The Last Storm!

[Carbondk]

The wheel of the year e'er turns, and spring equinox is soon coming to the lands of the Sword Coast, as a portent of the slowly receding winter, and the coming of warmer and lighter days.

This holy day is celebrated among many faiths, cults and beliefs of Faerûn, no least the Aurilites, who are known to gather in crowds on the spring equinox for their festival called The Last Storm, where they unleash howling ice storms with all the cold magic their can muster, to mark winter's releasing grip of the lands.

Word spreads that Irini Valkyrian, the High Hand of Ice of the temple of Auril near Nashkel, has called the faithful together for this festival, and has invited the people of Amn and the broader Sword Coast to participate in the festivities as well.

Leaflets and pamphlets are put up near the usual meeting places of Nashkel, Beregost, the Friendly Arm Inn, Baldur's Gate, Soubar and Roaringshore. They read as follow:

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"To the people of the Sword Coast,
I, Irini Valkyrian, High Hand of Ice, call you all to celebrate the Last Storm with us.
Whether you are one of the faithful of Auril, or merely looking to share this festival with us, I bid you to make your way to the temple of Auril near Nashkel on the spring equinox. From there we will make our way to the foothills of the Cloud Peaks, where the ceremony is to take place. Come and celebrate the waning of winter with us, but know that if you merely come to mock our belief or traditions, you will be turned away from our festival. This is a time to revel in the beauty of the last grip of winter, not a time for bickering and conflict."

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/// OOC info: This event will be held on sunday the 24th of march, that is, seven days from now. The time is 08 PM GMT/UTC +1.

[Carbondk]

/// heads up, since the time is a server hot spot time, if you wanna be in the event, I'll advise to log in a good time beforehand, as odds are we'll have a full server at the time.

[Sierante]

[Gareut posting.]


"Ah, It is like back at the City of Sails! It is great that this Priestess-Lass keeps good hold of the ol' traditions. Lads, ready yer heavy coats, we will head South and praise the Fury!"

The Hellstorm Crew's fanatics will be there if the fate allows it.

[Zorn]

*Varia knows all too well that the event is coming and has been looking forward to the whole ordeal. She decides to remain within the Temple of Auril, praising the goddesses name until the start of the event.*

[Carbondk]

// Remember this takes place 4 hours from now! Meeting at the Auril temple near to Nashkel.

[Azmodeth]

heads up, since the time is a server hot spot time, if you wanna be in the event, I'll advise to log in a good time beforehand, as odds are we'll have a full server at the time.

((yeah took me 2 hours to log on))

*Azmodeth is at the temple with the gathered.

[Zorn]

/// I give up. The server is always full, but that's not the major problem. The problem is that there's a 77 MB update which only downloads at about 8 K/B seconds before it constantly quits, and the files all continuously fail in Filezilla when I try to download directly. Pretty late, and I woke myself up for this, but it's 2:49 AM and I think i'd rather sleep and have dreams rather than deal with this right now. So enjoy, have fun!

*grumbles a bit and goes back to sleep* ////////////

[Azmodeth]

/// I give up. The server is always full, but that's not the major problem. The problem is that there's a 77 MB update which only downloads at about 8 K/B seconds before it constantly quits, and the files all continuously fail in Filezilla when I try to download directly. Pretty late, and I woke myself up for this, but it's 2:49 AM and I think i'd rather sleep and have dreams rather than deal with this right now. So enjoy, have fun!

*grumbles a bit and goes back to sleep* ////////////

((yeah I hear ye, I just crashed and now can't get back to the event.. one of the only frostmages too..))

[Carbondk]

// Thanks to all those who attended, it was a blast! Sorry for those who couldn't come, or those who tried to log with a full server. You'll be there next time!

Also thanks to DMogorgon for making the festival come alive, wouldn't have been the same without!

For a write up of the event from Irini's point of view, see this post here:
The Last Storm

[Carbondk]

Some screens from the festival:


The faithful gather in the temple of Auril


Irini preaches to the gathering


The gathered people go outside the temple to prepare for the summoning of the Storm


The sumoning of the Last Storm begins


The Last Storm unleashed


The Last Storm


The ancient white dragon settles on the mountainside


The clerics and frost mages speak with the great white


The faithful offer their gifts to the white, that he may grant his blessings to them


The half-elf Laya is released from the hospitality of the temple

[Maverick 40]

((Awesome event btw Carbonk, thank zou

[Zorn]

//// Lol, I think then only 1/3 of the prominent aurilites i the server made it then. And the two that didn't make it were frost mages. Sad

[Hoihe]

((there was a dragon?

And nobody told me there would be a dragon?

I call blasphemy!

I demand that dragon, or I shall send the inquisitors to the temple!

P.s: Joking aside, great screens.

[Lockonnow]

was that the white dragon as we know it? and sould we name it

[Carbondk]

Maverick: You're welcome, it was nice that your character attended =D

Zorn: Azmodeth did make it to the event, though he crashed out of the game shortly afterwards. I'm afraid the time slot wasn't very asian friendly, blame it on all the americans =p Look forward to the Coming Storm in the fall, you'll be there instead!

Hoihe: Yes, there was a dragon, but I doubt Hoihe would have felt very much at home in that gathering of scoundrels, ne'er do well'ers and sinister personages!

Lock: That was indeed the white dragon that usually slumbers away at Mount Speartop! And it already has a draconic name, but for the life of me I cannot pronounce or recall it!