I know you weren't here during the interest check phase but I've said that this RP will be very char focused. The bulk of arcs will be character stories and it's up to the player who they want involved. There will be overall story arcs of course but we won't be moving from arc to arc without much in between. Anyway, the festival is not a set up for something to interrupt it and introduce anything but the guilds and they're rivalry. I don't want them to have to band together right off the bat. That was a problem I had with the original version of this RP. Even before a major arc the guilds were forced to cohabitate and get along before the rivalry was really explored. Anyway the festival will be ending once I bring in Golem's master to intervene and then everyone can do at least one mission then we'll jump into a major arc. I'll also be honest, I haven't developed the overarching story yet, like I said I developed this as more of a sandbox character driven RP.