February Monthly Post - Season of love

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AC Results

The following characters have been swept from the game for failure to respond sufficiently to last month's activity check. Patchouli Knowledge (Touhou Project) If any of these characters would like to return to play they will have to use the reapp form. If any mistake has been made please don't hesitate to contact one of the mods. Thank you!

January Exploration Summary

FREE EXPLORATION Tanzanite's Pond in the Berry Fields area is no longer a barren, watery crater, and is gradually becoming home to plant life. It's also started to attract wildlife in the area; reindeer can occasionally be spotted stopping here for a drink. Anri's unintentional beautification of the abandoned club Beat Down has attracted more local teens to the old warehouse. GRIFFON VILLAGE A number of Gems pitched in to make the griffons' new year celebration one to remember. They appreciated it! Julien's bird-charming powers revealed that they have a surprisingly thorough and conscious understanding of astronomy and ecology, and befriending the griffons gets you a crash course on the natural history of their island. Assorted berries from the Pokemon universe have been planted on Griffon island, where they are starting to sprout and thrive. VOICES AND DREAMS Between the 17th and 22nd, the Temple Gems were haunted by a strange psychic presence and peculiar dreams. Alice was directed to the observatory after sending it computer-like thoughts, but the presence was scared off by her focus on the telescope. Naomi's "conversations" with the mysterious presence revealed that it had a flimsy sense of self and couldn't distinguish at first that the Gems it was "talking" to were different people from itself. In a dream affected by the presence, Yang glimpsed a memory involving Tiger's Eye, and got a very negative reaction from the presence to the idea of going to find it.

February World Updates

WEATHER All month - Summer drags on. Get your beach on. 14th - Mother Nature will celebrate Valentine's with a tropical cyclone. The weather channel will start talking about it a week before it lands in Waverly Bay, where it'll straddle Category 1 and 2, carrying some signs away and making a general mess of things. The Temple will experience some flooding thanks to a storm surge. The storm will be much weaker when it hits Bricktown, but power will be out in the city for a few days afterwards anyways. NPC ACTIVITY All month - In addition to hosting occasional parties, the club formerly known as Beat Down is now the weekly meeting location for an art club that doubles as a Gem fanclub (Friday evenings). Temple Gems that hang out in town might come across candid photos of themselves online or in the local paper...or maybe even fanart. The WBIW forum now has a section dedicated to the fanbases of individual Gems. 15th through 18th and onward - NPCs in Waverly Bay will be focused on cleaning up after the storm, and Bricktown will be dealing with flooded basements and power outages. Restaurant owners with a sense of humor are offering specials on "romantic candlelight dinners". 19th - Hawk will stuff herself into the Heart Room and start making loud noises at anyone who follows her in. Griffon will start roaming the halls of the Temple and making loud noises at nobody in particular for reasons that are not immediately apparent. MONSTER REPORT 4th - A corrupted gem will attack Waverly Bay! It's a small monster, only about three feet tall while standing, that's surprisingly fast both on land and in the water. Its powers are electrical discharges, being able to chew through anything and everything, and being super stinking fast. If left alone, it'll take up residence in the town and leave huge, obnoxious holes in everyone's walls...

February Event

February's event will run from the 20th to the 24th and will involve exploring dreamscapes. There will be a mingle for the event proper, and an investigation post where players can team up to solve a puzzle and help out a familiar NPC. For the duration of the event, when characters sleep, they will find themselves stuck in vivid, recurring dreams that leave them feeling like they haven't gotten any rest at all when they wake up. The situation will continue until the source of the strange dreams is uncovered and the problem causing them is solved. Each character will have their own, personal dreamscape, which other characters can intrude upon. The contents of dreamscapes will be based on: - things characters are anxious or secure about - problems characters are currently having - how characters see the world and the people around them - characters' gem powers Some characters may find themselves stuck in their own dreamscapes until they solve some kind of puzzle, alone or with the help of other Gems. The details of personal puzzles are up to players to determine. Complete information on the NPC's dreamscape and puzzle will be posted on the 20th.