The Yard raid

The Ice Man, the Frost Jarl's war-chief, comes down from the north to raid the Yard with waves of raiders behind him. Everyone can fight, and everyone who does shares the spoils.

On this page: How it starts · The fight · His two tricks · Win or lose

How it starts

• An admin can call one, or anyone can blow the War Horn from the Store.
• The horn needs at least 5 people online. It won't work while the Pumpkin King is up, another raid is on, or the Yard is still sacked, and there are 3 hours between raids however they start.
• You get a 5-minute warning. CASINO counts it down in chat every minute and again at 30 seconds, so there's time to get back and eat first.

The fight

• It all happens on the west bank. Nothing from the raid crosses the river into the Yard's court: no raider walks over, chases anyone over, or hits anyone on the far side. The court, the casino door and the shops behind it are safe ground to step back to.
• The Ice Man comes through the north gate, level 60. His health is set when he arrives: 40,000, plus 12,000 for every player online, never more than 400,000. A busy server gets a bigger fight. Anyone who hurts him shares his drops, like any open boss.
• Waves come through the north and west gates every 2 minutes: up to 4 raiders standing at once, plus one for every 2 players online, never more than 12. They're low enough that a new player has something to fight:

His two tricks

• The last wave. When the Ice Man is down to 30%, he roars for his huscarls, and 10 come through the gates at once, over the normal cap. The end of the fight is the hardest part.
• Deep Freeze. Every 10 to 15 seconds he picks from the people who've hurt the raid and stand within 8 tiles of him: one, plus one more for every 4 of them, at most 4. Each is frozen in ice for 3.5 seconds (no walking, no acting, no swinging) and loses 6% of their health. Spread out, and keep your health up.

Win or lose

• Put him down within 20 minutes and the Yard is saved. Everyone who hurt anything in the raid is paid from a pool of 20,000 tickets plus 3,000 for each of them, split by share of the damage, never less than 400 each. On top of that, his own drops (below).
• Run out of time and the Yard is sacked for 10 minutes: Bom's Prize Counter, the cashier, Nestor's egg trade, Livia's Exchange, Hexa's Night Market are boarded up until it passes. Nobody loses anything they own.

Drop	From	Chance
Rimecleaver	The Ice Man	1.4%
Dragonstone helm	The Ice Man	1%
Ice Imp (a pet)	The Ice Man	3.3%
Frost ward ring	Ice Man's Huscarl	1%

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