HAPPY MONDAY, FOLKS! A few things:

As per this announcement, I will unfortunately be wrapping up the game's plot in approximately two months! You can expect endgame to be around early December sometime. Thank you SO MUCH everyone for being to deeply understanding and supportive as I make this difficult decision. . . and I am delighted that so many of you are willing and eager to stick around as the game plays out ;w;/ RELATED TO THAT, let us talk about how things will work from here on out!

APPS ARE STILL OPEN AND WILL REMAIN OPEN FOR THE DURATION OF THE GAME! Both new characters and returning characters are welcome! Naturally if you app someone new please be prepared for a brisk two-month jaunt through your CR. That said! I still encourage new players to app because the metaplot of the game is relatively simple and will be easy to understand! As a mod, my number one priority is also CR building, so a lot of the plot things coming up will encourage the development and deepening of your bonds.

For reapps, just re-submit your initial app and I will place you back on the team you were before! So long as you want it ofc.

I'm still going to tentatively keep a character cap in place (around 35ish) but will probably be a little gentler about it, especially for returning players/characters. Even if we're at player cap, please feel free to toss in an app! You will probably be placed so long as we aren't going over like. . . 45 characters.

The next minigame is going to be on the weekend of November 1 - 3. It will be big and bad!! Expect characters to be put through the wringer. I initially said it'd be PvP, but now that I've got TWO MONTHS to give you plot, it will actually be more PvE! But you will have chances to dunk on other characters during it if you do want some PvP, I promise.

Haha, wow! Someone died! SO LET'S TALK ABOUT IC DEATH CONSEQUENCES!

When a character dies, they will wake up in an intangible body right next to their own corpse. Yes, it is kind of spooky! The school around them is mostly the same, but they will note that the sky is a dark, blood red. It is always nighttime on this side of the school, and the moon shines down upon them from above like a spotlight. The shadows cast by the moon's glow churn and broil, like they're ready to reach out and consume the dead character's spirit. Touching these shadows imparts an icy feeling of despair, mourning and oblivion. Characters will feel like the shadows are oblivion, which is where all dead souls are supposed to go!! Right??

That might be true, but-for some of the more powerful spooks that haunt the school, who are capable of bringing back the dead. BUT. . . FOR A PRICE. Anyone who dies will have a big bad NPC spooked RNG'd for them. That spook will then bring the character back so long as they pay the toll with a piece of their soul. This will be represented by 1/3rd of their flower tattoo fading from existence, leaving only 2/3rds behind.

Characters may die three times. After the third, death is permanent. Theoretically they wouldn't have any more pieces of their soul left to give away, right??

If characters do not accept the deal offered by the NPC spooks, then they will be consumed by the shadows and thrust into oblivion. This is a permanent drop that you cannot reapp from.

All revived characters wake up in the nurse's office with their wounds healed. This does include the reattachment of any limbs that may have been lost during the death process!! They will feel a sense of hollow emptiness in their chest as their body readjusts to the missing pieces of their soul. They will also awaken with a new flower tattoo associated with the ghost that took their soul imprinted over their death wound.

ALL OF THAT SAID, if your character is dying, please let me know!! I won't be threading out negotiations with each NPC ghost, but I will be RNGing which ghost has their soul now and also giving you a flower motif for your death wounds. HAVE FUN AND DIE RESPONSIBLY, FRIENDS. ♥

OKAY ALL THAT SAID, DROPS + APPS TIME

DROPS:

Reno, Mizuki, Rantaro and Neverah have graduated!!

PLACEMENTS:

KATSUMORI:

SecUnit (Murderbot)

That is all for today! Once again, I give you all a HUGE THANK YOU for your patience with me and for sticking things out with me until the very end. ♥ You are all lovely players and I am so very fortunate to have you here! And to know you all! I HOPE THESE LAST FEW MONTHS WE HAVE TOGETHER ARE A TON OF FUN.

HELLO IT'S TUESDAY, FOLKS. I have something really important to talk about today, so please read everything super carefull!

I HAVE BEEN HAVING SUUUUUCH A BLAST RUNNING THE GAME FOR YOU GUYS, but! I have realized that I simply do not have it in me to mod the game indefinitely like I originally planned. There are a lot of reasons for this which are silly and personal, but the tl;dr is I vvvvastly overestimated the mental bandwidth I have to spare for modding. This is a HUGE fuck up on my part!! I am so deeply and horrendously sorry!! I KNOW HEARING THIS IS LIKE, A HUGE FUCKING BUMMER! Especially when I can tell that you guys are having so much fun (which makes me SO HAPPY in my heartspace weh). Words cannot express how absolutely mortified I am at myself for opening a wholeass long-term DWRP only to be like W. WHOOPS, ACTUALLY. . . . . . it's not a great look on my part and I recognize that. I'm really, REALLY sorry, folks.

With all that said, I also really don't want to just be like OKAY I'M PEACING OUT NOW BYE. I may not be able to mod indefinitely, but I can still give you about two months (MAYBE THREE BUT PREFERABLY TWO) of EXPEDITED PLOT to wrap up the game with a nice li'l bow! I do want to deliver on some of the promises I have made and give y'all the space to play out the arcs you started. And also kill some nasty ghosts!! Despite everything, I can and will be putting my all into making things SUPER FUN and SUPER ENGAGING for y'all over the next two months, too. I won't leave you hanging I promise ;w;/

Before I start retooling my plot plans though, I want to make sure that this is a decision you guys are okay with. I know that sometimes being told that a game is shifting towards an ending when it wasn't advertised as being short-term can kill people's drive, and if hearing this has killed YOURS, please tell me! I've included a poll below where you can do just that. PLEASE ANSWER HONESTLY, I promise my feelings will not be hurt either way. This is, again, a complete and utter failure on my part and not yours.

Thank you friends for giving my game a chance either way. Thank you for apping and creating such a colorful cast of characters who are fun and engaging. Thank you for participating in all of my silly ideas and threading with me as a player. I AM. . . STILL DEEPLY MORTIFIED WITH MYSELF, and I promise I don't need words of comfort or reassurance about this either, rofl. Please feel free to contact me privately if you need to with any other questions or concerns! I will do my best to talk them out with you! Please note that once I put this up I have to vanish into work for ten+ hours (sobs) and I will be training someone all day so my time online will be pretty sporadic.

DEPENDING ON THE RESULTS OF THE POLL NORMAL ANNOUNCEMENTS WILL FOLLOW ASAP. That is, announcements about game mechanics, specifically the consequences of dying ICly, and also drops.

♥ Thank you once again to you all. A game can't thrive without its playerbase, and I have been deeply lucky to have all of you!

Happy Monday again friends! Some very simple announcements this week:

There is a game/event going on right now! It is the school club fundraiser event! tl;dr, complete tasks, get points. Earn enough points and your club may be sponsored by the spooky ghosts! As a bit of a spoiler, in the aftermath of the minigame, I plan on implementing school clubs as a new mechanic to the game as a whole. My vision is that there will be VARIOUS SCHOOL CLUBS associated with certain tasks that characters may join, and yes, I may be using the clubs you guys come up with as a springboard for ideas. Characters may complete said tasks to earn rewards that can be cashed in for things like power regains, items from home, the offensive/defensive ofuda sometimes offered as minigame rewards, and a couple of other things. This does mean that I'll be retooling the rewards characters get for winning minigames, but that won't be implemented until the minigame after this one. I do hope this gives you guys more of an opportunity to engage with the setting beyond just the mod-sanctioned mingles I make! ;w;/

SPEAKING OF MOD-SANCTIONED MINGLES. I think I have been pretty nice with the mingle prompts thus far, but in October I'd like for things to get a little hairy and/or dangerous for the student body. The PvP trauma minigame will occur late October (dates tbd), but leading up to it I plan on making a post or two with BAD THINGS HAPPENING so you guys can have a li'l h/c for spooky season. This is basically just a warning that October will probably be a little heavier on the trauma side, so you can plan accordingly!

Though that said, from October 10 - 14 I will be on vacation. No mod things will be happening during that period!

Due to what I have planned for October, I also probably won't be doing any team explorations that month. I WILL MAKE UP FOR IT IN NOV/DEC I PROMISE!

Activity Check is due tomorrow! PLEASE TURN IN IT! If you were on hiatus for 2+ weeks you are exempt, but please still comment to your team header with a link to your hiatus comment or something along the lines of I WAS ON HIATUS. Also this has not been advertised as an official policy, but if you were accepted within the last two weeks of the month and don't yet have AC, it's okay! You are also exempt. I will add this to the AC page because. . . I forgot to have an exception like this. . . sweats.

And that's all! HAVE A GREAT WEEK, EVERYONE. Thanks for being super rad!