Hollow Eve Festival 432

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Opening and Closing Dates

Instance	Opens	Closes	Box Office
Prime	Thursday, October 31, 2019	Sunday, November 17, 2019	Purchase Tickets
Plat	Thursday, October 31, 2019	Friday, December 1, 2019	Purchase Tickets
Fallen	Thursday, October 31, 2019	Sunday, November 17, 2019	Purchase Tickets

Official Description and Announcements

Web Site Announcement

• The Massive Arachnid -- Life and...

Email Teasers

Email Teasers:

• 10/25/19: Teaser email for Hollow Eve: The Fate of the Spider
• 10/31/19: Teaser email for Hollow Eve Begins Tonight!

In-Game Visions

In the lead-up to the event, a number of visions were seen by random players from multiple guilds & races:

• On 10/28: Your senses reel with chaotic energies, and you see an endless desert with a singular line of camels slowly meandering across a dune ridge. The hot sun burns above, and a heat shimmer distorts the surroundings, but it is clear that the camels are making their way to a distant oasis. A small grove of palm and date trees enclose a spring, and the clear waters burble, fed from a reservoir deep beneath the sands. Suddenly, a half a dozen bulges in the sand rise and begin streaming towards the camels, leaving a pocked trail. The camels spook and begin to run, when a massive vortex of sand opens beneath them, articulated legs reaching up and pulling the beasts downward.
• On 10/28: Your senses reel with chaotic energies, and you see a lush apple orchard, varieties sweeping down a long line of planted rows, the rich scent of blossoms carried on the gentle breeze. A farmhand lugs a pruning saw and a bushel of dead wood and examines the trees as he walks the field, occasionally stopping to trim a branch. He pauses a moment and squints, cocking his head as a shuddering rumble can be heard nearby, causing the trees to sway. All goes silent for a long moment, and one of the trees begins to creak, then splinter. Suddenly, it explodes in a flurry of insect legs, dirt, and shattered wood. In seconds, there is nothing but a vacant pit in the ground, and the stunned farmhand blinks in shock and begins to run.
• On 10/28: Your senses reel with chaotic energies, and you find yourself on a tranquil forest path. Birds chirp, and small creatures flit about merrily. A sudden shadow momentarily blots out the midday sun, and the forest noises abruptly cease. All life has hidden itself, save for you. You feel a drop of moisture on your head and look up to see the massive chelicerae of an enormous spider descending rapidly through the forest canopy directly towards you. You raise your arms to defend yourself from the predator, and a shrill shriek escapes your throat. A moment before the creature is upon you, your vision blurs, and you find yourself back where you were previously, albeit still shrieking and covering your face with your arms.
• On 10/28: Your senses reel with chaotic energies, and you see a dusty caravan pulled by a team of massive oxen. The reinforced steel wheels creak under a heavy burden, and as the wind catches the canvas tarp, you glimpse enormous slabs of metal -- lumium, glaes, kertig, haralun, silver, and brass -- the incredible weight borne by thick oak beams and steel struts. The team makes steady but slow progress, gradually working along an open road. Glancing ahead, one of the caravan guards scrutinizes the area, when suddenly, the road ahead explodes with articulated legs, and a tide of enormous spiders washes over the caravan.
• On 10/29: Your senses reel with chaotic energies, and you find yourself on a tranquil forest path. Birds chirp, and small creatures flit about merrily. A sudden shadow momentarily blots out the midday sun, and the forest noises abruptly cease. All life has hidden itself, save for you. You feel a drop of moisture on your head and look up to see the massive chelicerae of an enormous spider descending rapidly through the forest canopy directly towards you. You raise your arms to defend yourself from the predator, and a shrill shriek escapes your throat. A moment before the creature is upon you, your vision blurs, and you find yourself back where you were previously, albeit still shrieking and covering your face with your arms.
• On 10/29: Your senses reel with chaotic energies, and you feel bile rise in your stomach as your vision blurs and the ground beneath you rocks. Suddenly, twin sets of massive legs shoot up through the earth in front of you as the ground buckles and falls. You are swept up in the turbulence and look down to see a gaping maw and two gigantic palps reaching for you, flanked by eight soulless eyes. Just as the abomination is about to swallow you, the vision fades and you find yourself alone, with no hint of the gigantic arachnid anywhere in sight.

Location and Map

Province

Forfedhdar

Town

Hibarnhvidar

Currency

Dokora

TBD (see also 2018 map)

• Once the festival has opened, you may ASK PRIEST ABOUT SPIDER to pay for a faster travel time to and from the festival grounds.
• Note: While this event takes place outside of Zoluren, F2P players do not need a Passport to Forfedhdar to attend.

Tasks for Tickets and Items

At each of the Meeting portal locations, you can find a concerned arachnologist and an agitated businessman. You can speak to both about various topics (web, spider, etc.), and both offer TASKS that will enable you to get tickets for the upcoming event. It appears that both these NPC's give the same variation of the 4 tasks but with different messaging. Additionally, each appears to have a unique contribution credit counter, which you can check by asking each about STATUS. Currently, the only difference is the possible titles you can acquire.

You are able to pick up and return tasks to any location of the 2 NPC's. For example, you can accept a task in Crossing but return it in Riverhaven. However, the Crossing location may be desirable as it appears most of the random locations for task groupings are located in Zoluren.

Tasks

When you ASK ARACHNOLOGIST/BUSINESSMAN FOR TASK, you will randomly receive the option of one of the following, which you can ACCEPT or DECLINE. The below are summarized versions, see each NPC page for detailed overviews with task messaging and specific instructions:

• Concerned arachnologist or agitated businessman:

• Kill spiders: kill various spiders found during invasions or in the Current Spider Hunting Location (see below).

• note: Empaths will not receive this as an option

• Rescue missing colleagues: find via SEARCHing in the location that the NPC gives you in the accept text.
• Spidersilk turn-in: kill various spiders found during invasions and in the Current Spider Hunting Location (see below) for randomly dropped pieces of spidersilk.
• Spiderweb portals: either clear spiderwebs from nearby doors, arches, etc. or travel to the location given in the task and SEARCH for portals to clear.

• tip: See the below Spiderweb Syntax table for directions on how to clear different web types

• Tomiek chitins: kill and collect chitin from the Tomiek-iguji broodlings and return them to the NPC

• tips: To get into the burrow, wait near the task givers to be drug down (or use the burrow of a recently drug player) or find one of the randomly spawned entrances in the area. To get out of the burrow where you can hunt the broodlings, look for a freshly dug hole.

Current Spider Hunting Location

It appears that the above ground spider hunting areas change, perhaps once per day or after x-number of spiders are killed in the area. The following list should be updated as the location moves:

• 10/27: Farmland, Grain Fields - Crossing west gate
• 10/28: Riverhaven West Wilds - Riverhaven west gate
• 10/29: Dirge, both in the city and immediately outside the gate
• 10/30: Shard, East & North Bridges (outside town)

Spiderweb syntax

ADJUST, WAVE, CUT etc, the portal that the webbing is covering, not the web itself

Web type	Method of destruction
spidersilk	-cut it with a bladed weapon (slice or puncture must be highest attribute on weapon) -POINT a Lighter at it
metallic	-ADJUST it with tinker tools
phantasmal	-POINT or WAVE at it with a light source -WAVE at it with a glowing Gaethzen item
shadowy	-POINT or WAVE at it with a fire/light source
dew-covered	-POINT or WAVE at it with a fire source

Not all light sources and fire sources will work due to variations in code. The following have been confirmed to be usable items:

Light Sources	Fire Sources
Lighters burning branches & sticks Gaethzen items - must be charged and must RUB first Starglass items torch - not all versions work lanterns Divine Radiance Yavash or Xibar moonblades	Lighters burning cigars burning peat torch Burn

Rewards

At 100 credits you get a message saying you're capped. ASK ARACHNOLOGIST/BUSINESSMAN FOR STATUS to see how many credits you currently have with each. Credits appear to accumulate per account, not per player.

Events and Gifts

• Festival Greeters will be wandering the grounds and giving out gifts!
• Stores with items for tickets
• raffle results
• alteration list
• Auction: TBD
• Free passes to the Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze. CLAIM the passes in game, with the number given based off which tier of ticket you purchase to the HE event:

• Admit 1 receives 3 passes
• Admit 2 receives 3 passes
• Admit 3 receives 4 passes
• Admit 4 receives 5 passes
• Admit all receives 6 passes

• Please see the FESTIVAL verb in game for the most updated information on scheduled alterers and other live events during this year's Hollow Eve.

Tentative Merchants

• Full Directory

Shops

• Shops that offer purchases with Hollow Eve tickets.

New and Updated Shops

• Note: See the below GAMES section for games with updated prizes in 432.

• Accents for the Arachnophile
• Chuffed to be Stuffed
• Damsel in this Dress
• Dark Symphony
• Eye Spy
• Fabric Fantasies
• Give 'Em the Boot
• Hunka's Burning Love
• Natural Selections
• Sketchy By Design
• Tea for Tamsine
• The House of Bones
• The Joys of Noise
• The Laughing Nomlas
• The Mind of Sdai
• The Musiceum
• The Naked Sheep
• The Stylish Stallion
• This Little Piggy
• Tieheq with the Thirteen
• Tildi's Blooms
• Whimsical Winds

Returning Shops

• A Game of Chicken
• A peddler's cart
• A Quick Bite
• A Walk on the Wild Side
• Abandoned Dragon
• Acaph's Acquisitions
• Aerial Artistry
• Ahreusse's Atelier
• All Aquiver
• All in Good Tome
• All Wound Up
• Amulets by Liathe
• Amylia's Attic
• Ang'hhsmus
• Armadillo Crush
• Artistry of Flesh
• Asketi's Stop
• Bare Necessities
• Basimah's
• Beastly Behavior
• Behind the Mask
• Below The Fold
• Birds of a Feather
• Bizarre Bazaar
• Blanve's Bounty
• Blood and Gourd
• Blythe Spirits
• Bobbing for Leeches
• Boggle Blast
• Bones
• Clear Visions
• Cloudwalker's Smoke Shop
• Comfortable Rakash
• Cookie Emporium
• Country Style
• Cowsmoopolitan
• Crafty Cloaks
• Creature Comforts
• Creepy Costumes
• Crypticats
• Cuddly Creations
• Cute as a Button
• Daelus's Entrances and Exits
• Dark Dalliance
• Dark Defenders
• Dark Delights
• Darkbox
• Darsam's Drifters
• Delicate Creations
• Diamond Dieties
• Disenchantments
• Eagle Eye
• Elahkti's Metal Arts
• Empty Settings
• Entrail Toss Arena
• Eternal Moments
• Everything in Moderation
• Exaltation Tintinnabulum
• Excess Baggage
• Fall's Harvest
• Famous Last Words
• Fangs for the Memory
• Findorslyth's Fortifiers
• Fishy's Pants Mart
• Flower Power
• Focus on the Past
• Force of Habit
• Forever Faithful
• Frisky Portraits
• Funny Bones
• Gearanimals
• Gersvinda's Natural Studies
• Glythtide's Gifts and Gags
• Grate Expectations
• Grieving Grave
• Hair Apparent
• Heavenly Entrances
• Heikea
• Hero To Go
• Hide and Silk
• Holey Warez
• Hollow Bellies
• Hot Potato
• House of Bling
• Huffenclaw's Decadent Delights
• Huffenclaw's Wondrous Wares
• I'll Eat My Hat
• Ilithian Heritage
• In the Hollow
• Jewelry In Phases
• Jhanine Dering Cloaks
• Jhiskar's Provisions
• Jubby's Tattoos
• Just A Slice
• Just Desserts
• Kasine's Gauntlet
• Knightly Attire
• Krobble's Karavan
• Lavender and Lace
• Leftovers
• Liquid Assets
• Made for Walking
• Magical Minons
• Masquer Aid
• Misenseor Goods
• Mob Mentality
• Mordiv's Fun House
• Musical Chairs of Doom
• Natural Beauty
• Nectar of the Wisp
• Nest o' Snakes
• Nidia's Nightmares
• Nigeyi's Footwear
• NightMares
• Obscure Memories
• Obscured Visions
• Ode to Glythtide
• Odiferous Ornaments
• On the Mend
• Once Possessed
• One Man's Trash
• Outrageous Fortune
• Packrat's Piece of Paradise
• Peaceful Intentions
• Pi'botuk Pel'arsharra
• Pi'rasha's Pins
• PrEcIouS DeLighHtS
• Puffindor's Professional Pieces
• Puffindor's Tantalizing Taffy
• Puffs of Glitter
• Q'tahhl's Place
• Quiver in Fear
• Ratchet Shack
• Ravetherins Fabulous Fruits
• Ready to Were
• Reinventing the Wheel
• Relief in the Dark
• Riding the Range
• Rissan Roulette
• Sable's Attic
• Sandbox
• Scabbards 'n' Sheaths
• ScallyWags
• See The Light
• Shenneshwi's Stockpile
• Shh'oi Mhhg
• Shimmers of Silver
• Shiny's Shinies
• Siegery Shop
• Signs of the Times
• Silken Garden
• Silken Seams
• Simply Essential
• Sindah's Silk Sensations
• Skyward Crafting
• Slay it with Music
• Sleepwalkers
• Slings and Things
• Smokes 'n' Spirits
• Snacky Happiness
• Snookie's Divine Spoons
• Something's Fishy
• Soulful Trinkets
• Spider's Web/Tarantula Trot
• Spikan's Sporrans
• Spiraling Out of Control
• Sputkin's
• Storms of Silk
• Stuff It
• Suite of Sweets
• Sumptuous Silks
• Tastelessly Tacky
• Tending the Fold
• The Archivist
• The Clerks' Collections
• The Eclectic Eccentric
• The Eye of Power
• The Faithful Defender
• The Fashionable Panda
• The Finer Things (Finest Box of Gems)
• The Future is Now
• The Gear Shop
• The Ghostly Galleria of Spiritual Souvenirs
• The Glass Bubble
• The Haunted House
• The Humanist
• The Kitten Emporium
• The Male Persuasion
• The Mercurial Mage
• The Other Siegery Shop
• The Perfect Rose
• The Photash School of Butlery
• The Smaller Side of Life
• The Snake Pit
• The Terrific Turnip
• The Toy Box
• Thee Mottl'd Teoy Shoppe
• Thick as Thieves
• This 'N' That
• Three Frog Monte
• Tookes' Nook
• Top Notch
• Town and Country
• Treasures of the Spirit
• Tricky Treats
• Turialo's Haven
• Tweets
• Vatari's Ritual Addiction
• Visions of Holiness
• Whimsies
• Wicked Windows
• Woman At Arms Annex
• Yarrel's Varmint Vittles
• Your Inner Animal

Shops with Utility Items

• TBD

Games

Notes:

• While the chart below shows what is dropped at each game, each game may drop different things at different rates. One game might be better at dropping crystals than rings, while another might be really good at stones instead of tickets, and so on. Explore and try things to see what works best for your current needs!
• Game names in bold text have updated loot tables for the 432 event.

name	items	tickets	simple & ornate rings	potency crystals	infuser stones
A Game of Chicken	X	X	all	X	X
Armadillo Crush
Be'ort shrine	X
Blood and Gourd	X	X	Haralun only	X	X
Bobbing for Leeches	X
Boggle Blast	X	X	Niello only	X	X
Clockwork Spinneret	X
Darkbox	X	X
Death From Above	X
Entrail Toss	X
Gnomish tinkerer	X	X
Grave Earth Pile	X		Glitvire only	X	X
Kasine's Gauntlet	X
Musical Chairs of Doom	X	X	all	X	X
Ring Toss	X
Rissan Roulette
Sandbox	X
Snake Pit	X	X	Alerce only	X	X
Spider's Web	X
Tasks	X	X
Web-filled Harawep shrine	X	X	some	X

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