MARCH CR MEME

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Time for another of these! You all know what to do by now, and we all love some good CR, don't we? You can either ask for/offer CR you'd like to play out... Or you can discuss what may or may not already have happened!

INSTRUCTIONS

♥ Post with your characters, one per comment or a catch-all. If you have any CR in particular you'd like to rally, mention it here!

♣ Go around to other characters and discuss ways your characters may have interacted in handwaved settings. This could be casual meetings at the pub, patrols they may have gone on together, hikes and explorations, or just whatever strikes your fancy!

♦ Come up with some backstory for friendships that might not have gotten played out as fully as you'd have liked. These guys are trapped on a floating island together, 24/7... You know they bump into each other! New CR is highly encouraged - you never know what might happen.

♠ Have fun!

<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER(S):</b> <b>WHO ARE THEY?:</b> (Tell us a little about them! This, like all sections, is completely optional.) <b>CURRENTLY:</b> (What are they up to? It may help others to know where your character usually hangs out or what they're spending their time doing.) <b>CR YOU'D LIKE:</b> <b>CR YOU WOULD <u>NOT</u> LIKE:</b> <b>ANYTHING ELSE?</b>

MARCH TEST DRIVE

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Welcome to the Ruby City Test Drive!

The rules are simple:

• Pick your prompts and post your character, making sure to include the character's name and canon in the subject line.


• Tag around, making sure to follow the game rules. If you're not sure about something, don't be shy - check with the other player!


• We recommend staying away from "I just arrived" prompts. Instead, write your test drive threads as though your character has been in the city a while and is responding to our periodic events, especially if you're going to use your test drive threads as application samples. This will give mods a better understanding of your character, as well as make more dynamic prompts for other players to respond to.


• This one's obvious, but just in case you forgot: have fun!

( Prompts this way! )

MARCH STATE OF THE CITY

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STATE OF THE CITY
March 2017

GENERAL OOC INFO:

It’s March, y’all! 2017 is well and truly underway, and now that we’re past the shortest month of the year, Ruby City is in the groove of the new year both ICly and OOCly. Thanks for sticking with us, seasoned veterans, and a very warm welcome to our lovely newbie crew!

As usual, the beginning of the month is the time for us to encourage all of you to head over to the Plot Submissions page and slap your event ideas in the queue! We have a great queue at this point, but more is always merrier--if you have a particular type of event that you love and haven’t seen in a while, drop us a comment. Additionally, our redesigned Bestiary page is open for submissions. For general game thoughts, our Suggestions Post is always open. Please drop any thoughts you have in there--your feedback helps us keep the game at its best!

A couple more links, and then we'll get to the good stuff! Our General CR Meme is up again; we encourage you to check it out, be brave, ask new people for CR. Nobody here bites--probably. And if you're feeling that new character itch, why not check out this month’s Test Drive Meme? Better yet, do that and drag a friend along with you--the more the merrier!

GAME INFO:

NPC Profiles

WHAT'S HAPPENING
☆ We have announced this intermittently throughout the month as things got done, but we have revamped the Bestiary and Taken pages to make them easier to use, both for the mod team and for our playerbase. Throughout the next couple of months, we will be working on revamping other game pages for ease of navigation and use.
☆ Our Game History page is almost complete! Additionally, in our continuing efforts to bring Ruby City up to date, our early-March projects are revamping the Navigation and Emporium pages! All three pages should be done by March 5; they will go up alongside Activity Check and we will announce it at rubycitymods once they’re completed.
☆ The Calendar is up to date through May! Additionally, we have a solid queue of player-submitted events, so thank you to everyone who's submitted--we are very excited to get those in motion for you!
☆ The Crane Game, Emporium, and Mailbox remain open!
☆ Finally, we are planning our first quarterly player poll to go up on March 15! This timing is so that the mod team will have plenty of time to go over your responses and formulate our response in time for April's State of the City, as well as set up a good plan for addressing questions and concerns throughout April. We do have a few questions already in mind, but if there is anything you as a player definitely want to see on the poll, please post it to the Suggestions Post by March 13.

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Probably thanks to the recently-passed holiday season in December and January, Charity had an impressive win this month on the vice-virtues count! This brings Charity almost to Kindness’ level in the overall runnings--which, if those are the two frontrunners, indicate a happy and healthy town. The effects are more tangible than ever in the town itself: for the time being, the likelihood of running into aggressive creatures is decreased, and the stores are experiencing a slow uptick in both quality and quantity of products.

A shared second place by Diligence and Pride will result in a more subtle effect: every citizen in town will feel a renewed vigor in whatever it is they do, whether it’s some kind of art, a job, or simply volunteering around. This is the result of a new pride in their work, and a desire to see it completed in full. As a result, people may be more sensitive to criticisms of said work, defending it to the very end.

Of course, the extent of effects are up to player discretion, and, as usual, remember to include a vice-virtue with your Activity! As the points rack up, so do the larger city-wide effects, opening up new opportunities for characters and players alike.

EVENT LIST FOR THE MONTH:

February 26th - March 6th Reverse [submitted by Crystal]

Don’t worry--there’s still plenty of time to get in on the chaos of our mirror event! While Dil’s chosen are questing to find the seven mirror shards, chaos will be continuing as per usual in Ruby City itself. Go all out, everybody, because this is the story of how Ruby City got flipped turned upside down--

But seriously, as a reminder: players can opt to mirror their characters for the entire event or only for small parts, or participate by helping in the mirror search, or participate only by having characters interact with their CR and develop relationships, or simply opt out altogether! Our detailed Reverse plotting post, with timeline, can be found here.

March 18th - March 20th Fourth Wall

We’re pretty sure you all know how this one works, but here’s a refresher! After a nice breather from the chaos of the Reverse event, Ruby City will suddenly be inundated with new faces for one weekend only as the train station gets very, very busy. The train will be speeding in and out of the city, dumping far more people in the city than usual--including some that your characters may recognize! At the end of the weekend, most of these characters will vanish without a trace.

On an OOC level, Fourth Wall weekend is a good-natured free for all. There’s no limit to how many characters you can bring in and play during this period, and you don’t have to already be in the game to play during Fourth Wall. We just ask that if you are bringing in characters from a canon that already exists in game, that you check with those players to make sure they’re all right with it! Additionally, we will be extending the app period by one day--players have until 11:59 PST on Sunday, March 20th to get in their applications and are of course welcome to use Fourth Wall threads as samples.

STATE OF THE CITY:

Weather Report

WEATHER:

In like a lion, out like . . . a lion, actually. The March winds are fierce as they sweep through the city streets, cutting through even the thickest of jackets. On the upswing, at least the temperature has risen somewhat. The most daring of souls might even switch out their winter coats for sweatshirts (though this is only recommended for the hardiest of citizens).

The last of the snow has melted, though there’s a chance of flurries early in March one evening or two. But the sun is strong and hot, and spring is officially in the air. It isn’t yet time to break out those picnic baskets, but you’ll surely be tempted to on the sunniest days.

FLORA AND FAUNA:

It’s March, which means the first flowers are now encouraged to try and force their way through the frozen ground, though it’ll be another month before any manage to survive. More importantly, creatures nature oriented are starting to wake up. The fairies, spriggans and dryads are rousing, slowly and sluggishly.

They’re not the only ones wandering about. There’s a new creature on the loose, lurking near the edges of the forest. Dromes weave their semi-visible psychic webs, eager to lure in unwary travellers and (eventually) feast on their corpses. Be wary while walking the woods, residents, or you might just find yourself caught in an illusion.

The hobgoblins are still active throughout the city. Anyone spiritually sensitive will see at least a few wandering about the city, but everyone will feel the effects as they steal food and any minor possessions that manage to catch their eye. Keep a close eye on your shiny things, citizens.

STORES AND SUPPLIES:

As the weather turns slightly warmer, but also wilder, and a rack of brightly coloured and patterned ponchos appear at the back of the general store, below a sign boasting that they are almost completely windproof. They aren’t, of course, entirely windproof and they do look rather silly, but they offer more protection than most regular coats would.

Traditionally, March marks the beginning of Lent. As a result, the stores in the shops are unusually sparse and basic, but not to worry - there are plenty of citrus fruits there to keep anyone from coming down with any unpleasant vitamin C deficiencies.

Several of the stores now also contain mirrors, usually displayed or even hidden in odd positions. Strangely, all of them have a spiderweb of cracks spanning from the top right hand corner, and if compared, any observer would find the patterns to be exactly alike. These cracks will endure until the end of the Reverse event, at which point they will recede and leave the mirrors entirely unblemished.

MOD CONTACT:

Fiona hardtostarboard || AIM@LittleBritTeacup
Ingrid togamint || SKYPE@Taekotogami
Anne passiones
Kit ankeel

Moderator Plurk: rubycitymods

PLAYER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Suggestions Post

Permanent Links
Phoenix Wright’s Records
Spiral Training School Information

Anything you want to let everyone know about? Let us know!

CLOSING STATEMENT:

From our strong start at the beginning of the year, we are powering forwards and bringing through many updates and changes to the game which we are confident will make things far more streamlined! You guys have been essential to everything we have done in the game over the past few months, and we couldn’t have done it without you.

We have plenty of updates for you to look at, and more coming in the next couple of months.

Our Activity Check will go up on the 5th, for activity over the month of February. We understand that this has been a shorter month, so if you find yourself a couple of tags short, don’t forget that you can use booster threads from your IC Inboxes to make up the numbers!

Keep applications coming in, keep being good to each other, and keep telling us what you think. And stay amazing!