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The July-August walkabout will be Majesty’s House Cup.

Our apologies for not getting a fresh test drive up when apps opened - this has sure been A Weekend. The new test drive is available now, and to make up for the lack of availability, we’re extending the app window to next Wednesday, July 10th.

Jauntabout info will likewise be a bit delayed. Current players, we’re working on a midpoint Liminal mingle to keep things fresh. Thank you all for your patience!

Hey everyone! Apps will be opening soon (the exact date depends on whether we head back to Liminal Space early, but it will be no later than October 30th), and since we’re actually going to have apps open in a reasonable time frame after Enable Me Plz goes live, we’d like to put an ad together!

To help us fluff out said ad, please drop a comment with the form below filled out, indicating who you’d like to see more of in your cast(s), before Saturday, when the EMP post goes up. We’ll take it from there!

<textarea> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Current Cast:</b> <b>Wanted Characters:</b>

When is the fourth wall event open?
Synodiporia’s third fourth-wall event runs from August 24th to September 13th (more properly, the 12th going into the 13th, when we’ll post the intro mingle for apped and accepted characters/the upcoming jaunt). During that time, any mingle or psychic network post tagged ‘!4th wall’ may be tagged by absolutely anyone, and all of those threads count as part of game canon.

When are apps open?
Apps will be open September 1st-12th. Feel free to use your fourth-wall threads as samples!

In addition, players apping characters who they think have a strong chance of fitting Fortune’s archetypes and thread on the fourth wall ‘jaunt’ events should point us to their threads, either when they happen or on submitting your app, to get special consideration for a Thing.

What’s the fourth wall event look like?
The Travelers have been skipping between worlds and times for years - but for the first time, the Arcana have made a change to the timeline of the Travelers themselves, and the past is in flux at a few key points in the history of the game. Your character can move between timeframes as if they belong to each & establish that they were really there, at that time. For Travelers who were there the first time: they will remember both versions of the Jaunt as equally true, so no experiences or relationships are being erased, only added to.

There will be two main mingles, each featuring a pair of jaunt events that are in flux and a Liminal Space prompt.

MORE time travel?!
This one’s more for current players - this will be the last bout of timey-wimey stuff for quite some time, if not until Syn’s eventual endgame. We’d rather the game have more continuity than your average comic book franchise, and further tangling with the time stream would compromise that more than we’d care to do.

Where can I find more information about the jaunt settings being invoked here?
Details on the Lightside/Darkside setting are available here; details for the Escape from Junkworld setting are over here.

Can I skip messing with the Jaunts in flux and just stick to the Liminal Space stuff?
Of course! The mingles will be set up so that engaging with these past Jaunts is opt-in, rather than opt-out. That being said, participating in the Jaunts in flux will give you a better idea of how Jaunts themselves go if you plan to app in later.

Please let us know in the comments who you'll be playing in the event!

Hi all! Just a quick update about scheduling, and the timing of the next app window:

The current app window is still open, and will be until Tuesday night Central US time/early Wednesday morning GMT. The intro mingle and jaunt info will follow after that; we're aiming for an eight-day intro mingle, to ease back into the eight-day-jaunt-mingle cycle for Night Falls on Yensid.

The next app round after this one will be held after the December Liminal Space event, rather than immediately after the jaunt ends in November, so people don't have to worry about establishing a new character in the midst of holiday travel.

We'll see you on Wednesday with post-app stuff!

Hello Synodiporia! A few very quick things, mostly just to touch base with everybody:

1) January's Activity Check is up, and you can find it here.

2) ATP is this weekend, at the very tail end of the month! Please check and post your wanted characters by the 31st so that we can update the roster, and post up our ad to bring more players into the game. Which leads to the next point...

3) The Test Drive Meme will be going up sometime later this week, probably within the next day or two. Tell your friends!

4) The next app round will be February 1st to February 7th. We will not be bringing characters immediately into the game, due to the tail end of the Jaunt, but they will be able to join and participate in time for a small Liminal Space stop (but NOT an event by any means) before we move onto our next planned Jaunt, Doki Doki no Gakuen.

5) Speaking of the end of this Jaunt, we have realized that there will be a need to stop briefly in Liminal Space and we have not accommodated for that appropriately in the schedule. A revised schedule should be up as soon as Matt is feeling a little less sick (and please send him your good thoughts)!

6) Finally, the next plotting post will be up very shortly, sometime tomorrow at the latest.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, please feel free to post them in the comments below!

So! July State of the Game! We have three announcements, four questions to vote on, and then the floor is open for discussion and questions!

First, we’re aware that the endgame of the Cursed Kingdom plot did not go as smoothly as hoped, and we’re trying new things with how we organize our information and planning to help things go smoother. Unfortunately, to some extent, we always have to wait and see how the this jaunt works to figure out how effective our changes from the last one have been, and we’ve still only got three Jaunts to calibrate our efforts off of. However, your feedback has been really helpful to us, and we hope you’ll keep nudging us in the right direction, so that each Jaunt is smoother than the last.

Second: use your tags! Please be sure to tag a post when you comment on it, as it makes it easier for not only you but your threading partners to track down those threads for AC later. Everyone should be able to create their own tags, and if for some reason the comm won’t let you, ping us and we’ll fix that!

Third, and most lengthy: the game is now capped at 100 characters. We have now put into effect the changes we discussed and voted on last month - please note that these policies can still certainly be shaped by player feedback, but there’s definitely an element of compromise involved - we know that we can’t make everyone happy, but in a plot-focused game, controlling our size is an essential part of making sure everyone can be involved in a plot.

We will be discontinuing the reserves system, and instead only opening app rounds
     a) between Jaunts, rather than monthly,
     b) when there are fewer than 95 active characters in the game.
     & c) when the queue is empty.

In effect, this is a “soft” character cap meant to keep the total number of characters in the game at or below 100. Idled characters who do successful reclaims/dungeon posts will still be allowed in when we are at or over the cap, and in an individual app round, we will accept a number of apps that will bring us to 100 (assuming there are enough apps that meet requirements), and any additional accepted applications may go into a queue, to be introduced into the game between Jaunts as long as we’re under 100 characters. However, if accepting all applications would only put us a few over the cap, we may accept a larger group than normal and trust the normal drop/idle rate to even things out before long.

Additionally, we will be instituting a cap of 3 characters per player, although any players over that cap will be grandfathered in & permitted to keep their present cast (but not allowed to app in above the limit). For players apping their 2nd or 3rd character, we will also be checking to make certain they’re currently meeting our AC standards, ensuring that our players, whether new or old, will be active with their casts.

In light of this system, we’re presently opting to forgo reserves and simply rely on informing people weeks ahead of time when the next app window will be. We will not read and review apps until the window is closed, so rushing to get in first won’t give anyone an extra advantage. We believe that doing things this way encourages new players as well as old, doesn’t lock up the app round with reserves ahead of time, and encourages people to app whoever they feel most passionately about.

If any of this is unclear or if some part of it seems especially problematic to you, please let us know, and we will do whatever we can to clarify matters and address problems. If you think the cap is set too high, that we should still use reserves, that we should change the number of characters a single player can bring in, or anything else, we really want to know. Thank you to everyone whose votes and discussion helped shape this policy.

Now: on to the votes! Voting will be tabulated at 12:01 CST on the morning of July 20th, so you have until then to make up your minds. Unlike previous votes, we’re going to ask that for each question you choose only one option, although you may explain your vote and your reservations or other thoughts at length in the comments afterwards.

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