With the holidays just around the corner, we would like to introduce our special gift giving event, Wish Granting. Wish Granting is the Boreal Wishes equivalent to "Secret Santa", if you don't know what that is then here's a conveniently placed explanation:
Secret Santa is a Christmas tradition in which members of a group are randomly assigned other members to whom they anonymously give a gift. In this case, the gift will be art, writing, or a craft!
It's a simple and fun way to celebrate the holidays and spread cheer all around! The gifts themselves do not have to be strictly Christmas-themed, so even if you do not celebrate Christmas, we encourage you to participate if you'd like!
There will be special prizes granted to users at the end of the event who completed their entry, so be sure to get your pieces in on time!
How to participate:
- Fill out the Google Form before the deadline (November 10th).
- The Mod team will assign all Wish Granters randomly. We will DM you on Discord letting you know who you will be gifting!
- Once you receive your "Wisher" from us you may start the event!
- Be sure to keep your completed wish a secret until the end of December.
Deadlines:
November 10th : Sign ups close and wishers will be assigned to users, and a prompt will open up for completed pieces to be submitted to.
December 18th : Last day to drop out of the event so we can re-assign your wish to a new user.
December 25th : Reveal date! You may start sharing your completed wishes with your recipient (or publicly if you prefer)
December 31st : Final deadline for the event. If you have not completed your wish by this time or dropped out, you will be labeled as a "no-show" and your wish will be given to a Pinch Hitter to complete.
January 8th : Pinch Hitter deadline. If you picked up an extra wish, your new submission must be in by this date.
General Rules:
- Be respectful
- No explicit or rude behavior.
- All wishes must be kept PG-13 (no gore, inappropriate language, or other explicit content)
- You must have a Pacapillar or Snekket to participate in this event.
- Both are available to be used for this gifting event (so anywhere it specifies a Paca, you can replace that with a Snekket if you want!).
- This event will primarily be run through Discord, so you must have an account to sign up and receive your assignments!
- The link to the group discord is: https://discord.gg/ZGEVhCVrH7
- You must have a Play.Pacapillars.com account to participate in this event.
- Accounts are free! Go join now if you haven't already. It's a great place to keep track of your in-game currency and chubby worm and noodle babies!
- Allowed art parameters:
- Drawn artworks must be full-bodies.
- If you are not the drawing type you may write a short story as a gift! The story must be at least 600 words long.
- If you are feeling adventurous and want to try your hand at a craft (such as papercraft, sculpting, etc.) All we ask is that there is visible effort on the part of the gifter! Feel free to reach out to a moderator via a ticket to ask whether a certain piece you’re making would be acceptable.
- Once you are assigned to a user you may not change or "trade" who you are gifting. If you have a legitimate problem with the user chosen, please let a mod know.
- Please try to avoid signing up with a Pacapillar you are iffy on. If you trade a Pacapillar that has already joined the event (via the form) we are unable to make any changes or update your gifter about this change.
- If this happens please know that the new owner of the Pacapillar may receive the gift art instead of you.
- It is preferred that you only sign up with Pacapillars you know you love and use!
- You are still required to complete your half of the gift even if you trade your Pacapillar.
- Wishes should not be revealed until the Prompt goes live! This also means that you shouldn’t post WIPs of your work, as much as we’re excited to see them </3
- As we get closer to the posting date, we will let you all know the specific place to post to, so don’t worry about it not popping up or not knowing where it is!
Dropouts/Pinch Hitters:
Pinch hitters are users who pick up additional wishes of users who were either no-shows or dropped out. You will get bonus rewards if completing a pinch hitter bonus piece.
- The deadline for dropping out without penalty is December 18th, but we prefer that users drop out earlier to give pinch hitters more time to work.
- Please note that dropping out means you forfeit all event rewards.
- If dropping out beyond this point without an approved extenuating circumstance, you will be barred from participating in the next event we hold.
- Users who sign up and check that they would be okay with being pinch hitters will receive a small bonus for any extra completed works they do as a thank you for picking up the slack <3
- Due dates for pinch hitters are 2 weeks from the initial image reveal date, on January 8th
- If you check that you’d like to be a pinch hitter, but end up not being able to when we reach out to you, that is perfectly fine! We understand that plans and how busy you are can change!