PREVIEW: Recurring events

[Earowo]

Inventing holidays is one way to raise the number of player-based events.

i think the best way to start holidays, is to start off with a celebration that only your guild does, on the same day each month\year ect...
eventually it would branch and the whole allience participates, and eventually more and more of the community starts celebrating and it can become a holiday
i think thats how things like easter and X-mas got started

[Nivm]

 Anything people remember as a symbol may become a holiday of some kind. Disasters, spectacles, old wars, ridiculously awesome people, or decent ideas.

[Hanix]

To answer the question of time is still not an easy task. That said, we have been working on this recently and it was decided that while keeping the IG day/night ratio, we would make the IG months spread over a real time 12 month period. As PS only has 10 months, there are 36 days to each PS month. By doing this players still get to experience day and night in PS but can still associate RL seasons and holidays with PS.
The months will be broken down as follows:

Unodin 1st April – 6th May

Byari 7th May – 12th June

Treman 13th June – 18th July

Kravaan 19th July – 23rd August

Quintahl 24th August – 28th September

Azhord 29th September – 4th November

Ylaaren 5th November – 10th December

Dwanden 11th December – 15th January

Novari 16th January – 21st Febuary

Yndoli 22st Febuary – 31th March

We hope that this is useful and that you can now start with seasonal events. This of coarse also allows you to use IG dates too.
Enjoy.

[LigH]

Apropos months, so I wonder which kind of seasons Yliakum may have ... or how much it would be "out of character" to call Unodin and Byari "spring". Due to the rather limited influence of outer planetary weather on the temperature inside Yliakum, the seasons may be rather weak, I believe, but according to the character generation page, there are still times of seeding and times of harvesting across the year.

[Xoel]

I still don't think the OSP should be put in that article, as it'd mean they'd have to have all their events planned a year in advance to fit on the page. This page is simply more of a basic guide to annually recurring events. Simple as that.

Excuse my use of two accounts.

[LigH]

I understand ... if this thread was planned for "fixed date" events, then they can indeed hardly fit in. "About monthly" is a rather vague concept, in contrast to such holidays.

[Roled]

Some Recurring Events to remember & list & include please?

The ANNUAL UNODIN FESTIVAL {near our 'spring' equinox}
See the Unodin and Second Unodin threads for all the many events in many locations the players organized and participated in. Attendance was terrific for the two Parades, the three 'religious society' service, the storytelling and singing performances and the market places.

The {every time we can make it happen } Saturday night DANCES and REVELRIES to Celebrate Xiosia
Held in Xiosia's Garden, sponsored by the Sons of Xiosia and the Daughters of Xiosia {SoX and DoX}

I certainly understand that one elf's night is another klyros' morning... time zone conversion is not RR's strong point.

So far each of these events has been player organized and run. If you are interested in participating, you are more than welcome! We see these kinds of events as a way to meet others, ease newer players into rps and build community around commonalities and interests. Who knows, maybe some baddies might not like the idea of such wholesome fun, and decide to do something about it.... 

Thanks for keeping these ongoing events in mind.

Yers,
Roled Rolak
Carrier of the Song
Sons of Xiosia

Proctor
Knowledge Seekers

[Hanix]

Adding these events to the official calendar is our next step. We certainly have not forgotten or ignoring them. In fact if someone can write them up and provide screenies i will happily add them to the calendar asap.

[Vakachehk]

I have an annual event that i will add in. It is rather serious and big, hoping for a massive outcome!!