Perchance to Dream OOC

Hey friends, just a couple things as we go into April:


- For the month of March I'm just waiving the activity check entirely. It's been slow, we don't have that many members to begin with and I'm too fried to fiddle with the spreadsheet right now anyways. Tentatively a one-time thing, though I may just scrap AC from now on.

- I'm doing some reworking of the comm pages over the next little while to try and get stuff cleaned up. The Locations page was the first on my list and it is now fully up to date with all existing locations including the new Wish locations. Some of the images will need tweaked but for now it's looking pretty good. If you guys can think of any pages that could use some TLC, hit me up.

- Don't forget to have your characters do the voting thing on the event. There's prizes that'll help out with the upcoming April TDM and May event on the line for winners and right now we only have 2 votes. I'm extending the deadline for voting to April 2nd so that my April Fool's Day prank can be heckling all of you to get your votes in.

- If anyone has any suggestions on how to improve the game, or bring in a few more members, or drum up activity, I'm all ears. Anything helps.


Anyway thanks guys. Hope everyone's doing well. Thanks for sticking with me.

Hey friends!

So, in light of some thinking I've been doing and some advice I've received, I've decided to permanently slow our event schedule. Due to our small size and slow pace, it seems like folks aren't really getting the chance to enjoy the things I put up before we're chugging along to the next new thing. I've also been dealing with some self-esteem issues related to the quality of my writing, and I think having the space and time to create genuinely good prompts instead of operating on crunch time will help facilitate more confidence for me that I'm creating something everyone will love.

So, here's how things will work going forward:

Member-exclusive events will be on the second Wednesday of every other month, with plotting posts available the week before, beginning in March.

Public test drive memes will be posted on the second Wednesday of the alternate month to events. This will begin in April.

Public DreamNet posts will still be posted on an as-needed basis with no set schedule.

With regards to the event in March, I am still going to be posting the plotting post on Feb. 22nd because I believe this particular event will require more time for plotting than usual. You'll see why next week! As such, the leaderboard submissions (which you should definitely do, lest LiLi and I get all the prizes!) will still be due Feb. 22nd. However, the event itself will now launch on March 8th rather than the 1st.

As such, here is our current lineup for the next few months:

• Event #5 - Full Fathom Five (live March 8, plotting Feb 22)


• TDM #7 - April Showers and Other Weather Conditions (live April 12)


• Event #6 - Ophelia (live May 10, plotting May 3)


• TDM #8 - A View in Technicolor (live June 14)


• Event #7 - The Mermaid (live July 12, plotting July 5)


• TDM #9 - In the Cards (live August 9)


• Event #8 - Persistence of Memory (live Sept 13, plotting Sept. 6)


• OOC Community Event - Anniversary Party! (date TBA, sometime in September)


• TDM #10 - Recurring Nightmare (live Oct. 11, title may change)


• Event #9 - Can't Help Myself (Live Nov.8, plotting Nov. 1)

Also, instead of having major plot events, I will include plot stuff in part of each event from here on in. If we find this schedule ends up being too slow, I can make further adjustments.

Thanks for your understanding. I hope this turns out to be a helpful change that allows us to get more out of our threads.

Hello all!

This is just a quick reminder that January's activity check runs February 1-7 and is very simple but required for all characters that have been formally members of the game since prior to the release of January's TDM on the 18th.

Here is a link! You can do it early if you want to, and if you need an extension on the deadline, please notify me BEFORE the deadline as I generally do not heckle people to do their ACs!

On an unrelated note, Merlin will also be making a feather tracker template sometime today. I know a lot of people haven't been keeping super close track of their feathers because there hasn't been a massive incentive to make wishes with how freestyle our game is. However, I'm planning to change that in a big way! Major, player-driven changes are coming to the Dreamscape in March, plus there will be a feather leaderboard with prizes involved.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Hey all! I know I already made a news update today, but I had one more quick thing I wanted to touch on now that the November calendar has been updated.

With the holidays coming up, I had to give some thought to how to make sure we weren't battling with the holidays too much over the next few months. Because the first and third Wednesdays of the month happen pretty early on this month, it won't be hard to keep on schedule this month with no conflict for Thanksgiving for our US-based folks, but it leaves a 3 week gap at the end of the month between November's TDM and December's event. Additionally, the third Wednesday of December is right before Christmas and falls squarely on Yule, an important holiday for my own family.

TL;DR it's a very festive train wreck.

So! Here is how November and December will work.

November will follow the normal "first and third Wednesday of the month" schedule, PLUS December's event will launch November 30th. That means that December's event will be available to enjoy during the first week of the month.

December's TDM, The Seasonal Split, will occur on Dec. 14th.

At some point in mid to late December, I will create a sign-up post for a miniature "Secret Friend" gift exchange event. Sign your characters up, get assigned a random other participant, and come up with a gift to give them, and do a simple RP with the recipient! It's quick and easy so if you're busy it doesn't take much brain power, and it's a great way for characters to connect with each other and possibly make a new friend due to the random nature of it.

Then, in January, we'll get back on track with our normal schedule!

If you have any questions about this please let me know, and I'm excited to see you all on tomorrow's event! (Well, technically today because I'm posting this at 1am but you get the idea.) Thanks y'all!