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The Wellstone Post

Issue 2.2, Wellstone, Middle of Nowhere
Welcome to the Wellstone Post! We'll be sending one of these toward the end of each month with OOC updates and hints for the next month.

If you’re interested, join the game discord! It’s a good chill time.

Calendar

We are entering the third and final month of our timeloop. Here's what we're looking at:

2.3: July
1st: Event plotting, AC opens
5th: AC closes
20th: TDM, Wellstone Post
26th: Apps open

As a reminder, we have shifted AC! Doing AC at the end of the cycle was a little much for us when we also had to process apps and set up the new cycle. Also, we're all adults and we wanted to make AC a little easier to meet.

You can read over the activity check mechanics in detail here, but the tl;dr is that AC is now going to happen at the beginning of the third month in a cycle, in this case, July.

To account for the fact that everyone has a month less, we're lowering the overall requirements, and waiving it entirely for folks who apped the month before (so June folks will have a free pass and will just need to check in). We'll accept proofs from the prior three months, so feel free to submit things from April, May, and June!

Hopefully that all makes sense, but if anyone has questions, let us know below! We're just trying to make things easier for everybody, pretty much.

FEEDBACK

It's that time again! Thank you to everyone in this game for making it such a wonderful, chaotic, heartfelt cozy space. We appreciate you and it so, so much!

We’re trying stuff, throwing things at the wall, and making things up as we go along, and this kind of feedback really helps us in terms of knowing what is fun for y’all and what you’d like this game to look like. It was deeply helpful to hear from y'all last time, so please don't be shy! Your former art-school mod craves feedback.

Thank you everyone! Please post your answers below under the comment header.

And now, the weather

Well, you all knew it was coming. Near the end of this very hot month, clouds gather darkly on the horizon out in the desert. The hot winds blowing through town begin to pick up, blasting fiercely against the sides of the buildings. Sand whirls itself into small, ominous dust devils.

Strangely enough, flashes of light can also be seen out in the desert, both in the clouds and not. Distant buzzing, shrieking, and rumbling also roll across the town in moments of stillness.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Game Pace
How is the pace of the game feeling? How does the structure of event + mini-event mid-month impact your play?

Pace works great for me, since faster games give me too much fomo nowadays. The monthly event settings + minis are fun - lets me have a trajectory without being super beholden to it by midpoint in case something new crops up that might be fun.

Horror & Comedy
How has the balance of horror & silliness felt? Do you find yourself wishing it leaned more one way or more the other?

Also works well for me, since full pedal on horror would be exhausting, and the silliness isn't too invasive as to make my character full on break down from the whiplash.

Metaplot
Have you had enough opportunity to engage in the metaplot? Do you find yourself wishing for more or less information?

Yessirrrrr I like the crumbs, and I like that no one char will be the one to carry the plot ball as deigned by NPCs (that's something I find problematic from other games) - instead the onus is on players to invest the time and investigation and communication.

Anything else?
What are we doing right? What could we do to make the game work better for everyone? Don't hold back! We covet your thoughts!

I'm content, no tweaks needed for me that I can think of off the dome. Looking fwd to seeing what new things the storm brings ✌

Wellstone Post 2.2

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