folkooc | November 2022 Story of US

Story of Us: November

Announcements and Feedback

Hello Folkies! This is our monthly Story of Us post where we get together to make game announcements, ask for any feedback or suggestions, partake in character relationship memes and open up our invites for the upcoming application cycle!

Check out the bottom of this post for important dates to keep an eye on!

Announcements / Reminders
As a reminder, Milk has stepped down as the headmod and our mod team has been re-structured. If there are any issues, feel free to contact us at any time through the mod contact page.

One of the changes we are implementing today is the brand new Event suggestion and Player Plot page, which can be found in the Game Navigation from now on. If you have any events you'd like to suggest, or perhaps run a plot on your own, use that post. We would be happy to hear your ideas!

Finally, we are happy to announce the Game Feedback post! We would like to hear what you think of the game so far, possible changes you'd like to see, or perhaps any issues you would want to see addressed. This post is open to our playerbase, and with it we hope to make Folkmore a game everyone can enjoy.

Thank you very much for all of your patience and help!

Upcoming Weather for December
As we enter December, all the glitter from November starts to fade away, but the shinning stars remain, leaving the night sky bright all through the month. Kuma Lisa is still the current iteration of Thirteen, however characters will often see her in her Fox form that has now turned pure white to match the snow that covers most of the land (with the exception of Cruel Summer).

The giddy effects of Kuma Lisa are replaced with a calm and peace that Star Children might find comforting. It's more clear now that the nights are much longer than before, and the cold outside makes Star Children want to cuddle up with someone to keep warm. Despite the cold, however, the night will feel always beautiful and peaceful. Every night paper lanterns will be released to light the streets and stores all around Folkmore; these will magically remain in place until the end of the night, rather than floating away. When the day comes, they will rise up and disappear.

The days, in contrast, will feel a bit more grey and listless. There won't be a lot of light and everything seems a lot slower than usual, lacking the spirit of the night. Star children may feel a bit more depressed than usual but if they reach out to others this feeling may be eased.

As a reminder: the Anti-Hero trial is still on going until January 1st.

Feel Free to Comment
If you have any questions about anything going on in the game or need an update on a question that might have gotten lost between the cracks please use this space to ask down below!

Always remember to follow us on Plurk for game updates at folkie!

Character Relationship Meme

It's that time of month to organize your thoughts and compile some plans with each other! This is an optional meme for players to get to know each other and draft up some ideas and keep up to speed on what everyone else is doing!

Copy and paste the following form and reply to the appropriate section down below. Have fun!

Player Name:
Player Pronouns:
Player Contact: <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or other
Preferred Tag Style: Action/Prose
Monthly Pacing: Let others know if you might be a bit slow this month or your usual speed!
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Personal limitations you have or prompts you will opt out of. Maybe you have no interest in romantic or sexual or violent CR etc.
Permissions: Link to your permissions here! Or any other valuable information pages like power opt-ins/opt-outs if you like!

Character Name:
Character Age:
Characer Species:
Character Details: Anything unique about them to immediately know? Maybe that they have a prosthetic, details about their voice, etc.
Character Summary: Give a simple summary of your character, their history maybe, personality, things that you would want people to know right off the bat!

Character Role: Familiar, Myth, Legend.
Character Role Deets: Anything unique about your character's role and how it manifests? Things you'd like to explore through it?
Character Living Quarters: Where is your character living?
Character Schools: Where do they teach or go to school?
Day to Day Life: What can they usually be seen doing? Do they have a job? Run errands? Explain here!

Current Mindset/Health: What is your character's current mindset/state of being/etc. Let people know where your character will be mentally and otherwise for this event including things like current injuries/etc.
Recent Developments: Anything major or significant that your character has experienced that may be important to established or new CR.
Goals For Your Character: What are things YOU as a player want to accomplish for your character? What storylines are you hoping to achieve? 
Problems With Your Character: What are struggles your character is going through right now? Physical or mental!

Wanted CR: Romances? Mentors? Family figures? Let people know here!
Unwanted CR: Against enemies? Friends? Fill it out here.
Open/Closed to New CR: Will you be focusing on your current CR or interested in developing new?

Invitations

Our game is invite-only which means in order to make a reserve or apply, you must have an invite from a current player in-game! Players are not required to give invites. Invites are open between the 22nd of every month and close on the 5th of the following month when applications open. All invites expire after that application cycle ends.

Players are limited to one invite per round unless they have purchased an additional invite slot through Spoons. If using an additional invite slot, please make sure to link to your purchase in your invite form.

Invites allow new players to reserve/apply to the game. Invites do not guarantee that new players will get in. Some invites may not be accepted and we will message players on a case-by-case basis if necessary.

Players only require an invite for their first application. Once they are a player in the game, they can apply as more characters at a later date. If a player drops completely from the game, they will require a new invite to get back in.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW A PLAYER IN OUR GAME BUT ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND OUR MOD JOURNAL A PM WITH YOUR HANDLE AND CONTACT INFORMATION FOR A REQUEST TO AN INVITE.
Fill out the following form and place it down below in the appropriate section.

CALENDAR

Calendar dates may be subject to change due to real-world circumstances. Please follow us on our plurk to keep up to date! We will update this section accordingly. Remember to set your journal to EST as we will always pay attention to timestamps.

TDM
November 22nd-25th
ANY TIME

RESERVES OPEN
Dec 1st
12:01 AM EST

RESERVES CLOSE
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST

INVITES CLOSE
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN OPEN
Dec 1st
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN CLOSE
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS OPEN
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS CLOSE
Dec 10th
11:59 PM EST

TRIAL PLOT
Dec 11th
ANY TIME

TRIAL LIVE
Dec 13th
ANY TIME

INVITES-CR MEME BEGIN
Dec 22nd
ANY TIME

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Awww yes! Music and singing and dancing, everything this robo dreams of doing now that he isn't forced to do humanity's dirty work. I look forward to it all, and K will be so appreciative of any encouragement. It'll be very cool for Jayce to get his own forge set up, too, I saw you mention that on Plurk. Jayce is very good with his hands, isn't he. Also definitely talented in his own right when it comes to magic studies. I think magic filtered through the lens of science would actually be easier for K to grasp.

That's a good question... I guess I forgot to choose where exactly K lives but I gave him a fancy multi-storey apartment, so that probably has to be the Satori Hills Apartments in Epiphany. So they'll be neighbours. And there'll absolutely be middle of the night zoomies too, you know, expressive cat-parkour. Oh yeah, he received his spinner via event regain, so flying shenanigans of a different sort could also happen.

Lol that's exactly what will happen if K accidentally hurts a human. Just totally bluescreens and probably has migraine symptoms for a while, bad enough to discourage repeats. Big oops.

Gods, that icon is so pretty. K looks good in a vest.

Is what K deserves. I think that all the dancing Jayce can do is mostly formal dances/slow ones, he has then memorized to a T, and could teach K the basics. I'm so excited about he prospect of the forge so he can go back to do what he wanted to do when he first created Hextech, to make inventions that help people in one way or another. It's a long-term goal, but it's fun. As for his hands...yeahhh he's got some skilled fingers :3

Explaining magic and runes like is some sort of science is absolutely doable! There are still unpredictable effects, but Jayce knows that to create certain spells you need to use specific rune combos (plus an energy source like the hexgems) , so it's not so different from applying equations to solve a problem.

Yay for being neighbors. Ohhhh that apartment looks very elegant and pretty, especially with all those plants. I should make something like this for Jayce too, since I already have some references about how his flat was back when he was 24 years old and I don't think his habits had changed much. Rolfmao, he's nowhere near as organized as K. There are papers, trinkets, and books everywhere, as well as an orrery ( which is why I had Jayce trying to design an astrolabe in his log). He had a plant but it was mostly dead....teach him how to take care of those, K. Jayce also has like, 3 different heaters in his apartment, this man hates the cold.

'Expressive cat-parkour.' that is a nice way to put it, haha. The spinner! Jayce has designed whole flying ships but nothing like K's cool flying car, he will aks him all the questions about it.

Oh shit, the migraines, that is awful. They will have to look into it to make sure it doesn't hurt him too much.

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