If you haven’t figured it out, this is a guide for the fashion show in Tara.
Location and Audience Behavior
Getting right down to business, the show takes place at northern Tara, next to the jousting arena. It’s pretty hard to miss.
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You can purchase confetti and party poppers from the helper there to throw at people on the runway; 50 gold each, can be purchased in stacks of 10. These items can also be used in other places. They’re actions.
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Confetti (pink petals):
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Party Popper(sparkles):
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Chairs are lined up in front of and beside the runway; you can sit in them by using rest near one of them. However, during the show, skills may not be used (actions are not included).
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You can switch to spectator mode by pressing this button in the top right corner of your screen:
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When in spectator mode, you get a close up of the show and you're also able to mark the contestant's outfit out of 5. If you don't click a number, it will be automatically set at 3/5.
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Applying for the show
There are two types of shows, preliminary, and the Finals on Imbolic (Sunday). All shows take place starting at 8pm PST real time, and repeat every 5 minutes or so, depending on the amount of people applying. For a show to take place there must be at least 4 competitors (or else the countdown to the show will reset and start again at 7 minutes or so).
Beside the runway, there’s a Fashion Show Helper, she’s the one you go to for applications. She can tell you how the show works very briefly, and you can find out the theme of the show from her. The theme isn’t very important, but some spirit is never a bad thing.
There are two options for showing, one is the “Free Showâ€, which you can practice in with a party (leader applies, of course), and there is the “Preliminary Show†on Sunday-Friday. On Saturday this will change to “Finals Showâ€. To apply for the Finals Show, you need a pass, which you can get from placing either 1st or 2nd in the Preliminaries at any time during the week. This will be explained below.
There is a 40-person limit on the Finals show, so be there early~ THe channel for the show will be announced ahead of time.
During the show
After you apply, a small icon will appear beside your F# tab. It’s yellow/white and will glow. You can click on it to see the time remaining before the show, the number of competitors, and which number you are in the order of performance.
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When the show starts, the first person will be whisked onto the stage. Don’t worry; the system will warn you 10 seconds before your turn. You don’t have to go anywhere, just stay in the vicinity of the runway.
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When it’s your turn, you’ll appear on the left corner of the stage (from a spectator’s point of view). You’ll do an action (that you don’t control) twice, and start walking.
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After walking halfway down the runway, you’ll stop and do your first action. A box will appear at the bottom of your screen with arrow keys (W, A, S, D) moving up. The quicker you press these keys (in order), the better score you’ll get.
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The box only appears a very very short amount of time before the arrows appear, and since they can come up in groups of anywhere between 1 and 6, you don’t have very much time to prepare. I’d say the hardest one to catch would be 1 key, as silly as it sounds. The key passes by extremely fast and you have to have pretty good reflexes to catch it. 3 could also appear and have 3 follow right after without disappearing.
If you succeed, you will hear a success sound (this is mute to spectators) and have a star appear above you (and of course you’ll do an action), and if you fail, you will hear the typical fail sound (spectators will hear this) and have a dust puff over your head (you will also appear to be tripping).
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After your first action, you will continue walking until you’re at the very end of the catwalk facing the audience. Here, you will have to do three actions in a row. Personally, I prefer long key sets because they’re much easier to execute, even though you must move faster. After this, you turn and walk halfway back down the runway on the right side this time (the next competitors will be coming up behind you at this moment) and do an action. Following, you will walk to the end of the runway, face the audience, and bow, or wave, or something else.
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When you’ve finished your turn, you will be moved off the runway. You can then move around freely and watch the others until the whole show is finished. Then a box will pop up on your screen stating everyone’s score and placing.
If you placed well, you will get a Fashion Contest Finals Entry Pass (expires in 7 days, you can hold more than one, untradeable) and a Basic Rewards Bag.
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You also get Intermediate and Advanced bags from finals.
Some of the items you get are:
Cobweb x5
Iron Ore Fragment x5
Copper Ore Fragment x5
Silver Ore Fragment x5
Gold Ore Fragment x1
Mithril Ore Fragment x1
Iron Ingot x10
Thin Thread Ball x3
Common Leather x5
Cheap Leather Strap x5
Thin Thread Ball x 3
Thick Thread Ball x3
Cobweb x5
Wool x5
Braid x5
Common Finishing Thread x5
Magical Golden Thread x5
These are the ones that I’ve stumbled upon so far, I will add more as time progresses.
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This is currently unfinished, I'll be adding to it after the Final Show on Saturday [?].
Wiki was pretty vague about this whole thing, so I wrote this info there and decided to make a guide here.
*note : images are low quality currently and all different sizes because I had to use paint since I haven't downloaded photoshop yet.
*edit : 1O.O6.1O . Added new images, fixed errors in text.