SOTG APRIL 2025

[expiationmods]

AC RESULTS

The following characters have been removed from the game:
ashaya
finalfrontiersman
spideyguy
izanagis
fieldtrip
computation
anormalman
goldwraith
ashesofkatarr
solitarysoul
dorotabeau
concierto
scientits
querulus
fleetcaptain
erschlagen
coolerjunpei

WHAT'S NEW?

UPDATED CALENDAR IS HERE.

FRESH MEAT BLOOD MODS
We would like to announce our new mods! Please welcome Lycoris (player of Ragna, rebellions) and Vette (player of Silco, conflictresolution) to the mod team! We’re excited to add them to our team, and they’ve already given us fresh insight and ideas for the game. We would like to thank Kri again for her hard work and dedication in the game, and wish her well on her rp journey!


POLL RESULTS FOR THE GAME
Thank you everyone for participating in the poll for the direction of the game! The top results for themes were crime and punishment, morality choices, and environmental changes. The top results for genres were horror and fantasy. The modteam has already started honing in on these things, and have started planning for expansion of the world map, bringing back the pieces of the AI plot, and bringing in more NPC interactions. Thank you everyone for being patient in this time of transition, and we hope that you guys are as excited as we are for the upcoming content we’re going to be introducing!


SENTENCING
The automatic pool for sentencing is: Fauna (... for the wish monsters--), A2 and Altius (city damage), and Ellie (causing bodily harm). We will be opening up the sign-ups for four characters! If there are more sign-ups then there are slots, we will RNG the results.

For players who would rather opt-out if they are still dealing with the fallout from the event or any other reason, please let us know! Also, Jerry will be interactive this time... stay tuned.

AI PLOT
For those characters who might have inherited or got given the pieces of the AI from characters who were dropped, please let us know!

APP CYCLE
The app cycle will be running as normal this month! Check out the calendar for exact dates!

THIS MONTH IN ALDRIP

EVENT WRAP-UP
The OOC poll has closed for this event, and the immediate results of the event is HERE for your perusal. It’s much the same as is in that post – food is still becoming difficult to obtain. Buildings are still destroyed, with an added… is that a glitch? Sometimes characters might see some 3D mesh on parts of the destroyed buildings and rubble, but that’s fine. This is all totally fine. Right?

For characters who did not confront their wishes last month, these effects don’t go away. In fact, they may even seem to get worse in a way, and with these trying times, they may even resort to crime. Maybe they’ll steal food. Maybe they’ll break into other character’s houses for a place to sleep. These are just examples, but the impulse to have more than enough will be strong, or just any crime in general would be fine.

But wait! There are two options for characters: one, they can still confront their wish. Two, they can attempt to fight these urges and help others in Aldrip. The more they fight these thoughts and do good, the easier it becomes. The more… normal (as if there’s any normal character here) they become. This will happen over the course of the month, and the timeline and how long players would like to play this out is up to you!

Again, as stated in the immediate feedback post, the natives are still side eyeing the Chosen. However, the more they help them, the more they may be inclined to help others. If not, they’ll be sticking to fixing their homes or businesses only.

OUR SAVIORS… maybe-
But do not fear! Your friendly snake neighbors will be visiting on the week of the 7th with some foodstuffs. They seem all happy and fine and dandy to be there–

But why are their prices so high??? Are they really price gouging the Aldrip residents? Looks like they are. Haggling won’t work on them, and maybe if characters are persistent enough, they’ll raise the prices of their food even more. That’s kinda rude, isn’t it? But they’re the ones who have fresh meat and produce available easily, so… do you pay or not? Or do you flat out steal from them– If you’d like to speak to their manager, they’ll kindly say that they’re back in Rumpitur. They didn’t even come with them, that cowardly bastard. If the Chosen want to meet them they are more than welcome to take the journey to the neighboring city! Who knows.. Maybe they’ll see a friendly face there? In fact, they’re going to encourage it. They have even more back in Rumpitur, they say!

FEEDBACK AND LOVIN'

Even though the poll is over, it doesn’t mean we don’t want to hear from our players. Continual feedback, crit, and ideas are always encouraged. It’s what’s made our game successful up until now, and will continue to make it successful in the future! If you don’t want to post here, our MOD CONTACT page and PLAYER PLOT page are always open.

We know that this year has started off on the wrong foot for many, and March was no different. We’d like to hope that everyone has a better April, and that you have some fun this month!




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Comments

SENTENCING SIGNUPS

[expiationmods]

[icequeenly]

Thanks for your hard work as always mods!

I just wanted to highlight something which others might not consider an issue but it’s a bit of an ongoing niggle for me.

In recent months I think there has been a marked change in the amount of people using the plot with me posts and a tendency to just rely on socials. The latter is obviously fine but I think it is making the game seem more closed off and making it feel a lot more difficult to engage with new people and trying to create new cr opportunities if you’re not already within certain circles.

I recognise I am fully guilty of doing this myself but to be honest a lot of that is as a result of feeling like “well, barely anyone else is using it so why should I bother?” Fully understand the whole you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink thing and not everyone wants to fill in one of these but I do think it should be encouraged more. This is one of very few games I’ve been in where it’s ended up being utilised so little.

[opheliac]

hey there mods! first off, thank you for all the work that you do as always, and congratulations to lyrcois and vette for getting the mod positions! 💙💙

i don't really have any feedback or crit, but i do have a smol idea (if this wasn't in the cards already, ha ha). since we're no longer in cap (52/70 according to the app page), maybe we can start advertising the game again over on EMP and/or rpanons to get more attraction!

i understand that we've been on cap for a good while, and there was no need to beforehand. but we should totally do it this month, so that way people outside of our social circles and dwrpnews on plurk know we are open for business. 💪

[abandonware]

Hello mods! I wanted to first congratulate the new mods and thank you all for your hard work! I always appreciate how engaged you are with your players and how open to feedback you are. I will say I very much enjoyed the wish seed/monster event as well.

One thing I wanted to say re: feedback was both highlighting of the flora/fauna/location pages and also timely updating? One thing I would say that ig is crit is that often the world feels a little empty to me (this is just coming from a guy who loves worldbuilding tho so ymmv.) I checked and I noticed that the last time the Flora/Fauna list was updated was back in 2023 which probably is discouraging if you're a newer player looking at those pages to get ideas or even to submit them. Not sure how to go about fixing this... maybe adding to occasional updates during the SotG posts or PWM posts? Like idk "X is now available in the Residential District," "Y from Player Bob's world has started to appear in the Forest," etc etc. and adding the link to submit new entries to those posts? Just to let people know it's there you know. We get a lot of general updates re: the NPCs but less on the environment which I feel like would make everything feel a lil more lively.