day change & announcement
Hello everyone, and congratulations on surviving the night! Welcome to Day 25. The snow has mostly stopped, but it's still drifting down intermittently and settling about knee-deep. You can still get around, and characters will awaken to the ambient sound of electricity running and lights flickering occasionally-- it isn't 100%, but the network is back on shaky legs enough for messages to usually get through. It may still go down now and then or sound fuzzy, but anything's an improvement. Charge up your electronics and get warm by the heaters!
On the announcement side of things, a quick rundown of a few OOC things! But first an IC thing-- the 12 days has been updated for one final time, with the inclusion of one more new monster, and two new areas! Check it out. ♥
Now, on the OOC side of things! First off, there will be NO activity check this month due to LJ's immense dickery. We understand things have been tumultuous and don't expect anyone to shuffle around for a/c.
Secondly, we've reviewed the poll and for now, we've turned on custom comment pages. As word has spread around already, there are various things you can do if you don't like them! But this way at least it's minor inconveniences and it WILL work for everyone. You can install a personal style on your character journals to the minimalism style, and find the stylish/greasemonkey add-on that tacks on ?style=mine to the end of all your URLs and view pages that way, for the easiest fix. Otherwise you can add it or ?style=light manually.
On the same vein as that, we've come to a pretty much unanimous mod agreement to move EV over to dreamwidth for a number of reasons. It won't happen immediately or without player input, of course, but we WILL be working on the details and will update when we've been able to further discuss it! This isn't a decision made lightly, but we already had a positive response/suggestions from many of you players that you'd support the move and follow us over. There are a lot of pros on DW compared to the many cons of LJ, but that's neither here or there. We have a system in mind already and we'll definitely be updating to brief you guys on the details further come Tuesday or Wednesday, and to get your input on the plans before deciding for certain. Please do keep an eye out for it!
EDIT: Apologies for the shoddy wording on that, but your mod rushed so she could get some sleep before work hhhhhhhhh anyway! I answered a quick question at the very top of the comments clarifying, but I'll put it here again for ease: we will not be deciding this without player input and it's NOT already cemented or anything, don't panic! We've just seriously considered the suggestions and have started to lay out plans on how it'd work and what the pros/cons would be IF we do the move, which we do all feel is best for the game.
For example, our consideration has extended to finishing up threads and logs here or giving you ample time to work out assumptions with your partners-- Dreamwidth DOES have entire journal/community import options, which is very quick and easy. The only thing is, they're so busy right now that there's a long queue of import requests and it takes 2.5 days to get to them for now, and you can only do one at a time... We have six communities. So it'd take 15 days to move everything over, and we don't want to lose anyone in import limbo or have to import again after all's said and done, so we've already worked out what order to import the comms in as well, with savevoid and exitvoid coming last to be the most up-to-date and include everyone's threads. We wanted to do a two week hiatus for the entire game and pick up where we left off during the move, but keep you guys entertained and with something to do by running memes on the crack comm. Anyway, stressing again that nothing's set in stone-- it's just airing ahead of time that we feel it'd be best and we're going to lay out a plan and show you, the players, and see if it's something you'd want to do.! Hope that makes more sense.
On the announcement side of things, a quick rundown of a few OOC things! But first an IC thing-- the 12 days has been updated for one final time, with the inclusion of one more new monster, and two new areas! Check it out. ♥
Now, on the OOC side of things! First off, there will be NO activity check this month due to LJ's immense dickery. We understand things have been tumultuous and don't expect anyone to shuffle around for a/c.
Secondly, we've reviewed the poll and for now, we've turned on custom comment pages. As word has spread around already, there are various things you can do if you don't like them! But this way at least it's minor inconveniences and it WILL work for everyone. You can install a personal style on your character journals to the minimalism style, and find the stylish/greasemonkey add-on that tacks on ?style=mine to the end of all your URLs and view pages that way, for the easiest fix. Otherwise you can add it or ?style=light manually.
On the same vein as that, we've come to a pretty much unanimous mod agreement to move EV over to dreamwidth for a number of reasons. It won't happen immediately or without player input, of course, but we WILL be working on the details and will update when we've been able to further discuss it! This isn't a decision made lightly, but we already had a positive response/suggestions from many of you players that you'd support the move and follow us over. There are a lot of pros on DW compared to the many cons of LJ, but that's neither here or there. We have a system in mind already and we'll definitely be updating to brief you guys on the details further come Tuesday or Wednesday, and to get your input on the plans before deciding for certain. Please do keep an eye out for it!
EDIT: Apologies for the shoddy wording on that, but your mod rushed so she could get some sleep before work hhhhhhhhh anyway! I answered a quick question at the very top of the comments clarifying, but I'll put it here again for ease: we will not be deciding this without player input and it's NOT already cemented or anything, don't panic! We've just seriously considered the suggestions and have started to lay out plans on how it'd work and what the pros/cons would be IF we do the move, which we do all feel is best for the game.
For example, our consideration has extended to finishing up threads and logs here or giving you ample time to work out assumptions with your partners-- Dreamwidth DOES have entire journal/community import options, which is very quick and easy. The only thing is, they're so busy right now that there's a long queue of import requests and it takes 2.5 days to get to them for now, and you can only do one at a time... We have six communities. So it'd take 15 days to move everything over, and we don't want to lose anyone in import limbo or have to import again after all's said and done, so we've already worked out what order to import the comms in as well, with savevoid and exitvoid coming last to be the most up-to-date and include everyone's threads. We wanted to do a two week hiatus for the entire game and pick up where we left off during the move, but keep you guys entertained and with something to do by running memes on the crack comm. Anyway, stressing again that nothing's set in stone-- it's just airing ahead of time that we feel it'd be best and we're going to lay out a plan and show you, the players, and see if it's something you'd want to do.! Hope that makes more sense.