January Activity Check

[re_alignedmods]

Hello Re-Alignment! It's time for the



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<b>Character Name:</b> <b>1st Example:</b> <a href="INSERT LINK/LOG/THREAD URL HERE">WITTY EXAMPLE TEXT</a> <b>2nd Example:</b> <a href="INSERT LINK/LOG/THREAD URL HERE">WITTY EXAMPLE TEXT</a> <b>Activity Summary:</b> (This only needs to be a small paragraph or list of what your character has done. Feel free to be general (IE 'McCrane has spent the last two months trying to find fuel to survive, getting an engine overhaul, and then building all the places.') or to be specific (IE 'McCrane has made friends with Noisy Boy, working with him to construct a punching block while trying to come up with ways for him to defeat Midas and thus gain the other robot's respect. He's also been...' etc).

AC Rules!

• -Comment to this entry using the above text box, once for each character. You may combine multiple characters into one post.
  
• -We'll be accepting any activity for this check that occurred between November 11th and January 11th.
  
• -You will need to post two Examples of Activity and an Activity Summary for every character you have in the game. (See below)
  
• -Any character accepted in the most recent application cycle (December 15th onward) will not be required to participate in this activity Check.
  
• -You will have one week from when this post goes up to provide your activity check (so until end of day January 19th).
  

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EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY

Examples of activity are really straightforward: we just need you to give us the URL 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. In other words, doing the minimum on this can't hurt you, but going above and beyond can help you!

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EXCLUSIONS AND EXEMPTIONS

Characters are only 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.

In order to qualify for an exemption to the Activity Check, you must have posted a hiatus of 2 weeks or longer to the official hiatus page during the period covered by the Activity Check. You may not request back-to-back exemptions, regardless of any length hiatus you may take. If you are unable to meet the requirements for activity due to real-life circumstances/an emergency, you MUST communicate with the mods before the end of the Activity Check.

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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 (or two, as required to meet the minimum requirement) 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.

Comments

sorry for massive tl;dr

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Character Name: Kay Faradayv
1st Example: Kay can't speak bird
2nd Example: Christmas for stupid children!

Activity Summary:
Kay's been a busy little bee these few months. With the holidays rolling around she wanted to celebrate SOMETHING, so she gathered information from people about what holidays they celebrate and tried to come up with something they could all have. She and Elita planned to find crystal trees to put outside of each of the FirstForged's temples and helped decorate them with various people. She also cut out paper snowflakes, giving them to Vandal, Vector, and Kagerou. As far as living arrangements have gone, she's staying with Kagerou in his nest above the police station roof, at least until further notice.

She's also taken up training to become stronger than she currently is, having learning some self defense from Marvelous, getting a pistol from Blurr and a Butterfly Knife from the item drop, as well as keeping her axe from before. She's still new on a lot of self defense, but she's getting to a great start for someone who's never had any real training before. Kagerou, Marvelous, Garrus and Arcee have been teaching her to use stealth and speed as opposed to raw power, and with this new knowledge she threw a pen at Ironhide's head because he punched Alpha Trion. It was beautiful.

She's also starting to dabble in the joys of a teenage crush--on a robot. Yes, Smokescreen just makes her ever so giddy, and it's caused a little bit of panic from her robot dad (Kagerou) over it, even if she's unaware of it. So far it's just been puppy love.

There's also a new addition to Kay's arsenal--a baby crow fledgling that she caught holding her Christmas gift from the item drop. After it's capture, it seems to have accepted Kay as it's owner, and now remains perched inside her scarf. She's named it the incredibly creative "Skydave". She plans on trying to train him like a carrier pigeon, because walking around is hard and delivering information and items could be useful.

Character Name: Wheeljack
1st Example: Wheeljack and Magnus have a bonding moment...literally.
2nd Example: And what led up to it.

Activity Summary:
Wheeljack had good intentions, starting off with wanting to build his ship, The Jackhammer. He employed a few people who might be interested, namely Bulkhead, Rocket Raccoon, Perceptor (begrudingly) and others. The Glyphless started the stall of the building of the ship, but that's to be expected. He helped Shockwave and Knock Out take care of Cylas, and went to report this to Ultra Magnus. After some feels talk, Ultra Magnus had told him to work on it, as it would be helpful to learning a way to get home. But it all went downhill when Ultra Magnus got himself a bit intoxicated in FoC Perceptor's lab, calling him over. When he got there, Magnus handcuffed them together after a misunderstanding, and thus...had to go out into the world. The result was...rather hilarious, as Wheeljack is tiny compared to Magnus. Handcuffs are not for play, kids.

He also got a Christmas gift in the form of an exploding present with a tool sharpening kit!
He's also noticed Blurr has some...feelings for him. Which is a bit on the awkward side, because Wheeljack is a little afraid of commitment (see: a lot). Still, it's nice to actually feel something again, even if he'll hate himself later for it.

His luck only escalates when he ATTEMPTS on focusing on his ship, but sees Perceptor unleashing some Eldritch horror in his lab, going to attempt a rescue from the beast. He takes care of it by toppling it over on the floor....until Driller decides to pay a visit and take Perceptor with him. Wheeljack figures it's gotta be a rescue mission, and thus asked the network who was responsible for stealing the scientist.

Character Name: Mirage
1st Example: Mirage and Barricade have a feels-off
2nd Example: Ba weep granah weep nini bong!

Activity Summary:
Unlike the others, Mirage has kept on the downlow for the most part. He's still trying to adjust to having lost Que back home, and now losing Ironhide and Ratchet. It's a little jarring for him to lose all his Autobots, and all he has to turn to now are Shockwave and Barricade and let's face it that's just fancy talk for 'Barricade'. He told Barricade he wanted to talk to him when he came back from his trip, and when they did, a lot of feels came out and most of them were about death. FUN TIMES. But they agreed to help each other since they're of like worlds.

Mirage also at some point taught Four written and spoken (even if Four can't speak) Cybertronian from his world. At least the Autobot letterings.

Mirage also had a talk with Mccrane about holographic abilities and cloaking. Mccrane asked for his assistance in some recon, to which he agreed that he would work with the police force on as long as they'd have a use for him. He also met Arcee recently and...despite vast differences, share the same views on the Decepticons and Overlords freeing. They don't really like Megatronus Prime haha what a loser.

Character Name: Sissel
1st Example: He took a missile to the chest
2nd Example: HAPPY DEATH DAY

Activity Summary:
Sissel starts off rather well! With Fulcrum going glyphless, Sissel gets caught in the crossfire and ends up taking a missile shrapnel damage to his chest, completely blowing it open. Normally this would be alarming and in need of immediate medical attention, but it seems that Sissel isn't 'alive'. He knew this, but now it was confirmed. He's actually an android body with his 'spirit' in the 'heart' of it, powering it unknowingly by using ghost tricks. Thanks to Dead End, he gets some medical attention from Masters, but there's really nothing she can do.

So he's been wandering around with a giant hole in his chest! He's not exactly uncomfortable with it. He met with Gunmax and questioned why he was leaving the police force, but other than that, left the police bot to his business.

Christmas rolled around, and he remembered that that was when his death was around. He took this time to make a makeshift grave for himself, carrying it to the graveyard and sitting there during his 'deathday'. Dead End, Blurr, Dirge, and Albert visited him during it, and each had their own...special experience.

Finally, Sissel got his Christmas present from the item drop, and it was a red desk lamp. To anyone else, it'd be a normal present, but Sissel knew a ghost who inhabited a lamp back in his world, so he thought maybe this could be the ghost. But it's just a 'dead husk' of what his friend was, and thus...reacted pretty badly.

Re: sorry for massive tl;dr

[re_alignedmods]

Activity Check cleared, thank you!

Alignment Adjustments will be announced in a follow-up post a few days from now, so keep an eye on the OOC comm.