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===Live Games Schedule===
===Live Games Schedule===
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TBD


* Cooking Contest, due '''September 30''': [https://forms.gle/aCTtUpezvNaXHbDt8 Entry Form]
* Cooking Contest, due '''September 30''': [https://forms.gle/aCTtUpezvNaXHbDt8 Entry Form]

Revision as of 12:34, 25 September 2022

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Dates

Main Post: Official Forum Post

September 30th - October 30th 2022

Quick Links

Activities and Features

No Fishing Pass required - Announcement
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:

Search for rare Toadshade in the Gardens of Bittermere Woods for Soul Shards and a chance at a Mandrake Pet.
  • Wishing Well
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.
Teaser: Discord
  • A New Quest?
Could this be the new dungeon crawl to replace the Necropolis? Found in the Graveyard Temporalis, west of Evermore Hollow, more information to be revealed!
Sylinar will be offering a variety of services, including 10% recharging of enhancive items and 10% max increase (up to 500) of max charges. Discord
The full catalog is revealed: Discord
Q&A: Discord
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 to Wisdom (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, (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)
The outstanding questions for Sylinar were:

1.  Can we do Premium Enhancives?  Yes, but they will remain attuned
2.  Can we do Fusion Orbs?  Yes.
3.  Combat Manuevers fall into the same category as MoC and TWC.  They can't be swapped.
4.  Aura is being added, it will be in the Strength to Wisdom Category
5.  All Regen types can now be swapped with one another.
6.  Is Shield use considered a Weapon Skill?  No, Shield and Armor use are still not allowed.

Live Games Schedule

2023 Game Information

Wheel of Misfortune

The Wheel of Misfortune is a dagger-tossing game of chance! It will be held below Gallivant Manor in [Under the Manor] (8085066). A volunteer will be strapped to a board, and while they are spinning, a contestant will TOSS BOARD. Each contestant will get 5 tosses. Each toss scores points dependent on the location. After 5 tosses, the huckster will yell out your total score. Top 2 scorers will win prizes. In the case of a tie, the top scorers will go again until there is a clear 1st and 2nd place.

Spooky Ciphers

Spooky Ciphers will take place in [Gallivant Manor, Library] (8085065). Your hosts will read out a word that may be a little mixed up, different, or spooky! It is your job to decipher it first. First person to decipher it wins a point. The game continues through ten anagrams or one hour. The contestants with the two highest scores win the game and get prizes.

Pyrestarters

Join the Naidem residents at the [Bonfire of the Gallivants] (8085033) on the grounds of Gallivant Manor and teach everyone your favorite method to create an Eve of the Reunion-themed bonfire.

OOC Description: In the room will be a barrel with leaves, a rack with logs, and a crate with twigs that you can take from. These are non-description (a log, a small twig, a leaf) so you can describe them how you like. You can also bring and use your own items. Up to 9 items can be placed in the stone circle when it is your turn. You should describe what each item does, why the order matters (if it does), and what the final, lit bonfire would look like (details like scent, color, smoke, etc. Use the RP tools at your disposal such as ACT, SMILE, TONE, other verbs, and items, etc. "Eve of the Reunion-themed" just means something that fits EG -- it may be a bonfire you light for the dead, for the fall, for harvest, for remembrance, etc. Judging will be done by NPCs on the four categories of Time Mgmt, Theme, Style and Flair, Content

Haunted Spirits

Haunted Spirits is a creepy, mixed drink game! An hour before the start of the event, the containers in [Gallivant Manor, Kitchen] (8085062) will be opened, so players can see the this year's ingredients. Only ten contestants can participate, so a sign-up list will be posted at the start of the event. You must create a drink using at least 4 of the supplied ingredients. You can also use water for free and one ingredient of your own choosing. Plus, you will also draw a special item that you must incorporate in. You will draw this 10 minutes before your turn starts.

When it is your turn, you will have five minutes to make your drink. You do this using ACTs and other RP verbs, speaking, etc. Judging will be done by NPCs on the four categories of Time Mgmt, Theme, Style and Flair, Content.

Cryptic Chronicles

Welcome to Cryptic Chronicles, a game of graverubbings and storytelling! At the start of the event, a sign-up list will be available. Those wishing to participate should JOIN (LIST) when it is opened; only the first ten (10) to sign up will be able to participate. Ten minutes before their turn, the contestant will be given a blank slip of graverubbing paper. They will RUB (PAPER NOUN) ON (GRAVE NOUN). This will generate a graverubbing, and they can LOOK at the paper and/or READ it to get information. Contestant should then craft a spooky story, poem, or other unique work based on the graverubbing. They will have then five (5) minutes to tell their story, which must be spooky and related to the graverubbing. They will be judged on Content, Style and Flair, Theme, and Time Management. When it is their turn, the contestant shall give the game runner their paper, so the judges can see for themselves what the prompt was (if the contestant wishes it for a souvenir, they can request it back after the judges read it).

Location: This year's Cryptic Chronicles will be held in the [Abandoned Cemetery] (8085034) on the Gallivant Manor grounds. Once there, you can LOOK MARKERS and LOOK SITES to see the different gravestones that will be available for the contestants to choose.

Blind Luck

Blind Luck is a game of spooky chance! Do you have what it takes to participate? Join everyone in [The Gallivant, Marquee] (8085023) and find out! This game goes in rounds, and you need to be there from the beginning. When instructed, each contestant will GET BOX. A variety of different outcomes may occur, but as long as you are not totally blinded, you will move onto the next round. The final two standing win!

Participant Prizes

Everyone who participates is eligible to get a fun toy at the end, just like in years past.

Winners' Prizes

In the Common language, it reads:
~~ 5123 Ebon Gate Live Games Prize Options ~~

1. Custom signature verb
2. Custom swear
3. Custom logon/logoff messaging
4. A spell prep from the options below:
      First Person:  With a primal scream, you issue a demand to the dead.  Sinuous spirits rise from the ground and twine about your arms as you prepare to cast [Spell Name]
      Third Person:  With a primal scream, [Your Name] issues a demand to the dead.  Sinuous spirits rise from the ground and twine about [his/her] arms.
           OR
      First Person: You invoke the spirits of the harvest as you prepare the [Spell Name] spell, and dozens of will-o'-wisps in autumnal hues dance about you.
      Third Person:  [Your Name] invokes the spirits of the harvest, and dozens of will-o'-wisps in autumnal hues dance about [him/her].
5. Death Announcement that reads:
      In the game of life, Xynwen just rolled a natural one.
6. Manna Bread - Aspic option.
7. Unlocked Toasting Stein with custom toast of your choice.  (This will be a delayed service as it requires QC.)

Winners may only pick one prize and if that prize has been picked by another winner at the same game, then that prize is not available to be picked again.

2022 Game Information

Chilling Tales

Chilling Tales is a storytelling contest with a spooky theme. Up to ten individuals can compete. There will be a sign-up list at the event. Contestants will have five minutes to tell an original spooky story. Contestants will be cut off if they go over the time limit. Judging will be based on time, adherence to spooky theme, style, and content. The three players with the highest scores will be deemed winners and receive prizes.

Ghastly Guts

How well can you fling some guts at a target? Come on by and find out! Up to forty contestants can participate. The illustrious judges will provide you with five bits of gut-flinging materials. Scoring is based off where you hit the target. All five attempts will be totaled. Top two high scores will receive prizes.

Haunted Spirits

Haunted Spirits is this year's live games cooking contest, with a twist! Instead of a food dish, you will be created a beverage. One hour before the contest's start, a crate containing six ingredients will be open for viewing. At least four of these ingredients must be used in your liquid concoction.

When the event starts, ten contestants can sign up. Each contestant will be given a sack with a secret ingredient in it. You'll have ten minutes from that point to create your final beverage and then five minutes to make it for everyone. You may also use one ingredient of your own choosing, and water will be considered available for everyone.

During your five minutes, you should prepare your concoction, putting on a show for everyone. At the end, the judges will sample it. Judging will be based on a scale of 1-10 for time management, ingredients used, style and flair of creation, and the creativity of the final product (its name, description, tastes). Top three will be awarded prizes, with the winner getting a special commemorative teabowl as well.

Tips
  1. DON'T waste precious time actually picking up the supplied ingredients. Just use ACTs and other RP tools to show which ones you are working with. Almost everyone who goes over on time does so because they are trying to pick up and put down every single item whenever they want to do something with it, and that extra time is killer!
  2. DO get creative with your style and flair! This is your time to shine and make an impression.
  3. DON'T go OOC.
  4. DO try to also present your final tastes like actual drink messages. For example, "The refined palate sipping this beverage should notice the notes of winterberry and pickle juice swirled with barbecued rolton." It's not QUITE a drink message, but it's an IC way to get across what one would be if it were a real item.

Lethal Libations

Lethal Libations is a game of chance, and it may be lethal, so come prepared! When it is your turn, you pick a libation from the basket and drink it. If you are poisoned, you are out! Rounds will continue until we are down to the last man standing! Last two will receive prizes.

Otherworldly Omens

Fancy yourself a master at divination? A purveyor of all things clairvoyant? Well, come show how good you are at Otherworldly Omens! Up to ten contestants can participate. Ten minutes before your turn, you will be given a sack containing the item you are to attempt your reading on. When it is your turn, you will have five minutes to perform the reading. Contestants will be cut off if they go over the time limit. Judging will be based on time, adherence to divination theme (such as incorporating the item given, doing a reading, etc), style, and content. The three players with the highest scores will be deemed winners.

Spooky Ciphers

Spooky Ciphers is an anagram game. The hosts will read an anagram, and the first person to solve for the word wins a point. Twenty anagrams will be read, and the two players with the highest scores will be deemed winners.

Schedules

Note: All times EDT.

2023

  • Prime Schedule
    Game Dates Times Locations
    Costume Contest Sunday, October 1 2:00pm [Icebriar Lake, Winter's Edge] (8083079)
    Blind Luck Friday, October 6 9:00pm [The Gallivant, Marquee] (8085023)
    Cryptic Chronicles Saturday, October 7 2:00pm [Abandoned Cemetery] (8085034)
    Pyrestarters Sunday, October 8 4:00pm [Bonfire of the Gallivants] (8085033)
    Spooky Ciphers Monday, October 9 9:00pm [Gallivant Manor, Library] (8085065)
    Haunted Spirits Tuesday, October 10 9:00pm [Gallivant Manor, Kitchen] (8085062)
    Wheel of Misfortune Wednesday, October 11 9:00pm [Under the Manor] (8085066)
    GHOUL Thursday, October 12 9:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
    Tuesday, October 17 3:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
    Saturday, October 21 1:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
    Tuesday, October 24 9:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
    Friday, October 27 9:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
    Sunday, October 29 8:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
  • Platinum Schedule
    Game Dates Times Locations
    Cryptic Chronicles Sunday, October 1 4:00pm [Abandoned Cemetery] (8085034)
    Blind Luck Sunday, October 1 6:00pm [The Gallivant, Marquee] (8085023)
    Pyrestarters Monday, October 2 9:00pm [Bonfire of the Gallivants] (8085033)
    Spooky Ciphers Tuesday, October 3 9:00pm [Gallivant Manor, Library] (8085065)
    Haunted Spirits Wednesday, October 4 9:00pm [Gallivant Manor, Library] (8085065)
    Wheel of Misfortune Thursday, October 5 9:00pm [Under the Manor] (8085066)
    Costume Contest Sunday, October 15 3:00pm [Yvalyst Manor, Ballroom] (u8089005)
    GHOUL Saturday, October 7 8:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
    Sunday, October 15 1:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
    Tuesday, October 17 9:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)
    Sunday, October 29 3:00pm [The Sorrowwood Crypt, Tombs] (u8083365)

2022

  • Prime Schedule
    Game Dates Times
    Haunted Spirits Friday, October 7 9:00pm
    Lethal Libations Saturday, October 8 2:00pm
    Cooking Contest Saturday, October 8 5:00pm
    Chilling Tales Sunday, October 9 4:00pm
    Otherwordly Omens Monday, October 10 9:00pm
    Spooky Ciphers Tuesday, October 11 9:00pm
    Ghastly Guts Wednesday, October 12 9:00pm
    GHOUL Thursday, October 13 9:00pm
    Saturday, October 15 1:00pm
    Costume Contest Monday, October 17 9:00pm
    GHOUL Tuesday, October 18 3:00pm
    Tuesday, October 25 9:00pm
    Friday, October 28 9:00pm
    Sunday, October 30 8:00pm
  • Platinum Schedule
    Game Dates Times
    Ghastly Guts Saturday, October 1 2:00pm
    Chilling Tales Sunday, October 2 4:00pm
    Cooking Contest Sunday, October 2 7:00pm
    Lethal Libations Monday, October 3 9:00pm
    Haunted Stories Tuesday, October 4 9:00pm
    Otherworldly Omens Wednesday, October 5 9:00pm
    Spooky Ciphers Thursday, October 6 9:00pm
    Costume Contest Friday, October 14 7:00pm
    GHOUL Friday, October 14 8:00pm
    Sunday, October 16 11:00am
    Tuesday, October 18 9:00pm
    Sunday, October 30 3:00pm

Shop Listing

All shops will be accepting Soul Shards only!
** NEW ** Returning?

Quest Update

TBD

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New for Ebon Gate 2022

Currency

Naidem

Welcome to Naidem! The village of Evermore Hollow will be the new, permanent grounds for the Festival of Ebon Gate. Announcement

  • The Denizens of Naidem.
  • 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.
G>l snow
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.
  • Thandiwe shares a bit of detail on the inner and outer rings, as well as taking a quick peek in one of the neighborhoods: Discord
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Evermore Hollow has an inner ring and an outer ring.  The inner ring is more like a pentagon.
[Evermore Hollow, Inner Ring]
Crowded by the densely packed shadows of nearby arboreal giants, a maroon and iron-gabled manse dominates the corner of the avenue and is positioned so that its shutter-flanked windows can keep an eye on the various lanes that intersect at this corner of town.  Slipping beyond the manicured lawns to the east and the cramped structures to the west, a narrow pathway disappears southward, while an arching arbor hosts a plethora of painted plant life as it offers entry to a small alley  You also see a looping cobblestone bridge (open).
Obvious paths: east, northwest

Entrance to one of the neighborhoods...
[Evermore Hollow, Fate's Fire]
Buildings grow sparse as a well-trodden cobblestone pathway wends through the area on its way around a hillock covered in knee-high grasses whose entrance is blocked by a spear-topped black iron gate.  Saturated in crimson, orange, and yellow hues, the small courtyard is filled with a perpetually burning bonfire surrounded by dried-out ancient logs amid singed baskets of firewood.  Near the northeast, the faint outline of a dull green moss-covered stone arch supported by slanted buildings can be seen.  You also see a cinder-tinged moonlight white skeleton.
Obvious paths: north, south

Outer Ring 
[Evermore Hollow, Outer Circle]
Inclining slightly to the northwest as it narrows towards a bridge, the cobbled street is lined with uneven pavers to create a cramped thoroughfare.  Stores clustered together along the southern side of the road rise and fall at varying heights, their windowed faces turned to the wrought iron fence that overlooks the Gleyminn Anni River.  Perched in a row of descending dimensions, winged wrought iron serpents stretch their mouths wide to hold glowing orbs aloft.
Obvious paths: southeast, northwest
  • A brief peak at Quinton Manse: Discord
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[Evermore Hollow, Inner Ring]
Crowded by the densely packed shadows of nearby arboreal giants, a maroon and iron-gabled manse dominates the corner of the avenue and is positioned so that its shutter-flanked windows can keep an eye on the various lanes that intersect at this corner of town.  Slipping beyond the manicured lawns to the east and the cramped structures to the west, a narrow pathway disappears southward, while an arching arbor hosts a plethora of painted plant life as it offers entry to a small alley.  You also see a looping cobblestone bridge.
Obvious paths: east, northwest
  Look  manse  - Limned in ebon, the gables of the manse are freshly shingled and decorated with leaflet cornices.  Statuesque ravens, bone white and vacant-eyed, perch upon each corner, their lifeless mouths parted to emit tiny drainage pipes.  Maintaining a shade that is too dark to be wine and too purple to be plum, the mahogany facade is uniform in hue.

Unlocks and Services at Quinton Manse

Unlocking certificates for a variety of goods and automated services including the Ebon Gate auto flarer, Fusion Shaman, and Dabbler will be offered at Quinton Manse. And what's this? A surprise visitor offering a service that hasn't been offered in years?

Main Post: Offerings at Quinton Manse

Rare Materials fodder conversion and storage at the Antiquary Mansion

Rare alteration materials will be available for sale (and conversion from fodder) via the Antiquarian, and an Antiquarian's Apparatus will be available for purchase to store up to 20 types of rare material.

Main Post: Offerings at Antiquary Mansion

  • Rare find is just a turn of phrase, not a term of art, the Apparatus can be purchased off-the-shelf in unlimited quantities. Discord
  • The Antiquarian's services will cost 200 soul shards, while the Apparatus will cost 570.

The PASS reward

With lightening and deepening notes more readily available at Rings of Lumnis, this year's pass will convert to an account-attuned experience orb when PULLED.

Teaser: Discord

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2022 Ebon Gate Item Teasers

Death Announcement Customization

New death announcement customization items will be available as a random prize from fishing.

Cooking

The new Cooking system introduced at Copperplate Loft via the August Duskruin Arena Mania auction will be formally unveiled, with a variety of recipes, implements, and ingredients available, some of which will be worldwide.

Mania teasers: Discord

  • Casil shared some details about the cooking system, including some price tags: "You'll need to purchase the three components to fully make a pie: the pie press, the bowl, and the simmering pot whiiich totals to less than 200 soul shards, though I don't have the exact numbers handy. There's a couple of tools too (2 soul shards a piece, I believe)." Discord

Cigar slings, lighter rings, and red hot candy by GMs Xayle and Vanah

For those who've always wanted to FLICK a cigar, an arm-worn cigar sling to "magically" produce a cigar for dramatic effect. And for those who can't keep track of their matches, or simply have a flair for the dramatic, flame-producing rings which can be worn as tattoos. Along with another adorable new way to light cigars and pipes, or add a little heat to a kiss.

Cigar sling teaser: Discord
Lighter ring teaser: Discord
Red hot candy teaser: Discord

  • It is a tattoo when it is a tattoo, it takes up a ring slot only when it is a ring. Discord
  • Both the ring and tattoo can be altered.
  • Cigar slings are non-functional, unless you increase their item capacity beyond two cigars.
  • [The candy] works like lip gloss, too, if you kiss someone! Discord

Creepy-Crawly jars by GM Casil

For use with Life Aquatic and Bugs on Parade, the Creepy-Crawly jar will preserve and display your favorite specimen, and can be worn attached to your belt.

Teaser: Discord

  • Costs are 30/30/60.
  • Customize preservative, material, and specimen. You only need one merchant session to change the 15/15/15 and all 3 customs. Will take dye additives to make your preservatives glowing, sparkling, etc.
  • Tier 1: 4 Fluff Verbs, Tier 2: 4 More Fluff Verbs, Tier 3: Toggle between singular and plural specimens, add bugs/sea creatures to temporarily override your customs. 1 more fluff verb. Discord

Covert Creatures by GM Xynwen

Have you ever wanted to be a bright yellow Aeia's bumblebee? Or a chubby grey mouse-eared octopus? This new clothing series can have specimens from Life Aquatic and Bugs on Parade inserted to instantly become an appropriate costume, and will be sold in the shop of the same name.

Teaser: Discord
Messaging teaser: Discord
Illusions teaser: Discord

  • The base clothing item can be altered freely to any item of clothing, but will always remain front-worn.
  • Messaging will be different based on whether the item is in clothing form, bug form, or sea creature form, depending on the type of creature. Discord
  • 50 soul shards off-the-shelf, 250 soul shards for tiers 2 and 3 to unlock additional verbs and slots, 1150 soul shards for tier 4 for more verbs, more slots, and an illusionary inventory-hiding feature. Discord
  • Merchants can add a SHOW to saved costumes.
  • Costumes are currently saved permanently and cannot be changed once added.

Veola hair accessory updates by Elysani and Vanah

Elysani and Vanah have worked to update the Veola hair accessory (and corresponding wiki page) to allow for a staggering array of new options, including adding new types to ease noun restrictions, and adding compatibility with several new categories of accessory: Discord 

This Veola item is designed to display a gem, feather, flower, insects and sea creatures, pointed items, or other miscellaneous items.  Miscellany includes other foraged items, skins, shells, and other larger non-gem treasure items.
You gently place the wand in your gilt-spiked headpiece, taking care to arrange it just so.  You nod, satisfied with a gilt-spiked headpiece interspersed between silver wands.
  • Pointed items: lockpicks, shoots, sticks, sprigs, sprays, stems, twigs, forks, knives, spoons, darts, daggers, wands, or talons

Small Diner's Board by GM Thandiwe

Sold at All Fingers and No Crumbs, the Small Diner's Board allows the host to duplicate and share pre-assembled small plates or drink samplers with a variety of eating styles for up to an hour.

Main Post: Discord

  • Compatible with cutlery.
  • Copies exactly what you put on the board, including poison.
  • A fully unlocked board will cost 1500 soul shards. Discord

Super-Fish-All Tackle Box and Bugs-2-Lures Jig by GM Marstreforn

The tackle box is used to store 20 types of Fishing Line, Fishing Lures, or Fishing Weights, as well as a rod, your new jig, and keeps your fish cold.
The jig can be used to convert gem-style Life Aquatic and Bugs on Parade specimens to lures!

Main Post: Discord

Ancestral Assistant weapon tool by GMs Marstreforn and Netz

This new tool is used to add a design to weapons, armor, shields, or accessories that do not already have too many details or scripts, changing the article. Smiths take note! And with a series of unlocks, they can also be used to remove temporary properties from found items such as padding or resistance.

Main Post: Discord

  • 500 shards OTS, 2000 for first unlock (1x/day RAISE), 2500 for T2 (5x/day) and another 2500 for T3 (10x/day) Discord
  • Two designs by default, with an EG merchant service to add three more for a total of five, and a special auction/raffle tier version with ten (similar to Lapidary boxes). Discord
  • The designs can be changed as part of a general alteration service.

Basketifier by GM Thandiwe and... an Ordim?

Store and preserve a variety of food and beverages in perfect safety and unlimited quantity, permanently until removed, with a shareable presentation as a table or picnic blanket.

Teaser: Discord

  • Holds 24 items at tier 4.
  • Tier 1 costs 250 soul shards.
  • All unlocks are 500 soul shards a piece. There are 3. Discord
  • Will NOT accept anything with a spell in it. Sorry, heroism soup!

Flask belt by GM Xeraphina

"Are you a pirate? Are you a drunk? Are you a drunk pirate? Well, have I got the belt for you!" Wear and display a flask, bottle, jug, or equivalent on these new belts.

Teaser: Discord

Baker's Case and Frosting Bucket by GMs Thandiwe and Haliste

For storing up to 30 types of frosting tips and tubes respectively, these new storage devices should help the pastry-minded free up a great deal of locker space! We also got a quick peek at a handful of event-specific frosting flavors, including pumpkin spice.

Teaser: Discord

  • A related update has provided a reason to POINT your frosting at a friend! Discord
  • 575 soul shards each. Discord

Forager's gloves by GM Elysani

A highly customizable set of gloves that may work well with the Forager's vasculum, the forager's gloves can be freely changed using forageable flowers, ribbons, and gems similarly to the Person of Honor Clothing line.

Teaser: Discord

  • Purchasable off-the-shelf as "a pair of cotton gloves". - 250 soul shards. Subsequent unlocks: OTS to T2 - 500 soul shards, T2 to T3 - 500 soul shards.

Perfume-n-ator by GMs Xayle and Thandiwe

Reclaim some locker space with this addition to the year of the "n-ator", it just makes scents! They'll store perfumes off-the-shelf and can be unlocked to hold your perfume jewelry as well. Be sure to check out the lamp oil scent compatibility update as well to put all these to use!

Teaser: Discord

  • Costs 500 soul shards, as does the perfume jewelry holder unlock.

Swappable Belts and Buckles by GM Xeraphina

Belts with buckles for every occasion, these scripted belts allow you to switch buckles out at will. That's not all, the buckles themselves can be altered to anything suitable as a belt buckle or worn as a pin. With In the Loop closed, will these be the waist-worn of choice moving forward?

Teaser: Discord

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Uncouth Wallflower Gowns by GM Thandiwe

Let everyone get to know the real you, LAUGH SNORT and all, at your next formal event with this new line of gowns perfect for those who attend parties to play with the kittens. Extremely customizable in a variety of ways, these offer something for everyone from a non-court lady to a trashy pirate.

Teaser: Discord
Main Post: The Uncouth Wallflower Gown announcement

Forager vasculum by GMs Elysani and Thandiwe

Store up to 30 stacks of foraged items in this stylish garden accoutrements, as well as your gloves and weaving snips. Not to worry, these also allow for some adorable interactions with friendly tiny garden companions.

Teaser: Discord

  • 750 soul shards, no unlocks.
  • Works with Imbue (614) sticks, grass, and bark.
  • Does not retain location information for Adventurer's Guild bounties.
  • Holds herbs.
  • Holds contents weightlessly.
  • Available worn on belt or slung over shoulder. Discord

Blood Red Hand by GMs Thandiwe and Mestys

These ferocious fingers are a real slap in the face! With four tiers and half a dozen verbs off-the-shelf, these customizable hands open access to a number of demeanor-based interactions. Leave your mark on the world, and the faces of friends and foes alike.

Teaser: Discord

  • Fingers and nails are customizable.
  • Pin-worn and non-functional.
  • Hides when worn.

Mandrake pet by GM Thandiwe

This new pet available as a rare prize from the herb hunt resembles an adorable plant toddler, and functions similarly to the fox pet and dragonfly pet.

Teaser: Discord

  • Mandrakes will attune to the character who first uses the whistle to summon it.
  • Available in 20 woods: canarywood, bloodwood, ebonwood, hawthorn, hemlock, holly, ironwood, illthorn, kingswood, lacewood, poisonwood, purpleheart, quaking aspen, rowan, tulipwood, wenge, witchwood, widowwood, wyrwood, and zebrawood.

Gold ring stamper boxes by GM Tamuz

Similar to scroll cutters and runestone carvers, these boxes will allow you to freely alter the long description of treasure system and chronomage-approved gold rings.

Teaser: Discord

  • Price on gold ring stamper boxes is 30 soulshards, they come with 50 charges off-the-shelf. They can be PERM-ified.

PeakyPants by GM Elysani

PeakyWear customizable menswear now includes pants!

Teaser: Discord

Hidey dagger harness by GM Xayle

Similar to the hiding sheath, these front-worn harnesses allow you to discreetly and not-so-discreetly carry small cutting implements.

Teaser: Discord

Weaving storage satchel by GM Valyrka

These new storage satchels offer a convenient way to store weaving components, tools, maybe half-finished projects? It will also automatically bundle your weaving items and allow for easy retrieval, but will only hold weaving-related items.

Teaser: Discord

  • You can store your belt with the tools in there, and when you are ready to work put on your tool belt, wear the satchel and now your hands are free to work. Discord

Monster-Headed Pauldrons by GM Thandiwe

This one is exactly what it sounds like. Available at the Two-Headed Dog, wear up to three customizable monster heads on your shoulder(s) with a variety of insults, taunts, and general mockery available for your perusal.

Teaser: Discord

  • Pauldron is 30, most unlocks are 30 and there is one that is 45.

Blacksmith's Companions by GM Netz

Rumors of a catalog of designs for smiths to add to their forged weapons? What a way to leave your (maker's) mark!

Teaser: Discord

Ear Candy by GMs Elysani and Elidi

These earcuffs and earcaps (for the pointy-eared among us) can be enhanced with gems and display in your features.

Teaser: Discord

The Terinan Collection of 5122 by GM Itzel

The collection comprises multi-tier, high fashion clothing and wares, drawn from the historical archives of the Terinan family. These wares work regardless of gender presentation. It's not all gowns...but there are gowns.

Teaser: Discord

Portable Darkboxes and Breath Mints by GM Vanah

Play the high-handed enemy with this portable take on the classic game of chance. Stock it with jaws or poisoned needles and "prizes" up to its capacity, and set your own price to play.
Also available, for use either as a prize or on their own, are new permifiable breath mints in a variety of flavors, and with a special treat for a kiss.

Teaser: Discord

Bloodletting Bowls by GM Avaluka

Use your fleams or lancets to draw blood from a willing companion to fill these bowls, which can then be applied to a variety of uses. Or smeared on your face.

Teaser: Discord Analyze: Discord

  • You can't kill people by drawing blood.
  • You can bloodlet yourself.
  • The feature altering aspect lasts four hours unless wiped off, and can be customized via GALD.

Mount naming potions by GM Haliste

These potions allow a handful of pre-determined names as well as an automated system for requesting custom names for your animal friends! These names will affect most messaging when interacting with your mount as well as providing a plaque to label their stall.

Teaser: Discord

  • Pre-set names are 1,000 soul shards and custom names are 2,500.

WerePuppy updates by GM Avaluka

New ambients on ships (interior and exterior), as well as interacting with held food and dead creatures. In addition, wind spells will now dry wet or bloody puppies, and a sneak peak at one of this year's pre-made options.

Teaser: Discord

Puppy clothes by GM Avaluka

The latest fall fashions for werepuppies, compatible with charms and available as a pattern for knitting needles, these bandanas, bows, and collars have been in nearly as high demand as the dogs themselves and have finally made it to the masses! Expect to see some dapper dogs and handsome hounds coming out of All Dogs Go to Naidem this fall.

Teaser: Discord

Diverse Drapes by GMs Elysani and Elidi

Unlockable gowns and attachable accent drapes which can be combined in a variety of ways, from veils to trains and bustles!

Teaser: Discord

  • Gowns and drapes are 50 soul shards each, the unlock voucher for additional gown verbs is 100.

Book Buddies by GM Wylloh

A brief vignette introduces us to these animated tomes, one with rolton legs and one with butterfly wings and finally one with tentacles. With five customizable fields, this special subscript can even be added to alchemy recipe books or planar shift runebook.

Teaser: Discord
Analyze: Discord

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News and Updates

2022-08-06

2022-09-08

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

2022-09-13

  • Thandiwe posted a poll to determine what will be teased first: Dog, Frost, Wallflower, Hand, Antiquarian, Sparkle, Board, or Bread. Discord

2022-09-15

  • Avaluka reveals a few new updates to puppies have already been rolled out, via vacation emoji-glyphics. Dog ship? Dog mage wind-blowing? Dog + Meat Man = Pleading? Dog + RIP Troll = Dog + Blood? Dog-owners, get out there and experiment! Discord
  • Xeraphina reveals that winged wear has been updated to allow for unlock via certificate! Discord
  • Xynwen announced that wand combiners, originally introduced at Ebon Gate 2007 have been updated to be used by any profession, with any wand, and more conveniently. Could that mean they'll be available for purchase? Discord
  • Xayle shared some art of a Doomicorn to tease the upcoming lore document, reminded us that a tobacco document is on the way as well, and let us know that these documents will be available off-the-shelf in-game. Discord
  • Foldable napkins and intestine balloons are now compatible the Origami system, although Vanah warns you won't learn from them. Discord
  • Cooking contest format announced, with entry form coming soon! [1] Entry Form

2022-09-16

  • Xayle and Vanah have updated lamp oil with some perfume-y improvements. New carrier oil to add scents to oil, permification for oils (with some restrictions for scents), and new ways to interact! And what's this? The first hints of a perfuminator? More coming soon! Discord

2022-09-17

  • Caerrigan shared some examples of the new lamp oil upgrades in action, and revealed that the oil lamps can now be placed AT FEET. Discord
  • Thandiwe revealed that the old friend we haven't seen in some time is Sylinar, who will be offering enhancive recharging and increasing max charges. Discord
  • Khorbin teased some messaging with the vague clue "possession is a word." Hmmmmm. What could the master puppeteer be up to? Discord
  • More emoji teasers from Avaluka! Dog necktie scarf. Knife hand blood into bowl. What could they mean? Discord

2022-09-19

  • Now Tamuz is getting in on the emoji game. "Coin ring gift" and we've managed to establish that gold rings are involved. Discord
  • Wyrom hints that Trick or Treat payouts are being normalized similar to Duskruin's bloodscrip payouts, so expect something closer to the 300 soul shard range! More information coming soon. Discord
  • Xayle is eating hearts at us, but I'm not sure what to do with this information. Discord
  • Elysani revealed that the Illegal Alter Clothing Line has been expanded to include five new options: Underworn, Hands, Feet, Arms, and Shoulder (not cloak). Discord

2022-09-20

2022-09-21

2022-09-22

  • Part two of the Denizens of Naidem!
  • GM Haliste shared a brief glimpse of something named Buttercup that you shouldn't drink. But what could it be? I wonder if you can LAUGH SNORT it... Discord

2022-09-23

  • Rare material offerings at the Antiquarian Mansion have been updated: Discord
  • Wyrom shared some details of the Newcropolis dungeon crawl: "It's going to be very similar to the Necropolis, but a new theme, removing some of the aspects that never got used while adding in new ones, and a new story that will unfold over the years. It will not be open day one of Ebon Gate, it will likely be available during the second half of the event." Discord
  • ...and shared the updated payout for the Arena of the Abyss, being increased to match the new Simucoin standard: "It will be 6 soul shards per creature, for a max total of 30 if you win. Similar to how Duskruin works. The other rewards are as is, no change." Discord
  • We learned about the fomorian last night, tonight we meet the coblynau, draugr, and korrigan in the latest installment of the Denizens of Naidem.

2022-09-24

  • Casil revealed that there will be 60 unique bugs available in Naidem. Discord
  • In a conversation about bustles, Itzel mentioned that at least one shop will have bustles which hold a very large amount available, for those who need the room. Discord

2022-09-25

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