19 June 2010 at 08:53 am
I hate to do this now with others in the cast already having dropped but my life has kind of exploded and while I can be around, I am having a hard time maintaining these voices and remembering to check the game.  Ilu all and I'm really sorry for doing this Ana, Your Juri is epic and made of win and if I do find time to re-app, I will totally come back here.

For now though,  I need to step back for a while and get my own life sorted out.  I'm sorry again.   This is a drop for  [info]haruka_ and [info]souen_ruka.
[ On Monster Attacks ]
19 June 2010 at 01:46 pm
Marina Asylum Mods
So an interesting thing will be happening soon: the return of raptors! And by raptors we mean monsters, including raptors! We know many of you have been rooting for raptors to come back for ages.

Here's the deal. Alessa of Silent Hill fame is, in her canon, the reason that town gets all foggy and evil. And she's here to share some of her foggy evil with us now, thanks to Vel for her cooperation. Which means that when she's out of her restraints, her emotional stress will be reflected via occasional descents into dome-wide madness.

However, your mods have been having a little difficulty balancing things out. In the old days, we had raptors every weekend. We had to walk in the snow uphill both ways hip-deep in raptors just to get to the kiosk! But it hasn't been that way in quite some time, and some new players may find that a dramatic change, and not something they signed up for.

SO, SURVEY TIME. Poll results will only be visible by the mods, so please give your honest opinions. ETA: IJ's security levels on polls are broken. NO ONE WILL THINK LESS OF YOU FOR YOUR HONEST OPINIONS, SO PLEASE GIVE THEM. ETA ETA: No one will know who voted for what. Really! So feel free to vote your honest opinions.

Further ETA: A not official time-table might be, longer events will occur no more than once every 5-6 weeks; shorter events will occur no more than once every 3 weeks. FYI, since there seemed to be some confusion!

Poll #5331
Open to: All, results viewable to: None

How many different monsters is too many? We don't want to feel like an intense survival horror game with a giant bestiary.

Fewer is better. One or two distinct kinds of monsters is plenty.
9 (20.0%)

Three to five is a good, medium-sized number with enough variety.
13 (28.9%)

Numbers shouldn't matter, as far as I'm concerned.
2 (4.4%)

As many monsters as you want, but pick only two types per incident, depending on Alessa's stressor. (e.g. nurses if she's been brought to the hospital)
27 (60.0%)

Should we limit the areas that are affected when an incident happens?

Monsterpalooza! Go for the gold!
2 (4.4%)

It's more fun and creepier if sometimes they can appear in the shelter, too!
11 (24.4%)

It's okay if they can break in, so characters can defend against it, but indoors is normally safe.
25 (55.6%)

Monsters should never be able to be indoors.
7 (15.6%)

Should we stick to the "only at night" model, or enable an incident to happen all "day"? Incidents will be rarer if they last longer.

Only at night, so the bulk of the week is always safe to interact.
35 (77.8%)

I need more than a weekend! A full week would be better.
10 (22.2%)



Anything we left out? Anything you're curious about? Let us know! And feel free to comment anonymously if you feel the need.
I have such bad timing.
19 June 2010 at 03:50 pm
Juri Kuran (玖蘭 樹里)
I apparently live in this OOC comm. Hi everyone, it's Ana again. OTL. So remember that thing I called a semi-hiatus before? It got eaten by the giant full-hiatus that somehow appeared! How?

Well... I ended up getting fired from my job right after doing a week of literally nothing but 16-hour shifts and training my replacement, and then my computer decided to blow up. So my online time was limited to searching for a new job and trying to not get yelled at for hogging the family computer. It... was not fun.

So okay, I am back-ish though! So de-hiatusing lmao, no, this is not a drop post ;;; Just gotta apologize for the lack of notice. I know I've missed a lot, if anyone would kindly let me know if I'm needed anywhere/what went down that would be lovely. I'll go through myself and try to read up as much as possible but I do want to focus most on jumping back in and getting this lady commenting properly.

Thank you! Again, I apologize for the disappearance.
19 June 2010 at 05:58 pm
Joining the ranks of the hiatused / slowatused / whaaatused for the next week or so! Off on a work trip, so I don't know how much online access I'll have - though I'll definitely try to squeeze in owed replies, orz.

Thanks, and enjoy your day!
Sloooowatus/Hiatus
19 June 2010 at 08:28 pm
Johnny Rayflo
I hadn't wanted to do this, but it seems that this illness I have isn't going away. Sorry guys who are waiting on tags from me, but the evil flu-sinus-migraine monster bug I've been facing the last four days has finally kicked my ass to the point I'm sleeping most of the day away. I'm going to keep trying to tag, but I will be unbelievably slow until my brain is back into shape.

Sorry again to anyone who is really waiting on things from me like relationship meme responses.

This affects:
Uchiha Itachi ❂ [info]blindedbyblood | Johnny Rayflo ☀ [info]handoffmycherry
Josak Gurriere ❣ [info]miss_biceps | Miranda Lotto ✵ [info]neverenoughtime
Richie Foley ☣ [info]put_it_in_gear | Soubi Agatsuma ❇ [info]hurt_me_ritsuka

On the bright side I may get anime watching in and finish catching up on Bleach, so...
Tags:
Hiatus Bandwagon Get!
19 June 2010 at 10:13 pm
Zero Kiryuu
Hi everyone! Sari here to jump on the recent hiatus bandwagon of doooooom.

Starting on Monday I will be packing up the kids for a vacation to last about a week in duration. The husband person has opted out of going with us which means I get a whole week to 'single parent' my kids on vacation. Just me and the kids...and a bunch of extended family who will want all of our undivided attention every waking moment for obnoxious family fun activities, I am sure. Yay for having a PE teacher for a mother who likes to turn everything into games and icebreaker activities. Yes, even Christmas is a free for all game in our house dealing with white elephant gifts.

Anyway. I'm not sure on what sort of internet access I will get, if any, nor how much time free time I'll have since I'll be by myself.

Long story short. I'll be on hiatus from Monday for an entire week.
Slowatus
19 June 2010 at 11:03 pm
My computer just died and I can't seem to find the charger any where so I'll prbably be a bit slower than usual until I find it as I'll be tagging and posting from my itouch and it's a pain in the ass to do this a lot. This would also be the reason I left chat so suddenly just now, so sorry about that.