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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerooc2020-10-31 06:11 am
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November Information and CR Meme!

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

IC Month

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

The thought of the month is  "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."

This means: Any thread that reaches 15 comments (total) will earn you two points.

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

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

This month’s chore assignments are:

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

The Train.

Coach M: Spa

This coach is a single coach. There is a corridor running on the left hand side with a door at either end of the carriage to lead into the spa itself. The main feature is a large, square, heated pool in three split tiers in the centre of the carriage. The pool can probably fit five strangers comfortably, or more at an awkward or familiar squeeze. The décor is pastel tiles and rich, pale wood, with long mirrors and sunlamps spaced along the walkways beside the pool.

At the back of the carriage there are two massage tables and a shelving unit with fluffy towels and various scented oils and lotions. On the other side of the pool - the front of the carriage - there are a row of ergonomic loungers, as well as a closed-off booth. This booth has a sliding train door and, inside, passengers will find a simple sauna large enough to fit a couple of people in at a time. 

The ICP in this carriage can be programmed to play relaxing music or nature sounds like running water or birdsong. There is also a teaching course on massage techniques that consists of three hour-long lessons split into basic, intermediate, and advanced. There are team-coloured bathing suits and trunks in a small closet next to the entrances to the carriage.

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

The shop has been updated! It can be found here!

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a world event on the 13th of November. (An info and plotting post will go up on the 8th)

The TDM will be posted on the 15th. Reserves will open on the 19th. Apps are between the 21st and the 29th. AC will run from the 22nd to the 30th of November.

Other Info

We just wanted to say a few words about the Bonus AC challenges available every other month. For those who might not know, these challenges are optional extras that can earn you extra Team Points for your character. The challenges are intended to encourage and reward the ‘niceties’ of roleplay: tagging out, gathering new CR, finishing threads etc.

However this month we were disappointed to see a small minority of players who we felt did not keep to the spirit of the challenge. A new CR bonus challenge is designed to make sure our new players are welcomed, as well as to encourage mixing and new relationships between existing characters. Therefore it was disheartening to see characters with multiple threads submitted that they had dropped after a couple of tags.

We very much understand that everyone is busy, the world is stressful and everyone has a lot on their plate. One or two threads that have to be dropped for any reason being submitted for such a challenge is fine. However if the majority of threads submitted are being dropped after a tag or two it feels disingenuous. 

Going forward we will be taking it up with any players who we feel are struggling with or abusing the system. We would like to thank the vast majority of you who kept to the spirit of the challenge, and we really enjoyed reading up on all the new CR you got out of it!

Monthly Plotting

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

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[personal profile] rieper 2020-10-31 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither. He introduces himself as Tobias Rieper. The train info has simply "47" as his name though.

He just needed a hobby that one time he tried to retire............ it didn't pan out. But hey now he has something to do other than work out on the train.
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[personal profile] purifyings 2020-11-01 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
That's smart! And luckily Nike is technology illiterate so she'll never find out.

If he needs someone to encourage him to garden, then Nike volunteers. She still needs to see what the greenhouse has to offer. She gets side-tracked every time she goes. Does 47 have a good idea of what is in the greenhouse or is this a recent thing?
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[personal profile] rieper 2020-11-01 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
He's not that worried about it by this point in time. It's been visible from the start. Going by Tobias Rieper is just a way to sound more...normal. Not that...he tries too hard.

He put all the garden boxes in the carriages so no encouragement needed. He has a plot (two, technically, since he maintains one from a dropped character) in the greenhouse since its arrival, too. So yeah he knows it well.
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[personal profile] purifyings 2020-11-01 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Pffft.

Okay. I need CR with Tobias. Nike will have too much bouncing off someone so serious while she is more laid back. And he is the best to help her how the gardens work. She could use the instruction.
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[personal profile] rieper 2020-11-01 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
He's up for it! He's definitely serious mcserious but he'll readily instruct especially garden stuff. Good for awkward conversations, too. XD
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[personal profile] purifyings 2020-11-02 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
lool. Okay, I'm sold! I need these two to meet now.

Do you have any plans for this month?
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[personal profile] rieper 2020-11-02 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Nooooot really. I'm bad at plans. Or character arcs. Or thoughts in general these days. Ahem. Anyway. Other than participating in the mission as hard core as he usually does, not much on my metaphorical plate at the moment.