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Activity Check

Here at Silent Spring, AC is relatively low to accommodate the busy lives of a largely working, late-20s-and-older playerbase, and so that the game is still playable for people whose lives during weekdays (or whichever days work) relegate them to being weekend taggers.

We require one (1) AC proof per month, either a thread of 5 log comments, an event toplevel posted no later than the 20th of the month, 15 short network comments, or 5 multiparagraph network comments. You may not use a thread with the same character for two AC periods in a row.

You can post AC at any time in the month, the earlier, the better! This makes it easier for mods to space out administrative work through the month.

We allow for hiatuses of 1 month, up to 3 a year, not back to back. Players get one strike if they cannot make AC (with the exception of extraneous circumstances - please explain these to mods as soon as you are able to even if you’re not sure you’ll be unable to make AC and just think you might not make AC).

All of this said, think of AC proofs as a small cross-section of expected activity, the absolute bare minimum. This is a very small game, and there aren’t unlimited slots. Out of consideration to the people who didn’t make it in after you, please don’t squat.

New players should post a comment with their handle in the subject line, and then reply to that comment with the following subject line: Character Name | Canon | Role (Husband, Wife, Child).
For each month, post a new comment in reply to the subject line with your character’s name and canon, putting [Month] [Year] (ex: “January 2024”) in this comment’s subject line.

AC Proof: [LOG/NETWORK] thread with [Character’s First Name] (@[their username])

What did your character do this month? Describe your character’s month in Sweetwater and engagement with the events, their CR, and the setting.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

(Wrong John)

Thank you for letting me know!

AC Proof: LOG thread with Papyrus (

spaghettimonster). And TOPLEVEL for the June event. And some EXPLORATION tags exploring Dr. Pollock (/waggles eyebrows).

What did your character do this month? Norton is trying to sit on the fence, be outwardly obedient, get in Dr. Pollock's favor in the hopes it might give him a way in to gradually find out more, or be given some leniency or benefit of the doubt if he finds himself in trouble. (And also Norton's just horny and there are no secret gay clubs in Sweetwater.) He does want to find out what's going on, but he's being careful about it.

AC Proof: Log event top-level with Sans (

ribticklers), Norton (

pharadyne)

What did your character do this month? Papyrus kept up the housework and his human persona around the new housemate ("son"), with occasional escapes over to his brother's to (relatively) let his guard down. Creative lawn design (trimming some bone shapes into the yard, hastily corrected to an American flag in an attempt to fit in) saw him at a double feature movie night encore, to his "delight". He attended the pool party the next day despite the lingering exhaustion and side effects, checking in with his brother while there. Later in the month, he and Norton talked about smoke, fog, smog, and possibly the symptoms of exposure to the fogger trucks.

Your activity has been accepted!

AC Proof: LOG thread with Dick and Norman (

silentspringmods)

What did your character do this month? Arthur kept his head down this month, plus the quiet OOC time, but I'm looking forward to him getting into shit in July!

AC Proof: [LOG] thread with Dick and Norman.

What did your character do this month? It's been a supremely quiet month, apart from the consequence thread. I'm sorry for that; looking forward to diving back into things and dealing with Wrench's losses~

AC Proof: EVENT TOPLEVEL. And TAG with Sam Carpenter (

requel)

What did your character do this month? Norton did not have a happy month, what with thinking the world was going to end. He tried to keep his wife from making too much of a scene in public, however, and is determined to ask Norman about Walter some time, after the visions he'd had.

Edited (I totally forgot to update the pending summary!) 2024-08-18 21:42 (UTC)

AC Proof: [LOG] thread with Angel (The Lone Wanderer) (

wasteland_101)

What did your character do this month? Sans spent much more time than he would have preferred mowing his lawn this month! Okay, that's not really important. Besides that, Sans went to Marjorie's Fourth of July party, where he appreciated wiggling weird gelatin creations, ate chips, and extremely carefully talked around Papyrus having been dragged off to another reeducation session for lawn transgressions. Then he got stuck in the neighborhood bunker, which he handled better than a lot of people, and spent continuing to eat chips he took from the party and talking to some of the others. He still sees these bunker trips as good ways to get a view of a lot of the neighborhood at the same time. Finally, Sans attended the belated fireworks show, where he had a very bad reaction to the war memory, as it triggered his memories of fighting the anomaly at home. He managed not to start blurting things out, but he had to be handled (embarrassingly to him, because showing real emotions is for suckers) gently and go home early.

AC Proof: TDM top level, thread with Sans (

ribticklers)

What did your character do this month? Mostly Papyrus did his best to blend in and keep his head down, especially after John disappeared so thoroughly and the horrible memories during the fireworks disoriented him and his brother so badly.

AC Proof: TDM Thread with Iggy (

dead_tongue) and Wrench (

wwrench)

What did your character do this month? Unfortunately my wife ended up in hospital so I did Nothing that I had planned, so Arthur kept his head low this month, and I am going to try and get him into shit THIS month.

Your activity has been accepted! So sorry I missed this!

AC Proof: [LOG] Top level at the TDM

What did your character do this month? Homelander is a fresh new arrival! He spent July being crabby on the TDM and talking to different people, trying to figure this place out and understand what happened to him. He got to witness Sam having a hallucination and was... supportive(?) about it.

AC Proof: LOG thread with Armin (

rollcharisma)

What did your character do this month? Wrench introduced himself to a few of the prospective new residents of Sweetwater. He tried to help keep people calm during the earthquakes in the bomb shelter, and had a hell of a time experiencing Dick's shared memories.

AC Proof: HIATUS

What did your character do this month? John kept his head down with Arthur.

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