Vas Captio OOC

Just a few modly notes from your friendly neighbourhood modly types!

1. OOC vs IC: Remember to keep the two things separate. We really haven't seen any of this come up, but it's a good reminder nonetheless. What a character thinks is not what the player thinks!

2. Rule Update: As you will see this week, we are reinstating Shannon into the game. This does involve a rule update and it is this: The Mods understand that sometimes you aren't feeling a character and feel the need to drop -- followed soon by the regret of dropping the character. Players are allowed ONE re-pick up of a character with no questions asked. However, we will not permit constant dropping and re-picking up of a character. As Shannon has been picked up, please run the friend add button to un-banset.

3. Hiatuses: We are coming into school-time once more [this particular mod is about to start law school] and are suggesting that, rather than dropping a character due to time constraints you take a hiatus. Hiatuses are fine and dandy with us. Similarly, if you know you won't be around for a period of time, please post on the hiatus post in the mod journal so we can keep track of things.

4. ♥: there just needed to be a fourth thing. Only to say that you guys are amazing and thanks for an amazing five months of game! We're going to be doing some pimping and if you know people who are looking for a game, bring 'em here! We always like new victims players around here!

Today

Day Ten: Evening and Night

Departures

Sam Anders - a body that may or may not belong to Sam Anders may or may not be found in the rubble of the church. Silent Bob - At 3:45pm, Silent Bob succumbed to the injuries sustained in the earthquake.

Weather Forecast

85° and partly cloudy. Slightly humid. Low 55° at night with a 10% chance of scattered showers. Sunset: 8:21pm

Experiments

Periodically throughout the hours after the first, large quake there will be smaller, less damaging quakes. Aftershocks. These will affect every area of Vas Captio but in varying degrees. Things will shift, fall, break, etc. as they did during the original quake but not in such fantastic disarray. Everywhere the ground split, the cracks will become marginally larger. Everywhere things fell precariously, some will become dislodged and fall further. The museum's foundation will crumble more. The tunnel of love in the carnival will break open and its water flood out onto the road. Most importantly, the clock tower will topple across the street, just missing the gym. All aftershocks will taper off and subside into nothing by 10pm. Then all will be still in Vas Captio once more.

Inventory

No new inventory for the day. Taken from inventory, so to speak, are the shelters of the captives. Currently, the only building still standing and potentially safe is the pharmacy/liquor store, however the fumes may be unbearable. Captives will have to build new places to seek shelter for the night.

Friend Add

HERE Please update your friends list(s); there should currently be 46 on your list.

Feel free to make your own threads again. For the remainder of Day Ten, we will allow placeholder posts to be made for characters who would like to post with other specific characters but aren't sure exactly what shape the characters will be in at the given time. These placeholders must be filled with an actual post by the end of Day Eleven, or they will be deleted for the sake of keeping the RPG community organized and neat. Please do not start any threads time-stamped before 5:00pm. You must incorporate the aftershocks into your posts, whether by threading them out as they happen or by having your characters make reference or have reactions to them after they have occurred.

And if you haven't done so, for some bizarre reason, please join the new comm: Vas Captio Muses

Remember, the nominations cut off for this round is tomorrow at 11:59pm EST, so if you haven't already, get your nominations in! There have only been a few, guys, so...get crackin ;)

We are turning off notifications for those game posts to save the mod email. If you're wanting to keep track of your subthreads, the best idea would be to track the original thread. To do this, there is a small menu at the top of the entry - there will be an image of a tack. Click on that and then make sure the top box is checked. Click "OK" and you will receive emails any time someone replies to that original thread.

A quick note before we get down to business: Given the events of the day, we will be excusing lack of journal entries this week. You will not be penalized or put on the inactive list should your character(s) fail to post a journal entry for Day 10.

( Incredibly long day change table is incredibly long )

This is a loose 24 hour notice. At some point tomorrow (we will update again when we're certain of the exact time; as soon as we know, you will), the next section of the day will be posted. You are not required to finish posts you've started (nor are you required to begin any) for this section of the day by then but you are required to plot OOCly with your threadmates for this section of the day - you must know where all of your characters will be at 1:00pm and with whom, with the exception of characters wanting to start OTAs after the hour update.

Friend Add fixed. Now there should be 48 on your list. *headdesk*

Hi guys, this is Diana (George and Jay) and due to a screw-up I can't begin to understand, let alone explain, I've had to change Screennames.

So, from now on, my AIM shall be shadowpiranha13.

Love, Di

Mod fail - we forgot to run some of the other Mirage journals through the ban_unset, and since Sarah Jane Smith's journal is from there, if anyone affected could please run the friend add for their characters' journals again, that would be awesome :) That way Sarah can still interact with those characters.

The characters, for those unsure, are ballerinadreams, brain_ninja, dont_f_withme, fromgallifrey, got2haveasmith, hellsboy, notgivingashit, and spitandviolets

Thanks guys!

Two notes for all of you today :)

First of all, as Day Eight has been so hectic and busy, we'll be extending it for one more week. Some of you can feel free to breathe again ;)

Second, even though the day is being extended, everyone is still subject to their activity requirements per week. So, since activity check will take place tomorrow night and it's been requested that we give a heads up, here it is. Those listed below the cut will be considered inactive if the required posts aren't up by 11:59pm EST tomorrow night.

This week and next, we'll be listing names and what is owed. After that, we will give a 24 hour notice only. It is your responsibility to keep track of your own characters' activity. Things get too hectic for us as mods to keep track of everyone's activity for anything other than the official activity check and it is, after all, your responsibility given the rules you've all agreed to by applying into the game. So, that said, we won't be giving activity check heads ups for long, because we, too, have our own characters' activity to worry about and keep track of. Hopefully, you all can understand where we're coming from.

Those on the exempt list, obviously, can feel free to disregard the list below the cut entirely.

( Tentative Inactivity List for week one of Day Eight )

ETA: For anyone interested, here's a list of the open threads. Just keep an eye out that you're jumping in on Day 8 rather than Day 7 threads if you're trying to meet activity.