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OOC INTRO ( SEPTEMBER )

OOC INTRO: SEPTEMBER

State of the Game
Hello all, and thank you for an amazing inaugural month! We've been loving the response the game has been getting thus far and are hoping you all enjoy September just as much, if not more! We absolutely welcome and encourage you to share your insights as far as how you've found the game so far, positive and negative, and offer whatever feedback you feel is necessary!

Our intro log will be going up on the comms on September 3rd, but there are a couple important things that we want to cover before then:

1. Housing. By the time the intro log rolls around, the Storyteller will have amassed enough power to provide characters with housing, which will open up our Housing page for players to fill out depending on who they're rooming with. Said housing will be based around the vicinity of Ensō on a series of islets. You will find more information on the intro log and on the housing page!

2. Transportation. The mana pools double as a means of transportation. All your character must do is pick one of the narcissus flowers that now grow in abundance around the pool and toss it in, as per hinted at by a helpful limerick engraved nearby. Upon speaking their intended destination, they shall be whisked there with a flash of white light! At this time, as the islets are currently the only other locations with a mana pool, even failing to speak the destination will simply plop characters onto one of them at random.

3. Trigger Events. As more of the island is uncovered, we will be implementing this as a new mechanic! Certain squares may be likely to yield certain creatures or occurrences of note - which will then become an island-wide event, depending on the severity of it. There is no knowing when these sorts of events may crop up, but we will be trying our best to stagger them between larger events so there's not too much going on at once! Since, like the exploration squares themselves, they are RNG-based, these events have a random chance to occur at almost any time.

4. Item Requests. We've received a few questions regarding how Item Requests work! In general, we have to take into account what the Storyteller is capable of for any given request. You have until the end of the month to fill out non-compulsory AC. The OOC form is the only one necessary, but IC storytelling might be a nice way to get CR with people you're physically separated from. Those who use non-compulsory AC to make their requests do not need to use their AC immediately. You can instead regard the AC as a sort of coupon to cash in at your leisure.

5. AC. We would also like to take this opportunity to remind people to tag their characters in the comms. This is the only compulsory form of AC we have, but after the first few months, we are going to stop warning people for forgetting to tag their character. Characters who fail AC will be swept.

In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of September - for new players to introduce themselves, for old players to meet and greet, and for general plotting to occur! If you want to chat or keep up with game updates, we also have both a plurk and a discord channel!

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[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2017-08-30 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Given the whole 'literally a monster' thing, it might be fun to see how Roy and Muffet get along.
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[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-08-30 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I hope the answer 'reasonably well' isn't too boring! Roy does his very best to be Good, meaning doing his best not to prejudge and be respectful of others. Muffet, from what I read of her app, isn't a bad sort at all! There'll be some very careful steps at first, of course, till he manages to suss her out.
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[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2017-08-30 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, should be fun. It'll be nice for her to have someone practical to talk to, and the awkwardness while they're first sorting things out should be funny.

(...it, uh, might get interesting if they don't work out the differences between what his world and her world mean when they talk about leveling up early on, though.)
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[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-08-31 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, good old awkwardness. Always good for a laugh. :)
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[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2017-08-31 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
At least she's not as judgemental as Sans...?
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[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-08-31 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Roy has spent time in the presence of Miko. His standards for judgmentalness are forever skewed.
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[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2017-08-31 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha, point. Pretty much everyone in the Undercast is easier to talk out of trying to kill you than Miko is. Then again, probably so are some natural disasters.
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[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-09-01 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
By definition, since Control Weather is a spell. Roy has accepted long ago that there are literally no normal people he can talk to, so.