Good morning Cougar Ridge!

Another great week for posting - even slightly up on week 2 - and also some dramatic moving and shaking in our cast. A hearty welcome to new characters Melanie Trueblood, Diego Viarenzi, Susan Eidelman and Kevin Eidelman, the first three of whom even used up their five allotted posts in their inaugural week. We also have ( Read more... )

The Cougar Ridge elections are over and one of them has been a closer affair than many would have anticipated. Whilst Josh Barty has retained his position as Sheriff without difficulty (nor with any attempt to win it, considering he was the only candidate), the mayoral race has seen a huge fluctuation in one man's fortunes. Poor Jared Caldwin, from ( Read more... )

Good morning Cougar Ridge!

That slowdown I’ve been talking about since the game started? Well, I reckon it just hit. However, as someone mentioned earlier this week, 124 posts (as it currently stands) is nothing to sneeze at, and if I’d been offered a haul of 600+ posts for the first month of entries I’d have laughed crazily and snatched it from the ( Read more... )

A Welcome back, Jack message is written on the wall of his coffee house - because what would Jack’s be without a cryptic message scrawled on his wall in blood red?

If honey's what you covet,
You'll find that I love it,
Because I'll guzzle
Up the thing you prize!

The city's going downhill,
So I'll give it a thrill
And I'll take any gift of love

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Good morning Cougar Ridge!

This week we bid farewell to Tim Calvino (a shame, I genuinely really liked this guy), Harold Reimes (ditto, and we now have a vacancy for a bank manager), Marshall Teabow (Cougar Ridge’s self-styled kingpin of crime), Marcus van Himst (who? Exactly. Joined the directory but regrettably never played the game) and two much- ( Read more... )

The string of robberies continues this week, with no real end in sight. Is there a specific importance to the items taken? Or to the mysterious messages left, most often in the form of song lyrics? The police would be investigating it more fully, but given the recent murder they’ve had to send new Deputy JayJay Fischer to deal with the thefts. Uh ( Read more... )

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Good morning, Cougar Ridge!

Thanks as always for all the effort everyone’s putting in. This week there’s no normal Gazette, but instead a forum. I’ve had a handful of emails this past week from players who aren’t happy with the game, most specifically with regard to other players ( Read more... )

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Good morning, Cougar Ridge!

Well, after a seriously dodgy beginning to the week, it looks like the game may have surmounted any hiccups, at least for now. Posting was obviously down for the last entry, and not just because we had a hiatus on Monday. I’m guessing there are a number of players in the process of thinning out their characters, and also ( Read more... )

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