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faulkner

video; un: BlossomingTide | Holiday questions

Type: Video
Sender ID: BlossomingTide (Faulkner)
To: Public
Subject: Holidays and Gifts
Warnings: Vague reference to coming from a world with The Horrors

[ Anyone who happens to remember his first post to the network might notice Faulkner looks a little... better? Not all that different: the same freckles, big blue eyes, youthful face and blonde curls—albeit grown out a bit more. But he looks less gaunt, haunted and sleep deprived.

The background also looks like some kind of house instead of his somewhat shabbier Corsair apartment. It doesn't seem especially furnished yet from what can be seen.

He starts this off with a cheerful grin and a little wave. ]

Can someone explain the upcomin' holiday a bit more? Or—holidays? Seems like I hear a lot about Winterstide and Christmas. Seems like a lot of you share that one, even from all different worlds. I have to wonder if the lore behind it is the same everywhere...?

[ He pauses with a faint chuckle. ]

But uh, that's not the important part just now. The other thing I've gathered is on a lot of people's mind is gifts. So for someone who didn't grow up with all this, help a guy out?

What sorts of thing are traditional for... different kinds of people in your life? What people are you meant to get 'em for? Seems awfully trusting if it's anyone you aren't close with already.

[ But then, people here do just seem more trusting than he's used to. And as much as there's magic everywhere, it seems like it probably takes a little more effort to make something dangerous than just drawing a sigil in the wrapping. ]

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cidolfus telamon

fourteenth bolt ⚡ hideaway ➞ winterstide party (open)

Who: The Hideaway Crew and Friends
Status: Open to anyone who has good CR with those in the group!
Where: The Roost (island)
What: What has become an annual Winterstide party for the crew! Fun festivities including making gingerbread selves, games, gifts, as well as unexpected visits from the Mistleslugs and pesky snowmen. Some items can be used throughout the month instead of just the party!
Warnings: None.......probably /eyes all the couples.

( Winterstide at the Roost )

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closed ⚡ arm yourself, a storm is coming.

Who: Lightning Farron & others.
Status: Closed.
Where: Where the threads happen.
What: Catch-all for December things!
Warnings: N/A for now.

( what are you gonna do now? )

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erichthonios

[Video] Man New to Friends Seeks Decorating Advice

Type: Video
Sender ID: beshackled (Erichthonios)
To: Public
Subject: Furnishings
Warnings: None at the moment

I... hope others are enjoying that game that seems to be popping up on the network a lot tonight.

[He doesn't have any interest in playing, but he's noticed it seems to be quite... popular.]

But, ah... If someone isn't too busy, might I trouble you for some recommendations on where to find furnishings that are considered comfortable? I've noticed that nothing here seems to match the style from my home... or any place I'm familiar with, really.

[And he did tell Lyney he would make an effort to have his living arrangements at least serviceable for a guest. Perhaps he might even try for two. Or three? Tables usually had four sides... Four sides, four chairs.]

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closed 🪶⚡ all i want for winterstide...

Who: Benedikta Harman & Cidolfus Telamon.
Status: Closed.
Where: The Roost. Eltrut later?
What: Winterstide things!
Warnings: Shameless fluff and whatever else cidbenna decide they wanna do—

( is you... )

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[closed] 🔥 some legends are told, some turn to dust or to gold

Who: Joshua Rosfield & Others
Status: Closed.
Where: Where these threads take place.
What: A catch-all log for closed threads in December.
Warnings: Tba.

( but you will remember me remember me for centuries )

« captain's log #28: december 1, 2025 »

CAPTAIN'S LOG #28: DECEMBER 1, 2025

( QUICK UPDATES )

( AC RESULTS )

( EXTRA NOTES )

( MISTLETOE SHENANIGANS )

( WINTER SPIRITS )

( WINTERSTIDE )

( LAST WORDS )

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« two truths and a lie »

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE

There have been a lot of riftfarers arriving lately. It seems like there have been more arriving than usual. So many different kinds of people from different kinds of worlds with stories to tell and experiences to give.

A little game has appeared on the shellphone network in hopes of getting to know just a little more about these otherworlders. You might find it on your shellphone as you’re scrolling through one day.

Tell the world two truths and one lie about yourself. And let others try and decipher which of the three is your lie. If they can guess right, perhaps you’ve been able to make a new acquaintance. Or in the least learn more about someone from another walk of life.

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-board

« manta board: december 2025 »

MANTA BOARD: DECEMBER 2025

The MANTA Board is posted every month, but the quests are on a "2 month cycle." This means quests can last for two months with possible updates or new additions in the second month before it completely refreshes for the next cycle. Players can do older quests so long as they did not have some kind of resolution or time limit on them.

Quests are separated into five categories and all have flat point values: General (4pts), Corsair (4pts), Paladin (4pts), Bounties (6pts), and Specials (12pts). Crew quests are listed under "Specials" and are worth the same amount of points (12pts). Although these quests are intended for established crews, non-members are allowed to assist if the crew invites them. However, non-members would only receive 6pts. Similarly, characters helping opposing armada quests will only be rewarded 2pts for participation unless specified otherwise. Special quests won't always be available so it may appear blank at times. These can range from group quests such as for special ship upgrades or island related quests, or they could be special event quests. All quest points can be used for the Rewards Shop.

If you wish to submit a quest, comment in the appropriate field during Activity Check with the quest written and we'll add it to the next month! Crews are also still allowed to make their own quests without our approval, but if uncertain players can comment here about them.

For this month's board update, some quests have been updated to reflect progress from last month, with some carrying over as is. The Two Truths and a Lie quest will have its own designated post.

If you have any questions regarding any current quest, comment to this entry.

( MANTA BOARD )

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« sail with me: december 2025 »

SAIL WITH ME: DECEMBER 2025

An abbreviated version of our CR Workship! Same concept, just a lot smaller. If you have multiple characters, make an individual toplevel for yourself with your player info and comment to it with each character separately.

To help coordinate specific plots for players, we have a few designated toplevels that can be used to highlight particular plots, scenarios, etc. These can be useful for players who may not want to write a full comment but have ideas. Players who do write full CR comments can still use these toplevels and link their comment if you have your ideas in there instead.

Crew Recruitment. Players can make OOC ad posts for others to join, looking to join, or make a crew. This is all for OOC coordination, so you'll have to figure out how it works ICly.
Event Plotting. If there is something specific that you'd like to do or there is a prompt that you're interested in that may require more coordination, this is the place to try and hash it out! This is not for general plotting, such as "I will be doing A, B, and C;" please save those for general meme comments! Here is recap of the event notes from the Captain's Log for easy reference. This month we have our Winterstide event that doubles as our TDM.
Current Event Notes Recap:
- It's Wintertside festival, but there are two mysterious spirits that are having "joy" and "sadness" issues.
- Collect crystal flowers and experience joy and/or sadness, which will be collected to go to a frozen tree.
- Who needs mistletoe when you have mistleslugs that work just as well? Paired up for fluffy friendship hugs, romantically intimate kisses, or fight each other.
- Help the Frostsinger's concert.
- Frost sprites are causing blizzards everywhere.
- Gift and supply runs are being hindered by Krahs raiders, but there is a Krampus demon to help?
Side Plotting. This is for any personal plots or MANTA Board quests that require more coordination, perhaps to bring about a resolution or make an important discovery of some kind. Like with the Event toplevel, this is NOT for generic plotting that would fit a general meme comment.

PLAYER INFO

Player:
Contact: Preferred means of contact

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Character
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair

About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits—whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.

PLANS

General: Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board?
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?

Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. NOTE: we have an image code for players to use as it will fix the width of the image to 400px. This is so large images don't take up entire pages. If your image is smaller than that you can remove the code, otherwise please use the code.

IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE CHARACTERS, create your own toplevel and comment with each character separately to it. Include your name in the subject line. Although not specifically included, you are more than welcome to write up a greeting message along with the form!

SUBJECT LINE: CHARACTER | CANON | ARMADA

<font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">PLAYER INFO</font>

<div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>Player:</b>
<b>Contact:</b> Preferred means of contact
</div>

<font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">CHARACTER INFO</font>

<div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>Character:</b> Character
<b>Canon:</b> Include canon point
<b>Armada:</b> Paladin or Corsair

<b>About:</b> Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits, whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.
</div>

<font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">PLANS</font>

<div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>General:</b> Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term.
<b>MANTA Board:</b> Any plans for the MANTA Board? DELETE IF NOT USING
<b>Event:</b> Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?

<b>Etc.:</b> Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. IF POSTING AN IMAGE OR GIF, USE THE FOLLOWING CODE. We want all images to be MAX 400px in width or it's going to screw up the page.
<img src="IMGURL" width="400">
</div>

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voice; un: maelfaecence

Type:Voice
Sender ID: malefaecence (Malleus Draconia)
To: General
Subject: Questions: Magic, Travel & Rifts
Warnings: None

[ Malleus is not one to use technology much, especially phones, but he is today. ]

Good afternoon, for those who are unaware, I am Malleus Draconia. I have some inquiries for all of you.

Since my arrival, I have learned that if you had magic back home you can acquire a tattoo to use it here. Or if you had no magic, you can gain it through the same process. However, what I'm most curious to learn is if someone lost their magic before arriving in this world, would the tattoos be able to give it back to them or could they only acquire the magic found here?

[ Only two people know why Malleus is asking about this, and it's likely to stay that way. ]

As for another of my inquiries, I'm well-aware that finding this Rift-Creating Artifact is quite the monumental task and likely means the end of our journey here for many. That there is no true rhyme or reason to who comes and who leaves as of yet, but any information you may have on the Rifts and your discoveries on how they work would be greatly appreciated. I wish to invest some of my time into learning how these Rifts work or at the very most, being able to manipulate them to some extent.

[ And Malleus has a lot of time to spare. ]

For those with the ability, whether it be by ship or some other means, have you ever ventured on a different path than the leviathans? Tried traveling beyond what seem to be their destinations. Would anyone be interested in trying such a thing?

[ There's a bit of a pause where one might think Malleus has ended the feed or lost his train of thought. Either way, he obviously had a lot on his mind - a curiosity that has grown the longer he spent time here. ]

My last question is perhaps a bit more personal for those who wish to share their answer. If given the choice, would you remain here in this world or go home? Is there a reason you would prefer to stay?

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

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« activity check: november 2025 »

ACTIVITY CHECK: NOVEMBER 2025

Ahoy, mateys! Here be the monthly Activity Check!

In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting. In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting. Please include brief notes on how the situation was handled (or, in the case of a thread not being complete, how it has been handled so far and/or how you expect it to conclude if possible).

Any updates on the Bread Curse
Any updates on Nilatast
Any notable happenings during the hunt (cool creatures to add to the bestiary, island discoveries, other findings)
Actions taken for the crabs during the feast (both the little ones and the big one)
Any information or developments made on the Pearlescent God
If the Glenn Library was cleaned out of bugs
If any songs were made with the Deep Sea Girl
If Wolfbeard the Cruel was captured

Please check our Activity Check guidelines on our Game Info page for complete details, but here is the quick list of what you need to know:

» Only threads dated from November 1st through November 30th count towards the month's activity. (With the exception of certain backdated threads, read the linked AC guidelines for more details.)

» Activity requires one thread of at least 5 comments. The comment count is from your character.

» Any thread counts, including those made within your own entries and subthreads within your own toplevels. Individual entry posts do not count, only the threads within the posts. TDM threads with non-game characters will count.

» Continuation threads are considered as part of the previous thread so they count as one thread not two. For the sake of ease, we would like the two threads linked together.

» You are exempt from any checks for hiatuses that last for over 21 days. Anything less and you'll still need to submit your AC unless there are other circumstances.

» Because we are a capped game, there is no strike system. If you do not make the AC requirements, you will be cut.

» Bonus AC points: All extra non-quest threads not used for AC will be worth 2 extra points that can be used for reward redemption. Please check our Rewards page for more details.

There will be no warnings. All submissions are due Sunday, November 30th 11:59PM US Eastern.

EXTRA FIELDS: This is not required and completely optional, but included in the submission form are two optional fields: Extra and MANTA Board Posting.

For the Extra field, this is just a space for players to note anything that occurred in their threads that they think might be fun for us to know. So if something particularly interesting happened (for example: discovering a new creature or location, an old artifact, or perhaps a character has stolen something), we highly encourage players to jot them down! Who knows, we may even find a use for it… In addition, we may ask players to submit certain activity related to an event.

You may also submit MANTA board requests to be included in the upcoming board. We will try to add them immediately, otherwise we'll save them for the next Board or a time we deem fitting. If you don't have one in mind at the time of AC, you can post it later to the upcoming Captain's Log announcement.

If you have any questions, ask them here.

FORM: Fill out the following form and comment directly to this post. If you have multiple characters, please put them in one comment.

Love Meme

💖💖💖 the love meme 💖💖💖
You know what to do.
— top level, listing your characters
— go around and tell people what you love about their rp!

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faulkner,
stolas

Video| un: noctuagoetia ☆ Missing Imp

Type: Video
Sender ID: noctuagoetia (Stolas)
To: Public
Subject: Missing Person Report
Warnings: Nothing to add

[The video feed flickers on to show a tied, ruffled owl-faced demon. It was hard to tell since he had natural red eyes, but how gaunt his face looked, it appeared that he had not been sleeping well.]

Hello everyone. I'm in need of a little help.

[Stolas smiles weakly.]

Has anyone seen a imp running around lately? He would be hard not to miss. I woke up one morning and he wasn't in bed, which in itself isn't too much cause for alarm. Blitz often woke up early to go shopping or make breakfast for us but.... Some of his things are gone and I haven't been able to reach him. I am concerned something has happened to him. He's been gone for too long.

If anyone knows of his whereabouts, I would be most grateful.

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text; un: archangel | Free Snacks

Type: Text
Sender ID: thearchangel (Garrus Vakarian)
To: Everyone
Subject: House cleaning with your neighborhood alien.
Warnings: None

Does anyone want any of this?

[Attached to the message is an image of many, many boxes of Pocky. There's so much. And it's all untouched.]

Before anyone asks "what kind is there", there's all kinds. No, I'm not selling it, just come take it away. Yes, I know there's a lot. No, I'm not going to eat it. It's not opened, either. I just don't want it.

[Someone finally went back to his hole in the wall apartment after... a long time, and decided to finally clean house.]