[Xanth]

The Awesomest Raffle of d00m Everer

It's EF's 6th birthday on the 8th of August! To celebrate, I'm giving you the chance to win a bunch of awesome prizes for the low price of a raffle ticket (or a dozen)! Prizes will be drawn randomly using random.org.

This raffle is purely out of character so characters will know nothing about it. You get to decide how they acquired your prize IC. Tickets cost ζ5. You can buy as many as you like from whichever characters you like, but you can only claim one prize per member, with a choice of which character you give it to.

To buy tickets, post the number you want and then send the cash to the bank. Good luck!

PRIZES

• THUNDERBIRD
  Similar to the wedge-tailed eagle, this bird of prey has a wingspan of nine feet and is the colour of clouds in a thunderstorm. It is one-of-a-kind and comes from Xanth's Menagerie, so it will bond fully with its owner as a hunting companion. Every flap of its wings creates a crack of thunder. When it dives straight down for more than 600 feet, it brings with it a bolt of lightning.
  
  
• DRAGON FLUTE
  A two-foot ravenwood flute, this instrument once belonged to a Sidhe musician named Amereus, who became infamous for entrancing audiences into a drooling stupor while his companions robbed them blind. Any music played on the Dragon Flute can hypnotise up to ten people for up two minutes.
  
  
• HELBLADE
  This legendary scimitar belonged to the first Arkigo, who with it won many battles against the Skotadi. It is made of steel but has gold filigree twined around the hilt and engravings along the blade that glow with the power of Elysia's sun. When unsheathed, the blade is white-hot.
  
  
• STARBIRD
  Similar to a stork, the starbird is pure white with a slender head, a wingspan of four feet, and tail feathers some six feet long. One of only two in existence, it comes from Xanth's Menagerie so will bond fully with its owner. Sparks trail the bird like tiny stars.
  
  
• Ismelda's Secrets
  A diary written by the wife of one of the Thirteen Consuls of Alexandria, this book contains a number of political secrets (some of them true and others not) about Alexandrian politics that would prove very useful in the right (or wrong) hands.

TICKETS

1—200 Joy
201—281 David
282—482 Pchan

Piper's Boutique • Dafont • KeyMoon • Beyond Tonight

[Aiden]

Sending ζ1,000 for 200 tickets.

Added. ^^

[Alain]

Sounds like fun to try my hand at.

Buying on eighty tickets for ζ400.

Hmm...I'd probably go for Ismelda's Secrets...partly to shake up the election I mentioned in Runaway Broom.

Added!

[Faris]

Oooo a raffle!

200 tickets for ζ1,000, please~

Looking to get Argyris the Helblade *_*

Confirmed.

[Xanth]

Everyone's tickets are counted up so far. Don't forget to pay the bank if you haven't already!

[Xanth]

Ooooh, time for the drawing, guys! I'm excited. Are you excited?

So because there are fewer people with tickets than there are prizes, I'm drawing slightly differently than intended and will be rolling (using random.org's integer generator) for both tickets and the prize attached. And the numbers drawn are 36, 221, 359; 1, 5, 3. That means:

Joy wins the Thunderbird
David wins Ismelda's Secrets
Pchan wins the Helblade

I was going to say that if you don't like your prize, you can put it up for trade or auction - but I don't think that will be a problem since it seems like everyone got what they wanted. I couldn't have drawn better if I'd picked the numbers myself!

I'll be saving the leftover prizes for future events. In the meantime, winners please post which character you're giving your prize to and update your inventories. You can also choose stories for how they came by the item, which I look forward to reading!

Congratulations, and happy EFiversary!