We are back in business!

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After a long break, Save Our Earth is back in business!

First of all, I apologise for ghosting the game for so long. Between stress in my personal life and the real-life part of the world that provides the setting for SoE falling apart around our ears, things got a bit out of hand. BUT we'll be back up running now. There are a few minor changes that will hopefully address all issues with the background of the game and keep its nature as escapist pretendy funtimes in the face of... real life, really. I'll bulletpoint what's about to change.

1. We are going full AU.

The weird Brexit-kinda-isn't-happening Limbo that we were in just was very hard to deal with from a modding perspective. I hope this change upholds the will of the players to not have to deal with Brexit.

Full AU, in this case, means that up until December 2019, things actually were the same as in real life, Brexit proceedings were happening. But then the elections in December brought a coalition of Lib-Dems, SNP, Alliance (1 whole token Northern Irish MP) and Greens into power. Lib-Dems got the majority in England and Wales, SNP won Scotland by a landslide, and the Greens captured a couple of seats as well. The new Prime Minister is Nicola Sturgeon. The Mossgate seat is still held by Tory MP Mary Saunders because she wants the best for the constituency to the point where she ran on a platform of supporting a repeal of the decisions to trigger Article 50.

The first thing the new government did was to repeal the invocation of Article 50. Thus, the UK is back in the EU and things will start to heal. The new government has also pledged to strengthen the NHS by restoring funding and staffing.


2. The start of Season 2 will help us dodge Corona.

We were almost there anyway, so we'll fast-track the ending of Season 1. The events surrounding it will be backdated to the first half of January, back when Corona was still a thing considered to be roughly on the scale of SARS.

After these events, it seems like things have gone back to normal in Mossgate and the world. The Numbered are still Numbered, but that aside no strange events seem to occur. National and international news sources don't report anything out of the ordinary either - it's more of the same usual: Carnival in Rio, fighting in the near East, Trump said a dumb thing, Greece has too many refugees, an earthquake somewhere... and so on and so forth. Same old.

Same old? By April, keen-minded Numbered might notice that every single news item that they find on the internet, TV, the radio, or anywhere else, has indeed been there before. To the dot. Just with a different date.

Or perhaps they'll notice first that memes don't seem to develop anymore. Indeed, the memes that are floating around the internet all hype and apparently-new seem to be a year old if memory services well... but only memory can provide that information. Digging aroudn the internet will make it seem like they are new indeed.

These are the only signs that anything is out of the ordinary though - things in Mossgate are going forward the way they should. Everything is progressing as usual.

The answer is, though Numbered might take as long as they will to clue into it: Everything outside of the Echo Boundary is stuck in a time loop. With exception of national and international news, which are an amalgam of the ten years prior mixed so that they seem natural as taking place after mid-January of 2020, everything outside of the Echo Boundary is an exact repeat of what happened there a year prior. If this directly affects your character because they're communting or something along those lines, feel free to hit up Kira-mod to work out what that means for them specifically.


3. If you want to swap out your character or bring in someone new, now's the time.

During the month of April, our applications will be simplified. If you wish to bring in a new character during this time, please use this application form: <big><b><u>OOC INFORMATION</u></b></big> <b>Name:</b> Whatever handle you go by. <b>Are you over 15?</b> SoE does not accept players below the age of fifteen. <b>Contact:</b> Should we feel the need to contact you privately, what is your preferred method? <b>Current characters in the game:</b> Include pre-incarnation's name and canon, or N/A if applicable - please do NOT delete this section entirely! <big><b><u>IC INFORMATION</u></b></big> <b><u>PREINCARNATION</b></u> <b>Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> If there are multiple versions of a canon and/or you are using other versions of the canon as supplemental material, please specify here. <b>Pre-Incarnation Personality:</b> What sort of person were they in their past life? Please clearly label headcanon. You may use bullet points. <b>Abilities:</b> What abilities did your character's pre-incarnation have? To what extent were they used, and what limitations did they have? Include any equipment they had access to and any skills they had. Headcanon should be indicated or marked, as before! You may write a brief synopsis and link to a more detailed resource if you wish. Favor conciseness here, and try to limit (or else otherwise elaborate upon) canon terminology to avoid confusion. <b>Bullet points are mandatory for this section</b>. <b><u>REINCARNATION</b></u> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b>Appearance:</b> Please provide a concise description or link to an image. <b>History:</b> What happened to your character that got them to this point in their normal, human life? While a lot of information isn't necessary here, please give us a clear picture of who they are now, how they became that way, and where they'll be headed in the context of the game. <b>First Echo:</b> What caused their first <a href="https://ourearth.dreamwidth.org/1772.html">Echo</a>, and what did it give them? If you're unsure if the first Echo you have in mind for your character is workable, please, feel free to consult a mod, either directly or on the F.A.Q.! <b>Personality differences:</b> You are encouraged to deviate from the original personality in three or four major ways, made to make their personality logical to the setting and their new history (which, by default, varies from their original life). If the personality does not differentiate significantly, or if the differences do not make sense given the rest of your app, revisions may be asked for. <b><big><u>ROLEPLAY SAMPLES</u></big> Here we are looking for two roleplay samples of any kind - actionspam, prose, texting, voice, all are good. Threads from the tdm, bakerstreet or other games are a-ok. Samples should not be older than a year. One sample must be done from the perspective of the <b>reincarnated character</b>, set within the game, while the other must be portraying the <b>original character</b>. <b><big><u>ANYTHING ELSE?</b></big></u> If you need to clear up any lingering questions or concerns, here's the place to do it.>


4. Please respond to the Check-in!

To update our Taken List, we'd like to know who is still on board this ship. Please respond to the Check-in by April 15th!

5. All the new links~

There's a new Test Drive Meme and plotting/CR meme! An event post and a plotting post will also go up soon.

...And that's it for now. Be on the lookout for event posts!

Check-in

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For the purpose of updating our Taken Character list, we are asking everyone who still wishes for their cahracter to remain in the game to respond to the Check-in by April 15th, using the form below. Thank you!

<b>Character name:</b> charactername <b>Canon:</b> canonname <b>Journal:</b> <user name=journalname>

Fourth Permanent Test Drive Meme

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Fourth Permanent Test Drive Meme



Welcome to the SoE TDM!

Due to the premise of the game, everyone on this testdrive must be the modern day reincarnation of the characters we all know and love. Please take a quick look at our navigation to familiarize yourself with the concept and setting of the game before you jump in.

If you have a relationship plotting post comment for your character (which is NOT mandatory to play in this tdm), please link to it when putting up a toplevel on the TDM. That way, other players can easily get an idea of what kind of character they will be tagging.

Other than that, you know the tdm drill - when commenting, please put your character's name and canon in the subject line, and write one or more threadstarters so others can tag you easily. Below, you'll find some prompts that you can use or discard at will to write those threadstarters.

( Here come the prompts! )

The All-Purpose CR/Plotting Meme

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The All-Purpose CR/Plotting Meme



The meme is open to, as per always, making arrangements with and between:
- Current characters in game.
AND
- Potential characters - any characters you may be planning on apping or reapping (there is a special header for this under the main post).
If you have an app in that has not been processed, please, don't be shy about commenting around for prospective CR and plans on entry - though, of course, remember that plans will be tentative!

For ideas, please consult the plot digests and/or the locations/soft facts page.

For characters of either status, toss up a comment with your character's reincarnated name, pre-incarnated name, canon, and occupation in the subject line. E.x. "Cinderella | Rarity | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | Family Pet" In the body, of course, place any information you see fit; go on ahead and use this form if you'd like a place to start or take it however you feel!

<b>Reincarnation:</b> Name <b>Pre-Incarnation:</b> Name/Canon <b>Location(s):</b> Where can your character be encountered? <b>A blurb about them:</b> (Feel free to write them up a blurb here - especially encouraged if they're a character you're considering rather than one established in-game! Alternatively omit.) <b>Open/Wanted CR:</b> (Have you any certain types of CR/dynamics you hope to bring into development?) <b>Hooks:</b> (Places where one might meet them, hobbies/activities through which one might know them, things in others that would make the character get into contact, whatever would bring your character and others together!) <b>Plans/ongoing character plots:</b> (Anything a person ought to know - any plans for them or things you've wanted to write them doing? Anything about what they've been up to?) <b>Anything Else?:</b> (Anything else you'd like to say? Out of courtesy to your fellow players, please don't put gifs in this section.)