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State of the Taxon: One Day Early!

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!

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Questions, comments, and requests for elaboration go here!

Hint for the Taxiversary: don't fret, the aliens have done a hole lot of research and they guarantee that the citizens will absolutely LOVE what they have planned for the project's birthday. Trust us. Yes.

aintnoconvict | Glitch

Previously: Mirror!Taxon was awful. His queen called him out on schtupping her daughter, Ambrose cheerfully reminded him that he's a sham of himself, there was a vampire nest to take out, and oh yeah there was horribleness with Cain and then he had to kill a couple guys. Despite ~none of it being real~ he had a bit of a breakdown over it (and all over Bagoas) and is still recovering. Thankfully he found his way back - Emma I wanna continue that thread because that conversation has to happen - and stuff happened. He invited Madelyne to stay at the palace, tried getting to know Josef, and answered a query from Arthur.

Glitch Plans: Oh goodness DG's going evil again. Instead of running away immediately he's probably not leaving her side and will be her chief minion/fanboy. This'll be due to magical brain-whammy which will effectively headcase him again. I may turn this into a longish-term thing but don't see a way out of...or maybe I do. It's up in the air.

tl;dr Keri's evil and sorta misses playing the cheerful half-brained doofus and wants an excuse to do it again for a bit.

Other Plans: See above, anything else will depend on how that goes. I know this kinda plot-locks him for the month but Stuff Will Happen anyway.

Edited 2012-03-31 15:12 (UTC)

slayersidekick | Willow Rosenberg

Previously: Canon update, dealing with things, being utterly confused and terrified at the whole holo taxon thing.

Glitch Plans: Don't have... much in the way of plans for her.. she's kind of beginning to stagnate again.

Other Plans: See above.

secretshame | Jenna Sommers

Previously: Her canon update finally happened! And she's probably still recovering from that. Also Holo Taxon freaked her out something awful :c

Glitch Plans: Totally open for April Fool's pranks :3

Other Plans: ...Mostly she and James are dancing around something and eventually they need to get shoved together or something. Aside from that, she's hanging at the Dodgy Jammer and wishing Fitz was back.

sourcebloodaughter | Ashley Magnus

Previously: She was pretty active in the whole Holo Taxon thing, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. She also finally talked to Buffy about the fight they had a while back and the whole not a vampire thing.

Glitch Plans: Someone seriously needs to prank her XD

Other Plans: Currently, she'll be dealing with Helen's departure. Losing her mother is not going to sit well with her at all. Eventually, there's a dinner thing in the works with James and Briar and IT MUST HAPPEN. It will be epic. She needs more friends, though, since I don't think she really has any in canon. It's always just been Ashley, Helen, the Big Guy, and Henry until Will got hired on.

electro_girl | Gwen Raiden

Previously: She got caught in Haunted!Holo on her way to finally face Long, which was both a blessing and a curse. She had to rely on her powers heavily there, saw some faces of the past that made her feel super guilty, and ran into some fellow Taxon people stuck there. She rejected the chance to do some good by helping out Briar, a choice which I had her make because her recent glitch really messed her up, and she doesn't feel as inclined to play the hero as she might have prior. She's kind of regressed to her survivalist look-out-for-number-one mentality.

Glitch Plans: Likely being super annoyed at all the pranks. (Glaring at the electric shock handshakes.) Maybe I'll make her the butt of some jokes, I'm not sure. I'd like her to be involved in DG's glitch though! I'm trying to consider what role she'd choose to play in it, given her state of mind. But if a group gathers to take DG down, she'd likely agree to be a part of it.

Other Plans: Facing Long, when that happens. Getting in touch with Party is also a must. Still dealing with the fallout from her own glitch, which will last a pretty long time. It's gone beyond guilt into acceptance, but it's kind of a "I'm a freak, I'll always be a freak, I don't deserve anything more and I'm not gonna try" fatalism acceptance. She won't try playing the hero for awhile.

blue_bird | Illyria

Previously: She got stuck in Haunted!Holo and dealt with that Like A Boss. Spike arrived, which though she may not admit it, she definitely is not displeased about that. She had a chat with Bagoas in the market, a thread which I LOVE by the way, and I think she'll take a liking to him.

Glitch Plans: I definitely might have her be effected by an April Fool or two for the lulz. She will not be amused.

Other Plans: Trolling Spike, likely beating up some minions during DG's glitch and perhaps dealing with the witch herself. Other than that I have very little at this point!

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.

I AM LOVING ILLYRIA AND BAGOAS FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS, see below in Bags's meme. XD

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.

loveawkward | Josef Kostan

Previously: Previously on the Big Bang Theory... Wait, wrong show. Josef has arrived in Taxon and things have gone swimmingly. Other than his old friend, he's worked hard to alienate most he's spoken with due to adjusting poorly to not being the top of the food chain/political chain as he's used to.

Glitch Plans: None as of now, just hoping to help him adjust to the city though I look forward to using April Fools to further bring him down into the realm of acceptance.

Other Plans: Making plans to put Josef out there more, get to know others within the city and begin to establish a "home base" in this world. Open for just about anything and working to have him socialize more than he's comfortable with.

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.

hasaheart | Wyatt friggin' Cain

Previously: Stuff not being played out but happening behind the scenes anyways: A lot of domestic stuff w/Smecker. Friendly banter-ing, being totally utterly adorable in a very non-fluffy way since that's how they roll. Plus, despite them having been a Thing for a bunch of months (but no one's counting, shh), neither one of them are likely to showcase or flaunt stuff. So. Basically, there's two people who know about them, aside from the pair of them. Yay paranoid, privacy-obsessed Law-Enforcement Types with Traumatic Pasts.

*AHEM* In-game, on-screen, whathaveyous: Holo!Taxon sucked rotten grapes. First you have to accept the fact your scientist friend with no-longer-half-a-brain goes out of his way to figure out the weird happenings, and that's fair enough. You can't keep a good guy down if he's curious as an entire litter of kittens. Then he gets snatched up by the code: cue worrying. Then, to make matters even more godawful and DNW (Do Not Want), he wakes up to find his late wife in his kitchen. All's well and good until he finds his son in the bathroom, very very dead (and I'm still leaving it up to everyone's imagination what happened to him), and Adora comes at him with first a rolling pin, then a knife. Good times.

He shoots her dead, has a bit of a breakdown when Glitch gets there, then has about a minute or two to compose himself before finding out Smecker's being hunted like an animal by multiple maniacs with big guns.

RESCUE MISSION: ENGAGE.

And anyone who thinks it's improbable that two magical Main Characters from the Outer Zone would ever be able to kick ass the way they did, much less exit stage right alive when up against the Irish Trinity of Self-Sanctified Mass-Murder, well...

I have perfectly valid arguments. Go on. Try me. XD

Then there was the whole Paul's bleeding out thing, eep! and rushing him off to the London that Is No More and Martha's old hospital (correct me if I'm wrong) for some emergency medical care.

Yeah. Epic plotline is epic and on-going. For the rest, I'm gonna do a switcharoo on the Plans below.

Other Plans: Dien Dien we need to do that Thing we've talked about. :D

All in all, Cain'll be coming out of the Haunted Holo with a lot less angst than anticipated. He can compartmentalize to his heart's content, because like Glitch said repeatedly during the gore-ier part of the Rescue Plot, 'it isn't real'. The people weren't real. They were horrendous, lifelike, carbon copies of people they once knew, but they weren't any more real than the Extras. They were impostors at best. So he didn't actually kill his wife, he didn't actually have to see his son dead at his wife's hands.

Most importantly, Paul's alive and recovering, and providing ample opportunity for focusing on someone that isn't himself. Cain's a fixer-of-things. He gets things done. Helping Paul will be at the very top of his priorities.

Plus, he's relatively unscathed. Glitch is too. It's all good.

Glitch Plans: No glitch plans for Cain this time around. Buuuut I think he'd enjoy a day at the beach. (Or two, especially if he can convince Paul to come along. They could sit under an oversized parasol and bitch about the General State of Things. It would be buckets of fun. Buckets. Buuut that's depending on how the Other Plans section moves along.)

Other than that, Cain's always available for meeting people. He may not be the friendliest guy off the bat, but he's...getting better. :D?

DG AS EVIL WITCH IS SOOOOO NOT ON! XD

I'm looking forward to much mind-fuckery and creeping suspicions and trying to be Pragmatic and Talk Sense into his two best friends (dammit).

Well she would >.>

But yeah, it's an idea we kinda started poking at last SOTT and...idk. I worry about piling up the angst but it's a thing I've sorta wanted to do so. Right. How it works in practice will determine whether I go for an easy out after.

Edited 2012-04-01 10:29 (UTC)

no_rose_tint | Scott Summers

Previously: Scott got caught in mirror!Taxon, helped out and thoroughly confused/terrified Bagoas, then got unceremoniously dumped at the feet of his ex-wife. So they had coffee. Right now he's trying to act as a vaguely authority figure to baby!Charles with no real success.

Glitch Plans: Super villain meet X-Men Leader. Scott won't be able to NOT get involved in vanquishing evil.

Other Plans: Scott has stuff to finish with Charles (Cody, IM me, we can handwave some stuff if you prefer, I know you're busy). Otherwise, no current plans, been busy with app. I love CR and playing, just a bit shy, so poke me if you want to have muses collide!

I'll probably sneak out a Glitch post (possibly today) before horrors happen if you want to do the crystal-sample thing?

He really needs to get out more /belated HMD-ing

Also I'm thinking three out of three Ozians would want some kind of warning system should one of them become compromised, like code phrases or some Rube Goldbergian mobat signal.

Edited 2012-04-01 11:02 (UTC)

Yeah, that'd be awesome... I'll be around as much as I can. Unwell kitty needs treatment, so I don't know if I'll be here a lot.

Oh poor kitty, I'm sorry! Hope all goes well.

And don't fret, it'll be there for the sake of backtagging and establishing something like continuity XD

She's on my lap purring right now, so she's not particularly upset at least.

Thanks for that. I'm going to be busy this week online, getting icons and stuff sorted. I love rp but I'm terrible at the whole "have a journal" thing...

*facepalm*

I need to have Gwen meet Josef.

I think Scott could totally twist Gwen's arm into going all mutant superhero re: DG. Granted she'll bitch about it the entire time because she's so NOT in superhero mode but I think it'd be hilarious to have Scott gung ho for vanquishing evil and superpowers and Gwen like "ughh how about tomorrow?"

That would be fabulous. I should get up an out and about post for him for just such things.

tothelightshown | DG

Previously: DG was stuck outside holo!Taxon and, consequently, spent most of the month feeling helpless and frustrated. Which was fun. She also did her best to be there for her friends who were trapped and for Willow after her rather unpleasant canon update.

Glitch Plans: As detailed here, this month marks the return of the wicked witch of Taxon. Various horrors are already planned, but there is always room for more if you're interested.

Other Plans: Well, dealing with the aftermath of her big glitch will take up most of her time. She's definitely going to need a Willow to lean on.

... people who will be decidedly less helpful that Willow are also welcomed wholeheartedly. Make her life even more difficult! Blame her! You know you want to.

a_pretty_fire | Drusilla (AU)

Previously: Drusilla followed Angelus into holo!Taxon and spent a large part of the month in the company of her long dead mother and little sisters. She was somewhat reluctant to leave them in the end, which is something that I want to continue into this month.

Glitch Plans: Nothing, although I think I want Drusilla to catch (and accidentally kill, because, you know, it's Dru) one of the newly arrived songbirds.

Other Plans: Nothing in particular, for once. Spike needs to find out about the chip in her head and the differences between their worlds, though. Because that stuff is always fun. And she's going to sulk and miss her ghostly companions, because ... that is what Drusilla does.

allthatlife | Martha Jones

Previously: Thanks to the holo!Taxon incident, Martha ended up back in the middle of the nightmareish year that never was. She survived for a second time and she managed to keep her fear in check long enough to help various other victims, but it was still a horrible experience.

Glitch Plans: Nope. Unless someone can think of an excuse for me to get her to throw a cream pie at someone, because I'd really love to do that.

Other Plans: She'll still be dealing with the aftermath of holo!Taxon and the memories that it woke up. Anyone who wants to discuss those horrors - and the horrors that inspired them - with her would be very welcome. Bonding over angst is always nice.

I can't wait for evil!DG and her minions to collide with Scott!

I'm sure that incident will provide all the angst he didn't get in holo!Taxon. I apologise in advance. ~~Except not really.~~

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re: re-glitching of the brain

In which I feel like just copypastaing Glitch's meme in places

OH OH I FORGOT DG + WITCH

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