we're looking into revamping how we as a team handle the morbit zone articles in order to help accessibility/readability for y'all as readers, as well as manageability/workload for us as writers. they are currently Very information-dense, making them a lot of work to write, and potentially challenging to read. we have observed that while they can be very informative and interesting for some, they can be pretty intimidating for others. we can definitely rehouse some of this information in more interesting and accessible formats, specifically in-universe and/or exploratory materials, such as:

-tour guides
-climate reports
-in-universe materials such as posters, pieces of media, etc
-interviews
-"trading cards"; think illustrations paired with informational blurbs. card subjects could include things like specific places, objects, people, events, customs - think like trainer cards in the pokemon tcg. a library of these little modules of information could make for an easily expandable storytelling/immersion aid.
-[12:04 PM] molasses: explorable stuff
[12:05 PM] molasses: that could be derived from the cards idea actually, just connecting them
[12:05 PM] molasses: like, putting landmarks in a city, putting items in landmarks, then you could click through like youre exploring the place

we do not plan on eliminating the zone articles as they are now entirely, but we do plan on reworking them quite a bit depending on how this and our own internal meeting(s) go. what we want to know from yall is:

-how do you use/interact with the zone articles? how useful are they to you in your own worldbuilding endeavors/understanding of morbit/etc
-how accessible are the zone articles currently- and how can we improve them?
-what sections of the zone articles are the most interesting to you? what sections of the zone articles are the ones you want to see expanded on the most?
-what other forms of portrayals of this information (both in-universe and otherwise) would be most interesting to you?

please discuss away as much as you like and give us As Much Feedback as possible, this is really important to us and while we are definitely making the final calls ourselves for what lines up with our vision and what works for our workload, we want to hear what your thoughts are as well.

discuss developing rp characters here, whatever goes

hrgrhrgrhrh its christmas eve and i decided to sit down and play with my TCPs like a kid playing with toys and random file generator decided to give me the HARDEST CANDIDATE TO WORK WITH, fucking, blush the library type



[3:11 PM] mortis velasquez: the storage type i literally have because i rolled them and went "well, theyre in my colors and i like libraries and i really should have at least one storage type"

im working on picking playlist stuff for them now to see if i can get a good vibe but god damnit it had to be hard mode first lmao

looking for threads for holiday parties and gift swaps, can go on from now until whenever

i do not have the energy to run any myself but i figure if we can get some going i will definitely do my best to participate, possibly with canon characters, possibly not- down for discussion here on what areas would have most potential for participants or whether ambiguous areas would be best, i have characters Literally Everywhere so location is not a problem

some kind of themed chatroom RP would also be fine if we could figure that out lmao

ok so time in RP canon is extremely fucking nebulous and technically we are all stuck in the year 316 until PCA happens sorry everyone i dont know why the team agreed to this 

actually did they agree to this

anyway we're all stuck in limbo but i thought it might be fun if we workshopped some fun new years resolutions for our ambiguously timed characters

welcome to the global public broadcasting channel! here you can post announcements, events, and roleplay prompts for other people to respond to in their own roleplay threads, both new and established! these events do not have a specific time period for response by default, though if you really want to impose something, we can't stop you!  

RULES: 

• in your post, specify what areas of morbit it is being broadcasted to and whether it is the main universe/timeline or an alternate universe/timeline
  
• spoiler any potentially triggering material, and do not include anything overly graphic to begin with
  
• do not use other peoples' characters or settings without their express permission (this includes specific canon examples under most circumstances- see next point)
  
• in the case of using canon material, either mark as an alternate universe somewhere at the start of the post, ask permission from applicable team member(s) beforehand (and listen to their responses), or do so in a way that would not hypothetically impact the overall canon in a way that'd be disruptive.
  
• while roleplays typically are not canon, they do contain canon characters when team members are involved, and we would rather not have to write around someone making a horror attack one of our characters' houses in the main timeline just because. use an alternate timeline if you really want to cause damage to established details, but please don't do so just for the sake of fucking with canon materials- you are trying to prompt community interaction, not solely team ones, and we are not obligated to reply to your posts!
  

• weather events! simple, but could be interesting- you never know how a character feels about a snow day!
  
• a danger in a local area- could be a criminal threat, could be a terror/dangerous animal, who knows
  
• a major holiday- mostly reserved for team members to establish worldbuilding stuff, but if a team member establishes a holiday, feel free to piggyback and do smaller scale events!
  
• local events! maybe a store has a sale, maybe a park has a local class going on, you name it!
  
• notify of a new RP thread you have going on! have a specific thread you want to advertise, and would work in the form of a public broadcast? you can advertise it here!
  
• whatever else you can think of!
  

hgfhfghfghfgfhfgfh this is the first thread in the gaming forums lmao

spam whatever petz stuff you want, if people have more specific petz stuff they want to do then ill make a subforum or something but for now this is just where we talk about petz. petzposting go

lately i've been turning 4dopt adopts into petz hexes and it's been going well for me, my kang base is almost done and then i have to go to hell doing paintball work




also i installed a shitload of clothes and did dressup



in hindsight using one of my visually busiest slymers was probably not the best idea but guillotine wants to be PRETTY

mature rating edition 

we will open and close this thread for questions in sessions and whatever you give us, we have to answer, and it Will go in the wiki and be canon (if applicable)and we can't forget about it later like we do on discord

sessions opening and closing will be announced here and on discord, they will occasionally be themed, and there is a nonzero chance we will draw for them because 1) como is encouraging us (especially me, rin) to draw for fun more and 2) i need some incentive and reason to warrant actually pinging people for this

so here we go:

now that ashtray is finished, all bets are off, give us your questions about this project, the story, and the cast of the comic, no holds barred (though if you have NSFW shit go put it in the discord or something)