AWASH

1. The first aspect is one that you are all aware of, and that everyone has already dove into! The book that was found beneath the Town has to do with the characters' endings. Anything to do with the characters themselves, what they will experience after the Town, where they will go, what they will remember, what they can do...etc, etc, etc all has to do with what's written in said book. Do your best, everyone!

Without a proper story in the book, the characters will definitely struggle to find the ending they want.

2. The second aspect of endgame is returning color to the Town. This, as many people have guessed, has to do with the magical hen referenced in the original fairy tale on the forum post. Because many people have, over the months, expressed interest in finding said hen, we'd like to make that as interactive and fair as possible! Due to that, we will have sign ups open for those who would like to throw their hats in the ring for actually finding the hen. Sign-ups can be found here. Please sign up by 9/6, 9 PM EST.

Other characters are welcome to try, but they will fail. Any character who goes into the woods this month looking for the hen will find themselves facing increasingly intense fairy tale tests, until they are no longer able to overcome them.

Please feel free to generate your own fairy tale tests at will for your adventuring parties into the woods!

3. The final aspect of endgame is the one that will most likely impact the majority of characters -- because this month, starting Saturday, the trees have stopped playing around, and the woods has lost its patience.

The trees will storm the Town, suddenly able to move much more quickly than one would expect -- and it will be all-out war between the Town and the characters, and the woods. The trees will try to attack the characters, but they will also try to destroy the Town. Either option will be considered a win condition for the woods, so the characters will have to protect not only themselves, but also the Town. After all, if the Town is totally destroyed...well, they'll never be able to really say they experienced a Happily Ever After here.

The trees are magical in nature -- they are stronger, sturdier, and more intense than you'd expect. They can drain color with a touch, from both characters and items in the Town (and even the player's own items from home), so be really careful! But otherwise? They will honestly just try to crush and smash and rip apart anything that's in their way.

• Blues can be saved by being wept upon -- sincere, earnest tears, on any part of the tree.
  
• Yellows can be saved by having earnest laughter let loose in their presence.
  
• Reds can be saved by having blood spilled on their bark or leaves -- whose blood it is really doesn't matter.

• The bigger the change, the more ink it will require, even if it's only a few words. For instance, adding flowers to the landscape is a relatively small change, and will allow the character to make many more changes, but changing something about another character is a large change -- if they change another's character's hair color, for instance, it will take practically all of their ink.
  
• Please be sure to get player permission before making any changes to any other characters, seeing as how this is a permanent situation!
  
• Your characters do not have enough ink for gigantic changes such as: changing another character's personality, removing the woods, killing another character, or restoring color to everything in the Town. For a good scale of reference, characters can restore color to two separate items before running out of ink, or change one cosmetic aspect of another character, or make one large item appear from their world or elsewhere.
  
• Characters can combine their ink, but only for setting changes. Please let us know if characters plan on large setting changes, and we'd be happy to work with you on how much ink it will take and what's possible!
  
• Ink can be used to undo something that has been done, and will generally only require half the ink to do so. For instance, if a character's hair color has changed and they hate it, they can use their own ink to rewrite it the way it's supposed to be, and still have enough ink left over to do a few other things.

• New characters must submit half-AC.
  
• Those requirements, as well as the AC post, can be found here.
  
• Please be sure to also read the general AC guidelines, here! It is very important that you do, as we will not be granting AC exemptions due to the capped nature of the game.

• Character housing, now that the application round is over, can be found here! This is where characters can find their laptops, though they are by no means required to stay there; they can move at will, and their laptop will function in whatever new home they pick. The spreadsheet is editable, so please feel free to move your characters around!
  
• Quests can be done by incoming players at any point once they have been introed. Quests can ICly be found here. OOCly, further information can be found here! Please be aware that only quests of the current month can be completed for a reward. Past quests can be done if you would like to, but will receive no reward.
  
• A list of current restored colors can be found here; please be aware that no colors have been restored for new characters yet. That means that their text color will be black, and their homes, unless shared with a current character, will have no color.
  
• The OOC meet and greet can be found here.

• A mingle log will go up tomorrow, May 8th at 9 PM EST, to provide a general introduction to the game. Due to the sizes of the current app rounds in the game, the intro logs also serve as mini-events, with a bit more to play with.

• New characters must submit half-AC.
  
• Those requirements, as well as the AC post, can be found here.
  
• Please be sure to also read the general AC guidelines, here! It is very important that you do, as we will not be granting AC exemptions due to the capped nature of the game.

• Character housing, now that the application round is over, can be found here! This is where characters can find their laptops, though they are by no means required to stay there; they can move at will, and their laptop will function in whatever new home they pick. The spreadsheet is editable, so please feel free to move your characters around!
  
• Quests can be done by incoming players at any point once they have been introed. Quests can ICly be found here. OOCly, further information can be found here! Please be aware that only quests of the current month can be completed for a reward. Past quests can be done if you would like to, but will receive no reward.
  
• A list of current restored colors can be found here; please be aware that no colors have been restored for new characters yet. That means that their text color will be black, and their homes, unless shared with a current character, will have no color.
  
• The OOC meet and greet can be found here.
  
• The Calendar has also been updated with the current weather!

• A mingle log will go up tomorrow, January 8th at 9 PM EST, to provide a general introduction to the game. Due to the sizes of the current app rounds in the game, the intro logs also serve as mini-events, with a bit more to play with.

• After this log, new characters will be welcome to create logs and posts as you please! Please be sure to read over the FAQ once more before you begin playing.

• Here's a fun fact: the majority of the curers in the last event were yellow! With that in mind, there's been a bit of a change in the Town. In Flavo, there is now a frozen lake, plopped right in the middle of the district. It's not too terribly large; it would take about ten minutes to walk around the entirety of it. But no matter how warm it gets, the lake will remain frozen over, year-round.
  
  This lake will allow any characters who peer into it to see a brief vision of something happening back home. It can be mundane, or life-shattering; we'll leave that up to you. Just keep in mind that it's very brief (no more than thirty seconds at most), and will often be very disjointed!
  
  The locations page has been updated to reflect this.
  
  
• Along that note, please be sure to respond here if you haven't already if your character was cured during the event and by whom!
  
  
• Becaaaause -- all of the characters who weren't cured will be receiving customized requirements to restore their hair/eye colors, which we will start handing out later this evening and into tomorrow.

• With the event technically wrapping up, the mirrors that are unbroken will all abruptly go silent. They will act as regular, normal mirrors from now until the second event. They can, of course, still be broken, whether on purpose or on accident; please still let us know here if your character breaks their mirror any time between now and the second event log.
  
  
• Consequences for said mirror breaking will truly set in with the second event log; information for that log will go up a couple of days before the event, like always! In the meantime, the characters who broke their mirrors may occasionally feel very cold, like they can't get warm at all, no matter how many blankets they have or how close they are to the fire. This will come and go in flashes.
  
  
• Otherwise, everything seems fine! Surely, there are no problems here!
  
  
  
  As ever, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here. Thanks, guys!

For Yellows: Any character who is experiencing a yellow's memory will feel the physical aspects of what the character was experiencing in their memory. If the character was stabbed? They'll feel like they were stabbed. If they were peacefully sleeping, they'll probably feel more rested.

For Reds: Characters experiencing a red character's memory will be able to experience their thoughts in that memory. They will be able to hear what the character was thinking, what was going through their head, and what was on their mind (if anything!).

For Blues: Every character experiencing a blue character's memory will feel the character's emotional state. They'll feel how upset the character was, how happy they were, how overwhelmed they were. Those emotions will be as fresh and intense as if they were their own emotions.

Quest 15:
Protect the Town.
Requirements: Everyone.

• All characters will find themselves at the bottom of the well in the middle of the Town, which is somehow a lot bigger on the inside than it first appears. They’ll have to drag themselves out of there before they can do anything else, unfortunately, and the only way out is through the shaft of the well -- it's a solid 30 feet deep or so, though.
  
  
• All characters powers are intact, but there’s not a lot of elbow room either with how many people are shoved into that space, so be careful!
  
  
• The well itself cannot be damaged at this time. It’s weird. It’s almost like there’s some strange sort of magical protection on it, or something. Oh well!
  
  
• Regardless, once characters manage to fight their way out of that well, they’ll find themselves in the direct center of the Town. There is no color whatsoever; all objects are shades of grey. There is nothing stopping them from exploring the Town or the Forest to their heart’s content.
  
  
• Living space can be claimed at will by the characters, though they will be naturally drawn to their color sector. It’s just a very slight inclination, though, and they can very easily claim a different home in a different area if they choose. Every single building in the Town is run-down and decrepit, falling to pieces, though some are in a greater state of disrepair than others. While there's furniture, a lot of it is old, rotted or unusable, so… have fun sleeping on the floor.
  
  
• In each house, there will be laptops waiting for them, though it may or may not be theirs. They will have to wander and poke their noses into houses until they find the one with their login information already plugged in. Creepy! It’s like it was waiting for them. More information on how the network works can be found on the FAQ.
  
  
• Characters will be able to scavenge for food in the Forest and the outskirts of the Town, and thankfully it seems as though some buildings amongst the residential houses are things such as old general stores and the like -- they have some non-perishable food stored away.