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VIDEO; UN: DOREMIMEM

WHO: Cyrene and anyone else!
WHERE: Libra network
WHEN: Early November
WHAT: Cyrene needs help naming her new pet!
WARNINGS: nothing

[ The video begins with an out-of-focus shot of a blurry pink shape on a field of blue. Within moments, the camera settles, and the true form of the blob comes into view--an adorable, wide-eyed chimera, sitting calmly on top of a neatly-made bed. When the angle of the camera moves, shifting down lower to get on the chimera's level, it tilts its head and lets out a tiny 'awoo?' ]

Hiiii~! ♪ [ An off-camera giggle. ] Oh, you're just so adorable, aren't you...?

Ahem--Καλημέρα (good morning) everyone! Should I introduce myself-- I should introduce myself. I'm Cyrene! I just brought this little cutie home for the first time... and she needs a name. A good name. And I'm... weirdly out of ideas, sooo... I'm asking for suggestions! I can't just call her Pink Chimera forever, after all. I'm open to anything, really, but I will not let anyone call her anything ugly or mean.

[ As she speaks, she reaches out a hand to ruffle the fur on top of the chimera's head. It responds with a thrilled coo, squeezing its eyes shut and fluttering its little wings. Cyrene can be heard babytalking to it in Greek for another few moments before the video ends. ]

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!network post

UN: Zodiac | Happy November!

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: Night of October 31st/November 1st
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[On the night of Halloween, the darkness of the night will grow even more stark as the night continues on. Furthering the darkness, the spirit vein will dim into shades of blacks and purples as the Shadow element comes into dominance. Everyone's devices will emit a soothing wind chime sound as a new Zodiac post appears. The chime will sound even if you have your phone turned off or on silent, and will not stop until you read their messsage and comment to it.]

Aglaea

Aglaea, Carolyn, K'rihnn, and Kyryll have joined the app. Say hi everyone!

Robin

Robin, Jill, and Inwa have left the app.

[The post then continues on.]

Hello and thank you for using the Libra app.

Happy Halloween everyone! I hope everyone is having a spooktacular time this holiday!

First we'd like to thank everyone's involvement in saving our coworkers from the incident in El Nido. The survivors are well on their way to recovery, though will be getting extensive counseling. We also want to offer our condolences for all of you who suffered to do so. We are aware that a lot happened during those days, and we'd like to extend our offers of free counseling for any of those who wish to have it.

In addition, we have some good news! The seers department haven't picked up on anything omninous for this month, and we've been very through to look out for other red flags that might get overlooked! While we should always remain on guard this time of year, let's keep our fingers crossed that this is a thanksgiving that we'll all get to experience in relative peace! As much peace as Thanksgiving dinners can be, anyway- not that there's anything wrong with my thanksgiving dinner, of course!

That's all for now! Finally, our ever popular icebreaker question:

This post is sponsored by Two Point Museum! Check our wide and diverse exhibits on any topic imaginable! There's no limit to knowledge.

[Users will have the option to choose their own display names and userpics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone.

As of now, Normal NPCs are slowly losing their ability to see the supernatural. By the end of next week, everything should return to normal.

Please note that there will be no city log this month, with the next event log being posted on the 15th. As such, players are free to make their own posts and mingles regarding city events. If you want more details on what's happening the city this month, it can be found here. ]

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[SEMI-CLOSED] Investigating What Remains

WHO: Jun, Flins, Persephone, Wei Wuxian, Lapis, Jinwoo, Ratio, Venti
WHERE: El Nido
WHEN: Nighttime, after the October Horror Plot!
WHAT: Investigating and purifying the remains of the carnival
WARNINGS: Will add as needed! But there will be discussions of death.

( Read more... )

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un: badnews

WHO: Percy de Rolo and the network!
WHERE: Libra and Gemini
WHEN: late October
WHAT: hdu criticize my haunted house
WARNINGS: none!

Right, so, I have a favor to ask of you all. Viktor and I have been supplying a haunted house with plenty of scares for the month, and I asked my brother and a passer-by to test it out. They came away amused enough, so we figured that would be the end of it.

[A beat.]

Apparently our animatronics and special effects are, I quote, "too scary for our customers," which is a terribly ridiculous thing to say about a haunted house but. Anyone here willing to go through it so we know exactly how scary it actually is? I promise the realistic-looking draconic maw that welcomes you is little more than clockwork with cloth over it.

November Plotting & CR OOC post

( November Plotting Post )

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agnes tachyon

Video; Un; C6H12O6

Who: Carolyn and anyone
Where: Libra Network
When: Late October
What: Carolyn got a surprise in the mail
Warnings: None

[The video turns on to Carolyns face close to the camera, visible bags under her eyes]

I don’t know why but for some reason ever since this cursed app showed up on my phone things that shouldn’t be possible or happening keep popping up. I get a package in the mail and I think it’s supplies I need for an experiment but no it’s this thing.

[She whips the webcam over and down, the oversized sleeves of her hoodie covering the camera briefly. When the camera is clear again it shows a ribombee in a tiny lab coat, sitting on her desk going to town on a pixy stick. The rest of the desk is littered with papers with formulas written on them and the remnants of a very large bag of assorted pixy sticks. The camera whips back up to Carolyns face.]

And as if the insect wearing clothes wasn’t enough there was also what I thought was a walking stick but the moment I touched it—

[The camera whips over again, this time in the other direction. As the camera refocuses it reveals a small teal wyvern perched on her shoulder wearing a tiny monocle.]

It turned into this. This goes against literally every law of nature. AND WHY DO ALL THE CREATURES SENT TO ME HAVE ACCESSORIES. I’m either in a coma or someone is pulling a prank on me. That’s got to be it.

[The camera goes to black as she keeps rambling to herself, the little wyvern nuzzling against her before the video ends.]

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venti

Voice | UN: makeitaventi

WHO: Venti and the Libra/Gemini Network!
WHERE: Libra and Gemini
WHEN: End of October
WHAT: Lo-fi beats to listen to while getting a prophecy for November.
WARNINGS: None~ unless you're scared of bears.

[In the background, characters can hear music playing. It's gentle and soft, not overwhelming Venti's voice as he speaks to everyone.]

Hey, guys~! I'm mid-stream right now, so apologies that I gotta make this short.

So the wind brought to me something interesting. Apparently, our dearest good boy, Lycaon, in his youth didn't know which mushrooms were actually edible and just... ate one. To find out. I'm certain you can connect the dots on what happened to our poor pup at the time~.

[He loves and adores you, Lycaon.]

But the winds have wanted me to use this as an example of family secrets coming to light next month. Those secrets miiiiiight not be as harmless as finding out the hard way to not eat unidentified mushrooms. Considering the holiday next month... that feels about right.

Database maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!