faderiftooc | MOD POST ↠ September Updates

SEPTEMBER (KINGSWAY)

ORGANIZATIONAL/OOC UPDATES

OOC Calendar

Check the calendar for additional dates, but here are the upcoming important ones:

RIFTER ARRIVAL + CR MEME: September 8

TEST DRIVE MEME: September 15

RESERVES: September 25 (11:59 am EDT) - September 30 (11:59 pm EDT)

ACTIVITY CHECK: Due by September 30 (11:59 pm EDT)

APPLICATIONS: October 1 (12:00 am EDT) - October 5 (11:59 pm EDT)

Direct Report Sign-Ups
We're going to re-open sign-ups for Direct Reports to Leliana, Cassandra, and Cullen. Direct reports are characters who ICly act as sort of seconds-in-command to the advisors and OOCly help share their workload a little bit. For a complete explanation of how the direct report system works, please see the previous post on the subject.

If you're interested in applying, please use the form and the sign-up comment on that original post so we can keep sign-ups screened. Sign-ups will close on September 10 at 11:59 EDT.

PLOT/IC UPDATES

Upcoming Plot Developments

The Inquisition will remain encamped outside Halamshiral for the next month, with characters free to travel back and forth to Skyhold and elsewhere as usual. On the 15th, we'll be posting Phase 2 of our Orlais modplot. This will consist of a single plot, open to 6 characters. In it, an Inquisition team will follow up on credible evidence that an Orlesian noble is in league with Corypheus and the Venatori. They will need to infiltrate a high-end Orlesian spa, and either arrest, kidnap, or kill this noble. Sign-ups are below. They will close on September 7 at 11:59 EDT.

Also on the 15th we'll be asking those involved in unfinished Phase 1 modplots to OOCly provide us with information about how their characters would have handled any outstanding decisions, so that we can incorporate those outcomes into the Orlais plot going forward. We'll provide several options to choose between, each of which has pros and cons for the three factions in Orlais. Please keep an eye out for that in the plot plurks.

The Rifter Arrival Log will be posted as soon as applications have been fully processed and will be open to any characters who volunteer to go recover the new arrivals.

Miscellaneous

Please make sure to place your player plots on the calendar as soon as they are approved so other players can plan around them as needed. Please try to submit your plot requests at least a month in advance of the date you want them to make sure there's sufficient time for the review process. We're often juggling quite a few plot requests at once, which is awesome!! but means that you may be in line behind several other people, and we may also need to ask you some questions or request some changes before you're approved. Getting things in early helps prevent that process from cutting into the time you want for sign-ups or plotting.

Also, please remember to submit a report after your player plot is completed! These are now required in order to claim AC reward points for running the plot.

A reminder that we have a page for IC news and gossip! We highly recommend tracking this page (or only the sub-topics you need to know about) and even more highly recommend posting to it if your character is involved in something that the grapevine would be aware of.

There's also the Wanted page, which is currently taking the place of ATP and also allows players to offer up NPCs they've created from their character's background or from around Skyhold for others to app.

We've created a spreadsheet for Character Residences, now linked from the Skyhold page. This is to help everyone keep track of who is living where and who may be in their vicinity. You can add your own characters to this document, and we'll clean it up as needed.