Cear Dragon offers up an apology for Ultima 6 Online’s recent outage, and also offers up a new challenge in the game:

I, Cear Dragon, do deeply apologize to the citizens of Britannia.

Moving across the city and encountering endless technical difficulties has caused moongates to Britannia from your PC to become inactive for quite some time. Therefore I have taken it upon myself to speak with Lord British, Geoffrey, and Sir Dupre directly for a way to repay you all.

With tensions on the rise between human and gargoyle, Britannia needs its strongest, and most clever, on the battlegrounds. Designed by Captain of the Guard Geoffrey, approved by Sir Dupre, and Funded by thy King, Lord British, we of Ultima VI Online present to you, The Buccaneers Den Gauntlet!

Honestly, I don’t know what they hath wrought, and the image in the header does not do it justice; you’ll just have to click on over to see the madness. You’ll also find a new client download there, which for the time being I’m going to recommend you obtain from them directly (until such time as I find time to finish the Ultima 6 subdomain!).