#dx:admin

: / / NEW MODERATOR JOINS THE TEAM . . .

i'm pleased to announce that carly has joined the district x team as a moderator! she'll be joining your admin (me, mars) with helping with administrative tasks behind the scenes such as keeping reserves updated, screening applications, updating pages, etc.

carly has already been getting involved (some of you have probably received messages from her via this blog already) and has been a huge help over the last week. she'll continue to assist in administrative tasks so we can dedicate more focus more toward world building through lore drops and events, which she'll also be assisting with as needed.

everyone please welcome carly to the district x team! she's written a personal intro below to kick things off:

: / / YOU DECIDE: NEXT LORE DROP . . .

hi everyone! it's been a minute since we've had a lore drop to expand the universe and we've had a lot of different ideas bouncing around. we'd like you to decide what we write up next!

please choose one of the following subjects below to be featured in the next lore drop. we'll get to all of these eventually, so it's not like the winner will never see the light of day! but this will help us decide how to prioritize the upcoming drops.

: / / MINOR UPDATES . . .

hi everyone! just some quick notes on minor updates we've added to the district x main blog!

GUARDIAN AGE REQUIREMENTS

we've added age requirements/minimums to the guardian roles going forward. while we're not asking anyone to change their current muses, all new muses will have to adhere to these guidelines.

during our first month of acceptances, we realized that some of the relative ages of muses didn't make sense (like tier d guardians who were years older than tier a guardians) and there were a lot of questions about promotion timelines. so we added this information to hopefully keep this more consistent going forward!

again, we're not requiring any currently accepted muses to change anything. however, if you'd like to make adjustments to your muse(s) to fit the new guidelines, please let us know about any revamps or faceclaim changes so we can process everything accordingly.

BANNED POWERS LIST

to help prevent confusion when building muses, we've created a list of all abilities we currently do not allow to be roleplayed here. you can read the list here but it's also been added as a link on the rules page and powers page.

there's always a chance we overlooked something or don't think of a limitation until a specific situation arises, so we do reserve the right to add abilities to the banned list at any time. however, we'll be sure to communicate with any potential future applicants and our current members to try to minimize confusion!

: / / THIS CONCLUDES THE OPENING QUEUE . . .

everyone is now free to start posting their intros and plot calls on dash! once again, please be sure to follow all new members and reach out to one another with welcomes. we're so excited to kick off district x's return with all of you!

i also want to give a MASSIVE thank you to nico/nicole (@dxjinah) for stepping in as a temporary admin assistant tonight! they helped me get things organized behind the scenes and getting everything scheduled on time would not have been possible without their help.

as a reminder, our blog roll is public for easy following of all active members.

: / / PRE-OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS . . .

hi again everyone! as of this post, our inbox is now closed as we prepare for tonight's opening queue. we'll reopen it after the queue has completed and will announce when it's up and running again so you can send any applications or reserves that didn't get in for opening night. our ims will remain open for any questions but we will not be taking reserves through im!

as a reminder, the queue will start at 12:00 am est tonight. we're planning to have every accepted application posted within the hour and will make a post to let you know when the queue has completed.

just a few additional housekeeping expectations as we all prepare for opening night!

please do not post any intros or plot calls until after the queue has completed to keep the dash clear

intros can be tagged with #dx:intro

plot calls can be tagged with #dx:plotcall

you can use both tags on one post if it's a two in one situation

please make sure to welcome your fellow members through interacting with their intro posts/plot calls as well as sending welcome messages through ims

we'll make sure our blog roll is open and updated by the time the queue starts to make following everyone easy

: / / GRAND OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT . . .

hi everyone! i'm so excited to announce that we've officially hit ten unique users submitting applications so we've reached our goal for grand opening!

since i need some time to review and prepare graphics for all of the apps so far (and all the apps i'm sure are coming in over the next couple of days), we're currently planning on running our grand opening queue at at 12:00am est on sunday, october 5th. we'll be closing the inbox at 6:00pm est on saturday, october 4th in order to give time to review and prepare everything so please be sure to submit your apps before then if you want to be part of our opening queue!

if you can't submit in time for the opening, no worries. we'll accept apps on a rolling basis afterwards so it won't be long before you get in too.