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Here are the results for second-round AC this July. Thank you to everyone who responded. A reminder to review the AC guidelines posted to both the Activity Check page and the game FAQ.

If you have any questions or concerns about AC, please reach out to the mod account.

HIATUS

Sameen Shaw |

DROPPED

Shannon Moss |

2199
Daryl Dixon |

pigsfeet
Beth Greene |

littlemissfutility

SWEPT

Maximus Decimus |

maximusspainard

STRIKE

The Cat |

absentconstellation
Maddy Perez |

somethingintangible
Lalo Salamanca |

Hey everyone, I have to post this reminder just a little bit early today. Here are the results for first-round AC - if you're on this list, then that means you have not submitted AC for July 2023 and, if you don't reach out to me/respond to your character's AC comment before August 7th at 4PM EST, your character will be swept. You can still submit AC for July 2023 before August 7th for a strike.

If you have any concerns about completing AC, please reach out to the mod account directly so we can work something out.

FIRST ROUND AC WARNING LIST

Maximus Decimus |

maximusspainard

EVENT: STORM WARNING RESOLUTION

The earliest hours of Morning 021 promise more of the same from the last three days - black, swirling clouds, torrential downpours, howling gusts of wind that churn the seas and push already swollen rivers and tear down trees by the dozens. But as the sun starts to rise and backlight the perpetual vortex of thunderheads, suddenly, things change.

It doesn't matter where you are on the island. Four beams of light appear from distant points in the ocean, in tiles I, VIII, IX, and XII, although all of them seem faint and gutter out frequently. A brief pulse of something luminescent from the ocean in tile XV follows suit. Then, like a piece of paper burning over a fire, the storm melts away into a foggy morning sky.

SETTING CHANGES

Several things have changed on the island in the wake of the multi-day freak storm.

Plenty of items, natural and unnatural, have been blown onto the beaches and dropped from the sky, replenishing areas that have otherwise been scoured by character investigations. In addition, unique items and animals have appeared; finding them during the storm is more likely, but ones that are not discovered during those IC dates can still be found afterwards.
The island seems to be aware that too much water fell during the storm. Areas flooded from the ocean and rivers dry up within the day, and for the foreseeable future, there will be no rain. Hope everyone stockpiled enough rainwater over the last three days, or knows where their nearest clean river is!
Character-made landmarks associated with temporary camps/campfires/other unfortified structures will no longer be visible on the map; these will be removed from the map systematically as more search requests through the storm event dates are processed, to verify that protected/maintained landmarks remain marked.

Aside from these points, travel times are the same as they were pre-storm and the map has no notable changes.

TEST DRIVE MEME #2

Welcome to Glencola Reef's second Test Drive Meme! This is a place where anyone interested in applying a character - or just curious to see how their characters might interact with the setting and others in the game - can mingle with one another. General prompts are provided below for inspiration.

( Guidelines and prompts under here... )

Hey everyone! This is your new Activity Check mod Amanda congratulating everyone as we approach the end of our third game month.

Here is your reminder to get AC submitted as soon as you can. AC for this month can be submitted through August 3rd at 11:59pm EST without penalty. Another reminder with a list of characters that are in danger of being swept will be posted on August 5th at 4pm EST.

Regular AC guidelines will be in effect from now on. This means that only newly accepted players can leave a check-in and all others must submit the proper requirements unless exempt from hiatus. Please review these guidelines and submit AC here.

If you have any questions or concerns about this month's AC cycle, or upcoming cycles, please leave a comment below or message the mod account directly.

Hello everyone! It's been a very busy week in mod land, but I'm pleased to announce the results of several ongoing OOC projects (finally - apologies for the wait!)

( CO-MODS )

( DEDICATED MOD SUPPORT DAY )

As always, if anyone has any questions or concerns about these announcements, please comment below and one of us (!!!) will get back to you as soon as possible!

EVENT: STORM WARNING

It's been a little more than half a month now of in-game time, and while characters have discovered plenty of oddities and dangers that have kept them on their toes, one thing that has remained pretty reliable has been the weather. Always a balmy 90F/32C during the day and 60F/16C at night, with sunny skies that show only a smattering of rain during the peak of afternoon to quench the thirsts of those characters that don't have reliable sources of fresh water yet. It runs like clockwork...almost suspiciously regular, in fact. Surely a place like this sees more fluctuations in the local environment, right? Maybe they're just in an especially stable part of the world, meteorologically speaking?

Signs of something strange going on start to appear during Day 017. Characters looking out to sea at the familiar fuzzy black line may notice that it seems darker and more prominent than usual, with noticeable tendrils of deep gray-blue starting to spiderweb over the horizon, approaching faster as night falls, right up until it becomes too dark to see them against the evening sky. Sudden flashes of light, like bursts of lightning, briefly illuminate the fuzzy, ragged lines overhead, the only blemishes in an otherwise clear night. The stars seem to warp around and outline them until, past midnight, it almost looks like the sky itself is cracking open like the shell of a dropped egg.

Then, soon after the start of Morning 018, the metaphorical egg shatters - and all hell breaks loose. The stars disappear behind a roiling, swirling mass of black clouds that billow downward, accompanied by instant torrential downpours, near constant lightning strikes, and howling winds that drive the surrounding ocean into a frenzy. And it simply doesn't let up, for three whole days.

( More details... )

Happy July everyone! Popping in really quickly to give the results for first-round AC - if you're on this list, then that means you have not submitted AC for June 2023 and, if you don't reach out to me/respond to your character's AC comment before July 7th at 4PM EST, your character will be swept. You can still submit AC for June 2023 before July 7th for a strike.

If you have any concerns about completing AC (remember that it's check-in only for June 2023), please reach out to the mod account directly so we can work something out.

FIRST ROUND AC WARNING LIST

Maximus Decimus | maximusspainard

Happy almost-end-of-second-month everyone!

This is the first month where AC will be processed, so this is your reminder to get that submitted sooner rather than later! AC for this month can be submitted through July 3rd at 11:59pm EST without penalty. Another reminder with a list of characters that are in danger of being swept will be posted on July 5th at 4pm EST.

Of course, this month should be easy, because AC is check-in only for all characters. Enjoy your free month(s) while your characters focus on exploring and not dying! If you have any questions or concerns about this month's AC cycle, or upcoming cycles, please leave a comment below or message the mod account directly.

Hi again everyone! Thanks to all of you that responded to last week's impromptu announcement regarding search requests and game pacing. Your feedback has been really helpful in getting a sense of how people feel about the game as it is, and figuring out how to make sure that the game continues to be as successful as it has been in future. Based on the array of answers, I've decided to implement a little bit of all the proposed solutions that were voted on in different ways. I'll go into detail for each below.

( Poll Results )
( Co-Mod Applications )

Hi everybody!

So, Lalo here is a very observant guy! And as the game gets more new characters and people get closer and closer together, and he interacts with more and more people directly in-person, it would help me a lot to have a quick reference to get an idea of what his likely first impressions of other characters would be if/when he meets them, what information he'd be able to get from interacting with them, etc. That's what this form is for!

It's also helpful to know if there's anything people really DON'T want him to know or pick up on so that I don't accidentally stumble onto it.

So! To that end, I made an observation permissions post for people to fill out. Feel free to be as detailed or sparse as you want; anything would help me out!!

Thanks, guys.

Hi everyone! This post contains a very important poll that I would like all current players to weigh in on, so please make sure you at least read that part below and respond to this post, when able. I'll tally up responses and come to a final decision by Wednesday, 6/21. Implementation depends on what the decision is.

( POLL: Search Request Changes )

( MOD/GAME HMD )

Thanks again everyone, and I look forward to reading your feedback!

1) Post your characters, one per comment
2) Go around with your characters and have them ask other characters questions-- anything goes!
3) Forced honesty time! Lying is impossible because of reasons
4) ICly discuss the confessions and revelations

EVENT: GAME START RESOLUTION

It's been five long days of constant announcements, drone patrols and sometimes attacks and kidnapping. It's probably started to get pretty stressful having to navigate the places where the drones sweep, or trying to figure out ways to figure your freed companions. Will they ever let up?

The answer is, apparently, yes. For anyone trapped in or hanging around the concrete structures on Morning 005, they might notice - of the drones that are still working and intact - that their charging pedestals are systematically going dark. The little indicator light that has been flashing on the fronts of each flickers and goes out as soon as a patrolling drone lands. By Night 005, even the announcements are starting to sound a little weird - sluggish, like an old toy running out of batteries.

Then, when the last drone lands on Morning 006, everything seems to go quiet at the same time. All pedestals go dark, the announcements cease, and the few lights still on in the concrete structures dim. The terminals shut off quickly after that, followed by the keycard readers next to each cell door. There's a series of hefty chu-chunks as the deadbolts disengage. The cell doors don't automatically rise up on their own, but they shouldn't be too hard to pull up by anyone still stuck inside of one.

Lucky for all of you, these drones don't appear to have a robust enough framework to keep functioning for longer than five days. Will they come back on again at some point in future? Hard to say. Someone might want to look into how to stop this from happening later. Until then, rest and relax - next month is a free month without a scheduled event, where characters can focus on recovering, rebuilding, and exploring, with only the usual threats of crossbow-wielding murderers and giant crocodiles in the rivers and the like. Have fun!

Happy almost-end-of-May! It's three days before the end of the month, which is when I plan to post AC reminders for future months. But since the game only opened two weeks ago, instead I'm using this space to tell you all that there will be no AC processed for May, and June AC will be check-in only for all players. Thanks to everyone that already checked in this month - I appreciate you all understanding and using the system as intended!

Also, a general thank you to everyone for making this an absolutely incredible game open! I've thoroughly enjoyed playing with all of you so far, and I hope to continue to keep things fun and interesting for everyone for a while yet.

EVENT: GAME START

Welcome to Glencola Reef! It's looking to be a beautiful day here on the island - the temperature is mild in spite of it being early morning, the sun just barely cresting over the hazy blue horizon to the east, and the tide is slowly going out no matter what coast you woke up on. But for those of you waking up on the island's shores, soaked to the bone with no idea how you got here (or where here is, exactly), this probably is not a pleasant experience. Thankfully none of you appear to have found yourselves dropped into especially dangerous circumstances, which should give all of you time to assess this new situation and the people that are struggling through it with you.

However, this relative tranquility is unlikely to last long. For those of you traveling through tiles III, VII, or XV, the idle noise of waves and wildlife will be interrupted by the blaring of a crackly message from somewhere in the jungle: UNAUTHORIZED TRANSPORT DETECTED. VIOLATORS WILL BE DETAINED. The message will repeat three times at the start of every even hour, then go silent.

While trying to investigate this strange warning, you might also pick up the sounds of a transient humming or buzzing noise from somewhere nearby. Tile XV seems to have it the worst, with the sound starting and fading and starting up again almost constantly through the day. What could be causing this noise? And is it...following you?

This event will run from IC Morning 001 through IC Night 005, although it may end early based on character actions during this time. More details will be revealed in search requests in the specified areas, but you can use this post for questions, event-related discoveries, and plotting if you'd like!

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

Welcome to Glencola Reef's first Test Drive Meme! This is a place where anyone interested in applying a character - or just curious to see how their characters might interact with the setting and others in the game - can mingle with one another. General prompts are provided below for inspiration.

( Guidelines and prompts under here... )

NAVIGATION

COMMUNITIES

OOC INFO

IC INFO

OOC/MEMES IC LOGS IC NETWORK MOD/NPC JOURNAL PLURK

PREMISE RULES FAQ TAKEN/CONTACT RESERVES TDM APPLICATIONS ACTIVITY CHECK HIATUS/CANON UPDATE DROP

MAPS/SETTING SEARCH REQUESTS CALENDAR CALLSIGNS PLAYER PLOTS CHARACTER DEATH

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