Carnaval de la Lumière

Good morning everyone!

Welcome to a new era in Carnaval! Fi and I have made some changes to the rules and a few other pages, so please take a look around. If by chance your journal was removed and you are still in the game, just readd the communities. If you have any questions or concerns you'd like to raise, feel free to comment here. Otherwise, get to playing! Have fun! Enjoy the weekend!

The new management will make themselves known sometime this weekend. This is not a reboot.

~The Mods (Min and Fi)

( December )

Hi everyone,

I'm sorry for my level of disorganisation these past couple of weeks. I will get everything updated over the weekend and I will post the new destination, etc. a little later this evening. Things are pretty quiet around the place - a number of people are on hiatus. It's definitely that time of year! I hope work/school/family/etc. are treating you all well, though, even if they're busy. Take care everyone! I'll have those posts for you soon. :)

Thanks,
Sara

Hi Folks,

We haven't had one of these in a little while, sorry. The general idea for those newer folk, though, is that you fill out the form below for each of your characters, while others do the same for theirs. Then everyone comments on everyone else's surveys (or those characters they’re interested in throwing one of theirs at, anyway) and we get some interaction going!

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>What have they been doing of late?:</b> <b>Do you have any plans/goals for them for the future?:</b> <b>What sorts of interactions are you looking for?:</b> <b>Anything else?:</b>

( WEEK 12 )

Welcome back everyone!

Everything seems to be in order, but if you come across anything that's broken please let us know. We've had a decent chunk taken out of our plot time this cycle, but feel free to keep posting things related to it - backdating is, of course, always welcome. :) That said, there will be a new destination and plot going up later today. Don't let them take away from the current one though.

Thanks. :)

( WEEKS 9/10/11 )

Hi everyone,

Firstly, I'm sorry for being conspicuously absent these past couple of weeks. I did dive into NaNoWriMo for the first few days, but have been wrestling with some other things and I've had to make a decision regarding my current commitments, of which running this game is obviously one. So this post is, sadly, about the game's future. Since there are destinations written, and plots pencilled in for each of these, till new year, I'm going to continue running the game until then. But at that point, I'm going to have to step back. This means one of two things, really - if anyone is interested (or knows someone interested) in taking over things, I'd be more than happy to hand over the reins to a new 'management' and supply any help/information/etc. to them. If no one turns out to be interested though, then I will be closing the game at that point. If that is the case, there will be a plot to close out the game so that your characters aren't left hanging. I'm sorry to you all to have to do this (and especially those recently accepted.. okay, and everyone else too <3). But hopefully this will be enough notice. :E

I intend to close holds/apps throughout December, and to let anyone holding/apping between now and then know of this decision as well. I will bring this up again, probably a couple of times, as we get closer to the end of the year. Again, I'm sorry, you're a wonderful bunch, but running a game just isn't going to be possible for me. <3 (If you are interested/know someone interested/come across someone interested in running the game, please let me know via email at either the mod email (carnaval.mods) or my personal email (arimala) both at gmail.com.)

Also, I'm a bit late in getting things posted this time around. I'll get the new route and destination up tomorrow. And, in a nutshell, the zombies should be over for everyone now and Sunday is another full moon (these months go by so fast).

<3
Sara

Hello,

It was suggested we add points tags to make things easier come activity checks. Instead of adding separate tags, though, we've added the point worth in brackets to the standard '!post' tag and added a new !closed tag to the threads community for closed threads. In instances where there are two tags (i.e. plot threads), the higher of the two is taken (plot), not both. And as a reminder, the October activity check is coming up in a few days.

Thanks everyone!

Hello!

Lots of posts, I know. This is Sara and this is part mod note, part personal note. November is almost upon us, which not only brings a destination change and a plot, but is also National Novel Writing Month (NaNo). Having previously signed up and epically failed, I intend to give it another go this time around. But that means I'm not going to have as much time for RP. So I'm calling a slowatus for November, but am also wondering (the mod part!) if anyone would be interested in helping out in the modly sense? The next destination and route are pre-written (the plot needs some discussion with folk, actually, but that can be done too). So it would mostly be a matter of keeping an eye on things, helping with updating things.. apps and holds and stuff. So if anyone would be interested, that would be awesome. (You're welcome to have a hand in more if you like, as well!)

But yeah, if you are interested, please send us an email expressing that interest (carnaval.mods@gmail.com).

Thanks guys!

( WEEK 7 (or so) )

( WEEK 6 )

Hello!

This is just a quick reminder that the carnival is being run out of Empire City today (Saturday) and that this also happens to be the night of the full moon. Check the event post for more information. The angry mob has officially broken the greed spell, though. So whether you want to post something dealing with the madness of packing up the carnival with the full moon approaching or owing someone an apology for recent behaviour, threads dealing with these elements are still eligible for plot points.

Thanks guys,
Nina and Sara

Hi everyone,

The Mod journal has been significantly updated. Everything was reposted so the old links won't work, but there's a new directory and everything should point to the right place. If you do find a broken/wrong link, though, please let us know. If you do take a look, you'll notice that there are more links than there were previously. We've added a bit more information on the carnival and redone a couple of pages. The FAQ has finally been updated, though some of the NPC stuff still needs to be done. And there is the intent to do some maps, but they might be a while coming. Most things have been updated though (accommodation pictures, for example). Oh, and we've added a form to the Mod Contact page for hiatuses.

Back on the links, I do realise the ones in the journal info need updating. I'll be working on a new ad and plan to do that then. Actually, if there are characters you'd like to see from your fandoms, I'll be putting up some smaller character ads around the place over the weekend, so it's worth letting me know here (those on the wanted page will already be included).

Thanks!
Nina and Sara

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the slow weekend. We have a couple of things to update you on though. Firstly, points have been added and you can check/spend them over here. We've added a little IC tie-in for these, if you're interested, over here at Management's journal. Basically, while some things your character could potentially purchase with their wages, most things are from Management. We thought that while some things can just turn up as gifts, others could be requested by the character (even indirectly - your character complaining that they can't do their job and then finding that they can via skills, for example). We felt this would add an additional IC layer to the points system. That said, you're welcome to have your character leave other notes/things for Management. Maybe they'll get something for free or a response or (most likely :E) silence (requests with no points can be made and met with nothing, too, if you'd like ;). You and your characters are welcome to try your luck though!

While on the topic of points, if you haven't signed in for last month's Activity Check, please do.

Next, plots. The Greed Plot is still going. Sorry we've been a bit slack on this, but the carnival is in full swindle mode. That said, we have plots solidly pencilled in for the next few months, so we wanted to know whether or not you wanted a plot for the next fortnight or just free play as the plots will keep chugging along after that. Here is yet another poll, sorry -

Poll #7298
Open to: Friends, results viewable to: Friends

Plot or free play next fortnight?

On the topic of polls now, we had more overall votes for some form/interval of the character update/planning survey, and of those the fortnightly block had the most votes. So we'll continue with them, but you're not obligated to join in if you don't want to.

Thirdly, we'll be rejigging the mod journal at some point in the next week, so bear with us (/Sara and her trial and error ways). After that things should be a little smoother.

Thanks everyone!

( WEEK 5 )

( WEEK 4 )

Hello!

So now that everyone is back the carnival will be moving on. Again, they'll be packing up and heading to their new destination on Sunday/Monday. They're taking an extra day to set up because Management felt they might need it. The plot will start on Wednesday. They picked up a few more animals from Bathsheba - horses, dogs and a cow (they'll be added to the jobs page soon). If anyone wants to take ownership of the cow, they're welcome to. Otherwise she might be delegated to the cook staff (she's a dairy cow though ;).

Journals are now in game. We've updated the FAQ with some information about them and ICly this is what your character will find when they head to the cook house for breakfast. If they miss that, this note can be found plastered around the back lot. Make sure you add the !journal tag to any journal entries you post in carnaval_notes.

We've finally instated the one hold rule and we've beefed up the application a little bit as well. Activity checks will be posted on Tuesday and you'll have a week to respond to those, after which we'll enter all your points into the spreadsheet and you'll be free to spend those. We'll have a few more things to update you on come checks as well.

Have a good weekend!

Thanks,
Nina and Sara

Hi everyone,

This is just a quick note before I head out of town for the day to visit family. We realise the current plot has fallen a bit flat and that people have been busy/hiatused. If time allows tonight we'll put up an NPC rescue post that we'll treat as a group thread, so people are welcome to have their own threads within it, etc. for rescuing. Then after your characters have settled back in for a few days we'll have a new destination and plot. ;) The next plot won't require much planning (but hopefully some plotting - we'll have something for that too). Remember if you've had a thread dealing with the dust storm/Bathsheba stuff that it gets a !plot tag and extra points - checks are coming up next week.

Cheers guys!

( Week 3 )