oocinthenight | GAMEPLAN: AUGUST

GAMEPLAN: AUGUST

Hey there, players! Can you believe it's been a month already? Anyway, we'll be doing these little gameplans just before the start of each month to give you all an idea of what to expect in the coming weeks. These gameplans will include a brief description of upcoming events, a general schedule for the month, and any minor mod updates (i.e. not warranting a full mod announcement) that we have for you all.

As we head into August, please make sure to respond to the activity check if you haven't already! Everyone's required to post this month, and we will not be doing a warned list, so please make sure you've posted! Also, applications close tonight, so be sure to get your app in if you're still planning to bring in a second character.

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The month will begin with our intro log on August 1! Welcome, fresh blood! Winters will be around to give his "hi you're dead be careful with your lantern etc. etc." spiel, though he won't hang around for very long! This time, it's up to you folks to get the new characters up to speed. It's all about community, as Winters would say.

But, uh oh, there's a bit of an issue with the ferry this month. It's been infested with rats! Forest spirit rats, of course, and they're hungry. Let's just hope they won't eat through too many of the month's supplies... Fortunately, though, they seem eager to hop off the ferry once it's close to shore! Unfortunately, that means they're making their way downtown. That could be a bit of a problem.

If the rats aren't dealt with during the intro log, they'll at least get driven out of town on August 5 with the start of a torrential downpour! The rain will last for two straight days, and then will turn into a thunderstorm, which will then cause flash flooding. Beacon's going to be awfully soggy until the rain and floods finally clear up on August 10. But for those five days, be careful with your lanterns and, erm, keep an eye on the bonfire. Not even water can put out the bonfire, but wood does float, and Rastus can't swim. Bon voyage, bonfire!

Just kidding. Mostly. The bonfire will probably be fine, but it's not like characters will know that. Feel free to use this downpour however you like, as it's just a weather event and we won't actually be putting up a log for it.

You'll also want to look out for OOC signups for the lighthouse expedition on August 8. This is the expedition Winters talked about in his recent network post. We'll have more info on the OOC post itself, of course, but here's the short version of how it will work: Players will be able to sign up their character(s) to contribute to various parts of the lighthouse expedition and forest spirit party. We'll choose the groups via random number generator to keep things fair. The RNG drawings will be player-based in that if you play two characters and one is chosen, your other character will be removed from the running. We're aiming to make space for approximately 25-30 players to contribute directly to this plot. If you aren't able to get involved directly, there will be more opportunities for this kind of plot-related stuff in the future! In the meantime, you can enjoy the event! Which, speaking of...

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The second half of the month is where stuff gets a bit busy! Let's start with the Do You Realize? event, shall we?

Do You Realize? will be split into two halves, with part one running August 15-17. The first part of the event will be... A party! How nice! The forest spirits have decided to throw y'all a big WELCOME TO BEACON!!! bash. Yes, it's about a month late for the first batch of arrivals, but look, the forest spirits are a shy and wary bunch. It's thanks to the kindness, respect, and friendship shown to the forest spirits by many of you in town that they're willing to come out into the open for a meet-cute. As a group, you've been... APPROVED!

Anyway, some lucky players will be able to impart their influence on said party by working with the forest spirits in one big party planning committee! Yay! Forest spirits both familiar and unfamiliar, cute and creepy, friendly and... well, neutral-ish, if we're being generous will be in attendance, and everyone in town is invited. The party will take place in Bonfire Square, and the particulars will depend on what the party planning committee comes up with.

On the night of August 17, the expedition to the lighthouse will begin. How this expedition pans out will depend heavily on the players involved, so we can't tell you much about how things will go just yet! All you need to know is this: Using the party as a distraction was a great idea, but alas, it was never destined to work completely. Suddenly, the lighthouse fog horn will start blaring in frantic melody, almost like a song, until...

Well, you'll just have to wait to find out. It probably won't be good, though! We'll have more details on this event when the OOC post for it goes up. To top it all off, there will be a mysterious NPC post on August 20 immediately following the event! Who that comes from will depend on how the expedition goes.

In less dramatic news, we'll have some ominous heat lightning on August 18, and our TDM goes up on August 15!

ooc news

Some players came our way with a suggestion that we've decided to try out, so keep an eye out for the gamewide HMD post on August 15. The HMD post will go up in the OOC comm, oocinthenight, and it will be locked to players in the game. Every player will be required to toplevel so that other players can offer feedback. We'll have a toplevel for us as mods, as well. This feedback can be critical, but we of course won't allow harassment or anything of the sort. On the flipside, no one should use the HMD as a love meme, either! The intent here is to offer each other thoughtful feedback that will help us grow as RPers, and it's tough to grow from both bashing and gushing alike. We'll have more details on the post itself.

But mods, you ask, why bother with a gamewide HMD if we've already got required HMDs on our journal? That redundancy hasn't been lost on us, but ultimately, since the IC and OOC communities in this game are critical to its success, we thought a group HMD would be plenty beneficial too. Kind of like a little roundtable discussion where we can offer advice on the things we can improve on and praise for the things we're already knocking out of the park. That said, please do let us know below if you have questions or comments!

In the future, the CR meme and the gamewide HMD will alternate. In July, we had the CR meme, so in August, it's HMD time! We'll have another CR meme in September, and so on from there.

And lastly, we have some small modly updates! These are features we've implemented over the course of the month, though none of them were big enough to warrant a whole-ass mod announcement on the OOC comm. Instead, these updates as well as any other future updates will appear in the gameplans for the month! So, here's what we've got:

The NPC page now includes a more thorough description of the forest spirits, as well as descriptions of some of the notable forest spirits around town.
The taken page has been updated to include player/canon cap numbers, and all of the character names now link to that character's app (so long as that app was given the go ahead to be unscreened).
We've updated the calendar to include weather events, as well as the schedule for August.

the tl;dr

August 1: Intro log
August 5: The rain begins
August 7: The rain becomes a storm
August 8: The storm continues and flash floods begin; OOC signups for the Do You Realize? event
August 10: The storms and flooding finally end; OOC signups close and groups will be contacted shortly thereafter
August 15: TDM; HMD; Do You Realize? P1 begins
August 18: Do You Realize? P1 ends while P2 begins; Heat lightning lights up the sky
August 19: Do You Realize? P2 ends
August 20: NPC network post; Reserves open
August 22: Reserves close; Apps open; AC begins
August 29: Apps close
August 31: AC ends

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//slides in, vibrating at the description of the r a t s

If Aislin plays her music towards the rats, would they be affected by it? Or would Aislin just look very silly?