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⭐We've Run Through Your Work and Our Winners Have Been Decided!⭐ To begin with, thank you to those who participated in this contest and thank you to those who supported it! Whenever we introduce a new event, we never know how it will land, so getting to play through your wonderful stories was an absolute delight. 💖 After much deliberation, we're thrilled to announce the placement for this inaugural AE contest! 🎇Congratulations to our participants — Seeing the way you wove unique stories that built on the world we shared was stupendous, and even taught a a few of us some interesting history! 🎁Now, your patience is appreciated — Prize distribution (Influence, Aethers, and Title) may take a few days, but don't worry, your prizes are on their way! And once more, thank you again for your contributions! 💖 -Everlasting Pride

Pencils down, for our AE Contest has entered into the judging phase! Thank you so much for your contributions as we assign our winners!

As we near the big day, updates have been made to the main posts!

For those submitting, please include the following: Arc ID: Arc Title: Author Global: Discord Handle (If relevant): Number of Missions: Level Range: Description:

Community Challenge: Histories! – An AE Writing Contest – Preamble: As we've often done with each year we've run a Pride event, we've decided to add something new! In addition to bringing back the Base Contest introduced last year, for our 6th year of celebrating Pride, we're bringing out an AE contest, open to all shards! The inaugural theme is "LGBTQ+ Histories" Where YOU Come In: Write an arc themed as LGBGTQ+ heroic history. It could be a personal origin story, a flashback, a newsreel—feel free to be creative!—but it should cover some event in the past, whether that be recent or further back, and be heroic in tone! Scoring Criteria: Each arc will be scored on a technical and thematic basis. Technical Criteria: We’ll be awarding points based on skillful usage of Architect Entertainment’s Mission architect. Guides can be found on both the Homecoming Wiki (https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Mission_Architect) and the Homecoming Forums (https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/31-mission-architect/). Things we'll be considering include: Total arc length: they should be 3 to 5 missions Usage of Custom NPCs in missions: in particular, how biographies and costume designs are employed. (Note: these arcs should be soloable at +1/x1, so please don’t tune any enemy NPCs toward higher difficulties!) Use of mission objectives: please don’t just do a sequence of outdoor defeat-alls. But take advantage of mission goals (chaining one into another, specific NPC defeats, clickables, etctera) to tell your story Readables: mission clues, intro and outro text, the mission pop-ups, the souvenir—we’ll be scoring on writing, and these are all places to interject it Thematic Criteria: Whether through individuals with super powers or other amazing abilities, or through everyday heroes, your arc should be heroic in nature The arc should be about a past event: this can include a more contemporary history, something from antiquity, or anything in between The tones can be cheerful, somber, humorous, contemplative, etcetera and any appropriate combination thereof, but the overall arc should be uplifting Reference to Setting: there is a lot of lore in game, and we’ll be looking for adroit usage of things like the game’s locations and history (A general canon timeline is available on the HC Wiki: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Canon_Timeline ) The arc should be an LBGTQ+ story Disclaimer: Judging is inherently subjective and a matter of individual tastes! Please show kindness to the judges volunteering their time and resources for these sorts of events. Judges will not be participating in this contest. Entry Period: The arc must be published after 12:00 AM PST June 8th, 2025, with an Arc ID greater than 68110. Entries will be accepted until 11:59 PM PST June 29th, 2025! Prizes: The HC City Council is generously providing a number of fantastic rewards: Grand Prize Winner: 500 Prismatic Aethers The Golden Title: "2025 Pride Raconteur" Second Prize Winner: 250 Prismatic Aethers Third Prize Winner: 100 Prismatic Aethers Furthermore, Everlasting Pride will also be sweetening the pot with billions of influence (exact numbers to be decided later, because we've got a lot to hand out!), as well as awarding consolation prizes to other entrants! To Summarize: The contest runs from now until June 29th, 2025. Final results will be announced and prizes awarded on June 30th (The golden title may take longer to appear) To enter, post using the provided template in this thread by the above deadline One entry per player. Assistance from others is allowed, but prizes will only be awarded to the submitting party Happy Pride! -Everlasting Pride Everlasting Pride Discord Link

Everlasting Pride AE Contest: Entry Link Everlasting Pride Basebuilding Contest: Entry Link Calender of Club Events: https://tinyurl.com/mtzyux9u

Hello! This year, as in years past, Everlasting Pride will be putting on our celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride the last Sunday of June, which will be June 29th, 2025 this year! But of course, the ITINERARY! 2:00 PM Eastern: Kallisti Wharf Train Station Pre-Party – DJ Eros will be spinning music to kick off the fun! 3:00 PM Eastern: 2025 Everlasting Pride Parade – STREETS OF PRIDE! – Kallisti Wharf has hostile forces roaming the streets now, so feel dress up as your favorite fighting game character to dress down any feisty foes as Eros plays tracks from his favorite beat-em-up games! 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Eastern: 2025 Everlasting Pride Festival in Echo Plaza with Costume Contests – During this time, we'll also be offering tours through our Pride Through the Ages Float Competition Participants (This is a multi-shard event and may require shard hopping!) 4:00 PM Eastern Costume Contest: Pride Flags! – You know the drill! Show us your flashiest, glitteriest, queerest costumes with the Pride Flag colors of your choice! 6:00 PM Eastern Costume Contest: LEGALLY DISTINCT PRIDE ICONS – Eddie Jupiter, Boopaul, the Purple Ladies—dress as a fun and festive knock-off! (Don't wanna knock the ToS lol) 8:00 PM Eastern: Pride Through the Ages After Party Gala at the Penny Palace (GLITTER-15236) – Enjoy a set by DJ Midnight Masque dressed in Pride looks inspired by fashion throughout history! 9:00 PM Eastern: Costume Contest: Pride Through the Ages – Matching the theme of the gala, line up with your best historical Pride looks And of course, several other wonderful super groups and clubs will also be putting on fantastic events throughout the month, so be ready for an exciting June! If you're interested in joining in the planning or would just like to join our community, click this Discord Link!

A design I've been happy with; something more sidereal.

Base Code: VISIT-25931 Base Name: Dyer Resort Builder/Owner: @Ruaidhri Shard: Everlasting Theme: Nature A lakefront resort with a functional cabin and ample fishing.

I've added an overhaul of the Animal Fur and Reptilian textures, based on the pack in this post: It's titled Animal Fur and Reptilian Texture Overhaul, and having tested it with the City Mod Installer, it all seems functional.

I'll check that out!

Edit: This pack should now also be available from City Modder under the title 'Animal Fur and Reptilian Texture Overhaul' For anyone that's used the Animal Fur texture with a lighter color, you're familiar with the way skin shows through in sections, creating a patchy appearance. Which sucks! So I've gone through and adjusted various textures to deal with that issue. The image below provides a before and after where white has been selected for the palette. The texture pack can be found here, and instructions are included: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WpNoqY1dhgdCd0RmzO6mXWCsUwKbROmn/view?usp=drive_link DO NOT perform this install while your game is running! It shouldn't break anything, but it WILL cause your game to crash and need to be restarted. Enjoy!

Shard: Everlasting Base Code: VISIT-27061 Builder/Owner: @Ruaidhri Special Considerations: I suggest having music enabled (Music Volume set to 15% or higher) to get the full effect of the rainy ambience!

By the way, a member of our team put together a visual tour!

And now the big moment, the Announcement of the Winners of the Float On Base Building Contest! Beginning with the Shard Winners: From Everlasting: Mystic Ascendancy (PARADE-34578) !! From Excelsior: Macy's Day Parade (MACYS-31608) !! From Reunion: The Order of the Purple Hand (LOVEISLOVE-9358) !! From Torchbearer: Pride Power (PRIDEPOWER-14720) !! Congratulations! Each of you will be receiving 1,000,000,000 1,250,000,000 influence and 50 Prismatic Aethers! And the Overall Winner of the Float On Contest: A Big Congratulations!!! You will instead receive 500 Prismatic Aethers and the Golden Title: Pride of the Parade!!! Furthermore, our Runners-Up from each shard will be receiving 500,000,000 influence each for their stunning creations! You can check them out here, which I highly recommend: On Everlasting: PARADE-34692 On Torchbearer: TROUBLEMAKERS-14693 On Torchbearer: FRIENDSOFDOROTHY-14712 Once more, congratulations and thank you to all of you for participating! We'll be looking forward to showing your work off in our Pride Float base tour tonight! And thank you to Easter Bunny, Dacy, the Homecoming Team, and a generous contribution from Jessica!

Hey there, just a bit of bookkeeping as we get ready to announce winners! As noted in the intial post all participants will be receiving something for taking part in this contest, and so I've sent in-game e-mails to all of you to make sure that nothing gets lost in transit! A couple of you have sent responses already, but if you haven't checked your e-mail yet, I'd appreciate if you send me a reply when you have a chance so that I know I got it right! And if you haven't gotten an e-mail from me (Subject: Pride Float Correspondence), let me know so I can amend that! Thank you!

Hello, participants! Now that this contest is entering into the decision-making phase, I wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of that you has participated. Because I’ll be honest: I wasn’t entirely sure if we’d get any participation! This contest was very much an experiment. The Everlasting Pride Committee, as we’ve taken to calling ourselves, has put on Pride festivities for a number of years now. However, as you can probably glean from the name, the majority of our events have been on the Everlasting shard, when you know and we know there are vibrant and active communities all across Homecoming. And so, seeing beautiful and impassioned float designs come in from four of the five shards has been nothing short of amazing. I’d like to express my thanks to the Homecoming Team for supporting this event with the provision of prismatic aethers and a golden title to our soon-to-be-announced winner, to Dacy and Easter Bunny for their knowledge and drive in helping this event go from a nebulous idea to reality, and, of course, to all of you for providing beautiful creations that others can come and visit, from now into the future. Because after all, Pride is all year long.

This was a shock to hear! Dacy and Easter Bunny, you two are such fantastic organizers and community supporters. Speaking personally, it was because of Dacy's base building videos and the consolidation of techniques that I first got started with what is, quite frankly, a building system that is not transparent about the nitty gritty of its functionality! And comparing the tools that many of us started with to the tools we have now (surface tiles for placement, invisible collision, expansive water, etc.), it's so much easier to realize a build vision—and I don't think we would've gotten them without those needs/desires being communicated. Add on to this your work with the base directory project, your assistance with player contests, the leading of base tours to bring visibility to others' work, and just your continual presence when people have questions, you two epitomize not just representatives but paragons of the base-building community.

The element of this post that most interests me is the idea of jadedness in the context of other players. I'll admit that when I join a team and the party banter is primarily the flavor of: '*Yawn,* boring, is this it?' I'm guilty of an eye roll, but I find that sort of back-and-forth pretty innocuous overall. That said, reacting to another's character or plot with something like—well I'll just pull an example from the main post: —i.e. reacting with a no sell, well, I find that can feel more egregious, antipodal to 'Yes, and—'. Now, I'll quickly cede that this can, deliberately, be a softer mechanism of shutting down a topic or conversation if one isn't interested. An example of player jadedness informing character jadedness, sure, because as a player maybe you don't feel like roleplaying your character fawning over the random deity claiming that they alone are solely responsible for the good weather at the picnic you're all attending, you're welcome. (Or maybe you do! It could make for a fascinating meteorological conversation and my intent is not to try to mark any definite lines in the sand of an 'acceptable premise.') But returning to the idea of the no sell with another quoted selection: I agree wholeheartedly. It's closing the door to possible interactions, to possible friendships. In fact, I've seen this sort of behavior be the death knell of quite a number of groups. My most played characters, necessarily, have become inured to facets of meta-powered life. They've tangled with Malta, and Crey's illicit divisions, and the Circle of Thorns, and so on. To wit, they've got proverbial callouses. But they probably hadn't met someone with a pompadour that's painted their power armor like a hot rod. They probably hadn't met someone that needs to quaff an experimental serum to grow 12-feet tall every time they want to do a mission. But even if they have, I, as a player, can still make the decision to have my characters respond with individual curiosity about what's unique to the other person's situation, even if it isn't exactly with jaw-dropped and wide-eyed wonder in every case. Just like in real life, if someone were to tell me they're playing, say, Disco Elysium, my response won't be to say, 'Oh I've already beaten that game.' My response is going to be to ask about their thoughts and feelings about it, because if they've brought it up, they probably want to do just that.

Praetorian Montague Castanella's arc, the second door mission of Part Two: Take a Number (some irony here, I suppose), Find Percy's Soul. As shown in the screenshots, both the character model and objective has The Soul of Percy Winkley doubling up. Not sure what spurred it, or if this is a known issue, but I took this arc on a Primal character that had done none of the Praetorian content prior to this, save for Mistress Maria's arc introducing Night Ward and Castanella as a contact.

In the mission 'Rescue Coldwell heirs' from the arc, 'The Scroll of Tielekku' given by contact Laura Brunetti. The clues are awarded normally from the hostages, Duncan Silver and Debbie Coldwell, but the mission objectives may be mixed up between them.

I'll try to make it if I'm available—I do have some clientelle, but that won't be an all day thing.

I will continue to message you with inquiries about anything and everything found both in and out of the game, Krow.

Character Name: Riviera Lambert Global Name: Baudin SG Name: Puget Suites Shard: Everlasting Passcode: PUGET-27061 Base Category: RP Base Under 7K Items Item Count: 1697 Builder: Baudin (Myself) Additional Info: This base is designed with ambient sound in mind, so I recommend enabling music for it! (It has some additional hidden features to compensate if music is disabled, but I think it is best experienced with music on).