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Winter Market 2024

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When winter comes, this year, the cold does not.

Kin gather in a familiar field to find that it is changed. Perhaps it was the strange events of last Winter Market, or perhaps it's merely that their world each year is different: more magical, less orderly, chaos introduced into the rules they've come to expect. Whatever it is, this year they find their Winter Market location balmy and near tropical. The waves that lash against the shore not too far away are an azure blue, the vibrant color of a tropical sea, a place where fish would delight. The sun above beats down heavy and hot but somehow not oppressive.

It's hot, but it's a plesent heat. The breeze cuts through and tousles fur, the water is cool and refreshing. This year seems like it's going to be a good one.

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The winter market is happening again, and this year the world has turned tropical, a winter market in summer! Once again the usual kin selling wares, or running games, offering pebbles or taking them from the visitors who move through the clearing each day are infected by the energy of this warm setting, often turning booths cheery and light-hearted, in a summer theme. This year's smorgasbord of activity, friends greeting friends, raucous laughter, sometimes take on four-legged shapes, or two, or wings, identities blurred or confused or completely changed....

Come on in and explore: viewtopic.php?t=3965
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Winter Market 2024

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The Winter Market kicks off with several events open; of course the first Free Raffle is open & ready for entries, open through 12/01, so just this weekend: viewtopic.php?t=3967

And the brand new HUMMINGBIRD and SPECTRAL CAIMAN FAMILIARS make their appearance in a little dice game, ending 12/4: viewtopic.php?t=3979

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Winter Market 2024

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Last but not least, we want to make sure EVERYONE gets a chance to enter for this year's Advent! Thanksgiving is so late this year that signups are only about 3 days long. Get in there QUICK: viewtopic.php?t=3976

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NOTE: thank you to BANE and FRANKII for some fabulous art for this event!
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[Story] Holiday Romance

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Your kin is pulled into a Holiday Movie! Here they embark on a romantic adventure that helps them rediscover themself and find the ONE!

To participate in this event, choose any one of your kin to write in a Holiday Movie.

It takes place in a town where it hasn't snowed in 20 years. It ends with a big snowstorm and a kiss.

Start by posting the form and rolling 8d50.

Match your rolls to the list in the thread to gather up 8 tropes to include in your Holiday Movie, and edit Movie Title and Movie Plot into your post!

Stories should be between at least 200 words, and are encouraged to stay under 500 words.

If you have repeats, please choose ANY PROMPT you'd like to replace the repeats. You also are welcome to slightly reskin your tropes if you'd like to make them more appropriate for a non-Christmas winter holiday!

You can write up to three stories; each will give a ticket toward the above prizes!

The event will end on December 11th at 11:59PM EST.
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[Art] Beachside Decorations - Open through Dec 18!

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Let's cover the beach in bright representations of ourselves!
This is an art contest that will run until through December 18th! In order to participate, all you need to do is design a Surfboard based on one of your kin! This can either be a board inspired by their look, matched to their colors, or something that represents how they would choose to decorate for themself.

To hepl you out, I've created a simple board template. You're also welcome to draw your own surfboard if you want to work from scratch. You can color these in an art program or you can print them out and fill them in with traditional media. Just please do not use any AI art tools to create your artwork. The point is to see your hand in the doing!

In the thread is a flat transparent png a link below to a layered PSD with separated lineart & fill!

Each entry will get one ticket toward the prizes above.
Boxes/bags won in this contest can either be kept or given away.
You can enter this event up to three times!

Once your art is completed, please submit it using the form in the thread: viewtopic.php?t=4028
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[Social] Meet your Match - Signups through Dec 19!

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Piles of presents sit secretly wrapped beneath a palm tree, its branches draped with lights. This is the set up for a game; these things all come in pairs. Contestants open their gifts in secret...and then must find their match!

This is a two part social game.

Part one (signups) will run through December 19th; during this phase, users will sign up by posting their kin and a short entry in the thread.

Part two (RP/guesses) will run through December 26th; at the start of this phase, each participant will be PMed just what's inside their giftbox. Each gift has a matching gift that another kin has opened. The trick is to find your partner, describing your gift or what you think its match is using only one syllable words. Can you find your mate? Note: THIS GAME WILL BE PLAYED IN MODERN ERA HUMANOID FORM.

Each player can enter this contest only once.

The event will end on December 26th at 11:59PM EST (though historically, these things usually run long, until everything has been figured out!)

If you're ready to join, please post the form in this thread, along with some RP of your kin (kin kin form!) choosing a wrapped gift from under the tree: viewtopic.php?t=4034
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[Xmas Raffle] Bonfire Wishes - through Dec 24!

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For the purpose of this raffle, we're aiming for optimism! All you have to do to participate is pick one of your kin and RP them casting a wish into the bonfire! You can choose to do this in Kin form, Humanoid form, or some kind of hybrid or AU, whatever you'd like! The bonfire welcomes all.

You can enter exactly once. Your entry will correspond to one raffle ticket.

The event will run for 24 hours!

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[Puzzle Hunt] Beachside Adventures - through Jan 1!

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In the thread you'll find a link to the first page of a puzzle hunt, along with a box into which you can enter your answer. When you complete the puzzle, you'll find an answer that will lead you to the next puzzle, and the next, until you find your way to the final image. Completing the task outlined there will gain you a ticket toward the prizes in the post above.

The first person to complete the puzzle will get three tickets total.
Everyone else on the first page will get two tickets total.
I'm also giving my puzzle testers a bonus ticket for helping out.

Since there's only one puzzle, you can only complete this once.

NOTE: Please do not spoil the puzzle for other users. You can give hints, but only in the ⁠Matope⁠puzzle-hunt channel or in PMs when asked, and please do not give the answer. This includes giving away details in any flavor RP you include of your kin.

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[NYE Raffle] King of the Dock [Open through Dec 31!]

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A battle to be king when the New Year rings in!

For New Year's Eve, a Russian Roulette style raffle has become the norm -- a raffle where each round of rolling eliminates participants until the last person standing wins!

This year's Russian Roulette raffle features a classic beachside game in the form of KING OF THE DOCK! This will take the form of players or groups of players going up against each other and knocking themselves off! All you have to do, though, is to fill out the form below, posting one of your kins in a beachside human AU form to participate in the game!

Each player can enter this raffle exactly once, corresponding to one ticket in a raffle for the above kin.

The event will end After December 31st at 11:59 pm at whatever time I am sober and awake enough to deal with it.
Realistically? It will not be checked until noon on the 1st. At least.

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[Poetry] Epic Rap Battle - Through Jan 5!

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If you want a buck with the moves
Ignore all these other fools.
I've got the hooves and the horns and the swag,
What's he got in his bag?
Small thoughts, small tail, big mouth, big fail.
Leave him behind; you know you wanna be mine!

This contest is an EPIC RAP BATTLE poetry contest! You are invited to write up to three raps of any length (at least 6 lines, though, and we don't recommend more than a verse or two!) IN CHARACTER AS ONE OF YOUR KIN, that is either braggadocious rap (talking about how great they) or a dis track (talkin' trash about a rival!). You're welcome to interpet however you like, so long as your poem somehow reflects the theme.

Each player can enter up to three times, and each time will correspond to one ticket in a raffle for the above kin. There is no word count, but you're encouraged to keep the themes of your poem limited to the world of Matope.

The event will end on January 5th at 11:59PM EST
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