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[stucktoeverything]

so ive been out of it for a little while now ( ie; a month or so D: )
but im scrabbling my back to the surface so
please forgive my silence & complete absence and i will hopefully back to full voice & participation in no time at all

event | Storm System | October 2-3, 2012

[ironwood]

Storm System
Relative peace and quiet have descended upon the population of Keeliai and the conspiracies appear to be at an end for the time being. Life is returning to normal, crime is back to pre-festival rates, the whole nine yards. Fancy!

Except, there's a storm on the horizon -- quite literally. Starting October 1st, the kedan can be seen hurriedly securing loose fixtures, removing decorations, and boarding up some of the largest windows throughout the sectors. Should they be asked about these activities, they will advise that a storm system's been spotted on the horizon and it appears that Tu Vishan is on a direct course for it. They will not seem particularly worried, for they are long-used to living on a seabound turtle and have seen many storms in their time.

The storm itself will 'hit' starting October 2nd and concluding October 3rd, as Tu Vishan will be moving straight in and through it. There will be a brief two-hour lull in the eye of the storm mid-way through the event, but otherwise the city will be subject to Category 3 hurricane conditions.

Foreigners will be warned by runners dispatched to the suites early into the storm on the October 2nd -- before it really picks up -- and the suggestion will be made that they stay inside. Given that each runner will be accompanied by increasing wind, rain, and (quite strangely) the occasional stretches of snow, it'll be clear that this isn't some shit-and-giggles prank on the happen.

While a Cat 3 storm can be devastating, this isn't Keeliai's first rodeo. The buildings are expected to make it through the storm relatively intact and consoles/suites will only have intermittent blackouts, lasting approximately an hour each time before the kedan have things up and running again. This is because majority of the limited power run to the suites is through protected cables built into boxes along and between buildings, enclosed by wood, stone, or metal casing.

Businesses will be closed for the most part, though the console cafés will remain open and most kedan will welcome Foreigners caught out in the storm into their homes (though they have no consoles out there).

By October 4th, the storm itself will be behind Tu Vishan and the kedan will be quick to put things back to right. Clean-ups of leaves and branches, particularly in Wood, will be a priority and any Foreigner assisting with it will be paid the standard hourly rate as they would in any job.

Any questions or comments? Feel free to direct them to the comments of this post and one of the mods will answer as soon as possible. Feel free to plot amidst yourselves if there's anything you'd like to do (ghost stories during a power outage? TOTALLY NECESSARY).

Event Calendar
The planned events calendar for the game has been updated to include December 2012 and some slight adjustments in event timing. You can check it out here.

Just a reminder that if you'd like to run a plot here at Tu Shanshu, hop over to our events page to find out how! We very much want and love to have player involvement in what's going on here.

Additionally! We are still welcoming input at our Let's Talk Plot post from Saturday.

Activity Check | September 1-30, 2012

[ironwood]

Welcome to Tu Shanshu's monthly activity check! This period of AC covers September 1st to September 30th and in order to qualify for this period, the thread or posts in question need to fall between these dates. Although the AC has a grace period of seven days in which to post your threads, any post or thread must be started between the dates of September 1st and September 30th. Backtagging is fine – if your thread is standing at nine comments and the final contribution to it comes between the 30th and the 7th, that's totally acceptable! But keep the starting date requirement in mind.

That said, here are the requirements of a Tu Shanshu activity check!

1. One post, either in tushanshu_logs or tushanshu respectively. It's perfectly acceptable to have made more than one post (or one in each, for example) but you must meet the minimum requirement of one, and there has to be evidence of you having made an effort to reply to the tags.
   
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2. A total of ten comments in other people's threads throughout the game, either in a log or in the primary comm. This cumulative count may be reached in a maximum of two separate threads, but requires ten overall comments from your character, not the final total of the thread itself.

One important thing to note: If you have used a thread with a particular character to meet your AC in one month, you are NOT ALLOWED to use that same character again in the following month. This is to encourage tagging outside of your established CR. For example: I'm playing Luke Skywalker, and for this month's AC I used a thread with Han Solo to make my comment AC. That means that next month, I'm not permitted to use Han again, even if we've done a dozen threads since. However, a thread with Leia Organa is perfectly acceptable.

Characters accepted in September 2012 or who were on hiatus for three weeks or more during the activity period are exempt from the Activity Check. However, everyone is encouraged to fill it out so that we have a record of your activity, and so we don't accidentally sweep anyone from the game.

<b>Player:</b> Your Name <b>Character:</b> Character name | Canon name (or Original) | <user name="USER"> <b>Activity:</b> >Post: >Thread:

If for any reason you have been unable to meet the AC and your character is 'swept' from the game, you may reclaim this character once if you reply to the Activity Check results. If that particular character lands on the AC again, you will need to re-apply for them, except in the case of extenuating circumstances. Characters who are not reclaimed will be considered dropped, and removed from the game.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: For those interested in apping a 4th character at the conclusion of this AC, please be advised we do look for additional activity before approval to app a 4th will be granted. In this case, that means we are looking for double the comment count with each existing character in your roster. You do not need to make two posts and twenty comments per character, but we do ask that you meet the minimum requirement of one post, in addition to at least twenty of your comments, spread across a maximum of four threads.

You have until October 7th to fill out this activity check for your character(s).