Broadsword Online Games have published what is more or less the entire release schedule for Publish 88, the next content pack for Ultima Online. This one has a pretty tight release schedule:

Greetings Everyone,

We are publishing to TC1 this afternoon. We will be publishing this out to Origin and Izumo on Monday, 17th. Publish 88 will go World Wide on the 20th. Please make sure you check out all the new content and give us your feedback.

UO Team

You can hit up their article to learn all about the new content that Publish 88 adds to the game. I’ll just note that once again, only updates to the Enhanced Client are mentioned in this update; I continue to suspect that the Classic Client is being put out to pasture.

There’s also a new piece of fiction at UO.com, written by EM Drosselmeyer. And once again, a rather notable figure appears within the tale being told:

Lord British sighed, standing and brushing off his cloak, turning back to begin the walk to the moongate. The guard had good intentions, but he had not wished to have him along at all…but King Blackthorn had insisted, and told him that it had been too long since he had been in these lands…and that even a King would not be likely to see mercy from those that roamed the old lands. He looked out one last time before he turned his back on Felucca once more, knowing it may be some time before he laid eyes upon them again.

“Sir Dupre, it is good to see you victorious…and better to see how little you have changed. Especially in your taste for excellent drink and companionship.” Lord British grinned to his friend across the table at the Keg and Anchor, who was celebrating with some of his knights, despite many of Minax and Anon’s forces escaping to lick their wounds and fight once again.

“There are many things inconstant in this world, M’lord, but Trinsic’s liquor will always be a safe haven.” The knight took a long drink before placing it down. “But it seems to me that you would ask to meet with me for more than to congratulate me…with as pressing as the business you tend to have usually is. So lay it on me, and let us not waste time, so that once the business is done we can return to our revelry.”

Do read the whole thing if you have a few minutes.