#pi:updates

Afternoon, folks! Mod Nat here with an important announcement to make. 

After witnessing recent activity trends in the group, and discussing with other mods, we have decided to close The Pelago Islands down... in a manner of speaking. As such, there won't be a check today. The previous one will be the last. 

All three of us mods have grown increasingly busy in our lives as of late, and have quite honestly lost the passion needed to run this group at its absolute best. While we will be taking a step back for those reasons, this is not the ultimate end of PI. There won't be any new events or plot developments on our end, but if you would like to continue writing in this setting and using it for your own purposes, you are free to remain in the server and RP Hub without the threat of being removed for insufficient activity. 

This group, while initially started by me and Tay, has very much grown into a collaborative effort between us and the writers who have come and gone over the years. It wouldn't sit well with us to take it away from you, especially not after all the investment and work so many of you have put into it! 

So if there are friends you have, or any interested parties you might know who would want to write a character here as well, feel free to invite them. Just message me, Mod Nat (if you don’t have my Discord, msg me @ragunyans on Twitter), first, and I'll be happy to give them access to the server if they need. We likely won’t be checking this blog much for the foreseeable future, so messages to the main will be highly discouraged.

This is a bit of a bittersweet development, but we truly thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for giving PI your all these past five years. It was amazing fun, and an incredibly good run! Know that if any of you ever want to speak with us, we're still a message away.

Hey, guys! Been a while since we’ve had a post like this, but we just wanted to update you all on a change that has been made to voyages! The change made to the month-long deadline, in particular.

When we first implemented the deadline, it was during a period of time when members could generally get voyages completed within a span of a few weeks (and in some cases, days). But you all --- us mods included --- have grown much busier since those times, and are grappling with so many different things (school, work, timezones, other personal issues, etc.) that completing these voyages in only a month is no longer feasible. 

And honestly, it’s a pretty unreasonable expectation on our part, too.

But removing the deadline altogether would have us run into a problem we’ve encountered several times in the past: voyages being left incomplete, causing the islands attached to them to be left hanging in a difficult limbo.

So we’ve decided to extended the voyage deadline to two months at a minimum, with extensions allowed depending on the progress of the voyage. It gives you more room to complete them, all while retaining that incentive to get things done! Hopefully this takes a bit of the pressure off.

If you’re interested in taking a voyage, please refer to the Voyage page. And if you still find yourself unclear on a few details, please don’t hesitate to contact either of us mods with questions! 

Here’s that day you never thought would come, but finally has...

Pelago Islands will now be bumping the muse limit to six characters.

We’ve finally succumbed listened to your requests, and have decided to add on another muse slot for those crazy enough to take that plunge into muse hell! But! This new limit is not without stipulations.

For those of you who want to reserve a sixth muse, you must have passed the previous two activity checks with all five of your muses. (Or alternatively, passed one check, and met the post requirement for another, if it has not arrived yet.)

And even if you have, whether or not that reserve is accepted is still entirely up to the Mod’s discretion. We will take your activity patterns into account when you reserve, and if we feel you won’t be able to handle the boost in activity a sixth muse will require, we have the right to reject your request.

Hi there! I hope you don’t mind me answering this publicly, as I feel this bit of information will prove useful for any other God/Dragon-muse hopefuls.

To answer your question: yes! That is perfectly fine. We usually require muses to pay a minimum of 500,000G to be able to reside on any of the discovered islands outside Leuda and Arcadia. 

But, if you are playing a muse that is a God, Goddess, or Dragon God (possibly Witches and Wizards— we’d have to discuss it, though), then you may have them reside on these islands free of charge, with Mod approval. This will only apply to these special sorts of characters.

With Leuda Island winning the ultimate prize from the Founding Celebration this year, they won an opportunity to restore the Underground City to livable and sustainable conditions. Previously, the Underground City was a desolate area filled with quite a bit of heavy history and the inability to stay down there for long periods of time. However, the Explorer’s Guild was able to restore the land beneath Leuda Island with the power of a Rune Stone and quite a bit of funding to clean out the area, making it a suitable place to visit beneath the mines of Leuda.

Now that the restoration is now complete, the Explorer’s Guild is ready to open this new city to the public. Its name has been dubbed Epsilla.

The underground city of Epsilla can be accessed either via a freight elevator beside the main entrance of the Leuda Mines or by descending down the Leuda Mines itself. Along with the unveiling of Epsilla, three new business plots exclusive to Epsilla have been opened up for purchase!

Sup, homies. Mod Nat here, and ya girl is back at it with an update. We have created a new page detailing magic and how it works in this universe, as well as a tiny bit of lore relating to the Gods, races, and wizards/witches. This has been something that’s been planned for a while, and it is finally done!

Yo! Just here to let you all know about a few updates that have been made.

Monster Lists for Cinder Island and the Ocean have now been added to the Monster List page!