🕯️Festival of Spirits🕯️ (October)

Information/FAQ:

➼What Festival Takes Place during this Month?
The Festival of Spirits

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➼Who Runs this Festival?
Deacon

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➼How long is this Festival?
As a community, the Festival is held all month. For the lore of Cloakats, it lasts the first full set of weekdays of October.
They also tend to go all out for Halloween traditions as well.

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➼What does this Festival mean to Cloakats?
The Festival of Spirits is held yearly during October to commemorate and celebrate life as well as to respect those who have long passed.
Cloakat gather around to celebrate their loved ones who have been lost in time, treat the spirits, and celebrate life together.
Cloakats with spiritual powers and the like often gather to help guide lost spirits, who seem to be very active around this time of year.
Sometimes malevolent, or generally ill-meaning spirits might show up during some of the rituals the Cloakat do.

During this festival, it is custom, yet optional, to wear costumes to scare one another.
Prizes like candy and other treats are often given out during this event, This is mostly to entertain Cloakid, but it's not too farfetched for older Cloakat to want these sweets as well.

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➼What are we as a community to expect from this Festival?

There will be several small activities that are able to be done and turned in for fun during the whole month.
Some Activities might last just the day it's announced, while others might be an activity for the week/month. (Usually Polls are shorter activities)
*Note that some rare months MIGHT have more activities than others, this can be influenced by things like major holidays.

Festivals help offer multiple activities related to art, writing, brain games, and relaxing games alike. The prompts help build the lore of both the world and your characters, while the activities help relax you or get you to think about stuff. Nonetheless, it's all fun and games at the end of the day, we hope you enjoy the activities!

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➼Are there any other possible celebrations or activities for this month?

Halloween might have a few special surprises for the excited Cloakids awaiting this holiday.

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➼Are there any other possible things that can happen during the festival or the month itself?

Other things can sometimes randomly drop or happen during the month, but this can be completely random and unpredictable.

• Lore can sometimes also drop sometime during either the festival itself, or sometime in the month as a surprise story or piece of art.

• Stock can rotate with the merchants. (discord shop restocks)

• Some traits can be seasonal and can rotate in and out of season.

• New traits, subspecies and/or pets can possibly get its debut by complete surprise or thematically so.

• Adopts can drop in the middle of the month.

• Possibility for surprise raffles.

• Sometimes a new merchant can be revealed in or out of a festival.

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➼Are there any season or monthly unique things for this month that will be available or strictly to this month?

Not during this current moment.