Ebon Gate Festival/announcements 2022

General Information

This year we are introducing the realm of Naidem, the land between where those that have died but are not ready to move on, or the respective deities are not ready to claim them, reside. This will be the new, permanent grounds for the Festival of Ebon Gate.

Evermore Hollow

The village of Evermore Hollow is surrounded by orchards, woods, and a lazy river. The Inner Circle hosts regular town-like shops with everything from an herbalist, an alchemist, a bank, a gemshop, and a pawnshop.

There are five manor houses there:

• Evermore Hollow Town Hall - This is the seat of government.
• Gravelsdown Hall - Home of the Trove and much more.
• Wrencrest Rookery - Home of the Merchant Lounge.
• Quinton Manse - Home of Unlock Certificates for items not sold at EG.
• Antiquarian Manor - Home of the Rare Finds.

Neighborhoods

Evermore Hollow has six neighborhoods that can be visited for ambiance or shopping. They are:

• Moorlyn - Merchant Shops
• Winterbriar - Merchant Shops
• Vigil's End - Merchant Shops
• Fate's Holding - Merchant Shops
• Innocent's End - Home of the Live Games
• Endeltime Estates - Home of Trick-or-Treating

To the North of Evermore Hollow is the Ember Ridge Orchard, which has fruit and nuts that can be harvested from its trees.

To the East of Evermore Hollow is the Bittermere Woods, an enchanted forest of oversized towering mushrooms, and psychedelic wonders, and home to the Herb Hunt where it is rumored that Mandrakes can be found.

To the West of Evermore Hollow is Graveyard Temporalis. Crypts and Mausoleums are surrounded by tombstones, curving pathways, and various haunts. This is also the home of a new quest. Just outside the gates of the graveyard is a portal that leads to the Arena of the Abyss.

Curling along the southern edges of the town, a lazy river called Gleyminn Anni River leads to four different Fishing Areas, where guests can search the haunted waters for the twisted denizens in hopes of winning prizes.

The Breakdown - Games

Trick-or-Treating is returning once again. Entries can be purchased in the Simucoin Store. And the following prizes can be obtained:

• Candy
• Invitations to the Eve of Reunion Event (rare)
• Treasure Trove Tokens
• Soul Shards
• Gemstones

Simucoin Cost: 100 per entry

Fishing is returning once again. Entry to the fishing area will be 50 soul shards. The Prizes are:

• Trinkets and Baubles
• Gemstones
• Spell Prep Customizations
• Spell Customizations
• NEW Death Announcement Customization
• Wishing Well Token
• Soul Shards

Arena of the Abyss is returning once again. Entry will be a Simucoin item. The Prizes are:

• Green Orbs
• Bone Rings
• Fusion Tokens
• Dried-out Hearts
• Soul Shards

Simucon Cost: 10 per entry

Herb Hunt is a new game being added. A couple is looking for the rare Toadshade in the Gardens of Bittermere Woods. They are happy to take any herbs that you find there, but the best prizes are the fabled Toadshade, a particularly shy plant that is rumored to be able to get up and walk around. The Prizes are:

• Gemstones
• Simucoin Items
• Soul Shards
• Mandrake Pet

Simucoin Cost: 100 per entry

Breakdown - Live Services, Merchants, and Games

Once again we will be offering a pass that will give you access to the fun Live Games and all of your favorites are coming back! This year's schedule is:

• Platinum - Friday, September 30th at 9pm - October 7th at 9pm
• Prime - Friday October 7th at 9pm - October 14th at 9pm

Look for the Calendar Announcements with greater details on specific times and Game Listing by name, but along with the live games, the Costume Contest will be returning with the addition of a new Cooking Contest.

Raffles and Merchant services will return with the following schedule:

• Platinum - Friday, October 7th at 9pm - Friday October 14th at 9pm
• Prime - Friday, October 14th at 9pm - Friday October 21st at 9pm

All Live Games, Raffles, and Merchant Services will be in silvers.

Ghoul will be returning with a special schedule! This, too, will be a silvers purchase only but it will require the Live Games and Services pass.

Here are all of the details for the Ebon Gate Cooking Contest!

Please note: The single service pass gives you access to Live Games, Merchant Services, and Raffles.

Simucoin Cost: 3,000 for the entire event

Back by Popular Demand The Weekend of October 21st, from 9pm on Friday Night through 9am Monday the 24th, no roleplaying events, storylines, games, or merchanting will be taking place.

Eve of Reunion Event

On October 29th, the Eve of Reunion Event returns for Prime, followed by Platinum on October 30th.

Everyone who gets an Invitation will have the opportunity to purchase bone ring charging goo and will get one of the remaining trove items.

Breakdown of Other Offerings

• The Fusion Shaman will be returning. He may look different, but he will be on the streets of Evermore Hollow.

• The Enchanter will also be returning to charge your magic items, he too will be wandering the streets of Evermore Hollow.

• The Return of the Permifier! This will return and will be accepting your soul shards.

And an Old Familiar Face now finds himself haunting Evermore Hollow, offering his unique services for those that can find him wandering the streets.

There will be a means to sell back your various treasure finds (Fusion Tokens, Trove Tokens, Spell Customs, etc) in Gavelsdown Manor. We have moved this to its own room so that guests do not have to go to the Trove and it will always be accessible.

Nestled away in Quinton Manse, the Flarer is back! Flare tokens will now drop in appropriate tiers through Fishing. You can then use your flare token with the Auto Flarer.

Antiquarian Manor will have a unique purchasable item that allows you to house your Rare Materials in it. There will also be an NPC that will turn your unscripted discards into Rare Materials for you.

Offerings at Quinton Manse

Situated in the Inner Ring, Quinton Manse is a multi-floor domicile dedicated to offering a variety of services to visitors.

Eastern Nook - Auto Flarer - This NPC will be taking your flare tokens and transferring those flares to the item of your choice. The cost is nearly half of what it was on Caligos Isle. He will also have some custom flare certificates on sale at his location.

Western Nook - Dabbler - This NPC will be removing properties from your item. Just like the dabbler at Duskruin, this NPC will charge you to have those removed. The cost is the same. He will also have custom flare certificates on sale at his location

Garden - An Old Friend - Without saying too much to ruin the surprise, there is an NPC that will be hanging out in the Quinton Garden that will offer a special service for Soul Shards. This service hasn't been offered in a number of years.

The Parlor - Fusion Shaman - This NPC will accept your fusion tokens and perform the task of creating fusion orbs for you.

The Study - The following unlock certificates will be available off the shelf:

• sticky ichor green substance - recharges your bone ring
• Arkati Sigils
• Beard Critters
• Bone Shaman Cloaks
• Bone Shaman Clothing
• Teabowls
• MechaParrots
• Petticoats
• The Scripted belt
• Siolan Daggers
• Spiffy Jacket
• Stufimals
• Super Spectacles
• Twisted Weapons (fire, frost, and vacuum varieties)
• Ungowns
• Zetoile's Toys

The Sitting Room - The following unlock certificates are available off the shelf:

• Eviscerating Knives
• Of the Cloth
• The Old One-Two
• Globus Elanthias
• Dragonfly Festival Clothing
• Hair Baubles
• Hair Do-hickeys
• Tonsorial Tricks
• Ribbonator
• Weaving Lathe
• Black Rose Deck
• Aldoran Sandals of Velathae
• Mourning Flowers
• Thelsia's Jewelry Box
• Hidden Locket

The Kitchen has

• Cookies
• Pastries

Offerings at Antiquary Mansion

Owned by a recluse, Antiquary Mansion is a museum-like abode filled with rare finds. Some of these finds will be available throughout the festival, while others will be rare in nature and have specific opening and closing times for guests to purchase from them.

The Main Halls are filled with curios and display cases. Some of the things you will find there that can be purchased at any time are:

• Ko'nag
• Widowwood
• To name a few...

Down one of the halls, in a special study, An Antiquarian works behind his desk. If you give him your unscripted items that have rare materials in their base description, then he will give you back a piece of rare material.

Example: If you give an unscripted golvern word to the antiquarian, then he will return to you a trade bar of golvern that can only be used as alter fodder.

If you give him a zydris mirror, then he will give you back a branch of zydris.

He also has on his desk a unique item that will let you store up to 20 different types of rare materials and allow them to stack. The Antiquarian's Apparatus is a rare find!

Lastly, there is a sealed room that during certain parts of the festival will be opened so that even rarer materials can be purchased, but they will have limited quantity.

The Garden in Quinton Manse

Hiding away from the prying eyes of Diriko, Sylinaar is the Old Friend that is returning to the scene.

He will be offering the following services:

1. Make an enhancive item that would currently crumble when the last charge is expended not crumble (10,000 soul shards)
2. Increase the total charge pool of an enhancive item by 10 charges or 10%, whichever is greater (4,000 soul shards)
3. Recharge an enhancive item by 10 charges up to the item's maximum (4,000 soul shards)
4. Remove a single enhancive property from an item (10,000 soul shards)
5. Enhancive swapping within these categories: (10,000 soul shards)

A. Strength, Wisdom, or Aura (any one to another)
B. Constitution, Dexterity, Agility, or Discipline (any one to another)
C. Logic, Intuition, or Influence (any one to another)
D. Any Weapons Skill plus Spell Aiming, Except TWC or Multi-Opponent Combat or Combat Maneuvers, (any one to another)
E. Magic Item Use to Arcane Symbols (one to another)
F. Mana Controls - Elemental, Spiritual, Mental (one to another)
G. Any Lores (any one to another)
H. Any Regeneration (any one to another)

Does this service work on Premium Enhancives? Yes

Does this service work for Fusion Orbs? Yes

Does this service allow you to swap Shield or Armor? No

The Bittermere Woods Wishing Well

Tucked away in the Bitteremere Woods, amid the toadstools and flora, is an ancient wishing well. It is rumored to be haunted, but some casually ignore that and toss their special coins into it anyway. Will you dare?

This year, instead of an eel egg being found in Fishing, you will find a ridge-edged painted wooden coin. You can, of course, keep this coin, which can be flipped and spun, gazed at and tickled. But if you dare, you can toss it in the Biteremere Woods wishing well.

Without a doubt you’ll be gifted with a 3x attuned rpa orb. But there is a chance, a pretty good one, that you could become haunted. You have been warned.

Fishing and Attendant Announcement

Attendant at Ebon Gate

Due to the changes in the currency and the sweeping changes I'm about to announce, I need to make sure that everyone is aware that the Attendant that buys back items from fishing will have a price change. This price change is based on multiple factors such as the overall pricing change, the new changes (I'm about to announce) for fishing, and the (new) ease of obtaining these items through fishing, Herb Hunt, and Trick or Treating.

Fishing

Given the conversation and feedback, we’ve decided to do the following with Fishing:

1) We’ve coded in some checks and balances to reduce fishing weights, drastically, that way everyone can fish.
2) We are not going to sell a Simucoin Pass or ask you to fish for silvers. Instead, we are reverting to 50 soul shards per entry.
3) All spell preps, customs, tokens, etc. can be sold to the Attendant
4) Flare Tokens are moving to the Dungeon Crawl

After a really long discussion, we felt this was the easiest, best way to have fishing work for everyone.

Denizens of Naidem

Join us daily as we reveal more details on the Denizens of Naidem.

Teasers

Ancestral Assistant

Graver/Gouge used to alter the article field (first 15, in the 15/15/15) of weapons that only have a 15/15/15.

• Will not work on scripted weapons.
• Gravers work on metal weapons. Gouges work on wood weapons.
• Unlocks add FLIP (make it wearable on belt) and RAISE (see below).

RAISE allows for the removal of temporary flares, padding, and resistance (and a few other things) on any armor/shield/weapon item as long as it does not have a script and is not restricted to a character/account.

• Pricing: OTS 500 soul shards, Tier 1 (RAISE 1x/day) 2000 soul shards, Tier 2 (RAISE 5x/day) 2500 soul shards, and Tier 3 (RAISE 10x/day) 2500 soul shards.

The Blood Red Hand

• New Script The Blood Red Hand and shop of the same name.
• OTS 250, several verbs.
• Demeanor Based responses
• Player-to-Player confirmation for slap and scratch, which leave behind their marks.
• A total of 4 tiers, with fingernail-type and finger-type customizable
• The Blood Red Hand is hidden in player inventory for 3rd party viewing

Covert Creatures

• New script Covert Creatures and shop
• OTS, 50 soul shards, clothing item that holds 1 costume look created by pushing a bug from Bugs on Parade or a sea creature from Life Aquatic into it
• Other unlocks include additional fluff verbs + costume slots
• A total of 4 tiers, with 4 costume slots and the clothing slot (all able to have SHOWs)
• At Tier 4, you have the option to put a line of illusion above your inventory or over your inventory

All Fingers and No Crumbs

• New Script Small Diner's Board will appear in the shop All Finges and No Crumbs
• OTS - 500 soul shards, gives you access to a Host Diner Board that can have 3 food items placed on it (6 at Tier 2, 9 at tier 3) and be shared with 4 people (6 at Tier 2, 8 at Tier 3).
• Each Guest Board can be SPUN to select an eating style (OTS - Plain or Ham-Handed, Tier 2 adds Fussy, Tier 3 adds dainty)
• OTS it will create a plain board, Tier 2 a plain or tea board, and Tier 3 a Drink Sampler Board or a Blind Drink Sampler Board
• Each board given to a guest gets a 1-hour timer on it. At the end of the hour, a spectral servant will reclaim the board. If the Guest logs out, then the servant will find them when they log in, but your board will refresh before then so that you do not get punished.
• Customizations include: Servant, Teacup, Saucer, and Glass
• Recognizes utensils.

Basketifier

You analyze your white wicker basket and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

Welcome to the Basketifier, straight out of the shop Preserving Breads at Evermore Hollow!

This basket is designed to hold food items for you. It will keep them fresh and unlimited until you decide to remove them.
It is currently tier 3 of 4, which means it will house 12 food items.
It can store more food items and unlock more functionality at higher tiers, which can be obtained by purchasing certificates in its shop of origin.
To use the basket, simply follow these steps:
1. PUT - use this to add food items to the basket.
2. RUB - use this to prepare a food item for removal.
3. TURN - Use this to remove a food item from the basket.

To create a picnic, follow these steps:
1. PULL - to pull the blanket out. This will move all food to the blanket, and the basket will be turned into a trashcan.
2. PUSH - to clean up the picnic. This will move all food and the blanket back into the basket and return the basket to its natural state.

To create a table, follow these steps:
1. PROD - to set the table out. This will move all food items onto the table, and the basket will be turned into a trashcan.
2. TINKER - to clean up the table. This will move all food back into the basket and return the basket to its natural state.

Alterations:
The basket may be altered freely, but it must remain a basket. It can have a long or show description.
Basket's Blanket: a fringed red and black cloth
It must maintain a noun of blanket, cloth, tablecloth, or something similar. It may have a long or a show description and must be made of fabric.
Table Base: a rough oak table
The table must keep the noun table. It may have a long or a show description and needs to be made of wood.

Bugs-2-Lures Jig

This tiny wooden jig can turn lengths of fishing line and gemstone bugs caught with The Bugs on Parade Bug Jar into fishing lures with customized articles.

Under absolutely no circumstances can the noun be changed on this jig. These can have a long description, but SHOW/LOOK descriptions are not possible.

It has the following verb options: tinker (selects article), push (makes the lure), poke (checks number of lines stored), wave (removes all line and sets to default)

Comes with 2 default settings (can be customized) and can have up to 10 total customizations added as a merchant service.

PUT lengths of fishing line on it to load it up with charges to make custom lures with "gemstone" style bugs from the jars. Should also work with Life Aquatic devices. WAVE will destroy all line wound around it and reset the jig. Can be used while worn, for hands-free operation. 500 soul shards.

Creepy-Crawly Jar

• Belt-worn jar that preserves and displays a specimen for your scientific studies and/or companionship.
• Customize your preservative, specimen, and jar material. Only one merchant session needed to alter the jar and customs! Provide dye additives to make your preservative extra fancy.
• 30 Soul Shards OTS. 30 Soul Shards Tier 2. 60 Soul Shards Tier 3
• Tier 1: 4 Fluff Verbs
• Tier 2: 4 Fluff Verbs
• Tier 3: Toggle between singular/plural specimens. Use a gem-form Bugs on Parade bug or Life Aquatic sea creature to temporarily replace the custom specimen. 1 Additional Fluff Verb

>turn my tube
You swirl the yellow-tinged preservative in your glass tube, causing the lengthy pallid tapeworm inside to complete a slow rotation.  As it spins, you carefully study the specimen at every angle, squinting thoughtfully.

>shake my tube
You violently shake your glass tube, the yellow-tinged preservative frothing into the empty space at the top.  The lengthy pallid tapeworm bobs wildly before gradually settling back into a serene stillness.

>push my tube
You press your teddy bear bee against your tube.  The clear glass surface ripples like water, slowly absorbing the teddy bear bee.

>kiss my tube
Overcome with sheer love for your chubby teddy bear bee, you lift your tube and plant an adoring kiss on the clear glass surface.  The chubby teddy bear bee does not return your affections, clearly playing coy.

>lean my tube
You tilt your tube, observing the chubby teddy bear bee as it sways in the yellow-tinged preservative inside, bouncing gently off the clear glass sides.

>wear my tube
You attach a slender glass tube preserving a chubby teddy bear bee to your belt.

>lean my tube
You shift your weight to one side, the chubby teddy bear bee swaying in the yellow-tinged preservative inside your glass tube.

Ear Candy

• Wearable earcaps/earcuffs that will temporarily alter your unique feature line.
• Earcaps are restricted to pointy ears.
• Earcaps/earcuffs are able to be worn with or without a gem PUSHED into the item.

analyze my earcap/earcuff
When worn, your earcap/earcuff will temporarily alter your unique feature.  Earcuffs may be worn by any race, while earcaps are restricted to pointy ears (Elves, Half-elves, Dark Elves and Sylvankind).

You may PUSH a gem into your earcap/earcuff to change its description.  PULL to remove the gem.

A merchant may alter the look of earcap for you, but no long descriptions; it'll just be overridden when a gem is inserted.  You may add a show description.  You may pluralize the earcap.

Example:
Currently, your white gold earcap will display a gem in this manner: a branch-like white gold earcap adorned in tiny (gem) blossoms.
A willing merchant can customize that for you.

There is no custom feature set.  The default will be used: He has a branch-like white gold earcap attached to his ear.
A willing merchant can customize that for you.

Flask Belt

Are you a pirate? Are you a drunk? Are you a drunk pirate? Well, have I got the belt for you!

Introducing: The Flask Belt. Wear your flask (or jug or bottle) on your belt and display it with style.

wear my belt
You wrap a tri-looped sable nubuck belt around your waist and buckle it into place.

>ponder flask
You gaze thoughtfully at your flask.

push my belt
You slip your flask into a small pocket on the side of your sable nubuck belt and fasten it into place.

>tap my belt
You tap a tri-looped sable nubuck belt with a flask hanging from a small pouch on the side that you are wearing.

>pull my belt
You unfasten the pocket on the side of your sable nubuck belt and slide a flask out from it.

Forager's Gloves

Welcome to the Forager's Gloves! Introduced at the Festival of Ebon Gate in 5122, the forager's gloves cannot be customized until they are unlocked to tier 2. At tier 3, there are more customizations available.
As such, the gloves cannot be altered by a merchant.
It has access to the following fluff verbs: dust, eat, wince, shake

• Players can customize their own gloves using foraged items, ribbons, and gemstones. Aforementioned items will be absorbed by the gloves and will not be retrievable.
• Off-the-Shelf gloves have full access to the fluff verbs, T2 and T3 unlock the customization options.

Monster-headed Pauldron

• New Item called the Monster-Headed Pauldron, sold out of the shop The Two-Headed Dog
• The pauldron is a non-functional item that is shoulder-worn.
• The pauldron can have 1 - 3 heads, each can be different or the same.
• Tier 5 - Customizations are unlocked
• Custom 1 - Feed gemstones to the heads to change their eyes
• Custom 2 - PINCH curse custom unlocked
• Custom 3 - POKE curse custom unlocked
• Custom 4 - PROD curse custom unlocked
• Any merchant can customize the heads, strap, and buckle

Suddenly coming to life, the dragonsbreath sapphire-eyed, sneering bull mastiff face on your pauldron says to you, "There's no one here but you! And to that, madam, I say that you are a puny, beef-witted jolthead!"

Super-Fish-All Tackle Box

This bone tackle box can store up to 20 types of Fishing Line, Fishing Lures, or Fishing Weights used in the fishing system. They will also stack, but must be identical. Each tray can hold up to 25 of the same item.

It has the following verb options: gaze (lists fishing gear stored), pluck (removes selected fishing gear), tinker (cycle through the trays of fishing gear).

There are some sinewy loops on the side of the bone tackle box, conveniently placed to secure a fishing rod.

The box has not been unlocked to hold any fish.

Altering Instructions:

All rules in ALTER apply. Use the following guidelines and exceptions along with them:

• 1. You can give a tackle box a long description but never a show.
• 2. These can not be crafted entirely from rhimar but a lining is allowed in their descriptions. Other flaring materials are NOT allowed.
• 3. The article must contain the word tackle just prior to the noun field and the noun must be box.
• 4. It can not be deepened or lightened.
• 5. An alterer may be able to do Customizations on this for you.

Customizations:

• Material/Construction - bleached fish bones
• Clasped/Latched style - skull-clasped
• Lid (adjective) - iron-framed
• Trays - carved trays
• Loops/Straps - sinewy loops
• Label (adjective) - carved

Unlocks will allow it to store fish like a rhimar-lined chest, and the final tier has an auto-closing feature like mechanical containers. 5 fish with one unlock, 10 fish with the final unlock. OTS is 1000 soul shards, and each unlock tier is 500 soul shards (2 unlocks)

Templeton Shor'toes Sugars

• Confection Shop at Ebon Gate
• Seven new Bittle's Frosting options that are exclusive to Ebon Gate
• New Item the Frosting Bucket
• New Item the Baker's Case
• The Frosting Bucket will store Bittle's Frosting, up to 30 types, unlimited.
• The Baker's Case will store Bittle's Frosting Tips, up to 30 types, unlimited.

The Forager's Vasculum

Introduced at the Ebon Gate Festival in 5122, the vasculum is designed to hold 30 types of a foraged item. They are allowed to stack. It must remain some thin metal tube with a lid.

• Customizable base paint and design
• Can also hold the forager's gloves and a pair of snips
• Foraged items do include wiregrass, bark, and sticks

The Uncouth Wallflower Gown

• New item called Uncouth Wallflower Gown Item for the unrefined.
• Has 5 tiers.
• Tiers 3-5 give extra customizations
• Can not be altered
• All Unlock Certificates are Available in Shop

Gold Ring Stamper Boxes

• Similar to imbue boxes, but designed for gold rings.
• Will stamp a pre-made alteration onto gold rings.
• Box and design to be stamped can both be altered.
• Can be PERM-ified.

Weaving Satchel

• holds weaving tools
• holds loose and bundled weavable items
• holds finished and partially finished projects
• will auto bundle items that are the same
• allows you to remove a full bundle or one item from a bundle