DECEMBER ANNOUCEMENTS

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DECEMBER ANNOUCEMENTS

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→ GENERAL MOD NOTES

Congratulations for surviving till December! We somehow only have five people dead, wow! That's better than we thought. :') Please read through this post carefully and leave any questions/concerns/suggestions/etc in the comments so we can make this game fun and accessible for everybody.

⬥ Melona's gym leader has finally be found! The Pokemon Info page has been updated for further information.
⬥ Speaking of gyms, we have decided to slightly change its format. Rather than having the leader's Pokemon be a set level, their levels will change based on the challenging trainer's Pokemon. For example, if your team's level is from 18 to 20, the leader's team will then be from levels 20 to 23. This is also the same for any Pokemon or trainers who are stationed inside the gym. This allows for characters to challenge the gyms in any order that they want so go off and beat up some KageLeaders.
⬥ Our plot progression page has been updated for November! The main post briefly outlines the main plot, while the comments below details the investigations explored each month. Pending investigations do not necessarily have to be revisited, but may be worth keeping in mind and tying into future investigations!
⬥ The calendar for December is as follows:

11/01 - ooc plotting post
12/03 - event log #1 is posted
12/15 - event log #2 is posted
12/31 - activity check closes

→ SETTING CHANGES

The following characters have been dropped from the game with the following statuses:

Atsushi Nakajima (thetyger) ⬥ Dead
Naminé (redigere) ⬥ Dead
Niko (flowerclips) ⬥ Coma
Riku (darkdivide) ⬥ Missing
Tokidoki Rikugou (yokeye) ⬥ Dead

In addition, these are the following changes within the setting:

⬥ Mango is recovering to become the city that it was before the October incident. Although the radio tower antenna is still missing, no one seems to really mind. The radio and cemetery towers are still closed for investigations.

⬥ The volcano in the not-so-far distance is starting to rumble and the grounds crack. It pours out even larger amounts of magma, the ash is starting to fill the sky, and... oh no.

→ DECEMBER 3 - BYE BYE MELONA

You guys probably should have tried to do something about that volcano, huh? Not that you can stop it, but still. As a result, we're going to have evacuations for Christmas. Fun!

Characters will have to evacuate the townspeople living by the volcano in the west and do their best to minimize the damage that the volcano will have on the city. Notable activities will be tending to the wounded, calming crying children, making shelter, and doing the best that you can when everything is destroyed and everything sucks. There is a silver lining, however. The boba shop will survive! Nice.

This log will be posted on December 3.

→ DECEMBER 15 - THE MODS WILL HAVE MERCY

Despite the rocky beginning, there will be holiday celebrations for the latter half of the month. Depending on the actions of the characters in the first log, the second log may have a number of events going on, such as being a Delibird's helper and giving out gifts, making ashmen instead of snowmen, ashball fights, and such on. The second event log will encompass both Christmas and New Year celebrations. Hopefully, nothing bad happens so we can end off this month with just holiday cheer...

This log will be posted on December 15.

→ GAME FEEDBACK

As always, please let us know your thoughts on the game, both positive and negative! Feedback can be left on the toplevel below, or you can contact the mods via the mod contact page or a PM to the mod account at (teamboba).

Thanks, friends!

Comments

Game Feedback + HMD

[teamboba]

Whether you have positive/negative or specific/generic comments about the game or the mod team, please let us know! We'd love to hear your thoughts!

[authoriser]

I understand that RL obligations and happenings make it hard to get to things, so I want to suggest that you guys get a helper mod who can handle everything that doesn't have to do with the plot-like things such as bonuses and activity checks (and more), so that the head mods can focus on the more important things, such as game questions and plot investigations. I think it would help lessen the amount of work you guys have, since you're both very busy with IRL things and sometimes you just don't want to do anything when you're done with work (which is fair).

I know Ori brought it up before, but the format of mods replying to the actual IC investigation thread itself is a great idea, so I hope that will be implemented this month, since it looks like there will have to be some mod input from the looks of it... gestures to volcano crisis

Though I also kinda want to reiterate that while investigations are nice to have and that everyone has different availability, can something be done about the more time-sensitive investigations and how long they seem to stretch on? Yes, we have until the end of the month/before next log goes up, but imo, I'd rather not have such a time-sensitive thing (or at least to be implied to be time-sensitive and/or important) last all the way until that deadline, or close to it because that could be a little stressful for the people involved and then trying to wrap everything up all of a sudden. This particularly struck me when I saw the investigations post pop out of the dreamwidth reading list, which meant two weeks had passed since the day it was posted, and it felt like not much had progressed at the time. For something that seemed pretty important, I thought we would at least have at least one response a day, but we ended up shoving a bulk of the responses in very few several days throughout the process when we were like "!!! the mods are available now, everyone gather right this second so we can progress".

opinions are all my own and don't reflect the playerbase as a whole, etc

[peppermintbark]

Ichi and I will talk about the possibility of comods! But I also want to say that last month was sort of a weird state of things since Ichi was entirely unavailable so it was just me running everything, and outside of work, I needed to prioritize time sensitive threads in my murder game which ate up the bulk of my time and energy when I had them. I'm sorry the investigations felt like they dragged! I didn't mean them to be time sensitive/important in that they needed to be completed before the end of the month. I'll continue to work on how investigations are handled to see what works best for everybody, but I also do not want the expectation that investigations will be replied to at least once a day, at least on my part, while I do try to be here when I can. My own expectation was that the investigations supplement threads, not take the place of them, so I didn't realize intermittent responses were a problem when the actual thread was still several scenes behind anyways. I think the alt style of investigation (mod responses within the thread) will help smooth some of this out? WE'LL WORK IT OUT

[joysticks]

Thanks for your comments, Haki!

Card said everything that I was going to say, but just adding that it was totally my fault that last month was a complete disaster. That was the first time that I ever became completely unavailable so Card didn't get any OOC support and she had to handle everything at once. Now that I'm back and taking a more focused role on modding rather than rping, hopefully, we should be back on track. We will definitely look into helper mods if things don't improve, however.