July 2022 Story of Us

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Story of Us: July

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 Per Camp Camelot

FOR DAMSELS:

For people who are interested in signing their character up to be a Damsel In Distress for the month of August you will have until August 13th to sign your character up. Signing your character up means you are agreeing to have them put into a situation of peril at mod choice. We will always be sensitive to your hard-nos and make sure to keep your character away from anything that may veer towards that.

If you signed up your character for July and still wish to have them be a damsel in August: you do not need to do anything. However, if you don't want your character to be a damsel again in August - please comment on the Damsel page to let us know so we can remove their name from the list!

FOR CABINS:

We apologize for the slight delay on adding newer characters! Our Camper/Counselor page is currently up to date! If you want to remove/add anyone, you will have until August 13th for all finalized roommate situations. This includes adding any characters as counselors or campers.

PER AUGUST EVENT:

All event prompts from July carry over to August - including for new players accepted in this upcoming August cycle. To read up on those prompts, check out our plotting page here.

August will have its own unique set of trials so stay tuned!

As a general reminder, Camp Camelot will be dismantled on September 1st. These cabins will vanish into poofs of golden dust. So hopefully your characters are out of them in time or else they might wind up eating shit in the dirt.

From August 1st to August 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
July 22nd-25th
ANY TIME

RESERVES OPEN
August 1st
12:01 AM EST

RESERVES CLOSE
August 5th
12:01 AM EST

INVITES CLOSE
August 5th
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN OPEN
August 1st
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN CLOSE
August 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS OPEN
August 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS CLOSE
August 10th
11:59 PM EST

TRIAL PLOT
August 11th
ANY TIME

TRIAL LIVE
August 13th
ANY TIME

INVITES-CR MEME BEGIN
August 22nd
ANY TIME

Comments

Gwenhwyfar | Original | Familiar

[gwenhwyfar]

Player Name: Natalie
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact: rainbowillness and PMs are fine
Preferred Tag Style: Action/Prose whichever
Monthly Pacing: It... varies. Work is in its peak season so it fluctuates. Plus, I've got a lot I'm planning in RL so some nights I have no motivation to be online, at all.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: I'm really iffy on body horror things and anything robbing a character not having consent, that's pretty much it.
Permissions: Here

Character Name: Gwenhwyfar
Character Age: 18
Characer Species: Nephilim (half-human, half-demon)
Character Details:
Gwen is super noticeable. She's extremely pale, is dressed in rags, carries a spear, and has a large scar where her right eye used to be. She's aloof, she tries to duck out and hide from social gatherings.

And you'll usually see her lurking in a tree or in the woods like a cryptid. She is incredibly socially awkward and despite wanting to look scary, she's surprisingly shy and anxious. Chances are if you've ran into Gwen, she'll sniff you over.

Character Summary:
Gwen is her world's future Queen Guinevere from Arthurian lore.

She's heavily inspired by the old Welsh stories and early romances and it is a bit of antithesis of the usual Guinevere. She's a bit feral, she does not act like a princess, and she's very Pagan. Gwen wasn't brought up like your average princess and she spent a good portion of her childhood learning magic and Druidism to preserve the old ways. But like Guinevere, Gwen has been kidnapped a lot so as a result, she's very much on edge, hardened, and is not afraid to fight for herself if need be.

Right now, her story is in the middle of the "How Culwch Won Olwen" story and if you've seen "The Black Cauldron", her storyline has vibes like that, too.

Character Role: Familiar
Character Role Deets: Hell yeah, she can absolutely shape-shift into an owl a la Blodeuwedd
Character Living Quarters: On paper, she lives in a cabin further out but probably has slept in a tree most nights
Character Schools: None
Day to Day Life: Gwen is currently just in observation mode trying to learn what she can about this place and if there's a chance to get out. But she's also very religious and goes about gathering things in the forest, like fauna or stones that my have magical properties and creating an altar.

She's at the point she prefers nature more than being engaged in public places, so if anyone's noticed a weird, ghostly-looking white-haired lady? You can absolutely assume Gwen has been spotted, go for it.

Current Mindset/Health: A little shaken from the abduction (attempt?) during Camp Camelot but also very not happy, probably bordering on losing control of her demonic half
Recent Developments: She's helped Mary from a tentacle monster and was a damsel. Safe to assume she's pretty shaken up right now.
Goals For Your Character: Gwen lacks a lot of confidence and her life revolves around her future. Of course, I want her to expand on that and learn that there's more to her life right now than what's happened to her and learn more about herself. She has major identity issues and hang-ups.
Problems With Your Character: Gwen obviously suffers from a lot of trauma from her previous abductions and a lot of residual trauma from her mother's own trauma. She lives during a time of complex political strife and war, so she carries that along with her and tends to be hardened. Gwen is stuck in the mindset of "fight or die" right now and having downtime is absolutely confusing and alarming to her.

Physically, Gwen is very close to losing her demonic half which means she's close to a berserker-type rage where she'll attack anything and anyone and anyone can notice that with how she trembles.

The more supernatural-inclined characters can definitely notice a very chaotic, demonic aura around her.

Wanted CR: Since she's a little shifty, it's hard for her to warm up to people, so literally anything.
Unwanted CR: Not that I can think of, but given that Gwen is a supernatural being, I'm welcome to question because the last thing I want to do is stomp on anyone's toes.
Open/Closed to New CR: Still new CR and hoping to expand on more.