This is not intended to be a comprehensive by the numbers LotM overview - there are plenty of those out there - this is more of my experiences playing on Pendragon this last week amidst all the LotM hub-bub, so take it for what it's worth - I will try to cover some things others have not in their pages, and interject my opinion here and there, as well as share some interesting stories. If you want a stat by stat break down of the labyrinth and it's goodies, go somewhere else.

Some pretty cool stuff all in all - for instance - I downed a hib in Cathel, and what popped out of his ass? (Ew.. no... not Thin's shaved gerbil... sick bastards...) Why it was the cathel Minotaur relic! So after I whipped the nasty sticky hib cat-shit scat off my new trophy, I strolled about cathel with a bone dancer I found skulking around.

The new relic's "feed" on realm points. You simply click on the relic and it is "equipped," granting it's bonus to you and all realm mates within a radius. A new window opens up, displaying a bar that continually ticks down, and a button that allows you to drop the relic. It takes about 30 minutes to go from "full" to empty, at which time the relic vanishes and returns to it's spawn point.

The only way to reverse the eventual decay of the Minotaur relic, is to slay realm enemies, which causes the decay bar to fill up. When the Minotaur relic ticks down to it's last 10%, it begins to make a loud sound that everybody - friend of foe - can hear. It pulses and moans, letting every stinking person in your zone know that there is a Minotaur relic about to expire.

While you have the relic equipped, your position is marked on the zone /map window - note NOT the warmap. (Not yet any ways, dunno if this will change.) Additionally, the person with the relic has a pillar of colored light streaming from the top of their head and going strait up to the clipping plane in the sky... it's going to be damn hard to hide the fact that you have a Minotaur relic. HUGE kill me sign.

These new relics are fun, to have, but I don't think they are too "fight" turning really - a neat toy to scramble for, but they are not powerful enough to turn a PUG into something competitive with an 8-man. Agramon: The main entrance to the labyrinth is going to be a ninja, ganker, and 8-man paradise. Count on a constant stream of newbs, farmers, sub par players, and small groups trying to make their way into the labyrinth to do quests, raids, or farm Mythrain. It's a massive bottleneck... at launch, there will be no other way to enter the new content but to run over the Agramon causeway and up through a long, narrow valley to the Minotaur Labyrinth tower... it's a hell of a long run, and mark my words the first 4 months of LotM launch will be "f4rm t3h n00bs" time on Agramon Isle. Taint eating yard ape stealth zergers like Stiles & Stelmar, and homosexual ass campers like Watermellon are going to have a hay-day.

The hibs tried to group up a bit, but to no noticable effect. A nightshade, ranger, bard, druid bot, and 2 maulers jumped off a boat, and tried to hit me together, but the bard got sloppy with aoe mezzes, and they had Gorgons, Torcans, and Logrey men all over them. Only the ranger was templated - the rest all died in 2-3 swing. I killed the newbs and squashed the ranger like a bug as he tried to get away with his speed buff. Newsflash to newb ranger: I used a matter legendary on you, take your PD 5 and stuff it up your exploiting-rr5 -abusing-side-stunning-watermellon-fucking-ass. The bard ran off on SoS, but I got him a few moments later when he came back trying to rezz his pals. You'd think he'd have at least waited for my mezz immunity to come off. It was like drowning retarded kittens - mildly amusing, but not much sport. I kid... I kid...

Having cut off the entrance to virtually all non stealther Hibernian traffic, I started ganking an Orange Minotaur NPC that spawns outside the labyrinth entrance. You need to speak with him to begin a quest, and he is flagged as a "realm guard" - i.e. fully killable. He's on a 10:00 or so respawn, so it was easy to camp him, kill the hibs trying to get their quest, then kill the mob, so that the hibs had to sit and wait... for me to kill gank them and their quest mob all over again.

This little game of "swat the helmet clad idiots" went on for the better part of 45 min. Finally, Mythicmatt wandered outside and turned himself into a giant Tomate with a glowing staff - to better get my "attention." He commented that he would greatly appreciate if I would let some hibs go outside the labyrinth or even get TO the labyrinth - so they could talk to the NPC I was chain killing to start the quest for the raid they were attempting to test.

I /shrugged, and reminded him that:

A: I was not breaking any rules.

B: That this was an RvR zone on a regulation ruleset server.

C: That perhaps I was pointing out... oh.. I dunno... a glaring design flaw.

D: They are hibs and have it coming.

E: These noobs could not slay a thane + bot with 5 people, how the hell would they take an epic mob.

I then suggested that Mythic perhaps might want to add another entrance into the labyrinth. Just imagine what a gank group of rr 11's would do to these lower realm rank players - hell, a single soloer can basically shut down the entirety of the maze for a whole realm...

Mythicmatt replied: "There is another entrance, you simply have to complete quests to open it. It will be very exciting to see how this plays out on the live servers. We can't predict what will happen."

That's very reassuring. At least they admit they're clueless - I'll give them credit for that.

As we continued chatting, some damn hib that was apparently reared entirely in a diet consisting of tarpentine and enamel remover, thought he was going to talk to the Minotaur NPC I was camping....

I taught him to respect his betters when I mashed doomhammer + insta DD + chain lightning on the little punk, who promptly crumpled like the warm-wet sack of vomit he was. I /shrugged at Mythicmatt, and said:

"Whoops... slipped."

He /cried at the dead hib, resurrected the cat shit eating maggot, and proceeded to cast an unpurgable mezz on me. He then proceeded to escort the slap happy scat swilling hibblet procession by me - many of them took the time to blow me kisses and hugs. I shuddered inside at the thought of cat-shit encrusted hib lips...

A while later, a server wide window popped up, asking:

"Everyone pvping please desist for the Minotaur relic encounters."

I was more than happy to reminded Mythiccopper - the person who sent the tell - that had their customer service not sucked MY FUCKING HAIRY SACK, I'd be on the regular servers - and not ganking all the level 43 maulers as they try to kill explorers in the frontier for CL 6.5. I didn't get a reply.