🎟️ Rookie Badge Events

Every odd hour at :30 UTC (12 a day) one of eight short events starts, takes about 15 minutes and is over before the World Boss call at :50. The winners earn Rookie BadgesRookie Badge (20294)

A badge awarded to those victorous at combat.

Type: Etc
Weight: 5, about 10 per event.

The start is announced in the #livefeed channel. Every event starts at one NPC: the Rookie Events Host in Prontera (166, 227, at the east mouth of the north plaza's banner avenue, across from the Devil Square Warden). The Host dresses as the event that is running, or between runs as the one coming up next (a chicken for Cluckers, the Dice Master for Dice, a Poring for Poring Catcher), so you can tell from across the plaza what is on; its greeting names the next event too. While an event runs, its menu opens with Play now; it also shows the next start time. Event prizes are "up to": every Rookie Badge source shares one pool of 60 a day per account and computer with the arena (details).

🕐 When

🎁 The prize rules

• One prize per event run, per account and per computer. Another character on your account, or another account on the same computer, is not paid for the same run.
• No extra prize for more kills or more wins in the same run.
• A full bag does not lose the prize: the badges arrive by mail.
• When you are not paid, the game tells you why (you already took this run's prize, another character on your computer did, or no event is running).

🎲 The events

Cluckers, Disguise, Find the Mushroom, Poring Catcher, True or False, Last Man Standing, Dice and Stop the Clock take turns in that order, and the order carries on across midnight. Each event has its own page when it opens.

🐔 Cluckers

The Rookie Events Host in Prontera at 166, 227 turns into a chicken. Poke it: every poke has a 10% chance to win 10 Rookie Badges. A miss blasts, freezes, stones or stuns you for 2-3 seconds (harmless in town), then you can poke again.

• The first win ends the event; the chicken leaves.
• If nobody wins, the chicken runs off after 15 minutes.
• One prize per account and computer: if you already took this run's prize, or another character on your computer did, the chicken tells you and you are not paid.

🎭 Disguise

The Rookie Events Host in Prontera at 166, 227 turns into a monster: click it and type the monster's English name (the name @mi shows). There are 5 rounds of 2.5 minutes, and every round announces the name's length and first letter.

• The first right answer of a round wins 2 Rookie Badges; the doll then waits for the next round.
• One guess per round: a wrong name locks you out until the next costume, so there is nothing to gain from trying names one after another.
• One prize per account and computer for the whole run, so you win at most one round. If your computer already took the prize, the doll says so and the round stays open for others.

🍄 Find the Mushroom

Five Lost Mushrooms (Spores, level 9) hide on five different field maps, picked at random for every run. The start is announced to the whole server with the map names, and the Rookie Events Host in Prontera at 166, 227 (Play Find the Mushroom now) lists the maps and how many mushrooms are left.

• Kill a Lost Mushroom to win 2 Rookie Badges. Five mushrooms make about 10 badges a run.
• The run ends when the fifth falls, or after 15 minutes: the mushrooms left slip away.
• One prize per account and computer for the whole run, so killing a second mushroom pays nothing and the game tells you so. The mushroom you killed is put back, so players who can still win keep a target.
• Every map is an open field map around Prontera, Payon, Morocc or Geffen.

🐷 Poring Catcher

The arena fills with 15 look-alike Porings, and only one is real. Talk to the Rookie Events Host in Prontera at 166, 227, choose Play Poring Catcher now, then Enter the arena while the event runs.

• Kill the real Poring to win 10 Rookie Badges. The run then ends for everyone and the arena empties.
• Kill a fake and you are sent back to Prontera; a new fake takes its place. You can walk back in and try again.
• The real Poring sweats every 15 seconds: watch for the drop above its head.
• The run ends after 15 minutes if nobody catches it.
• One prize per account and computer for the run. If you already took it, or your computer did, the guide will not let you in, and killing the real Poring pays nothing (it is put back for others).
• The Porings drop nothing and give no EXP. There is an exit warp on the arena's west edge, and you cannot teleport, use a Butterfly Wing or warp a party member in.

⭕❌ True or False

Seven statements about RO and XileRO, two sides: O is TRUE (west) and X is FALSE (east). Talk to the Rookie Events Host in Prontera at 166, 227, choose Play True or False now, then Enter the arena in the first 90 seconds; then the door shuts.

• A statement is announced every 40 seconds (30 seconds to walk to a side). When time is up the answer is announced, and everyone on the wrong side, or on the middle line, is sent back to Prontera with the answer and the reason.
• The last ones standing win 4 Rookie Badges each: whoever is still in after the 7th statement, or the one player left when the others fell.
• If everybody falls on the same statement, nobody wins and the run ends.
• One prize per account and computer for the run. If you or your computer already took it, the host will not let you in, and a survivor of the last statement is told why they are not paid.
• The arena is on the event map, south of the Poring Catcher pen, with an exit warp on its west edge. You cannot teleport out, and monsters and PvP are off there.

⚔️ Last Man Standing

A free-for-all in the event arena: the last player alive wins 10 Rookie Badges. Talk to the Rookie Events Host in Prontera at 166, 227, choose Play Last Man Standing now, then Enter the arena in the first 90 seconds, while PvP is still off.

• When the door shuts, at least 3 players on 3 different computers must be inside, or the run is cancelled and nobody is paid.
• Then PvP switches on: you can hit everyone, party members included. Guild members cannot hit each other.
• If you die you are out; respawn and wait for the next slot. The arena counts no Arena Kills or streaks.
• The fight lasts 6 minutes. If two or more are still alive when time runs out, it is a draw and nobody is paid.
• One prize per account and computer for the run. If you already took it, the referee will not let you in. There is an exit warp on the arena's west edge, and you cannot teleport out.

🎲 Dice

Six numbered boxes, one roll of the dice. Talk to the Rookie Events Host in Prontera at 166, 227, choose Play Dice now, then Enter the arena in the first 90 seconds.

• When the door shuts, at least 2 players on 2 different computers must be inside, or the run is cancelled and nobody is paid.
• Each round gives you 15 seconds to stand in one of the 6 boxes (1-3 in the north row, 4-6 in the south row). The cells between the boxes do not count.
• The dice then rolls one of the boxes somebody stands in. Everyone outside the rolled box is sent to Prontera and told the roll. Nobody in a box at all means everybody is out.
• Up to 5 rounds. The run ends when one player is left or after the 5th roll, and the players still in win 5 Rookie Badges each.
• One prize per account and computer for the run. If you already took it, the Host will not let you in. There is an exit warp on the arena's west edge, and you cannot teleport out.

⏱️ Stop the Clock

A hidden clock, one target. Talk to the Rookie Events Host in Prontera at 166, 227, choose Play Stop the Clock now. The start announces a target of 5 to 12 seconds: choose Start the clock, then press Next when you think the target has passed.

• One try per account and per computer for the run, so there is no practising. The keeper tells you your gap to the target and whether you lead.
• After 12 minutes the closest try wins 10 Rookie Badges, if at least 2 computers tried and the best try is within 1 second of the target. Otherwise nobody is paid.
• A winner who logged off, or with a full bag, gets the badges by mail.
• If you or your computer already tried, the keeper says so.