spacedragons | JUNE-JULY OOC POST.

A BEGINNING.

Hello, everyone! This is Last Eden's first (ha ha) ever monthly plotting post. Here you can find information on characters' arrival, some admin, and the plot scheduled for June through July. Feel free to comment to this post with your plans for the month, comment around, and plot with others.

TIMELINE.
Characters will ICly arrive on July 1st. However, feel free to forward-date threads!

The Moon celebrates the Midsummer's Feast on July 15th. Every faction will host festivities, and mingling with the native characters during this occasion is encouraged. There will be a log.

Check-in will tentatively be from July 25th to 31st.

ARRIVALS.
For our first batch of characters, they will appear inside the Sanctum hall while asleep. The Queen's envoy has frozen all the foreigners in said sleep until the nations have reached an agreement on what to do with them, which is to accept them into their ranks (for now). The enchantment will be released for every character at the same time, and they will have time to get themselves oriented before venturing out into the Moon.

With regards to IC faction choice, your character can either be picked by their faction representative, or volunteer themselves to said representative. This can be threaded out by commenting to the NPC toplevel in the monthly mingle. You can also handwave it if you wish.

The starter pack for this month includes:
- Paper map of the Moon
- Faction-specific communication device, if any
- Some money, enough to last them a week
- Keys to housing. Most of them will be enchanted, except for those from the Light faction.

SETTING INTERACTION.
As each character's actions in the setting will have a definite impact on the plot, there is a system in which you can 'turn in' descriptions of what they will be doing and receive a mod reply on the outcome. You can then choose to whether thread out the activity - encouraged, but not compulsory. Turning in these will allow mods to be updated on the effect that characters have on the setting.

This is different from AC as it covers only actions of plot significance. It is not necessary to submit things that are slice-of-life, for example. Feel free to turn in multiple interactions, there is no limit.

There are some examples of how to use the turn-in form on the appropriate toplevel below.

FACTION NEWS.

Overall, there doesn't seem to be much happening. The news of people from other worlds is not actively broadcasted across the Moon, so it is not difficult to blend in on the streets if one pays attention.

LIGHT.
It's currently the school holidays. While the small size of the population means that the number of schoolchildren is less than four hundred, they are not holed up in their classrooms anymore and will be present on the streets. Characters will find more opportunities to interact with kids across the board.

Elections are also coming up in a few months. The Prime Minister will be running for office again, so the gossip is all about his potential opponents. Some guess that there may be a no-show this time from the Council, but there are two strong contenders. Listening to rumours will reveal that one of them lost the final vote last round, while the other is new to the political scene. They have yet to publicise their stands, however the older candidate did previously advocate for the separation of church from the government.

Speaking of the government, it seems as if the most popular research topic this year is effective energy transmission.

BLOOD.
The yearly Sun Ritual has just been completed on the Summer Solstice. It's the biggest mass ceremony held in the Blood faction, where all the citizens gather and pay tribute to their Sun goddess. She's the most powerful of their pantheon, so every person is highly encouraged to offer up something. Under the Queen's orders, there have been no human sacrifices, only animal ones. It seemed to go without a hitch, but due to the (real) Sun not being visible from the Moon, it's hard to tell if there's any changes.

It seems like a sort of affliction has been running through the chicken farms in particular. Chicks are being born with crooked wings or three legs. Some say it's a curse, but the farmowners have not yet been able to find out whether they've displeased some god or if there's foul play at hand.

But hey, the beach has been cleaned. There are some sharks inside there, but they've been sated with offerings of fish, so maybe you might want to try swimming with one?

SPRING.
The Spring faction produces most of the Moon's food, so preparations for the Midsummer's Feast is well under way. Crops that ripen in summer are being harvested, and animals are being brought in from Blood territory in preparation for slaughter. (It's painless, of course, given that spirits will help put them to sleep first.) Each village has their own way of celebrating the occasion, ranging from poem recitals at dusk to displays of bonsai trees cultivated to glow like fireflies. Festivals are also the only occasions where singing and dancing are actively encouraged, so feel free to try and impress the locals with your skill.

The Empress is making her rounds across her territory again. She will not be within the imperial palace and can be met on the road, if you're lucky. Feel free to submit a setting interaction if your character seeks her out.

ICE.
The Ice faction is so small that there isn't anything notable happening across the board. Mostly, the members are continuing their duties as dragon keepers and delivery workers. For the PCs, they will be introduced to their dragons within two to three days. Then, they are free to do what they wish after that.

The Wintersmith will be evaluating faction characters' performance at the end of this month, ICly during the check-in. They will need to report to him what they have done, and he will evaluate their bond with their partners.

ADMIN.

As this month is our 'beta testing' month, feel free to give suggestions or feedback regarding how the game is run. You can use the toplevel provided below, or contact the mods directly via discord/plurk. We'd love to hear your ideas and how you'd think the game could be made more fun. o/

Secondly, a gentle reminder to fill in the directory for your character, if you haven't done so yet. Tags for this game will be (canon) character name, all in small letters.

Updates to the bounty board will be performed on July 1st as well as July 15th. Feel free to post your own bounties as well.

We also have a plurk emote!

There are also a couple of polls/discussions below that we'd like your input on. If there's anything else we can help with, do let us know!

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