer

I would like to welcome bantha_warrior as a new poster to Syrnia Corner.

In the past bantha has sent me information I have missed regarding events in Syrnia, helping me to keep the history of Syrnia documented here. As of today bantha can directly add this information himself.

We also hope to post more regarding experiences with skills similar to what I have done in the past.

Exrollia getting busy

Having spent time on Exrollia in the past fighting at Ketil and Mordor cave, I noticed tonight that its extremely busy.

Normally I see no one at Mordor cave except the odd time I see a lonely soul there alone. Tonight there were 6 players there including myself at that location.

So I headed to Ketil which normally has between 4 to 7 players there, although some are idling and not fighting. 14 people there tonight!

Instead of fighting I thought I would do some sloop fishing at Port Calviny for a change while there was so many players increasing the timers. 27 people at Port Calviny!! 14 of these are fishing so 138 second timer.

At this rate I think I would gain xp faster by smithing bronze items :D

Syrnia is currently down

For the past 5 minutes the syrnia server has not responded.

So if you cannot access it, you are not alone!

Update: After 30 minutes downtime Syrnia is now back up.

Early morning invasion and chests

[0] 05:03 A distress signal has been spotted from a gem transport ship
[0] 05:03 scouts report the location of the ship between Serp and Mezno islands
[0] 05:04 The ship was seening sinking...while locked chests were seen floating ashore....
[0] 05:08 scouts report 4 chests have come ashore


[0] 05:42 Syrnian Scout[]: We have successfully infiltrated a secret bandit hideout
[0] 05:42 Syrnian Scout[]: We will be posting our findings of an upcoming invasion to the forums soon

Forum post here

Burnt frog competition

[0] 16:24 Lord Davamras[Serp]: Fellow Syrnians, i need your help
[0] 16:25 Lord Davamras[Serp]: It seems that the cooks are leaving burnt Frogs everywhere at Burning Beach
[0] 16:25 Lord Davamras[Serp]: Therefore, I have decided to start a contest to clean up the mess
[0] 16:25 Lord Davamras[Serp]: The person who brings me the largest burnt frog, will win 4500 gold.
[0] 16:25 Lord Davamras[Serp]: Good luck everyone! you all have 6 hours to find the largest.

Distressed school teacher cries out for help

[0]21:57 School Teacher[Rile]: Syrnians please help! Our school has been infested with lots of rats!

Rile university was probably the location of this rat invasion (Thanks to cruz for pointing out the obvious which I had missed :P)

Elven invasion at Ogre

[0]20:45 The Elves launch a surprise attack against the Ogres

250 Elven Warriors attacked Ogre lake and also Ogre mine.

Dark elfs attacked Ogre town and outpost.

[0] 21:20 Elves are pleased that invasions were successful, secondary force is arriving soon

Battle arena schedule

Scheduled fights:

• At 2008-10-09 10:16 Level: 30 - 39
  
• At 2008-10-11 12:31 Level: 30 - 39
  
• At 2008-10-12 22:01 Level: 30 - 39
  
• At 2008-10-15 23:31 Level: 10 - 19
  
• At 2008-10-16 01:01 Level: 30 - 39

More bug fixing

The following bugs have been fixed:

The last few days we've fixed a huge amount of minor bugs and a few of the last serious bugs. We're almost able to say Syrnia that an averga players should not be able to experience any real bugs.

Some of the bugs fixes:

• OL/PvP refresh bugs
  
• Groupfighting timer fixed
  
• Last login timer improved
  
• Rare auctionhouse bug fixed
  
• Clean creation typo
  
• A botcheck will no longer itnerrupt applying silk
  
• Bronze bars fixed
  

We've also added the option to click "fight all" when in a single fight, right from the beginning (instead of waiting).

Small Tweaks

M2H has been busy coding and has made a few small changes.

From Annoucements:

• You can now buy multiple items more easily at NPC shops (Eully, Aunna etc.)
  
• Speed experience information has been added to the moving screen (Only visible when actually gaining XP)
  
• Items in shops are now ordered by type
  
• You can now always return to shop search directly from a shops screen, if you got trading level >= 10.
  
• Forum messages are no longer lost when forgetting to add a forum topic name.
  
• You can now ignore up to 75 players if your donation level is >= 40
  
• When a player joins or leaves a clan this is announced in clan chat.
  

Also changed but not mentioned is the fact you can choose to Fight all when fighting a creature which started with the Fight one more creature link.

The botcheck was causing some problems in the outlands where if it was due but being supressed until you left the outlands, which has also been fixed.

The text on bonus/failed crops has also been corrected.

Current battle arena schedule

At 2008-10-11 12:31 Level: 30 - 39
At 2008-10-12 22:01 Level: 30 - 39

Thanks to everyone who sent me the details!

Deap sea monster rears it head

Seen in world chat today:

[0] 20:11 lots of snakes seen crawling up the cave walls...they are slow moving...and should reach the top within 20 minutes

[0]20:19 Deep Sea Monster pokes his head out of the water near Port Dazar..then swims away



Pythons have invaded all the towns on Heerchey.

Blackloter gains 1 million xp in a week

Last week Blackloter gained 1 million xp which appears to be an all time Syrnian record.

The xp was all combat xp from fighting in Kaldra.

Here is what the table would have looked like if it had worked ok:

Pirates invade Dearn island

This morning the pirates invaded Dearn island.

The last invasion was only 4 days ago so the timing of this attack is unusual.

There is an Pirate invasion at Nabb Mines.
There is an Dread pirate invasion at Kinam.
There is an Keelhails pirate invasion at Port Dazar.
There is an Roughneck invasion at Deep Lemo woods.

I believe the pirates were successful at taking over the towns in all locations, which is the first time I remember this happening for a while. Congrats Pirates!!

As of the time of this post, all the pirates have been cleared except at Deep lemo woods where 500 Roughnecks are fighting to the death.

Small change to dino drops

In the past there was a 10% chance that dino's (Waranerus, Honurus, Stemosaurus and Roodarus) didn't drop anything when you killed them.

This has been changed and now they always have a drop.

Having fought stemo's before and got no drop after using quite a few thousand HP of food, this is an appreciated change.

Now the only raw deal is getting 2 dino meat as a drop for killing a roody! :D

Battle arena schedule

• At 2008-10-06 09:31 Level: 40 - 150
  
• At 2008-10-07 03:31 Level: 10 - 19
  
• At 2008-10-09 10:16 Level: 30 - 39

Thanks to Brogs for the details :-)

Core moves into first place

Core overtook ohno yesterday to take the first place in the DW clans high score table.

Having gained the number one spot, Core gave it up straight away by inviting two new members, Jacobs and Genezen :)

Pirates invade webber island

The pirates invaded Webbers island just before 10am today.

The Roughies at Web haven were defeated before they could take over the town but the Keelhails at Webbed forest suceeded.

Bandits and pirates also invaded.