Madi here, bringing you James Potter, a young, fresh faced Marauder with his eyes set on the lovely and dangerous Lily Evans. He's going to be living with his adopted, and now real, brother Sirius Black at 1449 Mitchell Road.

I'm so excited to be here playing with you all! Some of you I know, most I don't, so if any of y'all wanna chat, hit me up at derauspuff !

Hey guys! Squall here with another new character (I swear...it's my last here :P)

This is Gentarou Kisaragi: The man who will befriend EVERYONE. Literally, he's the friendliest guy you'll ever meet.

But, he hides an awesome secret: he's also Kamen Rider Fourze! Battler of the Zodiarts monsters who threaten his friends.

He'll be shacked up in 337 Brady Lane, but he'll be out and about a lot of the time, trolling for new friends.

My plurk is SquallHighwind for those who haven't added me.

I'll be posting with him sometime soon-ish. So stay tuned!

HELLO WORLD and/or Mayfield.

Name is Justyne and I played here before many moons ago. But I am back now and I have brought with me this kid here. Who is Jacuzzi Splot of Baccano! semi-fame. He's saner than Claire, less likely to want you dead than Ladd, and more mortal than half the cast.

So basically there's nothing special about him except little things. You know. The sword tattoo that's normally on his face (but not here 8DDD;;;), the fact he's leader of a gang of bootleggers in Chicago, the fact he cries all the fucking time and apologizes for things like someone running into him and introducing himself, oh! and that one time he took down eighteen mafia speakeasies in one night... you know. Little shit like that.

ANYWAY HE'S gonna be staying at 1648 Albright Lane with the less unfortunate name of Jacuzzi Nightroad. May god have mercy on your souls and grant you strong tolerance for tears.

Oh god I haven't been in this game forever and now I'm all excited again I missed it...

OH SHIT I forgot to add, he's from the anime because I have a terrible time of reading on my desktop and my netbook needs to be repaired, still. I have been told that not much changes between the novel and the anime and I am only aware of small details in Jacuzzi's story from the... half a book I read. I hope I do not disappoint anyone too badly with this fact. Sorry, guys.

ALSO I FORGOT THE IMPORTANT SHIT. CONTACT. My AIM's BattleToasters and my plurk is coffeerocket

Well, hello there Mayfield. I'm Ryan. Some of you may or may not remember from my first time here, which was like... jesus, a year ago already? Close enough. But I couldn't leave you forever. You guys are way too much fun.

I'm bringing back a certain terrible detective to the game. But he's from a different canon point and thus retains no memories of his last time here, so that should be... fun for the people that remember him. He'll be staying at 2235 Stevens Road this time around, so say hi to your new neighbor!

Ahaha, ngl I'm excited to be playing with you all again. If you need to get in touch with me or just want to shoot the breeze, feel free to add me on plurk @ endlesssorcerer

It's with a heavy heart that I do this, but Diana, Wataru and Saki are all going home or moving out to Westport. It's not fair to people that want to play Wataru and Saki and with me sitting on them since I've lost motivation for them completely.

Among Diana's possessions are the projects she was working on, which can be torn down for scrap or finished, if you so choose.

I am really sorry to have to do this, too.

Ambrosia will be sticking around, though, so I'm not completely gone.

Hello there! I'm Guessy and I'll be playing Luka Megurine from the Vocaloid fandom... soon to be Luka Horse, which is officially the best name ever. LOOK, A HORSE etc etc.

A-Anyway, I've RP'd 'loids for a while now at the VDR, but I'm completely new to Mayfield so, um. Please don't eat me?

And yeah, she'll be the 'Mother' at 1444 Mitchell Road; hello neighbours and crazy cowboy husband person.

My plurk is available at guessy

Sorry to add to the drop train, guys.  Grimsley was apped here about a year or so ago now on an impulse, and I thought it would be fun to try someone different for a while.  My momentum for him has slowed significantly in recent days, though, and it's time for him to go home.  I've had a really great time playing him with all of his assorted CR!  Thanks for making it all so enjoyable, and I'm very sorry to drop!  Apologies especially to castmate(s) and to Nico, who will be stuck in a drone house now.

I almost posted this with the friend-remove bit, but I guess that's not necessary anymore.  Thanks again!

I kind of hate to do this but at this point I'm going to have to be letting go of the Major. As it stands the well has just run dry for him in Mayfield at the moment and I can't get much motivation to continue on with him. While I've had an utter blast playing him for the last year and a half I can't think of much more to do with him that would be that substantial at the moment. He has a lot of great CR and I'm sad to let him go but for the he just isn't a character that's meshing well with the setting for me.

That being said I'll still be here with Pokey and Haruko. And it's not like it'll be smooth sailing from here. The Major's canon is filled to the brim with asshole fanatics of all shapes and sizes and I'll be bringing another of them here to Mayfield very, very soon. This app period, if things work out right.

But I really do want to thank people for all the great CR and events I've gotten to do with him and I'm sorry about this. I'm just not having as much fun with the character anymore and when a character becomes more work than enjoyment I can't validate keeping him, as much for myself as well as the fact that he'll become less enjoyable to others as time goes on. I think I've begun to tread the same ground with him over and over and that makes me concerned that he'll just burn out in the end. Specifically I would like to thank Wighty, Trek, Athena, and Ru for the fantastic antagonistic CR he's had with all of them. You guys made him a joy to play here and are a big reason he's gotten to last as long as he has. You guys have been great and I'm both glad to have gotten to bounce him off you.

Thank you for playing with him guys. It was a great run.

Hello everyone!

I'm Buttons and after looking at this place for a long while, I'm finally glad to be bringing you my first muse to the creepy yet perfect town! This here is the Other Father from the movie-adaptation of that one fantastic book, Coraline.

He's from right at the end, so he might be getting a little confused by all of this considering (and the prospect of a wife that isn't the Other Mother), but past that it's the perfect little place for him. ♥ He'll be regaining his button eyes at the first chance I can get for him and possibly his pumpkin form if possible at some point, too. He'll be living at 1764 Beaver Street with the usual family of drones.

With the way I play him, it won't be unusual for him to claim to be a child's Other father (or at least offer his fatherly love and look out for them), so ages are pretty important to know! Child or not, if you'd kindly go and tell me you character's age over here then that would be fantabulous!

If you ever need me for something or just want to plot, I can be reached through this account or more commonly on my Plurk, at otherbuttons!

I look forward to playing with you all. ♥

Beginning this month, there will be some major changes to how we do Applications and Activity Check. We will be moving to an every-other-month cycle, as has been suggested to us.

How Does It Work?

Both Activity Checks and Applications will occur every other month. So, AC will occur this month as scheduled on Monday, and in August apps will open as scheduled on Friday, August 3rd. However, in August, there will be no Activity Check. In September, there will be no Application cycle, and Activity Check will occur on the first Friday of the month, September 7. The full schedule of Activity Checks and Application Cycles will be updated here shortly. September AC will accept activity dating back from the scheduled processing of the July warned list (July 30). In the future, you will be able to determine in advance the cut off date for activity by looking at when the most recent scheduled processing date was.

There will be other AC and App changes as well!

Starting in August, applications will be capped at 50. This means that applications will be open for a week as usual, but if we receive 50 applications before the week ends, we will close apps early. We may reduce this number over the course of the coming months but you will have advance notice.

Starting this month, the requirements for AC will change. Instead of the previous confusing standard, we will now require:

- 15 comments from your character
- A post counts as 5 comments (not including comments you make on that post)
- Your 15 comments must involve threads with at least two different characters

Beyond that, what form your AC takes (two long threads, one post where you commented ten times, fifteen threads where you only commented once, etc.) is up to you.

However, for this month only, we will accept the previous AC standard (three threads where you commented four or more times with three different characters, or five threads getting close to four or more comments) if you would prefer, since this was short notice about the change.

Why all these sudden changes?

Well, this has been needed for a while. However, we also have a much bigger announcement to make. This is something we've been discussing for a while now, but we've decided that it's now the time to announce and get started.

MAYFIELD IS GOING INTO END GAME!

Mayfield is now entering the end of its plot. While we prefer to let things develop organically and therefore cannot give a completely firm end date, our plan is for Mayfield to wrap up early next year, most likely in late January. So there is quite a bit of Mayfield left to go, but we wanted to let you know our plans.

Why now?

The mods all came to Mayfield with a long term plot in mind, and that this would be a game where that plot would be resolved. We've always admired games where the mods knew it was the game's time, but made sure things went out on a bang rather than a whimper.

That's our feel too. Our ability to mod has been dwindling, but more importantly, we've noticed the size of the playerbase and overall activity has been dwindling. While we could replace ourselves as mods and keep the game going for a long time until it gradually winds down, we would much rather resolve hanging plot threads and give Mayfield an exciting "series finale". This isn't a case of no one else gets to play with our toys, but rather that all of us are very, very committed to seeing this game through because of how much we care about the game.

What's going to happen?

From now until endgame, we will be having quite a few big, plotty events that will have consequences that don't just vanish. Some things may change very suddenly! There will be down time to just RP as well, but it will be hard to ignore what's happening.

However, this also will make possible something players have wanted for a long time: the chance for characters to have a real impact on the plot. The decisions made, the clues found, the resistances formed and the player plots you run all may have a lasting impact on what happens in the game.

Why should I care?

This is the problem plagued by many games that are ending: people know it's ending so they don't invest in making CR, they find new games, they let their interest die. We know some of that is inevitable but we hope we can avoid it here.

We are committed to making endgame exciting and fun, with plots at the level you expect from Mayfield. But we can only give back what you put into it. If players remain engaged and have their characters engage in the plot going ons, it will be a better experience for everyone.

On that note, we will be making other changes.

We will be closing the Player Plot Page as is

Since the game will be very busy with mod plot, we aren't going to be allowing any more player plots in the vein of 'my regained flesh eating bacteria is on the loose!'

However, we will be reopening that page shortly in a different form; it will become a place to request NPC action and exploration. Organized resistance groups can give us their plans and we can comments and plot with them; anyone who wants to explore a particular area can request mod involvement. Please keep in mind that especially right before or during events, it may not be possible for us to respond quickly or do anything that requires heavy mod involvement because of time constraints.

We are putting out an immediate call for helpers!

We will need additional help to do everything needed to get us through end game. While we're calling this position helper, it will be a little different than previously. We'll see what you're interested in doing and what your time looks like, and then will give you responsibilities based on that. Helpers now, unlike previously, will be very involved in plot and NPCing. If you don't want endgame spoilers we'll keep that in mind with what we assign you to do.

This is a big commitment, but it is also one that will only last through January. If interested, please sign up here.


Thank you so much for being with us through the years, and we hope, even if you're sad to see us go, you're excited to see what's coming! Any comments or questions are very welcome.

Ciao, Mayfield.

I tried but I couldn't really quit you.

Don't let the new journal fool you; I'm Eskimo and I'm back with Spain (and back in time by the looks of it). He will remember everything from his last stay and have all of his regains. This time, however, he'll be staying at 767 Bunker with Charles and Panty.

I cut a lot of people when I dropped but feel free to add me back again on plurk. Or contact me at AIM at esquimieux. 

And another heads up for anyone who doesn't know, I'm currently in Alaska for the rest of the month so tags might be coming at weirder hours for some of you guys. 

It's good to be back!