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FEBRUARY 2019 PLOT POST
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PLOT POST - February Welcome to our February 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 AC -As mentioned last month, we will be going forward with two different methods for players to turn in AC. Our first option will be keeping AC the same as before. This means that players may submit threads for points as always (network comments being 1 point, action comments being 2.) These will be counted as usual by the moderators. The second option will be changing AC to where players may submit a summary for bonus points instead, allowing the moderators to read and review a monthly write-up and determine points based on this. This write-up would be a summarization of what your character has done in the month whether it's plot-related threads, character development threads or more (please also provide links for cross-reference!) Dependent on the presentation and review of the summary, mods would determine the amount of points given each month. In addition, with these two choices we will host a points donation pool. Each month, we will allow for players to donate points to be awarded to their fellow players. Players may sign up to either donate to or receive from this pool, and at the end of the month (pre-AC closing), moderators will reply to sign-ups with the amount of points rewarded per month. This line item would then be added to your own AC for the month. Signing up to receive points does not disqualify you from turning in your own bonus points! Please keep in mind; we will still require regular AC and these options are simply for bonus points! Players must still submit 20 comments (up to 4 threads may be used, minimum of 3 comments on one thread) and one mod-approved regain. Please see February's thread for donating and receiving points here and here. Endgame -As a reminder, due to player vote will be aiming for an endgame period of August 2019. This means that the last month of player events will be July 2019 with the month of August left to wrap up loose threads and close out the game! Please see below for an outline of the next few months. Regains -As discussed, we will also be offering the option for players to receive a special extra addition for memory and item/ability/etc regains! We have created a new regains post here that also includes updated forms. Starting in January 2019, players will have the ability to opt in to how memories are received. By opting in to sensory experiences, the modteam will write up a special little addition for how your character's memories will come to them. This may be a vision, a kind of dream, a scent, a hallucination, etc. This will also apply for items/abilities, which may be written in the form of delivery method, mini-quest, etc. This is entirely opt-in, and players do not have to sign up for this if they do not wish. We hope this changes things up and makes things a little more fun for players looking for new experiences to play with! -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. IMPORTANT DATES 1st Retrospec post at 9pm EST 5th Event log Pt 1 at 9pm EST 17th Event log Pt 2 28th AC Due see our calendar for a look at upcoming dates this month and further! WORLD CHANGES • At this time there are no new world changes! 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. EVENTS Notes As we're going into an endgame period, we'd like to take this time to lay out a bit of a guideline for what players may expect going forward. -February. This will be our last event month that's more lowkey and chill. Character events this month will be focused on supporting upcoming events, CR-building and working with personality traits and the AUs players have crafted. -March-June. These events will be focused on certain measures to be taken to get us to endgame for not only Recollé but the areas around the city (i.e. the four regions.) Events will be heavily focused on mission-esque tasks, teamwork, alterations of specific areas and more. -July. This is the final month of gameplay, officially, to focus on ending the Vanderweele arc and will remain dependent on how the months prior play out. -August. Endgame! The moderator team will write a group of closing events for players to play with in August and after that the game will officially be in a sandbox mode. With this said, we will be hosting our last official application month for new characters in March! Previously dropped characters may be apped back in at any point between March and June, with the first of July being the final cut-off. More details about how the return of dropped characters will play out will be detailed during March's app cycle. Please let us know if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this schedule. EVENT, PT 1 With the dismantling of the literal firewall around the city of Recollé, citizens may notice that while the ash may linger in the streets the temperature drops back down to its cool, chilly February weather. The lights above the Towers and the apartment suite at the highest point are all lit, but should you venture there you'll find that the space is woefully empty. The liaison is back in action but will be moving to new headquarters, ready to get back to work and help Retrospecters prepare for the final course of action and apprehend Clarence Vanderweele. Having discovered something beyond the original five layers of Recollé (Awareness, Awakening, Enlightenment, Exploration, Expansion and detailed in this IC post here), Zee Carlisle will be working in close quarters with all Retrospec users in an attempt to help them access the sixth and seventh layers. With the belief that Vanderweele's acting and hiding out, it'll be up to users to traverse between layers, undo the efforts he's put forth and track down Vanderweele himself to put an end to this insanity and stabilize the city. On February 1st with the monthly Retrospec post, an announcement will be made that may put Retrospec users at odds as to what to believe and what to do next. This announcement will provide insight to characters, give them a better scope of the things happening, and what the next steps will be. At this time, the NPC inbox will also re-open. Beginning on February 5th, characters will be put to the test as their most positive and negative qualities are amplified. Working under the idea that the metaphysical can become the physical, it will be these traits that will help characters turn themselves into keys and create a protective barrier around themselves to access the next layer beyond. Becoming keys will also help them generate the silver doors leading onward to slip between layers. While the firewall and the space between layers five and six have collapsed, characters will need to learn to stabilize themselves and fuse bonds with one another in order to slip between and explore further. What does this mean? While you may think you know what your most positive and negative traits are, it seems as though legend tells you otherwise based on the year you were born. These traits may be something you've familiarized yourself with, or they may be something you've suppressed for years and have to come to terms with now. During the daylight hours, characters' positive traits will be amplified and during the hours of darkness negative traits will come into play. Characters will have to learn how to embrace these qualities and generate unearthly concepts into a tangible form: concepts such as "greed", "love", "ambition" and "kindness" are examples of concepts that will challenge characters and need to be created. As items are created, characters will also have to find a way to fuse these objects together (much like last October) to create a "balance." For example, if a character's trait is "love", they may use this to create a heart-shaped container and combine it with someone whose trait is "indulgence", creating small chocolates to fill the box and gift to someone else. "Greed" may manifest itself as money and will have to be combined with "charitable" to provide donations to an organization based in Recollé. There's really no right or wrong combination, though they should be negative combined with positive! Additionally, while your characters may not actively possess these traits, over the course of the month alterations will begin to seep in and plant ideas in their heads that fuel these qualities and urge them to full embrace them. Strangely, it seems as though this idea is a surefire method. One of your own will be making a journey down into the sixth layer alone for research purposes, and thanks to this mission a calibration monitor can be created to track the progress of events. On the other hand, there's also Valentine's Day to worry about. With Vanderweele keeping an eye on the city, interference will impact the citizens of Recollé as they find themselves influenced by a "kissing disease." Small, black hearts will be released throughout the city and sent out to infect characters and overwhelm them, erasing all of their positive aspects and providing power to their dark sides. Is your character someone who wants to become a musician? They'll be able to hypnotize others with a song and put them to sleep. Is your character a baker? They'll now be able to shoot cakes out of their hands and disrupt the general population. Chaos will be key here and those who avoid the hearts will have to find the small, heart-shaped tattoo that's imprinted itself on the infected and "kiss it better" to free the chaotic characters from these binds. EVENT, PT 2 While it's possible to venture into the sixth layer, it's clear that after a certain chain of events characters will be encouraged to spend the first few weeks of February preparing themselves and generating balanced objects to become acceptable sacrifices for doors beyond. The transformation into living keys will allow characters to drop into the next layer and keep a small amount of defense on them. With objects created, the silver doors will reappear along the boundaries of Recollé, beckoning characters to step through and fall deep into the sixth layer. These doors will not lead to separate pockets as before but rather will grant characters access to what has been dubbed as the "Mythos" layer. This layer is one sprawling, massive landscape just below the city of Recollé and will lead characters through an area of surrealism and cosmic horror elements including but not limited to moments of paranoia, monster infestations, isolation, and a plethora of research facilities and old Retrospec domains below. Characters will be tasked with scrubbing the area for information, dismantling some of the facilities and clearing portions of this layer to ensure the city remains in one piece. Positive and negative traits will still aid them down here and will help channel new abilities to "clear" the areas. The metaphysical will continue to become the physical, and soul essence inside each character will help them adapt to this layer…though maybe not quite in the way they wish to adapt. Try not to spend too much time down there, Retrospecters. You may not like what you see. More information will be available on the logs. FREEBIE -Players may claim one freebie for a thread on the mod-posted Retrospec post. This thread should be ten comments from you. -Players may claim one freebie for a thread on the first log in which they manifest an object and fuse it with someone else's object. This must be at least 5 comments from you. -Players may claim one freebie for a thread on the first log spreading or healing the kissing disease. This must be at least 5 comments from you. -Players may claim one freebie for a thread on the second log exploring an area in the Mythos layer. This must be at least 5 comments from you. -Additional freebies may be listed on the logs at the time of posting. -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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so! anna was born in 1991, making her a metal goat! how appropriate. this means some of her positive traits include creativity, intelligence, kindness, and perseverance, while some of the negative ones are shy, reserved, and quiet, with the additional metal modifier bringing on inner fragility. a lot of these are going to come into play naturally for her over the course of the month, but i think it'll probably be much easier for her to turn the positive traits into something concrete. she's got this notepad, she's been taking more notes lately, and she's trying to make some sort of sense out of all of this, and i think with some of the developments this month she's going to have a lot of success there. look for creativity and intelligence more than anything else, though perseverance might end up showing itself all on its own.
lina was born in 1997, making her a fire ox, and. hoo boy. this one's gonna be fun, y'all. positive traits include patience, strength, and determination, while negative traits include blame-happy, stubborn, and with the fire modifier, impulsive and short-fused. if you thought the geteilts were shitty communicators before, you ain't seen nothing yet. when the night falls, lina is probably going to succumb really hard to the fact that she's lost almost all of her close CR over the past month or so. this means blaming others, not really trying to hold herself back anymore, and overall being pretty nasty. negative and positive traits will be easy to make manifest with lina, but there will probably be more opportunities for mean lina (meana) (no that's dumb)
anyway as far as posts, i think i'm gonna do a retrospec tl for lina, then a network post for anna a little later on, and then at LEAST one tl per log and if i don't say this now then i won't be able to document it so future me can look at it and hold past me accountable. lina might get chaotic with her cooking, but it's hard to think of any anna stuff that wouldn't result in, uh, murder, which is a little too much on the chaos chaos side of things (that's RIGHT, undertale AND deltarune references in the SAME COMMENT)
anyway! let me know if you want to explore any of this stuff with my girls, i can be reached here obviously or also at