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!

Jason Blood +1 |

personaldemon

What's been going on: MANY THINGS. Jason spent most of February being ~rather stressed out~ -- he's going on eight months in Taxon, which in his case means eight months since he properly let Etrigan out, and that is incredibly wearing on his psyche.

As a result, he lost his temper with several people-- Selina Kyle, Horst ~~Cabal~~ Brauer, and a passel of Extra-goblins and Extra-humans. Selina got a case of temporary blinds, Horst got a bitchslap and a lecture, and the Extras got killed-ed. He feels better now, though.

He also had an awkward talk with Sherlock (what else is new), and some chitchat with other people in the city-- Emma, Glitch, Nuada, anyone else I'm forgetting.

Things to do this month: I THINK I HAVE LAID DOWN ENOUGH FORESHADOWING FOR ETRIGAN'S ARRIVAL. I'll do it at some point after the winter glitch, don't wanna try and have those both going at the same time, but I would ideally like to run Etrigan's first bit of freedom in the city either end of this month or sometime in April, depending on what works for peeps.

This is the sort of plot that COULD get pretty huge depending on how things go in it. I'll do more discussion with everyone when I get closer to rolling that out, but hopefully a lot of players can have some fun with a chaotic fire-breathing demon on the loose. Remus and Az probably would disagree on the whole 'fun' concept. As would many other people.

Aside from all that jazz, in terms of the Taxsicle, Jason categorically refuses to be used as a radiator, not that this should stop anyone. He will attempt to lend his magicky mojo to figuring out what the hell is going on and how to stop it, and generally brood around being broody.

Oh hey youse. Etrigaaaaan funnnn tiiiiimes. :D You know what I'm talkin' aboooout.

:3

Both of mine are somehow down for Etriganing. Unless I'm in Scotland at the time in which case both of mine are down for being cannon fodder in the Etrigan thing.