I think something like this would be pretty fun:

A spirit/mystical being appears and announces that he has a gift for the world. He then explains that he is unsure of who to give the gift to. There are then a series of competitions ranging from combat to questing to egghunts, and so on, including a few unique competitions like asking the participants to hunt down and slay some giant beast, or perhaps asking a few riddles. The winning city/commune then wins a bunch of gold and power, and maybe some unique item like the effigy of victory from Achaea (which gave +10% XP gain)

The event would be great... but not that effigy.

Experience modifiers...

Why not use the same randomization as the scepter in Achaea? Roncli had it last, I think. Anyway, every time a new user got it, it did different stuff. Maybe make it give a bonus to guards strength and life for the first round, and then the next each citizen has a +10% bonus HP regain, and then the next + lvl 1 regen for city-owned lands, then for the next round like a resistance to cutting and blunt damage, and then the next time...

Oi! No egghunts!

That kind of thing is so bleh for RP and it's also utterly boring

Other than that, it sounds quite interesting

Nah, it would be great if that thing were a one time event... the prize? A Box of Pandora... Muhaha! unbeknownst to the victors, their victory is just about to doom mortalkind forever!

I wonder if Lusternia'll do what Achaea does, and every 50 IC years have a festival, and have some schweet prizes.

I like egghunts.

I heard Aetolia had a yearly tournament or something, sounded kinda neat. Egghunts were boring, unless it was PK allowed where you didn't lose or gain any experience from killing people.

*remembers mass-slaughtering people with 10 falcons*

Falcons are best.

Hey there's a festival coming up! Of course as a magnagoran (and, as viewed by many in Celest, a louser traitor ) you probably won't be invited.

Yay doom!
I was hoping the halloween ghosties would be the end of the world, but it was just a temporary end of me. Turns out I couldn't tank like... 40 of them

Anyways... egghunts aren't my favorite thing in the world. I did enjoy the xp contest from achaea one time. It was fun to actually SEE yourself increasing in experience, even if a hour of bashing only got you a couple percent experience. We should have one of those sometime.

Heh, if we did one of those every node on astral would hit 0 by the end.