General Information

This competition is a small team role-playing competition. It will take place in a thread of the #rp-lobby chat on the Brotherhood’s Discord server. Each team is responsible for the creation and management of their RP thread; the DC and Exarch Staff are available to assist with any issues. Members are encouraged to write multiple posts throughout the event and to engage with the wider story as they see fit. The overarching goal is for the team to attempt to complete the objective given in the prompt below. Each team will have access to one [IC] and one [OOC] thread for the RP. All RP posts must go in the [IC] thread; coordination and discussion about the RP should take place in the [OOC] thread. Each main or alternative character used by a member of the team should have a snapshot attached to the RP following the instructions in the SA Roleplaying course. Teams are solely responsible for creating and managing their RP thread. Each team should select a single member to create its RP. Note that this event will award Envoy Society progression based on Envoy Marks (but not Golden Envoy Marks). In order to keep this event fair and fun, we have written a set of rules unique to this event. These rules are specifically designed to allow flexibility. Teams and Clans are expressly forbidden from asking members not to write.

Introduction

High in the snowcapped mountains of Elos Vrai, on Arx, lies a small village. Once a year, for Life Day, this village joins in on the heartwarming festivities. Giving of gifts, joining of hands, singing of songs, and, of course, a massive feast to celebrate their love for their community.

And once a year, for Life Day, this village is terrorized by a being they refer to as “The Krampus”. They do not know where he comes from, or where he goes, but every year on Life Day, he appears to cause mischief and mayhem for the small village—stealing of gifts, breaking of decorations, spoiling of the feast’s foods.

This year, the village has had enough. They are tired of the Krampus ruining their festive cheer! So they reached out to the governing body of Arx, The Brotherhood, for aid. Unwilling to expend its own resources, they’ve turned to freelancers to assist. You and a small team have been hired to travel to this quaint village for Life Day, as tantalizing bait for the Krampus to ruin all festive fun. How better to ruin the holiday than to ensure the visitors from out of town have a rotten experience!

Your job is to reach the village, aid the villagers in spreading as much holiday cheer you can, and prevent the Krampus from ruining it. How you do that is up to you. Only one rule…No disintegrations!

Rules

Grading will be done utilizing the official Fiction Rubric.

• Teams must have 2-5 members. They are not required to be from the same Clan.
  
• Each Team’s RP must be named using the following convention: “Life Day IV RO - [Team Name]” where “Team Name” is a unique name for the team. If we can’t find your RP thread, we can’t grade it!
  
• For participation credit, members must post a minimum of at least 500 words in their team [IC] RP thread. Members who post less than 500 words total will be disqualified. Posts may be edited as per the Edit Rules below.
  
• Teams must have at least two members meet the 500 word requirement to be eligible for placement.
  
• Members may write their alternative characters and NPCs into the RP in addition to their main characters. Snapshots must be provided, and the use of alts/NPCs must comply with all other rules of this competition but we will not pay any attention to loadouts in grading and realism.
  
• An author MAY send consecutive messages in order to complete one coherent “post.” Discord messages cannot exceed 2,000 characters, so multiple consecutive messages may be necessary for long posts – plan accordingly, and be sure to write your posts outside of Discord and copy/paste them into the application if you anticipate them being longer than a few hundred words. For reference, this bulleted list of rules is approximately 2,000 characters long.
  
• Authors anticipating the need for multiple messages can send placeholder messages that they later edit to fill in with sections of their post, to ensure that others do not interrupt a cohesive post.
  
• Posts may be edited or deleted at any time, but doing so may disrupt the flow of the RP and negatively impact your Team’s score.
  
• Teams may freely interact with, and do as they please, to any members of the other team descending into the Temple. Teams may also interact with any Brotherhood characters who might be present, but please use good judgment when writing other members’ characters.
• Once the RP is closed and processed by the Exarch staff, only one member of the team needs to submit the RP URL to the competition. It will auto add your teammates.