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Starting today, any character that enters the temple will notice a pile of colorful boxes. No matter what the character does they can not get close enough to these boxes to see them clearly, but for all intents and purposes it looks like a pile of Christmas presents.

If asked, anyone at the Temple will be evasive about their intended purpose - Orion stating that he doesn't know why they're there and Alma being her cryptic unclear self. The boxes will remain piled up until February 13th at 11:59 pm, at which point they will instead be found outside the temple, set up almost like a garden - until disappearing at 12:00 am February 15th. Any letters characters remove from the box will remain in their possession, but anything that is left behind will also disappear.

Each box will represent a character currently in Purg, Player Characters, NPCs, everyone - and will be colored accordingly. Players may choose how their characters' boxes are decorated. Your characters do not get to choose the box's decorations, so if you'd like to make it something they wouldn't be happy with, that's perfectly fine. Boxes only need to represent the character they are there for, and your character will need to be able to recognize their own box (i.e. a plain orange box could be Allelujah or Kyo, from a distance) so names will be on them somewhere.

We did this last year, but I added some variation just for the sake of making it a remotely different event. Your characters can recognize the boxes for what they are, if they would remember the event but for anyone who was not here, or does not remember/recognize what this is - last year's post can be found here for a refresher. Samples of how this works can be read from there, as well. How much or little detail you put into the description of your boxes is entirely up to you - and no, they do not need to be the same as they were last year.

All the same rules apply, if you want to go poke friends who used to be in Purg about writing your characters valentine cards, please do. Anonymous or signed letters are also welcome. Letters can be posted OOCly, from when I put the post up until midnight of the 16th - Monday night/Tuesday morning but characters will be unable to open/read anything until midnight of the 14th, Sat/Sun.

Additionally, your Valentine's Day letter mentioned in a previous post may be found here or at your choosing. It's not mandatory they be found in one of these boxes, but that option is open if you'd like it to be.

The letters to those who are gone box will be plain white with a silver ring around it.

Please note: This is not the post to begin posting valentines, please do not use it for anything IC. I figured it would be easier to make a mod announcement with Notifications on, so if anyone had any questions they could leave a comment without it getting lost in all the IC posts.

A second post is coming for the intent of IC submissions, keep in mind that this post will have no notifications turned on, so do not comment to it OOCly. If you need anything, please remember to comment here.

As always - questions/comments/tomatoes/etc.