7th Annual Ball~A Little Bit of Everything~-100k+ giveaway

[MissusDolly]

INTRODUCTION
♥♥Welcome one and all...

Hello, I'm dolly14, the 6th Annual Ball's Wild West host, and now the event coordinator of the 7th Annual Ball. I see you've stumbled upon our little space. As you can see we have a little bit of everything, hence the title. We'd love for you to participate in some of our contests, but just be careful of the random hidden traps and avoid the fairy drinks because we aren't sure what they will do to humans. Also, you might want to stay away from the trolls, since they often love to torture humans. The dust bunnies won't harm you though, so at least you are safe in the library. ^^ Hehe... yeah it is a bit of a mess in here, but I'm sure you'll find some space on the ballroom floor to dance.

Want to help us out? Check out our planning guild here: 7th Annual Ball or you could donate to us by sending a trade to: Annual Ball mule! All help is appreciated.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

»Post1: Introduction
»Post2: 5 Golden Rules
»Post3: Once Upon a Contests
»Post4: Happily Ever Auctions
»Post5: Ball F.A.Q
»Post6: Heroes & Villains
»Post7: Affiliates & Links
»Post8: Reserved

[MissusDolly]

5 Golden Rules

●●Follow them or else.

1. Follow the TOS: This should be a given since you already agreed to it when you signed up. So, please follow the TOS or face the consequences.

2. No Flaming: Please refrain from being rude. We don't like it and neither does anyone else, so just don't do it.

3. Don't stretch the page: There is no need to stretch the page and it is just plain annoying. So, avoid large images, long quotes, etc. and we'll get along just fine.

4. No BEGGING: You won't get anywhere by begging and therefore you won't be getting anywhere with us. We too are trying to raise funds to give back to the community and so we can't help you, so just don't beg.

5. Do not QUOTE any posts of the first page. Why? Because it is rude and no one needs a reminder of what the first page looks like.

[MissusDolly]

Øŋœ Ũρộи ẳ Contests
▫▫There lived a beautiful princess...

Design-A-Mascot

Want to make a room of ours a mascot? Well than you've come to the right place, but what is a mascot you ask. Well it is simple a mascot is a drawing, cg, sketch, etc. that is a simple character. Such as for the sea you could have a pretty mermaid or for the dragon's nest, of course, a dragon. The sky's the limits when it comes to designing one, but of course some rooms have some guidelines, though don't let that hold you back.This is a drawing contest.

Directions: Design a mascot for one of the rooms. You can send up design one for each of the rooms, but you can not design more than one for a room. So, basically since there are 8 distinct rooms that gives you 8 possible chances to win. To enter the mascot you designed, fill out the following application and post it here:

[color=hotpink][size=15]I designed a mascot![/size][/color]
[color=darkblue][b]Username:[/b]
[b]Room(s):[/b]
[b]Mascot(s):[/b]
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The Fairytale Places

Library of Ancient Knowledge
The Crystal Caverns
The Dragon's Nest:
The Sea
The Town Square
The Castle
The Witches Tower
The Forest

Note: We do not want anything disney related as we are attempting to do general fairytales rather than actual fairytales.

Prizes

Prizes are subject to change.

Library of Ancient Knowledge: Choice of 25,000 or May Letter
The Crystal Caverns: 10,000 gold
The Dragon's Nest: 10,000 gold
The Sea: 10,000 gold
The Town Square: 10,000 gold
The Castle: 10,000 gold
The Witches Tower: 10,000 gold
The Forest: 10,000 gold

Magical Dice Roll

Directions: Roll a 10 by 10 dice. If you roll 12 or less, 85 or more, or a 13 then contact the Annual Ball mule by sending a message with the page number!

Prizes

12 or less: 2,500 gold
85 or more: 2,500 gold
13: 5,000 gold

Fairytales Avatar Contest

Directions: Come join in on the fun and tektek a fairytale avatar for the chance to win! You could be anything from a fairy to a pirate to a princess to a king. Whatever you want the skys the limits, but remember to keep in within the limits of fairytales otherwise the Seelie Queen will get you! Please refrain to three entries per person.

[color=hotpink][b][size=15]I'd like to enter![size][b][color]
[color=darkblue][b]Username:[b][/color]
[color=hotpink][b]Avatar:[b][/color]

Prize

Grand Prize: 10,000 gold + June Letter
Runner-Up: 5,000 gold

The Avatars

vidgamergal2: sanscrunp: Valiae #1: Valiae #2:

Lost Pages

Directions:Be the 1st on the said pages and you are a winner automatically. If you happen to be 1st one of the pages then message Annual Ball with the page number an you will get your prize! The last person on the certain pages will get a special prize! You could even win a May letter or an evolving item.

Pages

Page 5: 250 gold
---Winner: None
Page 15: 500 gold
----Winner: InnocentBlackShadow
Page 25: 1st post: 750 gold/Last post: 1000 gold
---Winner(s): chocolatecream123
Page 35: 1000 gold
---Winner: Jeffery Alteisen
Page 45: 1250 gold
---Winner: sanscrunp
Page 55: 1st post: 1500 gold/Last post: 2500 gold
---Winner(s): sanscrunp
Every 10 pages is increased by 250 gold.

[MissusDolly]

Ңäρρϊļỵ ξvзя Auctions
»»The end... or is it?

Hidden Objects Auction

Wanna help the ball? Well we are auctioning off some items in order to raise funds for the ball. All profits will go towards the purchasing of prizes for the annual ball's contests.

Thank You Letter For Feb 2008


Ends June 1st

Current Winner: Valiae with 7,100 gold // From Old Thread
Auto Buy: 50,000 gold (we wish...)
Highest Bid: 7,100 gold

Fill out the following and message the Annual Ball with your page number and you'll be listed!

[color=hotpink][size=11]I wanna bid![/color]
[color=#86bfd5][b]Username[/b]:
[b]Bid[/b]:[/color][/size]

[MissusDolly]

Ball F.A.Q.
٭٭What is the 7th Annual Ball all about?

Q)Who is running the ball this year and when is it?
This year Dolly14 is the host and she is super excited to be running the ball! Her two co-hosts are unfamiliar flying objects and La Patientia! We all can't wait to see how the ball unfurls and hope to make it especially wonderful this year! The ball will be held June 26th to June 29th.

Q)What is the Annual Gaian Ball?
The Annual Gaian Ball is an event made by and for the users of Gaia Online. It's about hanging out and having fun, RPing a bit and getting to know the other users in this huge community we call Gaia.

In 2003, Misao made the first ever Annual Ball. The admins were so impressed with what she'd done that they released the red rose corsage and black bow tie for her ball. Note that these were the first non-store items on Gaia ever!

In 2004, Misao refused to make the next annual ball convinced that the greed on Gaia was far too much to yield it. In light of that challenge, Setzer appeared. He made a topic in QnF calling for people to help out and make the 2nd Annual Ball. This year, instead of one host there were many each with their own distinct rooms. It gained so much popularity amongst the users that Setzer decided to ask for our own forum to party in. As some of you know, the answer was yes. This was the first time Gaia had ever opened a Forum up for a user run event. Really this ball is extraordinary. Not only that, but again the admins seemed to be impressed and decided to release the G-pins (much to everyone's surprise since we (the hosts) didn't think there would be ANY items involved.

In 2005, it was that time again. Setzer passed the torch onto Razumi Yazura to host the 3rd Annual Ball since Setz thought that it would be best to change the main hosts every year (a very wise decision). That year we developed a theme which was planetary. All the rooms were based off of planets, but they each had their own underlying themes. Again the ball gained popularity and of course we asked for a forum. But this time we were getting the mansion! This of course was the first and last time the mansion was going to be opened for a User event. No items this year, but it was still a HUGE success!

In 2006, the fourth annual ball was hosted in a guild since the admins didn't want to open up the mansion any more for the ball. Needless to say it was a quiet year that year, but it was the first ball that had a plot totally made by the users! Quiet but still a success and fun!

In 2007, Leyna hosted this year's ball and the moderators allowed the ball the have it's own forum for the 5th Annual Ball for the public to join in on the fun. The Ball's theme this year was Elements and it was quite exciting being able to make it public once more to a new generation of Gaians. It was a huge success and helped to open up the Ball to more people to help.

In 2008, with the Ball so successful as the year before everyone wanted to make this year's the biggest and best of them all. This year's host was chosen to be Freaksrus! Again for the 2nd time in a row the Ball was able to successfully gain a forum for the6th Annual Ball. The ball was able to gain new ideas with the publicity of the last year and the ball's theme was chosen to be Time Periods after a quick change. Despite being a previous theme chosen for the 2ndd Annual Ball all that participated had a ton of fun especially with a fun twist on the plot and the Ball's first time have it drawn out Manga style!

In this wonderful year of 2009 we plan to make the ball bigger than it has ever been! With more new people and more new ideas the ball has gotten off to a great start! The theme has been picked this year to be Fairytales and so many can't wait to see how everything with unfold!

Q)What is this years theme?
This year's theme was chosen to be Fairytale places, which include:

1) The Castle
2) The Sea
3) The Swamp
4) The Witches Tower
5) The Forest
6) The Town Square
7) The Secret Cave

[MissusDolly]

The Heroes
The good...

Wanna be our hero? Well, basically this is our version of the white list. You can be placed here if you are a regular or if you are an extraordinary, hero/heroine for the thread.

None Yet

The Villains
The evil...

So, you want to be a villain eh? Well if you're really bad you'll get placed here and that is not something to be proud of because this is the black list. That means you are forbidden from joining in on any of our contests.

None Yet

[MissusDolly]

Affiliates & Links
♪♪Check out these threads and link us...

Our Links
We'd love it if you'd put one of these in your signatures. If you make us one just message Dolly14 and she can add it to our list!

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Our Affiliates
Want to affiliate with the ball? Message Dolly14 with a link and/or image to your thread and she'll add you to the list! Remember if you are here you have to link the ball in your thread/guild.

[PinkuBunny]

sup dolly (:

[MissusDolly]

The castle is now open to all prom goers!

*Makes her entrance into the grand ballroom.*

[MissusDolly]

Hey there! You found our new location. ^-^ Hopefully we can get more people here than in the chatterbox. Everything there moves so fast. D=

[PinkuBunny]

oh yeah!
Chatterbox, is full of chatter X3
hehe.
I hope more people come to this thread.

[MissusDolly]

*twirls about the ballroom*

[MissusDolly]

PinkuBunny

oh yeah!
Chatterbox, is full of chatter X3
hehe.
I hope more people come to this thread.

Well I think the ball hangout best fits in here especially since it is masquerade themed and the ball's theme is fairytales, so kinda like masquerade. And I sure hope more people come visit us. ^-^

[PinkuBunny]

oh is it, I don't think my avatar fits that theme, I am just a ram.
D;