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Link Up! Mods ([personal profile] linkupmods) wrote2024-06-03 06:24 pm

activity check

ACTIVITY CHECK
SUBMISSION INFO

    Activity Check consists of 20 comments between 2-3 threads. Furthermore, we will be asking for social link submissions.

    Social link submissions are essentially a short writeup; please choose, at minimum, 2 pieces of CR in which your character has experienced some sort of shift in. By "shift", we mean anything as small as "my character now likes hanging out with A" to something more dramatic like "my character trusts A with their life". Negative shifts are also welcome! Just as long as something in your chosen pieces of CR has changed.

    For September:
    • If you submit 2 social link write ups, you will receive a reward from our character regains pool.
    • If you submit 3+ social link write ups, you will receive either a Magic Ointment (forms a barrier that reflects all magic spells once) or a Physical Ointment (forms a barrier that reflects all physical attacks once).

    Keep writeups to no more than 4 sentences.

    AC is due on the last day of each month. We will not be issuing official reminders, and those who fail to make AC will be swept.

    Please follow the example in the comments on how to submit your activity!


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October!

[personal profile] vogelfrei 2024-10-19 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
McGillis' Arc: McGillis died before he came here, which means that he started the game in the ruin of all that he used to be. Not only were his lifelong ambitions smashed and inaccessible to him, he'd also freshly admitted out loud that he does long for the love and forgiveness Gaelio had to offer. A lot of McGillis' time in the first half of Link Up was spent reckoning with this.

By the time of Argenti's palace McGillis came to terms with the facts that a) he could have fallen in love with Gaelio but also that b) his time in his world is irrevocably over and he has to let go of it.

Between that mourning period being done with, an embarrassing self-destructive outburst dealt with, and Braphine confirming that he'll need bonds to move to a different world and find a meaningful life for himself, McGillis finally found himself ready to actively spit on all that he used to be and experiment with letting people into his heart. He stills feels deeply apprehensive about what he is doing, but there are individuals who know him extremely extremely well and whom he would be loathe to lose.

McGillis is still very much a work in progress. He needs a new goal and a new life to keep him busy before he'll stop feeling like he's falling apart. But he's committed himself to his new people now and he'll push as far as he can go with it. He doesn't do things by half-measures.