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.
- Your costume presentation can be no longer than 5 minutes. We will be timing you, so please be aware of your pacing!
- You can use any number of props, bystanders (with their permission), fancy scripts, etc., but remember Rule #1.
- HAVE FUN!
- 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.
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.