Game Updates!
Behind the cut.
This Week's Weather
This week's weather continues the mild, sunny glory of spring; temperatures are rising, buds are blooming, the scarecrow in the garden is waking up. Plants are starting to come into bloom, though fruits and flowers picked seem to decay and die rather rapidly, only lasting the span of a day at most. Birds are singing, but their songs will seem slightly off: a raucous note here, a missing note there, little things that suggest that the ghostly residents of the town are not merely limited to the humanoid.
Infestation
Recently, the apartments were infested with fleas, thanks to the Teutonic Order's less-than-sanitary personal habits. Any residents who have not taken care of their insectoid roommates may find some insecticides in the hardware store in town. The remainder of the insects will be driven out of the building by Shino by Wednesday of this week.
Past Lives
This week, residents may increasingly have hallucinations in which they are convinced that they are not themselves, but rather echoes of past lives. The hallucinations will increase in frequency as the week goes on, culminating in full belief by Friday night/Saturday morning. By moonrise on Saturday night, the fog will be lifted from people's consciousnesses and they will return to their normal personas.
Canon Updates
We've all seen it before: you apply for a character, get accepted, play a bit, and then something really cool happens in canon and you go "man, I wish I would've waited to apply". Previously we would have required you to drop the character and reapply, but we now have a handy Canon Update Form to streamline the process -- no drop required. Instructions can be found on the form itself, and a short blurb will be added to the game's FAQ by the end of the week.
Contact List
Mun contact information is in the process of being taken off of the Taken Characters List and moved into its own post; this post will be locked to community members only, to cater to the people who don't like listing their information as public. As of right now we are taking the information directly from the Taken Characters list; as such, if anyone wants any changes to their contact info, please stop by the post and make a note of it and we'll get to it as quickly as possible
Where contact info used to be on the Taken list, we will be replacing it with character fears as presented in the applications. This will take us a while to sort through the apps to find everyone, so if you would like to help us out by linking us to your application(s) on that post, we would definitely appreciate it.
NPC Journal
There is a new mod-run journal, jigoku_ghosts, to assist with events in which NPCs are needed. More information will follow as we get together some events for the summer, but we wanted to let you guys be aware of the journal's existence.
Community Layouts
We are looking into the possibility of changing the layouts of jigoku_mods, jigoku_apts, jigoku_ooc and apartment_logs. If anyone would like to suggest a layout to us, we would be interested in your input! Our requirements are that the layout be readable (no light grey text on white; no dark grey text on black; no super-tiny font size, etc) and with clean lines and (ideally) a darker color scheme to keep with the theme of the game. We also require the Sidebar, Links List and Tags List fields to be active, and the layouts must be compatible with Basic Accounts such that we can keep as many ads off the pages as possible for you guys (the mod journal will remain a Plus account for its icons). Note that it doesn't have to be a custom layout; redoing the colors of one of LJ's default layouts is perfectly fine! Note that custom comment pages will remain disabled on all of the game communities, to maximize readability of individual posts.
In Closing
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to let us know! We hope you're enjoying these updates we put together, and please let us know if there's anything else you'd like to see included in them.
This Week's Weather
This week's weather continues the mild, sunny glory of spring; temperatures are rising, buds are blooming, the scarecrow in the garden is waking up. Plants are starting to come into bloom, though fruits and flowers picked seem to decay and die rather rapidly, only lasting the span of a day at most. Birds are singing, but their songs will seem slightly off: a raucous note here, a missing note there, little things that suggest that the ghostly residents of the town are not merely limited to the humanoid.
Infestation
Recently, the apartments were infested with fleas, thanks to the Teutonic Order's less-than-sanitary personal habits. Any residents who have not taken care of their insectoid roommates may find some insecticides in the hardware store in town. The remainder of the insects will be driven out of the building by Shino by Wednesday of this week.
Past Lives
This week, residents may increasingly have hallucinations in which they are convinced that they are not themselves, but rather echoes of past lives. The hallucinations will increase in frequency as the week goes on, culminating in full belief by Friday night/Saturday morning. By moonrise on Saturday night, the fog will be lifted from people's consciousnesses and they will return to their normal personas.
Canon Updates
We've all seen it before: you apply for a character, get accepted, play a bit, and then something really cool happens in canon and you go "man, I wish I would've waited to apply". Previously we would have required you to drop the character and reapply, but we now have a handy Canon Update Form to streamline the process -- no drop required. Instructions can be found on the form itself, and a short blurb will be added to the game's FAQ by the end of the week.
Contact List
Mun contact information is in the process of being taken off of the Taken Characters List and moved into its own post; this post will be locked to community members only, to cater to the people who don't like listing their information as public. As of right now we are taking the information directly from the Taken Characters list; as such, if anyone wants any changes to their contact info, please stop by the post and make a note of it and we'll get to it as quickly as possible
Where contact info used to be on the Taken list, we will be replacing it with character fears as presented in the applications. This will take us a while to sort through the apps to find everyone, so if you would like to help us out by linking us to your application(s) on that post, we would definitely appreciate it.
NPC Journal
There is a new mod-run journal, jigoku_ghosts, to assist with events in which NPCs are needed. More information will follow as we get together some events for the summer, but we wanted to let you guys be aware of the journal's existence.
Community Layouts
We are looking into the possibility of changing the layouts of jigoku_mods, jigoku_apts, jigoku_ooc and apartment_logs. If anyone would like to suggest a layout to us, we would be interested in your input! Our requirements are that the layout be readable (no light grey text on white; no dark grey text on black; no super-tiny font size, etc) and with clean lines and (ideally) a darker color scheme to keep with the theme of the game. We also require the Sidebar, Links List and Tags List fields to be active, and the layouts must be compatible with Basic Accounts such that we can keep as many ads off the pages as possible for you guys (the mod journal will remain a Plus account for its icons). Note that it doesn't have to be a custom layout; redoing the colors of one of LJ's default layouts is perfectly fine! Note that custom comment pages will remain disabled on all of the game communities, to maximize readability of individual posts.
In Closing
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to let us know! We hope you're enjoying these updates we put together, and please let us know if there's anything else you'd like to see included in them.