Check out this year's theme song on the *new* Original Soundtrack page!
Introducing mother may i with both an original and a bard version. Enjoy!

old friends and new

Welcome to Origin Cave's Ninth Anniversary! Wow, we have been around a while. This year's seen the gradual opening of multiple caves, the marching advance of Order in the shadows, and plenty of hints of things to come. Over the years, we've seen so, so many players and characters come and go; so many in-character relationships form, and groups join together... and on that note, this year's theme is: Old Friends and New. Before we get into it: this year's anniversary event will run the entire month of May, and will feature a special Anniversary Raffle--more on that below!--as well as our yearly Gacha rolls. There's also a new skin by CJ to celebrate!

OLD FRIENDS

For the month of May, there's special rewards for threads between characters who have previously threaded together. Old friends, allies, those who've met in passing, even enemies... GM tag these threads, and you might get something special. In addition, these threads, once finished, can be claimed in Magicka Market for double magicka, even if they aren't finished within the month of May! (Just remember to also link at least one previous thread shared by the participants.) You can also claim ongoing Old Friends threads for Raffle tickets in the Anniversary Raffle. Threads begun from April onward count.

...AND NEW

Also for the month of May, any advertisements for Origin posted elsewhere will earn double magicka (ʡ10 per advertisement). If you aren't sure how that works, there's a post here with an easy-to-copy code and brief information. You can also claim Ads for Raffle Tickets in the Anniversary Raffle. In addition, all characters registered in the month of May may select two starter spells (low intensity, in-element) instead of the usual one.

See below for a list of Raffle rewards, ticket prices, and how to claim tickets!

Gacha rolls!

This year, every player will get to roll five Gacha rolls at any time in May (to give you some leeway), with a maximum of one roll allowed per day. Our daily raffles will again be using the Discord command &gacha in the specified channel #gacha-rolls. If you are not in our Discord, don't worry! Simply post below to let us know you will need rolls done for you, and a GM will roll your prize for you daily.

The #gacha-rolls channel is set to slowmode, so please only use it for your daily rolls. You may roll only once per day during the event period. Rolls include a timestamp for your convenience. At the end of the event, if nobody rolls a Winner's Choice, we will roll a list of names for it!

Prizes that specify a design will be GM-designed means that while we still may roll random properties, we have the creative freedom to design as we like to make it cool! See below for information on Gacha prizes, and instructions on how to claim them!

Important Note: Please make only one post per player with both your Raffle and Gacha forms, using this thread! This lets us keep everything easily referenced and organized. Thank you!

And thank you for being here. Life rolls on, but it's rewarding and amazing to see our long-term players return over many months to continue contributing to our lovely cooperative storytelling adventure! Here's to many more to come.

Gacha Claims

Please claim your gacha rolls in this thread using the below form. Edit your post to include new claims. Copy the date from the footer of the roll, including the time of the roll. GMs will edit your post to mark rewards that have been sent out. Please do not edit out GM remarks.

Example:

Date: Sunday April 30 at 12:59 PM CST
Reward: 150 magicka

Date: Sunday April 30 at 1:01 PM CST
Reward: Winner's Choice

Code:

<b>Date:</b>
<b>Reward:</b>

Rewards Options (Click to expand!)

You may choose one (1) from the available options for each roll!

★ Tier 1
- 150 magicka
- Low Spell Borrow or Technique/Tactic (or up to medium spell/ability of your element/path)
- Lost Stone (guaranteed revive, randomly rolled design)

★★ Tier 2
- 250 magicka
- Medium Spell Borrow or Technique/Tactic (or up to high spell/ability of your element/path)
- Minor Mutation Slot
- Lost Stone (guaranteed revive, designed by GMs)

★★★ Tier 3
- 500 magicka
- High Spell Borrow or Technique/Tactic (or up to high spell/ability of your element/path)
- Uncommon Character Slot
- Major Mutation Slot
- Lost Stone (guaranteed revive, designed by GMs)
- Character Design (random species, designed by GMs, common or UCS)
- Character item/accessory from The Blacksmith (random roll)
- Guaranteed surface item from Gemini Rift (random roll)

★★★★ Tier 4
- 1,000 magicka
- Specialty Spell
- High Intensity Non-Elemental Spell (Sensorial Link, Familiar Forge, Affix Dye, Enchant)
- Rare Character Slot
- Mutation Slot++ (worth two mutation slots)
- Character Design (GM designed RCS)
- Valkhound or Drone Design (not ancient)
- Character item/accessory from The Blacksmith (Player chosen)
- Guaranteed surface item from Gemini Rift (GM chosen)

★★★★★ Tier 5
- Winner's Choice! You can request anything - go wild! Provided it is reasonable, we will accept.

Raffle Tickets

You may claim tickets for the following actions using the form below. Edit the post to include new claims. There's no rush; tickets will only be tallied at the very end of the month, just before the raffle draw. All Raffle entrants will receive at least one prize.

Prizes Include (click to expand)

• High, Medium and Low Spell Borrows (x4, x5, x6)
• Your Choice of High-Intensity, Non-Elemental Spell (x2)
• Your Choice of Specialty Spell (x1)
• RCS (x3)
• Major Mutation Slot (x4)
• Minor Mutation Slot (x4)
• A secret, GM-designed, Ancient lore character with early UID, profile code, profile artwork, coded table, and avatar

Sources for Tickets (click to expand)

• Advertising the Site (x2 raffle tickets per ad)
• Posting Origin Artwork, Stories, etc., either on Origin, in the Discord, or off-site (x3 tickets per piece)
• In-Character Post (x1 ticket per post)
• Old Friends Post (x2 tickets per post)
A post may be claimed as a regular In-Character or Old Friends post! in other words, Old Friends posts earn double tickets.

Tickets Claim Form
Post the first two lines of the form for each individual source of tickets. Example:

"Number of Tickets: 2
Source: In-Character Posts (link, link)

Number of Tickets: 2
Source: Advertisement (link)

Total: 4"

Form:

Code:

[b]Number of Tickets:[/b]
[b]Source:[/b]
[b]Total:[/b]

If your Source is ads, it is best to include the links in small, easy to read format, for example Link, Link, and Link, or numbered as One, Two, or [x] [x], etc.

Gacha Claims


Date: Wednesday, May 1st at 9:18 AM CST
Reward: Tier 3 - 500 magicka to @Cyg (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Thursday, May 2nd at 6:31 AM CST
Reward: Tier 3 - 500 magicka to @Cyg (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Friday, May 3rd at 8:32 AM CST
Reward: Tier 1 - LSB to @Samael (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Saturday, May 4th at 8:12 AM CST
Reward: Tier 4 - Character Design (GM designed RCS) (Pressure Element, Chinese Dragon-like visual, beautiful/elegant-looking, maybe some pattern similar to Koi Fish, has gills but is more of a land creature. ...Also because it's me, a homebrew venom concept for the bite that isn't paralysis/euphoria-based?) (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Sunday, May 5th at 9:25 AM CST
Reward: Tier 4 - Character item/accessory from The Blacksmith (Player chosen) [Accessory Enchanted with Cloud Step for @Yanyue (would like to receive in character)] (Delivered - Dark)

All rewards delivered

Raffle Tickets


Number of Tickets: 280
Source: Character Posts- [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [+43=114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120] [+10=130] [131] [132] [133] [134] [135] [136] [137] [138] [139] [140] [141] [142] [143] [144] [145] [146] [147] [148] [149] [150] [151] [152] [153] [154] [155] [156] [157] [158] [159] [160] [161] [162] [163] [164] [165] [166] [167] [168] [169] [170] [171] [172] [173] [174] [175] [176] [177] [178] [179] [180] [181] [182] [183] [184] [185] [186] [187] [188] [189] [190] [191] [192] [193] [194] [195] [195] [196] [197] [198] [199] [200] [201] [202] [203] [+8=211] [212] [213] [214] [215] [216] [217] [218] [219] [220] [221] [222] [223] [224] [225] [226] [227] [228] [229] [+3=232] [233] [234] [235] [236] [237] [238] [239] [240] [241] [242] [243] [244] [245] [246] [247] [+6=253] [254] [255] [256] [+7=263] [264] [265] [266] [267] [268] [269] [270] [271] [272] [273] [274] [+6=280]

Number of Tickets: 88
Source: Old Friends- [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [+13= 41] [42] [43] [44]

Number of Tickets: 9
Source: Art- [1] [2] [3]

NOTE: Do not wish to win TECTUS, if I roll TECTUS, please replace with 'Your Choice of High-Intensity, Non-Elemental Spell'
Total: 377 tickets

Date: Wednesday May 1st at 10:06 AM CST
Reward: Tier 3 - Gemini Rift item for Wilder (delivered - Dark)

Date: Thursday May 2nd at 7:06 AM CST
Reward: Tier 3 - HSB on September (delivered - Dark)

Date: Friday May 3rd at 7:11 AM CST
Reward: Tier 2 - Minor Mutation slot for September (added to Jaymie's player account - Dark)

Date: Saturday May 4th at 9:42 AM CST
Reward: Tier 3 - HSB on Anubis (delivered - Dark)

Date: Sunday May 5th at 10:11 AM CST
Reward: Tier 1 - Medium Spell on V-Ruby-One (Profaned Creature) (delivered - Dark)

All rewards delivered

Number of Tickets: 158
Source: Character Posts
From "motherhood?" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
From "do you remember?" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
From "Rancid" [1]
From "Thy Enemy, Lord of Time" [1, 2]
From "im not scared of bees!!" [1, 2]
From "Four Horsemen (Horses Not Required)" [1, 2, 3]
From "Chaotic Sparring" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
From "remembering the sky" [1, 2, 3]
From "A Cloudy Beginning" [1, 2, 3]
From "Esoterica" [1, 2, 3]
From "THE RUSSIAN SLEEP EXPERIMENT" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
From "Into Darker Depths" [This is a long solo (+GM) thread and i dont want to link every post so after counting, Anubis posted 28 times]
From "berry...two!" [2]
From "[Event] Going Batty!" [1, 2]
From "Eternal Flames" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
From "Pool Party" [1, 2]
From "The Sanctuary's Shephard" [1, 2, 3]
From "An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
From "[Quest] Awakening the Dreamer - Part II" [1, 2, 3, 4]
From "survival pains" [1, 2, 3, 4]
From "to transcend DEATH" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
From "The Great Chicago Fire" [1, 2, 3, 4]
From "out of the frying pan" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
From "right back in the frying pan" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
From "Chaos and Cleansing" [1]
From "Witchhome" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
From "Farming Simulator" [1, 2, 3]
From "got me sinking to a dark place" [1]
From "GROW BACK" [1]


Number of Tickets: 102
Source: Old Friends Posts
From "Stargazer" [1, 2]
From "Old (breakable) Friends (shakeable)" [1, 2, 3]
From "Old Friends, New Ideas" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
All posts from "Indifference" save 2 [15 total]
From "We Don't Need Absolution" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
From "We Are Golden Idols (Worship Us)" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
From "When You Give a Leopard a Garden..."[1, 2, 3, 4]
From "praise the light" [1, 2, 3, 4]

Number of Tickets: 21 24
Source: Posted art on the discord [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

(gm note - you had two threes i fixed it and added one)


Number of Tickets: 60
Source: Advertising [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 27, 28, 29, 30]

Total: 331 344

(gm note - YOU MADE ME DO MATH. idk if you didn't update this but it is now hoo)

Date: Wednesday May 01 at 8:58 AM CST
Reward: Winner's Choice (:|) - Diem Dark character w/ spell list & enchanted DM items (approved by CJ, delivered)

Date: Thursday May 02 at 9:24 AM CST
Reward: Tier 1: LSB -> Bounce to V-Corundum-One (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Friday May 03 at 9:34 AM CST
Reward: Tier 1: med in-path -> Body Slam to Vastator (decided to go physical lol-) (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Saturday May 04 at 9:58 AM CST
Reward: Tier 2: Lost Stone (guaranteed revive, designed by GMs) (delivered by Bunny!)

Date: Sunday May 05 at 2:27 PM CST
Reward: Tier 1: med in-path -> Avoidance to Vastator (Delivered - Dark)

All rewards delivered


Number of Tickets: 262

Source:
Character Creation - 9
Eternal Flames - 8
Cool Friend... - 1
Interview Time - 11
I Have This Stone... - 9
do you remember? - 24
Hidden Treasure - 14
Hey do you... - 8
Ends and Beginnings - 3
Tell Me, O Muse - 3
Generosity - 6
The Great Chicago Fire - 4

Totals of normal threads - 94

Old Friends -
Praise The Light - 2
Out of the Frying Pan - 12
The Sanctuary's Shepherd - 2
We Don't Need Absolution - 8
The Messenger... - 4
I AM NO MOTHER... - 4
The Emissary - 35
Me Among The Mighty - 3
where the heart is - 9
AtD - Part II - 4
GROW BACK - 1

Old Friends totals - 84x2= 168

Date: Wednesday May 01 at 9:16 AM CST
Reward: Tier 2- Lost Stone (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Thursday May 02 at 9:18 AM CST
Reward: Tier 4- Blacksmith Item (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Friday May 03 at 9:43 AM CST
Reward: Tier 1- State Change for Asira (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Saturday May 04 at 10:16 AM CST
Reward: Tier 1- Vacuum for Asira (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Sunday May 05 at 9:28 AM CST
Reward: Tier 1- Transfer for Asira (Delivered - Dark)

All rewards delivered


Number of Tickets:
Source: Art- [1][2][3]
Total: 9

Number of Tickets:
Source: IC Post- [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]
Total: 58

Number of Tickets:
Source: Old Friends Post- [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]
Total: 62

Total: 129

Date: Wednesday May 01 at 3:00 PM CST
Reward: Tier 3- Guaranteed surface item from Gemini Rift (random roll) for Richter (Delivered - Dark)

Date: Thursday May 02 at 3:38 PM CST
Reward: Tier 1- 150 magicka for Karambit - (Delivered! - Dark)

Date: Friday May 03 at 5:24 PM CST
Reward: Tier 2- Dominator (High Int Path) for East (Delivered - Dark

Date: Sunday May 05 at 7:19 PM CST
Reward: Tier 1- Infestation (Medium Int Element) for Halcyon - (Delivered! - Dark)

Date: Monday May 06 at 1:06 AM CST
Reward: Tier 2- Incapacitate (High Int Path) for East (Delivered - Dark

All rewards delivered

Number of Tickets: 35
Source: Character Posts
Knuckle Down - [1]
No Race to Be Run - [1] [2] [3]
Speak Softly - [1] [2]
The Devil's Orchestra - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Tiptoe Through the Tulips - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Souls in Miniature - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
I Can't Believe It's Not Corn Syrup - [1] [2] [3] [4]
GROW BACK - [1]
Precious as a Sunny Day - [1] [2] [3]
Awfully Kind of a Stranger - [1]

Number of Tickets: 6
Source: Old Friends Posts
Insult Comedy - [1] [2] [3]

Number of Tickets: 8
Source: Advertising
[1] [2] [3] [4]

Total: 49

Date: 5/1/24 (https://discord.com/channels/379720430526922763/1232833773280952391/1235391064047882290)
Reward: T1 - Lost Stone (Delivered - Dark)

Date: 5/2/24 (https://discord.com/channels/379720430526922763/1232833773280952391/1235685571662184468)
Reward: T2 - Lost Stone (Delivered - Dark)

Date: 5/3/24
Rewards: T4 - Character Design GM Designed RCS - Toucan with Spherocobaltite gem. Go crazy, go wild.
(https://discord.com/channels/379720430526922763/1232833773280952391/1236080351290589374) (Delivered - Dark)

Date: 5/4/24 (https://discord.com/channels/379720430526922763/1232833773280952391/1236474150957219913)
Reward: T1 - Cripple Technique for vjira (delivered - Dark)

Date: 5/5/24 (https://discord.com/channels/379720430526922763/1232833773280952391/1236474150957219913)
Reward: T3 - 500 magicka on aran! (delivered - Dark)

All rewards delivered

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Number of Tickets: 13
Source: In Character Post - [HATCHING] My bounty: [x]

SUCK IT UP [x][x][x]


ESOTERICA: [x][x]

Birds of a Feather: [x] [x][x] Old friends thread [x] Proof


Me among the mighty: [x] [x] [x] Old friends thread [x] Proof
Total: 18

Number of Tickets: 9
Source Art - [x] [x]
[x]


Number of Tickets: 2
Source: Advertising - [x]
Total: 29

Gacha!
Date: May 4th 2024 (May the Fourth be with you)
Reward: Tier 1 (150 to Tema - or just a Give Life tbh please) (Delivered - Dark)

Date: May 5th 2024
Reward: Tier 1 (Pyrogel on Anala) (Delivered - Dark)

Date: May 6th 2024
Reward: Tier 2 (GM designed, guaranteed revive lost stone - can I give cat-dragon as inspo? but go nuts of course) (Delivered - Dark)

Date: May 7th 2024
Reward: Tier 1 (Telekinesis for Heathen) (Delivered - Dark)

Date: May 8th 2024
Reward:Tier 5 (CJ-approved insanity! 2 RCS + a fitting post template, surface rift item for Sair upon visit, (click for link) GM-designed stone or Order char based on a prompt ( cute vibe? maybe a natural symmetry to them? squirrel hybrid, if that inspires anything)

Raffle!
Number of Tickets: 84
Source: (Posting in May) 18 4 2 5 7 (5 in may - Dark) 9 6 in may (2 chars) 7 (2 chars) 1 14 3 1 4 3 3 1 2

Number of Tickets: 10
Source: Old Friends Posts 5 posts + Proof
Total: 94

Date: May 2nd
Reward: T2
Resourceful tactic on Fleas if you please (Delivered - Dark)

Date: May 3rd
Reward:T4,
character design please!!
If I can request I'd like warty, ugly little beast. A nasty creature with goblin vibes (delivered - Dark)

Date: May 4th
Reward: T3- 500 magicka on fleas! (Abused my mod powers to deliver >:3- Gortie)

Date: May 5th
Reward: T2- Charm on Edeltraud! /member.php?action=profile&uid=2205 (GM note - via MSB - Delivered - Dark)

Date: May 6th
Reward: T2- attack flurry on naskarra!
/member.php?action=profile&uid=2273 (delivered - Dark)


All rewards delivered

Number of Tickets: 2
Source: Origin Art 1 2


Number of Tickets: 8
Source: IC posts
Awakening the Dreamer II
1
2
We Dream of Stars Tonight
1
Crucible Cleanup
1 2
3
4
5

Number of Tickets: 6
Source: Old Friends posts
Insult Comedy
1
2
3
A BRAIN IS JUST ELECTRIC MEAT
1
2
3

Total: 26 tickets!

(don't worry i found the rest of the tickets - dark)

Date: May 1st, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Reward: Winner's Choice Plus (note, i will likely need extra time to decide for this one) (delivered - Dark (Asterius))
Date: May 2nd, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Reward: Tier 1 - Medium In Element - Defiled Earth for Rue (delivered - Dark)
Date: May 3rd, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Reward: Tier 2 - Medium Spell Borrow - Swiftstrike for Izote (delivered - Dark)
Date: May 4th, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Reward: Tier 1 - Medium In Path - Weedle for Survivor (delivered - Dark)
Date: May 5th, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Reward: Tier 2 - High In Path - Dominator for Survivor (delivered - Dark)

All rewards delivered

Number of Tickets: 26
Source: IC Posts
No Race To Be Run |1|2|
Greedy Eyes and Hearts |1|2|3|4|5|
Awakening The Dreamer |1|
Glitter And Gold |1|
Four Horsemen (Horses Not Required) |1|2|3|
i'm not scared of bees! |1|2|3|
A Hazy Shade of Winter |1|2|
BEGONE FOUL ORDER |1|
Influence Number Two |1|2|
Wonder |1|2|
Let It Burn |1|
GROW BACK |1|
Pool Party |1|2|

Number of Tickets: 6
Source: Old Friends IC Posts
Stargazer |1|2|3|

Number of Tickets: 18
Source: Artwork |x|x|x|x|x|x|
Total: 50