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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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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)

I find myself grateful for the dog. He's a delight, and training him has proven to be a most welcome distraction from everything else going on - the trick parties, the interloping gods, the fear of true loss.

I still see no pattern in how people are able to leave this place. I assume it's because they prove uninteresting to Pheme, though I still can't possibly know the criteria for that. Perhaps I never will. I would like to know what should happen to Bay Star and the mabari if I'm ever sent home. Will someone take care of them? What about Ylva, should Hawke ever be returned to where we both belong?

The danger in building anything like a life here seems to be the potential to abandon it, just as I've abandoned my home.

I don't enjoy feeling so uncertain. Perhaps that is part of what makes me entertaining to her. My pain.

Commander C. Rutherford

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,

The party in the woods was actually fun. Maybe you should step aside and let Dionysus handle things here from now on. If yours is anything like mine, we'll all have a much better time. Not to mention, if yours is anything like mine and you still managed to lose control to him, you're in no position to be in charge of anyone.

Your own parties need work. Did no one ever tell you less is more?

The food is still very lacking.

I still want my bear.

Nadenka Morzova
Scion of Rodina Mat

Lady Pheme,

Fuck you, and the flea-bitten nag you rode in on. I do not appreciate being compelled to do anything, and I know there is nothing else that could have possible made me want to sit down here tonight and unburden myself to you. You're subtle. It's good. Good, but not great, because while I want to write, you can't control what I want to write.

Though I suppose there is one thing here to be genuinely in awe of. Unfortunately for you, it's a man, not one of your illusions, and you have nothing to do with what makes him special. You have nothing to do with anything that's good here. I suspect you know that already. I just want to make sure you know that I know.

Though I do enjoy the way you throw a party. Credit where it's due, the evening was spectacular before you stranded us in your overgrown hedges.

Yennefer of Vengerberg

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