The Stalls and the Sideshow

The four contests reward a week of serious play. The stalls at the edge of the ground are the other thing a festival is: ten minutes, a small stake, and back to what you were doing.

The stalls

• The chests: fifteen chests, one prize, 15 favour a try. Pure chance, and the stall everyone tries first.
• The raffle: 10 favour a ticket, 20 tickets at most, drawn when the festival closes; a pack of what a low-level character actually needs.
• The scavenger hunt: a list to find at three difficulties, level-scaled so it is worth a veteran’s time and possible for a beginner.
• The writ: not a game. Buy one with favour and trigger a realm-wide bonus (experience, gold, crafting or gathering) so the festival reaches the players who could not attend.
• Summer, the ring: spar a festival shade of yourself.
• Harvest, the dash: run the crumbling span.
• The Riddle Gate: an endless labyrinth beneath the ground; three gates a depth and one is true, and it keeps one rule the whole way down.
• The Wayfarer’s Run: a regatta across the world map by charts with no coordinates; six legs in an hour.