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Upcoming Activity Check
Hello, Re-Alignment! This is your routine reminder that the game's second Activity Check is coming up: it will run from Monday, November 12th to Monday, November 19th. Now's the time to think about gathering your links and making sure all of your characters are covered.
For more information, check the cut text below:
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So HOW DOES THIS WORK?
On Monday, November 12th the mods will put up an ACTIVITY CHECK post in the OOC community. That post will have a text box form you'll need to fill out and leave as a comment sometime before the end of AC (November 19th).
To 'pass' an Activity Check, you'll need to provide the following:
-Two examples of activity occurring within the specified dates (usually from the beginning of the LAST AC up until the beginning of the CURRENT AC)
-An activity summary
The mods will check both of these and let you know if you've passed or failed activity. If you've provided what we ask, you're good! If you aren't able to meet the requirements, you'll still have a chance to show you want to stay and be active (see below.)
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EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY
Examples of activity are really straightforward: We just need you to give us links to any two of the following:
You may provide two of the same KIND of example (two Link posts, two log threads, etc.) Comment chains in which your character makes two or more comments at once will count as only one comment towards the total of the thread. If needed, you may combine multiple links to smaller threads until you have reached the minimum (so for ONE activity example, you could link to two main community threads with 5 comments each to reach the minimum ten comments.)
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ACTIVITY SUMMARY
In addition to the two examples of activity provided, you must also give us an activity summary.
An activity summary consists of a small paragraph explaining what your character has been up to since the previous Activity Check (or since arriving in the game if you are new.) This can be as simple or as detailed as you would like! At the minimum, be sure to hit any events your character has participated in (either game events or character plots) and where they're currently residing. If you'd like to get more detailed (such as drawing up CR charts, mentioning what Firstforged they've talked with, or adding links) we're not going to stop you, as this will make a handy future reference for you as well as for us!
The activity summary will help the mods in determining alignment swaps, determining future Firstforged plans for your characters, and will also keep us from missing anything important about your character. In no way will your activity summary have any effect on you passing or failing activity check, unless it is completely absent.
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EXCLUSIONS
Characters will only be expected to participate in an Activity Check if they have been in the game for a month or more. Generally, this means anyone who arrived in the most recent application cycle won't be expected to provide any samples of activity or a summary for that AC.
There may be other exclusions as well, such as in the case of extended hiatuses or real life emergencies, etc. IF you are taking a hiatus when an Activity Check is coming up, you MUST talk with the mods before you go about the requirements for passing AC, or else you risk the consequences below...
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FAILING ACTIVITY CHECK
If you fail to post to an Activity Check within the week that it is open and you have not contacted the mods beforehand, then any characters not posted will be dropped from the game. The mods will put up a list of characters in danger of being dropped at the end of Activity Check, at which point they will have three days to contact the mods and provide AC and explanation for failing it. After those three days have passed, the drops will be official and the characters will be removed from the taken list and PC page.
If you post to the activity check but do not meet the minimum requirements in your Examples of Activity, you will be given a one week period in which to provide one new example of activity of any kind. If you are able to do so, then you will have passed activity check and be fine (although the 'new' example of activity will not be usable in the next AC.) If you fail to do so, then your character will be dropped.
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ALIGNMENT ADJUSTMENTS
Following the Activity Check the mods will be additionally posting an Alignment Adjustment. This means we'll be looking through all the Activity Summaries, and also comparing notes about the FirstForged's interactions with each character to determine if there is anyone who will be changing Polarity, or anyone who is getting chummy enough with a Firstforged to be granted boons or asked to become an Initiate. There may be other exciting things in store during Alignment Adjustments, as well~
More information will be coming after the Activity Check.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask below!
For more information, check the cut text below:
~
So HOW DOES THIS WORK?
On Monday, November 12th the mods will put up an ACTIVITY CHECK post in the OOC community. That post will have a text box form you'll need to fill out and leave as a comment sometime before the end of AC (November 19th).
To 'pass' an Activity Check, you'll need to provide the following:
-Two examples of activity occurring within the specified dates (usually from the beginning of the LAST AC up until the beginning of the CURRENT AC)
-An activity summary
The mods will check both of these and let you know if you've passed or failed activity. If you've provided what we ask, you're good! If you aren't able to meet the requirements, you'll still have a chance to show you want to stay and be active (see below.)
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EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY
Examples of activity are really straightforward: We just need you to give us links to any two of the following:
- -A Link-network post made by your character containing at least 20 comments of any kind
- -A log post made by your character containing at least 7 comments of any kind
- -Any thread in the main community in which your character has made at least 10 comments
- -Any thread in the logs community in which your character has made at least 5 comments
You may provide two of the same KIND of example (two Link posts, two log threads, etc.) Comment chains in which your character makes two or more comments at once will count as only one comment towards the total of the thread. If needed, you may combine multiple links to smaller threads until you have reached the minimum (so for ONE activity example, you could link to two main community threads with 5 comments each to reach the minimum ten comments.)
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ACTIVITY SUMMARY
In addition to the two examples of activity provided, you must also give us an activity summary.
An activity summary consists of a small paragraph explaining what your character has been up to since the previous Activity Check (or since arriving in the game if you are new.) This can be as simple or as detailed as you would like! At the minimum, be sure to hit any events your character has participated in (either game events or character plots) and where they're currently residing. If you'd like to get more detailed (such as drawing up CR charts, mentioning what Firstforged they've talked with, or adding links) we're not going to stop you, as this will make a handy future reference for you as well as for us!
The activity summary will help the mods in determining alignment swaps, determining future Firstforged plans for your characters, and will also keep us from missing anything important about your character. In no way will your activity summary have any effect on you passing or failing activity check, unless it is completely absent.
~
EXCLUSIONS
Characters will only be expected to participate in an Activity Check if they have been in the game for a month or more. Generally, this means anyone who arrived in the most recent application cycle won't be expected to provide any samples of activity or a summary for that AC.
There may be other exclusions as well, such as in the case of extended hiatuses or real life emergencies, etc. IF you are taking a hiatus when an Activity Check is coming up, you MUST talk with the mods before you go about the requirements for passing AC, or else you risk the consequences below...
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FAILING ACTIVITY CHECK
If you fail to post to an Activity Check within the week that it is open and you have not contacted the mods beforehand, then any characters not posted will be dropped from the game. The mods will put up a list of characters in danger of being dropped at the end of Activity Check, at which point they will have three days to contact the mods and provide AC and explanation for failing it. After those three days have passed, the drops will be official and the characters will be removed from the taken list and PC page.
If you post to the activity check but do not meet the minimum requirements in your Examples of Activity, you will be given a one week period in which to provide one new example of activity of any kind. If you are able to do so, then you will have passed activity check and be fine (although the 'new' example of activity will not be usable in the next AC.) If you fail to do so, then your character will be dropped.
~
ALIGNMENT ADJUSTMENTS
Following the Activity Check the mods will be additionally posting an Alignment Adjustment. This means we'll be looking through all the Activity Summaries, and also comparing notes about the FirstForged's interactions with each character to determine if there is anyone who will be changing Polarity, or anyone who is getting chummy enough with a Firstforged to be granted boons or asked to become an Initiate. There may be other exciting things in store during Alignment Adjustments, as well~
More information will be coming after the Activity Check.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask below!