awashooc | Mod Post. 5/3/18

Hello everyone, and welcome to May’s monthly mod post! We hope everyone has had a good time settling into the game, and that we're all ready to welcome new players into it!

Mechanics

First off, AC has completed and has been processed. As of this post, AC is open for May. May’s AC Post can be found here. Thank you to everyone who completed AC!
On a quick side note, when submitting AC please avoid using commas. It messes with the form a bit, so try to leave them out! We'll update the AC form to reflect this requirement as well. Thank you for your understanding.
AC has also been slightly tweaked; after looking at the choices, we decided it would be more fair to change the "post and an additional thread of 10 comments" option to be "a post and an additional one to two threads maximum" option. Occasionally threads are dropped, or do not meet the minimum length, and we wanted to make AC easy to respond to! This change can be seen on all of the current AC pages.
Reserves are closed to new players, as they have been filled. Current players are welcome to continue to reserve their second characters if they would like, but will not require a reserve to apply.
Applications open May 7th, 9 PM EST. They will remain open until May 14th, 9 PM EST.
The intro log will go up May 15th, 9 PM EST. There will also be a smaller, more lowkey event at the end of the month to help settle in the new characters.

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.
The Quest Reporting comment can be found here. As ever, please respond to that comment once the quest itself has been completed. If the thread continues on, but is simply small talk or characters doing other things, you’re welcome to turn in the thread as soon as the quest is done.
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

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

Color Gains:

Please see this comment to see what changes have occurred based off of an impactful thread on your Color Log. These changes are based off of the general blended color of the two (or more) characters involved in the thread.
Because every quest was completed last month, the Town has had a very special thing restored -- characters will now be able to see the stars at night. The sky itself is now black at night, and the stars are bright and twinkly and perfectly star-like. As soon as the sky brightens for daytime, it goes back to being bleak and colorless.
As the storyteller quest was successfully completed, all of the books in the Town have now had their writing restored, as the color Black typeset has been restored. This means that characters are also able to write on paper in the Town without being unable to see the words they're writing, even if using only supplies from the Town. The books in the libraries and the houses are all.......... fairy tales. Of course they are. Any fairy tale you can imagine from any culture can probably be found in those books somewhere.

Color Losses:

Tomatoes no longer have color or taste.
Dave and Caingorm’s houses no longer have color.
Izuku’s text color is now absent, and his text will appear black again.
The following foods have additionally lost their flavor and color: red peppers, blue cotton candy, bananas, pineapples.

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Capture a dozen geese.

Requirements: Any two of the same color.

This was a murder quest, but now you're spared the murder thanks to a certain couple of characters trying to catch the harpies last month! Hooray, less murder!

On the other hand, that means now you have to catch a dozen psychotic geese in the woods if you want to succeed at this quest -- and yes, you have to catch them alive. You can't kill them, it won't count. Look at that face. And naturally, as per usual Woods fare, they all are mutated or strange in some way. Watch out for firebreathing geese with wings, or geese with way too many legs.

Ways to succeed: Capture 12 geese, bring them back to Town. Maybe set them loose on your friends? The possibilities are endless. (All you have to do is bring them back to Town.)

Ways to fail: If you kill any of the geese, the quest is a big failure. Sorry. If you lose a goose, it's also a failure. You gotta have 12!

Link to IC Quest post.

Mod Post. 5/3/18

QUEST 7