[Taking part in the Nexon PEAK Post Challenge]

It's 2 AM... on a midsummer night...

Tonight feels like a good night for a ghost story...

Have you heard about the ghost siblings said to haunt Ciar Dungeon...?

Our story takes us all the way back... to 2004...

A full 22 years ago, it happened on the original Mabinogi's beta server during its open beta.

It caused such a stir back then that it even made the newspapers.

It all began in 2004, during Mabinogi's open beta, when rumors spread of 2 mysterious characters appearing at the entrance to Ciar Dungeon, an instanced dungeon. Now, players in Ciar Dungeon couldn't pass through walls... yet these 2 characters had appeared on the other side of one. Word got around, and plenty of players from the original Mabinogi went to see for themselves. But the story goes that only some of them could see the pair. The characters looked so eerie that all sorts of rumors started making the rounds.

After the incident, theories abounded. A bug? Developer test characters? An Easter egg? But devCAT said it couldn't confirm that the characters even existed. The server where the issue reportedly occurred was later shut down, and the related Easter egg was removed. The sightings stopped, but no one ever uncovered the exact cause... and the story is said to remain a mystery to this day.

But wait!!!!!!!!! Ghosts in Mabinogi Mobile too???????

It's now... 3 AM...

Come with me... let's go meet these two mysterious characters...

So far, there are 3 known conditions for encountering the ghosts of Ciar Dungeon.

 티르코네일 키아던전 1-3 / 인게임 내 밤시간 / 우연한만남 끄기

But after around 50 runs over two days,

I suspect it also needs to be nighttime in the real world.

And since they appeared for my friend and me at the same time, I think there's another condition: it has to be after the clock strikes 12.

Once it's nighttime both in-game and in the real world, and the clock has struck the hour,

let's head into Ciar Dungeon.

I turned off chance encounters, left all the currency unlooted, and ran the dungeon on Normal difficulty.

The two mysterious characters really did appear.

They look exactly like the two characters that appeared in the original Mabinogi.

Let's take a closer look.

One is smaller and looks like a young girl,

while the other is taller and looks like a young boy, with striking red hair and red eyes.

Neither disappeared when I approached. They didn't speak to me or interact in any way, either.

But when I lit a campfire...

they both vanished.

The original incident became one of the defining ghost stories of Mabinogi's early days. Apparently, it even comes up when people talk about Mabinogi's success, along with the old superstition that "a game where ghosts appear will prosper."

As for my own encounter... I'd spent two days fumbling around with no luck, convinced they were never going to appear. Then my friend and I each tried a run at 12, and there they were. It gave me such a fright... The moment they appeared, we both screamed... It was scary... devCAT knows its stuff, slipping in an Easter egg like this... Getting to experience the original Mabinogi's ghost scare in Mabinogi Mobile was a distinctly different experience. And hats off to the players who discovered this Easter egg, too,,

I think it's time to turn off my computer and go sleep beside my family...

A midsummer night's ghost scare... The end.