Gwenneth Posted June 29, 2016 Share #1 Posted June 29, 2016 [align=center]The Grand Tournament Charity Ball[/align] [align=center] [/align] To the good people of Ishgard, and to our allies across all Eorzea, House Dufresne and House Pepin cordially invite you to attend a celebratory ball, that we might honour those champions of the Fury who performed so admirably in Her Grand Tournament, and to usher in, as well, a future of hard-won peace and unity for us all. The affair is to take place this 9th Sun of the Fourth Astral Moon, in the gardens of House Pepin whose greenhouses will so perfectly represent this new springtime for our people. Attire is to be modest, formal dress, and refreshments will be provided by our dear friends at the Shooting Star Bakery, whose talents in their craft are bound to please your palate. There are to be a number of raffles throughout the evening so as to raise funding for reconstruction and relief efforts throughout Ishgard, and our floor managers highly encourage all to participate in the dance. We sincerely hope that you might join us on this evening of merriment. Until then, may you go blessed by the Fury. [align=center]---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [align=left][align=center]OOC Information [/align] With the Grand Tournament of the Fury concluded, we’d to close out the festivities with a dress ball to celebrate our champions, and for a taste of something outside of combat! The event will take place on Saturday, July 9th at 7:00 pm EST, with organized events running until 11:00 pm EST, at the Sanctum of the Twelve in East Shroud. You are welcome to stay and socialize after 11:00 pm! The Sanctum will be serving as a placeholder for the Pepin greenhouses, as it is best suited to represent the setting and provides the space we require. Event attendance and participation is open to everyone, whether or not you’re Ishgardian! On Spoilers - While we will be unable to police spoilers for the event, we ask that everyone is considerate in regards to what is revealed during public roleplay. The event will take place after the “Final Steps of Faith” of Patch 3.3, but any aftermath revealed during the ending cutscenes should be considered “work in progress” so as to best keep everyone’s timelines at a happy medium. [align=center]---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [align=center]Entertainment [/align] [/align] Dancing - It’s a Ball, After All! Twenty-minute dance sets for the evening will be broken up into two alternating types: “Open Floor” and “Dancers’ Pool”, detailed below. Regardless of which type is currently in progress, we encourage you to invite a partner onto the floor! Don’t forget propriety! Be sure to /bow to your partner when you begin! Open Floor Dances Open Floor sets allow our guests to invite a partner of their choosing to dance. We will not be providing a partner for you at this time. Did you come with a companion? Or perhaps a certain mysterious someone has caught your eye during the course of the evening? Don’t be shy! Dancers' Pool Dances Maybe you’re a little shy after all! Fret not! We’ve set up the “Dancers’ Pool” to help break the ice and introduce you to what could be a bosom future friend! Whether you’ve come alone, with a companion, or as part of a group, interested participants may enter their name into the pool by contacting one of the Floor Managers at the event: [align=center]Gwenneth Gilrouis Eliane Dufresne Hyrtwyda Eyhafrynwyn Brave Horizon Martiallais Heuloix[/align] Our Floor Managers will randomly pair up the participants and announce who will be dancing together before a set begins. In keeping with our theme of unity and in the interest of socialization without restriction, the couplings will be made with neither gender nor orientation as a factor. In order to keep our guests comfortable, if there is a person or persons you would not like to be paired with for any reason, and you feel they may be in the Pool, please be sure to let us know privately. While the dance is for socialization, we understand that there may be certain individuals whom you have an OOC or IC grievance with and wish to avoid in order for you both to enjoy yourselves. When a set of dances is complete, the next will be announced so as to allow for partners to change accordingly. If you are leaving the ball, please inform one of the Floor Managers so that we can remove you from the Dancers’ Pool! This is to keep things running smoothly for both the guests and staff, and ensure no one is left without a partner! Raffles - We Promise It’s for a Good Cause! Guests will be able to purchase tickets before the raffle begins. The more tickets you buy, the more chances you have to win! Tickets will be sold for 500 gil per. Each guest is limited to spending a maximum of 10 tickets per item. Our volunteers will keep track of how many tickets each guest purchases, and how many you spend on a particular item (below). When the raffled items are announced, each guest will whisper one of the raffle attendants with how many tickets they’d like to spend on that item. Reminder: each guest is limited to spending a maximum of 10 tickets per item. The attendant will roll /random to set a Target Number, then ask for all interested in that item to roll. The number of rolls you make corresponds with how many tickets you’ve “spent” on the item. The closest number without going over the Target Number is the winner! If you’ve “spent” five tickets, and your second roll is the winner, you’ve still “spent” all five tickets. Just like a real raffle, once they go into the “box for that item”, they’re out of your hands! [align=center]----------------------------------------------------------------------------[/align] Please feel free to contact Gwenneth Gilrouis (Reima here on the RPC), Eliane Dufresne, or Martiallais Heuloix with any questions or for more information. [/align] [/align] 1 Link to comment
Gwenneth Posted July 4, 2016 Author Share #2 Posted July 4, 2016 Updated Master Post with some information changes and additions, including: Our policy on spoilers and the “timeline setting”. How the dancing will work. How the raffles will work. For those of you who utilize Tumblr, the Master Post is located there as well! Link to comment
Gwenneth Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share #3 Posted July 5, 2016 For anyone who feels they may be a little shy or anxious on the evening of the Ball, or needs help breaking the ice at the event, I highly recommend checking out this post: http://oschon-scholar.tumblr.com/post/146958537458/grand-tournament-ball-buddy-system Cyril is sweet, funny, and easy to talk to, so if you find yourself needing good company or a little extra support that night, you should definitely get in touch! Link to comment
Gwenneth Posted July 9, 2016 Author Share #4 Posted July 9, 2016 Ladies and gentlemen, Tomorrow evening, at 7:00 PM EST on the 9th of July, House Dufresne and its Bellworks, and House Pepin with its beauteous greenhouses and warm hospitality open the doors for the Grand Tournament of the Fury Charity Ball, that we might celebrate our championed unity and a brighter future for Ishgard and Eorzea! As a reminder, this will be ICly hosted at the House Pepin Greenhouses, though we will be using the Sanctum of the Twelve as its in-game representation. We ask that you please ignore any standing water and rain! Raffle Prizes and Programme The Charity Ball Master Post has been updated with a list of our prize-sets for raffle, as well as a rough timeline for the evening’s proceedings! We highly suggest that you acquaint yourself with the rules of the raffle in the Master Post beforehand, to make things easier for both our guests and staff tomorrow evening. Dancers’ Pool Pre-Registration As is also detailed in the Master Post, there are periods of the evening where we will happily pair you with a random partner for a dance, so as to help you meet someone new, or simply to add some flavour to your evening! Pre-registration for the Dancer’s Pool is now open! If you will be present for the first arranged dance at 7:30 and wish to be randomly paired with a partner, please send a message to Reima with your character’s name. Please do not pre-register if you cannot commit to attending! This is to ensure no one is left without a partner, and we thank you for the consideration! Remember: In order to keep our guests comfortable, if there is a person or persons you would not like to be paired with for any reason, and you feel they may be in the Pool, please be sure to let us know privately. While the dance is for socialization, we understand that there may be certain individuals whom you have an OOC or IC grievance with and wish to avoid in order for you both to enjoy yourselves. If you are leaving the ball, please inform one of the Floor Managers so that we can remove you from the Dancers’ Pool! This is to keep things running smoothly for both the guests and staff, and ensure no one is left without a partner! Your floor mananagers for the evening will be: Gwenneth Gilrouis Eliane Dufresne Hyrtwyda Eyhafrynwyn Brave Horizon Martiallais Heuloix Once again, we hope to see you in attendance for a night of merriment, for it is our greatest pleasure to have you as our guests! 1 Link to comment
MadWater Posted July 9, 2016 Share #5 Posted July 9, 2016 Dear RPC, We have come to the sudden realization that we may be potentially parsing hundreds of /random's simultaneously for the raffle events. This is cumbersome and too prone to error. Would you all, in general, feel comfortable with the Bellworks handling this event (using the exact same ruleset posted) by doing all the rolls behind-the-scenes on a Google Sheet, with the reassurance that event staff will not be participating in the raffles, that screenshots of the results will be posted after the event, and that the Bellworks loves you all very much? Link to comment
Leggerless Posted July 9, 2016 Share #6 Posted July 9, 2016 Dear RPC, We have come to the sudden realization that we may be potentially parsing hundreds of /random's simultaneously for the raffle events. This is cumbersome and too prone to error. Would you all, in general, feel comfortable with the Bellworks handling this event (using the exact same ruleset posted) by doing all the rolls behind-the-scenes on a Google Sheet, with the reassurance that event staff will not be participating in the raffles, that screenshots of the results will be posted after the event, and that the Bellworks loves you all very much? Got bored, so I made a Google sheet that does rolling and recording them semi-automatically (You'll have to download your own copy to make edits!). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D8AEW4vA_CxIDlLxIEz1neZAzDXbNGzQsVEzrcRe7gw/edit?usp=sharing Have fun, everyone Edit: I just now realized y'all were considering the option, but not asking for someone to make one. Whoops! My apologies. Carry on. 1 Link to comment
MadWater Posted July 9, 2016 Share #7 Posted July 9, 2016 I had one of my own made up, but I really appreciate the effort anyways! Thank you! Link to comment
MadWater Posted July 10, 2016 Share #8 Posted July 10, 2016 The rolls for the raffles are posted in the following Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/UM5tA In the interest of full disclosure: some of the latter tallies were actually bigger than my laptop screen, so I didn't get everyone in the screenshots. For the Music 2 Basket, I was scrolled down too much, and some of the first entries are not shown. I did check all the results though, for what my word is worth. There was a tie for the winning roll on the Music 2 Basket as well that was not caught before the winner was announced and rewarded. The tied ticket holder has been compensated by me privately. There was also a tie for the Tea Time basket that was resolved with an in-game /random tiebreaker by Martiallais Heuloix. Now that the formalities are out of the way, thank you all SO, SO MUCH for making this such an amazing event. This seemed to be a huge success, and there were SO MANY characters present. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Link to comment
Jancis Posted July 13, 2016 Share #9 Posted July 13, 2016 Belated - some screenshots from the event. The random dance was fun, the playlist was immersive. The venue was pretty good for having so many people in one place. I could be in the thick of text, or move away and be in another section. Also terrible gif Thank you, generous hosts! Link to comment
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