Farewell to Gaile

In recognition of her many years of devoted service to Guild Wars and the Guild Wars community, we'd like to extend an open invitation to all of our fans to join us in a farewell party for our community relations manager, Gaile Gray.

This very special event begins at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) on Friday, April 4, 2008 and will run all weekend, ending at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) on Monday, April 7, 2008. Starting on Saturday, April 5, The Frog's personal friend, The Rabbit, will host a series of final extravaganzas so big they span the better part of three days.

As they have touched the lives of Tyrians, Canthans, and Elonians alike, Gaile and The Frog will be honored across the world in the cities of Lion's Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, and Kamadan.

Celebration Events

Join The Rabbit, The Frog, and many of their woodland friends as they gather together to host the largest farewell party in Tyrian history! To prepare for the send-off, you will want to collect festive items you can bring to the party.

• If you're low on party supplies, you might want to scour the countryside for special, explosive rewards that will drop from the creatures you defeat. (aka fireworks)

• The creatures assembling for the event have also brought a variety of special treats they will trade for trophies from their homelands.

After all, what's a party without drinks, snacks, and fireworks?

Bon Voyage, Gaile and The Frog!

Join The Rabbit and The Frog on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday for a series of extravaganzas. Every three hours, this duo will host a light-hearted party, complete with dancing, prizes, and maybe even a conga line!

To help you celebrate in style, The Frog will bestow party attendees with a new, extra-special buff that will grant bearers double points towards their Party Animal title track. To get the biggest bang for your buck, be sure to save up any fireworks you acquire and use them at one of the extravaganzas during the weekend. During this event, the Rabbit will give instructions to the players around to perform certain character emotes (such as SIT, EXCITED, WAVE); doing this emote at each proper time will give the player a set of 1 Champagne Popper, 1 Bottle Rocket, and 1 Sparkler. During long stretches of dialog, some items will be given away "for free" without performing any emote.

Don't miss this event! Make sure to mark the following dates on your calendars:

• Friday, April 4: Creatures begin to gather in Lion's Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, and Kamadan to prepare for the event.
• From Saturday, April 5 to Monday, April 7 : Starting at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) on Saturday and concluding at Noon Pacific on Monday, The Frog will make his appearance every three hours in the three festival cities. Bring your fireworks and prepare to party!

Event Treats

Trading trophy items to creatures in each of the party cities will give you access to a variety of different treats.

Lion's Arch Icon Item Honeycomb File:Hunter's Ale.jpg Hunter's Ale File:Champagne Popper.jpg Champagne Popper File:Bottle Rocket.jpg Bottle Rocket File:Sparkler.jpg Sparkler		Shing Jea Monastery Icon Item File:Sugary Blue Drink.jpg Sugary Blue Drink File:Hard Apple Cider.jpg Hard Apple Cider File:Champagne Popper.jpg Champagne Popper File:Bottle Rocket.jpg Bottle Rocket File:Sparkler.jpg Sparkler		Kamadan Icon Item File:Mandragor Root Cake.jpg Mandragor Root Cake File:Bottle of Juniberry Gin.jpg Bottle of Juniberry Gin File:Champagne Popper.jpg Champagne Popper File:Bottle Rocket.jpg Bottle Rocket File:Sparkler.jpg Sparkler

Items collected

This is a list of the items collected for one item as listed above.

Lion's Arch Creature Item Trained Devourer 3 Charr Carvings Albino Rat 2 Stone Summit Badges Dune Lizard 2 Mountain Troll Tusks Hog 2 Hardened Humps Lynx 2 Saurian Bones Moa Bird 2 Intricate Grawl Necklaces Trained Devourer 2 Decayed Orr Emblems Black Bear 1 Destroyer Core Trained Devourer 1 Dessicated Hydra Claw Caribou 1 Enslavement Stone Trained Devourer 1 Superb Charr Carving Mountain Eagle 1 Forgotten Seal Wolf 1 Molten Claw Raven 1 Undead Bone Trained Devourer 1 Mursaat Token		Shing Jea Monastery Creature Item Phoenix 3 Copper Crimson Skull Coins Trained Devourer 3 Augmented Flesh Trained Devourer 2 Putrid Cysts Trained Devourer 2 Warden Horns Panda 2 Silver Crimson Skull Coins White Tiger 1 Soul Stone Young Wallow 1 Truffle Black Moa 1 Luxon Pendant Lurker 1 Black Pearl Trained Devourer 1 Kraken Eye Reef Lurker 1 Kurzick Bauble Crane 1 Gold Crimson Skull Coin Trained Devourer 1 Pulsating Growth Tiger 1 Skull Juju Turtle 1 Moon Shell		Kamadan Creature Item Warthog 3 Copper Shilling Lioness 2 Silver Bullion Coins Jahai Rat 2 Insect Carapace Crocodile 2 Kournan Pendants Flamingo 2 Heket Tongues Hippopotamus 2 Mummy Wrappings Lion 1 Gold Doubloon Trained Devourer 1 Demonic Remains Iguana 1 Demonic Relic Trained Devourer 1 Dark Remains Trained Devourer 1 Demonic Fang Hyena 1 Margonite Mask Trained Devourer 1 Umbral Skeletal Limb Young Howler 1 Geode Trained Devourer 1 Phantom Residue

Notes

• The mentioned special buff is Party Time!
• There was an early arrival of the Frog 7.00 GMT on Saturday April 5th, 2008. However the third and fourth arrival of The Frog didn't happen. Which suggests the first early appearance was a test or a mistake.

Emotes

As the Frog appears, players are asked to perform mentioned emotes to celebrate Gaile and the Frog and will in return recieve party items as a reward. The emotes used are asked to be performed in the following order:

• ATTENTION
• BORED or COUGH or YAWN or SIT
• EXCITED or CHEER or CLAP
• YES or NO
• SIT
• AGREE
• READY
• BREATH
• DANCE
• DRUMS or GUITAR
• BOW
• POINT or LAUGH
• VIOLIN
• EXCITED
• WAVE

There are 15 commands, and approximately 6 "give away" sets, for a potential 21 sets of 3 fireworks each event. The emotes are expected to be performed quite fast after being called out by either the rabbit or the frog, so be fast!

Related links

• Gaile's userpage on GWW. See her notes at the bottom.
• GuildWars.com page for the event.