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Escordvi Mods ([personal profile] seawarden) wrote in [community profile] escordviooc2026-01-28 09:16 pm
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ACTIVITY CHECK: JANUARY 2026


Ahoy, mateys! Here be the monthly Activity Check!

In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting. In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting. Please include brief notes on how the situation was handled (or, in the case of a thread not being complete, how it has been handled so far and/or how you expect it to conclude if possible).

  • Reports on the Ainomiad Domain expedition (it is fine if these threads are not complete, we'd just like to know where things are at, any discoveries, etc.)
  • Any notable effects left after the Sea Witch of the Abyss player plot
  • Reports/findings about the haunted estate
  • Discoveries about the walrus cursed island
  • How many fires were ignited in Nogard's skull
  • Any developments about the Honse bounty


Please check our Activity Check guidelines on our Game Info page for complete details, but here is the quick list of what you need to know:

» Only threads dated from January 1st through January 31st count towards the month's activity. (With the exception of certain backdated threads, read the linked AC guidelines for more details.)

» Activity requires one thread of at least 5 comments. The comment count is from your character.

» Any thread counts, including those made within your own entries and subthreads within your own toplevels. Individual entry posts do not count, only the threads within the posts. TDM threads with non-game characters will count.

» Continuation threads are considered as part of the previous thread so they count as one thread not two. For the sake of ease, we would like the two threads linked together.

» You are exempt from any checks for hiatuses that last for over 21 days. Anything less and you'll still need to submit your AC unless there are other circumstances.

» Because we are a capped game, there is no strike system. If you do not make the AC requirements, you will be cut.

» Bonus AC points: All extra non-quest threads not used for AC will be worth 2 extra points that can be used for reward redemption. Please check our Rewards page for more details.


There will be no warnings. All submissions are due Saturday, January 31st 11:59PM US Eastern.

EXTRA FIELDS: This is not required and completely optional, but included in the submission form are two optional fields: Extra and MANTA Board Posting.

For the Extra field, this is just a space for players to note anything that occurred in their threads that they think might be fun for us to know. So if something particularly interesting happened (for example: discovering a new creature or location, an old artifact, or perhaps a character has stolen something), we highly encourage players to jot them down! Who knows, we may even find a use for it… In addition, we may ask players to submit certain activity related to an event.

You may also submit MANTA board requests to be included in the upcoming board. We will try to add them immediately, otherwise we'll save them for the next Board or a time we deem fitting. If you don't have one in mind at the time of AC, you can post it later to the upcoming Captain's Log announcement.



If you have any questions, ask them here.


FORM: Fill out the following form and comment directly to this post. If you have multiple characters, please put them in one comment.


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[personal profile] reindered 2026-01-29 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Caprica
Character: Tony Tony Chopper | [personal profile] reindered
Proof: 5th Jan

Extra: Chopper is with Riju looking into a disease! Doing his Doctor thing.
withermarked: art by Lily @new-hyperfixation-every-month (bored)

[personal profile] withermarked 2026-01-29 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Ilya
Character: Faulkner | withermarked
Proof: 1/05
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[personal profile] empyrean_mirror 2026-01-29 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Clover
Character: Kaveh | empyrean_mirror
Proof: 1/13

Extra: So Kaveh yote a duck at an octopus...

More seriously, he was directly on the ground fighting Azul, trying to get him to maybe calm down and not turn into a giant seamonster about his feelings, to mixed success and a great number of explosions.

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[personal profile] seasaltkeys 2026-01-29 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Megan
Character: Roxas | [personal profile] seasaltkeys
Proof: 07/01

Extra: Roxas fought a Giant Moth and one of Plus Ultra's Moogles is missing
astudyinviolet: chibi scruffy Sherlock looking haunted (ϙ R'luhhor ahh ya)

[personal profile] astudyinviolet 2026-01-29 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Avie
Character: Sherlock Holmes | astudyinviolet
Proof: 01-01

Ainomiad Domain expedition:
- Figured out a bit about who were attacked, orchid wearing people were retreating and helping others to retreat to a safer location
- Saw some people from past crystal memories
- One past person buried a music box which they uncovered
- Illusions are in the ice again, trying to distract or draw people near
- Shadow beings are able to enter the frozen corpses and move them
- THERE'S A BIG FUCKING ICE SNAKE SWIMMING THROUGH THE ICE LIKE WATER
- It may actually be a dragon given that it has legs, but Sherlock thought it was A BIG FUCKING ICE SNAKE

Haunted Estate:
- So! The original owners died. One guy was doing experiments and also had a pet snail
- Shadow creatures infest the place (not intended to be the same one like on Aniomiad)
- HOWEVER! The pet snail is a special large snail that has a pink rose for a shell and glows
- It's also fast
- It eats the shadow creatures, just slurps them up like noodles
- Snail is also semi-territorial and will headbutt you with ramming speed if you are in its space
- Otherwise is harmless, ignore the light show and noises going on in the manor. Snail's got it

Sea Witch of the Abyss:
- Sherlock just detached from reality upon seeing the giant phantom
- A number of ships might have gotten damaged by light projection tridents and people tossed into the water by light projection sea creatures created by the phantom using Sherlock's stolen light magic
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[personal profile] indispensable 2026-01-29 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Player: taso
Character: Alhaitham | indispensable
Proof: 18th January

Extra: Was involved in the Azul player plot very reluctantly. Most notable is the fact that he was immune to any tentacle damage or grabbing as every one of them recoiled away from him even at the slightest touch.
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[personal profile] sos_pilot 2026-01-29 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Melissa
Character: Della Duck | sos_pilot
Proof: 1/9

Extra:
- In regards to Deep Sea Girl, she was confronted and Azul used his Tentacle Shadow Powers to almost pull her hair out. After nearly skewering Della with those same powers, Azul fled, and Della (after a moment's hesitation) ran after him, leaving DSG to get nabbed by the paladins.
- Was yoted to Azul during his player plot! She momentarily used the Power of Love to get through to him, but it wasn't enough and she was tossed away to safety - losing her metal leg in the process.
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[personal profile] refantasma 2026-01-29 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Ty
Character: Nico di Angelo | refantasma
Proof: 01/04
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[personal profile] crystalrepose 2026-01-29 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Blueraven
Character: Miriam | crystalrepose
Proof: 1/20

Extra: Miriam was there for the Overblot Kaiju fight, and will be helping with getting the crystal curse 2.0 off of Azul. One of the Shards is unaccounted for, though...

Some ships and coastal buildings might have been damaged by her stolen abilities; the lightning storm and tornado ones are bad for property value. Chunks of ice and illusory arrows stuck in things might also be a public nuisance.
Edited 2026-01-31 17:11 (UTC)
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[personal profile] bahati 2026-01-29 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Kyo
Character: Bennett | bahati
Proof: 1/8
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[personal profile] octoblot 2026-01-29 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Taku
Character: Azul Ashengrotto | [personal profile] octoblot
Proof: 1/20

Extra: So! After spending most of the month in the ocean, Azul reappeared as the source behind the stormy weather, rift tentacles, and the mutated fish phantoms due to having Overblotted. As a result, Azul and the large Phantom that appeared alongside of his return needed to be defeated, and after a long fight (that is... still being threaded but I swear it is in fact meant to be considered concluded by the end of this month), the Phantom was destroyed and Azul was pacified/knocked out.

Upon Azul's defeat, the blot that has been pervading the ocean will slowly disappear (unless someone managed to get a sample of it in a container or whatever if this were something anyone would like to have for... reasons?? research?? any future plots someone thinks some toxic magic ink could be used for?? i ain't your dad do as you wish) and any rift tentacles will also stop appearing as well. Any powers that were stolen by Azul and the rifts will be returned automatically to their rightful owners. An aftermath log will go up as soon as I can get one up for anyone who wants to thread with Azul as he will be spending a good bit of February recovering and being grounded in gay merbaby jail as well as an eventual network apology post.
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[personal profile] icefangrush 2026-01-29 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: VG
Character: Oswald | ashadowofhope
Proof: 1/10

Extra: Oswald also joined in on the Honse bounty. While his thread is unfinished at the moment, he was of the opinion of probably killing it than taking it in anywhere if anyone asks (though that's his answer to most things).

Character: Wriothesley | icefangrush
Proof: 1/10

Extra: Wriothesley is now employed at the Surasthana Café... Bennett thought he was an employee and things just happened haha. Oh, and he watched Sherlock get headbutted by a glowing pink snail... shenanigans.
Edited 2026-01-29 23:56 (UTC)
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[personal profile] tilfrosset 2026-01-30 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Cheska
Character: Jill Warrick | tilfrosset
Proof: 1/6

Extra: As per above thread, one innocent inn has been frozen over and destroyed because Ulpianus couldn't keep his hands to himself and Jill wasn't down with his inability to hold a decent conversation. Poor bar. It never deserved its roof being torn apart. Sorry if that was your favorite watering hole. 🤷🏽‍♀️
Edited 2026-01-30 00:22 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sunsetking 2026-01-30 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Lin
Character: Leona Kingscholar | sunsetting
Proof: 1/18

Extra: Leona worked his ass off this month by dealing with the Phantoms for the most part. He and Khalid were the ones to handle and snapped Azul back to his senses (when they eventually get there).
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[personal profile] garudas 2026-01-30 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Sheila
Character: Tifa Lockhart | starshower
Proof: 1/06

Character: Lightning Farron | sparkstrikes
Proof: 1/06

Character: Benedikta Harman | garudas
Proof: 1/14

Extra: For the Good Boy quest, Cid and Benedikta discovered several hints that animals dwelled within the manor, and met a cat that had been hiding there, as well as a ghost dog who they helped put to rest after it spent time waiting for its master to return. There were some graves buried in the backyard for previous animals as well. They suspect that the owner has been missing for some time, and that there may have also been a caretaker who something horrible has happened to, but they don't know what. Benedikta thinks that their ghosts might be lurking there, too, but they will send someone to the house to try and clean some things up outside while leaving the inside untouched.

Lightning and Faris also explored the manor and found some old, used dishes in the kitchen that looked like they've been sitting there for some time, and could smell a hint of blood somewhere. No further developments yet.

Benedikta also examined the honse, and tested its aggressiveness by giving it a giant tree stick which it immediately shattered into many, many pieces. It hasn't happened yet, but I plan to have it attack her and Emet outright. How they deal with that remains to be seen—
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[personal profile] coldjustice 2026-01-30 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Stella
Character: Neve Gallus | coldjustice
Proof: 1/20


Character: Keyleth | sunbursted
Proof: 1/06
mwehehe: (anata no moto e)

[personal profile] mwehehe 2026-01-30 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Name

Character: Mid Telamon | midifications
Proof: 1/25

Character: Futaba Sakura | mwehehe
Proof: 1/13

MANTA Board Posting: A general MANTA posting has appeared!

Reward: A nice thank you note :) and some packs of instant ramen. Don't ask where they came from.

Over the skies of Eltrut and occasionally near Nogard and Elah, sightings of a UFO are happening (a view from below as well is here.) What the heck is it? Where is it going? That's what the newly opened X-Folders want to know. Agent Mullusk and Agent Scullop are on the case, and anyone that can bring back photos, blurry or otherwise or info on where it was seen and where it was going will be appreciated. You can turn in any photos and any other tips as well on other unexplained phenomena around the seas and perhaps your crew's homes to the agents themselves, who will definitely investigate and update within the next couple of months. In return, you'll get something nice as a reward!
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[personal profile] musicien 2026-01-30 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Mart
Character: Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito | stillarhino
Proof: 01/14
Proof: 01/25

Character: Verso | musicien
Proof: 01/23
Proof: 01/26

Extra: Both for Beneath the Ink Once More. Verso went to investigate and hopefully find the source of the Phantom attacks with Clive. Thread is still ongoing but we do intend that they actually locate the source of it.

Meanwhile, in a separate investigation with Aranea, Verso was attacked by a Phantom and was almost turned into one. If there's more to the quest outside of its tie-in to Azul, I'd like Verso to continue looking into it to see if it has any similarities to chroma from his world, due to its inky properties.
Edited 2026-01-30 07:42 (UTC)
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[personal profile] obliviscere 2026-01-30 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Meghann

Character: Namine | obliviscere
Proof: 1/10


Character: Betsy | serendipitously
Proof: 1/05

Character: Arkady | hellofishies
Proof: 1/22

this month was such a fail from me
Edited 2026-02-02 00:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] multidisciplinary 2026-01-30 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Jen
Character: Zelda | multidisciplinary
Proof: Jan 22

Extra:
- Zelda and Darin announced his Beacon Box project to the world! They shared their current findings from his prototype that he pitched into the rifts in December and asked for volunteers so they can make more Boxes for rift research.

- Zelda and Riju tracked down the honse and observed it for a bit before attempting to catch and tame it. Zelda has a great many pictures of this majestic creature to share with anyone working this bounty.

- Zelda thought to make a pie/tart with fruit glazed in hallucinogenic toad mucus because honestly why the fuck not
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[personal profile] eternalhymn 2026-01-30 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Christine
Character: Lace Harding | [personal profile] eternalhymn
Proof: 1/21

Extra:
  • Harding is onboard to help with the Beacon Box project!
  • Edited 2026-01-30 20:17 (UTC)
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    [personal profile] gruffier 2026-01-30 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
    Player: Kassie
    Character: Clive Rosfield | gruffier
    Proof: 1/25

    Extra: Still ongoing, but Verso and Clive are looking into discovering the source of the Phantoms!
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    [personal profile] spitefulcrow 2026-01-31 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
    Player: Froda
    Character: Lucanis Dellamorte | spitefulcrow
    Proof: 1/20
    chaosvessel: Credit to <user name="vikael"> (005)

    [personal profile] chaosvessel 2026-01-31 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
    Player: Heather
    Character: Dion Lesage | haveaflare
    Proof: 1/03

    Character: Fantomex | madeofmirrors
    Proof: 12/30 - only one tag occurred in the previous month

    Character: Vincent Valentine | chaosvessel
    Proof: 1/21

    Extra: During their adventures, Dion and Joshua met two important individuals:

    Rusker: an anthropomorphic chipmunk with a chip on his shoulder who runs the apothecary on Eltrut

    Zarkun: A lion-man who is the greatest blacksmith on Elah. reference image for him.

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