Project Unveiled Prematurely story about Blood Maze - Update

[Xcom]

I am glad you all enjoyed it. Shamefully about 2/3 of all the energy and time went into the design and construction of the crossroads. I would have loved for people to have given there best trying to find there way and had fun doing so. Best parts of the maze are unforchantly not able to be seen or appreciated. But at least I managed to make a short movie with me running through the maze. After editing both the movie and the pictures I will post it here or in the W7 parts of the forums when its completed.

Right now I'm having a bit of a hard time working on it so might take a bit of time before I release the video and pics.

[borka]

post video url in this thread pls when done

[TwentyThree]

Xcom, take a LOT of photos/videos, and make sure to back them up. If you really spent this long making it, you should have actual physical copies to make sure they don't just... disappear.

[drevnyy]

Thank you everyone. The bricks and materials are seen in that image. They were prepared to seal the whole maze up but at the time of taking the picture more things were being added so it was opened up as to ease transport. The problem currently is just time and sadly is running out fast. All in all about 2 more days was needed to finish it off.

I must add that it was not only my project.
Ghost347
Avulsio
Emerald
Drenyy
Were all instrumental in the construction of this project.

Too bad i didn't helped you enough to finish it b4 server end
I just collected part of treasures :'(

[Xcom]

Few people showed up.

All the blue people:


Tried spreading the word to Jorb and Loft but they must have been to bizzy to come. Also got trolled by a guy named Jorb and we all thought he was coming. But it was just a newbie alt with no clothing that logged out after a kin.

One person tried to grief the maze last minute. But help arrived and it was avoided.

Was a nice opening. If anyone wants a last min tour I will try and catch you on and add you. But the world will pop in just a few minutes so till the next world.

Xcom signing out.

[Arcanist]

I tried to come from em city, but it was too far for my heavy boots.

I look forward to watching the video

[krikke93]

pathetic griefer is pathetic

[Xcom]

As promised I finished making the videos and everything. Updated all the pictures for each level and uploaded everything.

The First movie clip is a nice video of me running through the maze as it should have been if it really was publicly announced. I rush through it knowing all the correct crossroad combinations and it still took me about 50 min to go through all the rooms. The songs were all meant for the introduction movie of the official opening but we never got to film it as it was meant to be filmed that very same day as the public wipe announcement came. I hope you enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP9cKQ_-rWg

First song found in this video:
Celtic Lore - Adrian von Ziegler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiVwUMh_sac

Second song a mix of the two songs:
Beowulf Extended theme music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt-Obfzli5w
BEOWULF main theme (extended)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQdxPxJW68M

Songs that was meant for the final movie but never got the chance to be used, clip of this song from 0:42 was supposed to be taken:
Beowulf Track 16 - The Final Seduction - Alan Silvestri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzS1IyJx5Dw&t=0m43s

In these two videos I explain everything about the maze. I hope they aren't to boring.
First part - About the maze itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNAOyrUox7M

Second part - About the world sights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT61Mi09B_g

I also filmed talking about a bunch of pictures like a picture slide and explain the history of the construction. I don't know if its to boring to be watched so I didn't edit it. If the 2 explanation videos aren't to boring I can edit the picture slides and upload them as well but its only if people don't find the maze explanations to boring to watch cause the picture slides are very long as well.

Here is a nice picture of all the levels as well combined that goes well along with the pictures on the first page.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/iuh7ux

Just some final words about it.

I built the whole maze for the haven community and honestly something broke in me when the wipe happened. When I started the maze it was meant as a fun project but so much energy went into that it grew bigger them my fun side project. In the end it was so large that I was struggling to finish it and I had to put in a lot of energy to finalize it. The news about the wipe right before it was finished. Just a few days before the opening. It really did break something in me. I dono if I have the energy to pick up anything this big again specially the way this maze was squandered.

In my opinion Jorb and Loftar should try and revive the maze by pasting it into world 7 somehow. This thing was never meant to die like it did and it wasn't meant for my personal enjoyment. It was meant for the whole haven community and it would probably benefit everyone if it got revived.

[LadyV]

Xcom it was a wonderful project. I only wish Id had the time to properly finish it rather than cheating and walking through. The story was fun and the wealth you had ammased was truly that of kings. Please don't let it discourage you from doing more things in the future.

[GanjaGuardian]

Well, Xcom wins Haven and Hearth. Shut down the server, nothing else will ever be as cool as this.