Becoming the Masque[Comments]

[Rigwyn]

Please consider a place on a different, smaller map with less details ... like, maybe, the backyard of the House Purrty, would this be too small? Or the East gate place?

As someone who was not around for the RHOP but heard of it, it would be an interesting experience to see this backyard and perhaps learn a bit about its sub-setting ICly. It might even add some color to the event and help to rekindle some of what you guys had. I have heard/read about how you RP'd having a palace and such with its servants, rules, required etiquette and so on and think that perhaps spreading that sort of creative RP might a good idea...  Again, just my two cents.

[Illysia]

A Ball would imply, to me, an evening of dancing with musicians playing. My guess is that it is derived from Ballroom Dancing.

Due to the fact that the event is to stretch over a couple of days is it meant more like a Mardi Gras type of event? A Ball would imply, to me, an evening of dancing with musicians playing.

Perhaps it is not only me who is confused as to what to expect?

- Nova

More than likely ball room dancing came from balls, but point taken. The plan is for dancing, music, and selling. It will be something like a little festival. There will be places for vendors near the ball area and people will be able to use it before the ball starts. The ball itself will be held over 3 days but it will only officially last for a portion of  each of those days. The idea is to provide an event but to also leave room for others to do stuff as well. As far as wiki articles go, Masquerade Ball would be more fitting although not an exact fit due to Yliakum's settings.

Since this is an RP promotion event rather than just an event for an event's sake, the main focus is actually giving the player base something new to talk about and interact with. In my experience, one of the great ways to kill an RP is to run out of things to talk about or do... So hopefully, this will spawn RPs and people will have fun later when the actual ball happens.

As someone who was not around for the RHOP but heard of it, it would be an interesting experience to see this backyard and perhaps learn a bit about its sub-setting ICly. It might even add some color to the event and help to rekindle some of what you guys had. I have heard/read about how you RP'd having a palace and such with its servants, rules, required etiquette and so on and think that perhaps spreading that sort of creative RP might a good idea...  Again, just my two cents.

Someone can organize a side event to take place there if they want. Maybe a poetry reading in Lolitra's honor or something.

[LigH]

@ Rigwyn:

The house is located at the Guildhouse Square in the East quarter, just down the ramp, below Xiosia's garden, where Murago Puntjal and Terea Lohdren have intellectual conversations.
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I believe the whole lower part of East Hydlaa would make a great alternative location. With a little luck we could even have Roya Vuntarr sing with us if we support her with musicians. Only Uri Djho-Maat may be annoyed by the "noise".

[novacadian]

For precaution's sake and the safety of the guests: Guards

It's likely that the ball mask may become the latest fad; leading to removal of the hoods on many of the more fashionable rogues. 

- Nova

[Candy]

For precaution's sake and the safety of the guests: Guards

It's likely that the ball mask may become the latest fad; leading to removal of the hoods on many of the more fashionable rogues. 

- Nova

I've got a character that already disguises herself better than a hooded cloak. Keep saying I need to play her more...xD

[Tessra]

Just a note, The Adani have been asked by someone, I have no idea who XD, to act as guards, and we would be happy to provide RP assistance to try and keep the peace at the ball. 

[IkonRevisions]

Who would make better guards than the SPC, headed by an adorable Menki General?   

Anyways, hope to make it to the event a bit. Should be possible as I will be all moved by then... I know I am always moving to new countries but the UK is lucky to have me for several years this time around!

Hope to see the good rp environment, maybe if good it will spur on more larger rp events to be organized.

-Ikon

[Illysia]

Hello Everybody, thanks for the great support and sorry for the slowness on my end... Unfortunately, I have had several school projects tie up my time more than anticipated and one major project meltdown. Hopefully I will be able to get these matters resolved and then I can devote more time to the event and developing it.

[Aiwendil]

Hello Everybody, thanks for the great support and sorry for the slowness on my end... Unfortunately, I have had several school projects tie up my time more than anticipated and one major project meltdown. Hopefully I will be able to get these matters resolved and then I can devote more time to the event and developing it.

• first RL in general
• the other gender
• family
• school/job
• friends
• ......a very long list of other stuff that is important....
  ...
  
• .....even more stuff.....
  ...
  
• a virtual event in a fantasy game

Seriously, deal with the important things first. (and no, no smacking of me now because said your event is unimportant..I just said your school is far more important)


So, if anyone has troubles reaching Illysia but needs something for the ball feel free to send me a PM instead (or a /tell in game or a /query in IRC). A few things I might be even able to handle without her. And if not I will try to get in contact with Illysia and forward your message. I know I don't posses the grace, eloquence, manners and female charm of her but I promise I won't bite (Wouldn't work anyway...you know, we bitter oldbies lost all our teeth already years ago. Lets see how bitter you get if for years the only you get to eat is soup... ) *rolls his eyes then mutters* Okay, I promise I won't bite and restrain myself from using any sarcasm if replying to you.

Who would make better guards than the SPC, headed by an adorable Menki General?   

Aww...but in this case the order clearly won...mainly because our chars already met some of them. (And Caraick working as guard in the Den made the OOC dealing a lot easier. He knows already what I expect from guards like only RP fights and when to start acting so can easily explain this to his guild mates. I know relying on such OOC things is not very nice for planning events but less than two months for organizing such a ball are just not enough to spend weeks of hammering the rules into the guards)

[Candy]

I'm definitely looking forward to the ball, but it seems I've been having some trouble with my client. I'm waiting to update at present - hopefully this will help it run smooth, but just as a heads up you might need a backup bartender. I'll keep you guys posted.

EDIT: After some updating it seems to be working okay, here's hoping my computer(s) can handle the ball!

[Aiwendil]

Just a few short reminders for merchants at the Ball:

Don't forget to bring some change. Worrem Dhoshi next to the library exchanges money free of charge. Just give him one circle then switch to the NPC-chat tab and type "tria" to get 250 tria in return. Works with Octas and Hexas too. For small amounts of money that is for sure a better deal than paying at the bank for exchanging money.

As the merchant market takes place also during the ball make sure you read their "rules" and comply with them. We might be not as strict as them...but the area has a lot of items already so in case of players complains about bad performance the first thing that must go are too many items on display. ;)

The stalls are for everyone (except the one with the barrels. That one we need for the event). You can't reserve a stall. The player who comes first gets the stall..even if it was used by another player the day before. In the unlikely case of all stalls being used feel free to just setup your own in the merchant area. But please be reasonable with the place of your own stall...not in the middle of the pillow area and even less on the dance floor.


For all players:

Please dismount. And best also dismiss your mount to not have too many 3d objects at the ball area.

Please restrain yourself from spellcasting. No need to kill performance for everyone around that area.

No clue how many people will come...but if we are lucky and get a few people to gather it might be best to include the name of the person you talk to in your chat-lines (like /me looks at xxxx and says "..."). That way it's easier to keep track of which lines are meant for you.

No shouting. Seems the community sees this "rule" much more relaxed nowadays...but I do not. ;) Exceptions are of course merchants and artists on stage. But I would like to ask merchants also to keep their advertising in /shouts to a minimum. For artists on stage I think every single line they do should be in a /shout to deal with the limited saying-range in PS. So even stuff like "/shout /me bends forward and whispers to the audience. "..."" should use /shout so that everyone is able to follow the performance.


And the most important...have fun.

[Illysia]

I'd like to add to what Aiwe has posted and remind Merchants that there is also the auction tab for this very reason. You can advertise there. Please leave the auction tab for advertising though and converse in other tabs.

[Illysia]

If everyone that attended the event but forgot to sign up could sign in the guestbook thread, I'd be appreciative. If you don't have a forum account or you have a friend that came but doesn't have an account, could you also please work together and find people with accounts to sign in for that character? We had a great turn out for the ball and I'd like to keep record of that.

Even now, people go forum diving and read about events long passed. Wouldn't it be cool if 5 years from now people saw your character's name?

[derula]

Please refrain from inviting me to participate in any possible future event of yours. The great efforts I put in my RP might be nice for others to have some fun hours, but to me it means part of my life wasted and, in the end, nothing left but tears. Thanks in advance for compliance.

[Illysia]

Ok, sorry to hear that derula.