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lostcompass2022-09-01 10:54 pm
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activity check + admin
Salut, September — it’s only been a thousand years since August began!
To keep things short and brief: characters for whom insufficient activity was found are listed below. Comment if you’d like to reclaim one by 23:59 on 5 September — you’ll have to produce regular activity over September and October, in exchange!
- Jens Macher | arsmechanica — RECLAIMED
Magnus Bane |incantates — RECLAIMED
Please flag if any activity was missed. Don’t forget to use your character tags when you comment into posts or logs, to help find your activity proofs — thank you!
ADMIN
First off, just wanted to thank everyone for your time, energy and feedback in the last post — it’s so much more helpful than you probably realise, and some great suggestions were put forward!
- ■ PLAYER CAP: we currently have 42 players in game, and we will cap at 55. This excludes any returning players.
■ With a cap in place, obligatory reminder:eastbound is a primarily plot-geared game, and it's at its most fun when you can jump right in. If you’ve felt a bit shy about getting involved with the plot — and we’ve all been there! — don’t hesitate to reach out, and we’ll figure something out!
■ ACTIVITY: a suggestion was made to consider log top levels with at least one open prompt as an activity proof. This makes sense. Adding that in, you can now meet monthly activity requirements by producing one of:- a network post OR
a log top level with open prompts OR
10 network/inbox-style comments OR
5 log comments
Standard disclaimer: please don’t repeatedly meet your activity requirements by tagging inboxes/just castmates or the same players. This can require more proofs in future months.
■ UPDATED: the September calendar.
■ ...yes, ‘Dragon Bachelor’ will be a monthly fixture during the Serthica arc, purely for everyone’s entertainment and for character incursions into gambling.
■ We'll hold our next test drive meme (and game-wide log) in late September.
■ As we cozily settle into Arc IV, your character might end up called on by NPCs, or dragged into various plot rolls. Please do not hesitate to opt out if you're not feeling that vibe!
■ THE STORY SO FAR: Arc IV summaries have nowkicked off, and you can catch up on anything you missed in September below:
Newcomers arrived ahead of the remaining, seaborne party, securing passport papers into Clockwork Serthica — a citadel divided in two adversarial halves: dragon and magic-loving Eidris and disciplinarian, tech-geared Minaras. Everything in Serthica feels alive, including the recently dead. Serthica was splintered by a now-gone plague, who killed all those whom it infected, the Doctor learned. Currently, Eidris emerges from the underground depths over 6:00-18:00, while Minaras surfaces nocturnally between 18:00-6:00. The two citadel halves meet overground over 6:00-7:00 and 18:00-19:00, with natives occupying spaces in the Neutral Zone bridges and Sanctuary.
The party joined a trade summit at the Sanctuary, where attendants from which side briefly... glitched for a series of moments of jarring, puppet-like behaviour. The terrorist group Remembrance attempted to kidnap Minaras' high councillor Arabella. Escorting her to safety, Wrathion, Licyn and Beitang Moran found a key pointing towards the inherited factories of Eidris dragon warlord Cain d'Ubiq and to Serthica's impoverished underground world, the Mouse House. Wrath and Emilia read out an anonymous note Arabella received, which triggered her into possessed behaviour.
Party members were assigned a stay in one of the two halves of Serthica: in Eidris, a dragon went berserk and the party helped recover her hatching eggs, following injury to her mate — at the presumed hands of a Minaras scout ship, whose reconnaissance work was decommissioned days before the incident. In Minaras, the local indoctrination centre sought to cure the rot of citizens. Meanwhile, Kaneki Ken discovered some Minaras morgue corpses have a strange, unexpected 'rot'-like sickness inside their bodies... - a network post OR
ACTIVITY RECLAIMS
If you'd like to reclaim an AC-struck character by meeting regular activity requirements in September + October, or if your activity wasn't logged correctly, drop a line!
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1. Zenobius is still on my mind, but that's just noting—I know I'll need a hiatus excuse coming up, so he might be convenient for that in some way!
2. Magnus and a few others are wanting to see if taking a baby dragon down to the Mouse House/outside the citadel's influence could happen with Aiva's permission. Magnus can portal a group (dragons included) down to minimise travel time, watchers to make sure the baby is fine would be welcomed, and the "sell" for why is a fear that the distress of Aiva over her mate's injury might have influenced the babies at hatching, so checking health to make sure they're going to continue to develop well etc.
3. Are there many children in the citadel? I'm forgetting if this was answered elsewhere when combing through past questions, so I apologise if this is a repeated question.
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2. I'm gonna be honest, you'll need to kidnap that baby dragon, momma won't be pleased. I'm happy for you to, but Aiva will try to crush you on return.
3. Yes, there are children! Nothing... unusual? Proportional to the population.
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2. Perfect, I'll pass that along and let people decide if they're gonna try or not!
3. Wonderful, and normal amounts under six?
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