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ANNOUNCEMENT ...2!

Hi gang!

Tifa, Mal, Tenny, and Pel have been kind enough to pass over the reins to keep the Rubi magic alive. This is Mippins—Dog, Koke, and I have volunteered to take up the helm as your new mod team. As you can imagine, we've got a lot of work to do to get our bearings, so please stay tuned! We'll keep you all posted as we figure out a gameplan to move forward. For now, please continue to enjoy the current game happenings.

We also encourage you to head over to the love meme to spread some positivity, especially for the mod team that has stepped down. We're extremely thankful to them for all their hard work in building such a wonderful game and for their willingness to let us continue in their stead.

That's all for now, folx. Thank you so much for your patience during this transition. We love this game dearly, and we hope that you'll stick around with us to see it through.

rubimods

ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello, monsters! Tifa here.

As you're all aware, for a few months now, the mod team has been stressed and burned out from the difficult work of running this game. Despite this, we returned from our hiatus with every intention of diving back into things and pushing this game into the next and last pre-plotted phase. We were very excited last week to get back into things.

However, the results of the US election have changed that. For my part, I feel unable to overcome my existential grief to put forth the requisite energy to undertake the already strained and difficult work to keep this game running. I also have concerns about my ability to take pleasure in a horror game about a death cult while real life in the United States is plagued by new daily traumas that come with the real life death cult that is a Trump administration.

I am therefore stepping down as a moderator of Rubilykskoye. After discussing this with the rest of the mod team, they have decided to step down with me for reasons that vary from person to person.

If anyone would like to take over acting as moderator(s), I'm happy to turn over accounts and an outline of the next phase's plot events. However, be aware that our resignation is effective immediately. Tenny, Pel, Mal, and I will not be staying on to facilitate a transition between mod teams; you'd be jumping in on your own. If no one indicates a desire to take up the mantle by the end of this week, the game is closing.

Currently, the plan is to convert Rubilykskoye into a no-AC musebox, allowing people to continue to play in the setting and maintain their CR as they so desire. In this situation, to facilitate musebox play so no one feels stalled as they finish out or progress their characters' arcs and plots in the musebox environment, I'll post the remaining plot outline in

rubiooc. The mod team is also happy to approve membership requests from former players so they can regain access to their threads and participate in the musebox with their friends. To get a request approved, just reach out to any moderator on Plurk or by replying to this entry.

Thank you all not just for your understanding, but for a year and a half of great memories. It's been a truly excellent experience playing with all of you, and we hope that you feel the same.

To make sure this ends on a positive note befitting the many joys of this experience, and to put a little good into the world to counteract how much bad is being felt particularly by the Americans in our game right now, our last act as moderators will be to post a love meme in

rubimemes. We encourage folx to treat it not just as a traditional love meme, but like a yearbook, where we can leave notes about things we've enjoyed about our CR and fellow players and the game overall.

exaltruistic

hi! vandal here with an opportunity for player characters to talk about their feelings!

ko tenjin ( info here ) is a psychologist where he comes from — fukuoka, japan in the 2100's. he's well-versed in DBT and acceptance of the heightened emotions and passion that comes from being turned into a handead like him.

so while he's aware that talk therapy for zadza urges will be like trying to put out a forest fire with a super soaker, he still thinks that talking and re-framing thinking can at least help folks work out their own feelings and solutions.

ko will be making a network post soon announcing his office hours for individual therapy, and when he wants to hold group sessions.

the original OOC plotting discussion with the mods is here. what you can expect from sessions will be found here with comment sign ups for characters to offer their services that ko can "prescribe" to patients, whether that's through fighting or some time at a brothel/with a sex worker.

thank you! feel free to ask questions or chime in with ideas; i'm very open to input on this.

unconscionable

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know about an upcoming player plot. This is a little lighter in tone: it's a hootenanny for the PCs and NPCs alike!

• Everyone's favourite necrodad prime is collaborating with both a local minstrel troupe and some musically inclined player characters (House, Uta) to set up a makeshift performance space outside the town square.

• There will be free beer thanks to Nikita, a puppet show for the kids, places to sit and places to dance, and of course, live music!

• Your characters are welcome to contribute too - I would love someone with hunting skills to bring some meat to roast, and singers are welcome to ask for a turn on the mic. If anyone wants to volunteer to help with set up and bump out that would also be welcome! Also, if your character is the sort to cause chaos I'm happy to incorporate that in too. Just let me know in this post.

• The event will take place ICly on June 22 from the afternoon into the night - Thursday is the town's rest day so the town will turn out in an effort to relax after the most recent unpleasantness. This will also be the start of characters who haven't sated their urges experiencing some adverse affects!

• John will be broadcasting a telepathic invitation on the network in a couple of days - you're welcome to volunteer skills there or handwave approaching him at the boarding house.

• I'll probably also post up the log this weekend since it's nice to get a head start on threads. It will be an open log for everyone to mingle in using their own top-levels.

• The mods will not be NPCing as this isn't an official event, but if you want a troupe member I'd be happy to puppet one, or people can incorporate their own NPCs - if you regularly plan to play an NPC, remember to leave a comment for the mods on the Settings page (as per the Daily Life section.)

• Any questions? Hit me up here or check out the original plot request on the Plotting page!

xue_yang

CW WARNING: Death, destruction of corpses

Hello everyone!

I come to you with a player plot that has been approved by the mods! Xue Yang has been a very bad boy and its your job to find that out through an in character man hunt!

Back story: Xue Yang stole one of the corpses that was being transported to the ceremony that would have brought it back to life. He nabbed the body under the pretense of "helping" Ianthe and Mateus transport those already prepared in accordance with the death rites via wagon to the castle gates. This gave him a chance to be alone with a body where he slipped off with it after it has been accounted for. He has completely destroyed this body. It will be cremated and turned into a powder that he is using to make a poison. Now...people will not be aware of this new weapon he has created. Only that he managed to destroy a body making it unable to be brought back. The town is now down 1 human...which makes the townsfolk very upset. They are going to be on the hunt for the missing person and will need the help of anyone who is willing.

IF you happen to help with the search, your characters social status will increase! They appreciate the help you are giving to find their missing family member. If anyone should happen to volunteer to take on the hunt, if you are clever enough you'll be able to discover that Xue Yang is the culprit and that the missing person is never going to return. Again...social status improves since you will have brought the bad guy to justice!

Xue Yang is then going to be brought to trial. Following his apprehension, a meeting will be called in the Moot Hall, and a democratic forum of townspeople will weigh in on what his punishment should be. This means your characters are also welcome to speak for or against him at the town meeting! These comments will also be remembered for the future, whether you speak well of him or otherwise.

At this meeting, Churchwarden Mateus will outline the social taboos broken here: death and destruction at the hands of monsters are tragic facts of life, but to conspire to make that temporary trauma permanent is an atrocity unlike any the town has seen before. He will charge Xue Yang with a crime of the mind to conspire to permanently rob the family of their loved one's life and prosperity and with introducing a new kind of unthinkable violence to a community that had previously never suffered it.

I will be creating a log after Xue Yang has been captured so that people can interact with him at the meeting and with each other to discuss this terrible situation. This will all go up after the conclusion of the event on the 15th.

Finally...his punishment will be given. The township believes in restorative justice above all else, so they will ultimately decide that Xue Yang's punishment is twofold:

First, he must spend the two weeks following the Moot Hall meeting speaking with townspeople who have come back from the dead. He must ask them about their experiences with death, how it felt to be dead and resurrected, and listen to their stories. He must ask them about how it would have felt if their return had been postponed, and if they had learned that someone had mishandled their body while they were dead. The goal of this is to build empathy for the dead.

Second, he must serve the family of his victim for a period of three months while they recover from their grief and trauma.

Lastly, despite the fact that the community believes in forgiveness and restorative justice, that will not prevent the townspeople from acting prejudiced towards him in the future. Most people will no longer feel inclined to include him in their free trade economy. He will struggle to acquire luxury goods (but will still be provided food, water, and shelter) and to find people who would work with him, as they consider him untrustworthy.

This treatment will be at its worst for the duration of his sentence serving the family, but these sentiments will reignite any time a corpse goes missing in the future, as people will associate Xue Yang with the introduction of this violence to their society.

So feel free to blame Xue Yang for anything that goes wrong in the foreseeable future lol.

If you have made it to the end of this long post...thank you and congrats! This post is basically here to see who would be interested on going on a corpse hunt, who would like to be the one to finally discover the truth about what happened, and if there is interest in the town hall log. Consider this a big planning post!