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State of the Taxon
Hey kids! Dien here. February's over, and March is roaring in. AND NOW I SHALL FIRE BULLET-POINTS AT YOU ALL.
THE ARMOR-PIERCING BULLET POINTS
• Brrr.... Taxon, the weather's about to take a turn for the worse. We hope you have your thermals handy. See MARCH GLITCH, down below.
• Adventure Zone for March will tie into the Glitch, so... yes, see below. That said, you can offer suggestions/make requests for glitches and future Adventure Zones over here.
• Reminding everyone to fill out your character profiles, as per here. Many of you have already done so, and thank you for that! We will start editing the Taken list soon to include a link for the profiles. Even if all you have right now is a placeholder post, give us your link to that so we can put that link into 'Taken'.
• Reminding everyone to TAG YOUR POSTS. Older players are as guilty of this as newer ones! At the moment we've basically chucked a formalized AC out the window, but that's not to say it might never come back, so please stay in the habit of using those tags. Even aside from AC, it's a useful way for us mods to track down where your characters are and what they are doing... which is useful to us when we start stalking you with the hamsters, or dropping meta-plot hints for your characters.
• The new FAQ (basic FAQ and expanded FAQ) is up and implemented. We'll try and weed out references and links to the older FAQ, but the community's FAQ links should link to the new ones now. Please take the time when you can to familiarize yourself with the changes-- a lot of things are the same, but a lot of things have changed slightly. If you have any questions, ask away.
• As a footnote to the new FAQ that deserves its own mention, you have the option to submit your own Extras to be specific NPCs. Check that out over here at the Extras entry.
• As a footnote to the footnote, the Sheriff is being toned back doooown to be a very background character, and less of a nerfer. He may still get busted out if characters are engaged in wide-spread property destruction, but this will be handled on a case-by-case basis. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ignore it, it's cool. Theft will no longer result in an auto-catch by the Long Arm of the Law.
• The Weather.... oh yeah, see that glitch below.
• If you have a location that hasn't yet been added to the City Map, leave a comment explaining where you'd like it and we'll add it in.
WINTER IS COMING
Taxon has had a fairly moderate winter, all things considered; that is about to change. For ten days in March, the City is going to get very... very... cold.
Starting March 7th and running until March 17th, the temperature is going to drop sharply and Taxon's current snowfall will fall thicker, and thicker, and thicker. The first day or so might seem pleasant enough-- picturesque, even-- but as the days pass and the inches start accumulating into feet, it'll start to become less about snowball fights and sledding and more about "I really hope the heat keeps working."
Water mains may freeze and burst; the trams will stop running and the shops will close up. Getting around an increasingly iced-over and snowed-under Taxon... and staying warm, and getting food... will be up to you, brave Taxonians. Still, as long as you all keep level heads, everything should be fine-- I mean, it's not as if that's wolves you hear howling from the direction of the bridge, is it...?
More to come as we go into the glitch proper, but those characters who have supernatural senses for such things/are strongly tied to nature/or are just super-observant as to things like animals stockpiling nuts-- you are are free to have such characters sense something of the coming storm.
Characters WILL need to do something to break the curse of winter, but we'll get into that later as well.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH ME AND MY PUPS
Fill it out! Post it inna comments!
THE ARMOR-PIERCING BULLET POINTS
• Brrr.... Taxon, the weather's about to take a turn for the worse. We hope you have your thermals handy. See MARCH GLITCH, down below.
• Adventure Zone for March will tie into the Glitch, so... yes, see below. That said, you can offer suggestions/make requests for glitches and future Adventure Zones over here.
• Reminding everyone to fill out your character profiles, as per here. Many of you have already done so, and thank you for that! We will start editing the Taken list soon to include a link for the profiles. Even if all you have right now is a placeholder post, give us your link to that so we can put that link into 'Taken'.
• Reminding everyone to TAG YOUR POSTS. Older players are as guilty of this as newer ones! At the moment we've basically chucked a formalized AC out the window, but that's not to say it might never come back, so please stay in the habit of using those tags. Even aside from AC, it's a useful way for us mods to track down where your characters are and what they are doing... which is useful to us when we start stalking you with the hamsters, or dropping meta-plot hints for your characters.
• The new FAQ (basic FAQ and expanded FAQ) is up and implemented. We'll try and weed out references and links to the older FAQ, but the community's FAQ links should link to the new ones now. Please take the time when you can to familiarize yourself with the changes-- a lot of things are the same, but a lot of things have changed slightly. If you have any questions, ask away.
• As a footnote to the new FAQ that deserves its own mention, you have the option to submit your own Extras to be specific NPCs. Check that out over here at the Extras entry.
• As a footnote to the footnote, the Sheriff is being toned back doooown to be a very background character, and less of a nerfer. He may still get busted out if characters are engaged in wide-spread property destruction, but this will be handled on a case-by-case basis. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ignore it, it's cool. Theft will no longer result in an auto-catch by the Long Arm of the Law.
• The Weather.... oh yeah, see that glitch below.
• If you have a location that hasn't yet been added to the City Map, leave a comment explaining where you'd like it and we'll add it in.
WINTER IS COMING
Taxon has had a fairly moderate winter, all things considered; that is about to change. For ten days in March, the City is going to get very... very... cold.
Starting March 7th and running until March 17th, the temperature is going to drop sharply and Taxon's current snowfall will fall thicker, and thicker, and thicker. The first day or so might seem pleasant enough-- picturesque, even-- but as the days pass and the inches start accumulating into feet, it'll start to become less about snowball fights and sledding and more about "I really hope the heat keeps working."
Water mains may freeze and burst; the trams will stop running and the shops will close up. Getting around an increasingly iced-over and snowed-under Taxon... and staying warm, and getting food... will be up to you, brave Taxonians. Still, as long as you all keep level heads, everything should be fine-- I mean, it's not as if that's wolves you hear howling from the direction of the bridge, is it...?
More to come as we go into the glitch proper, but those characters who have supernatural senses for such things/are strongly tied to nature/or are just super-observant as to things like animals stockpiling nuts-- you are are free to have such characters sense something of the coming storm.
Characters WILL need to do something to break the curse of winter, but we'll get into that later as well.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH ME AND MY PUPS
Fill it out! Post it inna comments!
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What's been going on: Horst arrived in Taxon at the beginning of February, where he was greeted by a confusing Sherlock Holmes and a patient Mayland Long, the latter of which helped him dig through blueprints in the library to find a suitable home. On his first day, he got slapped in the face by Nuada Silverlance. On his second day, he got slapped in the face by Jason Blood. He swears this has never, ever happened to him before.
While riding the train, he chatted up all three former residents of the Outer Zone, learned what makes Metody dress the way she does, and convinced Sherlock to reprogram his tablet for him and give him a bit of advice on the subject of modern fashion.
While wandering in the Adventure Zone, looking for something Jason mentioned in their brief conversation, he instead happened upon and attempted to battle Oolong, who had a hearty cackle at Horst's silliness, managed to get Horst to share the story of how he became a vampire, and finally boosted him up through the window of a goblin-infested castle tower, where Horst rescued, and, errr, slept with the kidnapped Extra princess. The next time he saw her, however, she'd been kidnapped to the tower again, and didn't remember him or the previous rescue at all. He swears this has never, ever happened to him before, either.
Also during this month, Horst used the remains of his little stipend to buy some decent modern clothes, explored the city on foot, and traipsed off into the forest to catch a wild rabbit whom he's named Liesl. Being of a philosophical bent, Horst is frequently preoccupied with questions about the nature of the Extras who inhabit their world, and trying to understand and define their level of sentience so he can decide what to make of them -- to this end, Liesl is his first experiment, in hopes of understanding to what degree the Extras can or will grow, learn, or evolve given persistent and extended interaction with Taxon's fully sentient captive population.
Being a social creature, (even if the only socializing to be had is usually with Extras), and stuck with the relatively limited employment options that the graveyard shift offers, Horst opted to take up a job in the service industry, and can be found happily waiting tables and serving up food behind the counter of a cute, stereotypical-looking 24-hour Diner.
Late in this month, Horst's brother Johannes appeared in Taxon. They met up, exchanged strong words, and Horst slapped him, proving there really must be something in the water in Taxon that causes people to slap each other upon first meeting. Then they hugged it out. Johannes and Horst currently live in the same house, where they jointly embarrass themselves by not knowing how to use the voice-to-text interface on Horst's tablet properly. And that's February.
Things to do this month:
If your character just hasn't met Horst yet, let's meet! He promises you, kid, to give so much more than he gets. :3 Horst's natural purpose in life is to overbearingly meddle in the lives of the people he cares about, a goal he can't pursue without having a good sampling of people he cares about. I mean, sure, he could meddle in the lives of strangers, but that's no way to make friends -- you have to make friends first, then you can decide how you think your friends' lives can be improved. (A sales pitch that no doubt would make anyone want to befriend him, I'm sure.) Let's meet, let's go out on the town, let's talk armchair philosophy and explore the confines of the prison. Find me and we'll thread something. If you show up at the diner looking like you've Had a Rough Day, Horst will give you free pie. (Disclaimer: We are not responsible for any Johanneses incurred in the process of meeting Horst Cabal.)
Horst is currently freshly fed (thanks Johannes, that's what family's for), so he's not hard up for blood at this point, and he currently looks very much like a live person and not like a corpse. Being post-mortem, he stands to be fairly well-off in Taxsicle, since he won't freeze to death -- and he can get from place to place quite quickly on foot, so if you need him to run an errand for you at night, it's not out of the question. When he's not moving at super-speed, however, he does lose heat quite quickly, since he generates no body heat of his own, so please don't leave him waiting at the door, or you may find he suddenly requires thawing out under a heat lamp before you can pry whatever he brought you out of his frozen hand.
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gurl let's do all the threads, maybe horst and jeremy can meet at some place where most rational mature adults do not normally hang, like playing skeeball at Chuck E. Cheese or something equally beautiful.
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