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Dear Reus members, 

In the way of all good things, sadly Reus must come to an end. While the group has been an utter delight and joy to build and develop, the admin team, past and present, find ourselves unfortunately plagued by personal commitments – including but not limited to career changes, illnesses, cross-continent moves, and personal crises – that have overwhelmed us to the point where we cannot feasibly run Reus with the time and dedication it deserves. 

We have been extremely lucky to have such dedicated, enthusiastic members, and are thankful for all our time spent writing together. In the end, we could not have foreseen just how big and complex the world of Reus would grow to be – in part, due to everyone’s incredible creativity and collaboration. We find this a miracle and a point of pride, and will never forget the joy in seeing it organically take shape. We hope our members won’t forget as well.

Thank you to everyone who joined, no matter how briefly – here’s hoping to writing together again in the future. <3

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Would you mind enlightening prospective players on the vibe/feel/character type you're looking for in a Eurydice? Since she's been picked up a few times, I just wondered if you could describe what you like to see in apps for her!

Hi anon! Where Eurydice stands now, she is quite the lost soul. Her skeleton tells the story of someone who lost their dreams, their love, their future, and has yet to reclaim their power or path in this world. The open-ended nature of her skel means that there's a world of possible options and directions in which to take Eury, more so than some of the other skeletons with clearer paths directly ahead. 

What we'd like to see in an app is a clear vision of where she might go next, in terms of personal and plot development. What the writer is looking to explore with the character, what they're excited about, why they're drawn to her and the potential they see. A sense of her voice and personality, hopes and dreams, how someone so loving and gifted could get so turned around, and how they might right themselves going forward. In general, we're looking for a mun who sees all that potential and is excited and ready with some bold plot ideas and ways they might want to tie her into the greater story of Reus as it unfolds!

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hi!! this rp looks lovely! are you guys planning on releasing new skeletons any time in the near future?

Hey there! Thank you so much, we love to hear it! At present, we don’t have any plans to release more skeletons, as we have recently released a batch of new ones and have quite a few roles open that we’d love to see filled. We hope one of them might tickle your fancy!

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(tw: violence, body horror, blood, death)

The final evening dawns upon the Summit with sure swiftness, and Pontius has spared no expense in giving its first Summit a worthy sendoff. As the Aegean sky grows dark and stars start to blink alight, guests have loaded up in speedboats or pontoons or ferries – depending on the size of their gathering – to drift towards a spot designated by hundreds of floating lanterns and candles. Attendants speed out to meet them on their own vehicles, offering each party a plethora of indulgences, including champagne and assorted delicacies, just as the fireworks begin to paint the heavens above with images of thundering horses and frolicking mermaids and titanic sea monsters.

As the last of the fireworks dissipate into the night sky, the various boats and rafts ferrying Pontius’ guests make a turn back to the home ship. The first sign of something amiss is spotted by ZAGREUS, ARES & MENELAUS, who notice a lone Pontius-branded speedboat in the far distance, moving in the opposite direction of the rest of the flock, with a familiar figure at it’s prow – that of CHARON, Tartarus’ Head of Finances. As Pontius itself comes into view, DIOMEDES spots a second speedboat in a strange position, this one floating, empty, a little ways away from the dock. The Quorum member turns to make mention of this oddity to BRISEIS, just as ORPHEUS, CLYTEMNESTRA & PATROCLUS notice something truly alarming – a smear of blood, stretched across one end of the dock, with patches trailing back towards the main boat. GANYMEDE, hearing the whispers begin to break out around them, looks over to see what’s awry, but his eyes first catch on a strange shape floating by the dock. Frowning, he points it out to AITE, who gasps: there’s someone in the water– a body!

As the boats finally pull up alongside Pontius, NYX, CIRCE & APOLLO are the first to reach, and officially raise the alarm. MINOTAUR dives in and pulls the figure out of the water and onto the dock, but no one moves to make any medical interventions, as it’s clear even from a distance – whoever this water-logged, mystery person is, it’s far too late for them.

POSEIDON makes a call for all guests to return to their rooms until they can deal with the emergency, calling on ALECTO for help ushering everyone safely away. SCYLLA, HEPHAESTUS, POSEIDON, HERA & ZEUS are the only ones to remain behind, waiting until the last of the guests have returned to the main deck before examining the body. There is no doubting it – the corpse is that of SISYPHUS – Thersander to the Pontius crew. But there is something very, very wrong. It’s not just the facial expression that is stuck in a permanent shock – it is the gnarled and shifting features that blink between what might be familiar to what isn’t, glitching even after its host has passed. Dysfunctional augmentations, Scylla notes, with growing dread. Botched, outdated, perhaps a black market version of what Scalpel has proved capable.

Back on Pontius, the rest of the guests break into groups to return to their rooms. On their way, ODYSSEUS, ARTEMIS & PROMETHEUS run into a bloodied ACHILLES and begin to question him, but are cut short when MEGARA appears to bring him back to HADES. Elsewhere, DOLUS, HYPNOS & HERMES notice something strange, passing through one of the hallways of guest suites: CHARON’s door, cracked open. As they approach, one of them points out something even more alarming– a smear of blood across the doorknob. The group enters the room to discover a grisly scene, pulled from nightmares: ARIADNE’s dead body on the floor, a dagger stuck squarely in his chest.

Further down the hall, ATHENA hears the commotion in Charon’s room, and runs inside. Upon realizing what has transpired, she goes to find help, intercepting EURYDICE, HYACINTH, & PAN on their way back to their own rooms. Elsewhere, THESEUS, DUSA & TISIPHONE run into a bloodied THANATOS stumbling back to his room, and rush him into CHARYBDIS’ quarters for treatment, taking care not to be seen.

LITTLE DO THE GUESTS KNOW… While they were enjoying their night, there was an undercurrent of bloodshed happening right under their noses, secrets and betrayals long simmering rising to the surface. Earllier in the night, unbeknownst to most of the party-goers, Thanatos doesn’t go on the boats with the rest of the guests, but meets with Charon. Their meeting, initially cordial and familiar and soft-spoken, takes a tense turn, then violent as Charon pummels Thanatos to the ground and does not let up until blood mars his fists and Thanatos is barely moving. 

Charon swiftly leaves the scene to return to his room, but Ariadne catches him as he’s retreating, sees the blood splattering his fingers, and demands to know what the financier has done and who he’s hurt. Perhaps Charon mentions Thanatos - perhaps Ariadne makes the connection on his own. Whatever the case, Ariadne erupts with promises of retribution, threatens to go to Hades with proof that one of his most trusted confidantes has been going rogue, sending his prized fixer on business and missions irrelevant to Tartarus’ interests and wholly pertinent to his own. It’s a long time coming, he says; finally, the crooked financier has broken a rule from which there is no coming back, attacking one of Khton’s own, and Hades’ judgment is sure to be swift.

Then, the abrupt strike of blade to flesh. Ariadne falls to the floor, grasping weakly at the dagger stuck squarely in his chest, and Charon does not wait to watch the light leave his eyes, turning heel and running back out to Pontius’ docks, quickly boarding a speedboat while the fireworks reach their climax.

Minutes after Charon has made his escape, Sisyphus makes his own way to the dock. The deckhand takes no notice of the missing boat, and acts with no knowledge of the blood being shed and life lost behind him, too busy putting into action the culmination of weeks worth of plotting and preparations. Faced with increasingly fewer opportunities for survival, let alone escape, the plan Sisyphus has landed on is simple: he stows a bag on one of Pontius’ speedboats, with plans to flee on the boat while everyone is away at the festivities, and make a break for the nearest coast — and his new life.

Sisyphus is about to set out on the speedboat when he hears a sound behind him, and finds his former friend and current adversary, Achilles, running down the dock towards him. Sisyphus attempts to run for it, knowing that the consequences of being caught fleeing his post — after already being afforded his second chance — are likely to be dire. Inevitably, Achilles catches him, and they fight fiercely for control of the boat. But in the flurry of action, Sisyphus slips on the wet floor and falls headfirst, cracking his skull against the corner of the navigation console on his way down. 

The impact rings out, a sickening crunch followed by the strangest electric crackle, like a signal gone astray. The bootlegged augments, already twisted far beyond the use they were designed for, previously damaged in another fight, do not take well to the impact. With one final crack, like a bolt of lightning crossing his face, the augments go through a final, fatal glitch, electricity zapping across his features, around his bones, into his brain – and killing him on the spot.

Achilles leaves Sisyphus’ body a few yards out from Pontius, where the boat chase ended, floating in the water; at first glance, the death looks like a tragic boating accident, an unfortunate step and a hard fall, followed by a slide into the sea. Achilles is just parking his own boat as the silhouettes of the guests’ boats break over the horizon, and he makes his swift escape back aboard Pontius.

ADMIN NOTE

Welcome, Reus members, to the culmination of our second event: the RED DAWN’S RUIN mini-event, a night of bloody revelry! This event will run for a week, starting this evening (Friday, April 15), and take place in both the IC server and on the Tumblr dashboard, though we’d prefer dash threads to take priority. Please note: for the portions of the event occurring once the guests have returned to Pontius from the festivities, the specific individual roles outlined above are still subject to plotting and approval of the muns involved – so, not mandatory! Also, feel free to plot your own interactions in addition to those described above – while guests are told to return to their rooms, whether or not they follow that request is entirely up to you!

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Congrats, Chloe! Make sure to go through our checklist & send your account in 24h. Welcome to Reus!

CONGRATULATIONS, CHLOE! You were accepted for Briseis with an Aishwarya Rai playby. Chloe, we were so thrilled to see you apping for a second muse, and we were truly giddy when we read your application. We loved the undercurrent of tragedy throughout Briseis' past, present, and future - how she refuses to let herself be defined by it, how she's defined herself in spite of and beyond it, and the poeticism of and the full-circle of the tragedy of her current endeavors, how those she wishes to work with might not even want her help. You included fantastic smaller details that helped paint an even more vivid picture of Briseis that we couldn't help but latch onto. We can't wait to see Briseis on the dash! HIGHLIGHT: People in Arcadia hardly know, but try as she might, she can’t get closer to what she had in her childhood. But her tragedy is never knowing to stop, never giving up the entire identity she has built for herself. Her tragedy is wanting to create a better world for those who grew up in her place, and not knowing if they even want it.

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Hello everyone! We've got a few announcements to cover with our admin team. You might have heard first-hand or noticed that our wonderful Jude and Ark have become significantly busier over the course of the past month, and while they adore Reus and all our incredible members, they've decided they've had to bow out for the timebeing, and send all their love! We'll miss them immensely and will keep them in our collective hearts. We will be reaching out to people who have significant plots with Ari or Charon to figure out how to wrap up those arcs cleanly. But with that, we're so excited to announce an addition to our mod team - please welcome our lovely Admin Mar! We are thrilled to have a beloved member join us and help develop and progress Reus!

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Could you see Aishwarya Rai working for Briseis?

Hello! We think Aishwarya would be great for Briseis!

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Hello, Reus! We’ve created a Tartarus FAQ for common questions and extra lore regarding the domain - hope this is helpful! We’d recommend anyone with a Tartarus character to review the page, even if just as a refresher, as it covers many of the topics we’ve received the most questions about!

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