Activity Check Results / HMD

[lucetimods]

The results for the Activity Check are in. Please note that the following characters were either inactive, didn't post to the activity check, or failed to speak to a moderator about their activity. Also added were characters who have dropped recently, for your convenience.

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A number of you passed the activity check, but barely. (You know who you are.) Try to pick things up, as it's no fun to character-squat.

If there are any mistakes here, please let us know! Additionally, if your character was removed and you're still active, feel free to appeal to one of us about keeping your character. However, please remember next time to stay active and post to the Activity Check. Thank you!

And as always:

HMD

How's My Driving?

This is a crit post for both the community and game and for your characters. If you have something you'd like to see us improve upon with the game, PLEASE TELL US HERE! Anon commenting is on, but if anything gets really nasty there will be warnings and thread-freezing. This isn't required but everyone is encouraged to take advantage of the advice of your fellow players!

Just some pointers: no taking cheap shots, no dragging personal issues into things and for the love of all that is wise and great, please double check your replies and comments before posting them. Sometimes a change in phrasing can make all the difference between a helpful tone and a condescending one.

ALSO ALSO: We'd like to clarify that HMD means HMD- which means it's okay to have both good and bad crit. Some people have expressed concerns about posting good/bad crit when a character already has bad/good crit posted. We'd like to encourage you guys to do it anyway! You can drive well or badly, and even good drivers make mistakes. So give it a try \o

Comments

[daisy023]

My suggestion would be drowning himself in military/plot-like activity. Spartans, for instance, tend to numb or otherwise ignore their pains and losses by keeping themselves busy in any other way: Missions, exercise, research, etc. Because otherwise, the moment they start thinking about it, the moment they get sad. And even then, they still get nightmares.

In blood knights and people not as affected by combat, it seems to be a bit of a common trope, as with fictional military characters. Sam Fisher of Splinter Cell, for instance, with the loss of her daughter, pleaded to be given a mission when Command discharged him because of his evident depression.

It wouldn't precisely close him off, since he'd need peopleto work with, but they'd notice something's not quite right with Leonhardt.

[eyesofstrength]

Oh yeah, he still gets nightmares because he's seen some horrors. And that was before he even got into the military! Poor guy's life has been a disaster since he was a little kid.

So pretty much, get him on missions with other folks and thread some stuff out so people can see he's being stupidly reckless when on missions and not acting like his normal self? Only drawback there is missions are normally handwaved and all. And he'd need to be forced to work with people because he prefers working alone.

[daisy023]

The draft and the tornado may be good ways to get him in action and still be with people. It would keep his mind focused, but still troubled and with him unwilling to deal with it.

Alternatively, he could also continue to research and call some friends to help him with it, and still have people notice he has a loose screw someplace because of losing Joshua. His closer CR beside him could be of help for that.

Fortunately for him, if we get the reserved Chiba, he's finally going to have a therapist!