Who is ready to dance?

Things are a little different this year. Before we get to the details, just know that the Masquerade will last until July 15.

On the ballroom floor, you will notice some changes!

💃 The dance rooms are back on the Masquerade Forums! Join a dance room where you can step onto the floor and the Auto Dancing Machine will pair you with another dancer every few minutes. Each pairing will earn you 2-5 trinkets (lounge or steelworks) with up to 80 per day across ALL dancing booths. You will always have a partner, whether it is another user or one of the gossips!

💃 You can only be in 3 dance rooms at a time.

💃 At the bottom of the page, you'll see active Masquerade achievements to help you keep track of things! There are a few new achievements for you to work towards.

💃 Don't forget, you can also use the Mystery Dance feature!

🍸 You'll see a 'Sidelines' section below the floor where you can bring a Libertine Lounge food or drink to various NPCs. They will cycle out throughout the holiday. There are a few NPCs that will not accept drinks and at least one that will not accept food.

🍸 Why should I feed or provide drinks to NPCs? You will be rewarded for your help! Instead of new items to the Steamworks Menagerie, we've added the small pool of items to the various NPCs on the floor. If you provide 3 items to an NPC, you will get to pick your prize out of that NPC's pool.

🍸 This is an excellent year to catch up on past Steamworks Menagerie and Libertine Lounge items. There are 17 years worth of items, after all!

To dance on the floor, you will need to be wearing an item with the word 'mask' in the name.

🎭 Olivette is in the ballroom this year building masks instead of opening Migrating Masks. She has a higher chance to create a new mask for you but you could potentially get an old mask too! These older masks include masks that once restocked in the Holiday Shop, like the Mardi Gras Face Mask, or from other holidays like the Orange Wreathed Red Rreign Mask. Make sure you CLICK/Select each item when crafting for a mask for the 'craft' button to work.

Note: We've moved everything back to legacy this year (dance rooms were on kumos!), so there may be a bug or two. You can report any you come across here. Thanks everyone!

Note : This is just the first day, there will be more to come! Perhaps a robot or two may challenge you.