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Rumor Woods 2023 Teasers & Announcements

Announcements

Announcement 1

Rumor Woods will take place June 16 - 30th in 2023.

This year's theme is the Rolton vs. the Wolf!

Announcement 2

Player Customization System updates
The Player Customization System will be updated for Rumor Woods to also include custom Manna and Major Sanctuaries. This will allow you to have more than one of each and choose between them at will.

We've been working on a new Player Customization System to give players more control and flexibility around things like spell customizations. The first phase of this system was seen at Ebon Gate last year, where custom death messages became an option for the first time.

The next phase of this system will roll out at the upcoming run of Rumor Woods. Starting at Rumor Woods, you will be able to unlock and choose between multiple different Major Sanctuary appearances and custom Manna flavors. These are no longer limited to one per character. Your existing custom Major Sanctuary or Manna, if any, will also remain available to you under the new system.

More details, including a FAQ: Google Document FAQ Page
Discussion thread: ⁠Official - Player Customization

Special thanks to GM Yusri for getting this system ready for Rumor Woods.

Announcement 3

In Honor of the Year of the Rolton and to Herald Rumor Woods, we are pleased to announce a new document: Roltons, Wools, and Cheese of the Land

Wiki Link: Roltons, Wools, and Cheese of the Land
Wiki Announcement: Announcement:_New_Lore_Document_in_Honor_of_Year_of_the_Rolton
Discord Forum Discussion: Discussion

Announcement 4

Rumor Woods begins 6/16/2023 with the theme the Rolton vs. the Wolf.

We have the following exciting announcements regarding this year's offerings:

As part of the five-year anniversary, we are making all past rare mounts completely available for anyone to purchase. Outside of an anniversary event, this will be the last time for many of these animals.

• There will be a flare merchant that will aid you in adding flares to your items. He will have the following flare tokens available: common flare tokens for 50 raikhen (fire, cold, lightning, impact, and vacuum), uncommon flare tokens for 50 raikhen (disintegrate, disruption, unbalance, grapple, acid, plasma, steam, water, air), and rare flare tokens for 50 raikhen (slash, puncture, and crush).
  • As a reminder anything 7x enchanted and lower, with 10 CER or less, that is devoid of combat scripts will be half cost going forward.

• New Pet for Year of the Rolton - Lamb
• New Document - Roltons, Wools, and Cheeses of the Land
• New Mounts - Roltons, Sheep, and Goats
• New Horse Nouns - rouncey, destrier, palfrey, jennet, field hunter, hobby, gaited horse, draught horse, light horse, saddle horse, quarter horse
• Mount Travel Updates
  • Realm Travel Refreshes at Midnight
  • New Unlock to allow for 2x a day travel
• Custom Expansion: Sanctuary and Mana Bread now have the ability to have more than 1! You can now keep access to Multiple Mana Bread Customizations & Major Sanctuary as these have been moved to the same system as Death Message Customs.
• Mount Containers - Mounts can now wear two containers (max).
• Private Property Shop - Details Coming Soon & it will be a delayed open.
• Lofts! Lofts will be available to be purchased this year. You must own a stable in order to purchase one.
• New Stable! Brisker's Cove is being added to Fast Travel as its new stables are being released.

This year's Titles

• 100 (runs) of Rolton - Shepard/ess of the Tranquil Flock
• 500 (runs) of Rolton - Knight of the Arctic Glade
• 100 (runs) of Wolf - Protector of the Universal Pack
• 500 (runs) of Wolf - Knight of the Frigid Timberland
• If the rolton is Victor, people who ran rolton get Cupbearer of the Divine Fleece
• If the rolton is Victor, people who ran wolf get Discarded of the Divine Fleece
• If the wolf is Victor, people who ran wolf get Alpha Among the Ferocious Pack
• If the wolf is Victor, people who ran rolton get Zeta Among the Ferocious Pack

Announcement 5

Mounts at Rumor Woods

This year in honor of The Year of the Rolton, we have created ovine mounts for you to enjoy. The breakdown is as follows:

Common: ewe, ram, sheep, tup
Uncommon: citka, dorper, goat, kish'dal, maedat, piebald koza, rakka, and risthil
Rare: rolton

In addition, the following can be customized at the ostler to have a Cultural type:

Goat: sea-horned, Myassarian, Paeladri
Rolton: cavelta, Vaslavia, flatfoot, steelhorn, and stoutfoot
Please note: Chanting the culture of your rolton or goat causes that portion to be seen everywhere "rolton" is seen. For example: You pet your Vaslavia rolton.

You will be allowed to customize the following items at the ostler:
Body, Coat, Coat Color, Ears, Eye Color, Eye Quirk, Face, Horn, Horn Quirk, Tail

A note on body and coat:

Whatever you change on the body of your rolton will change the base 15/15/15 of your rolton and go in the article field. Whatever you change on the coat of your rolton will change the base 15/15/15 on your rolton and go in the adjective field.

Options for body will range from fluffy, plump, shaggy, sleek, and thin to all of the new rolton describing nouns found in the Roltons, Wools, and Cheeses of the Lands document.

A note about horns: Females do not have horn or horn quirk options.

Announcement 6

This is the tentative shop list for this year's Rumor Woods Festival. Please note, one or two items on here may shift or change as the next two weeks before opening unfold.

New Shops	Refreshed Shops	Reopening Shops	Last Run Shops
Baaarnyard Bounty	Been Shanked Lately?	Barn with It	Silken Lotus
Bad Wolf Clothing	Channeled Affections	Born to Adorn	Sweetie Pies
Brass Ring, The	Charmed, I'm Sure	Braid and Mane	Fanfare
Clodhoppers	Common Weaves	Bugs on Parade	Kindred Plaid, The
Curio Minds (Potentially Delayed)	Container Yourself	Can't Stop That Weaving	Tartan Cloth, The
Daily Dip, The (Delayed)	Crafter's Hearth	Cervidae Corral
Flanked Bags, The (Potentially Delayed)	Earthtones	Cloak'N'Mount
Gnomish Gnails	Fanfare	Cog and Zephyr
Lamb Among Wolves	Folded Lotus, The	Colorful Carapace, The
Legendairy	Gallant Groom, The	Couturier's Retreat
Lofty Affairs (Delayed)	Galloping Gait, The	Deerner Time
Milkin' It	Gemstoned	Devote Alloys
Rolton Pens	Gift Horse, The	Ferocious Eyes
Steaming Mugs (Delayed)	Gifts of Atan Irith	GemStoned
Vintage Visions (Delayed)	Girlybird, The	Goin' Stag
Whirl and Twirl	Greater of Two Weevils, The	Grand Stables
	Holy Sheaths	Horn and Mane
	Horsing Around	ImPressions
	Kindred Plaid, The	Irons in the Fire
	Lesser of Two Weevils, The	Knight Way, The	-
	Off the Chain	Leaping Leezards
	On the Wing	Lizard Nest, The
	Peaked Interest	Lizard Vivarium
	Poiret & Company, Salesroom	Notcher Style
	Quit Stallin'	Obsidian Raiment
	Robes of Resistance	Of Sand and Rain
	Roundabout Racers	Ostler's Den
	Silken Lotus, the	Pigments of Memory
	Spirits Within	Purls of Wisdom
	Sweetie Pies	Rollin' In The Greens
	Tartan Cloth, The	Saddle Me Up
	Tempered Threads	Tiu & Qaiteke
	Tinkers Toys	Tortoise Enclosure
	Trim and Polish	View from a Stag
	Unfurling Battle
	Vaunt It and Flaunt It
	What Remains
	Woodn't Yew

Teasers

Teaser 1

Sound Charm Gadgets

Finding the charms that you make with your Charmtraptions just a little dull? Look no further than the Sound Charm Gadget, a new item debuting at Rumor Woods this year. Toss in a basic charm, select your sound, adjust the sound's adjective, and RUB to infuse the noise into the charm.

Off the shelf, the Sound Charm Gadgets come with 5 default Sound Adjectives and 5 default Sound Design Templates. Like the Charmtraption, you can unlock Custom Sound Adjective and Custom Design Template slots that can be altered at a merchant. It also requires Lightning magic (or iron/silver wands) to function.

Teaser 2

Clodhoppers

Found at Clodhoppers, this contraption will turn unscripted cloth or leather material (weighing 3 lbs or less) into cobbling uppers!

G>glance
You glance down to see a pearl-inlaid red oak box in your right hand and a piece of wrinkled cotton in your left hand.
G>put cotton in my box
You place your wrinkled cotton inside your red oak box.
G>turn my box
You turn a dial on the side of your red oak box and set it for "lace."
G>push my box
Snipping sounds emanate from your red oak box and it vibrates lightly. After a few moments, the box feels lighter.
G>get lace in my box
You remove a roll of lace from in your red oak box.
G>look my lace
The lace has been carefully prepared to be used for creating uppers for quality footwear.

FAQs:

PRESETS for cloth: bourde, brocade, canvas, chainsil, cotton, damask, faille, flyrsilk, jacquard, lace, linen, marbrinus, paeline, sailcloth, satin, silk, tapestry, tweed, velvet, wool

PRESETS for leather: bazan, buckskin, calfskin, chamois, cowhide, cordovan, deerskin, doeskin, eelskin, goatskin, kidskin, lambskin, leather, nubuck, oxhide, pigskin, shagreen, sheepskin, snakeskin, suede

The created cobbling upper does not retain any of the existing details of the donated fabric (color, show, bedazzlements). The new item will be "a roll of (material).

The created cobbling upper can be decorated using your silk screen press or leatherworking tool from EG! You can add up to 3 custom settings for materials (no rare or limited-release materials allowed).

You can charge the contraption with diamonds. Otherwise, find a cobbling merchant who can add charges for you.

Teaser 3

Dreamfire - Rumor Woods Edition

A Dreamfire panel peddler has appeared at the Rumor Woods festival grounds to sell some festival-themed Dreamfire panels. Take home a souvenir panel designed for this year's combatant theme or previous years' combatants. The large six-sided stock panel display will not be making a visit at this time.

Teaser 4

Lambs Among Wolves

Themed after this year’s participants, there will be four new, RW-exclusive perfumes.

I’m told they’re nasty, but nastiness is…er…in the nose of the sniffer?

Teaser 5

Let's Dance!

Debuting at Rumor Woods is a new miscellaneous item script, Let's Dance! Available in the shop, "Whirl and Twirl", Let's Dance! items allow a character to dance, alone or with a willing partner, in time with a musician playing an instrument or without.

Married partners need not be joined or ask permission to dance with their spouses. Non-married dance partners must consent to dance via redacted.

The items do not appear in any messaging and there are no alteration guidelines. This script can technically work on almost any held or worn item, as a script or subscript. Players can add the off-the-shelf script to their own items via Darning Awl, Cobbling punch, or Lock Mastery clasps. The script is not otherwise available for adding to existing items at this time.

Players may choose to unlock additional dance styles via certificate in line with the styles available to musical instruments: joyful, mournful, soft, fast, slow, intense, jaunty, flamboyant, aimless, somber, and inspiring. The dancer may TURN the item to cycle through each option; TURN it to a particular unlocked style; or TURN it to MELODY and then will dance in the style of any active music, if that style is unlocked. Certificates are available in 1 use; 10 use; or one use of all unlocks at once.

Messaging was provided by players via Premium contest.

Examples:
Husband holds Wife at a proper distance to maintain decorum as they execute an elegant, stately dance together in time with Musician's flute's mournful tune.
Their feet furiously tapping to the rhythm of Musician's flute's joyful reel, Husband and Wife twirl eagerly across the ground.
Husband raises one arm high overhead and hooks the other arm around Wife's back as she follows suit, clasping their hands together and swaying in a tight embrace like two tangled snakes.