In Darkness - OOC

All righty. Activity checks are now closed.

Thank you, to everyone who signed in. At the end of the post will be a list of dropped characters, for the sake of reference or if any of your characters want to notice them missing.

For the next check, we will be allowing threads started during the prior check to count under certain circumstances. For example, if you have twenty characters and are being active but only managed to thread with X character once during the prior check but the thread took three weeks to complete, it will be allowed to count since activity with the character was recent, even if the thread was started during checks.

However, under no circumstances can one person use the same thread to count for two consecutive checks. For example, if I had a thread started on Wednesday during a check and used the thread to count for the current check, I could not use said thread for the following activity check. If you need this clarified or have if/then scenarios, please present your conundrums in comments.

For this month, we will be evaluating dropped threads, so please make sure you use the "!dropped" tag when you consider a thread dropped, and communicate with your thread-mates if there are circumstances that are slowing you down so you aren't unfairly marked as dropped. If we notice you are consistently dropping threads, we will ask that you consider cutting some characters from your cast, or dropping the game entirely if you don't have time to keep up with it. I know it's a slightly faster paced/more thread-intensive game than most, and I'd like to maintain a 'completed thread' standard, rather than having a majority of our threads dropped.

Announced hiatuses or "oh shit this week of RL is killing me" OOC posts will be taken into consideration when we look at the threads as well, though if possible, give us a heads-up before rather than after. We really aren't psychic, as much as we'd like to think otherwise. ;) Most of you are really on top of this though, and we definitely appreciate the communication.

There will be a plot-post outline written up after this ... at some point ... eventually, so keep an eye out for that.

Thanks guys!

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All righty. Someday, I think I'll learn not to do plot writeups at obnoxious hours of the AM, but that day is not tonight.

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If you have any questions/need clarification/think I got something wrong/your character doesn't have a soul per canon and you want to discuss effects ... comment and we'll discuss.

ETA Dementors are invisible to everyone but the wizards/spell-casters. See, because I miss glaringly obvious things is why I shouldn't write up plots at 2 am.

ETA 2 Dementors can be heard, and they cause cold. Cold, not colds. XD So even though they cannot be seen by non-wizards, they can be sensed.

For those interested, a sneak-peak of where they'll be moving to next month can be found here