June Information and CR Meme

[voidtreckermods]

I hope everyone had a fun month! Some information for your ongoing journey.

IC Month

This month is the month of Fiddlesticks. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

This means: Every thread in May or June where your character learns, or is learning something new will be worth 2 team points. This might be learning something new about a friend, learning a new skill or learning something about the train or a world.

Threads that fulfill this criterial can be submitted during June AC. You may find it easier to keep a tracking list of threads for easy compiling of bonus AC!

Recipes are here. The key ingredient this month is bacon. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom and characters are welcome to make other food with them.

This months chore assignments are:

Purple: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Red: Meal Preparation
Orange: Laundry
Blue: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms

The Train.

As the month moves through the month of Fiddlesticks the train will stop to pick up new passengers. When everyone rejoins the train they will find a new gym!

This carriage is very similar to carriage C. A long narrow space walled off from the corridor. The cupboard however is not filled with balls. Instead it has mats, soft hand held pads for training with, training dummies and even some balancing beams. It also has large blocks that look a little like what you might find in a children's play centre but can be used to make obstacle courses or provide cover in training exercises. There are two climbing apparatus next to the wall that can be swung out to create a climbing frame.

All of this has been updated on the setting. Remember to let me know if your character does anything to alter the setting!

Important Dates

This month event will be an on train event From the 12th to the 13th June. A plotting post will go up on 10th June.

Reserves will open 18th June with a TDM going up on the 15th June. Apps are between 22nd June and 29th June. AC will run 22nd June to 29th June.

Other Info

~ We now have a character initiative page. This is for any character or player driven things, such as new organisations, new IC publications and other services that are player/character driven.

~ We now have two types of network.

The ICPs are on the train, there is one in every carriage and one in each cabin. Characters can communicate with voice or video to either the whole train or to one carriage. There is no back catalogue of posts and no text option (there is one in the works and only those characters who can interface with the ICPs have access so far- their text posts can be seen by all but only replied to in video or voice). At its heart it is a slightly fancy tannoy system. voidtreckernet is the place for network posts on the train.

The SCAs on missions now have voice communications enabled. These are active from when the voidtreckers first get their mission briefs to when they return to the void at the end of the mission. They can speak to all, to team or to individual. Please see here for more information. Those with phones or other devices that can connect can assume that they have linked up by next mission. Even with these devices they can only access this feature on missions. Each mission will have a comms post for interactions over the SCAs.

Both of these are big open communication systems and it is fair to say conversations are not very private. Some such as the 'speak to all' on the SCA should be a free for all radio style format. But for conversation between two people on the ICP (even if it can be heard by all) please check oocly with participants before threadjacking.

Monthly Plotting

Feel free to use this post to plot any thing you want for the next month! Here’s a structure you can use!

<b>Name:</b> [your name] <b>Contact info:</b> [anything you want to share] <b>Character:</b> [name] <b>About them:</b> [canon, a brief description of who they are] <b>Plans:</b> [got anything in the works?] <b>CR wanted:</b> [anything specific?] <b>Things to avoid:</b> [just so lines can be drawn]

Comments

[blue_ice]

Name: Zoki
Contact info: kharamagic/ zokiblu#5949, usually found in game chat!

Character: Seto Kaiba
About them: From Yu-Gi-Oh, a cold and calculating CEO who is also now a council representative and train advocate? Somehow? He plays games to win and can snark when he sees stupidity, but there's a gooey center in there somewhere. Deep down.
Plans: He volunteered himself to help organize social events for the train. brb delegating to Yugi. He has a few apologies to make. Other than that, nothing specific.
CR wanted: More friends. People to call him on his nonsense. Please.
Things to avoid: Nothing really


Character: Mami Tomoe
About them: From Puella Magi Madoka Magica. An accomplished cook and all around sweet young teenager on the surface, also a magical girl who defends her friends with the big guns when needed.
Plans: Training. She needs to become less useless without her magic and feels guilt about that. Maybe learning to put herself out there more and start to make friends.
CR wanted: Team with the new magical girls? Friends?
Things to avoid: All clear!

[spikelet]

I don't know how but I would really like Mami and A-Qing CR. Please teach her how to be a teenage girl, Mami.....

[magicurls]

Honestly she doesn't know how either, but she'll try! Maybe tea time?

[spikelet]

Tea time would be a very easy in, she's eminently susceptible to sweet bribes.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Councilmembers could hang out, maybe?

Nita can get roped into helping him&Yugi with social event planning, too.

[magicurls]

Yes! I think she'd be good for that.

[callmegladio]

I think I'd like Gladio and Kaiba to get to know each other better! ^^

... And since Gladio will now be sharing a room with Prompto who shares a room with Yugi, maybe they'll get to! ^^

[magicurls]

Oh definitely. He'll be showing up to ask Yugi out now and then, and Gladio's a good man.

it's just a good thing kaiba was too lost in sleep to hear that shower suggestion

[callmegladio]

Gladio thinks the same of Kaiba. ^^

Gladio says it's a really good suggestion! Saves water too!

[emerald_mirror]

Mami needs wingy hugs. Xander has been remiss, REMISS I tell you, in administering them to Mami. Bad Xander.

[blue_ice]

Would Xander like some tea and cookies? I think that's going to be her next project. Door to door snack service.

[grannyofthebolt]

Sakura is new, but she makes candies, and has trained lots of magicians from her world. And may be in awe of guns because her stupid yandere sister never let her play with them when she was a kid.

[magicurls]

Absolutely! She'll have to invite everyone over for a good time.

[bethereprompto]

Prompto already kind of considers himself Kaiba's friend (or at least friend adjacent). It'd be fun to have them do something together with or without Yugi. If/ when Prompto figures out Mami can cook, he'll want to be her friend too. She's also got a step ahead of others because of her friendship with Madoka who he views as his niece now. It'd be nice to give them their own connection outside of Madoka too.

[magicurls]

Kaiba will begrudgingly admit that Prompto was right >> he kinda misses having an annoying blond in his life.

And Mami will make it her mission to feed everyone this month!

[sell_tickets]

Tons of threads with you, please!!!!

Maybe more Kaiba and Khary working out? Does Mami want an orange cat to beg her for fish?

[blue_ice]

Aww. I think Mami will like Spark.

And yeah, the gym car expansion will be good for them!

[sell_tickets]

Fish goes good with tea, right?

And yes! If he could ever actually TALK to Piccalo, he could get Kaiba some real weapons to practice with.