ACTIVITY CHECK: AUGUST 2023

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Activity Check: August 2023

It's time for activity check! Activity requirements are outlined below. If you have any additional questions, you can reach out to us on the FAQ.

View Activity Requirements

You'll be required to submit a minimum of two threads with a brief summary of what each thread entails. While there's no minimum comment count for linked threads, please note the following:

• Interactivity with other players and overall engagement is important. We haven't implemented a minimum comment count since we understand threads might be started late in the month or are slow for reasons of conflicting availability. That said, we are not a check-in AC game. Submitted threads should demonstrate a level of interaction with the game, its plot, and the wider playerbase. If we notice a pattern of responding to threads only after the AC post has gone up, making threads solely to fulfill AC requirements, or frequently dropped threads (especially after AC is approved), we will have an individual discussion with the player in question.


• TDM threads, network threads, and inbox threads are acceptable as proofs for AC, but should not make up the total of both proofs (i.e. your two thread proofs submitted for AC cannot consist only of inbox threads). At least one proof should be a log thread - both proofs cannot be network-style comment spam.


• Backdated threads from the previous month are acceptable, so long as the comments linked take place during the current AC month and the thread has not been used for a previous AC or for AC rewards. Backdated threads that were started at the end of the previous month are especially fine. If we notice a consistent pattern of backdated threads started at the beginning of the previous month with very sparse comments or regularly dropped threads, then we may have an individual discussion with the player in question.


• Link individual threads rather than entire logs or top levels if you plan on using any additional threads in those logs or top levels to purchase bonus Activity Rewards (see below). This will help us keep keep track which thread has already been submitted where.


• All players are expected to reply, including if they've submitted a hiatus. Failing to post to AC before closure will count as idling out. If you think you'll be unable to post during this time period or extenuating circumstances prevented you from posting please contact the mods.

Please fill out the following form by August 31st at 11:59 PM ET to stay in the game! Failure to reply will count as idling out.

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Thread 1 Link + Summary:</b> <b>Thread 2 Link + Summary:</b> <b>Power or physical gain:</b> (Either from the Horizon or event rewards. Please note you can only submit ONE gain request per AC period, but the choice is yours as to which one you want to claim first.) <b>Notable actions:</b> (If applicable. Let us know of NPC threads and/or actions that may result in others around them noticing for the month. Include a brief description and a link if there is one.)

If you are using your Hiatus/Strike, please use this form instead:


<b>Hiatus/Strike</b> <b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Power or physical gain:</b> (Either from the Horizon or event rewards. Please note you can only submit ONE gain request per AC period, but the choice is yours as to which one you want to claim first.)

NOTE:

1. A reminder that Fortunes can be requested for anyone who participated in two events.
2. Activity Rewards requests will be approved at the end of every month.
3. If you participated in Event #14, you can request a reward gain during any Activity Check before the start of the next main event in October. Though not required, we encourage players to consider a gain that reflects their experiences throughout the event! See Reward Gains for details.

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[everybodysterrible]

Player Name: Rakath
Character Name: Abby Littman
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Geralt and Abby at Family Dinner being weird loners.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Claude and Abby talking about weapons, magic, and being slight hooligans (July thread but linking the August portion).
Power or physical gain:

Her Own Law

Any surface Abby touches can, for her, become 'down.' Letting her stand on walls and ceilings without really caring about the gravity of these actions. Within reason. Anything (not people or animals) Abby can lift can be pulled into this with her, but will lose this trait if Abby stops holding them (so bouncing a basketball on the wall is tricky gravity will take over). The surface also needs to be able to hold her weight, if she stands on a flimsy surface it'll just break and gravity resumes as normal.

The effect breaks after she's disconnected from the surface for a few seconds (she can walk or jump on a wall just fine), or if she willingly lets go of the effect.

Notable actions: Abby fought some monsters and skulked around areas of the Free Cities. Abby killed the Rancor, which basically makes her a Jedi Master right?

Character Name: Bay Kennish
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Bay talks to Catra about the Horizon and takes her there.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Bay has a crush on Inej and is not sure what to do with this.
Power or physical gain:

A Piece of History

Psychometry. Bay can touch an object and experience a memory housed inside it. The memory is always going to be something emotionally charged, something deep and meaningful to the people within the memory. And an object can only hold one memory (but through re-experiencing it might see more details, or stay in the memory longer with practice.

Objects owned by individuals will always have a memory of theirs, something the person felt while that object was in their person, something they'd think of when they were to look at that object.

Public objects will just hold whatever the most powerful memory is in that place, which will mean either something very dark or very happy with basically no middle ground.

Bay will, with practice, learn how to not experience memories from handling objects, but at first she'll just feel a strong desire not to touch things that have a memory in them. Memories are fully sensory experiences and will often involve experiencing the same feelings as the person in the memory which means most will leave her exhausted after.

Notable actions: Bay helped maintain information on the monsters, their locations, and what they look like in the Roadhouse on the Horizon. And drew the monsters for Thorne's forces to know what they were dealing with.

[abraxasmods]

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