Curse

Konig Des Todes · Mar 25, 2011, 11:09 PM // 23:09

Much time has passed since the end to the War in Kryta; much time in which the White Mantle has lost their grip and fled into the Maguuma Jungle. The Shining Mantle was short-lived, merged into the Seraph, and work directly under Queen Salma. Or that was the plan. Many of the Shining Mantle disagreed with being dissolved into the Seraph under the argument of not having yet atoned for their actions as the White Mantle. They wished to be given the title of “mantle” as their punishment for their times serving in the oppressive order.

The Shining Mantle now exist as the vanguard of the Seraph, and since the end of the Battle of Lion’s Arch, we have hunted down the White Mantle in the Maguuma.

The search has been long and hard, morale is lowering, and it has returned to that time of year when the MantleCon was held. So to raise morale, MantleCon shall once more return, in memory of those who have done right, and of rememberance of what wrong was done - to learn from the past and continue to strive forward to a new day.

Place: Maguuma Stade International Districts
Time: 9:00 am Pacific to 12:00 pm Pacific (GMT-7) on April 10th (Sunday)

Schedule:
9:00 – Opening
9:10 – Golden Theater
10:00 – Costume Contest
10:30 – Side Activities
11:00 – Invasion!
11:30 – Scavenger Hunt collecting and announcements of Workshop winners
11:50 – Finale

Note: The event will be held on a Sunday this year because of scheduling issues. I am unable to host the event on Saturdays at a good time.

Main Activities:
Costume Contest
In the past, there have been explicit themes to the costume contests and, in turn, multiple costume contest themes each year; this year, that all changes. Instead of a singular theme for each contest, there will be a group of optional themes that you can choose from! The winners will be the best that fit any one theme that has a good combination of various armor sets. A single armor set or a single costume will not win. Likewise, a tonic will not win either. Reason being that those are uncreative and we favor those with minds. Festival and costume hats can be part of costumes.

Possible themes:

White Mantle
Mursaat
Jade armor
Lionguard
Shining Blade
Shining Mantle
Krytan royalty

Golden Theater
Last year’s Golden Theater was a huge hit. In turn, it shall be making a return! However, a new year comes a new tale, and it also brings a new challenge. This year, instead of having a pre-chosen writer of humor write the play, it shall instead be up to you! The MantleCon Workshop has a prize for playwrights of featuring their play in the Golden Theater, with up to four winners.

Let the best play be written!

Invasion! (Trivia)
An actor shall play the role of an invading mursaat, and party-goers must defeat this menace with the power of knowledge. Questions will be asked and winners will each receive a prize. There will be a total of 15 winners per district, 10 hard questions and 5 easy questions shall be asked (one person can only win 3 easy questions). Hard questions reward 1 Royal Gift, and easy questions reward 2 War Supplies.

Scavenger Hunt
All good parties have treasure hunts. A week prior to the event, a short list shall be given containing clues about 7 items that must be collected. There will be 3 winners per district. First place gets 20 Royal Gifts, second and third place gets 250 War Supplies.

Finale
No party should go without a finale. Join the event to find what is planned for that – every event needs a surprise.

Side Activities:
Mime
An old favorite. A mime will be standing in the district at the appropriate time to challenge folks to who can guess the action the person is doing first.

Rock Paper Scissors
Another old favorite. Rock-Paper-Scissors will be hosted in a game corner. The host shall pick a person and those who beat him win a prize.

Guess That Tonic!
A brand new and simple game: In every district, five staff members (their names will be announced in the district) will line up with a mysterious tonic in their inventory. One by one, people will vote who they think will turn into what (e.g., “It’s time for Konig Des Todes to use a tonic!” “Seer!”). Those who guess right will win. You can only win one time.

Workshop
See this thread.

Malchior Devenholm · Mar 26, 2011, 12:27 AM // 00:27

Maguuma Stade?

The Henge seemed to serve all our purposes last year.

Konig Des Todes · Mar 26, 2011, 02:03 AM // 02:03

The Henge felt too spread out to me personally and I felt like returning to the roots since this will be my last MantleCon hosting (and too late now, Anet got their email for the main page, and gw-en.com should off been advertising Maguuma Stade for a while now).

You're more than welcome to continue MantleCon next year, Malchior, and have it in Henge.

Jon of the Plauge · Mar 27, 2011, 04:44 AM // 04:44

If you need anyone to help give out stuff, help with games, and etc. I would be happy to help.

Domador · Mar 27, 2011, 01:27 PM // 13:27

nice event!! in spain ti will be at 5pm (spanish time) right?

Konig Des Todes · Mar 27, 2011, 07:26 PM // 19:26

According to this ( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...0&p1=64&p2=191 ), it'll be 6 pm for Spain.

Domador · Mar 28, 2011, 03:56 PM // 15:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Konig Des Todes

According to this ( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...0&p1=64&p2=191 ), it'll be 6 pm for Spain.

Ok, thanks!! now i'll definetly be there

BladeWind · Mar 28, 2011, 08:44 PM // 20:44

I'll try my best to attend, best of luck Konig!

Malchior Devenholm · Apr 05, 2011, 03:13 PM // 15:13

Just a reminder...this shindig is THIS SUNDAY!

Domador · Apr 05, 2011, 05:16 PM // 17:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malchior Devenholm

Just a reminder...this shindig is THIS SUNDAY!

Yeah!! Looking forward for it

Lord Sojar · Apr 06, 2011, 03:45 AM // 03:45

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Originally Posted by BladeWind

I'll try my best to attend, best of luck Konig!

Same, but I make no promises... so busy these days with these additional degrees and research.

I really hope to make it though. ^_^

Etaoin Shrdlu · Apr 08, 2011, 12:15 AM // 00:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Konig Des Todes

Scavenger Hunt
All good parties have treasure hunts. A week prior to the event, a short list shall be given containing clues about 7 items that must be collected. There will be 3 winners per district. First place gets 20 Royal Gifts, second and third place gets 250 War Supplies.

Where can one find this "list"? Or is it also part of the hunt?

Konig Des Todes · Apr 08, 2011, 01:45 AM // 01:45

Forgot to update the list because I'm apparently a bookah. As such, I'm reducing the list from original intentions.

Quote:

3 badges of a zealous order
1 manifesto of slaves
2 wings of iridescence
2 silver coins with a hole in them
3 manes of the desert

Markus Clouser · Apr 09, 2011, 09:18 PM // 21:18

Even though I'm not online as often as I used to be, I will be there!

Verene · Apr 10, 2011, 07:26 PM // 19:26

The finale

(click for larger, obviously)

Had a lot of fun - the costume contest was great, as was the Golden Theater.

Konig Des Todes · Apr 10, 2011, 07:46 PM // 19:46

A GuildMag staff took some pictures for everyone's enjoyment:

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/5076/gw132.jpg Stephane Lo Presti
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/511/gw133b.jpg Stephane Lo Presti Dead
http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/5452/gw153.jpg costume contest group 1
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3913/gw154p.jpg costume contest group 2
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/51/gw155d.jpg costume contest group 3

A lot of changing of prizes was done during the event due to there being less than expected districts, but I still enjoyed it.

A big thanks to GuildMag and gw-en.com, especially the later who helped out a LOT.

Verene · Apr 10, 2011, 08:08 PM // 20:08

Some more screens -

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...star/gw421.jpg Pre-party dance party
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...star/gw423.jpg From the audience during the Golden Theater
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...star/gw425.jpg Stephane Lo Presti, as Confessor Isaiah
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...star/gw427.jpg And his death (slightly early in the story!)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...star/gw429.jpg At the end of the play
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...star/gw434.jpg Dance party during the trivia contest
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...star/gw441.jpg And everyone starts dancing as the sparklers wear off

Konig Des Todes · Apr 10, 2011, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Ah, you got me and my ignored textrickroll in that first image.

I wonder if anyone took pictures of the whole play, considering that while it was the same original script as last year, it differed in some places.

GW Karasu · Apr 11, 2011, 12:05 AM // 00:05

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Originally Posted by Konig Des Todes

Ah, you got me and my ignored textrickroll in that first image.

I wonder if anyone took pictures of the whole play, considering that while it was the same original script as last year, it differed in some places.

It was a bit different from the original script? Haha xD Halfway Malch just gave up and orchestrated chaos! Stephan playing Isaiah was great :-)

I'll try to see if I an get in more pictures and such on tomorrow..

Malchior Devenholm · Apr 11, 2011, 12:19 AM // 00:19

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Originally Posted by GW Karasu

It was a bit different from the original script? Haha xD Halfway Malch just gave up and orchestrated chaos! Stephan playing Isaiah was great :-)

I'll try to see if I an get in more pictures and such on tomorrow..

I did not give up! I saw Isaiah die before the heroes of the Shining Mantle appeared on stage, so I improvised

I had really hoped someone would have gotten a full copy of the script during the Golden Theatre...