abraxasooc | ACTIVITY CHECK: AUGUST 2024

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ACTIVITY CHECK: AUGUST 2024

Activity Check: August 2024

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Submit by: August 31st at 11:59 PM ET.

◎ Overview

When submitting your Activity Check, please keep in mind the following:

◎ A minimum of two threads with a brief summary for each thread is required.

◎ While there's no minimum comment count, Abraxas is a plot-centered game that requires a degree of thread progression. We expect threads to contain reasonable interactivity with other players. We may request supplementary proofs if interactivity is insufficient. For example, one reply to each proof posted late in the month, or early in the month then dropped, would not be enough. Previous activity patterns will be taken into account, as well.

◎ Backdated threads (from the previous month only) are acceptable, but the comments linked as proofs must take place during the current month. Although both proofs can be backdated, you're encouraged to submit at least one thread started in the current month whenever possible.

◎ TDM threads, network threads, and inbox threads are acceptable, but must not make up the total of both proofs (i.e. both proofs can't consist of only TDM threads). Additionally, at least one proof should be a log thread. Both proofs cannot be network-style comment spam.

◎ All players are expected to reply, including if you've submitted a hiatus. If you have extenuating circumstances that prevent you from posting your AC, you may have another player comment with a proxy submission on your behalf.

To familiarize yourself with our full activity rules, be sure to review the Activity Requirements section on the FAQ. If you have extenuating circumstances that've limited your ability to thread, please contact us.

◎ Forms

Fill out the appropriate form by the deadline to stay in the game! Failure to reply will count as idling out.

Remember that you do not need to submit a formal hiatus to use your Hiatus Pass. You can submit the Hiatus Pass form directly on this month's post if needed.

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◎ Notes

If you've signed up for July's Quests, please be sure to turn them in by the end of this Activity Check.
You can request an Event Gain for Event #20 and will have to the end of September's Activity Check to do so.

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Player Name: Dee
Character Name: Istredd
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Geralt and Istredd meet at the hot springs and talk
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Annabeth and Istredd talk about sandcastles and architecture

Power or physical gain: Event I'll be back!

Notable actions: Istredd helped look for the shipwreck during the event and also helped out at the lumber mills. He ended up helping people and making himself more vulnerable.

Character Name: Jesper Fahey
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Jesper and Viktor sit and talk about Viktor's angst about the stealing of his inventions
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Jesper and Sylvain do a quest

Power or physical gain: Event Keeping with the rabbit theme and the fact that Jesper tried to be sneaky this event, I'd like a version of camouflage superpower. He will be able to change his appearance to reflect the background of where he is so he temporarily looks invisible. He has to stay completely still as he does, it won't work if he's moving. To start with he'll only be able to do it for a few minutes and solely on his own body. The highest level will be him able to turn his clothes too and hold it for up to an hour. It will take a great deal of concentration and effort and he can only do it once a day.

Notable actions: Jesper helped Steve blow up the base and he helped Cid and co. catch the morbol. He kept away from people and didn't use his influence.

Character Name: Julia Wicker
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Julia and Claire bond and dig together
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Dean shows Julia around his Horizon bunker

Power or physical gain: Event An upgrade from her Animal Friendship power. Now not only do animals warm up to her and like her presence, but they will become defensive of her and see her as an ally/pack member/someone to protect. In the start this will become a natural instinct of animals she charms but with time and practice, she'll be able to command an animal and they'll listen. I would like this to include the passive creatures of Solvunn in the bestiary, but not the aggressive ones. She can only do this to one creature and the effect wears off after about 30 minutes.

Notable actions: Julia helped look for the dogs and generally helped out during the event. She also helped people which made her more vulnerable.

Edited 2024-08-24 20:21 (UTC)

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Player Name: trace
Character Name: matt murdock
Thread 1 Link + Summary: here; matt and lucifer meet in the horizon
Thread 2 Link + Summary: here; altair and matt fight baddies
Power or physical gain: tba when i think of something
Notable actions: matt went to the red path to fight wyvern and the kaskadura. also lost his job post event after everything that happened

Edited 2024-08-24 20:21 (UTC)

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Player Name: Cloude
Character Name: Claire Fraser
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Claire heals Eddie's goat bite.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Claire and Nanaue get caught up in a crowd, Nanaue chomps down.
Power or physical gain: Event gain: the ability to control bees
Notable actions: Claire tried to take on a mob in Solvunn to defend Nanaue, got punched in the face for her troubles.

Character Name: Adora
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Adora visits Hilda and Jesper's shop.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Adora finds Annabeth's sword in her domain.
Power or physical gain: Horizon gain - enhanced strength without having to transform into She-Ra (will grab event gain next month.)

Edited 2024-08-27 12:35 (UTC)

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Please note for Claire range is limited to 30 feet.

Player Name: trace
Character Name: nikolai lantsov
Thread 1 Link + Summary: here; nikolai and zoya discuss what happened during the coup event
Thread 2 Link + Summary: here; kaz tries to help nikolai fix his horizon
Power or physical gain: tba
Notable actions: nikolai went to borrel onto the ship to help rescue sailors.

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Player Name:Kara
Character Name:Chris Halliwell
Thread 1 Link + Summary:Chris tries to get therapy and ends up throwing a tantrum with Crane.
Thread 2 Link + Summary:Chris and Sansa play around with spells.

Notable actions: Chris got violent with some sheep.

Edited 2024-08-24 20:31 (UTC)

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Player Name: Jay
Character Name: Kyle
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Rescuing lost sailors with Jack.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Talking to Himeka about the Heralds and the future*
Power or physical gain: Event - reflecting his form in the God AU, his eyes now have a ring of gold within the iris.
Notable actions: Assists Thorne's retreat from the Badlands with Dion, scouting for missing units and helping to lead them to the portals.

*swapped out my Thread 2 for a different one because of heavy content warnings in the original linked thread

Character Name: Nanaue
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Work party at Ed's Inn with Teefa.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Tried to save Claire from paranoid villagers, ate someone...
Power or physical gain: Event - pocket jerky. He can pull mystery jerky from his kilt pocket 3x a day.
Notable actions: Ate at least two people in full view of villagers, one in defense of Claire and one in defense of himself (a hunter).

Character Name: Astarion Ancunín
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Acting like a major Karen in Portam Hall and encouraging afflicted-NPCs to do the same until Alucard stops him.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Talking about gods and goblins with Himeka.
Power or physical gain: Event - the ability to turn into a white bat for an hour a day.
Notable actions: Accidentally encouraged the Heralds afflictions as seen above.

Edited (swapped out Kyle's Thread 2 for a different one because of heavy content warnings in the original thread) 2024-08-26 15:34 (UTC)

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Player Name: Cerie
Character Name: Sansa Stark
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Sansa and Chris discuss magic and the Horizon.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Sansa and Annabeth build a sandcastle.
Power or physical gain: Event - Sleep - puts one creature to sleep at a maximum distance of 18m for 5 minutes or less.
Notable actions: Sansa went to Nott to help with the lumber issue here and Thancred joined her. She also dealt with her Winterfell in the Horizon crumbling and enlisted Geralt's help.

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Player Name: Em

Character Name: Jack Townsend
Thread 1 Link + Summary: one — Jack and Carmy swap food on accident.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: two — Jack and Sansa do horse quests.
Power or physical gain: A level-up on his find familiar thing! Kind of touching on animals going crazy this event. Once per day if Jack is feeling threatened or angry, Rita unlocks her full-sized feral dragon mode (canonically, roughly the size of a Clydesdale, not an actual dragon) for about 10 minutes to defend or protect him in Clutch Moments. After the time runs out, she automatically reverts back to her normal size of a particularly chonky house cat.

Character Name: Dean Winchester
Thread 1 Link + Summary: one — Dean and Ciri catch up on the Prisoners of the Flesh situation.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: two — Dean and Julia star in the pilot episode of the new hit show Dog Swap.
Power or physical gain: Gonna figure this out by September ac!

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Player Name: Aru
Character Name: Nebula
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Cassian and Nebula versus a kitten and feelings.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Himeka and Nebula discuss the current situation.
Power or physical gain: Arm Form Change

Initially, I thought to give her something based on how she counted the afflictions for this event. As it'd be another support-based/utility power I waffled a bit, but decided this is the best choice. Primarily, because August turned into a cumulation of 6 months of character arc/growth for Nebula in Abraxas where she's sort of-mostly decided to try and embrace herself as a result of her wants/desires.

Part of these wants/desires is the reclamation of some of her bodily autonomy that she felt she lost upon arriving in Abraxas (by virtue of most of it not working. Which will result in her ability to change her arm into simple tools.

She'll focus the magic so it transitions similarly as it would in canon but the tools can't be electronic in nature and must be something that an equivalent of might work in some part of Abraxas so a quick list being:

- Knife/sword
- Hammer
- Axe
- Screwdriver
- Pry bar

I'm happy to make a set list if necessary and keep it to a smaller grouping (i just know these are the most likely options to be used). My general idea for weaknesses are:

- Obviously, because this power would utilize her understanding of her arm, the usage of one arm becomes limited while its in use for better or worse. And it is not an automatic change back (maybe takes a minute to change and can get shorter but never instant?)
- While she can eventually use it several times a day, she can still use only form for ten minutes at a time. Happy to also put a hard cut off on times a day but I'm guessing in the beginning 3-5 times a day at most is what she'd manage?

Notable actions:

- Nebula normally avoids Nocwich but would have left Solvunn for pretty much the entire weekend. She had a busy one meeting with people ( Doctor, Cassian, Steve).
- Approached about forming a group who would patrol the roads and instill a curfew while people are being dragged to the ritual site.
- She didn't engage with finding lost animals this time around and primarily focused on caring for lost individuals. If there was an issue with a dangerous critter on the roads she helped dispatch it - but largely her focus was on ensuring people returned home. In the beginning of the event she would have been notably waffling on how and being more gentle.
- As she chose to counter the afflictions throughout the event she stumbled more into memory problems and would struggle with her own aggression. Despite it she still persisted to helping others until she was incapacitated because she's stupid :/

Edited 2024-08-29 05:16 (UTC)

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Regarding Nebula's event gain, please note she will only be able to have one tool to begin with. Over time, you may add other tools based on her level of practice. We request she has only one tool that can count as a proper "weapon." For example, she may have a sword and a small utility knife or chopping axe, but not a sword and a battle axe. Small tools like screwdrivers and wrenches will be quicker and easier for her to gain.

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furibund - 2024-09-01 16:36 (UTC) - Expand

Hiatus Pass
Player Name: Effy
Character(s) In-Game: Jacob Frye

took a hiatus on account of getting bad news about dog's health! he's doing better right now, I'm slowly adjusting.

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Hiatus Pass
Player Name: faith
Character(s) In-Game: river tam

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Hiatus Pass
Player Name: dai
Character(s) In-Game: yennefer of vengerberg, sam wilson, steve harrington

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Player Name: Terra
Character Name: Cassian Andor
Thread 1 Link + Summary: one; Tifa (aka: the cat whisperer) gives Cassian an assist with his new charge.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: two; Rescuing others turns into Annabeth trying to save Cassian from diving into the water himself.

Notable actions: Once he snapped out of his own stupor, Cassian helped deliver (ill-gotten) supplies from the black market and redistributed them to those in need. He also did what he could to help reduce the influence of the gods from those around him.

Character Name: Hilda Goneril
Thread 1 Link + Summary: one; Hilda delivers news to Viktor of the semi-autonomous automaton.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: two; Hilda runs into Vash in her domain bringing along some items that she hadn't even known had been missing in the first place.

Notable actions: Hilda assisted Sylvain and Claude with running a volunteer force that would help provide additional security and patrols while the military is otherwise mostly preoccupied. Their efforts were focused in Libertas but they also went wherever anyone needed help. Also assisted Viktor and Cid with their design and building of the morbol trap!

Edited (had a dead link in one of my proofs! ) 2024-08-27 18:56 (UTC)

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Player Name: Noa
Character Name: Geralt of Rivia
Thread 1 Link + Summary: one; swapping some revealing letters with John
Thread 2 Link + Summary: two; Geralt goes on a quest with Cid and they have a little monster fight.
Power or physical gain: Horizon/Event - Saving for next time!

Character Name: Carmy Berzatto
Thread 1 Link + Summary: one; Carmy starts finding frozen burritos and other gas station goodies in his fine dining restaurant.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: two; introduced to blue milk in the worst way possible.
Power or physical gain: Horizon/Event - Saving for next time!

Character Name: Edward Teach
Thread 1 Link + Summary: one; maybe some gods are just meanies
Thread 2 Link + Summary: two; holding a staff meeting, as all crews should do!
Power or physical gain: Horizon/Event - Saving for next time!

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Player Name: Will
Character Name: Kaz Brekker
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Bonding with Mat on the Horizon.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Helping Nikolai rebuild is ship on the Horizon.
Power or physical gain: Event - As a foil to his vicious mockery gained from the Horizon and in going with the event and his emergence abilities and goals, I would love to see him granted Inspirational Words. It would allow him to grant someone a quick burst of energy, either mental or physical, with words of inspiration. It would only last for thirty seconds, and he can only use it once a day to start. If he works with it, he can gain the energy to use it up to twice a day with the advantage lasting a minute.

Edited 2024-08-26 21:28 (UTC)

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Player Name: Hannah (2)
Character Name: Eddie Munson
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Eddie gets attacked by a goat, Claire helps to heal him.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Helping Chris to make potions
Power or physical gain: I'll grab this next time!

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Player Name: Kelsey
Character Name: Vash the Stampede
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Hilda and Vash discuss Zorne + antics.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Garrus and Vash deal with kaskadura and the recovery of mercantile goods.
Power or physical gain: Horizon/Event - Saving this for next time!
Notable actions: Helped Cid lure the morbol into Cid's trap near the end of the event.

Edited 2024-08-27 18:27 (UTC)

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Hiatus Pass
Player Name: Mica
Character(s) In-Game: Commander Jane Shepard
Power or physical gain:

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Player Name: Rynn
Character Name: Sylvain
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Jesper, quest thread
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Cid, event/network

Power or physical gain: Event - since previous events have given him both sense/manipulate emotions (mostly touch or distance-based) and then a limited empathic bond, I wondered if I could get an upgrade on these ideas: expand his range but also let him draw on and send out emotions to those around him, either in a general area like a net/web, or targeted at a specific target. A temporary connection with those his emotions touches or whose emotions he touches.

Notable actions: Sylvain organized a volunteer force in Libertas during the chaos to help keep peace and break up fights and make sure the peace was being kept while the army was occupied elsewhere. He also helped Cid in his attempts to contain/trap the morbol to keep it from respawning elsewhere.

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Please note that player permission will be required for Sylvain's gain.

Player Name: Sarah
Character Name: Julie Lawry
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Teaching Himeka about doomsday Christianity.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: A walk home with Geralt

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Player Name: iola
Character Name: Diana Prince
Thread 1 Link + Summary: diana and annabeth hang out in the horizon.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: diana and jonathan diffuse a situation.

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Player Name: Laure
Character Name: Dan Heng
Thread 1 Link + Summary: (TDM) Meeting a new summoned, Kaveh and halfheartedly trying to make sure he gets paid for his work.
Thread 2 Link + Summary: (Event LOG) Accidentally flooding Cassian's domain during the event, and having to figure out how to fix that AND deal with his past life's ghost judging them.

Edited 2024-08-29 02:19 (UTC)

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Player Name:Ammay

Character Name: Haelva
Thread 1 Link + Summary: x - haelva asks dan heng why his past life is in her horizon, and why does he look exactly like dan heng
Thread 2 Link + Summary: x - haelva and astarion catch up after a few months
Notable actions: haelva took the side of the heralds and scared people with some necromancy, but nothing too drastic. she also laid the dead domesticated animals to rest.

Character Name: Kaveh
Thread 1 Link + Summary: x - kaveh and himeka chat about gods and art
Thread 2 Link + Summary: x - kaveh and alucard talk about art
Power or physical gain: event - after wishing he could be faster to stop a problem during the event, kaveh will gain a pair of wings with limited flight capabilities (only a minute at first, primarily used to be faster) that he can improve through later gains. they can be 'tucked away' as to not intrude/bother people but he'll have to learn how to do that first.
Notable actions: Kaveh helped in the free cities using his engineering knowledge.

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Player Name: Red
Character Name: Garrus Vakarian
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Event threads with Diana + Altair
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Swarm fights with Vash

Notable actions: Participated in one of the quests for supplies in the Free Cities, helped fight monsters in the event and mediated where he could.

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Player Name: Sra
Character Name: Cid
Thread 1 Link + Summary: Quest with Geralt to deliver some supplies to an outpost
Thread 2 Link + Summary: Network post for the hunting party
Power or physical gain: N/A - deferring to Sept
Notable actions: Built a trap (with the help of Viktor & some other folks) and organized a group to capture and contain the respawning morbol toward the end of the event.

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