Help! I've fallen into The Hole and can't get up!

[Kiara]

<p align="center"><strong>Help! I've fallen into The Hole and can't get up! </strong></p> <p><strong>Deadline:</strong> Friday, March 12th 2010 at 10:00am PST</p> <p><strong>The Challenge:</strong>  We want your best screenshot of (and a brief description of the event) you falling to your death in The Hole. This is inspired by Brasse happily going splat many times in both EQ and EQII!</p> <p><strong>Entry Requirements:</strong>  Before entering this challenge you <strong>MUST</strong> do the following: </p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Review the <a href="http://www.station.sony.com/contests/rules.vm" target="_blank">Official Forum Challenge Rules</a>. </li> <li>You need to have an active account! </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Notes:</strong></p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Submit you entry in response to this thread. </li> <li>Submit only one entry to this challenge.  You may update that entry throughout the duration of the challenge. We will review the last version. </li> <li>Please keep in mind that the submissions may be used for the website and other sources so they must be appropriate!</li> <li>Please only submit screenshots from in-game. No renders or hand-drawn depictions, please. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Duration:</strong>  Submissions for this challenge will be accepted until <strong>Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 10:00 am US Pacific PST</strong> (PST is -8 GMT: 11:00am MST, 12:00am CST, 1:00pm EST, 5:00pm GMT, 6:00pm CET) this challenge will end and winners will be announced the week of March 15th.</p> <p><strong>Reward:</strong> The reward for this challenge is a set of the in-game paintings from the Timeless Heroes contest.</p> <ul type="disc"> <li><strong>*Substitute rewards will be NOT granted</strong>. </li> </ul> <ul type="disc"> <li><strong>*This reward is NOT transferrable.</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Feedback:</strong>  Feel free to offer your feedback on the submissions of others. We enjoy reading the comments on entries for these challenges just as much as the entries! Just remember to be constructive.</p> <p>Good Luck!</p>

[Child]

<p>just want to point this out Kiara:</p><p>the phrase "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up" is copyright registered trademark of Life Alert. even though this thread isn't the exact same name, it's clearly meant to be a rip off of it. please delete my post if this is it's irrelevant, but please be careful with that phrase, some major companies got into trouble for using it without their permission.</p><p>EDIT: unreadable typo fix.</p><p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><em>[Edit by Brasse: The line has been used a great deal in parodies, and this is yet another example. As such, it falls under the "fair use" provision of copyright law, much like Jethal Silverwing's song parodies. If we were to try to make money from it, that'd be another story, but this is just a lighthearted challenge for fun. Thank you for offering your advice; in today's litigious society, we can all stand to be careful! ;-)#]</em></span></p>

[Xalmat]

<p>My obsession carries me over the edge...</p><p><img src="http://www.mattcrews.com/images/eq2/shiny-obsession.jpg" /></p>

[Zabjade]

<p><span style="color: #00cc00;">One time I fell THROUGH the hole and the world. no piccy though of that. </span></p><p><span style="color: #00cc00;">Psst you really should have added some collision to the islands below Odus, Featherfall, glide and Hover allows for a long boring drop and you can not call out while waiting to go splat, spit out into the ocean where Odus used to be, or get slurped into the Void's Singularity.</span></p>

[Xalmat]

<p>I'll work on it I guess <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Huene]

<p>Here's my Swashy falling into the hole on Crushbone ^^ damage averages about 9,000 - 10,000 with 450 safe fall. </p><p>Okay I can't embed it on the website, but here's the video:</p><p><a href="http://www.xfire.com/video/2304e0/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.xfire.com/video/2304e0/</a></p>

[iksee]

<p>I guess my story would have to be "NO NO NO NOT A WIND CURRENT!!!"</p><p><img src="http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy185/Iksee2/EQ2_000030-1.jpg" /></p>

[CorpseGoddess]

<p>'Nuff said.</p><p><img src="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f239/corpsegoddess/EQ2_000111-1.jpg" /></p>

[Eveningsong]

<p>Darn, I couldn't get a screenshot of Zoltaroth disguised as a flying ship and parked next to the Paineel launchpads on Beta trying to lure folks to their deaths falling into The Hole...  he got a few of us though!</p>

[Satu]

<p><cite>Huene@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Here's my Swashy falling into the hole on Crushbone ^^ damage averages about 9,000 - 10,000 with 450 safe fall. </p><p>Okay I can't embed it on the website, but here's the video:</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.xfire.com/video/2304e0/" target="_blank">http://www.xfire.com/video/2304e0/</a></p></blockquote><p>That's awesome... I must ask though, how long did it take to get your safe fall up to 450? Mine is only around 100 I think lol</p>

[SOE-Brasse]

<p>BAH! Ye people wi' Safe Fall... me husband tha Ranger had tha gall ta NOT die after we hopped inta Tha Hole last weekend... Oi hit so hard that Oi think Oi cracked tha pavement at tha bottom, so watch ye don't trip thar. Me head <em>still</em> hurts!</p><p>;-)#</p>

[Dareena]

<p><cite>Taubin@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>That's awesome... I must ask though, how long did it take to get your safe fall up to 450? Mine is only around 100 I think lol</p></blockquote><p>If you just try to Safe Fall?  It can take a while.  Over the years, I've tried to work in crazy jumps into the standard movement routine so that my Safe Fall will level up automatically.</p><p>The key is finding good jumping points.  Then you jump off the edge and fall down.  Make sure that you don't try to maneuver after you jump since it usually messes up the skill increase process.  Once you land, run back to your ledge and jump again.  Your goal is to find a jump point which will only do up to 25% of your health in damage.  That way, you'll have healed back to full by the time that you're in position to jump again.</p><p>Some of my favorite jumping points were off the old griffon rock bluff on BBM beach, off the cliffs in SS which over look the croc cave entrances, and off various points in Gorowyn.  (It's a perk of a scout living in a 3-D designed city.)  These days, I'm jumping off flying transit pads in the SF zones.  Or if I want to focus on skilling up, I jump off a cliff in Paineel onto the bottom of the elevator platform below.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>Revised my original submission (you'll have to hit Refresh). Safefall obviously didn't work <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Buffie]

<p>I have been trying to jump in there but I just keep falling towards a floating rocky area and die in the air. Is there a lvl requirement? If no, whats the trick to getting into the Hole?</p>