Quote from: rpietila on August 12, 2015, 01:26:02 PM

Bicentennial Celebration Preparations in Full Force

Everyone who reacts to the King's Calling as per the earlier message is invited to the Bicentennial Party!

You can check your status in /CHAR "N", ping me if I have forgotten to add you (after at least 24 hours from your post).

We ordered 12,000 bottles of wine to ensure that the month-long celebration does not become dry (it is expected that each guest drinks 30 bottles so there is "some" safety margin).

The wine is a special type of mixed wine, which does not qualify as Ancient, because A) it is forbidden to make ancient stuff B) it is bottled in 1600. Anyway, it cost double the per-bottle rate of the normal wine, so 2000 IC was spent on the purchase, making this the largest IC spend ever unless a higher amount is claimed that we don't know.

If we don't manage to drink it all, the guests will get some to take with them back home. It is likely that this mixed wine is higher rating than the W1600 vintage now, but it is unknown which one will be able to be aged longer and remain enjoyable.

The Summer Pavilion will also be used as part of the celebrations with its new large Wine Cellar.

Needless to say, this wine is special and by Royal Edict no similar wine or wine that claims to be older may ever be imported to the Kingdom. (All this without knowing if it even tastes good, but hopefully it does).

I have added 5760 bottles of W1600, and 1440 bottles of the W1600M wine to my personal collection--some of which will be sold at the Gilded Goose. I plan to have an extensive wine cellar at the Gilded Goose, which was just built yesterday, in fact! There is a wide array of fine wine and caviar available for purchase

In case you have forgotten what it looks like, Here's the video

*Note: this is just an artist's rendition of it, not in-game footage!