TRICK OR TREAT?

[rubycitymods]

It's October, the leaves are turning, and the smell of PUZZLES and CHEESY HAUNTED HOUSES is in the air. What does this smell like? To put it simply: leaf mold and pumpkin spice. As the month wears on, the days grow dark and stormy, true to literature legend, and the finest (and only!) hotel in Ruby City shuts its doors, starting October 17th. It will be completely inaccessible until the 24th, when people who have been marked earlier in the month will find themselves drawn to it--with a complete inability to resist. The real Halloween fun begins here.

Upon entering, characters will find themselves in a random room of the hotel, decorated festively with jack-o-lanterns and colored streamers, in a style oddly reminiscent of a certain someone's harvest party. What happens after that...well, let's keep that a surprise.

WHAT ARE THE BASICS?

• This event is opt-in only. If you want to participate, comment below in the provided header!


• Characters will be organized into small groups of three by random--if there are any characters you would wish to not be paired with, let the mods know in your comment or by messaging the mod journal! This event will require some teamwork, so get your socialization muscles ready.


• Characters will face a series of puzzles and trials: a variety of different challenges will be presented, allowing different characters to show their strengths, whether they be mental or physical. Any powers that a character normally possesses will be briefly taken away: think of the hotel-turned-haunted house as a kind of lead box, where supernatural abilities cannot be accessed. In addition to this, characters will only possess what items they had on their person at the time of entering.


• A post will be set up on the ooc comm for some puzzle-solving between characters! Feel free to make plurks to set conversation up, as well--this will simply be a central point for collaboration.


• Need to phone a friend? No problem! Characters WILL be able to access their watches and communicate with the outside? Stuck on a riddle? We will set up a post for specifically event-based network posts, but you can also post to IC inboxes as necessary.


• More information will be presented on the event log going up on the 24th, along with groupings! Specific details will be withheld until then, but don't be discouraged from asking pertinent questions about the event itself below.

Merry Halloween, Ruby City! Stay tuned for an event log, an OOC collaboration post, and an IC network consolidation post all going up on the 24th! Again, any questions can be posted below. Have a great weekend, y'all!

OPT-IN FORM:

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Name(s) of Character(s) Opting In:</b> <b>Group Requests:</b> Just as a general rule, we're not grouping characters played by the same player together, but anything else will have to be specified here. We want to keep this as random as possible for CR opportunities, though, so keep this section to characters you absolutely would not want to be grouped with!