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Alright players! We're officially opening the call for places you might enjoy visiting in space. What sort of planet ideas might you have? Anything from very general ideas (a planet where they can only visit the dark side) to more specific (a habitable planet with a great city built over a glittering late), to even more detailed. Please let us know!


We take any amount of suggestion you might have to throw at us. More details or even suggestions of what sorts of adventures you want to go on are all welcome. Help us make the best adventures, now and in the future, that we can!

Hello All, AC time approaches. And with it comes your AC reminder list for March’s Activity Check-In. You have until 11:59 PM Pacific (UTC-8) April7th to get your AC in.

Please check these lists, see if one of your characters (or those of your friends) are on it, and make sure to complete your Activity Check. This list will update as people turn in their AC, so we'll see you on the other side!

AC Needed
Alec Lightwood
Leonardo
Madoka Takatori
Stu Macher
Tony Stark
Winter Soldier

Strike Needing Cleared
N/A

If you have already submitted AC for one of these character, please let us know in the comment below.

Preparing For The Road Ahead

Suggestions were put forth. Information was shared. A quiet means of weighing in was offered after He Rows took a chance to publicly comment on what they thought was the best choice going forth. And so the answer finally came, a decision settled upon.

Which means it’s time for action on a few fronts. Thankfully some guidance was quick to come once all of the He Rows relayed their decision up to the ship itself. Venidelosia, or Losia to anyone who was not Tony Stark, had been silent for a few hours before at last sending back a message.
( A Message To Plan )

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This game is a spin-off from the closed The Drift Fleet game. For more information about the game, including more details on the setting, please check out the FAQ here or the premise here.

A thread on the TDM will be required for all applications. Please view the FAQ for information about how this works. Any questions about the game please direct to the comment section of the FAQ as well.

If you are a Drift Fleet alumni bringing your character from the game, please label your character as 'DFAU' on your top level. Also, keep in mind you have complete flexibility on how your character comes here. They could be taken before endgame, after endgame, two years after, one year before, etc. It's up to you! If you want to completely restart your character, they're not considered DFAU anymore and won't need the label.

So go! Explore Agra 10! And, as always, HAVE FUN!

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Thank you all for your patience, and for weighing in during the last post. Players have definitely given us a lot to work with regarding what you think the future path of the game should be, and we feel like a lot of your general opinions have already been shared in a way that helped us refine this poll. Refine it enough that we've actually changed the general shape of the questions.

Below you will find two threads for you to respond to: one OOC, one IC. Players are asked to vote in both. Please comment once in OOC to express your feelings about the options offered there. For the IC poll you may either vote separately with each character account or once for all characters. If you are doing the latter, please provide a small summary of each response if you are choosing to go the extra mile to explain your reasoning.

All responses are screened. All current players (hiatus or otherwise) are encouraged to vote. At the moment this poll is aimed to end on March 14th. If more time is needed an extension will be made and an announcement tied to it. Votes can be changed at any time during the process by editing your original comment.


Thank you for voting and for all the wonderful fun and engagement you bring to our community.

Alright all.

You've had some time to look over the January event and learn the sorts of tensions that have been boiling up among the Agrii. So now the question comes to the fore.

What do you do about it?


The decisions players make in the face of what has passed will affect the future arcs of the game. So we encourage players to take the time here to share the information their characters learned, discuss the meaning of it in relationship to what was learned from November's event, and discuss what path they want to take.

At the moment the Mods see three possible actions for the players to take. That does not mean these are all of the options, and we will respect whatever the majority of the players choose. There will be a poll post put up later this week to help resolve the question. But for now we see these options:

1. Resettle Agrii on Agra-10. This would require the storms tapering off a bit more and then bringing Agrii down in phases. He Rows would have to help make the city more suitable for their use and teach them how to work together as a society. This may also require making peace between them and various plantkin species.

2. Investigate whether the Agrii are from another place entirely. Information gained in November seems to imply that the Agrii population was moved to this planet rather than being native. If so, He Rows could potentially see about finding their true origins to help decide what the proper long term answer may be.

3. Give the Agrii all of the information you have gathered and ask them to make the choice. He Rows have gained a lot of information about the Agrii and their history with Agra-10. About how they were brought here, about how they were trained to serve a relatively unknown purpose, about how their food is being laced with sedatives, about a lot of things really. There is always the option of presenting all of this to the Agrii people and seeing what they want to do with what you have learned. Of course one does not know with their recent violence how this might play out.

4. Kick the metaphorical can down the road. This is the 'wait and see' method. Basically He Rows do what they can to resolve current tensions, then set about their own purposes. For those who don't really know what would be best or who maybe want more data before deciding anything.

Please use this post (and only this post, we want all players to have access no matter where they normally gather) to discuss a) what information your characters have found, b) their IC opinion on what they would want, and c) your OOC opinion on what you'd like.

We want to make player desire an important part of this, and if the majority of in character opinions want one option but the majority of out of character opinions want another, we'll find a way to defer to the OOC choice because that will always be 1 player 1 vote as opposed to potentially being weighted toward players with more characters.


Also, we are very happy to welcome player ideas for other methods their characters would put forth to resolve the issue. You're creative people, and you or your characters may think of angles we were not prepared for but would be happy to facilitate.



Good Day, He Rows, and please, discuss.

Of Stowaways And Strife
Well, looks like this year is rolling in for the Agrii and He Rows alike with a bang! As is seen in the special event part two Mingle Post, a lot happens starting on the 15th. The Wanderer has joined the party, upsetting the Agrii who don’t understand it. Violence has truly broken out on the ship, and the He Rows may be the only ones able to restore order.

The question is, have you the will, the skill, and perhaps even the knowledge to restore something resembling peace? Because there’s no way you can just leave the Agrii ship without getting things a bit more stable here. Why? Because the Ship’s AI has put a control lock down on the Glitter Food and the Peanut Party. No returning to atmosphere for you until some sort of peace has been reached.

So it’s up to the He Rows to step in, deal with emergencies as they crop up, and restore order. Or, you know, make it worse. We don’t doubt that some He Rows are more than capable of turning things in that direction if it really moves them to do so. And with just how many directions things are being pulled in, who knows what people can get away with right now.

What is clear is that the factions are alive and well, there is violence breaking out, someone’s releasing the perpetrators (because do we even know of Agrii who could override ship commands), and on top of it all, the Wanderer is walking merrily through it all of it taking notes. It’s learning so much about Speaking Animals right now.

But that’s the situation as it stands. Time for the He Rows to act. Well, it seems like reacting might be the first order of business, but they’ve clearly got to act as well if they ever want of this ship.

( Lets get to the FAQ )

Today is the final day to submit your New Tick Gift Lists.

This is hereby your final reminder to get requests submitted!

Mod Churby Note: My apologies for how late this is. Things got complicated.


An End to Storms?

Slowly but surely exploration teams filter back to the safe area of the Warrens where their companions await. They have been on their quests, they have seen systems shut down or destroyed. Their actions may provoke hope, or may have left destruction in their wake. In the hands of each successful party rests a small device. More information is the hope. Answers to the storms, or to the Agrii, or who knows what.

A bit after the exploration teams the first crew returns. They have seen things. Learned things. And hopefully they have achieved one of the core tasks that He Rows have had before them since the first day they set foot upon Agra-10. There is a chance that the storms might end now. Perhaps just as importantly, they return with a Smooolsher down a few charges, a large machine disabled, and a device that will enable them to read the smaller devices brought back by the other teams.

Now all that needs to happen is a decoding.

Good thing the He Rows have a lot of spare time while they wait for the Wanderkin and the other Plantkin to announce that travel back to the surface is safe. All it takes is time and the work of the Communications He Rows.

And oh, the information you learn.

So a new set of questions might arise in He Rows. A new realization that, quite possibly, the best way you can help the Agrii isn't by following their wills. But do you really wish to ignore their desires? What is the best path going forward? Surely the He Rows will need to work together to figure out just what their future goals in regards to the Agrii should be.

Then, at long last, almost a month after heading into the Warrens, the news comes. The Wanderer returns amid many dancing Funfronds with news. The storm at the surface has diminished. It flickers and fades, the creatures it woke melting back into the dirt and mud they seemed to awaken from. Already snow begins to fall upon the surface, and there is safety to be had there once more. The Wanderer offers to guide He Rows back to the surface, but conveys for the Funfronds that the Warrens will remain accessible to them from now on. They will always have shelter among the little ones. All that is asked is that He Rows avoid the Warrens during the autumn of every third year, as this is the sporing time, and the elder Funfronds and their new sprouts need the space then. Allowing them the space this year was a unique allowance and made the sporing Funfronds nervous.

As warned, upon returning to the mines and then the surface, Temba is colder now. There is a layer of dirt and dust and mud over many places that the prior zombies were around, so cleaning is going to be needed. But otherwise the city is once more the domain of the He Rows for the passage of the winter. The Wanderkin itself wanders off toward the greenhouse, no doubt seeking some place warm to pass its winter as it continues to study the culture of the He Rows.

Winter will be a slow and quiet thing, with nothing more than standard snow. It falls and builds up in mounds and banks. The snow clearing droids return from wherever they went into hiding at the end of last winter, and the city streets and paths are cleared. This might well be the most peaceful winter any He Row has seen in Temba. At least for now. After all, there should be no more storms, right?

Take the free time you have, snuggle up with some warmth, and prepare for what you know is coming next. New Tick approaches and the Agrii like to force festiveness upon you. Though maybe if you want your gifts you might not want to debate with the Agrii over the future until after you've gotten them.

Sorry for not having an official post just yet on the end of the November Event. We'll get to that as soon as we can. But the short version is that characters will be able to return to the surface starting on December 12th. Weather will be temperamental with frequent snowfall and occasional freezing rain. The Street Sweeper/Shovel bots introduced last winter will indeed be active this year, and with roads in a better state, the main paths in the central part of Temba will still be mostly navigable.


And as a reminder, New Tick Approaches. Please read more about it here. Due to reduced reminders this year, players will have an extended period of time to input their requests. Requests will be extended until December 31st.


Finally, December is Check-in Only for all players. Please remember to check-in. If you do it sooner, less chance you'll forget.