June 2022 Story of Us

[folkie]

Story of Us: June

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
We will be holding bi-monthly Texts From Last Night posts on our OOC community. Both players and non-players are welcome to tag into this. Players can use these posts for their spoons and tentative new players can use these posts for samples on their applications. If accepted into the game, you can also use your TFLN posts for spoons!

The upcoming event for July will have an element that will extend between July and August. This will involve characters feeling heavily pressured to gravitate to a unique location known as Camp Camelot located nearby the Lakes in Willow.

This location will not be accessible until the event begins. Characters will be able to go to and from the camp at will but most will feel enormously pressured by the general state of the game to actively attend the camp either as campers or counselors! Most of July and August's events will have to do with the camp, but fear not! There will still be prompts available in both July and August for those who might want to do things beyond the camp.

From July 1st to July 12th, characters throughout Folkmore will be gifted a fox beret with a matching orange Camp Camelot shirt, a pair of orange shorts, an optional clip-on orange fox tail, and some nifty knee-high white socks with orange bands at the top. You will be provided with a set of orange hiking boots that, instead of ridges on the feet, have paw prints. These outfits will appear in a neat pile somewhere in your character's home and will be custom fit to their exact measurements and body types!

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!

<B>Player Name:</b> <B>Player Pronouns:</b> <b>Player Contact:</b> <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or other <b>Preferred Tag Style:</b> Action/Prose <b>Monthly Pacing:</b> Let others know if you might be a bit slow this month or your usual speed! <B>OOC Limitations/Disinterests:</b> Personal limitations you have or prompts you will opt out of. Maybe you have no interest in romantic or sexual or violent CR etc. <B>Permissions:</b> Link to your permissions here! Or any other valuable information pages like power opt-ins/opt-outs if you like! <B>Character Name:</b> <B>Character Age:</b> <B>Characer Species:</b> <B>Character Details:</b> Anything unique about them to immediately know? Maybe that they have a prosthetic, details about their voice, etc. <B>Character Summary:</b> Give a simple summary of your character, their history maybe, personality, things that you would want people to know right off the bat! <b>Character Role:</b> Familiar, Myth, Legend. <B>Character Role Deets:</b> Anything unique about your character's role and how it manifests? Things you'd like to explore through it? <B>Character Living Quarters:</b> Where is your character living? <B>Character Schools:</b> Where do they teach or go to school? <B>Day to Day Life:</b> What can they usually be seen doing? Do they have a job? Run errands? Explain here! <B>Current Mindset/Health:</b> 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. <B>Recent Developments:</b> Anything major or significant that your character has experienced that may be important to established or new CR. <b>Goals For Your Character:</b> What are things YOU as a player want to accomplish for your character? What storylines are you hoping to achieve? <B>Problems With Your Character:</b> What are struggles your character is going through right now? Physical or mental! <B>Wanted CR:</b> Romances? Mentors? Family figures? Let people know here! <B>Unwanted CR:</b> Against enemies? Friends? Fill it out here. <B>Open/Closed to New CR:</b> 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.

<B>Your Handle:</b> <B>Your Contact:</b> <user name=USERNAME site=plurk.com> <b>Invite Slot:</b> Monthly invite or one purchased through spoons. Link to spoons purchase if applicable. <B>Player You're Inviting:</b> <B>Player Contact:</b> <user name=USERNAME site=plurk.com>

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
JUNE 22-25th
ANY TIME

RESERVES OPEN
JULY 1st
12:01 AM EST

RESERVES CLOSE
JULY 5th
12:01 AM EST

INVITES CLOSE
JULY 5th
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN OPEN
JULY 1st
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN CLOSE
JULY 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS OPEN
JULY 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS CLOSE
JULY 10th
11:59 PM EST

TRIAL PLOT
JULY 11th
ANY TIME

TRIAL LIVE
JULY 13th
ANY TIME

INVITES-CR MEME BEGIN
JULY 22nd
ANY TIME

Comments

[thinkfirst]

Hello may I offer one (1) emotional support golden retriever, here to help with past emotional trauma?? Flynn's also got a big "protect the weak" complex going on, he just hasn't fully figured out the best way to do that yet.

[musicaldemon]

Oh no, Flynn, you're such a sweetheart. She sure as shit hasn't figured it out either but goddamn does she try.

[thinkfirst]

handclasp meme, they are trying so hard all the time and it is exhausting! Maybe we could do something once the event goes up—Flynn's throwing himself headlong into camp things and I'm definitely putting a TL so whatever strikes your fancy, I am here for!! TBH I also love starting off CR with like.... absolutely wild emotional convos so if there are any prompts that will facilitate that, that could be very fun

[musicaldemon]

God you don't know how much I love stupid emotional convos. Reko might be getting her brother back this next app round so she'll be feeling a lot of emotions anyhow if it happens.

[thinkfirst]

They are the best!! Like the lifeblood of this hobby, chefs kiss, perfect; if she does get her brother back I look forward to jumping on him too!