Ebon Gate Festival/saved posts 2023

General Information

Discord Message Link: [1]
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 12/9/2022

2023 Ebon Gate Dates
9/29 - 10/6 - Platinum Live Games, Storyline & Quest Introduction
10/6 - 10/13 - Prime Live Games, Platinum Merchant Week
10/13 - 10/20 - Prime Merchant Week
10/22 - 10/27 - Storyline & Quest Closing
10/27 - 10/29 - TBA
10/30 - 10/31 - Unmanned

Announcement 1 - Custom Contest

Discord Message Link: Costume Contest & Storyline Launch
Author: GM Elysani
Date: 9/15/2023

Hello everyone! This year's Ebon Gate costume contest will be held earlier than usual - Saturday, September 30th at 9:30pm EST. Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun, or come to admire the creativity of your fellow players!

In addition, this year's costume contest takes place at a ball that will kick off our Ebon Gate storyline, so you may want to come on by!

We will be judging the following categories: Most Creative, Most Original, Funniest, Spookiest, and Best Couple.

The Rules are simple, but please be aware that failure to follow them will affect your overall score.

1. Your costume presentation can be no longer than 5 minutes. We will be timing you, so please be aware of your pacing!
2. You can use any number of props, bystanders (with their permission), fancy scripts, etc., but remember Rule #1.
3. HAVE FUN!
4. Don't forget to light your votive.

Announcement 2 Shop List

Discord Message Link: Shop List
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 9/15/2023

Reopening Shops	Updated or Altered Shops	New Shops
A. B. Witching	Flightless Dragonfly	Beneath the Philtrum
Adorned Endearment	Illusory Dreams	Borrowed Plumes
All Dogs Go To Naidem	Within Harm's Reach	Dancing Death Dirge, The
All Fingers and No Crumbs		Diabolically Chained
Any Way You Wand It		Discerning Stitch
Armaments of the Destroyer		Drowned Dreams Curiousities *
Art of the Drapery, The		Elemental Establishments
Beyond the Graver		Entranced
Blood Red Hand, The		Fancy Wishbones
Both Sides Now		Glass House, The
Buckle Up		Haunted Waters Artifacts *
Burning Desire, A		Imprinter's Studio, The
Cloaked Eclipse, The		Lacquered Ungues
Collectors Calamity		Market Makers
Conjured Couture		Nightfire Brews
Cooktop Conundrums		Peace of Mind
Covert Creatures		Sizzle and Spice
Cozy Little Friends		Sleightest Hand
Derelict Abbey		Spider Johnn's Tin Smoke Box
Don't Bug Me!		Tooth and Claw
Ember Ridge Candy Apple Shop		Twisted Ways
Ember Ridge Cider House		Vague Inkling, A *
Familar Phantom, The		Winning Shriek
Farain's Shack
Fiendish Phantomes
Filigree and Whorls
Final Iteration, The
Flasked with a Purpose
Four Humours, The
Ghastly Groceries
Ghostly Lotus, The
Glisten and Gleam
Gnome Depot, The
Goblin King Dolls
Gouged Heart, The
House of Twilight
Icewild Hall
In the Bag
Innoscents Lost
Ironmonger's Smithy
Its to Pie For
Kreapy's Krawliez
Luck of the Draw
Masqued Intentions
Materials Maketh Man
Minaret, The
Moorlyn Cottage
Name of Thrones
Nana's Notes
Nether and Void
Other Daughter
Pierced Veil
Preserving Breads
Rack 'Em Up
Rodnir's Bait and Tackle
Roof Over, The
Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Shadowplay
Sheets Gone Wild
Smoldereye Lodge
Stay Tuned
Templeton Shor'toes' Sugars
Tippy Toes
Two-Headed Dog, The
Uncouth Wallflower, The
Vamped Vault, The
Wild Flalings
Witch's Garden, The
Witching Flower, The
Witching House, The

Eternal Weddings - Delayed

Discord Message Link: Eternal Weddings Delayed
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 09/15/2023

[Ebon Gate] Eternal Weddings

This year has been exceedingly busy and packed. Unfortunately, that means that we need to postpone an item every now and again. It is with regret that I announce that Eternal Weddings is going to be delayed.

However, we will release the Naidem Wedding Glade and will also place all previous wedding packages on sale. This includes all tiers of the Chapel, Cathedral, and Wavedancer wedding package, all verbs add slips, and annulments.

While we realize that this is a disappointment for many, we hope that you will understand that we want everything to be as clean as possible, and it would simply be impossible to guarantee that at this time.

We hope to release the Eternal Wedding package in the near future and will allow its purchase outside of Ebon Gate, though we don't have an exact date at this time.

Thank you for your understanding.

Teaser 1 - Eyes of the Arkati

Discord Message Link: Eyes of the Arkati
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 09/16/2023

You analyze your flimsy violet disks and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

Eyes of the Arkati

These disks are designed to be worn over the eyes, where they will safely hide from view. However, while worn they will, every 8 - 12 hours, provide a random vision. They can also help you slip into a trance, and you can even trigger a vision on your own.

GAZE: Trigger a Minor Vision
STARE: Triggers a Major Vision once every hour.
WHISPER disks START: Causes you to slip into a trance.
WHISPER disks STOP: Causes you to come out of a trance.

Additional verbs can be used to do special messaging while in a trance.
Verbs: Blanch, Breathe, Cry, Gaze, Grin, Laugh, Point, Stare, Whisper

The disks are Tier 2 out of 2.

Since the disks do not appear, even when manipulating them with the above verbs, there aren't any customizations available for them. However, you can change the deity or energy they are aligned to.
Attunement: Zelia

> wear disk
Opening your eyes terribly wide, you carefully fit the flimsy violet disks over your irises and then blink several times while they settle into place. A milky film spreads across your vision for a brief moment but slowly seeps away, and your vision returns to normal.

>whisper my disk start
You silently slip into a deep trance, your body stilling and your breath slowing.

> look PERSON

You see Person.
She appears to be an Aelotoi.
She is very short and has a petite frame. She appears to be very young. She has starburst-striated winter grey eyes and freckle-dusted skin. She has long, wavy coppery red hair drawn back by multiple knitted hairties, exposing a clean-shaven scalp on either side. She has a pert nose. Her lengthy nails are brushed with gradated gold polish patterned in green jade chevron. She has a pair of russet-painted wings.
Her features appear slack, her eyes covered in a milky white film as she stares transfixed at something in the distance.

(The above is NOT a temporary feature.)

While under the effect of a trance, you provide ambient messaging about being in the trance. It fires every 20 seconds. It reminds you how to get out of the trance, though others do not see that information.

You are still under the effect of your most recent trance. To exit the trance, WHISPER disks STOP.
You distantly feel the flutter of your lashes against your cheek, though you know your eyes remain wide and unseeing. Your limbs remain heavy from the deep trance you find yourself in.

You also have access to a series of verbs while in the trance. For example:

>blanch disk
A fleeting ripple of fear grips you, momentarily causing the blood to drain from your face before the lassitude of your trance reclaims your emotionless state.

>grin disk
A smile slowly builds upon your face as your eyes grow distant and you fall into a deep trance.

>whisper disk stop
Slowly, you feel yourself returning to your body, and you feel a prickling of pins and needles upon your limp limbs. You blink several times and feel as if you are struggling through thick layers of cobwebs before your vision finally returns to normal.

While under the effects of a trance, you can not cast or attack or eat or a number of other minor things.

Minor Visions

There are ten sets of minor visions that have over 900 possible combinations. I utilized the TATTOO table to build the combinations. An example of a minor vision, which is available at Tier 1, is:

If NOT in a trance, this is what you may see:

>gaze my disk
Focusing upon Zelia, you gaze through the disks in your eyes, and the image of <something> appears before you.

If IN a trance, this is what you may see:

You gaze about without any true recognition of where you are as the heavy malaise of your trance causes your features to remain slack and your limbs to feel heavy. After a time, your vision changes...

Music fills the air, the sound of a party drifting to you as you gaze out upon the balcony onto a sprawling city that is in the throes of a celebration. Just as you turn to head inside, the sound of fireworks explodes behind you, and you glance up to see <item> burst across the sky in a colorful pageantry of light.

Some visions have more than one random component.

You may trigger a minor trance anytime that you desire.

Major Visions

Major visions come in sets of 15 and are much larger visions. They provide a location and can have as many as 7 random components. They are limited to one per hour.

An example of what you might see is:

Concentrating on your connection to Zelia, you stare through the flimsy violet disks that cover your eyes, causing a vision to blossom to life before you...

As your vision clears, you find yourself on your hands and knees, crawling through the hot desert. Parched and exhausted, you contemplate giving up, your swollen tongue filled with sand and the taste of blood from your cracked lips. Each movement causes your sunburned muscles to scream in protest as you continue to crawl through the sand.

Time has no meaning, the endless hours stretching before you as heat causes the air around you to waver. You find yourself staring at something green beneath your fingers and glance up numbly to see you've stumbled upon an oasis. Hope fills your body with adrenaline, and you surge to the edge of a pool, nearly choking as you suck water into your body.

Sated, you roll to your back to find <random animal> beside you and stumble back, accidentally putting your hand through an old skull where <random creature> has made its home.

Lastly, upon wearing the disks a random timer goes on you. Once the timer is up, a RANDOM vision takes place. There is a 33% chance it will be a major vision, otherwise, it will be a minor vision.