[color=red][b][center][h2]A N N O U N C E M E N T[/H2][/CENTER][/B][/color]


Ok ladies and gents, the time approaches for the event you’ve all been anticipating and what seems to have become the [i]worst[/i] kept secret in the history of Sol City. Yes, the next time-skip will feature the long awaited [b]B L I Z Z A R D[/b], but you already knew that, right?! Sure. So, why the announcement? Because we’ve been racking our brains for quite a while (Prince and I actually had the idea in LAST Sol City, but didn’t get a chance to use it) on how to implement it AND do something different at the same time. 

Since there is some time still remaining in the current skip, we decided to come out early and tell everyone the basic setup of what we have planned and give people some time to plot on it without giving the farm away or just broadsiding everyone all at once.

Already have plans for the big winter storm you say? Great. Cancel them.

Here’s what’s going to happen:

Instead of everyone breaking off into their own chosen pairings/groups to ride out the storm, we decided to use a randomizer to “assign” everyone into groups and just watch the chaos/fun that follows as characters that normally may not have even met are put in a contained space for a day. 

So, now that we have your attention here are the groups, composed of currently active players:

[b]Group 1[/b]:
Thomas [@Conscripts]
Karishma [@Rodiak]
Siobhan [@Almalthia]

[b]Group 2[/b]:
Marlin [@PrinceAlexus]
Alex [@Alex_The_Great]
Xia [@King Tai]

[b]Group 3[/b]:
Vika [@PrinceAlexus]
Ethan [@Almalthia]

[b]Group 4[/b]:
Reya [@Majoras End]
Marcus [@Zaxter996]
Sully [@CaptainSully]

[b]Group 5[/b]:
Ashton [@Silver Fox]
Ash [@LostBrotherGrimm]
Capella [@Tenma Tendo]

[b]Group 6[/b]:
Paige [@Pilatus]
Dustynn [@MissCapnCrunch]
Aoki [@Rodiak]

So, where are Joel ([@Pilatus]) and Milo ([@RoccanIronclad])? Good question. We have plans for those two as well. Since Joel and Milo are the only characters that have dedicated off-road type vehicles they are going to be your only links with the outside while you’re snowed in. If the characters find themselves needing anything desperately (or just for fun), they’ll have to work with one another or by phone through their connections on another team to get Joel or Milo to bring it to them. So, it will be a bit like a mini-game inside the game for a bit. The point is we want to avoid people breaking into cliques (I don’t think we really have that problem) and get some fun interactions going that we might not have if we’d just kept on with the same format. [b]It is up to you to plot where/how your group winds up together![/b]

We plan to throw a few more curveballs at the groups as the weather worsens so we’ll be watching carefully how everyone gets along to determine what we’re going to inflict (or reward). 

As a fun little side-note, before we get going on this skip, we’re going to have a little contest:

[b]Come up with a name for your group![/b] The [u]funniest[/u] name wins and we will edit them in here as we get them. The GM staff will decide who the winners are and reward them accordingly during the course of the skip. You have until the skip starts to come up with a name.

That is all we’re giving away now. Let us know if you have any questions/comments either here or in the Discord!



~P