On Friday remaining characters (So the Players) will wake up to a Yellow Star burning in the sky. Everyone suffers a penalty at 7am and all Players who are not also Prefects have a background headache all day. The shaking in the city has gotten worse overnight, and doesn't stop. There is still no power, the sky is dark and stormy and there is no longer any food.

At Midday The Yellow Wyrm of the Centre Appears in the city. It will only fight if challenged and it's movement makes the shaking worse, into small earthquakes that ripple through the city. When it arrives the doors slam shuts and Recette, the final staff member collapses and disappears. Any weapons taken from that tower disappear.

The shaking gets worse and the buildings seem to be crumbling. At 5pm all non prefect players disappear from the city leaving behind a a memory, upgrade and a message. Please see this post as to what happens then. The time capsule is here and the post disappearance IC thread is here.

There is then an hour of relative calm, only Prefect Players remain in now pretty much ruined city. Towers begin to hum, get louder and louder until final players fall.

If your character is disappearing on Friday please respond here with your characters name, the memory and upgrade they leave behind and their favorite place with their special message (you can link to the IC post or just describe it here)

There will be an IC post for the very final part of the ending that will go up later tonight when the game will officially close. Feel free to backtag as much as you like.

Wednesday is just as dark as Tuesday with more rain, yet when characters look out of their windows they will see a Black star shining in the sky, Flynn Scifo, Yuri Lowell and Cirno will hear a wailing noise that gets louder throughout the day. At 7am all Weapons who are not prefects will recieve a ten minute penalty, when characters go down to breakfast they will notice there are no staff there and food is just leftovers from the day before. Mostly discard food as there were no discards to eat it.

The city is abandoned apart from the members of the schools and the shadows, who are still on every corner attacking any people they see.

At midday The Black Tortoise of the North appears in the city. It makes its way to the Island tower, it will only attack those that try to fight it. Ordinary rules of tower monster fights apply, so drawing more than one Weapon is alright. When it arrives in the tower the doors snap shut, Nanami falls and disappears leaving behind an Upgrade and Memory. Any weapons taken from the Island tower (it is up to you which tower the weapons your character swapped the broach for came from) disappear.

At 10pm there is an hour of shaking, all Weapons who are not Prefects disappear from the city, leaving behind a memory, upgrade and a message. Please see this post as to what happens then. The time capsule is here and the post disappearance IC thread is here. All remaining Weapons suffer a penalty.

If your character is disappearing on Wednesday please respond here with your characters name, the memory and upgrade they leave behind and their favorite place with their special message (you can link to the IC post or just describe it here)

At 6am all discards will be woken up with a ten minute penalty headache. Good morning! The sky is dark with clouds and it rains on and off all day, even if it is not too cold.

Anyone leaving the campus will find the townspeople are becoming impatient, they will shout at Players, telling them to fight. Or at Weapons telling them to make their Players fight. If you are really unlucky you may get grabbed by a towns-person and dragged into the battle arena, though they will stop if you make it clear you don't wish to fight.

Or perhaps you do wish to fight, Dunleavy advised it after all!

At 2pm all discards will suffer a thirty minute warning penalty and then vanish from the city. A memory and an upgrade will be found on their pillow. A further memory charm will be left in their favorite place in the city. The memory charm Dunleavy gave them.

On disappearing a character will appear in the grey room they found themselves in in the tutorial. Characters will know instinctively that this is their chance to leave a message, a time capsule if you will for future groups who may be brought into Rakuen. This can be a thought, a memory, a feeling, advice. Anything the character wishes. If you wish to write these out the post is here

Note that if you haven't yet found someone to vow to yet don't want your character to disappear at this point then vows can obviously be backdated.

After their time in the grey room disappeared characters will find themselves floating through the tutorial world, again it may be different for every character, a land of gems, a forest, a desert. You don't seem to have a body though and there is no one there.

Or is there? You can hear voices, whispers on the wind. And after a few moments you can begin to pick them up, and talk back. Even though characters can't see each other they will be able to communicate and after a while sense each others presence in this strange limbo world. The post for people to tag into if their characters disappear is here

At 8pm All non prefect Weapons who are not linked to anyone (so those linked to other Weapons are fine) will receive a ten minute penalty headache. At midnight the city shakes for half an hour and those Weapons receive another penalty.

As a quick question would people like it if a mod post was put up in the IC board each day for interactions or are you alright with just doing normal posts and mod posts going up for the larger things that will happen?

If your character is a discard and you do wish them to disappear please respond here with your characters name, the memory and upgrade they leave behind and their favorite place with their special message (you can link to the IC post or just describe it here)

Hello everyone,

So as you have probably noticed, it's very quiet around here. Far too quiet and it's probably time we accept the inevitable that we don't have enough people to continue the game, especially since we have no Player sign ups and the last apps were a few rounds ago.

It's been a good run, we've been open more than a year and we would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all our players past and present for making this game awesome. We hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did!

Don't worry though, we aren't planning on just letting the game fall into abandonment, we will be running a sort of end game. It wont be End Game the happy ending the characters had been hoping for but it will be an ending, fitting with the circular plot of Rakuen, which means that in a year or two if people want to start a new round of the game the premise is there but for these characters in this session it is over.

Our plan is to start the ending this Saturday (12th January) and have it run for two weeks (so a normal round) with the game officially ending on the 26th January.

This thread is for any questions and/or plotting you have, rest day has been extended until the 12th when the last round will start.

This does mean we do need players for this final round and anyone who wishes to sign up can do so in this post as well.

Thank you all once again,

Katy, Elle and Ru

The current round has ended. All marks of ownership will fade and IC Saturday (29th December - 4th January) is a Free Day, there are no classes and everyone is equal. New characters will arrive by train.

On Sunday (5th - 8th January) the new round will be announced. This is the sign up for those who wish their characters to be potential players next round. All characters signed up will be put into the spreadsheet that randomly selects Players.

This sign up is for all current characters including those who have been accepted and will be entering the game on Saturday. Sign up begins today and closes on Wednesday 2nd January. Anyone accepted up until that date may also sign up. The Player list will be released Thursday 3rd January to allow for Planning before the next round starts.

You may sign up all your characters, including those who were players last round. The next round will be 5th - 18th January. In signing up you agree that you will be reasonably available during that time, and do not foresee any long hiatuses.

You may sign up all your characters in one post if you wish, please put their full name and school!

The following characters have been removed and can be applied for.

Aria
Kaoru Hitachiin
Rebecca Harcourt

They will disappear from Rakuen on Saturday (IC) afternoon leaving behind a memory and an upgrade.

The following characters have requested a second chance:

Sora Himoto (OU)
Sora Himoto (AU)
Yuka Kazami (AU)

Once again it is the end of the round!

Rest day will last from today until 14th December. You can continue to backtag as much as you wish and make posts set in the last round but starting now characters apped in during the past two weeks can arrive in Rakuen.

Just a reminder to make sure your posts are labeled clearly as to whether they are set on the Rest Day or in Round 17, as for obvious reasons new characters can only take part in Rest Day threads.

- As a reminder, for the rest day, no one is a Player or a Weapon, so you can go wherever you like in the town. You can also go and apply for jobs, which will earn you 5 raks per rest day. Jobs are available in most places, such as various shops, restaurants and the cinema. You will also get free entry or a discount to wherever you work! Remember to let us know on the job application post.

- RAKS. Here is how to work out how many Raks your character has by the end of this round.

New characters had twenty (20) raks to start with.

1. If your character taught or attended classes this week, they got one rak per day, not including the rest day. Add 6 raks. (Note that classes were probably disturbed on Thursday and Friday due to the Turtle battle)

2. Whatever your role (Player/Weapon) or outcome, you earn 3 raks per battle. Tally up the battles your character participated in, and multiply that by 3.

3. Players earn 5 raks for every Weapon they win or vow with, no matter whether they still own them by the end of the round. Count how many Weapons your character owned throughout the round, and multiply that by 5.

4. Did your Player character win the round? They get 10 raks.

5. Are you a Weapon belonging to a winning Player (see above)? You get 4 raks. For a list of all Round Winners look here

6. Did your characters buy anything during the round? Subtract the raks for that now.

7. At the end of the round, the dominant school gives 10 raks to every character. This round Fortitude won the round having fought more altogether. Well done!

8. Rest day job? Add 5 raks.

That's your rak total!

- Sign ups for next round are here and will be open until 12th December, when the Players will be announced.

- Don't forget Activity Check!
I hope everyone has a great rest day week!

Hello everyone,

It is once again time for AC!

To pass activity check you must have made one post or two comment threads of any size since the last Activity check (3rd- 10th November). To qualify for AC the post must be open (not locked or private to one other character)

Activity check will last until the 8th December, after which a list of those characters in danger of being removed will be put up. If you are on this list you will have until the 11th December to report your activity or talk to the mods about extenuating circumstances.

Characters who arrived in-game for Round 17 (so those whose arrival date was the 17th November) are exempt from activity check for this month, as are those on hiatus.

The following characters requested a second chance and therefore must provide double activity this month (two posts or four comment threads)

Cheshire Cat
Hikaru Hitachiin
Alex Furest
Nanami Asagi
Holy Empire of Britannia

Please reply using the following format.

<b>Name (include OU or AU):</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>School:</b> <b>Activity:</b>

You may check in all your characters with one post if you wish!

Greetings Rakuen! It is almost time for Round 16!

It's time to announce next round's Players. As usual, Players can only vow initially with Weapons of their own school and must win opposing school Weapons in battle.

This round begins on the 3rd November. The dates are as follows:

24th - 27th November = Sunday IC
28th November = 7th December = Monday-Friday (2 ooc days per IC day)
8th - 15th December = Saturday (rest day.)

The Plotting Post has been updated for all your plotting needs. Use it to find Players, Weapons or plot battles for this round. There's also a section added for non-battle plots, which is basically to be used for anything that isn't hitting people with sticks. You will notice it is a new plotting post as of last round, as the old one was getting long and unwieldy. Please track this new post to keep up to date with plotting!

Remember that ICly you character has to have battled by IC Wednesday to avoid a fine. Battles can be threaded out or handwaved as you like but please remember to record them in the Battle Records post either way!

Finally, here are the Players for Round Sixteen:

Conquest

Cirno
America
Arthur Pendragon

Fortitude

Shion
Sora Himoto
Merlin

Have a good round!

This Saturday (17th November) the current round will end. All marks of ownership will fade and IC Saturday (17th - 23rd November) is a Free Day, there are no classes and everyone is equal. New characters will arrive by train.

On Sunday (24th - 27th November) the new round will be announced. This is the sign up for those who wish their characters to be potential players next round. All characters signed up will be put into the spreadsheet that randomly selects Players.

This sign up is for all current characters including those who have been accepted and will be entering the game on Saturday. Sign up begins today and closes on Wednesday 21st November. Anyone accepted up until that date may also sign up. The Player list will be released Thursday 22nd November to allow for Planning before the next round starts.

You may sign up all your characters, including those who were players last round. The next round will be 24th November - 8th December. In signing up you agree that you will be reasonably available during that time, and do not foresee any long hiatuses.

You may sign up all your characters in one post if you wish, please put their full name and school!