<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Birthdays!</span><br/><br/>Maple's is established as today IC (3/20). Ken's is apparently 3/26. Maddy's is…upcoming? I guess?<br/><br/>Remember that all the PCs were born between January and March of 2000.<em>Someone</em>should already have had a birthday. Please. ;D<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Also, advancement!</span><br/><br/>I have advancement lists for Ken and Maple. Everyone else needs to submit one.<br/><br/>Advancement is secret, as in the rules, though advancement points are being awarded slowly over time rather than in big lumps at story turning points. You need to list what you want to advance (stats, powers, artifacts, whatever), in the order you want it; as you earn advancement points (a trickle for everyone, plus bonus points for contributing OOC such as by fleshing out the wiki, writing poetry, making art of the characters, etc.), you get what you asked for.<br/><br/>I will<em>not</em>tell you how many points you have earned or when you have gotten what you asked for; you will need to experiment IC to find that out. If you try to use a power you haven't earned yet, you will get a result varying from "nothing happens" to "it doesn't work but here's something interesting" depending on how close you are and how much Stuff you have.<br/><br/>If you put a stat on the advancement list, that is a request to move up the ladder by one rank, however many points that is. If you want to move up more than one rank, list the same stat more than once. If you are 1st rank in a stat and request to advance it, I will decide how high the next rank up is; it might be an NPC's rank, or if you're just way ahead of the curve, it might be 10 or 15 points into outer space. (The Amberite Elders and similar ultra-powerful characters are not marked on the ladder—yet.) Careful observation, experimentation and testing yourself against others are the ways to discover where you rank on an ongoing basis.