When one door closes, another opens.

Hi everyone, so, it’s official, Re/Alignment is closed. It's okay, let's all cry together. ;A;

Once you've cried, gather over here. I'm sure everyone has some questions as to how things will work out with the sequel game, Kismet Loop. Hopefully I can answer everyone's questions and allow us the smoothest transition possible.

How will the choice our character makes affect them being able to enter the new game?
It won't. Please don't be afraid to allow your character to choose whatever choice they would make ICly. Whatever their choice, if you choose to bring them to the new game, then we will work out how they end up in their new surroundings.  Even if they choose to return to their canon without their memories of Haven it will be up to you if they arrive in the new game with memories of their past CR or not.

When will the new game officially be starting?
Kismet Loop will officially launch on October 1, one month from now. This should allow everyone plenty of time to wrap up anything they want to do with End Game and End Game Celebrations.

There are a couple small things we need anyone coming to the new game to do before it starts, though.

Application/HMD – Please provide us with a link to your original application for any transitioning characters, and be sure you have an HMD page up on your character’s journal (this should already be there, as R/A mods had required this).

We are also asking that you add a section to your application of “R/A History”. You can simply copy your AC summaries to your app or into a new post on your character’s journal. We want the transition to be easy, the application is for our records only, and the added history for noting important things that happened with your character in R/A.

Subscribe – Can’t post until you’re part of the comms! Swing on by our comms and subscribe, and friend the mod journal. And pardon the dust, we’re still under construction.

Mod journal – [personal profile] kismet_loop_mods
Main comm – [community profile] kismet_loop
Log comm – [community profile] kismet_loop_logs
OOC comm – [community profile] kismet_loop_ooc
Crack comm – [community profile] fates_lemonade
Adult comm – [community profile] tempting_fate

Sign up – please provide the following information for each of your characters so we can start putting together a “taken” page for the new game, and get a definite count of who will be coming into KL. Just copy the text below and paste into your comment to this post.



Wait, you’re asking for boons and what items I want my character to have, does this mean they get to keep these things?
Probably, yes! It just doesn’t feel right taking away any final gifts that may be given by the First Forged. However, it is possible some items may not be allowed to come into the new game or an ability may get slightly nerfed. If there are any items your character will not be able to bring along, or an ability that needs to be nerfed a bit we will let you know when we reply to your tag to this post.

And please be patient. We’d like to give everyone a chance to sound in before responding. Don’t worry, though, the response you’ll be waiting for is not to accept or reject any characters, promise! Any characters that were in R/A through End Game will be accepted into KL if you decide you wish to join us.

So how is Game Start going to work?
We’ll be starting KL with an event. Characters will have a short time to sort out who all has come with them and where they are, before things start happening. To begin with I will be responding to your tag to this entry with a Group Number for each character. Remember the number for each character (we’ll also be posting it up on an ooc post before things start). The start of the game will be a group log, with groups located throughout their new surroundings. Your characters will be tagging under their Group Number for the log.

Do you have a question not addressed already?
Please don’t be shy, ask away under the “Questions” thread below.




**posted with permission of R/A mods.

What's to come after game's end

Hi guys, Lunnaei here.  As some of you probably know by now I'm working on a sequel game to RA.  I and a few others are working things out right now, getting basic plot, NPC's, comms, and all the logistics of a game set up.  For those of you who didn't know about this yet, I wanted to make you aware, and give everyone a chance to come over to the new game.

One of the reasons I'm creating this new game is to allow current RA muses to keep the CR built here.  Anyone currently in the game, who wishes to come to the new game will be able to keep all CR from RA (and will be automatically accepted too, apps for current RA members will be a formality "for the records"), in fact, game start will take place immediately after end game.  More details for that will be available after end game has wrapped up.

I'm posting this here for two reasons really,
1. I want to give everyone a chance to ask questions, or to sound in with things they might like to see in a sequel game.
2. I'd like to get an idea of how many characters might be joining the new game.

I'm really sad to see RA leaving even though I've only been in the game for a really short time, and I guess I'm just not ready to let it go.  I want to thank the mods of RA, they've done an amazing job with the game and all the plots.  I hope the new game can live up to the amazing game that RA has been.

So please, drop in with a comment, let me know if you have questions, anything you want to see in the new game, or if you plan to join it at all. =3

End Hiatus....just in time for another End. o.o

WHO LET THE ROBOT-SATAN OUT?

Also HIIII I'm...basically back.  Still recovering, health-wise (gdit Fibro SHTAWP), but otherwise okay.

If there's something you did not just get a tag on from either Deckard or Thundercracker that you'd still like to, let me know.  Otherwise, I've tagged everything I'm going to.

Ping me here or on Plurk if I'm needed/wanted anywhere!

Hiatus -> Slowatus

Hey everyone! I'm back, but my family is coming to visit tomorrow, so I'll be on slowatus until Friday. After that it's back to normal o/

Hiatus

I'll be out of town for a few days, so calling a short hiatus until the 29th. Since it's a short time my characters will still be around doing their usual thing.

Affects Skyfire [personal profile] wherenobotsgone.
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A hui hou kakou

Hello, Re/Al! Rose Marie here, Queen of Coincidentally Ill-Timed Hiatuses.

Just letting y'all know I will be gone from later today to the 27th, as I am going on holiday with the family to Hawaii! Taggin' ain't gonna happen, but I should be popping in on mobile plurk now and then.

Feel free to assume Rapunzel is just hanging around in the medbay, waiting to heal any injured that come in (which is what she's been doing -w-).

I think that's about it. Have a great week, R/A, and I'll catch you on the flip side!
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Because I'm all out of copes right now

I know we're almost to the end as it is, but . . . I've been working 10+ hour days for the past three weeks.  The past two days I've done close to 12 hours.  Each.  All for reasons. Not gonna bother getting into them here - they're nothing bad, just how the dominoes have fallen, etc.  Thankfully, this madness should be letting up very soon.  Like by the first part of next week . . . but then I have another "problem".  I'll be pretty unreachable from Wednesday till the following Monday due to San Diego Comic-Con International.

Sooooooo calling a hiatus.  I trust you guys - Thundercracker and Deckard are both up for grabs if you guys want to include them in things your characters are doing.  Just link me to what they've gotten themselves into while I'm gone.  And no killing them.  Maiming is fine.  XD

See you guys on the flipside!  <3

Affects Thundercracker ([personal profile] notyourblueangel) and Deckard ([personal profile] thankyou4myheart).
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Jayde Memorial Event

The Jayde Memorial Event: The Zone is now live!

Part One has been posted in it's entirety. Individual monster attacks are open to players to play out. Please refer to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wiki for further questions or ideas on creature abilities and attacks!

Part Two will be posted a week from today! As per Jayde's original plot request post, the second week will mark the discovery of the Source of the event - and the resulting attack upon it and the uber-monsters protecting it. Without Strelok to lead the assault, the post will contain a handful of prompt-post enemy descriptions for players to respond to - or not, if you wish to freeform it up.

Additionally, thanks to the complexity of the source canon, our own Dragon has volunteered to assist with some NPC wrangling: [personal profile] redshirtstalker will be your generic info/helper NPC for the duration of the event.  

And another big thanks to all our helpstaff for their info gathering and fact checking for this event. While nothing could compare to having Jayde here running her event, sharing a canon that she loved, with our combined efforts, hopefully this event may be a passable shadow of what Jayde originally planned. She was a brilliant player and friend, and we won't soon forget her. <3

Thank you all who participate, and please enjoy the event!
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Hiatus

I know this couldn't come at a worse time. Unfortunately, this was a hiatus I knew months ago that I'd have no choice but to take.

From tomorrow (6/15) to 6/23, I will be on hiatus. My best friend/sister's bachelorette party and wedding (in which I am the maid of honor and thus responsible for making sure pretty much anything and everything gets done) is this week, and I will probably be both scarce and exhausted until it's all over. I have a lot of work ahead of me and a daunting/terrifying amount of hours to put into everything. Gotta make sure things go smoothly, look great, and that my bride doesn't panic too badly (which is probably inevitable anyways). To make matters even more demanding, I have family from out of town visiting, so between them and prepping and the party and more prepping and the wedding, I have my hands completely and utterly full.

With endgame near, I realize this hiatus is incredibly inopportune, despite it being absolutely necessary. So I do want you to know that while it's safe to assume Rapunzel will be doing her normal routines, if there's anything y'all want me to backtag into, I will be more than happy to do so. <3

Catch you on the flip side, re/al!
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Game Status and Upcoming Timeline

As you have seen with Saeru's post, we are down to one full-time mod - namely myself, Goa. And while we still have our wonderful helpstaff, next week I start training for my own new, full-time promotion at work.

It has been hard enough to give this game and the people in it the attention they deserve as things have been, and I am aware we've been in a slow decline for some time. So it may come as little surprise that we are sadly announcing that this is our final open app round before End Game, which has been roughly decided to be set around the end of July.

We apologize to all the players this may blindside, and to the newer players and current reserves that hoped to have more time to play with us. Of course, this news puts a serious damper on any desire to app in, but as reserves were opened before this was decided, apps will open as-scheduled, and anyone who still wishes to join (or reapp) before the end will be welcome to do so.

It has been a pleasure playing with you all, and it has been a very good two-year run. ♥

That being said, we still have a few things left to play out before the end, and we hope you'll stick with us until then!


Jayde Memorial Event )

End Game )
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[personal profile] megaton2014-06-11 02:02 pm

A sad post

This is Saeru, one of the game mods.

About a month ago I disappeared on a trip to Hawaii, so if I haven't gotten to talk to you yet--hi! I wish I had better news for this post.

Two weeks ago I started a salary position at my job for 40 hours a week, leaving me virtually no time. This would have been much less of a problem if work hadn't also blocked plurk and dreamwidth both, preventing me from doing the mod duties I used to be able to do in during slow periods.

I wanted to see how things were going to go now before making this post, but after working for two weeks I've come to the conclusion that I no longer have the time necessary to devote to even the bare necessities of modship. I've talked with the other mods, and we are going to be making some decisions here very quickly about the new direction of this game. Stay tuned for a post.

It has been a pleasure sharing Re-Aligned with all of you, and I am very sad to have to go. ;-;
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[personal profile] brattery2014-06-03 12:12 pm

GUESS WHO'S BACK, BACK AGAIN

Hi, this is Tsa again. OOC intro is a little late but I'm bringing back Kevin Levin from the Ben 10 series. Enjoy this loser.

Hopefully I'll be a little more active this time ♥

And if you need to add me on plurk, I'm [plurk.com profile] thepreciousthing!
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[personal profile] patchjob2014-06-03 12:29 am

WHAT TIME IS IT? HAMMER TIME.

That's right boys and girls, it's Saint again, this time bringing in somebody who'd feel a little more at home on Cybertron: Breakdown, from Transformers Prime.

Formerly the Decepticons' go-to mech when it came to smashing stuff that needed smashing, because boy is he good at it. And really freaking hard to hurt. The good news is, he's also hot tempered, meaning he's not quite as dangerous as he could be. The bad news is, he's hot tempered, so those giant sledgehammers he's got for fists will be real eager to meet the faceplate of the first bot to cross him.

So, y'know. Have fun. He also sort of died before getting brought here, so what's the big guy really got to lose anymore? Place brought him back ONCE, right? Suddenly snuffing out his spark loses a whole lot of the threat rating it used to have.
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Double-hiatus OH NOEZ

Hey, it's Dragon!  I'm kidnapping Lunnaei (Wing-mun) for the weekend!  Or she's kidnapping me - we haven't decided which.  XD  I'm doing this for both of us bc we didn't see a reason to spam the comm with two posts when it'd be the exact same content.

Anyway, we're taking off from our respective homes tomorrow morning and driving to a cottage we're renting in SLO County.  Hearst Castle and the quaint little tourist trap town of Solvang are among the items on the itinerary, plus art, cooking, BPJD (she's the one who got me into it 8D), probably some RP'ing, playing with toys, and whatever other dorking around we decide to do.  We'll be returning home(s) on Tuesday, probably getting back, like, early evening or something.

Lunnaei says the cottage has internet access, but IDK how much we'll be using it.  Plurk and tags will be sporatic if they happen at all.  JUST SO Y'ALL KNOW.

So yeah, I'll return everyone's favorite derpy knight (oh, yeah, and my derps too) Tuesday night if we're not both home too late to not just crash out before returning to work the next morning.  Otherwise it'll be Wednesday.

Affects: Thundercracker ([personal profile] notyourblueangel), Deckard ([personal profile] thankyou4myheart), and Wing ([personal profile] knight_light).


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The Sass Is Strong With This One

Hey there Re-Alignment, Saint here bringing in a new tenant for everyone's favorite metal planet!

This insufferable dork right here. He's coming in fresh from the end of the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series, meaning he's a teenager, still in school, and still as quick to run his mouth as ever.

He's coming in aligned with Vector, so. Expect him to do all sorts of stupid, dangerous things in the name of the greater good, and definitely tag along without permission when the bigger bots are out on assignment. Because he's persistent about the whole "great responsibility" thing.

And seriously. Y'all are gonna get sassed.

You can reach me on Plurk at [plurk.com profile] SaintCynicism. Look forward to tagging with you all!

Yes even Eris even though Spidey has like ten thousand DO NOT WANT feelings about her from D_M alone :U

May Activity Check

Hello Re-Alignment! It's time for the

~*~ ACTIVITY CHECK ~*~ ACTIVITY CHECK ~*~ ACTIVITY CHECK ~*~

There are some minor changes to the AC this round that will be carrying over into subsequent rounds: the AC requirement has been reduced to one example to better fit the slower pace of our game! Also, the AC form now includes an area for Character Alignment, to make things easier come Alignment Adjustment.

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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 8th and May 12th.
  • -You will need to post one example of Activity and an Activity Summary for every character you have in the game. (See below)
  • -Any character accepted on April 15th or later 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 19th).

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Examples of Activity )

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Activity Summary )

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Exclusions and Exemptions )

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Failing Activity Check )
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+1 New Player

Hi~i R/A.  I'm Lunnaei, and I'm arriving new here with this sexy bot. ~<3  I've had the pleasure of meeting a few of you on Plurk already and I'm looking forward to meeting the rest of you.  I've been hearing about this game for about a year and a half now from Dragon (Thundercrakcer and Deckard's player), and I'm very excited to be joining all of you. 

Wing will be arriving just after his death.  It's time to break some brains, including his own! \o/

Alignment Adjustment

As a reminder - the game is called Re/Alignment. Your Alignment and Polarity can and will change - whether stronger, solidifying your connection with a Firstforged, or weaker, perhaps shifting you to another entirely. After every AC, after reading through the Activity Summaries and conversing with one another, the mods will make note on these changes based on what the Firstforged have seen.

Please note that while we keep a watch on things, there may be things we've missed. If your character has done something you think would have caught the eye of a Firstforged, or otherwise have an effect on their Alignment to a greater degree than what's noted here, please feel free to contact us. However, if you plan on using handwaved/off-camera actions to justify an Adjustment, they must be approved by the relevant Firstforged player. Also note that not everyone is on the list; this is intentional. Much happens behind the scenes, but shifts of power do not always manifest themselves in a visible way - especially not when multiple powers are involved. That doesn't mean nothing changes...

In terms of what these changes do; for some, they may simply be that weakening/strengthening of a Polarity, reflected in the visual appearance of a Glyph. For others, they may be more - actual granted powers. The characters who have been granted powers will be contacted by the relevant Firstforged as soon as possible.

The Adjustments for the the months of January to March are:
hidden behind this cut! )
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[personal profile] megaton2014-05-05 01:21 pm

VACATION

As many of you know from plurk, I will be taking a trip to Hawaii from May 10th through May 25th. I apologize as this has been impacting my ability to mod over the last month as I made my preparations, and I apologize again since I'm going to be gone for an additional two weeks.

We've got some fun things planned for when I return, involving an event that was promised long ago and also some Firstforged activity. We are also considering reducing the requirements for AC to better fit with the slow pace of our game. Stay tuned for more official announcements, and try not to have too much fun while I am gone!
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Slowatus

I probably should have called this a few weeks ago, but better late than never, I suppose.

Between having been sick, still slowly recovering, school work, university things, surprise depressive low, and finals being around the corner, when I haven't been busy, I've been completely drained and unable to do much of anything. Needless to say, I've been slow across the board in RP Land, and I'm so incredibly sorry; I feel absolutely terrible for it.

Just to be safe, I'm going to go on slowatus until finals are over, which I think ends around May 10th or 14th-ish. I was hesitant calling one before since I will be going on a full-on hiatus in June (I'll have to step up as maid of honor and prep like no one's business and help pull off my bestie's wedding... as well as help her and my sibling in law with their move to Indiana). However, seeing as I don't really know how quick I can get back into the swing of things before then, it's best to just go the precautionary route and give myself a few weeks to gather up my nonsense and focus on the immediate RL things, while having tags happen in the small bursts of time when I have the will and energy to do them.

If anyone wants to handwave any CR as having happened during my already-existent period of slowness, or if there's anything anyone wants me to put on my to-do list to tag into despite my snail's pace, please do let me know.


This only affects Rapunzel here.