July 2025 Story of Us

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Story of Us: July 2025

Table of Contents

Hello Folkies! This is our monthly Story of Us post where we get together to make game announcements, ask for any feedback or suggestions, and remind our players of upcoming dates! This update covers 13th July - 12th August.

Contents

• 1 Trial Consequences & Continuing Effects
• 2 Iteration
• 3 Weather & New Environmental Effects
• 4 Announcements
• 5 Reminders
• 6 Questions
• 7 Feedback

Trial Consequences & Continuing Effects

Over the last month, Folkmore experienced:

• Forced teleportation to Never Fade to light and aim the beacon in a lighthouse via positive or negative interactions.
• Forced teleportation to defend a skyship from pirate attack.

These effects continue:

• Both these occurrences continue.

Iteration Iteration

Thirteen's iteration Lavender continues to lead Folkmore. Star Children can tell by the celebration and repeated announcements throughout the next month. As with the previous month, goats are more active and leave Never Fade to visit their Star Children. They will even try to convince their Star Children to return to Never Fade with them. Life may be interrupted at any moment by caprine interruptions.

Star Children may contact Lavender via going to Lavender Institute of the Mind, visiting the Shattered Spoon Shrine, or by drawing things they have dreamt of. An artistic representation of Lavender will appear.

Weather & New Environmental Effects

• Storms continue but become more localized. They swirl around Never Fade and nearby skies without fail. However, as the month continues, they avoid passing over cracks and are more likely to storm over areas where Star Children arrived via the shrine spend time. That can be as narrow as a single building or as wide as a mile radius.
• As part of the trial, golden lines, opening into abyssal cracks spread across Folkmore. Those who cross the cracks become clumsy and accident prone. The more times they're crossed, the clumsier people get.
• Rivers have especially strong currents this month, and it's easy to get washed away downstream, even if someone is only wading in them. It's especially strong around the 26th of July, where people only ankle deep will get pulled over and dragged in the water.
• Though hey, at least nowhere is on fire, even with the lightning from those localized storms.

Announcements

Fourth Wall Event Live

• July's event is a fourth wall event where players not in Folkmore are welcome to come and join us! Or you may consider playing CR for a friend short term for the event.
• Those joining the event will be able to apply without their characters leaving and returning to Folkmore, if desired.
• The plotting post and event post are public accordingly.

Permanent Effect on the Game

• As part of this event, current players will get to decide between options to stabilize or destabilize Folkmore. It's possible to exchange stability in exchange for the chance to impact who arrives in Folkmore.
• Questions, discussion, and voting is open until the end of the event.
• The results will be announced in the next SOU aka the end of the next event.

Reminders

• Have questions about anything going on? Need an update on a question that slipped between the cracks? Ask them here.
• If you have feedback, feel free to comment and let us know here.

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