Mod Post. 4/3/18

[awashmods]

Hello everyone, and welcome to April’s monthly mod post! We’ve got a couple of topics to cover, so strap in and let’s get to it!

Mechanics

• First off, AC has completed and has been processed. As of this post, AC is open for April. April’s AC Post can be found here. Thank you to everyone who completed AC!
  
  
• Reserves for next round will open on May 1st, at 9 PM EST. Applications will open May 7th, at 9 PM EST. Anyone who has passed AC will be able to apply for a second character in this upcoming application round, if they are interested!
  
  
• As the previous event has come to a close, all of the furniture has gone back to being just regular old furniture. The Town does look a lot better, though, so good work, guys! As for the reward, well... just go ahead and mosey on down to the color changes below!
  

Quests

As of this mod post, quests are now properly open to be tackled by any characters who wish to do so! So we’d like to give a quick breakdown on how quests work. All quests have been posted ICly to the Quest Forum Post, and they have also been OOCly posted to this post. Characters are welcome to respond ICly, either to discuss, look for companions to tackle a quest, etc. OOCly, the comments below are for hashing out plans, finding people to play with, and the like. Feel free to use them at will!

There is a Quest Reporting comment below as well. Please respond to that comment if your characters have taken on a quest, with the outcome of said quest (ie whether they succeed or fail) and a link to the completed thread. There’s no time limit on reporting a quest; it can be done at any point in April, it just has to be done before the end of the month, so we can tally up color changes for the next month! Please only report your quest thread when the quest itself has been threaded out.

Quests have a Requirements section. This requirements section is the base requirement for a quest to succeed. For example, if a quest requires a yellow character to participate, then any party with at least one yellow character, regardless of the make-up of the rest of the party, has the chance of succeeding (assuming they do the rest of the quest right!). Likewise, a party of only blues will be doomed to failure even if they complete the quest, because the requirements will not have been satisfied.

The quests have a breakdown of what the quest is asking for OOCly in each quest comment, and what will be required to succeed; we will leave it up to you whether your characters succeed or fail. Please feel free to be creative, and have fun with it!

And please don't be afraid to have your characters fail, either; failing a quest will still have color outcomes, and will change the quests given the following month. If your characters would mess up a quest, go for it! It'll still have a big impact on the game. Characters can take on as many quests as you have the time to thread out, and quests can be completed by multiple different groups of characters. Rewards will be granted upon quest completion!

Color Changes

This month’s color changes are as follows (color changes can be tracked at the Color/Game Timeline):

• All present characters’ fonts are now the color of their hexadecimal handle. Sorry about...all of the really bright colors on the forum all of a sudden. As a reminder, please use black in addition to your characters’ texts if you are going to use their color for texts, for ease of reading.
  
  
• However, #FFFFFF’s quest posts remain black, and the forum itself is otherwise as bleak and grey as ever.
  
  
• Due to their hard work during the event, the houses characters are living in have had their colors restored fully -- and only those houses. However, things brought into the houses will remain colorless, furniture remains colorless, etc. It is only the houses themselves that have had color restored -- the flooring, the walls, the windows, the outside of the house, etc. Ruga houses are all red brick, Flavo houses and huts are all a shade of yellow, and Bluo houses, boathouses included, are all blue.
  
  
• Finally, some foods have been restored… with a catch. Please respond below at this comment to pick a food item that has been restored. The food item must be somewhat similar to your character’s color, and must be a single item -- for example, a red character can choose to have apples be restored to color. This is an OOC choice, so you are only limited by color; if you really want spaghetti sauce to be restored, even though there’s basically none in the Town, you’re welcome to it. These foods will be restored color-wise and taste-wise; they’ll be delicious and far more edible again!

We know that was a lot, so thank you for reading and bearing with us as we get the game mechanics rolling! If there are any questions, please ask them here, to try to keep this post from becoming too cluttered.

Thank you, everyone!

April Activity Check.

[awashmods]

AC Submission Form | AC Spreadsheet | Previous AC

Hello everyone, and welcome to Awash’s April AC post! AC will be open all month long, and can be submitted until April 30th, 9 PM EST.

AC requirements are:

• 25 comments over a minimum of two threads and a maximum of five threads
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• One post AND a minimum of one additional thread and a maximum of two threads adding to 10 comments

Please keep in mind the additional requirements, due to the game's nature as focused on the bonds and CR formed between characters:

• You may use a maximum of 1 inbox thread for AC.
  
• You may use a maximum of 1 thread with castmates for AC.
  
• You may not use threads with the same characters as you used for the previous AC.

Awash’s AC will be done via a Google form, which can be found here. More information about AC, clarification about AC requirements, the forms, and how to submit can be found here. Please be sure to give it a read!

You will also be required to link your character’s Color Post in their journal; this is so that we can tally up what large events happened over the month in question. In the monthly mod post that will follow AC’s closing, we will be listing out what changes have occurred based on the characters’ experiences and colors, so keep an eye out for that! If your character didn’t have anything big happen to them that month, it’s okay. Just link the Color Post anyway.

Please be aware that we will not be posting a warning list. We will post a generic announcement a day before AC closes to remind everyone that AC will be closing, but will not be generating a list of people who have not submitted their AC. We’ll be counting on all of you to keep track of your own AC and submit it when necessary! Please also be sure to check a few days after you have submitted said AC, to make sure that you haven’t miscounted or submitted the form incorrectly. AC will be checked by the mods every Monday at the latest. You can view your AC and check its status here.

Should your character be removed due to AC, we will not be accepting retroactive requests to remain in the game. Because it is a capped game, we believe this is the best way to be fair to everyone in the game who has submitted their AC.

Thank you for your understanding and for reading through all of this! If anything about AC is unclear, please feel free to ask questions below, so we can clarify for you.

Once again, the important links are the AC submission form and the AC spreadsheet. If you would like to doublecheck what threads you used for last AC, that can be found here.