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Hey kids!

Per this post, Taxon is currently having some rather serious and weird problems. In-character, these will happen for a 24-hour period; OOCly, they will end when we put up the post detailing the start of the Candy-Glitch, as outlined in the Huge Plot Post of Doom over here (link for the newer players among us, or anybody who just wants to revisit and refresh themselves on it!).

You are totally free and encouraged to add in other weird things your character is currently witnessing or experiencing. Suggestions include but are by no means limited to:

-Fluctuating levels of oxygen, lighting, and gravity in Taxon.
-Objects appearing distorted.
-Cryptic writing appearing in mid-air, or on your skin, or on a wall (excerpts from the message the Extras are reciting)
-The projected sky, buildings, and scenery of Taxon dissolving into nothingness or static
-Laws of motion and inertia behaving in unpredictable fashions
-Déjà vu
-Anything else you can imagine might happen in a VR whose environmental controls just got hacked

Go wild, and have fun. :) Reactions can be posted as comments to the main post, or as individual threads. Please tag the latter with 'system glitch'. Thanks!

Any questions... you know the drill!

(Oh, and have fun with this being your inauguration to Taxon's weirdness, Jimmy, John, David...)

As of this post, Taxonians can consider that winter has gasped its last, thanks to the heroic efforts of various citizens in defeating the twin threats of the witch and her ice crystal! --er, at the time of this posting, these threats have not yet been DEFEATED per se, but, well, you're heroes. It's what y'all do. ;)

This is in no means putting a stop to backtagging on that post (or hell, even tagging on it period, it's not too late!), just the OOC official 'glitch-be-wrapped' thing. ~~nine days after the original plan~~

Taxon will now enter spring-- a muddy, wet, riotously green spring, as all that meltwater floods the city parks, lawns, and sewers.

As always, we welcome feedback on the glitch-plot. Of our own volition, we're aware the timing/coordination left a little something to be desired at the end, but please feel free to elaborate on any specific problems you noticed or any suggestions you'd like to give. Hope y'all had fun with it anyway!

sofo

Here are the first changes implemented, effective as of the backdated post set to January 1st:

* THERE ARE NO HATCHES. That's right, folks, no more star trek replicators for yoooou. Of course, this means characters can't get hold of things as easily as before, but will have to actually go out into the city and interact with their enforced environment. There are shops and corner stores here and there, but they are all of the smaller, more niche'd variety. No more gigantic mall where you can buy anything and everything (though the bazaar is still around).

* Currency can now be exchanged between citziens! Characters will find a new app on their tablet called 'BankBuddy' which shows a character's credit balance, lists a history of transactions (currently 0, of course), and lets characters transfer credits to other character's BankBuddy accounts.

* The north side of the city is currently an impenetrable wall of mist, through which characters can only glimpse hints of vague, mirage-like structures in the distance. If you have played or seen footage of the Assassins Creed game series, this wall of mist works similarly to the walls of weird, fog like code seen all over the place. You can approach it, touch it, but you can't go through no matter how hard you try.

~*~

Dien and I are currently putting together a revised FAQ with all the details, as well as a comprehensive overview of Taxon's new look. For now, here is the new map, and a brief run-down of the different districts as well as info on the lay of the new land.

In the meantime, as everything begins to slowly come together, please don't hesitate to leave questions, comments or general feedback-y goodness right here and we'll get back to you asap!

dien

Good morning, Taxon!

It's the end of 2012. We hope it's been a fun year for everyone, and we hope you're sticking with us for 2013. Tomorrow is the last day of our high school glitch. There will be the big High School Dance post, complete with a celebratory ball drop at the stroke of midnight. It's been tremendous fun for this mod and I hope it's been a blast for y'all as well. As always, backtagging on any of the high school posts is allowed and encouraged ~~and I myself will be coff catching up on my tags there soon~~.

And the day AFTER tomorrow is January 1, the start of new year and the start of some changes as pertains to Taxon at least. I'll be putting up another post soon with more details, but we know for sure that the City will be shrinking in size. We're going to be doing some overhauling of our FAQ text, the Wiki, the maps, the write-ups up of the city, and tweaking rules and ways that the city and the NPCs work here and there. We hope to take your feedback from the last How's Taxon's Driving into account in making Taxon a place where characters and players can feel engaged, and we hope it can be a fresh start for everyone in some ways.

We might not have every change completely implemented on the first, but we'll get as much stuff worked out as possible. The Player HMD that was scheduled for soon will be pushed back a little in order to let us try and focus on switching some things up.

Until then, enjoy your New Year's Eve and the traditional Taxon Ball Drop! *blows kisses*

Hey Taxonians! After some late-night mumbling amongst ourselves, and after some amusing-as-all-get-out talk in group chat about glitch ideas, the original plan to do a 'past or future' glitch for the characters is being put on hold until the holiday busy-ness is past for people.
Instead, we're planning some gratuitous silliness for this holiday season: Taxon's going High School.

Starting December 15, characters will turn into silly high school versions of themselves. This does not necessarily mean 'what my character was actually like at age 14-18', it's more a 'stick them into an over-the-top American High School setting and role'. (As an example, Jason Blood's going to be turning into that gothy kid with the eyeliner and the bad poetry who tells people he worships Satan, rather than the earnest would-be knight he probably was as a young man.)

We encourage you to be a student but if you absolutely cannot think of a way that can go, faculty is an option too! Participation is optional, but we really hope everyone plays and has some wacky fun.

The glitch will go until the end of the month, returning everyone to normal in time to ring in the new year. At Taxon High, there's a holiday dance planned and attendance is mandatory...

AND NOW, DISCUSS YOUR PLANS TO INFLICT HIGH SCHOOL SHENANS ON YOUR CHARACTERS AND GIVE THEM EMBARRASSMENT FOR AGES AFTER. Yes good.

Hi folks, Keri here, getting this out before Hurricane Sandy absolutely slams me. Here are the randomized (except for Jason and Maddy per request) swap assignments:

Josef Kostan --> Mick St. John
Selina Kyle --> Logan
Buffy Summers --> Tony Stark
Glitch --> Wyatt Cain
Wyatt Cain --> Josef Kostan
Mick St. John --> Mayland Long
Logan --> Buffy Summers
Spike --> Selina Kyle
Tony Stark --> Glitch
Mayland Long --> Spike
Jason Blood <--> Madelyne Prior
Sherlock Holmes <--> Bagoas

If any of that is deal-breaky, let us know and we can tweaky.

What to do now: Set up a temporary journal and comment here with it so we can add them to the game for posting/commenting purposes! If you're using your regular journal and just uploading icons of your swapee, let us know that here too! This'll be a good place to do plotting for shenanigans as well.

Swap starts on Thursday November 1!

Hello all, and welcome to the official plotting post for The Big Mess With The Dinosaurs And Also Bodyswapping. Because the hamsters don't do nothin' halfway. The spooky carnival is underway for all your harmless fun needs, but this weekend things will start getting creepy.

( Dates and Details! )

PLOTTING STUFF:
The thing which requires the biggest planning is the bodyswap, which is both complicated and straightforward. How this will work is:

1. Comment below if you'd like to participate.
2. Note if you'd like to swap with someone specific, or if you want to random that up. Swapping does not need to be one to one (character A becomes character B and B becomes A), it can also be character A becomes character Q who is stuck in character J who may or may not be A.
3. We'll finalize a list of who is going to be swapped with who on Monday the 29th. At that time you can either make a Dreamwidth account for your bodyswapped character or snag a few icons and add them to your character's account.
4. Yes there will be a thread below for asking questions about all this.

Also below will be a thread for hashing out all our dinosaur needs and to generally ask us if we've lost our minds. Happy plotting, Taxon!

Oh hey there ought to be a post about this, since we've have been hammering ideas together and have something of a plan! Yes!

IT'S QUIET. TOO QUIET.
The aliens have realized that since the musical glitch Taxonians have had it easy. So October is going out with a bang and November is coming in with a roar. Or more like a RAWR!

STARTING ON THE TWENTY-SECOND: bits of autumn carnival will be popping up around the city, Halloween themed with haunted houses, bobbing for apples, and spooky romantic tunnels of lovely horror. The citizens will likely side-eye all of this but rest assured, all of these amusements are totally harmless. Yes, even the tent claiming to house actual dinosaur eggs (located next to the tent with a large Tesla coil), nothing of note at all. Spoiler alert: prepare to fight dinosaurs.

The house of mirrors is a bit interesting, however, as it will give the citizens what they want most of all: a glimpse of home. Are these visions the truth or fabrications? It's entirely up to you, details to follow!

In other atmospheric shenanigans news, a dense fog will settle into town beginning on the twenty-seventh. It's totally innocuous at first, but as it grows denser things go a little strange. Disorientation sets in, you end up somewhere unexpected, and...what was that voice? Someone familiar? Someone familiar in distress? Is it worth investigating or is it another hamster game?

Lastly: you might want to start getting ideas together for some Freaky Friday style bodyswapping. Bonus spoiler alert: prepare to fight dinosaurs while trapped in someone else's body.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/PLOT IDEAS GO IN THIS POST!

Island Plot Wrap-up!
Whew! What a long, strange trip it's been, and because of reasons we're going to be wrapping this sucker up a bit early on 5 July. Still, there is time for the aliens to toss one more bit of cliched tropical-themed shenanigans!

Those awake and attentive late at night might have heard drumming from the dark, mysterious depths of the jungle. Explorers of the temple may have happened upon strange idols, and a mural depicting a blood-red moon and warriors driving a rival tribe into the sea.

The figures in these images? The source of the distant drumming? Hamsters. Pygmy warrior hamsters, three feet tall and wielding weapons the size of barbecue tools.

On the night of 4 July the moon shall turn a lurid red, the large hamster idol/hatch will begin glowing, the drumming shall be inescapable, and the temple will be lit with countless torches. SUDDENLY: the war cry of scores of squeaky voices shall sweep into camp, herding the castaways into the jungle which is now riddled with traps such as snares and pitfalls.

By morning, all will be driven to the far side of the island, where they will be met by...a barge. A party barge, manned by Extras, offering safe passage back to Taxon. There will be tropical music, drinks, snacks, a limbo contest, and by early afternoon the city will be in sight (thanks to the aliens doing some quick programming from one cavern to the next). Happy reunions all around, and showers for everyone!

A post for all this will go up soon!

CR Meme

It has been some time since we did one of these, and with things getting back to normal (har har) it is high time to bust one out! This one's a blend of the old State of the Taxon Meme and the last meme we had, so folks can catch up and bounce ideas at once:

Howdy, folks. *hat tip* Welcome to Mayberry, so to speak.

So, this comment marks the debut of the Sheriff to Taxon. The aliens have been debating for a while whether Taxon needs a little Law and Order, and Kobra and Party's firebombs have made up their minds for them-- the aliens have this thing about the city being bombed... ;)

So here's an OOC heads up as to how the Sheriff will operate and interact with the citizens of Taxon:

First off, attacks against him are not going to be successful, so while in general one should never godmod things like "I swing and I hit the character!" that will especially hold true with the Sheriff. By all means, if it's IC for your character to attack the Sheriff, go for it-- just leave it up to the Sheriff's answering tag as to whether or not it hits/what happens as a result.

Secondly, the aliens have granted the Sheriff some limited control over the programming within Taxon. If he is manhandling your character somewhere.... he is stronger than your character. If he is trying to grab you by the collar before you can run out of the room... he is faster than your character. Etc. Etc. (So, in other words, you guys can't god-mod, but I can. ;) ) Basically, the Sheriff will escort you to 'jail'* regardless of how willing you are to go, or what your powers are-- characters may find their weapons malfunctioning, their powers not working, that sort of thing.

Thirdly, because of the nature of Fiction in Taxon, characters won't recognize him as 'Andy Griffith' even if they would normally be familiar with the show. (They may think he is vaguely reminiscent of an old TV show called Sandy Griffin, but that's up to players.....)

As far as the Jail itself goes, more will be going up on that once it becomes a thing, but rest assured that we're not simply locking characters away and forcing players into that-- jail is going to be very easy to escape, at least in its initial incarnation. The aliens are "beta-testing", and may alter the scenario as needed, depending on what characters do as a result.

As to what the Sheriff IS-- it's hard to tell right now. He may be an empowered Extra; he may be one of the Aliens themselves. You'll have to wait and see.

Feedback is welcome, and the Wiki and such will be updated as soon as I can to take the Sheriff into account. Oh, and this is all Dien, obviously-- complaints with the Sheriff can be brought to me, or to one of the other mods if you don't want to tell me. :)

Sooooooo

Dien needs to know who is doing things right now in Taxon that would be considered 'against the law' in most cultures/civilizations.

Violations include 'shoplifting' (Paul Smecker is so guilty of this one), committing extensive property damage, vandalism, etc. If your character is currently engaging in any of these on a regular or semi-regular basis, comment here please! To let me know just what naughty, naughty things they are doing.

....no, no, of course nothing bad could actually happen, whyever do you ask?

^____^

THE NEW MAP IS HERE!

Today (Saturday the 25th) is the last day of the Sanctuary glitch, and that means tomorrow morning all the characters can step out the doors into the new and rearranged City of Taxon!

You can see the new map here. All your locations are there, listed by district with their coordinate number. We've also added new locations: Lake Whitman, the Kahlo River, the Waterhouse River, and Bronte Beach! Each body of water has its own page with a quick description of the area and what you can find there.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MAP, NEED SOMETHING CHANGED OR ADDED, ANYTHING AT ALL, LET US KNOW ON THIS POST.

Don't forget to have your character talk to the aliens, if you're so inclined, and as always TAG YOUR POSTS.

gogogidget.livejournal.com

Since not everyone involved is on Plurk and the Sanctuary glitch ends tomorrow, ANOTHER POST! I'll go ahead and make a post-capture post for the Aliens to get some interrogation and negotiation underway.

THINGS I NEED TO KNOW FIRST:

- how did the capturing go down and who was around for it?
- where/how are they being held?

This can be totally vague, and I'm still definitely planning on threading this out with y'all. It's just a matter of establishing Important IC Game Things before the glitch ends and everyone is released.

ALSO, I know I didn't get a chance to throw aliens at everyone that wanted them, but everybody is free to assume random hamster sightings and Mayhem, and I can always backtag into something if you want me to.

taxshakey.livejournal.com

Week 3 of being trapped in the Sanctuary is rapidly approaching, so let's get our plot on. ♥

IIRC so far we have Alexis building a trap for the hamster with Willow and Anita possibly helping? Mayhem will give himself up once the hamster is caught.

They've both already tagged out a bit if you want to have your characters start posting/comparing notes about their encounters (and we can bendy-time them so the most of it didn't happen on the first day) and making their IC plans.

AFTER ALL THAT they will be in captivity to be interrogated at your leisure.

Let's go. :>

THAT'S RIGHT IT'S TIME TO PLOT!

This post is for us to establish two different things and then allow you to plot and suggest other things directly related to Santa's visit.

GIFTS
There's going to be a thread from the mod account below titled, appropriately, "SANTA'S PRESENTS" where we want you to reply with a quick description of what you want your character to get from Santa, whether it's something nice or a pile of coal.

Some quick guidelines:
Nothing that wouldn't fit in Santa's bag. He's a magical elf, not a D&D wizard with a bag of infinite holding.
There can be item petition-type things, like pets. However, it has to be both a) very simple (puppies, kittens are a-okay, but miniature unicorns or komodo dragons are not), and b) not an animal or pet from their canon (like an already established pet they once had, only new things).
All presents are up for mod approval, but if you come up with something that won't work we'll definitely help you figure something else out.

SANTA'S ARRIVALNow is the tricky part. How do you guys want to interact with Santa?
We put up a post with the Santa account and each residence gets a thread where Santa will show up, give presents, and then disappear again.
A large party post. If there's a party on Christmas Eve, Santa can simply show up there and pass out presents that way.
SOME OTHER THING your mods have not thought of because sometimes we're derps.

Go forth and plan! And remember, please keep all gift discussion to the gift thread (so your mods can more easily keep track of things) and then have at it with your ideas and thoughts in the rest of the comments!

Greetings all, Keri here :D

We hope you are enjoying the current glitch, as the aliens are certainly getting a kick out of all the nifty-keen goings on and general swellness of the city in its present state. Being benevolent all-knowing all-seeing caretakers, they have decided that from this point on the citizens of Taxon will be able to hang on to one item, one memento as a reminder of these lives they could have led.

Going forward, every system glitch will end with your characters being able to hang on to a little keepsake. So choose something small and unobtrusive, a book, a pair of shoes, a picture...something little but somehow significant that will forever remind them of that time they were cast into the fifties-o-rama-matic.

For example: the fifties were an exciting time for advances in home videography, but unfortunately none of those charming, flickering black and white films had audio. UNTIL NOW. One of the things Ambrose has been working on in Cain's basement is a method of recording sound as well as video, and as he's been successful in this endeavor he has been going around town with his equipment, offering to film the citizens of Taxon. Once the event is over, Glitch will be left with a film reel of familiar people behaving in quite unfamiliar ways.

Good times? We hope you think so! Have fun and TAG YOUR POSTS OR WE'LL DO SOMETHING HORRIBLE TO YOUR EARS.

That's right kids, it's almost bodyswap time!

On the 29th and running all the way through to November 5th, the characters who signed up for bodyswapping horrors will be experiencing life in someone else's feet. And shoes. And other things.

Starting now, we're opening up the membership to the main community so you can start joining with your bodyswap journals. To make sure everyone is on the same page, we've got a checklist!

Check your assignment and character bodyswap info
Get in contact with your bodyswap person(s)
Make your journal (with "<your character> in <other character>'s body" in the name field)
Be sure you know your stuff, like where your character will be waking up
Join the taxonomites community with your bodyswap journal
Comment with it here so we know the journals are yours

Now plot, plot, plot away! And please, don't hesitate to ask any questions and get your plot on in the comments.

Yes, fair citizens, we are getting a visitor in the form of one decapitated Hessian mercenary: the headless horseman of Washginton Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Unfortunately for us the hamsters decided that Tim Burton’s film adaptation was superior to the book, so instead of a mere ghost we’re getting a bonafide undead ghoul with a sword who is out to lob heads off. And throw flaming jack-o-lanterns at people.

Starting tonight at sunset and for every night until Halloween, the streets will be far from safe. An ominous mist will shroud the city, the evening quiet will seem foreboding, and the pounding hooves of a black stallion named Daredevil will herald oncoming doom. By the time you hear the horseman’s blade leave its sheath, it’s already too late.

Once enough suitable heads have been collected, on Halloween night the horseman with ride with his own head firmly attached. He will remain ~~sexy~~ terrifying while doing so. The horseman will be hunting down Extras and citizens alike, so if you’ve ever wanted to test out Taxon’s death penalty now would be a fantastic time to do it.

PS - REMINDER: the bodyswap planning post is OVER YONDER, please please please take a look and communicate with your swap-partners.

PPS - TAG YOUR POSTS OR WE'LL STEAL ALL YOUR CANDY AND REPLACE IT WITH LITTLE BOXES OF RAISINS. You know, nature's candy.

And the results are in! Don’t forget to check the information in the sign up post* for the character yours will be residing in for the duration, and COMMUNICATE COMMUNICATE COMMUNICATE.

PAIRS

glowingseer ↔

a_pretty_fire

revivedqueen ↔

notabuymoron

greenballadeer ↔

nomorevengence

slayersidekick ↔

couldbeavillain

killed2slayers ↔

that_wasbracing

nofunever ↔

allthefunever

aklingonside ↔

beenthroughhell

gotcouplings ↔

numbersnfigures

undoing ↔

riddler_gump ↔

captbrowncoat

GROUPS
#1

justaddmarbles in

supertorso’s body

supertorso in

tailblade’s body

tailblade in

justaddmarbles’s body

#2

controlparadox in

allthatlife’s body

allthatlife in

ialwayscomeback’s body

ialwayscomeback in

controlparadox’s body

#3

likeajoan in

oppositeofhero’s body

tothelightshown in

likeajoan’s body

oppositeofhero in

tothelightshown’s body

THINGS FOR YOU TO PLOT IN THIS POST!

Where is your character waking up? In this glitch, characters are only changing minds, which means when they wake up in their new body it'll be wherever that body has been sleeping.

What will they do? Are they going to try and find their proper body immediately or enjoy the freedom of being able to so effectively pretend to be someone else?

Suss out any issues with powers/no powers/lasting quirks/etc. with your bodyswap partner. That means ask questions, get details, know what you need to know.

NON-SWAPPED CASTMATES, what will they be doing and how will they react?

Brainstorm hilarious bodyswap journal names and then make them! Remember, in the name field put "(Your character's name) in (the other character's name)'s body" in the journal's name field to ease confusion.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you need to back out of this glitch or have a problem with who you're assigned with, now is the best time to let us know so we can rearrange who goes where with time to spare. Other than that, enjoy your plotting!

*In case you’re wondering “WHERE DID ALL THE OTHER COMMENTS GO,” we went ahead and deleted threads with people planning/chatting and those who have since pulled out of participating.

Once upon a time there was a grasshopper game and a group of mod!ants, and the ants said, "Yo, grasshoppers. Vote in this poll so we know what glitches to give you in the winter so you can glitch in your glitch and play while you gain CR." The mod!ants had already narrowed down the many wonderful choices available to what they figured was do-able for them to plan in the next few weeks.

Your choices, darling and fabulous grasshoppers, are the following:

Pleasantville

Type: Full-on city glitch.
Duration: LONG, probably over a week, maybe two.
What do: It's back to the days of burmashave, so enjoy your time warp. The entire city will change into a quiet little town from a mid-fifties sitcom. It will include optional glitch-within-a-glitch-es, like making your characters totally dig the 50's scene or sticking them in a randomly assigned family.

Vampire Weekend

Type: Opt-out-able, wide-spread character glitch.
Duration: SHORT, a weekend to a full week.
What do: Superpower roulette! Vampires will be humans will be demons will be werewolves will be superpeople will be telepaths will be vampires will be humans. Or something along those lines. It doesn't have to be a power held by a character in Taxon, or a supernatural creature of the twilight. Have a ball, raise some hell, and sparkle like you mean it.

Stop Being Polite

Type: Environmental and character-specific.
Duration: AVERAGE, about a week.
What do: Sometimes you just need to go to the confessional and talk to a camera about how much you can't stand someone's hair. For this glitch, reality TV elements will be inserted into daily Taxon life, from cameramen to a giant obstacle course where you can win money for humiliating yourself.

Dinosaurs

Type: Full-on city glitch.
Duration: AVERAGE-LONG, it depends on what else y'all want to see in November.
What do: And then there was the time Taxon turned into Jurassic Park... The city as you knew it will be gone, replaced by jungles and prehistoric animals that can squash your car and your car's mom. Or eat you. It's characters v. dinosaurs in a game of survival, and maybe also finding a cute baby brontosaur to be your pet.

[Poll #1629392]

When you’re done voting, we'd like to remind you about a few things. The sign-ups for October's bodyswap glitch are still open, so go throw in your character if you'd like to! New or old, we don't mind, everyone is welcome to get involved. Also, if you haven't filled out the new permissions meme for your character(s), please do so! We like your words.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: TAG YOUR POSTS. When you don't we do unspeakable things. Unspeakable, sparkly things.

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