activity check + admin

[groundrules]

Happy Hallowmonth, merry October, greetings to the third quarter — hope you're all unwinding!

ACTIVITY CHECK

Below is the list of characters for whom sufficient activity wasn't found in September. Please comment here to reclaim a character by 5 October or if their activity was missed!

Lorna Dane | The Gifted
Okita Souji | Hakuoki
Su Xunxian | Oh! My Emperor
Jens Macher | Triangle Strategy — two consecutive strikes, cannot be reclaimed

Unfortunately, very few people are using character tags right now — please do, or else your activity is very easy to miss, and we may need to move to a system where everyone tracks their own AC. Thank you!

ADMIN

■ UPDATED: October calendar + the latest installment of Clockwork Serthica story so far.

■ Our event/test drive remains active until 14 October — chef kisses to everyone making the newbies feel our version of welcome, which may or may not involve a bear! If you exhaust what there's to do early and want more, holler here, and we'll figure out something cute in the Mouse House.

■ For Jim and Finn, assume their mannequin friend creepily makes its way down in the Mouse House. Viktor's J-8S droid also follows. Kaneki, you're on your own finding dead meat here, buddy — but it does taste weirdly much more filling than what Minaras had to offer...

■ You'll get a Serthica status update on 19 October, but now's a good time to incorporate any plots/plans/adventures you folks want to explore in Serthica this month. Please drop off your suggestions and talk among each other — anything from 'raid a clock' to 'hold a three-thousand droid tango session in the square' accepted.

■ As characters resurface from the U n w i n d i n g, there's scope to mess with passport papers and switch up some allegiances. Drop a line by <5>October if you want your character to be reassigned from Eidris to Minaras, or the other way around — but know their false identity & role would have to re-written then, too. As previously, characters can still travel across the two areas. We may need to RNG this, if more than eight characters want to switch.

■ ...yes, we will wake up Zenobius this month.

■ Per last year's fine example: Halloween poll — how hard do we want to go? This is already mystery/fantasy/horror, so some of the flavour will be there anyway.

Comments

AC RECLAIMS

[groundrules]

Please drop off any missed activity or reclaim a character by 5 October — thank you!

MOUSE HOUSE

[groundrules]

...open for cheesing.

If a couple of you need more to do before 14 October draws close, we can figure out a mini-quest!

WISH WELL - PLAYERS BE PLOTTING

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Drop a line here (and best to summarise it in your comment headline too, if you can!) with something neat you'd like to organise or pursue with your character in October. Cue that great fiend, the player event. We can also try to incorporate some of this stuff in bigger plot updates too!

Absolutely no such thing as a bad suggestion, whether heavily plotty, SoL or out of the box. Feel free to talk to each other in the comments!

TURNCOATING

[groundrules]

Drop a line here (and best to summarise it in your comment headline too, if you can!) with something neat you'd like to organise or pursue with your character in October. Cue that great fiend, the player event. We can also try to incorporate some of this stuff in bigger plot updates too!

Absolutely no such thing as a bad suggestion, whether heavily plotty, SoL or out of the box. Feel free to talk to each other in the comments!

[topoiran]

Please...

HALLOWEEN POLL

[groundrules]

We're already mystery-fantasy-horror, so we're not going to be able to fully walk away from our roots, but some people want a lower-key Halloween event, some want to rocknroll with blood. Please +1 your preference under the appropriate heading below, one vote/player — and please don't reply to each other. Thank you!

BLOOD, BABY, BLOOD

[groundrules]

+1 here for the full blood/gore/creature-from-hell experience.

[groundrules]

+1 here if you're feeling things a bit more business casual.

[groundrules]

Alrightee — that's full AC for October & November, please. Thanks!

+1

[somebadnews]

It's Halloween-y!

+1

[song_of_fire]

Yes please

+1

[valeas]

did you say hell

helping people in the mouse house and/or possible fun/games for the kids?

[thedreamer]

Sort of in the background since they've been in Serthica, the Doctor has wanted to do whatever he can to better things for the people (especially the children) in the Mouse House, and I believe there are other characters with a similar want, or perhaps have already done some things as well! Depending on what has maybe already been done or what anyone might be interested in doing, I'd love your thoughts if anything piques your interest:

Ideas:
► Money is pooled together and we work out the logistics of...what they can reasonably even do (decent furniture, better housing, better food, improvement of supply chain);

► Charming the people who have the money & power so there's at least the hope/promise of a consistent infrastructure improvement rather than just 'okay we'll deign to bequeath the "lower class citizens" with some money for a nice dinner roast and that's it and things never get better;

► (less plotty, more just pure fun/joy?) - A bunch of the group pools together whatever money they have & can reasonably spare and gets some random gifts from Eidris and Minaras and organize maybe a fun gift-giving/scavenger hunt/other game TBD for the kids? While ideally the Doctor would want to permanently improve conditions, he's also big on "be happy now while you can" so whatever joy they can find feels like a worthy cause.

+1

[thedreamer]

'tis the season

[chromiums]

i'd like to reclaim, please!

[groundrules]

Sounds good — full AC for Oct-Nov, please!

that one time travel idea

[somebadnews]

This has been in my back pocket to use where it fits with game plot, but since you asked! It's still very on the table. I wrote it out in detail here: time travel shenanigans featuring dragon disaster. In the current arc, said dragon would appear in the non-dragon side, so that's fun.

Very flexible for input, but that's the basic idea. For your interest gauge. :>

Re: that one time travel idea

[groundrules]

Oooooh, yessss. I think that one would be super good as a post-arc thing, since it's pretty big scale — but if you've got any ideas more linked to Serthica, happy to integrate!

+1

[incantates]

it's not halloween without them

[somebadnews]

Potentially, yes! I'm very for a big mess, it's the only way he'll learn. It's flexible to fit in as plot allows, so no rush on my end.

Just throwing it out there that I still have (only the best) intentions to make it happen. It's been quietly worked on in the background, so if anyone is interested in some longterm time travel plotting do feel free to hit me up. :>

[groundrules]

Yessss, good call!

[groundrules]

Send help, too adorable.

[blackscales]

Happy to have Wrathion make good on his offer to help via his connections.

[thedreamer]

Sorry in advance to Ma'am Mariol, any potential game and gift shenanigans will probably also involve as much sugar as is reasonably possible to obtain...

[thedreamer]

Excellent and so very much appreciated, from the man who cannot fathom the idea of possibly leaving a place or anyone behind without doing what he can to make it better. I'm sometimes terrible at the logistics of this type of thing, but however it comes up or however you'd like to play it out, I'm totally open! He'd be grateful for all connections/intel, etc.