As a suggestion, you could do what I do for some of my event threads XD
If you don't want some huge, chaotic group thread but want a lot of people to attend, you could suggest organized, smaller, more private threads that take place at the same time but would not, event wise, effect the main characters as a whole.
I did something similar for
this event, and put particular rules down for said event, and it worked out AWESOMELY.
Some threads were private one on one, others were open for anyone preapproved to join in ^_^
Just a suggestion <3
You don't have to do that but the it would make this a bigger thing and have some more flexibility for people outside of the main characters to actually do something, even if it won't effect, let's say,
Ryk or
Dylanna or
Einin or the Queen/ King plot wise.
Like, for example, I have a 'someday will be a Soot Wolf and is also a Nobleman' character
Clint, who could benefit from character development in an event like this, and then there's
Jarrett (whos always making background noise but I could put him in there with his misc. corpse like usual, but this time, you know, NOT burn the place down XD). Stuff like that XD
But let me know what you think on the idea. I just figure this could be a big thing and I'm sure a lot of people could dig wanting to party, even if they don't necessarily get to play a role into snooping in on like what Ryk and company are doing.
It could also be a cool way to weave some misc. side adventures with the Soot Wolves and nobles, and who knows, my villain,
Valeska, could show up but might be in a side thread, not affecting the main characters, but lurking in the waters (I doubt she would though >_> it would be obvious if she was there lol and she'd stick out like a sore thumb XD)
But yeah, just a thought lol