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Hey, gang. There’s never an easy way to announce something like this to a player base, especially one as loyal and dedicated as you guys, but it would be a disservice to you guys and to ourselves to not provide an explanation in full, and be as clear and straightforward about this as possible.

A few weeks ago, we announced a closing date for battlers. Today, we regretfully must announce that we cannot keep our promise to close on November 1. Instead, we will be closing at the end of next week. We realize that this is an abrupt close, and it may cut short a lot of the plots and plans that you may have had for your characters. We never meant to waste anyone’s time, but we collectively as a group are unable to give you guys a finale that this game deserves. Time is simply no longer a luxury that we can afford at this point. From the bottom of our hearts, we are sorry. And we hope that you guys understand that we loved this game and all of you very much.

When we had set out to close battlers on November 1, we had known that time would become tight for all three of us starting at the beginning of September and beyond. We had hoped in the interim between our announcement and the beginning of our respective time crunches, we’d be able to plan out the closing down to the letter, but as you guys may have noticed, we had some hitches (Hannah busy planning her big move to New York City, Mike and Luis’ internet blackouts plus other little things that added up and contributed to an extremely difficult month in communication), and we were never really able to sit down and plan out what we had set out to do. Now, the time crunch has begun, and it has become impossible. The fact that this is at the detriment of your guys’ enjoyment is something that we will always regret, but instead of dragging it out further, and letting the game essentially dwindle and grind to a halt, we believe closing now is better than saying we can move forward and finish when we already know that we cannot.

We know that we were never the most perfect mods; we've had a lot of ups and downs and shaky moments. But we thank you guys for sticking with us through it all and showing us your endless patience and support. Everything we accomplished in this game was done for you guys. And it is with this thought, we reveal to you the last two months of battlers plot:

( This is the end. )

With this plot reveal, we hope that we answer a lot of the questions that we've built up over the course of our run. And though we may not be able to play this out in full, we do have a couple of very tiny consolation prizes: two closing memes.

The first: The Last Word. Our final veritaserum-type meme. A chance to get all of the things left unsaid out in the open once and for all. Whatever happens in this meme, you guys can decide amongst yourselves to make it a part of your character's canon, or make it separate and out of character.

The second: 20 Years Later. Lives move endlessly forward; where do you see your characters in the next twenty years? What kind of role do they play in rebuilding the new world? Give us the details of all your happily ever afters and not with a bang but a whimpers.

We will leave the comms open until 11:59 EST on Friday, September 16. Until then, you can post your 20 years laters and any other goodbye notes that you'd like to leave behind. We'll provide a Last Word meme post separately.

With all our love, and gratitude: keep on keeping on, gang.

Love,
your friendly neighborhood moderators:
H, M, & L.

Well, friends, the time has come. As many of you know, we’ve long had an ending date for battlers in sight, and it’s with a heavy heart that we announce that we’ve finally set that date: November 1.

What this means in the short term is that: after August 27, apps will no longer be accepted. Holds will continue as normal, with the exception that any placed after August 13 (Saturday) will last only until the 27th; thereafter, neither holds nor applications will be accepted. Thus, if you’d like to get any characters in before the game ends, now is the time to do so!

What it means in the longer term is that come August 13, we will have eleven weeks. Eleven weeks to enjoy our remaining time here at battlers. In the coming weeks, we mods will work tirelessly to build up to a game-ending plot that is sure to knock your socks off. With weekly memes, and media posts, we’ll do everything we can to make sure you guys have plenty to respond to and can make the most of our beloved game. It’s meant the world to us that you guys have cared so much for this game, shown us endless love and support and been so enthusiastic for the entirety of its run. Now that we’re in the home stretch, let’s make sure this baby goes out with a bang. Hang on tight, guys, and keep on keeping on.

Love,
your friendly neighborhood moderators:
H, M, & L

• Juliet is the English rep and a sophomore. Juliet is super-English in an almost pukey way, as in ladies flouncing around the countryside English.
• No, really. Her media nickname is the English Rose. Not every English person is happy about her, but her decision to join Omega did win them over!
  
• Her power is a forcefield that surrounds her at all times and absorbs all physical attacks towards her, except those magically based. She then turns that into being superstrong or superfast, but only one at a time. It also means she can't touch anybody and she's likely to swat your head off accidentally.
• This means she's kind of contact starved and really loves hanging around people. She also has no personality on her own because she's a huge people pleaser, natch.
• She is really stupid because of that. And really sheltered. She means well! Let her be your best friend! Braid your hair...oops, your skull.
• She's very excitable and very !!! about everything in general. Toasters are fabulous! This is fabulous! That is wonderful!
• Except if her friends don't like something or Omega doesn't like something. Then it's UNACCEPTABLE and BIG LETTER TIME.
• She's kind of a sheep.
• Her obliviousness avoids people but a good part of it is actually an act because if she doesn't think it hurts, it won't actually hurt. Sad.
• Friends? Enemies? Fellow Omegas?

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• His name is José Cuervo. No, really. Codename "the hangover." He's a freshman from Jalisco, Mexico.
  
• He has tequila powers. His body is made of alcohol where other people's are made from water, he turns water to tequila, he can alcohol-bend, he can get you drunk just by thinking about it, and he can mess with the alcohol in your bloodstream. (Very very painful, he doesn't recommend it.)
  
• His powers are the result of a cursed bottle of 100-year-old tequila he drank when he was 11, and he has no memories prior to that point. He thinks he was concocted in a laboratory somewhere, and that his powers are either technology or virus-based. THEY'RE NOT.
  
• He has the personality of like, a labrador puppy. He is totally naive and so eager to make friends that it can be kind of painful to watch. Also he's super-Catholic. And ever since he go to Camulus he's been really girl-crazy. I think he has like this rotating crush on all of the freshman girls, depending on who he's with.
  
• Like Gretchen Wiener, he knows fucking everything about everybody. That's why his hair is so big, it's full of secrets. Secrets that he nonetheless shares with everyone because he's a horrible judge of character and never knows who is lying/mocking him when they say omg i will never tell.
  
• Oh and he's an Omega. Rush was actually super stressful for him because he'd promised himself to like ALL OF THE SOCIETIES (except amazon) because he cain't say no and then had to make a totally arbitrary last-minute decision. Alpha might still be kinda pissed about it. :|
  
• Oh and he loves to play guitar. Pls to be providing people to jam with. :) Also what he needs: good friends (i.e., people who like him for more than just the obvious), bad friends (people who've USED HIM MERCILESSLY), people that he knows all kinds of personal information about for no particular reason, and uhhh, idk. he needs a First Kiss. A girl who went down like a ton of bricks because he accidentally poisoned her. VOLUNTEERS?