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Activity Check-in

✖ Activity Check-in

Polymythos is a check-in only game and has no requirements to make the monthly activity check beyond checking in. While there are opportunities each month to earn points that can be exchanged for in-game rewards, the game has no minimum requirement for its players beyond an interest in and eagerness to remain in the game.

Check-in runs from the 1st to the 7th each month. Because Polymythos is meant to be a casual gaming experience, there is no strike system and the mods will not be providing warnings; failure to check in will result in your character's removal from the game. Players on hiatus are not required to check-in.

Because the game discourages squatting, we would like to remind players that while AC is check-in only, failure to provide adequate proof that a character is making progress or forming connections (read: interacting with the game at large) leaves characters at risk of being removed from the game. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact the mod team.

THE POINTS SYSTEM

The (optional, but who doesn't want REWARDS?) point system is meant to encourage activity, community building, and character growth. Each month players have an opportunity to submit posts, top-levels, and threads in exchange for points as well as earn bonus points for threads they feel are significant. (e.g., threads where characters show evidence of growth, threads with new characters/players, etc.)

Earning points:
Top-level or post: 10 points
Network threads: 5 per thread
Log threads: 10 per thread

One per month:
Tag a new person: 5 points
Character growth: 5 points
ScryWatch Color Change: 5 points
(Scrywatch color MUST be previously established.)

Please fill out the form for each month and post using the sample format provided below:

[MONTH NAME]: Replace the text with the name of the current month and briefly provide a summary of what your character did during the month. Be sure to list anything you feel is significant. <big>Points tally:</big> Top-level or post: <a href="URL">Link</a> (10) Network threads: <a href="URL">Link</a> (5 each) Log threads: <a href="URL">Link</a> (10 each) Bonus points: <a href="URL">Link</a> (5 each, one per category) Month total: Previous total: Total:

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[May]: After arriving here Logan went around trying to suss out the meaning of the colour assigned bu his ScryWatch. He didn't piece together much on his own but his effort at least lead him to meet a few new people and a few familiar people. He gave up some of the rations and goods he was given at the temple to people he assumed might need them more. He mistook Loki for a guy he once went on an inter-dimensional adventure with, got mistaken for a lifeguard, fought some beach zombies and talked a teenager down from some kind of performance-art-turned-psychotic-break.

[June]: Ever the skeptic Logan's been slow to throw himself head first into anything he thinks the islands are out to make him do. Instead he's been sniffing (literally) around to try and figure things out. Maybe even thought he was on to something just in time for the islands to change on him. This month he attempted to make friends with another military experiment (Sephiroth.) It went ok. He watched people reading the Yellow stories lose their minds and helped Loki snap out of his hallucinatory state. He got into some gangland style trouble because that's very much his scene and he made some new acquaintances at the temple. Thank goodness for a bath house.

Edited 2021-07-05 15:19 (UTC)

[July]: Logan spent the month enjoying how relaxing this place is. He did some srs temple decorating, met a couple of new friends, flirted with an old friend, learned some kitchen science for making dyes from flowers and tried to make good use of his moment with the flower oracle but figures he sort of blew it. C'est la vie.

[August]: Logan did a bad job internalizing what the oracle told him about his self worth, tried to make himself useful to a new friend, caught up with an old friend and generally bonded with ppl over plants. Nerd.

[September]: Holding steady at yellow for his utter reluctance to open up to anyone or anything around here. He made an effort to step out of his comfort zone by venturing into hall of mirrors— the sort of thing he'd generally avoid given the choice— and tried to make nice with a couple of strangers. Success TBD.

[October]: Logan finally unbottled a couple of feelings and made some new connections as well as reinforced some old ones. He struck up a conversation with Chloe that surprisingly revealed they're more similar people than they might have guessed. He learned something he didn't know about Wade before Wade was Wade. He talked JP — an almost equally cranky Canadian — into some reassurance about the relationships he's left behind. Nothing he did threatened a colour change to his Scrywatch, but even if he doesn't realize it he proved he has a penchant for listening and empathy that he doesn't often get credit for.

[November]: Logan did his best not to murder his way out the mall this month. While it wasn't enough to change the colour of his Scrywatch, he did make a new friend by being helpful instead of brooding alone all month.

[December]: Logan tried to get over the mall by retreating to the temple, doing a little Christmas shopping, making a new friend and promising to get along with Wade, but mostly finding it weird that he doesn't get kicked out when smoking in the mall.

[January:] Logan had a rough time in old timey London. His stabbiness made him a prime ripper suspect. He made a crime solving friend with whom he chased the actual ripper. He got into a bar fight with Roxy, went to a seance and got protective of an old friend.

February: Logan took to old timey London pretty well having been there before in his life. He earned a reputation for being a brawler with a short lived career in pugilism, and after a few ill timed acts of good samaritanism he was mistaken for the ripper and spent much of the month dodging the law— except when he aimed to solve the actual murders with the help of a new crime solving friend.

[May]: Quentin got thrown out of the temple for touching things, initially refused to comply with the rules for getting his mask off, made life hard for the bartenders, put on a one man show called Quentin v. himself in which he attempted harakiri in front of a new friend. After a few drinks he obstinately decided to work on his tan. He also shared some literary knowledge with Loki in an effort to make Batman mad.

Edited 2021-07-05 15:20 (UTC)

[June]: Ever the contrarian Quentin spent his time this month asking a lot of question on the network. Trying to figure out this place while at the same time not giving anyone the impression he actually cares is a difficult line to toe. He met Deadpool with whom he lamented their missing friend— a land shark named Jeff— and tried to ease him off the sauce. He made to help She Hulk find some clothes and most true to form, he hatched a plan with Loki to overthrow their Yellow keeper.

[July]: Quentin figured out how to communicate with some giant bugs, met another friend from home, helped a friend control their anxiety, committed to a D&D club, had an enlightening conversation with a fellow super-hero, and of course tested his luck with the flower oracle which only frustrated him further. Natch.

[August]: Quentin became convinced the plants were mocking him, attempted some horticultural terrorism in the toxic garden, tried to poll the travellers to prove the oracle wrong, made it to 2nd base, briefly admitted that he might not be kind of a pretty asshole and helped a FWB justify their own crappy behaviour.

[September]: Quentin did pretty good all month, mostly by getting closer with Kyle and not being completely self centered when a promising relationship is at stake. His pride and argumentative nature did make him regress briefly with an unruly child, but some amount of empathy let him stop just short of being a total monster.

[October]: Quentin did a few good things but hasn't really noticed he might have erred on the side of being a better person this month. He helped Carter out of a bad situation and bonded with him over a weirdly similar adolescence as a burgeoning telepath of considerable power. He also offered to help both Carter and David expand their skills as telepaths. He might have gotten a little carried away with all the candy, and there was one unfortunate incident involving a stolen waistcoat but over all his actions amount to that of a much more caring person than usual. Don't tell him that.

[November]: Quentin did some terrible things to a horde of mindless shoppers but he also helped both an acquaintance and a stranger just because as well as wrestled with his conflicted feelings about going home.

[December]: Quentin probably should have told his bf about the black Friday incident— but didn't. Realized he secretly kind of wants advice on dating humans from another mutant with a Kyle fetish— but said nothing. And almost went super villain on the mall Santa which would definitely have cost him a colour if not for someone's intervention. Not a great holiday for orphan boys.

[January:] Quentin did some bad things for good reason this month. He developed a new conspiracy theory about what happens when your ScryWatch turns red. He entrepreneured his way into a leadership role over a Dickensian gang of street kids turned grave robbers. He bought property to gift his pals indoor plumbing, he helped David practice some psionic skills and narrowly avoided a ripper encounter at a spa day with Roxy.

[February]: Quentin had a busy and ethically confusing month. On the one hand, he built quite a grave robbing business and outsourced much of the work to a plucky gang of orphans— on the other hand he treated the orphans pretty well and gifted them all their gains when he left.

He used his powers for decidedly awful things— but then again he only did so against a known serial killer in the name of defending and caring for his friends and Dickensian child posse.

His scrywatch probably overclocked trying to make all those calculations but in the end he came out of it all the same colour he went into it.

Edited 2022-03-06 02:26 (UTC)

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