State of the Taxon: One Day Early!

[taxonmods]

Greeting Taxon! It’s April, time to shower you all with information!

CALENDAR: Located here as ever. Let us know if there are any events you’d like to have added!

• APRIL FOOL’S: After March came in like a...horrible monster with fangs and claws and a thagomizer, the aliens have opted for April to begin on a lighter, whimsical note. For all of April 1st the city will be filled with harmless pranks like buckets of water or glitter balanced atop doors, cream pies left just sitting around waiting to be thrown in someone’s face, and whoopee cushions in the damnedest spots. Careful opening any containers today as “snakes” may jump out, and handshakes may result in mild electric shocks.

• TAXIVERSARY: The Taxon Project begins its fourth year on April 15th! Stuff will happen! It is a surprise!

ANNOUNCEMENTS
→ First off, we want to thank you for all your feedback on the HMD. We’re assembling a modly response to it and will have that up shortly. Also we want to say that we’re thrilled with the overall response to the HMD and want to encourage further discussion if you feel the need to have it.

→ Taxon has a tumblr! Or a thing for Keri to waste time on at work! One thing that’s always been a frustration is being unable to really provide a proper visual example for what the city looks like. Hopefully Taxitecture provides the next best thing! Each image is set in a particular district (Central, Osten, Speares, etc.) and is further tagged with functionality. Or it’s just there to be pretty. If you’re looking for a place to set your next post you can check out public spaces, or if your character is in need of a home you can choose a residence. The tumblr’s there for inspirations, scroll through and see what you come up with!

→ As ever, we want to hear from you! Email or PM the mod account, hit one of us up on AIM, grab Keri on plurk, or you can always hit up the suggestions or complaints posts if needed.


AROUND THE CITY
→ Weather/atmosphere: The weather’s staying with Batumi and getting increasingly warm and pleasant!

Really, spring is bustin’ out all over with flowers and pretty floral bonnets and the introduction of songbirds and squirrels to the city’s wildlife. It’s a glorious season so long as you don’t mind the occasional wicked witch.

→ Freebies: Candy and the aforementioned bonnets will be available from the hatches and stores. If that seems cheap? Don’t fret, the aliens aren’t letting the project’s birthday pass without giving the citizens presents. They’ll have a blast.

→ Awesome, It’s A Party!: Down at the beach in Osten spring break is in full swing! It’ll be noticeably warmed at the coast, and anyone exploring that way will encounter a brand new five star resort as well as numerous skeevy dive joints and bass-thumping clubs. Take a break, play some volleyball, shake your groove thing, and


MEME
Here is your monthly CR meme! Jump in, tag around, have a grand old time!

<user name="CHARACTER_USERNAME"> | CHARACTER NAME <b>Previously:</b> What's been going on with your character over the last month, or even months! Bring up things you feel you might need to handwave with others, too, to make sure you don't get stuck. <b>Glitch Plans:</b> If there is a glitch event this month, let us know what your plans are! Or detail other individual character glitches you may be planning so folks can plot with you and get ideas bouncing. <b>Other Plans:</b> The rest of your plans for this month! CR and plot requests, idea bouncing for what kinds of development you want them to accomplish, anything at all you want to do this month or get rolling for the months to come.

Comments

[thepersianyouth]

thepersianyouth | Bagoas

Previously: He arrived, fainted, was carried to an ice palace sitting on a lake, bonded with a scholar who favours a silver hair band placed neatly in his center parting (and no, Bagoas will never have looked closer than that). After a week or so he ventured out, and was promptly caught by a wave of bad code, was caught, tried and almost executed for regicide (royal murder) by a horde of Macedonians. He met a spunky redhead with a cause, a demi-god who shoots fire from his eyes, a blue-tinted Ruler with a capital r, and...just, lots of people (I'm getting to those backtags as well, just gimme a moment).

Then he found a door that lead back to the regular Taxon (or rather, the demi-god pulled him along and *boom*, back where he started). He spent about a week recuperating and fussing over his benefactor with the silver headband, then decided to try that Thing where he Sees the City with his Own Eyes all over again. He found a market, probably cleared out his monthly stipend in an hour (because sparkly pretties speak to him when he's feeling insecure), and met a bunch of new people, two of which ROYALLY OFFENDED HIM. LOL cultural boundaries crossing time and space. Honestly, though? I am loving his post so much. On the one hand, Illyria? He thinks Illyria is the safest, most comforting presence in the entire city simply because she acts the way he expects to be treated. He's convinced Arthur's soliciting him, that Josef is mocking him by lowering himself to a servant's rank (because he just happens to predate the French revolution and such values as liberty, brotherhood and equality by about a thousand years, sorry). Also also itty bitty Charles in pajamas :DDDDDDDD

Glitch Plans: All the appalled April Foolery shenanigans! Come at me with ideas! :D

Other Plans: PHEW! Meeting new people, shopping for a master. No, really. Just having a generous benefactor isn't enough, Bagoas knows what happens to owner-less slaves/servants without employ. He'd rather find a suitable lord and offer his services than have a slave trader kidnap him (again) and sell him to the highest bidder. Funny how control's such an important thing to a really quite submissive eunuch.

[loveawkward]

Well in truth, Josef is lowering him to that status. He's a bastard and I can't help but find it fun, I admit. I love the idea of making it worse with the April Fool's pranks and misunderstanding, such as Josef being nearby when something happens to Bagoas.

[hasaheart]

Yes, but he's a lovely bastard, or Mick wouldn't give him half as much time of day.

I'll be hitting the catch-all post for April Fools-ing about. Just have to think of something suitably awful. >:D

[loveawkward]

He's a cowboy trope? A bastard with a heart of gold?

I need to do that. I considered Kool-Aid powder in the shower head. Turns your hair, and body, red. Washes off eventually but not always quickly.

[blue_bird]

Echoing my love for Bagoas/Illyria. And I think the same goes for her as well, that he acts the way she expects him to. So that initial wall is kind of taken down for her, because although he's "lower" than she is and he's oh-so-lucky to be allowed to converse with her (in her eyes, obviously), they are what they are and they act like it.

Also I'd love to see him befallen by some April Foolery, but I can't think of one particular thing. If I think of something I'll let you know! I'm sure whatever you go with will be hilarious. Poor Bagoas.

[thepersianyouth]

Knowing how easily startled he is, he'll probably end up crying and be further mortified by that, and...yeah. XD He'll be about as happy as Illyria is to be pranked.

[genequeen]

Maddy needs to meet you! In the castle!

Perhaps tea or something?

[hasaheart]

Tea with the Eunuch (why does that remind me of a book title of some kind? Maybe because it just does). :D Yes please! How do we do this?

Oh! Oh! :D You could tag into his post, but have Maddie be at the Northern Island when he returns from his shopping spree. Fresh and dried fruit! Nuts! He would be more than happy to share the spoils (and a teeny bit of gossip).

[genequeen]

I can do that!

(I suddenly like nu!Chekov! 'I kin do that!')