JULY MOD POST

[collectedmods]

Hello, shoppers! Welcome to our first mod post of the game.

Thank you for joining, and we hope you're having a lot of fun on the Intro Log so far! From now on, we will be making monthly mod posts to inform everyone of any changes to the setting, pages (like Locations, Activity, etc), and general news regarding the game.

Our first official news is that our Haunting of the month is ready to go! To refresh everyone on what a Haunting is, it's when something suspicious or spooky happens to one of the stores located inside the mall and characters can investigate to get rewards and goods! Characters who investigate a Haunting will soon after find items bestowed to them by powers unknown.

While we refer to them as "Hauntings" OOC, we want to reiterate that there will be no IC explanation for what they are, and characters will have to come to their own conclusions about what causes these strange happenings. Characters will also not know in advance to this first Haunting that they will end up receiving a reward after doing so - it’ll be a surprise to the first few investigators! And perhaps incentive for those in the future.

Below is the description of what the Haunting for July will be:

Something interesting happens come one late night, the Home Decor Store has working lights! They're bright, they don't flicker, and more importantly? They're free for the taking. Stepping inside the store reveals that not only are all the lights, lamps and fixtures inside in pretty good condition, but it's chock full of mirrors. Fullbody, handheld, compact, framed up on the wall for display - they're everywhere.

But the longer you stay inside, the more you seem to notice that.. Something is wrong with your reflection.


» Sometimes your reflection won't make eye contact with you! Or if it does, it does so belatedly (spooky!).

» You'll notice your reflection will start to control you. It doesn't matter if you don't look into it; so long as you are in front of a mirror, it's possible. The severity of the possession will vary from person to person - they can have complete control over your body, or you can just have difficulty moving the way you want to. However, once the reflection is in control, it will try to make you attack whoever is with you. Subtly, stealthily, of course, when your companion is least expecting it - kind of like this, or like this. You may fight it as much as you like, but in the end, your reflection will always just overpower you by a smidge. Got a weapon on you? Abilities? It’ll try to use them. If not, expect your reflection to prompt you towards any of the shards of glass on the ground to try and sneak a weapon.

» Once you become aware of the control, you’ll find it’s impossible to speak about it. You can respond fine to any other prompts, make small talk, answer other questions. But you’ll find whenever you try to let your companion know about how you can’t move, or try to warn them of what’s happening, your voice and lips betray you - you can’t talk about it! If asked directly by your companion, you’ll merely end up assuring them you are totally fine.

» It gets worse if you try to leave the store - you'll have to either avoid being in the view of a mirror, or break a lot to be able to leave. It'll be extremely difficult because this store is full of them. While when characters are not in the view of any mirrors, they will have control again, be warned that the areas inside the store that are “blind spots” to the mirrors are very few and far between.

» Finally, any mirrors broken during characters’ venture inside are eerily restored the next day.



Your character can explore this Haunting up to two times to get two different items! Submissions go on the Hauntings page, through a form you must fill out and comment on entry. Hauntings will not have logs put up, and you are free to make your own catch-alls, or thread it out in your character inbox.

If you’re looking for a partner for the Haunting, feel free to respond to our Haunting Partner comment below - you can give some details about what would prompt your character to go there, or what special skills they’d have in investigating the store. This comment’s thread will serve as a way for people to find players to explore the Haunting with that they may not have the plurks of, or if they simply want to find new CR!


Our second news, information regarding this month’s Activity Check:




» Activity for July will be half the required AC on a regular month. So that means in order to pass, you’ll only need 7 comments to pass instead of the usual 15 comments. Since it’s our first month up and running, we decided to celebrate and make it simple this time around. You have all month to reply to your AC thread with proof until the 31st, where AC will be closed. We will put up reminders and warnings when it’s closer to closing to make sure everyone gets their stuff in!



As for our calendar, this is what it officially looks like for July:




» July 4th, 6:00PM PST - Hauntings for the month will be announced + Monthly Mod post.
» July 12th, 12:00PM PST - OOC plotting for the event.
» July 15th, 6:00PM PST - The event goes LIVE.
» July 31st, 11:59 PM PST - AC is officially closed and sweeps will be processed the following few days.




These dates will be up on our Calendar shortly! Generally they will remain the same, but if there are any last minute changes to any of these dates we’ll be informing everyone through our official mod plurk!

As far as news for our next application round + TDM, the next Test Drive Meme will be in August, with an application cycle in late August. Closer to the end of July we will be letting everyone know the exact dates!

If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please feel free to reach out to us on our Mod Contact page, or below on the Questions comment.

- Collected Mods

Comments

[acerejective]

MEEEE

Akechi will definitely be investigating!! He has Issues (tm) re: being controlled so he will definitely be trying to smash or cover mirrors! As for skills, he has gun, is pretty good at fighting, and his Persona that can dole out damage, and he can be pretty aggro

OOCly I would rather avoid Akechi hurting someone else too much, but I'm perfectly down to have him get attacked, real beaten up, fighto, investigate, and all that! He will want to get to the bottom of it, but it will probably involve property damage and maybe some freaking out it's fine

[prison]

i really do be vibing with the idea of beating akechi up a lil

[acerejective]

o me too... unfortunately akechi will kind of like it....... bc he is the worst

LETS DO IT THOUGH

[prison]

why is he like this.......... be normal, please,

alright, i can set something up for us sometime tomorrow then c: