Happy December! The holidays are approaching and so is our next forum event! This year, TBT's Season of Giving is returning to The Bell Tree for the fourth time!
This special event series works a bit differently than our usual ones. Collectibles sold in the shop will be hidden by wrapping paper and won't be revealed until Christmas Day. As always, the currency you earn from completing tasks can be spent on these collectibles, but only to be purchased as gifts for other forum users. That's where its name, Season of Giving, comes from! While you can't buy the collectibles for yourself, we'll also have an area for gift exchanges so everyone will have an opportunity to collect each of the wrapped presents. In the spirit of giving, The Bell Tree will also be donating money to various charities based on the number of collectible presents the community sends to one another. Join us this Thursday, December 12th for our latest edition of TBT's Season of Giving, which will run until Christmas Day, December 25th.
With the holiday season starting, it's time to start decorating the forum! Starting today, you can purchase the animated, but temporary, Christmas Lights collectible from the Shop for 5 bells! Between now and December 17th these Christmas Lights can only be gifted to other forum users. However, if you prefer to do your decorating on your own, you'll be able to buy this temporary collectible for yourself starting on December 18th. This temporary collectible will disappear from your inventory in January, so don't hesitate to spread some holiday cheer!
Holiday decorators won't want to stop at Christmas lights. Forum backdrops are the perfect way to help create a festive mood, but which holiday designs should we release this year? Shortly before the event starts, the recurring Gingerbread Gang and Thparkling Thermosphere backdrops will be displayed again for those who own them. We'll also sell two single-use backdrops. Help decide which ones will be available by voting for your favorite two in the poll above! The two with the most votes will be sold for bells as temporary, single-use backdrops that decorate your forum messages. Our options are:
| Winter's Embrace | 
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| Snow Blossoms | 
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| Magic in the Sky | 
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| Holiday Twinkle (Animated) | 
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| Christkindlmarkt | 
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| Crackling Warmth | 
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| Holly Trimmings | 
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| Peppermint Dreams | 
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| Softly Seraph | 
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| Wintertime Whiteout (Time-Changing) | 
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Happy to see the Christmas lights out too, definitely going to gift some later when I have the time to think of the messages I wanna send.
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