Hey everyone! Taylor here with the morning report! Or, well, some fun stuff about events and a special bonus. First of all, with February upon us there's the wonderful wonderful time of Valentine's Day (or Singles Awareness Day, whichever you celebrate). Like with the winter virus, we're going to have open suggestions for a Valentine's Day virus/event! Comment in reply to this post with your suggestions for the V-Day virus, just make sure it fits the following criteria:

1. It somehow relates to Valentine's Day and follows the game's rules.
2. It's family friendly. We know Valentine's Day can get sexy for some people, but make sure that your virus is PG-13 max, okay? Obviously within the events your characters can do as they please, but don't require anything beyond that rating for the virus/event.
3. You can suggest either an event or a virus.

The suggestion period will end on February 5th at 4PM EST, then the poll for this month's viruses will go up shortly after that. This would've gone up sooner, but with the long event at the end on this month, it seemed like a better idea to make sure to space things out a bit more this time around. Voting will end of February 11th, then the Valentine's Day virus or event will start on Valentine's Day, February 14th. The duration of it will be specified based on the winning virus/event. There will be a second 1-2 day virus later in the month as well that will be voted upon in the same poll.

As for the second little bonus surprise: DDD now has a Plurk! dramadramaduck is the official mod plurk of DDD. Please note that it will only contain reminders and updates of posts made in the OOC comms and will not be used for exclusive content, but rather as a supplement to help you keep up with game activities and OOC notifications. It is strictly optional and only as a bonus benefit for those who choose to keep up with it! Please note that this is not a place to contact the mods about questions/comments/permissions. There are many channels in the game to do this, the modplurk is strictly for updates! If we happen to see a question, we might answer it, but you're faaar better off asking one of the mods directly or using the appropriate post that matches your need.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing your suggestions for the Valentine's Virus/Event!

The results are in, and we are making the following changes! Please read this, because this affects you (yes you!) and we want to know if there's any confusion!

First, Activity check will now require a minumum of two (2) threads with different characters in addition to the 20 comments required. Under this system, any post by your character or multiple threads on one post count as one thread. For events posts, all threads which responded to a starting comment from your character count as one thread, though tagging other people's starting threads gives you another thread (a more detailed explanation for events is here). So if you have a community or journal post by your character which has more than 20 comments, you'll still have to provide another thread, of any length, in order to meet the new AC requirements. You can still combine threads from as many posts as you need in order to meet the 20 comment requirement.

As we're announcing this halfway through the current AC period, these changes will NOT take effect until after March's AC. We encourage you to get in the practice of making sure you could meet them, though!

Second, we're going to implement tagging community posts with the characters who reply in addition to the posting character. This can start immediately! Just tag the post with your character whenever you comment. This should make it easier to keep track of things for the new AC requirements.

If you're worried about being able to find just your character's posts under this system, do not fret! If you use http://dramadramaduck.dreamwidth.org/?poster=username, substituting your character's username at the end, you'll get them!

That's it! Thank you all for voting and stay awesome.

Apologies that it's slightly late, but here's Thursday for the ski resort event!

Hello everyone, Remaix here, here to introduce you all to my third character. This is Setsuna Higashi, from Fresh Pretty Cure. Despite the title of this post, she's not actually a magical girl... yet.

To explain a bit, right now she's kind of evil. She's one of those baddies that sends out the monster of the week that the Precure fight. Her real name is Eas, while Setsuna Higashi is merely the identity she uses to get close to the main Cure and steal her transformation item. Predictably, this doesn't work out, but that doesn't stop her from trying.

Later on in her canon she'll switch sides and become Cure Passion, but that's still a while away. Until then, I will be posting as both Setsuna and Eas, so the fact that they are one and the same is going to be a secret. So that should be interesting.

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