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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

■ 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.

Hi everyone — Happy New Year!

Start of-the-month round-up, ahead of the January bustle…

■ Activity: after the December break, Activity Check (AC) requirements are back as of January. To pass AC, you’ll need just one proof among the following three options:

ONE network post or
FIVE log comments or
TEN network / text / inbox-style comments

AC remains mod-tallied at this time.

■ Story So Far: the Story So Far page summarising Arc goings-on has been overhauled, and you can now find the Taravast latest. Moving forward, the main entry will only house the latest Arc summary.

■ NPC inbox: a fresh NPC inbox has been launched for the Ellethia interlude and Arc III, to rotate NPCs. This comes into effect on 3 January. As a note for newer folks: characters can reach out to NPCs and try to wrestle information at any time — but unlike mod inquiries, these are short RP interactions, and it’s down to characters to figure out how to tease intel.

■ Calendar: the January calendar is now up. In the short term, expect the event & plotting post on 3 January and the CR meme on 3-4 January.

■ Applications: The Ellethia setup makes it a trifle more challenging to incorporate impromptu appearances, so we’ll have to briefly do timed and bulk application cycles in January. The relevant periods for when apps close / open are listed on both the calendar and the applications page.

■ Locations: the Locations page will be updated over the upcoming weeks. A Taravast blurb will join the existing Sa-Hareth one. Characters can freely travel in and out of Taravast and Sa-Hareth, as they please, if they secure transport.

Hi everyone — some updates!

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