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February Newsletter
February 2022 NEWSLETTER
Welcome to Deer Country's Newsletter! This is a half IC, half OOC informational post. We strongly urge our player base to read all Newsletters posted to the community as they contain important information about that month's weather, environmental changes, other plot-important information, important dates, and any important mod announcements. Newsletters will allow a chance for players to post about the impact their characters may have made in the setting using the form down below.
You can always feel free to ask questions on newsletters. Of course, we may sometimes suggest you wait until the event for certain questions, but for the most part, we should be able to help you out! Players are welcome to engage with the prompts/elements from Newsletter as soon as they are accepted into the game. Players may also use newsletter prompts as a basis for writing samples in applications.
You can always feel free to ask questions on newsletters. Of course, we may sometimes suggest you wait until the event for certain questions, but for the most part, we should be able to help you out! Players are welcome to engage with the prompts/elements from Newsletter as soon as they are accepted into the game. Players may also use newsletter prompts as a basis for writing samples in applications.
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Enviormental Changes • Influences on Blood Types • Monthly Calendar • Mod Announcements • Impact Summaries • Newsletter Questions
ENVIORMENTAL CHANGES (IC)
Enviormental Changes • Influences on Blood Types • Monthly Calendar • Mod Announcements • Impact Summaries • Newsletter Questions
CURRENT SEASON:: Season of Bone. February is the final month of Bone Season. Some Trenchies believe February is the month of bitterness.
THE MOON:: The Egg Moon remains in the sky, yellow and warm in apperance. Moon Presence will frequent the beach this month, singing out to the ocean in a melancholic way. Again, Trenchies believe that the Egg Moon is the ideal month for rituals and pacts.
PATRON PTHUMERIAN:: The Doorway. Despite the frigid weather, brilliant roses will begin to blossom all throughout town seemingly out of nothing. They blossom in blankets over rooftops and along sidewalks. Some of the roses are pure white, blending into the snow, while others are bright red. The entire city begins to smell like roses. The smell seems to soothe some while it agitates others. If the Doorway is your Patron or if you have strong relationships with people in your home, you will find roses over your home's doorways. These roses will help soothe corruption. The Doorway will appear frequently in the streets, standing silent, resolute. Fresh blood will be trickling down their sword. While they may not talk to those who approach, you may feel great comfort just by talking to them for a while.
MONTHLY BLESSINGS:: The Doorway gifts their Sleepers with The Blade of Agency. This sword will be standing upright on its own in the character's home. This is not a traditional sword. It will pass through anything...Keyword being pass. It does not draw blood nor does it leave physical damage. What it does is drain someone's emotions. Use this sword on an enemy and cutting them enough times with it will draw them to insanity. You can cut through people's emotions, hurting them deeper than you ever could with a real blade. One should be cautious if they use the blade against someone they have a close relationship with. It is said that the blade can sever relationships by literally cutting someone off of their emotions for you. That's certainly one way to break up with someone. The Blade can be used by anyone, but those with paleblood and warmblood will find they can cause greater damage with the sword. The Blade of Agency can be used to cut through a beast and bring someone back from beasthood though it may cause temporary amnesia. It cannot be broken. It can be lost.
THE WEATHER:: The weather remains snowy and cold. Madam Generosity will continue to help create paths through the snow. There will be a significant blizzards on Feb 9th, 17th, 20th, and 27th. Windchill will make it feel colder than it is, so stay bundled.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES:: The Dog Keeper's dogs are out and about helping guide people safely from one place to another. If you wind up stuck outside, the dogs will find you and bundle up around you to ensure you stay warm. These dogs will also help dig out homes after blizzards if needed.
EFFECTS FROM PREVIOUS MONTH:: Some characters may still be suffering from lockjoint. Symptoms of lockjoint will gradually begin to alleviate starting late February. Characters will still be experiencing the Shedding Ceremony.
MONTHLY INFLUENCE ON BLOOD TYPES (IC)
THE MOON:: The Egg Moon remains in the sky, yellow and warm in apperance. Moon Presence will frequent the beach this month, singing out to the ocean in a melancholic way. Again, Trenchies believe that the Egg Moon is the ideal month for rituals and pacts.
PATRON PTHUMERIAN:: The Doorway. Despite the frigid weather, brilliant roses will begin to blossom all throughout town seemingly out of nothing. They blossom in blankets over rooftops and along sidewalks. Some of the roses are pure white, blending into the snow, while others are bright red. The entire city begins to smell like roses. The smell seems to soothe some while it agitates others. If the Doorway is your Patron or if you have strong relationships with people in your home, you will find roses over your home's doorways. These roses will help soothe corruption. The Doorway will appear frequently in the streets, standing silent, resolute. Fresh blood will be trickling down their sword. While they may not talk to those who approach, you may feel great comfort just by talking to them for a while.
MONTHLY BLESSINGS:: The Doorway gifts their Sleepers with The Blade of Agency. This sword will be standing upright on its own in the character's home. This is not a traditional sword. It will pass through anything...Keyword being pass. It does not draw blood nor does it leave physical damage. What it does is drain someone's emotions. Use this sword on an enemy and cutting them enough times with it will draw them to insanity. You can cut through people's emotions, hurting them deeper than you ever could with a real blade. One should be cautious if they use the blade against someone they have a close relationship with. It is said that the blade can sever relationships by literally cutting someone off of their emotions for you. That's certainly one way to break up with someone. The Blade can be used by anyone, but those with paleblood and warmblood will find they can cause greater damage with the sword. The Blade of Agency can be used to cut through a beast and bring someone back from beasthood though it may cause temporary amnesia. It cannot be broken. It can be lost.
THE WEATHER:: The weather remains snowy and cold. Madam Generosity will continue to help create paths through the snow. There will be a significant blizzards on Feb 9th, 17th, 20th, and 27th. Windchill will make it feel colder than it is, so stay bundled.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES:: The Dog Keeper's dogs are out and about helping guide people safely from one place to another. If you wind up stuck outside, the dogs will find you and bundle up around you to ensure you stay warm. These dogs will also help dig out homes after blizzards if needed.
EFFECTS FROM PREVIOUS MONTH:: Some characters may still be suffering from lockjoint. Symptoms of lockjoint will gradually begin to alleviate starting late February. Characters will still be experiencing the Shedding Ceremony.
Each month, blood types will be impacted differently depending on events, Pthumerians, and moon cycles. These changes will vary significantly. These changes are meant to represent the intricate relationship between Sleeper blood and the world around them.
Players are always welcome to opt-out of anything in this section, but we do strongly encourage participants to help create a consistent atmosphere for the game. To those who opt-out OOCly, characters cannot ICly contradict these events.
There will be some months where all blood types are impacted or only some blood types are impacted. Rarely will there be months where no blood types are impacted.
WARMBLOODS:: Warmbloods will be influenced by selfless love. They will have an increasing urge to help others for the sake of helping them. They will not care if they are rewarded by their help. They want the best for their neighbors and even their enemies. Warmbloods may become ignorant to what people truly need and start to impose what they "think" is good for someone rather than listening to someone.
COLDBLOODS:: Coldbloods may become greatly interested in romantic love this month. They may feel inclined to have more sexual encounters or desire a romantic connection if they don't already have one. Those who are in a romantic relationship will be overwhelmed by their feelings of love for their partner which may lead to unplanned confessions or grand gestures of romance. This may cause a coldblood to become extremely possessive of someone they desire romantically or sexually and become irrational.
PALEBLOODS:: Palebloods will care greatly about platonic love this month. Friendship will be incredibly important to a paleblood and they will feel a great need to improve elements of friendship with others or seek brand new friends. Palebloods may feel increasing jealousy about friends of their friends, and feel insecure about their own place in a friend's life.
VILEBLOODS:: Vilebloods will care greatly about familial love this month. They will want to establish familial relationships or focus on the ones they already have. They will feel extreme loyalty to those they see in a familial sense. This may cause toxic familial love where they feel their family connections owe them something / must put them first.
DARKBLOODS:: Darkbloods will have a great desire to focus on themselves this month through self-love. They will want to better themselves and treat themselves kinder. Darkbloods represent self-love this month and may be prone to forgiving themselves and picking up healthier habits. This may improve their confidence. Darkbloods may be so focused on themselves that they ruin other relationships or potentially wind up worsening self-esteem issues.
LEVELS OF CORRUPTION:: Corruption will be extremely high this month. There will be various components in the event that elevate corruption due to manipulated emotions.
LEVELS OF BEASTHOOD:: Beasthood will be extremely high this month. Elevated corruption will likely lead to more cases of violent beasthood.
MONTHLY CALENDAR (OOC)
Players are always welcome to opt-out of anything in this section, but we do strongly encourage participants to help create a consistent atmosphere for the game. To those who opt-out OOCly, characters cannot ICly contradict these events.
There will be some months where all blood types are impacted or only some blood types are impacted. Rarely will there be months where no blood types are impacted.
WARMBLOODS:: Warmbloods will be influenced by selfless love. They will have an increasing urge to help others for the sake of helping them. They will not care if they are rewarded by their help. They want the best for their neighbors and even their enemies. Warmbloods may become ignorant to what people truly need and start to impose what they "think" is good for someone rather than listening to someone.
COLDBLOODS:: Coldbloods may become greatly interested in romantic love this month. They may feel inclined to have more sexual encounters or desire a romantic connection if they don't already have one. Those who are in a romantic relationship will be overwhelmed by their feelings of love for their partner which may lead to unplanned confessions or grand gestures of romance. This may cause a coldblood to become extremely possessive of someone they desire romantically or sexually and become irrational.
PALEBLOODS:: Palebloods will care greatly about platonic love this month. Friendship will be incredibly important to a paleblood and they will feel a great need to improve elements of friendship with others or seek brand new friends. Palebloods may feel increasing jealousy about friends of their friends, and feel insecure about their own place in a friend's life.
VILEBLOODS:: Vilebloods will care greatly about familial love this month. They will want to establish familial relationships or focus on the ones they already have. They will feel extreme loyalty to those they see in a familial sense. This may cause toxic familial love where they feel their family connections owe them something / must put them first.
DARKBLOODS:: Darkbloods will have a great desire to focus on themselves this month through self-love. They will want to better themselves and treat themselves kinder. Darkbloods represent self-love this month and may be prone to forgiving themselves and picking up healthier habits. This may improve their confidence. Darkbloods may be so focused on themselves that they ruin other relationships or potentially wind up worsening self-esteem issues.
LEVELS OF CORRUPTION:: Corruption will be extremely high this month. There will be various components in the event that elevate corruption due to manipulated emotions.
LEVELS OF BEASTHOOD:: Beasthood will be extremely high this month. Elevated corruption will likely lead to more cases of violent beasthood.
All Newsletters will be posted around the end of each month.
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MOD ANNOUNCEMENTS (OOC)
1st:
Activity Check opens at 12:00 am.Rolling 2-5th::
Reserves close at 12:00 am.
Application Cycle opens at 12:00 am.
OOC Introduction Post made for new players. Will be posted upon first batch of replies sent to applicants.5th:
Application cycle close at 12:00 am.Rolling 5-10th::
Activity Check closes at 12:00 am.
Event Plotting Post incountryclub
Activity Check results posted including allowances for error correction.8th:
House keeping post included with Activity Check Results.
Game Event goes live in15th:
Character Relationship Meme posted toFeb 24::
Test Drive Meme goes live inFeb 24::
Reserves open.
We plan to create a static NPC-interaction page where characters can reach out for a limited conversation with various NPCs present in the game. Thank you to the players who suggested this! We hope to get it up and running at some point in February.
IMPACT SUMMARIES (OOC/IC)
Did your character start a new business last month? Did they have a massive fight? Solve some mysteries? Then this is the place to summarize the impact they have had on the setting! We hope this makes it easier for everyone to collectively stay in the loop about what other players are doing. This is not required but we feel it will help provide a sense of community among the characters. All impacts summarized should be incidents that could be publically discovered or referenced. Impacts can be from player plots, mod events, TDMs, character-created businesses, or other such concepts.
This will also serve as a light plotting post for those who are interested in bringing on more people for whatever they have done/how they plan to continue with their personal plots. Please fill out the following form and post it as a comment on this page!
Impact summaries are more or less meant to keep characters and/or players in the loop. This does not take the place of proper CR memes or plotting posts for events.
There will be a OOC Impact Top Level comment players can use to discuss OOC impacts in a more formal, OOC manner where players can discuss the nitty-gritty details and ask questions or plot. This is where you can use the form:
This will also serve as a light plotting post for those who are interested in bringing on more people for whatever they have done/how they plan to continue with their personal plots. Please fill out the following form and post it as a comment on this page!
Impact summaries are more or less meant to keep characters and/or players in the loop. This does not take the place of proper CR memes or plotting posts for events.
There will be a OOC Impact Top Level comment players can use to discuss OOC impacts in a more formal, OOC manner where players can discuss the nitty-gritty details and ask questions or plot. This is where you can use the form:
Questions
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what would the doorway do if someone just came up to them and asked for a fight and/or just...tried to attack them anyway >.>;
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Likely nothing! There might be a bit of a big kickback of energy though if someone tried to bluntly attack them...
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it says that it cuts emotionally and brings people to insanity— would this mean that it can potentially drive people to beasthood as well as being able to get them out of it? just to clarify, for example, on “cutting” someone with high levels of corruption (or any kind, for that matter).
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OOC Impact Summaries
Equius gets a Job
IC/OOC Limits: N/A
Content Warnings: Other than Equius just being an offensive bastard, no I don't think this will have CWs involved.
Character Name(s): Equius Zahhak
When the impact happened: Early February, for as long as Equius is in Trench.
Nature of Impact: Character Business
Impact Summary: Equius is going into business for himself.
His business will be an attached stall connected to one of the foundries in the market district of the Willful Machine. Having pleased his master in his apprenticeship with his workmanship (and offended him by just being an awkward buffoon of a teenager), it's been determined that the best use of his talents is for him to have a blacksmithing stall of his own, where he can take requests to make parts for smithing.
What does this shop sell? Junk, Parts, Completed tools and equipment. Of any Modern, Pre-Modern or just Post-Modern technological level. Equius has the ability to literally draw objects into existence. They don't come with 'powers' per se, but he can craft with appropriate directions most technological items, and has picked up how to incorporate bloodstones into them for enchanting purposes.
He specializes not in creating completed weapons, armor and the like, but instead in getting the parts together for a person to take it to another artificer or weapons manufacturer to enchant and finish the job. His specialty is getting hard to acquire 'parts' in Trench that might otherwise have to be fished out of the water with a lick and a prayer. Because he can only draw so many things in a day, he works by commission and otherwise spends his day pounding metal at the blacksmithy forge in his facility to soothe his mind.
...he makes a lot of horseshoes. They're all over the place in the stall. It's kind of creepy how many there are. No, seriously. There are too many of them here.
Future Impact Plans:
Equius is specifically interested in finding business partners. He's a capable weaponsmith, but he thinks his abilities make him better suited to get the parts that better smiths need. If he finds weapon crafters of skill, he will be eager to trade shop talk with them and set up business arrangements to support them.
Equius will post to the network about Mid-Month on this.
IC Impact Summaries