Ebon Gate Teasers Archive by The TownCrier/2022

Dates

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September 30th - October 30th 2022

Activities and Features

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Trick or Treating - 100 Simucoins per entry
Fishing - Fishing Pass required
Arena of the Abyss - 10 Simucoins per entry
The Ebon Gate Treasure Trove
Live Games

Prime: Oct 7 - 14

Plat: Sep 30 - Oct 7

Merchant Week

Prime: Oct 14 – 21

Platinum: Oct 7 - 14

Prime: Oct 29

Platinum: Oct 30

...but no Digging!

New:

The Herb Hunt! - 100 Simucoins per entry

Search for rare Toadshade in the Gardens of Bittermere Woods for Soul Shards and a chance at a Mandrake Pet.

Wishing Well

TBD

A New Quest?

Found in the Graveyard Temporalis, west of Evermore Hollow, more information to be revealed!

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Live Games Schedule

TBD

Shop Listing

All shops will be accepting Soul Shards only!

NEW	Returning?

Quest Update

TBD

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New for Ebon Gate 2022

Naidem

Welcome to Naidem! The new, permanent grounds for the Festival of Ebon Gate. [Ebon_Gate_Festival/announcements_2022#General_Information|Announcement]]

Five manor houses offer a variety of specialty services, while the Inner Circle hosts regular town-like shops.
Six neighborhoods host merchant shops, live games, automated games, and the Arena of the Abyss.
The Lazy River, with rideable coffins, cider half barrels, gondolas, mushroom caps, and maybe rafts. Discord
Dozens of new gems, foraged plants, candy apples with toppings, an edible hedge of spun sugar, and more!

Xayle discusses candy apples at length: Discord

Elysani reveals the fairy floss fern: Discord

A handful of gems with full descriptions: Discord

   an iridescent geode druzy stone
   a shard of gold-webbed red obsidian
   a crystal-edged twilight blue everine
   a tumbled lilac-striated auroraline
   an ether-warped virid soulstone
   a shard of dark pink-on-violet alexandrite

And an assortment of flowers, various fungi, vines, and more fungi: Discord

   some blue-hazed teal pincushion moss
   an onyx-hued skeletal lace mushroom
   a spiraled rainbow-striped mushroom
   a spore-filled tangerine mushroom
   a tangle of inky scorpidium moss
   a ruby-veined Mularosian whip vine
   a nodule-ridden turquoise vine 
   a soft-barbed pearly green vine
   a black-traced deep plum direbloom
   a cluster of spectral violet dreamphlox
   a luminous sapphire blue rose
   and a matte black vampire lily
   a silver-veiled Gosaena's grace dianthus

Xynwen provides a pair of hints and a warning, and shares a few select highlights from the new areas: Discord

HINT 1: You want to touch the toadstools

HINT 2: You want to hang out around the house

WARNING 1: The house will have a shop inside it, but given its mobile nature, you may find yourself leaving the shop and winding up somewhere else...so like, don't bug it!

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Here are a few snippets of Winterbriar Orchard and its surroundings that I particularly enjoy...

First up -- Pumpkinberry!
You also see a shambling pumpkin-headed snowman.
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A shambling pumpkin-headed snowman is comprised of two, perfectly formed, ghostly white balls of snow stacked atop one another, with a giant pumpkin where the third sphere of snow normally resides.  The pumpkin head features eyes of black coal and a disturbingly wide, crimson-painted smile, and the middle snowball is dressed in a spectre-embroidered, red silk vest.  Clutched in its widowwood arms is a battered journal labeled, "Pumpkinberry's Guide to a Natural Afterlife.

>ask snowman about anything
"Oh my," Pumpkinberry exclaims, "Such curiosity!  Did you know that ebon is a fancy word for black?  Like my lovely eyes!"
Pumpkinberry may have other answers for you, but that's what he knows about anything!

What about retiring to a lovely lake?  Icebriar Lake has you covered!

[Icebriar Lake, Lake's Edge] (8083074)
Several lake houses cluster near the snow-covered banks of Icebriar Lake, while others nestle between clusters of trees set to the other side of the cobblestone path that winds along the length of the lake.  Several snowmen loom atop large drifts of snow, many wielding weapons where stick hands would normally be found.  While most of the lake's shore is inaccessible, a single icy bank appears relatively safe, albeit guarded by a squat snowman with a claidhmore.

A snowshoe hare runs up to a squat snowman, then darts away quickly when the snowman lunges at it.

And finally, if dark and spooky woods are more your jam, Darkbriar Woods has you covered!

[Darkbriar Woods, Umbral Willow] (8083080)
The winding path through the woods ends at a giant gnarled black willow, its unnaturally dark boughs dangling wide over the clearing.  Dense briar thickets leave little room for egress except the path winding back to the east.  Rowan and birch fighting for life under the umbral willow's boughs create a few gaps in the thicket, but most look unviable as a means of escape.  Ice covers most the woods here, and deep drifts of snow pile along the path, except around a circle of bright toadstools.  You also see a thatched hut perched on a pair of mithril chicken legs.

A thatched hut perched on a pair of mithril chicken legs wanders in, clucking to itself.

Not to be outdone, Casil shares a glimpse of Vigil's End: Discord

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Casil — Today at 2:10 PM
Vigil's End provides breathtaking, relaxing scenery for your post-life/pre-afterlife journey, formed from the best memories of the military residents.
[Vigil's End, Tulip Fields] (8083105)
Wide, rotating stripes of homochromous tulips, desaturated by dim ambient light, horizontally stretch across the steeply inclined earth.  A slender, cobbled trail zigzags through the muted, efflorescent rainbow, cutting past the smattering of quaint cottages staggered along its path.  Halfway up the hillside, whimsical glaesine windchimes dangle from the rafters of a latticed pergola extending off the side of a haon-shingled bungalow.
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You tap the virid, leaf-shaped windcatcher on a whimsical glaesine windchime, swinging the striker into the polychromatic glaes rectangles.  A musical tintinnabulation carries euphoniously across the colorful tulip fields.

But be mindful not to wander too far in, for the gorgeous veil over their trauma is thin. 

[Vigil's End, Legion Lane] (8083094)
Shadowed silhouettes of vultures roost within the knotty branches of an immense elm, a suit of lichen-encrusted armor slumped against the trunk.  Glass shards glitter in the weeds beneath the jagged-edged windows of a thatched roof bakery.  Nestled in brick and shingle rubble, a blackened boulder takes up residence within the adjacent destroyed shop.  Arrowheads and discarded weaponry sprinkle the muddied road with corroded debris.

2022 Ebon Gate Item Teasers

TBD

News and Updates

2022-08-06

SimuCon 2022 panel broadcast on twitch: Official Twitch Stream

2022-09-08

Official announcement made with general information, new grounds, and games details: General Information