Halloween House Decorating contest!

Community Manager

What is this contest?
A house decorating contest for Halloween!

Where is the contest being held? 

All shards!

How can I enter? 

Simply decorate your home for spooky season and post a picture here for all to see! Be sure to post the house owners name, name of the house, location and shard with your image!

How long do I have to submit my design? 

The contest will run until 11:59pm EST on 10/31/2023. Any posts made after that time will not be considered for the contest. 

Voting will then start on November 1st and run until 11/7/2023 at 11:59pm EST. The winner will be announced shortly there after.

What can I win? 

Mesanna herself will be placing a sign in front of the winning house stating it won!

Who can enter? 

Anyone with a house on any shard and any facet!

What are the rules?
It must all be items in the game. They cannot be photo shopped or added to the image digitally.

Can only ONE shard be a winner?

No! Each shard will have their own winner!

Be creative, have fun and good luck!

Lord_Frodo

  

Kyronix

Oooo! How exciting! Do I get to play too?!

Lord_Frodo

  

Covfefe

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I saw this amazing halloween house I think it's like that all year round, I hope they enter, if not I'll try and find it and post it for them, it was this little church and graveyard.

Queen_Mum

Tarragon_Slayer

I love the idea. One question though: does it have to be the entire house? What if you have a keep or castle and only a pumpkin or two?

Community Manager

Tarragon_Slayer said:

I love the idea. One question though: does it have to be the entire house? What if you have a keep or castle and only a pumpkin or two?

You can decorate as large or as small an area of your home you would like.

Onixia

Interesting.  Our guild is currrently building a huge haunted house for a player shard event on Origin.  Perhaps we should enter it.  Keep your eyes and ears open for the official date notice of when our fun Haunted House Event will happen!

Community Manager

Onixia said:

Interesting.  Our guild is currrently building a huge haunted house for a player shard event on Origin.  Perhaps we should enter it.  Keep your eyes and ears open for the official date notice of when our fun Haunted House Event will happen!

That sounds exciting! It's great to hear players doing some amazing things for others!

slingshot

i would like to put potters house up for consideration. nothing extreme like some can do but worthy of looking at anyway. Atlantic shard, cords are 137. 47N 55, 37E thanks

AmberWitch

Love the contest! Is the voting open to everyone? Please don't open the voting to everyone. That usually results in those in the biggest guild, the most friends, paid the most, has the most accounts, etc wins. Thank you for your consideration.

Community Manager

AmberWitch said:

Love the contest! Is the voting open to everyone? Please don't open the voting to everyone. That usually results in those in the biggest guild, the most friends, paid the most, has the most accounts, etc wins. Thank you for your consideration.

Voting will be in fact open to everyone here on the forum.

Larisa

Why does every thread have to turn into an argument? Can we please leave this thread for PICTURES only and make a new thread for the kids that want to argue??

Mariah

Some posts have been removed. Now let's try it Larisa's way please?

Cinderella

also note... 
that in the past, when she asks for coordinates
that she requested these coordinates, when you use a sextant in CC
(it will show in your bottom left corner)



in EC they will be on the map
(they are with Pinco's UI)

this tells them the exact location (facet numbers, etc)

MadMartyr

UWF Martyr's Hold
Owner: MadMartyr
Shard: Atlantic
Facet: Trammel
Coordinates: 73.50'S 34.40'E
Sextant Coordinates: w1, 1816, 2474
Map Coordinates: 73.50'S 34.40'E

This Trinsic swamp graveyard-adjacent castle is my pride and joy. It is my favorite house of all that I own, and I've spent countless hours since I came back to UO in 2008 building, finding items, and tweaking designs to make it uniquely mine. With various rooms dedicated to the bisection, dissection, destruction, and outright torture of humans, elves, orcs, gargoyles, and animals, there's plenty to see.

It's packed with EM items, server births, rare items and suits. Nearly everything you move your mouse over or container you can open will be interesting.

Thanks for taking a look, everyone, and I hope you enjoy my castle. And, maybe, come up with some interesting decoration ideas of your own by looking at what I've done.



Entrance


Entryway


Library and Lounge


Lab


Studio


Workshop


Raid Planning


Crypt and Graveyard


Kitchen


Statuary


Administration


Human Sacrificial Altar


Detainment Area


Torture Room


Vault


Animal Sacrificial Alter


Lich's Tomb


Victim Disposal


Hidden Storage

Toriana

I love the idea and am working on my house now

Minerva_Foxglove

Good for big house owners you can pick one area! I just wish the reward was something not stuck in the ground but a trophy of some kind the owner could move with him or her when moving house. People with small houses move alot..I would hate to leave this reward behind me if I got one..I would be so proud placing it in the next house. 

keven2002

Minerva_Foxglove said:

Good for big house owners you can pick one area! I just wish the reward was something not stuck in the ground but a trophy of some kind the owner could move with him or her when moving house. People with small houses move alot..I would hate to leave this reward behind me if I got one..I would be so proud placing it in the next house. 

I think the Dev team made the right call. That trophy would undoubtedly be sold for plats given there would only be one per shard (and who knows if it would stay on the shard).

Minerva_Foxglove

Was thinking some inscription , with name of the winner.  When the player moves the sign will stand there in the middle of nowhere or even block house placement, But im sure you are right , if it can generate gold someone will sell it.Could it be account bound?
I have castles so I wont move but im thinking of other players who most likely want to move to bigger and bigger places if they are that good in decorating...

Lily

Lily contest house Lily is owner, Shard is Sonoma, and name Haunted Mansion The coords below pic LilyLily Posts: 3 4:41PM in Sonoma Flag

Cinderella

today is @Lily first day on the forums
she accidentally posted on the Sonoma forums
and when she tried to post them here,
they showed up as thumbnails
is it ok if i add the link to her original post
since she is having trouble with it?

Lily contest house Lily is owner, Shard is Sonoma, and name of the house Haunted Mansion - Ultima Online Forums (uo.com)

Lord_Frodo

  

Drakelord

I am posting for Carly, owner of the Castle on Sonoma, she does not have access here and ask me.
On Sonoma, Trammel

Dixie_of_Chessy1

i made yall some BPA to enjoy....."while i work on my haunted mansion"  muhahahahahaha..... 

Garth_Grey

Dixie_of_Chessy1 said:

i made yall some BPA to enjoy....."while i work on my haunted mansion"  muhahahahahaha..... 

That's clever..well done.

Toriana

Are there instructions on how to post pictures?

Mariah

I would use Microsoft snipping tool then save the resulting image as a .jpg. Upload that to the forum using the 'attach image/file' button seen just above the text you are typing like this:

LilyGrace

Loving this thread, getting to see the creativity!

@Dixie_of_Chessy_01 ;

Dixie, that backpack art is the best I've ever ever seen. Just fantastic! I want to climb up the path to that castle ruin. With stakes a hammer and some holy water of course. lol!

Oops! Didn't see Mariah's post before I was composing mine. Edited to remove.

Toriana

LEGENDS:
On an island north of Homare-Jima in Tokuno (116.58' N, 79.44' W) lies what at first appears to be a lighthouse set on a tower above the cliffs. 
Shadow, the owner, invites you to visit Shadow's Bluff. You are welcome to come explore its secrets, though traveler beware for madness and evil lurk within and you may find you have lost a piece of your soul when you leave. 
A vendor search for "Shadow's Bluff" will provide you with a map and the means to travel to the island. 

First floor:

Second floor:

Third floor