Ash and Dust - Out of Character Community

Hey everybody! I just wanted to let you know that I am alive. I'm so sorry for being M.I.A. since reopen. Readjusting after coming back from being abroad was a bit harder than I anticipated, especially since my life has changed so much all at once. So that plus the fact I've been having some car issues and such hasn't put me in too much of a mood to write. But I do love you all and the game, and I do want to come back. This week is a little busy for me so instead of trying to thread, maybe just let me know what has changed for your characters and how it may affect their relationships with mine (Matt, Dani, and Sonny)? Next week will be better for me to start threading again, and I will do just that! So send me thread plots as well? I know I'm behind on a thread or two so could someone in those threads give me like a summary of what happened? I feel like I'm asking so much from everyone. I'm so sorry about that.

Sorry that I haven't been on AIM lately. If you want to pick my brain about something, the best way to get a hold of me other than commenting is sending me an email, which again is behgbadaboom@gmail.com. I will respond as soon as I can, often times isn't more than a couple hours. At least now I'm back on PST so no crazy long wait times from me, right? I miss you guys! I'm excited about coming back and can't wait to get threading again!

Time update is up, so now here's a thread for pimping your kids for threads. There will be a run first thing for supplies, where Cece and Zach will be found. Everything else is up to you guys!

Hello, hello! Some of you may remember, and some may not :) In any case, I'm Beth. I'm coming back to the game, and bringing back two girls, Cece (this journal), a former journalist and Kiley nothingiwant, Jo's niece and Eli's cousin. Cece will be returning to Ashleigh when the game reopens (arriving with Zach). Kiley has been around with Jo for the last several months so she is open for flashbacks, etc if anyone is interested!!

You can get a hold of me here, my drop boxes or by email. Really excited to be back <3

eta: my aim name is icanseelightsbr - my availability on this is super sporadic, however. but it's there.<3

If I can direct your attention to the Wanted List, you will see how sadly bereft of specifics it is. Please feel free to add new ones to the list with the time updates. We have a couple of players who are looking for new muses.

( What you did last summer )

Hello, everyone!

This is a little moderator post just to check in and touch base with everyone. Our reopening is on the horizon and you will notice changes going on around the game. We are working hard to get our ducks in a row and bring Ash and Dust back to you, new and improved.

As a step in that direction, we would like you to please comment here if you have decided to stay (or even if you have decided to leave) and if you do decide to stick around, please include the characters you are planning on keeping and if any of your characters might not have made it to this stage in the game. Those characters can be remembered on our cast list via the graveyard section for historical reference.

We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you and can't wait to get this show on the road.

- The Mod Squad -

Happy Birthday Erin

Alright my loves, this is what Kristin and I have decided to do with this game. Knowing that such long stretches of inactivity can basically kill a game's mojo- and that's exactly what's happened here, what we're going to do is this:

We're officially putting Ash & Dust on a hiatus with a set Reopen date. In the meantime, we will be pushing game-time forward several months, and refashioning the environment and plots to fit a full-scale post-apocalyptic scenario. The reopen date is July 6th, which is the Sunday after the 4th of July.

We will leave the comms open for anyone who wishes to play out character development scenes or plot stuff out for the reopening. We will also be leaving the aim chat up, and likely be active on it.

Kristin and I both feel like this is the only way to salvage our vision as well as give everyone a chance to stay involved with it during these mad RL issues. Hopefully things will settle over the next month and a half- and hopefully the re-visioning will rev up some new passion.

Love you all,
Erin & Kristin

Hey all! Christopher here. I'm finally going to be coming back to the game after a long break. I apologize for being gone for so long but it had to be done. I hope to do some posting tomorrow so if someone could help me figure out what to do, like what's been happening, where to post, and/or if you want to do some plotting for a future thread, I would appreciate it. I still might be a little off and on this week but I'll be more active than I have the past couple of weeks.

It's about three weeks until I head back to the States, which I'm actually excited about. I've enjoyed this experience and would never give it up for anything, but it's time to go home. So I will soon be playing with you guys at normal hours that everyone is used to, which I hope will allow me to be more responsive each week.

Ok I'm rambling on at this point so I'm going to shut up now. Glad to be back and play with you all again soon!

Okay folks. Considering the clusterfuck set of circumstances that hit us all this week, what with half our players out or sporatic for whatever reason during a very action-packed and crucial plotweek, there has obviously been some confusion. This is my attempt to wrangle everything back together and get things moving/processed so people have things to play, and know what's going on. This is also meant to help folks who don't have AIM or haven't been able to follow everything in the chat.

So here's the plan. Listed here is every day of this plotweek (Week 4), with the groups that the characters have been placed in and their plan of action for that day. If your group doesn't have a plan of action, this is where you guys get together and make one- then go about playing it out.

I know RL has been an issue lately, and I know time-drag can do bad things to motivation. This is my attempt to reboot everything and get it back on track and moving- but I need everyone to contribute when they can.

Friday: The day all Hell broke loose.
-Victor, Simone, Raj, Ben, and Edwina end up at the Walgreens and paint a sign on the side that lets people know there are people inside.
-Sonny and Gia run into Ryan and Cece and head to the laundromat (I think?) where they spend the night.
-Christian, Tiffany, and Sally- plan unknown.
-Charlie, Ty, Beth, and Abe go from the hospital to the church bunker, wrangling as many people as possible to get them to safety.
-Abby, Miles, and Matt are rescued at Abby's house by Rich, Mickey, and Jase with the help of Lola and Mark in the helicopter. They all go to the ranger station, where they spend the night. They also get the radio working.
-Tinsley, Audry, Ramey and Dani- all hole up in Tinsley's father's mansion.
-Jo, David, Kiley, and Avery hole up in the bar.
-anyone else I missed that is still in Ashleigh, I don't have any idea of their plans.

Saturday: the morning after
-Rich, Abby, Jase, and Mickey go up to the Lookout point to survey the town. They see the sign on the Walgreens and make plans to attempt a rescue.
-Ryan and Cece decide to chance getting to Abby's house. Cece is lost on the way. Ryan makes it to the house and sees the note left by Abby. He heads to the ranger station and is reunited with his siblings.
-Sonny and Gia go back to their house to find their loved ones.
-The Walgreens group is trapped by zombies
-The bar group is trapped by zombies
-The church bunker is crowded and trapped by zombies.

Sunday: Bad Weather
-The storm delays the Ranger Station group in their plans to attempt a rescue mission. They continue trying to raise people on the radio.
-An old man in the Church bunker dies and turns, attacking people nearby and causing a panic- the church group needs to deal with this.
-Raj and Simone have a talk in Walgreens about plans to escape.
-The storm also delays Sonny and Gia from further attempts to look for their loved ones.
-All other groups are hindered by the storm.

Monday: The sun comes out
-Sonny and Gia venture out to Victor's dad's house, where they find Christian (and his group?)
-Victor and Edwina use the distraction technique talked about by Simone and Raj to leave Walgreens to make a run to Victor's father's house, where they run into Sonny, Gia, and Christian (and his group?)
-Rich and Jase drive the police SUV down from the ranger station to rescue more people, specifically those in Walgreens. They arrive while Victor and Edwina are gone. They rescue Ben, Simone, and Raj, then head toward Victor's father's house. All are reunited and using the police SUV, Victor's dad's truck, and Sonny's truck, go to the ranger station.
-All other group's plans unknown.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Filler
-Jo and David head toward Jo's family property in the hills, which is near the ranger station. They loose Kiley and Avery on the way, but are introduced to the group at the ranger station.
-Besides starting to think of longer-term solutions, all groups plans for these days are unknown.
-Liam, LJ, and Olivia are rescued by Mickey and Abby while stranded on a road near the ranger station- they are brought back to the ranger station.

Thursday: Charlie's Plan
-Charlie Shaw's siren distraction provides opportunity for the church group (and anyone else listening to the weather station message) to head up the hills toward Shady Bluff. Beth Hopkins is lost in the travels.
-Jo and David head back into town for supplies and to look for Kiley (they don't find her)- they head back to her property.
-The Ranger Station group begins plans to migrate toward Shady Bluff, as the station is too small to support so many people.



I hope this helps clear some things up, as well as gives a place where you can plot with other players about plans and scenes to play these things out. Use the comments to this entry to do so. Please, participation here is very important.

Slight change of plans- the new plot week post is being delayed until next Friday- that's May 9th - so that we have another week of catch-up time for those of us who've been slammed by RL. I've left the next plot post on the time-line if you'd like to read it, but it won't be officially enacted for at least another week- in which case, I'll make another announcement.

Also, run the Friend Button, as we have lost some characters and gained a few more.

For all of those groups who have no idea where you are ending up for the week before Thursday's exodus, Brother Abe will be taking folks into the United Baptist church until he has to stop or get overrun by the Infected. Anybody who has no idea where their character should be or got left in the lurch with the leavings and busy folks is welcome to be there. Then we'll stage a mass exodus on Thursday.

Brother Abe is also definitely available for talks during this week. <3

Okay y'all. Now that we're all starting to emerge from our crazy two-weeks of insanity, time to regroup and hit the plot again.

We lost two players: Beth and Anna, to RL issues. This leaves the characters Beth, Kiley, Cece, Avery, and Jax out of current plot. For continuity, those who were in groups involved with them will have just lost track of them in the chaos- for all intents and purposes, they're just gone until further notice.

Start pushing for scenes that carry your groups out of Ashleigh. We'll get this show on the road again.

CIAO SIGNORE E SIGNORI! Christopher here! I'm on my way back from Italy to England so I thought I would take a moment to give you an update. First of all, it was awesome and I'm sooooooo happy to have went. Unforgettable! If you have the chance to go though, I'd start with Venice and then go elsewhere. Trust me. Secondly, I wanted to say that I may still be MIA for a few days just because I need time to get my RL back in order. I realize that you may be waiting for me to post tags but I don't think I'll have time. So feel free to puppet my characters a bit as needed. I'm going to need a lot of filling in when I finally do come back so if someone could take notes for me, I'd appreciate it. Can't wait to come back to you guys.

FYI, it's almost one more month until I come back to the good ole US of A and I won't be on any crazy hours for a while. Miss y'all! <3

Updates ahoy!

So given the fact that this last week was Cray Cray for more than a few of our writers, we're definitely going to extend this plot-week another RT week. I normally don't publicly divulge what's going on the next plot-post, but in this case I think it's needed to give people a general direction to go with their scenes. As you have read, Charlie diverted the attention of a good chunk of the Dead in Ashleigh (though there will always be stragglers), and left instructions via emergency radio for people to head for the hills. Some characters may get this information directly from the radio, others can be told by other survivors. Either way, here's the deal: the next plot-week will open in TWO locations: the Shady Bluff Rustic Resort (think a sleep-away summer camp for adults) and the Park Ranger Look-out tower 4 miles out of town. Some groups are going one way, some are going the other. Decide now, but don't worry- we won't have people separated forever.

Secondly, I'm going out of town this weekend to visit family. Though I'll have my laptop on me, and can be reached fairly easily, I won't be able to tag with any regularity until Sunday evening.

Thirdly: OPEN QUESTION TIME! Here's where you guys can ask us questions about the game, about characters or plots, or give us ideas. Make suggestions if you have any. Anything and everything on your mind about the game, let us know. I'm home all day today and can answer questions out the ass.

<3
Erin

A scene from before the madness! (Link NSFW)

Just a quick note:

The new characters (Denny -and his NPC brother-, Colin and Cleo -and their NPC kids-) will be their own group for this plot week. Have fun at the daycare!

ALSO!

We're coming up on a holiday week. I know a lot of people will be busy this weekend, my son has Spring Break next week so things will be hectic on my end, plus there's at least one player leaving for another freakin' country, so depending on how busy people are, I may extend this one plot week THREE real-time weeks instead of the two originally planned. It's not set in stone yet; kind of a figure-it-out-as-we-go thing. I will keep you posted.

~Erin

Greetings, folks! It is I, Loki, with my last character for now.

This is Denny Foster, a 22 year old who's been struggling with what it means to be a 'good person' for most of his life. Recently, he's made a lot of progress, which started off by kidnapping his little brother. Yeah, that doesn't sound like the 'good guy' thing to do, but he had his reasons. Just before the outbreak in Ashleigh, he and his brother fled to the town from Chattanooga, where he's been living mostly on his own since he was 16. There, he did construction, tiling, and played his music in a dive bar on weekends.

Despite growing up as a "bad egg" he feels like he's grown out of a lot of those tenancies, and makes an effort not to fall back into being a douche just because it's comfortable for him. The one thing he hasn't gotten out of yet are his drug dependencies, and the constant fear that he may be losing his mind.

I don't have any specific lines that need filled for him, but I'm down for any ideas, if you have any ^^
Loki

More characters!

Dee with Colin Matthews
Crystal with Cleopatra Matthews
Loki with Denny Foster

Welcome to Ash & Dust!

Please run the Friend Button.

Updated groups!

With the addition of new characters, the following groups have been upgraded.

Abe is now with Tyler, Charlie, and Beth.
Rich is now with Jase and Mickey (you're welcome, Rich)