MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: GAME UPDATES

[inthenightmods]

Hey there, Beacon bits! We have a few important announcements for you all. All of these game updates have come as a result of player feedback or initiative, so thank you to everyone who contributed!

We've updated some game pages! We'll be continuing to update game pages throughout the month and those will be featured on the next gameplan, but we wanted to get a couple out of the way early. Here's what's new:

TABLETS & NETWORK

• There's a new app available: SONGBIRD, which functions kind of like Spotify. It's a music-streaming app that links to Robin's vast music library. Robin made the app for Matt Murdock, and he's shared it with the whole network, so now it's just on all the tablets. Neat!


• We've noticed some confusion about the IC network directory, so we wanted to take a sec to clear that up. All of the information on the network directory is meant to be IC, including character names! We've made this detail more prominent on the page to avoid future confusion. If you missed this detail on the page and would like to retroactively update your character's entry on the directory, please submit a new form to that page. Edit notifs are easy for us to miss, so new form, please!


SETTING

• Some downtown locations are now available to the public! Whoo! Specifically, everyone can now access: Kickaxe Brewing Company, the shopping center (well, most of it), and the Landmark Inn's restaurant. Check out the setting page for more details on these locations. We'll be revealing the rest of downtown's locations with smaller mod announcements like this (as opposed to big location reveals) as characters explore those areas.


• The torches currently placed around town have been updated on the setting page! Things were a bit out of date for a while, but that's all settled now. Remember too that anyone can move torches places by another character! We ask that you be respectful about this OOCly (don't go swiping torches without player permission, for example), but players are always welcome to rearrange torches, especially those placed by dropped characters. Check out the item requests page if you'd like to move or place any torches.

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Next, we've made some changes to how we'll process explorations from this point forward! We suggest giving the explorations page a full read if you're interested in submitting explorations in the future, but here's the big stuff that's different:

• We're transitioning out of threaded "DM style" responses, and will instead be doing outcome write-ups to speed things along. We're making this change to keep the game's momentum going, as well as to get through the queue more quickly to allow for new explorations to take place. There's more info available in the top section of the page about the new style of explorations.


• Some explorations may still get the "DM style" dialogue that we used in the old system, but how we dole those out will be based on the exploration's content and mod availability. If you have your heart set on an exploration done in this style, you can PM us and we'll work together to schedule a time that works for everyone involved.


• Explorations submitted before this announcement might be done in either of these styles! Like we said, we're transitioning right now, so any explorations currently underway will receive whichever style best suits the contents of that exploration. Once explorations open again, we'll be using the new system from that point forward.


• To further streamline this new system, we've included a new line on the explorations form to opt in/out of serious injury and death. Information on this change can be found in the second and third bullet points on that big list of bullet points, as well as in the form itself. The takeaway here is that players can now tell us upfront if they're willing to risk serious injury or death, though we do ask that this decision be made as a group as opposed to listing individual preferences.

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Finally, we've decided to make one final change to our app cycle: In the Night's applications will be open every other month as opposed to every month. To that end, our applications will next open on March 22 instead of February 22. We know that this change will likely come as a disappointment anyone hoping to app or enable their friends to app in February, so we're sorry about that! We've decided to make this change in order to lighten our load as a mod team so that we can give more of our attention to other aspects of the game.

As always, thank you all for being so willing to roll with our tweaks and adjustments as we try to shape In the Night into the best game it can be. If you have any questions about these updates, please let us know in the comments below!