Hello Greencloaks!! There here is your Town Square *gestures towards a mossy enclave with a sunlit patch of wildflowers at the center. The air is warm and damp, and the sweet smell of the flowers drifts past you. Excited squirrels chatter overhead*

I tested out this idea in the WoF forum and it seems like something everyone is excited by. This is my way of having better communication and transparency with all of you.

In this space, there are a few things that can happen.

1. Announcements: This is where I'll post announcements about the forums or other matters

2. The Question Corner: Where you can ask me questions about posts, bans, life, and more! I cannot promise I will answer every single question asap, but I'll try my hardest to make sure everyone gets answered.

3. Forum Prompts: I'll post writing prompts from here on out on a weekly fashion. I hope this provides some inspiration for stories, poems, characters, whateva! To keep this thread not too jumbled, please make your own threads for the prompt.

4. Recommended Reads: I think this is something other mods used to do. Basically, in this section I'll post the thread number for some RPs or posts that I think are really quality content and posts I think everyone should read. This could be writing tips, a long running RP some folks might have missed, interesting posts about Spirit Animals, etc!

5. Warnings: This is a test area. One of the biggest issues I have is warning people about their post content when their post got caught in the filter. Especially if they were trying to make a new thread, there's often no good place to let them know what they were trying to say was ban-worthy. This area is the perfect space to solve that issue. If this becomes a problem I'll stop doing it but right now I think it could be really great and help with having a more transparent forum. Let's see how it goes!

I will try to post once a day, at least before 5pm EST. A warning in advance - this may not always happen, but I'm going to try really hard to keep it consistent. I can make an announcement for days where I am not on the forums at all for whatever reason.

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Here is an example of what this will look like. This is all one post:

[Announcement]

I'm making a Town Square! Wew!

[Question Corner]

@____ You were banned for giving out your last name and birthday

@____ Your post didn't go through because you used the phrase "Shut up!"

@____My favorite food is sushi

[Forum Prompts]

Your prompt of the week is: What Halloween costumes would the Great Beasts wear?

[Recommended Reads]

Check out thread /341853 for daily prompts! #selfpromo

[Warnings]

@____ you recently tried to post a URL to a different site. This is a warning that URLs are against the rules. If you try again, I'll be forced to give you a 24-hr ban.

@____ you tried to use a word that is inappropriate for the forums in one of your RP posts. Avoid using that word in the future. If you continue to use language like that, I'll need to give you a 24-hr ban. 

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Please, enjoy your time wandering the Town Square. I hope it becomes a comfortable place for you to ask questions, get inspired, and read the news.

-Becky B

Hear yee hear yee, it's the news! Hot off the press!

[Announcement]

-no new announcements today-

[Question Corner]

@Mills what would you want it to look like? Decorate away!

@Galaxian Ha well I hope you don't have tooo many powerful enemies. I'd make a new thread based off the prompt, otherwise this news thread could get overcrowded and hard to understand. 

@Salt I'd guess many of you may be in high school. Certainly it skews a lot older than when I was an intern here many moons ago and the books were still coming out!

@birdbloodhoud1760 I posted in the announcements yesterday but unfortunately the chat has been removed from the site. There will be chat in the future in another form, but it won't be back here on the site.

@Adam Hi, adam :)

[Forum Prompts]

One day, you receive a handwritten note: "You must be powerful enough to have earned such powerful enemies. Come. We must talk." 

[Recommended Reads]

 (if you would ever prefer not to have your thread in here, just let me know and I'll edit the post to remove it)

If you're feeling stressed, check out thread /343843 where Catwolf has created a cozy space for pillow forts and pillow fights. And smores.

[Warnings]

-nothin' to see here folks-

Hear yee hear yee, alongside the start of a new week comes a new news post! Nothing like new news.

[Announcement]

On Friday there was a small issue with the filter that caused it to absorb posts and then release them all at once much later. If you noticed post delays during Friday, this was the reason.

[Question Corner]

@Galaxian A lot of what I write has stuck with me for sure. And yes that happens to me all the time - although then the opposite thing happens to me given enough time. If I look back on something from a year or even many years ago I'm like "oh wow, I was pretty good!" Yep I read a ton of manga. Mostly the classics, One Piece is my fave, with Naruto, Bleach, FMA, etc. 

@Bagel Marvel!

@Rosalind Heart I love wolves, so maybe a wolf spirit animal.

@Jokester Villain huh? Loki is great, and the Dread Dormammu from Doctor Strange is just such an awesome name for a character how can you not like him?

@Rat I am sorry about IR, there was a sweeping decision to remove a bunch of forums that seemed inactive. I don't think we realized there were folks that relied on it so much. Are your friends able to come to this forum? (or 39Clues/WoF?) If not then I hope you and they will be able to join the new thing and continue talking to each other through that!

@FrostPi non-book questions are fine! I have a switch & ps4 so yes I play a ton of video games. I've been playing Just Shapes & Beats, Overcooked, and the new Spiderman game. 

@Cyclone We're focusing a lot of our time on this new big project so I'm not aware of anything new coming to SA in the near future, sorry :( I do know there are some bugs we're trying to fix (like the level cap being different in the app vs the webplayer version) If I learn of any new updates coming I'll be sure to announce it!

[Forum Prompts]

Dancing skeletons are everywhere! What has happened?

[Recommended Reads]

 (if you would ever prefer not to have your thread in here, just let me know and I'll edit the post to remove it)

/342956 is an extremely spooky Halloween RP by Firefox O_O

[Warnings]

-nothin' to see here folks-