For years, the Fox Hunt Master has been satisfied with his standard
quarry...but had dreamed of something more. Finally, after massive effort,
he's managed to secure twenty-five famous mythical creatures, and is testing
the hunters of BatMUD with a far greater challenge than a small doglike
creature. Everything from the timid, elusive wolpertinger to the Mongolian
Death Worm are being released into the world...

...and The Hunt Is On.

Each reboot, special blinking beacons will be placed at random places around
the outworld, spread throughout the continents. Each beacon will attract one
creature, 25 in total. Your jobs are as follows:
1) acquire a camera and take pictures of these creatures, and save these
pictures in your album. At the end of the event, bring your album to the Fox
Hunt Master to be awarded consumable prizes.
2) acquire a trophy case, kill the creatures, collect trophies from the kills,
and display them in your trophy case. Trophy casaes are pcity items. At the
end of the event, kills will translate into eq prizes.

The Hunt Is On will run through/including Sunday, Nov 3. You only need one
copy of each photograph, and one trophy from each kill. Multiple cases/albums
will not add extra results, so, once you get all 25, there's no benefit for
getting more of the same.

Books containing the location of the beacons are spread out in various areas
throughout the game. Look for rooms with bookshelves and bookcases. Hunting
targets themselves should not be found in areas, only outside.

Multiple players/parties can tag the same monster for the same kill. Look for
a ** on the monster's description to know if you get credit for the kill or
not. It's possible for very strong players to one-shot weaker monsters before
getting credit, either wait for a repop or waith for the **. You don't need to
be in the room for the kill (in case it's an entry kill or you're dead).

Prizes include:
5+ photos: a hunter's cache pcity item that creates cooking ingredients over
24 hours. More photos adds more cooking ingredients, which include fresh
seafood and fresh edible plants.
5+ kills: your trophy case adds a small +stat boost that lasts all day.
15+ kills: the Gold Hunt Prize, an armour (your choice of rig, amulet, held or
belt) with your choice of stat (str/int/wis/dex/con/cha/hpr/spr) and your
choice of skill/spell (you must have spent XP on it and have it from 20% to
90%) that scales with level up to +greatly.
20+ kills: the Fox's Fang, an upgraded Anyweapon whose base hit/damage stats
continue to increase as you use it to fight more and more types of enemies
over the coming year. Also adds +attack, +parry, +cast generic and +quick
chant. Maxxing out the Fox's Fang will give a result that compares favorably
to any existing weapon in the game, but of course, will not happen overnight.
25+ kills: the Burning Hunt Prize, which is similar to the Gold Hunt Prize,
except it can also be a ring/neck, it scales up to +divinely, it adds two
stats (but one is at half power), and the 90% train/study max is removed.

Prizes are not choices. If you get 20 kills, for example, you get the trophy
case bonus, and the Gold Hunt Prize, and the Fox's Fang. Plus whatever you get
for your album.

Merchants can make cameras, and alchemists can make film, in their respective
guilds. Better merchants can make lighter cameras. Better alchemists make more
film per attempt.

Shinarae "glass elevator" Lluminus