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The Third Year Goodbye
Every year CUTT holds a three-day event over the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the weekend at the end of May Week, usually at Little Abington Scout Campsite.
The exact format of the event varies year-by-year, but it usually involves one character party of PCs, long-running monster roles and NPCs for everybody else, and a major threat to be averted. The volcano which destroyed Teutonia (see Setting:The World) was one such outcome, as was the creation of the god Unity. Other 3ygbs have had less ongoing impact on normal play, for example successfully removing a demon which was threatening to subsume the god Humact meant that life could carry on as normal for Humacti afterwards.
The event is called the Third Year Goodbye (3ygb), due to its traditional role as the last big send-off for the characters of graduating students. However CUTT has found that many players end up staying as part of the society for longer than three years, and gradually the character party has moved to being made up of the characters of anyone who wishes to volunteer themselves and has not charactered a 3ygb recently, with preference given to people who are leaving or people about to become refs (as they will not be able to play characters of their own whilst reffing).
Characters who go on a 3ygb are usually upstatted to the maximum 480xp (8th level) and considered for personal plot when writing the event. However, no PC who has charactered a 3ygb may return to be played further in CUTT, even if they survive the 3ygb event.