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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: Since the cessation of his pause glitch, Sherlock has managed to spam everyone in Taxon with texts complaining about his flat's relocation, puzzle Horst Cabal, be almost helpful in the direction of Glitch, dungeon-crawl with
Mayland Longthe dragon Oolong, go cruising for a bruising from Nuada, meet and strike up an unusually chummy acquaintance with Jeremy Fischer, and pour isopropyl alcohol on a wounded Jason.Things to do this month: I think Sherlock's going to be relatively industrious and matter-of-fact about Frozen Taxon, albeit maybe a bit more reckless with his safety in the winter cold than he ought to be, to no one's surprise--this is a very unpleasant situation, to be sure, but it's not one outside the realms of physical possibility as he knows it, so he's better-equipped to deal with it than with many of the other things Taxon throws at him. He's gonna have to throw in his lot with someone for supplies and body heat, though, and is not too proud to do so. So if anyone wants a pluckish helper bundled in more layers than the Michelin Man!
After that, he's got some trouble to get into with the demon Etrigan.
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He'll make sure you don't get frostbite, mister.
...and I don't think they've ever met. How is that possible?
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Emma still needs to meet him. And everyone else in town. But still.