This was the first event KORG ever organized, and was run at Gen Con 1993. It remains the only three round team tournament KORG has ever run (it turns out that a three round tournament is a huge amount of work!) This is the event KORG was organized to run. As gamers we had enjoyed team tournaments, where your advancement to future rounds of play was based on how well your team did. Unfortunately, we found that there weren't many team events to play in. Our hope in organizing this event was that others would be inspired to do the same. Eclipse Eternal was very well received by the players. There were 18 or 20 six person teams that played in the event, with about half making it to the second round and six teams advancing to the final. Many of the people that played in Eclipse Eternal came back in succeeding years to play in other KORG events, something which has pleased us greatly.

Here is the player introduction that was read aloud at the beginning of this event.

In this adventure the participants got to play fairly powerful characters (level 12 to 14). For unknown reasons there was a total lunar eclipse, as the moon stayed between the players' world and the sun day after day. This had the effect of driving most living creatures insane, including the PCs. The god Loki (who was somewhat immune to the madness due to already being mostly insane) cured the players of their malady so that they could seek the cause of the everlasting eclipse. With time running short (due to the effects the lack of sun was having on plant and animal life) the players had to decide quickly what to do.

• Lady Elizabeth: A Paladin of Minerva, Lady Elizabeth kicked serious butt. She wore Gauntlets of Ogre Power, had a lot of hit points, and wielded the Hammer of Justice (a great big maul that did horrible things to evil beings it hit). She was a tank, but she also had clerical spells.
• Milayli: A monk who was extremely dangerous in combat (even though it was second edition AD&D we had a monk - KORG never lets itself be bound too tightly by rules!) She also had some non-combat powers due to being a monk, such as poison immunity (but no Quivering Touch).
• Reyna: The Grand Druidess of the area, Reyna had a ton of spells, powerful magic items, and could turn into an eagle and a polar bear. You've probably noticed that fully half the party is female. That's not an accident - the women of KORG hate it when they go to play in a game and all the characters are male. So KORG events will typically feature several female characters.
• Arkoth: An assassin/priest of Hel, Arkoth was easily the weakest character in the group. We tried to balance the characters as much as possible, but in his case we missed the mark a bit.
• Adrastis: An evil elven wizard of 14th level or so. Adrastis had spells up to 7th level and several powerful magic items, including one that gave him access to 9th level spells.
• Trevor of the Ard Sea: A fighter/mage and captain of his own ship. Trevor turned out to be one of the most powerful characters when it came to combat, due to his flexibility - he had lots of spells, good fighting abilities, and some extremely useful magic items (foremost among them an Earring of Hill Giant Strength).

There was a lot of combat in this event. One of the features of Eclipse Eternal was that most everyone the party met was insane due to the continuous eclipse (after all, the moon has a legendary effect on sanity - witness beliefs about full moons and such). Thus nothing could be taken at face value - unicorns might have turned to waylaying travelers, for example. Some of our favorite scenes from this event are below.

• Which way to start?: The very first thing the party had to decide is which of four roads to take. One led to the temple of Diana, one to the Royal Observatory, one to the Great Library, and one to the caverns of the Drow. There's only time to go to one of those places, so the party has to choose right. It turns out this is a KORG trick. In order to make the adventure not seem linear, we gave four "choices". Three of the choices lead to the exact same encounters, and wind up giving the players the knowledge they need to move on to round 2. Only one of the choices is wrong. The encounters on that road are extremely deadly, and any party that made that choice could not advance to round 2. Can you figure out which choices are right? Here's the answer.
• Sir Richard Daggereye: No matter which way the party goes (assuming they take one of the three correct roads) they'll end up in the Actors' Guild, trying to get the Orb of Knowledge from Sir Richard Daggereye, master playwrite and actor. The Orb of Knowledge is a powerful artifact that can answer up to three yes or no questions before vanishing. The Actors' Guild uses it as a prop in plays. To get Sir Richard to give up the Orb the party must join the Guild. And the only way to do that, of course, is to perform a play. This begins a tradition in KORG team events - the parties frequently find themselves putting on a play for the amusement of some individual they want something from. The plays are usually written by or performed for Sir Richard Daggereye himself. Often it's the case that the performances by the players are the highlights of Gen Con for the KORG folks. If you're interested, here is the play the characters performed for Sir Richard. It's based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
• Big Treasure Here Along the road the party sees a cave entrance, above which is a crude sign reading "Big Treasure Here". Would you go in to check it out? Only one or two of our parties did - the other sixteen or eighteen groups said "Forget that" and walked on by. Which is too bad, really. The sign was put up by Conflagratio, a red dragon whose particular insanity was that he was giving away his entire treasure horde.
• The Pools of Hermes: This was the way to teleport to the moon (where the party needed to go to find out what was going wrong). There were eight pools, each leading to a different plane of existance or place in the universe - one went to the elemental plane of fire, one to the Abyss, one to the moon, and so on. The only way to figure out which pool went to the moon was by using the Orb of Knowledge. Some parties took a long time to figure out how to do this, and one party had already used up the Orb and had to take a wild guess (they somehow got lucky and picked the right pool). Most parties got it pretty quickly. Special kudos go out to Joel Yokum, who figured out in about six seconds that with only two answers left on the Orb they could not narrow down their choices for sure. This began a several year run in which Joel solved KORG's hardest puzzles with ease, much to our frustration.
• Chessboard of the Gods: Eventually the party winds up in the tower of the goddesses Diana, Artemis, and Selene on the moon. While trying to make their way to the top they get dumped onto the Chessboard of the Gods. They take the part of white pieces, while the black pieces are orcs, drow, and so on. The black king is Demogorgon (a demon prince). Lots of parties tried to figure out how to put the black king in checkmate without losing any pieces of their own. It turned out that you had to actually take pieces, though - and attacking didn't mean you won, you had to actually fight it out. "Demogorgon" was actually an Ogre Mage who had polymorphed to scare the party.
• The Ones Behind the Eclipse: So what's causing this whole eclipse thing? It turns out that it's Mind Flayers. They have one of their own demi-gods (looks like a huge brain in a tank of water) in the Tower of the Goddesses, and it is using its psionic powers to keep the three goddesses in a deep sleep. Meanwhile the Mind Flayers are using the Tower's magic to keep the moon in front of the sun. All of this is to prepare the way for a Mind Flayer invasion that is on the way. The Climactic Final Battle (there's always one of those, isn't there?) was against five Mind Flayers, a couple of Flesh Golums, and two Intellect Devourers. All the groups that made it to the finals won the battle, freed the goddesses, and saved the day.