Announcements: AC delayed, mask guessing, test drive, & ATP

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Hello Synodiporia! A few things for everyone:

1) Due to the stress of the holidays on everyone and the mask guessing game we have planned, Activity check will not be due until January 7th at 11:59 PM CST. Activity Check will go up sometime on the 3rd of January. This means that you can focus on tagging this last week of December and not worry about posting AC until we reach 2015!

Any Masquerade threads you link with your mask will count, so feel free to link those anon threads for AC! All comments must be from December, however, to count for this AC. You may, of course, still tag any threads you link after the fact, but we will not be counting those comments for activity purposes. This will also be the first AC we have with the new AC rules in effect, so be sure to familiarize yourselves with the new rules!

2) The mask guessing game will be posted sometime on the 1st of January. It will close the 3rd of January, just in time for Activity Check (so no cheating)! Remember that the three folks who guess the most number of masks correctly will get an extra skill for their trouble!

3) A new test drive will be going up sometime today! Be sure to tell your friends and invite them to post!

4) ATP is this weekend, so if there are characters you want to see in the game, please drop a mention of them on the Wanted Characters page! We'll update the ATP post with our current roster and wanted characters list in time to post it tomorrow.

Feel free to leave any questions down below in a comment. Thank you all and have a happy week!

Test Drive #6

[powersthatbe]

Welcome to the Synodiporia Test Drive Meme! Below the cuts there are three new prompts, and here are the prompts from previous test-drives, which you’re still welcome to use in this post. When you comment, be sure you specify what prompt you want to play with, and please put up your own threadstarter - it makes for a much more friendly environment that a forest of bare toplevels! OCs are especially welcome!

Our upcoming app round runs January 1st-7th, after which we’ll have a Victorian Cosmic Horror Jaunt - the madness of the Cthulhu Mythos in rural 1800s England. With that in mind, here are some darker prompts, to catch the feel of how your characters react in troubling times...

Prompt #20 is a flashback to the Cursed Kingdom jaunt, where werewolves hunted, deadly magical creatures roamed, and magical curses and traps struck without warning. Feel free to play an investigator, a werewolf, or simply a citizen of the magical kingdom who’s become unfortunately lost...

Prompt #21 is a glimpse of a Jaunt, either far in the past or sometime in the future. In the mining village of Enterrado, a gang has taken control of the flow of silver into and out of town, and the only folks with the hope of running them out are a vengeful band of vigilantes and outlaws. With half the Travelers brainwashed into believing they belong to one gang or another, friends are ready to kill friends, and it doesn’t seem like the few sane folks remaining can stop the bloodshed...

Prompt #22 is set in Liminal Space, during a time of instability, where buildings are collapsing and re-forming, and the worst fears or greatest desires of Travelers are appearing (and vanishing again) like all-too-solid mirages. What would your character imagine, and what kind of threat would it present… ?

( Prompt #20: Dark Forest )

( Prompt #21: Wild West )

( Prompt #22: Chaos Given Shape )