Year 4, Trimester 1, Week 2 news and playables post

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Game

January activity check closes tonight. Please check in if you haven't already! (Characters just reclaimed are exempt.)

Character reclaims are open and remain so for the rest of the game. Tell your friends whom you want to see back!

Playables

In the news

Laguna Loire, longstanding President of Esthar and vocal supporter of off-worlders, has suffered cardiac arrest, and his replacement has declared war on Balamb Garden...

Time Compression Chaos

As well as bringing back characters, Time Compression is affecting the environment and people around the Gardens...

Environmental changes may range from very localized weather conditions to items or locations reverting to earlier states or moving around.

Characters may also have their memories and/or abilities altered, within the limits of your character's canon (and any applicable power nerfing).

All of these changes are temporary and shouldn't last more than a few hours at most.

General

Balamb Garden is back on Balamb soil, and both Galbadia Garden and Trabia Garden are nearby. Feel free to use the other two Gardens as settings for your posts! G-Garden is deserted; T-Garden still has staff and students onboard, as well as helping out around Garden. (We have no link for T-Garden because its only appearance in canon is in pieces, but assume similar facilities to the other two Gardens.)

There is an open mingle log for returning characters!

Mission: Repopulate the Training Center!

Following some idiot releasing all the monsters to fight Sol Invictus, Balamb Garden's training center is empty.

Any cadet or SeeD who brings at least two of a monster species back to the training center alive will be rewarded with the supplies needed to upgrade their weapon one level (but no higher than its third level).

This is an open mission intended as a prompt rather than a mission with closing signups; mods will not be NPCing monsters.

Backdating and backtagging

Characters remaining from earlier are welcome to continue tagging the Battle of 3 Gardens: Phase 3.

There is a plotting thread for the last two backdated weeks of injury recovery, cleanup and repair work, and the first week of term. You may also backdate posts to this period, though reclaimed characters may not post to anything dated earlier than February 1st.

School

Having handwavedly started term last week, classes are in Week 2 of the trimester. LAN 101 is studying Old Shumi (Japanese equivalent) this term. The master schedule is up for CR and plotting purposes.

With an understaffed Garden faculty struggling to keep Garden running amid administrative chaos and Time Compressed disarray, attendance-taking and disciplinary action in most classes this trimester has been unusually lax, with the exception of the more combat and medically oriented classes.

Weather

Monday: Low of 52F/11C, high of 64F/18C, cloudy

Tuesday: Low of 50F/10C, high of 64F/18C, rain

Wednesday: Low of 54F/12C, high of 66F/19C, cloudy

Thursday: Low of 54F/12C, high of 70F/21C, clear

Friday: Low of 46F/8C, high of 64F/18C, cloudy

Saturday: Low of 52F/11C, high of 66F/19C, cloudy

Sunday: Low of 54F/12C, high of 66F/19C, cloudy

end of January activity check

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January's activity check is now over. We thank everyone who took the time to check in!

Drops will not be processed until Saturday February 8th to give room for error. (If you know you are dropping, we would prefer you use the drop page.)

If anyone was removed unjustly or was on hiatus, please let us know ASAP! We do make errors, unfortunately, and we also understand that there are outstanding circumstances which will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Also, those who simply forgot to check into AC, please check in here (not on the initial check in post).