kismet_loop_ooc | Activity Check

*~*~*~ACTIVITY CHECK!~*~*~*

PLEASE NOTE: After some deliberation, the mods have made one major change and one minor one - don't worry, they're both in everyone's favor. Major change - for this AC only, you will not be required to provide any samples of qualifying activity, due to the holidays and the slowness of January. Just the summary is required. Minor change - we are asking that ALL CHARACTERS post to AC, including our newbies. Please see more below.

AC RULES:

++ Copy/paste and fill out the above textbox in a comment to this post. You may comment once for all of your characters or make separate comments for each, as you choose.
++ This check is for activity spanning from DECEMBER 1 to JANUARY 31.
++ You will need only an Activity Summary for each character in-game. (See below for details.)
++ Characters accepted in the most recent Application round are not required provide an AC Summary. They will, however, be expected to check in this time around, and to provide AC starting with the next check.
++ You have one week from the date of this posting to submit AC for all of your characters.

ACTIVITY SUMMARY:
An activity summary consists of a small paragraph explaining what your character has been up to since the previous Activity Check (or since arriving in the game if you are new). This can be as simple or as detailed as you would like! At the minimum, be sure to hit any events your character has participated in (either game events or character plots) and where they're currently residing. If you'd like to get more detailed (such as drawing up CR charts, mentioning what Guardian they've talked with, or adding links) we're not going to stop you, as this will make a handy future reference for you as well as for us!

The activity summary will help the mods in determining future Guardian plans or interactions for your characters, and especially will keep us from missing anything important about your character. In no way will your activity summary have any effect on you passing or failing activity check, unless it is completely absent. In other words, doing the minimum on this won't hurt you, although going above and beyond can certainly help!

EXCLUSIONS AND EXEMPTIONS:
All characters are expected to participate in an Activity Check. If a character has been in the game for a month or more, he/she must have an Activity Summary. Anyone who arrived in the most recent application cycle won't be expected to provide any samples of activity or a summary for that AC, but they must at least check in so we know they are present and consider themselves active in the game, even if they don't have "enough" activity yet to show of it.

In order to qualify for an exemption to the Activity Check, you must have posted a hiatus of 2 weeks or longer to the official hiatus page during the period covered by the Activity Check. You may not request back-to-back exemptions, regardless of any length hiatus you may take. If you are unable to meet the requirements for activity due to real-life circumstances/an emergency, you MUST communicate with the mods before the end of the Activity Check.

FAILING ACTIVITY CHECK
If you fail to post to an Activity Check within the week that it is open and you have not contacted the mods beforehand, then any characters not posted will be dropped from the game. The mods will put up a list of characters in danger of being dropped at the end of Activity Check, at which point you (the character's player) will have three days to contact the mods and provide AC and an explanation for failing it. After those three days have passed, the drops will be official, and the characters will be removed from the Taken list and Player Contact page.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Character: Samantha Patchowski
Activity Summary: Having arrived in early December, Sam's been busy since. She spoke with Dirge and then Predaking shortly after finding herself in Haven, and although the conversation with Dirge didn't well at all, Predaking proved much more agreeable---she and he offered to help each other however they could, and have since become friends. Sam also met (and befriended!) Wing soon after arriving, as the Knight was nice enough to offer her a tour. All three Cybertronians (plus Irja) helped Sam prepare for and attempt a message-sending ritual.

The effort was fairly fruitful, since:
- Getting supplies meant raiding the Warehouse, and a face-to-face encounter with Dirge. Sam bartered with the seeker so that he'd find some supplies for her, but the conversation when she came to collect them crossed onto the topics of eating people and why that's bad, aaand eventually culminated in Sam telling Dirge that if he ate or otherwise murdered anybody she'd strip him of the ability to taste. ~~She also explained that murdering her wasn't a way out, since she'd haunt him and wreck everything he had.~~
- Visiting the farm with Wing and meeting Irja was a good experience.
- Predaking gave her a ride to an ideal river, and riding a robotic dragon for a flight over an alien world is the single coolest thing she's ever done.
- The ritual worked! ...to an extent. Testing it with Wing proved ritually-prepared messages can reach people planetside, but the same preparations fail if the message is addressed to anyone off-world. Bummer. :(

Despite her experience with Dirge, Sam had a chat with the other green seeker and accompanied Jadewing and others to explore some ruins. She also met Elsa, and the two got to know each other while looking at apartments. At the bonfire party, they got to know each other better and kinda tried to talk magic even though Elsa was... inebriated. Sam was too happy to hear of other spellcasters to be discouraged, and besides: a happy, huggy Elsa is adorable. Also at the bonfire:
- More chitchat with Jadewing! He seems like a pretty okay guy.
- Face-to-face hellos and a handshake for Lea, once tags happen.
- A hello to Rathan, since she's heard he's the go-to ~~dude~~ dragon for magical concerns.
- A conversation with Death... Who seems like a 'Martin' and will probably be addressed as such from here on out because that's one way to minimize how unnerving the entity actually is.

Also, prior to the bonfire:
- Met Wheeljack, who was nice enough to offer to modify a skidoo for a dry ground default. No rush on it, but Sam's been tooling around on the resulting streetdoo since the start of January.
- Met Paian, admired his magnificent facial hair, and made arrangements to have new tattoos done at his hospital (with the spa in the south stencilling). Sam's since been back for one tattoo session, figuring she'd best be prepared if Dirge does start something.
- Helped look for Jendayi when Lea reported her missing.

Following the bonfire:
- checked in with Elsa in the event of any hangover/post-party embarrassment.
- began to seriously consider a Haven Curling Club
- welcomed new arrivals Skylynx, Breakdown, Blitzwing, Raiden, and Maya, and also Rose, who isn't exactly new.
- accompanied Breakdown to the hospital to have the crater in his face treated, and gave him a few pointers on the literal handling of humans
- took Maya for a spin on the streetdoo, and, more importantly, to get burgers and poutine
- informed Dirge that, despite the miasma bringing a medium in, murder still would not help him

Activity Check

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