Oak Pond

So while I was in the middle of replying to Dash's intro post, I realized that on the Modly side of things I was going to be posting two or three times so I just decided to throw everything into one post 😂.

INTRODUCTION
For our newer peeps, hello! I'm your resident Mod, Rook, and I've been RPing since the mid-to-late 90s (y'all remember AOL? 🤣). I've done IM RPs, chat RPs, email RPs, forum and message boards, and journal-based RPs. I feel like I've seen it all, but here is some more info:

• Urban Fantasy-based RPs are my jam so HMU with any ideas you have! They can be storylines for our characters or game-wide ideas.
• If you noticed the Holds page, I'm not necessarily a stickler for deadlines. I'm firmly in the RP-is-a-Hobby-not-a-Jobby Camp so I'm not here to give you homework or make RP feel like an obligation to meet. That said, however, it's been my experience both as a player and mod that games without ACs either die quickly or slowly fade into the void. I've tried to keep the AC as an attainable goal while still providing structure, but I'm open to tweaking it for the group if y'all feel that's necessary.
• As a follow-up, I can be inconsistent on this. If anyone here finds that as a Mod or player that I'm doing this too much, please call me out on my BS so I can take steps to better handle deadlines.
• While I consider myself friendly, I'm also an introvert so if we communicate for the first time and I seem standoffish or distant — that's 100% a Me Problem and absolutely not a You Problem — I'm just trying to find my comfort zone with you.
• You're welcome to contact me any time through the dropbox or email or you can add me on Discord at shadowoftherook

( Current & WIP Characters )

MINOR GAME UPDATE
I don't know if anyone would consider these Quality of Life improvements or not, but it's at least an update to you all to let you know that all the links on the front page of moonlake are now accessible. I'm still working on improving the Species page, and if y'all would like, I can add a members area to put a player directory and members only dropbox — just let me know! It would also help me if anyone can let me know if you come across any borked links as I'm not 100% sure if I caught all them this time around. 👍

GAME-WIDE EVENTS
I know we're still in the early stages of Memorial Day participation right now, but I'll leave that as In Progress for as long as people want to continue writing through the event.

UPCOMING & FUTURE EVENTS — Not set in stone/to be tweaked!

• June — Watersports Competition.
• July — Fourth of July (all week)
• August — Outdoors Competition/End of Summer Event (TBD)

I'm in the middle of getting the June event started, but wanted to know if this is of interest to the group at the moment? If not, it could be something to do in August as an End of Summer event. Here are the games I was thinking of adding for the sports event, but I'd also love to know what else you'd like to see added, too! (Or not if there's a game you'd not like to see.)

• Water Polo
• Volleyball
• Chicken Fight/Shoulder Wars
• Some sort of water race. (Jet skis? Sail boats? Swimming?)

Lastly, are there any mini-storylines that could or can effect multiple characters or species you'd like to see? Something like a witch's spell doesn't go quite right and a lot of people now have blue hair? Something along those lines or that type of storyline - it doesn't necessarily have to be silly, your idea could also run along or skew to the dark. Just let me know what you would or would not like to do.

If anyone has any questions, you're more than welcome to ask! I'll do my best to answer them 😄.

CODE BY

So I freely admit that this character idea came about because of too much Diablo IV recently, but I want to create a gifted human who has death-related abilities such as seeing ghosts or potentially raising and controlling the dead. Haven't pinned down a personality, yet, but am thinking of using Rooney Mara and wanted to know in general if anyone would be interested in playing against this type of character?