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Happy New Year, everyone! Wishing you all a lovely, bear-rific 2024! A bit of ground to cover this round, so:

AC & ADMIN

■ The calendar page has been updated!

■ Characters that were dropped or swept in December will be said to have stayed (briefly) behind at castle Netvor to help rehabilitate the forest.

■ Activity requirements are back in January! They were waived in December, unless you’d hiatused or failed AC in November.

Of those who had to present December AC, enough proofs couldn’t be found for:

   Su Xunxian | Oh! My Emperor

Please holler if threads were missed, or you need to talk AC!

ARC VIII: EPHES | BADGES

You know the ropes! Grab and customise your badge wallet and fill it up with any badges from the general or Arc-specific set that think match your character’s experiences to date! This is all 100% just for OOC fun.

EPHES BADGES

            

            

            

            

ARC IX: HATTHEVAR

■ Arc IX: Hatthevar will be set in a milling city of ghosts, spirit and the dead. Notably, not one of undead. ■ So far, the plot of Hatthevar is planned to include exploration, combat, investigation, care/nurture and potentially execution. To help with customization, check in by 23:59 GMT on 7 January with what you think you’d like your character involved in! You can still throw them into anything afterward, this just helps with task customisation and mod planning! ■ Unlike previous mysteries, this one will have more to do with figuring out how to prevent something... for a change! ■ By the end of Arc IX, characters will have the additional options to retain their memories of Akhuras when they travel back to their home worlds, or to stay behind in Akhuras and continue their adventures. ■ Matthias’… body… parts connected to dark water and discovered by the party, along with any dark mirror shards collected along the way will prove useful now. If your character has one such item, but you think you’ll struggle with availability in Jan/Feb, shout, and we’ll reassign it! ■ Wish fount: drop a line by 23:59 GMT on 6 January if there’s a particular event, setting or prop/artefact you’ve always wanted to play with (anything from ‘a Rubik cube!’ to ‘we just haven’t burned enough libraries’) — you’re unfortunately not guaranteed it’ll happen, but best effort will be made! ■ During the first event log of Hatthevar, the party will be able to run into dead characters from their home world. Anyone — whether an existing eastbound player or just a visiting one — can play these characters for one-off encounters confined to a specific area of Hatthevar on the log. The requirements will be: — to show up in Hatthevar, dead characters must either have previously been in Akhuras or be from canons currently represented in the game — the character must be dead by the time the canon ends (dead and revived still counts) — no doubles of existing characters

All hail, spring is over — happy June! A bit of admin with your day:

ACTIVITY CHECK

To pass activity requirements, you need to have produced one of: 1 network post or 5 log comments or 10 network/text-style comments in the month of check. Activity can be carried out in game communities or in character inboxes.

In May, insufficient activity was found for:

Cato | unpurposed
Delilah | alterare — RECLAIMED
Slick | sergeant_slick — swept as a result of two consecutive strikes.

Most of the August calendar remains subject to update once Arc II has been set up, but you can find loose indications here. The calendar will be updated, likely next week.

The location setup for Arc II, “team” and identity assignments and a small event will go up 6-8 August. Thank you for everyone's help with assignments — now no longer taking input.

Some characters will receive individual quests/aftermath instructions, following on mod talks or events in Arc I and the Stairs of Sighs. At this time, they are Five, Archeval and Eleven. Two other characters are slated for optional quests based on Taravast’s setup — Zhou Zishu and Wen Qing. Their agendas haven’t been forgotten, and all that info will be laid out when we hit Taravast. Bear with me!

If there is a longer-term character arc that you want to work on and need some environmental or mod help with, hit up the player suggestions area!

Moving forward, the Story So Far page will (hopefully) be updated with summaries on a monthly basis, to help our newcomers.

Lastly, given the clue and plot-oriented nature of Eastbound, some folks have asked about a potential game Discord chat. While I’d be happy to set one up, I’m not currently in a place where I could actively moderate a chatroom — if you have thoughts on how we could go about making a non-mod-led one happen (or if you feel one is needed to begin with), happy to hear them!