Mod Post. 4/3/19

[awashmods]

Hello everyone, and welcome to April'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 April. April's AC Post can be found here.
  
  
• Characters removed via AC this month:
  
  merlin (avalonesome)
  katsuki bakugo (bombingking)
  hotarumaru (lampyris)

Plot

• The trees are looming way, way too close lately, aren't they? No matter how the characters try to push them back and hack them down, they just reappear by the next morning. They haven't encroached on the Town properly yet, but they are right up on the edge of it, colorless and silent and ominous.
  
  If characters spend too much time around the woods this month, including if they go into the woods for forest scenarios, they may find that things are much more dangerous than usual. Please keep that in mind! For those who have already sent in requests for forest scenarios, you will be given the option of backdating the scenario or encountering a more dangerous than usual one.
  
  Characters may suddenly collapse near the woods after spending too much time around the trees, and when they wake up, they will remember nothing but an ominous feeling of being watched. They'll be sick for a few days after that, so be careful, everyone!
  
  For now, there are no consequences to hacking down the trees. For now.

Quests

• Quests for April 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:

• New characters have now had their text color restored on the forum, as well as the color of their houses that they're living in.
  
  
• For completing all of the quests last month, characters have restored the color of the harbor piers.
  
  
• If your character has a color log thread from the month of March, 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: Wheat, green paint, sparrows

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

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[whichcraft]

Question! How would Quest 54 be impacted by the "save a person from death" sun pendants (a previous town reward) activating? Do the pendants sufficiently prevent death, for the purposes of this quest, to constitute a near-death experience if they're rescued by the pendant?

[esperimental]

Ritsu and Yu were dragon princess-abducted for science and I was going to just have it be relatively uneventful on the forest trip back, but this changes things up! Could we get our little danger scenario?

Re: QUESTIONS

[bakedapple]

For quest 53, I'm wondering about how it would work to permanently give away something intangible.

Memories are given as an example, but how exactly would a character go about doing that? Is that for them to figure out?

And if I'm understanding this right, it would basically mean they LOSE that memory forever, right? And the other person can't tell them about it or "give it back" (however that would work) or the quest fails?

edit: also, for quest 55, any two colors can include two of the same color, right?

[scourged]

Silly question, does it count as making someone cry if the person causing it looks like someone else?

Re: QUESTIONS

[pyrafect]

Hello! I just wanted to give a quick update to the repairs Pyra and Damian are making to the church here. Since the thread was still ongoing and they haven’t actually gotten to the repair (we’re both slow at tagging and right now the characters are just moving the broken pews out to get access to the floor), I didn’t report it until now... BUT the church and their repairs came up in another thread with a question about it.

Pyra and Damian were using the wood from those trees that are moving in on the town to redo the floor and pulpit. Are there any consequences to using the wood from those ominous trees for repairs on the church?

QUEST REPORTING

[awashmods]

Please only respond to this comment when the quest has been completely threaded out, whether a success or failure! Please respond in this format:

Please put the quest being completed into the subject line! <b>Characters Involved:</b> <b>Character Colors:</b> <b>Link to thread:</b> <b>Failure/Success:</b>

quest 52!

[passio]

Characters Involved: dextera, ryo
Character Colors: blue, red
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: success! ryo intended to make dextera cry for the sake of a different quest, but it started a fight instead and dextera got to punch ryo after a long, long year of dealing with satan’s antics.

quest 54!

[regrede]

Characters Involved: sierra, magilou
Character Colors: yellow, red
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: success… magilou got zapped.

Quest 55

[noholdsbard]

Characters Involved: Pyra & Tristan
Character Colors: Blue
Link to thread: Here!
Failure/Success: Success! gdi Pyra

quest 55

[lacrimose]

Characters Involved: Akira Fudo and Akechi
Character Colors: Red
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: Success! Easiest quest ever for a crybaby.

QUEST 53

[theshowsover]

Characters Involved: Akira and Akechi
Character Colors: red, red
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: Success! Akira gave Akechi a precious childhood memory.

QUEST 54

[unghost]

Characters Involved: Cairngorm, Lupin
Character Colors: Yellow, Red
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: Success! Cairngorm almost killed Lupin by accident.

QUEST 52

[photoshooter]

Characters Involved: Noctis nascere and Prompto photoshooter
Character Colors: Blue and yellow
Link to thread: Part one and parte dos
Failure/Success: S...success. Them fight. : ( Them fight bad.

QUEST 54

[unghost]

Characters Involved: Cairngorm, Magilou
Character Colors: Yellow, Red
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: success! cairngorm's weight caused some of a cliff they were on to crumble away, but they caught magilou before she could meet her demise.

quest 55

[lacrimose]

Characters Involved: Akira and Ryo
Character Colors: Red
Link to thread: Here!
Failure/Success: (an unintentional) success! Ryo made Akira cry when suggesting his cat could be seriously ill.

quest 54

[lacrimose]

Characters Involved: Akira and Prompto
Character Colors: Red and yellow
Link to thread: Here!
Failure/Success: Success...! Akira dropped Prompto out of the sky.

quest 52

[lacrimose]

Characters Involved: Pyra and Akira
Character Colors: Blue and red
Link to thread: Here!
Failure/Success: Success... sort of? Pyra attacks Akira, but he refuses to fight back except to argue with her.

QUEST 55

[shizun]

Characters Involved: Shen Qingqiu and Wei Wuxian
Character Colors: Blue, Red
Link to thread: Here.
Failure/Success: Success! This was not something they had wanted to have happened, but hey...

QUEST 52

[shizun]

Characters Involved: Shen Qingqiu, Wei Wuxian, and Xie Lian.
Character Colors: Blue, Red, Blue.
Link to thread: FIGHT FIGHT
Failure/Success: Success! Shen Qingqiu got mad!!

COLOR RESTORATION

[awashmods]

Use the form below if you'd like to submit a thread from the month of March from your color log!

<b>Characters involved</b>: <b>Character Hexcodes:</b> <b>Link to Color Log:</b>

[artorian]

Characters involved: Artoria Pendragon, Tristan
Character Hexcodes: #2345B6, #6363F9
Link to Color Log: !!!!!

QUEST 52

[awashmods]

Fight with a close friend.

Requirements: 1 blue.

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This can be verbal or physical -- what matters is that the fight has to be very much sincere. You can't stage it -- it has to legitimately be something that gets a rise out of both of you, something that can legitimately be considered a fight. And if words aren't enough, well... you can always exchange punches instead.

Ways to succeed: It has to be someone you're relatively close with, though it doesn't have to be with a best friend or anything -- just someone you're fond enough of that a fight will be meaningful.

Ways to fail: Staging a fight, not putting your all into it, or picking a fight with a stranger are all ways to fail this one!

Limit: 2 per character

Link to Quest Post.

QUEST 53

[awashmods]

Give someone else something precious to you.

Requirements: 1 red.

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This one's permanent, so be careful. Give someone something that means a great deal to you. Note that this doesn't have to be a physical thing -- you can give someone your deep love of cats, or a memory of something important. But note that it has to be something precious to you, not something that only has a little meaning. And again, it's definitely, 100% permanent -- you can't get whatever you give back, or you'll fail the quest.

Ways to succeed: Much like what it says on the tin -- give someone something precious to you, and don't take it back!

Ways to fail: If you take back what you gave, you'll fail, even if it's outside of the quest period. If it's not something totally precious to you, you'll fail then too. Be sincere!

Limit: 1 per character

Link to Quest Post.

QUEST 54

[awashmods]

Give someone a near death experience.

Requirements: 1 yellow.

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Whether this means dropping someone off a cliff and catching them, nearly slicing their head off or just making someone think they're going to die, it's time to give someone the ultimate thrill -- and give them that near death experience. What constitutes that experience might be different from character to character, but it has to be something that really, truly, completely makes them think they're about to die.

You might not want to warn them about this quest beforehand.

Ways to succeed: Nearly, but not entirely, killing someone will net you a win here, but only if they really think they're about to die!

Ways to fail: Sorry, but if you really do kill them, it's not going to count. It's a near death experience, not a death experience.

Limit: 3 per character

Link to Quest Post.

QUEST 55

[awashmods]

Make someone cry.

Requirements: Any two colors.

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No matter what way you decide to go about it, it's time to make someone so, so sad that they can't help but cry. It does have to be sadness that's causing the emotion this time; it can't be tears of laughter or any other emotion.

Just make someone very, very sad in whatever way it takes. You know you want to.

Ways to succeed: So long as at least one tear of sadness is shed, you've done it Congrats, you monster!

Ways to fail: Tears of any other type but sadness won't count, and fake crocodile tears won't either. These have to be legit!

Limit: Unlimited

Link to Quest Post.