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GAME NOTES #15: JUNE 1, 2019—

Meant to make one in the middle of May but Hyde happened and stuff IT'S FINE WE'RE FINE. Anyway, WELCOME TO ALL OUR NEWCOMERS!! We currently have seven new people (SEVEN!!) and I have heard there may be a few more still coming in, so whoo excitement! Although Public Registration is now closed, players are free to invite their friends who may be interested. We do not know when exactly we'll re-open registration again, but it wouldn't be until after the end of the next campaign.

We also have our Story Check in here, so be sure to check-in!

§ schedule

Here is our current prospective schedule:

MAIN SCHEDULE

6/08: Side Stories

Next Campaign is July

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

6/22 - #16: will have campaign details

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

6/01: Check-in

This is our last month of Break! We'll put up the Side Stories next week to give everyone a little more time to settle in. We're also open to any suggestions for the next campaign! We currently have 18 characters spread out over 16 players and we'll have to look at the numbers later again, but we may be ready for a medium sized story again! So if there's one that you think would work great with our current cast of characters and essences, please let us know!

( Game Notes #15 )

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GAME NOTES #14: MAY 1, 2019—

HUZZAH OUR SECOND STORY HAS OFFICIALLY ENDED! This is mostly about rewards and some additional info of what to expect during the break.

§ schedule

Here is our current prospective schedule:

MAIN SCHEDULE

5/01: Announce public opening

5/04: TDM and Workshop go up

5/18: Claims open

5/25: Registrations open to public

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

TBA

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

5/28: Check-in (may move to June)

No real changes from last time, but we are considering moving the next Story Check to June. If we do, it will likely be a more "regular" one instead of just a check-in, but we'll let you know.

( Game Notes #14 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #13: APRIL 28, 2019—

Apologies for the delay in getting this up, but we've been working on a few things and have been working on prepping everything for the public "opening"! We have a few things we want to bring up, so be sure to read everything.

§ schedule

Here is our current prospective schedule:

MAIN SCHEDULE

4/30: Campaign End; BREAK STARTS

5/01: Announce public opening

5/04: TDM and Workshop go up

5/18: Claims open

5/25: Registrations open to public

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

TBA

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

5/28: Check-in.

The next campaign won't be until probably closer to July to allow any new people who come in to settle. We'll hold at least one mini event and the Side Stories to tide us over in the meantime.

( Game Notes #13 )

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GAME NOTES #12: APRIL 3, 2019—

We're still on break, but as promised, here are the details for Act II! Don't forget to comment to the Story Check in the previous Game Notes as well as informing us the results of your threads!

§ schedule changes.

Here is our current prospective schedule:

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

4/01-07: Mini Break

4/08: Act II starts

4/31 (5/08): Conclusion + Break (exact dates TBD)

May: Full Break

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

TBA

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

last week of campaign

As always, this is a tentative schedule.

( Game Notes #12 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #11: APRIL 1, 2019—

Here's this act's story check and a few announcements!

§ schedule.

Here is the current expected schedule. DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

04/01: ACT I ends, mini break begins

4/08: Act II starts

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

04/03: Notes #12

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

4/01-4/07

As always, this is a tentative schedule.

( Game Notes #11 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #10.5: MARCH 14, 2019—

Just a bit of a mini announcement and some important things that we'd like to discuss with you guys!

§ schedule changes.

So for the big thing, we are going to extend the first Act until the end of the month. I think we can all agree that most of us got hit with various things, so might as well make an official extension. So here's the new schedule:

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

3/31: Act I ends

4/01-07: Mini Break

4/08: Act II starts

April: Conclusion + Break (exact dates TBD)

May: Full Break

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

3/31: Notes #11

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

4/01-4/07

As always, this is a tentative schedule.

( Game Notes #10.5 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #10: FEBRUARY 13, 2019—

SECOND CAMPAIGN WILL BE SOON UPON US! Read for all the deets!

§ schedule.

Here is the current expected schedule. DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

2/18: Act I starts

3/19-24: Mini Break

3/25: Act II starts

April: Conclusion + Break (exact dates TBD)

May: Full Break

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

2/13: Notes #10

3/19: Notes #11

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

3/17-3/21

As always, this is a tentative schedule. Also to note, we're pushing the Campaign start date back to after the weekend since we have a few folks heading out of town.

( Game Notes #10 )

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GAME NOTES #09: FEBRUARY 2, 2019—

Who's ready for the next campaign? It's still going to be a little bit, but we already have the story picked out and are throwing a few hints as to what it is in this mini-event!

§ schedule.

Here is the current schedule. DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

2/02: Tortoise and the Hare Mini Event

2/16: Campaign #2 Start

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

2/13: Notes #10

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

Sometime in March

Still a bit bare bones. The next set of Game Notes will have a fuller campaign schedule, but it's going to last all through March with potential to extend into the first half of April.

( Game Notes #09 )

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STORY CHECK: 1/29 - 1/31 + QUICK ANNOUNCEMENTS—

All right guys, time for a "story check" and a few little heads up! We are doing sweeps! So be sure to read the directions and comment!

§ quick announcements.

IS EVERYONE ENJOYING THE BREAK? We had announced earlier that we were going to throw a Tortoise and the Hare based event, and we still are! However due to new players coming in and certain game releases and timing of other things, we decided to push it until the beginning of Feb and will have it tie in with the upcoming campaign. So it will go up on February 2nd with the campaign starting somewhere around the weekend of the 15th. If you know of anyone who would still like to join, that will be the last period before the campaign starts, and while Registration will still be open during the campaign, they may want to come in before to settle in a little bit. Otherwise, we'll be planning things with the current set of players in mind!

If you have any preferences or suggestions for what story, what kind of story we should try, or what would you'd like to have available, tell us!

§ story check rules & guidelines.

As a quick reminder, the "story check" is just what we call "activity checks" here. For this particular check, we're asking for the following:

ONE PROOF: a link to any thread or post you made during the Break period. Comment length doesn't matter.
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: Fill out the same form with "I'M STILL HERE" or something to that effect so you don't get swept! This option is available for those who took the Break as its given opportunity to completely check out and focus on other things! So we just want to know if you're coming back.

And that's it! The valid date period is from 1/01 - 1/31.

If you have any questions, ask them here.

§ form.

Everyone use this form to comment! If you're just expressing interest to remain, put that in instead of a proof link.

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #08: JANUARY 8, 2019—

Nothing too big, just some quick updates about stuff to expect later on in the month! Also, FINALLY CAN RELEASE THE STORY so huzzah.

§ schedule.

The full schedule is posted on the sidebar, so just going to give the more relevant dates:

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

1/13: Mini Adventures

1/28: Tortoise and the Hare Mini Event

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

1/28: Notes #09

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

1/29-31: January Check-in

There are actually things on the schedule now!

( Game Notes #08 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #07: JANUARY 1, 2019—

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S, EVERYONE! Not too much to announce right now, but we have a lot of things going up as well as some previews! We're also asking for story suggestions, so please give your input!

§ schedule.

The full schedule is posted on the sidebar, so just going to give the more relevant dates:

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

1/01: Conclusion Narrative posted; TDM & Workshop posted

1/01 ~ mid-February: Extended break until next campaign

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

1/07: Notes #08

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

February TBD: Check-in

Again not too much for now!

( Game Notes #07 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #06: DECEMBER 23, 2018—

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! Okay a few days early, but still. In any case, HUZZAH! WE MADE IT TO THE END! It was a bit (okay, very) rough "first draft" ~~sends self to timeout~~ but thanks to everyone's participation, feedback, and opinions, we learned a lot through it. It'll take another round or two to work out all the kinks, but we have the basic foundations down now. There are a few things we'd like to note now that the end is official as well as what to expect for now, so please read everything!

§ schedule.

The full schedule is posted on the sidebar, so just going to give the more relevant dates:

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

12/23: Campaign Ends

1/01: Conclusion Narrative posted

1/01 ~ mid-February: Extended break until next campaign

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

1/01: Notes #07

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

February TBD: Check-in

Not much to mention here that we won't talk about in full later, but as you can see we're pretty much on break for a month or two!

( Game Notes #06 )

keeperoftales

STORY CHECK: FINAL 12/16 - 12/20—

It's time for the final story check! It's like an activity check, but a lot easier to make. Normally this check would require a little more from everyone, but given it's the holidays and we're all just

it'll be even easier than the half point.

We're still going to do sweeps, however, so be sure to read what you have to do!

§ rules & guidelines.

The story checks are not only to help gauge player activity, but it's also to help the mods gather information and progress for the current campaign. Normally we will require proofs from everyone, but for this final story check, this is what we're doing:

IF YOU ARE PART OF A MAIN SCENE: a link to your thread(s) with a short blurb about what's happening will be enough for the check. You don't have to provide anything additional. If you signed up for multiple, please link all scenes you were cast a major role in. Note: At this time, the 14 comment count for scenes does not need to be met, so continue plugging away. But if a scene has not shown any sign of progress by the end of this check, then we may have to discuss how things will move forward.
EVERYONE ELSE: Just comment to this entry with, "I'M STILL HERE" or something to that effect so you don't get swept!

And that's it! If you want to continue practicing and give proofs and blurbs of what your character has been up to since the last check, you are more than welcome to do so. Otherwise, don't worry about it.

If you have any questions, ask them here.

§ form.

PLAYERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN MAIN SCENES: Fill out the following form and comment to this entry.

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #05: DECEMBER 7, 2018—

All right everyone, we're nearing the end of Act II! Looks like things are going along really great, and we'd like to thank everyone who has participated so far!

Act III is going to be a little smaller and we're going to do something a little different as well as "poll" you guys to see which posting format we should use this time around. As always you can go ahead and leave thoughts and feedback for how things have been going on so far.

§ schedule.

The full schedule is posted on the sidebar, so just going to give the more relevant dates:

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

12/10-22: Act III (14 days)

12/23: Conclusion

12/23 + ~February: Extended break until next campaign

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

12/23: Notes #06

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

12/16-20: Final

We're at the home stretch! As a quick heads up clarification, December 23rd is when we'll post the Conclusion of the story, complete with full narrative and all characters sent back to the Index. The Extended Break is basically the time when the game turns more sandboxy and allows players to just chill and have their characters adjust to living in the Realm of Stories. We'll have more details on that later.

The Final Story Check will be when we sweep anyone who does not comment to it. The format will be the exact same as the Halfway (Half Point) Story Check, but with some lenient modifications due to the season. It'll be good practice for future checks at least.

( Game Notes #05 )

keeperoftales

STORY CHECK: HALF POINT 12/01 - 12/05—

All right folks, it's our very first story check! It's like an activity check, but a lot easier to make. As a reminder, this is just the halfway check. More official rules and details below, but just saying on the onset that no sweeps will be made at this time.

§ rules & guidelines.

The story checks are not only to help gauge player activity, but it's also to help the mods gather information and progress for the current campaign. For this half point story check, all players must submit proofs with the following requirements:

1 thread or entry dated between October 21 and December 5 (comment length does not matter).
Small progress blurb depicting what your character has been doing in their time here. This blurb can be really short, like one or two sentences. An example: "So-and-so helped fight the story eater, helped find story setting pieces, and spiked the punch at the party." We won't stop you if you like writing more, but no more than a paragraph is necessary for our purposes.

IF YOU PARTICIPATED IN A SCENE, a link to your thread(s) with a short blurb about what's happening will be enough for the check. You don't have to provide anything additional. If you signed up for multiple, please link all scenes you were cast a major role in. Note: At this time, the 14 comment count for scenes does not need to be met, so continue plugging away. But if a scene has not shown any sign of progress by the end of this check, then we may have to discuss how things will move forward.

IMPORTANT FOR THIS CHECK! As you may notice, the dates for this check goes all the way to the opening before the campaign. While we would like to see campaign activity, we realize that it's been a crazy time for everyone and not everyone has had a chance to really participate in the campaign yet. There are also some new folks who came in much later. So don't feel pressured if you don't have much yet! Even a simple, "Hey I'm still here!" is fine for this check.

And that's it! Just give us a thread of activity, a short blurb of what your character has been doing, and you're good to go. Feel free to throw in anything you think is noteworthy to the campaign. If you have any questions, ask them here.

§ form.

Fill out the following form and comment to this entry.

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #04: NOVEMBER 23, 2018—

Act I of our campaign has been going along great! No worries if your threads are still ongoing, we have enough progress to continue onto the next segment without too much issue. So don't feel rushed to finish anything yet! But now we're getting close to Act II, so we're giving everyone the details and a lot of fixes clarifications as to how to proceed.

Sorry for the bumpy ride, but we'll iron out the kinks as we go along!

§ schedule.

The full schedule is posted on the sidebar, so just going to give the more relevant dates:

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

11/26-12/09: Act II (14 days)

12/10-22: Act III (14 days)

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

12/07: Notes #05

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

12/01-05: Halfway

12/16-20: Final

So just a reminder that the next Act will span over 13 days and that our first Story Check is happening on the 28th.

( Game Notes #04 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #03: NOVEMBER 09, 2018—

Huzzah! Thanks to everyone participating in the pre-event! It was a giant battle but it looked like folks were having a good time. But are you guys ready for our first campaign? Yes? No? Too bad, here it comes!

§ schedule.

All right guys, this is what the detailed schedule for this campaign looks like. It's running from November 12th through December 23rd, so 41 days. Let's make it count!

CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE

11/09: Chapter Campaign Pre-"event" ends; Game Notes #03

11/12-23: Chapter Campaign #01 starts; Act I (12 days)

11/24-12/04: Act II (11 days)

12/05-15: Act III (11 days)

12/16-22: Finale (7 days)

12/23: Campaign ends; Notes #07

MOD NOTES SCHEDULE

11/21: Notes #04

12/02: Notes #05

12/13: Notes #06

STORY CHECK SCHEDULE

11/28-12/02: Halfway

12/14-19: Final

As you can see, it's split into three main parts with an ending. We hope that's enough time for each segment as while under normal circumstances we wouldn't mind extending things, given that we're already running up against Christmas and would like to have a long break over the holidays, we'd like to stick to this.

( Game Notes #03 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #02: NOVEMBER 01, 2018—

Hey guys! Hope you've enjoyed the down period and have started to settle in because it's time rev up the action as we start making our way towards our very first campaign. And it's going to be a fun one

§ schedule.

Just a quick update to what the current schedule is going to look like with a bit more focus to the immediate and upcoming events. (Feel free to refer to the previous Game Notes for the full roughly outlined schedule.)

11/01: Chapter Campaign Pre-"event"; Game Notes #02

11/09: Pre-event Conclusion; Game Notes #03

11/12: Chapter Campaign #01 start; Game Notes #04 (potentially)

We have about a week allotted for focus on the pre-event, a few days to prep everyone OOCly for the campaign, and then we're off! Hope everyone is excited as we are.

Edit: The Pre-event Conclusion and Campaign Start have been extended. The Conclusion and next set of Game Notes will appear on 11/09, while our first Campaign will be- heh- published on 11/12!

( Game Notes #02 )

keeperoftales

GAME NOTES #01: OCTOBER 21, 2018—

Hey everybody! I am very happy to announce the official opening of Forgotten Tales! We may be small, but the fun to be had will be huge! Or we all flop and as join the giant pile of failures, but we'll still have fun doing it.

If these mod posts look and feel familiar—there's only so many ways you can format these things okay /cough. But in any case, here's what you can expect in these:

Schedule: A rough list of dates outlining when important posts go up; mostly pertains to campaign cycles and gives a general preview of what's to come, including any events outside of campaigns that may happen
Current or Past Happenings: Just information for whatever is currently happening and/or possible recaps
Chapter Campaign Info: Information regarding the upcoming campaign
Feedback: At various intervals, especially after campaigns, I'll ask for feedback for how things went

And that should be about it. There's no real set schedule for these posts, mostly just when it's to give details or important announcements that everyone needs to know about. Well see how things work out!

§ schedule.

Here is the rough schedule starting from today's opening through December. The exact dates can change to be bumped up earlier or pushed back later, but this is the framework that's been currently set so folks can have a general idea of what to expect when.

10/19: Registration opens

10/20: Player Intro Log

10/21: Opening log; Game Notes #01

11/01: Chapter Campaign Pre-"event"; Game Notes #02

11/09: Chapter Campaign #01 start; Game Notes #03

11/26~11/30: Halfway Story Check; optional mini break

12/01: Game Notes #04

12/15~18: Final Story Check

12/22: Chapter Campaign Ends; Game Notes #05

12/23~1/02: Break; Mini Holiday event

Next Chapter Campaign will begin either mid/late-January or start of February

So the basic idea is that the rest of October is pretty much free and clear for everyone to kind of settle in, let their characters fiddle around the intro log, meet each other, explore a bit, let players make their own posts if they want or just stick to the log, up to you. Then starting the first of November there will be a kind of "super mini" event that will set up the first campaign, and then the rest of November and most of December will be the campaign itself.

I tried to work around the holidays, with Thanksgiving being the major one coming in. Currently the mini break is hitting after, with the logic that if people are busy during Thanksgiving, they can use that downtime after to catch up on threads. Holidays are weird because either folks are busy or they have a lot of free time so tried to kind of flip it both ways. It's also optional, so if you guys don't want a mini break then we can just skip it and not worry about it. (As a reminder, breaks during campaigns are just opportunities for characters to return to the Index to recover and rest if they need to).

Currently the first campaign is set to last about a month and a half (~44 days) which should be plenty of time. After it ends, there will be an official break where we all kind of chill and a mini holiday event is thrown during the downtime. That break will also be when we ask for feedback and start polling which story(ies) folks would like to have next so we can start prepping.

If you have any opinions on the current scheduling, feel free to speak up now! It's very flexible and since we're a small group and hard to predict what pacing will actually be, things are likely to change. Or maybe I'm just super awesome and figured it out perfectly! ~~lol yeah right~~ But yeah, this first round is definitely going to be a play-by-ear.

And one final reminder, there's no OOC:IC day ratio so. What could be a month for us is a few weeks or less for the characters. Welcome to the world where time doesn't really matter /o/

( Game Notes #01 )

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MOD NOTES SCHEDULE
3/16: Game Notes #38

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2/26: Story Check-in
3/29: Story Check-in

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STORY CHECK: FINAL 12/16 - 12/20

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