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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: Metody has been settling in and making friends, both as a human and in his bone-creature-form. He's learned that he's comfortable and happy acting like a dog while he's in his bone guise, and he's doing his best to not think about that too much, because hey, people are tolerating him.
He's still not convinced that Taxon is real. If it's a hallucination, he feels he has a responsibility to help those around him - as products of his mind, they are utterly dependent on him, after all.
Currently, he is living in a cave in the forest, and doing a lot of hunting. He's been gathering bone to expand himself, and has started processing meat and bone for sale, though that's been off screen. He's alternating between reclusive depression (my family! My world! I am lost and without purpose! The sky is wrong!) and being joyful and social (This is so cool! People like me! I can be semi-open! Plants! No one knows the dumbass stuff I've done! Eeeeee!)
Things to do this month: Move back to the city.
I like the idea of Metody living in the forest like some kind of nature spirity thing, but nature spirity things don't do a lot of socializing, and also, dude needs to wash three times a day and you can only do that so much in a cave creek. He needs to find a little house, ideally with access to the sewers, and then he needs to paint it all crazy.
He's going to be opening a booth at the market to sell fresh venison and various items carved from bone. Come buy stuff! Because he's completely out of money, and tired of eating deer liver cooked on a stick. He's also going to be thinking about ways to help other newcomers, and will probably end up collecting goods/clothes for them. Arrival in Taxon is traumatic, and having a toothbrush and a change of pants can only help. He may also launch into a series of temp jobs, I don't know. I'm open to suggestion.
I am volunteering him for anything and everything. He's patient and helpful and has experience putting up with everything from pompous artists to a massive and well meaning family to prickly academics. Does your character need a sidekick, or a patsy? Are they obnoxiously curious about why the sewers are infested? Do they object to someone going around in a cloud of reeking pollution? Do you want your character to be terrorized, or would you like them to terrorize someone else? Message me! I can help!
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And I'll throw Emma hir way at the gathering :3
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