Howdy ‘Vados!
So as they do, things have changed. We have had to adapt a new archiving system to manage plot requests and backgrounds and Amber is here to explain what that looks like going forward!
changes to personal plots, PFA Requests, and Faction interviews
You’ll submit Personal Plot Requests, PFA Requests, Faction Interviews, and Rumors and Gossips here like usual. The new change comes on our end!
Personal Plot Requests, PFA Requests, and Faction Interviews are now being handled on a month to month basis.
What does this mean?
It means you have two full weeks to submit these types of requests after ticket sales go live. For example, for next event ‘The Rage That Fills Her Sails’ tickets went on sale Monday February the 13th; this means that you can submit these type of requests (Personal Plots, PFA’s, and Faction Interviews) till Monday February 27th.
If your request is not selected by an ST member in those two weeks, you will receive an email from the Storytelling Admin Assistant (currently Amber) asking you to resubmit you personal plot the next month.
THIS MEANS THAT IF YOU HAVE SUBMITTED A PERSONAL PLOT/PFA/FACTION INTERVIEW THIS SEASON AND ARE STILL WAITING; YOU SHOULD RESUBMIT.
Personal Plot requests that spend CAPS, plot request that are related to the upcoming event’s story arc, and are resubmissions will take priority. The Personal Plot request form that players fill out has been update so that we can filter these better.
There is no change to submitting Rumors and Gossip.
Professional focus achievments
Professional Focus Achievements— or PFA’s— are special skills that you can earn once you have spent 100 XP and have 10XP to buy the PFA. These allow you to use certain items or access special mechanics.
PFA’s were the solution to Advanced Professions which were used in 2.0. These were hard to obtain and took months of trial and tribulation for you LC to earn one. PFA’s were created to ease the burden on ST teams, but also an attempt to recreate the nostalgic feel of Advanced Professions.
While it might be easier to write a PFA mod in 3.0 than a Advanced Profession , they still take time. We want to provide our players with the most unique, catered experience; so the current turnaround for PFA written by the ST Senate is 3 months.
PFA submission will also be handled on a monthly basis just like the new personal plot procedure, and you might have to submit 3 or 4 times before an ST has space to pick it up.
However, we understand that PFA’s are important to your character build and you can have a PFA by next month if you reach out to another LC that has the PFA you are looking for and allow them to teach it to you. If you choose this method, you can submit a request for a PFA and notate your [Player Name] [Player Number] [PFA You Are Seeking] as well as the [Player Name] [Player Number] of the LC who will be teaching, just so that we know that it is happening.
Action Required: If you want to be an LC that we can recommend to help us tell PFA stories, please fill out this form.
If you have submitted a pfa this season that hasn’t been fufilled, you should resubmit.
If you’re interested in a PFA from another player, but don’t know which player has a PFA you can do one of two things. 1) Ask around your community, usually they can point you in the right direction and help you approach the person with that PFA. 2) Email info@dystopiarisingtx.com and we will use the list above to match you with someone.
Faction Interviews/Society Memberships
A couple of changes here; the biggest one being that we want to outsource society members ships to LC’s that have Master Memberships already. This takes the burden off our face NPC’s—who are predominantly played by game runners— to find a time to meet with each individual people. There are several benefits to having society memberships in the Lonestar; you can find out more about how society memberships work here.
Action Required: There is no easy way to track society memberships on our database; so we would like you to tell us what memberships you have on this form as well as if you are willing to facilitate faction interviews.
If you have submitted a faction interview request this season and it hasn’t been fufilled, you should resubmit
3.0 Backgrounds
This is the biggest loss that comes along with the archiving change. We have no easy way to access the backgrounds you have submitted since 3.0 began. Going back and trying to find every form submitted in our email archives leaves room for us to miss a few, and since we don’t want to leave anyone out it’s easier if you simply resubmit your background. This also gives you a chance to update things that have might of happened since the last time you submitted them.
Going forth, we will store these on our Google Drive instead of being dependent on any third party programs.
Action required: resubmit your 3.0 backgrounds here.
We had no way to predict this would be an issue, and we humbly ask for your grace and understanding as we try to collect all the things that were lost. This will be easier with your participation in the action requests above, but if you have any further comments, feedback, or questions; you may submit them to info@dystopiarisingtx.com