For those wondering, I’ll be starting my Marathon at Midnight on Friday Night and gaming until Midnight on Saturday night, October 20th. Those of you who have donated and made specific game requests in exchange for your $50 donation should expect to see tweets and screens start flowing sometime Saturday after 10AM. I won’t play your games in the dead of night so you’lll have a chance to see them.
As a condition of the Ettenmoors challenge, I’ll be playing on the Brandywine server on Saturday October 20th at some point in the afternoon. I’ll post the live feed here for all to link to once I’m in and playing. I’ll spend 1 hour in the Ettenmoors on a freshly minted Reaver for this event. No GM tricks, no Admin invincible. Just me against the world!
Here’s a reminder of everything that listed here is still available to anyone who donates before 11:59PM Eastern Time on Saturday October 20th. Please, please do not make penny or 50 cent bids. You need at least $5 to qualify for the Lifetime Subscription drawing, so let’s try to stick to that. If you can’t donate the whole $5, please at least donate $1. Every dollar helps, but amounts smaller than that cost the charity money to process.
Remember, these are available until the event ends. Just because we met a goal doesn’t mean you can’t still claim the reward by donating TODAY. Or ANYTIME before the event ends Saturday night at 11:59PM. Think of the goals as ‘unlocks’.
- $1,250 - Every donor receives the LOTRO forum title "Hero".
- $1,500 - Every donor receives a unique IN GAME TITLE 'The Sociable'
- $2,000 - Film a community update wearing a dwarf beard.
- $2,500 - Film a community update wearing one of those and convince a dev to do so, too!
- $3,000- I'll convince horse Dev to reveal themselves in a community update.
- $4,000- 5 individual donors chosen at random. Each get 1500 Turbine Poitns.
- $4,500- Increase to 10 total of winners, 1500 points each.
- $5,000- Reaver Challenge! Roll up a new reaver on Brandywine and live stream the result.
- $5,250 I'll tweet a pic of Hannah Foell and myself in the beards we'll be wearing.(Click Here for pic!)
- $5,500 - Increase 1500 point code winners to 20.
- $6,000 - Shed some light on what the Horseshoe does.(Post is Here)
- $6,500 - 7 donors at random receive Riders of Rohan Soundtrack on CD. (Soundtrack on CD)
- $7,500 - Perlino Steed codes for all donors! (Travel mount, code is account wide)
- $8,000 - 2 RoR legedary keys if we hit this goal by 5PM Eastern on Oct 12. Winners drawn IMMEDIATELY. (AWADED-CLOSED)
- $8,250 - X2! Hit this by 5PM Eastern on Oct 12 and it's 4 RoR codes!(AWARDED-CLOSED)
- $8,500 - Visting New England or a resident? 1 donor at random and a guest - lunch on me at Legal Seafood Harborside. (lunch only - no travel) (Legal Seafood HarborSide)
- $10,000 - Wear Legolas Costume during community update video. (Materials to make costume: Acquired)
- $10,500 - Cremello Steed (Travel Mount) for all donors
- $11,000 - 3 Riders of Rohan Tee Shirts. Random, all donors. (See the T-shirt here)
- $11,500 - In Game Title "The Wise" to all donors of $1 or more.
- $12,000 - 1 LOTRO LIFETIME ACCOUNT. Random (Min. $5 donation)
- $15,000 - I'll shave my beard for the Legolas Video.
I’ll make It really simple to understand. Once the goal is ORANGE. Everyone gets it, regardless of when you donted. RED Goals are yet to be met. Grey goals are already awarded.
Incentive #1
Donate $50 I'll play the game of your choice for 1 hour and tweet a pic or screen. As long as I can actually get hold of the game in time and it’s for any of these sytems, I’ll play it: PC, iOS, N64, Gamecube, Dreamcast, PS1, 2, 3, PSVita, Xbox 360,
Games by Donor request.
PC
Myst Online: Uru Live
Hello Kitty Online (2)
The Lord of the Rings Online
The Lord of the Rings Online Creepside on Brandywine
Simcity 2k
Robot Unicorn Attack
Diablo 3
N64
Superman
iOS
Pony Unicorn Astronaut
Incentive #2
The person who, at 11:59PM Eastern time on October 20th has donated the most to my effort, gets a Rohan cloth banner. (
This is the banner)
Current Leader: $542
The next 4 people who have donated the most get all 3 The Lord of the Rings Online Soundtracks. Angmar, Moria, and Rohan on CD. (
All 3 Soundtracks)
One person at random from all donors will receive a Soundtrack set as well.
Kinship Goal!
The Kinship with the largest donation in the name of their Kin (The donor name must be the name of the kinship) will have a lottery named after their kinship. The lottery will feature a worn symbol of the elder king!
Current Leader: The Inklings of Meneldor - ~$750
IMPORTANT NOTE: When you fill out your donation information please make sure you’re leaving an email address I can reach you at so I can send the Title codes and add your forum title along with any other winnings you may earn!
So there you have it. Everything you need to know up to this point. We're at $12,920 raised. You need $2,080 to make me shave my beard. As the time ticks down, I have less and less worry about needing to buy a razor.
Finally, and most important, let's not forget why I'm willing to do all this stuff. Why I'm willing to be silly and goofy and see myself clean shaven for the first time in what is probably 17 years. Sick Kids.
No one should have to face scary diseases like Cancer, cystic fibrosis, or serious injuries from accidents much less kids. Children's Miracle Network Hospitals like my charity, Boston Children's Hospital takes care of kids suffering from these illnesses and injuries and they do it without regard to the parents ability to pay. It's about helping sick kids be well. Keep that in mind please when you make your donatios.
Thanks.
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A good idea and hopefully the goal is reached and goes way beyond. We should have more "events" like this, just makes the game that much more interesting and actually beneficial to something other than bein lazy ;)