Notable Dates

• Applications: Open indefinitely
  
• Leadership Applications: Due at the end of the month
  
• Test Drive Meme: Here! As usual we plan to keep this one up long-term, so we highly encourage tracking the post for new top-level comments!
  
• Activity Check for January–March: Soon

IC Leader Updates

Effective immediately, Gela Baynrac will take over the role of Head of the Diplomacy Division! You can assume this has been announced IC and offer congratulations/condolences as appropriate.

Also this month, Ness will be swapping from Quartermaster to Head Archivist!

Quartermaster, Trademaster, and other leadership applications remain open. As always, a list of all available roles is on the wiki and we review any applications we've received at the end of each month. If you have questions, feel free to toss them at the Mod Contact. Applications should be submitted here.

Gallows Survey

Please take a look at this post and help us out by providing some info about your characters' hopes and dreams for their home. First round responses are due by 4/10.


Mod Plot

We'll be running a mod plot event before the end of April, something smaller in scope that will then lead into some War Table missions run by our DH players and other plot opportunities for all before a larger mod event around the end of June. So keep an eye out for that in the next couple weeks!

Veil Effects

As a reminder, the growing instability of the Veil caused by the opening of Gates is causing various strange effects across Thedas (as described in several mod plots), and with the recent opening of the Gate beneath the Grand Necropolis it continues to get worse. In its work across Thedas, Riftwatch will encounter more and more pockets where the boundaries between the Fade, the Crossroads, and the real world bleed together or swap places, disruptions in the normal flow of time or operation of natural forces like gravity, and so on. Feel free to write these types of complications into your threads—unless you want to do something large scale, you don't need mod permission.

This will also continue to affect Riftwatch's sending crystals. The primary side effect is messages being lost or significantly delayed. The further people are from each other, the more likely it is that messages will not transmit or will only do so after a long delay. Messages will also occasionally be misdelivered, but this will only happen when a message is first sent or a connection is first formed, rather than in the middle of an ongoing conversation on an open channel.

You're not obligated to include delayed/lost messages in any thread at any given time, but you can employ it whenever it would make something more interesting—if you want to draw out suspense, cause misunderstandings between characters who don't realize what they said didn't go through, or have characters in the field have to make hard calls without consulting their bosses or resident experts for orders/help.

War Table

We're working on a refresh of war table assignments and a new and improved version of the jobs board, to come after the next mod plot, but in the meantime, the existing war table assignments remain available to claim at any time! You can review available assignments on the wiki and claim them on this post.