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Escordvi Mods ([personal profile] seawarden) wrote in [community profile] escordviooc2024-01-28 10:06 pm
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ACTIVITY CHECK: JANUARY 2024


Ahoy, mateys! Here be the monthly Activity Check!

In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting:

  • Anyone who encountered the altar and the fire horse beneath the volcano, and what happened.
  • Notable finds in the volcano.
  • Turtles saved.
  • Who is afflicted by the sleeping curse and any solutions/remedies that have been attempted/discovered.
  • She Sews Lovely/The Price of Freedom quest results.
  • Wolf pups trained.

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 Wednesday, 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.



Don't forget to check out the Bonus AC Donation Post to unlock a special March event!



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] maiestas 2024-01-30 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Fel
Character: Rin Nesidri | maiestas
Proof: 1/06
moremystyle: Chibi Faris in a circular frame, swinging a flaming sword (Default)

[personal profile] moremystyle 2024-01-30 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Bryo
Character: Faris Scherwiz | moremystyle
Proof: 1-07

Extra: OPTIONAL can delete if not used. Any incidents, encounters, or discoveries made by the character can be included here. Blurbs are fine, links to threads optional but helpful for reference.

  • Faris and Tifa helped to right a tortoise
  • Faris and Ranma defended tortoises from the ice giants
  • Faris and Rem helped the fairy seamstress throw the scent off her pursuers by faking her own death (having rejected the original bounty upon realizing what it meant)
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[personal profile] gruffier 2024-01-30 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Player: kassie
Character: clive rosfield | gruffier
Proof: 1/10
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[personal profile] photographice 2024-01-30 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Colleen
Character: March 7th | photographice
Proof: 01/15
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[personal profile] la_sombra 2024-01-30 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Neon
Character: Sombra | la_sombra
Proof: 01/02
netherese: (93)

[personal profile] netherese 2024-01-30 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Christine
Character: Gale Dekarios | [personal profile] netherese

On hiatus, checking in!
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[personal profile] vermilloci 2024-01-30 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Jade
Character: Rem Tokimiya | vermilloci
Proof: 1:9

Extra:
--fought the fire horse with ketheric and drove it back. found a stone tablet with ketheric beneath the altar. took back pieces of the broken altar for analysis, will keep some on the ship, but also relinquish them to npc researchers in the archives for them to check out, too, or share with anyone who asks.
-- as soon as she heard of the sleeping curse, rem asked around and did some research. found an old text in the archives that mentioned the sleeping curse could be caused by demons that sit on your chest as you sleep. read something about smelling salts helping, too.
--worked with xenk in discussing the nature of the curse for potential remedies. resulting in bringing an angelic jellyfish to healers in Elah so they can use to make it into jelly to help stave off the curse and distribute both it and the knowledge to those in need.
-- pretty much went back up that volcano daily almost trying to find out more re: sleeping curse because she knows too many people are suffering from it. found a tome mentioning a black disk that can dispel sleeping demons. rem is not sure what the black disk is, though, so back up the mountain she goes to try to find more info or any other reference. and also to gather a bunch of fire crystals for research/workshop purposes.
-- Price of freedom/she's sew lovely: had an explosive adventure with kaveh in which they tried to confront the trafficker corsair himself.... by having kaveh dress up in drag in the special fire fairy silk to gain them an audience. they tried to apprehend the corsair. now he knows rem's face. he gets away. all hell breaks loose, kaveh and rem take out some of his henchmen and set off some (bloom core) explosions, oops, destroying a good part of the venue. they escape. rem has been avoiding returning to nogard/laying low ever since just in case. Is kinda worried the elite Corsair will tie her back to her phantom moon crew.

MANTA Board Posting:
QUEST:
Stress-testing a barrier (another magitek quest). Professor Turo, G'raha, and some help from Rem have come up with not a magitek weapon, but a magitek barrier! Using the fire crystals as a power source, this prototype channels their energy into a lattice-like red-colored shield. The area it covers is roughly 9m^2. It definitely needs some testing, though! Punch it! Throw a fire ball at it! Detect its weak points! Obliterate it with your strongest attack!

The makers request that you submit your attempts or successes against the barrier. It's for a good cause, because eventually, they wish to construct a shield that will protect the leviathans from harm! Or maybe even your ship!

Please note that the barrier prototype is prone to overheating because of the nature of its power source (the fire crystals). If left activated for too long, it will explode spontaneously.
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[personal profile] phoenixdominant 2024-01-30 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Mich

Character: Joshua Rosfield | [personal profile] phoenixdominant
Proof: 01/04

Character: Zack Fair | [personal profile] activatingcombatmode
Proof: 01/20

Character: Izuku Midoriya | [personal profile] fullgauntlet
Proof: 01/07
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[personal profile] cursedwords 2024-01-31 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Nat

Character: Toge Inumaki | cursedwords
Proof: 01/07

Extra: Toge tried unsuccessfully to help train the wolf pups.

Character: Demyx | melodiouspacifist
Proof: 01/07

Extra: Demyx did his part in training the wolf pups to mixed success. He got licked a lot.

Character: Dion Lesage | dragoonoflight
Proof: 01/07

Extra: Dion defended and protected the young woman in She Sews Lovely with Tifa.
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[personal profile] conclusively 2024-01-31 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Mira
Character: Mycroft Holmes | conclusively
Proof: 01/09
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[personal profile] andstill 2024-01-31 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Player: chesca
Character: Ardbert | jandstill
Proof: 01/07

Extra: Ardbert befriended some bats who now may or may not be hiding in the fur of his armour at any given point. He participated in protecting the seamstress in She Sews Lovely, but mostly just by helping to patch up a cannonball hole.

(I started on some other things earlier in the month but then got the sickness and vanished, so I'm not counting those.)
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[personal profile] everblooms 2024-01-31 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Agatha
Character: Aerith Gainsborough | everblooms
Proof: jan. 20th
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[personal profile] partybabysitter 2024-01-31 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Jans
Character: Xenk Yendar | [personal profile] partybabysitter
Proof: 1/09

Extra: Xenk helped saved turtles, fought off giants, arm-wrestled Tifa, had some dates with his boyfriends, and he kept a bunch of Corsairs from kidnapping that poor seamstress! He was a model citizen this month.
MANTA Board Posting: I think we should get more pillaging and plundering and more rivalry between armadas because I love that
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[personal profile] spectacleofphantasmagoria 2024-01-31 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Player: CS
Character: Lyney | spectacleofphantasmagoria
Proof: 01/06

Character: Nanaki/Red XIII | feralhumanity
Proof: 01/06

Character: Rody Soul | anhonestsoul
Proof: 01/07

Extra: Nanaki helped to protect the seamstress against the Corsairs, as well as trained the wolf pups (though his method of training was more along the lines of trying to teach the pups hunting skills and how to behave around humans). He's not exactly happy about people trying to take all these animals out of nature, and he's thinking of how to change that.
Edited 2024-01-31 05:23 (UTC)
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[personal profile] standingonmyneck 2024-01-31 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Liz
Character: Daria Morgendorffer | [personal profile] standingonmyneck
Proof: Date

Extra:
- Daria had a notebook in the volcano with various observations, she presumed the fire crystals could be used as fuel for machines and generators due to thermodynamics.
- Daria was cursed this month.
- Was very gentle and kind to the bats, they covered her in sugar like a donut lol.
Edited 2024-01-31 16:29 (UTC)
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[personal profile] subigito 2024-01-31 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Rema
Character: Astarion | subigito
Proof: 01/02

Extra: Astarion intended to steal the bounty for she's sew lovely but was stopped by Xenk (and the threat of Fenris's utter disappointment in him). This caused understandably troubled feelings for him as he had to think about his own freedom and the hunters Cazador sent after him--so a little close for comfort! Xenk also found a way to (temporarily) cure his curse so Astarion could drink his blood (the thread is like late December but I joined it in January so I'm sharing it). And he shared some nice time with Fenris in the hot springs. I would say it was an overall selfish month for him, but not following through with the bounty was a big deal so good for him!
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[personal profile] lucky_e 2024-01-31 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Alex
Character: Enterprise | lucky_e
Proof: 01/14
Edited 2024-01-31 18:52 (UTC)
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[personal profile] triple 2024-01-31 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: avery
Character: zoro | triple
Proof: 1/19
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[personal profile] detectiveforhierophant 2024-01-31 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Lucineblue/Jojo
Character: Ryotaro Dojima | detectiveforhierophant
Proof: 01/03/2024

Extra:

Manta Board: Dojima and Turo worked with the wolfpups to try and help train them, as neither man wanted them culled. Dojima would be hesistant but willing to take one in at a later date.

Rumours: Dojima overheard these rumours around the pubs and docks:

-There's a spot to the east where on a full moon, a huge whirlpool forms, one so big that it actually opens up the seafloor to the air. If you can somehow navigate your way down, you can explore the various sea wrecks to try and find treasure down there.

-Rumours that the pollen from a particular carnivorous plant is in high demand after a culling session, thanks to their potency in helping some folks... achieve sexual potency.

-A haunted experimental diving suit can be seen roaming in deep waters, carrying a lamp light that never seems to go out. Supposedly haunted by the user who drowned when it didn't turn out to be water proof, it's usually a sign of ill fortune on clear nights, but during fogs, it can light your way forward.
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Stede

[personal profile] touchofcashmere 2024-01-31 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Sharon
Character: Stede Bonnet| touchofcashmere
Proof: 01/14/24
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[personal profile] foolprove 2024-02-01 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Cam
Character: Ren Amamiya | foolprove
Proof: 1/22
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[personal profile] verboaten 2024-02-01 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Player: olga
Character: eizen | [personal profile] verboaten
Proof: 1/7
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[personal profile] seemagicshit 2024-02-01 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Belmont
Character: Tianyou Zhao | seemagicshit
Proof: 01/21
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Nappa

[personal profile] minorinpain 2024-02-01 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Samu
Character: Nappa | minorinpain
Proof: 01/22

MANTA Board Posting: In a continuation of a December thread, Nappa ended up helping Aerith in a hanglider competition by taking the place of the hanglider because, hey Vegeta! Nappa can fly!

This month he wrestled a jellyfish while "helping" Zhao and found out jellyfish stings kind of suck, but he's a Saiyan so you know...walk it off.
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[personal profile] deltastrike 2024-02-01 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Myco
Character: Theseus | deltastrike
Proof: 01/29

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