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Welcome to the Interlude -- we are now in the rising action of several exciting storylines, site-wide plots and member plots, quests and events, relationships and their ruins.[break][break]

Which the perfect time to reflect --- with a new, experimental type of mission: Persistent missions.[break][break]

Unlike event-cycle missions, persistent missions typically happen in the past (or can occur "at any point") and gives opportunities to explore a character's history as a witch. As a result, persistent missions:

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• Can be started at any time, even after the cycle "ends."
• Can encompass threads that are already underway.
• Bonus rewards may still be given out, provided the mission begins and ends before July 9th, 5p.m. CST.
• Rules on doubling up still apply -- one character can only claim rewards for persistent missions ONCE.
• For persistent missions, you are allowed to use NPC thread cards (within logical IC reason) -- doing so will automatically forfeit your bonus, so as not to pressure staff.

[break][break] PLEASE NOTE -- Some of these prompts may be difficult to fulfill with existing characters due to pre-established plots. If fulfilling these missions as full-blown threads is difficult, you may choose instead to incorporate flashbacks of these past events into a thread set in the present-day! As long as you have fun with the prompts and incorporate the "past" and/or these various coven joining rituals somehow, you're probably fine.

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IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR BONUS REWARDS, THE MISSION MUST BE CREATED AND END BEFORE JULY 9TH 5PM CST.
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THE "SNAKEBITE" -- A snakebite mission is the witch's first-ever mission undertaken as a witch of Sybaris (retroactively, that is -- if the mission fails or you get caught, Sybaris had no liability since you aren't technically in the coven until after). It typically involves something simple but definitely illegal. It typically involves another Sybaris witch assisting the pledgeling. Afterward, the witch is mailed their enchanted snakebite tattoo (or can go receive it from the Lamia towers). Before 2000, witches were given a live enchanted snake that would cause a physical, painful bite. Now, the process is painless![break][break]

JOINING/RECRUITING FOR A COMPANY - Or discussing joining a company, or discussing forming a company with someone. Sybaris witches joining a company is a matter of growth and survival -- did your witch pass through an initiation process? How were they recruited? Is your witch trying (and failing or succeeding) to recruit someone else? Are they discussing setting up a company with one of their friends? Does it ever happen, or is it just a pipe dream?
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