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HEY GUYS. Have don't have a ton of events but this month but the ones we do have? Quite the doozies! We're going to go over a few OOC things before we get to the event descriptions of the month. First, as usual, the dates overview:

June 15th: NPC Post from the Programmer
June 15th-23rd: GLITCH: Boogie Wonderland
June 29th-July 2nd: GLITCH: Being Somebody Else

IMPORTANT GAME FUNCTION INFO
So let's get started with some OOC stuff as a result of the recent poll that we had:

1. There will be a suggestions post made up for the interaction log! It should be up by June 14th or sooner.

2. Because of other portions of the interaction log adjustments and the two events that are shifted to the second half of the month this time around, we will not be having an interaction log this month.

3. So there was some discussion on the recent poll for additional options on how to do the interaction log, including potential increased frequency for slice of life logs and the types including both school events and non-school events. So we came up with the idea that there be a 1-2 day interaction log every two weeks (instead of a 5 day span interaction log), alternating between school events and events elsewhere in the afterlife. If you would like to see this happen, please vote yes. If you would not like this, please vote no and it will continue as it is but with the new suggestions post additon:

POLL IS HERE SINCE I CAN'T MAKE POLLS ON AN UNPAID ACCOUNT.

4. Wanted Characters list will remain as the primary form of ATP ad gathering.

5. We will be trying to make specific events a minimum of 4 days and a maximum of 10, dependent on the event, to give eveyone a chance to respond to the event regardless of speed or how much stuff they want to do. The general response seemed to be 1 week, with a preference for variation depending on the event within the poll. If the event is a plot-related passive event and long term (such as the housing situation) it may be subject to longer periods.

As always, if you ever have suggestions, comments, or complaints for the game or mods, you can reply to this post with screened comments.

NPC POST: Forced Glitches (The Programmer)
The Programmer will make a post explaining exactly what the past couple of glitches have been caused by-- him! This will be followed by an explanation that due to perfecting the intentional glitching of his own program, he's managed to find a way to get everyone out of the safety zone that may even stop Ai from fixing it with her anti-glitch software. This post will be followed by the glitch that he's threatened...

Glitch: Boogie Wonderland
For this glitch, the world is going to become incredibly unstable. Doors that would normally lead to the garden lead to a classroom in the middle of the school, or up onto a roof. No door goes where it's supposed to. Your character can get back to where they were if they did not let go of the door knob. The door they went through will disappear entirely if their touch separates from the door if they are in a location that does not naturally have a door. If it has a door naturally, the door will now lead to another different location.

No substance acts as it's supposed to. The concrete might be similar to a trampoline, the grass might act like quick sand. If your character eats a cookie, they might find themselves as big as their house. Drink the wrong cup of tea? Small as a cat. Be careful of the cafeteria food, if you like fish a little too much you might sprout cat ears and a tail. Walk up the stairs and you might find yourself walking and walking and walking and then suddenly the floor is up and the ceiling is down and you're stuck in a Escher painting-esque nightmare.

Overall, the world's just gone completely bizarre. Feel free to get creative and if you're worried about anything not being okay, ask a mod. What happens is completely up to you. The only thing off limits is a body swap (and you'll see why in a minute.) This is essentially a free-for-all event where you can do whatever you want.

ADDITIONALLY, THE PROGRAMMER WILL BE CAPABLE OF BEING FOUND DURING THIS EVENT. Because the world is all wibbly wonky, even he can't control it completely and may show up. You will need to sign up to have your character meet him. He's not going to meet everyone, so if there are more than 5 sign ups we will RNG from the participants to see who gets to meet him. If you would like to sign your character up for the chance to meet the Programmer for the first time, REPLY TO THIS COMMENT.

It will take Ai until the 23rd to find the source of the glitched code, at which point the glitch will end and your characters will have to decide what to do from there now that they know the identity of the Programmer, at least physically, and possibly what the room he's working from looks like.

Glitch: Being Somebody Else
This glitch? Entirely unintentional. The huge glitch from earlier had some aftershocks and this is one of them. What is it? It's a body swap. Your character may switch bodies with another character at player discretion OR by an RNG if you do not have a preference. The RNG will be put up along with a plotting post 5 days before the event on the 24th to give ample time for plotting and RNG sign-ups. The results of the RNG will be posted at 11:59PM on the 27th to give RNG'd pairs a full day to plot anything out as well!

Alright, that's it! It seems nice and simple, but it'll be a ton of fun! If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this post. Otherwise, look forward to it and have a great weekend!

First of all, I realize it's the first but no, none of these events are April Fool's jokes! Not even the totally awesome one with prizes. As always, here's the general overview of the dates:

4/1-4/20: OOC: ATP Ad Contest Entries Open
4/2: Added Feature: State of the Afterlife Sticky Post
4/1-4/8: OOC: Save the NPCs! Submissions
4/1-?: Random Battles with Shadows
4/4: Last Day of AC
4/5: NPC POST: Eviction (Fantoche)
4/5-4/12: EVENT: On the Road Again
4/7: Housing Sign Ups
4/12: NPC Post: Firewalls (Ai)
4/21-4/25: OOC: ATP Ad Contest Poll Period
4/28: Student Council Campaigns Begin
4/30: Interaction Log

ATP Ad Contest
ARE YOU READY TO WIN PRIZES? I hope so, because we're ready to update our ad for ATP. afterliving is looking for a new ad to post on our monthly ATP rounds and we decided to open it up to everyone here to write a new advertisement. What's more? We're offering 1 Month Paid Account, that World Building Opportunity that was missed ICly, and use of your ad each month to represent Afterliving at app_this_plz. For the World Building Opportunity, the winning player will be able to add one new aspect to the setting of Afterliving (must be a non-sentient location). This does not need to be an IC choice, as it will be presented as a glitch. There are a few rules, so make sure you read them carefully before you get working!

All submissions are due by April 20th at 11:59PM PST. The poll will go up within 24 hours of that date! No late submissions will be accepted. You can find the submissions post, rules, information about prizes, and a sample of how to submit using the current ad here!

State of the Afterlife Sticky Post
Starting tomorrow, there will be a little sticky post at the top of the main community. It will have the current IC status of the afterlife, including shadow density and concentration areas, odd weather notices (if applicable), currently NPC'd characters, and any other information currently pertinent to the game's setting. This post will be updated weekly on Thursday nights. There will also be a submission form at the bottom of the State of the Afterlife Post to update us if your character is turned into an NPC, for official record.

Save the NPCs! Submissions
Many of you may have been wondering just how you're going to rescue the people who have been turned into NPCs and while we've had some ideas of our own, we want to see what you guys come up with. A post will go up tonight to submit ideas for changing human beings back to themselves from NPC states. At the end of the submission period (4/8) we will select 1-2 ideas that fit within the parameters of the game. If there are more than 2 good ideas, we will RNG between them. (Can't make it too easy!) Remember that these submissions do not have to be thought of by your characters immediately, but once they are selected they will need to be introduced by characters within the game. Feel free to be as creative as you want! Submissions post is here.

Random Battles
Since the shadows are not leaving immediately or abruptly this time, there will be shadows around the afterlife indefinitely. They won't be completely swamping the campus, so it will be rather like a random battle in a video game. Every once in a while, shadows will crop up and attack characters! The only "safe" locations are classrooms during active class sessions or (up until Saturday April 5th) the dormitories.

Reminder: If your character is NPC'd they will not notice any shadows.

NPC Post: Eviction (Fantoche)
On April 5th, Fantoche is going to make another post. No, your characters aren't going to like this one either. The post will discuss some 'repercussions' for not turning Ai over and about 15 minutes after the post is made, the dormitories will no longer be safe. If your character is inside the dormitories at the time, they may notice their room suddenly going dark and if they look out the window, there will be shadows covering the glass. The shadows are engulfing and invading the entire dormitory area. If your character stays there, they will be turned into an NPC. So they will need to run to get out of the dormitory buildings with whatever they can carry. If your character is not in the dorms at the time, they will not have access to any of their possessions. To return to the dormitory area is to submit to being an NPC.

NPC characters may enter the dormitory buildings without being swarmed as they have already been changed, but they will not be able to get out and will be trapped in the building until they can be "checked" to make sure that they're not Ai. (1-2 days.)

Event: On the Road Again
Due to the dormitory building being cut off, all characters will be on their own for finding shelter. The dormitory building is no longer safe from shadows and there is nowhere to stay just yet. Houses cannot be accessed without a minimum of 3 members of a group, but shadows can still get into the houses for the duration of the first week. The apartments do not have a minimum requirement, but are frequently run through by shadows. The best bet is going to be in the wilderness for a time being, especially since Guild has been flooded with shadows as well. At least the weather's nice?

NPC Post: Firewalls (Ai) & Housing Sign Ups
With Dorms locked down, Ai will offer to set up a "firewall" around the houses in the town that will block out the shadows. Because of the amount of power it will take to protect the houses, she can only do the housing area.

Groups of 3-5 per house (varies based on size of house, specifics will be listed in sign up post) due to the minimum of 3 and available room in the houses. Sign up will be according to IC character preferences (though OOCly written). Characters may choose not to go into the houses if they like and continue living out in the wilderness, but if this is what they would ICly do please comment on the "Exempt" section on the Sign Ups post so that we know not to RNG your character. Anyone who does not sign up their character for either Exempt status or for a specific group will be RNG'd into a house by the mods (ICly, Ai).

ICly, please handwave that everyone picked groups on the day of Ai's post according to what was written on the Housing Sign-Ups. There are 10 houses available. The dormitories will be available again in the future (and roommates will be kept on record), but for now please enjoy the current housing situation.

EDIT!
A note about NPC'd Characters: NPC'd characters may be brought to the houses by characters who still have their state of mind. If you notify Ai, she can alter their housing assignment in the school's system so that they recognize the house as their current residence.

Student Council Campaigns
Regardless of what happens the rest of the month, school still goes on as normal. Your characters can remain safe from the shadows by attending classes (only during school hours) and there comes a time when the student council holds elections. It is getting close enough to that time that the principal will announce that now is the time to start campaigning! Around this time, your character may ICly begin campaigning and you may note them as a candidate if you would like them to participate in an OOC post.

Additionally, it seems as though the shadows will not touch student council members while they are in a student council meeting. You must be a student council member for this to work, so that is incentive for characters to try despite the current shadow/random battle predicament.

Monthly Interaction Log
As usual, a monthly interaction log will appear at the end of the month! This is a good place for your characters to campaign and participate in school activities.. or just have a fun random battle. Up to you!

AND THAT'S IT! Don't forget to submit your Activity Check information here before Friday at 11:59PM PST and if you have any questions, feel free to comment to this post and we'll get back to you ASAP! As always, you can also view the monthly events on the calendar!

Hey everyone. As you may have noticed, the mods goofed and forgot to put how soulmates are actually identifiable during the event. I've edited it into the original event post now, but here's the sitch for ease of access:

How does your character recognize their soulmate? Going around holding hands with everyone seems implausible right? Well, they're not going to have a magical feeling. There aren't going to be red strings or anything like that to lead you to the right person. No, what's going to happen is if your character sees their "soulmate" their vision will blur for a moment until suddenly, regardless of what the person is saying, a hallucination will set in for approximately 5 seconds. The hallucination style may look familiar to you. It will only last for a few seconds, though, so let's hope your character is paying attention.

February is the shortest month of the year, and yet we're having a few events. Amazing. The first, of course, is a Valentine's event! You didn't think we'd skip out on some dokidoki times, did you? Then toward the end of the month, there'll be some trouble afoot with an NPC post. So let's take a brief look at this month's fun before we get into it!

2/3: NPC Post: Friendship (Ai)
2/5: Interaction Log
2/8: Roommate Shuffle
2/12-2/14: Event: You Belong To Me
2/22: Test Drive Meme
2/27: NPC Post: A Proposition (Mysterious Boy)

NOTE ABOUT WEATHER: All weather phenomena will stop this month and it will just be "good weather" the entire time. The weather glitch appears to have been fixed.

NPC POST: FRIENDSHIP (AI)
Ai needs to make a post if she's going to blend in with you normal folk. This post will allow Ai to gather information and it is her attempt to establish herself as a "non-NPC."

INTERACTION LOG
Your monthly interaction log is here! It'll go up on the 5th, so if you're really stretching for AC you'll still have two days to grab it on the Interaction Log too. (Really, don't forget to fill it out.) This interaction log will also contain a special section for anyone who passed the Things We Handed Down event requirements to get a Gold Meal Ticket. There will also be no glitches in this log, courtesy of a new anti-glitch program input into the system.

ROOMMATE SHUFFLE
Remember that poll that went up a bit ago? Well, the results are in and though it was a very close run, it looks like the shuffle is going to be just those who are without roommates. For this reason, we're pushing it until right after AC to make sure that everyone has current, active roommates! No one will be without a fun roomie, yay!

EVENT: YOU BELONG TO ME
This Valentine's Day business is getting a little hectic. Maybe you were planning on confessing your love this time around? Giving chocolates to the guy you like? Well, you'd better hop to it. Love is in the air and the NPCs definitely seem to be thinking the same thing.

Despite the regular small glitches seeming to cease earlier that month, it looks like this one slipped through the cracks. The NPCs are obsessed with each and every one of your characters like they've been put under a love spell! Maybe it'll start with a group of 5 or 6 NPCs stalking your character separately, offering flowers or chocolates or other sweet things until they start to see each other. That's when things get mad. The NPCs will start to group up on you, imploring you to choose one of them, or even go so far as to say "If I can't have you, no one will" and things might lean toward psychotic murderer if it goes on too long.

So how can your character avoid this? They have to hold hands with their "soulmate" for the event. As long as they're holding hands with this person, the NPCs will seem to forget entirely about your character and go back to business as normal.

So who is your character's soulmate? You as the mun can choose your character's soulmate through plotting or sign up for a randomized partner. That's up to you. A plotting post will go up on the 8th with an option for randomized partners. It is important to note that you do not have to limit yourself to one-on-one soulmates. If you want a love triangle in which Character A's soulmate is Character B but Character B's is Character C for ultimate funtime and hand-holding giggles, you totally can. Please try to limit it to three characters though, as it may get complicated beyond that.

EDIT: How does your character recognize their soulmate? Going around holding hands with everyone seems implausible right? Well, they're not going to have a magical feeling. There aren't going to be red strings or anything like that to lead you to the right person. No, what's going to happen is if your character sees their "soulmate" their vision will blur for a moment until suddenly, regardless of what the person is saying, a hallucination will set in for approximately 5 seconds. The hallucination style may look familiar to you. It will only last for a few seconds, though, so let's hope your character is paying attention.

NPC POST: A PROPOSITION (MYSTERIOUS BOY/FANTOCHE)
Two NPC posts in one month? Amazing, I know. This one's not so much character building as Ai's though. This one will be from the Programmer, using the Mysterious Boy NPC as a messenger. If the Programmer reveals his face, after all, everyone would come after him. In this case though, it appears as though the Mysterious Boy NPC, unaffectionately named "Fantoche" by one of the afterlife's residents, has been reprogrammed after certain events that overrode the Programmer's last attempt to achieve his goals. What's more, they're looking for a certain NPC and they'll want your characters' help.

Don't worry, it's not without incentive. The incentive will offer a world-building opportunity that can be discussed ICly. There will be more details actually in the post, but suffice it to say it'll be a real witch hunt to get it.

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And that's it for February! Be sure to check out the Monthly Events Calendar for a more visual look at the dates and this month's Weekly Specials. Oh, and don't forget to do your Activity Check!

Any questions? Just reply to this post and a mod will get to you ASAP!

It's a new year! 2014! I literally already typo'd that as 2013. Okay, moving right along, we're going to start the new year with a couple of fun things! Here's the months' quick view:

1/1: Interaction Log
1/10-1/15: Afterliving Kink Meme
1/13: School Session Restarts
1/22-1/25: The Things We've Handed Down Event
1/31: Activity Check

Now let's get into more detail!

INTERACTION LOG
Yes, we know, it's a little weird to have it on the first of the months since we usually have it later but with how busy December was, we wanted to give you a bit of breathing room. Later today, the New Years Interaction Log should be up and it'll have quite a surprise for you all including a brand new NPC who will be tagging characters on said interaction log, plus some fun festivities for the New Year. Look forward to it!

AFTERLIVING KINK MEME
This is a meme for all you writers and artists out there and all you fans of art and fic! This meme is going to be a mod-run meme to make sure that we can keep track of what's been filled and what hasn't to try to get as much participation as possible and as many people satisfied as possible.

So what exactly is a kink meme? A kink meme is basically a fan request meme. You can ask for a ship you want, you can ask for a friendship you want, whatever. You can ask for cuddly fluff or goofy fun time or kinky as hell NC-17 things as long as it doesn't break the rules of Afterliving. There will be a form to fill out for requests that you can fill out to specify things, then once you leave that comment, other people reply to it with fills for the requests. It's not a porno fiesta, we promise. If you don't like smut, you don't have to ask for smut! Fills can be made in the form of either drabbles, one-shot fics, or fanart.

There are only three catches:

1. The entire thing is anonymous. Requests are anonymous, fills are anonymous. If you de-anon, your comment and any replies to it will be deleted as soon as a mod sees it. Do not reply to this kink meme while logged in!

2. You can only make requests for characters who are or were in Afterliving. Unless Peter Pan and Batman app to the game before the kink meme goes up, don't request Peter Pan and Batman teaming up to stop the Programmer.

3. If you request something, please try to fill at least one or two other requests. If we only get people requesting and no one filling, then it's not satisfying! If you can't find anything you want to fill, that's fine, you can still request something but don't request ten things if you're absolutely not going to fill anyone else's requests.

The AL Kink Meme will go up on January 10th! Requests are allowed up until January 15th. You may fill the requests at any point, even after the request deadline is up. (Though probably not too far after, since people might stop checking and it'll never get seen.) Any questions? Ask here.

SCHOOL SESSION RESTARTS
With the holidays around, everyone got a short break to go run around and exchange presents and not go to class for about two weeks toward the end of the month. On January 13th, classes start up again as normal.

THE THINGS WE'VE HANDED DOWN
This event is an NPC-run event! It actually happens in the classrooms. If your character doesn't attend class-- don't worry! The professors will give your egg to someone else who does or partner you up with someone who's in the class and tell them to pass it on.

Yes, that's right, I said egg.

It's that time of the year when the health class teachers believes that everyone should learn how to take care of a baby! On January 20th, your character gets a fresh, raw egg with a very small electronic box attached to the back with glue, about the size of a penny. Your character may decorate it, but they better not hard-boil it or take that box off or your teacher is going to fail them. That little box is a baby simulation recording and records how the baby is treated, if the egg goes bad, and makes crying noises in the dead of night to drive your character absolutely insane-- I mean to simulate a real baby.

Your character will also be assigned a "spouse" for the week with whom they are to raise the egg-child. Because it is a class assignment, all spouses will be randomized so if you want to sign up, you will be able to sign up oocly before the week is up and we will announce a randomized list the Friday before the event starts to give you time to plot. Adult characters may participate too and will be assigned partners based on "uneven numbers" in the classrooms.

If your character really, really puts the effort in, their partner and they will both be given special Gold Meal Tickets at the end of the assignment on January 24th. The Gold Meal tickets are for the restaurant in the town, which will be closed that night except for the Gold Meal Night winners. You must have A+ care and dress up your egg-baby in order to get these Gold Meal tickets. The Gold Meal Night winners will receive a 4-course meal (appetizer, salad, entree, and dessert) and will have the Phone app store open up to them for one additional app on their phone. This will be announced ICly in class, so participants are fully aware of the rewards for full participation.

On the flip side, if you fail your egg-baby, your cell phone access will be disrupted for one week and you will be assigned an extra essay which will be collected by the teacher knocking at your dorm room until you turn it in one week after the end of the event.

There will be a log up for the first day after getting the assignment, then anything after that you may post yourself. Any questions? Ask here.

ACTIVITY CHECK
Last but certainly not least, the activity check takes place on the last Friday of the month, which is January 31st this time around. That gives you the whole rest of the month to get activity. Remember, the minimum requirement is 20 comments contained within 2-3 links spanning any time between the end of the last activity check to the end of this one.

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That's it! Look forward to the Interaction Log a little later today and Happy New Year!

Well, the beach is gone and that non-stop music has finally stopped. It looks like things are back to normal, save for a few pine garlands, some lights, and... well, uh...

There's mistletoe.

Mistletoe! Hidden all about the school and the town and even in the forest! Nowhere is safe! There's something strange about them: If you get within a 5 foot radius of the mistletoe, you're trapped there until you kiss someone. A kiss on the cheek is okay, of course, don't worry. No forced makeouts. Unless you want to makeout. That's okay too. Once the kiss happens, it seems like the strange forcefield surrounding the mistletoe lifts until it captures its next victims.

Hope you don't trip while keeping your eyes toward the ceiling if you're trying to avoid it.

As mentioned in our previously-posted events lineup for the month, starting from November 9th to the 11th, another glitch is taking place in the afterlife!

Now, you may be asking: What's the glitch, Wade?!

Well, Mun Possible, this glitch is a de-aging one! Characters are going to wake up one morning at a younger age than they normally are, whether as toddlers, children, prepubescent teenagers, etc. Generally they will de-age both physically and mentally, though if your character has some memory issues that you don't want fixed yet, you may only change them physically. The glitch's effect on your characters is also optional, so if you would rather not have them de-aged, that's totally fine! I hope they're responsible babysitters, though...

Characters will be returned to their regularly-aged physical/mental states upon waking up on the 12th, hopefully on dry sheets.

Since it was asked in the previous post, you do not have to use icons of your characters as babbies. If you would like to and don't have enough icon space, however, you are allowed to use an alternate journal. You could also just post an image of your kid character in the tag. Or if you want to get fancy, you may use the code we provided here.

Now for the actual purpose of this post: Plotting! Since this event is not going to have a log and will instead be reliant on you guys posting or making your own logs, feel free to use this post to figure out what you all want to do together! What age is your character going to become? Who's going to take care of your character? Are they going to draw all over the principal office's walls in crayon? Are they going to go on an adventure?! Whatever floats your boat!

And as always, if you have any questions about the event, there's a thread here for you to ask them under.

Mission... Start (on November 9th)!

Sleepover Event Log is posted!

Okay, well. Salsa might actually be involved at one point, but we've got a couple of events this month and because of the way the events will be set up, there will not be an interaction log in September but a bunch of events that all start with S:

Sept. 5: Student Council Meeting (Student Council Tracking Post! Flynn will give more details about this specifically to Student Council Members)
Sept. 5-27: School Festival Preparations
Sept. 12: NPCs Freeze Again
Sept. 14: Sleepovers (Character-Run Event, Event Log)
Sept. 27-Oct. 4: Activity Check
Sept. 28-30: School Festival (Event Log)

*** DATE EDIT NOTE: The Sleepovers have been moved to Sept. 14 because Tay!mod was dumb while writing this post and looked at August 17 on the calendar, not September. Sorry.

As you can see, despite that there won't be an interaction log this time around, there will be plenty of opportunities to participate in game activities! That said, let's get started on a more detailed account of this month's events..

School Festival Preparations
The school festival is coming! Uwah~! If you've been here since the beginning of the game, you'll remember the first one, but now you get to participate in planning for it. Classrooms get to have different events, like cafes or haunted houses, bazaars, or anything in between! Clubs too! This is something of an all-month sort of thing, so your character can be doing anything regarding it throughout the month if you'd like to make a post about that, mention it in threads, etc. There will be no log for this.

NPCs Freeze Again
Just as they had on August 28th during the Interaction Log, the NPCs are going to freeze in place once more. Your character is free to notice this, though the time span is 30 minutes this time instead of an hour. Yet again there is no explanation and they do not respond, nor question it once they move again. They will not have any answers if you do question them.

Sleepovers
Due to the popularity of the idea over plurk, there will be two sleepovers on the same night this month. A girl's sleepover and a boy's sleepover. Everyone is invited (your character can go to whichever sleepover they feel more comfortable at). This will be a character run event and, as plotted in the plurk, the girl's sleepover will take place in the Principal's Office/SSS Headquarters as it will be hosted by Yurippe.

For the boy's sleepover, I need a volunteer to propose the boy's sleepover on the same night.

Basically, Yuri will make a post that's unlocked specifically stating how all the girls can come and wear cute pajamas and they'll make fun of the boys and eat cheetos and have pillow fights and stuff. Other things mentioned of interest included the boys trying to spy on the girls, undercover missions, and possibly date/hate commentary with pictures. It'll be absolutely horrible and I will put a log up for it on the 17th with a section for the boys' sleepover and a section for girls' sleepover. There will be a plot post put up a few days in advance in case anyone wants to plan anything specific during the sleepover.

School Festival
This is going to be broken up into three days for a very good reason because each day is going to be drastically different. This is our one-year anniversary event, it is clearly the best time for serious business to go down. So here's how it's going to break down:

Day 1: The School Festival
The first day on the log will be open for all of the planned things for the school festival. Go, explore, have fun, run around and stuff your face and just enjoy yourself. Any events planned. There will be a post to comment with any events you'd like to see during the school festival OOCly and we can say a class or club is doing it, people can comment if they want their class or club specifically to participate or if they want to state that their character is in the class for a specific event (in the case that we have more than one charcter who wants to participate in that specific event) and that's how we'll sort out what's happening specifically.

Day 2: A Special Message Part II
The first half of the second day of the school festival will go on as normal. Maybe today your character decided to go to a play or test their courage in the haunted house... Then once again, the NPCs will freeze. They won't breathe, they won't move, they won't blink. Those in mid-step will stay exactly as they are, as if frozen in time. Silence falls across the school festival, the mirthful laughter and enjoyment that should be there is no more. It is exactly as it was on August 28th a month before. Not a single movement. The stillness won't last long though, not this time.

After about 10 minutes, the PA from the Principal's Office / SSS Headquarters flickers on again and the voice speaking will be a voice unknown to all, but it will be the voice of The Programmer. At which point he will announce his motives, what's been going on, and it'll basically be a big reveal. Then he will turn every single NPC except for the Mysterious AI NPC into a shadow all at once and suddenly characters might be wishing that they were still frozen. Characters will have to either fight their way through or find someone close to them to help them get out. The school will be completely overrun, the safest places would be to get to the forest or in a small enclosed place where the shadows can't find you and wait to be rescued. You will have the option to have your character turned into an NPC again (details about what this means in a later post) at any time after this point.

Day 3: The Underground Opens / Journey to Guild
Characters will not be forced to go underground OOCly but given that most of the surface will have been overrun because of a matter of sheer numbers, I will have Yuri lead the way through the Guild passages. There will be a matter of booby traps, but at the very least she remembers all of the ones that were triggered during the initial Guild Trips she's made. SSS members present during the first Guild Trip in-game may make their way their through the water passage if they get separated, it's up to you. Characters have the option of staying on the surface even though it won't be remotely safe if they are willing to fight, but this will open up an entire new area to the game: The Abandoned Guild Factory. It is equipped to be lived in and is the second version of Guild, so this is rebuilt. It essentially looks like an industrial city, though nothing is turned on but most of it still works. Your character will still be free to do as they please, but on this third day of the event log, this will be opened to all characters (including a new area map of the industrialized area) and Yuri will attempt to arrange guards at the entrances and keep the traps activated because they will react to the shadows, as well as make semi-frequent trips to the surface to look for more people and new arrivals.

At this point, it will be up to the characters ICly to figure out what to do, but from that point on, any characters that wish to remain themselves will likely remain stuck underground. Due to the fact that this may be a longer-term situation than most events, there will be a method to return characters from NPCs to humans. It will not be easy for the characters to do, however, as the individual who has been turned into an NPC has to have their head removed (much like a zombie, we know) in order to activate a 'reset' of sorts.

Activity Check
That's right! It's that time again. The AC will start on Sept. 27th, the last Friday of this month. AC is 20 comments from the end of the last AC period to the end of this AC period. Make sure that you're ready for it! Remember: If you apped in the last week of August or in September you will be exempt from the AC. If you have any question about it, it should be stated in your App Response whether or not you will be required to participate.

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That's it for now. afterliving's birthday will be a blast~!