MOD POST: JANUARY EVENTS + NEW FEATURES + ANNOUNCEMENTS

[asgardmods]

Hey guys! It's that time again: the monthly rundown! This month is going to be a little busy, so please bear with us on these walls of text.

First I'm going to go over the miscellaneous announcements.

• Holiday AC Passes: When Activity Check goes up this round it's going to be a simple check-in. Absolutely everyone who shows up gets a pass and we won't be asking for proofs at all. Since December is the time of final exams and holiday business, we figured it would be nice for both players & mods to give a blanket activity forgiveness. You will still have to check in, but that's only to take care of true idlers so their characters will be up for apping in January.


• Utgard Trips: Though we'd planned to have these before, it ended up falling through. So now going into the new year there will be two standard monthly logs. In addition to the intro log, on the 1st of every month we'll be posting an Utgard mingle for anyone who goes there during the month. This should help make it easier for people to arrange their characters traveling, since they are still free to at any time.


• The Library: We've heard mention of a few different people planning to maybe get into the restricted parts of the library. Anyone who had an IC plot going in that direction, whether they've talked to us before or not, should please check into the appropriate plotting comment on this post. We're going to get the place open but rather than just open it we'd like to work with the existing player plotting. Thank you!


• Tag Your Participation: As always we'd like to remind people to use their comm tags for every entry they participate in in asgardeventide or asgardmeridiem. This makes it easier for your CR to keep track of you and for the mods to verify your presence in the case of list maintenance hiccups. As of this post the tags in both of those comms have been cleaned up, so please make sure you're using a consistent format in your tags. If there are any remaining double tags or any accidentally deleted/merged ones, please let us know!

Now, as promised we also have some new features to unveil! I'll go over them briefly here, but please follow the links to get the full information. All of these features will be ICly available as of January 1, so please wait til then to implement them.

• Long-Distance Trade: This is less a new feature and more just an update & reminder. If you notice that a neutral/allied location on the world info faq deals in tech or other things that Asgard doesn't have, you're always welcome to ping the mods for permission to obtain it. This includes things like higher-grade practical metalwork/armor from Svartalfheim, personal clockwork items from Alfheim, etc. If you have an idea just ask us and we'll do our best to get it to you so long as it's within the rules.


• SOS Mode: SOS mode is a new bracelet function in case of emergencies. Using it signals distress to both the gods and other travellers and opens a group video feed to coordinate helping the person who used it. SOS Mode will be a whole new type of network post and has its own special comm tag for anyone who wishes to track it.


• Licenses: This has been an off-the-menu feature for some time now, as we've test run it with the players who asked for it. Now it's a fully developed feature! We'll be keeping track of most of these licenses so even if you already had one please go fill out the form so you're "official". You'll note that along with this feature comes an exciting subfeature: driving! As of Jan 1 characters will be able to obtain a driver's license and bring any sort of motorized scooter/bike into the city. Those characters who brought a disabled bike with them on arrival or got one during a gifts from home event will find those vehicles in working order as of Jan 1.


• Shrine Blessings: It's been brought to our notice several times in the past that some players are unable to level their characters up due to ooc time constraints or are uninterested in the level up system. In order to counteract that problem and give new characters a boost, we've come up with this alternate rewards system. Characters can now pray at the shrine on their Welcome Hall grounds for one bonus per OOC month. Low-level rewards are made to compensate for that low level and high-level rewards are material luxuries for established characters. Note that "pray" is just a loose term. Just asking for the blessing is plenty.


• Runic Magic - The full info on this and the Jan 1 plot related to it will be up soon since there's a bit left to hash out. Keep an eye out for that soon! EDIT: Info is here!

AND LASTLY, the plots for this month. Remember, this month will determine the course of the overarcing plot from here on out, so please pay close attention! The full calendar can be found here!

On Day 198 (Jan 1) just before dawn, something sparkly will be happening! After this event Runic Magic will be a fully available feature. Further details to come within the next couple of days! EDIT: There is a post about this here!

On the evening of Day 203 (Jan 12), a very important NPC post will be hitting the network! Within that post will be a lot of major plot info, including a few key elements of the whole overarcing plot. The post will also be an IC discussion, as a big option's going to come up. Most of the details will be revealed then, but the very outline is this: the Travellers will be able to choose between trying to bring Freya & Freyr back to the city OR to eliminate Freya before she rips the city apart. There will be an OOC poll put up when the NPC post goes up, and the direction the plot goes in will be determined by that poll. We'll also be polling you guys on how you'd like to see the other two overarcing plot events of this arc spaced out. Again, more details when the plot hits! :)

Later in the month, it's time again for a House Contest, though this one is also practical! Due to very heavy snowfall on Days 200-201 followed by constant sun at below-freezing temperatures, by Day 209 (Jan 23-24) the city's going to have a serious ice problem! In order to get it cleaned up, the gods will ask the Travellers for ideas, offering rewards for the most and best solutions. There will be an NPC post to kick it off, and an open mingle for characters to try out their ideas.

Players will be able to submit their characters' solutions from Jan 23 through Jan 26, and on Jan 27 we'll announce the winners. There will be a prize for every member of the House that submits the most solutions, and another for the ones which had the "most helpful" and "most creative" solutions. This means 3 Houses will get prizes, to be announced at that time. The prizes will be useful to every House member, not just those in the Welcome Hall. Solutions submitted by a group of characters will count for every member of the group.


And that's all for this month! Reserves open on December 30 and AC will be up on December 26. Again, keep an eye out for the Runic Magic details soon, and have some happy holidays!

Comments

MOD QUESTIONS: MISC

[asgardmods]

Re: MOD QUESTIONS: MISC

[tigers]

Oh
that smell.






Cant you smell that smell?

Re: MOD QUESTIONS: MISC

[daddyissues]

Hey there -- I can't seem to find much info on Utgard! Is there more than what's on the location page anywhere?

[asgardmods]

There's a little more information about Utgard on the World Map page, but if you have any specific questions, feel free to ask! :)

MOD QUESTIONS: NEW FEATURES

[asgardmods]

[key_illusion]

For the Eavesdropping ward, 1) will there be some sort of OOC warning to Telepath players?
2) What kind of effect would the ward have when someone IS using Telepathy? Like, if someone goes into the room do they go off the mental grid or is it the Telepath can tell they're thinking something but they can't actually read the thoughts? Also, would the Telepath still be able to read emotions or is it thoughts+emotions that are blocked?

[asgardmods]

They would be entirely off the grid, as if anything with a mind that goes in no longer exists until it comes out! As far as an ooc warning I'd assume anyone using telepathy on another player character would be plotting with / asking permission of the other player in question, so if they decided to have such a room it'd be their responsibility to tell the telepath's player during plotting.

Re: MOD QUESTIONS: NEW FEATURES

[samantha_grey]

Re: Blessings - Is there a need for any IC or OOC thread to list that a character is seeking a blessing (Outside of requesting a blessing that requires mod approval like train tickets)?

[asgardmods]

Nope! We'll trust that people aren't taking more than they're allowed unless we're proven wrong on the matter.

MOD QUESTIONS: A FORK IN THE ROAD

[asgardmods]

MOD QUESTIONS: DEFROSTING

[asgardmods]

LIBRARY PLOTTING

[asgardmods]

Please comment here if you had previous library plans! Feel free to plot amongst yourselves as well. This is your initiative, so we'll work with you to include everyone as best we can.

Re: LIBRARY PLOTTING

[hullo_sweetie]

New to this plot idea, but I definitely want to get River Song in on it because she does love to go into restricted areas.

Re: LIBRARY PLOTTING

[singlehandedly]

I haven't actually got a plan here yet, but it would be very IC for Malik to try and get into the restricted books now that he's aware that they exist, so I'd just like to put this curious one-armed assassin shopkeeper up here for potential plotting!

[canmakemore]

dude sass buddies invade the library y/n

[singlehandedly]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[canmakemore]

AAAW BENE

[sicarius]

OH GOD JUST DON'T GET KILLED/MAULED/CURSED/DEAD/WHATEVER MALIK

EZIO NEEDS HIS SANE FACEPALMING BRO TO HELP HIM RUN THE ORDER

[singlehandedly]

SHUSH HE'S CAREFUL

DON'T EVEN WORRY
(ftr he will likely talk this over with Ezio before actually going through with it, Mentore deserves to know about these things.)

Re: LIBRARY PLOTTING

[samantha_grey]

http://asgardmeridiem.dreamwidth.org/224409.html - D180, the previous library plans between Samantha and Rose came to a head. Per the old material in the locations, Samantha used level 3 Body Control to gain access to the keys into the stacks and made a copy for herself and Rose.

There's been other references to the info she's gotten access to, along with conversations on the subject with Hel, Loki and Rose prior with attempts to get access legally and then the plot. I can list them all if you need. Holler if there's any problems.

[asgardmods]

Thank you! We'd remembered you had existing plotting, so just linking that should be enough for now. o7 We'll add anything from the mod plot doc that could be found in the library to the player plot doc once it's open to everyone, so since you're already in there I'll shoot you a pm with that info just to cover all bases.

[samantha_grey]

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Note: Rose Lalonde and Sam have copies of the keys. Aladdin and Castiel are aware of some of the information she has acquired through IC conversations.

Re: LIBRARY PLOTTING

[castoffskin]

No plans on my side yet either because I was AWOL for months (shhh, no booing~!!), but Ja'far would so jump on this!

[comeonthensexy]

I didn't really have any previous library plans but the Doctor is basically looking into getting to all the restricted areas in the world. So he'll want in on it.

Re: LIBRARY PLOTTING

[gandrtails]

Now that Rin knows that there's a restricted part of the library, she'll jump right into this! I don't have any plans yet so I'm open to plotting.

[occulthymns]

I'm fairly sure Euri and Vriska might want to look into this re:the plotting about how travelers arrive and leave in Asgard.

LIBRARY PLOTTING

[superissues]

I was keeping Conan out of this to avoid to stepping on Sam-mun and Castiel-mun's toes OOCly and more recently Samantha-mun and Rose-mun's plotting, but this is something that I would love to get him involved in if at all possible!

Re: LIBRARY PLOTTING

[samantha_grey]

Holler if you want in on the fun through Sam, btw, or plot on your own. Conan's more than capable of pulling it off himself after all. ^_^

And besides, who would suspect a little kid?

LIBRARY PLOTTING

[holmes_fanatic]

Especially such a polite, well-behaved child who is familiar with the layout of the library and their security measures thanks to his involvement in that pesky suicide!

Re: LIBRARY PLOTTING

[tracings]

being sneaky? ok we are on board with being sneaky. also we can help rin. maybe. gosh what a troublesome girl.