Operation Hydra Social - update

[kingofwaste]

It's that time of two months again! ...Well, actually, I'm a little late this time around due to RL being busy, but here we are. The bimonthly update for Luceti's penpal project, Hydra Social! Are you new and curious about Hydra Social? Find more info here! The partner list, as it was two months ago, can be found here!

As usual, I'd like to ask your help in checking the character list I currently have to see if there were any drops I missed.

Characters signed up so far

Walter Delques (blackteriques)
Leon (fellpool)
Kratos Aurion (shiningbinds)
Jeb Parmalee(sketchingideals)
Tear Grants (seleniahymn)
Frey Falenas (falenandawn)
Amelia (thedicearecast)
Kain Highwind (dragoon_pride)
Vincent Valentine (thenightmarebegins)
Haruhi Suzumiya (godbent)
Elicia Hughes (asobouyo)
Jay The Unseen (unseenspy)
Saleh (mountain_sage)
Asch the Bloody (dissonates)
Edward Elric (automailed)
Vivi Nefertari (alabastajewel)
Robert Hastings (semper_cogitans)
James Norrington (abidinglaw)
Yuan (fortunefail)
Grune (lostinmyway)
Hiccup (dragoneer)
Kyon (menial)
Helios (folklorist)
Beast (tailasoldastime)
Minato Arisato (emp3thy)
Ayumu (sundead)
Ami Mizuno (geniustheveil)
Anise Tatlin (failguardian)
Leonhardt (eyesofstrength)
Henry Wellard (bravelad)
Keiichi Maebara (breaks_destiny)
Phoenix Ikki (uccellodifuoco)
Winry Rockbell (installing)
Shiemi Moriyama (shamelessness)
Rin Okumura (rashness)
Isamu (musubi)
Caius Qualls (accepted)
Yun (tolivefortoday)
Sokka (markofthewise)
Hayate Ayasaki (whimsicalwinds)
Luke (hisapprentice)
Aang (savedtheworld)
Utena Tenjou (revolutionarygirl)
Molly Carpenter (talentsgirl)
Yoh Asakura (mikanphones)
Rudy Roughnight (ofwesternwinds)
Silver (tsunsandsteals)
Fuuko Ibuki (starfishlovesyou)
Yotsuba Koiwai (rollypolyclover)
Asbel Lhant (drawnbythesword)
Roku (flameoroku)
Precis F. Neumann (rocketpunch)
Cecilia (Adlehyde) (teardropshaman)
Scully (poorqueequeg)
Greg Bleakman (Vor) (Real name: Gregor Vorbarra)
Ikki (breezing)
Major Richard Sharpe (greenjacketed)
Hiro Kageyama (everyonesconfidant)
Fattycakes (puubuu)
Rapunzel (gleamed)
Luce (inheavenslight)
Patty Fleur (ps3pirate)
Prince (bloodybishie)
Cayla (anxiousgrace)
Canti (blackflames)
Kohaku (angelicamber)
Ororo Munroe (calmbeforethe)
Estelle (childofthefullmoon)
Panda (bamboozler)
Sakura Oogami (maidenhearted)
Tsuzuki Asato (idealism)
Rock Lee (niceguypose)
Chizuru Yukimura (cannotcrossdress)
Saori Kimura (windandrain)
Luke fon Fabre (fabrecation)
Teddy Altman (halfnhalf)
Billy Kaplan (selfhelp)
Little Loki (not_a_troll)
Eleytheria (winds_voice)

New Sign-ups:
Spock (spohkhs)
Kurt (wildbluevagner)

Hassle List:
Patty(?)
Isamu(?)
Gregor(?)
Teddy(?)
Asbel(?)
James Norrington(?)
Rock Lee(?)
Silver(?)
Tear(?)
Chizuru(?)
Phoenix Ikki


Purposes of this post:
1) Sign-ups. Is your character a New Feather you'd like to sign up? Or did you miss the sign-ups last time? Just let me know and I'll add them to the list.
2) Hassling. It's that time again when Oswald needs to give slackers a friendly reminder. If your character hasn't been getting in touch with their penpal (no contact for, say, two months), please let me know! Repeat offenders will be badgered in person, first time offenders will receive a note in their journal. If your character's partner was sent home shortly after the previous partner announcement, they are exempt from hassling.

Additionally, even if letters were handwaved, I'd like to encourage participants to reply to this entry anyway. That way, partners can discuss amongst themselves what the contents of the letters were and how many were sent, and such. This sort of thing is always good to clarify.

Partners will not be switched around this time! If both partners are still in Luceti, they will be coupled together for another two months. If either partner was sent home, they'll be assigned a new one! I'm hoping to get the new list up next weekend, so you guys have about a week to sign up. Any questions? Let me know!

Comments

[kingofwaste]

As for my own characters:

Yuan wouldn't have contacted Helios himself, but if Helios contacted him first, I'm sure there would've been a polite conversation at the least.
Patty would've contacted Isamu, but she'd only have tried to reach out once. If said attempt failed, she wouldn't have tried again, because she's had other things on her mind.

[folklorist]

Aha I'm so sorry on my fail about that. Did you still want to have that convo in appointments post? Dx

[fortunefail]

Depends if you're up for it! I'm still on a sort of half-hiatus, but I'm trying to ease myself back into RPing properly.

[breezing]

Ikki contacted Jay and they talked for a while! However, they then had a huge falling out after he forgot stuff she wrote him about, so she hasn't talked to him since/won't be speaking to him again because she's seven and is childish. IDK if her newfound refusal to talk to him would receive any sort of action from Oswald.

EDIT: Since I just finished reading that bit about no new partners, I suppose Ikki is going to get a black mark for the next two months! She's not contacting Jay again and will be ignoring his letters, although he prooooobably wouldn't send her any, anyway, since he's one of the against-their-will participants. So he gets two months free from Oswald's ways?

[kingofwaste]

Hahahah, that second thread is beautiful. Technically Ikki met the requirements for these past two months so no hassling yet, but if she really refuses to talk to Jay for the next two months, there would be consequences. But she's a first-time offender and Oswald likes her (and knows how difficult Jay can be), so he'll go easy on her.

[breezing]

I think she probably will barring Jay somehow winning back her approval! Which he might not attempt, so uh.

And she likes Oswald back. He's a rabbit, he's cool. 8)b

[markofthewise]

Sokka's partner went home before he contacted her. So, yeah. If he gets assigned a new partner, I'll try not to fail at this whole shebang. Otherwise I should probably opt out, since I've been bad at actually doing all this.

[kingofwaste]

I'll see if I can get Sokka someone awesome!

[bamboozler]

Panda's partner dropped before he could even do anything, so...

Also, Sakura gave Minato a letter in person. It was beautiful. Many tears were shed and manliness blossomed in the most unexpected places.

Edit; I, once again, forgot Precis was on this list. It's not very IC of her to ignore her partner, so I'll contact the player and see if we can work something out in backtag land, because...I am the worst at this, I swear.

[lostinmyway]

Grune and Kazuma exchanged a couple of letters (we handwaved all but one of them), but he's since dropped, so yeah. :|b

[vor]

Gregor and Teddy never spoke.

[eyesofstrength]

Athena did send a letter with Leon and Leonhardt was going to write him back and I kept forgetting to go and write it. That was my bad, so for now I'll just say he sent one and get a backdated response in ASAP.

[not_a_troll]

Loki and Asch have been a terrible match :C

[unseenspy]

Yeah, Jay is not happy with his partner at all. In fact, I'm thinking of having him hassle Oswald for forcing him into this project the next time he gets.

For Saleh, he wouldn't have sent the first letter, but he would respond if Billy Kaplan contacted him. I don't know if he would have or not.

[drawnbythesword]

I HAVE DONE NOTHING FOR ASBEL WHEN IT COMES TO CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS PARTNER. Yo Gavin if you're reading this, how should we go about this?

[generalflirt]

Rin did not get to contact because of Cecilia not having an appointments and then he lost his journal, so it makes IC sense too. They met in person, but no journal contact thing!

Haruhi and Hiro spoke but I sort of dropped the thread because I've been in a weird RP place, but it exists.

[fellpool]

There's plans for Leon and Leonhardt in ways of penpal letters, so that's covered. Walter's penpal dropped, so he's open once again for pairing -- not that he's a good penpal in general.

[savedtheworld]

So Aang did eventually write to Rudy, but I think he went on hiatus shortly afterwards.

And I'm kind of unsure about Rock Lee... he's in a bit of a danger zone right now. I can do his current correspondence with Silver if the mun likes (ICly he's sure to have and probably tried delivering it by hand, partially defeating the purpose), but I think for after this it may be easier to take him out and sign up Kurt instead if that's possible. But either way I'd like to sign up Kurt.

[niceguypose]

On second thought, Lee can stick around and Kurt (wildbluevagner) can just be added.

[kingofwaste]

Any clue if Silver's mun wanted to do something penpalish? If not, Lee and Silver are both on the hassle list.

[niceguypose]

I'm not sure, we never got in touch about it. But a hassling could be arranged.

[seleniahymn]

I have been utter fair with this even though I've remembered several times, so if Mippa still wants to do something with Tear and Chizuru I would be willing to do that!

otherwise Oswald is free to harass Tear yuuuuuuup

[calmbeforethe]

Storm's partner dropped out of the game before we got anything planned!

[everyonesconfidant]

As was said up there, Haruhi and Hiro did indeed speak, so all's good on that front. Fattycakes sent a message to Beast, but he hasn't replied back yet (the player is on slowatus if I recall correctly, so I don't know if that makes for a problem or not).

[tailasoldastime]

Yeah, I keep on calling slowaitus and planning times to finish it and then RL keeps on slapping me in the face, so I do plan on getting him to reply it's just taking way longer than it should. I'm so very sorry.

[idealism]

Tsuzuki would have sent at least one letter to Hugo.

BTW, is Hugo on the list? I can't find him.

[kingofwaste]

I think Hugo was dropped at some point? I'm not sure when, though. He was on the Friend Remove list, anyway.

[idealism]

Aww, bummer.

[kingofwaste]

Well, Tsuzuki will get a nice new penpal in his stead!

[mikanphones]

I meant for Ikki to actually bother to write a letter to his penpal but I've failed on doing so, so we can say he needs hassling again. I'm sorry he's such a tough cookie, Oswald, really. If it serves as comfort so far it seems his partners and him have been able to properly have CR even past letters. He will never admit it though.

Keiichi sent a letter to Jeb, and got an answer. And I failed to send more but I would assume he has been in contact with him. I don't know what Jeb's mun thinks though.

Yoh got a letter from his penpal and sent one back, though OOCly it was super late because work and hiatus got in the way. I'm not sure about Yun-mun's stand on this but Yoh would have keep sending letters as long as he got replies.

[sketchingideals]

Sure, we can assume that. Jeb can even send another letter to Keiichi, if you'd like. :)

[breaks_destiny]

Whatever you prefer though Keiichi is currently under an experiment being a kid, he will be back to normal by the 18th though. You could have Jeb send a new dated recently letter or I could have Keiichi write one to Jeb. Or they could just go and talk directly on the journals, I'll make a post with Keiichi for when he's normal again, but if you prefer he would also probably make a private call to Jeb to let him know that he's back to normal and explain why the past weeks have been silent on his part regarding letters.

[sketchingideals]

I like the idea of Keiichi making a private call to Jeb with an explanation. I think it sets up a potential for tons of conversation, especially since Jeb was once turned into a kid as well. :)

[automailed]

FOR ONCE ED ACTUALLY TALKED TO HIS PARTNER, it's a miracle. (Only because she wrote him first lol) They seem to be getting along okay.

Iiiiii fail and forgot to have Billy write to Saleh. D| He technically would have. Um. I should do that.

As Loki-mun mentioned, Asch and Loki did not get along at all. Asch absolutely refuses to speak to him |D;

[revolutionarygirl]

BUT THERE'S NO SUCH THINGS AS MIRACL--oh wait wrong utena character

i've been fail at tagging that back, but i will. ._.

[spohkh]

yes! definitely sign me up! ^_^

[kingofwaste]

Will do!

[windandrain]

Saori's partner dropped as well (piealchemist) so...

[falenandawn]

I have been an utter failure at getting Freyjadour back on track with the penpal thing....

Hey, if the player of Frey's partner is reading this, do you still want to do something?