Just noticed that headhunting is active again. Grab those sorcerers, get the obos, it will end hen it ends.
Thanks for the notice, @Funcom.
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Is headhunting the cause of seeing Nyarlathotep appear in the sky over the exiled lands again last night, or is that something else (I’ve lost track of what does what at this point…)
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Who? 
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Cthulu mythos figure - the big maelstrom in the sky with tentacles hanging out of it (that belongs on Siptah, but got added to the exiled lands as a thing that happens sometimes and not others).
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That sounds like an event where you get the Maelstrom bugs from Siptah.
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Yeah - that’s the one - I assume therefore that’s not what happens during headhunting. Wonder why I got that one showing up yesterday (single player) and now you’ve got headhunting today.
I guess maybe that could explain why there’s been no announcement - maybe neither of them is supposed to be happening…
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Never ever seen him in EL…
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Ah, the event! Yes, this one I know! 
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Don’t you love the official announcement?
I was wondering when it was going to come into play.
I was so confused, I thought I had added a mod (I didn’t) or a mod got updated (they did not).
Was there an announcement on the launcher I missed?
Do we know for how long this event is active?
Unsurprisingly, no announcement and no indication of event length.
Recently, these events have run for two weeks. That is speculation, not knowledge.
To be honest, I don’t think these things will get the fanfare and notices like they used to simply because they are planned to rotate out. Heck they should be moving in and out automatically and we just get exposed to them. I think that was the end game for these events. Something that keeps the game somewhat fresh.
The interesting this about them is that these are the most stable things outside of sorcery in the past 3 years of new content and somewhat fun to do…except GerbelSacks that is just mindnumbingly grindy.
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Then it ought to come up on log in. maybe an announcement like with the hotfix?
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Yep, and now I have got headhunting going on (assuming that’s the one where they buy sorceror’s skulls). No idea why I had the maelstrom thing show up yesterday. I give up trying to understand the logic…
Edit: and an announcement has been made - so it’s running till May 13 - still no clue why I randomly had the maelstrom show up…
Its part of the Encounters, they’re supposed to have a chance of spawning.
Problem is, since inception, they either spawn sporadically or not at all even when enabled.
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That would explain it (though, the wiki is out of date on that specific ‘encounter’, as it is listed as disabled - but then, with a system this sporadic, I’m not sure how the wiki editors could be expected to know that…)
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An now there is a notification in the game launcher that Bounty Hunting is active through May 13th.
But, remember, that means May 12th.
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Right, as far as I know it is on an unreachable system. If so, then the editors like Tephra and I think Testerle? Who put some automation into it with the devkit isn’t going to catch that.
So much manual stuff 
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