STORYTELLER COSTUMES 101

As of GU7, after a great deal of campaigning, the first batch of Storyteller Costumes are now available to enjoy year-round!  These costumes open up Event Hosting, Participation, and Roleplay possibilities incredibly for our community.  This simple guide will show you how to use them in your own events, or even just for fun!

AVAILABLE COSTUMES

There are two types of Storyteller Costumes : those available for a limited amount of time from Dev-created Holiday Events (such as the Ewok Love Festival), and those available on a permanent basis from Storyteller Vendors.  Both kinds can be used at any time (with certain activity restrictions, see "Rules/Restrictions" below), but while the "Always Available" costumes may be purchased year-round the items for the Holiday Costumes can only be purchased during specific Holiday periods.

The currently available costumes are...

ALWAYS AVAILABLE

- Droideka (/costume_droideka)

- Ewok (/costume_ewok)

- Gungan (/costume_gungan)

- Jawa (/costume_jawa)

HOLIDAY-ONLY RELEASES

- Disciple of Kyoopid (/costume_loveday_ewok_cupid) (*Only available for purcahse during Ewok Love Festival*)

(pic courtesy BlackPawn!  TY!)

POSSIBLE FUTURE COSTUMES (/commands exist for these but they are not yet in-game)

/costume_battle_droid

/costume_gamorrean_guard

(Thanks to Jatsin for finding these!)

HOW TO USE COSTUMES

Costumes are a two-step process, using "Costume Instructions" and "Holoshrouds".   Most costumes are available from the Storyteller Vendor/Event Promoters at any time (see note below on attaining the special "Holiday" costumes).

First, you must purchase the "Costume Instructions" which permanently grant you the ability to use that costume. 

Once purchased and redeemed, you "learn" the costume and the ability is added to your command browser.

To use a costume, you execute the Command you just learned (drag it to your toolbar first if the system did not already do it for you).   Alternately, you can load them using the /commands listed above in the "Available Costumes" section above, provided you have learned the ability and have the appropriate Holoshroud in your inventory.

Each activation of a costume requires one "Holoshroud" which is a stackable, disposable item you also purchase from the Storyteller Vendor.  When you use the Command, it automatically uses up a Holoshroud in your inventory (if you have a stack of them it simply decreases the count by 1, if you only have one the item is entirely consumed).

That's all there is to it!  Enjoy your new Holographic Costume!

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

• Costumes are applied as "buffs" that last 1 hour.  To take off a Costume before the timer runs out, simply right click on the buff icon just as you would to remove any other buff.

• Costumes cannot be used in combat; if you enter combat with a Costume on it will automatically remove itself and generate a system message to let you know why.

• While wearing a Costume, you cannot "skill animate", i.e. use Entertainer-based dancing/music playing.  You will receive a message telling you that you cannot perform that action while using a Holoshroud.

• You cannot use a vehicle or a mount while Costumed, but you can use Starport/Shuttleport (both public and private) service as normal and retain your Costume.

• You can learn all the Costumes available, but remember each use requires one charge from the appropriate Holoshroud, and of course activating a second Costume while you already have one on will replace the current costume (and consume another Holoshroud).

HOLIDAY COSTUMES

Holiday Costumes are available during Dev-created Holiday Events (such as Ewok Love Festival) and use the same system of permanently learning from an Instruction booklet and then using a disposable Holoshroud to activate the Costume.

These costumes have all the same Rules & Restrictions as regular Storyteller Costumes (see above) but are purcahsed from the specific Holiday NPC Vendors.  Here is an example from the Ewok Love Festival :

As you can see, Holiday Costumes have their own Holoshroud.  A Holiday Costume (such as in the picture above) must use the special Holiday version of the Holoshroud; they will not work with the Holoshrouds available from normal Storyteller Vendors (and vice versa).  Be sure to stock up on the special Holiday Holoshrouds and use them wisely!

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Good luck, and enjoy this amazing new addition to the best player-generated content system known to MMO's. Thanks so much to fiasco, Adept, and Dotanuki for hearing the cries and getting this great ability in-game!