Hmm - this popped up on Facebook of all places!

[Adrianas]

I just saw this on Facebook (it says it was posted 2 hours ago):
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Ultima Online

Safe Your Boats
The authorities want you to know: If you placed your boat near the place Blackthorn's old castle was standing, please remove it before tomorrow, Wednesday July 11th, at midnight EDT. If your boat isn't removed, it might get buried and destroyed in some landscaping works that are about to happen in that area.
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Not that anyone I know has a boat around Blackthorne's castle atm.  But it will be interesting to see what-all happens tomorrow!

[ii & Sabin]

Where is the castle?

[Adrianas]

Where is the castle?

Well, the one is Ilsh is already destroyed - and you couldn't put boats around that one anyway.  So all that leaves is his castle in Brit!

[Tjalle]

It´s the one in Brit just N, N/E from the EM Hall on the island.

[Adrianas]

I think it's interesting that this is 'slated' for "midnight EDT" tomorrow night.

lol!!  I've got it!  Blackthorne couldn't figure out how to migrate his account over!!!

[Adrianas]

They lied!  It didn't change last night.  (Glad I didn't stay up to watch it as I considered doing.)

But if you want to see what they are going to do, go over to the Test Center and check it out.  Pretty cool digs.  I guess Blackthorne had to demolish his Ilsh house to get the funds to upgrade his castle in Britain. . . . 

And apparently he figured out the account migration stuff after all.   

[Miranda/QueenZen]

lol
Our beloved Blackthorn figured out acct. migration cuz he is part robotic machine, or whatever.
I have yet to even figure it all out yet. Every time I try I go ACK forget it. Bleh.

I did tour it on Ches. this morning, finally patchin thru, could not tour it here on siege since all my chrs. are FULL of stuffs and can not move, since I dropped the Miranda house etc. when EA shut down Queen Zen acct. too early...4 wks too early near as we can figure out since my other 3 accts. are still going...unmigrated even !!

Anyhow why did they have the front gates locked ? Some players had boats in the water this morning yet, to enable us TO get in, they set em to anyone to hop onto their ships and then hop right onto the Blackthorn land estate to get to tour it. So I did tour it ..spiffy digs I must say !