I'm gonna be doing finals for the next week, so I need to crack down.

I apologize if this causes late replies for any of the things I'm involved in.

Good news is, once I'm done with finals, I'm done with high school and got summer break to relax with.

See you in a week or two!

ACTIVITY CHECK

As always, we'd like to make sure the Cast and Contact pages are completely up to date.

Please check those pages and make sure that everything is right with you/your characters.

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We do feel that it's necessary to show that a player has been somewhat active in the game. So we're asking that people just post one thread they've done in the past month and a half - from the beginning of April until now - with any one of their characters. If you haven't, then there's still seven days until the end of the AC, so get a-posting! This is just one thread per player, for ANY of your characters, from either a channel posting or an action log.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Post here with a statement with your user-handle, and character name/canon/journal, and a link to one thread you've done with any one of your characters since the beginning of April. This is the stuff we need.

<b>Player handle:</b> Player Journal: AIM: E-mail: <b>Character names, canons, and journals:</b> <b><a href="MY LINK HERE">My activity thread</a></b>

Bolded is required. The other stuff can be left empty, but it's what's going on the contact list, so if you want it there, put it there! Or, if your current entry is up to date, just note that.

2. Newbies are exempt. If you're a new player that has either had a character podpopped in April or a new player that just got accepted in April, you don't have to post your activity. However, while this has no bearing on your actual game status, given that we're using it to update the cast roster/contact list, we would like you to post with the other stuff, instead.

3. Hiatuses. Please always remember to post up your hiatus in the HIATUS POST! Posting in the main community is to tell the other players, but the hiatus post is important to us since it easily tells us who is and who is not on hiatus. If you've already announced a hiatus, slowatus, or the like--we'll check the hiatus post for people who said they wouldn't be around. We'll try and check the OOC comm too, but you miiiiight end up getting a poke email because it's easier to miss things that are just on the comm. If you can, however, please post on this check saying you are on hiatus too, it can help us out, although it is not necessary.

4. Lack of Response After Contact. We will be sending out a gamewide e-mail during the check. We will do this to ensure that everyone gets a message about the activity check. Make sure your e-mail is up to date as a result! If you respond late, you'll have to hit up the next activity check (barring a hiatus announcement or the like), or you'll automatically be booted with no email. If you don't respond to two checks in a row, you will also be booted off.

5. Das Boot. If you get booted and didn't get a chance to put up a hiatus message, and it was just a slip of the memory, you lost your internet, some kinda LIFE thing happened, it's okay. Just let us know. Stuff happens, and this is just to weed out the people who've lost interest and wandered off without saying, not to punish people who've had bad luck or busyness or absent-mindedness or whatever. We'll put you back in if something like that has happened, even if it's even an accidental "Crud, I just forgot what week it was!" It's really nothing personal, it's not irreversible, it's just an administration thing.

6. Honesty. Please take a look at your characters and the activity of each. If you have inactive characters, and you've been busy, lacking inspiration, feeling blah, but intend to get active with them again, awesomesauce. Now might be a good time to hunt down someone to play with, contact the mods for a part in upcoming plots, or post the OOC asking folks for CR ideas. But please be honest with yourself whether or not you'll be active with the character again. We care more about players just hanging around, than specific characters being active, so we're leaving it up to the players to judge whether or not they've still got it in 'em to get active with a character--we'll only step in if it seems like someone is character squatting for a significant amount of time.

7. When the check ends. One week from tomorrow (May 25)! That should give everyone time to hit this.

DOWN TO BUSINESS

I'd also like to remind all the players with a Department Head, a Councilor, or the Captain, that the next Activity Check will require you to have one open post. Again, this policy does not go into effect until after this check, which will be over by July 1st. This means that from July 1st to about mid-August, you must have one open post up to pass AC. There will also be a watercooler and an IC meet and greet right after the Check, in June.

Go post, our meatlings!