OOC PLOTTING: time to rest (in peace) (wait no)

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SETTING UPDATES

• Colder weather creeps in, setting frost that melts in the morning across the grove and early snows a week or so into the month. The plantimals are going to continue invading for warmth, though many will likely be much sleepier now that the cold is setting in more.
• Mr. Bonejangle’s house despawns! I like to think it is in a colorful cloud of confetti. Goodbye house.
• The sky takes a drearier turn, as befitting the weather.
• We have several new buildings:
  • Shadow Milk Cookie has regained the research hall! This is where his past life conducted classes and also necromantic experiments. Yay!
  • Ras has a dojo open to the public! Yay!
  • Kyojuro has a house that I assume is not open to the public but might be! Yay!
• There is a map channel in the Discord server now with an MSPaint-ified version of the old map from way back when. Unfortunately Wolfie’s old map program causes nothing but issues these days, so we return to the ancient art of MSPaint doodles.

PLOT UPDATES

• It’s been a rough fall, hasn’t it? The grove is quiet while wounds and spirits heal. Ydalir and Heimr hang star shaped lanterns throughout the Grove, and invite you to join them- lanterns have always been important to them, and something about the light brings a sense of security.
• Visiting Ydalir’s tent or Heimr’s private abode in the back of the General Store also means getting treated to a home cooked meal. Ydalir’s tent will specifically allow her to treat you to a meal from your home world if it’s made with specific ingredients you wouldn’t find elsewhere.
• About mid-month, a dark green mist rolls from within the Grove. Unlike other recent mists, it seems to only be about waist-high, but as you wander it you will find… yourself. Your past life self, specifically. This will be an opportunity to meet the “you” that used to be, for better or worse.
• Also within the mist will be Morrigan, the Lady Death. Or- is it?
• Turns out someone opened the door to the afterlife in the basement of Shadow Milk’s research hall, and it’s going to need to be closed, unless you really want to live on the sliver of existence between life and death. More so than usual, I mean.
• Once this is settled, Heimr and Renard will take a few days to let people rest, but it’s time for a community feast! They will encourage everyone to come to the Inn for a shared meal, for community, for love and warmth. It’s been a terrible time, after all, and they worry so.

STATE OF THE NPCS

• HEIMR is an old man. He’s still running the store, and welcomes company and business alike. He’s very smitten with Renard. Do you think he likes him…
• RENARD likes Heimr :) And realistically will continue doing what he does best, which is making very tiny trinkets and being a Disney princess with his animal friends.
• NENE is harvesting from her garden and eager to share her vegetables- very large, high quality produce that will probably taste better than anything you’ll ever have had before. But with the cold setting in and her being part plant and all, she’s going to be getting much sleepier too.
• TERHO was resurrected, but he’s never been good with people and also wanted to see his husband asap.
• CALLISTO has kept to herself, experimenting with wines and meads, and watching everyone around her. She seems pretty contemplative most of the time.
• EVAN and RILLIAN are awake! But they seem pretty skittish. That said, if they think your house or inn room may be lacking, they’ll be delivering blankets and supplies. Don’t freeze, people that they used to know.
• THE GUARDIANS & SEHUL are fine (source needed) after their soirée in the mountains. They will return to the usual “doing things around the Grove” pattern.
• ZONARI is ? ? ? ? back to form it seems, only popping in late at night to see the animals and leave. Her motivations still remain unclear.
• THE LORD OF THE MOUNTAINS remains uncontactable after sending everyone back post-minivent, but know that he appreciates you guys.
• YDALIR is having a mental health crisis but is otherwise back to dissociating about her identity; we will have a quest about this eventually.

OOC UPDATES

• All in all, November is going to be a month about recovery from the wringer we’ve been putting you through! Aside from the death. But maybe death isn’t as scary as one might think?
• As you can see, we’re also including more information on the NPCs, for more opportunity for NPC CR, and because they too exist in this world- just because we aren’t looking at them doesn’t mean things don’t progress for them, too.
• Fun stuff aside, we’re making some policy changes-
  • From now on, you have 72 hours upon acceptance to submit your acceptance tasks! If you fail to do so, you and/or your new character will automatically be swept from the game and be unable to be re-apped for one month after.
    • Acceptance tasks include: Joining both comms, creating a toplevel on the AC page, filling out the taken page, and making an IC Inbox.
    • Mod Lavvy is going to tweak the code on our Taken page to include an IC Inbox link when she has time. Please do not make her go out of her way to ask you to make an IC Inbox; please ensure you have one easily accessible now. We have been lenient about IC Inboxes in the past, but going forward it will be a requirement.
    • Mod Lavvy is also undergoing a very busy season at work; please be patient while she gets our pages updated. If anything urgently needs doing/updating, tap Mod Wolfie in the interim.
  • We are also no longer being as lenient for AC. Missing AC comments or Hiatus comments will receive a strike by default, meaning that Mod Wolfie will not chase you down to tap you about doing your checkins/main AC/hiatus comments. Your strikes will be given as a mod comment after AC is processed.
    • As a reminder, our strike system requires double AC to be turned in the next month.
    • Mod Wolfie posts AC reminders in the Discord during the week leading up to AC being due. If you don’t use the Discord and are time-blind, setting up a recurring calendar reminder via your calendar app is the way to go.
• November is, as is tradition, a check-in month for AC, as is December. We want to make the holidays easy on you. If you receive a strike this month, however, you will owe AC for Nov to make up for Oct; if you fail to make Nov check-in or strike AC, you will be assumed fully inactive and swept from the game, unless otherwise communicated with the mod team ahead of time.
• Your AC for October is due today, and is still our typical 2 threads of 5 from you. Please submit that by the end of the day!

Please use the following form for plotting:

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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.
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