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MONTHLY PLOT POST

PLOT POST - April Welcome to our April 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! You may also use this thread to leave comments about the below. 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! NEW: Thanks to a suggestion in the mod write-up from February (which can be found here!), we will be keeping the pool open all month but we will allow players to use the points from this pool right away rather than waiting for the end of the AC cycle. As we're getting into endgame, a point was made that it doesn't make a lot of sense to have people wait on stuff and that there's an appeal in being able to play with canon powers right away. That said, we will allow players to sign up and then update their AC comments accordingly with donations received and items bought. Please see April's thread for donating and receiving points here and here. NEW: There has also been discussion about AC requirements! The game has shrunk and we have reviewed the options suggested. After careful consideration, we will be changing AC to: -15 comments (you can still submit up to 4 threads, 3 comment minimum per thread.) All comments can be claimed for bonus points now. -1 memory regain If a character is starting to run out of memories that they may regain at this time, please let us know and we can discuss options/an opt-out for you! -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. Please see below for the monthly calendar. IMPORTANT DATES 1st Retrospec post at 9pm EST 7th Event Log at 9pm EST 17th Second Retrospec post at 9pm EST 30th 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 After careful review of the state of the game, the playerbase, the pacing of the game and mod availability, we may be adjusting the endgame timeline just a bit. Please see below. -April and May. 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. -June. The first half will focus on wrapping up everything within the remaining areas of the game, etc, and the latter half will focus on Vanderweele and the state of the city. -July. 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. As previously mentioned, previously apped and accepted characters may turn in applications at any time between now and the month prior to endgame (in the above scenario, the beginning of June.) Please see the application page for more information. Please let us know if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this schedule. EVENT With the citizens of Magatus safely evacuated (for better or worse) and brought back to the city, and with the layer below the region cleared out, Magatus is officially marked off as "safe" from Vanderweele's reach. Retrospec users will find themselves drawn back to the city and receive an update from the liaison of things to come in the future. With new research and information on hand, the liaison will mention that the next area of interest will be Pesgare, as things are starting to shift beneath the seaside village. While not nearly as much of a threat and at risk as Magatus, Pesgare will require users to venture out to the lay below and explore the bases set up. On March 7th, a portal will open to send volunteers to an aquatic landscape to drain the area, comb the ocean floor, and dismantle various equipment and monitors in the water. Characters can expect to experience: -Deep sea pressures -Underwater cities and traps -Sea monsters -Plot information regarding things in the city. While not as time-sensitive as previous months, this is something that is urgent and will be encouraged by the liaison. Aside from that, back in the city, characters will find that the liaison has moved offices again and has started putting work into fixing up the old, underground subways in the city. Getting the trains to work, the liaison will explain that the journey will take citizens to areas far off, and that it may be best to go in prepared to explore, map out and decide if these areas are worth colonizing to expand the city itself. Characters on colonization missions can expect to experience: -Travel to other planets -Drastic differences in environments -Light cosmic horrors and creatures -Embodiments of canons represented in-game. It seems that these areas are the ones as grown by Retrospec members as they've regained their memories. Though they may not be complete or finalized, they may be worth exploring. And finally...that weird evil eye is still around. A mechanical azathoth, it seems to be watching the progress of the city but otherwise isn't causing harm. It may be up to citizens to try and get a closer look, and decide if the eye is safe as is or if it should be dismantled, too. Spring is in the air, Retrospecters. Life can go on as usual, but it seems this is the calm before the storm. Prepare yourself, but be sure to take time for yourself, too. As a note, players do not have to play with all of these! There will be no more than 6 prompts for the most part and the event will be going for the entire month. The second network post will serve as a check-point as well for characters to share notes, etc. 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 second mod-posted Retrospec post. -Players may claim one freebie for a thread exploring Pesgare. This must be at least 5 comments from you. -Players may claim one freebie visiting one of the new regions accessible by subway. This must be at least 5 comments from you. -Players may claim one freebie for engaging with the eye creature. This must be at least 5 comments from you. -Additional freebies will be listed for various prompts on the event log. -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.