This is Brill, home to early undead adventurers in the World of Warcraft. After reaching level 10 or so, most undead will catch one of these Zepplins to leave this place and not return.
The Headless Horseman swoops in uttering a very eerie poem and laughing manically.
As the event begins, the Headless Horseman flies around the town a few times spouting poetry about our impending demise.
The Horseman makes his final approach.
The Headless Horseman begins throwing Molotov Cocktails at the buildings in Brill in the form of flaming pumpkins.
Even though most players are level 10 or less they can help put out the fires. There are tubs of water and buckets available.
The Headless Horseman has a complete set of poems he has to read before the event will end.
The event lasts about five minutes — we are near the end now.
One more attack.
The low level players are joined by a few higher level players.
The fires are almost out and the end sequence is starting.
The Headless Horseman is perturbed that his plans to burn Brill have been foiled.
The Headless Horseman lands in town threatening to lay waste to the inhabitants, but we have a plan.
That’s right — throw a few buckets of water on him and like the Wicked Witch of the West he will shrivel-up and fade away.
The Headless Horseman’s last bit of poetry reveals that his body cannot be destroyed. The only way to stop him is by destroying his head. That is where the next quest begins. We’ll need a full compliment of high-level Technologia to complete it.
As he leaves he drops a final flaming pumpkin which contains some treats for those that participated in the event.
Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the information technology industry, software, hardware, gaming, finance, accounting, and technology geekdom for more than 30 years.
