Player Plot: Lunatia Charity Auction Ball

[peerlesscucumber]

Lunatia Charity Auction Ball

Hello, Prismatica! This is Shen Qingqiu (and Inuzuka Shino)'s player, coming back out of the wild blue yonder after the last few months with a player plot running here in April. Introducing... a Charity Auction Ball!

In order to raise funds for a monument commemorating recent tragedies and support ongoing research into Chroma, several of the social elite in Lunatia have settled on holding a charity ball on April 16th. All Moonblessed will be invited, and those running the event will attempt to contact Moonblessed ahead of time to ask if they'd be willing to participate in a Moonblessed date auction—or if they have anything they'd wish to donate to the silent auction.

The timeline of events will look like the following:

• April 3rd: OOC announcement of the Charity Auction Ball goes live. Sign-ups for Moonblessed Date Auction participants begins. Sign-ups for Silent Auction items open. ICly, all Moonblessed receive an invitation to the Charity Auction Ball today. ICly, Moonblessed can begin signing themselves or others up as Moonblessed Charity Auction dates as of this time.
  
  
• April 10th: At 23:59 GMT (by timestamps), sign-ups for both Moonblessed Date Auction participants and Silent Auction items close.
  
  
• April 11th: The OOC post listing all Moonblessed Date Auction participants goes live. This OOC post will also include all Silent Auction items. Bidding can start on both at this time.
  
  
• April 15th: At 23:59 GMT (by timestamps), the Moonblessed Date Auction bidding and the Silent Auction bidding closes. After closing, winners of Moonblessed Date Auctions or Silent Auctions will be informed on the OOC post of their win(s).
  
  
• April 16th: The log for the Charity Date Auction is posted!
  

Charity Ball

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Hosted on the evening of April 16th, this is a Triple Moon event, seeking the maximum blessing from the Lunatian Gods. The event is ticketed, and has been advertised directly via the communication device. Tickets bought in pairs or greater bulk do have a discount! Tickets can also be donated.

The charity ball is a formal wear event. While dinner is not being served, an expansive variety of finger food options are provided, along with several drink options, offered both as alcoholic and non-alcoholic varieties. Some of the more unique ones include:

Saturday Night Fever: Refreshing pomegranate with a slight tart twist at the end. Those who imbibe this drink will feel motivated to get out on the dance floor, finding new or familiar faces and inviting or accepting invitations to dance. The effects last for an hour, with moonlacing having no visible effect. Willpower definitely overpowers this!

Dirty Dancing: Lime and cucumber? Sounds refreshing, or strange, but it turns out to mostly be refreshing and just a touch sweet! Leaves you feeling daring enough to try out new moves, either on the dance floor or in your flirting game or anywhere else in life. The effects last for an hour, and unlike usual, only intensifies with moonlacing.

La La Land: Either champagne or sparkling cider serves as a base for this drink, which is artfully decorated by a local crystal fruit and layered in colour from golden to lilac. Drinking this can leave a person feeling bubbly and effervescent, but also can leave them hiccuping bubbles until it wears off, within fifteen minutes, or a character moonlaces.

Charity Dunk Tank

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Why is there a dunk tank at a charity auction ball? Who knows, but there's definitely one here!

In a room attached to the main ballroom, volunteers will be provided costumes or bathing suits to wear while they sit (alone or in pairs) over a dunk tank. There are three dunk tanks set up in this room! People wishing to dunk those currently sitting at a dunk tank may make a donation and receive a ball in turn. The more donations, the more balls they receive!

The aim of a dunk tank is to throw a ball at the target next to the tank. Volunteers sit on a platform over the tank of water. When the target is successfully hit, the platform folds down, and the volunteer falls into the water tank.

After each successful dunk, the volunteer may either still be "on shift" and return to sitting at the top of the dunk tank, or they may exchange with another volunteer and go towel off before rejoining the charity ball.

How can I get my character to participate?

Either have them volunteer, or have someone strong-arm them into participating! No sign-ups are necessary for the dunk tanks.

Moonblessed Date Auction

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The Moonblessed Date Auction will be a silent auction held during the charity ball itself. Hologram busts of those who've volunteered (or been signed up) to participate will display over a tablet where people looking to bid on winning a date with that Moonblessed can make their bid.

This is a date auction. Who decides what to do for that date?

The Moonblessed who was being bid on! All decisions for date activities fall onto them, though if they lack ideas for date-like activities, the Lunatian Prismals running the auction have plenty to spare.

Are there any limitations on who can bid on who in the date auction?

Yes. ICly, teenagers are encouraged to bid on fellow teenagers, while adults are encouraged to bid on fellow adults. OOCly, when signing up, please communicate and fill out any restrictions on the sign-up form. When placing bids OOCly on April 11th, be sure to respect any listed restrictions.

How are winners decided?

OOCly. If you know who is going to win your character's auction from the start, include that information in the sign-up form. The rest will be listed for open bidding in a separate OOC post which will go up in the OOC Community on April 11th.

Can we sign up with another character in mind for winning the Moonblessed Date Auction?

Yes! Fill out the appropriate field in the sign-up form.

When will players be able to bid on characters participating in the Moonblessed Date Auction?

On April 11th. At that time, an OOC post with the final list of Moonblessed Date Auction participants and Silent Auction items will go live.

How many bids can be placed per character?

There will be a maximum of 7 OOC bids placed per character. This is to keep OOC bidding organised. ICly, bids can be stated to have gone on for any length of time. At the time where bidding is closed, the last bid placed will be the winning bid. Should no bids be placed by PCs, then NPCs will have won the bidding.

Can I end bidding for my character early?

Yes. If you would like to end your character's bidding on any particular bid, comment to your character's thread stating whose bid you're calling as the final bid.

Please respect a player's choice of a final bid. They're not obliged to wait for seven bids, nor are they obliged to accept the current final bid should they wish to accept one placed earlier, for whatever reason. We're all busy! We can't always comment in a timely manner.

When is the Moonblessed Date Auction closed OOCly?

By timestamps, at 23:59 (11:59 PM) GMT April 15th.

Silent Auction

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The silent auction consists of gift certificates, packages, or goods which are silently bid on during the evening of the charity auction ball. Each item is either present or has a visual representation of the item present, with an associated tablet for people to use for placing bids.

ICly, the silent auction will be running over the course of the charity ball, and will close the hour before the ball officially ends.

When is the Silent Auction closed OOCly?

By timestamps, at 23:59 (11:59 PM) GMT April 15th.

Can I make suggestions for items (gift certificates, experiences, packages, goods, etc) to be offered in the silent auction?

Yes! Please fill out the appropriate form below.

How are winners determined for Silent Auction items?

Once the Silent Auction closes...

If there is only one of an item, the winner will be randomised from the people who commented to "bid" on that item. If there are a specific, limited number of that item available, and more people comment to "bid" than there are available items, winners will be randomised. If there are "many" of an item, all those who comment to "bid" will win that item.

All auction winners will be announced on the OOC post where the Silent Auction items are listed after the Silent Auction closes. (So after 23:59 GMT on April 15th.) Winners will receive a comment to their bid indicating they won.

Sign-Up and Donation Forms

Sign-Up as a Moonblessed Date Auction Participant

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Copy and paste this form into the Sign-Up Moonblessed Date Auction Participant thread below. Any Moonblessed is able to participate, or be signed up to participate by registration errors, helpful friends, even more helpful enemies, or perhaps their neighbour's enthusiastic dog.

<font color="#e9573f">▶ </font><strong>Character Name:</strong> <font color="#ffce54">▶ </font><strong>Character Canon:</strong> <font color="#8cc152">▶ </font><strong>Journal:</strong> @username <font color="#4fc1e9">▶ </font><strong>Character Auction Blurb:</strong> One to three (or more) sentences to accompany your character's auction hologram. <font color="#bf86d8">▶ </font><strong>Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here:</strong> <font color="#6f0af0">▶ </font><strong>Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here:</strong> For example, age range, genders or sexualities, etc. Keep in mind it's the date auction participants, not the winners, who determine what you'll do on a date!

Submit a Donation for the Silent Auction

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Copy and paste this form into the Silent Auction Donations thread below. Be creative with what NPCs or PCs could donate: anything from items to gift certificates to unique or different experiences are on the table! Donate a song, a fishing lesson, good bottles of wine, a series of cute hair ties, or zip lining for two! The sky's the limit! (The reasonable creative landscape of Prismatica's game is the limit.)

<font color="#e9573f">▶ </font><strong>Silent Auction Donation:</strong> Whichever object, gift certificate, experience (like "Sky Diving"), or any other kind of donation for the silent auction. <font color="#4fc1e9">▶ </font><strong>Who is making this donation:</strong> If coming from a PC (gift certificate to a PC business, for example) please name them here! If it's an NPC offering, you can name an NPC or simply list "NPC." <font color="#bf86d8">▶ </font><strong>How many of this donation are being offered?:</strong> 1/[Some other specific #]/Many

I have questions!

Let's try getting you answers! Please ask questions in the Questions thread below. You're welcome to plot with others in this post, or wait for the CR Meme to conduct your plotting!

Comments

Questions

[peerlesscucumber]

Please ask any questions you have related to this player plot in this thread!

[topoiran]

Question... can auction sign-ups be... for a couple. Like they volunteer for a date with the winner together?

[cointosser]

This is not really a question, but... if you need an annoying, boisterous host slash musical entertainment, I've got a talented bard who'd love to have attention for free. Lute is included for no extra charge.

Re: Questions

[winscenario]

Two questions!
1. Can a date auction participant also bid on other participants?
and 2. Can one person bid on more than one participant?

[axemeaquestion]

Hi! Quick question, in case you had something specific in mind for this. If a character is writing in to volunteer another character, is there a certain way you'd like forms done?

Jaskier is volunteering Rochelle here, for example, so I'm guessing the description would ICly be his? But I'd also like to put down some specific requirements/limitations I had in mind for the rest of the form anyway.

[zunge]

For date auction participants whose winner is going to be decided in advance, will bidding comments in the post that goes up on the 11th still take place for them, or only for those whose winners weren't predetermined before then?

[firstsaderesponder]

Hey! So for characters who were entered into the date auction by another character...when will they be notified ICly?

EDIT: Sorry, but I had a follow-up. Will they know who nominated them?

[greedyvixen]

Hello! I wasn't sure where else to put this but Rin Tohsaka is listed as U-18, but she turned 18 in February if that could still be fixed on her auction post? (and this on me for not updating her info post after her birthday, I'm so sorry for the trouble!)

[grilletto]

Hello! It was determined after the fact that the winner for Mista's auction would be Rohan Kishibe, would it be possible to update that on the directory? Sorry for the inconvenience and you're lovely for ALL of this.

[mayoninofukucho]

Now that the bidding has kicked off, first of all thank you so much for organising this! It must have been so much work; all the lovely graphics alone..! It's really amazing! ✨

Now my actual questions:

1) DO YOU NEED HELP (it's a little late to ask now, but if there's still something someone could take off your hands at this point or later please feel free to reach out to me here / via PM / on Discord @ schmoechen#2732!)
2) Just to make sure I understood correctly: "There will be a maximum of 7 OOC bids placed per character" - does this mean a maximum of 7 characters can bid on one date auction, or each character bidding on one date auction can place a maximum of 7 bids (to outbid others)? The latter is how I understand it, but I wanted to make sure I got it right.
3) I assume any RP in reaction to the incoming bids would be limited to the time frame of the bidding during the actual charity event, right? This seems kind of self-evident, but again I thought I'd better be safe than sorry.

[zunge]

Hello again! Thank you for all the hard work you've put into organizing this event. I have a question about the options for a player (not me) who missed out on the date auction signups due to RL getting in the way or a miscommunication over who would do the filling out of a signup for characters who were signed up by others. At least one of those cases would have been someone with a predetermined winner. Would it be permissable to allow players who missed the signups to assume theirs was signed up and go with a predetermined winner? It's understandable if that wouldn't, of course. I was just wondering because of your earlier statement about date auction people with predetermined winners not requiring a bidding thread and thought it worth asking just in case.

Re: Questions

[axemeaquestion]

Hello again! Sorry for the short-notice question. Do date auction-ees need to pick their winner before the 15th, or the day of the 15th okay? Partly asking just to be sure I give everyone a chance before the OOC auction closes!

Edit: WHOOPS I also can't read and forgot I'm seven hours behind GMT.

[torsion]

I didn't originally have a planned winner for Jill, but it was meant to be Wesker. :(

So she can be miserable forever

Moonblessed Date Auction Participant Sign-Ups

[peerlesscucumber]

Please comment to this thread with your filled out Sign-Up Form.

Shen Qingqiu

[peerlesscucumber]

▶ Character Name: Shen Qingqiu
▶ Character Canon: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
▶ Journal: peerlesscucumber
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Looking to cultivate some good will with this aloof beauty? He can sweep you off your feet and onto his sword, a broom, or whatever else he can find to fly on! Try conversing with this elegant nerd on all manner of wild creatures or re-emerging mythology and see how your horizons might expand today!
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: N/A
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: Anyone of any age, gender, or sexuality, as he's not going to treat this as a date unless the other party does and manages to get that through to him. All teenagers will be treated to food and asked how they're handling life in Lunatia.

Lan Wangji

[fanoperator]

▶ Character Name: Lan Wangji
▶ Character Canon: The Untamed
▶ Journal: downswing
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Do you like strong silent types who are unfairly pretty? Are you good at dodging stabbing attempts? Would you like to cuddle a grumpy wall of muscles? Then please consider the younger of the Twin Jades of Lan, voted #2 on the list of Most Attractive Young Masters of Prominent Clans!
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: Open to all
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: Open to all, though please be aware that this entry was submitted by his friend(? future murder victim) Huaisang so Lan Wangji’s cooperation is NOT GUARANTEED.

Beitang Moran and Su Xunxian

[topoiran]

▶ Character Name: Beitang Moran and Su Xunxian. Yes, as a couple
▶ Character Canon: Oh! My Emperor
▶ Journal: beitangmoran and topoiran
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Two handsome men who know how to keep your entertained for the price of one! Enjoy a lovely date with this perfect team - you will not get bored for a moment!
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: N/A
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: No underage winner, please. They are both in their mid-late twenties and tend to be more mature than their age... etc.

Yanyou

[prettiestsnake]

▶ Character Name: Yanyou
▶ Character Canon: Ashes of Love
▶ Journal: prettiestsnake
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Treat yourself to a date with a handsome immortal with literally thousands of years of experience. Snake tongue optional but highly recommended! Why settle for less when you can go on a date with the MOST FUN person in the six realms???
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: He will be going on a date with each person who bids on him. You’re all winners to Yanyou.
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: Adults only, please!

prompto argentum

[burstmodes]

▶ Character Name: prompto argentum
▶ Character Canon: final fantasy xv
▶ Journal: burstmodes
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Aims to please—literally. Whether it's with his camera or his gun (😉), this guy never fails to show anyone a good time. Be gentle (or not); prone to being a little awkward at first and blushing pretty easily.
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: n/a – OPEN TO EVERYONE
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: the more embarrassing, the better. but in reality: open to anyone willing, current cr or not! also just noting this was probably an "accident", but he's a good sport about it. +1 iris if that matters!

Gu Yun

[shiliu]

▶ Character Name: Gu Yun
▶ Character Canon: Sha Po Lang
▶ Journal: shiliu
▶ Character Auction Blurb: This peerless martial talent and enchanting beauty only wants to shower you with sweet words and affection. Whether you'd like to stroll on level one's floating platform, share a bathhouse on level two, or enjoy a cup of wine in one of Caihong's flower houses, he is ready to fulfill your every whim.
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: open to all
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: open to all, though he'll be more fatherly than romantic to anyone 18 or under.

zenyatta

[tekhartha]

▶ Character Name: Tekhartha Zenyatta
▶ Character Canon: Overwatch
▶ Journal: tekhartha
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Do you need a shoulder to cry on? Love a man who listens? This spiritual guru is ready to guide you along the path towards romantic nirvana. And the best thing about dating a robot? They can go all night...
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: n/a, will update if that changes
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: any characters aged 18+!

Ryoko Asakura

[force_a_change]

▶ Character Name: Ryoko Asakura
▶ Character Canon: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
▶ Journal: force_a_change
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Want a nice home made meal? Or someone to listen to you and not judge? Then this young lady is who you'd like for a fun date. (this is awful and I am bad at these.)
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: Nope!
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: No age range or gender restrictions, although adults will just get cutesy hand holding/PG 13 stuff and teens will get a more true to a date like thing. Although note: Ryoko is 16.

shiro

[vanishings]

▶ Character Name: shiro
▶ Character Canon: voltron
▶ Journal: vanishings
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Looking for a little fun and adventure? If you're happiest when seeing sights you never have before and open to new experiences, then you've found yourself the right guy.
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: nothing currently, will edit if this changes
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: anyone is open to bid and he'll spend a nice day with whomever wins. he'd probably not treat it like a proper date unless the other person wants that. should that be the case, men 18+ are welcomed for that!

Juno

[beautifulbeast]

▶ Character Name: Juno
▶ Character Canon: Beastars
▶ Journal: beautifulbeast
▶ Character Auction Blurb: Did you know that wolves can dance? Or at least this one can! Whether it's spending the night dancing or some other fun activity Juno is a peppy and upbeat girl who is sure to be able to show you a good time!
▶ Do you have a date auction winner in mind for this character? If so, list them here: Open to all!
▶ Who can bid on this character? List all restrictions here: Juno is 17 so keep this in mind! Anyone is welcome to bid on her though.

Silent Auction Donations

[peerlesscucumber]

Please comment to this thread with the filled out Silent Auction Donation form.

Cultivator Sword Flights

[peerlesscucumber]

▶ Silent Auction Donation: 1 Cultivator Sword Flight
▶ Who is making this donation: Shen Qingqiu
▶ How many of this donation are being offered?: 3