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              -White-water rafting: A race with wherein the winning team will obtain the Big Love Rocket. Markers will be set aside as checkpoints while players roll to stay on their raft. Teams will be made up of either couples or singles.

              -Waterfall diving contest: Trust-based event with TLE members serving a judges. Contestants will roll for how successful they made their dive for additional points, but ultimately, the winner is decided for who made the best dives with the most well-written emotes in addition to that roll.

              -Vine-swinging obstacle course: Trees in the surrounding areas will have OOC objects such as crates and planks to aid the player in climbing the jungle canopy IC. Top 3 players who clear the course the fastest will win prizes of their choice from a select list.


Location independent (note: All these events are repeats from the past festivals. Refer to these old threads for their respective rules):

              -Strip poker: The usual, if players wish this oldie but goodie to return. Will go by the same rules as we typically do. Players are not required to know how to play poker to participate (as the hands are determined by rolls rather than actual cards).

              -Mud-wrestling: Same-sex opponents wrestle each other out of a ring while wearing just their swimsuits. Fanservice for all! Everyone wins a prize, though only actual winners will gain a random prize from a select list.

              -Speed-dating: Singles of a certain orientation will be swapping tables for 10 minute dates of their target gender. Keep it in whispers to avoid having yourself and others swim in a sea of emotes.

              -Eating contest: Singles and couples will compete separately. Very likely we'll have tropical foods to gorge on for this contest like pineapple-roast pork and assorted fruits. Roll to stay in the contest!

              -Beauty Pageant/Costume Contest: Self-explanatory!

              -Flexing/power-lifting contest: A treat for the ladies and funtimes for the gents! Probably also a trust-base contest with TLE members as judges. I don't have an equivalent for the women for men to watch (besides maybe the beauty pageant), but feel free to give me ideas, or have me know if you're okay with women participating the same way.

              -Cutest Couple/Single Contest: Vote for who you think should be the Kings and Queens of this year's Love Festival!

              -Blind Date Game: A player sits behind a screen, unable to see three contestants, and asks them questions to see who would interest this person the most in a date!

              -Goblin Hot Potato: Players roll to toss a (game) bomb to another player!

              -Crafting Contest: Best items crafted win a prize!

              -Singing/Poetry Contest: Best song/lyrics presented. You must make it yourself!

              -Dance Competition: Roll to not trip on your feet!

              -Surfing Contest: Roll to stay on your board!

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IMPROMPTU PLAY

A limited number of players can sign up to participate as actors while everyone else can attend and watch the show! The story itself will be a randomly selected premise in which the actor players will take roles and try to carry the story goal within 2 hours (must stay within 2 hours to prevent the event from dragging).

To allow the actor players time to prepare for the play, if this is added to the lineup, it will appear as the last [TBA] event.

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EATING CONTEST

This event will be played with singles against singles and couples against couples. The rules will be as follows:

SINGLES:

1.) IC, your character will be paired another (your potential date), where you will be feeding each other cupcakes. However, because this is a Singles event, you're still competing for yourself. The point of having a partner is just simple playfulness.

2.) The event will go by RW rounds, where you must /roll 5. #3-5 means you get to stay in the game, but #2 will mean that your character is feeling sick/choking/feeling grossed out by the flavor/whatever you wish. #1 is a Strike. 3 Strikes, you're out.

3.) Last player standing wins.


COUPLES:

1.) IC, your character will be paired with his/her lover in a team, where you will be given a larger cake for you to eat at a time. You can choose to feed your partner a chunk of the cake, stuff your faces like dogs, what have you. The point is to have you both finish the cake each RW round.

2.) The event will go by RW rounds, where both of you mus /roll 5. #3-5 means your character gets to keep competing, but #2 will mean your character is feeling sick/choking/feeling grossed out by the flavor/whatever yuo wish. #1 is a Strike. 3 Strikes means your character cannot continue, but if your partner is still able to continue, your team is still in the game. Your team is out when both of you get 3 Strikes.

3.) Last team standing wins.


Winners of each competition get a random prize!

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THE BLIND DATE GAME

This is a Singles only event.

One contestant will be seated and isolated from three others, who hide behind a curtain and away from view. After a series of questions, the isolated player will pick one out of three for a date in the cruise.

The isolated player have only three questions to ask; they must be prepared ahead of time in macros. The hidden potential dates have only 2 full emotes to answer, and they are to take turns in asking. Each hidden player has only 2 minutes to answer their question.

Who plays the role of the isolated contested and the ones obscured by a curtain will depend on the genders and orientations who show up to the event. If you intend to attend the event, please prepare your questions ahead of time, regardless if you're an questioning or answering player.

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GOBLIN HOT POTATO

Another roll-dependent game! Once more, this will have different competitions between singles and couples.

SINGLES:

1.) Gather in a circle. You will be assigned your number.

2.) Prepare to /roll #, with # being the total number of players available (if 8 players have gathered, you will /roll .

3.) The DM will randomly select who will be the first to hold the (actually harmless) bomb. Who holds the bomb must /roll #.

4.) Everyone must /roll # until someone rolls their own number. If you are assigned the number 4 and you /rolled 4, the bomb explodes on you and covers you in sugary, confetti-filled goo. You'd be out.

5.) Last one standing is declared the winner.

Sample gameplay:

Spoiler:

There are 4 players: Reigen, Krilari, Ce, and Stefano. Rei is 1, Kril is 2, Ce is 3, Fano is 4. Each must /roll 4, and with the DM's roll, Reigen starts with the bomb.

Reigen rolls 3. She throws it to Ce.
Ce rolls 2. He throws it to Krilari.
Krilari rolls 4. He throws it to Stefano.
Stefano rolls 4, his own number. Bomb explodes on him, and he's out.
The /roll is reduced to 3 and the game repeats until the last person standing is declared the winner.

COUPLES:

1.) Gather in a circle as teams. Decide who you want to participate first between your team, as one will catch the bomb at a time. Your team will be assigned a number. /roll # will be determined by the number of teams present.

2.) First player of the team will /roll # to pass the bomb. Once someone is out, his/her partner will take the loser's place and continue for that team.

3.) Last team member standing is declared the winner.

Sample gameplay:

Spoiler:

There are 3 teams: Krilari/Reigen (1), Cristovao/Diwaata (2), and Matthew/Victoria (3). Krilari, Diwaata, and Matthew decided among their couples to be the ones playing for their teams first. Each must /roll 3, and with the DM's random roll, Matthew gets the bomb first.

Matthew rolls 1. He passes it to Krilari.
Krilari rolls 3. He passes it back to Matthew.
Matthew rolls 2. He passes it to Diwaata.
Diwaata rolls 2. She drops the bomb and it explodes on her. Cristovao takes turns and he now is 2.
Cristovao rolls 1. He passes it to Krilari.
Krilari rolls 1. Bomb explodes on him, Reigen takes his place.

The /roll does not reduce until enough players are "out". Last person standing wins the game.

Winners get a randomized prize!

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STRIP POKER

You are not required to know how to play poker OOC (hell, I still don't). If you do, you may freely emote your hands, depending on your rolls.

The rules are simple and sweet: Everyone /roll 100 once for every RW, and lowest roller has to strip a major article/set of clothing. You are only allowed 5 "articles" of clothing. They are:

• Hat (Jewelry counts for this too. All must be stripped at once)
  Chest
  Shoes
  Gloves
  Trousers

You're out of the game as soon as you are in your underwear. Full nudity is not allowed in this particular event (though if you hold a private strip poker game of your very own outside of this event, you are welcome to do so at your own discretion and with full party consent).

If the event ends up having more than 5 attendees, then the event will be divided up by groups of 5(ish) to prevent the event from dragging. As soon as a winner is determined within that party of 5, that winner can be pitted against the other winners with all their clothes fully on from the start of the new round. There are not couples/singles differences in this game.

Winner of this game gets a randomized prize!

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SINGING CONTEST

Players bring forth their musical characters to perform and sing! Sadly, we can't exactly make our characters belt out a rock ballad with our own lips or spell rotations, so judging will have to go differently.

Players in the audience will vote on the performer based on trust. Judgement on the performance is based on:

• Song choice
  Stage presence
  Emote quality in between lyrics
  Usage of OOC spells for onstage special effects (IC provided by stage hands)
  General energy/emotion/mood of the song and performance

You are allowed to use real life songs--However, you are absolutely not allowed to use songs that use real life references to places and people. "I Can't Help Falling In Love with You" by Elvis Presley is absolutely fine, but "American Pie" by Don Mclean is absolutely forbidden.

A point system will be provided if you fulfill the above. In addition, an added point will be granted if you wrote the song yourself.

Winners get a randomized prize.

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SPEED DATING

This is a Singles only event.
This one will require you pay really good attention to your partner and that you make sure your typing speed is up to snuff (don't worry, slow typers are given leeway).

Tables will be set up in a ring where dates will be swapping partners. For this event, women will remain seated while men move from table to table; same sex dates will be set up depending on the turnout. You are given 10 minutes to chat and get to know your date before the RW announces the moving suitors to change tables.

The event ends when everyone participating would have chatted with all their dates according to their orientation. If the turnout (regardless of orientations involved) is low, the event will extend the swap time to allow more time for each date.

• Bachelor Auction
  
• Beauty Pageant/Couple Costume Contest
  
• Mud Wrestling
  
• Battle Couple Tournament (Winners get the Love Rocket!)
  
• Cutest Single/Cutest Couple (determined by votes and total tickets gathered)
  

• Impromptu Play
  
• Eating Contest
  
• The Blind Date Game
  
• Goblin Hot Potato
  
• Strip Poker
  
• Singing Contest
  
• Speed Dating

• OPTION 1: Wipe only the previous profiles, but keep the threads for newly assigned ones. No one keeps their old profiles, no ifs, ands, or buts. If you still want a matchmaking profile, you have to get a new interview or send a new one yourself.
  
• OPTION 2: Wipe only the profiles that are unaccounted for. A date will be assigned in which the whole list will be wiped unless the player declares that profile still active. IC, it'll be justified that a copy of that profile was left in the bank vault, unaffected by the Shattering and ultimately retrieved. However, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DECLARE YOUR ACTIVITY. Otherwise, I will assume the character is no longer active and the profile removed. Once more, if you change your mind, just get a new interview.
  
• OPTION 3: Keep the old profiles and have players declare their inactivity and subsequent removal. This saves us a lot of work, but the downside will be the disappointment in active players learning their proposed match is played by a player who isn't even around anymore to declare inactivity. This can be remedied by proposing a "backup" match. We'll see.
  

Kapre Wrote:

ATTENTION: TO ALL CLIENTS OF THE LOVE EXHANGE

              I am afraid to inform you that our clientele has suffered not only a third wipe, but the complete obliteration of the business itself. I do not have your profiles, announced matches, or counsellation notes, nor do I have the funds, supplies, and means to fulfill your romantic and familial needs. The reason for this is because The Love Boat, and everything inside, has sunken in the sea in the wake of the great Shattering of Azeroth. In addition, I have lost my wife, and thus, cannot put into mind to recover what is lost of the business at the moment. I will step step down as Administrator permanently and not return.

              I still have contractual ownership rights to the business itself. If you are interested in buying the business, please mail us in the company mailbox.

              Please forgive us all for not being able to assist you in your times of need. May the Light, Spirits, Ancestors, Loa, Elune, Earthmother, and Shadow watch over you all.

              --Kapre, Former Administrator and Head Matchmaker of the Love Exchange

Kapre Wrote:

ATTENTION: TO ALL WORKERS OF THE LOVE EXCHANGE

              Forgive me for being a bad boss. I have mailed to each of you the payment I have owed you all these months with you as my associates. I'm afraid, however, that we cannot keep up with the business itself. The Love Boat has sunken, and with it is not only our office, supplies, and business materials, but especially our home. In addition, Xanthe has gone missing. I will not be able to be your Boss anymore.

              I have stepped down permanently and set up the ownership rights for sale. If you wish to keep working for The Love Exchange, please note that you will have a new boss probably very soon. If you wish for me to stay around to help you recover from the crises that has afflicted us, then I will provide you aid. Just please understand that I may have lost my love and wife a fourth time, this time to something greater. I will not accomodate all your needs on a timely manner.

              It's been an honor, a privelege, and a joy to have been your boss. I do genuinely care and love you all, and I am sorry I did not help you in everything I could. Please watch out for the new Boss if you can. You can mail me at anytime to keep in touch.

              May many blessings and happier times befall upon you all,

              Your friend and former boss,

              --Kapre

•               1.) The Administrator will change completely from that of a completely faction-independent and neutral hippy to a racial/faction purist. That's right, TLE's new boss doesn't care for interracial or even interfactional matches--he'll even discourage it, in fact. He is still relatively faction neutral (specifically, Alliance-friendly/Horde-neutral), however, and he is willing to partner with Horde for the sake of business. Unfortunately, he doesn't want to be branded a traitor, so divisions will not be publically acknowledged.
  
                2.) Courtship, dates, and matches will be done differently. Previously, matchmaking was slow and a challenege to do due to low server population; often times, clients would find love on their own and withdraw their profiles anyway. We can safely say that the profiling system is a failure. Thus, in order to keep up with the business in love for players still seeking love interests (and disaster dates), we will employ an Adopt-an-NPC system. Details will on this will be provided later as the system is fine-tuned.
  
                3.) With the Love Boat sunken, TLE will have no HQ at the moment--and thus, no company-sponsored housing. Members of the guild (the workers) who lived in the Boat as their home will have to find a new one. If you all wish to remain a community in which TLE will provide for your housing needs, you can all gather to search for a new home as a new storyline until the New Boss comes in.
  
                4.) Due to the server switch, inactive former members of the guild (Bezington, Ishani, etc) will be removed from Kapre's employee listing (absent from the guild list OOC). In addition, you will notice that Kapre's assistants, Kantado and Tibalan, are also gone. Kantado has left TLE permanently to focus on druidism and recover from the death of Isolia, who was also a worker. Tibalan has left to help his family in Mulgore from the sieging Alliance. In addition to Kapre stepping down, I will only help TLE run OOC until I get the new Boss approved. Until then, you do not go to Kapre, Kantado, or Tibalan for anything TLE-related. Kenny and Tibby are no longer TLE, and Kapre is no longer a matchmaker or boss.
  

• Kapre: Stepped down as Administrator and Head Matchmaker. Putting the business up for sale.
  
• Xanthe: Missing Found now.
  
• Jof'waz: Confirmed alive and safe, albiet aching and celebrating the murlocs on the Love Boat are dead. Wait...
  
• Noria: Unknown
  
• Yatana: Unknown
  
• Kantado: No longer returning. Quit.
  
• Tibalan: No longer returning. Quit.
  
• [Other members confirmations pending]