Moon Cycle 64: 5/04 - 5/10

[somarium_lords]

❖ MOON CYCLE 64 ❂ 05/04/11 - 05/10/11
Phase: Three-fourth waning. The moon is finally waning after an extended period of being full.

Weather: After all the sun for the past few weeks, there are more scattered showers with some isolated thunderstorms. There are even days when it rains but there's not a rain cloud in the sky. Temperatures will reach a high of mid-80s °F to a low of high-70s °F.

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06

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Legend:
☀ - Sunny/Clear | ☁ ☀ - Sunny but cloudy | ☁ - Overcast | ≈ - Windy | ☂ - Rainy | ☂☂ - Stormy | + any other combination

Effects: No effects, though characters who participated in the AU event from last week will feel rather confused and may have residual dreams about the events for the next few days.

Notes: IMPORTANT: This moon cycle does not go into effect until midnight, Wednesday May 4. Because we're going to be processing apps within the next 24 hours and we quite a number of them, we're going ahead and putting this up so current players can have a heads up of what to expect. The event will end at midnight, and there will be a signal post indicating it. Backtagging is of course welcomed. Just makes sure that any logs or posts are clearly labeled so as not to cause any confusion. We hope everyone had fun! Somarium is essentially reverting back to its original state, so read the notes to ensure you know what is available.

• Special Permissions Post Directory. Thanks to a suggestion as well as the increased number of special permission posts floating around, we've made a directory post where players can comment with a link to any special permission posts characters may have. Please note, these are different than the generic profile meme that we provide. These are usually made for characters who have potentially godmodding abilities and would require player permission before use. You can find the post here, and it will be included in the acceptance notices as well as the Table of Contents.
  
  
• Somarium is back to normal. All the effects from the 1920s AU event are gone. It's as if it never happened. Buildings, appliances, even the color has been completely restored. NPCs will have no memory whatsoever and will act as if nothing had happened in these past 10 days. Castle is once again gone, and the floating mountain is once more floating around.
  
  
• Memories intact. As mentioned prior to the AU event, everyone will remember everything that had happened in the event. All those relationships, crimes, jobs, dreams, questionable actions-everything is retained. Characters may not recall everything at once immediately, but once it starts it will hit hard. Some may even still dream about that alternate life.
  
  
• Is this my room? Characters will wake up exactly where they fell asleep the night before. So if characters switched around their residences during the AU event, they may be in for a surprise. Especially any who may have had a little "fun" the previous night. [Think of it like those "Morning After" Memes. Only instead of it being a meme, it's actually in-game.]
  
  
• Character reset. If anyone was killed or injured during the event, upon waking the next morning they will find themselves in their rooms alive and well. All injuries, no matter how great, will also be completely healed. It will be as if nothing ever happened or that it was all a dream. On the other hand, those who had any disabilities removed during the event will find them back again. Basically, the characters have been "reset" to before the event started. Note: as a reminder, characters who died during the AU event will not have any death penalty and the death will not count.
  
  
• Mementos. Characters may find some of the possessions they had acquired during the event with some exceptions. Any articles of clothing, accessories, and small weapons may be kept. This is of course optional, and characters could have nothing at all upon waking. However, all of the Tommy guns and anything that would not be normally found in a weapon shop will have disappeared.
  
  
• Those weird cards. Remember those cards that kept showing up the previous week? For a quick recap, check out these posts: vintage card. memory and world cards. For the moment, nothing new is added to them, and the only thing to note is that characters once again have possession of them and everything that had been recorded on them is still there. As for the vintage card, highlights of the AU life have been added and can be viewed through the Dreamberry like an old movie, complete with the old film lines, sepia tone, and static!
  
  
• Strange ruins. So those strange ruins in the desert that Professor Layton the Archaeologist discovered in AU? Yeah, those still exist. They are not in nearly the same splendor as they were in 1920s-era Somarium, but they are there, crumbling and half-buried around the gigantic black sink hole. There are some very primitive carvings and wall paintings similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs all over the insides of the ruins, depicting big black shapes going in and out of the murky sink hole, as well as beasts of all shapes and sizes. Likewise, there are depictions of dangers, of people getting forcibly pulled and swallowed into it, and a woman overseeing the events from a luxurious throne. What could it mean?

And that's it for this week. We're glad everyone had fun with the event, and with exams and graduation around the corner with a lot of people, we wish you all good luck!

If you have any questions or concerns, just comment here.