forgeabettertomorrow

WHO: Vetra, and others
WHEN: December/Wilting Season
WHERE: Around the palace and other places
WHAT: A catchall for Vetra around towns and the castle - or for any planned threads!
NOTES\WARNINGS: None at the moment!

( Read more... )

Welcome to the Test Drive Meme for

escordvi! Anyone can participate in the test drive, regardless of invite eligibility. Just keep in mind that only those who have had their invitations approved by the mods can actually reserve on December 25th and apply on January 1st. Our EMP/ATP can be found here.

For your toplevel, please include the following: Character Name | Canon | Armada Choice | TDM (IF TDMING). Current players can use the same header, just without the "TDM" label. We do require those who are TDMin'g to include the label so other players can distinguish between others.

For everyone's convenience, TDM threads can be carried over in game if you wish! If you are still unsure which armada to place your character, you can play it a bit loose and vague in the TDM and make retroactive changes if you carry over the threads. The log itself is set to cover starting from December 13 until the end of the month. Characters will appear at random intervals during this time rather than all at once, so players have some more flexibility on how much more adjusted they are for someone else.

Players are free to use listings from the MANTA Board for additional prompts.

If you have any question about the TDM, comment here. If you have questions about the game in general, please comment to the Game Info.

TOPLEVEL DIRECTORY (Updated Month ##)

Canon - Character | Corsair/Paladin/Undecided
Canon - Character | Corsair/Paladin/Undecided

( PROMPTS )

Who: Gold Ship and ~~unwitting collateral damage~~ YOU! Open!
When: All throughout December!
Where: All over, nowhere in Rosavelle is safe. (Emberlight Forge, Dawnfield Grounds, Marelys Coral Farms, Everbloom Greenhouse,
What: Gold Ship goes from place to place to stay active, likely causes chaos in the process.
Warnings: Uh, swimwear at the least? Nothing major so far but that is subject to change.

Who: Yayoi, open
When: December, various
Where: The various boutiques, the Primavain fountain, other
What: Various prompts and ideas as I have them! Toplevels will be inside the post.

Warnings: Internalized transphobia, gender issues, etc.

Who: Ena Shinonome and you!
When: December; prompts all over the place
Where: Around the castle and into Marelys - the Everbloom's greenhouse, Emberlight Forge, Moonpetal Convervatory, the courtyard, Marigold Hall, Lapis Lookout
What: Ena's been settling in and getting used to castle life handily! Or... that's what she's been telling herself, at least. She may prove to be putting on a brave face. But the truth has a way of coming out.
Warnings: Ena may be a little depressed the back half of the month. Nothing she can't be pulled out of, but be mindful she's starting from a bad position if that's liable to be a problem.

((Prompts in comments below; last call on threads from Ena's intro or etiquette study session top-levels if they're getting unwieldy and you need to move them elsewhere! If you want something other than this stuff, grab me in the Discord or at

eternities.))

Who: Ya boy Yoojin

monsterdaddy, all open prompts (so far)
When: Dec. 1-31
Where: Dawnfield Grounds (Castle), anywhere anyone's working with textiles, Tulip Barracks/Greenhouse (Castle)
What: It's a rough time of year for South Korea's most codependent older brother, and like anyone with healthy coping skills, Yoojin's burying himself in distractions. It's good to exercise your body and stretch your brain learning new skills! ...What do you mean, ignoring the problem makes it worse?
Warnings: Hella My S-Classes spoilers, a panic attack/acute mental distress, and alcohol mentioned in the Dec. 24-25 greenhouse prompt.

( It's not Christmas till somebody cries~! )

Who: Akane Tendo and the character reading this, but especially Darin, Camila, March, Evernight,
When: December
What: I'm sure you noticed the missing time on Akane's schedule sheet. You'll find it here, along with spirited attempts at several quests, and a demonstration with Darin!
Where: All over Rosavelle.

( The Girl With The Action Packed Schedule! )

Who: Faris Scherwiz & anyone
Status: Open
Where: Around the place generally
What: Faris takes on some Manta quests, bounty hunting, and snow goons this December!
Warnings: Mer-organ selling

( and the winds their revels keep )

Hello this is Taku, and I am here to inform everyone of an upcoming player plot of sorts that's going to affect some things in the game this month and in January!!!

cw warning: tentacles I guess because... octomer things...

( under a cut for brevity )

Who: Archer & Various Customers
When: Season of Wilting (Start, Post-Festival)
Where: The Castle (Kitchens), Maerlys
What: Planned threads for December! It'll be updated with prompts soon...
Warnings: A general sense of malaise, depression and burned tongues from eating takoyaki straight out of tray

$fractales: (There's a lesson to live through)$

Type: Video
Sender ID: fractales(Professor Turo)
To: General
Subject: Cosmo Conservatory funding addition
Warnings: N/A

[For those familiar with Cosmo Conservatory on Eltrut the inside of the reception building would be instantly recognizable—what wouldn't be familiar would be three large box-shaped structures, one of them with a crystal clear front and two others that allowed smaller viewing windows lined up near a wall that had been cleared for them.

Soon enough Turo's head pops into view as he turns the shellphone as he moves to not simply show the machines, but himself standing there in front of them.]

Hello everyone, Professor Turo here with the announcement of an additional way those interested may help fund Cosmo Conservatory. Those of you from my last discussion of funding already know of the plushes inspired by creatures of my world and those we house here at the sanctuary that can be purchased, of course.

[Panning over the vending machines then, to give a bit of a closer look as he continued on.]

What we have here are something known as vending machines, that will take dubloons, and allow for the purchase of edible and drinkable goods for those who drop by. Re-stocked fresh daily we have things like baked goods from local bakeries to foods kept hot or cold from other local restaurants and the like. The heated vending machine will even dispense hot coffee of a few kinds, or hot chocolate, while the cold comes with the addition of ice cream and cold drinks. Each is packaged safely no matter which one you choose to use. Every doubloon spent will go into the upkeep of the animals and Cosmo itself. I finished their construction and am rather happy to have them finally installed here, and my thanks to Cid for his aide in that.

[Teamwork, and meant Turo had the time to help make a few extras for Cid to have at The Roost as well—]

For those of you who work and volunteer time here, you may drop by my office and collect a specially made coin that allows you to use these vending machines for free. Consider them as an extra thank you for all that you do in helping out, as both Red and I do deeply appreciate it.

I do hope you all have a good day, and thank you for your time listening.

WHO: Ai and 🫵 YOU (& a closed prompt or two)
WHEN: The latter half of Wilting (so, all of December, basically)
WHERE: Rosavelle and the barracks
WHAT: After the Wilting Festival, Ai feels... mildly more settled in Rosavelle and decides to do what she can to take advantage of the opportunity to improve herself. How she's going to do that... she's still working on it.
ANYTHING ELSE: Nothing CW worthy planned, possible contextless Oshi no Ko manga spoilers

WHO: Ororon and OTA
WHEN: Season of Wilting
WHERE: Castle Grounds, Library, adventure to Primavain
WHAT: open prompts for 1. bloomcraftiness, quests (2. gardening, 3. library organizing) & 4. Timed Quest: Frozen Foragers open to whoever wants to join him!
NOTES: will match your tagging format! see also his permissions here for soul/aura reading woo. PM to plot or contact

urgentmatters (feel free to add if you don't mind muting uspol content lsdjfldk).

( I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. )

ENABLE ME TIMBERS: DECEMBER 2025

YO HO HO EVERYONE! This is an ATP/EMP post where players can make cast requests for people to app into, or make ads for characters they are considering bringing into the game. It works like any other ATP/EMP, but we do have a few things to note down:

» Invitations are required to reserve and apply! But you can go ahead and post to the ATP/EMP post with a note you need an invite. You can either rely on a current player for help, or you can directly request an invite from the mods.

» We have a 65 player cap.

» Players can only app 2 characters at once with a max limit of 3 in game. But since this is an ATP/EMP, feel free to put more if you're having trouble deciding!

» Our Game Info should cover everything you need, from basic premise summary to the nitty gritty details of the game mechanics. If you have any questions, post them there.

» Just want to make it clear that this is not a claims page. While we give priority to whoever is on the Reserve list, we do allow app challenges, and there is no rule against multiple players TDMing the same character. Of course we don't want there to be too much conflict, so everyone please be polite no matter who it is.

» TDM is Saturday, December 13th. This TDM will double as our Winterstide Event, but we will include a traditional "starter prompt" for TDM specific characters. Everything will be carried over as canon!

» Reservations open Thursday, December 25th.

» Applications open Thursday, December 1st.

» Use the following codes to write up your character or cast ad!

CHARACTER ADS:

<raw-code><div style="max-width: 100px;"><img src="IMGURL" width="100" height="100" style="object-fit: cover; border-radius: 50%; border: 6px solid #3e2f22;"></div>

<div style="padding-left: 15px; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: palatino, serif; font-size: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #3e2f22; text-shadow: 0 0 5px #827662; border-bottom: 4px double #827662;">
CHARACTER</div><div style="font-family: palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">
CANON</div>
</div></raw-code>

<div style="width: 100%; text-align: justify;">
<b>Player:</b> Name | <user name="plurk" site="plurk.com"> or some other identifier
<b>Invited by:</b> Reference which player, mods, or if need of one
<b>Preferred Armada:</b> Paladin, Corsair, Undecided

WRITE YOUR BLURB</div>
</div></center>

CAST ADS:

Type: text
Sender ID: reindered (Tony Tony Chopper)
To: Open, Everyone/Public
Subject: Birthdays??
Warnings: N/A

i guess now i'm noticing the season, the time of year. um. so, do birthdays count here? i mean, would i really be another year older? i'm not sure how this works. if time here might be different to back home or something. but i guess that would mean i'd be sixteen. maybe because of the devil fruit i ate?

WHO: Saint-Germain and YOU
WHEN: Throughout December
WHERE: Mostly the castle, one Primavain
WHAT: Saint-Germain accepts some quests and begins her research in earnest. But she could have never predicted these results....
NOTES/WARNINGS: I haven't made plans with anyone for the quests, so have at it! POINTS FOR EVERYBODY

( How could I? )

( Come on, hold me now, real tight now, let me show you how~ )

Current Music: Where Do We Go From Here? by DoCo

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. ]

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 )

( Read more... )

Forging a Path Forward

Reading

Open Catch-All | Local Alien + You!

« december: winterstide »

December Horsing Around (Open Catch All)

yayoi december catchall

02:00 🎨 open

02 🐣 HYJ: December Catch-all

Breakthrough (Akane December catch-all)

Where the scattered waters rave

player plot; the sea witch of the abyss

Mental Exercises - Season of Wilting

Video || From Snacks to Warm Meals 🍿🍲

painted on the sky of my heart 🌟 Season of Wilting Catchall

OPEN CATCH-ALL, Season of Wilting: Ororon (Genshin Impact)

« enable me timbers!! december 2025 »

Birthdays

"I didn't take their hands." ⚜️ December Catch-all

Nabiki Tendo's December Catchall (OTA except where otherwise specified)

video; un: BlossomingTide | Holiday questions

fourteenth bolt ⚡ hideaway ➞ winterstide party (open)

Test Drive Meme #2: Fallow