My friends and I just came back from Doom. Not wealthy with artifacts, but happy. We had spent 5 hours in the hardest dungeon known to UO. I'll tell it as it happened.

We went in first. We died a few times to get to the ferryman, we had to fight our way the entire journey. We had to kill lost souls, liches, lich lords, devours of souls, ravagers, and even a Skeletal Dragon. When we got there, we found out we needed a golden skull to pass. Luckily, my friend, MaN WitH a BoOk, had one.

We went across using the teleporter and found Armarus, the Dark Father waiting for us. He used a skill related to Neira the Necromancer's ability to sumnmon undead. He threw bones down and after about 3 seconds, they turned to undead of all sorts. Here's a picture I got of him before he killed me.

After I got rezzed, the provoker in our group suggested a plan. We had 2 tamers with dragons. We all went behind the moongate leading out of Doom. Behind it, the Dark Father couldn't hit any of us, but we could hit him. We soon killed him. He had scrolls, weapons, gold, in fact, ha had everything but artifacts. No one got any of them. After that, we fought the 6 minor bosses to reset the Dark Father spawn.

DarkKnight Creepers
Fleshrenders
Impalers
Shadow Knights
Abyssmal Horror

I even got these pictures of the Abyssmal Horror, the last boss before the Dark Father.

We fought the Dark Father again, but this time the dexxer in our group got an artifact. The Crown Of The Harrower, a green bone helm that made me green with envy. After that, we all gave up hope of getting anymore artifacts and left. I may not have gotten an artifact, but I got a great adventure.

The Defenders of the Innocent (DOI) had their grand opening today. There was much fun and frolic, including a team dragon hunt. I gathered a team and we were off! 2 paladins and a dexxer made up my seemingly unbeatable team. There was even an OSI member watching from the stands! Our team went first.

We finished the beast with a time of 34 seconds. I got down to 5 hp, but I was fine in the end. The next team wasn't so fortunate. With a time of 59 secs, team 2 trailed behind us. Next was team 3... we beat them by 2 seconds. They had a time of 36 seconds. Yow that was close! After that, team 4 also did badly. They left with a time of 50 seconds. That meant... you guessed it, we won! The prize was 33k for each of us. It was a wonderful adventure.

My guild just came back from the Semidar champion spawn. It was uneventful at first, but after the gargoyles showed up it was dangerous.
The Semidar spawn is one of the hardest in UO, so we had some trouble. The spawn went like this:

Mongbats and Imps
Harpies and Gargoyles
Scorching Gargoyles, Burning Gargoyles, Blazing Gargoyles, and Stone Gargoyles
Succubi and Daemons

Finally, after 3 hours, Semidar spawned.

Coupled with her helpers, she seemed unbeatable. We had to regroup.
About 10 minutes later, we all summoned up the undispellable earth eles and hit her with everything we had. Now, when about 40 earth eles hit something, it doesn't go without effect. She went down, and fast. All in all, after we got home, I got about 15k from the spawn. It was a good day.

Today my guild went on yet another daring hunt. This time it was to the Neira the Necromancer's dwelling, the T2A undead champion spawn. Things started smoothly, we got on the boat and sailed there. Then our guildmaster started the spawn with her Valor virtue. The spawn started easily. It got harder in this order:

Level one, Shades and Wraiths
Level two, Bone Knights, Mummies, and Skeletal Magi
Level three, Liches
Level four, Lich Lords and Rotting Corpses (lethal poisoning)

When we got there, we met up with another party. We joined forces and finally made our way to Neira, the champion. When she spawned, I got this picture of her:

Soon afterward, she killed me with an evil omen, mind blast, flamestrike combo. Our guild leader, Riley, rezzed me, and I was able to loot my corpse. Soon afterwards, the champion died. I got 10000 gold, a full Necromancy spell book, and the highest path in Valor. Well, the adventure didn't end there.

On the way back through the fire dungeon, a PK by the name of Selinda attacked us. He managed to kill two of our group before running away like a coward. I even hit him once or twice. This PK loved mind blast. He also had great armor. I hope I get to kill him one day. Well, after that, the rest was history. we went back to guild HQ and deposited the loot. All in all, I logged out with 10000 gold, a full Necromancy spell book, and a great new adventure.