Further Banquet Details!

This thread will contain all last minute details about the banquet. The first post is the anticipated Main Auction Items.

#1 $100 Game Stop Gift Card
This Prize is a gift card good for 100 dollars of Merchandise at Game Stop!
Game Stop offers one of the largest selection of video games, hardware and PC software titles around!

#2 Time Lost Scroll
Long ago when time was a force, that mortals had not the sense to leave be, Chronomancy was a lore practiced by a few bold individuals. At some point in history, Chronomancy disappeared without a trace. It was rumored that the Keepers of the Lost Lore, from the Isles of Sevenlore, was the force responsible for its disappearance. It was also rumored that few remnants of the lore remained hidden in the world, in the form of powerful scrolls referred to in tales as The tales tell that the scroll had upon it minor and major glyphs. If the minor glyphs were translated aloud, the scroll would create minor ripples in time, effecting just seconds. How many times the scroll could do this, was unknown, but it was said that the major glyphs when read aloud would do one of two things. Either it could delve deep into the casters history and allow them to choose a path in life that they felt they wasted their time in, allowing them to retrieve the time that they lost devoting to that path. alternatively the major glyph could be used to erase the history of a tragic death from the caster. It is said that unleashing this power would likely consume the scroll, and destroy it in the process.

#3 Choice of one out of two latex Artifact Swords)

Sarelishaz – The Dragon Fang
Before the sword’s existence, the dragon Sarelishaz, roamed the world of Arawyn, in search of something that she could not describe. During this search she became entangled in the first great demon war.

During this same time, there was a young human girl, Malira, who lived in a now long forgotten village. She wished to explore the world and seek adventure, but fate had kept her there, for her need was soon to be realized. Marila found the dragon, disguised in a humanoid form, injured and resting in her fathers barn. Sarelishaz had been battling the demons, but was losing against the sheer numbers, driving her to hide for a moment of respite and to tend her wounds.

The girl herself had been gifted with a healing touch, and offered to help the dragon. It was a strange kindness that Sarelishaz had never seen from a small lesser being, but she was grateful. The girl gave the dragon some strength back, enough to speed up her recovery so she could rejoin the war. However, the war soon came to the village and began to decimate the young girls farmland. It was here that Sarelishaz revealed her true nature and battled the demons, ultimately victorious.

In this battle, the dragon had lost the tip of a fang, which Marila had found and attempted to return to the dragon. In a fit of kindness to the human who showed it to her, she instead permitted her to keep it as she cast dragon magic upon it turning it into a beautiful blade. The dragon could see the deep wishes of the girl and this gift to her was meant to set her off onto her first real adventure.

Arboreus, the Arclight Conduit
Captain Argos was a strong leader and many never knew much of his past. It was said he was once a successful commander in the Esmidian Army, quickly rising through the ranks due to his natural leadership skills. As a mark of his success in the military, he was awarded a weapon crafted by some of the greatest magitechnicians on the continent of VIS.

The weapons prowess was whispered about throughout the land. Some stories told that it could harness the most concentrated forms of magic to enhance the sword. Despite the fast grown fame of the blade, Argos rarely drew it to demonstrate its power, even during the rest of his military career, before he joined the VIS-Exodus team.

The Battle of the Gates in Artasia was brutal. The VIS-Exodus team had no true chance of survival against the magitech monstrosities of Senator Palazzo, but valiantly they still tried. The team managed to escape, though their fate was sealed and Captain Argos felt himself to blame for the hollow victory. It was at some point during the battle that the sword was lost, believed to have been destroyed from the explosives that were intended to destroy the gate.

Across vast oceans, the blade has now resurfaced in the hands of another…

SP AUCTIONS
The brackets this year will be:
First Bracket: 1,000Sp - 10,000Sp [This bracket is Raffle Only]?
Second Bracket: 10,001Sp - 30,000Sp
Third Bracket: 30,001Sp - 70,000Sp
Fourth Bracket: 70,001Sp - 150,000Sp
Fifth Bracket: 150,001+ Sp (This bracket is a Cash Out option for anyone who attends the banquet and has over 150k SP. All service points are taken, reducing the total to 0 in exchange for a unique reward agreed upon by the player and the Director. Anyone within this bracket should contact Steve Oros after the banquet to cash out thier SP.)

SIGN-IN
Sign-in will be held from 5:00-7:00. Please be sure that you have arrived by then. I do realize that some of you have to be late because of special circumstances. Sign-in must go as quick as possible. There will be a table in front of the room. At the table, everyone should form a line and have their money ready. After you pay you'll shift over to the right and one person will give you your card; shift to the right again and one person will sign your card for the build and give you your auction tickets.

AUCTION TICKETS
You get one for coming and four extra for each point of build you purchase.. If you wish you may purchase more for one dollar each. Make sure you separate all your tickets and write your name on the back of each one of them before putting them into one of the three containers.

PLEASE LISTEN
With so many people it can be hard to hear what's going on if your talking, and that's fine as long as no one is speaking at the microphone. Please, whenever you hear someone speaking at the microphone please, immediately get quiet and listen. This is extremely important for both the flow of the ceremonies and the respect given to the speaker. I can't stress this enough. We didn't have a problem with this at all in previous years, and Id like it to remain that way. Thanks for your cooperation in this.

TIME
It starts at 7pm. You can come to sign in as early as 5:00. Please, be there on time! Try to factor possible traffic into your travel schedule to be safe. The banquet is four hours from 7pm to 11pm, and everything is fit into a tight time schedule. If you arrive after 7:30 you will start to miss VERY important aspects of the banquet and if you come even later than that you may miss the dinner. So please make every possibly effort to be at this function on time. If you are nominated for an award and will be late please make sure I know so I can push back that particular award until after you arrive.

COMMON COURTESY
This is definately an event to have a blast and talk with all of your friends. And for 75% of the event it's expected and encouraged. However, please make sure that when someone steps up to the microphone and begins to speak, (especially for the awards part of it) you give that speaker your utmost respect by paying attention and listening quietly.

STAYING OVER NIGHT
If you are not staying over night, we ask that you depart the campground shortly after the banquet is over. Space is first come first serve, and I will not be able to save anyone sleeping spaces. If you are staying over, please be sure to lend a hand in the morning cleaning up before you go. If in doubt on what to do, please ask me.

ANNOUNCING THE WINNER
You might be chosen to come to the floor and read the envelope for an award. If this happens, please make sure that you do so in the following manor:
“The nominees for (name award) are… (Read each name clearly and loudly and wait for applause for each nominee),
"and the winner is…” then open envelope and read winner.

SP Auction
For the SP auction there will be two methods. We will be doing the traditional auction. In addition to the normal SP auction we will be doing a raffle style auction for each of the three brackets. This raffle style sp auction will take place prior to the traditional one.

How It Will Work
There will be three items in the low category and one item for 2,3,4 category. Those six items will be on display and will have containers next to them, similar to the three main auction items. You can use the SP on your card to buy tickets for this raffle. You buy these tickets during the halftime break of the banquet. You may only win something that fits within your bracket and if you win one of these items you may not bid on items through the traditional sp auction. Winners will be drawn at the beginning of each SP bracket, and the winner must be present in order to win, otherwise a new winning ticket will be drawn. The ratio of SP for tickets is as follows:

Tickets
1st Bracket = 200 SP for 1 Ticket
2nd Bracket = 1000 SP for 1 Ticket
3rd Bracket = 2000 SP for 1 Ticket
4th Bracket = 3000 SP for 1 Ticket

The items are being posted below so that you can see them now and spend less time learning about them at the actual banquet.

All items below are flagged as “Banquet Items” and are good for the duration of the year stated. They do not count against your use of an artifact item.

Item Details will be posted Mid-Day on the Friday before the Banquet. Keep your eyes peeled.

Extra Build Option is being bumped up to +5 Max
There is now an increase in the optional max build purchase for the banquet from +3 to +5. This means you can purchase up to a maximum of five extra build at the banquet, which will also transfer for no additional cost to any of the alts you have purchase for the evening and will also net you four additional tickets per build.

Here is a chart of the tickets per build earned:
Base = 1 Ticket
Base +1 = 5 Tickets
Base +2 = 9 Tickets
Base +3 = 13 Tickets
Base +4 = 17 Tickets
Base +5 = 21 Tickets

*The purchase of any tickets separately are 1 dollar per ticket.

I'd like to thank my agent!
If you where nominated for an award then there is about a 20% chance you will win that award. Please be ready! If we loved you enough to nominate you AND also vote for you with a majority, then wed probably love to hear from you, something more than a nod and a fist pump. Please consider saying a few words to help add additional enjoyment to the night! You could speak about the category you just won, you could say nice words to all your friends in the room, you could thank your mom for having the good judgement to bring you into this world... Seriously, more is better in this case and if you ramble on for too long don't worry about it, we will just start playing music!

1-10,000 SP
Basic Adventurer’s Kit - Looking Lens (Allows sight in any kind of lighting.)

Bearer’s Wax Seal (Wax Seal) - Once ever, the user may send a letter to anyone in the world, guaranteeing delivery and comprehension.

Laquatus’ Everfull Bucket (Bucket) - The character may invoke any two Water Sphere spells per period.

Deathward Bracelet (Skull Bracelet) - Once per period, if the character were to receive a Killing Blow, the duration of the Serious Stage of their death count is instead extended by 5 minutes.


10,001-30,000
Orb of Wisdom (Clear Orb) - The character gains a free Fate of Wisdom or Insight once per event.


30,001-70,000
Temporal Distortion Stone (Orangeish Gem) - Once per Event, this may be used to reverse the last 10 seconds of a situation, still providing the user with knowledge of what had transpired.


70,001-150,000
Empowered Runic Seal (Leaf Pin) - 4 Socket Ring, any rune placed can be used by wearer.