» Sentries Mission: Rescue (Friday, April 10th)
The Sentries are directed toward an Order base on Staten Island by SHIELD and tasked with arresting its inhabitants. They find the Order camped out in a building fronted by a laundromat and rescue a psychic from their custody. The rescued psychic is taken in by SHIELD, to be given medical and psychiatric treatment. (To recap: "The Order" is the subset within SHIELD responsible for Steven's brainwashing and other aggressive tactics that SHIELD proper shouldn't condone.)

» Gamewide Event: Good Samaritan (Monday, April 13th - Monday, April 20th)
The rescued psychic from the Staten Island bust turns out to have been infected with Project Haze. Diana Devin has a minor, natural reality warping ability, and thanks to Project Haze, she's been given psychic powers and a big boost all around. The inundation of so many thoughts and feelings over the last few months have driven her a bit... batty. Knowing that the Sentries are stationed at New Avalon, she goes there after she's released from the hospital, intent on repaying them for saving her life. When she comes in contact with everyone's minds and hearts, she realizes just how troubled the residents of New Avalon are, she desperately wants to help them out.

Good Samaritan is going to be an opt-in, open-ended plot. Diana will be finding characters' vulnerabilities or personal flaws and attempting to help fix them -- but she's not all there herself, so whether or not she succeeds is going to be up to you.

So the way it works is this: we say "open-ended" because it's up to you how Diana tries to help your characters. Because of her powers, you have a lot of leeway; they can be de-aged or aged up, be compelled to only tell the truth, have their minds swapped with another character, have powers taken away, edited, or given, or whatever else you want to do! It's totally up to you if Diana's "gifts" are actually going to help your character or just make them miserable for a while.

The plot will end when Diana is caught and cured of the Haze. Our hope is that people within New Avalon will team up to track her down and fix themselves, but if the plot takes you guys elsewhere, SHIELD will manage it themselves. All effects of this plot are temporary, so go wild.

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» Every active journal has been sent an invitation to newavalon and should have a comment, either to their contact post or their application post, telling you what their IC tag is. If one of your characters doesn't have one, it's because of a small oversight. We promise not to stealthily kick anyone out during the move. Just drop us a note or request access and we'll fix that right up.

» Everyone's posting access and memberships to the previous comms has been removed. Even newavalonmods has been removed in favor of newavalonbackup, so that our actual mod journal remains as uncluttered as possible and looks all simple and inviting to new players. If you have active threads or posts in any of the old comms, you're more than welcome to finish them where they are and submit any April activity links from those if you need to. There just won't be any new posts in the old communities.

» You can begin posting immediately! In fact, there's already an entry that we used as a test, so the ice is broken.

» The new tagging system goes like this: because everything is in the same community, there are ! tags for every kind of post: !network post, !log/thread, !text message, !misc communication (that last one is just anything that isn't the other three). As gamewide plots happen, we'll be adding specific tags for them so they're easier to track.

» Because we've cut down to a single community, you will not be able to create your own tags anymore. We'll make one anytime a character is accepted. If you want it changed for any reason (e.g. say I entered Evangeline as "Angie Frost" and Kait was like "no I prefer Evangeline", or if I spelled it "Butthead Frost" by accident), just swing by the Drop Box and ask us to fix it. (This is why we dropped the tag into a comment, by the by; we want to start this thing off on the right foot.)

» We strongly suggest that you make use of headers in the new communities (e.g. "log: renegade & agent 11" or "network post: extremis" or "text: druid to micro"). You don't have to use codenames, but you get the idea. It'll make it easier to parse out what's what on your friend's lists or the community itself, since not everyone's friend's lists has visible tags.

Starting sometime this weekend, ALL in-character posting is going to be done in newavalon.

» Post types differentiated by tags instead of entire communities (!network post, !text message, !log/thread, etc.)
» Better archiving! Having everything in one place means that we'll be able to create plot specific tags (e.g. !good samaritan, for the upcoming plot this month). It will also make tracking down links for activity check much easier.
» A better, more organized tagging system in general. The mods will create your tags for you when your character is accepted, and it will be easier to modify tags for dropped characters in the future.
» An easier time finding literally anything.

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The Devil Went Down to Jersey
A supervillain calling himself the Jersey Devil makes his terrorist debut by taking over the Outerbridge Crossing, connecting Staten Island to New Jersey. This pyrokinetic is hell-bent on proving something, but no one knows what. When Wonder is injured taking him down, Captain Marvel steps up to beat the Devil and save Kassi's life. Abigail Drake, Tessa Drake, Molly Parker, and Cliff Bishop are trapped on the bridge while all of this is going down.

weaponxx Nick Rogers / Weapon (Annie)

elite_hellion Julian Keller / Hellion (Taylor)

» 1 log and 2 other pieces of activity (network posts, text or email conversations, or more logs). Logs, net conversations, texts and emails must have at least 5 comments per character in an individual conversation to count toward activity. The original post counts as a "comment". You can only make one count of activity per post.

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» 4 network conversations, texts or emails, all meeting the 5 comment per character minimum.


Sometimes we have a special log theme for the month! Logs using the special theme will count for two pieces of activity if they are completed or reached 20 comments instead of 10.

Narratives and gifts that don't result in conversations in the post don't count. The activity requirements are specifically to foster interaction between characters. We certainly want you to write narratives for the fun of it, but they don't count as official activity.

If the need comes up, being on hiatus will get you out of activity check for one consecutive month. If you know you're going to be too busy to play for longer than that, then we need to reconsider whether New Avalon is the right game for you.

Characters apped on or after the 20th will only be required to have 2 net conversations, and on or after the 27th they're exempt completely.

Hem Locke Lebeau / Static Image staticimage (Thirteen) - 2/19
Ellis Van Dyne unfazedeveryman (Jo) - 2/19

Molly Parker / Cat kitteny (Annie) - 2/22
Julian Keller / Hellion elite_hellion (Taylor) - 2/22