Hello Brynhildr, Headmistress Kela here on behalf of the Royal Academy. We would like to cordially extend an invitation to you to join us for our Starlight Formal Ball.
The event will take place at 6:30pm Pacific Time on Sunday, December 16th in game at Shirogane ward 12, plot 7 the Royal Academy Libratorium.
The first part of the event will be a White Elephant in-game gift exchange. There are NO RESTRICTIONS on gifts brought for exchange in terms of content or price and we ask only that it is trade-able.
This will be a small group event, exchanges happening between full parties or smaller in the interest of time and efficiency. The full party members will organize their lists alphabetically beginning with a randomly determined letter so that they are all listed the same, then your party position number will be the order of play.
The player in position one will select the number of the person who’s gift he wants to open, then the person in that position trades his gift, revealing to the group in party chat what the gift is. The second player can then steal it (allowing player 1 to choose again from the remaining gifts) or choose a new gift for themselves. Gifts can only be traded three total times before they’re locked in! This continues until all (up to) eight players have received a gift, ending the exchange.
We encourage people to bring joke gifts, but we also recommend that at least some people bring truly generous prizes that people will fight over! Be as thoughtful and creative as you can be in the interest of the season!
After the gift exchange we will start the ball. This part of the event will be in character and we request that people interact as much as they feel comfortable with, dancing, conversing, playing music/performing, we will have orchestrion and stage available, as well as eating and drinking as we have a formal dining area and a bar adjacent to our dance floor. Please do your best to put together a formal glamour, as it is school-style formal dance. And bring all your favorite persistent dance emotes!
There will be a half-hour of chamber music played on the orchestrion, followed by a second half hour of rave tunes for all your /cheerjump needs!
This is the Royal Academy’s first event open to the larger Brynhildr community! Please come be a part of the beginning of something amazing that we as a Free Company are offering to you, the residents of our wonderful server, Brynhildr!