Hello, it's Chloe coming off of a week-long hiatus with Hikari(orderlybento ) and Misty(cascadetomboy ), and I'm glad to be back. If any of their CR wants to fill me in on anything that's been going on, I would really appreciate it! Still trying to get up on tags.

Also, and I know this is kind of weird to bring up in the middle of the plot, I... kind of need help with the cooking class stuff.

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So after some help from our lovely new mods, I thought I should do a post about this, as their decision has opened it up for other characters too.

Basically, a while ago, Xion and Mahalia had the crazy idea of trying to transform the entirety of one of the wild places - it's made of magic dirt, right, so where better to make the largest thing you can think of? And what they wanted to make was an ocean, because just hearing the waves when you got far enough out in the dunes wasn't good enough.

Now, while they weren't really expecting to be, they were actually successful, and turned the entirety of the sand dunes into an ocean - with a lovely beach, of course. Because it's a combination of efforts, the beach resembles Xion's memories of Destiny Islands, and if you feel so inclined to take a boat out far enough, you will find Mahalia's memories of a village built out in the waves.

The girls were very excited about their creation, of course! But they got distracted by robots on their return to the gardens proper, and forgot to tell anyone about it. One of them will be going back to have a look soon, though, and make a post on the vine about it, at which point it's open season for ocean-related shenanigans! :D

Now the important details bit:

The ocean will only last until the end of the month, due to the unstable nature of the wild places, after which it will start to disappear.

Contact with the water will give your character wildcard effects, and drinking it will cause wildcard + hallucinations (although you should probably know better than to drink saltwater anyway, silly).

This has been approved by the mods here, if anyone wants to see the nitty gritty.

Hello, Lesbilanders, come forth and make plots with me.

So here I was, all new and excited to play and everything, and then I drop off the face of the earth.

Well, not really. Mostly I just got caught up in some other stuff, but I is back now! If I own you a tag, drop me a line, my notifs are weird.

IC-wise, I think I'm justifying this by saying Lady Oscar went adventuring in the wastes for a bit and had to get dragged back by the wolves. But she managed to get some of that magic dirt, so she'll be making herself a house, which I'll post for IC-ly in a bit.

As always, if anyone wants to plot or anything, hit me up here via PM, via AIM as Aewaller04 (ID who you are though please), or via plurk at otokoyakudream

:D

Petal Dance Planning Post

As stated ICly in this post, there will be a formal ball held at a shiny new location and running from the 8th through the 11th. So, what else do you need to know?

1] There will be outside forces encouraging characters to go, so you should be able to find an excuse to drag your character there even if she doesn't want to go.
2] At 11:59 pm Eastern Time April 7th, all the usual clothes will disappear from their places in the Necessities. They will be replaced by formal wear from a wide variety of eras and cultures. Roughly 95% of this will be in the form of gowns; the remaining 5% will be men's clothing and formal military uniforms (although without specific insignia). Any character who tries to put on one of the new pieces of clothing will find it fits her perfectly.
3] This event will segue into the introduction of a new area for characters to explore.

Go ahead and use this post to make plans for your characters involving the Petal Dance! Discuss whether they'll go willingly, find them dates, whatever you want.

As she said in this post, Lambda wants to round up a tournament! Something nice and simple, but enough to be entertaining and test out peoples' wills and skills.

Basically, just respond to this post if you want your characters involved! They'd need to get involved ICly, so, naturally, a character that wouldn't want to participate...probably wouldn't, but you can just handwave her having told Lambda she wants in.

Depending on how many characters get involved, I (Lambda) may split the participants into groups and make a few small tournaments. This'll just lead to a couple of people winning and getting the prize.

The prize, of course, is a wish from Lambda. She's capable of granting pretty much anything at all (though naturally anything particularly...big will get mod-approval first, of course) short of getting people out of the Gardens.

As for the IC rules:

- Any wounds or deaths will be recovered by Lambda after any fight.

- Pretty much anything goes. Doing something Lambda disapproves of, though, might get her to...exercise a bit more creative freedom with what you wish, shall we say.

- Lambda will be the judge; Bern will likely be there, too, because Lambda will force her to be.

- It'll start the day after April Fool's Day and will get done whenever everyone's done.

OoC rules will just be the basic stuff like be fair, be reasonable, and please don't force me to go to the mods because a particular pair of players gets into a fight over their characters' e-penis size.

I'll be using Random.org to randomize the match-ups, buuut! If anyone wants a particular pair of characters to get paired against each other, I'll cater to that!

Blah blah, sign up and/or ask questions here!!!

Participants

dia_f
brustriese -1
bel_donna
mnementomori
diseasing
nuclearqueen
esoteric_rose
uberlikehermama
spoonoffate
sistagonist -1
[Bad username or site: breakthroughit title=Vita @ livejournal.com]

Numbers next to the names denote characters played by the same mun so I can avoid pairing characters from the same player.

Putting this up right now since then people have plenty of time to see it.

What's going to happen is this: Sora is going to partake of the Strawberry Creme and Passionfruit Delight chocolates. This means she'll be a thousand times more happy and friendly, and she'll want to show it. What does this mean? Well, for one, Sora's going to be doing a lot of baking. Expect those tangerine pies.

But it also means: she's going to be sharing chocolate.

This is an opportunity for those characters who normally wouldn't eat chocolate can have it given to them. This is especially a good way for those who're too polite to not partake in the gift to get involved in the event, or even cause some conflict between Sora and other characters!

So, if you'd like Sora to gift you chocolate she finds around the Garden, then just hit me up here. It'd be nice to know what kind you'd like, too, if you're going to have the character eating it, or if you'd like to start some kinda conflict.

With the moderators permission, I'd like to make a post where Anna's Alien Numina Inversion Machine comes online at Creche Alpha fairly soon - she has the time and the motivation to kill a monster and take their grey matter for it. Hell, I kind of implied she did when she went all opalescent and squamous.

That means I'm putting up a permissions post here regarding the ANIMa. Short version: Love is her weapon, but only if you'll let her wield you.

...That sounded less dirty in my head, I swear.

With the new area added to the Gardens (Caves of Arimoi, which I keep reading as Armoire) our ladies have something to do that isn't just derping around! I'm sure plenty of our characters (for better or for worse) want to check it out, whether out of boredom, curiosity, or the need to beat up monsters/find treasures.

SO!

I figured having a plotting post will be helpful. Since it's reasonable to think that entering the caves in groups (even if the group is 'two') instead of alone, this can be used to pair up characters. OR to find someone to play hero if your character is stubborn enough to go in alone and need help.

C'mon, it's time to be creative! IT'S ADVENTURE TIME.

Also: people should totally pop into game chat for plotting and talking, whether in regards to this or anything else. The AIM chat name is sappho plays here.

Sooo, I've been poking and prodding around and I realized that if Arha here doesn't get her daily allotment of spice, she shall go into withdrawal and consequently die over a very long and painful period.  For Fremen and Bene Gesserit who have a steady intake of spice melange in their diet, there is no 'weaning' off the spice, just...well, the most painful death imaginable.  As spice melange is a mind-expanding narcotic, I though it best to ask if I can recreate a small sietch with a decent expanse of desert and rock that will contain enough spice for Arha to remain comfortable.  (Which she would do in her quest to 'find the seaocean'--which will just fail miserably anyway.  SEAOCEAN.  WANT. :o )

...asking for a Shai-Hulud to maintain the spice might be too much, even if it were a small one, but I'll ask anyway.  They're pretty dangerous, but the one I'd ask for would be juvenile.  As per Dune, the weather would be very hot and very dry with intensely cold nights.  The winds will stir an electrical charge, which will produce a blue lightning, and intense sandstorms--which means taking shelter is imperitive if you don't want to die.  I was debating on when to establish this, but wanted a little feedback before I did so.  Since...getting people high on spice is probably not awesome, I could restrict the effect to Arha and Dune universe characters?

8D?

Wow, everyone! I didn't expect Ema's call for investigation buddies to go over so well! :) I'm really excited about getting things rolling. Even though I'm, like, the slowest tagger ever. Sob.

However, since so many people are going to be involved, I figured some OOC planning was in order. Ema's headed toward the Jungle to gather some soil and explore and experiment, which means that she's eventually going to wander too far in and be dragged back to the Garden after awhile. Also, there are wildcards to consider (i.e. are we all going to experience them separately, or could there be a group effect?).

Basically, this post is for brainstorming and/or plotting. If your character is definitely in, just leave a post here. :) Your character can come along even if they didn't respond to Ema's open call--the more, the merrier!