House of Cards OOC

 Joining the apparent mass disappearing act, except hopefully my disappearance will not be as total. Reuniting with the immediate family tomorrow and we will be hopping about to various vacationy places until the 23rd. Internets will probably be had but since I will actually be going outside (gasp) I will not be so actively on and doing things, so slow taggages and it is unlikely I will be in chat :<

If you need me, drop me an email! Everyone will be going about business as usual.

 OKAY so Rachel is headed off to the outposts for a brief visit just to check up on things/deal with an incident between some Diamonds and Clubs guards. I was initially going to have her go this week BUT due to life, she will actually be gone next week from about the 16th or so to the 25th /o/

Which is in part because I will also be a bit poofly next week. I am travelling on the 18th down to Texas and have a leadership summit that weekend so things may a bit crazy and busy so upcoming tentative hiatus/slowatus for me from around the 17/18th or so to the 25th-ish. While Rachel will be away, Rowan and Teresa will be business as usual. \o/

I need to go out of town tomorrow and should return sometime tomorrow night. I may not be back on before Saturday afternoon since that will be a lot of time to spend in the car. (I hate one day trips!) . I won't have access to the internet because my phone is twenty zillion years old.

Just a head's up! Have fun!

As some of you may know, EJ is currently flying her way to me. (Technically she's currently at work, but AFTER THAT...) I would suspect that we will not be spending the next six days sitting on my bed RPing, so I'm going to say slowatus for the next week. I might tag a few times, but I also might just be completely gone, and the same goes for EJ.

I am sure Ana will keep the place standing in our absence.

This is my final few weeks of class before I graduate in May. I will try to tag but if I don't make the checks please don't kick me. >>

Either way. Wish me luck.

Going to be on slow/possibly hiatus for the next two weeks or so because of midterms, Spring Break, and the plague. Should be back properly by the 16th!

Love ya!
Drea

We were caught smack dab in the middle of the two winter storms that swept the country: 13 1/2 inches of snow last Thursday and 9-10 inches today, so I've been dealing with that, make-up time from work and, oh, did I mention power outages?

I need to conserve my battery, so don't expect me on. We're swamped at work because of all the off time, so not sure how much I'll be able to do there on my breaks (hopefully some!).

I'll try to tag around, but I can't promise. Didn't want anyone thinking I'd fallen off the face of the earth. Consider my people doing what they do: Katya smiling though she wants to tear her hair out (Julien, she trusts you to know what to do if that fool who challenged the Sweet Heart lives.) Diana, she'll be getting the name of that Six who pulled a knife on you. Can't be having that.

Sophie will research that book that was discovered <i>if</i> anyone ever brings it to her attention. Otherwise, she'll be there quietly for Cadogan, tsundere on Adrien and spoil Sitara rotten. Oh, and she's looking for someone with library training (or who can be trained).

Monty's spending a lot of time with the horses, because they're that spooked with all the tremors. He'll make time to harass Ben some and even more time to try and make sure Blythe doesn't run herself ragged.

Tess will continue to doctor animals, frequent pubs, flirt and try to keep a certain cat lover sane.

Gideon, hmmm, Gideon no doubt is tippling due to all the stress and *gasp* <i>broken</i> china and shelves. But never fear, He may move with deliberation, but that's the only hint (other than repeatedly cleaning everything over and over and over and over and over). He put the fun in functional alcoholic.

Hello guys/gals, 

I am going to be pulling a mini-hiatus for a couple days now while I finish up all my coursework and ace my finals (pshhhhhh ._.) and things. So. This affects all my characters: black0and0white, somuchheart, eucre, standlikestone, cauldronsbubble, and rarelight. See you guys once I've finished all of everything! :D

-- Violet~

This is hell week, so I'm going to be slow to do much of anything until after class Friday night. Next week is just finals. Pfft. But this week, I have three tests and a ten-page paper due (plus the other test and thirty assignments I had due Monday) by Friday, so things are a little crazy. I promise I will be back to full speed starting Saturday. I love you guys. <3

~Kels

Affected: bitchwithabite; karatofquality; hommesadique

Due to frantic work schedules this month and personal reasons, for December or at the very least the time being I'm going on a severe slow/hiatus.
Hopefully, things will shape up before too long and I'll get back into activity before January. But who knows.

This affects:
Juan Pedro
Carlos Jose
Tunde
Mitchell
In Su

So we were thinking that the rules about how hiatus/slowatus affects AC were a bit convoluted so we decided to slim them up a bit. (If you'd like to see the old ones, here they are.)

Starting from now, we will treat them like so:

If your slowatus is going to be longer than 3 weeks, you are automatically exempt from AC.

If your hiatus is going to be longer than 2 weeks, you are automatically exempt from AC.

If your hiatus/slowatus is less than that but you are having a serious problem getting to fulfill the AC requirements, please come and talk to the mods and let us know and we'll work something out.

Remember, AC requirements boil down to just 5 tags by your character in a given thread, and 3 threads minimum for the whole month. So it is theoretically possible to still be able to meet AC requirements in about 2 weeks, even if you only do one tag a day.

And also remember, for a hiatus/slowatus to be counted, you ought to put a comment in the hiatus post to make sure we see it.

Thank you!

And if you've got any questions/comments/concerns, feel free to put them below or PM us, whichever is more convenient.

As most people know, I am MOVING tomorrow to a new apartment that, sadly, does not come with internet already hooked up. The cable company's supposed to come Saturday morning...

But ten years of adulthood have taught me not to be entirely optimistic on that front. Besides that, I need to get the lay of the land in a new city and will be starting a new job Monday, so I might be a bit slow in general even if Comcast does what it's supposed to.

This effects:

Elisha | cipherspeak
Avery | uncutclarity
Jordan | heartsthespades
Briony | civilizedpoison
Emily | aliasinfacie
Alasdair | dreamsofwords
Zoe | headfollowheart
Ben | intotherough
Abby | heartpursuit

Hey cupcakes, just letting everyone know I'm going out of town for my brother's wedding this weekend. I'll do some tagging on existing threads from my phone, but I will be incredibly slow on things til I get back Tuesday. :]

This affects:
Caleb | take2andcallme
Eden | likemarilynsaid

I am still reachable via all the usual methods of contact if you want to plot things with either of my characters, or if you miss me too much. <3

Hey, all. Just wanted to post and let everyone know I might not be around much for the next week. I have the crud plus RL/work things. I will make the Halloween party, but other than that I won't be in chat much and tagging will be slow. Just didn't want anyone thinking I'd dropped off the edge of the earth.

I expect fires!

Hey lovelies,

As some of you might know/have noticed, I am not in the best place mentally right now, so I am doing the grown-up thing and taking a little break. I will still be around for things and I should be back to normal in a week-ish, but these things are hard to predict and etc. Thanks for bearing with me. ♥

This affects Adrien, Blythe, Piper, Riley, and Sebastian.

-- Violet

Hi, gang. I'm in bed with the creeping crud that's going around base. I may be around the chat, but I'm not sure I'll be up to playing cards this weekend. I do love you all, and will try to be back whenever possible.

This affects Isadore, Tally, Karin and Teddy.

As Ana mentioned yesterday, we will be Doing Things this weekend. Internet access will be as iffy as my current internet access (seriously, Time Warner, seriously) but try not to break everything while we're gone?

Or at least break it all in extremely fantastic configuration?

Back Tuesday and clinging to the internet like a lifeline.

Hi, everyone. Some of you may have noticed I haven't been around. My home server has been experiencing more than its share of hiccups. Unfortunately, that means intermittent internet for us. I don't text on my phone at all, much less deal with the internet. (Yes, I admit to being a fuddy duddy. My phone is cheap and I cannot brain hitting a letter umpteen times trying to get what I want to show up.)

On top of that, I need to run (alright, drive) across the state to take care of some executor stuff for my sister. I may or not wind up with access. I just don't know yet.

Hopefully, everything will be up and running/I'll be on sometime this weekend, Tuesday at the latest.

Have fun, party hearty and stay gold!

So, happily I wasn't gone that long. Yaaaay. I could have been gone a while, and etc. But you know, it is what it is. However, I will be on a slowatus until I fully recover (I think most people have heard, but I did have to make an unexpected hospital visit- etc etc.) And thank you to all the well wishers <333

Secondly! This is my official drop post for Laureline, Ceiro and Addy.

Laureline- has been banished and will possibly come back to make your lives miserable. From time to time.

Ceiro- Will recover eventually from his illness off deck. He will come back to the deck in time, and resume his work with teaching at the school in town.

Addy- Addy, oh Addy. He might return, but I will not be focused enough to get him 2 more threads, really. And I might bring him back once my brain is a little settled. At the moment, however, he is going to be taking a leave of absence from the Deck to join a program that is designed to help victims of torture and such get over their trauma. So he'll return from that when/if I bring him back.

I did thought that with mobile internet it would be easier for me to reply during the holidays, but the ugly truth is that it isn't, so replies have been and will continue being slow until I come back the 31st.