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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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!)

Wellstone Post 1.3

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