In the wake of the closure of apps and moderator apps, we’re here today to bring you some heavy news: we have made the decision to close Exsilium. Unfortunately there were no moderator sign-ups, and as indicated previously, we’re therefore unable to keep the game running. The current mod team has decided that instead of seeing the game struggle or start to burn out, we would rather put our all into creating some memorable final events, and end on a high note. End game events will tie the plot together and will take us through to the very start of March, after which Exsilium will be closed.

A few of the changes we’ll see in game include the following:

• The January AC will require a check in to express interest in remaining for the end game. There will be no AC in February.
  
• Applications will be open continuously from January 12th through the first week of February. As of February 7th, 2014, applications will be permanently closed.
  
• For the duration of end game events, Betsy will be stepping up and assisting Liz as a head mod.

The events will be explained in greater detail as they near, but here is a summary of what you can expect:

• Within the next week, the Cloning & Genetics missions will wrap up, and the snow will let up in Exsilium.
  
• In late January, Transports will discover the origin of the United Earth AI, and implant the Transport AI into its newly designed programming.
  
• Shortly afterward, Transports will attend World Unification Day, a historic celebration of the birth of the United Earth. The timeline begins to warp while they’re there, and the mood of the celebrations begin to trend toward rioting instead.
  
• As February begins, a series of coded transmissions will start broadcasting regularly to Exsilium. Transports will find they’re the only ones equipped to handle the encoding, and may also find some strange elements intruding on their dreams… including sharing dream landscapes with other Transports.
  
• Mid February, the Transports will find themselves starring in a present-day remake of Groundhog’s Day, as reality continues to break down, and the space-time continuum loses coherency.
  
• By late February, reality will be moving close to the brink of collapsing, with numerous other worlds leaking into Exsilium. Transports must kick off a final confrontation with the UE, destroying their world-hopping technology and center of power.
  
• In the final week of Exsilium, Transports will be given a choice: stay in this world (now without either Initiative or a strong United Earth presence) and help rebuild; leave for their own world and retain all, some, or none of the memories of their time here; or follow someone else into another world.
  
• The final deactivation of the Transport Pad will be on March 7th, 3314/2014.

I, Liz, speak for the entire mod team (past and present) when I say that running Exsilium has been a pleasure, and I’ve been incredibly proud to watch it turn into the game it has become today. With everyone’s help, I hope that we can make the ending of Exsilium as enjoyable as its duration has been!

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APOLOGIES FOR SPAM but it seemed better to make a new post for this than update the old one.

In the light of things discussed in the IC network post on Jan 7, the project plans have been updated, and Chrys's promised extended briefing (offscreened) to the volunteers before the Jan 10 log post goes over the following:

( I swear this was shorter in my head than it came out on text )


Last and most importantly, thank you everyone for jumping into these shenanigans!! The response has been way more fantastic than I could've expected (how do I hold all these limes), and for the tl;dr this has become, I apologize. I meant to do this more in an IC format but energy and time constraints are murder.

Links to older relevant posts:

- Previous construction plotting/signups post
- General what-to-do-in-Winter-Wonderland discussion post
- Winter Wonderland mod info post

Yo everyone, it's Fyre! I already did my OOC intro with the horde so this is something else, obviously. ☆

I'm playing some ridiculous RPG character who will be bringing RPG mechanics with him into the game! As such I have an opt-in permissions post (sshhhh no one saw that) for him to see your character(s)' stats. :D Please fill it out for me! It'll make things more shiny for everyone.

Thanks a ton and see you in the intro log, Exsil!

This isn't a plot, precisely, so much as it is a small kind of irregular (very irregular) thing that Koltira has to deal with on occasion. As a death knight, he is constantly, always and forever in some baseline amount of pain; this pain ratchets up exponentially the longer he goes without a real, no foolin' battle. He essentially needs to cause straight-up agony to other people on a regular basis, otherwise he slips into a blood-seeking hysteria due to the intensity of the pain spasms wracking his body.

The blood frenzy has only happened twice before (in Koltira's year & a half of game time), and it can get ugly, so I feel a need to make a note about it if your character wishes to engage. If not, IGNORE AT WILL!

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HELLO EXS I'm afraid I'm gonna let Genesis over here go home and therefore drop from the game entirely

thanks for having me! my time here was totally fun while it lasted. HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO

So to put it basically, school has decided it wants to kick my ass so I am going to be putting Yuri on hiatus. Given how busy a month this is to be school wise, I probably won't be returning until the end of January/beginning of February.

Though maybe I'll sneak back earlier if I get caught up on all the stuff I need to.

HEY EXSILIUM I'm back from that hiatus that I forgot to actually announce in the ooc comm and accidentally maybe extended a little through more forgetfulness. So yes, we do still have a Rose and I'm here again and ready to tag everything in sight! And. Actually telling you because of aforementioned forgetfulness.

So what's up what have I missed let's do stuff guys. o3o

I know I have a lot going on in game so I'm here reporting that this week I'm going to be super slow due to family obligations (nothing bad, I promise, just entertaining a guest).

I'm sure I'll still be around in the evenings but no boomeranging from me until next Monday. Promise I haven't forgotten you!

This affects:

Raiden (highfrequency)
Dante (ringthenoise)

Going out of town on an unexpected journey. I wish i could say several dwarves barged into my home and recruited me as a burglar, but in reality it's just my family has impeccable timing. I don't know if i'll have internet, so i'm dropping a line here just in case. Looks like my holiday slowness will be extended... ;_;

Altaïr ibn La-Awesome will be back on the 13th at latest, hopefully with a slew of backtags. Stay frosty~

Hello Exsilium and (belated) Happy 2014! As a followup to some of the stuff discussed in the previous plotting post:

This January, Chrysos will be pulling (or attempting to pull) together a large-scale collaborative effort to build proper base facilities on the ground in Exsilium. This is gonna require supplies! Manpower! Teamwork! Expertise! Character interaction! Caribou! Yaks!

If any of these things sound relevant to your characters' interests or yours, details under the cut:

( insert Bob the Builder theme here )

Questions, signups, ideas, comments, throw 'em all here! Lemme know if I left anything essential out, I'll update this main post as things move along.

[ ver. 1.05, UPDATED: 12:18 AM GMT +8, Jan 8 ]

After nearly a year and a half in Exsilium, Mahdi is going home for a short time! Ze will be departing tonight, to return around the 9th , a year older and all sorts of types wiser, and a lot worse for wear.

Upon returning, Mahdi's mental health and reality-altering abilities will be in a state of great flux. From the 9th, the day of Mahdi's return, until the 16th, while Mahdi is working to balance and under hir new level of power and adjust to being back in Exsilium, hir powers will be going a bit haywire. Anyone who makes skin-to-skin contact with hir or eats food made by hir may accidentally receive a 'shed' memory and beginning shedding memories themselves, or experience a few hours of extremely dissonant emotion. Those with the ability to see or sense spiritual power may notice that Mahdi's previously-meager power has tripled, and may feel a sense of chaos or even foreboding from hir. More explanations of this mini-event behind the cut!

( misty water-colored memories of the way we were )


PS. As an aside to Mahdi's close CR, when ze returns ze will initially pretend not to remember Exsilium, and may keep up the ruse for some time in order to try and keep others at arms' length.

No better way to say it than succinctly — Oz will be going home to his still-unnamed-kingdom-Mochijun-why, and I'll thereby be dropping out of the game.

Thank you all for giving me a wonderful, fabulous experience in Exsilium, both with Oz and the losers I played before him. I never expected when I first applied on a whim that I'd end up staying here around a year and a half and have such a blast! Special thanks to all of my exquisite cast and CR for writing so many great things with me, from the serious to the super silly ♥

Hisoka here is a rape survivor in canon, and to be on the safe side, since I know it is not a topic everyone is comfortable with, I have an opt out post in his journal for those that don't want mentions around that. It isn't likely to come up or in great detail, but since Muraki has been accepted that does mean it is perhaps a little more likely so I figure it couldn't hurt.

Thanks guys, I just don't want to make anyone uncomfortable with this.

Alright, as much as I really do love this game and the wonderful cast I found myself with, I've got a lot of stuff going on in regards to work and the new job I'm going to be starting so..I'm going to have to take my leave.

Keeping up is going to be a problem for me in the coming weeks and I don't want to character squat and hold things up, etc. Whatever may happen because of it.

So that being said, thank you guys for the great experience I had while I was here! <3 You guys are all fantastic!

Sup, Kama here.

Okay, so I didn't have the cash to go for a paid at the moment but I got a bunch of new icons sent my way by a friend, so I decided to swap them out by keywords.

Eeeexcept that for whatever reason it still borked most of the threads that were already going. It didn't at first but then magically overnight they screwed themselves up. I have no explanation, only apologies. Literally cannot understand what happened there, my bad.

It's not a big deal, it's only icons, but yeah sorry to everyone I've been threading with in the past two days. I'll try to get things fixed and solidified and stop messing with the icons and ruining things, I promise!

Edit: I actually can't fix this. There's a glitch going on with icons right now. I wouldn't have been messing with them if I'd known it was a problem but DW knows about it and tends to get on these things quickly so hopefully it gets fixed soon. But yeah, you guys might not want to edit yours either until that's sorted out! Just a heads up.

Also, while the timing is still a little wibbly, we're trying posting the CR meme as AC check comes to a close so that there's a defined time.

Here is a pinned post for all of our OOC intros this month! New players and old players introing new characters can comment to this entry to introduce themselves/their character, so remember to keep checking back to welcome people into the game! This entry will stay up until the 10th, then be replaced by the current setting information post. If you've been delayed and are introducing your character after the 10th, feel free to make a new post for yourself.

Well, it's been real, but Kirian went home earlier this week, and Dist is going home now, meaning I have no one left in the game. Thanks everyone for the fun threads and putting up with my dudes (especially Dist), but I need to focus more on school and other things right now.

It's been real, Exsilium. Peace.

The following characters have not responded to December's Activity Check and will be removed from the game at 11:59pm EST on January 1st, 2014, 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.