Marina's streets are pitch-black tonight. A cold rain falls. Better get out the flashlights, because that's the only way you're going to be seeing anything until dawn. It's like a power outage, only the communicators still work.

If you venture outdoors, 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 darkness.

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: Difficulty levels are now relative. Silent Hill is evolving, changing to suit its new environment -- and this is one of the changes. So you may now rest assured that "easy" means your character cane take on this monster without too much trouble, "medium" means that your character should be careful, and "hard" means that your character should get help. Faster characters will now find that the monsters are faster; stronger characters will find them stronger. And if two characters are working together, the monsters will scale to the more competent character's level.

( Tonight's forecast calls for: LIZARDS, NURSES, and THE WATCHER )

Enjoy the music.

A lot of people said they were interested in the boutique idea and so I wanted to get a more concrete idea of who wants to be involved and how.

So questions!

1. Which characters are interested in being DESIGNERS? Meaning, who wanted to make clothes for the boutique?

2. Which characters are interested in being MODELS? Particularly for the grand opening, but if someone ICly decides to take pictures and make posters and whatnot, that's great too. Josak will be making a post ICly today for anyone who wants to have their character volunteer to model for the grand opening.

3. How much involvement should be done ICly? Meaning should their be meetings, planning, and all of that in-game, or should we just handwave it after creating a plan/outline of how the boutique and the grand opening will be run?

4. IDEAS. I only have so many, so if anyone has ideas for the boutique, such as layout, grand opening theme, etc. feel free to bring it up! I'm thinking of possibly making a wiki-page for the boutique, but only after we have more details ironed out.

((NOTE: The post for the Silent Hill incident this weekend will be up shortly.))


[Activity : September]

1. Activity check!
Comment here with one of these filled out for every character you play.

<b>Name:</b> <b>Tag:</b> <a href="http://asylums.insanejournal.com/marinasylum/tag/NAME+HERE">☑</a> <b>What did he/she do in September?:</b> <b>Any plans for him/her?:</b> <b>Superheroes are old hat, man. <i>Sentai teams</i> are where it's at! Who's on your character's Marina Power Rangers and what colors are they?</b>

Use your character's community tag to find their activity for September and summarize it. Untagged activity does not count toward your activity check.

Be detailed! "Deire mostly just hung around" is not detailed. But don't be tl;dr! The purpose of the summary is to remind people what your character has been up to, so that any thoughts about your characterization will come back to them. It defeats the point if it's too long to read, or too short to jog memories.

You'll have one full week to comment, until the 7th. Repeating: All characters who were in the game in September must do this, unless you are currently on total hiatus. If your character has only been active for one week, you need to post for that character. If you are on slowatus, you need to post for your characters. If you are on hiatus with character A but still active with character B, you need to post for character A and character B. Only a total hiatus for the duration of the HMD gets you out of the HMD.


2. How's my driving?
Respond to other people's comments! Tell them if you think their characterization is right, wrong, just slightly off the mark; tell them if you think their character is so X Y and Z that you've decided to read/watch/play their canon; tell them if you think they as a player need to work on something, IC or OOC. You don't have to know someone's canon to give them valuable feedback.

Everyone is required to be open to concrit to play here! Please speak to the player in question before you decide that they're not open to crit. It helps us, the mods, if we can see what's going on so we can put a stop to players shutting down concrit.

As always, anon comments are enabled, IP addresses are not tracked.


3. Have fun!
New kids will be incoming next week!

I am now off of hiatus. Officially. My sickness lasted WAY longer than expected. I couldn't even DO ANYTHING...Jeez. But now I'm happy. And good. Still sniffly, but good. I have a lot of homework to do, so I'll be a little slow for a while...BUT THEN I WILL BE UP TO SPEED.

On a side note, I probably won't apply this apping period. I have it written but on account that I am so distracted and slow, it wouldn't be a good idea. Next month! *Looks at app hopefully*

It's very good to back. ♥

Ciel Phantomhive | Kuroshitsuji | little_phantom
Kaien Kurosu | Vampire Knight | fangless

I'm sorry for being such a terrible flake, you guys. I'm going through some sort of mid-RP crisis right now or something.

In any case, I don't think Gambit is really working out well for me in this setting, so I'm going to go ahead and let him go. I'm especially sorry to castmates. -_-

But... Cielo is still around! And I still need to finish my app up so I can try someone else...

Ugh, so much fail.

- Lauren
(Cielo)