July Activity Check.

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AC Submission Form | AC Spreadsheet | Previous AC

Hello everyone, and welcome to Awash’s July AC post! AC will be open all month long, and can be submitted until July 31st, 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

AC requirements for new incoming players, and for new characters are halved. These requirements are:

• 12 comments over a minimum of two threads and a maximum of five threads
  OR
  
• One post and one additional thread of five 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.

Mod Post. 7/3/18

[awashmods]

Hello everyone, and welcome to July'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 July. July's AC Post can be found here. Thank you to everyone who completed AC!
  
  
• Applications are now open, and can be found here. You do not have to have a reserve to apply. They will remain open until July 7th, 9 PM EST. Current players are welcome to apply for a second character at any point during this applications period.
  
  
• Because of the applications period, and because last month was rather busy, this month will be a bit more lowkey. There will be two mini-events this month, rather than one large event and an intro log. The first mini-event will be to welcome the new players into the game, but is geared towards allowing everyone to play in it; therefore, it will not be a standard intro log. The second will be towards the end of the month and a bit darker in content, but still not as large as a full-fledged event.
  
  
• We've changed up the Color Timeline to hopefully make it easier to find what colors have changed and when; that can now be found here. Hopefully this makes it easier for everyone to keep track of the setting changes! If there are any colors that have been restored that are missing from it, please be sure to let us know!
  
  
• It was brought up to us that not everyone wants to turn their characters to stone for the duration of their hiatus, which is perfectly fine! To streamline things and make things easier for everyone, leaving your characters on autopilot for the duration of your hiatus is entirely acceptable. We've updated the FAQ to reflect that, and also added an additional field to the hiatus form so that gamemates know what to expect when you're gone!
  
  
• We'll be having our first monthly HMD on the 15th of this month, now that the game is starting to settle into a proper groove!

Announcements

• We know we've already told you guys on the event wrap-up post, but we wanted to leave it here as well! So here's an additional a quick note to please type your characters' text in black on the forum posts. You're more than welcome to use their color additionally, but please be sure that the message is there in black as well, as outlined on the FAQ! A few people have been having some readability issues, so we just wanted to remind everyone to keep that in mind. Thank you all very much!
  
  
• We're aware that last month was a bit cram-packed with events and things; if you felt overwhelmed, you're not the only ones; we did too! We're still working on finding a good balance of events and quests for everyone to enjoy, and will keep trying to find the perfect balance. Thank you for your patience with us while we work out the kinks in the game, and thank you all for throwing yourselves into the quests and events so much; it really makes us happy to see!

Quests

• Quests for July 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/Rewards

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

Color Gains:

• Because the characters have succeeded in hitting 20/20 characters having participated in the positivity quest, the color of the sun has been restored! It also seems warmer now, more light hitting the Town properly.
  
  
• On top of that, because the characters hit an additional goal of 30/20 characters being positive, every character in Awash has received a small sun pendant. This pendant will keep them from fatal or serious harm once and only once -- or they can choose a name of their close CR, and it will protect that character from harm once instead. It's an all or nothing thing; they have to decide when they get it! As ever, please make sure to plot with your gamemates if you are going to use it for your CR instead of your own character. When it's used, the pendant will lose all of its color quite suddenly, regardless of if it was used for themselves or for another character.
  
  
• As a reward for completing every single quest this past month, characters have restored the color of bronze. Things like door hinges, gears, doorknobs and anything else you can think of of that shade will have had its color restored!
  
  
• As a reward for killing the bogeyman, each and every character will find that their sleep for the next two weeks or so is entirely restful; if they are prone to nightmares, they will have pleasant dreams instead, and will wake up feeling restful and restored.

Color Losses:

• Warsaw Nike Flowers
  
  
• Dried Soybeans
  
  
• For every character who died last month, a food has lost color; please respond here with the food color you'd like to remove from the game if your character died last month!
  
  
• Because such a large number of characters died last month, there are no individual color changes this month from Color Logs; strange, that! Almost as if the effort and necessary color to restore those characters came from somewhere...

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