January Activity Check.

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AC Submission Form | AC Spreadsheet | Previous AC (unnecessary for this round)

Hello everyone, and welcome to Awash’s January AC post! AC will be open all month long, and can be submitted until January 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. (Due to last month being a check-in month, this requirement does not apply this month.)

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.

Mod Post. 1/3/19

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Hello everyone, and welcome to January's monthly mod post! Happy new year!

Mechanics

• First off, AC has completed and has been processed. AC is now open for January. January's AC Post can be found here. Because December's AC was a check-in AC, you can submit threads with any character for January's AC, but otherwise the requirements are back to normal!
  
  
• No characters were removed via AC this round.
  
  
• Applications are currently open! There are currently 9 open slots for new players.
  
  
• As always with applications rounds, there will be two events this month: an event geared towards welcoming the newcomers while still providing things for the current players to play with, and a meatier event towards the end of the month.
  
  
• The pages have been a bit cleaned up, and the layout tweaked, to hopefully make them a bit easier to read while on mobile!
  
  
• The locations page has been updated to reflect the current state of the game with the addition of current landmarks. Additionally, if your character has impacted the Town in any way that you would like other players to know about (such as adding locations that would be useful to the game at large), please let us know here so that we can add them to the page!

Quests

• Quests for January 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. Only quests for this month can be turned in for a reward.
  
  
• 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 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! Because of the holidays last month, quests could be turned in while incomplete; however, that was only for the month of December, so please have your quests completed before submitting them.

Color Changes/Rewards

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

Color Gains:

• For completing all of the quests last month, for all of the current characters in Awash, their houses are now fully colored -- in other words, anything that didn't have color yet now does. The roof, the walls, the floor, the items within the house... for each character, their houses are now bright and colorful and probably a little blinding, if you're used to the floors being a colorless grey. Enjoy!
  
  
• Please also see this comment for special color changes your characters have brought about via their bonds last month!

Color Losses:

• From drops: Sunset purple, green ink, kingfisher birds, grapefruit peels, crows, bananas, squash, glass, locks, the floor of the library, lobster, lilies, dark leather, yarn, pigeons, flannel, library roof, butterflies, curtains in Bluo, blue potatoes, mice, cranberries, owls, lavender plants, the outer walls of the church, red snapper, playing cards, the inner walls of the town hall, blood oranges, and granola

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