Parties are a big part of the fun in our Star Wars Galaxies community. Time of year we have seen many events "spring" up around us. Costumes are a fun way to break up the normal routine or add some flare to your look when you show up at your next event. To make sure players new and old alike know what's available, we thought we would review costumes of the past as well as our latest addition.

CALRISSIAN STYLIN' FREE TILL MAY 11th!

Be sure to log all of your characters in this week to receive your first ESB 30th Anniversary Reward a Lando Calrissian costume! This costume is tradable, but you must log in your characters before 3:59am PT on May 11, 2010 to receive the costume. Characters must be at least 10 days old in order to be eligible for this reward. Don't wait too long or you'll miss your chance to dress like the smoothest scoundrel in the galaxy.

AVAILABLE COSTUMES

There are four was to acquire Storyteller Costumes : those available for a limited amount of time from Dev-created holiday events (such as the Ewok Festival of Love and the Galactic Moon Festivals), those granted as special quest rewards (B'omarr Monk), looted Costumes, and those available on a permanent basis from Storyteller or Chronicles Vendors. 

Costumes are delivered in "Instruction Books." Once you "learn" the costume, you have it permanently available to you.  In order to trigger the costume, you must use a Holoshroud, a consumable item (you use one charge each time you activate a costume).  The Ewok Love Festival Costume uses a special Holiday-only Holoshroud that expires and may only be purchased and used during the Festival. The Galactic Moon Festival costumes, as well as all other costumes, may be used year-round with the normal Holoshroud that can be purchased from the Storyteller Vendor.

Take a look at all the costumes available through Star Wars Galaxies:

HOW TO USE COSTUMES

Donning a costume is 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).   

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.

·         Holoshrouds of both types are stackable.  They will also pull from anywhere in your personal inventory (including backpacks and containers) so you can just buy a stack and throw them in your backpack to use as-needed.

·         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.  Also, you cannot move items in your inventory while costumed.

·         You can learn all the costumes available, but remember that 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 using a disposable Holoshroud to activate the costume.  However, at this time, Holoshrouds are temporary items with only up to a 2-week window of use, so you may only use the Holiday costume during the Holiday period in which it is earned.

Holiday costumes have their own special Holoshrouds.  Holiday Costumes must use the special Holiday version of the Holoshroud; they will not work with the Holoshrouds available from normal Storyteller Vendors (and vice versa). These costumes have all the same Rules & Restrictions as regular Storyteller Costumes (see above) but are purchased from the specific Holiday NPC Vendors. 

Keep an eye out for more costumes in the future. You never know who you might be able to look like next!

Special thanks to Leyah for helping put together great guides for our community. To see more of Leyah's contributions click here: The Complete Guide to Storyteller & Stagecraft