MOD POST ↠ March Assignments

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MARCH ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment teams and details will be posted and linked as they're determined.

↠ The Heart of the Matter: Bastien, Ellis, Wysteria
↠ Dramatical Cats, Diplomatical Cats: Gwenaëlle, Sabine, Jenny Lou
↠ The Best Shade Plans: Barrow, Marcoulf
↠ In the Nick of Thyme: Ilias, Matthias, John
↠ Tulipgit to Quit: Sawbones, Tavin
↠ How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Anders: Jenny Lou, Alistair, Ket
↠ Uncrossing the Crossroads: Richard, Loxley, Athessa, Yngvi
↠ In the Enemy's Grippe: Nikos, Derrica, Lino
↠ Join the Navy, They Said…: Bastien, Darras
↠ How to Train Your Draconology Expert: Julius, Fitcher

If you didn't sign up for assignments and wish you had, we'll have more next round (or sooner)! And if you did sign up for assignments and wish you hadn't, hahaha sucker.

Jk, just let us and your teammates know if you need to back out for any reason.

RULES

OOC, the only two rules regarding these assignments are: (1) they must be RPed in some way, not entirely handwaved, and (2) you have to file a report by the deadline. Otherwise, you can handle them basically however you want. For example,

— Format: You can write a log addressing the main action/meat of the assignment, handwave that and do a log or crystal post that’s instead focused on deciding what to do about the problem or discussing how it went after the fact, or whatever else, as long as you RP about the assignment’s substance in some way.

— Personnel: You can limit the assignment to only the assigned team, if you prefer, or you can take other people along, whether that means involving just one other specific character to go for some specific reason or turning the assignment into an open log/discussion that the whole game can participate in. Just make sure everyone on the team is on board with whatever you decide, and check with the relevant project leaders or division heads if you want to include someone whose suitability for something is in question, since they might not be willing to OK their inclusion.

— Content: If you want to add obstacles, problems, pit stops, etc. to your assignment, you can, as long as they’re reasonable given the scope and spirit of the assignment. For example, if your characters are tasked with finding a lost child in the woods, it’s fine for them to accidentally wander into a bear’s den or to get caught in a storm that causes a flash flood in a ravine, because those are hazards that make sense given the assignment and its setting, whereas finding a zany artifact that causes bodyswaps or assassinating Corypheus would be outside the scope.

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GENERAL QUESTIONS

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If you have a general mechanics question that everyone might benefit from seeing the answer to, rather than a question specific to your fact pattern, you can ask us here. (If you do have something specific to your group, like 'what color is the Venatori's dress' or 'can we find a raccoon,' you can ask it as a reply to the assignment itself.) To try to preempt some possible questions:

— Chain of Command: Division Heads are everyone’s boss, and Project Leaders and Assistants should be deferred to on assignments originating from their projects. Otherwise, if a situation arises where you need to know who would be formally in charge—such as if the involved characters are split on how to approach something and someone would need to have the final word—you can come up with your own reasonable answer (“Bob is the only one with experience here so let’s say he's the leader”), you can choose whoever has the highest ratio of consonants to vowels in their name, or you can ask us and we'll decide using another test that is equally arbitrary but more unpredictable.

— Resources: Unless otherwise stated, assume your characters have a budget sufficient to do what they’ve been asked to do, but not enough to be reckless or wasteful. If being short on money would make something more fun to RP, you can do that. If acquiring something extravagant and ridiculous, like a team of dancing bears, would make something more fun to RP, talk to us about it first—not so we can say no, but so we can arrange a way for your characters to luck into acquiring things at a bargain without anyone having to pretend it’s a good use of money.

— OOC: Everyone assigned to the team is responsible for RPing the assignment and getting a report posted by the deadline, and everyone assigned to the team is eligible to earn 5 bonus AC points when the report is done. Extra characters who are brought along or involved but not assigned aren’t eligible for the bonus points. If for whatever reason something can’t get done by the deadline, please talk to us about it! Failing to complete a report without contacting us might result in the group getting last priority when future assignments are handed out.