Last week the KISS alliance hosted its annual Maragon on Guild Wars. Basically it’s a massive riddle-solving and running event spanning over two long days.
I haven’t even been on Guild Wars for a significant period of time since last year, so this was kind of interesting. In the beginning I thought I’d be at a severe disadvantage due to the time lapse; at least I’d have Dacelo et. al. backing me up though. 
In hindsight I didn’t have much to worry about. The group riddles weren’t all that hard – although there were a few “wtf” moments. I mean, how did we manage to derive Sifhalla as the endpoint three times consecutively? 
Some of the runs were definitely crazy though: the two runs in the Realm of Torment and the HM run from Arbor Bay to Gadd’s Encampment.
Good thing as a “PUG” I had the advantage of running in full armour. The change to Shadow Form last Thursday and its subsequent unbanment (I officially declare unbanment to be a real word) from the event was a godsend as well. I don’t know if it’d be possible to solo run half of those routes otherwise.
Anyway, some pictures:
Taking a nice long break after the crazy run from Beacon's Perch to Deldrimor War Camp
Starting the solo riddle for Prophecies.
Crowding around the leader of KISS - James - before the start of the final solo riddle of the event.
All in all it was good fun. I definitely got a lot of running practice over that weekend. Now if only I remembered to record one of the more challenging runs on video… And congratulations to Dacelo for winning first prize (Obsidian Armour set) in the Nightfall portion of the event. It was totally worth participating just to hear Tessa’s expression.
I think my brain has fully recovered now.
Tags: Guild Wars, Maragon
i hope none of the kiss people reads this and find out that i was actually the one who was playing the winning character not tessa herself lol.
i failed the runs badly due the armor rules, getting insta gibbed by fireball is not very cool.
christine still wants to recruit you lol, she thinks you are a progamer (probably misunderstood me when i told her that you are a programmer, plus you were godly with the runs during maragon).
It’s not like it would have mattered anyway since you didn’t win again afterwards.
The solo riddles in Factions/Prophecies/EotN were actually pretty challenging though since they actually required us to change districts based on real life facts. >.>