Howdy howdy, friends! Faith here, way too excited to be able to use that greeting again for the first time in a good long while. In a fit of madness, Autumn and I got together to discuss a few things and we have an exciting announcement for you all!



For the month of March, we are super happy and excited to be welcoming everyone back for Asgard's One Year Reunion!! We'll be tossing up a few events and some small flavor things and you will have free reign to run amok and explore the familiar corners of the world - and maybe a few new ones too!

Before we get into the events themselves, we have a few little guidelines for how this will work!

( Reunion Guidelines )
And that's all for now! We will post event logs and descriptions at the start of the week, please do not begin gameplay until we have posted the first mingle log. Until then, feel free to use this post for any plotting purposes! If you have any questions / concerns / feedback / dirty jokes, please leave them in the comments section below. It's real good to see you all again! ♥

REUNION LINKS;

• Character Claims / Directory
• World State Information
• CATCH-ALL LINK DIRECTORY

Howdy, howdy, folks! Faith here with our next round of events for the reunion, but first, a couple more announcements:

1. Last week, we announced on plurk that events would be posted every two weeks instead of every week, to give you more time to finish your threads before we drop more stuff on you. This one came just a couple days late because I was dealing with some RL stuff, I do apologize for that.
   
   We want to take this moment to ask you if the every two weeks schedule works for you, or if you'd prefer we do once a week or once a week and a half. We don't want to rush you, but we also don't want to leave you bored! Whichever timeframe works best for everyone is what we'll go with. Please let us know in the comments below what you'd prefer.
   • On that note, if you haven't already, following the mod plurk at assguardians is the best way to keep up with announcements, event posts, and any other mod chatter!
2. New quests have been added to the Quest Board! Old quests can still be completed at your leisure; these are hands-off flavor events just to give you some other fun stuff to play with.

That all said and done, on with the events for Week Two!

( WEEK TWO EVENT DESCRIPTIONS )
And that's it for Week Two events! The event log for the BFGs is up here, and the log for Whip Out the Rulers is here! Feel free to use this post for plotting and let us know if you have any questions / comments / concerns / dirty jokes in the comments below!

REUNION LINK DIRECTORY

Hello, hello! Faith here with your event description for Week One of our big reunion! We're going to keep it fairly simple for you so that it's not too top-heavy, since we'd really like this month to be lighthearted fun times.

First, though, a few things of note:

1. Please remember to request membership to the event comms asgardreprise and asgardcoda if you plan on making your own posts at any point. We apologize again for not asking y'all to do this when we first started accepting character claims. Mea culpa.
2. We're gonna scrap the 2 OOC days = 1 IC day ratio mostly because it doesn't really matter at this point in the story. Haha For simplicity's sake, we're going to very vaguely handwave non-specific dates to make it easier for headcanoning any post-war gameplay.
3. You can tag posts with your character's name if you'd like to keep track of posts you tag! This is not required and is only for your own use. We will also create tags every week, such as !week one, !week two, etcetera that you can use on your posts if you'd like. All mod posts will be tagged with !mingle, please do not use this tag otherwise.
4. The network comm has two mingle posts up for use: IC Inboxes and Network Posts. These are optional for use if you don't want to make your own individual posts.
5. And last but not least, there is a Quest Board for optional side plots you can play at any time. Check them out if you would like something other than the main events to play with in your sandboxing!

Awright, with that out of the way, on to the event!

( WEEK ONE EVENT DESCRIPTION )

And that's all for Week One! The event log is already up here and from this point forward, you can begin threading to your hearts' content. Feel free to use this post for plotting and let us know if you have any question / comments / concerns / dirty jokes in the comments below! Happy anniversary, y'all!

REUNION LINK DIRECTORY

Hey, guys! Faith here again to give you the rundown on the mini-events that will happen post-endgame. I'm just pulling these out of note I left with the mod email, so they'll be very short and general just so you know the state of things throughout final closure. If you have any ideas or suggestions, go ahead and post them in the comments below and put them into play. Feel free to post logs or handwave events as you please! There is a general catch-all log for these here.

DAY 578 ( MAR. 1/2 )

Asgard is officially announced free of the Grey Sickness. The gods and their native citizens begin tearing down old fortifications from the war so that they can break down the great wall and reunite the Holy City with the world at large. With the Gates gone, trade and travellers can move through the city freely, bringing with it new life and more wares.

DAY 580 ( MAR. 5/6 )

After things finally settle, all of the gods in Yggdrasil converge in Asgard to hold council about plans for the future. The most pressing matter on the agenda is the Travellers; it's been known since the beginning that there were those that wished to stay. The gods discuss the impossibility of it, however much the Travellers might deserve the choice, and discussions for the most part do not go well.

That is, until Honir snaps awake when Njord slams his hand on the table. He immediately mumbles that all they need to do is tie this thing over there and split that right there and then the portal will be held open for eternity. Odin contemplates and confirms Honir's unintelligible ramblings, much to the confusion of the rest of the gods and Mimir's immense pride.

From this point onward, characters will be able to come and go as they please. They can only travel to their own home world and they will not be able to retain memories of Asgard in their home world, but they can always return but simply imagining it so. Old and new characters can also feel free to stumble their way back to the Holy City at will.

DAY 583 ( MAR. 11/12 )

Frigg, being the closest physical being to the Mother, will grant her powers of nurturing to any Travellers that would like to encourage the World Tree to grow. These will exist alongside current House Powers, and will allow Travellers to bring forth new life ( mountain ranges, forests, rivers, any natural body the mind can imagine ) through any variation of song, dance, confessions of truth or love, and making merry.

On the same day, there will be a general plant-a-tree festival around the entirety of Asgard's kingdom. Any participants will be given gourds of blessed water to pour onto the newly buried seeds that will encourage them to grow at ten times the normal rate. Later, there's the standard big ol' party with music and food and more of Frigg's magic merry making. Think Asgard Burning Man 418.

DAY 585 ( MAR. 15/16 )

Any Travellers that claim permanent or near-to-permanent residency within Yggdrasil will be given the opportunity to become ambassadors to the world. Small councils will be formed and sent into the various kingdoms to begin rebuilding with the idea of "unity" in mind, that the whole of Yggdrasil should live connected to one another instead of separated onto different corners of the map. This includes the now-abandoned Giant kingdoms, whose harsh terrains have softened into more habitable locations. And is it just a trick of the mind, or do they seem closer in distance? Every race of every kingdom comes together for these efforts, settling into these united lands and creating new cultures of mixing pots all across the map.

DAY 590 ( MAR. 25/26 )

New Giants are born into the world, representing Yggdrasil's now flourishing life. They are brought to Asgard from Ginnungagap and adopted by various peoples across the land, to be raised in unison with the newly formed cultures of diversity. The Loki twins are declared the new Kings of Giants, and though they rule together and justly between Asgard and Utgard, they encourage a little too much playfulness and are brought under advisement by Mimir. Travellers are welcome to present teachings, assist in rehabilitation, and adoption of these new neutral Giants.

DAY 600 AND ONWARD

Things continue in the general direction of rebuilding civilization under a new light of unity and peace. It's not an easy task, and there are surely struggles on the path forward, but the Travellers' presence and good will is never forgotten and so the land grows to cherish the possibility of healing.

Let me know if you have any questions and once again, thanks for everything, guys!

Hey, all! This is Faith - I offered to help AJ with finishing up the last event a couple weeks ago when I started handing out metaplot research, and since I haven't heard back on my plot suggestion but your frustrations have been heard, I talked to AJ and I'm just going to go ahead and give you guys the last of my plot notes that I left her with. I want to apologise for how we left you guys hanging, and I hope that at the very least, I can give you something to work with to wrap up your character's involvement in Asgard Eventide.

Be warned: this post will be long ( longer than my usual long post ) because it's wrapping up everything you guys have worked on over the last several years, and I'm trying not to miss anything. Please feel free to skip down to the actual event if you don't want to read all the other metaplot wrap-up.

Without further ado:

ENDGAME PLOT EVENT: FROM THE ASHES

( ENDGAME METAPLOT INFO )

( ENDGAME PLOT EVENT )

This is the conclusion of the endgame event. I have a few mini-event type things that I can write up for you guys if you want them to carry you through March and give you an opportunity to conclude any remaining CR, just lmk and I'll get them posted when I have time. Please leave any and all questions here and I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. I'll post an event log for this tomorrow afternoon. Thank you guys so much for going on this journey with us!

About halfway through the events of the E.T. Phone Home catastrophe, the gods will push a message (which may or may not have been penned entirely by Freyr) en masse to all bracelets connected to the network. It will cut through the static and network malfunctions to read:

The World Tree is dying. You are resourceful heroes, Travelers, and you've saved this world once already from Thiazi. Now, please: help us save it from itself.

Our resources are at your disposal. Let us work together from now until the end, whenever that might be.

Currently, Asgard has a "stock" endgame in store, but how the events pan out (and what exactly those events are going to be) can be easily influenced by the Travelers interested in doing so. This is a post for OOC discussion about things to do and try, and also a place for handwaving IC research/investigation.

Think of this a little like Dungeons and Dragons: since it's not feasible to expect someone to RP "sitting in the library for two days researching X topic," HERE is an example of how the handwaving will go. Are they writing a letter to the dwarves? Pestering the dragons? Poring over books from the forbidden section of Vanaheim? Let me know, and we'll work out what they find out, and how it could be useful! There is no "right" answer, or certain "revelation" that I'm looking for in particular. If you think your character might get involved, go ahead and post under that heading! If you want to start some non-handwaved IC discussion between characters, you're welcome to do that on Mimir's post when it goes up at the end of the event to invite interested Travelers to Vanaheim. Otherwise, if you'd like to start some OOC discussion with fellow players or me about what there might even be to look into, go ahead and do it here!

Man this has been coming for a long time. But hello everyone this is your friendly neighborhood Dawn, mun of little Aladdin (snugglesjugs ).

And today I’m dropping from Asgard. I’m entirely tapped out of ideas on what to do with the game, my urge to rp with Aladdin has gone south. I haven’t done a really good post in a while. Which sucks because I love this game, I love the people here: players and mods. (which is funny because of my lack of activity, a lot of you don’t even know who the hell I am. orz) I loved working on stuff for this game and coming up with crazy ideas. I But at this point it’s time to finally lay this issue to rest and send Aladdin home to deal with the dread world of politics.

But I wish you to have a awesome time heading to the game end. So I only have a few words left for everyone.

 Oh and you are free to unfriend me on plurk neoartemiss 

Here's the player poll for HOT UNDER THE COLLAR. Surt isn't actively threatening the city with his posse of Fire Giants, but they're still militarized and a force to reckon with. They also no longer have Thiazi and her cronies to distract them.

Thus the dilemma: What will you do?


Interested parties will receive their dream deets tonight, once Auto is no longer driving an auto.

The poll officially closes on FEBRUARY 1ST at 11:59 PM CST, so get your votes in! Please remember that this is an IC POLL and should be answered once per character from their given perspectives (and with the appropriate journal).

As always, drop a line here if you have any questions or concerns!

Asgard's final activity check follows the same format as December. No proofs are required; just check in with us via the text box below.

<b>Player:</b> YOUR NAME <b>Character(s):</b> CHARACTER NAME (<user name="USERNAME">) | <i>CANON</i>

Activity must be posted by 11:59pm CST, on February 2nd, 2015.

Players who are on hiatus during activity check (and have commented to the official hiatus page) will receive an extension. They must comment to this entry within 72 hours of their hiatus end.

The following characters have strikes from November. They must pass January AC to clear these strikes.

Alastair Stara (secondborn)
Asuka Langley Shikinami (splendid_solitude)
Bran Stark (summerschild)
Connor (emergingspirit)
Desmond Miles (familyissues)
Evy O'Connell (devilishlycharming)
Ezio Auditore (mentoris)
Garret (blackhand)
John Watson (hadbadays)
Kaworu Nagisa (5thchild)
Maglor (bythewaves)
Naoto Shirogane (moodkiller)
Richard Castle (writeswrongs)
Robb Stark (needsnoheadsman)
Rose Tyler (oncomingblonde)
Soubi Agatsuma (notquitebeloved)
The Eleventh Doctor (comeonthensexy)
Toph Beifong (earthrhythms)
Yuiko Hawatari (made_4_ritsuka)

The following characters have strikes from December. They only need to pass January AC (since this is our last one!) to remove these strikes.

Ayumu Narumi (melodyoflogic)

To avoid confusion, activity is not required for those with strikes. Simply checking in counts as a pass.

Howdy guys! I'm still alive, believe it or not, and I'm here with the events for the rest of January and through February.

As a heads up, the full month of February is going to be a little different than the standard event format: as the world tree grows sicker and the magic in the city begins to unravel, characters in-game are going to be given ample opportunity to explore, discover, and contribute to a solution. There is a "fall-back" ending in place, but I want to emphasize that it is far from set in stone! More IC and OOC details on how to go about this will go up on February 1st accompanying the message that the gods send to the characters' bracelets.

As another heads-up, this month's AC check-in will be the very last.

Because of the nature of the events, I've changed the way the calendar is handled slightly: instead of using the standard HTML calendar, I've transferred it to a Google one, just because events are running throughout the month and this makes it a little easier to parse! As always, they're located here!

( January 27-Feb 2: E.T. Phone Home Pt. 1 )

( February 3-10: E.T. Phone Home Pt. 2 )

( January 28-31: HOT UNDER THE COLLAR )

( Feb 11-16, 21-24, 27-28: A VISIT TO THE NEIGHBORS, CAN WE FIX IT: REPRISE, & THE WAY BACK )

( Plot Fast Facts )

As a note: February 28th will mark the end of the game's over-arcing metaplot! Smaller and celebratory events (and perhaps mini world quests or curses) will go throughout the months of March and April to allow players to reach a resolution for any storylines or CR that still needs wrapping up. The mechanics of this are tba, but characters themselves will be given an option to leave immediately or to stick around for a while to help facilitate this option.

If there's anything that I can do, please let me know! And as always, thanks for your eternal patience with my tardiness - because I do declare, trying to wrap this game up is going to give me the vapors. You guys kick ass, and I look forward to kicking much of it this last plotty month with you!

Hey, all! Sorry for my absolute fail of keeping up since my move. Even though I would have been able to find enough time with enough motivaton, I ran into a wall of lack of motivation and general RP burnout, it seems. I think I should be fine now.

I'll be focusing on just getting back on the ball of new things but I do intend to get to my backtags. I don't know how long that'll take, though, and if you feel any of them have taken too long, just don't answer. No hard feelings. :|b

Here are the results from December's activity check! If you notice any mistakes, please let us know here.

The following characters did not respond to AC and will be swept. If you see someone here that you know is active, tell them to contact us via this post! Letting us know within 72 hours will save your character and take a strike instead.

Thomas Shelby (amanwhodrinkstea)
Spike (allbloodyhail)
Lily Potter (dilectio)

The following characters did not provide AC and had a previous strike, and will be swept. These characters cannot be saved.

Castiel (ofthursday)
Harry Potter (livedtwice)

The following characters need to provide activity from December. They had valid hiatuses during AC period, but will be considered non-repliers if they do not reply to this post with activity within 72 hours of their hiatus end date. If you're on this list and had a full two-week hiatus exemption, just check in and you're fine!

n/a

The following characters have outstanding strikes from November. They passed December AC, but must pass January AC to clear the strike.

Alastair Stara (secondborn)
Asuka Langley Shikinami (splendid_solitude)
Bran Stark (summerschild)
Connor (emergingspirit)
Desmond Miles (familyissues)
Evy O'Connell (devilishlycharming)
Ezio Auditore (mentoris)
Garret (blackhand)
John Watson (hadbadays)
Kaworu Nagisa (5thchild)
Maglor (bythewaves)
Naoto Shirogane (moodkiller)
Richard Castle (writeswrongs)
Robb Stark (needsnoheadsman)
Rose Tyler (oncomingblonde)
Soubi Agatsuma (notquitebeloved)
The Eleventh Doctor (comeonthensexy)
Toph Beifong (earthrhythms)
Yuiko Hawatari (made_4_ritsuka)

The following characters have strikes from December. They will need to pass January and February ACs to remove these strikes.

Ayumu Narumi (melodyoflogic)

The following are the characters who were dropped between December 11 and January 2.

n/a

Thanks again, and here's to a great January!

PLOT EVENT: INTO THE FIRE (DEC 27-31/DAYS 561-563) The plot event Into the Fire is slotted for December 27-31. It is an optional event that involves light canon-sharing aspects and will bring both an important message from the Mother and critical information regarding Surt's location.

( Dec 26-31: Into the Fire )

Since December is generally a busy time, everyone gets a free pass for December's activity check.

No activity proofs are required; just check in with us via the text box below.

<b>Player:</b> YOUR NAME <b>Character(s):</b> CHARACTER NAME (<user name="USERNAME">) | <i>CANON</i>

Activity must be posted by 11:59pm CST, on January 2nd, 2015.

Players who are on hiatus during activity check (and have commented to the official hiatus page) will receive an extention. They must comment to this entry within 72 hours of their hiatus end.

The following characters have outstanding strikes from October. They must pass December AC to clear the strike.

Alice Liddell (digophelia)
Beatrice "Tris" Prior (wasbrave)
Joel (omittance)
Regina (gwenhwyfar)
Seimei Aoyagi (beloved_one)
Shinji Ikari (thehedgehogsdilemma)
Sophie Gargamel (hollowchild)
Souji Seta (izanyagi)

The following characters have strikes from November. They must pass December and January ACs to remove these strikes.

Alastair Stara (secondborn)
Asuka Langley Shikinami (splendid_solitude)
Bran Stark (summerschild)
Castiel (ofthursday)
Connor (emergingspirit)
Desmond Miles (familyissues)
Evy O'Connell (devilishlycharming)
Ezio Auditore (mentoris)
Garret (blackhand)
Harry Potter (livedtwice)
John Watson (hadbadays)
Kaworu Nagisa (5thchild)
Maglor (bythewaves)
Naoto Shirogane (moodkiller)
Richard Castle (writeswrongs)
Robb Stark (needsnoheadsman)
Rose Tyler (oncomingblonde)
Soubi Agatsuma (notquitebeloved)
The Eleventh Doctor (comeonthensexy)
Toph Beifong (earthrhythms)
Yuiko Hawatari (made_4_ritsuka)

To avoid confusion, activity is not required for those with strikes. Simply checking in counts as a pass.

Remember, apps and reclaims close forever at 11:59pm CST, on December 31, 2014.

Hi guys!

Just so you know, I'll be tagging with this journal (killuwatt) from now on (as opposed to robosnack). It's still the same player and the same Killua... just with a more puntastic username! 8)

See you around!

Hey, everyone, Alse here! Just here to give a heads up that I've switched accounts for Eyes Rutherford, so from here on he'll be switching from bloodypocket to this one right here, seeksblessings. So no worries, it's still the same person and not a mix-up.

HI AGAIN ASGARD!

This is Kite here with Tris back from an unannounced and very unintentional hiatus. I apologize for letting RL eat me and will endeavour to bite back harder next time.

...but I did make it back for snowball fights, wich is fantastic. I missed you, Asgard.

Hello, Asgard! This is skarme who plays Yosuke. If you've already checked out this month's event rundown, you'll probably have noticed a mention under D555 (December 14-15) of a large snowball fight crashing what would otherwise be some pretty standard street celebrations. Well, surprise, I'm here to crash that event post - because in fact the snowball fight is going to be a whole (mod-approved) thing of its own! The idea is basically something light-hearted and winter-appropriate - sorry, Southern Hemisphere folks - but it's also intended as an opportunity for characters in the less overtly military groups to spring into action, because why not?

( Rambling details under cut! )

In fast and silly facts form:

In the afternoon of D555, a snowball fight will break out, beginning around Gefion Park but rapidly spreading. Welcome Committee characters and their CR may have a little advance warning, but they might not.

For a short period of time, every street in the Holy City will be a snowy warzone. Trample all the stalls! Snowball all the lights! There will be no winners, only snow.

Characters are free to respond however they wish, either to join in or to help stem the tide. For the latter, cooperation between the various groups is strongly encouraged!

After a few hours, the chaos will abate. How exactly (and how soon) that plays out is up to you and your plotting, so have at it!

There will be a separate and totally open mingle log purely for snow shenanigans if you'd like to keep those separate of the main event post, which will be up is now live HERE! Please continue to use this post for questions, planning, idea-bouncing and whatever else your heart desires.

Here are the results from November's activity check! If you notice any mistakes, please let us know here.

The following characters did not respond to AC and will be swept. If you see someone here that you know is active, tell them to contact us via this post! Letting us know within 72 hours will save your character and take a strike instead.

Athelstan (thralls)
Minato Arisato (runtothesunlight)

The following characters did not provide AC and had a previous strike, and will be swept. Please note: for this month, swept characters have the option of immediately re-picking, and may do so any time before December 31st. At 11:59PM on December 31st, applications and re-picks both will close for good. To re-pick, please go to HERE and let us know you'd like to return!

Connor Reilly (daddyissues)
Helena (sestra)
Kieran Trevarde (felttheburn)
Winifred "Fred" Burkle (fredless)

The following characters need to provide activity from November. They had valid hiatuses during AC period, but will be considered non-repliers if they do not reply to this post with activity within 72 hours of their hiatus end date. If you're on this list and had a full two-week hiatus exemption, just check in and you're fine!

n/a

The following characters have outstanding strikes from October. They passed November AC, but must pass December AC to clear the strike.

Alice Liddell (digophelia)
Beatrice "Tris" Prior (wasbrave)
Joel (omittance)
Regina (gwenhwyfar)
Seimei Aoyagi (beloved_one)
Shinji Ikari (thehedgehogsdilemma)
Sophie Gargamel (hollowchild)
Souji Seta (izanyagi)

The following characters have strikes from November. They will need to pass December and January ACs to remove these strikes.

Alastair Stara (secondborn)
Asuka Langley Shikinami (splendid_solitude)
Bran Stark (summerschild)
Castiel (ofthursday)
Connor (emergingspirit)
Desmond Miles (familyissues)
Evy O'Connell (devilishlycharming)
Ezio Auditore (mentoris)
Garret (blackhand)
Harry Potter (livedtwice)
John Watson (hadbadays)
Kaworu Nagisa (5thchild)
Maglor (bythewaves)
Naoto Shirogane (moodkiller)
Richard Castle (writeswrongs)
Robb Stark (needsnoheadsman)
Rose Tyler (oncomingblonde)
Soubi Agatsuma (notquitebeloved)
The Eleventh Doctor (comeonthensexy)
Toph Beifong (earthrhythms)
Yuiko Hawatari (made_4_ritsuka)

The following are the characters who were dropped between November 11 and December 10.

Angel (vampdetective)
Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce (stilledsurgeon)
Draco Malfoy (wasthemaster)
Faith Lehane (mortifero)
James "Bucky" Barnes (snowstormed)
Kirigiri Kyouko (twoendings)
Lee Everett (sofucked)
River Tam (thoughts)
Will Graham (infomodder)
Zero (sings_of_death)

Thanks again, and here's to a great December!

Hidey-ho, Asgardians!

As I'm sure you could tell, December has been (and will be!) a quiet month on purpose for the game to allow for holidays and a pause between big plot events. There's not much to say other than a few quick announcements, and please let me know if there's any questions you have or anything you would like clarification on!

Firstly: Starting this month, activity requirements will be changed to a simple check-in. Traditionally, Asgard gives a pass for all players in December to account for the busy-ness of the holiday season, and it seems silly to ask for activity the last two months of the game itself. Because of this, I ask that if you are in the game, to please make a good faith effort to be involved in some capacity!

Secondly: On Dec 31, all apps and re-apps will close. All characters, including those swept this round, will have the option to either re-app or repick from now until 11:59PM CST on the 31st.

Thirdly: Starting this month, the dates for all future events have been tentatively scheduled and will be listed on the schedule page. The actual rundown for each event will go up seven days before the event itself to allow for plotting. Please keep in mind that though I will be sticking to these dates/times as closely as possible, these events are subject to changes depending on character action and player feedback! As I finished this post and hit almost page six with the second event, I decided that maybe finding a way to keep things a little more wieldy and less overwhelming for everyone involved would be good. If you're worried about missing anything, please track the !mod post tag, since that will all be tagged with that.

( December 14-19: And A Happy New Year )

( Dec 26-31: Into the Fire )

( Plot Fast Facts )

As always, the calendar can be found HERE, there will be top-levels for questions, discussion, & approval for items from home in this post, and feel free to use the comment section for plotting!