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Walkabout Vote and The Great Page Updatening
I. Next Jaunt/Walkabout Vote
The next Jaunt will be Labyrinthine Shoal: Siren’s Song. Below are a pair of Walkabout options (one in an old setting, one in a new) for those players who need something different to sink their teeth into. Please ONLY VOTE IF YOU ARE DEFINITELY SENDING A CHARACTER ON WALKABOUT, so as not to water down the results.
Ivory Tower: Field Trip: Postapocalyptic scholars attending a conference near an irradiated city find there's more to worry about than academic politics when local warlords make trouble. It may be time to test how much mightier than the sword the pen can be…
I Hope I Get It: Vineland, the 1950s. Things are booming in the home of the movie business, but there is a dark underside to this small, sparkling city. It’s spring, and the next musical is being cast. People have been arriving from all over Vineland and the surrounding areas, some hoping for stardom, but most just wanting to pay the bills. Who is in, who is out, and what is going on in the background?
Voting will close at 11:59 PM CST on Saturday, December 10th.
II. Activity Check Policy Update
After reviewing a concern brought to us by our AC mods, we’ve decided to tweak Syn’s AC policy slightly. As of December’s AC, you may now use eligible comments in a thread you submitted for the previous month’s AC, so long as at least one thread you submit was started within the current activity period. This change will be reflected in December’s AC post.
III. The Great Page Updatening… Updates
Continuing in our effort to bring all the game’s info pages up to date, we’ve deployed a number of changes. Those are:
*The no-godmoding rule has been updated to include ‘ask OOC permission before using a skill that directly affects another character.’
*The character-idling policy has been clarified.
*The Suggested Destinations page has been overhauled and streamlined, and now includes a) separate toplevels for submitting suggestions and b) a list of highly-requested jaunt revisits. All the previous comments have been screened, as well as archived for mods’ reference.
*The Liminal Space info page has also been overhauled; in this case, it’s been updated to include some more practical tips about how Liminal Space functions, and gained a couple of spinoff pages.
*One of those spinoff pages is about Dreamspace, which will hopefully open it up for people to use more widely again.
*Finally, the other spinoff page is one that’s been long awaited: Dungeon info now more accurately reflects how the game at large uses dungeons, what steps in the process you need to contact the mods for, and how Shadows can work outside of ‘getting a Persona.’
IV. Glossary Updates: New Feedback Wanted
We’ve been processing and compiling feedback on necessary changes to the glossary, as well as thinking of several additions on our own. Hopefully the final product will be ready to roll this week.
In the meantime, if you want to see what we’ve got so far, please go HERE. Any glaring omissions (other than ‘Starmovers,’ which Matt will need to write about) can be left as comments/suggestions, and we’ll work on integrating them before the final rollout.
The next Jaunt will be Labyrinthine Shoal: Siren’s Song. Below are a pair of Walkabout options (one in an old setting, one in a new) for those players who need something different to sink their teeth into. Please ONLY VOTE IF YOU ARE DEFINITELY SENDING A CHARACTER ON WALKABOUT, so as not to water down the results.
Ivory Tower: Field Trip: Postapocalyptic scholars attending a conference near an irradiated city find there's more to worry about than academic politics when local warlords make trouble. It may be time to test how much mightier than the sword the pen can be…
I Hope I Get It: Vineland, the 1950s. Things are booming in the home of the movie business, but there is a dark underside to this small, sparkling city. It’s spring, and the next musical is being cast. People have been arriving from all over Vineland and the surrounding areas, some hoping for stardom, but most just wanting to pay the bills. Who is in, who is out, and what is going on in the background?
Poll #17765 December/January Walkabout
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6
Please vote for your first choice Walkabout:
Voting will close at 11:59 PM CST on Saturday, December 10th.
II. Activity Check Policy Update
After reviewing a concern brought to us by our AC mods, we’ve decided to tweak Syn’s AC policy slightly. As of December’s AC, you may now use eligible comments in a thread you submitted for the previous month’s AC, so long as at least one thread you submit was started within the current activity period. This change will be reflected in December’s AC post.
III. The Great Page Updatening… Updates
Continuing in our effort to bring all the game’s info pages up to date, we’ve deployed a number of changes. Those are:
*The no-godmoding rule has been updated to include ‘ask OOC permission before using a skill that directly affects another character.’
*The character-idling policy has been clarified.
*The Suggested Destinations page has been overhauled and streamlined, and now includes a) separate toplevels for submitting suggestions and b) a list of highly-requested jaunt revisits. All the previous comments have been screened, as well as archived for mods’ reference.
*The Liminal Space info page has also been overhauled; in this case, it’s been updated to include some more practical tips about how Liminal Space functions, and gained a couple of spinoff pages.
*One of those spinoff pages is about Dreamspace, which will hopefully open it up for people to use more widely again.
*Finally, the other spinoff page is one that’s been long awaited: Dungeon info now more accurately reflects how the game at large uses dungeons, what steps in the process you need to contact the mods for, and how Shadows can work outside of ‘getting a Persona.’
IV. Glossary Updates: New Feedback Wanted
We’ve been processing and compiling feedback on necessary changes to the glossary, as well as thinking of several additions on our own. Hopefully the final product will be ready to roll this week.
In the meantime, if you want to see what we’ve got so far, please go HERE. Any glaring omissions (other than ‘Starmovers,’ which Matt will need to write about) can be left as comments/suggestions, and we’ll work on integrating them before the final rollout.