oocinthenight | GAMEPLAN: MARCH

GAMEPLAN: MARCH

Hey there, Beacon bits! Here's what we've got coming up next month!

As always, please make sure to respond to the activity check if you haven't already! We do not post warning lists, so please make sure you've posted.

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The month will begin with our ferry arrival and TDM on March 1! You can check out the announcement we made for a refresher on the new app cycle if you need it, but let's talk about how it's going to work in practice.

Two posts will go up on March 1—a ferry arrival post in the OOC comm, and the TDM in the meme comm. Nothing will be posted in the log comm.

The TDM won't be changing much in design, though the prompts will be more of a combination between our past TDM prompts and our intro log mini-events. You'll see what we mean about the content when the post goes up. Currently players are absolutely encouraged to thread on the TDM and count it as game canon! The TDM is like a bonus, kinda-sorta-fourth-wall event every other month. Pretty cool!

The ferry arrival post in the OOC comm will include all the stuff that's relevant to current players in-game. Everything need-to-know will be summarized on the ferry arrival post, so if you don't follow the meme comm, you don't have to worry about missing out on anything important. Intro log features means strictly for current players (item deliveries, yard sard, etc.) will be included on the ferry arrival post, as well.

Oh, hey, hm, it's our first ferry arrival without newcomers to town! We have something planned for that, but it's also gonna be a surprise! :) Robin will briefly address the issue to ICly buy some time for a more thorough explanation on...

March 3, when Dr. Solis will post to the network. A couple of persistent characters sealed the deal in convincing her to make her big debut, and now seems as good a time as any after the [REDACTED] on the TDM. She'll address what's up with no newcomers on the ferry in that post, and everyone will be able to chat with her freely from that point forward! Congrats, fam, you've unlocked an NPC. 👍

Oh, and remember that lantern Robin got a couple months back? Dr. Solis does! She'll be doling out some info about that in her post, as well.

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Since it's now March, that means it's now spring in town! The new average weather will be 60-65 F and clear, with strong gusts felt even deep within the forest. It's very windy near the lake this time of year. There will also be a bunch of rainstorms throughout the month! You can find the exact dates on the calendar. The rain won't be worryingly heavy, so some roofs might leak and a couple basements might flood, but no need to worry about anything catastrophic. Just normal rain, folks!

To celebrate the arrival of spring, the forest spirits will be putting on some holiday festivities on March 9-10. As soon as the full moon appears in the sky on March 9, forest spirits birds will return to Beacon! These spirits come in all shapes and sizes. If the species could be found in a temperate climate, it could reasonably be found in Beacon... and even if it's not strictly suitable for this biome, they're forest spirits, they don't give a hoot. The odd penguin or cassowary wouldn't be terribly out of place.

The bird spirits have brought with them colorful powders that they'll be, uh, lobbing into the faces of any suspecting Beacon bits. The more ground-bound forest spirits will be partaking in the fun too, and baskets of powder are scattered throughout town so that everyone can join in. It's spring!!!

...Sort of! It's still gonna take time for all that snow to melt and for the weather to really warm up. All the rain should help with that.

Speaking of rain, on March 13, everyone in town will have extraordinarily bad luck. That's super weird, and we have no idea what's up with that. 🤷‍♀️

And lastly for the first half of the month, we've got our CR meme to look forward to on March 15!

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The second half of the month will start relatively quietly. Enjoy the break, because we've got some big stuff happening with our event for the month, Wild Heart, which will run March 20-26, but it will be split into two parts.

Part 1 is March 20-22. On March 20, forest spirits will kidnap some characters around town, whisking them away to a secret location out in the unexplored woods. The characters remaining in town will be tasked with finding the kidnapped characters and liberating them.

But the characters left in town will have help! Remember those strange encounters with those mask-wearing folks during the aurora? On March 21, this masked faction will arrive in town with some good news and some bad news. The good news is that they're here to help in the rescue mission, and they've pinpointed the location of all the kidnapped characters: the medical center in East Beacon. The bad news is that the kidnapped characters are being tortured by the green-eyed spirits.

Players will be able to sign up to have their characters kidnapped during the first portion of the event, and all remaining characters will be considered part of the rescue party. Although obviously the kidnappees will be separated from the rescuers for the bulk of the first part of the event, there won't be any limitations on who can thread with each other, as the rescue mission will happen on March 22.

So, part one of the event: characters get kidnapped on March 20, the mask-wearing people show up on March 21 to help the remaining characters come up with a rescue plan, and that plan is enacted on March 22 as the rescuers storm the medical center to save the kidnapped/tortured characters. We'll be providing way more info than this when it comes time for signups in the week prior to the event, so stay tuned.

Once all the kidnapped characters are saved (or killed in the process, whichever), it's time for the second half of the event! Part 2 is March 23-26, and it will open with an NPC post... from Robin!

See, she's heard of these guys with the masks that just helped you all out. They're called the Wild Hunt, and she's not super fond of them. But, since they did just help save a bunch of you... Robin will permit them to stay in town for a few extra days to both explain themselves and help clean up any mess that was caused in part one.

The Wild Hunt's whole deal will remain ~*~mysterious~*~ until event time, but what you need to know now: they're a clan of reset survivors that live out in the mines, and OOCly, they'll function a bit like the Night Market! Except, where the Night Market deals in info, the Wild Hunt deals in manpower. Once they're introduced, characters will be able to contract NPC helpers to do things like build structures, teach survival/combat skills, and even scout locations to make exploration a little easier.

The second part of the event will be a demonstration of this helpfulness, as Wild Hunt members will remain in town to teach skills and repair anything in town that needs repairing. These minor NPCs will not be unique characters played by mods/players (at this time 👀), but instead the various stations will be set up similar to features like the coffee cart/candy shop at the Night Market, where players are welcome to play out those things on their own.

Oh, and the Wild Hunt's leader will be available at that time to answer the many thousand questions characters will likely have about these forest hermits... They have a lot to tell you all about, too.

Following the event, there will be yet another NPC post on March 28, but like so much of the plot stuff this month, it's gonna be a secret until it happens. Clever players may just be able to guess where this is all heading, since we are wrapping up act 1...

And the transition into act 2 will officially begin with the intro log on April 1, so stayed tuned! :)

ooc news

And that's March for you! To wrap things up, here are our OOC announcements for the month!
We've added a new note to our explorations system! Explorations will always be closed during events except under rare special circumstances. Similarly, explorations can't be forward- or back-dated to happen during an event. We've closed explorations during events a few times in our game's history, and it works out pretty well for us behind the scenes! This will encourage players to focus on the event at hand, as well, without needing to worry about bonus stuff like explorations.

Speaking of explorations, all characters will be free to explore the remaining unlockable bits of downtown on March 1. If you've already sent a character on a downtown exploration, you're now free to try again if you like! The courthouse and the lower level of the shopping center are the last remaining big unlocks for that area, so once they're fully explored, all the little store fronts left in downtown will open up as well! Check out this mod announcement if you need a refresher on the status of downtown.

After the Wild Heart event, the medical center will be partially unlocked and available for further exploration! That area isn't as extensive as downtown, but since it's a core location, it will be revealed in the same way; the location itself will be safe to travel to, but independent locations within the med center will need further exploration.

We're working on the next game history update! You can expect that page to be updated between the TDM/ferry arrival on March 1 and the Dr. Solis NPC post on March 3.

In the comments below, you'll find the LOOKING FOR GROUP header. If you're interested in doing any kind of exploration in the coming month, go ahead and fill out the posted form under that header, and then comment amongst yourselves to make arrangements! Of course, this isn't required—it's just another way to plot stuff with other players. Maybe you've already got a plan and want some brave souls along on the journey with you, or maybe you're just looking to toss your character into an existing group. Whatever you're interested in, feel free to hit up the LFG thread if you'd like to plot exploration stuff for the month!

the tl;dr

March 1: Ferry arrival; TDM
March 3: Dr. Solis NPC post
March 9-10: Birds of Paradise weather event
March 13: Bad Luck weather event
March 15: CR meme
March 20-22: Wild Heart Part 1
March 22: Apps open; AC begins
March 23: Robin NPC post
March 23-26: Wild Heart Part 2
March 28: ??? NPC post
March 29: Apps close
March 31: AC ends

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