A few moments of violence.

How interesting.

It isn't a pleasant thing to wake up stiff and somewhat confused in one's own bed--especially when one's own bed seems far too large. Larger than it was when one went to sleep before. I've endured that before, and I half expected to find myself with a tail and whiskers again.

I've had just about enough clambering about for one day, I think. It was amusing at first, of course, to see the world a hundred times larger than it should be. Even when the City turns me into a child again, the world doesn't seem so big as this. I suppose it's a bit like the times I've been a cat, but I am glad to have hands rather than paws, even if they are as small as paws. At least I have thumbs, even if my Network device is obnoxiously large.

I'm a doll, of course. I've been changed into a porcelain doll, not so unlike the ones I gave to Merry time and time again.

Although, at least I seem to be a boy doll, and I do have more joints than Merry's dolls ever did. It isn't such a bad thing to be for a day, not by comparison to other curses. I can still move fairly easily, though I'm a bit awkward and some of my joints keep dislocating themselves. When I knelt, for example, to start typing this, my knees completely detached. I'm strung all through with elastic. It's not painful at all to have my joints coming apart, though it's more than a little disturbing to see. Oddly, my hands move like my own hands, though a little stiffly, and I can speak and move my eyes. I've been turned into a doll, I know, but apparently not entirely a doll. If I have a tongue, teeth, and a voice, but I seem to be strung together, I wonder what's become of my innards. For that matter, I wonder if I've a brain in my head. I wonder what I look like when I walk about. Perhaps I move something like He-Who-Kills does. I'm stiffer than I am ordinarily, but I'll take that over being immobile and sitting on a shelf.

If that crooked little girl with her monstrous dolls could see me now, I wonder what she'd think. Perhaps I understand now more of how Merry felt when she claimed I treated her like a doll--But it was to keep her safe--Even I'm trying to keep myself from breaking--Would she have been made a doll too if she were here today?--If that's your point, City, I don't find it amusing--

I've endured this once before, but it's been quite a long time--perhaps a year ago or more.

I think the stairs were the worst. The cats seem to go up and down the stairs far more easily than I did. I had to take them step by step, climbing down each. It was undignified, really, but it worked. I'll call it an adventure, I suppose. But perhaps the cats have an easier time of it because they're not made of porcelain and cord. Well, perhaps Noir is, but even he seems to trip up and down the stairs as easily as flesh-and-blood Kassandra.

I, meanwhile, am having a far more difficult time of it shaped like this.

It is interesting to see the world from this sort of angle, especially with the City cursed into madness again. I'd thought we were done with all this madness a few days ago, but apparently that wasn't the monthly weekend of madness. Instead, we're having that now--today and, presumably, tomorrow. You're as fascinated and mad as ever, City. Still, I'll stay out a while yet, I think, before I try that climb back up the stairs again.

Unless, of course, Riff, you could carry me back up--if you're not cursed out of your mind, of course. I'm sure I don't weigh very much in this sort of shape. In fact, you could carry me around as much as you'd like--or as I'd like, depending. I do like being able to get about on my own, but perhaps I ought to find easier ways to get about. It's the difference between walking in the rain and having a carriage.

Riff, I'll call for you when I'm ready to come back upstairs again. If nothing else, I think it would be quite amusing to think of you carrying about a doll, or me--or both, as the case will be this time.

~C.

[ooc: So...rather than being a cat or a child this time, Cain woke up to find himself made of something more like porcelain and looking something like this (although with dark hair like his own, of course). I sincerely apologize for raiding the Dream of Doll website for that picture. Basically, for the day, Cain is a charmingly articulated, distinctly creepy, but strikingly beautiful ball-jointed doll >:3 Please be nice. He's about 24 inches tall now and trying not to break himself, thank you. Be nice, all you children, if you want to play with such an amazing talking doll~]

It's time for another round of "The hiatus that turned into character drops." Poly is no longer for me. I'm sorry, especially to those who've had a lot of interaction with these characters. There will be no farewell posts for them since I can't do them justice.

Please hover or use the admin console to:

friend remove banditfox
friend remove stokerwasahack
friend remove cal_sitter

Kurama leaves nothing behind but a few roses for those who might appreciate them. If possible, I ask that Moss Garden be allowed to be absorbed back into the Wild, where it came from. I feel this is best since the garden's existence was closely tied with Kurama's particular nature and abilities.

Henry leaves only an empty apartment, his money (to be distributed to canonmates and close friends), and maybe a shirt or two that clashes with his hair.

Niko leaves behind his weapons, funds and books, with first choice of these to go to his canonmates. Close friends may choose to say a little something was left to them, too, perhaps a book from his extensive collection or an appropriate sharp edge or a little money should they or a cause dear to them need it. I also ask that Hinode Dojo be allowed to close and become an empty commercial space with Niko gone, because the dojo was intended to follow Niko's personal philosophy regarding martial arts.

Lux needs new management, and it would be best if one of the current employees can take this on. I'd like priority to go to the most senior employee(s), but if no current employee can take the club on, then I'd like to ask the mods to please take Lux under their control to do with as seems best for the players and the game.

Thank you for the good times, Poly.

[ There's a brief silence before a child's voice comes through the communicator. ]

Whoa! This... this doesn't look like home. Is this a story...? But I didn't write anything like...

[ Footsteps echo. ]

Mum? Dad? Charon...? Raetsel....?

What the... Why's there something heavy in my...

[ A loud tapping follows, and a bit of static - he seems to have found the device and started poking at it. ]

What's this thing? I've never seen anything like it... I bet Charon could tell me!

[ He suddenly sounds almost elated. ]

Wooooow! Just wait 'til they all see this place!

[ And the footsteps break into a run as the feed cuts. ]

[ ooc: Haven't done this to him in a long while, so have an age-reversed, angst-less 5-6 year old Fakir! With living parents and 100% more happy! I'll probably keep him like this for both days. And yeah, he's just run off from the Opera Abandoned courtyard. >>; ]

I'm going to yank Kenshin from the City for a while. He should be back all updated (and injured again *sigh*) in a couple of weeks. Maybe sooner (lol, depends on the calendar XD).

See you soon, Poly~

HELLO POLY TL;DR! no this isn't a hiatus post. aha. i've been really slow layely because work is kicking my butt and my brother came for a visit, but i think i can start getting back on track now. JUST IN TIME FOR GRAB BAG WEEKEND. anyway, i've had this idea knocking around for a while but haven't been able to do it for a few. well. MONTHS. so i'm gonna do it now and i'd love to have some other people involved!

→MY SECRET IDENTITY:
momoko is getting turned into a supervillain. but not just any supervillain, she'll be (as per her otaku nature) a superhero collector. kind of like that one episode of the simpsons, fff. and i was wondering if anyone would like to volunteer to be collected, or to be a superhero that stops her madness and rampaging? she'll have all the same powers that she does as hyper blossom (flying, super strength, yo-yo of doom, etc) so she'll be yo-yoing people and dragging them back to her ~*secret lair*~

i was hoping to have this run today and/or tomorrow. sorry for the late notice, this almost slipped my mind completely. ;; i have to run to work right now but i'll be around in a few hours to plot about this! also my aim name is virtualresonance if anyone has any questions or anything.

i'd LOVE to use this to kickstart some CR, so if you're interested in being/becoming a superhero, general hero-type or idol or ANYTHING, she'd be all about collecting. i also do want someone to foil her evil scheme. please feel free to jump in on this! ♥

As of this video post, Rip is captured by Hellsing, lasting for about ~four days. During this time they take her network device away, meaning a mini!hiatus for her - she won't tag new posts/respond during that time at all, since she can't. :/

All tags that are assumed to have happened before that will be continued, of course. It's just affecting new ones during this time now.

Be assured, she won't like this. At all.

Ironic because I'm extending my hiatus/slow-atus and asking for plots at the same time.

First, I didn't know when I declared the slow-atus that I'd have EVERY FINAL PROJECT EVER due next week. Holy crap. Why does my college not want me to have a Thanksgiving? I swear I'll be back AFTER next Friday. AAAAAHHHHH this is what I get for taking Lab of Death.

On the other note, I realize that I've been having some communication fail. Sorrow was totally trying to get an anti-Millennium thing going, since he's all Gung Ho No More World War II and stuff, but unfortunately someone beat him to it. It was sad, because I put a whole lot of effort into trying to A) stay in character while B) actually marshaling some people to do stuff.

The problem appears to be, I really would like to do awesome plots, but I'm not exactly in touch with anyone doing anything, and then I end up going, "Wait this has been done?"

So I figured I'd post here asking two questions:

A) What's the status on the Rip van Winkle/Millennium plot? Is there room for anyone who would seriously be passionate about this problem to help out?

Edit: Apparently too late for any of that, see above post in tl;dr.

B) Most of the posts I reply to tend to be just random posts about random events. This is awesome and encourages fun. But I'm looking to connect him to things he'd really care about; the trouble isn't that I don't want to have him work with things I'm seeing, is that I'm not seeing things somehow. Maybe my timing sucks. Anyone out there need any help with interesting things, or want to meet someone new, or whatever the heck? He needs a breath of fresh air.

When; The 24th of November
Rating; PG
Characters; Inara Serra only_fell (cursed and 5 years old) & Priestly notverypriestly
Summary; Inara is cursed and suddenly 5 years old. Priestly plays baby sitter.
Log; ( I'm a Princess. Mommy says so )

Aha~ how Kaspar cries. How Kaspar trembles.

Did you think to escape Samiel twice? Perhaps I should give you to my hounds...

[ooc: Comment log for Hellsing, Angel Crew, Lady, Video Post for everyone else. Alucard is shadowy and creepy, Rip is weepy, let's all have fun.]

HMD [A - K]

Those who gave their names or nicknames on their applications and the Taken Character List as starting with A through K, please post here.


How's My Driving?
[PROCEED]

IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE! HMD, HMD! HOW'S MY DRIVING? PRETTY GOOD, RIGHT? AREN'T YOU THANKFUL?! GOBBLE IT UP, POLYCHROMATIDS~!!

Welcome back to our more seasoned members, and welcome to you first-timers.

HMD is the gamewide chance for feedback on playing here in polychromatic.

And here's our philosophy on HMD: praise--it's all well and good (we all love it, yeah?), so if you want to give praise, love, ♥s, whatever, go for it! It's especially great to say what you ♥ so much about a character. For example, how they acted during X curse or Y plot was great, or how they adjusted (or didn't?) to the City was fascinating. But we all know, constructive crit is best when you're looking for advice on how to improve. What we really encourage here are questions. It gives you the chance to maybe understand something, (and maybe you think it makes sense after all now), and the player a chance to explain. For example:

"How did Gary get from Point A in canon to Point B in Poly? It didn't quite make sense to me."

"What started this whole fascination of Sue's with the bananas?"

And then you find out that there's a long, involved story that goes back six months involving the aftermath of a curse, a lizard, a pound of potatoes, a watermelon, three French maids, and a pogo stick. And then it all makes perfect sense.

Or perhaps it doesn't, but you've started a dialogue about the things you perceive versus the things the player perceives.

As decided by community vote, anon is not allowed here on the main HMD post, and IP logging is on. Sorry, Anon. However, we encourage posting a link to your own, personal, anon-enabled crit thread(s) if allowing anon is something you want to do and are comfortable with. But keep in mind that we moderators can't police those crit threads: not only are they anon, but they are on your own journals, and there are dozens of them. But we entreat members of this game to be polite and courteous, logged in or not. We will be watching the main post for any unrest, however, so keep that in mind. (We like to watch.) Let's all keep ourselves like civilized people, and have a decent time. Remember, no road rage in HMD.

To keep things organized, please post your comment in the following format*:

<b>Player name:</b> <b>Characters played:</b> Character :: Fandom :: Character LJ <b>Personal concrit link:</b> <b>Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N:</b> <b>Other comments?</b>


The general disclaimer, as usual, applies:

By choosing to post here on HMD, you may receive comments you don't necessarily enjoy. By posting here, you accept that this could happen, and you're basically okay with it. We will be monitoring this post for abuse and will shut down any instances of abuse we see. However, constructive crit, comments, or questions you just don't like do not count as abuse.

Whew. Now that that's all out of the way, have at it, polychromatic!

*Please remember our requests regarding sparkles, images, embedded media, and other bits of coding. A little variation on the comment form is fine and tasty, and putting things like gifs or videos behind links or in collapsed threads is fine too, but please consider the loading time for others with slower connections. And take it easy on the placeholders: HMD isn't going anywhere.

And because it's apparently traditional for HMD posts to go up in the middle of the damn night, here we are. =_=v

HMD [L - Z]

Those who gave their names or nicknames on their applications and the Taken Character list as starting with L through Z, please post here..


How's My Driving?
[WTF?!]

IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE! HMD, HMD! HOW'S MY DRIVING? PRETTY GOOD, RIGHT? AREN'T YOU THANKFUL?! GOBBLE IT UP, POLYCHROMATIDS~!!

Welcome back to our more seasoned members, and welcome to you first-timers.

HMD is the game-wide chance for feedback on playing here in polychromatic.

And here's our philosophy on HMD: praise--it's all well and good (we all love it, yeah?), so if you want to give praise, love, ♥s, whatever, go for it! It's especially great to say what you ♥ so much about a character. For example, how they acted during X curse or Y plot was great, or how they adjusted (or didn't?) to the City was fascinating. But we all know, constructive crit is best when you're looking for advice on how to improve. What we really encourage here are questions. It gives you the chance to maybe understand something, (and maybe you think it makes sense after all now), and the player a chance to explain. For example:

"How did Gary get from Point A in canon to Point B in Poly? It didn't quite make sense to me."

"What started this whole fascination of Sue's with the bananas?"

And then you find out that there's a long, involved story that goes back six months involving the aftermath of a curse, a lizard, a pound of potatoes, a watermelon, three French maids, and a pogo stick. And then it all makes perfect sense.

Or perhaps it doesn't, but you've started a dialogue about the things you perceive versus the things the player perceives.

As decided by community vote, anon is not allowed here on the main HMD post, and IP logging is on. Sorry, Anon. However, we encourage posting a link to your own, personal, anon-enabled crit thread(s) if allowing anon is something you want to do and are comfortable with. But keep in mind that we moderators can't police those crit threads: not only are they anon, but they are on your own journals, and there are dozens of them. But we entreat members of this game to be polite and courteous, logged in or not. We will be watching the main post for any unrest, however, so keep that in mind. (We like to watch.) Let's all keep ourselves like civilized people, and have a decent time. Remember, no road rage in HMD.

To keep things organized, please post your comment in the following format*:

<b>Player name:</b> <b>Characters played:</b> Character :: Fandom :: Character LJ <b>Personal concrit link:</b> <b>Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N:</b> <b>Other comments?</b>


The general disclaimer, as usual, applies:

By choosing to post here on HMD, you may receive comments you don't necessarily enjoy. By posting here, you accept that this could happen, and you're basically okay with it. We will be monitoring this post for abuse and will shut down any instances of abuse we see. However, constructive crit, comments, or questions you just don't like do not count as abuse.

Whew. Now that that's all out of the way, have at it, polychromatic!

*Please remember our requests regarding sparkles, images, embedded media, and other bits of coding. A little variation on the comment form is fine and tasty, and putting things like .gifs or videos behind links or in collapsed threads is fine too, but please consider the loading time for others with slower connections. And take it easy on the placeholders: HMD isn't going anywhere.

And because it's apparently traditional for HMD posts to go up in the middle of the damn night, here we are. =_=v

When; Thanksgiving Day (November 26th), all day, any time
Rating; G? PG at most?
Characters; Anyone! Everyone! You!
Summary; No one should be alone for the holidays.
Log; ( That's why the door's always open. )

I AM... kind of back a little bit. At least with Claire, right now. I'll be bringing Cordy back in eventually as well. I'm trying to get oriented back into the game slowly, since the quarter isn't over yet and I still have finals to take care of and a paper to write by Tuesday, but I really missed playing with everyone and playing in general.

So basically I am bumping up my complete hiatus to a slowatus, and I apologize in advance if I drop tags or something since I go to bed at a logical time these days. Thank you all for staying fab while I was gone, and it's really nice to be back.

Also: Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!

-♥-
Mary

ahahahaha--DON'T KICK ME!!

I'm going to visit Gin Jen, so hiatus from November 27th-31st, and with me comes 101st_job, betterthanthen and championess. And when I say "come", I mean they're all on autopilot.

Also this means I'm missing HMD this time, so if there's anything you want me to know, every character has their own ConCrit post. :D ♥!

SEE YA

BRB MOUNTAINS

Hiatus for Setsuna and Regene from the 28th to 30th of November! Godmod/Godmode/however you spell it rights to the lovely Gundam 00 cast. 8)

Be back on the 1st of December! ♥

voice;

....You've got to shitting me.

[Pause, oh the truth settles in. Someone hears a ticking.]

No. No, no, no, no! Goddammit, I've been here for too fucking long for this to just--- I don't believe this shit. Fucking son of a bitch, City. You'll be sorry, you hear me? You'll be sorry you decided to pull me back to this shit hole.

I really believed for a little while.... You made a fool out of me. I was right there. I was home, I was this close....

[Shattering glass and the device gets switched off. Guess who is back from her brief, brief trip home. Ask her about it. I dare you.]

Private to Boy Blue;
I want my apartment.
end;

So, long time no see here! .___. I've managed to get through a massive slew of exams, stress, and sickness, and as such Riff should be back in action here soon! I just want to catch up on a few more things, and should have him posted soon. Just want to apologize in general for the extended hiatus, and lots of love for misterblackbird who's been amazing and helping me stay a bit connected here <33

Good to be back though!

For all the times I've thought about doing this, I can't believe I'm actually following through this time.

Please friend remove tempzilla


Donna has had an amazing run here at Poly, and she will always be one of the favorite characters I've played. Thank you to everyone who has befriended her or made her life miserable.


♥♥♥
~Katie (still here with Anne and Emma!)