Hello all.

I just wanted to let you guys know that I won't be around the next few days. My sister is sick, and I learned yesterday that her condition has gotten worse and they had to move her to the critical care unit. Basically, we got in the car and headed to PA immediately. I would tag, but my internet access here is severely limited.

I will be back either Saturday or Sunday, and will catch up on tags then. If her condition improves, I will be home sooner.

I'm here, but I won't be around till Mid-July.

If you guys want to remove me, and have me re-app since we're sorta starting over-ish...or getting the ball rolling again, I understand. I'm heading to Anime Expo, and have an artist alley table there, so I leave next Friday, and working to get ready till then, and don't come back till the 15th of July-ish. (And I *think* I may have time to post, but I thought I'd have time the last two weeks and...haven't. Heh.)

ILU guys~

Hello all!

I guess first and foremost I should make the personal introduction. I'm Jessi, and I have indeed taken up a toon here, but we'll get to that in a moment. If any of you folks play over in the affiliated Salem Academy you probably know me, and those from Uber Alles might be slightly aware of me :D . I have been recruited to help the newly crowned mod Katie out around here a bit, and I look forward to chatting with you folks!

With me I bring you a new Mad Hatter, returning to Ozland from a bit of a hiatus (where the previous Hatter left him). He is, as expected, an eccentric character and I am eager to get him going here. There's more information up on his journal, so feel free to go have a read.

If you want to chat, say Hi, plot, or whatever, feel free to give me a poke. I'm on AIM as Mallovoreth and my email is xbleedwell @ gmail.com.

Ok, so um... First of all.  Hi everyone!!  I'm Katie (in case you didn't know) and I'm um, now kind of the Mod here.  I'll let that sink in for a moment.

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Ok then.  You're still here?  Good.  Things may be chaotic for a little bit, and I know that activity has been at a snail's pace here but that is all going to change.  Promise.  Basically?  I just want to get this game back to where it was.  I know Shell and Ai trust me (ha!) to run this game the way it should be.  With that in mind:

1) pentamerone [dot] storyteller [at] gmail [dot] com 

I know, I know, its the email we've had forever, but PLEASE use it for anything.  I can also be reached on AIM at overtheashes. EDIT: bright gwydion.  (I've forgotten my own AIM.  How silly.)  I mean anything, seriously.  Plot, drama, plot, applications, questions, concerns, queries, ideas, quandries, plot.  Whatever.

2) We're going to do an end-of-war finisher post so that this whole Camlann thing can be called done.  I, um, don't think there's going to be any real surprise over the fact that Arthur wins, yeah?  >_>

3) I has a co-mod.  Her name is Jessi.  She is awesome. 

4) There's going to be some very small changes.  Nothing major.  But that we can discuss later.  For right now?  Play on! 

So we've been totally AWOL. We sincerely apologize for that. We'd mentioned before losing inspiration for this game, and instead of letting it die, we're handing over the reigns. Ai and I will be stepping down as mods and Katie will be taking the helm. She's been an incredible asset to us the last few months and we can't think of a better person to hand the community to. A new player, Jessi, that we know and trust from another game, will be assisting as co-mod.

Thank you guys for the last two years, and please give Katie and Jessi your support. As of right now, we're just going to be regular players, so we should still be around. =)

--Shell

...Hello?  Is anyone about?

I am back, but may have to declare a hiatus starting in early July (waiting to see how new job turns out).

Hey guys I know we've been mucho absent lately, but we're getting ready to go on vacation for a week. We'll be back in business June 1st.

When we return, there may be some things happening here, most importantly possible changes in management for one. We'll give you more info as it develops.

We'll be heading out on Sunday the 24th, so any questions need to be before then, or wait till we come back. Catch you later!

Ai & Shell

Finals week!

Sorry Knave and Fool, I'll be back ASAP.

The following players need to update by May 11th, or face removal for inactivity:

Nell - Hasn't posted since 4/11

If you've posted and we somehow missed it and thus you don't belong on this list, please tell us by email or comment etc. If you find we've overlooked someone or if you have a reason for not having tagged or posted, again just let us know.

I'm going to be dropping Moira() for the time being, because I wanna work on building up my other two stronger, and she's draining a lot of my focus, and not adding up to a lot.

Also, now-Howless, anyway want any plots with Sophie? (And mods, should I act like he just vanished? Or NPC him being around?)

I am so sorry I haven't tagged you back, Tink!  Life crashed in, as it is wont to do.

In that vein, how would you suggest concluding our interactions?  I can continue the thread or not.

Ozma, do you want a thread, and who would you like to start it?

The following characters have been removed from game, either from lack of time commitment or for lack of activity:

Genkuro - crazylikethefox
Swan - cygnetsong
Cheshire Cat - frightfulsmile
The Little Mermaid - idontbelonghere
Shuhei - ivegotbigballs
Mowgli - mancub
Howl Jenkins - wickedwizard

Yes, we your mods have chosen to drop some characters as well. If anyone had plots with these characters, you may contact us to help you decide what's the next bet for you. We can also discuss whether you'd like to see some of these characters recast. For the character dropped due to time constraints, the players [mods included] sitting on these characters felt it was unfair to hold them without being very active with them. We hope that if others wish to pick them up, they can feel free to do so and be more active than we can be. Also, as for us mods, we don't like us having monopoly on most off the character sin game. When we go on hiatus, the game could well suffer based on the sheer amount we play. That's quite unfair to you all. So we hope this gets things moving a bit more.

As always, you know where to contact us!

I just wanna say I LOVE the new images for Pentamerone/Panchatantra!  It looks so Good!!!   If you're reading this and haven't seen, totally take a look at the new user info images for Pentamerone and Panchatantra!  Beau-ti-ful!

The following players need to update by April 27th, or face removal for inactivity:

Jason - Hasn't posted since 4/2
Rhia - Hasn't posted since 4/5

If you've posted and we somehow missed it and thus you don't belong on this list, please tell us by email or comment etc. If you find we've overlooked someone or if you have a reason for not having tagged or posted, again just let us know.

Ok, it's that time again! Time to round up and sound off and tell us what you've been up to since our last round up, what's finished and what's still going on. Finished a thread? Tell us! Started a new one? Tell us! Still chugging away on an old one? That's fine, still tell us!

Please link to the threads in question, so we can click on them and read them with ease. You can copy/paste the url, but if you like fancy coding, here's how:

<a href="enter url here">texty text blah blah blah</a>

PS - If you haven't done anything since last round-up, it's okay. Comment anyway, so we know you're still with us. If this is your first round-up, give us everything you've got!

PPS - This is Katie, aka once_and_future . I'm going to be helping out doing round up posts, activity checks, and stuff.

The following characters have been removed:

butterthief
pecosbill

Please use the friends list to update your own. If anyone would like to pick up these characters, or know of someone who would, please let us know. Otherwise we will be advertising for them. If these players would like to return, they are welcome to, but will need to prove they can be active.

This one, to be exact. I will not be making any decisions regarding activity/change in moderation of this game yet. Considering the enormous burst of activity that followed the announcement of the increased activity rules, I think I'd like to wait a bit longer and see how we all do. All suggestions made on that post however will remain viable, and should this come back up again, I'll be sure to discuss with you all before we make any further decisions.

I will however, continue with removing the inactive characters that did not meet the deadline last week.

Thank you all for your efforts, your input, and your obvious desire to keep this game going. You guys rock!

♥

I've been taking longer with replies than intended, due to some personal shiz, and other factors keeping me both busy and distracted. I promise to get replies out tonight and tomorrow to everyone who needs them, as well as prepare for war on Friday with the characters who should be preparing!

That said, thanks so much for being patient with me!

--Shell

Before we go enforcing the new activity rules, and removing people, I thought I'd pose a question to you all.

How would you feel about relaxing this game to the point of it being an unofficial game/ writing community of sorts? I say this because, well we've been modding it for two years now, and to be honest, we're tired of it. Not tired of playing, tired of running it. We don't want to close down though because people have characters they want to play, us included.

What I mean by a writing community is this: no update limits. No activity checks. We'd still do round-up posts, just because they're a great way to tell where people are in threads, especially if you're trying to track one. Just have consideration for your fellow player. If you're in a thread with them, just reply in your own time, so long as you don't keep them waiting for months. Put up a new post when you want. Have freer reign. We won't babysit, we won't do anything besides play and mediate only if something major happens. We'll change the rules, but we'd still have writing standards. People can pick up whatever characters they want, so long as they do actually play them from time to time.

We won't really advertise. You can tell friends to throw together a bio and join. We can still play out whatever plots we've planned, and I'll probably still generate more from time to time. You don't have to do anything you don't want to, and you CAN do what you come up with.

We run another game that will soon require a lot of focus. And like i said before, this one's been going for years. It's hard to keep it fresh, to keep wanting to mod. But I know you all still want to play or you'd have left already.

So. What do you guys think? Suggestions, agreements, disagreements, cookies, all are welcome.

It occurs to me that the Fool could be wreaking a considerable amount of havoc, so I'm asking for suggestions and/or requests ... does anyone in particular want the Fool to advise/wreak havoc/tap dance/other in any specific place so that they can interact with It?

I'm sure It could find a way to work itself into the court, for instance.