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Festival of Frost 2023

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Deadline: Feb 28, 2023, 3:59:00 PM Pacific Standard Time

Festival of Frost 2023

A vicious storm sweeps the Tarak Mountain range in northern Wyvera, collapsing frostrock tunnels and devastating mining towns. Bermaul, a small local trading hub, rallies a search and rescue force to scour the mountains for survivors and dig out the mine entrances.

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Welcome to 2023's Festival of Frost!

Whether you're putting our new Discord bot to work or roleplaying with friends or trading for raffle tickets with other players, we hope you manage to enjoy the cold winter!

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Festival's End

Thank you for participating in this year's Festival of Frost!

We've processed all of the artwork entries, but we'll allow RP redemption comments and trading/purchasing of Festive Boxes and FOF Raffle Tickets in the Discord server until March 5 at 6PM Pacific Time.

Afterwards, everyone who has signed up in the Discord server under the #FOF-Signups channel will have their bot inventory transferred to their PD account by an admin. You will not have to submit a request to do this-- if your name is in the signup channel we'll take care of it!

You will be able to submit your tickets to the raffles until March 11 at 6pm Pacific Time. Around that time we'll announce when we're live rolling the raffles in the Discord server.

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Discord Rescue Games

Join our Discord to earn baubles to buy raffle tickets and festive gift boxes!

-Role Income will be available once per day for a handful of free baubles. Click on the button provided in the bot's daily reminder to claim, or type "collect-income" with an exclamation mark before it.

-To trigger the bot's attention, add an ! before the following commands.

!work : This command will allow you to periodically aid the rescue efforts in exchange for baubles

!crime : This command will allow you to engage in some sneakery to take advantage of the crisis for a little extra money. But be careful! You may be caught and fined.

!money : Use this command to check your baubles.

!give-money : Use this command to transfer your money to another player. Type a number after the command in order to set the quantity.

!inventory : Use this command to check your inventory.

!store : Use this command to check items available in the store.

!buy-item : type the item name after this command to purchase an item.

 

For further questions, please ask in the questions channel of the Discord.

 

Your inventory and remaining baubles will be automatically transferred to your PD inventory at the end of the event as long as you have signed up with your PD account in fof-signups. You may not request a transfer to PD before that.

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Roleplay

The Festival of Frost roleplay forum is an informal, player driven event where you can receive rewards for roleplaying with friends! You may follow the weekly prompts or create your own storyline. There will be three weekly prompts, all released below so you can plan your stories.The FOF Roleplay forum on Discord will go read-only on March 1, and all further roleplay will have to be moved to the main Roleplay channels or into DMs.

You may roleplay in the special Discord FOF Roleplay channel or the Community Forums.

Each week that you are an active participant in at least one roleplay and make at least two roleplay posts, you may submit those posts to earn x5 FOF raffle tickets and a special prize.

SUBMIT FOR TICKETS HERE

Roleplay Hints + Tips

-Select a team leader who can push the story along if the team is lagging or make choices for the team if everyone is indecisive.

-Take some time to agree on the expectations for the roleplay.

-Make sure that you're not making choices for other people's characters without their permission, but don't be afraid to pitch ideas.

-We recommend team sizes of 2-5 people, but keep in mind that any art or writing submissions used for your main FOF entry may feature no more than 3 stryx to receive rewards.

-You may play on multiple teams, but please do not bite off more than you can chew!

Roleplay Team Form
Team Status: [“open” if you’re looking for more players. Edit to say “full” when you are no longer looking for new players.]
Roleplay format: [Art, writing, or both]
Roleplay length: (writing only) [single sentences, full paragraphs, multiparagraph]
Roleplay tone: [comedy, drama, dark, ect]
Looking for: [number of players, types of characters, ect]
Rules: [lines you do not want the roleplay to cross. For example, you can put “No death”, if you do not want any player characters or npcs to die during the roleplay. You can also specify that you do not want to play with antagonistic characters who get into fights with other characters to participate, or other rules.]
Notes: [Any other information you want potential players to know]

 

You may modify this template however you would like and add to or remove any part of the form. The roleplay groups are for fun and will not be monitored by the staff for compliance. The form is just to give you some parameters to build your group from.

RP Prizes

Week 1

1/16-1/23

-x5 FOF Raffle Tickets

Week 2

1/23-1/30

-x5 FOF Raffle Tickets

-x4 Frost Salt

Week 3

1/30-2/6

-x5 FOF Raffle Tickets

-x6 Water Geodes

Week 4

2/6-2/13

-x5 FOF Raffle Tickets

-x5 Frostrock

Week 5

2/13-2/20

-x5 FOF Raffle Tickets

-x2 Sapphires

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Creative Entry

You may submit one art entry during the event. It should be one of the best pieces in your gallery, we want to see quality over quantity! Take your time and make something that you’re going to be proud of. You may use your roleplay as a submission as long as it fulfills all requirements. You may have no more than three stryx per entry.

You have until 11:59pm UTC on 2/28 to submit your creative entry for this event.

Art

Fullbody

Colored

Shaded

Background relating to the event

Writing

1200 Words

Set during the event

Add 200 words per extra stryx

Rewards

x1 Pendant of Elemental Resistance- Ice

x10 FOF Raffle Tickets

x1 Festival of Frost Trophy (If your stryx already has this trophy, it will not be issued again)

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Festival of Frost Raffles

The raffles will be rolled in March after the event ends and all of the creative entries are cleared from the queue.

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Prompts

You may use the following prompts for roleplay or for the main art entry or both. You may also use any of the Discord Rescue Games prompts as jumping off points for your own work. If you would like to make a piece that fits with the event but isn't covered by any other prompts, feel free! Just keep the snowy rescue theme in mind.

Prompt 1

Storm-dark clouds hang low over the horizon, slowly consuming the peaks of the Tarak Mountains. The air is heavy with winter chill. Wind bites through the trees, howling through the forest like a wounded beast. The residents and denizens of the range go to ground, shuttering windows and bringing in wood, hiding deep in caves and burrows. You can’t outfly the storm. Thundersnow flashes glacial blue through the sky, the roar of it lost somewhere behind the wind. There’s movement in the corner of your eye– a figure struggling through the snow farther down the mountain. Will you risk your life to help, or will you retreat to safety as the storm bears down?

Prompt 2

The storm sweeps southward, its fury hobbled into petulant sleet as it leaves the Tarak Mountains. The heavy snow has destabilized the peaks. Ice and stone crack beneath the weight, collapsing tunnels and cliffsides and sending countless tons of snow flooding down the mountains. The avalanche snaps the trunks of great old trees, sweeps away generational homes, and obliterates landmarks. A sturdy cave to your right, a family struggling through the snow to your left as the snowslide roars above you. Can you save them in time to seek shelter?

Prompt 3

Towns and mines lay buried beneath the snow. A scattered handful of refugees brave the snowed out roads to try to reach the safety of Bermaul. Many others are trapped in collapsed homes and caves. The raw, churned up face of the mountain reveals tragedy at every turn. Windhounds trained for search and rescue snuffle through the snow while flighted stryx wait in the wings to serve as airlifts. Will you join the rescue efforts?

Prompt 4

Beaten down by storms, avalanches, cave-ins, and more, the people of the Tarak Mountains are battered and bruised but still breathing. A feast is cobbled together for the survivors in Bermaul. A time to grieve the lost and celebrate the living.

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