activity + state of the game

[groundrules]

Hi everyone! Welcome, officially, to………… autumn. Monthly wrap of admin trinkets below!

( activity check; )

OTHER ADMIN

■ The Story So Far page has been updated with a summary of the Taravast plot covered so far, if you need to catch up!

■ As characters are still working in the background to chase a poisoning cure, the next event write-up will go up on 4 September. The calendar page will be updated at that time. You can do last-minute prop/plotting for the very real poison antidote hunt here.

■ An informal discord server has been set up for Eastbound — you should have been PMed a link by now, but please drop a line if that hasn’t been the case, and you’re interested in participating.

■ For a refresher on who's on #TeamVannozza or #TeamMacaluso, the list lies here.


STATE OF THE GAME

■ GAME VIBES | eastbound has been alive and somehow still kicking since late March, and now’s a good time to check in on how people are still feeling about the game momentum. If we’re all at the end of our rope, we can plan for a wind-down after Arc II. This is not an endgame announcement — just asking how everyone is enjoying the game! If you don’t mind just dropping some thoughts here, that would be helpful!

■ BLOOOOOOD | The game was set up as invite-only while I befriended the modding ropes, and I’m humbled it’s more than tripled in size since. There are player-felt advantages to a larger playerbase (variety in characters/speed/ideas), but speaking from the mod point of view — a larger number of players makes it substantially easier to drive the plot forward, mod-side.

With that in mind, I wanted to ask how everyone would feel about making the game public / removing the invite-only status, provided we kept eastbound capped, with app sessions absorbing new players in small increments. If you can all leave some feedback here, that would be great! This is likely to be a more sensitive topic for some players than others, so please only respond to the main comment.

( plot rolls; )