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Announcements!
MOD NEWS
❧ Ponta/Ikki is officially a co-mod from now on! Her duties remain much the same for the moment, but she now has access to all the mod accounts and game docs.
❧ April is end-of-the-semester final-projects month, so the mod team's availability may start to get spotty toward the end of the month BUT we will try to take care of as much business as possible so there are still things to do, and we will definitely be back FULL FORCE in May, so worry not!
♥
❧ Anyone who died and needed to be revived during the alignment switch event should give Ceesoo a tap. For reasons.
EVENTS
❧ There will be a couple special posts next week, including an intro post for those participating in the app experiment. Keep an eye out!
❧ There will be a God-chat on the 13th, from 5-6pm CST (4-5pm EST). A log will be posted afterwards and topics covered will be open to discuss for those that didn't make the chat. All players welcome!
❧ Those who offered or were thinking of offering to help run one-off nature explorations from last announcement, we will be postponing work on that until May when mods can really be around to help out. We will call for volunteers again when we're ready. In the meantime, consider what sorts of things would be cool for charas to have, or places that you'd like to set up posts even after the explorations are run. We have suggestions, of course, but we want to save them for when actual brainstorming occurs to preserve surprise for participants.
BONUS ACTIVITY CHALLENGE
❧ The challenge AC for April will be a minimum of 70 comments across a max of 6 threads, and your character must interact with at least 4 different characters across those threads. There is no minimum number of posts so these threads could all be in the same post as long as you interact with 4 different characters in the final count.
Again, this is not required for April, it is a goal to meet in order to get a bonus pass before normal AC kicks in again in May. It is absolutely OK if you don't make this goal, it is meant to be a bit challenging. Those not doing the challenge would just be required to check in when April AC goes up.
POLICIES
❧ Starting after next week, app-response emails will only be sent out on Friday every week. A group intro post will go up Friday evenings if more than one character was accepted, though players are also allowed to make their own intro-posts if desired. This is to encourage a schedule so players know when new characters will be arriving. Apps may still be submitted any time during the week, but Friday evening CST will be the cut-off time. Apps sent Saturday will receive a response the following Friday.
❧ About thirds! Although I (Ceesoo) had put this change in place just as we were starting the transition from old mod team to new mod team, it was recently brought to my attention that I'd forgotten to announce that we will no longer be accepting third versions of characters into the game except in a specific circumstance. This is because it hasn't been something in great demand and it is an extra step of list-keeping that would be easier for us to do without. Apologies to those who may have been inconvenienced by this policy change!
From now on, the only time we will allow thirds is if the third is a character that had previously good-ended and they have decided to reapp. As a reward for meeting the good-end requirements, they are afforded a slot, even if there are already doubles of that character. (More versions than that trying to reapp from good-ends would be case-by-case).
HOUSEKEEPING
❧ Please add some of your more common IRC NICKS or PINGS to the Contact List.
❧ Good-Ends
Melisan Lastin |moonineclipse | Day 127
❧ Drops
~Coren |confined | Withdrew from civilization
The Handmaid |deathtined | Drafted
2/Mica |expectant | Lost
Husky |swimswiththefishes | Drafted
Nana Alba |batsallfolks | Drafted
❧ Accepted
Matou Sakura
Apollo Justice (PG reapp)
Juri Kuran (special intro)
Tohsaka Rin (AU reapp)
❧ Ponta/Ikki is officially a co-mod from now on! Her duties remain much the same for the moment, but she now has access to all the mod accounts and game docs.
❧ April is end-of-the-semester final-projects month, so the mod team's availability may start to get spotty toward the end of the month BUT we will try to take care of as much business as possible so there are still things to do, and we will definitely be back FULL FORCE in May, so worry not!
♥
❧ Anyone who died and needed to be revived during the alignment switch event should give Ceesoo a tap. For reasons.
EVENTS
❧ There will be a couple special posts next week, including an intro post for those participating in the app experiment. Keep an eye out!
❧ There will be a God-chat on the 13th, from 5-6pm CST (4-5pm EST). A log will be posted afterwards and topics covered will be open to discuss for those that didn't make the chat. All players welcome!
❧ Those who offered or were thinking of offering to help run one-off nature explorations from last announcement, we will be postponing work on that until May when mods can really be around to help out. We will call for volunteers again when we're ready. In the meantime, consider what sorts of things would be cool for charas to have, or places that you'd like to set up posts even after the explorations are run. We have suggestions, of course, but we want to save them for when actual brainstorming occurs to preserve surprise for participants.
BONUS ACTIVITY CHALLENGE
❧ The challenge AC for April will be a minimum of 70 comments across a max of 6 threads, and your character must interact with at least 4 different characters across those threads. There is no minimum number of posts so these threads could all be in the same post as long as you interact with 4 different characters in the final count.
Again, this is not required for April, it is a goal to meet in order to get a bonus pass before normal AC kicks in again in May. It is absolutely OK if you don't make this goal, it is meant to be a bit challenging. Those not doing the challenge would just be required to check in when April AC goes up.
POLICIES
❧ Starting after next week, app-response emails will only be sent out on Friday every week. A group intro post will go up Friday evenings if more than one character was accepted, though players are also allowed to make their own intro-posts if desired. This is to encourage a schedule so players know when new characters will be arriving. Apps may still be submitted any time during the week, but Friday evening CST will be the cut-off time. Apps sent Saturday will receive a response the following Friday.
❧ About thirds! Although I (Ceesoo) had put this change in place just as we were starting the transition from old mod team to new mod team, it was recently brought to my attention that I'd forgotten to announce that we will no longer be accepting third versions of characters into the game except in a specific circumstance. This is because it hasn't been something in great demand and it is an extra step of list-keeping that would be easier for us to do without. Apologies to those who may have been inconvenienced by this policy change!
From now on, the only time we will allow thirds is if the third is a character that had previously good-ended and they have decided to reapp. As a reward for meeting the good-end requirements, they are afforded a slot, even if there are already doubles of that character. (More versions than that trying to reapp from good-ends would be case-by-case).
HOUSEKEEPING
❧ Please add some of your more common IRC NICKS or PINGS to the Contact List.
❧ Good-Ends
Melisan Lastin |
moonineclipse | Day 127❧ Drops
~Coren |
confined | Withdrew from civilizationThe Handmaid |
deathtined | Drafted2/Mica |
expectant | LostHusky |
swimswiththefishes | DraftedNana Alba |
batsallfolks | Drafted❧ Accepted
Matou Sakura
Apollo Justice (PG reapp)
Juri Kuran (special intro)
Tohsaka Rin (AU reapp)