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Hello, TVK, this is your resident helper bunny Nao reporting in! First and foremost I'd like to thank all of you for your patience during this difficult period of time. We as a mod team are working to improve TVK overall, and we would as always appreciate player input on how to make this game enjoyable for all involved.

But enough about that. What's going on this month?

( Well, I'll tell you... )

velvetyhelpers

The Velvet Key has always been a fairly active game. I haven't been here from the start personally, but long enough to see it go through a number of changes. There's so many players here that are eager to help out the two mods that this game does have, so I've decided that we should take on a couple of mods to assist with things. Before considering, please read through this entire post to get a better understanding of what will be expected of any potential mod applicants.

Availability:
Honestly with tvk being such a small game, one might be expected to do mod-work that equals up to a hour or two a week. If you're hard to get in touch with it (if you don't answer private plurks or are never on AIM), we ask that you don't consider joining the app team. Communication is important and if something does come up, the other mods will need to be able to communicate with you. Time zones don't matter so long as you can reply in a timely fashion.

Demeanor:
Becoming a mod is a pretty tough job and a pretty thankless one for the most part. We've been blessed to have great players, but there may come a time where a player brings up something that you might take offense to. Everyone has bad days, but we're looking for people who generally get along with everyone. If you dislike a certain group of players in game, it's not ideal to become a mod. Players may approach you personally regarding an issue in game: a co-mod must be able to remain unbiased about this issue and address it to the best of their skill.

Expectations:
Co-mods will be expected to do any handful of tasks that may be overlooked during busy times such as processing drops, updating reserves, approving Persona, and keeping lists updated. If you don't know HTML, we'll give you the appropriate codes to fill in for things. Co-mods will also be asked to assist with the Full Moon Logs by playing enemy Shadows for players to engage in. Additionally, they will give input on questions asked in the FAQ, all plots (player and game), and applications. Finally, it might be asked that a co-mod play the role of a NPC on occasion.

For the most part, a lot of the grunt work is taken care of by myself and I feel that the plot could advance fluently if there's more assistance in the listed areas. So I've compiled a very short application that I hope is easy to fill out for those who are interested in helping out. Keep in mind that Bill and myself will be carefully considering each application to choose those who are the most qualified. Heck, if we think three people are great candidates, we might just take all of them. Before announcing our mods, there will be a brief training period to catch them up with the game and how things are being run, so there will be some delay in getting back to the community with the news.

Co-mod applications will be open from April 11th ~ April 16th. This is a short period, but this is also a tiny game that tends to make decisions fairly quick (it was voted we move from LJ->DW within a couple of hours easily). Everyone will receive confirmation that their application has been accepted and if they have been denied after. Bill and myself may actually take an applicant to the side to privately talk with them before considering as well. It should also be noted that we're only accepting co-mod applications from players in-game only. New co-mods will be contacted after with the news and will be caught up to date with things. I'm not going to give an estimated date before we announce them in case training takes a bit longer, but as soon as it looks good, I'll give word to the community. If you're still interested after all of that babble, please fill out the following form:

Please post your app in this post as a single comment if possible. Comments will be screened. Linked applications will be declined right away. Please make sure the account you're posting with has PM's open to anyone so that we can contact you. If you have any questions, go ahead and ask them here as well.

velvetyhelpers

- The Shadow Compendium has been updated with new monsters, new blocks, and hopefully provides a bit more information. Some of the monsters don't have their own pages to link, so I'm afraid there will be some lacking a visual.

- Enemy Radar skill has been updated to include scoping of nearby Persona users should the Persona be a high enough level.

- Coming up next are social links (dance_okok)

- I (Kattu) will be on a modly hiatus for April 5th~9th. This means our Activity Check warning list/results will be a bit delayed, so squeeze in that extra activity while you can.

- We have an in-game calendar/player plot post! Feel free to approach the mod team about player plots. If you would like the details to be private, please PM the mod account.

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The following characters will be ejected from the game unless the players agree to probation or can provide activity for them:

Orihime Inoue
Caster/FSN (pretty sure she was dropped in favor of archer?)
Chichiri
Shion Uzuki

If I've overlooked your comment in the AC or a hiatus notice, please comment to inform me. Additionally, if you have not commented to the TAKEN CHARACTERS LIST, please do so. Characters not listed there will be removed next activity check.

There have been a couple of questions on Plurk regarding some of the game mechanics, so the mods have sat down to discuss them. Hopefully these answers will provide all of the information needed and yes, the FAQ's will be amended to include them.

1) If a character is applied for at a time they have a serious wound (like losing a limb), would they still have that wound when they arrive in Prospero?
This is up to player discretion. They could have the lost limb and the wound sealed so they could live. Just remember if the character dies within their arrival, all damage including scars will be repaired. So it's not ideal to have a character show up bleeding to death. There are characters who are from post-death who have chosen to keep their scars, but didn't arrive on the edge of death. This made it so they were aware that they did die, but were alive once more.

2) Do the canons the characters come from exist in games? For example, would famous books and movies be easy to find?
This is a tricky situation as it would vary from player to player. Ultimately in the end, we'd like to leave it to player discretion. There have been incidents in games where characters have found media about themselves already and there have been other times where players would prefer to not be fourth-walled. In a situation where the entire cast in-game agrees, the canon simply won't exist. For example, if the Umineko and Fate/Stay Night casts all agreed that the visual novels shouldn't exist, then they would be completely different titles with similar characters and story lines, but nothing exact. This is so no one can come up to someone and say ~*SPOILERS*~ and break their brain. We just ask that you keep all of your fellow players in mind - if you want to make a post about the latest Harry Potter movie, contact the players in the case to ask if it's alright. While we can't police fourth wall material for future applicants, we can just ask that players be mindful of any new applicants who may or may not enjoy the shenanigans that come with it.

For future references, we personally prefer all questions get asked on the FAQ post instead of places like Plurk where they might be overlooked accidentally. The mods don't mind answering questions that might not take much thought behind them, but things that effect the game as a whole are better placed there.

ETA: Lazy calendar for this month is posted. I'm not sure if I missed anything going on, so if there are events in March you want others to know about, fill out the form there. Next month's will look a lot nicer, I promise <3

velvetyhelpers

Hello everyone. Things are starting to settle down and we just wanted to let you know of a few things that are in store for the game here. It's kind of a lengthy list, so please bear with us.

PERSONA CHANGES;
By popular request, we're going to allow people to change their Persona. The new page for doing so is right here. Do note that you must have at least 20 levels in order to change Persona as that will be the cost to do so. Levels WILL have to be from the latest Activity Check posted (so no posting a request if your character is level 19 and would have gained a level by that point please). All of the information is (hopefully) provided on the linked page, so feel free to read it and give it a shot if you're interested!

CANON DOWNGRADE;
It's also been asked that we consider allowing characters to 'downgrade' for their canon. We are going to permit this in the same manner we provide canon updates. It is up to the player submitting the request to conjure a feasible reason as to why they would suddenly lose a chunk of their memories. We are allowing this so that players don't have to lose their current levels/Persona/cr.

REGAINS;
Also by popular request, regains will be slowly trickling into the game through events. We'll inform you properly during which events that regains will be given to the characters. Some things of note regarding them though are:
Weapons and armors with mystical powers will not have those powers when they enter Prospero. They will be 'leveled up' to fit the character currently acquiring them (so a level 60 character will have a stronger sword than a level 10 character obviously)
Other items like vehicles, pets/familiars are also in the works.
We are considering how to work physical appearances as a regain so any ideas on this would be appreciated.

PLOT;
We've been fairly quiet plot-wise and for that, we apologize. We wanted to inform players that there is a lot of stuff in store, including some out-of-Prospero shenanigans that will be coming up in the near future. So if your character has been looking to get out of town for a bit, they might be interested in this! There will be plenty of plot-related things happening in Prospero too, so no one should feel left out if their characters refuse to leave the city.

DUNGEON LOGS;
It has been requested that we resume the monthly dungeon grinding logs. Monthly dungeon logs will be posted at the beginning of the month by mods. Dungeon logs posted by mods will require a different thread for each group (up to five characters) and may have plot-related reveals/regains in them pending on the actions of the characters involved. Players are free to do their own dungeon logs as well. If they need a mod to poke their head in, please don't hesitate to contact us.

ENABLE ME/TEST DRIVE MEME;
We will be posting one of these every month in-game for future applicants and for those who really just want to play around. We will also have a post with community promotion links/code for people to copy/paste in various places. I personally don't visit anon communities, but for those players who wish to promote for us, the option will be there. We'll make a mini update when we have that information available.

WEATHER REPORT;
Also by request, we'll be posting a weather report for the game so that characters who aren't familiar with the area can know what to expect. Weather may or may not be determined by events as well. With this report, we'll also try to post the position of the moon so that characters can be on the look out for the stronger shadow encounters.

And that's all for now folks! If there's any suggestions you'd like to make, this post is always open. It's a lot easier to get a hold of us there for things like this instead of on Plurk, so if we happened to miss something you brought up there, could you bring it to our attention there?

velvetyhelpers

Good afternoon! I just wanted to inform you of two things regarding the rules.

First off, we had a mini poll regarding the mature content in-game rule. As it stands, the rule will remain in place as it is. I'm sorry if this upsets any of our players and if there are any concerns regarding it that you feel need to be spoken on, please PM the mod account or bring it here.

Second, we've added an extra bit to our Activity Check Rule. The line added reads:

"Activity will be based on timestamps instead of in-game dates so backdated material is acceptable so long as it's not abused (for example - using the same log/thread in AC more than once)."

This is so those who are focused on wrapping up threads won't feel punished for taking on more than they should. If anyone feels as though another player is abusing this and we've overlooked it, please don't hesitate to bring it to our attention.

Thank you for your time!

velvetyhelpers

Hello everyone. Here's the list of all active characters that are remaining in game.

( List of characters )

If you don't see the name of a character that's on hiatus, new to the game, or has sufficient activity to pass, please let me know within 24 hours. This time tomorrow all inactive accounts will be wiped from the game.

(Also, don't forget our lovers event has started as of today!!)

velvetyhelpers

Hello players. Are you ready for this month's full moon?

Starting on February 8, the citizens of Prospero are going to feel the love in the air. Amorous feelings in the air and the raw desire to just give their trust away. People will come together and confess their love easily, unable to keep their feelings to themselves. Those affected will want to display their love in every way possible! Don't worry though, if they feel the need to take their relationship to the "next level", the party who initiates it will pass out randomly.

As the days pass on by, characters will start to feel the strain that most relationships go through. Paranoia will become heightened, trust will be lost, jealously will grip at their minds. All of the trials that relationships endure will start to be dealt out to everyone including non-playable characters. This will continue to happen at a gradual pace until everyone is under it's effect. That's due to the fact the Lovers Arcana is reversing all on it's own.

Once everyone has loved and lost, the Lovers will make their appearance on February 22! This will be an unique boss fight and we'll provide more details when the log goes up. We do want to keep some element of surprise.

EVENT RUN DOWN;

♥ Towards the start of the event, characters will be "in love" with one person. These feelings can be as drastic as players would like.
♥ As the date progresses closer to February 22, characters will begin to sabotage their relationship through miscellaneous ways. This can be done with self-loathing, having an affair, random bouts of jealously, or anything else that falls under the "Reverse Lovers Arcana"
♥ Any feelings of sexual nature result in characters passing out on the spot.
♥ This event lasts two weeks to accommodate the shift in the Lovers Arcana's position.

Feel free to use this post to plot and plan with your fellow players, as well as asking any questions that you need answered.

sandma

This is not a decision that has come easily to me, but one I think is best for myself, for the staff, this game, and most of all the best for all of the players here at TVK. Effective immediately, I will be stepping down as a mod.

As said, this was not a decision I made lightly, certain things concerning new information my health and real life events have left me in a position that I believe would directly harm my ability to make sound decisions for the game. I believe staying on the staff would be detrimental for the game’s growth and well being. Thus I am taking a preventative step in leaving.
I have enjoyed my time here on staff. I have enjoyed watching this game grow and flourish. I have enjoyed each of you that I have come in contact with. I created this game to make something fun and entertaining and safe. I hope that while I was staff, you found the game to be all these things. I apologize to all of you if it hasn't and I apologize for the timing of this decision.

velvetyhelpers

Before our move, we had some parties bring up concerns with our current rules and ways of dealing with events. We promised once we had made the move and when that things were settled, we would bring these concerns up for discussion with the community to see how we can improve the experience here at TVK. Over the next few weeks, we'll be bringing up these concerns for you guys to weigh in on and to get a feel for what the community wants in terms of changes.

The first issue that we want to have your opinions on is our ruling over adult material in the communities. Our current rule is as thus:

"Any NC-17 material must be locked and under cuts with proper warnings! Sexual activity will not be allowed in-comm with characters that are under the age of 18. Take it off site or hand wave, please. Likewise do not play out sexual content with players under the age of 18. That is illegal. You can get both this game and yourself into major trouble."

What we want to know is how you feel about this rule. Should we have stricter guidelines on this sort of material? If so, what sort of guidelines should we put in place? Or should we disallow any sort of adult material from the communities altogether?

In order to ensure all opinions can be expressed without judgement or pressure, this post will have comments screened unless the maker of the comment asks otherwise.

velvetyhelpers

Hello everyone. Late night post to inform you that the player contact page has been updated. Remember, you have to be logged into a character journal that's been granted access by

velvetyhelpers to see it in the first place.

You'll notice some of the information is outdated or just not filled out. I went based off on the old one and it turns out we had a lot of people who didn't fill it out there. I deleted the post due to safety concerns (many of us felt uncomfortable our information was still listed on LJ), so I ask if there's changes to be made, to please leave a comment on that page. Mini FAQ time!

Do I have to give all of the information listed?
Nope! I'll remove the lines people don't want once I'm certain they're updated. You're not obligated to give your personal journal, plurk, or aim if you feel uncomfortable about it.

Do I have to use my real name?
Nope, your alias listed on your app is suitable. If you would prefer that, please let me know by making a comment there and I'll change it.

Can't you list characters by account name?
It would make the list really unorganized if I did that. If Dreamwidth ever releases the feature that lists the name and links to the journal, I'll be glad to do that. Knowing me, I'll probably do something along those lines when I get the extra time.

Why is this post locked?
For security reasons! We want our players to feel comfortable above all else, so the post is locked in the mod journal.

"X isn't in the game anymore!" or "I commented, but didn't get listed!"
Mistakes happen and we know I make plenty of them. Just leave a comment and it'll be fixed ASAP.

Thanks for listening to my rambling at 3am! If there's any notable problems with the text/sizing in your browser, please take a screenshot and show me. :D

velvetyhelpers

As you may notice from reading that post that's just one down from this, tonight marks this month's boss fight. To help organize things a little better, you may use this post to discuss who will be fighting in what group and what not. We're asking that the groups be no larger than of five characters, but may be as small as you wish. Hopefully this will help things run more smoothly tonight if everyone has a better idea whom their character will be with.

velvetyhelpers

Guess what guys? It’s time for TVK’s first full moon event on DW!

Starting Sunday, January 22, Prospero is going to be infected by a strange feeling of family. Affected characters will start to believe other characters are their parents/children and will begin to act accordingly. This means; some characters will believe themselves to be someone’s parent. Some characters will believe themselves to be someone’s child. The feeling is not necessarily mutual.

The sudden increase of parenting will last until Wednesday, January 25. On that day, during the Dark Hour, the Empress will appear just outside of the business district. All the shadows attacking this night will be focused on protecting the Empress and the Empress will be actively healing the shadows as they fight. Meaning, this fight will take more ‘time’ in-game than other boss fights. As usual, once the basic shadows are defeated the Empress will disappear.

The next morning, everything will return to normal in Prospero and the familial feelings will fade.

Below, you can discuss and sign up for whom will become the new family units for this event. Also, below you can discuss who’ll be in whose group for the boss fight.

For clarification :

d 1) The relationships are only on the emotional level! No messing with the memories!

2) The relationships are of parental/child type or sibling type. No spousal relationships! Mostly because a certain other arcana fits much better with that kind of thing.

3) This can be a good opportunity to get new CR!

velvetyhelpers.livejournal.com

After reviewing the results of the poll and taking your comments into account, we the staff feel it is for the best interest of the community, the game, and our players to take the plunge and move to Dreamwidth.

We will begin importing the community to Dreamwidth Monday, January 9th. You may start joining the communities we have set up immediately. The communities are the main comm, the logs comm, the ooc comm, and the spam comm. The mod journal is here and there is a place to voice concerns.

Feel free to join the with whatever journal you will be using on the new site. Please note your new journal doesn't have to have the same name as the one you use here. We do ask that everyone re-fill out the Taken Post so that we can know what new journal you are using for the game. As you are recognized on the taken list we will add you to the comms and you may begin posting there as you desire. As stated above, old entries will be imported by next week for all to use. You may continue using the comms here on LJ until then. There is no rush to join the new comms, we will give current players until this time next week to decide if the would like to join. Persons on hiatus will, of course, be able to wait until after their hiatus is through. We will be contacting them at that time about the move.

We understand that some of you have concerns about moving to this site and moving in general, and we hope to make the transition as smooth and accommodating as possible for all of you. We have compiled some resources that give information about Dreamwidth's site and how to use it from a variety of other persons, and we hope these will be of aid to anyone concerned about the new site. Any questions you have about the move or DW can be directed at us and we will do our best to help.

We do realize, resources or not, that some of you do not want to leave. If you decide not to come with us, we understand. We you all the best for the future. We want the best for our players and if that is what is best for you we support you fully. Some of you may object to having your posts imported to DW. In that case, you may delete your content before next week. You can also delete your account temporarily (on January 9th). That will ensure that the content is not taken to the new communities. Again, if this is your decision we support you in making it.

We ask for your patience and understanding with the staff during this move and want to thank all of you for your understanding thus far. We hope that this will be a step into improving our community and will allow us to better serve you as mods.

As promised, here are some resources that may help:

Guide to Dreamwidth

RP features, LJ vs. DW

A DW FAQ

A good guide for those new to DW

A DW resource list

Undoubtedly, there are more good guides out there. If you know of one we should link to, please inform us in the comments.

velvetyhelpers.livejournal.com

I’m sure all of you realized this was coming. Since LJ‘s latest update, we have heard many opinions about the future and direction of TVK. We want to give our players the best game, community, and atmosphere we can, and for that reason we want to hear the opinions of all our players in this matter. We ask that each of our players vote in this poll about the future of this game and voice their concerns below. We understand this is a highly frustrating issue for many of you, so we ask a few things of you for this discussion.[Poll #1808276]

velvetyhelpers.livejournal.com

First off, we wish all of you who celebrate them a happy holidays.

Second, we have heard many concerns about the issues currently faced by LJ’s last updates. We know there are a lot of feelings involved with this issue and want to do what is best for the community as a whole. In order to do that, we feel more that we should take more time to watch and think carefully about all options and venues. For that reason, we will be staying at LJ for now. We are keeping a close eye on the situation as it develops and will inform you if we see fit to find another service to host our game. We ask you remain patient with us as we explore options and give this thought.

We know some of you are having a hard time accessing the comms right now, and that some do not wish to due to various issues with the update. Because of this, there will not be an AC held for this month. With how much the changes have affected everyone, we feel it is only fair.

Third, some of you may be wondering if the post to the main comm means there won’t be an event this month. You’d be right. To let everyone have a breather with the holidays and LJ’s problems, December will be event free. But some of the things in that post and some things from the last dungeon crawl may just hold a few clues as to what twists in the plot are coming up.

velvetyhelpers.livejournal.com

We have had a few players comment that they have had difficulties tagging their posts. If you are having trouble with tagging a post, please either comment here or contact a mod. As a reminder, we only add a character's tag if the player has commented on the Taken List.

velvetyhelpers.livejournal.com

As you may have noticed with the post up in the main comm, things have started to go down in Prospero. It looks like something or someone is finally stepping forward as the one who brought everyone to the island. But for what reason? Time will only tell.

For now this force has left your characters with a hint of what’s coming up next. In the next few weeks characters will be facing a new threat, themselves. That’s right; this is the anticipated shadow-self event.

Starting Wednesday the 16th during the Dark Hour, characters will be facing shadows that morph into a clone of themselves. This clone will act as though they know everything about them, spouting off information only the character should know. After a few minutes of chatting they’ll disappear.

This will continue over the next few nights until the clones strike a nerve and begin to divulge things that are personal, including saying things that the character may not want to admit about or even to themselves. When the character denies the clones claims, the clone will attack.

These clones will not have the powers of a typical shadow. They will be able to use weaker versions of any power the character may have had in their canon, including any fighting skills or magic. They will also be employing the power of the character’s Persona, but will only be able to match up to two levels below what your character currently is at.

The clone can be defeated with use of the Persona but will continue to show up in the Dark Hour until one of two things happen. Either your character must accept what the clone says as the truth or the clone will disappear for good by the Wednesday the 30th.

A quick rundown:

They look like your character as they were Pre-Prospero, but have glowing yellow eyes.The eyes can be covered if so desired.

They have the ability to use any power your character had in canon, but it is weakened enough to be faced by the level your character’s Persona is at. AKA if your character is at level 3, so will the clone’s abilities.

The clones can also use the power of your character’s Persona! But this power is two level under your current one. AKA if your character is a level 3, the clone’s Persona is at level 1.

Characters at level 1 will have clones that match. AKA You’re at 1, your clone is at 1.

Anything goes as far as what your character doesn’t want to own up to. It can be as heavy as some dark secret (I killed a guy) or as silly as not wanting to accept a personality trait (I’m not bossy!).

You can drag out the fighting and arguing between clone and original as long as you please between the 16th and the 30th. You don’t have to solve everything right away.

If you would like to create a shadow-clone account to use during this time, please send the mods a PM so we can add it.

You can use the shadow-clone for posts/threads during this event. Meaning yes, you can have the clone go run havoc on your character's life. But this is only during the Dark Hour!

To make it clear: Clones only show up during the Dark Hour.

Go crazy, have fun, and use this as a plotting post or a place to ask questions.

velvetyhelpers.livejournal.com

( Are you ready? )

velvetyhelpers.livejournal.com

It's event time, but this month things are going done a little differently. As you may have noticed the start of the month came and went, and no news of a new block opening has come yet. You may have also noticed that this should be the week for the moon log and wonder why we've waited until now to talk to you about it. That's because we're using this as a month to relax, with so many of our players off for schooling and on haitus.

So, starting Wednesday and lasting until Saturday, citizens old and new will find themselves feeling a little more 'feel-y'. Everyone finds themselves with the desire to be around others and share. Share feelings, hopes, dreams, and generally develop a close relationship with the cashier girl you met ten minutes ago. Even those loner types suddenly feel a little more open to the world.

Saturday night, characters may invade the dungeon expecting something to happen. Instead they'll find the stairs blocked by a large alter with five goblets siting on it. The three in the center are filled with water(which does nothing more than be wet and may quench some thirst if drunk). The more interesting thing to note will be the multiple slips of paper covering every surface, that reads "Rest in peace" in every language known to man. No attempts at taking the goblets or the papers home will prove fruitful; they will disappear once the Dark Hour is up.

As usual, come Sunday morning everyone will go back to normal.

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