Game Update #49
Raising the Banner
Live: October 7, 2008

• Zones: The Sinking Sands

The items in this collection are ground-spawn purple shinies with a ? over them in the zones listed unless noted differently below in the list of Items in this Collection.

When the collection is complete, you can turn it in to any Collector NPC for your reward and a very nice chunk of experience.

Items in this Collection

These purple shinies can only be seen by wearing an excavation hat.

• small broken trinket
• medium broken trinket
• large broken trinket

• small worn trinket
• medium worn trinket
• large worn trinket

• small stained trinket
• medium stained trinket
• large stained trinket

• small silvered trinket
• medium silvered trinket
• large silvered trinket

The silvered trinkets are by far the rarest items in the collection.

Locations

Upper Camp (Excavation Site)

• -783, -90, -763 (on top of tent)
• -778, -94, -761 (on top of greenish pile of debris)
• -818, -94, -748 (under south burning pyre)
• -848, -97, -813 (under north burning pyre)
• -886, -98, -796 (there are several spawn points around this tent -- in front of boxes, the fire pit, in the tent, etc.)
• -884, -98, -741 (in front of large gear)
• -944, -105, -736 (near large metal object being worked by 2 excavators)
• -818, -103, -768 (on a pile of rocks)
• -886, -101, -767 (near Digmaster)
• -842, -108, -770 (in and around the excavation pit)

Note: there are only two to three shinies up at any one time, on an approximately two minute spawn timer. They will spawn randomly at any of the locations listed.

Note that this camp will be abandoned, with most buildings removed in D.I.R.T.Y. Phase 2. However shinies do still spawn in the area.

Lower Camp (Construction Site)

Shinies in the Lower Camp seem to be a bit more random, appearing at the periphery of the camp (including the cliff face) near the metal ankh shapes bordering the camp, as well as above the retaining wall (near the cobras). Some specific locations:

• -1381, -163, -757 (orange tent)
• -1391, -162, -785 (orange tent)

Reward

Archeologist's Token of the Excavation -- A purple orb that, when rubbed, ports you to the Airship dock in the Sinking Sands. This item can only be placed in your house. It cannot be placed in the Guild Hall.

D.I.R.T.Y. History

This collection was originally introduced during the Void Storms World Events, which featured the D.I.R.T.Y. crew excavating an airship site in The Sinking Sands. The shinies were introduced in two stages: phase one brought the broken and worn trinkets, and phase two (which ran from October 28 through November 17, 2008) added in the stained and silvered trinkets.

During the event, you could buy an Excavation Helmet from Jimbo McDaniel for 10 D.I.R.T.Y. Money and equip it to see the shinies for this collection. For those who missed the event, you can visit Toggery von Gearbender in Lavastorm to acquire one of his Excavation Hats through a quest, Tinkering with Toggery, to see the shinies.

	This article refers to events, personae, items and activities that were involved in the Void Storms World Event, which started with GU46 and ran until The Shadow Odyssey went live. The event has now concluded, but this information is retained for historical purposes.