31 January 2019 @ 11:17 pm
THE END
Day 447 is the last day, but you're ready for it. Scattering across Norfinbury, those of you who are the strongest, the bravest, or just the most willing to do the task approach the anomalies. Some are killed--with the nanomachines under your control and your abilities at your side, they are not as much a threat as they once were. Some--those who wish it--are left alone to remain in Norfinbury, whatever that may mean.

Those more technologically inclined, led by Aigis, make for the cultist computer and put together the program that will put an end to the administrator. The process is a complex one, but many of you know your way around a computer, and some of you even have superhuman abilities to back up that skill. The program comes together piece by piece. Somehow, it doesn't feel as complicated as it should. The timer is connected, and the countdown begins.

While all this is happening, and after, once those who left return to the town hall, Gregory House and Stephen Strange work nonstop at the NIMA machine, removing the nanomachines that flood your bodies and finally, completely, freeing you of them. You can no longer travel about the town at breakneck speeds, but you wouldn't want to, anyway, given that the radiation soaked into the town would now kill you. It becomes obvious there's no radiation beneath the town hall, if nothing else: you're safe here for what time remains.

It's not much, of course. There's no time left for anything except goodbyes and stepping through the portal. Go in ones and twos, go in groups--you can go anywhere, but you can't stay here, not if you want to live. Bring whatever you want to keep, because there's no going back. The town empties out. The administrator, silently, adjusts its population count. Finally, the last of you steps through the portal. Norfinbury is silent.

Then the program's timer reaches zero.

Nobody sees what happens except the robotic spiders, which shut down milliseconds after the electricity crackles in overdrive through the quantum computer's circuits. A cooling pipe bursts, and ice cold water begins flooding the town hall's underground areas. Servers thousands of years old go dark. Robots made and remade stop moving. The administrator shuts off for good. The cycles end.

Norfinbury is left to the snow. Over the years, with nothing to tend to it, the town is buried, just like every other town in this Alaska. The anomalies remaining can survive only as long as that--without the snow walls to shield them, the exposure kills them--eventually. That's years from now.

Right now, in the present, you've escaped. You were always, always alone here--and yet you found one another. You made friends and enemies and relationships you don't know how to describe. You went home, or you made somewhere else your home, or you made somebody else your home. You have a story that will be impossible to tell. Maybe you'll try anyway. Maybe you'll keep it to yourself. Maybe you'll just go to the warmest place you can reach and stay there for a while. You triumphed over near-impossible odds, and you did it together.

Thank you for playing.
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20 January 2019 @ 05:14 pm
AREA ADJUSTMENT
As of night 445, the portal is now working. It is now possible to activate the portal. It cannot be used to bring anyone in. It can be pointed at a certain quantum version of any location. When activated, as many people who want to can travel through the portal within sixty seconds, when it will automatically close. You cannot return through a portal.

The right quantum frequency must be found first. If people died here and were not revived, then in order for them to be alive you must find a version of the world in which they were never taken. In order to avoid having two versions of yourself, you must point the time at immediately after you were taken.

Of course, you don't have to do that, if you'd prefer someone dead stayed that way, or you want to go somewhere else...

And, well--if everyone leaves now, they leave Norfinbury as it is. Miller is a liar, not even alive. It's very possible, left as things are, the cycle will continue on. There's the anomalies, as well--should they be left here alive or killed? And how can you shut down the computer when none of you are left on this side of the portal? You are all of you alone together. There is nobody here who will make this decision except for yourselves. Do you run now, or do you kill the town so this never happens again? Can you, in the time you have left?
 
 
20 January 2019 @ 01:11 pm
AREA UNLOCKED
On night 444, the town hall door opens, and yawning blackness intermingled with sparkles of unnatural static stare back at you.
 
 
14 January 2019 @ 09:16 pm
A HAPPENING...
Early on morning 442, the latest version of the Galaxy application finishes downloading. As soon as it finishes, several people activate the secondary application. Somewhere in Russia, a server short-circuits.

You're on your own now.
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01 January 2019 @ 10:06 pm
ACTIVITY CHECK RESULTS
The following characters did not reply to the activity check or had insufficient activity and have been removed from the community:

...no one! Everyone replied to the activity check or dropped on their own! That's two months in a row! Good job everyone!



 
 
30 December 2018 @ 01:10 am
WARNED LIST

The following characters have not replied to the activity check or did so without enough activity in their comments, and do not have a hiatus relevant to this activity check:

Aigis [personal profile] athenashand
America [personal profile] fifty
Angel [personal profile] phaseshifter
Brian Thomas [personal profile] 0thingsonmymind
Diana [personal profile] plaguenurse
England [personal profile] keepscalm
Ginger Hale [personal profile] lacecase
Jim Hawkins [personal profile] rattlingthestars
Magenta Magenta [personal profile] himalayanyeti
Mycroft Holmes [personal profile] holmesice
Nathan Young [personal profile] notaquaman
Peter Quill [personal profile] zunesareawesome
Quark [personal profile] averytinyparticle
Rhys [personal profile] headjacked
Tim Wright [personal profile] maskintape

If you are on this list, please reply to this post before December 31st, 11:59PM EST with activity or a strike request. If you do not reply before this, you will be removed from the game as an idle player. If we have made a mistake, please also reply to this post with clarification.

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23 December 2018 @ 09:06 pm
ACTIVITY CHECK...IN

It's activity check time! But, since this has been an especially busy month, all we're asking is a check-in--fill out the form as usual but simply provide any activity, no matter how short it is. If you have a strike, however, you still need to provide the standard activity of twenty comments over a maximum of four threads.

Additionally, some people will need to report their exposure effects. If you presented us with an exposure effect last activity check, you do not have to do this. That's next month for you guys. And, of course, if your character's beacon is on, they're safe for a few months. To let us know about this, it has been included on the activity check form. If it's not relevant to you this month, you do not have to fill this section out.

You have until 11:59PM EST on December 29th to reply to this; after this, a warned list will go up and anyone who is on that list will have until the end of the month to reply to that with either activity or a request for a strike.

The following characters have outstanding strikes:

Alphonse Elric ([personal profile] armoured) - must pass December AC
Bucky Barnes ([personal profile] advanced) - must pass December AC
Harley Quinn ([personal profile] clowngirl) - must pass December AC
Magenta Magenta ([personal profile] himalayanyeti) - must pass December AC
Sherlock Holmes ([personal profile] howdull) - must pass December AC
Stephanie Brown ([personal profile] spoileralert) - must pass December AC

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15 December 2018 @ 01:53 pm
A HAPPENING...
On morning 432, if Rhys and the others who worked on attaching the computer chip check, they will find that it, and the surrounding board they attached it to, melted. At some point, that chip seems to have used a whole lot of power really, really fast.

@ADMIN is no longer responding to anything. Obituaries will no longer go up. While this is more difficult to tell, the spiders are running at a much lower capacity. Dead bodies are still taken away and revived, but not much else seems to be happening.
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12 December 2018 @ 02:12 pm
Is your character looking for something to do in the snowy wastes? Would you like them to meet their own or other anomalies? Join the great anomaly round-up!

Otherwise known as John and Sherlock hatched a bit of a mad scheme to try to corral all of the anomalies in one place. They're aiming to put up directions for the anomalies to head to the power plant to meet them there and try something important. Messages can be personalized for your anomalies and if you control your own anomaly, you're welcome to have them get corralled or avoid the trap.

They'll need people to help actually figure out how the corralling is going to work, too. I'll have John put up a network post about the endeavor in the coming days to get things ICly set up. OOCly, this would be a place to let us know if you want your anomaly corralled, if your character would be interested in leaving messages, or if they would be interested in directly luring their or other anomalies to the power plant.

UPDATE: The first physical encounter with anomalies is scheduled at the Power Plant for Day 440 (January 8 - 10)!
 
 
30 November 2018 @ 10:20 pm
ACTIVITY CHECK RESULTS
The following characters did not reply to the activity check or had insufficient activity and have been removed from the community:

...no one! Everyone replied to the activity check or dropped on their own! Good job everyone!



 
 
29 November 2018 @ 01:23 am
WARNED LIST

The following characters have not replied to the activity check or did so without enough activity in their comments, and do not have a hiatus relevant to this activity check:

Aigis [personal profile] athenashand
Alfie Solomons [personal profile] devoutish
Diana [personal profile] plaguenurse
Jared Rhys [personal profile] sleight_of_fate
Jim Hawkins [personal profile] rattlingthestars
Magenta Magenta [personal profile] himalayanyeti
Mycroft Holmes [personal profile] holmesice
Peter Quill [personal profile] zunesareawesome
Rhys [personal profile] headjacked
Roland Crane [personal profile] revenantking

If you are on this list, please reply to this post before November 30th, 11:59PM EST with activity or a strike request. If you do not reply before this, you will be removed from the game as an idle player. If we have made a mistake, please also reply to this post with clarification.

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24 November 2018 @ 04:14 pm
A HAPPENING...
You feel a little nauseous this morning. That may or may not strike you as unusual or alarming--it's probably far more alarming, then, that everyone is experiencing this at the same time. It gets worse as the day goes on, but settles down somewhat after lockdown.

You taste copper on the back of your tongue.
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24 November 2018 @ 11:17 am
ACTIVITY CHECK...IN

It's activity check time! But, since this has been an especially busy month, all we're asking is a check-in--fill out the form as usual but simply provide any activity, no matter how short it is. If you have a strike, however, you still need to provide the standard activity of twenty comments over a maximum of four threads.

Additionally, some people will need to report their exposure effects. If you presented us with an exposure effect last activity check, you do not have to do this. That's next month for you guys. And, of course, if your character's beacon is on, they're safe for a few months. To let us know about this, it has been included on the activity check form. If it's not relevant to you this month, you do not have to fill this section out.

You have until 11:59PM EST on November 28 to reply to this; after this, a warned list will go up and anyone who is on that list will have until the end of the month to reply to that with either activity or a request for a strike.

The following characters have outstanding strikes:


Aigis ([personal profile] athenashand) - must pass November AC
Alphonse Elric ([personal profile] armoured) - must pass November and December AC
Bucky Barnes ([personal profile] advanced) - must pass November and December AC
Diana ([personal profile] plaguenurse) - must pass November AC
Harley Quinn ([personal profile] clowngirl) - must pass November and December AC
Jim Hawkins ([personal profile] rattlingthestars) - must pass November AC
Junpei Tenmyouji ([personal profile] fiftheclipse) - must pass November AC
Magenta Magenta ([personal profile] himalayanyeti) - must pass November and December AC
Quark ([personal profile] averytinyparticle) - must pass November AC
Sherlock Holmes ([personal profile] howdull) - must pass November and December AC
Stephanie Brown ([personal profile] spoileralert) - must pass November and December AC
Tim Wright ([personal profile] maskintape) - must pass November AC

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18 November 2018 @ 12:23 am
AREA ADJUSTMENT
As of morning 423, food is no longer being restocked. Nothing was restocked overnight. While nothing was removed, the perishable food won't last long. As it rots, perishable food will be removed overnight.
 
 
06 November 2018 @ 10:57 pm
 Hey all!

Got some RL issues happening in the next few weeks, so I'll be taking a hiatus from the game. Nothing to extreme--just somet things going on that will probably make it hard for me to concentrate on the game.

That being said, Both Sheenas will be on Autopilot.

Human!Sheena will be moving between the bunker, warm shower house, and the convenience store.

Anomaly!Sheena will just be walking around the town, offering to keep anyone and everyone warm...with a distinct chance of the people being gassed to death accidentally. Or possibly burned.

CR is more than welcome to mention seeing/talking to Human!Sheena, and anyone is welcome to interact with Anomaly!Sheena. Just please let me know about the latter in case of repercussions from her wanting to help.

See everyone in a month.
 
 
03 November 2018 @ 10:54 am
ACTIVITY CHECK RESULTS
The following characters did not reply to the activity check or had insufficient activity and have been removed from the community:

Jay Merrick ([personal profile] genreblindness)
Tadashi Hamada ([personal profile] tadashiwashere)

Anyone who has idled out will be unable to apply again.
 
 
02 November 2018 @ 11:33 pm
Metamorphosis
Day 416 comes and goes. Some of you survived it, and some of you didn't. There is no contact from either @ADMIN or Robert Miller about the chaos and carnage. Day 417, too, brings only radio silence.

You worry that day 418 may be more of the same. But in the morning, something appears on the network. You get the feeling that it wasn't meant for the public eye.

The character anomalies are here to stay. You are free to keep playing them as you have during the event (you won't need to submit separate movements or AC for them, don't worry!) Their attitudes towards the town and towards their identities remain as they were during the event. So, even though they're more intelligent than standard anomalies, they cannot be swayed to the side of the player characters and will not help to explore or escape the town.

Alternatively, you may choose to relinquish them so that they will function in the background of the town as normal anomalies. If you do this, they may appear as encounters in response to movements and searches, though they will not have any of the special abilities they had during the event. Please leave a comment here if you would like to give up your anomaly! You are also free to choose to give up your anomaly at any point in the future if you get tired of playing them. Just notify us through the provided thread or the mod contact channels.
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30 October 2018 @ 12:54 am
WARNED LIST

The following characters have not replied to the activity check or did so without enough activity in their comments, and do not have a hiatus relevant to this activity check:

Aigis [personal profile] athenashand
Alfie Solomons [personal profile] devoutish
America [personal profile] fifty
Beckett [personal profile] bookofnope
Billy Kaplan [personal profile] fanboyascended
Castiel [personal profile] godsspeed
Diana [personal profile] plaguenurse
England [personal profile] keepscalm
Ginger Hale [personal profile] lacecase
Jay Merrick [personal profile] genreblindness
Jim Hawkins [personal profile] rattlingthestars
Magenta Magenta [personal profile] himalayanyeti
Nathan Young [personal profile] notaquaman
Quark [personal profile] averytinyparticle
Stephanie Brown [personal profile] spoileralert
Tadashi Hamada [personal profile] tadashiwashere

If you are on this list, please reply to this post before October 31st, 11:59PM EST with activity or a strike request. If you do not reply before this, you will be removed from the game as an idle player. If we have made a mistake, please also reply to this post with clarification.

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27 October 2018 @ 03:15 pm
Metamorphosis
On night 415, they break out and they wake up from their comas.

Oh, not the same they. It was never the same they. Those who were comatose are as they were when they passed out--confused, certainly, at having slept for so long, but with no knowledge of what happened in that room. Why would they? They were never there at all.

Those in the room, well, they're out now, floating and walking and crawling into the underground tunnel system that crisscrosses the town. Undeterred by the weather, they are free to wander town as the anomalies do. Of course they are. They are anomalies. What is an anomaly? It's an impossibility. It's when you take something and see that it's lacking and have nothing to fill it with and fill it up anyway. You fill it with nothing, fill it and fill it until it moves and breathes and lives, maybe. Anomalies, but maybe they're you. But maybe they're not.

They don't make sense. Their bodies are and aren't bodies. They're all different, they all vary, none of them are comprehensible. Some are even less comprehensible than that, going below absolute zero. All of them are hungry, and some of them (but not all of them, but you don't know which) want to eat you. Some of them just want to be near you. Their abilities are all too real, though none are immediately fatal. Maybe that makes it worse, when they do hurt, because you have to live through all that pain and waiting.

They all think they are you--that they're the real versions of the infected. They have all of your memories, after all, plus a few more. That makes them more real, right? Are they real?

Well, who knows.

Descriptions of each infected will follow. Players have a lot of discretion in the exact way their anomaly character takes shape and acts, within the guidelines provided. You can be a cannibal... Or maybe not. You can be actively hostile... Or maybe just unsettling. On top of any specific effects of your anomaly, you're subject to some of the standard anomaly effects: normal characters who draw near you will be subject to dizziness and nosebleeds. They will not, however, pass out, and you are not compelled to drag them away anywhere. Of course, you can if you want to. Anomalies are immune to each others' various skills. Abilities described in the descriptions can be used as real abilities and also to inspire other abilities, though none can be instantly fatal. Anomalies have no desire to leave the town.

If your character is going to interact with themselves, that's fine, but if you're not in a thread with another player, please post it all at once in one comment (or more if you run out the character limit, but only then).

WARNING: HEAVY BODY HORROR, EYE GORE, SKIN LOSS, BODY LOSS, UNREALITY, DEPERSONALIZATION, HEAVY ELDRITCH ELEMENTS VARYING BY CHARACTER
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The log for part three is here.
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24 October 2018 @ 01:39 am
ACTIVITY CHECK

It's activity check time! In order to pass activity check, you need twenty comments across a maximum of four threads during this month. You also need to have posted to this month's HMD, so if you haven't done that, go ahead and do that now! If you wish to take a strike, you have to reply; anyone who doesn't reply at all will be put on the warned list and, if they don't reply to that, then be swept. Anyone currently on an officially posted hiatus is exempt from replying.

Additionally, some people will need to report their exposure effects. If you apped in during the most recent application cycle or presented us with an exposure effect last activity check, you do not have to do this. That's next month for you guys. And, of course, if your character's beacon is on, they're safe for a few months. To let us know about this, it has been included on the activity check form. If it's not relevant to you this month, you do not have to fill this section out.

You have until 11:59PM EST on October 29 to reply to this; after this, a warned list will go up and anyone who is on that list will have until the end of the month to reply to that with either activity or a request for a strike.

The following characters have outstanding strikes:

Aigis ([personal profile] athenashand) - must pass October and November AC
Billy Kaplan ([personal profile] fanboyascended) - must pass October and November AC
Castiel ([personal profile] godsspeed) - must pass October AC
Diana ([personal profile] plaguenurse) - must pass October and November AC
Jay Merrick ([personal profile] genreblindness) - must pass October and November AC
Jim Hawkins ([personal profile] rattlingthestars) - must pass October and November AC
Junpei Tenmyouji ([personal profile] fiftheclipse) - must pass October and November AC
Mycroft Holmes ([personal profile] holmesice) - must pass October AC
Quark ([personal profile] averytinyparticle) - must pass October and November AC
Tadashi Hamada ([personal profile] tadashiwashere) - must pass October AC
Tim Wright ([personal profile] maskintape) - must pass October and November AC

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