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[seawarden]

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.

<b>Player:</b> Name <b>Character:</b> Character | journalname <b>Proof:</b> <a href="THREADURL">Date</a> <b>Extra:</b> 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. <b>MANTA Board Posting:</b> OPTIONAL can delete if not used. If you have any quests for us to add to the MANTA Board, whether it is a general, armada, bounty, or special quest, dump it here! Please be sure to note what kind of request it is.

Comments

[yuezun]

Player: Autumn
Character: Dongfang Qingcang | yuezun
Proof: 01/06

Extra:

Special Notes:

Fire Horse - Thread ongoing, but Daqiang is attempting to tame it and it will do it's run away thing eventually

Sleeping Curse - Daqiang is affected and has been successfully staving it off between a combination of Fire Salts and Angeltic Jellyfish Jelly; He has also be attempting to craft counter-curse rituals to no success (with this curse; next month may have some semi-success with the fire horse per your answer to my question on the manta board.)

She Sews Lovely/The Price of Freedom - Thread ongoing with Xenk, but plan was for Daqiang to let the woman go after learning the truth of the 'merchandise' and then go hunt down the merchant; Jans has been pretty busy, though, so it might end up dropped and handwaved.

Other Events/Quests:

Avaleci Fire Sprites - one of them will manage to sneak their way back to the Phantom Moon by clinging to Daqiang's robes and not being successfully shaken off. It sticks to his quarters and has taken to harassing keeping the chickens from last month warm.

Frost Flowers and Ice Crystals - Before getting cursed, Daqiang managed to successfully transplant two of the frost flower plants into a planter and is keeping them in the proper frosty conditions in his cabin by planting one of the ice crystals in the pot with them, but has plans to get another one mounted by a jeweler so he can make a magical planter that's larger and won't shed cold past it's sides.

Dragon Heated - Daqiang and Rem tested the potion (it got awkward), and then received a copy each of the sequel/fanfiction(?).

Background, not threaded but to be referenced in some ongoing threads:

The golden eggs from December's event have hatched into fluffy chickens with gold colored (but not real gold) feathers. They are still small and have not grown enough to start laying their own eggs, but Daqiang has noticed that some, not all, of the molted down feathers have turned into golden flakes after coming off them. Larger feathers may produce more substantial gold later down the line.