AYYY. IT'S A PARTY.

[shizun]

Sorry for delaying the party! I wanted to let the event slow down before posting it up, and thought I'd be able to put it up sooner. Also, also, there won't be a network post but assume that there was one!

So, this is a birthday party for Pyra! \o\! It's set after the April event and will be for date purposes be on May 4th. Now to sort out everything!!

1. Lan Wangji and Maribelle decorated the town hall.
2. Wei Wuxian is bringing wine.
3. Blue Saber brought 400-lb tuna and a lion, and many fruit.
4. Connor cooked the tuna and lion.
5. Sinistra peeled many oranges.
6. Magilou is doing the entertainment!
7. Tristan and Shen Qingqiu will be playing music meant for Pyra.
8. Maybe Xie Lian is bringing food!!
9. Ardyn Izunia made the cake!

This is just the general list of things, but if your character wanted to bring something or anything, here's the post to say that they did it! \o/ This is mostly both touching base that this happened, and then I'll be making a log for everyone to mingle because everyone can come and have a good time. After losing one's emotions... it's good to have a warm time with friends and celebrate good things with others. Right??

May Activity Check.

[awashmods]

AC Submission Form | AC Spreadsheet | Previous AC

Hello everyone, and welcome to May's AC post! AC will be open all month long, and can be submitted until May 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 characters and players are:

• 12 comments over a minimum of two threads and a maximum of five threads
  OR
  
• One post AND a minimum of one additional thread of 5 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.
  
• A toplevel and all of its subthreads counts as a single thread.

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. 5/3/19

[awashmods]

Hello everyone, and welcome to May's monthly mod post! Please be sure to read all of this post.

Mechanics

• First off, AC has completed and has been processed. AC is now open for May. May's AC Post can be found here.
  
  
• Applications are currently open! There are plenty of slots, so invite your friends to come play!
  

Plot

• The trees haven't ended up coming any closer as of yet, but they still loom alarmingly close. The event may be over, and characters may have recovered, but if any characters chop down or otherwise harm a tree from the woods, they will suffer from similar effects to the event. In other words, they'll lose some of their emotion for a brief period of time!
  
• Characters will also note, if they do enough of it, that they are drawn towards the woods the more emotion they lose. If a character ends up totally apathetic, they'll end up wandering into the woods alarmingly often, as if subconsciously. Weird.
  
  
• If characters happen to find the trees that were given color in the woods from characters completing quests last month (there are not many of them!) and decide to chop them down for some reason (:(), they will find that they do not experience any side effects at all. It's only chopping down the colorless trees that causes the side effects above.

Quests

• Quests for May 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, characters have restored the color of soil. The ground around the Town will start to seem much richer. Likewise, they'll find that the colors below can be found quite a lot around the Town.
  
  
• If your character has a color log thread from the month of April, please go here to submit a thread! After that, the mods will let you know what color that thread has restored.

Color Losses:

• From drops: Red cabbage, eclairs, popcorn, library outer walls, flan, chimera, harpies, blue crab, frost, cilantro, bunnies, mongoose, cucumbers, hummingbirds, cobwebs, cornbread, town hall roof, ginger, burnt toast, marshmallows, string lights, angora bunnies, tomatoes, seagulls, pie tins, laurel wreaths, starfish, shoelaces, sea eagles, boysenberries, caramel, golden rings, golems, wrapping paper, candy canes, town hall ceiling, sheet music, rice, barn owls, scarves, sweet potatoes, library chairs

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