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OOC UPDATES

Short update, slow month, happy holidays if you celebrate!
Lavvy has joined the mod team as a list mod! Everyone give it up for your newest overlord Lavvy! Yay!
As a result, some things related to how our pages are maintained and look may be getting a slight overhaul. We will point at them all rapidly as they come because we love and appreciate this.
Wolfie will be taking a full (100%) mod hiatus in December because Wolfie is on fire. Any NPC requests through Wolfie’s NPCs will be handwaved for the month of December; ongoing investigations she ran in November will still be tagged/completed.
We have a page about corruption, draconic blessings and a placeholder for the magic system! Please give it a look if you haven’t already.
Casual reminder that November is a check-in month, aaaand so is December! Historically December always is, so enjoy your two free months. Regular AC will resume in January.

SETTING UPDATES

Winter’s bite is worsening, and the animals are beginning to grow scarce again. The lake and river aren’t frozen over completely yet, but if you remember last year… in any case, there will be blizzards throughout the month, and near the end of it, the cold grows bad enough to where even our native snowbirds might find the temperatures unforgiving.
Dark Cacao and his chosen companions have successfully hatched the seven dragons, and early to mid-month will be safe to move to the Grove.
With this, draconic blessings are fully available to the rest of the game as well (see the above linked page). Draconic blessings have no thread cost but you must speak to the hatchlings for it, and it must be threaded. The thread can be short, don’t worry. As a recap, the blessings are permanent and as follows:
- Strength: horns and scales visually, and increased durability.
- Balance: a tail, possibly prehensile.
- Flight: wings, capable of flight.
- Sight: dragon eyes (either straight up lizard or something akin to the unique eyes in Flight Rising, if you need ideas) with enhanced vision.
Those with keen eyes may note that there seem to be less Seaborn in the river. Weird!
There is a heavy feeling of something watching you from all angles, but it is hard to find the source.

PLOT UPDATES

The merchants- Ydalir especially- will be hosting a feast and something of a cultural exchange, including Ydalir just yoinking things out of her mirror from your world to eat and share. With a bit of magic, everyone can partake in whatever they’d like! Yes even you, Loop.
Everyone is invited and while it’s not enforced, you may make a tall shadow woman sad if you don’t stop by for a bite.
As the temperature drops, the guardians seem to grow drowsy. Callan will temporarily stop living in the lake as he finds the temperatures unforgiving, and will primarily be stationed in Siffrin’s fish tank. Sinann will still be active in the river, but will be seen less frequently. Moder will be active enough to conscript Wolfwood into being Saint Nick again, but otherwise will be sleeping. Aurora will transform into a tiny bird and slip in with the Church pigeons. Zahliya remains semi-active and will conduct his regular patrols, but will stay inside the Church rather than on top of it.
On the topic of a certain gargoyle guest, Zonari will largely sleep in the barn and not be seen much. She’s also hibernating.
We have a Christmas gifts thread below, so feel free to put what your character wants for Christmas down! Providing a brief list is fine; note that the mods will only pick one of these things. It can be an item from home that would cost 5 threads or under, so a medium item regain, or something from the usual BAC store for under 5 threads, or something you completely make up for fun (a niche book, a really cool rock, a plushie, idk your life). If physical items aren’t your character’s thing, we can work with that in some way; just write the idea down anyway.
- Note that we will tally up the gifts the day before the event goes live (Dec. 5th), so if you don’t put anything down, you will receive a handwaved generic gift instead of something personalized to your character.
- These will be delivered by Wolfwood yes Chi we’re conscripting him again (you asked for it).

Please use the following form for plotting:

Character:
Canon:
CR: Who is your character? Any special powers or things they have going on? Any specific CR you want to kickstart?
Plans: What’s on the agenda for this month? Any interactions with the monthly event? Other things you want to do?
Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
Anything Else: A permissions post, opt-in for a character-specific power or whatever else.
Recent Posts or Toplevels: For things you posted that you want additional tag-ins on or that might’ve gone missed.
Past Life Plotting Toplevel: From ye olde post.
Meme: Make us laugh.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Character: White Lily Cookie
Canon: Cookie Run: Kingdom
CR: White Lily Cookie is an all-loving woman from Earthbread who's greatest desire is to find the key to making all Cookies happy and strong... to the point that she learned forbidden magic, opened gates to hell, damned her school, and a whole lot of other really shady things, cumulating in the birth of the greatest evil Cookies have ever known, Dark Enchantress Cookie- who also has all of Lily's knowledge.

Lily means well I swear.

After the sacrifice of her first love, White Lily was both brought back from the brink of death and then empowered with the strength of the Guardian of the Silver Tree, effectively making Lily the new Faerie queen! And then she woke up on the beach here in hell, where she's been just kinda vibing and not thinking about her new royal status at all, actually.

She lives with Pure Vanilla, Dark Cacao, Clotted Cream and an abundance of critters, and has been helping Pure Vanilla research Oripathy for a cure. Otherwise she mostly keeps to herself because... Amity has been dying for months I'm sorry klasj;fd (Also ICly the loss of Vanilla and absence of Cacao hurt her deeply and she was not up for being a person.)

... Buuuut it's been some time, they're both home and well, and she has to keep going, doesn't she? So she will.

Plans: Lily will be bringing floral jellies and blueberry treats based on her personal preferences and also her and Vanilla's school days! She's very curious about everyone else's foods as well, and maybe this will help her socialize a bit more?

For dragon blessings, I'm primarily interested in Strength for her, but I have to face the decision of Do I rp with myself or do I break my own rule and handwave it.
Not Seeking: surprise neg cr
Anything Else: she has a pet green tea cream bunny. it still doesn't have a name...
Recent Posts or Toplevels: n/a
Past Life Plotting Toplevel: iiii still need to do this actually-
Meme:

Character: Mafuyu Asahina
Canon: Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage
CR: Mafuyu is a young woman frm Shibuya who has been emtionally abused into being the Perfect Girl since she was literally six, but at her canon point has finally run away from home to escape her mother's abuse. This has left her terribly drained, especially as immediately after this she was brought into the game and has since been cut off from most of her support system aside from the vocaloid holograms who live in her phone and are born from emotions she herself had to cast away to survive. (vocaloid permission post here)

She's been mostly a passive observer/civilian since arrival, and is very scared of almost all of you.

Plans: No blessings! Continued wallflowering (stop her from doing this) and she will bring in a lot of Japanese dishes but... haha. Babygirl literally cannot taste things so this event is actually going to make her quietly very sad--
Not Seeking:
Anything Else:
Recent Posts or Toplevels:
Past Life Plotting Toplevel: i need to do this too-
Meme:

OOC PLOTTING: it crimmus, merry chrysler

amity's weird women ♡

white lily cookie ⚜️ cookie run kingdom

mafuyu asahina ♡ project sekai