New Halloween Event?

Hm, i thought word might have poked out about this, but maybe no one else has seen it yet. Or its not new and it's just my newbie-ness showing

As I said in the SSA1.2 thread, I ran into an event that prompted me to see if the new SSA was open. Going into Skyway city to run SSA1.1 I saw all these new spots around the map. Banner of Scorn, I think Banner of Mercy, and two others I can't recall the names of.

So, curious what it was I rushed over to check one out. I found a purple one, big banner with big purple glowing runes around it that started spitting out various horror themed monsters like a Hyrda look-a-like and a Devouring Earth rock monster (huge and small).

Reading the info, it sounded like I was supposed to wail on the spawns until the protections weakened and I could destroy the banner, and then go do so to the other 4, but I may have misread. After about 30 minutes the 'banner vulnerability' timer counted down and the whole thing despawned. So, yeah, that happened, and I probably did it wrong, though I don't think I was able to interact with the banner itself so, not really sure.

The rest of the text read along the lines of, you have to take out all 4 banners and a 'Greater Mystical Aspect' will spawn with appropriate map icon to show your distance from it. The fluff was something along the lines of The Circle of Thorns tried summoning something and it screwed up, but instead of cleaning it up they let it run wild for everyone else to clean up. The banners were also color coded, blue, green, purple, and red, which I *think* indicated the power of their defenses from what the text said. I was trying to tackle purple (Though it was spawning all whites and yellows)

Anyone else run into this yet then?

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Yes, I believe it is last year's Halloween event and can be triggered somehow. I could be wrong on both accounts.

Hmmm, I guess that wasn't very helpful.

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the banner event was introduced last year or the year before, cant remember, and to complete it you need about 1 team of people at each banner to make them vulnerable AND you have to kill each banner before the timer runs out, then if you do that a GM will appear and you kill that to complete the event (when GM spawns a new timer starts counting down)

it can be started when someone turns in halloween salvage for costume slot (zone it happens in is random though and may just be a zombie invasion)

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Nope, that's not new. It's the Deadly Apocalypse which does run regularly during the Halloween event and then sporadically throughout the year.

It should become much more popular this year now that Leagues can be formed and you can coordinate four teams at the four banners.

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Yep, that was the name. Ok, not new, just something I hadn't seen before. Thanks folks!

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What will be new this year for Halloween is a a haunted mansion Trial.

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@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

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Here are some screens from PAX showing the new halloween event.

The Mansion



The villain called is Abomination, sort of like a Frankenstein monster.

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And a cross between Nemesis and Vahzilok apparently.

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