Evermore Hollow’s Hotel
This year, Evermore Hollow’s premiere hotel is hosting a conference of the SPECTRE and SHADOW organization. Guests are coming from far and wide to gather within the hotel’s newest rooms.
Select guests will get to stay in the hotel in one of their recently renovated hotel suites and take part in the conference, allowing them the opportunity to visit the attic, library, ballroom, kitchen, dining room, sitting room, and ride in the lifts.
Starting this weekend, ten invitations will go out via the feeder system. These invitations will grant you access to the conference and much more.
Starting on October 1st, 20 invitations will go on sale. We will release a few each day and at a variety of days and times.
Please join us at our Discord Post or on our Ebon Gate Saved Posts page on the Player Wiki to review our Q & A about this exciting announcement.
Event Schedule:
- Day of the Huntress
- Welcome Reception: A light affair and social hour where you can mingle with fellow attendees before retiring to your rooms.
- Feastday
- Breakfast: Start your day with a delightful breakfast while meeting other guests.
- Morning Workshops: Engage in workshops led by our esteemed speakers.
- Lunch: Enjoy a leisurely lunch with fellow practitioners.
- Afternoon Sessions: Attend presentations and discussions on the latest in magical research and practices.
- Grand Masquerade Ball: The highlight of the event, featuring a sumptuous dinner served small-plates style and an evening of dance and mystery.
- Restday:
- Farewell Brunch: Conclude the convention with a delightful brunch and final opportunities to connect with new friends.
- Question – What do I get for participating?
- Answer – 30 adventurers will get to take part in a unique weekend long RP event, obtain a key to a 2-room suite within the hotel, as well as some goodies! Here’s just a few things for you to consider:
Opening Gift – Invitation to the SPECTRE and SHADOW conference, a key to the 2-room hotel suite, 3 opportunities for a private merchant session, access to restricted rooms in the hotel (your key allows you entry), and a fully unlocked Naidem Mask.
Weekend Event Items – Access to the individual conference panels and workshops, access to 3 merchant sessions, a Grand Masquerade Ball, and multiple meals.
Closing Gift – The ability to SPLIT your key into two so that a friend can stay with you in the hotel, allowing them access to it after the opening weekend, a 5-count alteration book, a 25-count event booklet (key), and a few other goodies that we’d like to keep a surprise.
Q & A
- Question – What is SPECTRE and SHADOW?
- Answer - SPECTRE and SHADOW are a series of acronyms. They stand for:
Sorcerers, Practitioners, Enchanters, Conjurers, Thaumaturges, Researchers, and Evokers
Seers, Hypnotists, Astrologers, Diviners, Occultists, Witches
- Question – What does the conference entail?
- Answer – The conference begins on opening night of the Ebon Gate Festival in Naidem. Guests are encouraged to arrive at the hotel starting at 10:30 pm EDT, and throughout the evening into the night. The conference has a full schedule, which I’m happy to share here:
- Question – Can you explain the splitting of the key?
- Answer – Of course! Sunday, October 6, 2024, you can SPLIT your key. This second key can be given to one friend. For the remainder of the Ebon Gate 2024 run, your friend can join you in your hotel room. At the end of this year's run, the key becomes a souvenir but no longer provides access to the hotel.
- Question – What should we be looking for?
- Answer – Much like the Taffy Quest, the Map Quest, the Caligos Advertisement Scrolls, and the Crows Quest from Ebon Gate of yore, the item will be in the feeders and you’ll be able to open it. There’s a chance that an embossed leather luggage tag will stay behind. This is your prize into the event.
- Question – How do we get our key? Is it in the feeders?
- Answer – Your key will be delivered to you through the player mail. As will each goodie bag leading up to and after the event.
- Question – Should I plan to be available for the whole weekend?
- Answer – Yes! We’ve packed it full of roleplaying and individual merchant time. But we also have a schedule that can be viewed as soon as you either win or purchase your hotel room.
- Question - If I wanted to purchase this, what would it cost?
- Answer - 15,000 SimuCoins
- Question – What are the actual days of this special event, should you get a ticket?
- Answer – Opening Weekend, 10:30 pm on October 4th, 2024, to approximately 3ish on October 6th.
- Question - When do the invitations become available in the feeder?
- Answer – I’m aiming for tomorrow morning (September 22, 2024). An announcement will go out.
- Question – How will the sales be done?
- Answer – Starting on October 1st, each day until EG opens the store will have a small batch of available tickets for sale. They will go on sale at various times to ensure that we spread out the availability and opportunities.
- Question - Are loot-capped characters able to find the invitations, or is this predicated on not being loot-capped?
- Answer – This is a special thing and shouldn’t be affected by the loot cap.
- Question – Is the key attuned? Could I find it on one character but let another character use it?
- Answer – I’m putting all the luggage tags inside an Ebon Envelope. When you open the envelope, and the tag is in your hand, it has a chance to turn into something else. If it turns into a raven, then you have not won the entry. However, if it turns into something else then it attunes to you. My recommendation would be to only open envelopes with the person you want to go to the event.
- Question – Is this replacing the EG Storyline RP?
- Answer – Absolutely not! We are excited for this year’s storyline, titled: The Ivsenra's Fate. The storyline will start once the weekend is over.
- We've decided to make the following changes to the Hotel Key lottery:
- CLAIM will have 1 envelope in it starting on October 1st. It will be available until October 3rd. You may CLAIM once per account.
- On October 1st, only creatures that generate boxes will have an opportunity to discover an envelope.
- On October 1st, 5 keys to the hotel will be sold at roughly 3pm and then another 5 at 9pm.
- On October 2nd, 5 keys will be sold at roughly 3pm and then another 5 at 9pm.
- Hotel Stays attune, this includes those sold in the SimuCoin store. Those found in envelopes attune upon opening the envelope.
- Do not purchase a Hotel Stay if you intend on reselling it, that isn’t an option.
- Do not open an envelope if you intend on reselling it, that isn’t an option.