Welcome to the Festival of Colors!
This is a Roleplaying and Creative Writing event that will run for two weeks (ending on 9/26/19 at roughly midnight EDT).
Write up an intro for your character at The Festival of Colors in Verdantia within any/all of the following scenarios:
• Your ADVENTURE! to Verdantia:
What’s happened on your travels?
Who’ve you ran into?
What was it like seeing Verdantia at long last?
• Things and/or people that you’ve come across in Verdantia:
See something you’ve only ever heard of?
Enjoying the sights?
See anything that you want to take home?
• Things you’ve seen or done during the Festival of Colors:
Eat or drink something strange and wonderful?
Run the Dye Dash?
Shop for new clothing?
Take a stroll through any of the gardens?
• Presenting your newfound Flora for judging:
What biome was the plant in?
Does it like a lot of water?
How much sun does it need?
Is it carnivorous?
Do you know of any uses it has?
Have you done anything special to keep it alive (if it did indeed survive) while traveling?
Once you’ve written an intro, feel free to join in on the RP in Verdantia's Discord server! Please post each of your Creative Writings here in this thread.
Points are awarded based on activity, creativity and how well your plant is judged (highly suggest you participate in the final scenario above).
1 point
for your intro post
1 point
for each Creative Writing(CW). Limit one point per day
1 point
for each day of activity (RP or new CW). New day starts at midnight EST
1 point
from each judge that grades your plant (final scenario) as passing their criteria
Prizes will be awarded at the conclusion of the event based on point totals. There will only be 3 winners, prizes vary as follows.
• If you’re bloodline+ and settled within the Duchy of Mytharbor:
First place: 6,000 EP
Second place: 3,000 EP
Third place: 1,250 EP
• If you’re Bloodline+ and not a resident of the Duchy of Mytharbor:
First place: 3,000 EP
Second place: 1,250 EP
Third place: 600 EP
• If you’re below bloodline:
First Place: An Orchard Kit for your home biome
Second place: One Seed Stacks
Third place: One Adventurer’s Pack
Prizes may be exchanged with any lower prize for the same place, for example if you’re bloodline+ and a resident of Mytharbor you could exchange the first place prize of 6,000 EP for an Orchard Kit of your home biome if you preferred.
Best of Luck to you and remember to have FUN!
Here's your setting:
Click for larger image. Map/Art Courtesy of Count Conklin.
Verdantia
Verdantia, known as the City of Infinite Blooms is located less than an hour walk inland from the Capital, Port Royale. Verdantia is one of the great Ironwood Cities, built in the great trees but also beneath their boughs, a mix of Kypiq and Neran architecture. Verdantia is renowned for producing fine fabrics (namely silk), dyes and clothing (most notably that of privateers). Outside the great forest-city, fields of many varieties stretch seemingly forever outward in a tapestry of riotous colors and patterns. Otterbarge ferries organized by one Mayor Speaka Man (something to do with empty barrels on loan from Mayor Chi Elenthiel's famous inn) depart Port Royale City regularly for those carting goods, beasts and large plants as well as those unable to walk, upriver during the festival.
The Festival of Colors
Verdantia hosts the Festival of Colors once but every 50 years. During this prestigious event fabric of all kinds and colors is draped over branches, walls and most every other surface not already covered in living, ever-changing kaleidoscope-mosaics of flowers. Merchants from across the continent (and rumored farther) set up stalls and booths hawking their wares exotic, magnificent, mundane and practical. Food and drink of all sorts can be found during the festival making the air (and sometimes the imbibers) as aromatic as the city is colorful.
Verdantian Gardens
The many gardens of the city are in their prime, offering quiet peace and privacy during the chaotic cacophony of sound and sights. Muting Grass and Pillow Moss line the paths and alcoves, made perfect for napping by the fuzzy Blanket Hosta leaves, among brilliant flowers, stooped shade trees and singing streams ever dappled in sunlight, starlight or moonlight. Songbirds warble peaceable melodies lulling those in need of rest into dreamscapes most vivid, while the Sentinel Shrubs keep watch and the Viper Vines keep all safe.
The Dye Dash
At the beginning of each new festival day, newly arrived visitors participate in the Dye Dash. Participants are given a plain white set of clothes and at the colorful blush of dawn they run through the city. Citizens and those who've arrived prior throw handfuls of powdered dye at the runners as they pass them along the road, underneath the living-root sky-bridges and from the many balconies. The run ends at the river where participants jump into the clear, cool, sweet water, setting the dye they've been covered in into the fabric. This brightly colored garment, if they so choose, becomes their festival attire for the remainder of the event as well as a keepsake souvenir.
The Main Event
The festival concludes with the judging of flora gathered from far and wide and near and narrow. This aids Verdantia in its mission to categorize, record and cultivate all flora and is the main focus of the Festival of Colors. Some tend to the flora they find in the wild for decades, learning and recording all they can about it until the time draws near for the festival, then they transplant it, transport it and submit it to the Judging of Flora.
So, welcome one and all, to Verdantia and to the Festival of Colors!
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