Join us in celebrating summer time at our 2024 Coastal Carnival, a casual rodeo-carnival hybrid event with a variety of fun activities for everyone to enjoy!! The event is held in a sectioned-off area of the beach, bordered on one side by the boardwalk. Various carnival games, food trucks, merchandise vendors, and amusement rides have been set up on that boardwalk, including a giant ferris wheel that overlooks the event.

Please note that this isn't a hardcore western rodeo event, nor a polished horse show. Everything here is hosted for fun and entertainment, and nobody is particularly serious about the competitions going on. All age groups are welcome as long as they participate safely. A select few events and games are featured below as part of the group event, but you're 100% welcome to RP/draw/write your characters doing more stuff at the carnival! As long as it fits the theme/event, feel free to expand. Canonically speaking, there's a lot more going on here than what we're hosting as a group.

⏰ This event ends on August 31st at 11:59pm - click here for a countdown!

During this event, you'll earn seasonal currency - carnival tickets - which can be used to purchase items from The Boardwalk! This event combines last year's Clover County Carnival and Beachside Bonanza, so we've combined the item selection and will be utilizing carnival tickets this time around! Any leftover seashells from last year can be converted to coins or spent on a Seasonal box at The Boardwalk.

Click here to visit The Boardwalk!

The items available in the shop are as follows:

• ​Sunscreen: Adds heterozygous Orchid (nOr) to an undesigned import.
• Fruit Basket: Adds Plum (nplm) or Berry (nBr) to an undesigned import, only if it would be carried on the existing base.
• Snowcone: Grants coins for a single piece of art/literature, made by you, of one of your own horses.
• Freeze Pop: Rerolls a breeding, like Magic Dice/Spellbook, but preserves twins (will not reroll twin chance).​
• Passport: Allows you to apply a seasonal oddity outside of its season - still requires purchase/tokens, just grants permission.
• Watermelon: Adds Flecked, Grease Spots, or Birdcatcher Spots to an undesigned import or foal.
• Cotton Candy - Adds +5xp to a horse of your choice without the need for art or literature.
• Carousel Horse - Allows a Mutation to be added to a designed import with no breeding slots booked.
• Sticky Hand - Moves a Mutation gene from one option to the other on a single horse's roll (foal or import).
• Plushie Pony - Adds Rapunzel to any undesigned foal (if possible from parents) or import.
• Chocolate Coin ​- Grants one additional breeding slot for a horse you own. Slot can be booked for anyone. 

For the very first time, we're testing out fully automated minigames! Instructions can be found on each of their pages, and your winnings will be automatically deposited to your bank. No need to submit item claims or keep track of Discord links - hooray!! Each game can be played 3 times per day. There's a short timer to prevent the button from being spammed, so if you get an error message, just wait a few seconds and try again.

Please let me (Paige) know if any of the games are not working as intended or if your daily plays don't reset at rollover. Have fun!

Lucky Duck

Balloon Darts

Ring Toss

Fifteen lovely Loshenkas are being offered up for your consideration! This breeding grid features three mares and three stallions, paired up for a total of nine surprise foals. While the parents' designs are available to be viewed upfront, the foals will remain hidden until they've found new homes! Until then, you can get a sneak peek from the grid below, as well as their silhouettes... 👀

Click to view fullsize + links to all horses in the grid.

FAQ/Notes:
- The foals here have not been counted toward the parents' slots, so they still have all 10 available.
- Foal genders are up to the buyer - just include this as part of the Registration form when registering them!
- If desired, you may Paintbucket, Base Transfer, etc, but please keep in mind that this means they'll lose their exclusive base.
- Renaming the parents is perfectly fine (with a Parchment item, of course). They just have names for proper listing in their foals' lineage grids!

Event Guidelines:

• All entries must meet the following minimum requirements (your choice of art or lit - both is fine, too!):
  • Art: Simple fullbody with props/details that clearly depict the event, and handler/rider (silhouette/stick figure min) if required
  • Lit: 600 word story clearly depicting the event in question, and handler/rider present if applicable to the specific event
• All entries must adhere to the usual Art/Lit Guidelines. Please keep gallery quality in mind even if choosing simple fulls/stick figure handlers/etc.
• Tack used is up to you, as long as the horse has some form of headstall and is clearly kept under control. Saddles and beach-themed accessories are optional.
• Though the events are quite chaotic, participants must ride respectfully and take care not to crash into, push/pull, or otherwise cause harm.
• You may enter each event up to 3 times with different horses (15 entries total). A horse should only be the focal point of an event once, but can be featured in others.
• Using our Group Horses or borrowing a horse from a friend is fine, as long as you have permission for the latter (none needed for Group ponies!).
• Collabs are allowed as long as the minimum is met for each participant (i.e. two collaborators = 2 fb+props or 1200w story). Each will get the full amount of tickets.
• Submit your entries to the 2024 Coastal Carnival gallery folder and include your chosen event in the description.

🎟️ Each entry will receive 5 Carnival Tickets for participating! These will be given when your entry is processed.
These events are just for fun and won't be officially judged, but we may pick a few Staff Choice entries to give extra prizes to.