what I want to know is, when I'm asleep,

03 July 2009 @ 08:34 pm

Oh no! Inactivity Samurai is traveling around Japan like an Inactivity Ronin! What is this? Good thing the Robot is here to fill in...

...with a disclaimer: I'm not the usual final-checker and poster for inactivity, and while I know what I'm doing, I admit that there may be mistakes in this list because I'm not as familiar with the process as the usual final-checkers. And if there are mistakes, please just leave me a comment and I'll correct them. Moreover, if there are mistakes, I do sincerely apologize for them. So if anything is wrong here, please, please just let me know and I'll fix it. Mea culpa. And now, on with the show~

○ You have seven days to reclaim a character on this list, and in return, you promise three posts minimum instead of two for the next month, that's this JULY.

○ For hiatus exemptions, I go off the Hiatus Notice Page, so, please, everyone, post there! poly_tldr is all well and good, but I don't remember every post there- if you did one, link me and I'll get you covered, but PLEASE use the hiatus post.

○ I make mistakes, if you're listed as inactive and shouldn't be, just comment saying so, and I'll fix it, with my apologies.

○ If you've made the inactivity list twice with a character, (this also includes trying to use hiatus to cover more than one full month's activity), they're marked for removal in the "Second Strike" column. If you wish to reclaim this character, comment and drop me a line on AIM at [cateyedcrow] so we can talk about it one on one.

○ If a character on this list has been dropped, don't worry about it. The end results just end up on the remove page anyway.

( June Inactivity List; )

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ofiodine

07 June 2009 @ 05:04 pm

NOW YOU'RE ALL IN MY GRILL.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

I, Mary (Claire Bennet, Ruby, Sarah Walker, Veronica Mars), used to moderate here at

polychromatic. Sometime around this past January, I had to step down for personal reasons and because school was destroying me. Now that things have decidedly capped off and summer is starting (which doesn't mean a flat-out break for me, but, hey, when you're taking summer classes, the teachers want to be there about as much as the students do, amirite), the other fabulous mods here have allowed me to step back up and help the community and its players out again!

While I do still have finals this coming week, because Ohio State is a little bit slow when it comes to matching up with every other university in the country, unless I am offline I'm always available for questions and more than happy to hear concerns. You're more likely to catch me on Y!IM these days because AIM is loud and I get enough loud noises where I work. I will be signing on to AIM more, though, so you're welcome to ping me there if you've got anything that needs clearing up or if you just want to shoot the shit. HERE IS MY CONTACT STUFF:

y!im: sluttylittleyoda
aim: marygonemad09
e-mail: tiger_lily35@hotmail.com
journal: shark_mod or parashot

I hope I can do a good job for you guys, and I hope that if you do have questions you don't hesitate to ask me. If that's not enough, then have this funny Family Guy clip:

AND ONE LAST THING:

Some of you might remember that my deity character before was a Annie Lennox'd boygirl named Lenny who liked tea. Lenny is unfortunately (or fortunately, if you're me) being put into retirement, and I'd like to ask you to add this journal right here or:
friend add ofiodine

For anyone familiar with Ray Bradbury and The October Country in particular, he might seem a little familiar. For everyone else, happy trails!

-♥-
Mary

Current Music: do something - britney spears

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pirate_mod

04 June 2009 @ 07:26 pm

Ballot Boxin'!

Well it's that time again.

What's that you say?

The City is setting up those ballot boxes again.

Starting Friday, your characters may nominate other characters (or themselves) for the seat of City Warden and all it entails under a Deity Post. Nominations may continue till 11:59pm EST Sunday. After that, on Monday there will be another Deity Post with the election poll and polling will continue till 11:59pm EST Tuesday. We are allowing roughly two days for voting due to the curse on June 9 as well as the minor change we are making to elections.

So what's that change you say?

Votes will continue to be IC related (no personal journals please) however there will now be a write-in portion for you to tell us why your character is voting for another. That reason may be as noble as "Char A agrees with Char B's platform and would like to see justice placed first." or as corrupt as "Char B's publicity agent bribed Char A for a vote." Both reasons are legitimate and the more varied the better. Although the poll itself will be public, all votes are considered private. Write-in portions are not considered part of gameplay but players who have already agreed with each other to play out an information leak may do so (with either write-ins or votes). However unless already agreed upon, using information from the elections without permission is considered infomodding. So please don't do it.

The winner will be announced on Wednesday June 10 by a Deity and players of the Police Force and Wardenship may coordinate together as they see fit.

If you have any questions regarding the new polling system don't hesitate to ask!

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robot_mod

01 June 2009 @ 10:55 am

New Applications Slot Thread, Old Applications Slot Thread

Ladies and Gentlemen~!!

Happy June and rabbit rabbit! We come bearing announcements:

The application slot thread is...rather full.

Thirty-two pages? Wow. That's a lot of apps!

So! What does this mean?

This means that we have a ★new applications slot thread★.

You may have noticed it already. It's up and running! Go, please, and make good use of it. There's nothing different about it or the apps system, just a shiny, empty, new thread. Sooner or later, you start getting close to maxing out the number of pages and comments you can have in a post. And, so far as we could tell, we were getting close--!

The old (full) applications slot thread is very shortly going to be closed, locked, and set to private (but not deleted, in case the mods need to retrieve something from it).

→ But before we close up the old thread for good, we want to give you an opportunity to copy any applications you may have posted there if you want a record of them. Just a little ctrl + c → ctrl + v, just a little print scrn → MSPaint. However you roll. So hit up the old slot thread and snag your apps.

We'll be leaving the old slot thread open through Wednesday, June 3^rd, 11:59pm EDST so you can copy your applications.

Meanwhile, have fun in the new thread ♥

Why so much linking, Robot-mod? Well, the old thread has gotten a little tricky to find, so I wanted to make the location easy to find so everyone could copy their old apps. This was the best I could do for the moment.

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samurai_mod

01 June 2009 @ 01:56 am

May Inactivity List

We interrupt this packing for Japan for your monthly inactivity list~ To business, Poly:

○ You have seven days to reclaim a character on this list, and in return, you promise three posts minimum instead of two for the next month, that's this JUNE.

○ For hiatus exemptions, I go off the Hiatus Notice Page, so, please, everyone, post there! poly_tldr is all well and good, but I don't remember every post there- if you did one, link me and I'll get you covered, but PLEASE use the hiatus post.

○ I make mistakes, if you're listed as inactive and shouldn't be, just comment saying so, and I'll fix it, with my apologies.

○ If you've made the inactivity list twice with a character, (this also includes trying to use hiatus to cover more than one full month's activity), they're marked for removal in the "Second Strike" column. If you wish to reclaim this character, comment and drop me a line on AIM at [steelandpride] so we can talk about it one on one.

○ If a character on this list has been dropped, don't worry about it. The end results just end up on the remove page anyway.

( MAY INACTIVITY LIST; )

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robot_mod

29 May 2009 @ 03:00 am

HMD [A - K]

HMD [A - K]

Those who have their names on the Taken Character list/spreadsheet starting with A through K, please post here.

If you're not sure what name or nickname you gave, check here.

How's My Driving?
[IT'S GO TIME]

IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE! IT'S LIKE THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL, LIKE A BIRTHDAY PARTY...KIND OF LIKE A CIRCUS--!!

Welcome back to our more seasoned members, and welcome to you first-timers.

HMD is the gamewide chance for feedback on playing here in

polychromatic.

And here's our philosophy on HMD: praise--it's all well and good (we all love it, yeah?), so if you want to give praise, love, ♥s, whatever, go for it! It's especially great to say what you ♥ so much about a character. For example, how they acted during X curse or Y plot was great, or how they adjusted (or didn't?) to the City was fascinating. But we all know, constructive crit is best when you're looking for advice on how to improve. What we really encourage here are questions. It gives you the chance to maybe understand something, (and maybe you think it makes sense after all now), and the player a chance to explain. For example:

"How did Gary get from Point A in canon to Point B in Poly? It didn't quite make sense to me."

"What started this whole fascination of Sue's with the bananas?"

And then you find out that there's a long, involved story that goes back six months involving the aftermath of a curse, a lizard, a pound of potatoes, a watermelon, three French maids, and a pogo stick. And then it all makes perfect sense.

Or perhaps it doesn't, but you've started a dialogue about the things you perceive versus the things the player perceives.

As decided by community vote, anon is not allowed here on the main HMD post, and IP logging is on. Sorry, Anon. However, we encourage posting a link to your own, personal, anon-enabled crit thread(s) if allowing anon is something you want to do and are comfortable with. But keep in mind that we moderators can't police those crit threads: not only are they anon, but they are on your own journals, and there are dozens of them. But we entreat members of this game to be polite and courteous, logged in or not. We will be watching the main post for any unrest, however, so keep that in mind. (We like to watch.) Let's all keep ourselves like civilized people, and have a decent time. Remember, no road rage in HMD.

To keep things organized, please post your comment in the following format*:

The general disclaimer, as usual, applies:

By choosing to post here on HMD, you may receive comments you don't necessarily enjoy. By posting here, you accept that this could happen, and you're basically okay with it. We will be monitoring this post for abuse and will shut down any instances of abuse we see. However, constructive crit, comments, or questions you just don't like do not count as abuse.

Whew. Now that that's all out of the way, have at it,

polychromatic!

*Please remember our requests regarding sparkles, images, embedded media, and other bits of coding. A little variation on the comment form is fine and tasty, and putting things like gifs or videos behind links or in collapsed threads is fine too, but please consider the loading time for others with slower connections.

And because it's apparently traditional for HMD posts to go up in the middle of the damn night, here we are. =_=v

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robot_mod

29 May 2009 @ 02:58 am

HMD [L - Z]

HMD [L - Z]

Those who have their names on the Taken Character list/spreadsheet starting with L through Z, please post here.

If you're not sure what name or nickname you gave, check here.

How's My Driving?
[OMGWTFBBQ!]

IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE! IT'S LIKE THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL, LIKE A BIRTHDAY PARTY...KIND OF LIKE A CIRCUS--!!

Welcome back to our more seasoned members, and welcome to you first-timers.

HMD is the game-wide chance for feedback on playing here in

polychromatic.

And here's our philosophy on HMD: praise--it's all well and good (we all love it, yeah?), so if you want to give praise, love, ♥s, whatever, go for it! It's especially great to say what you ♥ so much about a character. For example, how they acted during X curse or Y plot was great, or how they adjusted (or didn't?) to the City was fascinating. But we all know, constructive crit is best when you're looking for advice on how to improve. What we really encourage here are questions. It gives you the chance to maybe understand something, (and maybe you think it makes sense after all now), and the player a chance to explain. For example:

"How did Gary get from Point A in canon to Point B in Poly? It didn't quite make sense to me."

"What started this whole fascination of Sue's with the bananas?"

And then you find out that there's a long, involved story that goes back six months involving the aftermath of a curse, a lizard, a pound of potatoes, a watermelon, three French maids, and a pogo stick. And then it all makes perfect sense.

Or perhaps it doesn't, but you've started a dialogue about the things you perceive versus the things the player perceives.

As decided by community vote, anon is not allowed here on the main HMD post, and IP logging is on. Sorry, Anon. However, we encourage posting a link to your own, personal, anon-enabled crit thread(s) if allowing anon is something you want to do and are comfortable with. But keep in mind that we moderators can't police those crit threads: not only are they anon, but they are on your own journals, and there are dozens of them. But we entreat members of this game to be polite and courteous, logged in or not. We will be watching the main post for any unrest, however, so keep that in mind. (We like to watch.) Let's all keep ourselves like civilized people, and have a decent time. Remember, no road rage in HMD.

To keep things organized, please post your comment in the following format*:

The general disclaimer, as usual, applies:

By choosing to post here on HMD, you may receive comments you don't necessarily enjoy. By posting here, you accept that this could happen, and you're basically okay with it. We will be monitoring this post for abuse and will shut down any instances of abuse we see. However, constructive crit, comments, or questions you just don't like do not count as abuse.

Whew. Now that that's all out of the way, have at it,

polychromatic!

*Please remember our requests regarding sparkles, images, embedded media, and other bits of coding. A little variation on the comment form is fine and tasty, and putting things like .gifs or videos behind links or in collapsed threads is fine too, but please consider the loading time for others with slower connections.

And because it's apparently traditional for HMD posts to go up in the middle of the damn night, here we are. =_=v

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robot_mod

26 May 2009 @ 08:28 pm

HMD Preparedness...and YOU!

RUN FOR THE HILLS, IT'S COMING, IT'S COMING, IT'S A BIG TRUCK, IT'S GODZI-

HOW'S MY DRIVING~?
The Information Post

As you may know by glancing at the calendar,

polychromatic's seasonal "How's My Driving" post is coming this weekend. I know you're all excited.

Some of you know HMD well, some of you are seeing it for the first time, so here's a general run-down on it:

As in most LJRPs, HMD is the game-wide chance for feedback on playing here in

polychromatic. Praise--it's all well and good, but we all should know, constructive crit is best. What we encourage most of all here are questions, if you can't quite find the right words for constructive criticism. It gives you the chance to maybe understand something, (and maybe you think it makes sense after all now), and the player a chance to explain.

For example, "Why is Sue so fascinated with bananas?" (Well...)

Or, "How did Gary get from Point A in canon to Point B in Poly? It doesn't quite make sense to me." (There was this lizard, see, during a curse...)

polychromatic, by community vote, has an anon-off/ip logging-on HMD post. And the HMD post itself will really be two posts. One will be for players whose nicknames on the spreadsheet begin with A - K, and the other for players with nicknames beginning with L - Z. Remember, that's players' nicknames, your nickname, not characters' names.

The format we'll be giving you to fill out will look like this, and we'll provide it for you again come HMD time:

However, for those who still wish to either receive or give anonymous commentary, we remind you of ye olde personal concrit posts. We're encouraging people to link to their concrit posts during HMD, so that those who feel the urge for anonymous commentary can still have their two cents, too. But remember that personal anon-enabled concrit posts are your lookout. We, as mods, can't oversee them, so be prepared for Anonymous and the comments you might receive.

But here's something a little different this time
(so pay attention, please):

In the most recent HMDs, there has been a lot of flashy HTML, blinking text, glitter, and pictures. It's enough to make your head spin! It's enough to put Las Vegas to shame! Gimme a show girl! What happens in HMD stays in HMD!

But it comes at a price: ...slow...loading...pages...

A little HTML is fine. It makes your comment eye-catching, and it can be entertaining. → By "a little" HTML we mean changing the color of the text; changing the font style; adding underlining, italics, or bold; or adding character entities (such as ℘, ✌, ✗ or →). These generally don't bog down the page when it loads, and not everyone can even see those characters.

The problems we were running into during the last few HMDs were comments with massive images in them, large animated .gifs, sample icons from each character played beside that character's journal name, embedded external links to music or videos (like last.fm and YouTube), and very large html-coded tables laying out characters played.

We've already split HMD into two posts to try and keep the pages loading relatively well. Having so much more data to load in .gif and video format slows down what's already a massive page even more. It's not at all helpful to players with slower internet connections.

If you want to post gifs and multimedia in a thread after that thread has collapsed, that's fine. Images and embedded links posted in collapsed threads don't slow the load-times as much as they do when posted in the parent comments of each threads.

But please consider your fellow players and their internet connections this HMD. It may look snappy to fill up your HMD comment with code, but it slows things down for everyone. Please keep the images and coding to the barest of bare minimums. It makes HMD run smoother, load more quickly, and especially makes scanning the post in order to give that concrit far easier.

Any more questions, comments, concerns, cake, please just leave a comment here or send us an email. We'll be glad to help.

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bitchisfierce

10 May 2009 @ 10:23 pm

(no subject)

aLl is as it sHOULd be.
aLl is wELl.

rEUNIOn.

no MORe.
no nEEd.

he hAs sAId:
a gREAt dUe wAs rETURNEd.

tWICe oVEr rETURNEd.

my sOn.

sWEEt sMALl tHINGs, tHe fERRYMAN's pASSENGERs, tHe wALKERs uNDERGROUNd.

bLACKENEd iNNARDs.
gRAVECOIn aNd gRAVECLOTh.
tHe sTONEs.

i pAId fOr yOu.

~~" sISTEr of cROWNEd tHORNs "~~

my cHILDREn.

yOu aRe wELl.
yOu do nOt mOLDEr, yOu do nOt rOt, yOu do nOt rUSt, yOu do nOt wORm, yOu do nOt dECAy, yOu do nOt dRy, yOu do nOt cRUSh, yOu do nOt cRUMBLe.
yOu do nOt cRy oUt to me in tHe dARKNESs aNd dARK pLACEs.

cOLd, yEs. sTILl, yEs.
mUCh as i cOULd gIVe yOu, i dId.

bUt yOu aRe.
yOu aRe wELl.
i am glAd.

we wILl aTTENd aGAIn
if so nEEDEd.
oNLy in nEEd.

sENEBTi xAIRe vALETe

[ooc: Mommy and Adrastus are reunited. Everyone go "awww ♥" Adrastus's work is done. They'll be departing now...with all the lemon cakes. And they'll be leaving all the hair behind. You see, a great due was returned. The hair was unduly taken, so it's been duly returned now. Bet you're grateful! :) But what does that bit at the end mean? Puzzle it over... Want some spoilers? Click here]

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bitchisfierce

09 May 2009 @ 07:53 pm

(no subject)

fEEl yOu.
fEEl yOu.
sEe yOu.

iN sTILLNESs, i sEe yOu.

dRAw yOu to tHe sEa.

fEEl yOu.
fEEl yOu cUt.
fEEl yOu bURn.

cOMINg fOr yOu. cOMINg cOMINg cOMINg.

cOMe cOMe.
cOMe to mOTHEr.

sEt yOu fREe.
cOMe cOMe.

in sTILLNESs, no cOMFORt.
in sILENCe, aWASh in fERVENt dREAMs.
in sTILLNESs, i sEe yOu,
rETURNINg bACk to me.

iN sTILLNESs . . .

i . . .sEe yOu

i sEEk my sOn.

wHERe is my sOn?

[Behold, rising from the waters, rising from the sea: a woman. Tiamat, Nyx, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Eris, Hecate, Tezcatlipoca. The mother of all hell, somewhere between Nyx and Styx, mother of chaos or mothered by chaos. Primordial night and rain. Thalatta, thalatta. Trailing hair in lank coils of seaweed, birthblood, placenta, and umbilical residue. Umbilical due. Umbilical dew. She is rising from the sea and she will take to the streets. Your streets, now her streets. Speak if you dare. Expect nothing. She is the mother of legions, the wailing woman, madwoman and hysteric. Seething, queen of spiders and sand. Windedark and bloodred.

She has found her way to your shores, she has found her way into your sea of wires and words, she has seen you, she has watched you. Her face ever changes. She is in your air, your water, your Network, fibrous, xylem and phloem, currents and winds, blood vessels. She is there.

Nothing will delay her. No living thing, no plant or tree, no bird or animal. Nothing. No brick and mortar will reist her.

A building in her way: never. For, bursting black bileous saltwater, coughed up from bloated corpses full fathoms five, bladderwrack tangled, it collapses into parts: glass shattered, bricks broken. The remains after a storm.

But she has been delayed. And she rages.

She will devour. She is womb and tomb.

Watch out.]

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robot_mod

05 May 2009 @ 09:15 pm

Give Me Lemon Cakes, For It Is Our Anniversary!

"I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered, and confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair"

7-10; Give me lemon cakes or give me your death!
Hair. Hair hair hair. It's coming out of the pipes, it's under your bed, it's slithering around your head. That Unseen Creature has decided to show its face, sort of... in bits and pieces. Hair takes on a life of its own, finding its way into various parts of the City and into homes to take hold of citizens unaware. Some veteran citizens might even recognize the source if they get a chance to see it or talk to it. Sometimes it attacks just to threaten, other times it attacks to kill. What does it want? Nobody knows (yet, that is) but it seems to go on its way if you give it lemon cakes, play a song or two by Beck, or claim Hair Immunity from Deity Tributes earlier this year. Well, either of those or fight it off fiercely.

[UnSeen Creature is a go! Run with whatever your imagination cooks up for how it gets into your character's location, be it their home, their work, the forest, the beach, etc. Glimpses of the creature are allowed during attacks and yes, the hair is in fact part of it. Hair can be cut off during attacks but the actual source can't be killed, how long it continues to attack after having its hair cut is up to you! The hair extensions are also incredibly long, which supports the theory that the creature can be in several places at once. It can't be followed to a "lair" but if you have player consent your character may follow hair tendrils to its next victim to save that character.

Fighting it off, lemon cakes, Beck, and Hair Immunity are legitimate forms of escape, otherwise you are free to assume the creature simply hasn't come to attack your character if you choose not to participate in the plot. If you were not part of the game during the Deity Tributes don't worry, it isn't that important. If you were and your character paid the hair tribute but you still want your character to be attacked then feel free to have them attacked; the deities never 100% guarantee anything ri~ght?

Characters killed by hair will be exempt from City!Death, however full revival would not occur till after the creature leaves. PS. Make attacks as cracky or gruesome as you'd like!]

A picture. The monster can size-shift, going from scooter-sized to SUV-sized. Size correlates to mood, so the smaller it is the more pleasant, the bigger it is the more er... displeased ♥

regarding character death<
- characters are killed by the hair manually (strangled, thrown into walls, pulled apart, etc.)
- characters killed are considered City!Dead until May 11, on that day they will regain full life
- however characters who were already City!Dead before the event stay City!Dead

notes on the monster
- the main body can't be killed
- the main body can be driven off
- hair will act like it has a life of its own
- hair can be chopped off/burned/tangled/torn/KO'd at will
- yes, you can think of asian horror (watch at own risk)

Tying the hair to something will not keep the Hair Monster in place. It will choose to just lose the hair and run off if the fight is looking bad. As mentioned earlier lemon cakes, Beck, and having participated in the Deity Tributes will make it cease attacking and continue on its merry way. Characters can fight off hair without ever confronting the Hair Monster's main body because this living hair really can extend all the way across town.

Studious characters! Collecting hair samples will yield results! The living hair does in fact belong to many of your fellow citizens from tip to root, so characters adept at DNA matching are free to figure this out (with player consent of course). Each individual strand belongs to a character, pulling out a fistful of the hair may yield hair from as many as ten different characters or just one, this is up to you and the players who have agreed to get their characters involved in testing. These can be any characters too, both those who participated in the Deity Tributes and those who didn't. However there will not be any hair from dropped characters. Somewhere in the mix is the Hair Monster's real hair but any scientific analysis on this may result in more hair coming to attack your studious character.

Pay attention to the network, an old face may be stopping by to give your characters insight into the Hair Monster's true nature. For those who have already figured it out feel free to chat him up like old times again or send your characters running!

If you have any questions do ask them in this post. This post will be your hub for hair shenanigans.

And in case you didn't know...

HAPPY THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY polychromatic!!!

That's right! The game is officially in its third year and we have no one else to thank but all of you. New players, old players, returning players, lurkers, watchers, friends, and neighbors. It's all of you who've made POLYchromatic into what it is. And we can't thank you enough for it. We the mods could not be happier working on and watching this community grow. We hope you stick around for year four.

In the meantime keep on playing!

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samurai_mod

01 May 2009 @ 12:17 pm

April Inactivity List

Popping up from her exam studies, comes a wild Rizu dragging a list! I know it's everyone's favorite, but we know the drill by now, right? (Though I'll apologize if replies may be a bit slow.) To business:

○ You have seven days to reclaim a character on this list, and in return, you promise three posts minimum instead of two for the next month, that's this MAY.

○ For hiatus exemptions, I go off the Hiatus Notice Page, so, please, everyone, post there! poly_tldr is all well and good, but I don't remember every post there- if you did one, link me and I'll get you covered, but PLEASE use the hiatus post.

○ I make mistakes, if you're listed as inactive and shouldn't be, just comment saying so, and I'll fix it, with my apologies.

○ If you've made the inactivity list twice with a character, (this also includes trying to use hiatus to cover more than one full month's activity), they're marked for removal in the "Second Strike" column. If you wish to reclaim this character, comment and drop me a line on AIM at [steelandpride] so we can talk about it one on one.

○ If a character on this list has been dropped, don't worry about it. The end results just end up on the remove page anyway.

( APRIL INACTIVITY LIST; )

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samurai_mod

02 April 2009 @ 12:08 pm

March Inactivity List;

Rizu again, with our favorite monthly activity- the inactivity post. ♥ (That was my late April Fool's joke, I know you guys don't like this- anywho-) On the 5th, expect a reminder in

poly_tldr of this lovely post's existance, for those who may not realize they're here.

Pimping, while I'm at it;
+ OUR SUPER AMAZING INFO SITE, home to everything you could possibly need
+ CHARACTER REQUEST POST, cleaned out monthly, advertise and bribe your way to new crew members!
+ PIMP MY PLOT, is self-explaining~

Now, let's do this.

○ You have seven days to reclaim a character on this list, and in return, you promise three posts minimum instead of two for the next month, that's this April.

○ For hiatus exemptions, I go off the Hiatus Notice Page, so, please, everyone, post there! poly_tldr is all well and good, but I don't remember every post there- if you did one, link me and I'll get you covered, but please use the hiatus post.

○ I make mistakes, if you're listed as inactive and shouldn't be, just comment saying so, and I'll fix it, with my apologies.

○ If you've made the inactivity list twice with a character, (this also includes trying to use hiatus to cover more than one full month's activity), they're marked for removal in the "Second Strike" column. If you wish to reclaim this character, comment and drop me a line on AIM at [steelandpride] so we can talk about it one on one.

○ If a character on this list has been dropped, don't worry about it. The end results just end up on the remove page anyway.

( MARCH INACTIVITY LIST; )

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samurai_mod

22 March 2009 @ 02:03 am

Your Warden and You

Hey, hey, POLYchromatids, gather round and listen up sharp, y'hear?

We your mod team have been receiving questions and requests for clarification this last round of Warden nominations, in part due to the number of players who've not experienced one before and other reasons, so, it's worth a brief foray into:

WARDEN ELECTIONS AND YOU: DO'S, DON'T'S, AND A RUNDOWN

Where'd it come from?

The spot of Warden was a gift from on high, so to speak. A concession from the deities, they run the polls, they handle nominations and appointments, but beyond that, they take more amusement watching it all get sorted out than actually handling it themselves. It pops up every season or so, out with the old, in with the new, after all, but hey, no one ever said you couldn't run twice.

What's the point?

The point is what you make of it, my friends. We the mods can't make whoever wins be all they can be (american heroooooes~ ahem-), but potential is there for people who can and want to give it their all. They can cooperate or constantly be at odds with the local police force. They can be upstanding or corrupt. The goal is to make this a fun and interesting plot point and staple of the game play.

How do I do it?

When the time comes around, one of the deities makes a post offering to accept nominations. ICly, your characters have the chance to nominate people they think would do well in the position, or a character can nominate themselves. Shortly thereafter (about a day) another deity posts, this time, with a poll. Characters vote ICly on who they want to win the election, the nominees and their supporters rally the base, and bam- We have a warden announced by a deity.

REMEMBER;

Do: Participate! Hey, it could be fun, and lead to some good times, posting in support of your candidate, campaigning, bemoaning the uselessness or striving for useful- anything. Characters can be bribed and votes can be sold if it's IC for characters to do this. No one ever said politics were clean!

Don't: Manipulate the system. The votes are supposed to be IC, and as tempting as it could be, the votes should stay that way. If your character doesn't care about wardens, doesn't like either of the platforms being campaigned, isn't well enough to leave a bed to vote, etcetera, they shouldn't. We try to play fair here, okay?

For more information on Warden and the City Prison, click here! (Once again, for our new players, this info site is a real useful place- check it out!)

OF NOTE;

We've received some concerns and suggestions about the way warden elections are being conducted, so right now your mod team is working to come up with a better and different way to manage the whole process. For now, nothing definitive has been worked out, but come summer elections, we may be introducing a new system, so watch for it!

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samurai_mod

02 March 2009 @ 04:12 pm

February Inactivity List

Hello, new players, ('sup, my old players!) I'm Rizu, your activity mod, and it's my time of the month again.

Before we begin; I'll be implementing a new little convenience for you all. I know some don't check this list, and it's possible either I made a mistake and someone ended up on there that shouldn't, or you thought you made activity and didn't, so at about the give-day mark, I'll post to

poly_tldr with a list of people still set for removal, so, people will be able to see that more clearly, and if you have contact information for someone set for removal and they don't know it, you can know to try and get a hold of them, yeah?

Now, let's begin.

○ You have seven days to reclaim a character on this list, and in return, you promise three posts minimum instead of two for the next month, that's this March.

○ For hiatus exemptions, I go off the Hiatus Notice Page, so, please, everyone, post there for me? I can't remember everyone who posts on poly_tldr, if you did that, comment linking me so I know, but please try and use the Hiatus page next time.

○ I make mistakes, if you're listed as inactive and shouldn't be, just comment saying so, and I'll fix it, with my apologies.

○ If you've made the inactivity list twice with a character, (this also includes trying to use hiatus to cover more than one full month's activity), they're marked for removal in the "Second Strike" column. If you wish to reclaim this character, either comment or drop me a line on AIM at [steelandpride] so we can talk about it one on one.

○ If a character on this list has been dropped, don't worry about it. The end results just end up on the remove page anyway.

( FEBRUARY INACTIVITY LIST; )

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samurai_mod

27 February 2009 @ 12:07 am

HMD [A-K]

Those who have their names on the taken character list/spreadsheet as starting with A through K, post here.

If you aren't sure which post you belong in, check here.

Hey guys, one of your mods here to present unto you the first one of the new 2009 year, the one, the only, the ever so popular and ever so dreaded;

How's My Driving?
[OH, IT'S ON]

Those who have been around our game for a while may know it, and have partcipated in the past- thanks for stickin' round. For those new here, welcome, welcome to the HMD, and don't worry, we make a practice of utilizing lubrication.

HMD is the gamewide chance for feedback on playing here in

polychromatic. Praise, it's all well and good, (and hell, we all love it!) but we all should know, constructive crit is best. If you want to give praise, hey, go for it- but why not though in specifics, like that you love how they handle character A's loyalty to B, or how they adjusted in the City, as opposed to just saying <3!!!!! What we encourage here is asking questions if you can't quite find the right words for constructive criticism or are confused about something. It gives you the chance to maybe understand something, (and maybe you think it makes sense after all now), and the player a chance to explain.

"How did Gary get from Point A in canon to Point B in Poly, it didn't quite make sense to me?"

"What started this whole fascination of Sue's with the bananas?"

A while back we had a vote, and because of this vote, anon is not allowed here on the main HMD post. However, we highly encourage posting a link to your personal crit threads, if allowing anon is something you want to do/are comfortable with. As a note, we the moderators cannot really police those crit threads, as obviously, not only are they anon, but they are on your own journals- but we entreat members of this game to be polite and corteous, logged in or not. IP logging is on here, in the main post, so let's all keep ourselves like civil people, and have a decent time. (We're watching you.) Remember, no road rage in HMD.

For organizational purposes, you may want to borrow the following format in your comment.

The general disclaimer, as usual, applies. By choosing to post here on HMD, you may find you receive comments you don't necessarily enjoy. Posting here, you accept that this could happen. But we will be monitoring, and will shut down any instance of abuse we can see. However, constructive crit and questions you just don't like do not count as abuse.

Now, that's out of the way- Have at it,

polychromatic!

- beware of link .gifs, ye of the slow internet connection
- hmd tradition usually calls for a backasswards posting time like 3am EST, but- this mod is tired lovelies ♥

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samurai_mod

27 February 2009 @ 12:07 am

HMD [L-Z]

Those who have their names on the taken character list/spreadsheet as starting with L through Z, post here.

If you aren't sure which post you belong in, check here.

Hey guys, one of your mods here to present unto you the first one of the new 2009 year, the one, the only, the ever so popular and ever so dreaded;

How's My Driving?
[OH, IT'S ON]

Those who have been around our game for a while may know it, and have partcipated in the past- thanks for stickin' round. For those new here, welcome, welcome to the HMD, and don't worry, we make a practice of utilizing lubrication.

HMD is the gamewide chance for feedback on playing here in

polychromatic. Praise, it's all well and good, (and hell, we all love it!) but we all should know, constructive crit is best. If you want to give praise, hey, go for it- but why not though in specifics, like that you love how they handle character A's loyalty to B, or how they adjusted in the City, as opposed to just saying <3!!!!! What we encourage here is asking questions if you can't quite find the right words for constructive criticism or are confused about something. It gives you the chance to maybe understand something, (and maybe you think it makes sense after all now), and the player a chance to explain.

"How did Gary get from Point A in canon to Point B in Poly, it didn't quite make sense to me?"

"What started this whole fascination of Sue's with the bananas?"

A while back we had a vote, and because of this vote, anon is not allowed here on the main HMD post. However, we highly encourage posting a link to your personal crit threads, if allowing anon is something you want to do/are comfortable with. As a note, we the moderators cannot really police those crit threads, as obviously, not only are they anon, but they are on your own journals- but we entreat members of this game to be polite and corteous, logged in or not. IP logging is on here, in the main post, so let's all keep ourselves like civil people, and have a decent time. (We're watching you.) Remember, no road rage in HMD.

For organizational purposes, you may want to borrow the following format in your comment.

The general disclaimer, as usual, applies. By choosing to post here on HMD, you may find you receive comments you don't necessarily enjoy. Posting here, you accept that this could happen. But we will be monitoring, and will shut down any instance of abuse we can see. However, constructive crit and questions you just don't like do not count as abuse.

Now, that's out of the way- Have at it,

polychromatic!

- beware of link .gifs, ye of the slow internet connection
- hmd tradition usually calls for a backasswards posting time like 3am EST, but- this mod is tired lovelies ♥

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samurai_mod

02 February 2009 @ 01:44 am

January Inactivity List;

○ You have seven days to reclaim a character on this list, and in return, you promise three posts minimum instead of two for the next month, that's this February.

○ For hiatus exemptions, I go off the Hiatus Notice Page, so if you didn't post there, you still ended up here. If you posted a poly_tldr hiatus notice, then let me see and I'll take you on off this list. If not, you can always reclaim, and just remember to use our notice page next time!

○ I make mistakes, so if you made your required post limit and I overlooked it, just tell me, and I'll fix it up. (Hell, it's... like 8:30 am now, I probably DID make mistakes, sorry, guys.)

○ If you've made the inactivity list twice with a character, (this also includes trying to use hiatus to cover more than one full month's activity), they're marked for removal in the "Second Strike" column. If you wish to reclaim this character, either comment or drop me a line on AIM at [steelandpride] so we can talk about it.

○ If a character on this list has been dropped, don't worry about it. The end results just end up on the remove page anyway.

( JANUARY INACTIVITY LIST; )

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viking_mod

25 January 2009 @ 09:10 pm

Ride of the Valkyrie

….and no Tom Cruise in sight.

On the horizon stands a figure of short stature and big in hair. There’s a gleam in her eye and a spring in her step. Her cloak is tattered and worn from two and a half years of travel through this strange and fanciful wasteland. For all of those days past, her armor is still gleaming, hardly scuffed and blood splattered from the heat of battle. Zounds! It’s a new mod. It’s-! Lil’ ol’ me.

Hi~♥! This is Molly (Elle Driver, Dr. House, Tybalt, Susan Pevensie, Death, Logan, Gabriel the creepy, Seras Victoria and Shilo Wallace) I humbly offer my spear and magic helmet and myself to help you, my brethren. Cuz I love you.

Personal Lj:

mollypocket
AIM: singofvalhalla OR ol’ faithful LadyOfTheBlade11
Email: pirateslife4meee at gmail

And while we’re talking new, plz add newest deity. Better yet, give her a hello!

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samurai_mod

02 January 2009 @ 08:36 am

December Inactivity List

Before the normal spiel I usually list, just a quick note/reminder- The hiatus notice page gets cleaned up every time I do this list here, so when your hiatus expires the time you specified, (for "indefinite hiatus", this means when a full month's coverage is up, because indefinite or not, a hiatus only can excuse one month's activity), the comment is deleted. So, if you need to be away longer, or end up having to add a note or some such, please don't forget to comment there again, or think that a comment saying a week long hiatus will cover for a month, okay?~ Just drop on over there and leave a comment to be sure.

Also, what gets you in the second strike column! Not just failing to make activity two months in a row! Think also- If you reclaimed a character, promising three posts next month, but did not deliver. Hiatusing one month, then doing another month's hiatus right after that, or doing a month's hiatus, then failing to make activity the next month.

Now, to the usual-

○ You have seven days to reclaim a character on this list, and in return, you promise three posts minimum instead of two for the next month, that's this January.

○ For hiatus exemptions, I go off the Hiatus Notice Page, so if you didn't post there, you still ended up here. If you posted a poly_tldr hiatus notice, then let me see and I'll take you on off this list. If not, you can always reclaim, and just remember to use our notice page next time!

○ I make mistakes, so if you made your required post limit and I overlooked it, just tell me, and I'll fix it up. (Hell, it's... like 8:30 am now, I probably DID make mistakes, sorry, guys.)

○ If you've made the inactivity list twice with a character, (this also includes trying to use hiatus to cover more than one full month's activity), they're marked for removal in the "Second Strike" column. If you wish to reclaim this character, either comment or drop me a line on AIM at [steelandpride] so we can talk about it.

○ If a character on this list has been dropped, don't worry about it. The end results just end up on the remove page anyway.

( DECEMBER INACTIVITY LIST; )

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