Dacy

I keep setting this to not expire, hopefully it stays this time! https://discord.gg/hmygsKT4qA -Dacy

I have left it open, for those who still care to stroll through, tho of course, none of the afk characters or scares that really brought it to life are still there. 🙂 I'm unsure at this point whether or not I will leave it open until the season draws near again, or if I will again shutter it and only have it open for Halloween. But for now, yes, it's still open. 🙂 -Dacy

I just wanted to say, THANK YOU to all you amazing RPers who came through my haunted house! YOU are the star, really, the house and everything I put into it would not be much fun without people like you who come through and, with your visible reactions and amazing dialogue, make it come alive. You made us laugh, we've shared a lot of what came through our house, and it was absolutely awesome. THANK YOU!! -Dacy ❤️

The Halloween Giveaway was, by all reports I've gotten back, a huge success. ALL the servers participated, a fact I am very proud of and very happy about! I want to thank all the AMAZING BASE HOSTS!! Give them a round of applause!! All of them invested time and great effort into presenting their awesome bases and dedicating time to stay there and hand out treats to guests. They did this with no promise of anything besides being able to hand out treats! These leaders are: @BBBadger, The Last Judgment, Everlasting - 4 hours @EnnVee, Mischief Manor, Excelsior - 12 hours @Dr. Feedback, Future Dead, Excelsior, 4 hours @GoblinBoss, base host, together with @SuggestorK, Halloween Hall, Reunion - 3.5 hours @KingofMonkeys, Nightcastle, Torchbearer - 4 hours @Etched, base host, and @TraumaTrain, active host, Slackers, Indomitable -6 hours Total attendance overall is higher than I had expected! It is notoriously difficult to get people into bases on any server other than Everlasting, and together, we got hundreds of people to come into these bases from these shards! They saw things they were impressed with, things they may not have seen before, and they got fantastic treats. Good will was built all around. I hope everyone involved is proud of the effort they put in, and what was accomplished. And I need to call out my crew!! Oh, how blessed I was to find such a fantastic group of people! I hope I don't miss anyone here. From the person who first came up with the Halloween Extravaganza idea, who prefers to remain Anonymous, who funded it last year and continued to fund it this year, to every last wonderful person who came through my base, you all have a dear place in my heart. So my call out list (forgive for those whose forum names I do not know): My sponsors! These people contributed various amounts of influence and/or IOs: @Stryk, a huge, generous donor @Ignis Volant @Rugor @Bran @Marine X Then, a group who went way above and beyond simply donating!!! The fabulous @BlackHearted, who, with her friends and associates, donated over half of all the funds we used. AND, she joined the supergroup so she could promote it while doing her many events, AND, she would park BlackHearted in the base while she was afk as part of a scene, AND kept some of our afk characters logged in! Such a huge supporter! ❤️ Wonderful @DawL, super kind and generous, kept pushing influence and IOs on me every time I turned around, AND helped populate the base, as well as RP and occasionally, help lost souls find their way back. Big hearted @IIIXJokerXIII, who not only contributed generously, but also gave of his time and expertise, and designed the much loathed/loved Killer Clown, and showed us how to play him. @EnnVee. Man, this woman, she farmed her heart out to supply the treats for her 12 hour stint on Excelsior; I gave her some supplemental funds, but she basically had it covered, and she put her heart into her base! She managed to attract pretty close to 200, unheard of for a base on Excelsior. Dr. Feedback, who also had a base open on Excelsior, who not only staffed his base but also contributed to the overall effort, and also had a really successful run. @rookery. contributed, but also helped with scare acting! @GENI,aka Dallas, who helped me with promotional posters and advice. @Conventus, who helped with promotion on Twitch, @Nightfall Raven, who streamed music on many nights. @Ellyz, whose amazing costuming skills brought us gems like Lost Girl and the Hell Spiderlings, and she even helped with some of the scares! Thank you all!! My scare actors!! Oh, how they improved the whole experience for visitors!! If you went through the house without them, I'm so sorry, because you really missed something special. I had an early crew, helped us get things off the ground, set the bar for everyone who came after: Some got sick, some couldn't continue due to other reasons, but all were so very welcome and great to work with! @aalyasenai,@amph, @Arklide, @betsumei , @ChaosGirl, @choochus, @Gillbombs, @Inq Blot, @juliantwopointoh (Discord handle), @Thurgon, @Mystical Bovine, @Sirena, @Texas Jane, @Wravis, @xxshadowcat95, and my awesome GM participants, @GM Sparky, @GM Willow, @GM Kal, @GM Impervium...you all made it rock so hard, it was SO MUCH FUN, and a big part of that is because of you! I can't express thanks without thanking the main reason my base is so much fun, and that is the RP crowd on Everlasting!! You all, you just don't know how much more fun it is to work with people who react and lean into what's going on, rather than running through, never slowing or looking around. Thank you! You all are AWESOME And finally, the biggest shout out to my right hand people: @VV and the amazingly creatively awesome @Easter Bunny!!!! @Easterbunny sparked several ideas used in the base, such as the twist that the door that used to lead out from the black house path last year, THIS year, tempts you into a hole that leads to the carnival. He encouraged me that the fall I had accidentally created in the fire zone wasn't too much to keep, and so, the little ride into Hell was born. Heads instead of balloons? Yeah, I'm not shy about using a great idea when I hear it. And then, all the afk character ideas, and then the PRODUCTION of all of those afk characters and most of the scare characters. He collaborated with @Ellyzto make the demon clown and the Lost Girl, AND he helped with scare acting as much as he possibly could! @VVwas so helpful in her organization, and she was just there so much of the time, doing things that needed to be done. Just even knowing she was there to help was such a relief I can't even express how important, and she was typically perched on a scare Spiderling, participating in the scares. As you can see from this huge list, it was something that required a lot of participation from a lot of people!! Thank you all so very much. There were a few glitches, yes. We learned several things! I learned that accessing storage during haunting time is not a good idea (flickers even on a good day, crashes if you did it too fast, sorry about that!). Next year's event will probably trim down the live actors to just the week of, to cut down on burnout from everyone. Pretty sure no one wants to hear another promo for the Witch's House for a while! That was certainly made clear to @EnnVee on Excelsior regarding her promos; she was only allowed to post once per hour, and I'm sure a lot of people missed out because they didn't hear about it. I probably need to have some guidelines for base layout for all the participants, because some players want or need a straight line to the treats, extra experiences in the base not desired. And, the base on Torchbearer had some problems keeping to their posted hours. I think overall, it still went really well, and lessons learned will definitely help next year, and, there is now a growing awareness of this event, so promotion will be easier next year. Let me know if you are interested in being a coordinator for your shard for next year's Giveaway. All the materials are in place, so it will be pretty easy, and it would be nice to only have to coordinate what is going on at my own base. You don't even have to have a base, just be someone who likes to coordinate and help others. ❤️ <3<3 Dacy <3<3

There was much more to ELLO, but unfortunately, it seems you missed it. Probably a more straightforward design will work better next year. The builder wished to try some more complicated paths. I was unsure if people would take to it or not. Some loved it. Some, obviously, did not want to mess with it. She managed a pretty good giveaway, so hopefully more liked it that didn’t. 😊 -Dacy

The witch’s house code is BOO-17189, and it’s one of the codes listed, but it isn’t the only place to get treats! -Dacy

It’s only on Halloween. -Dacy

This is still SET to go on on Halloween. I'd load the current posters, but there is a lifetime limit on how much you can upload to the forums, and apparently, I can't do that now. I'll get someone else do to it. 🙂 -Dacy

Do you have a Drama Class whose students need class credit? A character whose passion is acting or just loves playing tricks on people or scaring them? Offering opportunities for you to come and scare people in my Haunted House! We already have the Costumes...(characters that are named the same and costumed the same on House accounts)...just like IRL, you're disguised, and no one knows who you are (except the rest of the staff). Unlike IRL, you don't have to spend a lot of time in makeup or shivering in 40 degree temperatures while you wait for your next victim!. We can quickly train you, it's simple, and fun! We are not looking for new costumes at this point, although we'd be happy to consider them next year, to make the experience different from this year. Please contact me if you are interested! Especially interested in availability for evening and weekend hours. This is on Everlasting, for the Witch's House. -Dacy

I've gotten a lot of positive feedback and kudos on the Witch's House, the Halloween event base. I just wanted to cast the spotlight on other great builders, because without their genius, I could not have done what I did! We all share information in base building, and the sheer genius and creativity of this group as a whole is astounding. I really think we are better because we are together and share! I did not invent the slide I used frequently in my base. First, @Cloudless Night aka Claire came up with the Q rail, which was what I modified to do the funnel from last year, that is now the slope into the whirlpool. So clever to have figured out that you could slide on the alphabet hit box! Then the slide was further developed by @CrazyCat aka Gizmouse, who found an item that actually propelled a character in a certain direction. Another player (who is now gone from this server) found another piece that did the same thing, the heart in a jar, which has the added property of being something that disappears behind water! So all of my slides were things other players discovered, and I just put it all together. There are other players, too, who've contributed, both directly and indirectly. @Linea showed me long ago how to get rid of flicker, and a few other details I hadn't heard before. @Easter Bunny has crazy creative ideas and suggestions that have helped me improve and rethink certain sections. All you awesome base builders out there, I see your work, and so often, we inspire each other! Thanks for coming to visit, and I appreciate the feedback! Thanks for all the awesome things you build, your creative ideas, your inventive tricks, we all make each other better! -Dacy ❤️

All hours are correct. Tho, I'm not sure why you think the other shards are less? My base alone is open for at least 14 hours. Excelsior, the same. I really hope that Indom responds! I hope attendance is good over all the servers (working on Reunion's participation). -Dacy

If you'd rather express your time in CET due to the preponderance of Europeans on Reunion, that's fine, or say it in both time zones. -Dacy

And folks, feel free to make a toon and visit around; for example, not taking anything away from any of the other bases, but if you came to Everlasting, my base is not just a base, it's an experience, and you can put any treat you get in mail to yourself and have it over on the other server. You are also not just limited to one base or one visit. -Dacy

I know. It has caused me much sadness, and I did try and find someone there to represent and do the giveaway, but no response. 😞 -Dacy

Missed a sponsor! Updating images...

Here are better posters, more specific. Updated because I missed a sponsor! And it's EDT, not EST. 😛 -Dacy

....ew. No Zombie flesh, please! If you want great treats, you must find the secret room; it is very very nice. If you come on Halloween, all you need to find is me! And I will not be in the depths, or in the secret room. -Dacy

I'm responsible! *waves hand in the air* Well, I built the base. I need to do a shout out to my crew, without whom this would be so much less of a great experience: @Easter Bunny, whose creativity is dangerously off the charts, he's one lab accident away from being an evil genius. He's made many of the characters who now inhabit the depths of the base (although I've done the bios). His co-conspirator in costuming is @Ellyz, and they do beautiful work!! @IIIXJokerXIII designed one particularly appropriately named character, which inspired a whole section of the base. @VV has been helpfully working up schedules and things related to volunteers, and I have a host of others who are helping me in so many ways, from hosting AFK characters to manning scare critters to giving helpful publicity shout outs, I could not do this without all of you: @Conventus, @DawL, @vanessa (I hope I tagged the right one!) @BlackHearted, @Wravis, @Arklide, @betsumei, @rookery., and one more whose global I have yet to learn, plus several amazing GMs. You are all AWESOME and AMAZING people, and I love you all; thank you so much for all you do. -Dacy

I think it's well known among those of us who are frequently in bases, building, but less commonly known in general. I appreciate that you might feel lost, but I promise, just keep going and you will get out! 🙂 But I know, some people got turned around and wound up back where they started, and some got tired of trying, and some did not have much luck in a couple of places (and most of those are intentionally disorienting). I just hope no one has to use /stuck much! -Dacy

PM me with details, I am always interested in giving people the best experience, and I don't want them to get lost. Otoh, sometimes a little disorientation is just part of a haunted house. I've already put in some arrows and such in places where I observed some people having difficulty, so let me know where you felt it was difficult. Thanks for the props! 🙂 Oh, and as anyone who's listened to my videos knows, I am female, so "she" is perfectly acceptable. 🙂 -Dacy

On Halloween, 6 bases across 4 shards on Homecoming will be giving away treats like Superpacks, ATOs, influence/infamy, purple IOs, and more! Just go to a base portal and enter a code shown here: inside, you will find someone handing out treats! (You may have to walk through the base a bit to find that person!) Specific hours of operation vary, look for more information to find out about what's happening on your shard! Brought to you by @Dacy, and additionally the base builders @KingofMonkeys, @EnnVee, @Dr. Feedback, @Etched, and @BBBadger. MAJOR sponsorship from Anonymous, @BlackHearted & Associates, @Rugor @IIIXJokerXIII, @Stryke, and @EnnVee. Additional support from @Dawl and @Dr. Feedback and @Rookery. You can also visit NOW and just explore the Witch's House (BOO-17189). We're ready to scare you! Look for more shard-specific posters soon! -Dacy

Thank you! Please do stop by again; we're getting more live actors all the time. Weekends and evenings should be especially good, from midweek on. So far. 🙂 -Dacy

Thank you all so much! I am the sole builder, but I’ve got a very amazing crew helping out with just everything!! @Easter Bunny is my number one, he’s done some amazing costume work, and has just been there nearly nonstxop this weekend, when I couldn’t be there. Plus, he operates some of the characters at times. @V.V (not sure of her forum name) has been invaluable as my Special Tormentor (her requested title) in gathering actor recruits and, like EB, chiming in with ideas. @IIXjokerXII (again unsure of forum name) came up with a character that inspired a whole section, and who has been a runaway hit, plus he and V.V have RL experience with Haunted Houses that has been helpful with planning the scares. Several GMs have been adding to the fun in huge ways, if you went in yesterday, you might know what I’m talking about. 😏 Not sure if I’m supposed to tag them or not… And, I have several scare actors who also helped hugely this weekend, with more joining soon. Shoutouts to @betsumei, @Rookery., and @Vududawl, hopefully I got those right. Oh, and to all of you, if you didn’t see anyone or get chased, TURN AROUND, also, TURN OFF SPRINT. Some folks zip thru areas so fast, they are missing some things. 😊 -Dacy