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March Plotting & CR OOC Post
March Plotting & CR Post
Hello everyone! It's time for the announcement and plotting post for March!
OOC Housekeeping
- The Zodiac Network Post will go up March 1st, with a midmonth post going up March 15th. There will be two event logs, a city based one will be posted March 4th, with a spirit realm based one posted March 15th.
- If you haven't already, please remember to check in for activity! Activity is due by the end of the month!
- Just a reminder for anyone who hasn't joined yet, but we have a game discord for current players! It's completely optional to join, but come in and say hi!
World Changes
- Gravelord's Stone Sarcophagus can be found on Cathedral Hill!
- Howl's Newsstand can be found outside of Random Play!
Side quests
Side quests will be available this week! February side quests will be available until the quests go up, so consider today your last chance to sign up for those!
If you wish to redeem past quests for regain points or gacha points, you can please do so! That said, any regain point redemption for February should be done BEFORE the AC check begins, and be added to your February activity comment.
POKEGO Update
During the month of February, POKEGO has been focused on trying to help their fellow researcher find a way so he doesn't die of Angel Toxicosis. And this month, you'll be continuing that work! Fortunately, it does look like a solution is on the horizon (the star fragment), so some will be tasked with helping collect some to be made.
Besides that, POKEGO members who are willing to put themselves in danger will be assisting the Black Order in dealing with the Eclipse matters.... as well as trying to help minimize the damage done by the Fae. Man. There's a lot going on.
As always, you can check out updates to the PICHU facility here and information about Cygnus Academy here.
Zodiac Update
With the other factions busy with other matters, it unfortunately falls to Zodiac to deal with the... fair guests of the city.
Thanks to years of prior experience, Zodiac is well aware that the Fae could be a major pain if not handled properly. The company does not agree that the Black Order's more aggressive tactics are the right call- so they are stepping into the ring and volunteering to be the faction to deal with the Fae by using the same power they use on shareholders and consumers alike: appeasement and ass-kissing.
Therefore, Zodiac employees will be tasked with assisting the Fae in their efforts to create a musical. Do your best to provide whatever demands they give, no matter how unreasonable. Because remember, pissing off a Fae is a GREAT way to get cursed.
Black Order Update
Thanks to the Black Order, they were able to successfully squash the Love Potion market that was brewing in Kaisou. However, they discovered some disturbing hints that there is something more sinister going on beneath the surface.
Unfortunately, this month you won't get to investigate that front. As with the appearance of the Eclipse just outside the city, Guardians will be tasked with trying to keep citizens AWAY from the areas that the Eclipse are manifesting - as well as trying to save any citizens that got trapped within them. Whether they do this by persuasion or by more... aggressive means is up to them!
City Events: Free Gacha
During March, the Wind element will be in full effect! This means the weather is going to windy, but overall they will definitely be heading into the warmer spring weather! The city itself will be relatively calm this month, to make up for the rest of the nonsense going on.
That said, there will be meteor showers appearing throughout the month! Like previous meteor showers, the ones in Kaisou will include packages that crash land in front of the characters- containing free gacha items! Characters will be able to get 3 free gacha items for this month, just comment below. As usual, the mods will tackle about 10-30 character pulls a day to avoid getting overwhelmed.
The meteor showers will not only be happening in Kaisou, but in Hyrule too! But instead of gacha items, these meteor showers will contain the rare ingredient Star Fragments! These star fragments will vanish if they aren't collected by dawn, so prepare to hustle if you see a shooting star, but perhaps if you use a seer to help you locate them future crash sites for easier collection.
The town event log will be going up March 4th.
New Mechanic: Danger Realms
Starting in March, we are introducing a new mechanic: Danger Realms!
Basically during months with smaller events, dangerous spirit gates have a chance of appearing in the outskirts of town outside the barrier (sans the Cottage which has divine protection). Characters can explore these labyrinths to either fight monsters, have dramatic plot moments, or gather rare materials that are otherwise unavailable. These gates will be typically pulled from canons that have these kind of elements, but probably wouldn't be suitable for a gamewide event plot for various reasons (think Tokyo Xanadu, Dragon Age, Solo Leveling, Zenless Zone Zero, etc).
It should be noted that Danger Realms are OPTIONAL content as well will be typically considered very dangerous! Basically if you don't your character to engage with this stuff, just have them stay inside the city barrier and they will be a-okay.
This month, our
ICly, besides the Tokyo Xanadu cast, characters who either have studied a LOT about various spirit realms or are very experienced with them (think senior Black Order members and POKEGO researchers with relevant specialties) will be able to identify Greed as monsters who typically only appear in places that routinely experience horrifying levels of tragedy (think Krusnik labs). So why they are appearing in Kaisou is..... don't worry about it!
For those looking to gather materials, the following items can be found:
These items will be free to use in crafts created during the month of March. If you wish to make sure there's leftover materials AFTER march, please comment here with a linked thread of your character gathering the materials or talking about gathering them. For each of these threads linked, some of the mentioned resources will be added to the gacha goodwill inventory.
Spirit Realm Event: Fae Musical
The faeries are back in Kaisou, but this time they're not interested in kidnapping anyone or making people fight for their entertainment. Instead, they're interested in having people perform for their entertainment! They'll be setting a theater up in Kami State Park (no gate needed) and "recruiting" people to perform in their musical stage shows. And by "recruited" we do mean "taken from your beds early in the morning and forced into this". Everyone will get to go home at night, at least. They've learned their lessons and won't be keeping anyone overnight! This time.
The spirit realm event log will be going up March 15th.
Also as per usual with Fae-based plots, for the month of March the price for additional monster slot is waived, as well as characters can get 3 free monster regains. This will be available once you've been cleared for February AC and can be redeemed on the regain page.
Plotting Comment
Feel free to use this form below to set up any plotting for the month!
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Also another couple questions I realized I should ask because there are so many monster options you guys, it makes the brain spin--
Easy one: for Knuckles specifically, given that he's pretty much fundamentally a cartoon character in terms of appearance, can monster regains be a bit flexible in looks to match? Like, there's a few brightly-colored birds and animals out there, but most aren't just straight-up vibrant RED. So would it be fine for monster parts/form to reflect this to an extent, or would that need like a separate regain to change the colors of feathers/fur/whatever it may be?
Slightly complicated one: I noticed some overlap in both monster abilities versus elemental abilities and even different monster abilities, so I wanted to check! If the description of a monster ability (e.g. Strength or Speed Boost) matches that of an elemental ability, I assume that they're the same ability and can't be bought twice to 'stack' them? In that same vein, the monster abilities "durability boost" and "hardened skin" seem to have a lot of overlap, but are they actually separate?
And honestly even just a mention that there were updates in the OOC post would be very helpful, if that's doable! I don't think think I saw any mentions of elemental/monster regains being updated since the second element/third monster slot was announced last November, and if I'm not mistaken there were a number of updates and additions in that time frame? Unless I missed something which is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE too. I will definitely look more into the discord feed thing, I didn't know that was an option!
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Knuckles monster: Feel free to have the monster appearance match the characters general appearance! It doesn't have to be an exact 1:1 for realistic animals if looking a certain way would fit better. For instance, because Jun has green hair, so his wolf form is based on an arctic wolf but there's green streaks in his fur to reflect his hair color.
Complicated question: They are more or less the same abilities and/or have overlap! Sometimes in cases, the monster version will be the cheaper of the two- basically as a bit of a perk for being that specific monster type (or it only works when you're in your monster form, depending on people's interpretation). Some of these abilities are also listed because they are abilities commonly associated with monsters OR they are abilities that'd people be normally locked out of by elements (example: flight is usually a wind-only ability, but you can get around that for non-wind characters if you pick a monster that can fly). Basically if there's an ability you already bought, we're not going to make you buy it twice (nor would they stack if purchased twice either - power boosts are used for strengthening of skills).
That's because there haven't been too many updates since the November update, truthfully. Looking through the announcements, the only thing that'd be considered potentially notable (aka more than a singular small update/addition) is that there were additional monster types added in December/January-- and I think that purely got left out of the OOC post purely by mistake. Which for that, we're sorry about! A lot of stuff was going on for the mod team both game-wise and IRL at that time, and adding that to the OOC post must've slipped through the cracks.
Hopefully moving forward, between the discord announcements being changed to something more easily shareable and making notes of major changes on the OOC post- we can make sure it's easier to receive updates!