So first, the launch date will be Monday, Oct 24, and it will run for two
weeks. I have guests this weekend, and will not run the event while I'm not
around to babysit it for bugs on its first few days.

You've already seen the basic idea: gather natural ingredients (plants, meat,
skins, materials) for the three factions' ritual circles, locate an elemental,
track it down and kill it, then turn its ember in for event points for that
faction. Nothing about that is changing, but I'm going to tune the elementals
down a little bit. They're not meant to be soloable (at least not easily), but
the time drain was a little higher than I was going for. Simply put, a 3-man
party doing each of their 3 will take a while, true, but if it requires a
5-man the time for everyone to get all their embers starts to drag too much.

The points you get will stack throughout the event, and at the end can be
cashed in for prizes. There are going to be a _lot_ of prize options, because
most of them are set items. Each faction has three or four sets of 10 pieces
(torso, head, both arms, both legs, both hands, both feet, cloak, ring, belt,
and either bracelets or neck). Each item in the same set has the same bonuses.
At max level, it will be +greatly to one stat, +slightly to another stat, and
+slightly to each of two different skills. Wearing more items from the same
set will boost the skills, up to a maximum of +greatly in both. This means you
could potentially stack skills to a high enough percent that even UHB players
will notice the difference in game. As a further bonus, the item's +greatly
stat will also improve any Chaos Cauldron bonus you get to that same stat.

Example sets include:
-- the Efiilas nobility plate, +greatly con +slightly str +slightly->greatly
leadership and parry
-- the Feldspar messenger outfit, +greatly dex +slightly wis +slightly->greatly
songcasting and battle cadence
-- the Syggax terror plate, +greatly str +slightly wis +slightly->greatly
enhance criticals and tumbling attack

Other prizes include:
-- an Efiilas stove that has a chance to add tick to any meal that doesn't
have tick
-- an Efiilas spellbook of the druid spell phoenix flames, which is runic heal
+ deaths door
-- a Feldspar portabox, a 100-slot mineral box that can summon a professional
forge once/hour
-- a Feldspar skillbook of a pair of alchemist skills that let you create and
throw firebombs
-- a Syggax spellbook of demonfire, a single-target fire damage spell that
uses cast demonology
-- a Syggax spellbook of vampiric flames, a single-target fire damage mage
spell that can heal the caster

There are so many prizes, it will be _impossible_ to get enough embers to buy
them all.

This is where the faction part comes in. At the end of the Event, whichever
faction has the most Event points from player turnins will permanently get
access to the Lost Vale and permanently add a separate list of tasks involving
them. These separate tasks award a separate "favor" that can be used to buy
and upgrade the same list of prizes. This also means, the winning faction,
_their prizes are permanent_. All of the others last the usual one year before
dropping to newbie quality (and being impossible to upgrade, since the items
to upgrade those prizes won't be available to the losing factions).

Even if none of the prizes turn out to be what you're looking for, the faction
that wins (or factions, if it's a tie) will keep that permanent upgrade and
increase their influence, in Furnachia and in general. How the balance of
power ends will be collectively up to you.

Shinarae "Fire and Blood was taken" Lluminus