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Here's a list that will allow any players to get accustomed to most of the common events that they may encounter on our server and their variations. GMs are not limited to this list of course, surprises and new variations are always welcomed.

Some events are played with novice characters, usually called a "Novice Event" in heRO. When this occurs, the GM in charge of the event will ask you to create a new novice with your name followed by 4 numbers (usually the date, in the format of mmdd). For example, GM-Pandora would create Pandora0926 for an event held on the 26th of september.

Prizes: The prizes for each event will vary. Usually, they will often be composed of chance items. Chance items include the following:

• Old Card Album (OCA): Gives a card at random, can even give mini-boss card, but not MVP
• Old Purple Box (OPB): Gives a random item from a list that contain a lot of useful equips, but also some useless loots)
• Old Blue Box (OBB): Gives a random item from a list that contain a few useful items, but a lot of useless loots)
• Gift Box (GB): Comes in a variety of colors, gives a random item from a list that contains stones, dolls, potions, herbs, gifts, etc.)
• Wrapped Mask: Gives a random chance to win a Mask equipment)
• Hatter Voucher: Gives a chance to win one of Hatter's many hats instantly!)

For a list of current ongoing events and events in the past, check out the heRO Events page along with the Event Archive.

Trivia

Test your quickness and your RO knowledge.

The GM will ask a series of question, be the first person to answer right and you get a prize! Listen well to know how the GM wants the answer (either by PM, in normal talk or by entering the answer as a password to a chatroom).

A periodic Riddle Event is also available in the heRO forums here!

Monster Invasions

Fight the monsters!

A popular event, the GM will summon monsters and you have to kill them. Sometimes a storyline will be included in this event.

Other variations

• Trivia Invasion : Held in a town (usually Izlude), the person who answers the question correctly gets to choose the next monster to be summoned in the Monster Invasion event.

• Turn Invasion : The GM will make a list of the player present and each one gets a turn to choose the next monster to be summoned. A dice can be rolled to see if this monster will be MVP or normal monster.

• Breaking the Seal: GMs summon endlessly unless the Seal is destroyed by the players. Break the Seal in this Monster Invasion!

• Merchant Defender: Players must protect a vending, idle merchant against the GM's waves of Monster Invasion!

Hide and Seek

Will you find me?

A simple event, the GM hides and you must find him/her. The GM will inform you at the start of the settings of the event, will he/she be in a town? Inside or outside buildings, hidden or visible, etc.

Other variation

The GM will give you a clue as to which map he/she is in rather than telling you.

PVP tournament

Kill or be killed!

Like the name implies, this is a tournament where players must kill each other until there is only one left, the winner. GMs will do their best to match people against players of their levels, but this is not easy to do. This event is usually planned ahead and the GM responsible for it will inform you of what is allowed and what isn't.

Kill the Plant

or kill the players?

Sometimes played with novices, in this event the players are separated into teams. Each team gets 1 or a few plants summoned which they must guard. The goal of the event is to kill the plant of the opposing team(s). Last team remaining with plants alive wins. Since PVP is enabled, some people will prefer to kill all their opponents before trying to kill the plants while others will make a run for it and destroy the plants first.

Poring Taming

Get as many eggs as possible!

This event is semi-automated and usually played with novices. All participants are warped into a room where they each get 50 unripe apple (poring tames), they must use those to gather as many Poring Eggs as possible once they are warped to a room full of porings. The time is not limited, so take your time to tame well. The prizes are distributed by a NPC, with usually an extra surprise to the winner.

Pandora Says

Can you listen?

This event is similar to the game "Simon Says", in which the GM will give commands, if they are preceeded by "Pandora says..." the command must be obeyed and otherwise must be ignored.

For example: "Pandora says sit down" -> all participants must sit their character, those who don't are eliminated. "Now stand up!" -> anyone who stands will be eliminated because I didn't say "Pandora says".

If a true command is not obeyed or a false command is followed, the player who did so will be brutaly murdered, and he/she will not be resurected until the start of the next round. A round ends when there are a set number of players remaining alive. For example: the round starts with 10 players and will end when only 3 are left standing, those 3 get a good prize while others get a consolation prize.

Note: Replace Pandora with the name of another GM when applicable.

Racing Run!

This event is usually played with novices. It's simple enough it's a race!

Morroc Racing: A NPC gives the start of the race, you must then proceed to run around Morroc counter-clock wise. Make sure you don't miss any checkpoint or your will have to go back!!

Other Variation

Run with a monster : the players are warped to an area with monsters (can be morroc racing or elsewhere), they must attack one monster so it gets aggressive on them and follows them and bring the monster to a certain area of the map (usually the other side). Since this variation limits people to the speed of the monster it is not necessary to use novices. This variant can include pvp.

Poring Smash

Who knows what they might hold!

This event is usually played with novices. I will summon many looting monsters in a room (mostly porings, but also drops, santa poring and sometimes, poporings and even Stapo). Then I will proceed to drop items to them, these items usually range from not very useful to average and most of the time chance items are included as well. Once the room is ready the novices are summoned into it and may kill the monsters to their hearts content, thus finding the items dropped into them.

Fight for Items

Wait for the right one, but don't wait too long!

In this event all the players get 1 prize (no more, no less), all of them are warped in a special room. I open a chatroom with the name of an item as the title, the first 2 people who enter the chatroom get to fight for the item, the winner of the fight gets the item. The winner cannot participate again for the rest of the event, but the person who lost the fight may try again until they win. At some point one item will have "last item" in front of it in the title of the chatroom, this means what it says, that is this one is the last item, everyone left with no prize gets a consolation prize (usually obb or gb).

This event will sometime include a level restriction and/or will be restricted to non-trans characters.

This event is often followed by some mass pvp fight, which usually do not give any prize.

Crazy Merchant

Prices are insane! Get the goods while supply last!

The crazy merchant has set up a shop somewhere with cool items at ridicuous price! Find him to get them. Sometimes the crazy merchant will be in town, which will test your reflexes, can you buy fast? Sometimes he/she will be in a remote location, search until you find him!

Other Variation

Shopping : This is played with novices who only have 500 zeny each (received at character creation). A shop is opened with cool items at 500 zeny or less. This event often follows the "Poring Smash" or the "Taming Poring" event.

Item Hunt

Hurry up and gather all!

Like the title says, in this event you will hunt items. GM will give you a list of items to bring back, hurry up and get them all to win! This event is sometimes played in teams, sometimes it's solo hunt.

Other Variation

Trivia Item Hunt : The GM will give you a clue that describes an item, bring it back to win a prize!

DB Party

What will come out.. can you handle it?

This is a simple event where a GM will crack a lot of DB (dead branches) which will summon lots of monsters, have fun killing them... be careful that sometimes a BB (bloody branches) will be broken to call a MvP to the battle as well! Can you defeat them all?

The Pickup

Someone's loss might be your new treasure!

This event is often associated with bad players, botters or cheaters that are banned from the server. A GM will check their accounts for nice items and will drop them in town to the good players! Usually great items are ommited from the dropping (rare cards like thara, hydra and such will not be dropped). Pets and skill such are Greed are forbidden for this event.

Kill the GM

If you can..

Ever dreamed of killing a GM? Now here's your chance, he/she might be wearing a gm clip, or might not (you'll be informed). Have fun! But be careful, we bite back!

Bone Collector

Are you one?

This event is usually played with novice or with characters of the same level. PVP is enabled, kill players and pick up their skulls. Collect the most skulls to win!

Auction

Who will pay the most?

The GM names an item and a starting price, bid for the good until .. going once.. going twice.. sold to the person who offered the most! Sometimes a bid increment will be mentionned, that is the minimum amout you can add.

Other Variation

Sometimes this is also done with novice (usually following a "Item in Poring" or the "Taming Poring" event), who all have 500 zeny (from character creation).

Run, Hydro, Run!

Protect your leader, and escape!

Players work together in a long maze infested with monsters and traps to escort the Team Leader (one of the players) to the end! The maze often follows a specific theme or a common element, with a special guardian, usually a powerful miniboss or a MvP. A GM luring the ultimate Event Hydro, or in the disguise of the Event Hydro, chases closely behind the team. If the GM/Event Hydro defeats or catches up to the Team Leader, it is all over! Run fast!

Players all join one party, while the GM and the Team Leader join a party together with just the two of them. The Team Leader is chosen by players. The Team Leader cannot be from a Taekwon class branch, Monk class branch, or Thief class branch. Players may use any items or even attack the GM/Event Hydro if they deem it fitting. It is the individual GM's call about their policies on recall for players that accidentally left the map, or casting resurrection on the entire map.

(Recommended Items: Speed Potion)

The Flower Maze

Flower Maze

One wrong step and it's all over...

Walk through a dangerous maze filled with immovable monsters as a helpless novice try to navigate the maze to find treasures and the end to escape! Beware of traps and don't be greedy!

Some mazes have novices work together to find bonuses that results in a better prize overall, while some mazes asks for individual work to try to find prizes by destroying various plants that symbolize different prizes depending on the name of the plants.

Zombie Escape

Zombie Escape

A dungeon of undead... can you survive?

Travel through the cursed grounds of various dungeons, castles or forests as novices to the end of the maze facing the undead and other monsters. Using just the limited supplies and novice potions, go to the end of the maze and escape from the undead and other monsters for prizes!

Players are allowed to gain levels up to a maximum of base 8 for their event novices in the entire event. They can also use novice equipment and novice potions. However, fly wings and butterfly wings are not allowed. It is recommended for novices to maximize their "Vit" stats with "Luk" as the 2nd highest stats to maximize survival abilities.

Meteor Dodger

Fire that falls from the sky...

Deadly meteors randomly fall from the sky to crush all in its path. Be the last one standing to defy the wrath of the heavens!

King of the Court

Claim the title to be the best in the PvP Court against the rest of the heroes! Challenge the "King" in a 1vs1 PvP battle under the GM's supervision, and claim the title!

There will always be one player considered the "King" who the rest of the heroes try to challenge. When the GM opens up a chatbox, the first to join the chatbox will battle the King in a 1vs1 pvp battle under rules specified by the GM (these rules may vary for different GMs.) If the King wins, the King keeps his title. If the challenger wins, the challenge takes the title and becomes the new King instead. One who is defeated in battle cannot challenge the King by entering the GM's chatbox again until 3 battles have passed. Follow the GM's instructions in terms of how the actual battle is carried out, as different GMs may have small variations.

A general prize is given to the winner of each battle. Additional prizes are given to the King if the player successfully maintains the title for a period of time against various challengers.

In the case of a tie where either time runs out or both contestants die at the same time, the challenger receives the general prize as if he/she won the battle. However, the King maintains the title and position from a tie.

GMs may limit the maximum amount of rounds that a player can keep the title of a King. Once a player is King for a certain amount of rounds, GMs may present a final reward for that player, but that player will be asked to leave the event in order to give other players a chance to be King.

Werewolf!

This event is based on a card game called Werewolf, which in turn is based on another game called Mafia, well all to say it's not an original idea from me, I'm just borrowing it and adapting it into an event for us.

It's an event for people who like roleplaying, there is no killing involved (no pvp, no pvm). A certain amount of maturity is required, as well as a decent understanding of the English language.

It requires at least 7 people to play, and the more the merrier! It's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria!

This event is quite long to explain, so if you plan on participating please read carefully as we want to avoid having to repeat the rules in game which can take a while meaning less time to actually play.

Some rules may be slightly different depending on who is the host of the game. Ask the game host for specific details on some rulings.

There werewolf rules are so long, that they get their own page. See Werewolf rules for more information.