Jul. 2nd, 2016

ic round-up

Jul. 2nd, 2016 01:39 am
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Hello, Kyriakos!

Current Posts:


IC Happenings:
    ◉ Yaksinis ran a trauma game on Day 228 (one, two, endgame). "Winners" were Epona, Vanara, Henwen, Tiamat and Barghest. All participating Cats won.

    ◉ Rowena is Henwen's patron, as of Day 229!

    ◉ Princess is currently residing in Henwen's dorm.

    ◉ Nessie is Ratatoskr's patron, as of Day 229!

    ◉ Vanara is without a patron. If you're interested in patroning for them, please get in contact with them.

    ◉ If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, please email us at kyriakosmods@gmail.com
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Hello Kyriakos!

Major Announcements:
    ◉ June's Activity Check is up.

    ◉ Sipp has stepped down from the plot team and from playing Nyssa. The mod team would like to thank her for everything she's done for the game playing Nyssa and helping both the current and last mod team coordinate the game's plot. She put in a lot of good work over the past year and Kyriakos as a whole is indebted to her for that. We wish her well going forward.

    ◉ The mod team will move forward with the plans that were already in place for the remainder of the Nyssa plot. We still intend to end the Nyssa plot this Summer. As of right now, our plan is to handle playing her in the rest of the plot internally. We do not plan to have open applications to play Nyssa, but if you are interested in playing her, please get in contact with the mods and we will discuss it with you.

    ◉ We're going to temporarily postpone the State of the Game post to Wednesday, July 6th. We're instead going to use this weekend to have several internal conversations among the mod and plot teams and begin advertising.

    ◉ We're planning to begin advertising this weekend and put up a new Test Drive Post ASAP. As of right now, we're intending to advertise on [community profile] rpanons and [plurk.com profile] rpmostwanted as well as [personal profile] app_this_plz when their next post goes up (we may put in a late advertisement on their last post as well). If you are aware of any other good places to advertise, please let the mod team know ASAP.

    ◉ The mod team will be putting up applications for positions on the plot team this weekend. We will be looking for two plot mods and we will be taking event runner apps as well. If you are interested in helping the plot team with the climax of the Nyssa plot and the future of Kyriakos, keep an eye out for the application post.

    ◉ Our next major plot event is scheduled for Saturday, July 9th. We have a minor plot event scheduled before then to happen soon, hopefully early during the week. Participation in the minor event will be open, sign-ups for the major event will go up soon.

    ◉ Regarding the timeline, the results of the poll tilted overwhelmingly towards a straight timeskip, and that is what we will be going with. On Sunday, we will skip forward to Day 235 Night, placing The Feral's game at the start of Day 235 and continuing forward with Day 236 Morning on Monday. We're aware that several players felt we should place the upcoming events out of time and place them on the timeline later, but we feel this would lead to a lot of confusion and ambiguity in the event itself, and we've had bad experiences in the past placing key plot events out of time. We feel taking things more linearly is the best way to keep the timeline stable. We'll be putting up a post for backdated interactions on Sunday.

    ◉ For the remainder of the Nyssa plot, the mod team has decided to not accept any further trauma game claims, as we believe that with us ramping up towards the climax of the Nyssa plot very soon and with physical, emotional and mental trauma being very possible as we do so, additional trauma games will conflict with the plot and be too much stress on the playerbase and the characters. If you are looking to run a trauma game in the future, please do not hesitate to keep designing it, we have a lot of ideas about trauma games and how they'll function in Kyriakos post-Nyssa plot that we're hoping to start sharing sometime soon.




Reminders:
    People claiming events on the calendar: while we don't mind if you want to organize and use the calendar for team-related activities aside from games and mod-approved mini-events, please e-mail the mods first before putting it there!

    ◉ Game runners: Please make sure you update the win doc after a game!

    ◉ Our revamped Game info went up last week! Some information and pages to note are over here.

    ◉ Vanara is without a patron. If you are interested in patroning Vanara, please get in contact with them.


IC Round-up:
    ◉ The July 1st IC round-up is over here!


Upcoming Games/Events:
    ◉ Feral's bingo game begun and will be going until 6 PM EST on July 3rd.

    ◉ Isabel has a game on the weekend of July 15th!
    ◉ Albina has a game on the weekend of July 22nd! It will be a Fusion Game!
    ◉ Noriko-hime has a game on the weekend of July 29th! It will be a Steampunk-themed Exploradora.

    ◉ The Trauma Game slot for July is CLOSED.
    ◉ The Trauma Game slot for August is CLAIMED.
    ◉ Future trauma game claims are not being accepted right now.


App Status:
    ◉ Team Applications: OPEN!
    ◉ Cat Applications: OPEN!
    ◉ Echo Applications: OPEN!


Drops:
    ◉ Normal Drops: Nicolas Brown (Barghest), Percy Jackson (Tiamat), Kian Alvane (Epona) and Delriza are in the mirrors.
    ◉ Echo Drops: Vash the Stampede (Cats) and Allen Walker and Maya Fey (Epona) are off with Units. Levi (Epona) is off with Caretaker.


Placements:
    ◉ Nicolas Brown (GANGSTA) and Helle (Original Character) will be joining Epona!
    ◉ Terra (Kingdom Hearts) will be joining Takshaka!
    ◉ Commander Jane Shepard (Mass Effect) will be re-joining Tiamat!
    ◉ A new echo, Doelicanxa has joined Kyriakos!



◉ If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, please email us at kyriakosmods@gmail.com!
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Hello, Kyriakos!

This post is for plot moderator applications! We're looking for two plot mods to help us through the rest of the Nyssa plot and concoct, coordinate and execute future plots and plot mechanics in Kyriakos.

The duties that come with plot moderatorship would include:
- Working with the rest of the plot team and the mod team to create outlines for planned events, pre-write events from these outlines and run these events, in coordinaton with event runners.
- Regularly meeting and communicating with the head mods.
- Executing the plot beats and assisting to complete the timeline the mods have for the remainder of the Nyssa plot this Summer.
- Helping the head mods build and execute the plots of Kyriakos' future.

This position will include event running. As much as possible, it will not be solo event running, it will be done from pre-written event text, alongside a head mod, another plot mod, or an event runner.

If you are interested, please fill out this form:


We're also opening applications for event runners. As an event runner, your duties will center around running events from pre-written text made by the mod team and the plot team. As much as possible, you will be running an event alongside a member of the mod team or the plot team and will coordinate with them as you run the event. There will be some room for improvisation as players inevitably do unexpected things during events, as long as it doesn't deviate too much from the plot.

We would like to request that if any of our European members, or members who operate at hours when our European members are active are willing, we would greatly appreciate being able to have at least one runner who can run events at an optimal time for our European members, as being able to fit in our members closer to GMT without forcing them to stay up very late has been difficult in the past.

If you're interested, please fill out this form:



Comments will be screened! Applications will be open for one week, until July 9th.

test drive

Jul. 2nd, 2016 05:16 pm
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SET UP

What a beautiful morning! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the bells are ringing—

Ah, yes. Bells!

As they ring you find yourself drawn outdoors, away from a handsome little cottage that you can't remember, to a clock-tower. And here, surrounded by strangers (all of them? Literally not a single familiar face amongst any of them? Is that normal?) someone passes you a piece of paper.



It would appear to be that you're being made to play a game! And you have a great, wide, world to play it in!


PROMPTS

  1. Be careful as you go about trying to collect your items – weird holes in the ground, blood-thirsty bunnies, or even the occasional tricky echo wanting to handcuff you to some other stranger may make the process more difficult!
  2. Hmm. Is it just you, or does there seem to be something recurring about the clothing colors here? Maybe you can ask that other person. ... And find out where you are? (Who you are?)
  3. Oops. It seems you've gotten lost in a forest, and you're getting hungry! Perhaps you could take a bite from one of these berries? Or maybe that strange looking apple hanging overhead?
  4. You've somehow found yourself with a bingo card. Maybe something will happen if you fill it out by performing the actions on the squares?
  5. Hip-hip-hooray! It seems you and your team have won the game! And just what fabulous prize have you received? When you return to your cottage, you find some tiny glass shards. Just what are you supposed to do with these...?

OTHER INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION | GAME MECHANICS | SETTING | TEAMS | ECHOES | MEMORY LOSS & REGAINS