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Empatheias Mods ([personal profile] simpathis) wrote in [community profile] empatheias_ooc2017-10-22 03:19 am
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Winds of Obsession: UPDATE & POLL

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!
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  3. 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.
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  5. 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:
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  7. 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%)


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[personal profile] nailed_it 2017-10-22 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] nailed_it 2017-10-23 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
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.