It’s the most wonderful timeeeee of the year! Welcome to the month of December, because we all know what that means — holiday events! We love getting to make the holiday season a little extra-special for the community, and know that you guys love it too. This year, we have a variety of things planned (including some brand new events), so please make sure to read over this thread thoroughly and get involved in anything and everything that interests you!
Advent Calendar
Of course, as always, we will be doing a 12 days of Christmas Advent Calendar, which will be starting on December 13.
It will work the same as it has in the past:
- Gifts will be announced once a day for 12 days in a row, both in Discord and in a separate Advent Calendar thread.
- You must sign-up to receive any gifts. Sign-ups will open on December 10, and you’ll be able to sign up in Discord or on-site. We will let everyone know when sign-ups are open!
- In order to sign-up, you must have at least one active character on-site (so make sure to audition a character if you haven’t already!)
- Sign-ups will work as a one-time entry, where you sign-up once and are good to go for the remaining days. If you sign up on Day 1, you get prizes from Day 1-12. If you sign up on Day 5, you get prizes from Day 5-12.
A separate thread will be made to track sign-ups and prize announcements — this will go live on December 9, so we’ll see you then!
Weekly IC Events
To add a little more diversity to our holiday plans, we will also be introducing a series of holiday-related IC random events that will be posted once per week throughout the month of December.
Each week will be a different event, and each week there will be 3 threads posted throughout the day to accommodate different timezones. Aside from Week 1, special trade experience and prizes can be won from IC participation — please take the time to read the rules, found below, and understand what the different events are. If you have any questions, pleae reach out to an Admin!
Week 1: Northern Lights, Meteor Showers, and a Winter Wonderland — Oh My!
- This event will feature open-ended thread prompts, inspired by natural holiday-esque phenomenas, for characters to interact with.
- 3 separate threads, to be be posted throughout the day on December 3.
- These threads are completely free-form.
- Members can also make additional threads, on the side/building off of the prompts, if they would like.
Week 2: Hunt Difficulty 1000, Mammoth Edition
- This event will feature a never-before-seen, extreme difficulty prey animal — a mammoth! And it’s your job to try and take them down!
- 3 separate threads, to be posted throughout the day on December 10.
- Members can enter ONE character into each thread.
- This means that you can have a maximum of 3 characters participate if you enter one in every thread). This is to ensure that everyone can participate and to avoid the farming of any trade experience.
- All you need to do is post your character to the thread responding to the prompt.
- On December 17, the hunt will be rolled and the hunt results will be posted. The more lions that participate, the better the odds are of taking them down!
- A successful hunt of this caliber will award 20 bonus exp to ANY trade. This is in addition to any other trade exp that is earned during the thread.
- You will need to exit the thread before claiming your bonus exp.
Week 3: Did Someone Say Snowball Fight?
- This event will feature the snowball fight showdown of the ages: monkeys vs. lions! You’re not going to let those annoying monkeys win, are you?
- 3 separate threads, to be posted throughout the day on December 17.
- Members can enter ONE character into each thread.
- This means that you can have a maximum of 3 characters participate if you enter one in every thread). This is to ensure that everyone can participate and to avoid the farming of any trade experience.
- All you need to do is post your character to the thread responding to the prompt.
- On December 24, the snowball will be "judged" and the results will be posted. The more lions that participate, the better the odds are of winning!
- Winning the snowball fight will award 20 bonus exp to ANY trade. This is in addition to any other trade exp that is earned during the thread.
- You will need to exit the thread before claiming your bonus exp.
Week 4: This Yule Log Has Something Funny In It…
- This event will feature an IC scavenger hunt, where characters need to track down the yule logs and find out whether or not they contain any gifts!
- 3 separate threads, to be posted throughout the day on December 24.
- Members can enter ONE character into each thread.
- This means that you can have a maximum of 3 characters participate if you enter one in every thread). This is to ensure that everyone can participate and to avoid the farming of any trade experience.
- All you need to do is post your character to the thread responding to the prompt, and insert the following code into the bottom of your post:
- That is your roll used to determine whether your character has found a prize or not.
- Rolling a 1 = 10 exp
- Rolling a 2 = 25 petals (to that IC account)
- Rolling a 3 = Try again
- You can keep posting and rolling until you have received the maximum of 5 presents per thread. (i.e. 50 exp, 125 petals, or any combination thereof).
- These threads will be closed for rolling as of January 1st - but you can post again to exit at any time.
- Exits are NOT required to claim your scavenger hunt gifts. You will need an exit, however, in order to claim any regular exp or petals.
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[roll=1d3]Den Decorating Contest
And finally, we hope to get everyone’s creative juices flowing with an OOC event that we hope you will enjoy. Let your imagination soar with this Den Decorating Contest and make it as extravagant, or as simple and cozy, as you’d like.
How It Will Work:
- 1. Imagine the perfect, holiday-inspired den for one of your characters. It can include anything and there are no limits to themes/items/decorations/etc.
- 2. Bring this winter wonderland to life by creating either a written or visual (drawn, digital, sketch, etc.) piece.
- 3. Assign a name or title to your piece, and send it to @Squid ★ by 11:59pm EST on December 15.
- 4. An anonymous poll will be created on December 16, where members can vote for which dens they love most. The poll will remain open until December 23.
- 5. The top three submissions will be awarded a prize of their choosing — and all submissions will be able to claim 150 petals for their creativity and participation!
f2u candy cane pixel credit to apparate
f2u gingerbread pixel credit to apparate
