Faye re-enters the main part of the Nexus, with her new sword on a hip and a little more confidence about her than the last time she came to the 'question' area.

The vampire has a very important question today... "So... Is there an archery club here in the Nexus?"

Okay, so it's not that important.

ACTIVITY CHECK TIME

It's time for Rivelata's monthly activity check.

- The check is open January 1st-8th.
- The two links posted for each character must be dated at least one week apart.
- If any given character fails to complete one half of the activity check by the end of the week, they will be marked as Inactive January 9th.
- If the Inactive character has already failed the previous activity check, or fails both halves they will be removed from the game on January 9th.
- If you were on hiatus for one of the two periods examined by the Activity Check, post a link to your Hiatus comment from the Hiatus/Drop page where you would normally link a character's activity.

In order for your activity to be considered valid for the check, you may use:

*** a journal entry in rivelata
*** a log entry in rivelatalogs
*** a comment to an entry in rivelatalogs (posted within the specific period's timeframe; the log that is being replied to can be older)
*** a quicklog entry in rivelatalogs OR a direct link to a comment thread in a quicklog entry involving your character, where your character has commented AT LEAST 5 times (all 5 comments must contain text). Only one quicklog per character is allowed to be used for activity checks.
*** a direct link to a comment thread or entry in rivelata involving your character where your character has commented AT LEAST 5 times (all 5 comments must contain text)

Please include all of your characters in one comment by copying & pasting the character section as many times as necessary. (See the example if there is any confusion.)

ACTIVITY CHECK FORM
<b>Player:</b> Name <b>Character:</b> Name <b>Character journal:</b> <lj user="default"> <b>Link to Activity for Period 1:</b> <a href="LINK">[activity type]</a> (Date of activity in MM/DD format) <b>Link to Activity for Period 2:</b> <a href="LINK">[activity type]</a> (Date of activity in MM/DD format) <b>Previous Maximum Character Slots:</b> <a href="LINK">[link]</a>

Note: if your character application was approved within 2 weeks from the end of the previous month (on December 14th or later) then they are exempt from requiring 'activity', but you should still respond here with a link to your character's application instead.

ACTIVITY CHECK FORM
<b>Player:</b> Name <b>Character:</b> Name <b>Character journal:</b> <lj user="default"> <b>Link to application:</b> <a href="LINK">Application Here</a> (Date of approval in MM/DD format)

PLEASE LEAVE A LINK TO THE COMPLETED ACTIVITY CHECK AT THE END OF YOUR APPLICATION IN THE "NOTES" SECTION WHEN APPLYING.

Any questions, comments or concerns about the Activity check can be directed to one of the moderators personally, or sent to the moderator email: rivelata[at]gmail[dot]com.

WHO: Harley Quinn, OPEN.
WHERE: Times Square City Central.
WHEN: 9 PM - Midnight, 12/30/2009.
WARNINGS: Failatus.
SUMMARY: Harley goes downtown to celebrate New Years Eve. Specify what time you're meeting her or just interact amongst yourselves! :)
FORMAT: Anything goes.

( Don't worry even if the sky is falling down, down. )

[The camera turns on to show Greg in a tuxedo t-shirt. He bows, then raises a blue plastic kazoo to his mouth, promptly commencing a buzzy rendition of Happy Birthday, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Then he bows again and shuts the camera off without comment.]


OOC: every desk in the precinct has candy on it now — Jelly Bellies and Hershey's kisses. YES EVEN PETE'S sorry Sally.

[Recorded- Someone's just a little tipsy]

It's New Year's and I'm still on the island... And I thought I wouldn't be, but I am HERE. I'm still here, baby...

[Singing]

Hast Du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons...!

WHO: Adam Johnson (fidespunica)
WHAT: Planning and plotting.
WHERE: The silversmith's
WHEN: Late at night

( We all fall down )

And soon, there will be an interestingly new beginning.

What could it be? Wouldn't you like to know?

Hmm, maybe you'll find out soon enough.

Happy New Year.

BAH! What's so big about it?

WHO: Yoite & friends
WHAT: Belated birthday party
WHERE: Bathouse
WHEN: Backdated to, uhm... let's say the second week of December?

( It isn't very long. )

Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Sos, it's New Years soon, how come it hasn't started raining light bulbs and dairy products yet?

Did the New Year Baby Chicken fall asleep?

 [Larfleeze is sitting in front of the camera, fiddling around with a miniature Christmas tree fairly obsessively. He seems to be inside a closet. And... wearing fake glasses. The kind with the nose and hairy eyebrows. He looks up at the camera. And stares.]

Name is Bob Fleeze. 

[A pause. He hasn't really thought this far in his plan.]

I am... 'Rezalooshun' inspector. I must ste-[A pause. No wait, don't say steal. People will get suspicious.]

I must inspect all resolutions. Send them to me.





[A weighted pause as he thinks.]

Send 'Krismas' presents, too. 

[Voice/English]
So, New Year's Eve. I certainly never thought I'd be spending tonight in another world. Again. Can't really remember last year's all that well. I hope this one is different. For a lot of reasons.

I think once the New Year's settled in, I'm going to look for a job of some kind. Unfortunately, there aren't any Pro Leagues here (yet), so I'll have to do something other than dueling. Is anyone looking for any sort of help? I'm willing to try just about anything, within reason. Or should I just check out the want ads?

( screened from Juudai )

[ The camera's pointed out at the City. For those of you who'd be pinpointing his location, you can make out most of the skyline, and the view is level with lower ones. ]

Man, I wish I was back home. I wouldn't have to think twice about dropping in on the downtown party.

[ There's some jerkiness, and the camera's placed down on the roof. Half the screen is now blocked by his Chucks (and yes, they are red Chucks). ]

The paper said that some pieces of the confetti have people's New Year's resolutions written on them. I hope they're not handwritten. Imagine being some stockbroker and your resolution to find a better job drifts onto the window ledge of your boss. Awkward.

I don't have one. A resolution. Not a New Year's one, anyway. They don't really seem to work, if you judge by all the commercials. "This year, stick to that New Year's resolution with blah blah blah." And half of them seem to be losing weight, anyway.

Besides, if you spend all of January acting like a saint because whatever's your resolution, you're probably going to be sneaking around your friends breaking the resolution by March. And then forgetting it in July. But it's cool, you can make it again next year.

What about everyone else? Anyone doing the resolution thing? Or the ball-dropping thing? I think I'm gonna head down, if anyone else wants to come party.

If you don't show up, wow. Lame. But Happy New Year anyway.

WHO: Lynda and Sera.
WHERE: Random coffee shop.
WHEN: I have NO IDEA.
WARNINGS: Adorable.
SUMMARY: Sera is going to get coffee with Lynda and talk and be sociable even if it kills her.
FORMAT: Paragraph.

( we are going to be friends dammit )

So is anyone doing anything special for New Years? There really aren't any shrines or anything around here, so I'm a little at a loss!

I had meant to be in Japan for this, but with how crazy everything has been...

[ Sounding more aggravated than usual (and that's saying something) ]

Is it always this noisy this time of the year here.

[There's noises in the background that suggest Danny's outside. Cars, wind blowing, crunching of snow, etc. When he speaks his voice is very quiet.]

Rikki's gone.

I've searched the whole goddamn City for her. I'm about to search it again, just in case...

[He pauses. The sound of running can be heard. Silence as he jumps, then what sounds like a graceful landing. He speaks even more softly now, a slight touch of bitterness in his voice:]  Happy new year.