The following characters have not responded to November's Activity Check and will be removed from the game at 11:59pm EST on December 1st, 2013, 24 hours from now. Begin countdown.

( Characters under here! )

Thank you all for a successful activity check! If any of these have been listed in error or you have AC to provide, make sure to comment to this post and let us know.

Hullo all! I've switched up Sonya's weapon so that now she's all about invading your dreams and watching you sleep, because she wasn't stalkery enough as it was. Please go here if you're at all interested in having your characters' dreams invaded at some point now or in the future; needless to say, nothing will be done without permission and plotting in advance!

Unfortunately, some rl stuff has made me super busy, not to mention holidays. It'll be that way for the foreseeable future, so I'll be stepping back from Exsilium for a while.

This affects Lulubell luxuresombre and Spike heroxide .

Sorry to all planned/developing CR. It was really, really fun!

Hey all,

I suspect you know the drill by now: exams and projects out the butt. There's also a lot of really serious sickness and illness going on at home, so that needs attending to, as well. I should be okay by the 8th, at least school-wise.

I'll miss you in the meantime, exsi! ♥

-Vyndasia

Hopping aboard the hiatus train! I have a row of exams/presentations this week and then five finals next week, it's all very terrible and excessive.

I'm going to sloooowly pick at backthreads, time and energy permitting, but mostly avoiding anything new until mid-December so that I don't swamp or distract myself.

Don't all get eaten by yetis pls

Hey, guys! Just a quick heads-up that it's getting to that time when I have a crapton of exams and papers due within the next couple of weeks (which I'm sure my fellow students will sympathize with), so my tagging speed/general RP presence is most likely going to be reduced substantially 8( I'll still squeeze some tags in, and be around in general, but the majority of my focus will have to be on school for the moment.

Just affects Katniss Everdeen here o/

Just a quick note that Tyra's computer is like making weird noises and stuff. So tags may come slow. That of course affects the great Travis Marks mynameonyourpanties

Hi all, skarme here! He's had a great run (over a year!), so it kills me a bit to do this, but I'm going to be dropping Ed Elric here, and so dropping from the game. RL has been wiping the floor with me for the last couple of months, a lot of his CR has dropped, and I've been struggling to re-establish him in the metaplot after such a long break when he really should be all over it - I just figured at this point it'd be easier to start completely afresh. So it's not you, it's me :|b

He leaves very little behind on the moonbase except some of the research notes he could salvage before the city went boom: mostly disorganised (handwritten) technical notes on the Transporter which he was hoping to reverse engineer someday, but also plans for a better version of the telepathy devices he and Billy Cranston publicly messed up on a while back. There isn't really anyone else obvious to pass those onto, so if your character would get anything out of stumbling across those pages, feel free to assume.

With any luck, I'll be back soon! But for now, see you round, Exsilium. (And if there are any existing dangling CR threads I missed that you want to work out so they can be handwaved, absolutely let me know o/)

okay wow it's that moment of glory again where retail workers nation wide start to curse and spit at humanity as a whole, meaning that i'm calling a semi-hiatus over the next couple days to deal with lack of sleep, too many screaming children, and the complete absence of common sense that accompanies this wonderful time of year.

this affects zessica wong and kallen kouzuki (ardor). i'll try my best to get to logs and stuff, but please bear with me if my replies make little to no sense. thanks.

i promise i'm not really this much of a grinch the rest of the time.

Just dropping a quick note to say I'm... dropping this dude!

I've obviously not been very around both due to both some RL busy and general lack of motivation to play him. My apologies to his CR (which has been awesome and part of the reason it took this long for me to decide to pull out) and the plans I never got around to completing with him! You've all been super great and I had a ton of fun. ☆

(You're not rid of me yet, though. Bad penny o'clock. :Ub)

See you on the other side! o/

Guess this has been a while coming, since I've been barely scraping by AC, but it's becoming clear that Exsilium and I aren't exactly a perfect fit. (At least, not while I'm in grad school ahahaha. oh god my time) That, combined with a slowly dwindling motivation to play Homura here, means I've kind of been character-squatting for a few months now, and that's no good.

So, rather than stick around or try to wait it out (and character squatting even harder), I'm ripping the band-aid off and getting it over with. Thanks for threading with me while I was here - I had a great time with the game, the plot, and each and every one of you.

Love you guys, and I hope to see a few of you around. ♥

-Kari

We're asking for two things to go up to vote, as detailed below, along with information on why only two!

( Voting information below the cut! )

Voting will be closed on December 5th, 2013, 11:59PM EST. Please ask questions below in the "Questions" thread so that we may make sure to see and answer those questions in a timely manner. This post is also an open space for discussion and/or brainstorming on different small plots and/or plot elements which could apply under these three broad arcs.

All Secret Santa emails, plurks, or PMs (because plurking was a pain) should have been sent out by now! If you didn't receive your giftee and their wishlist, then please let me know here and I will do my best to fix it.

The results are in, and after a trip over to Random.Org the following 25 names have come out on top. Congratulations! ( Names beneath the cut. )You all have the dubious honor of scouting out the situation Earth-side, and reporting back what it is you find to the people up at the Moon Base. You leave 11/27 0300, arriving planetside at 0800. Gotta love that trip back down.

All those on the scouting mission will need to scavenge supplies beforehand from the Moon Base. They will be told about the temperatures, and as of tonight, the AI has successfully hacked some of the satellites in orbit around Earth to get good imagery of what the ground looks like. Based on heat signatures and taken images, the AI suspects they're dealing with snow, and smaller numbers of people living in scattered groups, centralized around one large, city-like group it plans to land the scouts.

Mission objectives are simple. Locate the Initiative and begin a dialog. It's suggested everyone make use of the holographic technology still maintained on the Moon Base in order to blend in with the locals. Be warned, the holographs don't hold up under actual touch, and they don't change what your footprints look like outside of immediate physical range.

Any and all non-humans will be met with fear, up to and including violence.

Be careful, and be on the lookout. This iteration of the Initiative works on the extreme keep their heads down side. Talk to everyone, and be as subtle as you can be. That's the best way to flush them out of hiding.

Plotting and questions invited below (questions to the questions thread only, please, to not be missed!). The game at large will go down to Earth the first week of December.

Edit: The Scouting log is now up here!

I hate to do this. I really, really, really hate to do this, because I've absolutely adored some of the threads and CR that I was starting to build with Xion here, for all my slowness/sporadicness. But in the past couple of days some things have been brought to my attention, and I've ultimately come to the conclusion that it would be much better for all involved if I tossed in the hat. And this time, it'll be for good.

I can't apologize enough to the people I've been threading with, and for all of Xion's current and future castmates and CR. I'd hoped to work this out, but it's just not in the cards.

If there's anybody who'd like to keep in touch, my AIM is gorsethewarrior and my plurk is gorsecloud.

Thank you so much for everything. I won't ever forget my time here.

Hi, Ex-silly-yums. (Is that the proper way to address you all?)

This man here has coerced convinced his coworkers (Yutaka Watari, Hisoka Kurosaki, Asato Tsuzuki) that the best way to become productive members of this society is to work and gain profit. There's not much of an applicable facsimile for angel-of-death work on the moon as of now, so what better way to start working than to let the job be up to the citizens?

Yes, that's right. It's time that you had a freelance agency.

If your character needs any task done, they can contact this dude, SeiichirouTatsumi (occlusion) or any of the fellow resident shinigami (scienceinacan, deathofempathy, or omnomcinnabon respectively). If you want to contact me or any of my awesome castmates regarding plotting, please contact us! My plurk is tashiro_kun, which is where I can best be reached.

Welcome to Exsilium's Activity Check! This check covers the month of November, from November 1st, 12:00AM EST until November 30th, 11:59PM EST and will count for the entire month. In this Activity Check, players will be providing their own proof of activity using the form below.

TWO of these FOUR requirements must be met within the span of ONE MONTH.

As some may have seen, the AI has announced a sudden sharp drop in radiation levels on the island of Exsilium. We're talking back to modern day levels of radiation, so well in the normal, nice, kind range that doesn't cause spontaneous mutation.

The question, of course, is how, and if this is the ticket down! The short answers are... too many ripples in the timestream lead things astray, and yes, now is time to start the reclamation process.

With sign-ups starting today and lasting through to Sunday, a group of Transports will be sent down to examine the state of Exsilium, two months after leaving. What they'll find will go something like the following... and boy, is it a doozy!

Note: The vote on how to solve the puzzle of Exsilium’s problem will be going up tomorrow. Voting has now been closed! This plot is a stop-gap to allow Transports back down on Earth in an uncomfortable situation, placing ongoing pressure on them to find an answer to the riddle of the United Earth (should they choose). This is not the fix for the United Earth problem!

Also, a move of everyone down to Earth again won't be in full swing until after December 1st. Until a location Earth-side that can support the Transport Pad and Aristeas Technology's energy demands can be found, a complete shift would be unfeasible. The official move down to Earth began on December 5th. Please refer here for more information!

( More information beneath the cut... )Please direct all questions to the thread marked "Questions" below!

To sign up to volunteer to go down to Exsilium on the first scouting group, which can take up to 25 characters, please sign up in the "Scouting Mission" thread below!

The scouting group will be looking around for the first week and tasked with finding someplace that can support the Transport Pad's energy needs before bringing down those wishing to leave the Moon Base in early December.

Sorry to poke into INSANE MUTINY with red and green rainbows for a minute but there's a Secret Santa event going on over at the meme comm if anyone is interested. ♥