DECEMBER PLOTTING: MEMORY LANE

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Before we begin, we'd like to start with some important OOC announcements!

• While we've worked on a bi-monthly TDM schedule since the beginning, this December we will be keeping the event closed to current players. What with the holidays and the focus on certain plot points, we feel this is for the best. Our next TDM will be in January, though applications are still open as always.
• December will also have all activity checks waived, we just ask that you check in to let us know you're still here! Bonus AC will process as normal. That said, November still has regular AC, so please submit your 2 threads of 5 comments as usual, unless you are a new player who gets a bonus check-in month.
• Speaking of, we've added to the bonus activity store! Check it out.
• Matters of the Heart is still open to questions and discussion, and Heimrquest is still on track for February. We welcome everyone for this, but NPC CR is required on some level. Utilizing the NPC Contact page is the best way to go about this.

SETTING UPDATES

• The mods are going to start sprinkling in the corpses of past life versions of players throughout the woods and in investigations! Please let us know if you would like to opt out of this, however.
• Moder's rescue has caused a blackberry bush to grow at the edge of the forest, just outside the fog wall on the opposite bank of the river (aka you will have to cross the river to reach it). She can usually be found eating berries from it. They seem to regrow far faster than your average blackberries would.
• Add built us a clinic, which is next to Gnosis' lab on the map; Toge built us a rec center to battle the nerds in open PVP combat because to quote Nat, "we can't let the nerds win". Both of these things will appear on the map when Wolfie's life is calm. Thank you.
• Snow continues to fall, and the temperatures will be below freezing most nights. The NPCs are not concerned about this and seem to be immune to the cold, however, Rusty is going to start letting himself into people's rooms to snuggle at night because he is literally just a dog. Be kind to Rusty.

PLOT UPDATES

• The Fears and the Shadows have been outlasted, at least, though not for a lack of trying on their part. With the month over and something stirring within the manor, they've retreated back into the forest... for now. But make no mistake: they will always be in your heart and in your head.
• The Forest is still furious, but winter is the time of rest even for unholy forests and its creatures, so one may enter the forest without assault once more. However, everything is hibernating and wild plant life is dead and the river has iced over- even the River Guardian must bend to the weather. While the general store can provide fresh produce, fresh meat is going to be much harder to come by. The only things unaffected are the gifts of the guardians, the apple tree and berry bushes on the riverbanks.
• There's a light on in the attic of the manor. But still its residents do not answer.
• Magic is once more leaking from it- but this time, instead of the guilt and regret that plagues the mind, residents of the Grove will find themselves feeling wistful and nostalgic for a time they no longer remember.
• Midway through the month, amongst the snowflakes, faint lights will also gently fall down to the earth. If untouched, they will sink through the snow and return to the earth. But should you touch one, it will take you and one other person into a brief flashback of your past lives, be it the both of you or just one.
  • For new players who have not had the chance to come up with a "past life" for your character, we have a Past-Life Plotting Meme, but you don't have to utilize it if you don't want to (we know it's old!). Take a look if you'd like and use this opportunity to come up with something for your character, it can be pretty much anything as long as it falls within the constraints of the settings.

Please use the following form for plotting.

Character:
Status: Who is your character? What did they get up to last month and how is it impacting this month? Did they discover something? Are they harboring a clue? HMM
Seeking: Any CR or plot thread you want to kickstart!
Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
Anything Else: A permissions post, opt-in for a character-specific power or whatever else.
Meme: you know you have one.

<strong>Character:</strong> <strong>Status:</strong> <strong>Seeking:</strong> <strong>Not Seeking:</strong> <strong>Anything Else:</strong> <strong>Meme:</strong>