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 Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 2:24 pm
Updated July 29th! heart
(I'll update the intro shortly. The daily summary is good though.)
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The dew was settling on the crystallized flowers as the King and Queen of Dreams descended the spiral staircase. Hope permeated the air, or perhaps it only permeated the minds of the royal couple as they watched the dreaming Gaians enter their domain. As the guests approached the palace, they were greeted with sweet sonatas played by a small elfin orchestra atop an outside balcony. Lavishly dressed people and creatures twirled around an ivory dance floor while pink bubbles hovered overhead. Golden lamps on the brocade walls gave a sense of warmth to the space, as if to say, “All is well.” The Eternal Masquerade continued much as it always had, giving little time or thought to the decay outside its walls. A masked goblin in red flirted with the cunning harlequin, the keeper of the keys whispered in low tones to the steadfast guard, and no one took much notice as strangers invaded their midst. All dancers knew of the dangers they faced, that their world was slowly turning into empty crystals and hollow glass; but, all felt it was better to forget their woes in the romance and mystery of the moment. However, when faced with the reality of visitors, the realm’s inhabitants were suddenly forced to snap out of their magical reverie, if even for a moment.
Day 1
The room is slowly freezing over with crystal as the guests notice as they enter the dream. At first, the cast seems mysterious and stand-offish, but they break the ice by begrudgingly asking the guests for help. They start exploring different parts of the castle grounds for clues. Meanwhile, Giselle is in the library, trying to find a spell book that will make the perfect shade of lipstick for her, when she comes across an old tome that looks promising. There will be mysterious sayings on it, and the guests will be led to believe that that book holds the key to healing rose, and thus, the dream. However, when Giselle tries to perform the spell, things go from bad to worse. Swarms of spiteful ice pixies start attacking everyone, accelerating the cold. Everyone tries to stop the pixies, and finally, another spell from the book puts an end to their rampage. However, the damage has already been done, and the room is starting to feel even colder and icier.
Day 2
Everyone is still trying to recover from the pixie attack, and now everyone is wary about trying spells from spell books. Still, with the time limit approaching, they decide to keep trying new things. That spell is still bothering Giselle, so she messes with that book, only to find that a false cover had been put on it by Caliban. Caliban takes a bow, and is rather proud of his little prank, and seems not to care about the imminent doom to come. Randomly in the middle of the day, someone from the school dream will magically appear with a satchel of books. The plot device for the random entrance is on the school side, so we don't have to worry about it too much. The newcomer will be dressed as a student, and be frightened at the new world at first, but then be delighted to find out that magic still exists since it seemed to be disappearing in her world. Brom will offer a traveling spell that he used in combat, and the school dream girl will be transported back. However, a book will be left behind. It will be cookbook (or some other random book) on the outside, and at a closer look, it will actually have powerful spells in it, including the real one to heal the rose/dream. However, the spell is long and complicated, and there will need to be many different ingredients to make it work. There will be a riddle game and quests to decipher the spell, and to collect the ingredients. This quest will wrap up in the morning of day three.
Day 3
Once everything has been collected and all of the riddles have been solved, the king and queen will recite the spell to restore the rose/dream, and it works! Instantly, the world will be much warmer, and it'll feel like spring again. Everyone will have their masks back that were missing (if we use that plot point). We'll have a celebration, and random fun. Everyone will have gotten to know each other well by this point, so the cast will be more willing to open up and be themselves. They're also not downers because of the curse anymore. At some point, the king (and others?) will go to the school dream, and will dress up in a girl's school uniform. Back in our room, Mayura gets fed up with Brom's wisecracks and snide remarks, and explodes on him! Much hilarity ensues. heart
*At some point, sailor sunburst will be sent over to the school dream to assist in their plot. Malomy thinks it'll be sometime on day three, but that's still to be determined.
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 1:00 pm
Characters
broken_bleeding_angel LilChibiusa Character: Lunae Age: appears to be in early 30s Characteristics: She's impulsive, easily excited, and has all sorts of wild ideas. While this in and of itself might not be bad, be is easily upset when her plans don't come to fruition. She tends to make snide remarks when perturbed, and stomps on her husband's feelings in such instances. However, when she's not not upset, she enjoys gardening and socializing. She once tried to learn how to play the flute, but was terrible at it. Naturally, she gave it up after a couple months of practice. While these hobbies might seem innocent enough, she also has long had an unofficial hobby, man-watching. She sometimes not-so-secretly admires hot guys she sees, and unashamedly hits on them, even when her husband is present. She's a huge believer in the magic of love, and often wonders if loving multiple guys will make extra magic. As for her relationship with her sister, the Sandman, it's a bit complicated. She loves her sister, and her sister loves her back, both both bicker and argue whenever they are in each other's presence too often. They figure that the best way to maintain a good relationship is to give the other one plenty of space. iNk_mAy Clip. Clop. CLip. clop.
A figure emerges fromt he shadows shuffling a deck between hands before whisking them away as if they were nothing.
"Well greetings m'dear and welcome to the Masquerade. Where all don masks. Some mask there feelings, other themselves. But all in all a great mysterious air about them...But come let us join the others and pray not stray."
The figure stands at good height and why should he not? He is a centaurian Harlequin. His hand gathers around your shoulder and leads you back to the dance floor.
All the while he is tucking your silken shawl into his sleeve with a playful smile. Name: Caliban Rocinante Fernst Age: ??? Appears to be in twenties, though being masked and a centaur it is often times hard to tell. Gender: MaleRace: CentaurPersonality: Mysterious, flirtatious, trickster...Enjoys a good joke, as well as women and wine. Though in truth he has had his eye on a particular member of court for some time. Despite his suave demeanor he falls to pieces around her. Pay attention to find out whom! While he may seem confident he is at heart merely an actor. Once outside of a performance he is rather clumsy and shy. Role: Entertainment of course and occasionally troublemaker...I am the Court Harlequin after all. Weaknesses: Has sticky fingers, doesn't know when enough is enough, a certain woman, when he is upstaged, intelligence... GalateasFire Name: Brom Wyvernbane Age: ??? Appears to be in early thirties...like most fey is pretty much immortal Gender: Male Race: Fey, Faerie, Sidhe Personality: Snarky, with a dark sense of humor... incredibly loyal to those he serves (especially his brother and sister-in-law) but doesn't have much time for outsiders. Doesn't have time for nonsense. Is a little bit of a man whore. Arrogant and very sure of himself. Role: Captain of the Guard, Protector of king and queen Weaknesses: Maybe a little overprotective and doesn't give people the chance to prove themselves...a little harsh and doesn't hold back. Brother to King Summanus and brother-in-law to the queen Lord Marshal Or Captain of the Guard to his brother, he is the younger of the two and grew up knowing he would serve his brother during his reign. Trained by the best weapons masters and strategists he has combat, battle and leadership experience and has more than earned his title. He is fiercely loyal to his brother but rarely makes that known. He is a gruff, grouchy fellow that is suspicious of anyone outside of his circle of friends and appears to be cold and unfeeling. He is intelligent and well educated but chooses to act and appear of a more simple nature to better get along with his men. He hates when the kingdom has visitors because he worries for his brother's life and the current circumstances have made him even more on edge and grouchy than usual. Because of his outward attitude it might seem that he may have something to do with the King and Queen's situation. They do not have any children and in the case that they die (and the kingdom is not destroyed) he would become king. He is good friends with most of the castle regulars, best friends with one of them and maybe hostile with one of the others? I wouldn't mind him finding romance during the event either. He is snarky and can easily be the "bad" acting guy that pisses everyone else off...at least until they need his help. My profile My username is GalateasFire, Galatea from the Pygmalion story...I am 28 years old and I have helped with the Annual Ball in very minor rolls for the past two years. I am an RP beginner but I love developing characters and backstories. I love to draw and read and I will be going through the ball as Therian Grey, one of my own characters and a mule account on Gaia. Mademoiselle Alvinette Character name: Giselle Age: appears to be in early 20s Characteristics: Giselle is a goblin sorceress who is a lady-in-waiting/protege of the queen. She is highly intelligent and can cast all kinds of complex spells, and she collects spell books. She devotes more time and attention, though, to her true passion: fashion design. She greatly values and appreciates beauty, and she takes care to make sure she looks presentable at all times. Her refined manner makes some think that she is aloof or perhaps snobbish, but she has a good heart and tends to see the beauty in everyone. She loves fine music, art, and poetry, but also has a secret stash of cheap romance books. She secretly has a crush on a certain roguish centaur, but is afraid that he would make a fool of her if he ever found out, so she tends to be more reserved around him. sailor sunburst a young fairy who is kind of like the queens hand maiden/servant. she's a great singer though, and the queen would often ask her to sing for her. maybe we could give her a twist? like, her singing is magic in some way? or she could come up with songs that hold clues to what the guests have to do to fix the garden? *Added from the last chatango meeting -is usally only friendly with those who actually know her and she feels comfortable around. the queen is one of those people -my character. grew up being friendly with the queen. it was her when they were little who taught my character, who i am naming mayura, how much she loved singing and that she was good at it. mayura is pretty much the personal songstress to the queen as a well a friend. GreenInkling Ernestine - The keeper of keys A mysterious lady, no one knows from whence she came though she seems to take quite an interest in the legends of the land, generally a good person, but who believes that nothing ever comes without a price
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:09 pm
Games Day 1- We will have a riddle game with about 10 riddles about obscure European fairy tales and or fae type lore or mythology. We need someone to write these. They need to be hard, but clear and precise enough that there couldn't be another acceptable answer for them. This riddle game will coincide with the plot, but end up being a failed attempt at healing the roses/room. *Guests will PM their answers to whoever has riddle duty, and that person will send the next riddle. The first three to win all 10 will receive prizes, and the game will end. - The riddle game from before will backfire and create a plague of ice pixies that will swarm the room. It will probably involve dice or random numbers to successfully whack them. I would go with something like roll one one-sided dice, and get a one to successfully whack one. All participants must be roleplaying for their roles to count. Any rolls that are bumps or emoticons will not count. Then, at the end of the specified time limit (one hour perhaps), the totals of each of the participants will be counted, and the top five pixie whackers will will gold or prizes. *We will keep tallies of each successful hit through the pages. When the time is up, we will announce the five winners. Day 2- There will be cryptic riddles (about four or five) for everyone in the room to solve together in the thread. Once solved, the people in the room will go on a scavenger hunt together to find the item. Each item that is found will have a little mini-game that will yield prizes. These will be determined in the next meeting. Sun MaskAs the group approached the mask of the sun, a fierce grunt made them come to a halt. Looking up, they saw a rather disgruntled looking stone gargoyle sitting on top of a pedestal. "Get off of my lawn!" he yelled at the guests. Puzzled by the gargoyle's strange request, though the floor of the garden labyrinth could technically be called a lawn, one young guest said, "Please let us past. We need to get the mask of fire so we can save this world!" The crotchety gargoyle hesitated a moment and grinned. "Sure," he said, "I'll let you past if you pass, but only one of you. You see that stone ball at my chains are attached to. Whoever can come closest to knocking that ball from its bindings may enter. After that, I have a little surprise for the person who enters," he said with a devious grin. *Guests will take turns rolling a 20 sided dice, and whoever rolls closest to 20 enters. Then, whoever enters has to answer an easy "joke- riddle" by the gargoyle who is then thoroughly embarrassed. You then free him from his pedestal, and he can go play around with the nymphs. Moon MaskThe guests ventured out into the enchanted castle forest looking for the mask of the moon. Thanks to the maps that Brom thought to bring, the guests had no trouble at all finding the location of the mask. It was fully visible from the flowery branches that held it in an ornate woven pattern high in the tree tops. "Wow..." one guest said, "Who is going to climb that thing?" After no one volunteered, an elegant wood nymph appeared from the tree. "Here for my mask?" she said with a sweet smile. "I'm always happy to oblige good people like yourselves; but, before you take it, could you do a favor for me? It has been so long since I have heard a chorus sing sweetly as one. It's one of the things I have missed most since becoming a guardian. If you would be so kind as to sing for me, I'll gladly give the mask to you." *The guests all have to post themselves singing in the same minute for it to count or else it will be out of synch. All guests at that time will receive some random, inexpensive item. I'm expecting about ten people winning these items. Star MaskHalfway through the maze of flowers the group came upon two doors made up entirely of butterflies. A large bull frog sat on top of each door, and peered down as the guests with glee. "Oh good! I remember this test from a movie!" one of the guests yelled out. "One of those doors will lead me to me to the goal and the other towards certain death, and one of you only tells the truth while the other only tells lies, and I can only ask one question, right?" Both frogs stared quizzically at that guest, and said, "What? Where did you get that from?" before muttering something about that guest being crazy under his breath. "No, no!" the other frog piped up, "That door to the left leads to the Star Mask, and the door under me leads to banana pudding! It's up to you which prize you seek." "So which one of you lies?" that same guest asked. "None of us, you twit!" said the frog on the left. "Alright, since you are so eager to make up your own rules, let me just give them to you. I will give you a description of something, and if you can guess it correctly, you will get your prize. The only catch is that everyone in the group has to guess once before being able to guess again. And, please, post your guesses in this thread so no one will make the same mistakes over and over." "So, no, certain death?" said the guest. "No, but you can also try for the pudding if you want. All you have to do is guess my brother's favorite color." Here's the description: They dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings Depending on the region from which accounts of they stem, their appearance varies greatly; may be ugly and slow-witted or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristic about them. Sometimes associated with particular landmarks, which at times may be explained as formed from one of these creatures being exposed to sunlight. The equivalent being in Shetland and Orkney folklore is known as a "trow". Day 3- One or two of the aforementioned scavenger hunts will take place on this day. The world will be healed, and Broken will go traipsing off into the school dream to wear a girl's school uniform. We don't have anything big set for games on this day, but we can wing it if needed. wink ContestsArt Contest- People will submit art of our characters and or of our world. The voting will start on Sunday, and there will be prizes for the top three winners (ie 1st, 2nd, and 3rd) King and Queen Contest- People will submit their avatars for the King and Queen of the ball. These are due by 6AM Saturday morning for the first round of voting. They must use their own avatars and not random tekteks. They may only enter once, and will not be allowed to enter again in other rooms under penalty of disqualification. The winners from each room will move on to be voted on for the King and Queen of the Ball. Writing ContestGuests will respond to a writing prompt given. They will PM their entries, and there will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. Queen's PotionsGuests will PM LilChibiusa their guess of how to combine three of the seven ingredients, with one guess per guest per day. A list of winning combinations and prizes will be listed here. Giselle's Crossword PuzzleMademoiselle Alvinette will be managing a crossword puzzle, housed in an empty guild (or the sloth one from last year) Caliban's SecretInk will bold one letter per post to make up a sentence for the guests to put together to solve his secret. We will tell them how many letters are in the sentence, not including spaces, but we won't tell them how many letters or spaces are in it. When the guests think they have it, they will PM their answers to Ink. Here are two possible messages: Sammanus messed up the book Mayura was reading. Caliban will propose to Giselle.
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:07 am
Suggested Pricing King and Queen (six prizes, I think, three for male, three for female, not sure?) 300k Art Contest (1st, 2nd, 3rd) 300k Writing Contest (1st, 2nd, 3rd) 300k Crossword Puzzle (25 small prizes, possibly 10k gold) (I'd handle those trades, btw if you need) 250k Caliban's Secret (one prize of a moderate level) one of those MCs you bought Queen's Potions (8 to 10 of varying levels, with one really nice one like an MC or something) 300k plus one of those MCs you bought Pixie game (5 winners, equal prizes) 250k Riddle Game (3 winners, equal prizes) 300k Scavenger Hunt Mini-Games (3 winners, different prizes) 300k ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.3 million plus those two MCs
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Summanus The Dream King Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 1:29 pm
Prizes Held on Chibi's Account Items for the Queen's PotionsFairy Grove Northern Starlight Romantic Dreams Air Evening Star Sister Bed Hair Der Sandman Morpheus Perfect Balance Echeresque Fatale Monstrum ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pixie Game - 5 Winners250k gold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scavenger HuntGargoyleForty Winks LabyrinthLa Jolie Dormeuse Joyful Dreams Nymph100k _______________ 800k Reserve ------ 20k
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:23 pm
Prizes Held on Other Accounts Mademoiselle Alvinette250k (25 prizes of 10k) iNk_mAyForgotten Reverie GalateasFireher own items sailor sunburstnone broken_bleeding_angelPrizes for King and Queen Prizes for Art Prizes for Writing
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