Wellstone Post 2.2

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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

AC

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.


<b>Game Pace</b> How is the pace of the game feeling? How does the structure of event + mini-event mid-month impact your play? <b>Horror & Comedy</b> How has the balance of horror & silliness felt? Do you find yourself wishing it leaned more one way or more the other? <b>Metaplot</b> Have you had enough opportunity to engage in the metaplot? Do you find yourself wishing for more or less information? <b>Anything else?</b> 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!

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.

Comments

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Game Pace
The pace of the game seems totally fine to me. I know I don't have the time I used to so being able to backtag and having AC span multiple months has been a life saver. There's more than enough content to keep the pace moving at a steady clip and I don't feel overwhelmed if I lose a week to real life.

Horror & Comedy
Perfect balance imo. I personally get tired if things are too serious but I also often want more meat than just slapstick comedy and hijinks and the setting has allowed me to go back and forth at my leisure.

Metaplot
You know I've been like a raptor testing the fences of this plot since I've been here so I am all for the slow burn and being able to actually influence things. I don't feel like I'm a bit player but I also don't feel like I'm carrying the game either. There's a lot of working parts that really make this game easy to follow but intriguing enough for me to want to keep digging.

Anything else?
I really appreciate all the time and care you guys have put into this game. I honestly think my only suggestion is putting up either a page of "here's what my character has learned/discovered" or maybe make it part of a CR meme? It could be a place where people can post what their characters have tried or learned and discovered about the town and the loop so that people can OOCly engage and swap ideas without having to be in the discord or on plurk or having to read a bunch of threads that might have the information buried. I think it would help new players catch up on what's been learned and it could even serve as a place for people to pitch thread or log ideas to get more CR.