#40 - HAPPY NEW YEAR, Welcome to collabor-a-teen

[ANDRASTE♕]

happy new year!

You've made it to a new year and that's not nothing. So pat yourself on the back for getting here.

I have just a few simple updates for you to kick off this new year, so let's get to them.

DEV CHALLENGES

Crim has put up the first development challenge of 2018 and it's a fun one! Your challenge is to create a playlist of at least five songs for one (or more) of your characters. We'll be doing more non-writing challenges this year, just to give you more ways to think about your characters. If you have ideas for challenges, let one of us know.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

I mentioned in our last update that I wanted to start doing some community activity nights to get us together, doing something fun. I'd like to host the first one next week, Thursday January 11th. I know we're spread all over the world, so I know not everyone's going to be able to make it, or stay for whatever we do. But we'll give it our best. I'll start posting in Discord as that day gets closer and settle on a time. If you have thoughts about what we could do… leave them in comments.

SECRET SANTA

By now, anyone who participated in the gift exchange should have received their gift. If you have not, please let me know over PM or Discord and I'll track it down for you. And if you have received your gift and want to show it off in comments, please do! .

We will probably do this again for Valentine's Day, so keep an eye out for that, coming soon.

APPLICATIONS

Last but not least, our good buddy Milk has created a new Application for us to use that matches our snazzy new skin. If you haven't seen it yet, go check it out. You do not need to update your current character apps, that code is still in place. But if you WANT to, no one is gonna stop you.

CONCLUSION

Congrats all to making it to a new year. I sincerely hope that Unbound continues to grow in 2018 and that you're all here to help make that a reality.

Below, in addition to any other comments you'd like to leave, please give a warm welcome to our newest friend Coelacanth. And then take a moment to hit up her character Zareen's plotter

~Cherith

[ANGEL ♚]

[WILLOW]

Welcome Coelacanth! I may be throwing my pirate girl at yours when I'm not coughing my guts up. Happy New Year all!

[ZAREEN]

happy new year! i'm super glad I found this place and i'm looking forward to writing with you all! <3

[PAIGE]

thanks milk im gonna spend my entire day revamping my apps now smh

happy new years!

[LARA]

Happy new year to all of you wonderful people <3 and welcome, Coelacanth! It's great to have you here.

Some community activity ideas that come to mind: watch a movie/show, online game (like Cards Against Humanity, Board Game Online, etc), game in chat like character-focused hot seat...

[CRIM]

Welcome! And yes, all members old and new please feel free to pass along any ideas you have for writing or development challenges, I'd love to hear them.

[MATHILDE GEOFFROY]

Hi coelacanth! Welcome!!! And happy new year, everybody!

We should def do cards against humanity or board games online (bgo) because milk and i have wasted entire days playing bgo and some great nicknames are born from that game