Hey guys!

Thank you to everyone who responded to the AC! Good stuff!

At this point we have a couple announcements.

1. Door opening -- With Hayley's help, it's being pushed forward, as she noted below. Please feel free to continue tags above, but let's also get that going, ne?

2. Officially shutting down apps. There's not really any point in suggesting anyone app at this point, after all. Lol The pages will be edited soon accordingly.

3. AC -- We've, sadly, reached the point that we're just such a small group that we're going to go ahead and see if a change to the AC might help take off some pressure, given everyone seems to be going through a lotta stuff right now. (Annnnd truth be told, we've been sinking into musebox territory for a long while now...) While we don't want to do with the AC entirely, given it does help with motivation, that will have been our last formal AC. For future we might just do informal activity pokes to check that everyone has at least tagged something recently.

4. Despite no real AC, that doesn't mean we don't want to see things get done! I'd like to propose maybe having a couple designated Paixao Tag-a-thons or something? Tagging is always more exciting when you can get some rapid tagging done... I suspect with what's about to come, everyone will certainly be more in a tagging mood, but I want to keep that push going. Might just schedule a couple days over the next few weeks or something. Y/N?

As of this thread we now have another floor opened up!

( Sunny day~ Sweeping the clouds away~ )

This is just a reminder that this month's activity check will be an extra week longer! You guys have until next Monday to check in. If you need to take a hiatus, hit up the hiatus post...or, alternatively, let us know if you're back from hiatus too.

Additionally, we've looked over the results from our poll regarding original characters in Paixao and have decided to go forth in that direction after seeing majority approval. Details are still in discussion, but soon we'll be opening up limited spots for OC apps, as a trial period.

So keep an eye on this comm for further developments in this and news regarding what lies in store next for your characters here!

Hello, guys! Mods here with a very important question. We've been wondering: how would you guys feel about allowing people to app OCs? With the rising amount of games that allow them, we've been wondering if we should too. And, considering our close-knit, chill nature, we figure this would be a good place for them. We won't implement anything until we've gotten your opinion on the subject, but if we did decide to allow OC apps, we did have a few things in mind:

1. The application process would be more difficult and thorough
2. We will not be allowing any Canon OCs. They must strictly come from from an original universe.
3. We might have a trial period, allowing a cap of 3 OCs into the game at first to see how things go.

So without further ado, here's the poll where you can cast your vote:

[Poll #1762831]

Also, if you have any further opinions on the subject or would like to state any concerns you might have, please feel free to comment to this entry. We have screened comments as well, in case you would like to state them more privately (which is also why we're using the mod journal to post XD Easier for all the mods to look at).

Also, we've tweaked the application a little. First off, as Rue said in her earlier post, you now have the option of listing your plurk name in the contact section of the application. Secondly, the "Sexuality" section of the application is now optional.

Hey wonderful Paixao! Just tossing a few things out so I can get caught up from my super hiatus of doom!

1.) Maybe it's me, but I feel like most of my characters are lacking in CR, so if you want to poke me to plot stuff, I'm more than happy to. (For those who are new, it's Link, Simba, Toph, Remus, and Toboe.) Not really a huge deal, I guess, but something that's been gnawing at me a little.

2.) Zoan and Wolfie! Plots for Zira/Simba/Kovu thread of DOOM? Zoan, I heard you've been busy, so if you need more time before we start, that's cool.

3.) People in the century-old Spira thread(with Riku, Link, Mao, and Yorda)! Do any of you have any idea about what's gonna happen there in the end? I'd like to get Link and my other characters in new logs, but since I'm not sure what's gonna happen in the thread, Link is kind of stuck. Once again, if no one knows, that's cool. I'm just impatient.

4.) If you guys have any questions for me, feel free to post them here!

Okay guys! Here's this months results.

Overall we didn't do too badly, but there were definitely quite a few that need to find themselves new threads. You can always backlog older, slower threads. Don't forget that guys. ♥ Talk to each other and try and work out what would have happened at the end of the thread so you can move it on.

SO. To start off I'm going to note hiatuses. Hamel/Beat-mun and Rikku-mun are currently on hiatus.

Next we have those who are active, but failed to check in. Don't forget next time guys!

Jintetsu jintetsu
Edward Elric fullmetalchemy
Duck/Princess Tutu dancing_ducky

Then we have those who have not been active this month (according to what I can find through tags) and failed to check in. (If you need to hiatus, don't forget to let us know and post in the hiatus post!) Failure to check in next month will result in removal from the game, so please don't forget!

Lenne lyricalsummons
Shuyin palladiamorsdeu
Garnet "Dagger" Til Alexandros XVII sacred_jewel
Yuna expanding_wings
Elliot Edwards brave_dreamer
Ivan sparkplasma
Koki Kariya itsbeanpaste
Naminé craieblanche
Cloud Strife whatsajailbait
Fran notacube
Tak hideous_tak
Uchiha Obito sumthinginmyeye

Then lastly we have those who have unfortunately failed to check in for a second time and will be removed from the game.

Henry "Mutt" Williams momslittlemutt

Big reminder guys, next month's check will be our first check using the new not-third person rp requirement. We're looking for around half your characters to have some journal/pimp/mb action. It doesn't have to be an actual post, a thread in someone else's post counts too! We just want some action.

So let's dust those journals off and try to get some babble going, eh? :)

If anyone has any questions or comments about anything, feel free to comment here.

Oh, and also, I'm going to attempt to start going through the game information and fixing/rewriting some of it. We've tweaked it a lot over the last year, but it's time paint a fresh coat of paint, instead of just patching the holes. If there's anything you've noticed that needs fixing, let me know, since while I know of some problems, it's easy to miss things.

AND lastly ONE more announcement.

On January 20th, it's our 3rd BIRTHDAY!!!! \o/ Just FYI. :D

EDIT: OKAY. One more thing for Org muns: Please check the Org comm. :3

Just a reminder, we have the new community paixaostuff, so everyone please join it! OOC journals are preffered, but feel free to join with your character journals if you want to.

Also, I just uploaded the entire set of Togainu no Chi CGs over there, so you better get your butts over and join for it. ;)

sup homies, there are a few more things you need to take note of. the CONTACT LIST has been tweaked slightly, so go do the friends-add thing again!

ALSO, this is important, so listen up. the TAGS list has had quite a few additions. now, whenever you guys make a thread, you'll need to add the tag (DO NOT put it in that 'current location' slot, put it in the 'tags' slot) of the LOCATION (scroll down a little to see the locations list/descriptions) of your character or group. there is a tag for EVERY location, but you'll still need to specify what block the scene takes place in (ex; actua are F3, J7, or N8) on your own, in the 'SETTING' line-- you all had better know where that is by now, it's in that nifty format that you have to use anyway when you make a thread.

in addition to that, there is now an 'ACTIVE' tag, too, to go along with the completed one. SO, if your thread is active, use that, and once it's finished, change it to 'completed'. this is all to make things easier on you for tracking down threads and such.

I've also been asked to request that you ALL start tagging what day of the week your PERSONAL (CHARACTER) JOURNAL and MESSAGEBOARD entries are on. we've got characters who are, say, on thursday replying to posts that are made by characters on sunday. this would lessen the confusion, and would provide a sense of consistency. after all, what if your character becomes disabled or has their journal taken away on, let's say.. monday, but you've already accidentally posted a reply to another character's entry when they are on tuesday? see what I mean? I hope so, but please let me know if you still don't understand. or if you don't know how to add tags. you could possibly get away with just putting what day the entry was made on in the subject line, I'll have to check into that.

on a final note, you need to remember oreo's earlier post. BE ACTIVE. a lot of people have been starting to slack off over the past few weeks, some have clammed up entirely. if you're going to be absent or unable to post for any reason, tell the mods! and to you people with multiple characters-- USE THEM. I see quite a few who are straggling, so please get on the ball and be active with ALL your characters, or I'll send oreo to mess you up anti-style. NO EXCEPTIONS, especially if you haven't given any valid reason as to why you're inactive. I also think it's about high-time for another activity check, so you guys had better get moving before one of those pops up!


that was long. >:B ♥ AND HI NEW VICTIMS PEOPLE! WELCOME TO PAIXAO AND ALL THAT JAZZ, ILU~



*** EDIT ; from now on, when you guys make threads, plzzz use '[ACTIVE/COMPLETED]' in the subject lines instead of '[OPEN/CLOSED]'.. let's do that to avoid confusion and such. :B

OKAY GUYS. Seriously! Some of you set your comment options to friends only and when I - and many other people - try to comment, WE CAN'T. OKAY. SERIOUSLY. USE FRIENDS ADD.

Click, scroll, right click, copy, click, right click, paste, and click! NOT THAT HARD. Use it, please. All of the hard work is done for you! There's no reason to not do this! And the link is everywhere! Everywhere! And it won't mess up your friends who aren't in the game, either.

... Sorry for all the capslock, but really. There's no excuse not to be up on it; hell, even when I was stuck with Nobunaga I updated my lists.

ONE

I'm going to use Cyber Cam in the rpg, too. Not as a seperate journal, as in that would take too much logging in and out (and I don't really want two journals right now), but using the icon I'm using in this post. "Who in the hell is Cyber Cam?" you ask? Cam's virtual replica who's basically a polar opposite to Cam. He'll randomly appear in other electronic journals for the hell of it, although he won't stick around for long.

I'm saying this now, because Cam will most likely have him search through the journals to find the other Rangers (since he can't use the communication line on his amulet).

TWO

Okay you guys, keep friendslists updated! Although I know most of you add new users as they come, please use the Friends Add post as well (come on guys it's there for a reason).

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ryukku_ doesn't need to be on the ban list anymore, since I grabbed the journal and 'purged' it... since I wanted the free rename (to logout, btw) because I'm a rename whore and like to reserve the names I'm gonna use one day D:

... >> I mean, lovely folks of Paixao. :D! So, we figured it would be a good idea to start tagging (yeah, I know, more tags) posts in the RP for which day they occur on, so people can more easily access what happened which day and so on. Convenient, eh? Also, ENTRANCES. Tag each entrance with which gate it's at so that we can have a running tally of who appears where.

So plz 2 b doing that some time. You know, soon. Otherwise I may have to chew on your spleeeeen. Or do it myself, whatever. Other mods also do this~ so we can get things more organized.

The pooowwweeerrrr... okay, done now.

The weekly weather has been updated. Mostly, please try to move away from Saturday.

Secondly, PLEASE remember do not create LENGTHY COMMENT THREADS. If you need to review the game's means of posting, please refer back to the "Playing the Game" section of Extensive Info. If you have any questions on it, pleeease ask. This should NOT be a problem. Other players, PLEASE remind those who mess it up with an OOC comment or something. I don't know how many times this has been explained... PLEASE do not ignore it.

Thirdly, regarding the regular Paixao chats! Some people don't want invites, and it'd be nice if we didn't bug them if they don't want to be there. XD If you do not want to be invited to chats, please comment here. If you want to be invited with a CERTAIN SCREEN NAME ONLY, please comment with that here as well. Thanks!

LASTLY, please go to the CONTACT INFO and UPDATE YOUR FRIENDS LIST ACCORDINGLY using the Admin Console.

The contact info and friends add are now COMPLETELY UPDATED and will stay that way for quite some time, as applications are closed to non-Org members now!

Please go to them and do the friends add. Thanks!

Since apparently the word of the head moderator is not enough, I feel it is perhaps time to delve deeper into the workings of my mind and completely explain my situation. Maybe then you will see why it is I have done the things I have done—namely, the banning of a very important person to me, Mikael, our former Zexion.

( Here. )

The topic will no longer be discussed by me.

Remember guys, use those tags! And keep them consistant please.

Also, for those who don't check the Weekly Events like they should (like myself) and for missing [completed] tags in the subject, there will be a nifty completed tag. I'll be in charge of this tag, so don't worry about that one, just try to have the character tags, please.

Usually you should be able to copy the list of characters who should be in the thread into the tag textarea, but if you're unsure of how you should enter the character's name, check the tags page (which will eventually be perma-linked somewhere).

Also! When a thread is finished, please put completed in the subject tags (name of post [open/closed]). A lot of the completed posts have 'closed' instead, while 'closed' in my mind makes me think that it's closed to characters who aren't listed on the original post. But then again, you guys should be posting finished threads here anyway, so it's more of a convienance to me (if anything). So if you don't put in that, just make sure you post your completed threads, which is a must anyway. ♥.

Of course, right now not all completed threads are labeled as so, since um... now I got busy. But they will be!


Keep this post in your memories as a reference? Original tag post

New map! Not only do we have grids, but numbers and letters! Now you can specify your locations more... specifically. :P

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y159/contrariwise/map.jpg

kurosakionefive did it! :D

New thing.

I'm getting annoyed with one of my own rules - the no commenting while in an open thread one. So you know what? I'm revoking it. Because sometimes threads are so slow and in completely different time frames anyway, so what the hell.

So yeah. You are free to comment/post so long as it's ahead or before of whatever thread you're participating in, okay? XD

The map is now gridded so you guys know how long it takes to travel to places. The train, I've decided, also has multiple stops along the way between the center and gates, so that four hour round trip? It will take a lot longer.

Here is the edited map.

ALSO. There is a new means of transportation! RICKSHAWS. And various types of bikes you can buy or.. steal, or pay someone to ride... These are ran of course by the people of Paixao and are all over the damn place, like taxis. It'll make getting around places not near the train much easier... but it costs MONEY!

There you go.

Applications have been closed!

Our last four members just slid in. :x

argentum_basium, tenkafubu, and walking_complex have been promoted to co-moderators of all of the communities. I have also made a new account, paixaowarrior (lmao e_e), which all of the stuff I posted before will be controlled under (friends add, weekly stuff, etcetera).

I'm going to design jobs and move over all the information later today when I get home.

Thank you guys for your help and support. It's greatly appreciated.