Community The White Elephant of Hyroth [Christmas Event 2024]

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This follows a group of adventurers who have come to visit the village of Hyroth many know this village for the Velstar festival which celebrates peace but recently, thesocial sensation called a White Elephant has taken the village by storm once again. As the weather from the north is rolling in and the snow covers the grounds many are celebrating in their homes and in public gatherings.

Setting:
Location: The Village of Hyroth
Time of Day: 8 pm
Weather: Snow covered ground, cold, windy, nighttime
OOC: Please include links to your character sheet in your first post!

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Eris Granstone

B Grade Character

Titles: Human, Priest, Holy Smiter, Hero of The Fae See, Mage, Fae, Spirit of the Battlefield Ally F, Faculty of Celestine F, Ordained, Mundane, Spellweave

mentions: SilverFeathers

Abilities/cooldown/Actions

Notes: 24 hour upon being pinged for the event to post or you will be given a random gift

The snow was covered in snow, and the moonlight on this clear night reflected off the snow covering the ground. Many of the townspeople gathered outside of homes wrapped in warm clothes, singing songs of joy about the changing seasons. In this town, there sat a tavern. Not a dirty, country bumkin tavern, but a warm, clean, and festive tavern. Many of the townspeople who were not out singing were at the many tables enjoying a drink or two.

Along with a regular sensation, a new drink had been made in this tavern called eggnog with brandy added to it. Many of the townspeople enjoyed the drink so much that many were drunk. Several of them in the tavern even started singing drunk songs that echoed through the tavern.A gentle cold breeze blew through the village as many people made their way to the tavern, the snow kicked up and lifted off into the air. Children threw balls mad of snow at one another chasing the other throughout the town. A few of them even got ambushed by another group of kids doing the same thing. So started the great snowball fight of Hyroth, which was talked about for several months afterwards.

In this tavern, a private room had been reserved and there was plenty of food on a large table at the center of the room. Against the far was a grand stone fireplace which kept the room warm along with some logs to add to the fire when it started to dim down. Between the fireplace and the table was another long table with various boxes on it and a top hat. Eris stood at the side of the long table with all the boxes. Inside the boxes were gifts that the people attending had brought for the event. There were various colors, such as red, yellow, blue, magenta, black, brown, green, orange, pink, tan, sky blue, red orange, and royal blue, white, charcoal, black, Deep Gray, Hot Pink, and crimson.

Eris smiled as the many people were seated at the table, a large keg of eggnog was placed at the end of the large feast table. The keg was filled to the brim and more could be brought out if ordered. The priestess cleared her throat as she picked up the top hat that was on the table. "Greetings friends and strangers! Or well you really all are strangers to me but who really cares?" Eris inquired with that child-like smile on her face as she paused for a second. "Welcome to the White Elephant, you all have brought your gifts up to the table and now that the food has arrived, we shall begin with the main event!" Eris exclaimed as she raised her voice she let out a small giggle as she realized her mistake.

"So let me tell you how this new social gathering works, I will draw a piece of paper out of this hat with each of our names on it. That person will then come up here and select a gift from one of the box and they will then show it to the group. I will then draw another person, the second person has the option to pick a gift from one of the boxes or steal the a gift from someone else." Eris explained as she looked around at the group for a moment.

"That is the name of the game! Pretty simple right? Well the people in this village think so! Well without further to do shall we begin?" Eris Inquired as she shook the hat around a few times mixing up the names. "Very well the first person up is......drum roll please." Eris paused momentarily to see if anyone would do it before continuing. "Oden!" She called out as she pulled the paper out of the hat showing it to the group.

 

[SilverFeathers]

Oden (#ACA9A7)​

tl;dr: Oden self-reflects over the past year, then picks and unwraps the yellow present.​

The end of the year; a time for both quiet self-reflection and hopeful new beginnings. Thinking back, the world had not been too kind to her this time. Since the fall of her clan, she's encountered insane drug-addicts, watched bodies get eaten alive, burnt, encountered an eternally wailing village, got violently ejected from the sky... but she was still here, and that at least, probably mattered some.

Fortunately, as bleak as it had been, it was not all so bad.

For the far-reaching journeys she wandered on, she had always expected long-term friends to be far and few between. The end of one adventure meant another departure: the usual scattering of once familiar faces.

But oddly enough, one face kept popping up, somehow accompanying her across entire nations.

To be perfectly honest to the old owl, she didn't think her company would ever matter that much to her, but it seemed frequency does indeed make the heart grow fonder. It was only now they were forcibly separated that she could truly feel her lack of presence, and the absence of her frequent, shy mutterings in the background. The ilithid might never know this, but, she truly kept her grounded in reality some days.

If she was being sincere, that friendship might just be her greatest boon this year. Glancing out of the snow-coated window, she hoped that squishy and easily anxious friend of hers was doing okay up in the sky kingdoms far above.

As if to honour that thought, when she was called upon, the elderly owl gave a simple nod before trotting on over to the long table and picking up the yellow present. If she could've, she would've picked a purple, but instead there were three pinks that didn't seem quite as fitting. The yellow however, at least seemed reminiscent of the ilithid's eyes. With careful hands, she ripped through the wrapping paper to discover her luck of the cards this year.

 

[saxon]

Eris Granstone

B Grade Character

Titles: Human, Priest, Holy Smiter, Hero of The Fae See, Mage, Fae, Spirit of the Battlefield Ally F, Faculty of Celestine F, Ordained, Mundane, Spellweave

mentions: Novama

Abilities/cooldown/Actions

Notes: 24 hour upon being pinged for the event to post or you will be given a random gift

Eris watched as the Owl contemplated which gift to select, selecting the yellow gift and ripping the paper apart. A cloak would appear that seemed to shimmer for a moment. "Looks like we have some sort of invisibility cloak?" Eris theorized as she wasn't entirely sure as to what exactly it did but hopefully it would turn out to be useful to Oden. After a moment letting the Oden return to their seat

"Well now lets see who the next contestant is drum rolls please," Eris paused for a moment as she shoved her hand into the hat and pulled out a piece of paper. She unfolded it and then read the name aloud, "Malik, you are up! You may select a gift from the table here or steal Oden's gift if you so choose," She explained.

Spoiler: Yellow Present Item

Name: Enchanted Cloak F Type of Item: Magical Special Effects: [Undetected F (Vision) Grants Momentary Invisibility To The User.

 

[Novama]

saxon SilverFeathers Malik steals Oden's cloak of invisibility. Go fish.

 

[saxon]

Eris Granstone

B Grade Character

Titles: Human, Priest, Holy Smiter, Hero of The Fae See, Mage, Fae, Spirit of the Battlefield Ally F, Faculty of Celestine F, Ordained, Mundane, Spellweave

mentions: SilverFeathers

Abilities/cooldown/Actions

Notes: 24 hour upon being pinged for the event to post or you will be given a random gift

Eris watched Malik stand up and walk over to Oden and take the cloak gift. "Well looks like we have the first steal of the game boys and girls, Oden come up and select another gift!"

Spoiler: Yellow Present Item

Name: Enchanted Cloak X Type of Item: Magical Special Effects: [Undetected X (Vision) Grants Momentary Invisibility To The User.

 

[SilverFeathers]

Oden (#ACA9A7)​

tl;dr: Oden picks and unwraps the sky blue present.​

Examining the cloak she had won, it took her a moment to register the fae that had wordlessly taken the gift straight out of her hands. It was such a silent, unhesitant exchange that she almost thought that she had seen wrongly.

Had he been looking for a fancy new cloak? Or did he just want to skip the unwrapping process? She supposed one could never truly know what went on in a fae's mind.

Chuckling lightly to herself, without further ado, the old owl got up and trotted back over to the long table, picking up the sky blue one to unwrap this time. Her ilithid friend had many colours to her, and this blue was no exception, even if she did not quite notice it on the daily as much.

 

[saxon]

Eris Granstone

B Grade Character

Titles: Human, Priest, Holy Smiter, Hero of The Fae See, Mage, Fae, Spirit of the Battlefield Ally F, Faculty of Celestine F, Ordained, Mundane, Spellweave

mentions: Rev IX

Abilities/cooldown/Actions

Notes: 24 hour upon being pinged for the event to post or you will be given a random gift

Eris watched as the Owl contemplated which gift to select the Sky blue box. "A comb? Well i suppose that everyone needs a comb. Any who." Eris paused for a moment.

There were various colors, such as red, blue, magenta, black, brown, green, orange, pink, tan, red orange, and royal blue, white, charcoal, black, Deep Gray, Hot Pink, and crimson. Eris put her hand in the hat and pulled out another name. "Next one up is Kagemalum, you may pick a gift or steal one!"

Spoiler: Yellow Present Item

Name: Enchanted Cloak X Type of Item: Magical Special Effects: [Undetected X (Vision) Grants Momentary Invisibility To The User.

Spoiler: Sky blue

Silver Star's Ironwood Comb X user can comb their hair and activate the comb's ability for up to an hour creating a X ft radius dome of sound warding that prevents sound from passing out of the dome or entering from the outside.

 

[Rev IX]

Kagemalum
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Kagemalum hated every second of being around people, and this obnoxious celebration managed to exacerbate that feeling. Why on the Queen did he feel some sort of pull to this gathering. Conflicting feelings aside, the only solace he had in his own mistake was that he got to give someone a present of his own, which he hoped would cause distress to whoever picked it. And seeing as he was here might as well pick up something of his own "Right."

Red it is.

 

[saxon]

Eris Granstone

B Grade Character

Titles: Human, Priest, Holy Smiter, Hero of The Fae See, Mage, Fae, Spirit of the Battlefield Ally F, Faculty of Celestine F, Ordained, Mundane, Spellweave

mentions: Elijay

Abilities/cooldown/Actions

Notes: 24 hour upon being pinged for the event to post or you will be given a random gift

Eris watched as Kagemalum selected the red box. As the wrapping was ripped away and the box opened, there was a bright light for a moment before a motorcycle appeared. "Wait, who put one of these in the box?" Eris questioned, not entirely sure how that thing could fit in such a small box, but that was neither here nor there.

There were various colors, such as blue, magenta, black, brown, green, orange, pink, tan, red orange, and royal blue, white, charcoal, black, Deep Gray, Hot Pink, and crimson. Eris put her hand in the hat and pulled out another name. "Next one up is John, you may pick a gift or steal one!"

Spoiler: Yellow Present Item

Name: Enchanted Cloak X Type of Item: Magical Special Effects: [Undetected X (Vision) Grants Momentary Invisibility To The User.

Spoiler: Sky blue

Silver Star's Ironwood Comb X user can comb their hair and activate the comb's ability for up to an hour creating a X ft radius dome of sound warding that prevents sound from passing out of the dome or entering from the outside.

Spoiler: Red Present

Rust Lord's Joy Ride - Grade X Type of Item: Magic Item (Motorcycle) Special Effects: -When drifting, the perforated muffler bellows out flames. This is only an aesthetic feature. Longer drifts change the flames color, shifting from: Yellow -> Orange -> Red -When driving fast, the motorcycles tire rims and exhaust ignites into flames. This is only an aesthetic feature. Item Skills: Fast X