Monthly Rundown: April Edition

[hadrielmods]

Welcome to April! Everyone did a great job with our orb return, exceeding the maximum amount, and you're invited to reap the benefits now with a collection of fun events and rewards through the month!

As always, if you ever have any suggestions or feedback you'd like to offer us mods, remember you can always drop us a line here! Also, please remember to hit up the Current AC post if you have AC for the month! Characters accepted in March do not require AC proofs, but we do require a check-in on the post!

APRIL PART 1:

As with most other months, on April 10th, the Door will open, and with it will come all of the new fresh-eyed and cheerful newbies! It's always good to make new friends! What isn't good is finding new enemies, which you'll definitely do with these Mongolian Death Worms!

These burrowing creatures are several feet in length and have the ability to spit poison from their many-fanged mouths, as well as the ability to shock you from a safe position underground. These electrical attacks can paralyze you long enough for them to burst from the dirt and take a big bite out of your leg, so be on your guard!

If left to their own devices, they will burrow deep into the dirt and come up when hungry to try and take a quick bite of any flesh that might be near the ground, so it's probably for the best if you find a place to stay with a second floor bedroom...

APRIL PART 2: A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

Thanks to all of your fabulous efforts in gathering orbs for our recent event, Hope is now restored to full power! He really appreciates the opportunity to cannibalize the corpses of the other Hopes in his species (what, where did you think that power was coming from?) and will go ahead and make good on his deals to bring the city back to its normal working order.

On April 14th, the lights around the city all begin to flicker on again as a mild earthquake rumbles through the streets of Hadriel. However, instead of causing mess and disarray, the earthquake actually seems to be cleaning somehow, as the rubble and mess in the streets from the Null attack slowly levitates back to its original location and meshes entirely with the structures it once belonged to.

Not everything can be fixed- the destroyed buildings are still destroyed, but instead of an eyesore, they'll be eliminated entirely. In their stead will be a new housing complex! More details on those as the event gets closer but essentially characters will now have more opportunities for living locations, as well as a better selection of houses. Yay, Hope!

But that's not all, either! The monsters that have plagued the city for scraps of food will now finally be pushed out of the city limits, with a force field keeping them away, much like how Hope used to keep them at bay when the city was underground. They now cannot enter the city and any attempt to do so will likely be hilarious, as they are physically repelled away from wherever you fragile little humans are staying.

On April 19th, Hope will throw a feast as a thank you. This feast will be announced by Love in an IC post a few days beforehand. All of your favorite foods (yes, even that one) will be present, so please show up! Feel free to mingle, stuff yourselves, and maybe even find a little alcohol that Hope has been able to procure with a recipe he stole lifted from Delight. Hey, the interrogations have to start somewhere, right?

APRIL PART 3: TEARS OF JOY

Who can forget the most exciting result of the orb gathering? That is, Sorrow's return! Thanks to all of your efforts, Hope has accumulated enough power to resurrect Sorrow on April 21st, and while everyone is totally going to be overjoyed about it, the actual event won't be very joyous at all.

Much like his Initial resurrection event, Sorrow's event will deal with a lot of those feelings you hold back. Be prepared to confront all of your sadness, regret, and inner turmoil as you feel compelled to confess all the horrible things you've done to folks who may not be prepared to understand you. All in-game actions are applicable, as we know a lot of you have done some horrendous things to survive around here...

If that isn't enough to whet your whistle on sadness, Sorrow's event will take it a step further and inspire the need for redemption. However your character wants to go about it, after confessing their sins, they have to make up for them somehow. Apologize a million times, do the dishes for a week, or maybe even remove yourself from the picture if it's bad enough. Do what you have to in order to feel absolved, but just know that Hope's resurrections are still a little on the wonky side and any deaths may result in some unfortunate side effects...

This event is not mandatory, and players are free to opt-out if they choose! Regardless, the feeling will clear soon enough, and by April 30th, you should be just fine!
Assuming you survived, anyway.TO RECAP...

► April 10th: Intro log!
► April 14th: A Hope for the Future Event
► April 18th: Hope's Feast!
► April 21st: Tears of Joy Event
► April 23rd-30th: Activity Check
As a final note, our schedule for the month is viewable on the calendar!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[hadrielmods]

[lifetothefullest]

SO I figured I should ask here, but if the rubble is being cleared up how does that affect wherever Name might be hiding out? Or is that a plot thing that'll come up later?

[tongueamok]

Seconding this question!

[so_dark_a_road]

That'd be so cute! -- the poor little lonely Null getting shaken out of its hiding place by levitating, flying rocks, and having to run for its life across the city. . . with about a hundred Hadrielites on its tail! Half of them trying to KILL it and the other half trying to BEFRIEND it!

[hadrielmods]

Thanks for the question! Name will indeed be forced out of hiding with Hope's cleaning of the city, and it will then have to rely on CR to keep it safe. We recall there being a bit of plotting in an attempt to help Name, and this is an opportunity for that! Ideally, we would prefer the search and rescue to be coordinated by the players (deciding who will reach out to it ((as it has an ic inbox now!)) and/or locate it when the rubble clears), though if we need to RNG anyone from a group to specifically thread with, we are willing to set that up as well.

In the end, if nobody locates and helps Name, the gods will locate it by the end of the month and kill it.

[lifetothefullest]

Awesome; we've set up another plotting post to make sure whoever wants to be involved and got missed the first time has a chance. In the discord we decided RNG was probably most fair, since various characters wouldn't ICly be working together but we wanted to make sure everyone got a fair shot, so there are going to be signups on the post for that. ♥

About the worms!

[northerndragon]

The wikipedia article has them supposedly being poisonous to the touch, too! Should that be assumed here, or is their main poison damage just spitting?

Asking for a friend.

(no, actually, asking just because I don't want to write, say, hypothetically, some kind of animal like a big white dog, if there were something like that around, grabbing one in his teeth and smacking it around until it dies and being just fine afterward if it should poison him if I do! Just hypothetically. No other reason at all.)

[hadrielmods]

Their main poison damage will be from spitting, yes! Though they will have poison glands inside of their throats to.... y'know, spit with, but as long as this hypothetical puppy doesn't hypothetically bite deep enough into a throat to puncture this gland, then chewing on one is indeed survivable!