The Rainbow Connection

Pride is coming to Azeroth with the Pridecraft Ball, an RP event celebrating *all* LGBTQIA+ heroes of Azeroth! Celebrate with us at the Twilight Grove on June 7 (Wyrmrest Accord-US) and June 8th (Moon Guard-US) where we will have games, dancing, transmog competitions and crown our Pride Kings, Queens and Monarchs! This is a faction neutral event (warmode off) and we will have speech pots available.

The event will be hosted by @squidpaladin @lesbianvaltrois and myself, please join our discord channel to help with planning and discussion! This is the first time we’ve hosted a big rp event like this so please come help us make this a great event! https://discordapp.com/invite/g8funNC

IC Hook:

You find an ensorcelled parchment in your hands, and you do not remember picking it up. It reads:

“Come one, come all, to the Pridecraft Ball! In Twilight Grove, before nightfall, when seven bells echo, we will drink of wine, red, white, and Prosecco.

There is a painting on the parchment here, between words.

Pridecons of Anduin, requested by an anon!

As part of our re-opening and in an effort to help promote RP on the server, the Courier is focusing on a new project: RP Hooks.

What is an RP Hook?

A RP hook is an IC article published by the Courier after an OOC request from a guild or single role player with a story idea.

Purpose

To give Guilds and non-guilded individuals an IC platform to:

Publish articles that lead into new story lines or enhance story lines already in progress,

Present an opportunity for members of the community to draw in other RPers to participate in the story line or use it to start their own, and

Submit follow-up pieces on progress of their stories.

Example Hook Idea

Your guild wants its next story arc to be investigating a rise in suspicious disappearances in Westfall.

The Process

The GM contacts the Courier OOC with this story idea in order to generate an IC article published by the Courier that sets the scene for people going missing in Westfall.

The original hook article can be pre-written by the RPer or the Courier can write the article; this will be decided on a case by case basis during the first meeting. If requesting that The Courier reporters write the article, the RPer will be asked to provide a minimum of three facts based on the story line presented so that we may implement those facts into the story written. Before we post any RP hook story, we will get final approval from the guild or player in question.

Hooks will be classified one of two ways:

Open RP Hook: This story is not being run by a specific guild or player. The events in the article are open to the server to use and expand upon and submit follow up stories if they wish.

Closed RP Hook: This story is being run by a specific guild or player. We will list contact information for these individuals. To participate in the story or for further information, please reach out to the players listed.

The Courier reserves the right to turn down RP Hooks.

Follow-up Stories

Once an RP Hook is published in the Courier, the story is open to the server, meaning anyone is free to run with the idea and generate their own stories based around the hook unless marked as closed storyline with contact information. We will accept pre-written follow up stories and edit them as needed and with the cooperation of the submitter.  If multiple people submit stories surrounding the same hook, we will work with each submitter to ensure it makes sense for all readers and does not damage the integrity of the individual contributors.  Be sure to include any screenshots of your adventures!

For instructions on how to submit stories, follow this link: http://the-royal-courier.tumblr.com/guide  “How to Submit” Tab

Contact Info

Have an idea for a hook? Send in a message to @constance-riverton, @theabernathytales or over on our Community Channel and one of our reporters will reach out to you to discuss next steps.  

Guild/Player Responsibility

To provide the Courier with a general outline of the plot line including key facts that the community will be given access to.

To provide perimeters that are acceptable for outside participation including contact information to discuss items of concern with them and whether this is an open or closed story line.

Provide the courier with follow up information ( if there is to be an ongoing story line) be it follow up submissions or facts for the Courier to write.

An understanding that if the guild or player fails to follow through with the story line The Royal Courier is not responsible for the dropped story line and will make a brief conclusion post.

Courier Responsibility

To provide a platform for guilds and players to include the community into their story lines by posting an rp hook story.

Get final approval before posting any rp hook story if it is written by one of our Courier members to ensure that the guild or player is satisfied with the article to be presented.

To keep an open avenue of communication as necessary for follow ups

To direct interested parties to the proper guild or personal representative through ooc information provided at the bottom of each RP hook

To provide updated stories as they are provided to the Courier.

The Royal Courier requests at least a seven day period to write, finalize and post an RP hook story they are asked to write.

[H] - THE COOKIE COURSE

Our last event for the year, we wanted to do something entirely different and something befitting for Winter’s Veil.

The Cookie Course will be a foot-race obstacle course, in which you will need to collect cookies by solving riddles of The Cookie Keepers. Collect all the cookies in order to win:

1st Prize - WoW Time

2nd Prize - 50,000 gold

3rd Prize - A Mystery Gift

We’re looking forward to this event because we know it’ll be some good wholesome fun! Afterword, we’ll have a party back in Everlook to celebrate all participants in the race. 

You never realize how much the word “home” weighs on your mind until the place you have labeled such is gone. The burning of my “home” left me little more than scars and memories and a pair of pauldrons that may well be the last remaining “living” branches.

Their enchanted leaves change with the season but never die, the last of their autumnal colors withering away for a bareness indicative of the coming winter.

I find myself touching them often, wishing I was “home” and safe in its branches once more. A peace and calm I have yet to find again.

I cant help but peer down at the worn key in my hand, Ashraen’s insistence that I accept a place to sleep having won. For weeks I have spent my nights aiding others, prowling the tiled pathways within the cathedral, the sounds of anguish, pain and suffering constantly berating my ears. The smell of tears…not easily forgotten. When there was no more need for my calming presence I was asked to leave. Just another refugee in a cruel and heartless world.

Sleeping where I found safety, high in trees, curled as small as I could manage beneath shrubs and porches. Just yesterday I fell asleep and King Wrynn’s grave only to be woken by angry guards who chased until I was deemed lost.

Here standing outside a room purchased in haste for me, I find myself unable to push forward. What even was a bed any more?

The world sees a happy, joyful and generous druid. Spend more than a day with me and you’ll find that for the most part, this is accurate and honest. But while I present as oblivious and carefree, I am a duality. Give me time alone and the wistful longing for home will drag me under.

A folded note slipped in desperation. A quiet plea for help when I cannot help myself. A gift, a key, I have no hope of repaying.

The lock clicks open and I find myself staring at what must be the most expensive room in the inn. As soon as the door is closed behind me, the soft linens atop the bed envelop me and for the first time in what feels like forever, I am “home”.

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As the Harvest Festival soon approaches, we open our doors to all, family and stranger alike, to sit down with us for a home-cooked meal sure to leave you warm and satisfied. We have so much gratitude to share with you all for keeping our Tavern lively week to week, and want to show you in the best way we possibly could: with a full-scale course dinner! 

From traditional turkey with gravy to hearty boar belly we will have an array for everyone to pick their favorites, and not to mention fresh desserts sure to leave you craving more; but don’t worry, if you eat yourself into a food related coma, we have rooms to rent! 

Our usual Monday Mixer on November 19th will instead be taken over by this feast, so come with your appetites ready to sit down, and enjoy a meal with friends and family. As usual, all are welcome, Horde or Alliance, as we celebrate this Harvest together in much needed harmony.