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AUGUST EVENTS + ANNOUNCEMENTS
Hello, hello! Faith here with your monthly rundown, but first, a few announcements!
First up, we have some policy changes in the works regarding applications and canon appearances to create a more clear-cut guideline for how much headcanon is acceptable in a canon character application. As this is a bit of a grey area and difficult to find a middle-ground that is fair all across the board, we will continue to discuss our options and have the new rules posted by the start of August's app round. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we figure this one out!
Second, as we welcome in Arc 3, we also want to introduce you guys to a new plot bunny, affectionately entitled Holes! It is exactly what is sounds like: Odin explained to everyone that the earthquake earlier this month tore holes in the veil between worlds, and though the gods managed to sew those holes up well enough, their magic is not powerful enough to seal them forever and things are starting to slip right through the cracks - things from your worlds. All of the details can be found on this page, so please take a look through it, as we are accepting suggestions for this month!
The calendar has Days 311 and 312 (August 15-18) marked down with an optional event. Whichever suggestion we accept this month will be given a tiny optional side-plot to introduce the concept of these new arrivals to both the Travellers and you as players so you'll understand how exactly this process works. It will be something very small and offhand that players can feel free to tinker with or not, but the option will remain there. So go ahead and start discussing your suggestions with your castmates; submissions will be open until August 3! If you want to be alerted for any future Holes progression, ie. new features and optional plots, track the tag !holes in this comm.
Third, just a little bit of housekeeping: we cleaned up the Navigation Page a little bit by adding a secondary directory, the Additional Important Pages ... page. Redundancy is fun, so long as it doesn't clutter up the main page! We'll try to keep only the most important things on the main page and add everything else to this new one so that you don't have to wade through a million things every time you're looking for Housing.
Lastly but certainly not least of all, a big huge massive thanks to Draggy for taking up the reigns for Surt and Heimdall. You rock, momma-mod!
That's all for now! Remember to post to the game-wide HMD as it closes at midnight tonight and is mandatory in order to pass AC, which is also up over here. The mod HMD thread is here and we appreciate any and all feedback you guys might have for us, especially in regards to the end of Arc 2!
Now onto the fun stuff. As always, the schedule can be found right yonder.
You guys may remember that in the July rundown, we left the last event on the calendar as a big question-mark for you. That's because July 31 marks the official beginning of Arc 3, and we are kicking this one off on a high note.
At the strike of midnight on Day 303 (July 31), a loud explosion can be heard coming from the heart of the city. Those that look outside will find that the castle of the gods has been near completely frozen over in a luminescent ice that spreads rapidly and covers the entire dome of the barrier within minutes - but the ice doesn't stop there. It continues outwards, crawling along the ground and up the sides of buildings, freezing any plant and animal life along the way that will shatter on impact. Natives will panic and try to fight it back with heat and blunt force but by sunrise, the ice will have spread towards the city proper.
And it doesn't stop there. Early Day 304 (August 1), Loki will make one final post to the network before the system collapses. All network functions will be inaccessible during this event. All other bracelet features will still operate as normal but the Travellers will not be able to post to the network or access each others' IC contact boxes. The Travellers will find themselves suddenly disconnected from each other and will have to rely on in-person interaction or any carrier pigeons they might have lying around while they fight back the ice that has at least slowed but continues its path outwards from the despairingly silent heart of the city.
The very next day on Day 305 (August 3), while everyone is still struggling to find their bearings, a fleet of lesser Frost Giants will descend upon the city in an effort to take over the city from outside while Thiazi's direct attack on the gods takes over from within. The ice is still moving and the Giants are vicious in their revenge from the infiltration into their home - and there is still no word from the gods.
That is, until the evening Day 307 (August 8) when the palace, still covered in ice, bursts into flame. The fire is more golden than red, the heat of which can warm one's cheeks all the way to the city gates, though it feels no warmer than a nice summer's day regardless of proximity. When the fire dies down, all of the remaining ice in the city will have been melted away by Odin's wrath, an anger matched only by the queen of the Frost Giants. Thiazi has decided to stop hiding behind Surt and is showing her hand, which can only mean wonderful things for the future of Asgard and Yggdrasil.
Some notes for this event:
With our resident trickster still on the mend after Thiazi's direct assault, the gods have decided to cause a bit of friendly mischief to cheer up their sickly colleague. Starting on Day 314 (August 21-22), Travellers will wake up feeling a bit more impish than might be their norm, with the slight inclination to swap someones' toothbrushes around or leave a plastic beetle in their shoes. Small jokes and pranks will escalate by evening and turn into all-out war by Day 315 (August 23-24) as the curse progresses.
This house contest seeks to find the biggest and most obnoxious of pranksters amongst the city's residents. It's encouraged for the pranks to be played on other god houses, but there's no rule saying you can't steal all of the left socks from your own Hall's laundry room. Whatever it is, make sure it brings mayhem and panic. Bonus points if it's caught on film! There will be a catch-all log for the prank wars, along with a top-level comment for players to submit their biggest and best pranks. Prizes will be awarded for Most Creative, Most Embarrassing, and Highest Victim Toll. Get out there and make some messes, Asgard, but don't expect the maids to clean up after you.
The network's glitches will end by Day 316 (August 25-26) right after this event as the emotions inspired from the pranks bring Loki back to ( nearly ) full health. Thank you for doing your civil duty, Travellers.
And that's it for August. Please feel free to use this post for any and all plotting, as our plot event this month will require a lot of logging to interact with each other. Let us know if you have any questions in the comments section below!
First up, we have some policy changes in the works regarding applications and canon appearances to create a more clear-cut guideline for how much headcanon is acceptable in a canon character application. As this is a bit of a grey area and difficult to find a middle-ground that is fair all across the board, we will continue to discuss our options and have the new rules posted by the start of August's app round. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we figure this one out!
Second, as we welcome in Arc 3, we also want to introduce you guys to a new plot bunny, affectionately entitled Holes! It is exactly what is sounds like: Odin explained to everyone that the earthquake earlier this month tore holes in the veil between worlds, and though the gods managed to sew those holes up well enough, their magic is not powerful enough to seal them forever and things are starting to slip right through the cracks - things from your worlds. All of the details can be found on this page, so please take a look through it, as we are accepting suggestions for this month!
The calendar has Days 311 and 312 (August 15-18) marked down with an optional event. Whichever suggestion we accept this month will be given a tiny optional side-plot to introduce the concept of these new arrivals to both the Travellers and you as players so you'll understand how exactly this process works. It will be something very small and offhand that players can feel free to tinker with or not, but the option will remain there. So go ahead and start discussing your suggestions with your castmates; submissions will be open until August 3! If you want to be alerted for any future Holes progression, ie. new features and optional plots, track the tag !holes in this comm.
Third, just a little bit of housekeeping: we cleaned up the Navigation Page a little bit by adding a secondary directory, the Additional Important Pages ... page. Redundancy is fun, so long as it doesn't clutter up the main page! We'll try to keep only the most important things on the main page and add everything else to this new one so that you don't have to wade through a million things every time you're looking for Housing.
Lastly but certainly not least of all, a big huge massive thanks to Draggy for taking up the reigns for Surt and Heimdall. You rock, momma-mod!
That's all for now! Remember to post to the game-wide HMD as it closes at midnight tonight and is mandatory in order to pass AC, which is also up over here. The mod HMD thread is here and we appreciate any and all feedback you guys might have for us, especially in regards to the end of Arc 2!
Now onto the fun stuff. As always, the schedule can be found right yonder.
You guys may remember that in the July rundown, we left the last event on the calendar as a big question-mark for you. That's because July 31 marks the official beginning of Arc 3, and we are kicking this one off on a high note.
At the strike of midnight on Day 303 (July 31), a loud explosion can be heard coming from the heart of the city. Those that look outside will find that the castle of the gods has been near completely frozen over in a luminescent ice that spreads rapidly and covers the entire dome of the barrier within minutes - but the ice doesn't stop there. It continues outwards, crawling along the ground and up the sides of buildings, freezing any plant and animal life along the way that will shatter on impact. Natives will panic and try to fight it back with heat and blunt force but by sunrise, the ice will have spread towards the city proper.
And it doesn't stop there. Early Day 304 (August 1), Loki will make one final post to the network before the system collapses. All network functions will be inaccessible during this event. All other bracelet features will still operate as normal but the Travellers will not be able to post to the network or access each others' IC contact boxes. The Travellers will find themselves suddenly disconnected from each other and will have to rely on in-person interaction or any carrier pigeons they might have lying around while they fight back the ice that has at least slowed but continues its path outwards from the despairingly silent heart of the city.
The very next day on Day 305 (August 3), while everyone is still struggling to find their bearings, a fleet of lesser Frost Giants will descend upon the city in an effort to take over the city from outside while Thiazi's direct attack on the gods takes over from within. The ice is still moving and the Giants are vicious in their revenge from the infiltration into their home - and there is still no word from the gods.
That is, until the evening Day 307 (August 8) when the palace, still covered in ice, bursts into flame. The fire is more golden than red, the heat of which can warm one's cheeks all the way to the city gates, though it feels no warmer than a nice summer's day regardless of proximity. When the fire dies down, all of the remaining ice in the city will have been melted away by Odin's wrath, an anger matched only by the queen of the Frost Giants. Thiazi has decided to stop hiding behind Surt and is showing her hand, which can only mean wonderful things for the future of Asgard and Yggdrasil.
Some notes for this event:
- Any skin that comes in contact with the ice will immediately receive near-to second degree frostbite, and prolonged exposure will result in third to fourth degree frostbite. These injuries can only be healed by magical means to a first degree stage of frostbite. They will have to heal naturally after that point, so gear up and be careful as you chip away at the encroaching ice.
- We'll put up mingle logs for general interaction around the city during this event as well as for fighting the Frost Giants, but you guys can feel free to make your own logs as well!
- The network will come back up on Day 308 (August 9) but it may crackle and glitch every now and again, as Loki is still weak from Thiazi's attack. You guys can tinker around with misdirected/unsent messages or distorted voice/video feeds, pretty much anything that you might expect from having a crappy internet connection.
- EDIT because I hadn't even considered this oh gosh bless you, Rui: Characters that die during the event will still be revived! However, because of the frozen barrier, they will be trapped within the castle until Day 307 (August 8/9). Odin will have them assigned to a room in a corner of the castle where they will be confined and under 24 hour watch to make sure they don't leave their rooms. The maids will bring them three meals a day at regular times, but they will not speak to any of the Travellers and the Guards will not let them leave their rooms. They'll be released right after Odin burns away the rest of the ice the evening of Day 307. Contact us if you guys have any questions about this one!
With our resident trickster still on the mend after Thiazi's direct assault, the gods have decided to cause a bit of friendly mischief to cheer up their sickly colleague. Starting on Day 314 (August 21-22), Travellers will wake up feeling a bit more impish than might be their norm, with the slight inclination to swap someones' toothbrushes around or leave a plastic beetle in their shoes. Small jokes and pranks will escalate by evening and turn into all-out war by Day 315 (August 23-24) as the curse progresses.
This house contest seeks to find the biggest and most obnoxious of pranksters amongst the city's residents. It's encouraged for the pranks to be played on other god houses, but there's no rule saying you can't steal all of the left socks from your own Hall's laundry room. Whatever it is, make sure it brings mayhem and panic. Bonus points if it's caught on film! There will be a catch-all log for the prank wars, along with a top-level comment for players to submit their biggest and best pranks. Prizes will be awarded for Most Creative, Most Embarrassing, and Highest Victim Toll. Get out there and make some messes, Asgard, but don't expect the maids to clean up after you.
The network's glitches will end by Day 316 (August 25-26) right after this event as the emotions inspired from the pranks bring Loki back to ( nearly ) full health. Thank you for doing your civil duty, Travellers.
And that's it for August. Please feel free to use this post for any and all plotting, as our plot event this month will require a lot of logging to interact with each other. Let us know if you have any questions in the comments section below!
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Sam, btw, will be almost insanely mad afterwards.
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And that's okay with me! Henry won't even mind, probably (though depending on how it goes, he might be a tiny bit apologetic).
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What it would likely entail is 1) Learning that she has a darker side (easy. Most conversations with her imply it as is. This can be handwaved just as easily), that there are those who lock her up and who they are (Merlin's the obvious one, though this might take a prompt of some kind. I think I may have Sam post nervously on the network as the ice is forming. It's within a week of the new moon, so the timing's going to have her seriously nervous.). 2) Finding the new moon (Easy - d310 is pretty much on the calendar). 3) Tracking them as they incarcerate her and finding a way to break her out after the New Moon starts (because she will defend them if earlier). In theory, if it's timed right, she's either locked up and unsupervised (being completely locked up), or there's 1-2 guarding her, likely one for the sake of this.
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And cool. It'd be easy to handwave Henry learning about her evil side, if it's likely to have come up in someone's conversation somewhere- he'd be the sort to poke around at open things when he's bored. And if he found about her guards from that post, that would handle that aspect. And yeah, finding when the moon is would be super simple.
Depending on how cautious her guardians are about hiding Sam away, Henry could possibly follow well enough- he can make a shadow!crow or two to follow along and keep track of where they're going, when it's safe to advance, etc. If that sort of thing would work?
He could probably handle some kind of guard, though it depends on who they were. But Henry's not exactly reluctant to hurt people. Also, depending on surroundings/levels of suspicion, he could use his birds to find a time when she's unguarded entirely, and show up then. Whichever's more effective.
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However, tailing with one of his crows should be doable, I would think. They're more paranoid of her than others interfering anymore. Thiazi's goons have yet to interfere, and the last person who tried to aid her darker side left Asgard almost a year OOC ago.
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His shadowbirds can help then. :x And that would make sense. Focus attention on the known problem, rather than focus on outside interference that may or may not exist.