Winds of Obsession: UPDATE & POLL

[simpathis]

Hello everyone!

We would like to clarify and make known a few things just so we can proceed with the event smoothly. Please take some time to read this, and any questions regarding any of the items mentioned may be directed to this post.

1. Emotion Tracker: In order to determine the prompts and outcomes for the third and fourth portions, we have set up a designated tracker for the emotions on Aiada’s spectrum. Please try to get in your submissions as soon as possible to shape the event! The ET can be found here. We highly encourage those participating to submit to the emotion tracker. While optional, responses to the ET help us greatly, especially in a situation like this where emotions determine the outcome of the event. Please try to make an effort to submit to the ET! Remember, threads do not have to be complete to count, just far enough along to show that something’s happening!

 

2. Stone Tracker: In addition to the emotion tracker, we will have a tracker for the stone orbs that relate to the temple doors. This will also influence the outcome of the second half of the event. As the stones are required to open the temple, there may be serious consequences if the temple doors are not opened. Keep in mind, that like the emotion tracker, threads can be in progress, as long as obvious progress is being made (more than a handful of comments, please)! They do NOT have to be finished threads to count! In addition, more than one memory or battle can happen per thread, though no more than one instance of either per character participating in said thread. (One memory OR one battle per character per thread) The link to the stone tracker is here.

 

3. Serious Consequences: This is an update on the situation of the event. Currently the event is leaning towards the bad side of things rather than the good. In which case, there may be serious consequences that will impact the setting of the game altogether if it continues. These serious consequences, while still undetermined, may be similar to the negative side effects of the past Elios event or could potentially be much worse. We, the mods, have no preference on how the event will end, however, we don’t want a bad end to be the product of misinformation, misunderstanding, or even something as workable as time constraint. This leads us to the fourth item:

 

4. Event Duration: Because of the current standing of the event, we have already decided to postpone posting the next portion of the event until at least October 26th, aligning with its IC start date. But we'd like to ask for everyone's opinion if we should extend the second part (To Her Domain) of the event even further to allow more time to complete needed threads.
   
   So, if the player base would prefer more time for the second part, we can move back the third and fourth even farther. The implications of this may be that the event will affect the location and content of the intro log for November.

Please fill out the poll below ONCE PER PLAYER, WITH A JOURNAL WE CAN IDENTIFY.  If we do not recognize the journal as a current member of the game, we will not count the vote. 
Any additional comments or questions can be left on this post as well!

The poll will close at midnight on October 25th (the night of the 25th and 26th).

Poll #18973 Winds Of Obsession Event Dates

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 57

Should the 3rd Portion of the event be delayed beyond October 26th?

yes
46 (85.2%)

no
8 (14.8%)

How long should the 3rd part be delayed?

3 days : ICly and OOCly on October 29th
6 (10.5%)

5 days: ICly and OOCly on October 31st
16 (28.1%)

7 days: ICly and OOCly on November 2nd
23 (40.4%)

More than 7 days (please clarify in comments)
4 (7.0%)

It should not be delayed. (3rd portion will go up on the 26th as planned)
8 (14.0%)

Comments

Poll Vote, Stone Clarification, general event concerns

[nailed_it]

Hey! Just clarifying my vote. While I chose option number 4 (more than 7 days), I'm actually just of the opinion that perhaps it might be better to play the length of the delay by ear if possible? Just since there may be stuff at work here that can't necessarily be fixed by more time. If not, no worries, I totally understand that it might be easier or better overall to have a set schedule to adhere to.

Also I was wondering if I could get a clarification on the stone tracker. I meant to ask this on the OOC post and then just forgot, lol.

Can the stones be loosened by 5 memories and/or 5 instances of combat? Like say, one tree gets 2 memories and then 1 fight and then 2 more memories or some combination like that. Would such an example loosen the stone or can it only be 5 of one or the other?

Also also, just expressing a general concern with regards to this event but I'm unsure of the "more than a handful of comments" requirement. Since the memories being given to loosen the stones are generally their own top-level or single comment and everything else is reaction, and in the case of combat the treants have to be NPC'd by the players, it might be difficult to get longer threads? I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to allow players to link threads that are intended to help loosen the stones regardless of length or whether that part has been reached in-thread.

...And my apologies if I'm making no sense, I'm on super low levels of sleep right now, lol.

[simpathis]

Thank you for your clarification! We had not considered this option, due to needing to know how to work in things like the upcoming character intro log. So we do need to have some kind of eyeball date in order to move forward with future plans.

As for your FIRST question, yes! Any combination of 5 will work just fine.

Regarding your SECOND question: We need to see at least some progress in a thread in order for it to count. If there is progress, we will count it. Also: regarding top levels only ONE instance of that top level will count. For Example:

PLAYER 1 posts a starter with a stone progress option.
PLAYER 1 can use that starter (no matter how many people choose it) ONCE.

however

PLAYER 2, who comments to that thread, should they provide their own instance of memory sharing or combat, can also count that thread.

PLAYER 3, who comments to that thread, should they provide their own instance of combat/memory can ALSO count it towards one of the 5 instances.

etc, and so on.

Keep in mind that we allow for more than 5 instances of memory sharing or combat per stone, and this will positively affect the outcome as well.

[nailed_it]

Thanks for the clarifications! I figured there were probably some time constraints involved. In that case, I was wondering if it'd be possible to vote for an additional OOC extension to the event but keeping the IC dates the same or if that'd just cause the same kind of problems. ^^;

And thank you, that clears some stuff up a bit. So the player who top-levels can only count their thread once but anyone who tags to that top-level can count it as separate instance of memory or combat if they participate? Just want to be extra sure on the particulars.

[simpathis]

That is a possibility, depending on what choices are made. Should the playerbase decide to push back the third portion of the event until the 2nd, we will not have that option for example, as the third portion of the event would then overlap with the timing of the intro log. We would much rather incorporate that into the event, rather than have weird timeywimey shenanigans going on when we are introducing new characters and players.

But, it does sound like you have it correct! so long as the players who tag in contribute a memory or an instance of combat, they can count the thread separately for themselves.

[nailed_it]

Okay, cool, thanks! Mostly I just want to be able to plan ahead for whether or not I'll be able to tag my character into end of month posts or even the intro log, or if I'll have to re-adjust some things in case the event will IC-ly run long and my character'll be unexpectedly stuck in the jungle or something still, lol.