Notable Dates

• Applications: Closed after November 23 until January 9
  
• Leadership Applications: Due November 23
  
• Test Drive Meme: Here! Tracking the post for new top-level comments strongly encouraged.

Reminders

• Turn in your plot reports (whether war table or player plot) for points toward purchasing Riftwatch Improvements on the AC Rewards page, so that we can ICly upgrade the Gallows! Please, we need an elevator.
  
• Sign up for a project! Just add your character to the personnel list on the relevant wiki page.
  
• The Riftwatch overview on the wiki has lots of info about how the organization works, what characters do all day, and what's expected of them. (Also lots of reports and stuff if you're wondering whether anybody's ever done anything about X, Y, or Z.)

Mod Holiday Hiatus

Every year, the mod team takes a Holiday Hiatus in December and the first week of January. To make sure we can get everything squared away before we retreat into our caves for a long winter's nap, the deadline for all new requests/questions/apps/etc. is 11:59pm Eastern on November 23. Any apps or requests received before that deadline will be handled before we consider ourselves completely off duty.

Once the clock ticks over onto November 24, apps will be closed and we'll ask that you please refrain from submitting new plot requests/info requests/questions until we resume work on January 9. We'll post another reminder before the deadline arrives, but this is your formal heads up to keep this in mind as November winds down and make sure you plan in advance for any info you need or plots you want to run in December or early/mid January.

AC will be counted at the end of November, and there will be no December AC.


November-December Mod Plot

The upcoming mod plot will involve a return to the Crossroads and beyond. Specifically: due to, like, magic and stuff (we'll probably explain in the post), characters who participate in a hunt through the Crossroads for helpful Gate-related artifacts will find themselves seemingly transported to rifters' homeworlds and will have to hunt for these artifacts there instead.

For organizational purposes, we need folks who play rifters and would like to have their character's worlds included to sign up in two stages. First, you can indicate interest here by the end of the day on November 9, to give us a starting approximation for how many worlds we need to plan for. After that, we'll give potential participants more information, and you'll need to provide a (short, hopefully) write up of your character's world and some additional plot information by November 18.

To keep the number of potential worlds from becoming too unwieldy, canons with multiple characters will only show up as one world with one artifact. Characters can visit different far-flung locations within the world, and since it's really the Fade it can warp to accommodate time discrepancies whenever that helps make things fun–if one canonmate wants people to see the world as it was Before The War and another wants After The War, it can be different times on different streets. But it will be one combined environment, so coordinate with each other accordingly!

Characters will be able to "visit" (in a Fade way) multiple worlds, potentially every world, including rifters visiting one another's. But this will be a reverse rifter scenario, not a reverse native AUs scenario, including potential restrictions on your character's movement and freedom within the world. So if you start scheming in advance, scheme for your character being a weird stranger portalled into other canons, not AU'd into them. (This time.)

Reminder: Nightmares

They're still happening! But they've evened out in severity—bad, but not getting worse.

IC Leader Updates

No new updates (aside from the new temp system discussed above). You can see a list of all the available positions, including the new ones we added last month, on the wiki. Applications for leadership roles are due by November 23 if you're interested in taking one before February 1.