Happy April, y'all! How's everyone doing on backtags?

Here is the bimonthly character check-in post. Grid_lined does not have an activity requirement, but does ask that you're honest with yourself about how many characters you want to have active.

The plot-with-me post will go up momentarily. We also have an April event coming up. As discussed previously, there will be an IC mod-character post during the first week of the month to announce the start of the event. Dawn and I will be looking at the check-in post as we finish planning the event to see who we're plotting for.<3 As a reminder, major events will be bimonthly (once every two months) after this, unless the game's demographics drastically change in the interim.


Please check in with:
Active characters, i.e. characters who have been active during the past two months and whom you intend to keep around;
New or returning characters whom you plan to reactivate or introduce into the game during the the upcoming two weeks. (You can always introduce a character later, but if you believe it won't be within the first two weeks, don't check in with the character on the check-in post yet.)

You only need one comment for all your characters.

If you're retiring a character and want them to exit the game some other way, please specify in your comment. Aside from that, characters not specified as active and characters who have not been played at all during the previous two months will be assumed to have been exported to their worlds of origin, with the usual wide-open option for return to the Free Grid at such time as their players want to pick them up again.

I'll be commenting with my characters when I get home from work. Thanks for sticking with us as we work out how to keep the game fun!



[EDIT: Due to unforeseen Thursdayness and time getting away from us, the event post will go up tomorrow.]

Last month was a quiet month on the Free Grid, aside from a brief and (so far) unexplained glitch in transportation. Inhabitants were recovering from the storm, exploring changes to the Grid's architecture, and missing those whom the storm removed from the Grid. (As it was a difficult month for a lot of us, much of this ended up happening offscreen.)

This month starts out just as quiet, though the Thing That Will Happen in a couple of days is likely to turn heads. Feel free plot non-event-related activities and/or to wait for Thursday's event post to decide what your characters might do.

Don't forget to use the Jobfair/Tasksets and Locations posts for ideas on what your character can do for others and they for you.

Plot away!

I've decided to retire Roy (heyalanhey) and Sati (neverminder); seven characters is too much.

Roy: was on the other side of the Portal when the storm cut the connection between his world and the Free Grid. He'll keep trying to restore contact, and might succeed someday, but till then, he wishes everyone well.

Sati: was visiting Gallium during the storm, and vanished with the city. The Portal team can confirm to whomever asks that she went wherever Gallium did.

As noted on the check-in post, Ram, Ko, Wulf, Allon, and Eckert are staying.