2014-01-01

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[personal profile] theearth2014-01-01 01:02 pm
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An additional announcement.

To the players who came to us with concerns over the acceptance of the application for Elsa from Frozen, know that action has been taken, and we thank you highly for speaking up and confirming that we were treating our own far too gently.

It was a poor judgment call, and it was entirely on myself - namely Blue; handling of this has been sloppy, but it has been deeply acknowledged as an error thoroughly avoidable and in indecisiveness and lack of firmness solidly learned from, and I do not intend to make any sort of similar one twice - and I am thoroughly sorry that it's taken such a breach in player comfort.

Again, it has been resolved - Lexi has been contacted and understandingly accepted a retrospective rejection of her application; she has assured intent to take all concern brought up to heart and our consultation should Elsa be available when re-application is open again as per an ordinary rejection.

In the meantime, if you've any further concerns, or request follow-up details within reason, feel free to comment to this post - comments are screened - or on the Mod Contact post - comments are screened and anonymous commenting is enabled.

On that note while hopefully you'll not have to call us out on folly again, any contact on the Mod Contact post on matters of concern or otherwise is always undoubtedly appreciated, as is correction when it is definitely due.
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Return of the Towers plot!

Does anyone remember this plot (specifically the Tuning Towers part)? If you don't that's okay, but I do want to massively apologize for dropping the ball. My PC went out of commission a day after that and December turned out to be way more intensive at work than I thought. Still having PC issues, but I wanted to get everything sorted out and after talking to the mods there's a few things I think should be discussed by the game at large before I do anything else with this plot.

I wanted to do this plot as a way to help characters get involved with game plot regardless of whether they were in with a specific group or not since I knew people were having trouble finding things for their characters to do or reasons for them to care. After talking with the mods though I think it's been a little unclear what the game plot for Season One is.

Season One is for characters to gain echoes in preparation for Season Two and to become aware of and (somewhat) acclimated to the general game situation. What this means is that by playing even simple slice of life your character is already involved in game plot. Any information gathering or actions against NPCs are fun extras. Because of the nature of Season One this means that there is a finite amount of information that can be gathered in addition to a limited extent of actions taken; this is because Season Two will be more heavily focused on those things.

Which brings me back to the Towers plot: all information regarding Thunder Corp for this season has already been found. Characters won't be able to find out what Thunder Corp is doing at the Towers; at least for this season. Normally I'd want to continue the plot since that was only half of it, but Season Two won't start until Thunder Corp reaches their goal in the Towers basement.

Any action against the Towers operation will delay Season Two.

I don't mind running the plot as a failure with Numbers being thwarted, but this would cause more police crackdown and suspected characters being taken in. So obviously I don't think that's my call to make since this would effect a large amount of characters. Other options are having the plot never come to fruition (plans were made, but they never happened for whatever reason, no consequences, everyone goes about their day) or running the plot as a success (which I don't find very advisable since it would delay Season Two).


Finally I did talk to the mods a bit on what avenues for information and general involvement above general slice of life there are left in Season One. The Blood Keys and Pride are the few sources of information/action left for Season One; Season One is also slated to end some time this month. I know there are a few plots going on with them already, but if anyone wants to do anything more this would probably be a good time to get everything sorted out. If you want to get your character involved, but aren't sure how I think this is a good time to ask as well and we can all help eachother out a bit.
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+1 supervillain reincarnated as a... school teacher?

Hello! I'm brand new to the game. My name's Claire, and I already know a couple people here. You can blame Gail for enabling me. Not that she did much besides introducing me to the game XD

I'm bringing you the reincarnation of Shego, the main villain's "sidekick" in Kim Possible.

High school students?

Meet your history teacher, Sheila Go. No, she's not evil... exactly. Although I'm sure some of her students would like to argue - she's creative about punishments for goofing off in her class. That and she's been a little short-tempered lately. Also, she runs an after school Go club. For the board game. Yes, it started as a joke, and just... stuck.

Outside of school, she spends a lot of time shopping and going to the gym. Pre-existing CR is of course welcomed! Students, teachers, anyone else she might've run into around town... let me know!

Her info page is here.
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[personal profile] theearth2014-01-01 06:57 pm
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December Activity Check

Activity check will remain open through January 7th. Only activity from December 1st through December 31st will be acceptable.

• If your character was accepted during this last month/activity cycle, you only need to check them in with their name/journal/info post, and do not have to fill out the four thread links and activity summary sections. If your character is less than a week old as of this announcement (accepted from Dec 25th onward), you do not have to reply here at all.

• If your character has an announced hiatus of a week or more in length for this month, this may be used instead of providing activity and you do not have to reply here. HOWEVER, please note that using a hiatus instead of providing full activity two months in a row will constitute a strike, which will stay in place for four months. Players who are currently on hiatus also do not have to reply here, but are encouraged to when able to avoid consequences if another hiatus has to be used next month in lieu of activity.

• All other characters must check in with all sections (or accept a strike) by or during the 7th or be removed from the game!

Please fill out the following form and add it in to a new comment.
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Threads do not have to be a set length to count, but it must be evident that some work/thought was put into them; a network-based thread of many brief comments may hold the same weight as a shorter one with a higher word count per comment. Threads can all be from the same entry and can have been originally started before the month's start. However, at least one thread provided must have been started during the actual month in question, and of course, all threads must actually have activity within the cycle duration.

In other words, don't sweat it, though if you feel four threads is not enough, you may provide up to two more, both of which can be with a character who is the same as in one of the first four linked threads.

Strikes: If your character does not meet activity requirements for whatever reason, you may opt to take a strike for them by replying here or speaking with a mod. Characters with an existing strike who then qualify for another will be removed from the game, and cannot be apped again until their initial strike has expired. However, again, each strike only lasts four months before being reset. For example, a character who has a strike from August will need to have activity or a declared hiatus each month up to and including December's activity check.