šŸŒ• [N/RP] Lunar Festival 31st January - 2nd February

First time attending an RP event. This was so amazing, I loved every second of it. The History Quiz was so awesome, even though I knew the answer to like only 2 questions! Thank you so much to the hosts! <3

Canā€™t wait for tonight!

Thank you so much to the people who are hosting and doing the backstage hard work!! You guys are just amazing.

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Fortunately most questions were on kaldorei heritage! :nerd_face: Was great fun though (much like the rest of Lunar Festival!) I adored Jib-Jibā€™s answers especially.

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A very lovely festival so far. The Nightblades are enjoying themselves and having fun. Looking forward to experiencing the last night on an alt of mine. Compliments to Niamh, The Handmaidens of Elune and Glaivewings for hosting this yearā€™s festival and making it such a lovely experience. :slight_smile:

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Tskā€¦ its the last day sadly :frowning:

The Dwarves are fun lot :smiley:

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Mud-wickets!!!

Also know as Earthen!

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a great experience so far!
Sadly i canā€™ attend the last day :frowning:

but maybe some of my caravan can.
Maybe i will meet the Nightelf and the Dwarf i met there someday :slight_smile:

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Lovely firework display, and lovely effort put by everyone involved in the event to make it what it is. Quite an abundance of great and fun roleplay to be had, made some new friends too and got to speak to some old ones as well.

Thank you to everyone involved! <3

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Had a ton of fun organizing stuff in the background and mingling IC on my grouchy druid and friendly Monk!

Than you all for participating and making this absolutely awesome experience. I have not had such a good time during a project OOC or IC in many years!

I think this weekend showed how wonderful the power and creativity of the RP community can truly be.

Once again. Thank you all who contributed and all who participated. You were all awesome!

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I canā€™t believe itā€™s only the start of February and I already attended the best event of the year. A huge thank you to all organisers for the great fun. :slight_smile:

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Iā€™ve thanked people yesterday, but thanks again to all came to Fizzle today, and thanks to all the other vendors, participants, and the Handmaidens for organising it! :clap:

Hopefully weā€™ll see this again next year.

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Thank you all for the amazing weekend! It was an honour to be a part of this, I hope there will be many more Lunar Festivals where the Hordeā€™s resident Elunatics can take part and help with the diplomatic process!

Elune Adore my dudes.

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Thank you to everyone who came, participated and put their time and effort to the festival! A wonderful weekend with many laughs and new friends made. I hope to see everyone again in the future!

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Thank you to everyone who made the weekend an enjoyable time! From the people who hosted to those who joined the event! The atmosphere was incredible, and Lunar Festival continues to stand out as a highlight of my roleplay year! Certainly looking forward to next year :partying_face:

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Now to roll the credits!!! Thanks to everyone who came! Eluneā€™adore!!!

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While I enjoyed the various stalls and events offered at the festival - across the whole of the weekend - I cannot help but reach the festivalā€™s end feeling heavily disappointed with the way that the organisers have responded to IC conflict. Though I am grateful for the entertainment offered, as well as those selling wares and enchantments, I feel that there is much room for improvement, and that things should have been handled differently across the eventā€™s duration considering the lore that we have in place from, not only the last three patches, but also the last several expansions.

Most considerably off-putting to me was the way in which the organisers decided to manage a cross-faction, neutral event. Considering that the kaldorei have just suffered a genocide resulting in the deaths of the majority of their peoples - and also considering that their faction leader, Tyrande Whisperwind, has refused peace and searches for the Banshee Queen, swearing the Horde must pay - it was highly inappropriate from the beginning to praise the Horde as ā€˜the real heroesā€™ within the opening ceremony.

If the organisers wish to create an event where there is as little conflict as possible, then I believe it was counter-productive to place salt in the wounds of many characters, hailing the Horde as heroes. To add insult to injury, there was no control over what Horde were and were not entering the event, leading to prominent Horde RP figureheads, who participated in the Drums of War campaign at the start of BFA that detailed the loss of Teldrassil, to be welcomed unconditionally into Moonglade and praised. Not only this, but Horde were all allowed to enter Moonglade fully armed and armoured - many even wearing Horde insignias. It is not difficult to imagine how this would fuel IC tensions rather than defuse them, leading the organisers to set themselves up for a kind of failure if Alliance characters are to behave according to their IC personalities.

This becomes particularly cumbersome and irritating when the organisers on both sides are eager to chastise any members of the Alliance for responding to Horde members with hostility - despite the fact that Horde members were stoking fires in turn, if not also instigating some arguments. While the organisers were alarmed and distressed by the rise of IC conflict on one side - the Alliance - on the other side, there was little if any control at all over the words and actions of Horde members, with goblins making fun of the deaths of Teldrassil to Horde death knights kicking kaldorei in their backs. This creates an incredibly toxic atmosphere where the Alliance RPers are held to a double-standard, and to make matters worse, they are then also told IC that if they do not abide by the ā€˜rulesā€™ in place, they will be removed for ā€˜instigatingā€™ trouble - although in truth, they have not instigated the trouble at all. I recall moments where the Horde organiser themself implicated that they would harm Alliance members rather than defusing any situations where conflict was arising. Ultimately, I felt often that I was forced to act out of character at threat of being unable to enjoy the festival - for little more than misunderstandings of who was starting what, where, and when - as well as ignorance as to why tensions were stoked (re: the opening ceremony). This led for me, at least, to lose confidence in the hosts of this yearā€™s Lunar Festival, if not feeling entirely unwelcome at all.

Furthermore, I was surprised to find that there was an expectation by the organisers that there would be complete peace, considering the atmosphere of the patches prior - events that only happened a year to several months ago, and ended only several weeks ago. While I do not think that it is wrong to want a peaceful event - I do not think that this was the way in which to go about it. In my opinion, there was a lack of regard and thought on how the Horde would be perceived by many, and indeed, a lack of an attempt to monitor the Horde themselves within the festival (see: above).

Furthermore, when conflict did erupt fully and fights occurred, I was disappointed to hear that the organisers took this as an OOC insult to themselves and their efforts - for the conflict was stirred solely as a response to IC events and interactions. This was also clear while the organisers were dealing with these conflicts IC - their responses became terse, short and sarcastic. Ultimately, it led to the creation of an us versus them atmosphere - which no guests of an event should feel towards their organisers. While those involved in the conflict, as confirmed OOC before the conflict took place, were happy and pleased with its results - the organisers still took issue, even going so far as to unfortunately rumour-monger about the guild(s) involved in an OOC discord, while also lumping both guilds together. Again, an us versus them attitude. Particularly saddening was that members who were in one of these guilds OOC were taken to be IC members within roleplay due to little else than the guild tag below their character names.

It did not feel like there was any genuine attempt to discuss the issues at hand that the organisers had with some of the attendees - with the organisers going so far as to stop responding to those trying to reach out to them to resolve the OOC conflict and turmoil, resulting only to complaining that the conflict was happening in the first place.

I feel further that this was aggravated by a general lack of understanding of the authority in play within Moonglade itself - and the way in which the Sisterhood would respond to such conflicts. It is important to keep in mind that only the Cenarion Circle has authority within Moonglade - hence why it is able to be a neutral area, with its own guard NPCs; Cenarion Wardens / Guards. As such, to watch a character involved in a strictly IC conflict be arrested ā€˜on the authority of the Sisterhoodā€™ for killing a member of the Horde was extremely disheartening, especially as Tyrande, the leader of the Sisterhood, has commanded her Army to continue to fight said Horde and the Banshee Queen.

Conclusively, I feel that if the organisers truly wanted a peaceful event with no conflict whatsoever, they should have barred weaponry and heavy armour, been more sensitive and aware of the relevancy of current lore in the emotions of characters, responded equally to Horde trouble-making as they did Alliance trouble-making, and they perhaps should have formed a dedicated group of Cenarion Warden NPCS for the purposes of the event alone. This would have led to a far neater, cleaner, and graceful result - without any OOC resentments. It is a shame that the organisers instead chose to further decline any attempts to resolve these misunderstandings - culminating tonight in a large group of people, alongside an organiser, attempting to ā€˜persecuteā€™ a guild for supposed ā€˜treasonā€™.

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The troll beheadings, attacks in Felwood and appearances of Queteron were very entertaining

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Personally looking forwards to the aftermath that comes with all the festivities, seeing as it was out of place for quite a few Kaldorei among those that perhaps also just desire some peace at this point.

Though not to sure how much Iā€™ll be getting into it myself, will see. Itā€™s been fun otherwise!

Edit: Towards the vengeance filled night elves that is!

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Iā€™m very glad for the RP opportunities the Lunar Festival provided me with and I hope others. Despite it being a first, Niamhā€™s initiative and everyoneā€™s willingness to offer help with the event ended up sealing the deal for a great start of 2020.

Much appreciations to Handmaidens and all involved in this. I had a great time this weekend.

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Iā€™ll admit, it was a little disheartening to read Urens post. I canā€™t speak for the integrity of their claims, seeing as I havenā€™t been particular observant to the flaws they brought up. Either way, I hope the organizers can take something constructive out of their feedback for future events.

That aside, I really enjoyed the Lunar Festival this year. Seeing the creative effort put in by the hosts and attendees alike has been a blast and I canā€™t be thankful enough for all the memorable interactions.

Yes, the atmosphere was rife with tension. In all honesty, I expected nothing less. Iā€™m glad there were those who acknowledged the somewhat awkward timing of a cross faction celebration. The conflict that ensued added just another layer of depth to an already beloved tradition of Argent Dawn.

To echo what Ercia said, Iā€™m hoping to see the initiatives continue to build on the foundation laid out this weekend, and that the organizers are able to feel satisfied with their efforts in enabling such thrilling roleplay.

Good work, to all of you, and thank you Niamh for carrying on the torch after Acrona!

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Thank you for the feedback. Unfortunately I do not recall interacting with you during the event, it was a very busy weekend as I am sure you can imagine.

It seems there is a lot of ill feeling here on an OOC standpoint. I note you comment that you attempted to resolve these issues through communication with the organisers. Perhaps you could be transparent as to who you contacted because it was not me and I would have appreciated the conversation.

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