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This is the permanent AC/check-in page for the game.

Upon acceptance into the game you will need to leave a comment with your character's name and canon in the subject field.

AC for The Ton is a little different than what you might normally expect. While we want to make this game casual and not go all out with a full blown activity check, in order to keep things a little more engaged and fun, once a month characters must submit an in-character journal entry. There is no lower or upper limit as to the length of this journal entry, it simply needs to cover the character's thoughts and feelings about what has taken place for them over the course of the month. Feel free to make them as flavorful as you'd like! These entries may also serve as information for Lady Pheme's scandal sheet - unless you have specified that a certain topic is off-limits in her opt-out page.

This must be done over the last seven days of the month with the deadline being 12.01 EST on the very last day of that month. Failure to do so will result in your character being swept from the game. You must check-in with your individual characters.

If you miss check-in due to extenuating circumstances then please use the mod contact page to let us know.

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Pheme,

I suppose this compulsion to write is another little gift from you. Well, if you truly want to hear my thoughts, I will give them to you. This place is terrible, but I'm sure you already knew that. Your amusement is not my concern or my responsibility, and I am needed elsewhere. Which you would know, if you were a goddess. So you are either a pretender, or an idiot who does not realize that if the worlds end and we are unmade, it will ripple out and impact even you and this little bubble you've built to hide in. It may take a while, but you will be ripped to shreds just like the rest of us.

Charm school, really? This is how I truly know you're not actually omniscient, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to figure it out. You sent me to classes in order to learn things I already know, to get over a fear of horses I do not have, to learn to play instruments I've already mastered, to learn to speak in a way I could at any time if I wished to. If you truly want to observe us for entertainment, why not just spy on us through windows in liminal spaces like other bored minor gods? I can teach you how. Animals in the wild are always far more interesting than those in captivity.

The weather is pleasant.

The food needs improvement.

I still want my bear.

Nadenka Morzova
Scion of Rodina Mat

Pheme—

I'm 27 years old, I have attended functions and parties without needing charm school for years. Okay, yeah, the needlework was kind of fun but seriously?

Also what the fuck was that with the dreams? I have bad enough dreams on my own I don't need them being projected to my friends.

Sincerely,
Fuck you.

Edited 2023-05-30 02:39 (UTC)

Dear Pheme,

How honored I would be to meet your lovely presence, my lady! ♡ It has been a delight to be invited here and to be gifted with the chance to meet the most gracious of women.

If I can be honest, though, I don't think I can be married.

I was almost married once, not too long ago. Pudding-chan was nothing less than wonderful, even if our families had tried to kill one another. But, in the end, my place is on the Thousand Sunny as a cook, making sure that Luffy becomes the Pirate King. I made the mistake of abandoning my crew once, I don't think I can do it again. I wouldn't forgive myself this time if I did.

If it isn't too much to ask, I've included another letter behind this one. Would you possibly be able to get it back to the ship?

Your humble servant,
Sanji

[ attached letter: ]

Dear Nami-san and Robin-chan,

I know I only just came back, but I didn't mean to leave again. I'm with the shitty Marimo this time. Don't worry; I'm looking after him. He was hopeless before I showed up, but I'm keeping him fed and making sure he doesn't get lost.

I'm sorry I can't be there to cook for you, but I hope you don't mind me being gone for just a bit longer. If the other idiots cause any trouble for you, I'll personally take care of it when I'm back.

I might be in a bit of trouble though. I think my heart's been stolen. Have you ever wandered into a garden of the prettiest flowers but there's one you can't seem to take your eyes away from? Where your heart feels so much fuller just be looking at it? It's a bit like that.

No, I promise I'm not running off for a woman again. I won't abandon the crew.

I'm your love cook for always! ♡
Sanji

Por La Diosa Elegante, Pheme,

First, I did not properly thank you for returning me to the land of the living. I'm sure that this gift does not come without its conditions, which I would not be against discussing with you at a later date, however I hope that I am right to assume that a Lady as gracious as you wouldn't take back a gift when the conditions weren't clearly given, yes?

Anyway, what is it they say - You are never too old to learn something? In this case, I had a very enjoyable time in our little diversion to the academy. As a boy, I always dreamed of riding horses like the knights and princes in fairy tales, of daring sword fights and beautiful señoritas swooning over my skill with a lance.

Well, while there weren't any jousting lessons, I did get to ride a horse, and impress some beautiful señoritas, so I will count it as a success.

I look forward to seeing what else you have in store for us.

Muchas gracias,
Luis

Dear Lady Pheme,

I thank you for the opportunity to further my skills and studies with this little getaway. I feel I've advanced both my skills in fashion and conversation, as well as my ties towards my fellow "expats" as I have heard people call us. You've certainly created a peculiar little world, but I so look forward to learning more about it and the people I have been privileged to associate with.

Yours cordially,
Genya Safin

Dear Pheme,

I didn't really enjoy school. I'd never been to school before, because Mama taught me things instead, and I was sort of excited about trying it out. But it sucked. People kept criticizing the way I talk, like just because they pronounce stuff different than me they're better than me. Not cool at all. I don't think there's anything wrong with the way I talk, and I'm not going to change it either!

So maybe I didn't go to class as much as I should, but I totally went and I totally learned some stuff. And I did make some new friends, so that part was pretty great. There was this really cool tree. And I learned some interesting things, I guess. But the boys had way more fun classes since they got to punch each other.

Anyway, I wanted to say thank you for bringing Molly here. It's been really good to see him again, and I've missed him a lot.

I still really miss Fjord, but it's not really fair for me to want him to be here.

I've been doing a lot of painting and art stuff. For lots of different people and for myself too.

Love,

Jester

Dear Pheme

I avoided a kidnapping (the second you've employeed, by the way) by some strangers in a carriage, and enjoyed a picnic for those left behind. Planned, in part, by my retainer. I don't know why you simply didn't ask us to attend. It would have been a little more polite.

H.

Edited (Hit post too soon) 2023-05-31 12:28 (UTC)

Dear Pheme

I don't suppose you had something better to do than send us off to finishing school. I spent my time learning skills I'd already honed quite sharply, thank you. But I did learn some... unexpected things.

Lady Cassandra Johanna von Musel Klossowski de Rolo, Guardian of Woven Stone

Dear Pheme,

I got a tooth to pick with you.

Seriously you put us through all that bullshit only to in the end go PSYKES, you don't have to care about any of that anyway! I'm bored of it! We bore you? WE BORE YOU? You mess around and turn me into a woman and have us learn all these rules but we didn't dance right for you, huh? Didn't do exactly as you wanted?

Just send us all home instead. You're such a damn joke.

Arriving in this place too late to be any help against a threat, but just in time to fall ill was not the best way to begin an endeavour. Getting webbed feet and sprouting scales on my neck should have been the most unsettling thing to happen to me here. It was not. At least many of your other kidnap victims are kind hearted individuals willing to care for a near stranger, though I suppose that says quite a bit about them and almost nothing about you.

It feels strange to offer you anything like help, but I also find myself wondering why you kept such secrecy around a subject as innocuous as a school. I suppose I should be grateful for it, since I would have gotten in the carriage if I had known where it was going, and being stuck in a place preaching such ridiculous gender roles would be more than I would have been able to bear. It really is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life, to feel that women are in any way inferior to men, or need our protection. I assure you they are perfectly capable of handling their lives on their own. Though I suppose what we think means very little to you. We are merely entertainment, after all.

I appreciate having my horse. I assume that was you, and my butler was just the messenger. I feel that I should be suspicious over any show of consideration, but I find myself far too tired to care. So I won't look too deeply and will simply say thank you for Bay Star, and only for him.

Commander C. Rutherford

Edited (typo) 2023-07-01 03:41 (UTC)

Dear Pheme,

I was never granted a formal education growing up. Of course, I had tutors, and I learned how to read, write, and speak several languages, but the finer points of being a lady I fear were lost on me. I feel like I learned a few things, things I don't even think the people in the land of my birth observe, but all the same they were things that will serve me well, not only here but when I return to my homeland.

I do wish that I had my children here with me, at the very least. I long to fly again.

-Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen

Dear Pheme,

Thank you for kidnapping me and forcing me to learn the pretentious rules of high society again. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Just because I went along with it doesn't mean I've accepted the role you want me to play, far from it. You can take back the extra points I received during the courting class for properly caring for a distraught lady. I did it for her, not because it's what society expects of me. Oh, and stay the hell out of my dreams. I only tolerate one godly presence in my head and it's not a capricious god with a shallow appreciation for color like you.

The eternal rebel,
Altair

Edited 2023-06-01 00:55 (UTC)

Lady Pheme, mia bella principessa.

I hope you have been doing well, you're a beauty who deserves everything and would love to give as much as I could. This place is very lovely, the gardens, the housing and everything that comes along with it. I had forgotten how mild the weather was around this era, I hope that one day you'll join me for a stroll. Until next time my darling, please take care.

Edited 2023-06-01 03:35 (UTC)

Dear Lady Pheme.
Thank you for the unlimited booze, but what the actual fuck?? Stop telling us we have to wear full dress, because Chanel keeps taking it literally and it's suffocating me. Stop it. Stop it right now. And also, why is my grandfather here? I mean, he's fuckin' adorable I can't handle it. But also, it's hard to act natural around him, because I don't want to be responsible for his second death. Get a TV and chill out with your crazy twists, you're not M. Night Shyamalan.