vivarium mods.
vivariummods
01 August 2014 @ 02:15 am
announcements.  
Hello, test subjects! This is a pretty important announcement with lots of things, so please read this carefully:

    ✖ Please welcome Dani, Dee, and Erry to the game! They are our newest test subjects to Vivarium, so introduce yourselves, exchange contact info, plot, and such on here.
      ✖ We will have your Elevator post up momentarily to get you started in the game. With this first puzzle, it will last 3 OOC days and 1 IC day, and we will send out individual private plurks to each one of you for coordinating with the mods for this.

      ✖ We will also send out another private plurk between all three of you to decide which puzzle room you would like to do: the Confinement Room, the Incinerator, or the Infirmary. If any players have suggestions for them, you may comment below!
    ✖ Make sure that you comment to our first Activity Check! Newcomers must also comment, but with the exemption form. This post doubles as a game/mod HMD so please use that too for any concerns.

    ✖ Starting today (Day 10), there will be an approximate of two OOC weeks to take a break from AB Rounds (asides from the one that newly joined will do), but worry not, we will have other events for you to partake in during this time (including ways to gain BP).

    ✖ Everyone, besides the newly arrived characters, will realize that their bracelets will not display any colour or status (SOLO or PAIR). The BP will be a simple grey colour, and there will be nothing underneath it.

    ✖ One of our players, Courtney (Aoi's player), has created a few plurk emoticons for the game, so we thank her for them! They are:

    ✖ We will have our Mario Party game on August 7th, starting at 9PM EST, lasting for 3 OOC days and 1 IC day. We hope to see everyone there!

    ✖ Finally, please make use of our plot/puzzle room suggestions page! We will always love to see what we can all think up of.

Phew, that was a lot. We hope we didn't bore any of you, but as always, if you have any questions or concerns, please use our mod contact page and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you for reading!
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vivarium mods.
vivariummods
31 July 2014 @ 03:08 pm
ACTIVITY CHECK + GAME/MOD HMD  



A C T I V I T Y C H E C K
G A M E / M O D H M D


Hello, test subjects! It's time for our first Activity Check and HMD.

This post will double as Vivarium and mod HMD. If you have any critiques or things you want to mention, this is where you comment. Let us know if how we're doing, good or bad, and what you would like to see in the game. Anonymous will be turned on, IP Logging off, so do not hesitate to let us know for anything.

As for the Activity Check, we are still a rather new game, so these requirements may not be set in stone, depending on the feedback we get and how the game progresses. Now, without further ado:

For full AC, you must:
    ✖ Complete every puzzle room or have 10 comments from you in every puzzle room.

    ✖ Have submitted a vote for every AB Voting round.

    ✖ Have one thread with 10 comments from you outside of puzzle rooms, or two threads totaling 15 comments.
      ✖ If you would like to use your AB game pair thread, you will need to use it as part of the latter option.

    ✖ Have these tags within the following time span: July 1st - August 7th.

You have reduced AC if:
    ✖ You were accepted mid-month.

    ✖ You were on a hiatus for less than a month.


For reduced AC, you must:
    ✖ Complete every puzzle room or have 10 comments from you in every puzzle room that was put up when you were not on hiatus.

    ✖ Have submitted a vote for every AB Voting round that was put up when you were not on hiatus.

    ✖ Have one thread with 10 comments from you outside of puzzle rooms, or two threads totaling 15 comments.

    ✖ Have these tags within the following time span: July 1st - August 7th.

You are exempt if:
    ✖ You were accepted in the first week of the month.

    ✖ You were on hiatus for a whole month.


Please copy-paste the following form that is relevant to you, and comment below. Everyone must comment, including exempt characters.

Full AC
Reduced AC
Exemption

Activity must be posted by 11:59PM EST on August 7, 2014.
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vivarium mods.
vivariummods
20 July 2014 @ 12:45 am
announcements.  
Hello, test subjects! We have a few announcements today, so please give this post a quick read! A few points have been covered in our plurk, but we will address it here again.
    ✖ Our new teams are:
      RED SOLO - Zelos Wilder
      BLUE SOLO - Clive Dove
      GREEN SOLO - Kotetsu T. Kaburagi

      RED PAIR - Ema Skye & Snake
      BLUE PAIR - Hershel Layton & Jake Muller
      GREEN PAIR - Aoi Asahina & Heiji Hattori
    ✖ The next AB Game will be on July 20 at 6PM EST.

    ✖ We now have a map of the warehouse's first floor.

    ✖ Characters now have access to the Lounge Room.

    ✖ We will be creating a post in the main comm titled 'Movie Night', where all the characters will be watching The Room. We will have a thread for pre-movie, during the movie (with a link to the stream to watch OOCly), and post-movie interactions. For this stream, it will be an IC chatroom, which will later be copy-pasted in a comment or two in the post for records. This leads to the...

    ✖ Survey: We will like to hear from everyone what times they are available to watch the movie OOCly. It is not mandatory, but if you would like to partake in it, we would love to hear your availability! Our two choices at the moment are Friday and Saturday evenings (EST). Let us know what times you are available to watch (the movie will take a maximum of two hours), and we will go with a majority vote, or a time that works with most people. Please comment below to let us know!

    ✖ For those in the queue, please do not fret! We have not forgotten you, and we are working on coming up with a solution to involve everyone. We thank you for being patient!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please use our mod contact page and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you for reading!
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vivarium mods.
vivariummods
09 July 2014 @ 06:59 pm
announcements.  
Hello, test subjects! Welcome to our first week of Vivarium, and thank you for joining! We have a few announcements for today, so please give this post a quick read.

    ✖ You may begin posting to the [community profile] vivarium community. We have created tags for every character in the game, so please make sure that you tag your posts, whenever you create one or comment.

    ✖ We will be holding one AB Game every week, with our first one starting this Friday at 6PM EST. It will contain both the puzzle room and voting sections, and will be spanned over three OOC days and one IC day.

    ✖ We have decided that all characters will be given a "starter pack". This pack will be a simple drawstring bag, containing one water bottle, one loaf of bread, one can of baked beans (with an easy open end, so no need for a can opener), and a small pair of sewing scissors. This starter pack will be given after Calhoun finishes explaining the rules in this thread.
      ✖ This is a one-time, non-replaceable gift, so the food is suppose to last the character until they reach 9 BP to gain access to the cafeteria. As for the water bottles, they are easily refillable with the water fountain next to the cafeteria door. However, as of this time, the door leading to the cafeteria and water fountain is closed, and will open after our first AB Game. As for the sewing scissors? It's a little extra that Calhoun has thrown in, if anyone wants to start threatening/stabbing others for whatever reason. He thought people might appreciate it.

    ✖ Finally, we would like to hear your thoughts on how our first "puzzle room" has turned out, aka the Elevator. What did you think? Did you enjoy it? Were there some flaws you've noticed? What should we change for future puzzle rooms? Please let us know any thoughts you've had, whether positive or negative, so we know if it went in the right direction or not. Anonymous commenting has been enabled, so please do not be afraid to leave some negative feedback!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please use our mod contact page and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you for reading!
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vivarium mods.
vivariummods
05 July 2014 @ 01:30 pm
ooc introductions.  






Hello, Nonary Game players! Vivarium is now open, so we would like to welcome you to the game. We thank you for joining and we hope that you'll have a wonderful time here.

Use this post to introduce yourself, add others, scream, you name it. Everyone's OOC contact info is here, but feel free to share it again, or mention other ways you can be easily contacted!

This post will double as this month's CR plotting meme, so please make full use of it!

Thank you again, and have a nice trick!
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vivarium mods.
vivariummods
06 June 2014 @ 03:00 pm
test drive.  


TEST DRIVE


Want to test out the setting? Not sure if your character is a good fit? Need to start gathering some samples? You know how it goes:

    → Comment with the character's name and series in the subject.
    → Pick an option or make your own.
    → Tag around.
    → Enjoy yourself!!


The Test Drive will be open up until Vivarium opens on July 5th. Check out these helpful links to get a sense of the game:

G A M E  L I N K S

 R E S O U R C E S
    You're awake. You're lying on a cold floor, and your head is pounding. It feels like you've been hit with a sledgehammer. You can barely move, but you push yourself up anyway, and look around. You're in an unfamiliar warehouse, and on your left wrist is a bracelet. It feels heavy, and no matter how hard you tug at it, it refuses to come off. You can't remember how you arrived here, nor do you recognize anyone else. Try not to panic too much.

    ( For the purposes of the Test Drive, characters will be arriving in the warehouse instead of the Elevator/AB Room)

    An Ambidex Game has just concluded. You have entered in your vote and there's no turning back. Did you trust your opponent and vote ally? Or did you double-cross them and vote betray? What did your opponent do? Did they vote betray while you voted ally, or did they vote ally while you voted betray? Why did you choose one or the other? Just what did you do?

    Rules are meant to be broken. You've just reached a certain amount of BP, and you can finally have access to food (low or high quality) or to the dorms. It's great, things are getting a bit more bearable now, but seeing the others without the same "luxuries" as you, you feel like you should do something. It's against the rules to bring food or blankets out of their respective rooms, but Zero can't have eyes everywhere... can he?

    Exploration and Escape. All the windows are bolted shut, and all the doors are locked. The exit is through the number 9 door, but no one can reach it until they have 63 BP. It'll take too long to wait for help to arrive, and to accumulate that many points. There must be some way out. Maybe if you search enough, you can find a tool to help you break down a door.

    Wild Card. Want to try something else? Go for it! Have your own AB Game round, have characters argue against each other, try to keep the mood cheery, whatever! Make full use of the environment and mechanics, just remember to keep it within the game's structure.


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