Mod Post. 6/3/18

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Hello everyone, and welcome to June's monthly mod post! Strap on in for some info for the upcoming month!

Mechanics

• First off, AC has completed and has been processed. AC is now open for June. June's AC Post can be found here. Thank you to everyone who completed AC!
  
• Applications will open again July 1st, 9 PM EST, and there will be no reserves period. We will continue to accept applications until we have hit the game cap of 80 players -- currently, we have 13 slots for new players. They will remain open until July 7th, 9 PM EST. Current players are welcome to apply for a second character at any point during that applications period.
  
• Punishments and rewards for the event will be given out via responses to those comments on the event post following this mod post! Please be aware that any of them that are "effects" will last for one week, but item rewards can be kept permanently. For items not in the character's home, but scattered elsewhere, they will receive a note telling them where the items are so they can fetch them. We hope you all enjoy them!

Announcement

We wanted to put this in its own section, because we just wanted to make sure that everyone was on the same page with some game mechanics we've noticed have been getting mixed up!

• For new characters, their text color has only gotten color restored as of today. Before today, their text was black.
  
• All characters have color; their clothing, their features, their skin etc are all perfectly fine and intact!
  
• All characters' belongings have color as well, including any pets they may have brought in with them.
  
• For other things that have color, please see the Color Timeline.

As color is such a large and important aspect of the game, we just wanted to make sure that everyone was on the same page with the current setting, and we're sorry that it was unclear!

Quests

• Quests for June are now up! The OOC breakdown of said quests can be found below, as with last month. All quests have been posted ICly to the Quest Forum Post.
  
• The Quest Reporting comment can be found here. As ever, please respond to that comment once the quest itself has been completed. When reporting the quest, please state what quest it is in the subject line; we've realized that that helps us a lot with keeping track over the past few months!
  
• Please be aware that Quests still must be reported by the end of the month; this is because we use what quests are completed to keep track of what colors are restored for the next month!

Color Changes

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

Color Gains:

• Through their bonds with other characters, characters have restored new colors this month! Characters who have at least one thread with another character from the month of May on their Color Log may choose one animal to restore color to. Please be aware that that animal will have their color restored in the shade of the colors of the characters involved in the thread combined together: red, blue, yellow, green, orange or purple, for example. Having purple sheep running around the woods may very well become a thing. It is perfectly fine for the same animal to be chosen by multiple players; there will simply be animals of those colors all running around the woods. Please respond here with those choices.
  
• New characters have had their text colors and house colors restored to their proper colors. Characters who lost those colors in the shadow event have still not had them restored.
  
• The following items on this list have had their colors restored via last month's quests; we just wanted to put them in a neat list for everyone.
  
• Because every quest was completed last month, the Town has had a very special thing restored -- characters have restored the color of clouds. They have restored the color of clouds for all possible weather, so they will, at least, always be able to see those, even though the sky still does not generally have color.
  
• As the wish quest was the most completed quest with a whopping 32 out of 84 of wishes reported granted, every character has received a small wish. This comes in the form of a small coin which they will find by their bed; they will know instinctively that if they toss the coin into the well and make a small wish, it will come true.
  
  Small wishes can be anything from an item from home (of a reasonable size!) they're missing to good health for some of their CR (which will last for a certain period of time) to some sort of food or something along those lines. Feel free to be creative with it! If characters wish for something Too Large, however, they will get either something a little off from that, or nothing at all. Greed never pays in fairy tales, you know!
  
  Please report those wishes here, so we can let you know if the wish was approved by the well or if the characters are receiving something different. There is no time limit on a character using the coin to make a wish.

Color Losses:

• Because Henry has returned home, and he was the character who restored the color of blood, something a little...strange has happened. The color of blood has naturally lost its restoration, but that applies also to the pets and animals the characters have brought from home...and the characters themselves. For a week following this mod post, the characters' blood in Awash will have no color; if they prick themselves (or are stabbed), they will see that their blood is the same, washed out lack of color as everything else. That's unsettling! Otherwise, they feel fine, however (unless they were actually stabbed). It will revert back to normal in a week, but that sure was strange, wasn't it...

If there are any questions, please ask them here, so that we don’t miss any. Thank you, everyone!

June Activity Check.

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AC Submission Form | AC Spreadsheet | Previous AC

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

AC requirements are:

• 25 comments over a minimum of two threads and a maximum of five threads
  OR
  
• 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.