Required Check-In

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Attendance Check-In

Check-In Information

Check-in opens on the 1st at 12:01 AM EST.
Check-in closes on the 8th at 11:59 PM EST.

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We do not require traditional "activity" check-ins, but we do require an interest check-in to ensure that our players are present and still engaged with the characters they play.

You will be required to check-in during the 1-8th of the month. If you cannot access a computer during this time, please let a mod or friend know so they can check-in for you.

You must check in your individual characters. If you fail to check in with any characters, they will be swept from the game.

If you missed check-in due to extenuating circumstances, please contact the mods ASAP and let them know the situation.

We ask our players to be active in the game even without formal activity check requirements. If we notice any concerning patterns with the same players missing check-ins and being swept from the game or being irresponsible with check-ins or squatting we will contact the player directly. This may include restrictions from reapplication into the game or actual activity requirements.

Please respect your fellow players and mods! We want to keep this game activity-requirement-free and active.

Anatomy Of Check-In

Every player will have an overall check-in comment with their name as the subject line. Every character a player writes will have a comment with their name and fandom as the subject line. Each month, players need to post a comment under each character's comment with the month and year in the subject line.

The comment structure will look like:

🦊 Player Name

🦊 Character Name | Fandom

🦊 Month Year
🦊 Month Year

🦊 Character Name | Fandom

🦊 Month Year
🦊 Month Year

Check-in Content

Check-in comments are IC only, and are required to include a minimum of one specific thing your character did this month. You're welcome to include more.

Formatting is your choice: sentences, bullet points, something else. We're not picky!

We do not want links to threads, OOC explanations, or apologies. Folkmore is a chill game, and it's completely fine to have not played much.

We welcome and encourage handwaving. Give us something your character did in the background or plans you have to back thread. Note handwaved interactions you discussed with other players. Many players use their check-in posts as records of important beats their characters experienced.

The bottom line is to show you have some OOC idea what is going on IC, even when you're not actively able to RP, to demonstrate your continued engagement in the game with the character.

Posting Check-In

🦊 Upon acceptance as a player ➟ set up your AC comment.
🦊 Upon acceptance with a character ➟ add comment for character.
🦊 To check in each month ➟

🦊 Post a comment for each character using the month and year as the subject line.
🦊 Use the form below to fill out your character's AC!

<div style="text-align: justify"><B>Character Name:</b> <b>Player Name:</b> <B>Summarized Activity:</b> Give us a little summary of things your character has done in the game recently (paragraph or bullet points). <b>If you are on a hiatus, you do not need to check-in.</b> This can be a good way to keep track of your own content, but feel free to keep it simple!
Once your check-in has been processed, you will receive a confirmation from our mod team.

Comments

Shuos Jedao | Machineries of Empire

[untitledshuos]

January 2025

[untitledshuos]

Character Name: Shuos Jedao
Player Name: Sil
Summarized Activity:

His birthday, such as it is in the Heptarchate and Hexarchate, where it is celebrated at the start of the year, came and went. Four hundred and fifty-seven, officially. Age is more than just a number, for all he doesn't have memories of the entire span. He feels his age and also concerned about Folkmore.
Despite the mental twister of an AU set within a trinity of worlds, Jedao recognized the unreality of the world early enough. He was even smug about getting through the illusion to Ava. However, that doesn't sort out the feelings they have that fall somewhere along father/adopted daughter when at the same time they know it didn't happen. Why hello stranger, I mean, my daughter. It's a mind fuck that carries on.
So perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that Jedao failed the trial in the end. As much as he's enjoyed his time in Folkmore, perhaps it should be less rest and relaxation and more reflection and regeneration.

Re: January 2025

[folkie]

Processed and approved!

February 2025

[untitledshuos]

Character Name: Shuos Jedao
Player Name: Sil
Summarized Activity:

An uncle's duties include supporting niblings when they storm secret bases to get their loved ones back. Jedao's always ready go bag with weapons, ammunition, and more that he maintains finally came in use. He met Sharon outside Donnie's lab and stormed it with her. His focus was on watching her back. He took some damage in the fight, but as he'd eaten a large amount beforehand it was all able to heal. One might consider it karma that Donnie's robots and such attacked him after he, in a beast-transformed state, nearly ate Donnie about a year and a half ago. Most importantly, Sharon found and saved her man. Jedao helped some others get out since the laboratory was going to blow. Not much loss in his opinion there.
Matt Murdock posted plans to start a podcast interviewing Star Children about their worlds and asked for technical support. Jedao was one of three who volunteered to help. Yes he has the technical skills to work on it, but he's interested in getting as much intel as this venture generates. That's only possible when working on the raw data. They also wound up discussing the legal systems in their worlds. Jury systems, so strange.
No matter his front, Jedao has plenty of dark and lonesome thoughts. How could he not, given all he's done and become to accomplish his goals? So he wound up in the lonely bar and approached a deadly woman he didn't recognize. A man likes to play with danger, eh? Some people simply ooze competence. They were each careful around each other, as befits the situation, but hey they aren't enemies, so that made it easier.

Re: February 2025

[folkie]

Processed and approved!

March 2025

[untitledshuos]

Character Name: Shuos Jedao
Player Name: Sil
Summarized Activity:

His dark musings at the Lonely Bar reminded him of a few times over his life, for how alone he was for most of it, even when he was with people. After all, the one time he chose to let someone in, while human, he had to kill them for that reason. Kuma Lisa rewarded him with Shuos shouters (a specialized weapon) as he left the bar. It only filled him with more dark thoughts.
Therefore, when they all received necklaces that made them think more on their regrets, it quickly weighed heavily on Jedao, such that breathing hurt. Fortunately, he doesn't need to breath to live, but that's not exactly the greatest resolution. He wound up heading toward a lake unwittingly, losing track of himself for a moment, only to be stopped and thus saved by Sharon, his niece. She knows more about his problems than most, so she stayed with him. He opened up, some, with some time. Enough for the necklace. Once it came off, he left the cursed thing off. Nor did he rescue anyone else from the water, as he thought it likely they would both wind up drowning.

Re: March 2025

[folkie]

Processed and approved!

April 2025

[untitledshuos]

Character Name: Shuos Jedao
Player Name: Sil
Summarized Activity:

Although the dust of the deceased flowers and butterflies didn't bother Jedao that much, he still took part in the ritual to clean his home. Rituals are often important to maintaining calendars, and he's taken the sign that Thirteen-zho is making/sharing rituals to mean Folkmore may need people to live by those rituals. Surely it's not chance that this month also saw the reveal of a new type of bond? It's one Jedao, as a Familiar, cannot partake in, so he did what he could. He hopes Legends and Myths elect to make that bond and further stabilize Folkmore. Enough people like being here, right?
Thirteen-zho, he presumes, enjoyed interrupting his life with questions around would you rather and connecting him with a curious range of people. That included Kate, his wife in another life during a trial almost two years ago; Ava, his daughter in another world/life/something that he met for the first time in Folkmore; Makie, a stranger; and Illarion, his bonded Myth. He's having dinner with Kate, at her invitation, but he remains uncertain that he is a good person to be in her life.

Re: April 2025

[folkie]

Processed and approved!

May 2025

[untitledshuos]

Character Name: Shuos Jedao
Player Name: Sil
Summarized Activity:

Jedao started the month going to his niece's wedding (Sharon), and he absolutely loved seeing how happy she is. Honestly, he'd rather see the people he cares about happy than himself. It was an excellent start to an overall good month.
Matt Murdock bought the equipment/got the space for his podcast, so Jedao helped among others to set things up. Matt wanted to test the equipment and get familiar with it, so they completed a mock interview. Jedao prefers not to be interviewed, but it would have been stranger to refuse. Plus, most the stuff about his world that's horrifying isn't the kind of thing people think to ask direct questions about that cannot be avoided. Not when they don't know anything about him. So it worked out fine.
The trial felt like a calendrical effect to him, with the missions to fix it and even the powering it up their own kind of calendrical events to cause spikes. It only furthered his hypothesis that Folkmore works on some sort of hidden calendar that they see only parts of. He cannot say he was a fan of illness being part of their calendar, but he's hoping (ish?) that it's an effect of some outside influence, and Thirteen was trying to fix it. That does speak to potential threats to their system, but external threats beat internal design. He's seen enough to know that.

Re: May 2025

[folkie]

Processed and approved!