March Information and CR meme!

[voidtreckermods]

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

IC Month

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

The thought of the month is "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

This means: Any thread where you tag new CR will earn you two bonus points in March and April.

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

The ingredient of the month is Pineapple. Recipes are here. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom, refreshed at the platform, 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

As a reminder, you can list things that characters have added to the train here. Just comment under the header of the carriage to which you are adding. There is also a handy spreadsheet here!

The following changes have been voted on this month:

~ The cinema now has allows characters to watch documentaries. It is an eclectic mix of subjects from sports to history of random worlds to 'how it works' series.

~ Each new character will now arrive with a basic first aid kit- the contents are adjusted for species. It also includes some basic painkillers suited to the character as well as any medication that character requires. Old characters will also be receiving the same and regular refills will arrive just like with the wash kits.

~ There is now a selection of meat in the stores including venison, chicken, turkey, bacon, turkey bacon and cod. These will be refreshed each month.

All this has been updated on the recipe, cinema and gameplay pages.

Important Dates

This month’s mission will run from the 13th to 26th of March.

The TDM will be posted on the 17th. Reserves will open on the 19th. Apps are between the 22nd and the 29th March and AC from the 23rd to the 30th March.

For a reference, please consult our calendar post. For player-led events, please see the player plot calendar.

Other Info

~ As can probably be guessed, we are at a part in the plot where the stakes are ramping up quite a bit. We are nearing the end of 'chapter four' of the game which will come to a climax in April. We will make sure that there is time after April for characters to catch their breath and recoup but its going to be a bumpy couple of months (for the characters not for you players, hopefully you guys are going to have a blast...)

~ The roster has been updated with points for this month.

~ A reminder about the VOTING POOL. Exactly how it works is explained in detail on that page but it is a way for passengers to band together to buy larger or longer term items, including carriages themselves. Everyone gets 5 votes to start and new characters will be allowed to swap their initial 3 points for a vote if wish in their first month only.

~ From next month the voting pool will close for votes at the same time as AC closes and re-open when the platform post goes up. This is to give the mods some leeway in getting new changes up in time for the info post. So make sure to get those votes in in good time!

~ We have been trying to do EMP regularly- please let us know any cast mates you would like in the thread below!

Monthly Plotting

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

Name: [your name]
Contact info: [anything you want to share]

Character: [name]
About them: [canon, a brief description of who they are, any specific permissions]
Plans: [got anything in the works?]
CR wanted: [anything specific?]
Things to avoid: [just so lines can be drawn]

<b>Name:</b> <b>Contact info:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>About them:</b> <b>Plans:</b> <b>CR wanted:</b> <b>Things to avoid:</b>

Comments

Tidus ; Purple Team

[blitzcheer]

Name: Ree
Contact info: Private message this journal or reach me on plurk - blitzoff!

Character: Tidus
About them: A friendly sports jock who's been on the train for nearly a year who tries to make time for others and to help them to do more with their time on the train! Never had hobbies because your life was miserable? Here's a VR game! Sports! Fun!!

Plans:

- A project he and Wei Wuxian (Untamed's) have been working on for a Voidtrecker Guide is going to be brought up, and asking for volunteers/help to make it cover everything essential will be going up at the start of the month! Led more by Wei Wuxian because Tidus is more the 'this is stuff I remember' type guy than the 'I'm good at writing' guy.

- Otherwise, a part of Tidus's Diagad powers has started to come forward, which is teleportation, and I'd love to do some goof ups. It works by a character that knows Tidus thinking about him - or, how it should work is by them wanting him around, and Tidus can do the same by thinking about them and asking for permission to appear where they are. It's basically an invitation/summoning type deal.

Since it's fairly new though, I'd love for Tidus to be getting pinged over the place! Did you just have a stray thought about Tidus? here he is! Did Tidus just think x about your character and now you thought you can hear him and accidentally 'answer' him? Here he is with a spatula, teleported from the kitchen!

It's dumb a goofy and if you want something dumb and goofy and know Tidus, let's have fun.

- Other things is that Tidus would like to invite some of the younger kids to do P.E classes together? Ken Amada he's looking at you! Since he wanted to train with them, Tidus is thinking it might be fun to teach the younger lot some flexibility, how to jump, and even using a grav-con if they want to do some fancy jumping. Kids, what do you think?

- Also Tidus will likely throw out a reminder for Purple Team, with Roland's departure, that if people want to get involved with organising and keeping a track of Purple Team during missions, anyone is welcome who has the interest!

- I'll likely make a log ig ig. Tidus will also be cooking for some pals if you want to have a small get-together? Tidus likes pan-fry cooking.

CR wanted: Any and all.
Things to avoid: idk.

QUESTION/IDEA:

So during the medical meeting, it came up about having a meeting once in a while for medical people to meet up. But Tidus had the idea that a general 'hey what's up' info get-together about: missions, medical staff, teams, and also clubs/activities on the train (fight teachers, etc).

We don't want to repeat a log too often bc it can become dull after too many times, but what would people think of this? If we had it either, once every other month, or every four months? People can make their own toplevels, from Team Reps/Leads, Fight Services, First Aid training, and also for anyone looking to help people learn how to cook, knit, etc!

[schrodingersghost]

I volunteer Danny for teleporting shenanigans.

[blitzcheer]

heck yeah coming for you, danny

...accidentally.

[crowneddragon]

Tidus and Esteban need to play sports together.

It's a need now. XD

Diagad powers would be interesting to play with, but I think Esteban will hold off on it, a- because he has no idea what it is, and b- because you KNOW Esteban will love to use the hell out of that power once he realizes what it is. You are warned.

That said, it would be interesting to use it tactically in a combat situation as well! Esteban doesn't fare all that well in 1-v-1 sustained combat, but he'd be super down to learn to be Tidus' support/tactics bounce, which would be an interesting dynamic to work on.

Also, I know I'd love to explore the aftermath of them anchoring one another and all that fun stuff. We discussed so much ooc, but not the half of it showed up ic, so I'm not too sure how to proceed with that (but I'm down to discuss it all!)

Thanks for the CR as always!~

[blitzcheer]

I thiink we came up with the idea of Esteban feeling bad about not fixing things and it possibly coming up during anchoring, but otherwise us touching base on it during platform? Which I'm still up for!

And yes, these two need to sports. And goof off with grav-cons because we're very serious about them.

[crowneddragon]

Grav-con shenanigans sounds like a plan! Once they have Zelgadis out, do you want to continue the thread we had between the two of them learning to anchor each other? It might be easier to share things between them without the threadhopping where both of them tend to focus so much more onto someone else.

But it could also come up in a "casual" conversation because Esteban does want to apologize for it, so no anchoring actually required.

[blitzcheer]

ACTUALLY i did see you had a thing for "searching for already gone people", so if you wanted to do a thread on that and possibly have it come on then, we can? Because Tidus definitely was trying to search for Yuna.

if you want girlfriend in esteban's head

[crowneddragon]

Oh that works too!

(I-- totally did not forget about it XD)

Edit: not sure if you were talking about his question in ooc planning or if you were talking about his TL, but here it is; I had already included it in
Esteban's TL on Event: the Return

[invigorates]

Hi me again saying that Lior is more than happy to help with the guide even if she's new. She's been taking notes and reading and talking to people and at the very least loves being a nerd and doing paperwork so lmao.

Tidus also reminds her a lot of her dead friend Evander, and she's actually thought of him (tidus) a few times for like random arbitrary tasks when talking to people so him popping in at random with a teleport would be hysterical.

I also have Alistair from dragon age now and the two of them together is a recipe for disaster so I'm into it.

[blitzcheer]

double thumbs up, i am leaving it to Wuxian's player to post about so please look out for it, it can certainly be a train team effort.

please let him appear. trying to play sports and suddenly he's in the kitchen and kicks the cupboard and topples over. He's Fine, this just happens.

I know nothing about Dragon Age but I will totally hit up his toplevel, got my eyes on him, he's on Tidus's card.

[fennu]

Can we please have Tidus drop in on Jiang Cheng again he'll lose his mind

[blitzcheer]

if we have it happen in the garden car he can fall into the fountain.

Re: Tidus ; Purple Team

[mynameisallen]

Why is it that I saw the Diagad part and automatically went 'I wonder what would happen if Tidus already having issues came into contact with Allen who can infect someone with a case of Bad Luck.'

I mean I'm all for Tidus teleporting near Allen because odds are he would think about him at some point.

Same for Kairi actually.

[blitzcheer]

I am here for Allen's bad luck and Tidus's inability to control his teleporting - either by making him just teleport more randomly for a while regardless of the person pinging him, or even just that he keeps getting dragged back into Allen's sphere.

Or both. why not both. This gives me all the more excuses to throw him around.

[mynameisallen]

[blitzcheer]

SPEAKING OF, FOR KAIRI. Tidus will be doing a breakfast/dinner shift and will want fruits and will come to Kairi to help with getting some fruits the train doesn't have. Is this okay? Both to play out and bring up in future log that he got some from her?

[mynameisallen]

That is perfectly okay. Kairi will summon all the fruits.

Re: Tidus ; Purple Team

[bruiserprincess]

Molly is intrigued by this grav-con and wishes to subscribe to his newsletter.

[blitzcheer]

Welcome to the school of doing really cool flips. We will have things to jump off and onto for practice. And fun.

Re: Tidus ; Purple Team

[hotheadwarmheart]

General logs to keep everyone on top of things are a great idea, and if voiced ICly, bot Lea and Leia will support the idea.

Also Lea is also up for cooking with friends. :3

[goingthroughaphase]

Ahaha, teleporting shenanigans sound fun