wellcome | Wellstone Post 1.3

Issue 1.3, 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.

Something important to consider this month: your mods are moving! We’re packing up on April 24th. Please excuse our dust and slowness and feel free to ping Jordan at

interplanetary or in the game discord if you need something answered quickly.

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

Calendar

Things are looking a bit wild this month, so we’re doing this early! We’re midway through a very intense April, and May is going to be chiller. Entering month four, we’re looking at:

1.3: April
April 24th-ish: TDM
April 26th: Apps open
April 26th-30th: AC

2.1: May
1st: Cycle 2 begins, event plotting
15th: Mini-event
26th: Apps open, Wellstone Post: June goes live

Don’t forget to fill out your activity check! We aren’t looking for perfection, just an indication that you’re around and generally tagging. We know life happens. Life is happening to us!

Since this upcoming round will be the first app round of a new cycle, everyone in the game has 1 invite for all of Cycle 2, to be used in the April or May app rounds. Invite your friends!

STATE OF THE GAME & FEEDBACK

First, thank you all for three really wild and fun months! It’s been a blast to run this little game so far. We can’t wait to see what y’all get up to in the future. To that end, we’re looking to collect a little feedback. If you’d like to weigh in, please use the form below and comment with your thoughts.

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. We may be your mods, but we’re also Just Two Little Guys™️, and this show is really all for you. We crave feedback like your characters crave knowledge about their real selves.

One thing we’re particularly interested in is game size, so even if you don’t have thoughts for the other questions, feel free to just answer that one!

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

And now, the weather

Compared to April, May will be downright balmy. While the heat will still be pretty intense during the day, nights will be cool and breezy and full of the sounds of crickets and birds. Small, fluffy white clouds float on the horizon during the day. The cacti will begin to bloom in a rainbow of wonderful flower colors. It seems that the desert is springing to life. All in all, it's a perfectly beautiful month!

Too bad the pool is broken again.

The desert lights will be particularly active in May. Some nights they’re bright enough to rival the full moon, and they certainly outshine the stars.

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Tell your thoughts here!

Game Size
Keep it at 25. Or 30. I like how intimate the cr is, and with how small the location/environments are, it becomes nonsensical if so many people are doing things and not everyone can keep tabs on each others' happenings without making it a second job.

Game Mechanics
What’s been your favorite event so far?
Fuck man current one's been great bc the others have built up to it - it's about the progression

What event has been the hardest to play on or come up with ideas for?
The standoff at high noon one

How does the event structure feel (posting your own logs vs. a standard IC event post), event and mini-event mid-month?
Love that shit

Anything else?
idk i'm big fuckin chillen havin a goodass time ur great and ty for letting me play in ur evil sandbox

Edited 2023-04-14 21:02 (UTC)

Seconding all of this!

Game Size
So, I would definitely enjoy the cap being a little bigger, but I see Elle's point too. I have a slightly different pitch for this round though! This would obviously have to be reassessed before the next cycle so it doesn't turn into just doubling every time, but...what if we just raised the cap enough for everyone to be able to use their one invite (if they choose)? We can't actually get more players than that anyway (unless you guys invite more I suppose!) and it would allow everyone to be able to use their invite with no pressure. idk how many players we have now but for the sake of example, if there are 15 of us? The cap becomes 30, so everyone who's been here has room to give an invite to someone, if they want to.

Again, obviously we can't reasonably do this every round, but it might be a good compromise for this one, and then if there's more demand we can reassess from there? The other downside is that it wouldn't leave room for april newbies to use their invites but if we run on the assumption that not all of the invites will be used there will still be room for april newbies to use their invite in may until we hit 30.

Game Mechanics
What’s been your favorite event so far? Bonus: why? DOUBLES DOUBLES DOUBLES DOUBLES PLEASE I WANT MORE OF THESE LIL SHITS more seriously I'm always a sucker for Mirror shenanigans. Why have you put literally all the tropes I love in one place??? Runner up is mem share in the desert though ~~I'm sorry I owe both of you tags on that~~. What a good way for them to get to know each other and themselves.

What event has been the hardest to play on or come up with ideas for? High noon, but honestly I think that's because I play a character who is extremely chill a lot of the time and doesn't have enough of his memories to be angry about a whole lot yet. Trying to come up with a reason for him to pick a fight with someone that felt organic enough was really tough so ultimately I skipped that part. alas, we never got to see Ryan spin that broom and smack himself in the face.....

How does the event structure feel (posting your own logs vs. a standard IC event post), event and mini-event mid-month? I like it more than I thought I was going to! I used to feel kind of eh about monthly catchalls but that's because prior to this all the games I've been in have been mid-big in side so it felt like, if no one saw my catch-all for the month the day I posted it, it wouldn't get tags. But it's really easy to just comb through all the logs for the month, because it's so small here. I like that there's also mingle opportunities at the mini-events, and that the bulletin board is a great shit-posting venue.

Anything else?
How I feel every time I look at my inbox for this A+ game:

Edited 2023-04-14 23:52 (UTC)

Game Size
I wouldn't mind the slightly bigger cap, though I think 40 is the absolute maximum it should be.

Game Mechanics
I like the current format a lot, and particularly i like that the event goes on the ooc comm but the mini event stays contained. It's easy for me to keep track of.

My favorite event has definitely been the doubles. It's a really fun idea that has a lot of potential in engagement and I am a sucker for these kinds of set ups honestly. I think the hardest event for me to get into was probably high noon for the same reasons billie mentioned. It was hard to play Mayoi in a mindset like that when he is so non-combative by nature I struggled with writing the like. one thread i had with that prompt. It was still an interesting exercise in working out his character tho.

Anything else?
I LIKE THIS GAME A LOT i am genuinely distressed by how little i've been active here because of my constant deluge or RL shit that will not give me peace. I'm hoping for things to get better so I can be more involved.

Game Size
Not super strong feelings, though I wouldn't want to go higher than 40. I also wonder if it might be worth upping the size gradually--say, up to 30 this cycle, and then, depending on how people are feeling, up to 35 next cycle, etc. That way we can gauge our comfort and the vibes as we grow.

Game Mechanics
What’s been your favorite event so far? Bonus: why?

Tie between the doubles and the wanted posters! I love the way that both of these have let characters (potentially) learn about themselves in weird/kooky/creepy ways. It just adds a whole new layer to the memloss that I am having sooo much fun with!

What event has been the hardest to play on or come up with ideas for?

Like others have said, the standoff one. It just felt too far removed from anything Pal would ICly do, even while being nudged by magical means. That said! I appreciate that it was easy to just...not do it. And I have played other characters in other games that would have been a great fit for the plot, so I can see its potential, even if it didn't work for me this time.

How does the event structure feel (posting your own logs vs. a standard IC event post), event and mini-event mid-month?

I LOVE that the game has us post our own logs for month-wide events, with a single mini-event post for a more singular event. Tbh this is how it has been done in most of the games I've been in, which I know is unusual. I appreciate that I can just check the IC comm throughout the month and immediately see if people have new open posts/top levels/logs/whatever-you-call-its, instead of having to track an individual month-long event post that gets bigger and bigger as time goes on.

Anything else?
I love you guys!! Truly, this game is a balm for my soul. The combo of OOC chill and IC mystery is really a joy.

One thing I've been thinking about: would it be possible to periodically update the FAQ (or another post) with questions that come into event planning posts that aren't event-specific? It would be great to have a one-stop shop for details about the setting or what characters can/can't do (and would also, hopefully, stop you from having to answer the same questions multiple times!)

Game Size
I'm a 'more the merrier' kind of person for games, but ultimately it's about what you're comfortable managing.

Game Mechanics
What’s been your favorite event so far? Bonus: why?
The current one for the escalation and evil doubles, because I dig this lonely, strange horror vibe that it's conjuring up! The image of your doubles attacking you as the world literally dissolves is spooky.

What event has been the hardest to play on or come up with ideas for?
I haven't actually had trouble coming up with ideas each event, I think you're doing well covering a wide range of possible hooks and levels of intensity in diversity of prompts and openness of their concepts.

How does the event structure feel (posting your own logs vs. a standard IC event post), event and mini-event mid-month?
It took me a minute to get my head around it, but now that I have, it works well! The template for log headers at the top of the comm is a nice touch.

Anything else?
Keep up the good work and thanks for the game!

Any other questions can go here!

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