Wulf is off hiatus!

My current hiatus status is: Ram, Ko, Wulf, Eckert, and Allon active; Roy and Sati still on hiatus (Roy off-Grid, Sati NPCing).

too lazy to switch accounts whoops

As everyone works on wrapping the storm event, it's just about time for the follow-up. What does your character think of the changes on the Grid? Did they lose someone? Did the storm leave any scars, physical or mental? Who has an opinion about the new geography? Have they noticed the new bit of Sea yet? Are the ones who think it's good news still talking to the ones who think it's bad news?

Also, opinions on event frequency? Shaking up the Grid like this once a (realtime) week would be too often. What about once every three to four weeks, with optional mini-memes in between to keep things moving? (While events will affect the entire Grid, in-game memes would be optional individual scenarios you could use to jumpstart CR for your character(s), possibly with different options, like "this week your character might be stuck in an elevator OR writing a really awkward letter OR forming a protest group about something that happened recently; now post so we can tag you plz<3".) There could also be Bakerstreet-style memes in the ooc comm, for fun and games that wouldn't fit in the main comm's continuity. What do you think?


In other news, the Grid-jobs post was supposed to be up today, but I'm still picking at it; hopefully it'll be up tomorrow Friday and then GRID JOB FAIR FOR EVERYONE.

Under the cuts are the conditions on the Grid during the third day of the storm, and the immediate aftermath. While cleaning crews will be out after the storm, getting transportation running again, repairing power and communication channels damaged in the deluge, and clearing away debris, and Tron City will be back to operating condition two days (six millicycles) after the storm, there will be permanent large-scale changes in the Grid’s geography.


( Weather on the third day ) ( After the storm )

I have a day off because egad blizzard irl, and I see a lot of awesome plotting in the plotpost!

Reminder, everyone: plotting is fun, but the third day of the event goes up tomorrow and I've yet to see a lot of the fun things people are talking about actually happening. So consider this a modprod -- if you haven't tagged into any of the open storm posts, please do so, even if they're not the perfect opening for the thread you have planned. Toss your character at someone else's character and see what happens. Let's get our spontaneity back.

Plots are cool, but actual tags make a game.

This has been a post! \o/

Now that we know who’s around, what the event is, and what the game looks like for now, everybody get in here and plot!

Grid_lined plot-with-me posts will happen monthly from now on, and will replace the monthly plotplurk memes that folks have been using (since it’s difficult to find them again or keep track of so many different plurks). You can plot specifically for the storm event in that post or here, but this post is for February plots in general.

HAPPY FEBRUARY, EVERYONE. The player check-in has already gone up, and the plot-with-me post will be going up momentarily, but first of all, welcome to this week's event!

WHO: everyone who wants something to do. There will be safe places for those who just want to wait out the weather.
WHAT: Huge storm. Things happen.
WHEN: current.
WHERE: All over the Grid.
HOW LONG: This plot will last three days in game-time (approximately nine millicycles), and ideally one week in realtime. Any damage the storm causes will be considered to have been cleared away two game-days later.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN:

On the first day, a storm will gather from the Outlands. Rain, lightning, you know the drill. However, it will quickly become worse. There will be several lightning strikes around the city. The rain will reduce visibility and impede traffic. Deliveries will be delayed. Outside of Tron City, other cities and colonies will also be subjected to unusually bad weather.

On the second day, the weather will get worse. You thought rain and lightning was bad? Try high winds and thick sleet. Not quite cold enough to freeze, but hello slush everywhere. You might be trapped in your home or workplace, or in a stalled vehicle, or outside. You probably won’t die unless something falls on you, but you might lock up and have a miserable old time.

On the third day….. well. That’d be telling. Once the first two days have developed a little, there’ll be a new post here for the events of the third day.

It’s going to be quite a ride.

Weather conditions like these are frustrating, and often scary, but believe it or not, the Grid's not out to kill your character. It's just having some growing pains. So: what will you do? Are you with friends, or with strangers, or alone until someone finds you? Are you rescuing trapped programs, or do you need help yourself? Are you working frantically to keep the local utilities operating? Who's working with you? Are you huddling for safety? Are you worried about the architecture? Do you know someone who needs some extra energy?

Note: in the interests of developing and redeveloping CR, try to tag in when open posts start appearing, especially with characters you don't often tag. This week will be about restoring CR among our PCs -- as well as surviving some of the worst weather conditions Tron City has seen in many cycles. Have at!

Starting a new tradition of bimonthly* character check-in posts!There will also be monthly plot-with-me posts; the first one will go up shortly, after the announcement of the upcoming event. Please keep plotting in there; this is for checking in with your character.

Grid_lined does not have an activity requirement, but does ask that you're honest with yourself about how many characters you have active. In future, characters who have not been played for the months prior to the next check-in will be considered idled out, though they can return any time the player wants to bring them back. If idled out or dropped without a specified fate, characters will ICly be transported back to their own universes by the Portal (this change will be announced in-game on around Thursday, when the Portal programs’ report of the new conditions reaches Tron City).

Reply to this post with the characters you intend to have active in g_l over the coming two months, as well as hiatus/drop updates as needed.** (You only need one comment for all your characters.)


*Every two months.
**Edit: Characters who haven't been introduced ICly in the game are not on hiatus (even if they've been under development for a long time), they're just not here yet. If they need a category, they can be called prospective characters.

And here it is. \o/

Going forward, grid_lined is upgrading to full game status. We're not going for a continuity reboot, but enacting various changes to make it a better playing environment. Conditions on the Free Grid may change more -- maybe even drastically -- over the next few months as we find our footing and tool it to its present and potential player base.

Here are some of the things we will be instituting:


( Bimonthly player/character check-in. )
( Dropped characters are returned to their original universes. )
( Death no longer works on the Grid. )( A character's-day-job post, for reference and plotting. )
( A G_L timeline. )
( Limits on high-powered characters and experimental AUs. )
( More events. )
( Further changes )

Allon is now off hiatus, and will be tagging and opening new threads (particularly in the party post where I haven't tagged anyone in yet, orz). Won't be posting yet -- Ram gets my next post, I think. So my current status is:

Active: Allon, Eckert, Ram
Hiatus: Roy, Sati, Wulf

Two things to go along with this:

• Please remember to tag your posts! And to tag the posts you tag, if you take my meaning. :D Tags are useful.
• There will be a general state-of-the-rp post to take stock and plan for this year. It'll be up hopefully within the week. Watch this space.

Eckert is now off hiatus. My other characters (Ram, Roy, Sati, Allon, Wulf) are still hiatused for now. I hope to start bringing them back soon.

Trying to get an idea of where everyone is in terms of activity right now. If you're in Grid_Lined, please answer the following poll for all of your characters who are either currently active or hiatused but likely returning. (Please don't answer for dropped/retired characters.)

( Activity poll! )

Thanks, everyone!

I unfortunately have to hiatus from active threading for a while. Yeah, you saw that coming. What's happening is a combination of work, rl, worrying, unexpected things, and an ever-growing heap of unfinished things, and between them all I'm finding it impossible to thread right now. I should have put this notice up months weeks ago, but was sort of trying to pretend it would all magically not be happening if I didn't say anything, and yyyyyeah, that didn't work. I'm really sorry for keeping you all hanging and not doing this upfront.

I'm also retiring four of my characters: Tesler, Naught, Ko, and Sentry. I love them all individually but ten characters is too many. Hopefully I'll still be able to hold onto the remaining six when I get back.

If you're stuck in a thread with one of my folks, we can decide what happens so your character can move forward with future plotting.

Here's what my characters will be doing while I'm out:
( Retired characters )
( Hiatused characters )

I'll still be online, and can be reached on plurk or via any of my character journals for game-related questions. Carry on, follow The Rules, ask/notify before plotting anything with community-wide repercussions, and above all, have fun.<3

Well, I noticed a lot of people here have them and seem to use them for communicating here, and since I would like to participate more in some of the bigger threads, I'm making a Plurk too. I really have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it, so if anyone would be willing to give me assistance, I would be very appreciative.

That's pretty much it.

 HI THERE EVERYONE!

ok so like
5 months ago i deleted my plurk! i was going through some health issues and i thought it was the best to take it off for a while. but i've been feeling a little better and got a new one...for a while.......and i just remembered i have the ooc community to let you all know! i'm sorry it's taken me this long to remember, eheh.

ANYWAY. my new plurk is wonderfullyworthy feel free to add if you'd like!

edit- oh my god the random icon
GRRR DON'T MESS WITH MY PLURK

So.

Uh.

Hi.

...Wow it's been a long time. Ummm so I used to be here...like a year ago? right when we moved over from LJ, so maybe it was longer than that. I don't remember. I don't even remember what name I went by back then LOL. ...It was either Rachul/Chul/Puppy I honestly don't remember.

ANYWAY i had a ram once, in the LJ gridlined he was religiousnut, that is me. I was also the weirdo that kept turning programs into animals (Rinzler-kitty, Tiger-Zuse), and I had a pregnant Quorra and I had a Sam that got attacked by a Rinzler...oh man it was so long ago.

The point being! I'm jumping back in. At the very least, I'm bringing Ram back, and I'm going to be awful and reboot him. You can probably jumpstart his memories from before when he was here if you try hard enough and he'll probably remember some of you (vaguely) but for the most part, he's brand new.

I will probably be bringing my Rinz back in once I rewatch Legacy, and doubtless Quorra will be coming along too because I've already felt her waking up just talking about Evolution, so uh. Yeah.

OH BY THE WAY. I go by Theta now but you can call me pretty much anything you want, I don't care.

ALSO um this is a little embarrassing to admit but I don't remember a ton of the CR I did before...If you'd like Ram to remember it, please remind me what in particular you're talking about. Or which Rinzler you are. Or something to remind me so I'm not awkwardly flailing like an idiot. Sorry.

Well this took me long enough.

Hello everyone. I am Jayde, and after probably about a year of debating I am finally coming here with the lone program I play. It happens to be Anon! And he is AU'd a little, which I am discussing in the paragraph below.

It's actually pretty short and sweet as far as AUs go, really. After the end of Tron: Evolution, his Flynn managed to find his disc and restore him from a backup copy. He even managed to quickly code him a voice (which, due to the quickness, has an underlay of classic dial-up modem static in it), and Anon became a one-program guerilla resistance force. He attacked Clu's people and blew up stuff and was generally a menace that lived in the ruins of Bostrum and Arjia (gotta make sure the infection is completely cleared, after all!)

He's arriving from just before his capture and derezzing in 1999 and won't know what to think of all this business aside from 'Yay Parkour friends!' Even if he has a voice he doesn't use it very often, and he usually keeps his helmet up because he's self-conscious about looking like Flynn and Alan implausibly had a kid together.

Anyway, hi again and it's nice to meet all of you!

Hi, all! I'm going to be AFK for two days, starting tonight and returning approximately Wednesday night. Given how slow I tag these days, it's not exactly a hiatus, but if you can't reach me, that's why.

See you all later!

STOP. STOP READING THIS INTRO. PUT THIS ON.

IS IT ON? OKAY, GOOD. THE TONE IS SET. CONTINUE.

Greetings Users. I'm Tori. INB4 "she doesn't even go here!" I totally used to go here, back when grid-lined was on LiveJournal. I didn't have much time to commit to roleplaying then, but hopefully I do now. I'm really looking forward to meeting most of you, and picking up with the few I knew from earlier.

I play Kevin Flynn, young and old, but I don't have an account for his younger self. I'm just a small amount of enabling away from caving in and making that. His older self is especially important to me. I was a somewhat lapsed Buddhist, and researching koans and things for Flynn to say urged me to get back onto the Eightfold Path. I'm definitely living more considerately than I was before I picked him up. I hope you guys will give me the chance to keep playing him.

TL;DR you're all obviously lovely and talented people, please let me join in.

So, umm... Hi everyone! I'm Kari, and I play Beck!
Or at least I hope to. He's so new to me it's not even funny. I made this account like, three days ago.

But anyway! I've always looked at grid_lined, and when I actually picked up a character from Tron, it was like, 'i want to join ALL of the things!'. So I've wanted to join for ages, but I'm not sure whether or not Beck is really Beck yet, y'know? But hopefully with a little (or a lot) of practice, I can be more confident. And better with the muse, heh...

It's good to meet y'all, and let's see how this goes!

Okay. Only some of Team Orange is directly involved this time around, since Dyson (supremesassy ) is back at the Compound guarding Esme ( noprincecharming ) and S.A.M. ( prototype_son ) while Program!Flynn (builtromeinaday ) is locked in Clu's quarters. And, since we got a couple of PC's involved this time around, here's what's going down inside Tron City;

>Rinzlers ( both notglitching and commander_scarecrow ) are sent first to the media outlet station to upload a Very Important Announcement. Both will have to fight their way out again, and this leads to the eventual capture of Rinzler 1 ( notglitching )

>Sleeper Agent Code is triggered. How you think it would work for your character ( zombiefied, a compulsion they are aware of but can't control, etc ) is up to you. As is how events play out.

>Said Sleeper Agents then become the saboteurs of the energy processing plant.

Characters Affected

- Kade ( annualprank ); Hacking program, used to override all locks, and security on the energy distillery and processing center.

- 0rca ( 0rca ); Sent to the control center to crank down the coolant flow, and ( in theory ) cause a chain reaction toward meltdown.

- Allon ( overarch ); Opening the outflow channels ( think big fluid pumps ) so that energy floods the interior of the processing center, and ( again in theory ) help the destruction along.

>How you choose to play these scenarios out is up to you, but mayhem is the key. Explosions, running from ( or even fighting? ) Security personnel, or just getting caught and thrown in Grid!jail straight off. However you want to play it out is up to you.

>Once a Sleeper Agent's task is accomplished, it is up to mun discretion whether or not they realize what they've done right at that moment, or not until they've rebooted. Likewise, it is up to mun discretion whether or not there are any lasting memory glitches, or your character remembers everything with perfect clarity.

>Yes, Clu will be a more active participant this time around, but making sure things go according to his plans.

>Compiler ( confusedloyalty ) is on escape route detail, however, so Clu is that much harder to track.

Questions? Comments? Leave them here please!