Hollygiving

The snow is falling and the candles in homes are lit. There's magic and yule spirit in the air!

The Story of Hollygiving 

Bepotelkh may give out bundles of holly leaves and berries to other beps they think deserve them for doing a good deed or even just brightening their day some time in the last year. This is done in the name of the mysterious Spirit of Yule, an indescribable creature or force that embodies the magic of Yule and encourages reflection and new beginnings. It's said that the Spirit chooses some lucky beps each year on which to bestow some gifts, and that these gifts are presented by the equally mysterious Gifting Stag. The Gifting Stag is said to be a bepotelkh with flaming yellow eyes, growing in power in late December and appearing on the edge of forest clearings and the outskirts of villages. His antlers are draped in silver cone bells.

When a bep receives a bundle of holly, a human friend ties it to one of their antlers. To humans, bep antlers covered in holly are seen as a good luck charm. Beps who lose an antler (or both) while still wearing holly may choose to give one of those antlers to their caretaker or another important human in their life. These decorated antlers can be seen on doors and village gates. With wild and free beps, this tradition is similar, but instead of humans tying the holly on, they have to get the help of other wild creatures like shroomkin! In villages, holly bundles for giving are handed out to beps by their village ambassadors. In the wilds, beps must find holly bushes to snip bundles from with their teeth.

Instructions

• Choose one of your elkh to give holly to other characters. Your elkh can give holly bundles to any characters on the Bepotelkh, Shroomkin and Humans masterlists.
• You may use up to 15 of your own elkh to give out holly (a max total of 45 bundles). Please do not use more than 15 elkh.
• Each of your elkh may give out 3 holly bundles to 3 different characters (but please choose active users)!
  • You may, in ONE instance, have one of your beps give a holly bundle to another of your beps! (we decided this was too cute story-wise to be overlooked, but again, only once and with one bep!)
  • NOTE: To help out the mods, please either give the holly to three different users, or all three to one user No need to list out usernames at the end- just follow the format and that's what works best for us!
• Comment on this news post with the name and masterlist number of your elkh, and then write out the names of the characters as well as the owner's name in the comment. (no need to link characters, just please remember to add the usernames!) Example:

You can write out story snippets along with your hollygiving or

Just simply list the names of the characters and their owner/s

• A moderator will send the holly currency to the recipients you chose.
• Holly currency can then be spent at the Yule Shop, where you will find Gudvin has all kinds of gift boxes!
• The gift boxes each enter you into a different raffle. See the below image to learn what you're entering for and buy the corresponding box.
• Open the raffle ticket box to be entered into the raffle!
• The last day to give holly is December 25th!
• The hollygiving raffle will be rolled on December 27th and winners will be contacted on the same day.
• If we get a high number of entries, we will increase the number of winners for each raffle!
• You can enter all the raffles as many times as you want!

Hollygiving Raffle

Use your holly currency to buy raffle tickets at the Yule Shop! Each box contains 1 entry to its corresponding raffle.

 ✮Raffle Box 1: MYOS✮

Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win your choice of ONE of the following:

• Aiti MYO ticket +1 restricted trait of your choice +1 large rare trait + 1 small rare trait
• Bep/Sono MYO ticket +1 restricted trait of your choice +1 rare trait +unlimited uncommon traits
• Bep/Sono MYO ticket + 5 rare traits +unlimited uncommon traits

✮Raffle Box 2: Restricted Trait Potion✮

Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win: 1 all purpose restricted trait potion

✮Raffle Box 3: Crystal Gilde Pouch✮
Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win: crystal gilde pouch with 10 CG

✮Raffle Box 4: Rare Trait Potions✮
Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win: 1 rare trait potion

✮Raffle Box 5: Vocation Box✮
Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win: 1 work permit + 10 random elkh crafting materials.

✮Raffle Box 6: Nopal Custom✮
Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win your choice of ONE of the following:

• Bep/Sono "one shot" custom + 3 rare traits + unlimited uncommon traits
• Habapi "one shot" custom (feral OR bipedal) form + 1 habapi crystal trait + 2 rare traits + unlimited uncommon traits

HOLLYGIVING RAFFLE WINNERS (Posted Dec 27th)

MYOs: Theregalelk, Blossombeast, golden-boy
Restricted Trait Potion: majeste749, CrystalBlackPaws, anemowing
CG Pouch: LovellaTorendo, Pandapalz, Lunaslimbo, Anemowing, SheiaLyn
Rare Trait Potion: Ziirahdane, ValianWolf, Azure, Lunaslimbo, RemRain, sunpurr, Shineheart26
Vocation Box: Tav, CrystalBlackPaws, Thy
Nopal Custom: key

Thank you everyone for participating!

Hollygiving Prompt

For the month of December, you can also enter the limited Hollygiving Prompt to earn gildes! Draw or write about your bep giving out holly bundles, or maybe even dressing up as the gifting stag!

See WORLD > PROMPTS > LIMITED PROMPTS

Next Destination: Vuur!

Beautiful new location art by LordStarryFace which has been added to Vuur's Location Page

The Avis Express is still going strong despite the winter weather! Have your elkh visit the frigid cold village of Vuur. A feat of endurance and strenth, this village on the stark trundra at the northern most point of Silkassa. Known as "The Flame", Vuur is known for it's incredible blacksmiths. A monument with an ever lasting fire burns on a pedestal along the sea, both as a beacon to ships and wayward souls buried at sea.  Earn a Vuur stamp for your elkh's stamp book, a tundra pulipuli companion and a vuurian bone sheath knife by completing this prompt. All Exploration Prompts can be done at any time to receive prizes and gildes but each exploration prompt can only be done two times per month.

Vuur's tundra pulipuli are furred rodents with a blaze on their nose. They are adapted to living in the arctic cold.

See WORLD > PROMPTS > EXPLORATION PROMPTS

Winter Shop Update

New winter accessories are available in the Bepotelkh Shop for the winter season!

An elegant soft shawl (or collar, for sonoelkh) and delicate dangling crystal snowflakes for the antlers. For the refined elkh!

Monthly Shop Rotation

The elkh shop features Plush Clef and Sheep: Fluffy for December only!

AND!

Silkkassa's makers have been working hard to make some extra cute gifts to share this season!
Enjoy a wide variety of critter plushies for December only!

Millo's pop-up shop returns for December only with some new festive mane clips!

Yule Advent Design Sale

A new flatsale design will be posted every day at 9am PST starting on the 1st. Sponsor chat (on discord) will get a full preview of the designs the day in advance of their posting! A warm thank you to our guest artists and mods for participating!

Longest Night- Herboreal

Softly Snowing- Herboreal

Yule Candles- Azure

Yule Hare- LordStarryFace

Krampus- Sunpurr

Solstice Glitter- GalestormKitsune

Winter Sorceress- Herondreams

Winter Flame- Mothling

Snowy Sunrise- Cometstruck

Red Squirrel- Erose

Winter Moonlight- Key

Dark Yule- Thy

Winter Rainbow- Pandelirious

Site Fixes/Updates

• Design guide: added hoof/antler color guide

ODDS & ENDS

• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar! Be sure to check in daily for gifts and goodies all month!!
• Month of the Aiti returns next month!

Ko-Fi & server Boost rewards

There are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's ko-fi which award you monthly (and/or quarterly) goodies like premium currency and Beast Boxes! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing! While some previews are provided for discord boosters, full previews are only provided on ko-fi from the Beepersneeps Tier and up! Many, many hours go into the making of our game and the art + writing for it, so supporting us via ko-fi is a massive help. You gain access to the sponsor chat where we hold monthly sponsor-exclusive raffles, post early design WIPS and previews, and more!

You can also boost the Discord server and earn 1CG per boost per month, as well as access to the Sponsor chat. The sponsor chat get sneak peeks and sponsor-exclusive raffles. (We are thoroughly boosted at the moment!)