2012年10月03日
UOエッセイコンテスト入賞作品 -Balhae
UOエッセイコンテスト入賞作品 -Balhae（Memorable Moment Winners - Balhae）とは、2012年10月3日に発表された4作品。
Tim Chappell
数週間にわたり、私たちは諸君の投稿作品を大いに愉しみ、興奮し、数多くの素晴らしい思い出に浸らせてもらった。幾つかの破片世界では激戦となり、我々は終盤まで選考のために投稿作品を読み更けなければならなかった。他方で入賞作品を早々と選定できた破片世界もある。いずれにせよ、プレイヤー諸君全員の素晴らしい思い出に感謝の意を示し、ここに諸君の忘れがたき思い出で入賞を得た選考作品を発表したい。
Story 1
Amber
ウルティマ オンラインというゲームにおいて、私は最も偉大なる戦士ではなくゲーム内の生産要素を好む傾向にある。しかし、困難な戦闘や探求を通じて人々が得るアーティファクトや希少な品々を欲し続けてもいた。人口の多い破片世界ではなく、決して多くのベンダーが並び立つわけでもないことから、憧れの品々を得ることは困難を極めた。そして、私は初めて倒壊寸前の家に巡りあい、私のウルティマ オンラインにおけるプレイスタイルを変える契機となった。この建物は倒壊寸前です、その七つの英単語から成る言葉は、私を興奮に沸き立たせる。既に腐敗の最終段階へと達している家と巡りあったのは全くの偶然であり、私はその場に立ち尽くした。幸運なことに、私はそれほど長時間その場で待つ必要はなかった。パッと家は消え去り、屋内の品々は地へ落ち散らばっていった。そのなかには、私が切望してやまなかったアーティファクトも存在した。その場には私以外にも数人が待ち構えており、私はどの品を持ち帰るべきか選択しようと箱を次から次へと死に物狂いで確認していった。対して私以外の人々は荷馬やゲートトラベルを用いて素早くお宝を運び出していった。未熟で自分が持ち得るだけしか拾い上げることのできなかった私が得られた品は決して多くなかった。この出来事の以後、私はただただ効率化を進めていった。出くわした全ての家々の所在をルーンストーンへ記録するようになり、荷馬を親愛化させてリコールの呪文でも私に付き従うようにし、品々を投げ入れるための箱を用意した。同じく私はボーイフレンドたちのアカウントを買収していった。私自身はハウスチェックと呼んでいる腐敗の兆候を察知するための巡回も行った。ちょうど最近、私は二つ目のアカウント購入にも手を伸ばし、より多くのストレージを確保するために新たな家を得ることも可能となった。私自身は望んでいるが、私が今回のコンテストで入賞できず、ローブを得られないのであれば、家のひとつは倒壊する運命になると確信している。さて、お待ちしています。
Story 2
さて、私とゲーム内の妻であるルナ（Luna）がイベントモデレーターの協力なしに催そうとした結婚式について語ろう。ただし、イベントモデレーターに対して他意はない。私たちはフェルッカ世界のブリテインにある壮大な城で挙式することにしていた。私たちはメイジ評議会閥に属していたし、立会いを務めてくれる男性はシャドウロード閥に属していた。私たちは植物を用いて会場を装飾し、ピラミッドのように積み重ねていくことで充分な高さと充分な幅を備えた十四段のケーキのようにした。そして、立会い人が"この結婚に異議がある者はいるか"と発言したときのことだ。バーン！シギルによって紫色に染まる小さなラマ、トゥルー・ブリタニアンが現れ出で、私たちの牧師に襲い掛かった。私と妻は挙式用のドレスを脱ぎ去ると対人戦闘用の装備を身につけ、止めに入った。私たちは圧倒的に優勢となり、その男を派閥制度におけるステータスロス状態へと追い込んだ。その後、男はポンと現れ出てはケーキを食べるや消え去ることを繰り返していた。死に至る格闘のすえ、男は私たちにとって掛替えなき存在となった。後に男は私たちの親友となり、いまや私たちと幾多の戦いで共闘するようになっている。これが、ウルティマ オンラインの結婚式で起きた私にとって最高の思い出です。
Story 3
Tao
数年前、私たちの破片世界は大変込み合い、どこへ行っても数多くの人々がいた。我々は穏やかでやりたいことのできる世界を欲し、新たな破片世界で再起しようと決めた。それがBalhae シャード、素晴らしき破片世界であった。私たちは望む場所にいつでも赴くことができたし快適であったから、私たちはBalhae シャードにギルドハウスを建築しようと決めた。唯一の問題は望むものを購入することができないことだった。私たちには、自ら手に入れるか作製するかしか手段がなかったのだ。しかし、それは私たちにとって大きな問題ではなかった。それこそ私たちの望んだことだったからだ。その半年後、友のひとりがブリタニアを去った。彼はインゴットと皮の収集を主に担っていた。またある日、メンバーのひとりと別離した。彼女は調教師だった。そして二年の月日が過ぎ去り、私はギルドの城にひとりとなった。私はこの城でこの世界で、孤独となることを望んでなどいなかったのに。生きるべきか死ぬべきか、それが問題だ。ひと月経ち、私は深刻に悩んでいた。この世界から去るべきなのか、あるいはこの破片世界から去るべきなのかをだ。ある日、私は古巣の破片世界を再び訪れた。そこには私の砂岩の家があった。私の知る人々には余り会うことはできなかったが、懐かしさがこみ上げた。私はもう一度、この破片世界ですごそうと決めた。私はこの世界から去ることなんてできなかった。我が家をベンダーショップとして資金を貯めると、私は新居を購入し、新しいギルドメンバーを迎え入れ、新しい友を得た。私が欲しかったものは沈黙などではなく、たくさんの交流だったのだ。これは私の記憶のなかだけにある物語、三年間にわたるブリタニアで休暇の日々だったが、いまここにいる。先週、私はBalhae シャードにあるギルドの城を訪れた。それは、あの日と同じままそこに建っていた。
Story 4
Pooper
私たち三人は血の跡を辿った。幸運なことに、血の跡はまっすぐにチャンピオン・スポーンの外へと続いていた。対人戦闘をするに充分なスキルはなく、ラットマンメイジで満たされた場所では言うまでもなかった。私たちは山道を辿り、やがては彼を追い込めると考えていた。スモーキー（Smokey）の動きは俊敏であり、疾駆するやマーブル島へと抜ける回廊からの脱出を阻止した。私たち三人は、幾多のチャンピオン・スポーンにおいてコツウォルド（Cotswold）から守ろうと試み、そしてことごとく失敗してきた。だが今回に限っては、私たちは脅威に対して優勢に終えようとしていたのだ。私はフレイムストライクの呪文を詠唱したうえで、コツウォルドのステータスバーを引き出し、画面上でコツウォルドのバーが点灯する瞬間を心待ちにした。私は、日頃は対人戦闘を行っておらず、そのため初撃のフレイム・ストライクのあとには何の考えもなかったし、明けても暮れても同じ男の相手をすることにうんざりしていた。そして、反攻の刻が来た。攻勢に出たコツウォルドは無敗を誇り、いつもであれば私たちはただ逃げようと試みたことだろう。ちょうど私たちへ追いついたナル（Naroo）の支援を得て、私は既に戦闘を再開していたスモーキーとコツウォルドのもとへ向かった。コツウォルドはスモーキーの放ったブリードアタックによって手酷く傷ついたが、再び激突するまでの時間は回復する余裕をあまりに与えているようにみえた。コツウォルドの圧勝を予見し、私たちの心は折れそうになったが、私たちは戦闘を継続した。私はスモーキーとナルがコツウォルドのライフバーを削り続け、半分未満を維持していることに気づいていた。しかし、コツウォルドは突如として完全回復してしまう。私はフレイムストライクの詠唱を再び始め、今度はコツウォルドへ放つ機会を慎重に窺った。コツウォルドのライフバーが短時間に増減していく様子をじっと見入り、遂にコツウォルドのライフが残り僅かとなる瞬間が訪れた。私は自らの反射速度の限りを尽くしてコツウォルドを狙い定めた。コツウォルドの身体はうつぶせるように大地へ倒れこむ。両手を広げ何も身に着けぬまま大地に横たわる骸の眺めは、実に爽快なものだった。私は自らのキャラクターを踊り狂わせた。私たちは無敗のコツウォルドをようやく打ち破っただけでなく、私自身はウイニングショットまで得たのだ！
Memorable Moment Winners - Balhae
In the game of Ultima Online, I am not the greatest fighter, always preferring the crafting aspect of the game, but I've always wanted the artifacts and rares that people got from difficult spawns and quests. Being from a shard that's not highly populated, it was even harder to obtain these coveted items since there weren't too many vendors around. Then I experienced my first IDOC, and it changed the way I play Ultima Online. This Structure Is In Danger Of Collapsing. Those seven words always send a sense of excitement through me. I happened along it accidentally, the house already in its final stage of decay, so I stuck around. Luckily, I didn't have to wait very long before, *poof*!, the house disappeared and all this free stuff fell to the ground, including artifacts which I had longed after. There were a few other people there, and while I raced frantically from one box to the next, trying to decide what I should take, these people were swiftly loading up their pack horses and gating all the treasures away. I didn't end up with very much since I was inexperienced and only grabbed what I could carry, but it did give me a glimpse of all the possibilities this offered.
From then on, I only got more efficient. I started marking recall runes for every house I came across, I've bonded pack horses to me so that they can recall with me, and I've set up chests right on my front steps to dump the items in. I've pretty much taken over my boyfriends account for my IDOC'ing tendencies as well. I do what I call 'house checks' for any sign of decay. Just recently, I've even bought a second account just so I can have an extra house for even more storage. If I don't win this contest and receive the robe as a prize, (even though I hope I do) - I'm sure there will eventually be one in one of the houses that go in danger of collapsing. And I will be waiting.
MY FUNNY WEDDING!
Some years ago, our shard was very crowded. There were many persons in anywhere. We wanted tranquil world and we wanted to do our likely. And we decided to restart in the new shard. It was Balhae. Awesome world! We could stay any time on our favorite place. It was comfortable and we decided to build our guild house on Balhae. Only one problem, we could not buy what we want. The only way is to get or make it ourselves. But that was not big problem, because it was what we wanted. Half a year after, one of our friend has quitted from britania. His main job was to collect the ingot and leather. And another day, one of member was away from our team. She was animal tamer. Two years later, I am alone in guild castle. I did not desire to be alone in this castle and world. To be or not to be, that is the question. One month after, I thought seriously that about away from this world or from this shard. One day I visited again my old shard. My sand stone patio is there. And I met few persons I know. I had felt nostalgic. I decided one more restart again at here. I can’t leave from this world. I opened the vendor shop in my house, made money, bought new house, made new guild member and made new friends. What I wanted most was a lot of communication rather than silence. This is the story of my only I know. I am supposed to got a rest from britania for 3 years. Now I am living on here. Last week, I visited our guild castle on Balhae. There is it, it is the same as those days.
The three of us were following the trail of blood. Luckily, it lead us straight out of the champ spawn area. Pvping someone of this skill level was difficult enough to combat alone, let alone being swarmed with ratmen mages. We followed the trail up to the mountains and knew we’d have him trapped eventually. Smokey’s connection was faster, so he was able to run ahead and keep him from reaching the tunnel that leads to Marble Island. The three of us have attempted to defend many champ spawns from Cotswold, but we have always failed. All of that practice was about to show through for once as we push on to execute the threat. I had a flame strike precaste and Cotswold’s bar pulled out. I was just itching for his bar to light up on my screen. I don’t typically pvp, so I did not have a plan after the initial flame strike, but I was tired of dying to the same guy day in and day out. It was time to fight back. Normally, we would just try to escape from Cotswold as his wrath has been undefeated. I caught back up with Naroo just in time for us to approach Smokey and Cotswold already fighting again. Cotswold was injured badly from Smokey’s bleed attack, but I could tell he had too much time to heal up before being forced to fight again. The three of us were tiring out as Cotswold seemed to run circles around us, but relentlessly we kept the battle going. I noticed that Smokey and Naroo kept getting Cotswold down to just a sliver of life left on his bar, then suddenly he would be back to full health. I started to caste the spell flame strike again, and this time I was going to wait for the opportune moment to target him. I watched his life bar go down and up for a short while. Finally, his life was only a sliver left and I targeted him as fast as my reflexes would allow. His body dropped to the ground face down. The site of Cotswold’s naked corpse lying on the ground spread eagle was so awesome, I had my character dance all over it. Not only did we FINALLY defeat this undefeatable Cotswold, but I got the kill shot!
Thank you again for all your wonderful memories and keep an eye on the Herald for more winning announcements!
投稿者 Siel Dragon : 2012年10月03日 17:16
Posted by Tim Chappell
2012 Oct 02 20:29 -0400 GMT
In the past few weeks your entries have tickled our funny bones, tugged at our heart strings and stirred up many enjoyable memories. In some shards the competition was fierce and forced many of us to diligently scour through many entries. Other shards the choice was much simpler. In either case, we would like to thank all of players for their amazing memories and announce our winning picks for your memorable UO moments.
The first moments we would like to publish are the ones from the Balhae Shard. We received only four entries, so all of the entries are winners!
In the game of Ultima Online, I am not the greatest fighter, always preferring the crafting aspect of the game, but I've always wanted the artifacts and rares that people got from difficult spawns and quests. Being from a shard that's not highly populated, it was even harder to obtain these coveted items since there weren't too many vendors around. Then I experienced my first IDOC, and it changed the way I play Ultima Online. This Structure Is In Danger Of Collapsing. Those seven words always send a sense of excitement through me. I happened along it accidentally, the house already in its final stage of decay, so I stuck around. Luckily, I didn't have to wait very long before, *poof*!, the house disappeared and all this free stuff fell to the ground, including artifacts which I had longed after. There were a few other people there, and while I raced frantically from one box to the next, trying to decide what I should take, these people were swiftly loading up their pack horses and gating all the treasures away. I didn't end up with very much since I was inexperienced and only grabbed what I could carry, but it did give me a glimpse of all the possibilities this offered.
From then on, I only got more efficient. I started marking recall runes for every house I came across, I've bonded pack horses to me so that they can recall with me, and I've set up chests right on my front steps to dump the items in. I've pretty much taken over my boyfriends account for my IDOC'ing tendencies as well. I do what I call 'house checks' for any sign of decay. Just recently, I've even bought a second account just so I can have an extra house for even more storage. If I don't win this contest and receive the robe as a prize, (even though I hope I do) - I'm sure there will eventually be one in one of the houses that go in danger of collapsing. And I will be waiting.
-Amber
MY FUNNY WEDDING!
So there we were me and my in game wife Luna trying to have our wedding without the EMs present (nothing against EMs ) and we are trying to do this in Felucia Britain in the Big castle there.... we are part of the COM factions and we have our guy who is marrying us is in SL .... We get the place loaded with plants and such for decoration and we get like 14 cakes and stacked them high enough and wide enough to try and make a pyramid and when we just got to the part where he says "speak now or forever hold your peace!" BAMB there comes TB a little purple Llama with a sigil and he start just destroying our minister so me and my wife get out of our wedding suits and into our pvp suits are try and stop him...much to our advantage we got him into stat loss mode due to he was opposing factions. so for the rest of the wedding he kept eating the cakes popping in and out of hiding and every time he came out until we were done my best man wrestled him to death. Later he became a good friend of ours and we now fight together in most out battles...
there it is my best memory in UO my wedding :D
Some years ago, our shard was very crowded. There were many persons in anywhere. We wanted tranquil world and we wanted to do our likely. And we decided to restart in the new shard. It was Balhae. Awesome world! We could stay any time on our favorite place. It was comfortable and we decided to build our guild house on Balhae. Only one problem, we could not buy what we want. The only way is to get or make it ourselves. But that was not big problem, because it was what we wanted. Half a year after, one of our friend has quitted from britania. His main job was to collect the ingot and leather. And another day, one of member was away from our team. She was animal tamer. Two years later, I am alone in guild castle. I did not desire to be alone in this castle and world. To be or not to be, that is the question. One month after, I thought seriously that about away from this world or from this shard. One day I visited again my old shard. My sand stone patio is there. And I met few persons I know. I had felt nostalgic. I decided one more restart again at here. I can’t leave from this world. I opened the vendor shop in my house, made money, bought new house, made new guild member and made new friends. What I wanted most was a lot of communication rather than silence. This is the story of my only I know. I am supposed to got a rest from britania for 3 years. Now I am living on here. Last week, I visited our guild castle on Balhae. There is it, it is the same as those days.
-Tao
The three of us were following the trail of blood. Luckily, it lead us straight out of the champ spawn area. Pvping someone of this skill level was difficult enough to combat alone, let alone being swarmed with ratmen mages. We followed the trail up to the mountains and knew we’d have him trapped eventually. Smokey’s connection was faster, so he was able to run ahead and keep him from reaching the tunnel that leads to Marble Island. The three of us have attempted to defend many champ spawns from Cotswold, but we have always failed. All of that practice was about to show through for once as we push on to execute the threat. I had a flame strike precaste and Cotswold’s bar pulled out. I was just itching for his bar to light up on my screen. I don’t typically pvp, so I did not have a plan after the initial flame strike, but I was tired of dying to the same guy day in and day out. It was time to fight back. Normally, we would just try to escape from Cotswold as his wrath has been undefeated. I caught back up with Naroo just in time for us to approach Smokey and Cotswold already fighting again. Cotswold was injured badly from Smokey’s bleed attack, but I could tell he had too much time to heal up before being forced to fight again. The three of us were tiring out as Cotswold seemed to run circles around us, but relentlessly we kept the battle going. I noticed that Smokey and Naroo kept getting Cotswold down to just a sliver of life left on his bar, then suddenly he would be back to full health. I started to caste the spell flame strike again, and this time I was going to wait for the opportune moment to target him. I watched his life bar go down and up for a short while. Finally, his life was only a sliver left and I targeted him as fast as my reflexes would allow. His body dropped to the ground face down. The site of Cotswold’s naked corpse lying on the ground spread eagle was so awesome, I had my character dance all over it. Not only did we FINALLY defeat this undefeatable Cotswold, but I got the kill shot!
-Pooper
Thank you again for all your wonderful memories and keep an eye on the Herald for more winning announcements!
