Mod Post. 11/7/18

[awashmods]

Hello to all of our newcomers, and welcome to Awash! Thank you for your interest in the game, and we hope you have a good time here! This is just a quick mod post with two purposes: to help the new people get settled into the game, and to introduce tomorrow's mini-event!

AC

• New characters must submit half-AC.
  
• Those requirements, as well as the AC post, can be found here.
  
• Please be sure to also read the general AC guidelines, here! It is very important that you do, as we will not be granting AC exemptions due to the capped nature of the game.

Gameplay Mechanics

• Character housing, now that the application round is over, can be found here! This is where characters can find their laptops, though they are by no means required to stay there; they can move at will, and their laptop will function in whatever new home they pick. The spreadsheet is editable, so please feel free to move your characters around!
  
• Quests can be done by incoming players at any point once they have been introed. Quests can ICly be found here. OOCly, further information can be found here! Please be aware that only quests of the current month can be completed for a reward. Past quests can be done if you would like to, but will receive no reward.
  
• A list of current restored colors can be found here; please be aware that no colors have been restored for new characters yet. That means that their text color will be black, and their homes, unless shared with a current character, will have no color.
  
• The OOC meet and greet can be found here.
  
• The Calendar has also been updated with the current weather! Please note that all of this upcoming snow will accumulate, upwards of about 3 feet by the end of the snowstorm.

Event Log

• A mingle log will go up tomorrow, November 8th at 9 PM EST, to provide a general introduction to the game. Due to the size of the app round, and requests from current players for more varied intro logs, we'll be trying something a bit different, but hopefully still not too overwhelming for the current round of newbies. So please be sure to read the following information carefully!
  
  This will be a lowkey beginning, which will be connected to the event later this month, which will be a bit more intense.

Cracks of Paint
[ 11/8 - 11/12 ]
There are a two major points of note here re: the intro log -- what's happening with the newly arrived characters, and what's happening with the characters as a whole. So let's break it down!

Newly arrived characters will be arrived in the well, as always! They'll end up in the bottom of the well, absolutely frigid water coming up to about knee-deep. It's far larger on the inside than it would seem, but either way, the only way up is the top of the well, the opening there.

Which, is, well. Frozen over.

Yikes.

As of that day, it seems the well's opening will be continually freezing over, the sheet of ice slowly but surely growing thicker and thicker, completely sealing the well off from the outside world. And even more importantly, the ice cannot be broken from the inside or the outside of the well. Not even with magic, super strength, etc... You're stuck.

However, don't give up hope! A certain intrepid group of characters generously donated an amount of their own personal color to get you guys here, and that's going to be your saving grace.

So all new characters stuck in the well will have a burst of strength or magical energy, enough to crack open that ice, if they can get to the top of the well. Even the normals, without any power to speak of... well, suddenly they've got a punch that can break through solid magical ice. It'll still take some creativity to get out of there, probably, but at least it's possible, right? This extra strength can last anywhere from just that one moment to the entirety of this event's four days, before it fades away.

Everyone, for the remainder of the event will be finding that within their homes, there's suddenly an old, archaic mirror. It seems like a regular mirror? Everyone will have one, from the old to the new characters, and aside from being uncannily cold to the touch, it seems fine.

Except it follows you around. For the four days this event lasts, that mirror will follow you. You can leave it at home, and then turn around in someone else's home, and there it is, resting on a table, waiting for you. If you go tramping through the woods, there it'll be, leaning casually against a tree.

If you look into it, or someone else picks up your mirror, or looks into it over your shoulder with you, or even just catches a glimpse... what everyone involved will see is you, of course! But... the you that's the worst possible aspects of you. Those personality traits you try to keep hidden away from the world, emphasized ten times over. Those personality traits you'd be ashamed to have everyone known, overblown to a ridiculous extent --

That's what people will see in your mirror. And it's not just a visual, either. You can talk with that reflection, interact with them, reason with them (though they may not be all too open to reason).

Nothing's forcing you to pick up that mirror, of course. You can easily just leave it alone. Still... it's hard not to want to just take a peek, right...? There'll always be a lowkey urge to take one tiny look... and the more mirrors you look into, the more intensely you'll want to see what everyone's deeper, darker self looks like.

It's probably fine. The mirrors are their normal level of fragility, but if they are broken, it will have an impact on the second part of the event for your character, so please let us know here if your character breaks their mirror.

For newbies, please don't feel restrained to just the rescue for your intro log toplevels! You can assume that your character got out in some way or another in order to work in multiple prompts for the event if you would like to do so.

• After this log, new characters will be welcome to create logs and posts as you please! Please be sure to read over the FAQ once more before you begin playing.

As ever, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here. Thank you, and welcome again to the game!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[withwisdom]

Do we need to thread out our character breaking the mirror for it to count for the below commenting, or can we respond if we know that's what we want our character to do?

[deathscyther]

Wrong account for this BUT

Rin actually has a legit "inner self", ie his literal demonic nature. However it's not actually shown until like two-three chapters after his pull point. Can I make use of that despite the time discrepancy or does it have to be how the character currently sees their inner self?

Re: QUESTIONS

[parodeity]

astrid is blue but seems to be housed in yellow?

[queenofminiskirts]

Are characters only able to break their own mirrors?

[regrede]

sierra is a vampire and probably has no reflection on old-timey mirrors since suikoden adheres to really stereotypical vampire lore... will this affect anything?

[ifionlyhadthecourage]

Can the reflections... talk to other reflections? Asking for a friend. I'm the friend.

[organfarm]

Quick questions regarding the mirror:

If someone carries it around but, like, in a sack or otherwise obscured, would it stay like that or would it teleport itself out to make itself seen?

Also, the mirrors are blank unless they're actively being looked at, correct?

[tendershepherd]

Late, but I have a quick question!

So, if I'm understanding right, the negative reflection only APPEARS when the mirror is looked at, and each one only shows the reflection of the person it belongs to, even if it's another character doing the looking, right?

My question then is, can the negative reflection be HEARD, even while the mirror isn't actively being looked into? For instance, say Sorey's mirror is facing up and he's across the room from it. Would he hear the reflection calling out to him before seeing it when he actually does look?

Also, he's probably gonna want to inspect the mirror like an artifact. Anything an archaeologist eye might be able to discern about it besides "it's definitely old"? What about malevolence-wise? I'm assuming the mirrors must give off a little bit, but I like knowing for sure.

[noholdsbard]

I can't believe I didn't think of this before, but how will sounds coming from the mirror affect the real world? Like if Tristan's mirror self decides to play his harp, will the ensuing magical sound waves cause destruction in the real world or will its effects just be confined to whatever's in the mirror?

[noholdsbard]

Another belated question regarding the event proper! Tristan used his harp's tracking abilities to try and find out where the snowflake knights are coming from. Will he actually be able to trace them to the source? Will he hit a dead end? Or will he find someplace interesting or have some other shenanigans happen to him?

MIRROR BREAKING

[awashmods]

If your character is breaking their mirror at any point during this event, please respond here! Please also be aware that there will be consequences for it!

[paook]

Miki is going to break it in like less than a minute. RIP.

[heartsteals]

breaking it on purpose to see what happens but also as a show of defiance after being here for so long and being good and making no progress! time for a little anarchy fellas

[ditherer]

What's foresight/self-restraint.

[averagemedium]

100% going to just panic and throw it down at some point, oops.

[pursestrings]

break the mirror, now you've thrown off their rhythm, street smarts

[bisection]

Since his 'worst inner self' is a genuine nightmare, he's gonna smash this sucker after a few days.

[bittybat]

Seven years bad luck is worth not looking at the worst parts of yourself, right.

[kryptomight]

nobody wants to see that stuffs

[poetryslamming]

Alexa will end up breaking her mirror by accident at the end of the event. Stupid added strength that sticks with her for all four days...

[flinty]

yeah choubee's gonna break it within the first day sorry fans

[trepidate]

the mirror never stood a chance actually

[expulsions]

/fingerguns I wish I had an excuse but no he's just going to hate it thanks

[tosa]

yes

the mirror was asking for it