STATE OF THE EXTRA TRAPPED TAXON
I FELL INTO A BURNING RING OF FIRE
For the month of June, the aliens are keeping it simple with near-perfect weather: sunny, mild, breezy days and moonlit, mild, calm nights.
Unfortunately the citizens won't be able to enjoy this for long because they'll be a bit cooped up in the Sanctuary for three weeks. The barrier around the city will shrink to ten feet out from all sides of the Sanctuary, and onto it will be projected a rather bluescreen-looking image of the city.
REMINDERS
→ Make sure to keep the contact list and permissions meme up to date.
→ Remember to use the hiatus post in the mod journal when you go on hiatus. A post in the OOC comm is much more likely to escape our notice than a comment to the official post.
→ Check out the calendar for events and the activity records for your current activity check status.
If all else fails, or is just hard to find, hit up our link directory featured right at the top of the mod journal. Also, you don't have to wait for one of the HMDs to give us your thoughts. If you have ideas for Taxon that you'd like to share with us, you can comment at any time to the suggestions or complaints posts.
CHECK OUT THE CH-CH-CH-CHANGES AT THE WIKI
Thanks to your wonderful input during the game HMD earlier last month, we’ve spruced up the wiki, added pages, and done what we can to make information more accessible for you.
Go take a look at the revamped front page now complete with a full directory of game related pages, steal some code from the blank character sample page, view our (still a work in progress) comprehensive glitch page, and discover neatly sorted characters by type with our new categories!
FREEBIES
Everything you would need for a big ol' slumber party: snacks, chick flicks, bottles with which to play spin-the-bottle, and a selection of board games of the "clearly aimed at preteen girls" variety, such as one based on the Babysitter's Club, Blind Date, Pretty Pretty Princess Dress Up, Candy Land, and so on.
While in the Sanctuary these are the only items the hatches will produce. Do not OD on Funyuns, and remember to take turns when deciding who gets to be Stacey.
THE DAY THE SIGNALS DIED (FOR NOW)
We hope you enjoyed the language glitch, and the radio signals that ended up being involved. For those of you with characters investigating them, here's a quick list of what they'll have found out:
GET OUT THE MAP
The Taxon Map has undergone an overhaul! We've solidified a lot of information about things like exact size and will be shuffling locations around to keep the characters' experience of the setting fresh and new, even if they aren't.
In all the map-editing we've added features! Water features, to be precise! Taxon will soon have a sizable lake, a modest river system, and beach front property on the fauxcean ocean. If you are interested in these areas please visit (or re-visit) the locations post and we'll get you set up. Also, if you have suggestions for new locations you'd like added (be it a waterpark or a new flower shop, and especially temporary locations that can come and go) go ahead and tell us there! Once we're sure we have everyone's input and are finished setting it up for you we'll make another post all about the map, explaining the new size and the coordinate system.
AND EVERYTHING WE HAVE IS STUCK IN THE MOMENT
In order to facilitate all this change, the Aliens will need some extra time to work. This means they'll need the characters out of the way.
Which means it's time for a forced lock-in down at the Sanctuary!
From June 5th to the 25th, characters will be stuck inside the Sanctuary and the barrier will shrinkwrap itself around the building, making sure characters can go out for a walk but not get too far into the construction zone. It will, however, still project a holographic image of Taxon as they remember it at day and night, no matter how fake it may be.
On the morning of the 5th, bright and early at 5am, characters will wake up in a Sanctuary apartment's bed in the clothes they had been wearing (and with their adorable pets sleeping soundly next to them, should they have any). Their tablets will display a simple explanatory message: "SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE PLEASE ENJOY YOUR STAY WHILE WE ADDRESS CERTAIN TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES."
Throughout their stay, citizens will be able to wander all sixteen stories of the Sanctuary, switch rooms, shack up, or otherwise make do. Their initial waking-up room assignments are in a comment below, but feel free to have them move around!
Now, all this can't go off without some kind of hitch. The first hitch has to do with the hatches: they're kind of broken. One may be on every floor, but they only thing they can provide you is the very specific list of free items for the month. Hitch two deals with the clothes on their backs: they're stuck with whatever they were wearing when the aliens put them in their Sanctuary beds. Since the hatches won't provide for them, their only other option is a stockpile of swimsuits and pajamas that can be found in the storage bins on the storage floor.
Hitch three is a little more involved.
GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL
The citizens aren’t the only ones trapped inside the Sanctuary’s walls. Two of the aliens, Mayhem and one of the unusually large Hamsters, will be confined to the building for the duration of the glitch.
Just because they’re inside, though, doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to get hold of them. For the first two weeks they’ll have close encounters and near misses with the citizens. In the third week is when it all changes. We’ll have a plotting comment below to talk to you about how you want characters to capture the notorious aliens. And once they’re captured, they’ll talk.
THE NIGHTTIME WHATIFS STRIKE AGAIN
With everyone soon to be trapped in the Sanctuary, now's a good opportunity to jump in on some new CR and put twists on existing ones. Go get your plot on and fill this bad boy out!
What's been going on: A quick summary of what's up with your character and how they're doing.
Things to do this month: Anything you'd like to do with them this month. CR requests, plot requests, "I'd really like them to have x kind of development but idk how to go about it, any ideas," whatever you want to get to this month or a plot you want to start rolling for the months to come.
ETA: CONCERNING VAMPIRES AND THOSE INTERESTED IN THEM.
AS IT REGARDS THOSE WITH LIQUID (AND WE DON'T MEAN ALCOHOL, DON DRAPER) DIETS.
There will be blood! A whole two stockpiles of it, actually. But here's the catch: it's with all the other food in the fridges of the third and ninth floor kitchens, which means it can be monitored or stolen or what have you, for all your vampire plotting needs if people are game. As with all the other food it will only be replenished every three days, so once it's gone it's gone until the third day circles back around.
Note: this does not mean your character can take ALL THE BLOOD FOREVER and thus force vampires to starve, or discover still in hiding vampires without player consent; however, if people want to play around with this on either side, go for it! Blood donors, upset vampires, worried citizens... bring 'em on, and see this comment for all your plotting needs.
For the month of June, the aliens are keeping it simple with near-perfect weather: sunny, mild, breezy days and moonlit, mild, calm nights.
Unfortunately the citizens won't be able to enjoy this for long because they'll be a bit cooped up in the Sanctuary for three weeks. The barrier around the city will shrink to ten feet out from all sides of the Sanctuary, and onto it will be projected a rather bluescreen-looking image of the city.
REMINDERS
→ Make sure to keep the contact list and permissions meme up to date.
→ Remember to use the hiatus post in the mod journal when you go on hiatus. A post in the OOC comm is much more likely to escape our notice than a comment to the official post.
→ Check out the calendar for events and the activity records for your current activity check status.
If all else fails, or is just hard to find, hit up our link directory featured right at the top of the mod journal. Also, you don't have to wait for one of the HMDs to give us your thoughts. If you have ideas for Taxon that you'd like to share with us, you can comment at any time to the suggestions or complaints posts.
CHECK OUT THE CH-CH-CH-CHANGES AT THE WIKI
Thanks to your wonderful input during the game HMD earlier last month, we’ve spruced up the wiki, added pages, and done what we can to make information more accessible for you.
Go take a look at the revamped front page now complete with a full directory of game related pages, steal some code from the blank character sample page, view our (still a work in progress) comprehensive glitch page, and discover neatly sorted characters by type with our new categories!
FREEBIES
Everything you would need for a big ol' slumber party: snacks, chick flicks, bottles with which to play spin-the-bottle, and a selection of board games of the "clearly aimed at preteen girls" variety, such as one based on the Babysitter's Club, Blind Date, Pretty Pretty Princess Dress Up, Candy Land, and so on.
While in the Sanctuary these are the only items the hatches will produce. Do not OD on Funyuns, and remember to take turns when deciding who gets to be Stacey.
THE DAY THE SIGNALS DIED (FOR NOW)
We hope you enjoyed the language glitch, and the radio signals that ended up being involved. For those of you with characters investigating them, here's a quick list of what they'll have found out:
- in a directional sense, they were coming from below the city
- a more detailed analysis: they were coming from outside the moon entirely, but were amplified by a radio tower somewhere inside the moon and below Taxon itself
- it can be assumed the signals were not coming from the aliens associated with running Taxon
- the full message as it was intended can be found here; feel free to have characters working on translations and piecing the messages together suss out the general intended message
GET OUT THE MAP
The Taxon Map has undergone an overhaul! We've solidified a lot of information about things like exact size and will be shuffling locations around to keep the characters' experience of the setting fresh and new, even if they aren't.
In all the map-editing we've added features! Water features, to be precise! Taxon will soon have a sizable lake, a modest river system, and beach front property on the fauxcean ocean. If you are interested in these areas please visit (or re-visit) the locations post and we'll get you set up. Also, if you have suggestions for new locations you'd like added (be it a waterpark or a new flower shop, and especially temporary locations that can come and go) go ahead and tell us there! Once we're sure we have everyone's input and are finished setting it up for you we'll make another post all about the map, explaining the new size and the coordinate system.
AND EVERYTHING WE HAVE IS STUCK IN THE MOMENT
In order to facilitate all this change, the Aliens will need some extra time to work. This means they'll need the characters out of the way.
Which means it's time for a forced lock-in down at the Sanctuary!
From June 5th to the 25th, characters will be stuck inside the Sanctuary and the barrier will shrinkwrap itself around the building, making sure characters can go out for a walk but not get too far into the construction zone. It will, however, still project a holographic image of Taxon as they remember it at day and night, no matter how fake it may be.
On the morning of the 5th, bright and early at 5am, characters will wake up in a Sanctuary apartment's bed in the clothes they had been wearing (and with their adorable pets sleeping soundly next to them, should they have any). Their tablets will display a simple explanatory message: "SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE PLEASE ENJOY YOUR STAY WHILE WE ADDRESS CERTAIN TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES."
Throughout their stay, citizens will be able to wander all sixteen stories of the Sanctuary, switch rooms, shack up, or otherwise make do. Their initial waking-up room assignments are in a comment below, but feel free to have them move around!
Now, all this can't go off without some kind of hitch. The first hitch has to do with the hatches: they're kind of broken. One may be on every floor, but they only thing they can provide you is the very specific list of free items for the month. Hitch two deals with the clothes on their backs: they're stuck with whatever they were wearing when the aliens put them in their Sanctuary beds. Since the hatches won't provide for them, their only other option is a stockpile of swimsuits and pajamas that can be found in the storage bins on the storage floor.
Hitch three is a little more involved.
GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL
The citizens aren’t the only ones trapped inside the Sanctuary’s walls. Two of the aliens, Mayhem and one of the unusually large Hamsters, will be confined to the building for the duration of the glitch.
Just because they’re inside, though, doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to get hold of them. For the first two weeks they’ll have close encounters and near misses with the citizens. In the third week is when it all changes. We’ll have a plotting comment below to talk to you about how you want characters to capture the notorious aliens. And once they’re captured, they’ll talk.
THE NIGHTTIME WHATIFS STRIKE AGAIN
With everyone soon to be trapped in the Sanctuary, now's a good opportunity to jump in on some new CR and put twists on existing ones. Go get your plot on and fill this bad boy out!
What's been going on: A quick summary of what's up with your character and how they're doing.
Things to do this month: Anything you'd like to do with them this month. CR requests, plot requests, "I'd really like them to have x kind of development but idk how to go about it, any ideas," whatever you want to get to this month or a plot you want to start rolling for the months to come.
ETA: CONCERNING VAMPIRES AND THOSE INTERESTED IN THEM.
AS IT REGARDS THOSE WITH LIQUID (AND WE DON'T MEAN ALCOHOL, DON DRAPER) DIETS.
There will be blood! A whole two stockpiles of it, actually. But here's the catch: it's with all the other food in the fridges of the third and ninth floor kitchens, which means it can be monitored or stolen or what have you, for all your vampire plotting needs if people are game. As with all the other food it will only be replenished every three days, so once it's gone it's gone until the third day circles back around.
Note: this does not mean your character can take ALL THE BLOOD FOREVER and thus force vampires to starve, or discover still in hiding vampires without player consent; however, if people want to play around with this on either side, go for it! Blood donors, upset vampires, worried citizens... bring 'em on, and see this comment for all your plotting needs.