opening: all is fine on ultima untill one day, a shadow player logs in and steals acess to all the ship commands and steals everything from all the players and replaces them with base gear. everyone starts posting on the forums asking what happend but the staff has no idea and soly finds himself locked out of all server administration tools and can do nothing so he pms larva asking what happend, BUT larva had started his vacation with his family the week before. the shadow player knew this and took his chance to cause mayhem. the only chance for the players to retrive what they had lost was to complete a series of challenges every week announced by hourly banners but only those who completed every challenge would be rewarded with their lost items.
end:one day after starting the challenges and many people had completed most of them the shadow hacker has announced his final challenge, to complete all of episode 1 ,2 and 4 on video with nothing but a saber and nothing else equipped, and to ensure people actually did this he once again removed all items but this time only leaving a single saber in everyones invintory and disabled all quests and shops,while removing all modes except solo and even removed all drops from mosters, however one person did manage to complete this in a matter of hours and for his acompleshment the shadow hacker had decided to return everything to where it was before he started to change things returning all items and the server controls back to the staff. to this day the people who still play on ultima from those dark times are calling it the greatest event ever for being the ultimate challenge of their skills
may be more than 5 lines but i couldnt help it i started thinking then it got gud