Howdy and Lo! The Long Night Comes!
In a stunning break in recent tradition, this is SHAN comin’ atcha live with a blog update regarding our December event. I’m going to talk to you about some major stuff up front, and then some casual info towards the end that will leave you better prepared for DR:TX’s take on the wintry season, and then Aesa will tell you a bit about the logistical bonuses to this event!
PREMIERe EVENT
This event will be a little special. Every season a chapter is allowed to run a single game where we are encouraged to go a little harder. This year, we’re going with December because the story we want to tell plays best under cover of night, if you will. For the record, it’s a Sunless Garden with some EXTRA COOL stuff that Aesa has the details on below.
THE LONG NIGHT
Every year the town of New Bravado experiences a period of total night. From sometimes late December to early February - the sky above the township goes utterly and oily black. Longwalkers, denizens of that Long Night, stalk the blackness between settlements and play wicked tricks on those foolish enough to wander into the blind eternity beyond the circle of their firelight.
Directly preceding the Long Night is a festival known to the Lovelace Clan as Winter Lights. During this time homesteads festoon their living spaces with candlelight, creating a circle of warmth and community that pushes back the cold and dark. During this time of year, going out alone is especially dangerous.
Small gifts are often exchanged during Winter Lights, tokens of community and affection between kin. Often, these gifts are small light sources, after the Sainthood tradition.
Longwalkers, shadowy, half-real entities that are considered folklore by much of the greater San Saba, nonetheless stalk the bleak between. Zed or creature, it is hard to tell. But the subject of local legend for generations of Lovelaces before the Long Night came to New Bravado.
I hope you’re excited to play with us in December! I hope my big dreams pay off and the event is as cool as I’m imagining it right now.
I think it will be. I’ve got the best staff and players in the whole goddamn world, so.
We’re gonna do great.
<3
Shan
Logistics Notes from Aesa!
For the purposes of ticketing, players will be able to purchase up to +5 additional XP for the DR:TX December event instead of the usual +2. We also will be selling separately a limited supply of Zipline passes that Camp Kachina has allowed us to schedule. This will be part of, but not required for the Sunless Garden experience. Which is to say, that if you really don’t want to use the zipline, there will be other ways to participate aside from that aspect. There will be trained staff on hand to run the ziplines safely, and the cost of the pass is primarily to cover the cost of their time. Note, the zipline does unfortunately have a weight limit of 250-280lbs.
If the zipline passes sell out we will do our best to schedule more, but for now we’re limited to what Camp Kachina will allow us to do at an hourly flow. So if that sounds like a thing you would enjoy, then please feel free to buy the pass!
Tickets go on sale today at 1pm. As always, if you have questions, please message us on our FB page or email us at info@dystopiarisingtx.com.