The stands were built and decorated for the festive season with fake cobwebs and paper bats and there the food hawkers were selling jelly worms and witches brew (which may or may not be alcoholic) There were flags with the various teams names. And just behind the stands there was a large box in the air with strange cones coming off the corners of it and an elf sitting inside it.
And then there were the stables and track, the track was for a nicely mowed section of a meadow with flagging around the edges in an attempt to make sure the animals racing stayed on track. There were also pumpkins and bales of hay to keep it festive, though occasionally one would see a bounder beating back an Rodent of Unusual Size.
The 'stables' for the most part were very nice crates since most of the racers were quite small, and there were lids on some of them to keep them from slipping out an eating the other racers.
There were many great rows of crates, each row a different size, and flagged with different colours, with the names of the kingdom over them. There was quite a ruckus in a few of them as some of the animals knew it was time to race and they were quite excited, others were lazy lumps and fast asleep. All of the crates held animals that any person might use to race for that particular kingdom should they not have their own.
Imladris crates hold hedgehogs and are posted under the colour #408080 (Teal)
Lothlorien crates hold foxes and are posted under the colour #00BFFF (Light Blue)
Khazad Dum crates hold badgers and are posted under the colour #FF40FF (Bright Foo Pink)
Gondor crates hold skunks and are posted under the colour BLACK (No colour code required)
Rohan crates hold raccoons and are posted under the colour #00BF00 (Light Green)
Shire crates hold coneys and are posted under the colour #800080 (Purple)
Fangorn crates hold squirrels and are posted under the colour #008000 (Green)
Isengard crates hold rats (of ususal size) and are posted under the colour #0040FF (Royal Blue)
Mordor crates hold snakes and are posted under the colour #800000 (Dark Red)
Lothlorien crates hold foxes and are posted under the colour #00BFFF (Light Blue)
Khazad Dum crates hold badgers and are posted under the colour #FF40FF (Bright Foo Pink)
Gondor crates hold skunks and are posted under the colour BLACK (No colour code required)
Rohan crates hold raccoons and are posted under the colour #00BF00 (Light Green)
Shire crates hold coneys and are posted under the colour #800080 (Purple)
Fangorn crates hold squirrels and are posted under the colour #008000 (Green)
Isengard crates hold rats (of ususal size) and are posted under the colour #0040FF (Royal Blue)
Mordor crates hold snakes and are posted under the colour #800000 (Dark Red)
And beside the crates with animals are great big bags filled to the brim with costumes, an added little contest for the season of Halloween. Where those that wished to race animals could dress up their creatures in an attempt to get bonus points from the crowd.
Suddenly the cones on that odd raised box crackled to life - clearly they had been taken from Isengard as this was no hobbitish invention with it's wires and its noise-
"We invite all racers to chose whichever kingdom they would like to participate as, but please only participate for ONE kingom, all of our major announcements for the race will be made over this channel. (#FF0000 - BRIGHT RED)
And if you have any questions please visit the race announcing booth and ask!
Rules of the Race
Any kingdom member may race for any other kingdom.
You may not use multiple racers or represent multiple kingdoms per race
All posts must have at least 100 characters of RP accompany every post
Please post in your kingdom colour to make my life easy
Please make your rolls known at the bottom of your post in bold Examples: 1 D6 roll or 2 D20 rolls and 1 D6 roll
You may take multiple rolls if you so wish to a maximum of 15.
There are 15 turns per race.
Please make your last rolls by OCTOBER 30th.
GM updates will happen DAILY if there is racer activity
D6 Rolls:
1,3,5 - Move forward those amounts
2,4,6 - Move BACKWARDS half those amounts
D20
A spread of -5 to +10 depending on the roll. Some come with light Lore questions, and others with RP requirements in order for the movement to count! So please get these rolls in by October 30th (or earlier if you need time to RP them!)
OTHER RULES
Spectators please use #FF8000or#FFBF00 to post!
OOC is to be @myself and then whited out at the bottom of your post
Please no Signatures
Halloween Costume Contest
Racers may be dressed up by the person racing them however they wish but it must be RPed and used throughout the race (whether it is kept or utterly destroyed by an angry creature etc)
You may also use images but RPing is still needed!
1st place will get a bonus 5 movement to their racer
2nd place will get a bonus 3 movement to their racer
3rd place will get a bonus 1 movement to their racer
Please note that this will NOT be a standard part of the racing but a fun halloween treat
Racers may be dressed up by the person racing them however they wish but it must be RPed and used throughout the race (whether it is kept or utterly destroyed by an angry creature etc)
You may also use images but RPing is still needed!
1st place will get a bonus 5 movement to their racer
2nd place will get a bonus 3 movement to their racer
3rd place will get a bonus 1 movement to their racer
Please note that this will NOT be a standard part of the racing but a fun halloween treat