Monthly Plotting - November

[recollecters]

MONTHLY PLOT POST

PLOT POST - November Welcome to our November plotting post! Please feel free to comment to these posts with your character's plans for the month or with what you would like to do for the month, and feel free to discuss those plans with everyone else! Here is the mod questions thread! MOD BULLETIN BOARD -November will be our last app cycle for 2018! After this time, apps will resume their bi-monthly cycle. November will receive workshops and TDMs as well. -We have changed the posting schedule for the game! Please be sure to read the calendar very carefully to know when each post will be going up! -Starting in November, we will begin cleaning up game pages again to keep the game up to date! This is most relevant to the locations page, as we will be moving locations off of the main page and over to a "past businesses" page. These buildings will still exist in Recollé, but this is simply for readability. -We will have an opportunity for a monthly freebie every month going forward! However, we would like to clarify that all freebie regains must be applied for before the end of the AC period! We do not accept freebies beyond this barring specific circumstances. -While freebies can be submitted at any point in the month, we would like to remind players that per the regains guide, we do ask that the last tag from you on a thread submitted for regular memory regains be no older than 14 days. Please do not trigger your own memories without submitting them and getting them approved by us first! Please also be mindful and keep your registries up to date with both memories and abilities! -Additionally, please remember there is no limit to how many regains you can earn in a month! Though you need one memory regain for your AC, you're free to claim as many as allotted for the month so you have time to pick and choose which one to link for AC. Remember that a regain is only eligible for AC if it has been approved by us in the current AC month. Please be sure to turn your regains in early to ensure they are reviewed prior to AC! -We would like to use this time to provide a friendly reminder to please use your character tags to tag yourself on posts and logs! This helps keep things organized not only for us but for your gamemates as well. In addition, if there is an error with your character tag or you need us to change anything, please let us know. IMPORTANT DATES 1st Retrospec post at 9pm EST, event sign-ups 5th Event log Pt 1 at 9pm EST 10th AU Workshop 17th Event log Pt 2 at 9PM EST, TDM, Reserves at 9pm EST 24th Applications are open at 11:59PM EST 24th EMP 30th AC Due, Applications close 11:59pm EST see our calendar for a look at upcoming dates this month and further! WORLD CHANGES • At this time, Palaces from the world of Persona 5 are now game canon. A Palace is a manifestation of "distortion", strong negative and corrupt thoughts that warp the perceptions of people into a hazard for themselves and others. You can read more about how palaces function here. • The moon from the world of RWBY now has a home in Recollé as well. A moon that hangs over Remnant and has a startling appearance, this moon will exist simultaneously with Earth's moon. Be sure to check out our world changes page over here and our world regains page to track all changes and read up on our guidelines. Players are free to buy back certain aspects of their canon to help impact and change the world as well, though we may delay the installment of some features for plot purposes. Players may also contribute points toward bringing back world patches representing their canons that other players may explore outside of the city! Please see the world changes page for more information. Of note: players are allowed to help contribute to buying world changes not from their own canon. Players may donate up to 500 points to another player's cause. When donating points to a canon buyback, please put them on the same world change page here! Please note, these are only for world changes and not items/powers/personal locations/etc. A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: To accommodate for the shifts in the game, we have changed the amount characters need to donate to their own causes in order to meet a minimum. For regains that are crowd-sourced, casts will now only have to provide 25% of the points while the remaining 75% may be donated by other players in-game. Cast-sourced regains must still be funded by casts. We have adjusted the math on the remaining regains on the world regains page. EVENTS EVENT, PT 1 With the monster viruses cured and everyone in the city healed, it almost feels as though everything in Recollé will be going back to normal. The Halloween party throughout the whole city runs all night and straight into the morning, even as you continue feeling yourself sink into the ground inch by inch and your body fades into a translucent figure. The shifts are subtle though as you continue to celebrate (or apologize for your behavior over the last month.) The tables with your photos and your favorite treats on them pop up every few feet even after the Halloween festivities are over, but the scenery remains lit with candles almost as though it's a vigil. On November 1st, everyone in the city (including NPCs) will fully sink through the ground and slip into an identical version of the city. In fact, you may not even realize you've gone anywhere at all. You're in the same place as you were, you're in the same clothes as you were, and your body's finally solidified again. Maybe it was just a fluke. After a hellish month, it's time to do a little clean-up and focus on humanity. After all, Retrospec's goal has always been to rebuild, restructure, and regrow. The people around you look just as safe and solid as they can be. Any injuries that were sustained in October seem to have evaporated as well, though some of you may feel some phantom pains now and again. The city looks as though it's going to focus on moving forward and focus on the upcoming winter… …but then the ghosts appear. On November 5th, hundreds of ghosts begin to appear around you. It's easy to tell that these ghosts are mostly from the 1940s through the 1960s, though there are other ages scattered throughout. Unlike the ghosts that only some of you can see with your abilities, these ghosts are amicable and seem to want to explore the city of Recollé now that it's changed beyond their memories. With the ghosts reappearing, the city of Recollé will also begin to celebrate the dead with rituals, parties, and other traditions from around the globe. Characters will find themselves subjected to these celebrations, but they're harmless! It's all in the name of fun, and the ghosts just want to celebrate their former lives. On the other hand…some of you may begin to experience a life where your family and friends don't even know you. Everything will be exactly the same, but with you on the outside looking in, a ghost can (and will) slip in to steal your role in your own life. You'll see how things appear without you interfering, and you may have to find a way to prove your life is worth living, and that you want to live. Over the course of the month intermingling with these ghosts and being a part of these death celebrations, the emphasis will be on the gift of life. Characters can help elevate "the living" back up to the city's main layer and regain their place in life by celebrating and sharing their lives with those around them. What does this mean? Personal projects. Parties. Dates. Hanging out with your friends. Schoolwork. Hobbies. All of those things that make you your own person are important this month and will help rebalance the city and your soul. All of those things you've been working toward and the things that strengthen your bonds with others will be critical this month. After all…your voice is your identity. If you don't use it? You may as well be a ghost. In addition to all of this, characters will have an opportunity to contact and speak with the ghosts! We will have sign-ups for those who wish to receive some plot information this month from our ghostly friends and they will be open all month. However, we will be limiting sign-ups to one per player! This information will be relevant to city history, the main plot, or possibly the founding families of Recollé and is meant to share at large, though clues will vary in size! Clues will oocly start going out on the day of the event log (11/5 9pm EST) just to give the mod-team a head start. Work together and live your life. Don't let it be a waste. EVENT, PT 2 On the 17th, the ghosts will begin to waver a bit and begin to form clusters as they form new families. Some of them will even try to become a permanent part of yours. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, family will become more important than ever and family traditions will come into play. While you'll be able to celebrate your own traditions this holiday season, family secrets will be revealed and the founding families of Recollé will have a surprise for you... ...and of course, there's Mayor Mayer. Mayor Mayer still loves his holidays and there will be a small celebration for Thanksgiving including a parade, a petting zoo, and wild turkeys up for adoption. This event will be combined with our TDM for November! Characters who are TDMing will be able to slot themselves right into the game event and mingle with current in-game characters. More details about this specific log will follow. FREEBIE -Players may claim one freebie for a thread on the mod-posted Retrospec post that is 10 consecutive comments from you! -Players may claim one freebie for participating in a death celebration. This thread must be at least 5 comments from you. -Players may claim one freebie for engaging with a ghost and sharing the information with someone else. This thread must be at least 5 comments from you. -Finally, as we found that this was a format that worked well, players may claim one (1) freebie by threading with a character that is test-driving. This thread must also be 5 comments from you. -For your reference, check out the plot clues/finds page found here! This is all for OOC knowledge, though characters have been spreading the information ICly as well. As of this post, this plot page is up to date. -Additionally, if you haven't yet be sure to check out the regains guide to help outline what kind of triggers will work for obtaining regains and memories in-game. As mentioned above, please feel free to comment to this post (and to each other) with your character's plans for the month for plotting and CR building.

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Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[flametheif40]

Hello, few questions.

If a character is adopted, do they see the ghosts from their biological families or their adopted ones? Both? Dead parents or family members fair game to see?

The "outside looking in", is it a separate world or do they essentially become ghosts while seeing someone else trying to take over their life unless they have a sufficient drive to get their body back?

[recollecters]

Hi Quad!

The ghosts are actually ghosts tied to the city of Recollé! While it's possible for characters to see dead family members, unless they died in Recollé itself especially in those years it's highly unlikely!

Our apologies, this isn't literal! Everyone is still existing on the same plane. It's literally seeing the ghosts take your place even though you yourself exist. You aren't becoming an actual ghost like they are, but the ghosts that choose to try to take over your life will be able to interfere with the memories of the people you know, becoming the new "you." Characters will then have to find ways to prove that their life is worth living and share what things they value in their life with other people, etc.

Hope this helps!