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Something Wicked This Way Comes...
October 26th - 30th

It's October, Paradisa. Breathe in that cool autumn air and taste the season. Taste ripen fruit and spices. Taste loamy earth and spiderwebs. Taste stale cotton candy and caramel corn. Taste cold shadows. Taste death.

On the early morning of the 26th, a strange carnival will roll up and set up on the grounds between the town and the castle. In many ways it will be just any carnival. A midway filled with games, a ferris wheel, a petting zoo. But in darker corners are freakshows, a broken merry-go-round, and the presence of the carnvial's leader, the enigmatic Mr. Dark.

Be careful, they may charge more than than the price of a ticket here. For Mr. Dark holds sway over these creatures, and when the calliope music churns to life in the dead of night, promising eternity, he might very well add you to his collection.

This plot will consist of TWO open logs. The first will go up on the 26th and encompass the first four days. You may experience the carnival more or less as normal during the day, or come down and see what the night makes of it. The second log will be for the last day, where characters will break Mr. Dark's hold on his captives. Like a lesser version of the castle, the carnival feeds only on despair and fear, and love and happiness will turn him away. Alternatively, observant characters will notice that the music pulling people here comes from the merry-go-round, and disabling that will do the same. Regardless, by Halloween the carnival will have been dissipated.

Additionally there are Optional plot sign-ups for characters who wish to be ensnared by the carnival and briefly become part of it's ranks. Due to game size, this should be no more than THREE characters total.

paradisamods

HOW'S MY DRIVING?

Comment with the names of the characters you play for feedback on your roleplaying. Other players will then reply to your comment telling you what they honestly think in a constructive manner. While both praise and critique is welcome, we'd like to remind you that this is a valuable tool for many of our members. We'd like to request that all comments remain constructive.

While the staff highly encourages everyone to participate, only comment if you are capable of giving and taking potentially harsh concrit in a mature, level-headed manner. Assume good faith at all times. Crit is meant to be resolved, not "won". Give mutual respect for each other's work and ideas. Aggressiveness creates unproductive stress and conflict. If you are emotionally compromised, you ~~are not fit to captain the Starship Enterprise~~ need to step back, take a break, and then return when you're ready.

Anonymous commenting is ENABLED, and sock journals are ALLOWED, though they must request access to the comm before commenting.

We have provided a form to post with, if you would like to use it. Mentioning things like canon points, permanent losses and recent major events in their lives in Paradisa may help give people a better idea of the character's mindset and current actions.

Alternatively, you may choose to post a link to your private HMD thread on the character's journal and take comments there instead, and we will freeze those comments. People will be expected to follow the link to the character's individual HMD to give crit there.

Linklist
* Giving and Receiving Good Concrit
* Operational Details: Critique, Communication, Courtesy, Consideration, Et Al.

paradisamods

WINGS OF A MESSENGER

Today, the castle will receive a very special visitor. A dragon. But not just any dragon, oh no. Anyone who speaks to her will learn she was one of the original five castle residents who went on to found the other five castles that populate the lands of Nostos. The scene provided at the end of the whispering walls event may recognize her voice among those heard near the end.

She will speak to anyone that approaches, but regardless, she will remain for only a few hours. Not wanting her around spreading it's secrets, the castle will raise the fright level of the residents and the town will send a compliment of knights to deal with her. Being a peaceful creature, she will resume her true form and leave Paradisa in search of the rest of the Five.

The log for this event may be found here. Tags from the npc will continue as long as comments are received.

Reminder! This is the official beginning of the new world plot, so anyone interested in that is encouraged to participate.

Gawking at the dragon lady is fine too.

If you have any questions about this event, feel free to ask here.

paradisamods

SWEPT
The following characters have been swept for failing to make activity check in the month of September. Please post here if there are any errors or comments.

Katniss Everdeen
Vicious

both_neither

So, as of his last post, Gren has packed up all his things and departed the castle, and he and Vicious will be heading out into the Dead Zone to follow Spike, where they will also soon after disappear. As mentioned in the post, he's leaving the radio equipment and Cohen the lizard which were passed down to him, and anyone is free to take, abuse, or distribute those as they wish.

Gren's been here a long time. He would have hit three years in December, which is an improbable amount of time for a side character, but with the speed of the game and how withdrawn he's become, Gren seemed the best choice to get the cut.

I'm still here with Felix and Wade, of course.

firethroat

Hello, Paradisa! Meowkitty here. If it wasn't terribly obvious at this point, changes in RL have been draining me and unfortunately this has hit my RP drive at well. As such, I will be dropping Firethroat. It's been a long time in coming honestly. I love this dragon very much, but as my most reclusive character she is also the hardest to meet activity. Thank you for those who played with Firethroat during her stay in the castle and were so patient with me over these past few months. I will always treasure the threads we've had.

The characters who were close to Firethroat and/or were owed boons for favors will receive a shiny red dragon scale, one of Firethroat's own. (At this point, I believe this includes Galadriel, Danny, and Felix. However, if you think your character matches one of the above criteria, they are quite welcome to receive one too.)

I'll still be here with Dairine and Sugar, so no worries there! Perhaps one day I'll once again have the time and energy to bring in another character as well.

Stay awesome, folks!

paradisamods

Happy October everyone.

After hearing from everyone on what you'd like for the future of the game, it was a nearly unanimous vote for remaining open and continuing with the scheduled metaplot. As some of you may have already noticed, the AC check has already been officially reduced from two proofs to one. For threads, one proof is still equal to 15 comments by your character, but this may be subject to evaluation at a later date. I have also made some clarifications to the game information in regards to the limitations of wishes.

The next three months will be considered a somewhat informal period of assessment, taking into account activity and participation in metaplot events. Keep in mind there are very few of us now, and tagging out is more crucial than ever. However, if things do not improve, it's likely that we will move towards endgame. Again, however, this will be discussed later.

Thank you all for the input, and above all, have fun.

im_the_doctor

As the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS leaves the Castle, it can be later found that the Tenth Doctor left with him. Once they entered the vortex he was transported onto Earth along side Mr. Copper.

I want to thank everyone who's had the patience to play with Ten and I. We've had a great amount of fun. Ten didn't collect anything here so there's nothing for him to leave behind for anyone specific - although he did leave a healthy supply of proper British tea in the kitchen.

The reason for my drop is strictly that of RL being in the way - I have too much on my plate. I've been struggling for a long time but Snowy (Fifth Doctor mun) has been wonderful to keep me involved and on task - it's not been an easy job!

I had intended to clean up threads and tags before we left, which sadly didn't happen. If there is a thread that you would like finished or at least any loose ends tied up, please PM. I will make a point of continuing it until an acceptable point is reached.

Thank you all and Allons-Y!

paradisamods

The following characters require additional threads and/or logs to fulfill activity criteria for September. The hiatus post was cleared of any expired hiatus dates, so any of the individuals who were on a valid hiatus during the month of September should not find their characters here. Please note that the requirements for activity have changed! After discussing activity check on our last How's the Game? post, we've decided to reduce requirements to one proof per month. All the terms for activity requirements are detailed here.

Keep in mind that if you do not comment on the hiatus post or let a mod know, your hiatus does not count. It is your responsibility to comment on the hiatus post. Making a hiatus note on the OOC comm does not count.

If you spot any mistakes or dropped characters, please let us know.

You have until October 8th to comment with additional threads from the month of September. Those who do not supply any or sufficient additional threads will be moved to the sweep list.

~~Dairine Callahan~~
~~Firethroat~~
~~Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener~~
~~Leonard L. Church~~
~~London Tipton~~
Katniss Everdeen
~~Nita Callahan~~
~~Sheena Fujibayashi~~
Vicious

Two Proofs for October
Leonard L. Church
London Tipton
Nita Callahan

Dropped
Anne Boleyn
Anthony Crowley
April Ludgate
Fifth Doctor
Firethroat
Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener
Kate Beckett
Meg Masters
Spike Spiegel
Tenth Doctor

fearbringer

So due to some RL stuff, I've been MIA for a large part of the month. I'm going to slowly (or not-so-slowly? who knows) edge myself back into the game now, but unfortunately, that RL stuff means I'm cutting down my character rosters across most of my games. Here in Paradisa, April Ludgate/

nooooo unfortunately isn't making the cut. I do still enjoy playing her, so she might be back in the future! But for now, I'm dropping her. Thank you to everyone who threaded with her while I had her in the game!

toobravehearted

Hey there Para. I've been hit by the RL stick (read: repeatedly) and while things are so busy, rather than keep fighting it I need to cut back until things are settled. Five has made his last rounds about the castle and he will be leaving in a cascade of TARDIS vworps to go back to London 1984, Daleks, Dalek gloop, more Daleks, and making sure they're all dead before Tegan says goodbye to him too.

I had hoped to be able to tie things up beforehand and I'm really sorry I've been so out of the picture during September. :/ I've had such a blast here and you're all amazing, and I can't begin to tell you how much I have enjoyed and treasured Five's threads and CR here. So much that I'd hope to be able to come back at some point down the line.

Five won't be leaving letters or making goodbyes - he doesn't like them, too final, never say never. He has a few things he accrued here to leave behind though, not much, but a little.

Dairine: will get the wooden staff he fashioned at Terre Haute and the copy of the Wizard's manual will be returned to her, well used but cared for.
Wade: will receive a yale key ~~if she hasn't already due to magical handwavey because he was going to do this during the Paranatural plot.~~ It'll only open a box that's blue and about 8.5 ft tall, should it ever come back.
Galadriel: will receive copies of some of his medical books from the TARDIS library - he's annotated them for her with other methods/remedies also.
Conan: will receive a stoppered test tube of concentrated and preserved Paradisa Special Blend. There's a tag tied to the stopper: "1 drop = 1 day?" ~~How much of a bad idea is leaving this to Conan to figure out? Clearly it must be an accident considering one cup of tea knocked Five out for two weeks.~~
Felix: will get the Paradisa star charts and an exceptional telescope that were passed to Five during his time here.

Stay safe in the meantime Para and be good - or if you can't be good, at least have fun. ;)

paradisamods

Just a note that there is a test drive meme up on the meme comm.

Feel free to spread this around, link to ATP, or just use it for fun.

ladydragon

An Apple a Day
September 26th-28th

Apples. They're synonymous with fall. The iconic fruit of the season. As well as a prevalent symbol for health and new life. Starting on the 26th, in honor of Johnny Appleseed Day, the castle will place apples center stage for a celebration that brings in the start of autumn in Paradisa.

On the 26th residents will wake to find fall weather in full swing. The trees will be showing off shades of red and gold and start to drop from their branches, and the air is fresh with the crisp coolness of a winter just around the corner.

Over the next three days, the townsfolk of the City Royale are holding a harvest celebration, and apples are in abundance, coming from the apple orchard that has appeared overnight just outside of the walls. During the day there are merchants selling special pastries and booths hosting simple games like apple bobbing and ring tosses. At night the streets are alive with minstrals and dancing.

Meanwhile, the castle celebrates in it's own unique way. First, each resident will discover, on the first morning, a tiny burlap pouch tied with string sitting on top of their journal. Inside this pouch is a small handful of apple seeds. If any resident should choose to plant one of these seeds in the next three days, it will immediately sprout a young apple tree. In addition, over the next three days, apples will appear everywhere and in everything. Baskets of the fruit will be found all over the castle and any food wished up will be made of or incorporate apples somehow. Apple pies, apple butter, apple tea, candied apples, apple beer, apple salad...even meats are topped or stuffed with them. Be creative!

This is a freeform plot, and no mod posts will be made. Enjoy the festival, and enjoy the start of fall!

aprettyred

This is Samm, Duke-mun, here attempting... another white haired, red eyed character. I don't have a ping-type, honest.

this is Anna Kushina, from the series K Project (just plain K ). She's about 12 years old (because she's from the sequel movie), has red-cone monochromatic vision (if it isn't red, its all grey), lives with ~~a gang of magical fire uses~~ the Red Clan (... aka a gang of fire users), and happens to have a lot of powers. (there are spoilers for the whole show in there)

Long story short, here is a tiny over-powered psychic with recently gained fire powers. Here is a post with simple power descriptions and opt-out commenting! (and no visible spoilers)

I'm going to go hit up other people's permissions before getting her IC intro up /o/

putuporshutup

Unfortunately it's time for me to bow out here. This was my first RP and I'll miss it and everyone. Thanks for all the really fun threads ♥ The only thing Meg really has to leave to anyone is the stuff Crowley left her and the Death Match, which she'll entrust all of to Felix. Her ending at home isn't a happy one, but she certainly got to prolong her stubborn existence at Paradisa and for that she was very glad. I'm fairly sure that her only close CR left is Danny, and she'd leave a note for him telling him not to do anything she wouldn't. Best sisterly advice ever.

Thanks again for all the fun, guys. Sorry I had to bow out so hastily. This job really snuck up on me with being so draining and going full time so soon. Feel free to take me off plurk if you only had me added for this game, or keep me if you want to stay in touch. I hope those of you who want to keep things going get to do so.

paradisamods

HOW'S THE GAME?

In this round of game discussion, I am going to again open up the topic of Paradisa’s future. While you all are free to bring up other ideas or issues, the topics below are the most pressing. In addition, this is not an HMD for the players/characters. Such crit should be reserved for the HMD meme, taken to an individual HMD, or brought to myself either on the complaint form or through my email (ladyraab@gmail.com).

As was mentioned last round, Paradisa is a very long running game that has shrunken considerably in recent months. We now have less than thirty characters and a small handful of players, and the numbers are only shrinking still. In addition, activity across the comms is sparse, and participation in plots even more so. It comes to us now to decide if the game is something we, the remaining player base, would continue to participate in, or should we admit defeat and close our doors? I still feel there is a lot of potential in the setting, but all that needs players to realize it.

To help decide this, here is a breakdown of points I would like input on. Taken together, these will determine the course of action that will be taken.

ACTIVITY CHECK

Paradisa’s current two proof system is simply to untenable with the number of players we now have. With that said, no matter what is decided in regards to the future of the game one of these two options WILL be implemented at the end of this month and ALL strikes from last month’s AC will be forgiven.

Option 1 – Activity will be reduced to one proof. Ideally, this would mean cutting it in half, meaning either one post or log, or fifteen thread comments total. Other ideas on this are welcome

Option 2 – Activity will be eliminated. No proofs will be required, and game membership will only be sustained through a monthly check-in.

PLOTS

The mod team’s first month in office was a rocky one, and I’ve learned quite a bit about what the game can handle as it stands. I apologize for overloading anyone. Plots in the future will be much more low-key and require less action from other players for advancement. That said, should the game continue, some input on the future of the plots in general needs to be determined. The last plot provided a preview into what I had planned to be a new direction for the metaplot. In the interest of furthering discussion, I will peel back the curtain a bit and say that it essentially focuses on a continued struggle for power and remaining secondary castles founded by the so-called Five. New game elements, like loss regains and individual tasks given to characters by the castle were also in the conceptual stage. However, to make a plotline like that function, some of the player base must be interested in it. So, with that said, would you prefer:

Option 1 – Continue with the metaplot as planned

Option 2 – Drop the metaplot. The game will only have lightly-moderated background plots, and no more than one in a month. Nothing plot-intensive or heavy will be scheduled.

THE FUTURE

This is the big question, and the question I want all of you to ask yourselves. What keeps you in this game? Is it just your CR? Or is it elements of the game itself? Or is it both? If one of those things were removed, would that make you drop? If we face the possibility that no one applies to the game again, how long are you willing to sustain with the group we have?

Option 1 – Immediate closure. No endgame. No plot. We just close at the end of the month

Option 2 – Quick endgame. Current plotlines will be abandoned and a quick endgame will be devised that will either send all characters home or leave the game open for a change in premise at a later date (see option #4)

Option 3 – Long endgame. The metaplot will be continued as planned, but lead ultimately to a situation as outlined in #2

Option 4 – Total reboot/splinter game (can be combined with one of the above options). The game closes while I work on a new setting based on the world of Paradisa, either converting it to a nexus game where characters may come and go between their own world, or moving them to one of the other castles and involving the dead (or dying) Paradisa in the background. This could take several months to accomplish, as the game structure will need to be totally rewritten and re-envisioned.

Option 5 – Stay open

I would like input from all players on these matters before a decision is made, but considering the short term nature of some of the options, this will be open for discussion for one week, or until September 25th. I may individually contact members if I do not hear from you by then. I would prefer open discussion, but if for any reason you do not want to weigh in public, you may contact me privately as well. Anon commenting will also be enabled.

teenagebadboy

So Aaron has been here for almost a year and still haven't got a temporary loss. I want to fix that. The idea I got is that he'll be stuck in a room and stuck in one kind of clothes. The room'll be the clinic. So next week he'll wake up in there even though he went to his own bed. It'll last a week. While he's stuck in the clinic he'll wear a nurse uniform. Not the pink one which's common in USA though but a blue one (seeing as he's British). At least I think UK nurses got blue uniforms?

Anyhow. Do I need some kind of permissions? Also I would love to plot something out.

gottaknockhard

Hey guys! I'm really sorry to dump this so soon after the plot end. I had wanted to wrap things up, but I don't want to backdate too much when he should have been gone. Spike left with Anne, not long after hearing Julia's voice again (as he's always been one to overreact to these things), and they disappeared somewhere around the horizon. If anyone wants to finish any threads with him, anything that he's posted I will still reply to until the end of the month. (If mods are willing to allow that!)

Spike had a lot of inherited things, so if anyone is interested they are welcome to discover them. Joshua's mansion, Brock's cabin, Kaylee's Mule, and Faye's old zipcraft are the major things of value, otherwise they disappear with him. Julia's car and Ein are both going with him regardless. Ein will miss you most of all.

I've been here forever, and it's been a great experience. I care about each person I've threaded with, and I adored all of my CR. Thank you for everything! I'll always remember you.

ensorceler

So this has been a long time coming, and I feel bad for having dragged it out when I know my activity has certainly been underwhelming. I've been here for about six years I think, and had some of my most fulfilling RP experiences here! There's been amazing CR, plots, and surprises and I'll hold all of these memories close to my heart.

It's time for me to go, though, so I'll be dropping Anne Boleyn and bowing out. I'll try to wrap up a couple threads that I planned, but she probably won't make a big announcement about it. She's had enough, and there's nothing else left for her 'back home', so she'll be off finding a new life. She doesn't feel like she can actually help anyone here. She might drag Spike with her so she has a bodyguard but that's up to him.

Galadriel can keep her copy of the Tyndale Bible, her harp, and any pretty things that she owned while here. A few of her paintings of Elizabeth can show up in the Fifth Doctor's room, but otherwise Anne is going to be trying to take a lot of her ~~Elizabeth's~~ things with her, using The Once-ler's cart once a certain spiky-headed jerk's car won't work anymore.

Love you guys, and good luck!

paradisamods

As of Sunday, September 14th, the plot is concluded. The mingle log for the final day of the plot can be found here.

On the last day, all the whispers will be overridden by one last final scene, which is loud enough to be heard anywhere in the castle, but will be loudest in the lobby where it took place. After this, this whispers will stop completely. The event, found here, also serves as a preview into the new metaplot, so please take note, even if you don't want to react ICly.

This plot is free to be backtagged and backdated as you see fit, so don't feel shy to hop in.

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