Update on Jakequest

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So as most of you are aware and some are you involved with, there was a rescue party who went to go save Jake from being mind controlled by his moirail Kaoru, and hopefully break him out of said mind control. So far y'all have been great about how vague we've been about the outcome of this plot, and Miz and I would really like to thank you for that. But our original plans aren't going to work with the few more weeks it seems the current log will take, so it's time for a change of plans.

Below is a breakdown of the plot outline, with places where input will be both needed and appreciated. We also need to do more planning OOCly with how things went for everyone in the first part of the plot, which we can hopefully do in comments.

• The current log has the first section with the starting rescue party, most of which get tied up fighting off the waves of underlings. These entry fight threads are still on going, and for those involved we're quite happy to keep working on them. 
• The other sections of the log deal with the smaller rescue group facing Kaoru and Jake, leading to a fight breaking out between the two groups.
• During the fight Kaoru gets desperate and starts having Jake use his magic, because of the trump card it is.
• Eventually the rescue party is able to talk Jake out of the mind control, but this does not go smoothly. As soon as Jake is back to himself his Soul Gem goes dark from both the magical strain of he fight and the emotional strain of what Kaoru's done and the last few months.
• Jake turns into a Witch, with the rescue party, Kaoru, and Jake's body violently ejected out of the area. A chunk of Kaoru's land is now torn up by the newly raised Witch's barrier.
• The only way to deal with the Witch and not leave Jake dead  for good is to force him to hit godtier by dragging his body to his quest bed and killing his Witch form. His sprite will be able to lead people to his bed, leaving the main issue of taking down the Witch.
• There will be a second log for the actual Witch fight. Witch is defeated in this second log, and Jake gets to enjoy his nice new pajamas and not having to worry about going through that again. And finally get in some of those visits he owes :)

Part of that much needed input is there is an option for some wiggle room here in that there are two options with when the Witch fight log happens. With option one the fight can be backdated as having happened right after the first log, the group getting what reinforcements they could and imminently trying to face the Witch. Option two is forward dating the fight, with the choice made to make a strategic retreat from the Witch and just give warning about Kaoru's land until a group is ready to face it. I'm open to both, each of them have their own merits, but I'd really like to hear what y'all think. Especially from the group directly facing Jake and Kaoru in the first log. 

As for the fight against the Witch, if you are interested in that please comment below. I would like to keep it at a small group of characters for the sake of keeping things manageable, and also keep in mind how deadly a fight this could be. Witches are very very dangerous creatures, even to seasoned fighters used to fighting them, so keep that in mind when volunteering.

And of course any questions, espcially stuff I might have missed, please ask away. You can either leave a comment here, or send a IM or PM to myself and Miz.



Sorry for anyone this has already screwed things up for timeline wise, hopefully we can have lots of fun with the rest of this and minimize how much this makes things messy for y'all <3

FEBRUARY ACTIVITY CHECK

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HI! We skipped activity check last month because it was the holidays, but it is BACK

- Before February 10th, a week from now, you need to reply to this post with two links:
-- one to a post of any sort that you have replied to at least three times in the last two weeks.
-- one to a thread or pesterlog or whatever that has either FINISHED since January 10th or is STILL ACTIVE this week. "Finished" here means that both players agree that the thread is done with, not that it has to have a snappy conclusion. There is no required length for a finished thread. "Still active" means a thread of any length (discounting memos) that gets at least five new replies over the course of the following week.
- If you don't get round to checking in but you've been recently active, we will frown at you a lot because you have made our lives hard but we will not actually come after you in the night or anything.
- If you don't check in and we haven't seen you for two weeks, and you haven't made any hiatus notices, we'll post your name up on a little OMINOUS LIST, following which you'll have a week to show your face (or for someone else to tell us what's up with you) or we'll mark you down as dropped.
- Same goes for if you've been around but not in significant quantities to pass AC.
- If you don't check in and you haven't tagged anywhere at all in the last month, we will mark you down as dropped, full stop.
- If you're dropped and you want back in, you'll have to re-app.

Players who have declared a hiatus, obviously, are exempt! We do prefer that people post their hiatuses to the hiatus post as well as to the OOC comm, btw, because that's way easier for us to keep track of for AC.

WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO KEEP YOU.

A NOTICE REGARDING ENDGAME AND APP PERIODS

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Hey guys! As many of you already know, Jarjammed is due to end some time this year. We're sort of rolling into Act Three, as it were, of the overall metaplot, although how exactly things will end up panning out is still up in the air, depending on the actions of the players.

So, so that nobody gets any nasty surprises:

Currently we're anticipating the game to wrap up around June, give or take a month either way, depending on how things go down.

Apps are not going to be open right until the end. We don't know when exactly the last app period will be, because the cessation of characters being pulled in again depends on what happens in game, but we're probably looking at no more than two or three more app periods from here onwards.

We hope all of you guys can stick it out with us til the end C:

HIATUS (a real one, not hospital!Hiatus)

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I have bronchitis.

I'll be back once it eases and being upright is not longer exhausting as fuck.

Sorry.

LOPAP people -- I'm up for backtagging minglelog once I'm back!