February Activity Check.

[awashmods]

AC Submission Form | AC Spreadsheet | Previous AC

Hello everyone, and welcome to Awash’s February AC post! AC will be open all month long, and can be submitted until February 29th, 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.

Mod Post. 2/3/19

[awashmods]

Hello everyone, and welcome to February's monthly mod post! Please be sure to read all of this post -- we've got a few different things in store for this month

Mechanics

• First off, AC has completed and has been processed. AC is now open for February. February's AC Post can be found here.
  
  
• Characters removed via AC this month:
  
  ken amada (stophamatime)
  lin xianming (fluent)
  michael mell (retrobeats)
  rakan (stickbow)
  ryuunosuke tsunashi (awamori)
  
  
  
• We've had a few mishaps with people misunderstanding the AC requirements, so we'd like to explain them again. A toplevel counts as a single thread, all of its subthreads included. If you are going to use it as an AC proof, you need an additional thread outside of that toplevel to pass AC. This is outlined in the AC guide, but we thought we'd explain it again just in case!
  
  
• The TDM for next month's app round will be up February 22nd, to hopefully allow everyone time to try out new characters and get samples for March's app round, which will open March 1st.

Plot

• So something's changed in the Town this month. It might take the characters some time to notice, though things will definitely feel a little ominous, and a little uncanny as characters progress into the new month. It'll feel almost like they're being watched, and almost like something very dangerous is not too far away.
  
  It's the trees, of course.
  
  It seems as though the woods suddenly encroached on the north of the Town, as if overnight. What was once open, clear Town is now overrun with trees from the woods, looming ominously. Roots have overgrown some of the pathways, branches have covered some of the buildings...
  
  It's only a matter of a few feet into the Town proper, but nonetheless, any character who looks at it will have a very, very strong sense of foreboding.
  
  
• Other things of note with the trees advancing: characters who have a strong sense for the supernatural/magic/darkness/etc will definitely be plagued with headaches and nausea the closer they get, though it's nothing crippling.
  
  
• Characters may also notice that the parts of the Town the trees touch, towards the middle and end of the month, will lose all color that they had before, even if it was restored properly by the characters. If you're living in one of the houses the trees are encroaching on, you might want to think fast and either move or come up with a solution!

Quests

• Quests for February 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!

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, and because so much of the sky has been restored via the characters' hard work, the color of the sky entirely has now been restored. There is not a single shred of the sky that will not have color, no matter what time it is or what weather the Town is having. Maybe next month, the Town's color restorations will now move on to something else...?
  
  
• If your character has a color log thread from the month of January, please respond at this comment to choose what color you would like to restore for the month. This month, there aren't any restrictions; you can choose any color you would like to restore!

Color Losses:

• From drops: library inner walls, red beans, oysters, swans, herons, woodpeckers, fall leaves, maple syrup, purple paint, papayas, strawberries, ivy, salamanders, apple cider, milk, bluebirds, swallows, doors, town hall floor, poinsettias, blue corn, dandelions, great tits, bread rolls

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

quest 41 mapmaking!

[passio]

because i am apparently obsessed with this map sidequest, i went ahead and compiled everyone who has the pieces of the maps, and what pieces they have! feel free to coordinate below who gets what map and/or who contacts the mods for info AND/OR plotting characters actually going out to find whatever the maps lead to, but here are the groups!

(additionally, shiho has the glue to put them all together. if i made any mistakes or missed something, let me know!)

Yellow (6/6)

• Keigo (top left)
• Kaoru (top right)
• Tonbokiri (middle left)
• Kaoru (middle right)
• Jion (lower left)
• Emil (lower right)

Red (6/6)

• Sierra (top right)
• Wei Wuxian (top left)
• Shiho (middle right)
• Maya (middle left)
• Tsumugi (lower right)
• Maya (lower left)

Blue (6/6)

• Keigo (top left)
• Percy (top right)
• Cairngorm (middle right)*
• Lottie (middle right)*
• Dextera (lower left)
• Natalie (lower right)

*i’m sure one of these was actually meant to be middle left but the point is there are six pieces…