Friends

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

Who: bigby & dolly, kinger, maya, oko, parvati, umemiya
What: quests and other situations
Where: around town, the cliffs
When: april-june
Warnings: battling and related injuries

( Quest Results )

Who: Ren, his quest buddies... and you?!
What: Quests and logs
When: April
Where: All around Bottlecap Bay
Warnings: Bugs (other things will be tagged as they come up!)
( Read more... )

Who: Catrina Calavera, Kris Dreemurr, Shoka Sakurane
What: Shoka learns how to Fly (the hard way)
When: Mid-April
Where: The Minior launching site
Warnings: Irresponsible usage of soda and mints

( there's not a star in heaven that we can't reach )

Who: Mayaka + quest buddies (Impmon, Eleanor, Parvati, Aelita)
What: quests, quests and more quests!
Where: around the bay
When: through April
Warnings: will update if needed!

Who: Flowey & Cedric, Emporio, Mayaka, Ritsuka, Oko; others may be added
What: Quests (one backdated)
Where: The cliffs & beyond, Forest Waystations
When: April through May
Warnings: Violence (canon-typical, including battling, and maybe beyond), Flowey's warnings (child injury & past death, disassociation, angst)

Who: Catrina and Anyone Unfortunate Enough to be Around her...

What: Catrina getting into no good tomfoolery and chaos...Mightyena please ground this candle..

When: Throughout April and May....Oh Arceus..

Where: The Bay, PARTS UNKNOWN, and more to be added as the months go on...

Warnings: Catrina being a walking CW of sorts, potential peril, and more to be added as the months go on...

Who: Jack and friends!
What: Catch-all for Jack's quests and adventures in April (come poke me at necromantica if you'd like a starter!)
When: April
Where: Bottlecap Bay and the surrounding areas
Warnings: Cartoon-to-graphic violence, otherwise will update as needed! Jack's usual warnings may apply.

( some walk the common paths, all nice and worn... )

Who: Aelita, anyone!
What: New Pokemon that is also learning how to be alive, do chores and commit violence
When: April
Where: The city (Cheri berry guild, the training rooms, beach)
Warnings: Heights? Possible talk of child endangerment and everything about Aelita's background sounds Unfortunate without context.

( One year of listening to a 12 year old did not prepare her for this )

Who: Ritsuka, anyone!
What: A newcomer getting to know the place
When: Early April/one prompt backdated to the Starfall festival
Where: Around the city!
Warnings: None to start with

( Hopefully not ruffling any feathers, though... )

[Mayaka should feel satisfied that she's completed the draft at last. It didn't matter that she'd been thrown into another world and had to figure out how to draw shoujo manga with a pair of claws. Through sheer stubbornness and the holiday miracle of having received her half-finished drafts covered in glitter, she's now closer to her goal. The rest of the way there though, is a cavern she can't cross.

She's always dreamt of winning a magazine competition by the time she turned 18. Out of principle, she'd committed to finishing the draft on her pink desk in her Lum Berry apartment the last few weeks. But what's the point of doing that, if she has no way to submit it now?

Is this what turning 18 is really going to be like? Trapped in a crummy poison-producing body, half-finished goals, and being separated from the people that she thought she'd be spending her birthday with? Even the fact that she's missing out on the stress of impending college entrance exams feels unfair! She can't stand it! It really irritates her!

She grabs her Grumpearl, ready to express her exasperation, not caring who'll overhear or who'll join the conversation:]

Hey! Is turning 18 really supposed suck so much?!

[The Sneasel pauses to collect herself. She won't apologise for her outburst, but she knows that might've startled some others.]

It's just... I had plans for what I wanted to do once I turned 18. But now, we're all stuck here.

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(ooc: feel free to threadjack / treat this as a mingle post! esp if touching on topics that your char might not want mayaka to overhear, u can assume she's mentally tuned out or too busy responding to others)

( OOC INTRO & PLOTTING )