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Type: Text
Sender ID: seasaltkeys (Roxas)
To: Everyone
Subject: Monster Hunt
Warnings: n/a, will adjust if necessary

I'm going after the giant moth

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A FROZEN CITY

This closed log is for the group who signed up to follow up the flower crystals from last month. All threads are worth 12 points.

Along with the four volunteers who signed up (Turo, Shadow, Sherlock, Emet-Selch), a large group of researchers will head through the gate into "Ainomiad's Tundra." In the past year, the staging area has become more developed and the passages through the cavern more well marked and secured. Buildings have been constructed, capable of withstanding the cold, and scholars have been hard at work studying what's within the caverns.

The group will make their way to the deepest part, known as the "heart of the caverns," and will be surprised to find the frozen island that had disappeared in the middle of the frozen lake. It takes the place of the small shrine-like structure that was originally there, and a different pedestal now stands where the tree once stood on the island. The spirit from before will also make a reappearance, and perhaps those who interacted with the joyful and sad spirits will find some resemblance in her. The spirit will guide the group to place the orchid onto the pedestal, and upon doing so the frozen surface will shimmer a dark, rosy pink.

Watching, the spirit will smile and quietly whisper, "She will awaken soon…" before disappearing.

However, before anyone can react further, the entire cavern trembles, a strange dragon-like shadow seemingly swimming over its surface before a large crack forms on the back wall and a large portion breaks off, creating a new opening. From it, a blast of cold air floods the room, carrying an unearthly sorrowful wail before it dies down into silence.

Time to explore this new cavern!

The first area they pass through will be a long, dark tunnel that opens up into a huge cavern filled with tall, icy columns forming a catacomb of sorts filled with frozen remains scattered throughout. Because of the frigid temperatures, there is little to no sign of decay, and even the blood that had pooled beneath the bodies seem to have frozen in place, staining the frozen ground. The bodies are all riddled with wounds, the clothing of the fallen mostly or two different uniforms to clearly mark that the remains here are of soldiers or fighters. Who were the defenders and who were the invaders is unclear, especially as they are of different people and races, humans and beastfolk alike. But some bear an orchid insignia on their sleeve, similar to the flower seen in the temple.

The passage through will remain eerie and silent, however the deeper they go, some may hear the whispers of anguish and regret echo against the icy walls, the occasional sobs of those who mourned the fallen. They may even notice dried flowers and pennants, perhaps those who had come to leave tributes. Pictures of loved ones pressed into frozen hands. And eventually, pink candles float over the bodies, casting long shadows on the walls and the ceiling—shadows that seem to come to life and reenact the battles that must have occurred. It's then they may get a clue that this "cavern" may not have always been a cavern—that the icy columns they passed are not ice, but frozen trees.

Be careful—the shadows may move and enter the corpses to make them move and attack. The shadows may also try to lure them closer to the walls, pretending to be reflections of loved ones or a stranger trapped in the ice to drag them in instead.

As if to guide them past, pink flowers will float in the air to light the way. Should they manage to get past the catacombs, the group will see in the distance a frozen city, a dome made of either ice or glass over it. The buildings within are somewhat preserved, but damage from attacks can be visible even from a distance. Once they reach the entrance, they will need to get through the massive gate that seals it off.

Once inside the city, the group will find that it is frigid and it will be clear that lingering too long without proper gear or warmth would be dangerous. Fortunately there is some tech and supplies available back at base camp, so returning to resupply may be the wiser course of action if they do not have anything or can make something on hand. Since the group is small, the main objective is reconnaissance and to get a feel for what may be found in the city. Everyone needs to pair off and is given a flare to use in case of trouble. Here is what they may find and need to be careful of.

🌸 Flower crystals. Floating around here and there are flower crystals not too dissimilar to the ones that appeared during Winterstide. They tend to center around homes or places where people once gathered. Once touched, they will play a vision of a memory of what occurred in the place, usually a warm memory that depicts a fragment of the city's past.

🧟 Frozen enemies. The shadows from before will be lurking around here, and frozen remains will shamble along not to attack, but to try and grab onto people as if to keep them and drag them into the ice. They will even sing sorrowful songs, as if to trap their victim in mourning a dark moment in their life. There are other monsters such as ice golems that will attack, so watch out for those, too.

🐺 Snow wolves. Fortunately, there will be some assistance in the form of snow wolves. Their coats are so pure in white they could easily be mistaken as ghosts…and it's still not clear if these wolves are spirits or not. Regardless, they will help guide and protect those who may need it.

🔔 Belltower. In the distance at the highest point of the city, something can be seen shining high atop a belltower. Reach it to discover another secret of this city.

deepstar posting in

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Who: Claude/Khalid + You
Status: Open
Where: Varies
What: MANTA questing
Warnings: TBD

( ...when the sky kisses the sun )

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Type: Text
Sender ID: encoreinthedeep (Ulpianus)
To: Everyone
Subject: Return
Warnings: None

Requesting all available information on how to return to my own world.

[ He sends this message within ten seconds of receiving his shellphone. ]

seaboards posting in

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CR WORKSHIP: JANUARY 2026

Our ~~CR Meme~~ CR Workship is where players can drop all the cool info for their characters and try to plot with others to continue existing or create new CR. Be sure to look over the MANTA Board as well as current events if you'd like to include them in your post.

To help coordinate specific plots for players, we have a few designated toplevels that can be used to highlight particular plots, scenarios, etc. These can be useful for players who may not want to write a full comment but have ideas. Players who do write full CR comments can still use these toplevels and link their comment if you have your ideas in there instead.

Crew Recruitment. Players can make OOC ad posts for others to join, looking to join, or make a crew. This is all for OOC coordination, so you'll have to figure out how it works ICly.
Side Plotting. This is for any personal plots or MANTA Board quests that require more coordination, perhaps to bring about a resolution or make an important discovery of some kind. Like with the Event toplevel, this is NOT for generic plotting that would fit a general meme comment.
Help Me Plot! Have a plot idea you want to do but have no idea how to go about and do it? You can try and workshop it here!

If you have multiple characters, make an individual toplevel for yourself with your player info and comment to it with each character separately.

PLAYER INFO

Player:
Contact: Preferred means of contact

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Character
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair

About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits—whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.

Abilities: Include both canon and abilities you'd like to develop through the tattoo.

PLANS

General: Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board?
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?

CR Dreams: What kind of CR do you wish to have? Include what you can offer with your character as well.

Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. NOTE: we have an image code for players to use as it will fix the width of the image to 400px. This is so large images don't take up entire pages. If your image is smaller than that you can remove the code, otherwise please use the code.

IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE CHARACTERS, create your own toplevel and comment with each character separately to it. Include your name in the subject line. Although not specifically included, you are more than welcome to write up a greeting message along with the form!

SUBJECT LINE: CHARACTER | CANON | ARMADA

PLAYER INFO

<div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;">Player:
Contact: Preferred means of contact
</div>

CHARACTER INFO

<div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;">Character: Character
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair

About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits, whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.

Abilities: Include both canon and abilities you'd like to develop through the tattoo. 
</div>

PLANS

<div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;">General: Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board? DELETE IF NOT USING
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?

CR Dreams: What kind of CR do you wish to have? Include what you can offer with your character as well.

Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. IF POSTING AN IMAGE OR GIF, USE THE FOLLOWING CODE. We want all images to be MAX 400px in width or it's going to screw up the page.
<img src="IMGURL" width="400">
</div>

seaboards posting in

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PLAYER INTRO: JANUARY 2026

YO HO AND AHOY EVERYONE! This post is our catchall gathering place for all new and old players to meet and greet. Introduce yourself and the character you're bringing in, giving us whatever info you feel comfortable with! Don't forget to join the Discord server if you haven't already! The invite code will be in the app notice.

The CR Workship is also available for you to post into or check out and try to plot with others on there. Be sure to read our recent Captain's Log for any important announcements.

Have fun, and welcome!

oathkeeper posting in

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Who: Sora & Friends
Status: Closed.
Where: Where these threads take place.
What: A catch-all log for Sora for the month of January! Feel free to wild card me or find me at

michrure at for some plotting.
Warnings: Tba.

( rather go out in a blaze of glory i can't hear you, i don't fear you )

scooba posting in

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Type: Text
Sender ID: Pers, Freminet
To: Everyone
Subject: Who wants to talk about the ocean?
Warnings: N/A

I'm sorry about this but is there anyone who wants to talk about the ocean?

[Happy now, Sherlock?? He's talking about this!!]

emet_sulk posting in

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Who: Emet-Selch and anyone!
Status: Open
Where: Eltrut mostly, but wherever the MANTA takes him
What: Emet takes his new cerberpup for an Adventure, hears the call of the fleas, is bamboozled by that 'horse', and then gets his core ability stolen by a certain octopus. What a Month (it's barely been a week, captain).
Warnings: Tentacle torture?? Why is it always tentacles.

(Will match format)

( Read more )

garudas posting in

escordvi

Who: Benedikta Harman & Cidolfus Telamon.
Status: Closed.
Where: Places.
What: Some MANTA stuff, and a very important conversation.
Warnings: cute dogs

( we're burning together. )

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Type: Text
Sender ID: emet_sulk (Emet-Selch)
To: Public
Subject: Who made this?
Warnings: Cursed horse

[ It's just a photograph taken of one of this month's bounty targets and presented with nothing more than a simple, terse message: ]

Who made this?

sunsetking posting in

escordvi

Who: Leona and YOU
Status: Open with some closed
Where: Wherever these threads take place
What: Leona's actually working his ass off dealing with ink and haunted estates
Warnings: Potential body horror?

( In the jungle the might jungle... )

haveaflare posting in

escordvi

Who: Dion Lesage and YOU
Status: Open and Closed
Where: Where these threads take place
What: Some open and closed threads for the month of January, including MANTA prompts and Dion practicing with a weapon he hasn't used in years
Warnings: None as of yet, but I'll update when necessary!

(OOC: If you're interested in a customized prompt or would like to start your own thing, you can find me on plurk and discord at vikael or PM Dion's account! I'm also always open to Wildcards, so you can just start your own thing if that's more your style!)

astudyinviolet posting in

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Who: Sherlock and others
Status: Open
Where:Eltrut, MANTA Locations
What: Jan. 1 is when a certain two met for the first time. Jan. 6 is someone's birthday. Sherlock has a sad week. Also MANTA quest stuff for the month
Warnings: none at the moment...

( Yeah, hope only hurts so I just forget it )

seawarden posting in

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CAPTAIN'S LOG #29: JANUARY 1, 2026

( QUICK UPDATES )

( AC RESULTS )

( EXTRA NOTES )

( PLAYER PLOTS )

( FUTURE SUB PLOTS INTEREST CHECK )

( LAST WORDS )

seawarden posting in

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MANTA BOARD: JANUARY 2026

The MANTA Board is posted every month, but the quests are on a "2 month cycle." This means quests can last for two months with possible updates or new additions in the second month before it completely refreshes for the next cycle. Players can do older quests so long as they did not have some kind of resolution or time limit on them.

Quests are separated into five categories and all have flat point values: General (4pts), Corsair (4pts), Paladin (4pts), Bounties (6pts), and Specials (12pts). Crew quests are listed under "Specials" and are worth the same amount of points (12pts). Although these quests are intended for established crews, non-members are allowed to assist if the crew invites them. However, non-members would only receive 6pts. Similarly, characters helping opposing armada quests will only be rewarded 2pts for participation unless specified otherwise. Special quests won't always be available so it may appear blank at times. These can range from group quests such as for special ship upgrades or island related quests, or they could be special event quests. All quest points can be used for the Rewards Shop.

If you wish to submit a quest, comment in the appropriate field during Activity Check with the quest written and we'll add it to the next month! Crews are also still allowed to make their own quests without our approval, but if uncertain players can comment here about them.

If you have any questions regarding any current quest, comment to this entry.

( MANTA BOARD )

reindered posting in

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Type: text
Sender ID: reindered (Tony Tony Chopper)
To: Open/Public
Subject: Resolutions
Warnings: None off the top of my head??

it's a new year! and people usually have goals, dreams, for the new year, right? so, tell me! we can help each other make them come true! that's what we're doing at home, my crew. we all have our dreams. like luffy wanting to be the pirate king and find the one piece, the treasure that gol.d. roger hid. or nami wanting to make a map of the whole world. sanji wants to cook with ingredients from all the different oceans. and i want to be the best doctor in the world, so i can treat anyone who needs help. so this year, i want to keep learning more about the diseases here as well. keep learning about illnesses from everyone's homes that might need treating here. what about you guys?

denise posting in

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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

seawarden posting in

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ACTIVITY CHECK: DECEMBER 2025

Ahoy, mateys! Here be the monthly Activity Check!

NOTE: This month's activity check is CHECK-IN ONLY. Players are not required to submit any proof, but must still comment to this post to check-in and remain in the game.

Players who provide full activity of one thread (minimum 5 comments) for ALL characters will be granted one player-bound free pass to use at any point in 2026. Please note the rules on free passes here.

In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting. In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting. Please include brief notes on how the situation was handled (or, in the case of a thread not being complete, how it has been handled so far and/or how you expect it to conclude if possible).

Interactions with the two spirits
Flowers collected (positive vs. negative ones)
Any new results regarding the Pearlescent God

Please check our Activity Check guidelines on our Game Info page for complete details, but here is the quick list of what you need to know:

» Only threads dated from December 1st through December 31st count towards the month's activity. (With the exception of certain backdated threads, read the linked AC guidelines for more details.)

» Activity requires one thread of at least 5 comments. The comment count is from your character.

» Any thread counts, including those made within your own entries and subthreads within your own toplevels. Individual entry posts do not count, only the threads within the posts. TDM threads with non-game characters will count.

» Continuation threads are considered as part of the previous thread so they count as one thread not two. For the sake of ease, we would like the two threads linked together.

» You are exempt from any checks for hiatuses that last for over 21 days. Anything less and you'll still need to submit your AC unless there are other circumstances.

» Because we are a capped game, there is no strike system. If you do not make the AC requirements, you will be cut.

» Bonus AC points: All extra non-quest threads not used for AC will be worth 2 extra points that can be used for reward redemption. Please check our Rewards page for more details.

There will be no warnings. All submissions are due Wednesday, December 31st 11:59PM US Eastern.

EXTRA FIELDS: This is not required and completely optional, but included in the submission form are two optional fields: Extra and MANTA Board Posting.

For the Extra field, this is just a space for players to note anything that occurred in their threads that they think might be fun for us to know. So if something particularly interesting happened (for example: discovering a new creature or location, an old artifact, or perhaps a character has stolen something), we highly encourage players to jot them down! Who knows, we may even find a use for it… In addition, we may ask players to submit certain activity related to an event.

You may also submit MANTA board requests to be included in the upcoming board. We will try to add them immediately, otherwise we'll save them for the next Board or a time we deem fitting. If you don't have one in mind at the time of AC, you can post it later to the upcoming Captain's Log announcement.

If you have any questions, ask them here.

FORM: Fill out the following form and comment directly to this post. If you have multiple characters, please put them in one comment.

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Who: Ryotaro Dojima, Professor Turo, Kieran
Status: Closed
Where: Turo and Dojima's Cabin
What: A blending of cultures and worlds to warm the weary soul, Dojima and Turo invite Kieran over to share Christmas Dinner.
Warnings: Fluff, the effects of American Consumerism on Japan (Fried Chicken)

( If the Fates Allow-- )

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A FROZEN CITY

[ open ] Sunrise is the best sight of the day

Whale Man Tries to Turn Around And Walk Back Into the Rift

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closed 🪶⚡ twin flames, two hearts on fire

Who made this?

The lion (does not) sleep tonight

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[open] Time goes by, and I lose perspective

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