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Dance of the Dead Community Event - October 18th/19th 2024
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Under the eerie glow of the plague-shrouded moon of Lordaeron, the cursed lands come alive with spirits, tormented souls, and all things macabre. Dare to step beyond the veil of the living and join the spectral revelry, where every twist of fate leads deeper into the night’s sinister embrace.
Test your mettle in our Dueling Tournament, toy with the threats of fate with shadow-laced fortune telling, where only the strongest may thrive. Hunt for forgotten relics in the Scavenger Hunt, though beware—some treasures may carry a curse. Watch as ghastly figures take the stage in Theater Performances that blur the line between fantasy and nightmare. And don’t forget the annual Costume Contest, where the best-dressed and most witty souls stand to win prizes.
The Dance of the Dead awaits, come revel with the restless dead.
Dance of the Dead - October 18th and 19th
Join the Forsaken for a night of festivities as they celebrate their liberation from the Lich King and remember their fallen Kingdom! For one night a celebration is hosted at the Caer Darrow where members of the Horde, Neutral factions, and even a few brave Alliance members gather and celebrate for an evening.
Opening Ceremony:
When:
October 18th, 8pm Central / 9pm Eastern
Where:
Server: Moon Guard - Open to all RP servers, anchor raids provided.
Zone: Caer Darrow, in Western Plaguelands
Tirisfal Theater Troupe:
When:
October 18th, 7pm Central / 8pm Eastern
Where:
Server: Moon Guard - Open to all RP servers, anchor raids provided.
Zone: Caer Darrow, in Western Plaguelands
D20 PvP Tournament:
When:
October 18th
Signups open - 8:30pm Central / 9:30pm Eastern
Dueling starts - 9pm Central / 10pm Eastern
Where:
Server: Moon Guard - Open to all RP servers, anchor raids provided.
Zone: Caer Darrow, in Western Plaguelands
Costume Contest:
When:
October 19th, 8pm Central / 9pm Eastern
Where:
Server: Moon Guard - Open to all RP servers, anchor raids provided.
Zone: Caer Darrow, in Western Plaguelands
Booth 1 - Tirisfal Theatre Troupe / Costume Contest
Booth 2 - Golden Scorpion Tattoos
Booth 3 - Artisan Alley
Booth 4 - Gaknu and the Deadmans Candle and Curiositys
Booth 5 - Death Prediction Fortune Telling
Booth 6 - Stvnning In The Dark
Booth 7 - Wheel Of Misfortune
Booth 8- Lark & Siren Brewing Co.
Booth 9 - Curious Cantrips
Booth 10 - Hoodoo Voodoo
For more event information, join the Dance of the Dead discord here.
In addition to the main event, each year also hosts a Memorial March, which happened this Monday evening. For this year's event, characters retraced the path of Arthas Menethil on his journey through Northrend to claim Frostmourne. Shown below are scenes of the march formation, along with their honorary lanterns, performed by members of both the Alliance and the Horde.
The Dance's History
Though its modern iteration is a festival of roleplaying competitions and rituals, its past iterations as an event invoke a long-storied and much bloodier tale.
Originally founded
back in 2008
on the Steamwheedle Cartel server, Dance of the Dead migrated to the popular Moon Guard server in 2013, with many of the same festivities of the modern event. There was, however, one notable addition -- the Great Hunt.
During the Great Hunt, players from the Alliance with notable histories battling the Horde in previous RP-PvP events would be rounded up by Horde players as prisoners of war, and taken for questioning and punishment alike. At the end of their time as prisoners, they were moved into the Eastern Plaguelands, where they were subsequently granted their freedom... if they survived.
For the Horde, the releasing of the prisoners meant the start of the Hunt. After a set amount of time, riders of the Forsaken and their allies would march out from Stratholme, intent on finding and slaying any freed prisoners they found between the fallen city and the town of Darrowshire. For the Alliance, meanwhile, a contingent of saviors is also gathered, and ride out to meet the Horde in battle and defend their imprisoned allies.
For the prisoners, their participation in the hunt is a matter of life and death. Stripped of their armor and weapons during the hunt, the prisoners had no access to whispers, guild chat, or other global channels -- only /say and /yell. If their Alliance allies managed to find them and shepherd them to safety before the Horde hunters arrived, their lives would be spared. If not... the Forsaken would feast well. If a character was slain in their attempt to flee from the Forsaken, they would be considered dead and gone, their story as a roleplaying character concluded (with the player's permission, first and foremost).
By the end of the Great Hunt, a tally was made of how many prisoners were saved or slaughtered on each side, and the faction with the higher count was declared the winner. Horde players who successfully killed a prisoner of war were granted a blessing from the Cult of Forgotten Shadows at the subsequent celebrations, and the surviving Alliance members were allowed to lick their wounds and recover, at least until the next year's round-up began.
While RP-PvP is less frequent nowadays, events like these were once commonplace on RP servers, with Dance of the Dead as one of the most popular yearly contests. For those who want a suitably mid-2010's flashback, below is a trailer for the Great Hunt that happened at the event's debut on Moon Guard in 2013.
In years past, the event has also featured charity events in coordination with Blizzard actors such as Patty Mattson (Sylvanas), Michael McConnohie (Uther, Kel'thuzad, the Lich King), and Patrick Seitz (Garrosh, Arthas), who provided Q&A sessions as well as line reads. Below is the trailer from last year's Dance of the Dead, featuring the voice of Michael McConnohie as the Lich King and animation by Shenimations.
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