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recallings2018-06-24 07:38 pm
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JULY AND AUGUST EVENT - PLANNING AND NOTES
Hello everyone! We’d like to gather your attention for a few brief moments to discuss the state of the city, the wrap of June’s event, and a few things of what to expect going forward including JULY AND AUGUST’S EVENTS.
First of all, thank you for everyone who has been turning in their threads to the post on the mod journal! It’s been very helpful in keeping track of what efforts are going where and how these will be impacted going forward. Please remember to submit threads before the first of July, and please remember that you may qualify for freebies via these threads! Check out the plotting post for June for information about those freebies.
As June starts to come to a slowdown, we are officially in summer-mode here in the city of Recollé. Whether you’ve managed to take your finals or not, school’s out for summer and won’t resume again until after Labor Day. The barriers around the various regions have begun to fall and become punctured, allowing NPCs to filter back in from time to time. PCs may be able to make phone calls to outsiders last for up to 90 seconds. It seems almost like things are going to start reverting back to normal…but…
What if? It’s a question we ask ourselves time and time again. What if we had made this choice instead of the one we chose? What if we picked this career path instead of leaving it behind? What if we owned a dog instead of a cat? Little things like this can have a profound impact on who we are as people and how our lives have been shaped.
So what about Retrospecters? What if..?
JULY
July’s event will allow for players to create a brand new AU to play with! This will allow players to test out new ideas that they’d wished to apply to a character’s original AU, create bonds that were not possible because of different app cycles, play a different part of their character, etc. This allows for players to also revive their characters and give them a chance to find new direction with them.
Q: How will this be accomplished?
Like for all AU plotting, we will be posting an AU workshop. This will function like a normal AU workshop where you list a bit about your character, what you’re looking for and what you might be able to offer! This workshop will be live for at least a week prior to the event to allow for players to plot with one another, generate ideas and etc.
Additionally, this form will have a few extra questions to answer to assist in the playerbase knowing what to expect from their CR for the future going forward!
Q: Can I opt out?
Absolutely! We’re not going to force anyone to play with this mechanic and they’re free to play along with their new AU’d friends. Furthermore, if you decide to opt in later, characters may develop a new AU up to the end of July. After that will be August’s event and they will not have the opportunity to go through these changes.
Q: What can my AU be?
Anything! You won’t have to write a new app but you are free to apply different ideas to your character to change their history and appearance in-game. Characters can be from anywhere around the world including Recollé itself. Perhaps your character will have different life experiences or hobbies that drastically change how they would interact with the world around them. Please keep in mind that if you choose to commit to playing with a new, temporary AU, you will be using this new AU as your primary focus for the duration of the event! Please do not create one new AU and then switch to another new AU halfway through the month!
At this time, to keep things clean, we would not be accepting submissions for new locations to be added to the locations page. However, you are free to make them up yourself for your own personal use.
Q: So if we’re playing out the AU, what happens next?
Gameplay will proceed as normal. We will have an event log for July featuring things happening around the city and the four regions, along with some special options for maximizing the playing of your AU. More information will be available in the July event log!
Q: So what about regains for AC and otherwise?
As usual, we will have freebies! We will have freebies and you may regain memories as normal.
Q: What about my character’s powers and items? And what about pre-established events such as past game threads, etc?
Those can stay! As they would have the opportunity to regain them even with their current AU, we do not feel it’s fair to take those away. Threads and events with past CR may also remain game canon and you are free to alter them as fit based on your new AU.
We will also allow you to play with how much of their regained canon memories they keep during this event! If you want them to remember everything so far in addition to their new backstory, cool! If you’d rather start from a very blank slate, that’s also acceptable.
Q: If I opt out, what’s there to do? Furthermore, is this the only thing happening in July?
For those who will not be participating in an AU alteration, things will proceed as normal! We will update any changes made to the city and the four regions post-June’s event, and as with normal months there will be effects and events happening. These will be clarified in July’s event log as well! Open-world exploration will be allowed as usual and characters may find that they have events or mini-player plots they’d like to run during this time.
Q: It says in June’s plotting post that NPC quests won’t be given?
Correct! Instead of individually-based NPC quests, due to the nature of this particular two-part event there will be a minor change. Characters may sign up for smaller quests in order to help build CR, work with personal growth and development, and explore various regions. However, these will not be facilitated by Zee! A July top-level will go in the Assignment Board post for players to reply to and quests will be generated from there.
Q: And then what about August?
The new AU will be played through August as well as characters not only juggle regaining their original AU selves but their original canon selves. How much or how little you play this is, again, up to you. August’s event primarily will deal with character development, emotion sharing and bonding, and further exploration of characters themselves versus what’s going on in the city. Characters will be deep-diving into what it means to truly know someone and know yourselves and face challenges, hardships and unusual situations.
Furthermore: July and August’s event will give characters the opportunity to fail to regain their original AU self! We will elaborate on this mechanic come August, but characters will have the option to fail and players may continue to play their new AU. They will stop receiving flashes of their original AU at that time, and at a further later date (September or October), a future event will give them the chance to rectify their failures should you, the player, wish to.
If you choose to keep your new AU, we would ask for an additional little blurb to be added to your application kept in your journal outlining what changes have been made to the AU history. This will not only help us keep track of who has permanently changed and help your gamemates as well.
Q: If we choose to have our character fail, what happens next?
Characters would remember only the new AU. Once they have officially failed (and this applies for both failing in August and failing again in October, if you wish), they will lose all memories of their original AU life. It will be essentially like apping in with a brand new character history. Characters will remember game events that have happened though.
For characters who do not fail, they will soon forget their temporary AUs as the memories from those fade out. Should their CR opt for a new AU, they would still remember the original AU for that character (much like if a character drops and a new player apps in with a new AU.)
Memories with your CR could also still have occurred in the framework of your new AU. We will leave the details up to individual players and their CR.
With that said, we understand there will be a lot of OOC coordination for your AUs and will require coordination prior to the AU workshop. The workshop is currently live and you may post at your leisure! Please note we will not be keeping up a directory as usual but encourage everyone to tag around and generate ideas together. More information will be given on July’s event log which will go up on July 3rd as usual.
Thank you guys for your time and attention!
First of all, thank you for everyone who has been turning in their threads to the post on the mod journal! It’s been very helpful in keeping track of what efforts are going where and how these will be impacted going forward. Please remember to submit threads before the first of July, and please remember that you may qualify for freebies via these threads! Check out the plotting post for June for information about those freebies.
As June starts to come to a slowdown, we are officially in summer-mode here in the city of Recollé. Whether you’ve managed to take your finals or not, school’s out for summer and won’t resume again until after Labor Day. The barriers around the various regions have begun to fall and become punctured, allowing NPCs to filter back in from time to time. PCs may be able to make phone calls to outsiders last for up to 90 seconds. It seems almost like things are going to start reverting back to normal…but…
What if? It’s a question we ask ourselves time and time again. What if we had made this choice instead of the one we chose? What if we picked this career path instead of leaving it behind? What if we owned a dog instead of a cat? Little things like this can have a profound impact on who we are as people and how our lives have been shaped.
So what about Retrospecters? What if..?
JULY
July’s event will allow for players to create a brand new AU to play with! This will allow players to test out new ideas that they’d wished to apply to a character’s original AU, create bonds that were not possible because of different app cycles, play a different part of their character, etc. This allows for players to also revive their characters and give them a chance to find new direction with them.
Q: How will this be accomplished?
Like for all AU plotting, we will be posting an AU workshop. This will function like a normal AU workshop where you list a bit about your character, what you’re looking for and what you might be able to offer! This workshop will be live for at least a week prior to the event to allow for players to plot with one another, generate ideas and etc.
Additionally, this form will have a few extra questions to answer to assist in the playerbase knowing what to expect from their CR for the future going forward!
Q: Can I opt out?
Absolutely! We’re not going to force anyone to play with this mechanic and they’re free to play along with their new AU’d friends. Furthermore, if you decide to opt in later, characters may develop a new AU up to the end of July. After that will be August’s event and they will not have the opportunity to go through these changes.
Q: What can my AU be?
Anything! You won’t have to write a new app but you are free to apply different ideas to your character to change their history and appearance in-game. Characters can be from anywhere around the world including Recollé itself. Perhaps your character will have different life experiences or hobbies that drastically change how they would interact with the world around them. Please keep in mind that if you choose to commit to playing with a new, temporary AU, you will be using this new AU as your primary focus for the duration of the event! Please do not create one new AU and then switch to another new AU halfway through the month!
At this time, to keep things clean, we would not be accepting submissions for new locations to be added to the locations page. However, you are free to make them up yourself for your own personal use.
Q: So if we’re playing out the AU, what happens next?
Gameplay will proceed as normal. We will have an event log for July featuring things happening around the city and the four regions, along with some special options for maximizing the playing of your AU. More information will be available in the July event log!
Q: So what about regains for AC and otherwise?
As usual, we will have freebies! We will have freebies and you may regain memories as normal.
Q: What about my character’s powers and items? And what about pre-established events such as past game threads, etc?
Those can stay! As they would have the opportunity to regain them even with their current AU, we do not feel it’s fair to take those away. Threads and events with past CR may also remain game canon and you are free to alter them as fit based on your new AU.
We will also allow you to play with how much of their regained canon memories they keep during this event! If you want them to remember everything so far in addition to their new backstory, cool! If you’d rather start from a very blank slate, that’s also acceptable.
Q: If I opt out, what’s there to do? Furthermore, is this the only thing happening in July?
For those who will not be participating in an AU alteration, things will proceed as normal! We will update any changes made to the city and the four regions post-June’s event, and as with normal months there will be effects and events happening. These will be clarified in July’s event log as well! Open-world exploration will be allowed as usual and characters may find that they have events or mini-player plots they’d like to run during this time.
Q: It says in June’s plotting post that NPC quests won’t be given?
Correct! Instead of individually-based NPC quests, due to the nature of this particular two-part event there will be a minor change. Characters may sign up for smaller quests in order to help build CR, work with personal growth and development, and explore various regions. However, these will not be facilitated by Zee! A July top-level will go in the Assignment Board post for players to reply to and quests will be generated from there.
Q: And then what about August?
The new AU will be played through August as well as characters not only juggle regaining their original AU selves but their original canon selves. How much or how little you play this is, again, up to you. August’s event primarily will deal with character development, emotion sharing and bonding, and further exploration of characters themselves versus what’s going on in the city. Characters will be deep-diving into what it means to truly know someone and know yourselves and face challenges, hardships and unusual situations.
Furthermore: July and August’s event will give characters the opportunity to fail to regain their original AU self! We will elaborate on this mechanic come August, but characters will have the option to fail and players may continue to play their new AU. They will stop receiving flashes of their original AU at that time, and at a further later date (September or October), a future event will give them the chance to rectify their failures should you, the player, wish to.
If you choose to keep your new AU, we would ask for an additional little blurb to be added to your application kept in your journal outlining what changes have been made to the AU history. This will not only help us keep track of who has permanently changed and help your gamemates as well.
Q: If we choose to have our character fail, what happens next?
Characters would remember only the new AU. Once they have officially failed (and this applies for both failing in August and failing again in October, if you wish), they will lose all memories of their original AU life. It will be essentially like apping in with a brand new character history. Characters will remember game events that have happened though.
For characters who do not fail, they will soon forget their temporary AUs as the memories from those fade out. Should their CR opt for a new AU, they would still remember the original AU for that character (much like if a character drops and a new player apps in with a new AU.)
Memories with your CR could also still have occurred in the framework of your new AU. We will leave the details up to individual players and their CR.
With that said, we understand there will be a lot of OOC coordination for your AUs and will require coordination prior to the AU workshop. The workshop is currently live and you may post at your leisure! Please note we will not be keeping up a directory as usual but encourage everyone to tag around and generate ideas together. More information will be given on July’s event log which will go up on July 3rd as usual.
Thank you guys for your time and attention!