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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerooc2020-05-31 04:49 pm
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June Information and CR Meme

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. [community profile] 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!

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[personal profile] sell_tickets 2020-06-01 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no worries about not being the best at it. Anne Bishop (the author for Khary's canon) wrote a whole other set of rules for chess. Sadly she never put them out as rules, but we've pieced together enough to have characters teach it in RP.

I mean... regular chess isn't considered a game that can end relationships when played across gender lines. When Khary hears guys on the train talk about having played chess with women without a laugh or a haunted look he becomes very confused.

His best female friends even developed the worlds most convoluted game as a punishment for any male who "can't behave while playing chess".

Believe it or not, I'm serious. We even get lines like "being irrational is not a play style!" It is great fun to read chess matches in the series, and to RP them out! We could start a thread whenever! :D
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[personal profile] sendiintheclown 2020-06-02 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well, he certainly has never played by those rules. I don't suppose Khary would know where to find some sort of strong adhesive on the train, would he?
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[personal profile] sell_tickets 2020-06-02 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Depends what for and how long it has to hold. Magic is wonderful, but the limits on his are... odd.
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[personal profile] sendiintheclown 2020-06-03 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
It would need to hold strips of bamboo in the shape of training knives theoretically indefinitely. If his magic can't do that, would it be able to conjure sandpaper?
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[personal profile] sell_tickets 2020-06-03 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. Sadly, no on both counts. If he had sand paper he could store it magically and summon it later, but he cannot create it. For the adhesive... he knows people who could probably figure out how to make some, but they might wind up glued to the celling in the process. He usually buys stuff like that if he needs it. Maybe the train shop?
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[personal profile] sendiintheclown 2020-06-03 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll have him check with Tony and possibly one of the elves for an organic compound.
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[personal profile] sell_tickets 2020-06-04 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
Good plan!