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Hello Badficians, wondering what the Author has in store this week? Well, what with the chilly weather and all, she thought she might lend you all a hand at keeping warm.

Furry-style.

Yup, that's right. Characters effected by this are going to be granted animalistic appendages of the mun's choice, as is how much they're going to be affected. They could only have ears or just a tail, maybe just claws or a change in eyes, or they could be covered in fur or scales with a wet nose! There could also be a rogue tentacle or two.

Also, you never know what sort of instincts might bleed through with these changes! If someone is affected by some sort of cat-gene, they might find themselves casually shredding furniture or scrambling up a tree if they get startled!

So enjoy the plot Manorites! And be sure to close the lid in case anyone ends up part dog!

Monday Morning will be a special morning.

The Manor will be calm and quiet.

The squirrels are quiet.

The grounds are ...

Well, okay, the forest has dinosaurs and things, but otherwise quiet.

The manorites, not so much.

Next week, anyone opting in can shift their character to an AU version of their choice! The AU will have all the memories of that AU, with memories of the Manor optional - absent, present, or present but spotty; note that if an AU-self has memory of the manor, they WON'T remember anything outside of the time at the manor but their AU, which might be confusing.

Examples of possible AU's are post-canon "what if's", alternate timelines where something went differently in their past, canon-swaps to "what if this character had been from a different canon", genderswaps, alignment or role swaps (good guy gone bad, what if they were with the other side, someone without powers born with them or with born without), genre swaps (fantasy AU, sci-fi AU, high school AU), etc; de-aging to their own normal-timeline past is about the only thing that wouldn't really fit.


(We are getting back on regular schedule, and will have the Taken post updated in the next few days - end of February we're going to give a test run to a standard AC post; so first of march there will be a post up to tag with ... well, some thread/post wherein your character is existing where there is at least a tag or two done during February, with the post up for a week. We'll try to check tags for anyone that doesn't tag to it in case someone forgets, and it will be to see how it works out. We'll also resume regular advertising on ATP and the like then, with everything back running - apologies for the delays!)

With apologies for the belated update; feel free to backdate to Christmas Day proper.

Christmas morning, everyone will have woken up in the Manor, with a large tree in the main hall - under the tree will be one gift for each character from the Author; it can be something from home that they didn't have here, or something with other meaning, completely at MUN option. While it can be a prank, it should at least be in "good spirits", not something that would break a character.

Until January 1, the Manor will be decked out with Christmas decorations still, and the traditional mistletoe will be appearing and disappearing randomly in doorways and other parts of rooms. If someone walks under it, they're trapped there until someone kisses them - whether a peck on the cheek or going all-out. In theory, if they're there long enough - 6-8 hours - the mistletoe will go away...

But who wants to be stuck standing in one place for that long?

And, for the mod announcements.

We're doing some further renovations, and would like to get people's opinions:

We are considering scrapping the static Activity Check in favor of something more typical - an OOC comm post, put up on the first of every month, that people can reply to with links to one or another thread from the month previous. The rules will be as stated and more enforced; unless we get contact from a player about a hiatus, emergency, or something where they can't be present, one month with no activity is a strike, two months with no activity is a drop.

Would everyone present currently prefer the check-in posts monthly, or staying with the static activity page?


There are also going to be a few setting adjustments. Around New Year's, some of these will be adapted IC'ly with small things as the realm the Manor exists in takes on more of a life of its own; for OOC adjustments, the two main ones are to app restrictions and character memory-loss.

We will be allowing canon AU's; OC's aren't really something that would work within the way the setting functions, but the author's a fangirl, and there's enough AU plots for her to drag people from those. AU applications will require a bit more information, as we'll want to know what deviations there are and how the character's different from canon; we would prefer it be noticeable differences, and will have a full set of rules for it on the Apps page just before this goes into effect, likely around the new year.

The other change, effective immediately, is to memory and memory loss; how much characters remember on returning home for canon updates, or if a character is dropped and picked up, is completely to MUN option - they can not remember anything, have hazy memories, or full recall. If you opt for full recall during a canon-update in a way that would change how canon events go - for example, character development here changing their behavior, or something they learned here being put into use there - the canon update will need to be cleared with the mods, and what changed from canon events will need to be in the OOC post for the canon update. Future castmates will have the option of either rolling with it, depending on their canon point, or for their character to be from an unaltered version of the timeline with normal canon events.

The site layout is also being worked on as I type this, and should be finished soon! There may still be tweaks going on for the next few days, so things might be a little off here and there as they're being fixed.

With many apologies for the late, and leaving everyone in the jungle for an extra week, the plot changeover is starting Friday morning.

It won't be the Manor everyone wakes up in. However, it will at least have a solid roof, actual heating, beds, and blankets!

The Manorites will be waking up in hotel rooms, scattered between a couple random and somewhat generic nice hotels on Manhattan island. Attempts at leaving the island will run into the Fourth Wall; other parts of New York will show up on things like subway maps and schedules, but the trains never show up, and attempts at hailing a taxi to somewhere off the island will lead to a taxi ride in circles for an hour before getting dropped off.

The entire city is decorated for Christmas already, with lights, trees, and color everywhere; the standard field trip rules apply - most of people's vaguely portable possessions will be in their hotel rooms, and they will have a credit card in their belongings with the Blackberry that doesn't really have a limit; anything that they carry back to the hotel room before the plot ends on the 23rd will show up in their room in the Manor on the 24th. Weapons and ammunition will be hard to come by, but anything else you'd expect to find in a city like New York on the holidays can be found.

The weather will be cold, around freezing or a little below, with snow falling off and on all week; there is enough for things like snowmen or snowball fights in parks. There's skating rinks, holiday food and drink is easy to come by, and well, the NPC's aren't good at enforcing drinking ages or silly things like that, either.

There are background residents - but they're backdrop NPC's; they'll fulfill normal expected tasks, running stores, waiting tables, wandering the streets as if going about business, but there's nothing that really seems to stand out about them at all, nothing remarkable, nothing really identifying. To psychics or those with extra senses, they have all the presence of a cardboard cutout, and they'll ignore and be unresponsive to any attempts at interaction outside of normal expected patterns. While there might be security or police around, they're much the same, and … won't really react to anything the Manorites do.


Wikipedia link!

About.com link!

New York's official tourist site

Also:


IMPORTANT NOTE! We are going to be renovating the site over the next couple weeks, as well as updating many of the information links! There will be OOC posts with updates as we get them finished, and things will be back on a more normal schedule (albeit still keeping longer plot times) likely by the end of the holidays once the update work is done. There will also be a full, regular spoiler post for the actual Christmas plot on Monday of next week!

This week, the Author has hit several exams, and... well, MOSTLY nothing's happening. The trees are bare, the outside is covered in fall leaves - although the gardens are inexplicably still blooming, as the only exception - and there's a few patches of ripe squash and other pumpkins outside. It's chilly, a little below freezing at night, and there's a thin layer of frost in the mornings.

The squirrels are a bit more active than usual, and there may be random optional booby traps of varying levels of annoyance/threat scattered around the Manor proper and the outbuildings; meanwhile, anyone going outside will get periodically dive-bombed by pigeons. (While the squirrels might register as tiny, faint malevolent presences to anyone psychic, the pigeons just seem to be part of the background.) There are also a few large turkeys wandering the ground that're also part of the scenery. While they're less aggressive than the pigeons, they're not friendly, and will make a fuss if approached/harassed, ranging between flapping up into a tree to avoid someone, making for the (Jurassic Park dilophosaur-haunted) woods, or attacking someone bothering them.

THIS WILL ONLY BE A ONE WEEK PLOT.