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news feed; Thursday, November 1st 2012
Thursday, November 1st 2012
Weather Thick early morning fog, and a mix of cloud and sun. Chance of showers.. High 12°C and a low of 8°C (54°F 46°F)
Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Morning sirens go off at 8:06 am, and evening sirens are at 5:46pm.
News & Advertisements
November: Facial Hair and Novels Getting Longer By the Day
November is typically a harsh month in Siren's Port. There's little daylight between sirens, and during the day there's often constant downpours, sometimes even snow. But two distinctly separate groups of activists are doing what they can to lighten the gloomy mood of this month: by participating in Movember and National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo.
Movember is a tradition started in Melbourne, Australia, where men start out clean-shaven and grow mustaches to increase awareness about men's health. Typically, Movember participants raise money for various cancer research organizations on the mainland, but getting that money to its proper source can be difficult and cause a mess of red-tape and taxes. Thus, several SERO-run charities have stepped in to run Siren's Port Movember, with their benefits going to similar causes: prostate cancer research and general awareness campaigns about men's health. Many SERO-run clubs are running 'clean shaven' mixers the first weekend of Movember, with intention for continuing parties for men to compare and contrast, cumulating in several mustache contests at the end of the month.
NaNoWriMo was started in the San Francisco bay area with the simple goal of getting aspiring writers off their butts... and onto their butts in front of computers, laptops, typewriters and spiral-bound notebooks. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50k novel in 30 days: to set a goal and actually finish something without too much worry or thought about the overall quality of the work (that's for NaNoEdMo). As NaNoWriMo took off and became a sensation all over the world, its formers saw a potential to do great good, and formed a charity organization that builds libraries in third world countries.
Faced with similar problems as the Movember activists, NaNoWriMo participants teamed with AGI, who will be sponsoring many all-night write-ins at the Underground Mall. AGI promises for every novel finished that a thousand dollars will be donated to the Siren's Port library system, to help pay for new books and do repairs on many of their crumbling buildings. Perhaps more exciting than that, they will offer free meetings with editors to review the final product, which could result in a book deal!*
Self-help guru Neveah Knorr has announced her intention to being and complete her third self-help book during NaNoWriMo.
*NaNoWriMo authors who choose to have their work reviewed will have to sign a waiver that they will not bring any legal action to AGI for any reason, say, if suddenly some other book with a lot of similarities turns up on the shelves sometime later...
- BIG CANDY BLOWOUT! All Halloween candy & decor must go! Grab this steal of a deal while it lasts! 80% Sales at every Seronex Pharmacy with your affiliation card.
- ¡Bienvenidos a Los Pollos Hermanos! Grand Opening TODAY! The Underground Mall's latest dining option, Los Pollos Hermanos, will be launching today with a special grand opening sale! Half-off all meal specials and free drink refills! Specializing in fried and rotisserie chicken with a spicy Latin flair, Los Pollos Hermanos is open 24/7 in the Underground Mall's food court. Come experience the #1 independent chicken franchise in the Southwest United States at our brand new 15th location!
[[All Souls Day Mini-Event: On November 1st, the barrier between realms of the living and dead is lifted. Spirit Mediums throughout the city may find this a busy day of message-ferrying, as both living and dead are more eager and aware of communicating with each other.
But the Core is giving its newcomers an additional haunting phenomenon today: From sun up until evening siren, in all reflective surfaces (mirrors, puddles, shiny panes of glass) ghostly apparitions of passed loved ones eager for a bittersweet reunion or lifelong bitter enemies sworn to continue loathing you from the grave will be visible, their opaque eyes fixed directly on you. Staring back at these spectres will cause their images to sharpen and color in your vision, but looking for too long may cause dizzy lightheadedness and eventually fainting and blackouts.
If you have died, however, either back wherever you’re from, or here in Port: Your image will appear as a rotten corpse or skeleton scraped bone dry in every reflective surface, visible to everyone.]]
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[ News Notification Thread]
Weather Thick early morning fog, and a mix of cloud and sun. Chance of showers.. High 12°C and a low of 8°C (54°F 46°F)
Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Morning sirens go off at 8:06 am, and evening sirens are at 5:46pm.
News & Advertisements
November: Facial Hair and Novels Getting Longer By the Day
November is typically a harsh month in Siren's Port. There's little daylight between sirens, and during the day there's often constant downpours, sometimes even snow. But two distinctly separate groups of activists are doing what they can to lighten the gloomy mood of this month: by participating in Movember and National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo.
Movember is a tradition started in Melbourne, Australia, where men start out clean-shaven and grow mustaches to increase awareness about men's health. Typically, Movember participants raise money for various cancer research organizations on the mainland, but getting that money to its proper source can be difficult and cause a mess of red-tape and taxes. Thus, several SERO-run charities have stepped in to run Siren's Port Movember, with their benefits going to similar causes: prostate cancer research and general awareness campaigns about men's health. Many SERO-run clubs are running 'clean shaven' mixers the first weekend of Movember, with intention for continuing parties for men to compare and contrast, cumulating in several mustache contests at the end of the month.
NaNoWriMo was started in the San Francisco bay area with the simple goal of getting aspiring writers off their butts... and onto their butts in front of computers, laptops, typewriters and spiral-bound notebooks. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50k novel in 30 days: to set a goal and actually finish something without too much worry or thought about the overall quality of the work (that's for NaNoEdMo). As NaNoWriMo took off and became a sensation all over the world, its formers saw a potential to do great good, and formed a charity organization that builds libraries in third world countries.
Faced with similar problems as the Movember activists, NaNoWriMo participants teamed with AGI, who will be sponsoring many all-night write-ins at the Underground Mall. AGI promises for every novel finished that a thousand dollars will be donated to the Siren's Port library system, to help pay for new books and do repairs on many of their crumbling buildings. Perhaps more exciting than that, they will offer free meetings with editors to review the final product, which could result in a book deal!*
Self-help guru Neveah Knorr has announced her intention to being and complete her third self-help book during NaNoWriMo.
*NaNoWriMo authors who choose to have their work reviewed will have to sign a waiver that they will not bring any legal action to AGI for any reason, say, if suddenly some other book with a lot of similarities turns up on the shelves sometime later...
- BIG CANDY BLOWOUT! All Halloween candy & decor must go! Grab this steal of a deal while it lasts! 80% Sales at every Seronex Pharmacy with your affiliation card.
- ¡Bienvenidos a Los Pollos Hermanos! Grand Opening TODAY! The Underground Mall's latest dining option, Los Pollos Hermanos, will be launching today with a special grand opening sale! Half-off all meal specials and free drink refills! Specializing in fried and rotisserie chicken with a spicy Latin flair, Los Pollos Hermanos is open 24/7 in the Underground Mall's food court. Come experience the #1 independent chicken franchise in the Southwest United States at our brand new 15th location!
[[All Souls Day Mini-Event: On November 1st, the barrier between realms of the living and dead is lifted. Spirit Mediums throughout the city may find this a busy day of message-ferrying, as both living and dead are more eager and aware of communicating with each other.
But the Core is giving its newcomers an additional haunting phenomenon today: From sun up until evening siren, in all reflective surfaces (mirrors, puddles, shiny panes of glass) ghostly apparitions of passed loved ones eager for a bittersweet reunion or lifelong bitter enemies sworn to continue loathing you from the grave will be visible, their opaque eyes fixed directly on you. Staring back at these spectres will cause their images to sharpen and color in your vision, but looking for too long may cause dizzy lightheadedness and eventually fainting and blackouts.
If you have died, however, either back wherever you’re from, or here in Port: Your image will appear as a rotten corpse or skeleton scraped bone dry in every reflective surface, visible to everyone.]]
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[ News Notification Thread]
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angry dead menfriends staring at him today...no subject
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and decomposing of herself, i suppose as well.
Naruto should come give her company so she doesn't go insane.
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Can he please? He will totally keep her company and make sure she's okay.
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I mean. ashjhfg
Will there be a log or ... a thing? Some thing I can hit up and have him be a pest at? OR WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO POST A THING? idk
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Totally unannounced sob. Because ninja??
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y e p