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Notes:
Test Drive Meme - The TDM is game canon, and includes monthly game environment changes.
Monthly Game Environment Updates - Posts compiled at the beginning of each month without an app cycle, outlining the general IC environment and providing clues for upcoming events.
Event - Events in Tanagura come in two flavors. During an app month, there is one Event, generally focused on CR building. On non-app months, an Event Part 2 will take place, which focuses more heavily on the game-wide plot. The results of the Event Part 2 have also been included.
An unofficial glossary of terms can be found here.
January 2016
Test Drive Meme| Event: PRCA | Event Part 2 | Results
The PRCA hosts its first official Beauty Pageant for Mongrels. The winner, Ion Fortuna, is taken in as Leandro Santos' pet.
Duban enlists the help of offworlders in order to gain a palm reader and digital skin through the Black Market. Thanks to their efforts, Duban is able to retrieve both, and also met with Leandro. He becomes a member of the Black market. Elsewhere, in Mistral park, a different group is tasked with slaying a massive hydra so Duban can retrieve an old floppy disk. The data is mostly corrupted, but contains the name "Greagoir Kasun".
Iria secretly has the water supply in Tanagura contaminated with nanomachines.
While Iria is away, the refugee APB members staying Dana-burn are attacked by one of the Musicians: the Succubus. During the ensuing chaos, Dinah murders Spark. Many report seeing a heavily armored individual in the area at the time of his murder.
February 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Lupercalia | Event Part 2 | Results
The annual holiday Lupercalia takes place as per usual.
On February 5th, anyone who ingested Tanagura's drinking water after it was contaminated had their hair color forcibly altered to contain two hair colors, one representing each caste. Due to the contamination, Tanagura turns to Midas for it's clean drinking water, resulting in a water shortage. Only Ceres is unaffected.
Popular opinion begins to call for Geneva to step down. Geneva and Leandro meet secretly to discuss how to turn the tides in Quicksilver's favor once more.
Thanks to the help of the offworlders, the water is purified and further safeguarded against future attacks. Everything is back to normal by early March.
A skirmish breaks out between the Black Market and those who don't want them to increase in power. The Black Market is barely successful in protecting their supply routes.
In Spark's final will and testament, he leaves instructions for assembling a key -- one that is necessary for tracking down and activating the supercomputer Pluto. The pieces are scattered in odd places: one buried within renowned celebrity Arnold Carne's internal coding, one kept within Vivienne Da'vies wedding ring, and one inside a hidden tunnel under Flare, that's secretly being guarded by the former head of the Black Market, Khepri.
Iria assembles a small team to infiltrate Guardian once more and find out what secrets are being held inside.
March 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: Portae
Rips in space-time suddenly appear throughtout Area-6 Janus, allowing those who enter to see a small slice of another world.
All new characters brought into the game during this month remember a bright flash of orange light and had a headache during their first 24 hours on Amoi.
By the end of the month, most of the portae disappear, although a small chunk become permanent.
April 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Tropical Calm before the Storm | Event Part 2 | Results | Game Environment Update Part 2
There is a notable uptick in advertisements for the highly-regulated designer drug Adfontes, available only to elites.
The X2 line of Chrome officers have become a regular presence in the police force.
Rumors regarding Guardian and the connections to the drug Source begin to circulate. Crowds of protesters begin gathering in Mistral Park and Lhassa.
Geneva addresses the concerns regarding Guardian, and outs Leandro Santos as the current leader of the Black Market, exiling him to Midas.
During the broadcast, APB is successful in hacking a number of Chrome officers, resulting in them going haywire and attacking citizens. Lhassa is heavily damaged, but casulties are kept low.
Iria is successful in taking over Tanagura, replacing the supercomputer Mercury with Pluto. During an announcement, she reveals that Quicksilver has been lying to the people, and there are no children inside Guardian.
Geneva is murdered by Leandro. In exchange for his cooperation, Iria gives him and the Black Market control of Midas.
Under Iria's rule, Tanagura is now open for both elites and mongrels alike. Likewise, the caste divide is no longer enforced in Tanagura.
Additionally, Chrome authorities are no longer permitted within Tanagura proper. All inmates currently staying in Kantoi have been released.
Unbeknownst to the populace, Iria has wired herself in with Pluto as a fail safe to maintain control of the supercomputer.
May 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: Iria's Tanagura
Mass hirings of non-chrome officers take place to help patrol the streets of Tanagura in the wake of Iria's decree banning chrome officers from the city. Bounty hunters are contracted to help bring in the escaped Kantoi convicts.
Early reports indicate that the inside of Guardian is largely industrial with no such areas allocated for raising children. Found security footage showing children suspended in tubes of blue-green liquid has yet to be verified.
June 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Shopping Divas | Event Part 2 | Results
A number of cross-caste friendly establishments open up in Tanagura to help with the transition.
A Fashion Modeling Showcase is held in Tanagura's North-west Sector, bringing many people to the area.
People begin disappearing within the hedgemazes outside the Domes of Daedalus. It turns out to be an undercover organ trafficking operation run by the Black Market and the newly released Kantoi prisoners. The operation is suspended thanks to the help of the offworlders.
Duban enlists the help of a number of offworlders for more information regarding the location of his head.
A secret group invites a number of offworlders to infiltrate a crematorium in the South Sector. They learn there has been a sharp increase of murders in which the victim lost their eyes and/or hands, as well as an increase in the number of elites not being revived.
July 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: PRCA
The PRCA is held again.
Crime in Tanagura continues to increase, while crime in Midas is at an all-time low. This becomes a growing trend.
August 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Sand Surf and Starry Showers | Event Part 2 | Results
The infamous Hideaway Cove, now under new management, is still using sleazy tactics to get customers.
The Hesperid Meteor Shower is set to occur between the 10th and 30th. Two individuals show an interest in collecting samples of the space rocks: a mysterious elite man and a recently reactivated AI. The latter makes off with a rather huge meteorite with help.
Thanks to the efforts of the offworlders once more, Duban is reunited with his head.
On the evening of the 24th, residents of Hyaline suddenly grew listless, their eyes glowing red, and they began seeking out members of the opposite caste to attack. Although casualties are kept mostly to a minimum, following the hours it takes for the mayhem to end, tensions between the castes remain at an all-time high.
September 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: Economic Stimulus Week
Portae begin popping up again, this time transporting characters in and around Amoi seemingly at random due to their newfound glitchy nature. These glitchy Portae remain indefinitely.
Just like in March: all new characters brought into the game during this month remember a bright flash of orange light and had a headache during their first 24 hours on Amoi.
October 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Dies Ater | Event Part 2 | Results
Dies Ater kicks off, with a notable increased presence of authorities. A number of underground parties occur during the holiday, including one run by APB and another distributing the previously-discontinued drug Adfontes.
Iria spreads a cyber virus that contains a hidden PSA, revealing that there are no children in Guardian using census information from the past fifty years, showing the population has no changed much at all in that time. It further explains how Guardian itself is seemingly self-reliant on energy, consuming more power in the first two weeks of a given month and producing it during the latter two. Notable energy spikes were detected in March and September.
Anyone who received the PSA mysteriously has their hair color forcibly changed to reflect the opposite of whatever letter their reader ID starts with, affecting only player characters accepted before June 2015 and most NPCs. The bounty for capturing Iria is increased.
Two mysterious portae open up, including a communications room located in some dusty old ruins and the control room of a satellite far away in space.
A Quicksilver task force successfully uncovers a black market scheme conducting illegal pet auctions with connections to the Adfontes party. These auctions are successfully shut down.
November 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: Mixing Colors and Castes
Club Exrotique, one of the few cross-caste friendly businesses in Tanagura, is saved from an attack from hostile elites and holds a special event to celebrate.
While Adfontes usage grinds to a halt, sales of the youth-preserving drug Elixir Vitae among elites is on the rise, as dosages change from annually to monthly.
December 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Winter Wonderland | Event Part 2 | Results
Tanagura's climate-controlled weather system goes on the fritz, causing extreme weather conditions at random throughout the city, particularly the Central Sector. Some blame APB, others wonder if it's related to the Portae.
Taking advantage of the number of elites staying in Flare to escape Tanagura's weather, a number of Kantoi fugitives take over the popular Liquid Gold Spa and hold the elites there hostage. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi manages to save the day, but the event still reflects poorly on APB and Iria, who is blamed for freeing the Kantoi fugitives.
The Wishing Caves in Sasan are discovered to no longer have the ability to grant wishes. Though only known to a few ICly, this mechanism was formerly provided by Duban when he was still trapped there.
A few days after this is discovered, people begin disappearing and are reportedly attacked around the former Wishing Caves.
The attacks at the Wishing Caves are revealed to be the work of the Musicians, who plan to lure Duban out. Duban enlists the help of the offworlders to capture them so he can kill them himself. After Samus kills the Succubus, the Birdman later makes an appearance. Duban steals the Birdman's soul and reveals that all the Musicians were actually former council member Charlotte Painite, who was granted powerful abilities using his magic in the year 6000. With this, the Musicians are no more. This is all OOC knowledge only.
Dinah Saffron calls on a number of individuals to investigate Iria and APB. One group searches a nightclub she was known to frequent, while another searches an underground research lab.
January 2017
Test Drive Meme | Event: PRCA | Event Part 2 | Results
The PRCA is held.
Under Leandro's order, a number of player characters are kidnapped and have a digital port installed into the back of their neck, connected to their nervous system. This port allows for software to be installed in the user, causing a number of horrible side-effects as a result.
Dinah and Sergio hire a group of offworlders to retrieve the two supercomputers, Mercury and Jupiter, being held in the same underground research lab that was investigated the month before.
In a wild attempt at destroying a certain satellite floating outside of Amoi's atmosphere, Captain Falcon and Samus Aran recruit the help of a number of offworlders to help them hi-jack a rocketship. Their attempt ends in failure as the ship is destroyed, killing Samus. Using the helmet he received from Geneva, Falcon attempts to warp himself with the bomb to the satellite directly, but his fate is unknown.
A group of tech-oriented offworlders are led to a secret control room in the ruins in Diedo, which controls the same satellite Falcon's group is attempting to destroy. Using Yuno Regina's stolen palm reader, they successfully hack into the satellite and manage to shut off all communications between it and Amoi, as well as shut down the movement of some mysteries reflective panels on the outer shell. Yuno Regina is captured using Mephisto Pheles's powers. A special anti-surveillance program is ripped from Yuno's palm reader and gradually disseminated to other offworlders. The effects of this change to the satellite will be revealed over time.
Iria reveals herself as the cause of the poor weather, and puts the people up to vote, stating that the weather will return to normal if the executives at the Tanagura Broadcast Network (TBN) resign. Just over 50% of those who voted choose to force them to resign.
February 2017
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Lupercalia | Event Part 2 | Results
The poor weather in Tanagura continue, as the TBN executives refuse to step down even after the people agree they should.
Iria plays her hand and reveals proof of the TBN executives engaging in enthusiastic sex with androids, one of the few great taboos left on Amoi regardless of caste. All executives will have resigned by the 13th, and the weather returns to normal.
The last of the unstable portae will have finally been brought under control.
Lupercalia and the Red-string festival are held.
A special sleep study is conducted by the Main Gate Research Facility with little information given, but a very selective screening process. Those who participate find that whatever symptoms they've been suffering due to Anniversary Rewards temporarily lessen in severity, including those that supposed appeared in late January. The nature of these symptoms are an IC secret.
A number of articles are released during a journalism challenge, including startling information regarding the anti-aging serum Elixir Vitae.
A number of player characters are led on a mission by former Midas Ember, Kindling, to discover the nature of a delivery truck headed for Guardian, where they are met with a surprise hostile X-2 chrome officer.
March 2017
Test Drive Meme | Event: Tanagurapalooza
Test Drive Meme - The TDM is game canon, and includes monthly game environment changes.
Monthly Game Environment Updates - Posts compiled at the beginning of each month without an app cycle, outlining the general IC environment and providing clues for upcoming events.
Event - Events in Tanagura come in two flavors. During an app month, there is one Event, generally focused on CR building. On non-app months, an Event Part 2 will take place, which focuses more heavily on the game-wide plot. The results of the Event Part 2 have also been included.
An unofficial glossary of terms can be found here.
January 2016
Test Drive Meme| Event: PRCA | Event Part 2 | Results
The PRCA hosts its first official Beauty Pageant for Mongrels. The winner, Ion Fortuna, is taken in as Leandro Santos' pet.
Duban enlists the help of offworlders in order to gain a palm reader and digital skin through the Black Market. Thanks to their efforts, Duban is able to retrieve both, and also met with Leandro. He becomes a member of the Black market. Elsewhere, in Mistral park, a different group is tasked with slaying a massive hydra so Duban can retrieve an old floppy disk. The data is mostly corrupted, but contains the name "Greagoir Kasun".
Iria secretly has the water supply in Tanagura contaminated with nanomachines.
While Iria is away, the refugee APB members staying Dana-burn are attacked by one of the Musicians: the Succubus. During the ensuing chaos, Dinah murders Spark. Many report seeing a heavily armored individual in the area at the time of his murder.
February 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Lupercalia | Event Part 2 | Results
The annual holiday Lupercalia takes place as per usual.
On February 5th, anyone who ingested Tanagura's drinking water after it was contaminated had their hair color forcibly altered to contain two hair colors, one representing each caste. Due to the contamination, Tanagura turns to Midas for it's clean drinking water, resulting in a water shortage. Only Ceres is unaffected.
Popular opinion begins to call for Geneva to step down. Geneva and Leandro meet secretly to discuss how to turn the tides in Quicksilver's favor once more.
Thanks to the help of the offworlders, the water is purified and further safeguarded against future attacks. Everything is back to normal by early March.
A skirmish breaks out between the Black Market and those who don't want them to increase in power. The Black Market is barely successful in protecting their supply routes.
In Spark's final will and testament, he leaves instructions for assembling a key -- one that is necessary for tracking down and activating the supercomputer Pluto. The pieces are scattered in odd places: one buried within renowned celebrity Arnold Carne's internal coding, one kept within Vivienne Da'vies wedding ring, and one inside a hidden tunnel under Flare, that's secretly being guarded by the former head of the Black Market, Khepri.
Iria assembles a small team to infiltrate Guardian once more and find out what secrets are being held inside.
March 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: Portae
Rips in space-time suddenly appear throughtout Area-6 Janus, allowing those who enter to see a small slice of another world.
All new characters brought into the game during this month remember a bright flash of orange light and had a headache during their first 24 hours on Amoi.
By the end of the month, most of the portae disappear, although a small chunk become permanent.
April 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Tropical Calm before the Storm | Event Part 2 | Results | Game Environment Update Part 2
There is a notable uptick in advertisements for the highly-regulated designer drug Adfontes, available only to elites.
The X2 line of Chrome officers have become a regular presence in the police force.
Rumors regarding Guardian and the connections to the drug Source begin to circulate. Crowds of protesters begin gathering in Mistral Park and Lhassa.
Geneva addresses the concerns regarding Guardian, and outs Leandro Santos as the current leader of the Black Market, exiling him to Midas.
During the broadcast, APB is successful in hacking a number of Chrome officers, resulting in them going haywire and attacking citizens. Lhassa is heavily damaged, but casulties are kept low.
Iria is successful in taking over Tanagura, replacing the supercomputer Mercury with Pluto. During an announcement, she reveals that Quicksilver has been lying to the people, and there are no children inside Guardian.
Geneva is murdered by Leandro. In exchange for his cooperation, Iria gives him and the Black Market control of Midas.
Under Iria's rule, Tanagura is now open for both elites and mongrels alike. Likewise, the caste divide is no longer enforced in Tanagura.
Additionally, Chrome authorities are no longer permitted within Tanagura proper. All inmates currently staying in Kantoi have been released.
Unbeknownst to the populace, Iria has wired herself in with Pluto as a fail safe to maintain control of the supercomputer.
May 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: Iria's Tanagura
Mass hirings of non-chrome officers take place to help patrol the streets of Tanagura in the wake of Iria's decree banning chrome officers from the city. Bounty hunters are contracted to help bring in the escaped Kantoi convicts.
Early reports indicate that the inside of Guardian is largely industrial with no such areas allocated for raising children. Found security footage showing children suspended in tubes of blue-green liquid has yet to be verified.
June 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Shopping Divas | Event Part 2 | Results
A number of cross-caste friendly establishments open up in Tanagura to help with the transition.
A Fashion Modeling Showcase is held in Tanagura's North-west Sector, bringing many people to the area.
People begin disappearing within the hedgemazes outside the Domes of Daedalus. It turns out to be an undercover organ trafficking operation run by the Black Market and the newly released Kantoi prisoners. The operation is suspended thanks to the help of the offworlders.
Duban enlists the help of a number of offworlders for more information regarding the location of his head.
A secret group invites a number of offworlders to infiltrate a crematorium in the South Sector. They learn there has been a sharp increase of murders in which the victim lost their eyes and/or hands, as well as an increase in the number of elites not being revived.
July 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: PRCA
The PRCA is held again.
Crime in Tanagura continues to increase, while crime in Midas is at an all-time low. This becomes a growing trend.
August 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Sand Surf and Starry Showers | Event Part 2 | Results
The infamous Hideaway Cove, now under new management, is still using sleazy tactics to get customers.
The Hesperid Meteor Shower is set to occur between the 10th and 30th. Two individuals show an interest in collecting samples of the space rocks: a mysterious elite man and a recently reactivated AI. The latter makes off with a rather huge meteorite with help.
Thanks to the efforts of the offworlders once more, Duban is reunited with his head.
On the evening of the 24th, residents of Hyaline suddenly grew listless, their eyes glowing red, and they began seeking out members of the opposite caste to attack. Although casualties are kept mostly to a minimum, following the hours it takes for the mayhem to end, tensions between the castes remain at an all-time high.
September 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: Economic Stimulus Week
Portae begin popping up again, this time transporting characters in and around Amoi seemingly at random due to their newfound glitchy nature. These glitchy Portae remain indefinitely.
Just like in March: all new characters brought into the game during this month remember a bright flash of orange light and had a headache during their first 24 hours on Amoi.
October 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Dies Ater | Event Part 2 | Results
Dies Ater kicks off, with a notable increased presence of authorities. A number of underground parties occur during the holiday, including one run by APB and another distributing the previously-discontinued drug Adfontes.
Iria spreads a cyber virus that contains a hidden PSA, revealing that there are no children in Guardian using census information from the past fifty years, showing the population has no changed much at all in that time. It further explains how Guardian itself is seemingly self-reliant on energy, consuming more power in the first two weeks of a given month and producing it during the latter two. Notable energy spikes were detected in March and September.
Anyone who received the PSA mysteriously has their hair color forcibly changed to reflect the opposite of whatever letter their reader ID starts with, affecting only player characters accepted before June 2015 and most NPCs. The bounty for capturing Iria is increased.
Two mysterious portae open up, including a communications room located in some dusty old ruins and the control room of a satellite far away in space.
A Quicksilver task force successfully uncovers a black market scheme conducting illegal pet auctions with connections to the Adfontes party. These auctions are successfully shut down.
November 2016
Test Drive Meme | Event: Mixing Colors and Castes
Club Exrotique, one of the few cross-caste friendly businesses in Tanagura, is saved from an attack from hostile elites and holds a special event to celebrate.
While Adfontes usage grinds to a halt, sales of the youth-preserving drug Elixir Vitae among elites is on the rise, as dosages change from annually to monthly.
December 2016
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Winter Wonderland | Event Part 2 | Results
Tanagura's climate-controlled weather system goes on the fritz, causing extreme weather conditions at random throughout the city, particularly the Central Sector. Some blame APB, others wonder if it's related to the Portae.
Taking advantage of the number of elites staying in Flare to escape Tanagura's weather, a number of Kantoi fugitives take over the popular Liquid Gold Spa and hold the elites there hostage. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi manages to save the day, but the event still reflects poorly on APB and Iria, who is blamed for freeing the Kantoi fugitives.
The Wishing Caves in Sasan are discovered to no longer have the ability to grant wishes. Though only known to a few ICly, this mechanism was formerly provided by Duban when he was still trapped there.
A few days after this is discovered, people begin disappearing and are reportedly attacked around the former Wishing Caves.
The attacks at the Wishing Caves are revealed to be the work of the Musicians, who plan to lure Duban out. Duban enlists the help of the offworlders to capture them so he can kill them himself. After Samus kills the Succubus, the Birdman later makes an appearance. Duban steals the Birdman's soul and reveals that all the Musicians were actually former council member Charlotte Painite, who was granted powerful abilities using his magic in the year 6000. With this, the Musicians are no more. This is all OOC knowledge only.
Dinah Saffron calls on a number of individuals to investigate Iria and APB. One group searches a nightclub she was known to frequent, while another searches an underground research lab.
January 2017
Test Drive Meme | Event: PRCA | Event Part 2 | Results
The PRCA is held.
Under Leandro's order, a number of player characters are kidnapped and have a digital port installed into the back of their neck, connected to their nervous system. This port allows for software to be installed in the user, causing a number of horrible side-effects as a result.
Dinah and Sergio hire a group of offworlders to retrieve the two supercomputers, Mercury and Jupiter, being held in the same underground research lab that was investigated the month before.
In a wild attempt at destroying a certain satellite floating outside of Amoi's atmosphere, Captain Falcon and Samus Aran recruit the help of a number of offworlders to help them hi-jack a rocketship. Their attempt ends in failure as the ship is destroyed, killing Samus. Using the helmet he received from Geneva, Falcon attempts to warp himself with the bomb to the satellite directly, but his fate is unknown.
A group of tech-oriented offworlders are led to a secret control room in the ruins in Diedo, which controls the same satellite Falcon's group is attempting to destroy. Using Yuno Regina's stolen palm reader, they successfully hack into the satellite and manage to shut off all communications between it and Amoi, as well as shut down the movement of some mysteries reflective panels on the outer shell. Yuno Regina is captured using Mephisto Pheles's powers. A special anti-surveillance program is ripped from Yuno's palm reader and gradually disseminated to other offworlders. The effects of this change to the satellite will be revealed over time.
Iria reveals herself as the cause of the poor weather, and puts the people up to vote, stating that the weather will return to normal if the executives at the Tanagura Broadcast Network (TBN) resign. Just over 50% of those who voted choose to force them to resign.
February 2017
Monthly Game Environment Update | Event: Lupercalia | Event Part 2 | Results
The poor weather in Tanagura continue, as the TBN executives refuse to step down even after the people agree they should.
Iria plays her hand and reveals proof of the TBN executives engaging in enthusiastic sex with androids, one of the few great taboos left on Amoi regardless of caste. All executives will have resigned by the 13th, and the weather returns to normal.
The last of the unstable portae will have finally been brought under control.
Lupercalia and the Red-string festival are held.
A special sleep study is conducted by the Main Gate Research Facility with little information given, but a very selective screening process. Those who participate find that whatever symptoms they've been suffering due to Anniversary Rewards temporarily lessen in severity, including those that supposed appeared in late January. The nature of these symptoms are an IC secret.
A number of articles are released during a journalism challenge, including startling information regarding the anti-aging serum Elixir Vitae.
A number of player characters are led on a mission by former Midas Ember, Kindling, to discover the nature of a delivery truck headed for Guardian, where they are met with a surprise hostile X-2 chrome officer.
March 2017
Test Drive Meme | Event: Tanagurapalooza