december activity + arc iv: conclusion

[groundrules]

Hey everyone! The November activity results and the aftermath summary of Arc IV: Serthica doze merrily below — along with a special visit from a beloved friend. Arc badges to follow in a few days!

To sum up the updated calendar, the year’s last invite-only application cycle ends on 23:59 on 4 December, and you’ll get full details about our five-week eerie? cooldown setup event on 5 December.

As a reminder, there are no activity requirements in December, unless you’re clearing a strike from November.

Folks with insufficient activity last month:

Su Xunxian | topoiran — RECLAIMED

Please shout by 5 December to reclaim, or to link any November AC threads that may have been missed!

( Arc IV conclusion )

In the meantime:

✘ Drop two-three lines summarising what your character’s Arc IV activity to get a reward — while characters who submitted task threads in the log finale can already find their loot here.

✘ enjoy Santa Claws!

it's santa claws

[aprescoup]

OUHRSSON Creature of undead warlord Anurr, possessed by questionably malign forces. Dubious loyalties. Has been following the party since the end of Arc I: Sa-Hareth at a moderate pace.

JOURNEY STATS: ✘ Average journey speed: 58km/h. ✘ Nicely fed, slowly chewing a kraken tentacle. ✘ No longer fits under your bed. Will try to slip in instead.

BEAR BULLETIN #3 Fur matted, weed-strewn and torn, Ouhrsson is sporting the latest runway look in ‘sea-bedraggled.’ He enters Serthica through the ports, barrelling in through the Mouse House, Eidris and Minaras over 1-4 December with seemingly avid disdain for courtesy, decorum and gravity. Before he retreats into the sunset, characters may optionally enjoy the following 5/5 Yelp highlights of the "IT'S A BEAR, GET IN THE DROID CAR" experience: ✘ spot the bear majestically riding a dragon in the incomiiiiiiing distance. Ouhrsson flies first class. ✘ encounter the bear in the streets, kicking droids like balls. Ouhrsson aspires to a football career. ✘ wave as the bear climbs your steampunk ivory tower with disregard for local architecture. Ouhrsson embraces his rebel side. ✘ wink if you wake up to the bear in your bed, bathtub or closet. Ouhrsson doesn’t kiss and tell. ✘ salute the bear as it squeezes through corridors and alleys, spits out cogs, demolishes an unpleasant Mouse House mafioso, braves dragons to battle, steals local produce, triggers allergic hives in the hyper-hygienic Minaras medical scientists, and purposefully sabotages your most delicate moments and confessions with his larger-than-life presence. Ouhrsson is not a gracious guest. As the dragons of Serthica lose their scant appetite to tolerate Ouhrsson’s frolicking excesses, Anurr calls back his beast to trawl and troll another day. NOTE: Ouhrsson is largely here to make everyone laugh, so please don’t worry about actual bear damage. Integrate him in your posts and logs as you wish. Please be good to our possessed bear, we only have the one.