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There is no Maypole for May. Sorry everyone. Instead, you get a post about events! That'll make up for it right? Right. Right. Either way, it's a pretty relaxed month since we know a lot of you students have finals!

May 9th: End of Student Council Campaigns
May 9th-12th: Student Council Election Poll
May 12th: New Student Council Announced
May 21st: Interaction Log + GLITCH TEST #1: A Literally Small Glitch
May 29th-June 2nd: GLITCH TEST#2: Waking Up is Hard to Do
May 30st-June 6th: Activity Check

Student Council Campaigns/Elections
As detailed last month, your characters are free to campaign and try to win hearts in order to get themselves elected to the student council. Student council members receive the benefit of being safe from shadows during active student council meetings and also getting to plan some events! If you would like to sign your character up to run you may do so at any point until 7pm EST (4pm PST) on May 9th, the end of the campaign period. To sign your character up, click here! After 7pm, an IC poll will be put up for you to vote as your character. You will need to make absolutely sure you are logged in on your character's journal, as each character gets one vote. Do not vote for who you want to win, but rather who your character would want to win. (Otherwise all the campaigning would go to waste!) The new student council will be announced at the end of the poll on May 12th.

Interaction Log + A Literally Small Glitch
As usual, the monthly interaction log will be making an appearance this month on May 21st. However, during this log, there will be a small glitch. A very literally small glitch. As in for one of the days, all characters will find themselves shrunken down to the size of a tiny pebble. This is a one-day-only glitch but it's on the interaction log, so you can feel free to get to it as you will!

This is, without a doubt, a glitch. The only difference is how that glitch came about, of course. The short duration is suspicious, for one thing, and it is caused by something other than natural data corruption. Particularly since Ai should be preventing glitches, but since it's problematic for her to leave the safe area created in the housing zone she isn't able to prevent them.

Glitch Test #2: Waking Up is Hard to Do
If you thought that tiny glitch the week before was a pest, well.. let's hope you're not having any suspicious dreams that cause sleepwalking or talking in your sleep or other suspicious sleep activities.. Waking up is hard enough to do normally, but when you wake up in a strange place due to a glitch? Yeah, things can get a little weird. For the duration of this glitch, any time a character goes to sleep, they will end up getting teleported to a different spot in the afterlife. This can be literally anywhere (with permission if its in the personal space of another character, of course). On the floor in the bathroom? Sure. On the rooftop? Yep. On a library bookshelf with all the books knocked over? That's possible too. It's up to you.

The catch? This glitch works to draw people out of the safe housing zone without them being aware. You'd better be careful, or you'll end up getting taken by the shadows that are still about! And they are still about. So this event can be used for goofy fun times or it can be used to draw your character into a difficult situation with the shadows when they otherwise wouldn't bother leaving the safe zone. The event will last from March 29th until June 2nd and will be ended by an NPC post that reveals exactly what's behind these recent glitches.

Activity Check
Yep, I know, pain in the butt but it's that time again! Make sure you have 20 comments from each of your characters any time between the end of the last AC (April 6th) and the end of this one (June 6th).

That's it for May and as always, let a mod know if you have any questions!

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!

ATP is this Saturday! Please make sure to update the Wanted Characters list to have your wanted characters in AL's ad! Any updates or additions must be posted before 6:00PM EST on Saturday, January 25th. Thank you!

Hey everyone! Taylor here! I want to start off by apologizing for this being so late. There's been some sickness and drama and all sorts of stuff I've been dealing with so I had the start date for the event in my mind as the sign ups post date and now I'm all mixed up. So due to unfortunate circumstances, here's what's going to happen!

1. The date for the event start is moving to January 22nd in order to give a few extra days for everyone to sign up due to the delayed sign up!

2. Sign-ups are starting now! That's right, all you have to do is reply to this post with your character name and journal! On the 22nd, a list will go up of partners for the event that was made using RNG. So go ahead and leave a comment and get ready for some fun!

For more details on this event, please click here and if you have any questions, please ask in the indicated locations on the post. This post is for sign-ups only!

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!

Hey everyone! It's time for the Activity Check. As usual, the process is pretty simply. Fill out this form with the correct information and reply to this post with it:

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Character Journal:</b> <b>Activity links:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Character Journal:</b> <b>Activity links:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Character Journal:</b> <b>Activity links:</b>

Copy and paste that into a comment (subtracting or adding character forms as needed) while remembering a few things:

1. Maximum 3 links.
2. The activity must total 20 comments.
3. The links can contain any combination of threads, posts, or logs.
4. The activity links must be dated between 10/5/2013 and 12/6/2013-- that's right, during the AC period is O.K. too.
5. If you are presently on hiatus or apped within the grace period, you are exempt from this activity check. If you were on hiatus for a significant period of time and are now off, but don't have enough comments to make AC, please PM the mods and we will discuss options for you.

The following characters have been exempt because they apped within the grace period or are presently on hiatus:
callmeimouto
springcleaning
toobig
notbinary
watchthis
my_martyrdom
extraordinarily
replayed
rivalyaoi
waifu
avartwice
makesitallbetter

*AC included in hiatus notice

If you do not have enough comments to make the activity check, your character will be dropped. The activity check deadline is Friday, 12/06/2013 at 11:59PM PST. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to either PM the mod account, IM a mod, or send a private plurk to a mod or the mod plurk account. All of these forms of communication are welcomed, just please don't comment on this post so that we can keep the AC comments separate and clear-cut. Thank you and have a great weekend you guys! (And sorry, there's no Black Friday discount for Activity Checks.)

Hey everyone! It's your handy dandy mod here with your friendly neighborhood Halloween Event Description Official Post! (Original plot/ideas post here.) Yes it was necessary to capitalize every word in that, they're all important. So here's what's going on with the Halloween event!

COSTUMES
Get your costumes on the interaction log! The convenience store has temporarily transformed into a costume shop and contains just about all of your Halloween costume needs! Unless it's a vehicle. (No, there are no motorcycles.)

MURDERS
A killing spree is afoot! Various NPCs have shown up dead around campus due to a rogue, glitched NPC. Even actual characters as well, though! If you want to have your character be a victim, they can be killed by an NPC or by an actual character if anyone has volunteered with that. Murders might occur because of accidents, thinking someone is a suspect, or any other IC reason you can come up with your character to join in the horror movie fun! At the Halloween Party hosted by Haruhi Suzumiya (IC details here) there will be a big reveal in which the murderers come to light!

ALTERNATE OPTION: A MISSION
If you don't want your character involved in the event for whatever reason (we never want to force participation), you could probably have two options!

1. If your character just doesn't want to get involved in the investigation action, just have them sit back and avoid everyone. OR...

2. Yuri has taken an interest in having the areas that do not contain civilization combed for the programmer. The specific mission will take place during the murder spree and I will put a log up for it on Tuesday, October 29th. The mission itself will last until November 1st and I will make sure to post many different activities that still have the Halloween spirit with them for the course of the mission, but it will not be centered around murders.

You do not need to be a member of the SSS for this. In fact, Yuri will intentionally ask people not involved in the SSS because the programmer is probably more aware of them (she thinks) than others who aren't involved in directly opposing him in an organized group. So basically, this option is open to everyone it'll just be that Yuri asked them in private if you choose to do it. Yuri will be asking on a one-on-one basis (we can handwave this) if your character wants to sign up, so that those who are more duty-oriented still have the option of going to the party if the player prefers they do that.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / LINKS
The Interaction Log (here) contains the start of the Halloween Murder Spree event. If you would like to sign your character up for the mission on 10/29-11/1, click here. I will come up with the activities for during the mission based on the size of the group involved, so you need to sign up ahead of time!

A sub-rule for activity checks has been updated to include phone conversations/ic contact pages. Read it here!