MAY 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 March 7th and May 7th.
  
• -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 (April 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 May 14th).
  

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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 needed 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

Tarn

[songofmypeople]

1st Example: Link post, 2013-04-01, 20+ comments
2nd Example: Log post, 2013-04-20, 7+ comments
Activity Summary: Mods, This got long, just read the bit encased by Blue

So if you meet me, have some courtesy:
For those of you playing along at home, here's what Tarn was up to last AC (mostly keeping track for my benefit):
Tarn remains a model citizen by:
- Having a completely nonviolent phone conversation with Fort. Max. who continues to have temper problems.
- Agreeing to host a playdate with Four, enlisting her help in constructing (Ambulon's weird fetish toy) tiny model car (since Tarn's sausage fingers couldn't even get the bitty box open and he really supports fostering creativity among young minds.
- Later that day he bonds with Frenzy -- and continues to foster creativity among our resident little shit's budding mind in the form of educational tutorials on more precise method of torture on a miniscule scale. See: letting Frenzy murder Four.
- During the infestation event TFP Shockwave was mobbed by monsters. Tarn helped rescue the damsel and fellow Decipticon through teamwork and excessive demonstrations of violence.
- Tarn also met Megatronus for the first time, refused his boon (no strings attached; yeah right), and came along to fight monsters in the battle convoy as a competent support unit because he's all about teamwork! (in order to better sit back and observe people's threat prowess (see: Megatronus) and ignoring the way his supposed phase-sixer level power might help the group. But hey, this wasn't HIS battle to fight.)

Start!
Have some sympathy, have some taste:
Here's what Tarn did this active AC round:
He continues to be completely harmless, and nothing but a good example of why Autobots are both hysterical and liable to vomit baseless propaganda by:
- Enjoying the gentlemanly sport of hunting live game instead of people (you're welcome) and very slowly making a dent into one of the few practically naturally occurring fauna that exists on Cybertron while indulging in some unnecessary animal abuse and feeding both Dirge and the Pet geardeer sparks.
- For two weeks that he doesn't remember, Tarn was the influenza virus.
- Instead of getting angry and then murdering everyone after being not so wrongly accused of murder, Tarn simply asked for an apology. He wasn't sure the Haven really got the irony there. But when Rung (who owed him twice over) didn't apologise, the guy had an accident. Funny how these things work, isn't it? It's almost ... poetic.
- Tarn privately encouraged Quickstrike to follow his dreams when the little guy said he was bored, because he believes in that sort of thing! And then Rung died, and Quickstrike knew better to rat on Tarn's suggestion of a victim.
- Clearly the Autobots' (and co's) fear of him would be cute if it wasn't so pathetic.
Okay you can stop now!

Use all your well-learned politesse:
Other points of note for this round:
- DJD Territory has grown somewhat since the last time we checked. It's now 3 neighbourhoods large (edging onto a 4th) and is being patrolled by some combination of a zombie turbofox, tiny cassette saboteur, greedy cloned harrier jet, and occasionally Tarn himself. If drones were sent to poke around while he was out (being influenza) when that event ended, so did data from the drones.
- Tarn still doesn't have his wiki-reader fancy coaster yet.
- His collection of things now includes around 20 precision rifles that he's discovered are variable states of useless. One of them shot spaghetti. Thanks, Lamba.
- Tarn's gathered up a group of 'special' minions in the forms of: Frenzy, Dirge, Quickstrike, Crow, and probably Four. He also found himself on the Law Committee, and then promptly in the midst of being voted off. None of the above has been cause enough to emote; Tarn has bigger fish to fry, though the majority of the Haven's inability to grasp the notion of politics is kind of sad. But then you look around and realise there are no opera houses, and you see this being symptomatic of a larger problem.

Or I'll lay your soul to waste:
First Forged Interactions last round: Met Megatronus. Not really impressed or otherwise threatened by the guy. His dealing with Frenzy re: Four's murder was hardly harsh. Tarn wonders if that's because Megatronus is playing favourites with his glyphed, or if that's because Four can't really be murdered since she isn't actually a person (see:"toy" in the dictionary).
First Forged Interactions this round: None. He's still waiting to see what the supposed "supernatural" FFs are going to do in response to the murder of REAL people (since they're apparently opposed). To avoid the lurking variable problem of last time, he's had Rung killed (a real person) by Quickstrike (still one of Megatronus's). The murder was close to home in Prima's temple, and Tarn's hoping to see the boss god get angry and do something cool (smiting would be appropriate). So far Prima has remained unresponsive re: the cool factor, since his feathers weren't ruffled when Driller smashed up some of his city.

Not for the first time Tarn is wondering if the FF deal is in fact a sham, and he can escalate his interest in murder sans real penalty. He still spends a majority of his time daydreaming how to remove the FF permanently from the picture too.

[re_alignedmods]

Activity Check cleared, thank you!