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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. [break][break]

THE "INITIATION" -- A typical Hydra ceremony in which your handler brings you to the brink of death and then pulls you out of it. Common methods include drowning, some magical ritual, near-fatal wound, using organic reserve lock to actually kill someone, etc. etc. Of course, this is what a traditional initiation looks like -- these days, initiations aren't always about death, and could be as simple as meeting a handler foreign roughed up and given your void ring, or sharing a drink with your point of contact into Hydra (even if they aren't your handler). [break][break]
LEARNING THE PASSCODE - An equally important cornerstone of the Hydra experience is a witch's first time at The Blind Monkey after receiving their void ring -- this could be the first time at the Blind Monkey in general, or the first time with their newfound ring if they've been before. Typically, older Hydra witches who hand around the bar are very perceptive to new faces with silver rings, and will often continuously buy any table with rookies rounds of drinks -- it's not polite to not drink what you're offered this way. Are they with friends? Family? What are they talking about, when joining Hydra? Do they embarrass themselves with a bar fight
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