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SEPTEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Welcome to the third month of Cetana! We are now back on a dungeon month, so we hope that you will enjoy the upcoming event. Please read these announcements carefully. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to ask them in the comments.

⬥ There is a new set of requests from the Velvet Room assistants. As a reminder, unless specified otherwise in the specific request, there are no deadlines for turning in threads so please feel free to submit them whenever you please.

⬥ From here on, every event plotting post will include a thread for game and mod feedback so we can continue to improve the game up until its end, so please make sure of the feedback toplevel in each post to give any type of concrit, whether it is positive or negative.

⬥ To OOCly answer an important IC question to the NPCS from last month, characters are allowed to have their Personas evolve and change. Similar to the mainline series, Personas may take on new forms and shapes when characters undergo significant character development and undertake a resolution to become better versions of themselves. These Ultimate Personas could appear after a Shadow event and characters accept their Shadow Selves or anywhere else down the line when characters come upon their resolution. Ultimate Personas may also remain the same form if characters have the desire for them to stay the same to serve as a reminder for their actions or failures, but still receive the same benefits from changing shape. More information about Ultimate Personas may be found on the Persona page under the new header.

⬥ You may now submit any changes to the game's setting underneath this top-level on the Locations page. Whether the changes are minor, such as characters creating a small cat house in the marketplace for the strays, or major, such as characters trying to kill every single crow in the area, you may comment to the thread so everyone may be aware of them. If you are unsure whether your character's actions may have some sort of effect on the setting, please submit them and the mods will reply back with whatever effect they might have caused. We will then list these setting changes in every new plotting post.

⬥ The calendar for September is as follows:

09/03 - Dungeon log is posted
09/03 - Sasuke's Personal Shadow event is posted
09/31 - Completion of the dungeon turn-in deadline
09/31 - Activity check closes

→ SETTING CHANGES

⬥ The following characters have been dropped from the game:
Airi Ban (tosearch)
Atsushi Nakajima (thetyger)
Jill Valentine (torsion)
Kokichi Ouma (decipere)
These characters may still be found within Hirajiro, but in a semi-responsive vegetative state. They will lose their sense of being and be highly apathetic.

In addition, these are the following changes within the setting:

⬥ As per the second event log in August, the first floor of the castle is permanently restored. The overall foundation and pillars of the castle have been repaired, the rubble has been cleared away, and the walls are covered in murals that depict a small village surrounded by farmland, a familiar lake at the center, and flocks of crows adorning the skies with one large crow standing on the peak of the mountain overlooking the town. The stairs to the second floor still remain broken, however.

⬥ Similarly to the castle, the shrine is also partially restored. The broken stone lanterns are restored to perfection, the stairsteps are even and clean, the water basin is no longer filled with algae and has clean water, and the sign now stands up straight and covered in a new fresh white paint, though it still does not have a name

→ SEPTEMBER 3 - DUNGEON

On the night of September 3rd, characters outside during the Lockdown will experience a familiar gust of wind that will guide them all the way towards the lake. As they approach it, they will find the new dungeon underneath the waters. Black blobs of Shadows once again reemerge and leave the lake to head into town to search homes during the Lockdown. Throughout the month, citizens will begin to get sick and fall back into the same sort of lethargic illness from July. Soon enough, they will disappear altogether should the dungeon be left incomplete.

Some important notes about this dungeon:

⬥ There will not be a specific date when the dungeon boss will appear. This is due to a new thread turn-in mechanic that we will be employing. Characters must gather six coins throughout the dungeon that will allow them to access the final room that contains the boss. As a result, the overall playerbase must submit a total of six different threads that involve the act of gathering one of the coins.

⬥ Each coin will require different methods to obtain them, playing to different character strengths. More information about how to gather these coins will be provided on the log, but these are the general details for each one:
1. Caution: characters must carefully gather multiple paper lanterns from Shadows and bring them to a specific location without damaging any of them to obtain the coin.
2. Critical Thinking: characters must figure out how to obtain a coin that is constantly out of reach and acquire it by figuring out a solution.
3. Negotiation: characters must bargain with a greedy Shadow that will trade away the coin if their numerous and outrageous demands are met.
4. Speed: characters must quickly find or create a path to the coin or risk being severely poisoned the longer they stay in the maze.
5. Stealth: characters must sneak past powerful Shadows to search and steal a hidden coin without being detected or risk being literally burned.
6. Strength: characters must defeat a large group of powerful Shadows that are all fighting for the coin and avoid getting killed in the process.
⬥ Players may discuss which coin would best interest them and their character in this plotting post but will have to sign up their characters for each coin on the main log itself. There are no limits to how many people may team up for each coin. However, we ask that players limit themselves to a maximum of two coin-related threads for themselves. Please give coin sign-up priorities to those who have not yet signed up before signing up for a second coin thread and please keep in mind that we require at least one thread for each coin for the boss to appear.

⬥ After the boss appears, the toplevel for thread requirements for the dungeon's completion will be unscreened and open for submissions. Similarly to July's dungeon, a maximum of two threads may be turned in per player. Ten threads will be required for the completion of the dungeon and these threads may not overlap with threads used for the coin turn-ins.

This log will be posted on September 3 and the boss thread will be posted within this log.

→ SEPTEMBER 3 - PERSONAL SHADOW EVENT

Dani will be running our first Shadow Event on September 3rd with a forwarded-dated IC day. She will be posting a log on September 3 so please look forward to it!

A toplevel with the NPCs will be posted in the log that will inform the characters that Sasuke has disappeared into the second dungeon due to his Shadow. This toplevel will also consist of characters being informed about the nature of Shadows and the dangers of not accepting them.

Threads in this log may count towards your dungeon thread requirement of AC. We hope that you will all have fun!