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FEBRUARY ACTIVITY CHECK-IN
ACTIVITY CHECK-IN
Guidelines
THIS GAME DOES NOT HAVE ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS. Instead, players are asked to check in each month and provide a summary of what their character has been up to. Please consider things 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.
YOU MUST CHECK IN. While we do not have minimum activity requirements, we DO require proof of life. You must submit the form below or you WILL be swept from the game. Because the mods are getting this post up late, you have until 3/5 to check in.
NEW CHARACTERS MUST COMMENT TO THE TAKEN CHARACTER LIST. Checking in here is optional if you were accepted into the game within the past two weeks.
NO LINKS TO THREADS ARE REQUIRED. However, players who include activity links in their summaries and/or make clear reference to the resources they're gathering and relationships they're building may find their characters ICly receive preferential treatment and extra support from the Guilds when attempting to run plots.
Announcements
First, we want to draw your attention to the first![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
metamods top-level comment on this Activity Check-In post. You can submit gossip and rumors about your characters for Rue Moore to report in her upcoming network post here. Rumors can be true or false, mild or salacious, but they should relate to your characters' hero identities.
Second, we are adjusting the way we handle NPC encounters for events! The following information has been mirrored in the February Confluence log. For each event with a clear antagonistic NPC force — such as the Vlog Squad, in the February arrival — interested players can pitch their characters' encounters with those NPCs. Whether characters are heroic and suited to the role or not, the aim is the group effort of pitching in, so we highly encourage collaborating on these encounters. Once enough NPC encounters have been submitted, we'll determine if and how the trouble has been addressed, and select one of those encounters to be the final, conclusive one in the game. Everyone else's encounters will also have taken place, but may have been temporary stopgaps in addressing the conflict rather than a conclusive blow. The deadline for these on the February Confluence log are 3/5.
How it works:
Check-In Form
YOU MUST CHECK IN. While we do not have minimum activity requirements, we DO require proof of life. You must submit the form below or you WILL be swept from the game. Because the mods are getting this post up late, you have until 3/5 to check in.
NEW CHARACTERS MUST COMMENT TO THE TAKEN CHARACTER LIST. Checking in here is optional if you were accepted into the game within the past two weeks.
NO LINKS TO THREADS ARE REQUIRED. However, players who include activity links in their summaries and/or make clear reference to the resources they're gathering and relationships they're building may find their characters ICly receive preferential treatment and extra support from the Guilds when attempting to run plots.
Announcements
First, we want to draw your attention to the first
metamods top-level comment on this Activity Check-In post. You can submit gossip and rumors about your characters for Rue Moore to report in her upcoming network post here. Rumors can be true or false, mild or salacious, but they should relate to your characters' hero identities. Second, we are adjusting the way we handle NPC encounters for events! The following information has been mirrored in the February Confluence log. For each event with a clear antagonistic NPC force — such as the Vlog Squad, in the February arrival — interested players can pitch their characters' encounters with those NPCs. Whether characters are heroic and suited to the role or not, the aim is the group effort of pitching in, so we highly encourage collaborating on these encounters. Once enough NPC encounters have been submitted, we'll determine if and how the trouble has been addressed, and select one of those encounters to be the final, conclusive one in the game. Everyone else's encounters will also have taken place, but may have been temporary stopgaps in addressing the conflict rather than a conclusive blow. The deadline for these on the February Confluence log are 3/5.
How it works:
- Reply to the relevant top-level comment with an encounter and/or questions about the encounter. The mods are happy to go back and forth with before locking in exactly what a character or group of characters does. Any conversations between characters and NPCs will most likely be happening prior to combat unless specified by the players.
- The mods ask that players present two options. In one version, the character or group of characters kills, immobilizes, or otherwise apprehend the villain(s). In the other version, one way or another, the villain escapes or overcomes the character or group of characters. Players who wish to have a specific spot in the timeline (near to the beginning or near to the end) should make this request explicit, and the mods will make efforts to accommodate this.
- The mods will RNG the results for the final encounter. For all other submissions, the escape/overcome option is selected. Open calls for collaboration which result in multiple player characters contributing to an idea or solution (see: Kamala Khan's solution to the Cerberus fight) have a much higher chance of being the final encounter, as we want to reward player collaboration and innovation. Please be sure that after everyone has weighed in you return to the top-level comment to report exactly what is happening and who is doing what.
- The mods will reply to player submissions with a brief outline of how all of the run-ins go, whether it's a fight or a slapstick series of hilarious accidents that involves the character(s).
Request NPC encounters using the following form —
EXAMPLE—
Character(s) involved: The Iron Giant and Hank Hill
Details of the encounter: Hank will ride in Iron Giant's hand as they search the city for the Vlog Squad, eventually spotting them in a public park. They land explosively in the middle, throwing all of the squad off of their feet while the Iron Giant sends out a signal to scramble their livestreams and begins trying to catch the offenders up in both hands. Hank will try to tackle at least one of them.
How might the villain escape or overcome the player character(s)? Playlist slow motions Iron Giant and they easily duck its grasp, and Filter leaves Hank floating upside down as they make their escape.
How would the player character(s) kill, immobilize, or apprehend the villain? Iron Giant grabs Playlist before she can slow it, then picks up and captures all but Emoji; Hank throws a branch and beans that guy right in the head. Iron Giant gathers him up too, and they turn them in to the first batch of emergency responders they find.
EXAMPLE—
Character(s) involved: The Iron Giant and Hank Hill
Details of the encounter: Hank will ride in Iron Giant's hand as they search the city for the Vlog Squad, eventually spotting them in a public park. They land explosively in the middle, throwing all of the squad off of their feet while the Iron Giant sends out a signal to scramble their livestreams and begins trying to catch the offenders up in both hands. Hank will try to tackle at least one of them.
How might the villain escape or overcome the player character(s)? Playlist slow motions Iron Giant and they easily duck its grasp, and Filter leaves Hank floating upside down as they make their escape.
How would the player character(s) kill, immobilize, or apprehend the villain? Iron Giant grabs Playlist before she can slow it, then picks up and captures all but Emoji; Hank throws a branch and beans that guy right in the head. Iron Giant gathers him up too, and they turn them in to the first batch of emergency responders they find.
Check-In Form
Please complete the form below to submit your activity. Players who do not check in using the following form will be swept. New characters MUST have commented to the TAKEN list by the end of the activity check-in.
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?
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?
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