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JANUARY ACTIVITY CHECK

ACTIVITY CHECK-IN

GUIDELINES

This game has no minimum activity requirement for posts and comments. To this end, links to threads are not required. Please read the guidance below for how to check-in and register a continued interest in playing.

NEW PLAYERS
Players accepted in this calendar month do not need to reply to this post. Instead, visit the TAKEN CHARACTERS page and ensure that all character information is posted and up to date. Double-check that all your character's game information is correct — including community membership, character tags, and the listing on the GUILDS page.

CONTINUING PLAYERS
All continuing players must check in. Failure to complete the form below by the last day of the activity check-in period may result in characters being swept from the game. Players can reapply for their swept characters during the next application cycle. Players have until January 31th to reply.

FORM

The form below asks players to summarize their character's actions for the month. When completing the form, players should consider aspects of their characters' lives like work, resource gathering, interpersonal relationship development, personality growth, and how the character's reputation with the guilds and the world at large may have changed.

Players of these characters have passed their decision deadline and lost their residency in the Diadem Hotel. Therefore, this month, these players must link to the character's comment on the GUILDS page in their summary. (Remember that there is an Unaligned header!) This form creates a resource for others to check membership status as well as a record of employment and housing.

Please also remember to comment on the HOUSING page with any preferences. Characters who have commented to the Guilds page but not the Housing page will be randomly assigned housing at the end of the activity period.

Links are otherwise not required, but players who include activity links to threads in their summaries and/or make clear reference to the resources they're gathering and relationships they're building may find that their characters ICly receive extra support from the guilds when attempting to run plots.

Player Name:
Character Name:
Character Journal:
Summary: What has your character been up to this month? What are they doing for work or to make money? How have they changed? Consider goals, behaviors, relationships to others, etc. What have they done lately that might change their reputation to the world as a whole or to the Guilds?

RUE MOORE SUBMISSIONSNow that you have a summary of what your character has been up to written up, now would be a great time to submit to RUE MOORE's gossip column!
The submission post is here.

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Player Name: Chris

Character Name: Angela
Character Journal:

hevenly
Summary: Angela got turned into a teen with Loki's spell and had a number of unusual encounters she might not have usually had. Other than that, Bethan finally came to speak with her, so they might make some progress talking about how Angela knew Bethan in another reality. Maybe. Probably not, knowing them. She's still unaffiliated, and will remain so unless her hand is forced. But she won't sign up without a fight.

Character Name: Lana Baumgartner
Character Journal:

bombshelled
Summary: Lana also got teen-ified, but mostly only spent her time as a teen picking fights online and doing some petty crime. Offscreen, she's been attending Frances Starling's support groups for unaffiliated metas, and is thinking about seeking other advice on whether or not she should join up with a guild.

Player Name: C
Character Name: Galatea
Character Journal:

fearfully_symmetrical
Summary: Galatea, newly arrived, has been spending her credit card money like water - and trying to pretend to be a perfectly balanced, totally sane, not-at-all-villainous sort.

And quasi-succeeding. But these are all surface changes, and the unaffiliated Galatea has a lot to figure out.

Player Name: Autumn
Character Name: Airplane/Shang Qinghua
Character Journal:

greatairplane
Summary: Airplane has mostly been puttering about stressing over his time at the Diadem coming to an end and what choice he's going to make to ensure he's taken care of. He has ultimately gone with the Alliance because of the free housing situation. He is also attempting to make connections, something he's never been really good at, but he's trying. He has a good feeling overall about David Allyne - who he spent some time with during the early part of the month - and maybe that turtle dude (that he accidentally got in trouble with the credit card) too.

Player Name: Pinky
Character Name: Jason Todd
Character Journal:

robintohood
Summary: January Thread Log

Another eventful month for Jason! First, he was deaged to 12-year-old Robin and had a good time meeting other kids and trying to be a good sidekick. Unfortunately, and because several other employees also got deaged, it meant Descendant Bar was closed during the age swap event. The excuse given was that most of the staff went on a holiday. Thanks for temporarily taking the reins, Dana.

Almost as soon as Jason was an adult again, Descendant was open for business again. Besides that, he's been catching up on some things that fell to the wayside during age swap week. He reminding other criminals that Red Hood is still around and making sure Descendant still has customers. Most importantly though, he started investigating with Huvrye on who shot Hunter and is going to hunt and kill the preparators.

In general, Jason's been pretty stressed this winter so far and is really trying to not let that affect how he works. Though uh... he might be a little more aggressive than usual, namely as Red Hood. Other people have possibly noticed as well.

Player Name: Timmy
Character Name: Loki Odinson
Character Journal:

dothelokimotion
Summary: Loki got turned into a kid for a bit. Later on, he also went out with Sephiroth to shop for clothes and check out a band.

Character Name: Ripley Arkwright
Character Journal:

exasperation
Summary: Ripley dealt with his boyfriend being a teen and is potentially moving with him to Central City.

Character Name: Kyle Rayner
Character Journal:

torchbearer
Summary: He met up with Galatea on the network, did his best to help Diana through her tiny crisis and is linefacing at Jason Todd.

Player Name: Mags
Character Name: Miku Kohinata
Character Journal:

sunshinethatwarmsherup
Summary: After getting de-aged and then back to normal, Miku's gone back to her normal life here, consisting of school, patrolling, and making some videos as part of the whole content house thing that she, Hibiki, and Chris are supposed to be doing. She's mostly still fumbling with doing a lot of it, since, well, she's not really sure what type of content she's good at.

Character Name: Erika Kurumi
Character Journal:

fluttersinoceanswind
Summary: Erika's been generally focusing on school and patrolling and yelling at a Precure who went public with her identity on OurPowers. She's also, as always, making new clothes whenever she gets the chance and potentially getting to the point where she'll start regularly making clothes for people.

Player Name: ReneeTwist
Character Name: Mayuko Shiraki
Character Journal:

welcome_summer
Summary: Mayuko thought she was going to have a boring birthday month but then the ageswap event kicked in and she turned sweet 16! She helped out around Sunset Falls and Central, learned about the modern state of vidya games from Mark and encountered a tiny vigilante. Unfortunately, she's found out the hard way there are limits to how much information she can store. At least the booze from a free birthday cake martini is helping her feel better?

Player Name: Tsa

Character Name: Dylan Brock
Character Journal:

codicies
Summary: Hunter, the boy Dylan has a crush on got shot and Dylan was the one to find him bleeding out. He spent a good chunk of time afterwards watching over Hunter as he recovered.

Also there as the age shift event, and Dylan was unlucky enough to be shrunk down into a toddler. Luckily he managed to get home with help from family, and spent the event being nurtured by a loving, supportive family in a way he didn't get to be the first time he was that size.

Character Name: Alec Hardison
Character Journal:

hacktivision
Summary: Hardison has been laying low and trying to get a feel for how this world works.

Edited 2023-01-28 08:45 (UTC)

Player Name: Marie

Character Name: Nico di Angelo
Character Journal:

demigoth
Summary: Hung out with Hunter while he was recovering. Most of Nico's other January activity is in late December post about Hunter getting shot.

Character Name: Tim Drake
Character Journal:

mostdangerousbird
Summary: Tim got de-aged and pseuo-adopted by Billy Kaplan but also sublet adoption by Jason Todd. Played with Loki's multiverse map. Public but late night intervention in Red Hood's stupid gang fight leading to call Bart Allen for help.

Character Name: Tommy Shepherd
Character Journal:

slowmotionbuscrash
Summary: Is learning That Dude From the Bank Who Borrowed His Powers is doing okay. Chatted up Galatea, and continued not being very subtle in the fact that he is a member of a guild but not a fan. He also assumed some responsibility for David during the de-aging plot, as well seeing that Balthier was also de-aged.

In other news, this remains my favourite icon.

Edited 2023-01-28 14:45 (UTC)

Player Name: Yinza
Character Name: Sephiroth
Character Journal:

unkindled_madness
Summary: Sephiroth got de-aged to 13 and experienced the best week of his childhood roaming around and doing the most pointless of crimes like jaywalking and sneaking into bars. Since returning to his normal age, he's been digging into the Jenova Project files David helped him retrieve from his home world. While he's been losing sleep and doing some reckless stunts in an effort to unlock his powers, he's still been able to maintain the basic aspects of his routine. Loki is also helping him to stay grounded, and they made use of his Secret Santa gift to go see a cover band.

Player Name: iola
Character Name: Diana Prince
Character Journal:

monomachy
Summary: Diana was de-aged to 12 years old, and tried to act a lot tougher than she was at that age. Diana and Eddie also discussed leaving Little Love for Central City, and are going to be in the process of moving! Don't worry though, they will be keeping the ranch c:

Edited 2023-01-28 23:59 (UTC)

Player Name: Cybra
Character Name: Six
Character Journal:

sixthdeadliest
Summary: Six ended up getting caught up in Kid Loki's spell, but he managed to maintain his adult memories. (Needless to say, he was pretty annoyed by it.) However, a smaller temporary form did not stop him from potentially picking up students. The man is forever cursed to teach superpowered teens no matter the universe it seems. However, it's become increasingly obvious that he needs to plan out a proper training setup not just for himself but any of this kids that might end up learning from him.

Player Name: Churby

Character Name: David Alleyne
Character Journal:

helpdesk_hero
Summary: David had most of his real drama in January stemming from Kid Loki's childhood spell. As part of it David had some bonding with his friends who were trying to look out for him, some serious fear over Doc Ock, and even some online arguments with Kid Loki himself. During that time he got to be restored to a point where he was still a skilled figure skater, and was tried by Airplane into performing one of his competitive pieces. David ended up thanking the man later, for giving him that moment back. After being returned to adulthood he checked in on friends, especially Sephiroth with whom he had gone to the man's world in December, and tried to get his friend to take care of himself.

Character Name: Mark Bryant
Character Journal:

atypical_echo
Summary: In the face of so many children everywhere, Mark finally caved and joined the Alliance so he could get around to help with managing kids. This has led to him learning about how the guilds work better, having to figure out a new identity, and even talking to people for help planning a costume. He's also spent a lot of the month bonding with his new friend Huvrye, and helping the man come to understand the way the world work and even helping Huvrye determine how to hide his identity. More and more often he is also accidentally teaching Huvrye to respect himself and understand that his boundaries are okay to have.

Player Name: Bri
Character Name: Pavetta Fiona Elen
Character Journal:

cichy
Summary: She's withdrawn almost completely thanks to losing the only familiar faces she had here. And her daughter. That hurts the most. She knows she needs to get back out there, needs to start living again... but it's hard.

Player Name: Molly
Character Name: Doreen Green
Character Journal:

eatsnutsandkicksbutts
Summary: Doreen got de-aged and turned into a 10-year-old! Luckily, Tippy was unaffected, and she recruited the local squirrels to act as adult supervision (two dozen squirrels probably equal one adult human), so for a couple days Doreen basically lived like an old-school Disney princess. Otherwise she's been doing her usual thing, making friends, recommending movies, and giving advice on superhero costumes. (OOC-ly, this month got crazy pretty quickly, so I have been very absent!)

Player Name: Kia
Character Name: Huvrye Tirvio
Character Journal:

effiomsfavorite
Summary: Huvrye has spent his time here so far learning his way around the city (and the continent, from an aerial standpoint - long flights burn off energy) and learning how to function in a completely different role in a completely different world (namely, as a person in a world willing to teach him as such). He spent the de-aging event keeping an eye on things and generally trying to keep kids out of danger. He's been keeping an eye on Hunter while Hunter is in recovery from his gunshot wound; he's also been giving Leo grief for stealing his food and bonding with Mark (who has been instrumental in teaching him about this whole Being A Person thing). Most recently, he's started working with Red Hood to track down the people who shot Hunter.

He's also joined a guild, because he sticks out too much not to do it.

Player Name: Taylor

Character Name: Balthier
Character Journal:

portolan
Summary: Balthier enjoyed his first holiday season and learned to ice skate. He doesn't realize he set off a rumor of a rivalry between he and David's guild persona's, as he had to go help get David down from mistletoe and someone got a pic of them "fighting."

Balthier got hit with the de-age spell and, unbeknownst to him, found many of his favorite people again. He'll be processing how old some of his father wounds are (and how good his friends are) as he returns to himself.

He's starting to feel restless, and I just got some juicy plot stuff so he'll likely be snooping and getting into trouble this next month.

Character Name: Tina
Character Journal:

skagzz
Summary: Tina greatly enjoyed holiday nonsense including telling multiple people that tree burning is traditional. Her gift from Loki particularly touched her. She's not joining a guild and has been pretty Good (not going to school though) but she's struggling with Sephiroth having been gone and now being super preoccupied. She might do something stupid this month. Or get a cat. Or both.

Player Name: Hika
Character Name: Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Character Journal:

nerdylilspidey
Summary: Peter tried to help Otto out a little bit when it came to wrangling some freshly de-aged folks, but mostly he just talked to Kid Loki for a while about how to undo the spell. Otherwise he's back on his usual street patrols, helping out the local crime-fighting scene while also attending school.

Player Name: Knux
Character Name: Tsubomi Hanasaki
Character Journal:

bag_has_snapped
Summary: Tsubomi's been keeping to herself, mostly, dealing with school, hanging around Erika and has not bothered to reveal her identity (Erika WHY?!). She's honestly just still majorly shy and uncertain how to take things. She did have help from Bouncing Boy in dealing with a super villain and had to teach Galatea to go easy on things (while she was accused of doing bad things herself)

Character Name: Sakura Haruno
Character Journal:

weakest_ninja
Summary: Well, she did just arrive, but she's trying to figure out her place in this world. But, hey, she apparently got a teacher in the form of Six! Also, she doesn't realize she has a split personality now.

Player Name: Justine
Character Name: Steph Brown
Character Journal:

eggplanting
Summary: Steph got deaged and had some adventures as Robin, and has been just been trucking along aside from that

Character Name: Lois Lane
Character Journal:

smallvillegazette
Summary: Lois did NOT get deaged, but Jon did, which was not a fun experience considering his new canon point. She's also been getting settled in, including poking into the Alliance and picking up some freelance work. It's hard not being famous anymore

Player Name: Lyn
Character Name: Peter Parker
Character Journal:

tinglesense
Summary: January was pretty much a wash for me, nothing much to report other than Peter being like "why is everyone suddenly a child"

Player Name: Roach
Character Name: Thad Thawne | Inertia
Character Journal:

mirror_soldier
Summary: Thad has been laying low for the most part. But he got caught under mistletoe. Participated in a Secret Santa. Was stuck at Bart's farm during the snowstorm in Little Love. And he's found more reasons to not trust the Guilds in terms of their treatment of clones and things they've done in the past.

Character Name: Danny Chase
Character Journal:

formerspybrat
Summary: Danny's just been mucking about Central City. He was de-aged not long after getting dropped in. And while sneaking around in Alliance headquarters he got caught by Six.

Player Name: Dandy
Character Name: Leonardo Hamato
Character Journal:

faceguy
Summary: Leo has been staying in the Diadem in Central City. His main goal has been replacing his lost katana, and he struck a deal with Shang Qinghua to try and create a new one. For this he tried to buy $15000 worth of gift cards, but only managed to get about $3000 before the accountant started sending him threatening messages.
He met various people in Central. Was de-aged a few years for a time. Stole food from Huvrye and got in trouble. He's beat up some petty crooks but hasn't done much to get himself on any radars yet.

Player Name: OddEyes
Character Name: Hibiki Tachibana
Character Journal:

determinationtofist
Summary: Hibiki has continued to work as both a Hero and Idol, though her appearances this month have been somewhat scarcer due to having been turned younger by Loki's spell... though her mind remained unaffected, likely due to her God-Killer power. Still, a solution to her overwork situation needs to be found.

Player Name: Bugly
Character Name: Bart Allen
Character Journal:

kid_flash_found
Summary: Bart got an unpleasant surprise recently in the form of his evil clone, but they have mostly managed that end by avoiding each other as best as possible. He also had to help with digging a bullet out of his best friend thanks to Robin not being bulletproof, but things are mostly just chill and good for him.

Character Name: Sleeper
Character Journal:

solo_sleeper
Summary: Ageplot did a lot of harm, even though the cat was unaffected personally. With both their brother and parent affected, they had some pretty difficult times. Also, they will probably be helping Jason Todd with the body disposal as he hunts down the goons who shot Hunter. A difficult month, but not the worst they've experienced. After all, nobody that matters died.

Player Name: em
Character Name: loki laufeyson
Character Journal:

ikols
Summary: showed tim his multiverse map and started giving out transmitter bracelets that tony made!

Player Name: Hyatt
Character Name: Dana Tan
Character Journal:

qualityfriend
Summary: Dana got to experience being the responsible adult thanks to the deaging spell hitting everyone around her.

Player Name: Ski
Character Name: Carol Malus Dienheim
Character Journal:

miraclekiller
Summary: Honestly pretty much a wash here. Deaging Carol is uniquely useless.

Edited 2023-02-01 02:54 (UTC)

Player Name: XC
Character Name: Tsubasa Kazanari
Character Journal:

delicatetouch
Summary: Yo why are baby castmates so cute tho

Player Name: Tyranno
Character Name: Chris Yukine
Character Journal:

trustheart
Summary: Chris has more or less stayed the course this month after being de-aged.

Character Name: Mana Aida
Character Journal:

heartthumpingexcitement
Summary: I did a gentle reset on Mana, to the point she’s just recently arrived. First thing she did was reveal her identity on OurHeroes…

Player Name: Saint
Character Name: Darth Nox
Character Journal:

a_gaggle_of_ghosties
Summary: Nox was spared being teen-aged, which really just serves as more evidence in the pile that either this place's magic doesn't work on him or the nature of his bond with the ghosts was able to interfere with magic used against him similar to how it did back home. Nothing else particularly of note, other than he finished constructing a training saber for Diana (though has yet to deliver it). He's also continued his experiments / training with the Force in the woods outside of Sunset Falls, which I may end up putting in a setting engagement post about here shortly.

Player Name: jessi
Character Name: julian keller
Character Journal:

contemns
Summary: Caused havoc and made a nuisance of himself

Player Name: Jormy
Character Name: Bethan Costigan
Character Journal:

nogodsnoheroes
Summary: Bethan has finally stopped randomly Motorcycle Diary-ing her way around the country, and has been living rough in Central City this month. She was turned into a kid briefly during the event, and she hated it, thanks for asking. Still unaffiliated, still hates the guilds, still yelling about it on the internet.

Player Name: michele
Character Name: korg
Character Journal:

beatscissors
Summary: he was deaged into a pebble! so he struggled for a bit since he lacked arms and legs and someone stuck googly eyes on him, but he kept his spirits high and hung out with baby mcu loki to make him feel better about everything.

Player Name: Maxime
Character Name: Eddie Brock
Character Journal:

frenchkissed
Summary: Eddie got turned into a kid, annoyed everyone, and then had a revelation once he was turned back. Now, he and his alien family are moving to Central City in order to do more justice!

Player Name: exxie

Character Name: billy kaplan-altman
Character Journal:

wordiness
Summary: billy took care of baby jason and baby tim while they were age-changed, he's settled into a job, and he semi-adopted a goblin cat. he's been keeping pretty low-key.

Character Name: jon kent
Character Journal:

exponentially
Summary: jon was a baby for the age plot, and he's been doing the superman thing when he's not twelve. he's probably getting ready to sign with the alliance bc he wants to make things better from the inside out.

Player Name: Gee
Character Name: Stephen Strange
Character Journal:

rehandle
Summary: He's been around minding his magical business (I haven't done a lot this month hence forgetting AC rip)

Player Name: Audrey
Character Name: Kid Loki
Character Journal: Thecoolerloki
Summary: Loki did a lot of chaos this month by casting an age changing spell!! In classic Loki fashion it didn’t go at all how he planned and he’s now going to be dealing with the consequences of it

Player Name: Ken

Character Name: Cassandra Cain-Wayne
Character Journal:

louder_than_words
Summary: Cass has been working at the Descendant and spending time with her friends and family.

Character Name: Eliot Spencer
Character Journal:

mydyingday
Summary: Eliot has settling in with Hardison and getting a lay of the land in this new world.

(Note: I know I've been relatively inactive and I'm late responding, I completely understand if my AC check-in is not considered valid for this round)

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