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OOC INTRO - JUNE '18
Hello, and welcome to the fourth OOC Intro for Phantasmal Rift! This post also serves as a CR meme and overall state-of-the-game update!
IC Intro will go up on Monday, at the conclusion of the dungeon - but if you'd like, you can go ahead and jump into the tail end of the dungeon log now! There's scary boss fight going on in the final area (which is also now on the info page, for easy access, though minus all that terrible boss info), and you're also welcome to top your own top levels using whatever prompts you like!
(And yes, you get loo for any further comments you leave on the dungeon log, up to a max of five, same as in-game players. Any loot earned thusly will be appended to the sign-ups under a header with your character's journal name.)
STATE OF THE GAME
THERE HE GOES AGAIN aka calendar update - Based upon mod discussion, the game is being updated to a six week cycle (instead of the current five weeks)! This is primarily to allow players a chance to run their own plots during the month or so of downtime between Fissure logs. IC dates have also been added up to the next dungeon.
On the bright side, this means that we can in fact have our Halloween dungeon during Halloween weekend! Yay! Spoop. Other previously discussed calendar matters - namely, the lighter December dungeon catching the IC calendar up a bit more with the OOC calendar - are still going forward as planned. As before, the schedule is currently updated to the end of the year - helpfully, the last AC check of the year now falls on December 31st!
A list of start dates for the next group of dungeons/application openings;
THE NEXT DUNGEON WILL BE... decided based upon an IC poll that will be posted along with the IC intro on Monday. As far as OOC concerns, without giving too much away - the first dungeon option will be resource heavy and effects-on-characters light, allowing everyone a bit of a breather after a heavy-hitting dungeon and a transformational dungeon. The second option... Not so much, and will likely be a high-stress dungeon for a lot of characters. Whichever dungeon is not chosen will be the following expedition.
[S] END OF ACT ONE: The aforementioned two dungeons will wrap up the first phase of our metaplot! Expect to see some new plot elements - and perhaps some new faces - going forward. We're almost at the one third point of the overall planned plot, but of course, anything and everything is subject to change until we get there, based on your feedback and IC actions!
STATION UPDATES: The Annex page has been updated with two new areas! One is the long-promised AV room - new home of the DDR machine - and the other is a special surprise brought to you by the hard work of Team Stay-At-Home!
Permissions post round-up: If you have a required opt-in/out permissions post for your characters' powers, please make sure to drop it under the appropriate comment header below! Existing characters' permissions are already linked there, for your convenience.
Anything else?: As usual, the questions and feedback header is here for you!
CR MEME FORM;
And now, the weather;
5/22; Starts sunny as the week previous; goes increasingly cloudy as the day wears on. By nightfall, it's clear that a storm will soon break - best not get caught outside after the expedition.
5/23-25; Wind storm, with harsh rains and the occasional burst of thunder. Smaller characters and pets (eg Morgana, Sunshine the chocochick) advised to stay inside or be carried by someone with a bit more weight to them to avoid getting blown away.
5/26-30; Wind settles down to a steady breeze, and the sun returns. Clear and warm.
5/31-6/2; Sunny and clear, but unusually sticky and humid. Dead air, even the sea breeze almost going still.
6/3-7; Sunny, warm and clear; the breeze returns. and the humidity backs off.
6/8; Overcast and grey; cooler, but still pretty warm.
6/9-11; First half of the day or so is cloudy (until noon-1pm), at which point the clouds burn off into clear skies.
6/12; Extremely grey and overcast, to the point of being oppressively dark. Thunderstorm breaks about 4pm and lasts most of the night.
6/13; Cloudy in the morning, clears up in the afternoon.
614-19; Clear and sunny with the occasional single cloud. The temperature average goes up again and settles in the low 80s, which is the standard for the rest of the summer.
6/20-22; Somewhat cloudier but still more sun than not.
6/23-27; Heat wave, somewhat humid but mostly hot, breaking low 90s all days and getting as high as 97F. Some clouds and thunder in the evenings, but no rain.
IC Intro will go up on Monday, at the conclusion of the dungeon - but if you'd like, you can go ahead and jump into the tail end of the dungeon log now! There's scary boss fight going on in the final area (which is also now on the info page, for easy access, though minus all that terrible boss info), and you're also welcome to top your own top levels using whatever prompts you like!
(And yes, you get loo for any further comments you leave on the dungeon log, up to a max of five, same as in-game players. Any loot earned thusly will be appended to the sign-ups under a header with your character's journal name.)
STATE OF THE GAME
THERE HE GOES AGAIN aka calendar update - Based upon mod discussion, the game is being updated to a six week cycle (instead of the current five weeks)! This is primarily to allow players a chance to run their own plots during the month or so of downtime between Fissure logs. IC dates have also been added up to the next dungeon.
On the bright side, this means that we can in fact have our Halloween dungeon during Halloween weekend! Yay! Spoop. Other previously discussed calendar matters - namely, the lighter December dungeon catching the IC calendar up a bit more with the OOC calendar - are still going forward as planned. As before, the schedule is currently updated to the end of the year - helpfully, the last AC check of the year now falls on December 31st!
A list of start dates for the next group of dungeons/application openings;
- JULY 20TH
- SEPTEMBER 7TH
- OCTOBER 26TH
- DECEMBER 14TH
THE NEXT DUNGEON WILL BE... decided based upon an IC poll that will be posted along with the IC intro on Monday. As far as OOC concerns, without giving too much away - the first dungeon option will be resource heavy and effects-on-characters light, allowing everyone a bit of a breather after a heavy-hitting dungeon and a transformational dungeon. The second option... Not so much, and will likely be a high-stress dungeon for a lot of characters. Whichever dungeon is not chosen will be the following expedition.
[S] END OF ACT ONE: The aforementioned two dungeons will wrap up the first phase of our metaplot! Expect to see some new plot elements - and perhaps some new faces - going forward. We're almost at the one third point of the overall planned plot, but of course, anything and everything is subject to change until we get there, based on your feedback and IC actions!
STATION UPDATES: The Annex page has been updated with two new areas! One is the long-promised AV room - new home of the DDR machine - and the other is a special surprise brought to you by the hard work of Team Stay-At-Home!
Permissions post round-up: If you have a required opt-in/out permissions post for your characters' powers, please make sure to drop it under the appropriate comment header below! Existing characters' permissions are already linked there, for your convenience.
Anything else?: As usual, the questions and feedback header is here for you!
CR MEME FORM;
And now, the weather;
5/22; Starts sunny as the week previous; goes increasingly cloudy as the day wears on. By nightfall, it's clear that a storm will soon break - best not get caught outside after the expedition.
5/23-25; Wind storm, with harsh rains and the occasional burst of thunder. Smaller characters and pets (eg Morgana, Sunshine the chocochick) advised to stay inside or be carried by someone with a bit more weight to them to avoid getting blown away.
5/26-30; Wind settles down to a steady breeze, and the sun returns. Clear and warm.
5/31-6/2; Sunny and clear, but unusually sticky and humid. Dead air, even the sea breeze almost going still.
6/3-7; Sunny, warm and clear; the breeze returns. and the humidity backs off.
6/8; Overcast and grey; cooler, but still pretty warm.
6/9-11; First half of the day or so is cloudy (until noon-1pm), at which point the clouds burn off into clear skies.
6/12; Extremely grey and overcast, to the point of being oppressively dark. Thunderstorm breaks about 4pm and lasts most of the night.
6/13; Cloudy in the morning, clears up in the afternoon.
614-19; Clear and sunny with the occasional single cloud. The temperature average goes up again and settles in the low 80s, which is the standard for the rest of the summer.
6/20-22; Somewhat cloudier but still more sun than not.
6/23-27; Heat wave, somewhat humid but mostly hot, breaking low 90s all days and getting as high as 97F. Some clouds and thunder in the evenings, but no rain.
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Who are you?: 27, web apps code man, single and not ready to mingle, hour commute each way to work because parking downtown is terrible
Character name + Journal: Aya Shameimaru /
Canon: Touhou Project
Permissions: nothing major really, just "can she listen to the wind and learn for things she wasn't around for just from you talking about them"
What's their deal?: Gensokyo's fastest and most aggravating reporter. More chill here for "Reasons". Inherently magical, extremely windy. Never seen without her camera.
Plotting: She will shortly be putting out the second Bunbunmaru Special Edition with [SECRET THINGS] in it. One of her other bits this time is going to focus on whether there's anything really going on with so many people having picked up animal transformations even before the dungeon happened, so if your character has picked up an animal form let's talk about what they might say in an interview.
Character name + Journal: Phi /
Canon: Zero Escape with CRAU from Trustfell 4: Live Free or Trust Fall
Permissions: Zero Escape and murdergames being what they are, there is some potentially sensitive content here.
What's their deal?: The rest of you murdergame people may have sort of adopted the murdergame, but she was born in one. No, really, that's actually true.
But it's been a couple months since her last one and she's been on day trips to some places. For one thing, she has a Pokemon (a Porygon named Angular), because she got locked in murderschool with four Pokemon Trainers and all of them are well-connected.
She's also at most one connection removed from an unusually high number of people already at the station.
Plotting: She might not do too much the first few weeks, just getting a feel for how things are going to go.