GAMEPLAN: MAY

[nextnightmods]

GAMEPLAN: MAY
Hello, Beacon Bits! Thank you once again for bearing with us through this transition period. Here's what the plan for May looks like!

May 1-15

We're sure you're all exhausted from battling that flood for two whole weeks. Late on April 30 the rain begins to taper off, and on May 1 the clouds part, revealing the starry night sky. The water recedes, the river sinks back down to its usual height, and the extent of the flood's destruction is revealed. The good news is that your hard work really paid off! Many of the key structures in town were protected from the worst of the storm. Others, however, are definitely inaccessible or in need of serious repair.

We are working on updating the Setting page to reflect new details on the state of the town and will reveal that on May 1. However, some key locations that may be helpful for planning: The Invincible, The Landmark Hotel, the General Store, the Greenhouse and the Shopping Center are among the buildings that are in pretty good shape! Much harder-hit were the Village housing, Beacon General Hospital, and the poor Town Hall. All locations have been affected to some degree, and unfortunately, all bridges have been destroyed by that raging river.

Therefore, on May 1, expect a post to the logs comm! With Me All Along is an event that's like an intro log, but - no ferry arrives. Good thing you fought so hard to protect those supplies, huh? There are no newcomers and no restock in sight. Characters will also realize many familiar faces seem to be missing. Rastus' hut has washed away, trying to reach out to Dr. Solis provokes no response, and -

Ah. Yes. That ever-present, steady beam of light, the beacon marking Beacon's location on the lake, has gone out. The entire lighthouse, it seems, has fallen victim to the storm as the cliffs at its base finally eroded into the water. Well. Huh.

Time to get rebuilding. Also, time to locate some missing torches. While most were spared, the bonfire is missing 18 of them. Finding torches in Beacon is a bit like finding a brightly-lit needle in a haystack - still sort of tricky! But it seems that Rastus, the missing bonfire keeper, may have left you some helpful tools to do so. There's also a message on the network - from a username never seen before?

May 15-31

April showers bring May flowers, right? Once the ground isn't so ultra-soggy, on May 15, flowers start to peek from the cracks in the mud and bloom throughout the town and forest! Look for some of these lovely new delights, which will also be collected and handed out by spirits who seem to want to help you guys celebrate the fact you're all still here.

This second half of May is left intentionally open-ended right now as there may be new locations and new game tools encountered in this time that will have some bearing on what happens. So please, watch for updates!

If any players want to run a player plot in this time, feel free to drop by with suggestions. One such possibility might be a memorial event - especially as the town hall has been wrecked pretty badly by the storm and what remains of the previous memorial wall may be hard, if not impossible, to access. If this or any other idea interests you, let us know!

ooc news

We are hoping to have explores reopened and operating soon after the log is up! These will be crucial for solving what happened to some of Beacon's missing people, as well as key to re-enabling the ability to get new people and new items into town. We may yet make some changes to the explore system but for now, please know that only one explore per character per month will be possible in order to help us keep up while we continue updating pages and working out other details.

If all goes well, in mid- to late May we may be able to consider posting a TDM so that prospective players can start enjoying themselves in the setting, with the ultimate goal of reopening apps! While we don't have an exact date for doing so yet as it partly hinges on IC actions, we do intend to welcome new players as soon as we can and will keep you all posted on the dates for those.

While we have now updated the housing and tablet/app pages to reflect characters on the taken list, players who were in ITN at the time of its closing are still allowed to re-add themselves on the taken list through the end of May if they wish to come along. Missing characters can simply have been lost in the woods due to the flood (or hiding, or on autopilot). Characters who dropped from ITN before the game's closing will need to re-app once applications are running again.

One more little note about Night Market dealings - if your character had asked a question of the Hint-O-Matic machine and received an answer, suffering an effect from doing so is completely optional and can start up any time during or after the flood so as not to force retcons of flood event threads. Feel free to come up with your own random penalty effect, or forgo it, whichever you prefer.

On May 22-31 we will put up the May check-in. As mentioned before, we will not be doing AC at this moment in time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Players will still be required to check in and summarize their characters' actions for March and April.

Finally, please welcome the list crew! Updating everything from ITN so we can continue to maintain it is a monumental task and we've grabbed people who volunteered on the interest check to help us with the changeover. Thank you to Daz, Laura, Mawi, and Yuul for all their assistance! As always, you can find ways to contact them or any of the other people behind the scenes at our mod contact page.

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As always, players are welcome to use this post for OOC event plotting! In fact, please do, as not everyone in the game has access to each other's plurks! If you'd like, you can use the small form below to kickstart your plotting plans:

<b>player:</b> (feel free to put your contact info here if you like!) <b>character(s):</b> <b>plans:</b> (have any plans already? or do you have plans you'd like to make? let the world know!) <b>notes:</b> (anything else worth mentioning, like permissions/opt-outs/hiatuses/etc.?)

the tl;dr

• May 1: The flood ends


• Key NPCs are missing, no ferry arrives, and much of the town has been damaged in the flood


• But don't let that get you down, for new opportunities arise from the mud.


• May 15: Also, flowers arise from the mud too. Neat!


• May 22: Check-in begins


• Mid- to late May: Based on explore results and our own workload during the transition, we hope to be able to post a TDM and re-enable apps and item requests soon!


• May 31: Check-in ends

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Comments

[notthatjason]

YES HI WHAT?

LET'S BUILD SOME BRIDGES YO

[arsarcanum]

omg it worked

okay so do you want to take this project from me oocly? bc honestly please have at, but also if ur busy i can also do all of the paperwork :^)b either way this is jason's baby now have fun w the bridges my guy

[notthatjason]

Jason wouldn't mind that and I don't mind oocly -- though where am I taking some paperwork XD

[callada]

lmfao I don't know how many projects we're talking being handed over here but at the very least, the bridge these three build needs to go on the setting page as a new structure (they used to be in explores, but we moved new/modified structures to setting because... it made more sense).

[arsarcanum]

yup, that exactly! so something like, two sturdy bridges and one okayish bridge in the places in the description? like i said, oocly i can handle putting in that request, but someone else icly definitely needs to take control.

[notthatjason]

Okay cool -- I will leave the ooc to you. I already have a top level for possible building.

[arsarcanum]

got it, i'll submit that request in a few hours!