ahahahaha--DON'T KICK ME!!

I'm going to visit Gin Jen, so hiatus from November 27th-31st, and with me comes 101st_job, betterthanthen and championess. And when I say "come", I mean they're all on autopilot.

Also this means I'm missing HMD this time, so if there's anything you want me to know, every character has their own ConCrit post. :D ♥!

SEE YA

BRB MOUNTAINS

Hiatus for Setsuna and Regene from the 28th to 30th of November! Godmod/Godmode/however you spell it rights to the lovely Gundam 00 cast. 8)

Be back on the 1st of December! ♥

voice;

....You've got to shitting me.

[Pause, oh the truth settles in. Someone hears a ticking.]

No. No, no, no, no! Goddammit, I've been here for too fucking long for this to just--- I don't believe this shit. Fucking son of a bitch, City. You'll be sorry, you hear me? You'll be sorry you decided to pull me back to this shit hole.

I really believed for a little while.... You made a fool out of me. I was right there. I was home, I was this close....

[Shattering glass and the device gets switched off. Guess who is back from her brief, brief trip home. Ask her about it. I dare you.]

Private to Boy Blue;
I want my apartment.
end;

So, long time no see here! .___. I've managed to get through a massive slew of exams, stress, and sickness, and as such Riff should be back in action here soon! I just want to catch up on a few more things, and should have him posted soon. Just want to apologize in general for the extended hiatus, and lots of love for misterblackbird who's been amazing and helping me stay a bit connected here <33

Good to be back though!

For all the times I've thought about doing this, I can't believe I'm actually following through this time.

Please friend remove tempzilla


Donna has had an amazing run here at Poly, and she will always be one of the favorite characters I've played. Thank you to everyone who has befriended her or made her life miserable.


♥♥♥
~Katie (still here with Anne and Emma!)

[Sasuke is seen moving forward as if he was heading somewhere, before coming to a stop to glance at his surroundings as he realizes where he is]

...The city again? [The irritation in his voie is evident as he speaks, and he pauses for a few seconds as he recalls what he last remembers] I suppose my plans will be on hold for the time being then.

( Private || Unhackable )

[ooc; So Sasuke is back in the City again without a canon update and right after he checked the network to see how long he was gone for from when the button curse was going on, so the private section was included a bit later from the actual post. Pretend this was earlier since he was supposed to be back before the curse ended since I wasn't around much to post this before now.]

So are the 'deities' quite through with us now? I'll admit, I wasn't cursed, but that didn't make the City seem any less mad to me. It was like one of those wretched weekends when every curse I've ever seen seems to happen again--but all at once. I think most everyone here has endured at least one of those weekends, even if not everyone was cursed during it. I'll still count myself fortunate that I wasn't cursed. I suppose whoever had the box with my name on it didn't press their button. Perhaps they couldn't, with paws or claws or no hands at all. Perhaps it was a race after all, and the winner is the one who pressed the button and cursed the other first.

But it seems as though it's all over now. A few people whom I know went home seem to have returned. I knew the 'deities' wouldn't keep their word on that promise. Or, rather, they kept their word, but not as we'd like. I did say not to trust them.

I suppose we'll slide back into our usual routines now, recover from these curses, and carry on.

A few people have told me that Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I knew it was coming up, but I never celebrated it before I came to the City two years ago. I know full well about harvest celebrations, even being in town like I was, but those were much earlier than this--that was after the grain was got in, usually. I suppose it's just the time and place and things that are grown. I've had enough Americans explain it to me. I think I quite understand it. It makes perfect sense to me. And who could really refuse a good dinner with friends or with family in this cold part of the year?

I suppose what I really mean is that here's something for which we ought to be grateful: these curses have ended.

[Private to Riff || Unhackable]
I know full well that I cursed someone by pressing that button, Riff. He or she could have been struck by anything. Now that the curses are ending, it's beginning to come out more about what curses were striking who and how. I know some were horrid--think of the one that struck Sam.

But all curses are horrid, really, in their own way. If they aren't painful, they're annoying, or maddening, or make one think one is mad.

Should I count myself fortunate that I wasn't cursed? I don't believe in luck, you know. But I wasn't cursed, and I'll be grateful for that.

More than that, Riff.

I've not told anyone here about my collection here, you know. When I arrived, Rue ordered Fakir--or perhaps he did it himself; I can't recall--to strip my room of anything and everything that could be used as a weapon. The opera house had enemies then, and terrible ones. I understand entirely why they wanted to protect themselves against me, a stranger. I had only a few vials hidden in my coat then, but I started rebuilding from those in secret. Princess Rue knows something of it now, but she's the only one. If I was to be trapped here, I wanted my collection, all the same. You've seen how it's grown now. Some of them I've found in the Underground or strange shops, one I had obtained for me as payment for doses of opium and laudanum that I made in the City's laboratories, one the 'deities' themselves brought by as a souvenir of a visit they made to our world.

So, Riff, I've had another one returned to me because of pressing that button.

I wouldn't leave and abandon you here, not the way you've left me so often. And I doubted that the 'deities' would really make good on that promise anyway--and that's been proved true. I've no real use for money, not with my situation as it is and my savings as they are. There's some good that's come from my having been here for so long. So I wanted something from home, something of mine. And the 'deities' brought me back the cantarella.

I had something like it for a while now, but not the real cantarella, not my own. It's here now, locked up with the rest of my collection, kept secret and safe.

Shall I be grateful? It was the 'deities' who brought it, at the cost of someone enduring a curse, and I escaped entirely.

Well? Shall I be grateful?
[//end private filter]

[Private to Rosella, Sam, et. al. || Unhackable]
Rosella, how is Sam? I'm sure the doctors are taking very good care of him, but I would still like to know. I'm sure he's still in the hospital, of course, but if he's well enough, I'd be glad to speak to him too, of course. I wonder, though, if you won't keep his Network device away from him to make him rest. I have the feeling that you could be both a very good, but very strict nurse. I'd be glad to pay another visit too, of course, if he's receiving visitors.

And my offer still stands, too: if you should like, do come and stay in the opera house as my guest. I know you'd much rather stay with someone than by yourself in the Warehouse, even as protected as the Warehouse is. I'm sure there are any number of people asking you to pay a visit, so add me to the list if need be.

Do let me know, and do give Sam my good wishes.
[//end private filter]

Admittedly, there is a very real chance we'll be cursed again, even as soon as tomorrow. Of course we will be cursed again, but the question is whether we'll be cursed tomorrow or the day after. I recall once on a Thanksgiving when everyone was made to list the things for which they were grateful. There are worse curses than that, even as annoying as that might be. If we're to have a curse on a holiday, even a holiday that isn't mine, it had best be a mild one.

I hope we'll be given a few days' rest after all of that. There's no certainty of it, but I would be grateful for it.

~C.

[ooc: So Cain ended up pushing the button on the box he received. Sam was cursed with a reprise of the SAW curse (sob), Cain's been trying to help out Sam and Rosella in the aftermath (ironic), though he doesn't know that he cursed Sam (crai), but he did get one of his favorite rare poisons from home (secret). So he's...well, he'll get his later, I'm sure, if the truth ever comes out ;3; The Rosella & Sam filter is open to Rosella, Sam, and their friends and acquaintances that Cain knows they know--their mutual friends, basically. If you're not sure if you're in the filter, drop a line.]

I'm going to be going out of town for Thanksgiving and since I have no idea if I'll have internet where I'll be, I'm going to call a brief hiatus. I'll be back sometime this Sunday (the 29th) at the latest.

All of my guys are staying in the city, so feel free to assume you've seen them around if you normally would. As far as godmod rights go, they are as follows:

Tseng -> Aeris
Seifer -> Squall and Rinoa
Xemnas & Lexaeus -> apartment-mates

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Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

God, why would they even

Biology students, there's been a change in the syllabus. We'll no longer be doing dissection today. I'm not cutting open a sea horse We'll be watching a video instead.


[ooc: For those of you in Hatori's biology class, he has a tank of sea horses who press themselves up against the glass in adoration every time he walks by. Feel free to have noticed.]

Ack! It was supposed to last longer! Some magical box. Hmpf. I should have known there has to be a small print clause.

...Hello again, City.

[There's a 17-years old girl dressed in a puffy princess gown on the steps of the Opera Abandoned.]

When; November 24, late night
Rating; PG
Characters; Flynn Scifo [srslynotguy], Ino Yamanaka [boobsorgtfo] Leon Magnus [roseofseingald], Luc [wind_magic] , Ruca Milda [dreamsofhorns], Teito Klein [notaspure]
Summary; After a renovation gone disastrous, the shotapartment + Flynn and Yuri have made a trade with the deities to have a house built. And now that it's built, it's time to explore their new home.
Log; ( paying a handsome fee )

Here's calling the mandatory Thanksgiving hiatus. I'm going home tomorrow to celebrate the holidays with my family. After that I'll have to deal with work for my thesis and therefore be rather scarce.

So! Hiatus for Umi from tomorrow November 25th to around the 7th of December. She's staying, godmod rights as ever go to apartment-mates. May well downgrade this to a semi-hiatus if I find stuff more manageable than estimated.

See you in a week and so, Poly! Ooooor probably less, depending on how things go. ♥

( PRIVATE // OFF-THE-NETWORK )


Tricks of the City, or perhaps an indirect way of getting rid of some of us. What seems like a random choice or result may not be, probably isn't. Those sent home return or have already returned, but there's a high probability that some have not. I don't think, from what I've seen and heard and read, that this City operates on the basis of anyone's luck.

That said, death and injury are no laughing matter but there is more than one kind of 'death' and 'injury'.

Those who are so appalled that some would use what has been given to them might consider how little they know of those they are so quick to judge. Condemn, in a way.

It's not so simple.

I'm gonna be gone to Tachipi...or however you spell that place's name for Thanksgiving. I won't be able to use the internet till I return late Sunday evening. Therefore godmod rights go to immortal_witch, revengeisalie, gforgreat, theotokos, basstardchuck and endswithme. Also teasing Huey on his birtday this Saturday is a full go if you should want.

Later folks and don't catch the itis on Thursday.

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Because senior year isn't getting any easier and I will probably never catch up with this place. Thank you so much for the good times. I'll miss you guys! ♥

My personal journal is accordion, if you'd like to keep in touch.

~Shane

>>
Okay school's taking me further away. I don't have time for much rp anymore.
I was going to take a hiatus, but it doesn't seem to help me at all.
So adding to Yujinn's drop, I'm also dropping Hiei and dropping from the community altogether.
I'm sorry, mostly to Kurama and Kuwabara-mun >>; I'mma miss you guys
And anyone else who had interacted with this little guy here. so without further adieu please

friend remove forbiddenxfire

or hover and click.

I will miss every ;__;

So I meant to post this earlier but I kept forgetting, but anyhow! Finals are coming up for me soon and I have a lot of assignments to finish up for the next few weeks so I need to take a semi-hiatus, and I guess that means I'll end up missing HMD as well but anyway. I really need to pass these so I'll be hiatused up until December 11th at the latest depending on when my exams are scheduled. I'll try to be around but tags from me will be pretty slow for the most part until then at least.

The following characters will be affected by this: Sasuke, Ichiru and Louise

And as for my last character, this is a heads up that Amu will be gone sometime on Wednesday night or around then for a canon update! She'll be back sometime into in the first week of December once I sort out details with Ikuto-mun, since I'm thinking of having them arrive back together or around the same time. Anyway feel free to notice that she's not around, if she normally hangs out/talks with your character.

In addition to working on the map, we have created a new community for Destinations.

Introducing poly_places! We have copied information from the old Destinations lists over to the new community, including adding new locations that were not added onto the official giant list. If you suggested a place or function but don't see it on the new community please let a mod know. We might be either currently discussing the possibility of the location or we may have accidentally missed pasting it to the current community. Better safe than sorry!

There are some changes to the format of Destinations as well so please read The Rundown entry as well as Zoning Laws before adding new places to the community (you do not always have to ask a mod before adding a location too). In short, we are now using player comments for locations. Under each section players can comment with a place to add using the text box for the proper format. Due to the growing size of the City and the fact that locations sometimes need editing, like adding new images or noting a change of owner, we feel that player comments are much more efficient. This way players can easily edit existing comments or delete them entirely and just repost a new one with the additional information.

Locations that are not set-pieces but are on the lists (for example: Pandora's) have been adopted under the old system. They will stay in the body of the entry unless you wish to edit the information. If you need to edit the location, please comment using the text box with images and description. We will then remove the location from the body of the entry and your comment will serve as the defining description of the place.

We appreciate you guys being so patient with us while we work on these updates and changes, thanks again ♥

Rukia? Oi, RUKIA. RUKIA.

Goddamn it.

[ ... ]

Hey, has anybody seen Rukia around here? Short. Black hair. Never shuts up? She hasn't turned up since yesterday.


[[ooc; Somebody pushed Rukia's button, which sent her into the Bizarro City. /o/ ICHIGO IS TIRED OF LOSING HIS RUKIAS.]]