JULY ANNOUNCEMENTS AND AUGUST SIGN-UPS

[recollecters]

Hello everyone! We have a few quick notes and reminders before we launch into the meat of this post. Please be sure to check these out!

July Announcements
-This is your last reminder for the month that we are now on the new AC system! This means that AC for July is 20 comments + proof of a memory regain signed off by us! This regain must be a memory and cannot be an item or an ability. Please note that this memory does not need to be anything large, but it does need to be approved by us. We encourage you guys to get these submitted before the end of the month to ensure they are approved before then. Players will be issued a strike should this portion of their AC not be filled in.

-In that same vein, this is another friendly reminder to please be sure not to trigger and play with your own regained memories without getting them signed off by us! We are fine with characters drawing their own vague conclusions, but we do ask that characters not remember large canonical parts of their history or memories of events in their history without the regains approved by us to back this up. This is so that we may track character progress and to help us with shaping the metaplot.

-When submitting memories, please be sure to also provide us with as much detail as possible to help with processing! While we are not canon familiar with everything, having a link to a video or a description of the scene requested helps us greatly so we can review and get back to you ASAP. Additionally, please be sure to update your registries accordingly before requesting further regains from us! Having an up-to-date registry to review also helps us in terms of utilizing what your character already remembers for regaining new memories.

-Bingo threads and regain swap threads must be submitted before the end of the month! You are free to continue playing with them past the submission point for bonus points, but they must be submitted to us for review and approval before AC closes.

July and August sign-ups

1.) As notated in our bingo replies to you, the QR codes received by characters will be coming into play later in the month of July! Please see here for an entry to sign up for the QR portion of upcoming events! For the element of surprise amongst you and your peers, this post will be screened and things will come into play next weekend during the Recollé ReConvention. To sign up, simply fill out the form with your name, your character's name, a link to their registry, and how many QR codes they have earned. Sign-ups for these will be open between now and July 30th at 12am EST!

2.) Additionally, we are moving toward August's event! This event will start on August 3rd and last until August 24th. There are two main groups you can sign your character up for during this event. If you do not sign up, you will by default be placed into a third group that will not be eligible for meeting objectives or additional rewards. You may proceed to play as abided by the third group's guidelines, but do be aware that there will be game-wide impacts occurring!

What does this mean?

MEMBERS OF GROUP ONE
-Will maintain full access to the Retrospec application and their IC inboxes for the duration of the plot, as well as face-to-face interaction with anyone who does not sign up or who signs up for Group One.
-Will be split into three or four groups and given separate goals, although they can intermingle as they choose.
-Will have direct NPC interaction and potentially a chance to thread with NPCs.
-There will be objectives that must be met before the event is over! Of note, should these objectives be met in a timely manner characters will be rewarded. If they are not met, the additional rewards for the group as a whole may not be distributed, so please be certain you will have time to participate in team activities for the length of the event.

Sign-ups here!

MEMBERS OF GROUP TWO
-Will not have access to the Retrospec application from the last day of the convention until August 24th! This includes IC inboxes for anything via network. They will only be able to interact face to face with others who have signed up and who are sorted into their group.
-Upon sign-ups, we will be RNGing all sign-ups into small groups as well. There will be at least three groups, and while these groups may interact near the end of the event, for the majority of the event you will be working with your teammates and will not be able to interact with the other groups.
-There will be objectives that must be met before the event is over! Of note, should these objectives be met in a timely manner characters will be rewarded. If they are not met, the additional rewards for the group as a whole may not be distributed, so please be certain you will have time to participate in team activities for the length of the event.

Sign-ups here!

MEMBERS OF GROUP THREE
-Members of this group will be able to interact face to face with members of group one, but will not be able to participate in group one's activities/logs/etc.
-Members will have access to the Retrospec network and IC inboxes for network threads.
-These members will not have any objectives to meet, nor will they be eligible for additional rewards. This also includes not being eligible for August's freebie memory opportunity.

Sign-ups here!

Sign-ups for this event are open between now and July 31st at 11:59pm EST! Please respond to the appropriate comments below for these sign-ups. We will give out team assignments after sign-ups have closed.

Once you sign up with a group, please do not swap around! We are organizing small groups as you guys sign up, so we ask that everyone stay where they are so that we don't have to last-minute fix everything just in case. Thank you so much!

For those of you unsure of which group to pick, this comment gives a more streamlined idea of what group your character might do well in.

Of note: participation in your groups' objectives will be your method of obtaining your freebie memory for the month of August! We will distribute more details in August itself.

Furthermore, we will be writing the TDM to allow for all current players to participate as well no matter which group you assign yourself to. Of note, we will only be taking one character per player for sign-ups per group, so choose wisely!

And that's it! Thank you guys so much for your time and attention. We have a mod questions comment here for any clarifications, and we'll see you next weekend!

Comments

MOD QUESTIONS

[recollecters]

Questions about the above? Please ask here!

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[standalonehuman]

And your plot problem children return. So for us dumbasses who went into the subway and anyone who got sent the codes collected there from Dante, Ardyn, and Togusa, does that give us more codes for the purposes of the event?

[feistytrader]

What level of activity/consistent involvement are you looking for for groups one/two? I'm asking because I'm going to be on vacation for a good portion of this time, but not all of it, and I'd like an idea of whether I can get evolved early on/towards the end or if it's better to sit out in the third group.

[crushcard]

quick question/clarification for group 2 - IC inboxes can still be used for face to face action threads, yes?

how about off-Retrospec things like phone calls and stuff! would they still be able to be threaded out in IC inboxes for network points or are those null and void too?

Also, because I forgot to ask - that does mean that people in group 2 can't comment on the Retrospec post that goes up on the 1st, if there is one, right?

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[frisyr]

Can the time-sensitive tasks of the plot be achieved by a subset of the group, or is participation from all members necessary?

Specifically asking for the first 3-4 days since I'll be on hiatus!

[matchbreaker]

Okay so for the record I really do get a certain amount of secrecy until the reveal of the actual plot but for the sign ups here I'm genuinely unsure what the value in going group three is over the other two, because without more description of what the groups are doing or time demands clarified it sort of feels like the "sign up if you'll be here at all in august" group as it feels akin to just everyone else in the game even if they didn't sign up?

Then again that might be my faulty reading I confess.

So is that the intent or...?

[youraffection]

Hi friends!

I know keeping things vague is for us to be pleasantly surprised when this event kicks off, but I'm having some difficulty really weighing the differences between Group One and Group Two. Could you provide a little more detail? I signed up for Group One because I saw OOHH NPCs but the more I look between the two I'm not sure I know which choice I really want to make. At the moment it mainly seems like:

Group One
- Can use Retrospect & talk to everyone
- Split into groups
- Needs to be active

Group Two
- Can't use retrospect and only talks to group members
- Split into groups
- Still needs to be active, more time-related deadlines?

Is there any sort of hint you can give to maybe not the specific objects but "group one will be more oriented to x" or something of that ilk?

Also, are there going to be/are we going to know about any IC ramifications about character's daily lives? Like is everyone going to be missing work or something? This may not be important but I'm curious.

Thanks!

[scarlet_devil]

How are QR codes earned?

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[thisloveisjustice]

Sorry, this is about the July event, but it didn't even occur to me until now.

Once characters swap their memories back, do they retain any knowledge of the other character's memories?

Basically, Tatsuo saw a blue eyes white dragon card in one of Kaiba's memories. Will he get to WTF over the ones rampaging the con?

(frozen comment) QR SIGN-UPS

[recollecters]

Please see here for an entry to sign up for the QR portion of upcoming events! For the element of surprise amongst you and your peers, comments will be screened and things will come into play next weekend during the Recollé ReConvention. To sign up, simply fill out the form with your name, your character's name, a link to their registry, and how many QR codes they have earned. Sign-ups for these will be open between now and July 30th at 12am EST!

GROUP ONE SIGN-UPS

[recollecters]

-Will maintain full access to the Retrospec application and their IC inboxes for the duration of the plot, as well as face-to-face interaction with anyone who does not sign up or who signs up for Group One.
-Will be split into three or four groups and given separate goals, although they can intermingle as they choose.
-Will have direct NPC interaction and potentially a chance to thread with NPCs.
-There will be objectives that must be met before the event is over! Of note, should these objectives be met in a timely manner characters will be rewarded. If they are not met, the additional rewards for the group as a whole may not be distributed, so please be certain you will have time to participate in team activities for the length of the event.

<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER:</b>

[openhanded]

PLAYER: Saffy
CHARACTER: Sorey (openhanded)

[covenantal]

PLAYER: Pip
CHARACTER: Yu Narukami

[crudest]

PLAYER: Dana
CHARACTER: Baren Kumou

[sivard]

PLAYER: Nin
CHARACTER: Zaveid

[sotenbori]

PLAYER: Rema
CHARACTER: Goro Majima

[mercurio]

PLAYER: kira
CHARACTER: prompto argentum

[judgementkazzy]

PLAYER: Jans
CHARACTER: Kazuma Kiryu

Re: GROUP ONE SIGN-UPS

[standalonehuman]

PLAYER: Agnes
CHARACTER: Hitori Togusa

[storytelleroftime]

PLAYER: Phi
CHARACTER: Magilou

[destiny_key]

PLAYER: Fearless
CHARACTER: Sora

[liberal_arts]

PLAYER: gsai
CHARACTER: May (me_matey)

[alitaba]

PLAYER: ari
CHARACTER: futaba sakura

GROUP TWO SIGN-UPS

[recollecters]

-Will not have access to the Retrospec application from the last day of the convention until August 24th! This includes IC inboxes for anything via network. They will only be able to interact face to face with others who have signed up and who are sorted into their group.
-Upon sign-ups, we will be RNGing all sign-ups into small groups as well. There will be at least three groups, and while these groups may interact near the end of the event, for the majority of the event you will be working with your teammates and will not be able to interact with the other groups.
-There will be objectives that must be met before the event is over! Of note, should these objectives be met in a timely manner characters will be rewarded. If they are not met, the additional rewards for the group as a whole may not be distributed, so please be certain you will have time to participate in team activities for the length of the event.

<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER:</b>

[parodeity]

PLAYER: lucy
CHARACTER: dave strider

GROUP THREE SIGN-UPS

[recollecters]

-Members of this group will be able to interact face to face with members of group one, but will not be able to participate in group one's activities/logs/etc.
-Members will have access to the Retrospec network and IC inboxes for network threads.
-These members will not have any objectives to meet, nor will they be eligible for additional rewards. This also includes not being eligible for August's freebie memory opportunity.

<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER:</b>

Re: GROUP THREE SIGN-UPS

[protegge]

PLAYER: Anne
CHARACTER: Guido Mista