[ Event: Mist, Fog, Monsters : Round 2 ]
06 August 2010 at 02:54 pm
Marina Asylum Mods
Marina's streets are shrouded in mist tonight. It's suddenly gotten strangely cold, and snow has started to fall. Or is that ash, when you reach out to touch it? Everything is also washed out, white and gray, including the sky... making it hard to tell whether it's 6pm or midnight, 1am or nearly dawn. An Alaskan "white night", only without the sun.

Be careful where you step: random street corners seem to have been mysteriously replaced with deep, gaping chasms. But at least everything else seems normal, right?

No, wait -- there are also monsters waiting for you in the fog.


NOTE: Everything in this post only applies to your character if they have "darkness" in their hearts. This is not necessarily a literal darkness, but characters who are bad people, e.g. evil or psychopathic, do automatically qualify. Any character who has ever experienced something violent that haunted them -- whether or not it is their fault, whether or not the situation was later corrected, whether or not they remember it -- also qualifies. However, a deeply good character who is also from a school drama and thus has little experience with violence or trauma might see nothing at all.

There is a little wiggle room, though, if you really want your character to see monsters, and a character with more darkness in his or her heart can (optionally) experience more drastic effects.

If you're still not sure whether this describes your character, other players have asked more specifically about their own characters in the comments on the previous post, and you can do the same here.


ALSO: The Lizard description has been updated to include more details about what combat with them is like, for ease of player-NPCing. Hopefully this style will be more helpful!

Tonight's forecast calls for: LIZARDS and AGORAPHOBIAS )

Enjoy the music.
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h-hi again
06 August 2010 at 04:41 pm
Hello Marina~

For those of you who are new, I am Kate, and I play Sasuke, whom I am re-apping after six weeks of the most horrifying job ever* YAAAAY~ I am excited to play here again, and Sasuke is super excited to come back and see his brother so that they can go and live the rest of their lives totally undisturbed by anything unfortunate ever again right

r-right?

;;

*Working as an RA at the Center for Talented Youth, if you must know. DON'T DO IT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
[ Rule Awareness Update ]
06 August 2010 at 09:34 pm
Marina Asylum Mods
Issue 1: Activity check/How's My Driving!

If you haven't responded to the activity check, do so immediately! It ends tomorrow pretty much whenever the mods get around to it, so get it in today.


Issue 2: Formatting rules

At player request, a rule has been edited to reflect our new[ly-official] policy on how to format posts.

2. All posts on [info]marinasylum must have a subject line of one of the following: voice, video, action, text (only if you have a special communicator). Action logs may optionally be in prose, but network posts should have dialogue in normal text, description in brackets. See the main community for examples. You are also allowed to mix posts, such as a video and action post or an open and private post, but keep the multi-tasking to a minimum: if the mods have to scroll down to get past your post, or you have three action prompts in one post, you may be asked to cut or shorten it.


Issue 3: Valid activity

At player request, a rule has been edited to hopefully clarify what is considered valid activity for the month.

4. There will be mandatory activity checks/how's my driving posts once a month. Players are required to participate in them unless they are on hiatus for the entirety of the activity check. Missing or failing two activity checks for ANY REASON is an assumed drop. Actual activity requirements are pretty laid-back (your character's tag must be on at least three posts where you participated in a medium-length thread). Hiatus notices should go on [info]marina_ooc, but a hiatus that requires you to miss more than 2 ACs will be an assumed drop without extenuating circumstances and explicit mod permission.


This is not a change in policy, so this rule has been in effect the whole time, and there is no difference in the way we treat our review of the HMD tomorrow. The rules page will be officially updated shortly.
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