The Ebon Gate FAQ for Evermore Hollow

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Title: The Ebon Gate FAQ for Evermore Hollow

Author: TownCrier

Date Published: 2023-09-16

Updated: 2025-10-10

Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about Ebon Gate that will help you navigate the experience like a pro!

Cost & Attendance

Can a Free to Play character attend?

Yes. As far as we know, there is no place or event at Ebon Gate that F2P is barred from. You can also buy a Merchant Pass just like everyone else, and go to everything.

Can I use Silvers at Ebon Gate?

Short answer: Only for a few things.

Longer answer:

The currency at Evermore Hollow is soul shards, except for the Midway, where you purchase an entry for silvers to earn tickets (there are no jackpots). The raffles will cost silvers in 2025. Live merchants, too, generally charge silvers. Treasure Trove Tokens in Gravelsdown Hall sell for silvers (100k each). (Remember, raffles, the Treasure Trove, and merchants will require a service pass.)

BUT: We expect GemStone to offer a CLAIM offer for subscribers to purchase with silvers that will hold some game entries. CLAIM GIFT has a smaller free gift. CLAIM EVENT will have more and can cost millions of silvers for a more robust offering inside.

Sometimes you can exchange silvers with other players for purchase of items from shops or to buy game entries. Deal with someone you know is reputable, meet them at a bank, use EXCHANGE.

Does Ebon Gate Cost money? (Which kind?)

• Check how many Shards, or other currency you have with the SCRIP BALANCE command
• Dollars purchase SimuCoins, which are available in the SimuCoin shop to buy Game Entries and the special Vault offer (which will include a service pass, book of entries and a special item, perhaps other things.)
• Games SimuCoin purchased entries for games/activities are the source of Soul Shards that you can earn. These games include Sonreeva, Arena of the Abyss, Trick or Treat, Undergrowth of Bittermere Woods (Witch's Hunt), and Herb Hunt.
• Soul Shards purchase goods and services for sale on the Festival Grounds.
• Silvers can be used to enter the Midway Games and buy the limited CLAIM EVENT offerings when/if they are announced.
• Silvers are also used for EG Merchants, Treasure Trove Tokens, and Raffles.
• General Tickets are what you earn in Midway Games, and can use to purchase items in the Prize Walls at the Midway or take a turn at one of the prize piles.

How many passes do I need to buy?

One pass is all there is, it is good all month, and is referred to as a Service Pass or a Merchant Pass, (Service Flier/Flyer in some places starting in 2025). The pass is purchased at the SimuCoin Shop at the Play.Net web site. You will need this pass only if you wish to participate in:

• Live Merchants
• Raffles
• The Treasure Trove
• Live Games, including GHOUL, the Cooking Contest, and the Costume Contest.

Note: The Service Pass is INCLUDED in the Reunion Vault purchase this year.

For the rest of the festival, shopping, games, storyline, etc., you no longer need any kind of pass. But you will need special Ebon Gate currency, called soul shards, to purchase items for sale in the shops at the Festival. You will need game entry items, bought from the SimuCoin shop, to play games.

Note: A Service Pass (flier/flyer) attunes to the character who REDEEMS it.

How much do the game activities cost?

• There is no pass required for games like Trick or Treat, Herb Hunt, the Arena of the Abyss, The Undergrowth of Bittermere Woods, or the Sonreeva Necropolis.
• Game entries (except for fishing and the Midway) are purchased with SimuCoins, in the SimuCoin Shop. SimuCoins are purchased with US Dollars in the shop at the Play.Net web site. After purchase in the SimuCoin shop, retrieve the purchase in-game with the command in GemStone: SIMUCOIN DELIVER - note that there are two kinds of game entries, stone cubes and barrel keys. They are not interchangeable and they do not have the same cost. REDEEM your entries in hand to be able to use them to enter the game. EVENT ENTRIES shows you what you REDEEMed
  • keys are 100 SimuCoins each, use to play Trick or Treat and Herb Hunt
  • cubes are 10 SimuCoins each, use one to play Sonreeva, Undergrowth of Bittermere Woods, and the Arena of the Abyss
• Usually, there is a free CLAIM GIFT (for subscribers) with a few entries inside
• There is usually a CLAIM EVENT Offer (also subscribers only) that can be purchased in-game with silvers, which hold a set amount of entries, and some other things.
• Sometimes you will find entries for sale from other players for silvers or other currency.
• Game/Activities Include:
  • Spook Contest Was closed in 2024 for rennovations *Unknown status for 2025
  • Midway Games are played with silvers. This is the source of General Tickets for the prize piles and the Prize Walls. Look for them at the Harvest Luminary Festival the last part of Ebon Gate. The Harvest Festival has its own location and is open the very last weekend of the event.
  • Prize Piles will be at the Harves tLuminary Festival, too! Enter using General Tickets. Search through (twice) for a random prize of varying levels. Expect a couple piles with different entry cost based on the value of what is inside (usually Tier 3 or Tier 4 prizes).
  • Fishing costs 50 soul shards (the Evermore Hollow currency) per fishing entry, your entry ends when you catch a fish: earn various prizes here, including a ridge-edged painted wooden coin that can be tossed into the wishing well for an experience orb … and you will probably get haunted, too. (No pass is required.)
  • Sonreeva (The Newcropolis), 10 SimuCoins for a cube: is a single run dungeon crawl. You can group up with your buddies who have also entered. Earn experience in combat, the satisfaction of solving the puzzles, and to those who complete it, a special trinket that will boost your AS, DS, CS, or TD +1 per year.
  • Arena of the Abyss, 10 SimuCoins for a cube: is an arena combat setting of 5 rounds each entry, against an undead creature. Earn Soul Shards, Fusion Tokens, Shimmering Green Experience Orbs, Necrotic Ring, and random breakable system loot. This is the annual time to charge up your necrotic ring, in the Arena.
  • Trick-or-Treat, 100 SimuCoins for an entry key, starts Oct 1: Earn soul shards, candy that can be collected and turned in for other things, Random prize droppings (I think), and some experience. There is undead combat behind some doors, too. You get about 10 knocks per entry.
  • Herb Hunt, 100 SimuCoins for an entry key, starts Oct 1: Earn soul shards, Reim entry orb, potion to recharge enhancives, some experience, Maybe other prize droppings, or the extremely rare whistle that will summon a mandrake pet.
  • The Witch's Garden, or Undergrowth of Bittermere Woods was new in 2024; an entry will cost 1 cube.
  • The Ebon Gate Gem Pile costs 10 shards to randomly draw a special Ebon Gate gem. These gems are not able to be sold at the gemshop, but they can be used in all sorts of crafts, Veola, and Joola items, and nearly anything else that uses a gem.
  • The spiders that go into the Vault Item, the Spidersilk Apothecary, have are drawn from a random pile for 100 shards each
  • Live Games are usually listed in FESTIVAL command in-game. They require the service pass to play. They are usually restricted to a certain number of players who are picked randomly at the beginning. They're noted on the main Ebon Gate Page here, too.
  • GHOUL games are held through Ebon Gate, require a service pass. Look for the schedule and prize information in the FESTIVAL command or Saved Posts Wiki Page. It's BINGO!

What can I do for free?

• There's the guidebook quest, also called the The Newly Unliving Registry, where you solve the step-by-step puzzles to unlock a guidebook for the event. The guidebook holds the names and locations of current merchants working and the current raffles. It will teleport you to the outside of the shop where the merchant is working.
  • Tip: Remember to light your votive
  • Tip #2: Remember where you place your votive!
  • SPOILERS: Look for Jara's Guidebook walkthrough of the quest, chapter by chapter, at YouTube. Big Spoiler Alert!
• There is a storyline that will launch at the beginning of the event with several events, and then continue with low-key things for characters to achieve/do/collect, and then a grand finale during the last days of the festival. In 2024 it was The Ivensra's Fate (storyline).
• Spook Contest: get the most ghosts! Top five winners at the end of Ebon Gate receive special titles. It all starts with your Spook Pin at the Town Hall Spookorium. (Closed in 2024 for rennovations)
• Dead Hand Card Game at Winning Shriek
• Window Shop: See what is for sale and for how much before you decide to earn soul shards or not.
• Recharge your Feywrot Mire Teleportation Carousel at the Incanter.
• Events: Keep your eyes peeled on Discord and the TownCrier ESP Channel for events that will take place at Ebon Gate. ESP TUNE TownCrier. Quite a number of fun events will happen that are player-organized this month, too.
• Explore: Evermore Hollow is full of themed wonders
• Find and Collect unique Familiars, Companions, and (hopefully) Spirit Beasts at the venue. Look here also for unique flora, fauna, bugs, and aquatic life.
• Watch all the excitement, Roleplay with others, get into the spirit of the setting, Play the various free games people will host, Make new friends and memories to last a lifetime.
• The Harvest Luminary Festival takes place the last few days of Ebon Gate, it was added in 2024!

General

What Do All These Initialisms and Terms Mean?

AotA = Arena of the Abyss combat game
Cubes = SimuCoin Shop Entries for Arena of the Abyss, Witch's Hunt, and Sonreeva
EG = Ebon Gate
EH = Evermore Hollow
GHOUL = The name of the Bingo Game at Ebon Gate, the card's colums are G H O U and L!
HH = Herb Hunt game
Hotel Key = Special opening Weekend Invitation Only event
Keys = SimuCoin Shop Entries for Trick or Treat, Herb Hunt
Newcropolis = Sonreeva, Mausoleum, Necropolis - The dungeon crawl
ToT = Trick or Treat game WH = Witch's Hunt, or the Undergrow of Bittermere Woods

What Do I Do With All This Candy?

The candy from Trick or Treating is collected to be sorted into bundles for prizes. Buy a stacking bag at the shop called In The Bag to help with inventory management. Prizes are things from the SimuCoin shop, experience orbs, guild vouchers, quest and Reim orbs, and lots more. Read over all the details at the Trick-or-Treat candy page. It's a flexible prize plan, you can bundle and sort the candy until you have the prize you want. There are also other players who will buy candy, even still wrapped.

Do I have to wear a mask?

As you slip into Evermore Hollow, the domain of those who have passed on, those without titles of 'Witch' or 'Sorcerer' will be subject to a very strong disguising enchantment that will make you look like one of Naidem's usual denizens. Unless you wear a mask. So get your masks out. The undead are not handsome.

Do I have to be in game for the Raffles?

Yes. Probably. Read the ticket and the sign carefully for each raffle. Some may require you to be on the spot. Additionally, remember you can keep up with all the Raffle Info from *Rovvigen's Raffle Page at the GS TownCrier web site: https://gstowncrier.com/?p=251519

Do I have to be in game for the Trove Drawings?

No. The Treasure Troves draw at the same time each night, and the winning item is placed in a special place in the room for the winner to claim for up to 24 hours. You do not have to be online when it draws.

Can I sell extra prize items I find from games?

If you cannot find a buyer for prizes via the usual methods, (pawnshop or another Festival Guest), look for the Soul Shard Exchange in Gravelsdown Hall at the sinning room to sell some things back for a few soul shards to the gngenganger. (And we do mean a few!)

What's the Storyline?

This year, it has not been announced yet. For 2024, you can review The Ivensra's Fate (storyline) page.

What is this Gilded Locus?

Introduced at Duskruin, Fall of 2024, the half-elven traveler services an item called a Gilded locus, which will be available at all Pay Events. The locus is a special enhancive item every one can get (for free) and then build upon (Not unlike an Adventurer's Guild Badge, but way ... more). Ask the traveler for help and follow instructions from there. Here's the link to the TownCrier article at its introduction. Look for all the details at the wiki for the Gilded locus.

Where is the …

• The list of Ebon Gate Places of Interest

Basic Town Shops and Services	Name
Pawnshop	Bones & Baubles
Gemshop	Greedy Ghost
Alchemist Shop	Haunting Sphere
Herb Shop/Healer	Clove and Dandelion
Bank	Otherworldly Wealth

Festival Places of Interest

Guidebook Quest||Town Hall, Hallway
Newly Unliving Registry||1||32200||u8084004

Destination	Location	Map#	Lich#	Room ID
Adventurer Exchanges 25 count new books for shards/exp	Entrance, Evermore Hollow, Inner Ring	1	31558	u8083001
Arena of the Abyss Entry	Arena of the Abyss, Influx	23	28549	u8225001
Auto-Flarer	[Quinton Manse, Western Nook]	4	31773	u8084686
Card Game	Winning Shriek	57	33939	u8084225
Custom Flare Messaging	Quinton Manse	4	31572	u8083004
Dabbler	Quinton Manse, Eastern Nook	4	31774	u8084685
Evermore Hotel	Center of map	1	31569	u8083011
Fishing	GLeyminn Anni River Locations:
	Island (Stream of Reflections)		31834	u8083431
	Shore (Moss Pond)		32073	u8083432
	Rocky Path (Misty Waters)		31846	u8083429
	Shore (Mold Marsh)		32074	u8083430
Fishing Gear	Rodnir's Bait and Tackle	26	31635	u8083026
Flares Look for the Fuath	Quinton Manse, Western Nook	4	31773
Flare Messaging Look for the korrigan	Quinton Manse, Eastern Nook	4	31774
Fusion Shaman Fusion Orb services to: Increase charges pool, recharge, removal, swapping	Quinton Manse, Parlor	4	31596
Enhancive Services - Sylinar The gjenganger Make permanent, Increase charges pool, recharge, removal, swapping	Quinton Manse, Hedged Garden	4	31595, go door
Gem Exchange (for Gem Pile Extra Gems from the Community, to the Community)	Evermore Hollow, Fallen Court	7	31561	u8083007
Gem Pile	Antiquarian Manor	5	31755	u8084696
Glass Pane Pile For Ebon Gate Lantern Panes SEARCH PANE for 100 shards	[Graveyard Temporalis, Outer Rim	138	31737	u8083320
Golem Parts, for Shards In front of the Sonreeva Entrance	Extra parts for your Clockwerke Golems from Duskruin	165	31715
Golem Parts, for General Tickets In front of the Luminary Festival Entrance	Extra parts for your Clockwerke Golems from Duskruin	165	31636, Go Arbor, S, Go Arch
Half-Elven Traveler For Gilded locus work	Quinton Manse, Garden Fountain	4	31595, go door, w
Herb Hunt Entrance	The Garden Shack	61	31978	8086350
Incanter Recharges Feywrote Mire Teleport Carousels	Wanders	the	Festival Grounds
Live Games	Gallivant Manor and Grounds	115++	32197	u8085023
Luminary Harvest Festival		17 go arbor go south go arch	31636 Same directions
Midway	TBA
Necrotic Ring Recharger Substance	Quinton Manse	4	31572	u8083004
New Game, name TBA	Bittermere Woods Expansion
Nodes	Ebon Gate Node List
NPC that buys game drops For a very little bit of currency	Gavelsdown Hall, Sitting room, from the gngenganger	2	31574	u8084015
Permitizer Obelisk	Antiquarian Manor, Garden	5	31606	u8084692
Private Property Trove	A Roof Above/The Roof Over	60	32286	u8084731
Smithy Wagon	WPS	165	??
Sonreeva Entrance Newcropolis/Mausoleum		165 go mausoleum	??
Spook Contest Get started at the Spectral Waifling in the Spookorium	Town Hall, Spookorium Closed This Year!	1	31813	u8084003
Sylinar The gjenganger Enhancive Services Make permanent, Increase charges pool, recharge, removal, swapping	Quinton Manse, Hedged Garden	4	31595, go door
Tables	Evermore Hotel, Bar	11	31747	u8087103
Trick or Treat Bags Stacking storage for your Trick or Treat Candy	In The Bag	24	31584	u8084223
Trick or Treat Game Entry	Endeltime Estates, Neighborhoo	24	31980	u8086199
Trove Tokens for Sale	Gavelsdown Hall, Sitting room	2	31576	u8084015
Treasure Trove/s	Gavelsdown Hall	2	33982	u8084011
Undergrowth of Bittermere Woods	Witch's Hunt Game		34818
Unlock Certificats from past shops	Quinton Manse	4	31572	u8083004
Wishing Well	Bittermere Woods, Convergence	X	31660	u8083262

• Look for a set of references and locations at the main Evermore Hollow wiki page.
• Look for the Ebon Gate 2025 Quick Reference Shop Index for a quick list of which shop sells what, where various NPCs are, or where to find specific services.

Can I just buy some soul shards?

If you have more money than time, there is an old has-been adventurer at the entrance/exit to Naidem who will exchange your barrel key entries for shards and exp. We expect this to use the new system introduced at Duskruin, where you exchange your redeemed entries for shards and experience with the GIVE command. The cap is 250 at once. You will receive 300 shards and 200 experience per entry. If you give 25 entries, it will be 7,500 bloodscrip and 5,000 exp. Keys, though, not cubes. There is a cooldown for each of these exchange transactions

You may find players also selling soul shards for other currencies.

What happened to the Treasure Trove?

In 2023, the Treasure Trove was updated, and 2024 will follow the same format.

• You buy a Trove Token for 100,000 silver
• You need a merchant pass to get to the Trove
• There will be 5 Troves this year! Plus a separate Trove for Private Property Owners.
• You do not need to be online at the time of the Trove drawing
• The Trove plans to draw around 9pm nightly while it is open (Oct 11 - 30). The time can change if there are delays with the Trove. GM Thandiwe also said if there are extra items, she may extend the Trove end date, as well.

What is the Evermore Hotel Invitation Only Event?

Introduced new for 2024, there is a special invitation only SPECTRE AND SHADOW Convention at the Evermore Hotel, Oct 10-12. Here is how it worked last year:

• There will be a very limited number of invitations that go out 2 different ways:
• RAFFLE were held for a hotel suite ticket
• Direct from the SimuCoin Shop for 15,000 SimuCoins in 5 limited releases.
• The special event detailed at Saved Posts
  • 3 opportunities for a private merchant session
  • Access to restricted hotel room
  • Fully unlocked Naidem Mask
  • Special Events all three days, conference panels, workshops, and a Grand Masquerade Ball, multiple meals
  • Closing Gift: SPLIT Your key with a friend for the rest of the month in the Hotel, a 5-count alteration book, a 25-count event booklet (key), and other surprises
  • First Announcement detailed at saved posts Note: distribution details changed a few times since the initial announcement.

Added in 2024, an additional 50 single-room hotel reservations were available via the SimuCoin Shop. This was detailed at saved posts

What is Fish-Hooking?

Sooner or later, you're going to hear someone say, "Old Crondi is fish-hooking!" or "There's fish hooking happening right now on the festival grounds." It might be a GM announcing it on Discord. It might be from another player, sharing the news. The GM announcement is rare, this usually happens with no fanfare or announcement.

Fish-Hooking is when a GM sends out a little scripted item randomly to an area. It will wiggle, flash, bounce, or otherwise move around in your story window and you will be really confused where it came from. In a matter of seconds, it will be gone. UNLESS you GET it. The first person in the room where it lands who picks it up will be teleported to a merchant somewhere, and will get a turn at whatever the merchant is offering. Usually it is GALD, but I did already invoke Old Crondi's name, so it might be other things! (Old Crondi is infamous for making you a DEAL on some bone, desiccated part, or skin of ... one of our races.)

What do I do with Fusion Tokens?

You can use Fusion Tokens to turn an enhancive on an item into a fusion (enhancive) orb for fusion gear. You will still need to pay for the orb. If you do not need any fusion orbs, you can sell it to the NPC in Gavelsdown Hall, Sitting Room.

Transport & Navigation

How do I get to Ebon Gate, where is it?

The festival grounds have a special teleporting command to get you there: EVENT TRANSPORT EBON please note that this is a new command in 2025!

How do I get out of Ebon Gate?

Look for the violet-tinged cerulean tear at the northmost point of the Inner Ring of Evermore Hollow and go tear. You will be returned to wherever you were when you entered the Festival grounds.

If you are using Lich, you can ;go2 exit. On the Ebon Gate Festival/Map archive, look on the first map for the room marked 1.

Is there a map?

Yes, the map is here at the wiki, usually at the top of the Shop Listings page and the Evermore Hollow Map page. Do note that there are two individual images for the complete grounds.

Click on it once to see the page for it at the wiki, then click on THAT one again to get a larger version. Right Click to download it. If you use Lich, these maps are what you will see when you use Narost.

Schedule of Events

What happens during each week of Ebon Gate?

The Ebon Gate event is divided into several parts. Here's the 2025 Schedule, more specific information will be coming.

• Oct 10-31: SimuCoin Shop sells entries (cubes and keys), the service pass, and the special Ebon Gate Vault (which includes a Service Pass!). The opening of the Ebon Gate items for sale usually happens before the festival starts
• Oct 10, 9pm: Grounds open. Shops open at 9pm on Friday, Oct 10 and stay open until midnight of November 2, when the festival closes.
• Oct 10-12: The Invitation Only SPECTRE and SHADOW Conference at Evermore Hotel - Suite Key Required. If it works like it did in 2024, some invites come from box finds, some from SimuCoin purchases. Watch for times they will be available for purchase and the details of other means of distribution of invitations.
• Oct 10, 9pm: Automated Game Activities usually begin with the opening of the event and will be open until 11:59pm on Nov 2. These include Trick or Treat, the Herb Hunt, The Undergrowth of Bittermere Woods (Witch's Garden), and Arena of the Abyss/Sonreeva. Event entries required, but you need no pass.
• Oct 12-16: Big storyline kick off.
• Oct 22-Nov 1: Each Treasure Trove draws once a day in the evening. There are 4 rooms at Gavelsdown Hall with a Trove in each one, plus a Trove in the Private Property Shop, The Roof Over. SERVICE PASS REQUIRED for All Treasure Troves.
  • Four Troves in Gavelsdown Hall will have Delayed Service Vouchers and. unique prize items
  • One Private Property Trove in The Roof Over. Purchase tokens at Gavelsdown Hall.
  • The Treasure Troves wiki Page
• Oct 17-24: Merchant Week. SERVICE PASS REQUIRED to see merchants for alterations, unlocks, etc. Raffles take place this week, requiring a pass, too.
• Oct 25-26: Live Games Weekend. This year the live, GM-Moderated games take place over a weekend only. SERVICE PASS REQUIRED. A number of contestants will be selected, depending on the game. Live Games take place at Gallivant Manor and its grounds. Look for it at Innocent's End, The Explorers, (u8083129, Lich Room 31781) and wander down the byway, then go southeast. To enter the Gallivant itself, remember the entrance is GO MARQUEE. Remember that all times posted here are Eastern.
  • Oct 25 at 1pm: Wheel of Misfortune, [Under the Manor] (8085066)
  • Oct 25 at 9pm: Cryptic Chronicles, [Abandoned Cemetery] (8085034)
  • Oct 26 at 11am: Haunted Spirits [Gallivant Manor, Kitchen] (8085062)
  • Oct 26 at 3pm: Spooky Ciphers, [Gallivant Manor, Library] (8085065)
  • Oct 26 at 6pm: The Costume Contest, location still to be determined, and is not usually part of the Live Games Weekend.
  • Various: GHOUL at Sorrowwood Crypt - There will be multiple GHOUL Games during the month. They have not been scheduled yet. They are not limited to the Live Games Weekend. Look for the Schedule under the FESTIVAL command in-game or check the [GS Calendar].

• Oct 24-31: Last days for the storyline quest
• Nov 1: Last Trove Drawing (Unless there are extras?)
• Oct 30- Nov 2: Luminary Harvest Festival
• Oct 31 at 11:55pm: All Sales of Ebon Gate related items are removed from SimuCoin Shop. Activities, Games, and shopping remain open until the 2nd.
• Nov 2: The Grounds close at 11:59pm and it is over until next October

• GHOUL schedule and prize information listed in-game with FESTIVAL verb (Service Pass required) or at the [GS Calendar]

• The TownCrier tries to keep all events updated on their Master GS Calendar at: https://gstowncrier.com/calendar/
• Rovvigen's Raffles Tracking Page is at: https://gstowncrier.com/?p=251519
• Some events (but not all) will be on the Main GemStone Calendar at: https://www.play.net/gs4/
• Some events (but not all) get a mention on the Main Evermore Hollow wiki page

When will each Merchant visit during Merchant Week?

(and where will they be?)

• It is very rare to have pre-announced times for any merchants during Ebon Gate. Stay alert! Some will appear on a page at the main wiki page for the event.
• Merchants nearly always work behind a door/curtain/alcove/etc entry. Some work in shops, some work in the Wrenscrest Rookery Building.

How will I know when there is a Live Game, or a Merchant?

• Watch your announcement window in your front end, if you have one. Not every merchant or event uses the announcement window, so keep that in mind. Announcements only show if you are within the Ebon Gate Grounds.
• Keep an eye on your story window for the things that miss the Announcement Window while you are in Ebon Gate
• The TownCrier channel (ESP) will announce most visits if you are not at Evermore Hollow (Festival in-game announcements are only seen in the Festival Grounds)
• Your special Guidebook (when you complete the Quest) will list currently working merchants and raffles which have not drawn yet. The Guidebook works whether you are on the Festival Grounds or not
• The official GS Discord may have some announcements as things happen. (But usually not all of them)
• The Platform formerly known as Twitter abandoned their small niche clients, so neither GemStone nor the TownCrier announce anything on it any more.

Tips

Tune to the TownCrier (both (ESP and Lich) channels carry identical content, pick your favorite!) and watch for a rotating series of EG Tips mixed in with the current events and EG News from Miss Newsby:

• ESP TUNE TownCrier
• For Lich: ;tune TownCrier

Resources

Here's our bookmarks list, the pages to bookmark for reference during EG:

• The FESTIVAL command in GemStoneIV
• Ebon Gate Festival/saved posts 2025
• Ebon Gate Festival/Map archive
• Main Ebon Gate Wiki Page
• Lists of Shops and Inventories Note, there are three pages this year!
• Buyer’s Choice: The Best of Fest Shopping Guide
• Ebon Gate 2025 Quick Reference Shop Index
• Rovvigen's Raffle Page: https://gstowncrier.com/?p=251519
• GS Master Calendar by the TownCrier: https://gstowncrier.com/calendar/
• Treasure Trove Items

• To Be Updated for 2025, but here's the 2024 Final Checklist for Ebon Gate before it closes