One Month into 2023 and things are busy as usual in Cloudcroft!

Let me give a bullet-point list of what’s happened in our community or is about to happen soon.  

• Otero County is BACK, and with it is an added owner into the LCAR grouping – Colonel Thomas Daniels.  Among other things this community has a Ski resort, and there may be some major military roleplay available…
• We are allowing semi-supernatural roleplay – but within the confines of “unspoken public secrecy laws”.  Don’t get caught being anything BUT human out on the street, you don’t want to get dissected in any of the hospital, military, or university labs.– OOC we’re a publicly human community.  This means we do not have Furries, and if you roleplay a shape changer, and are injured, you are to be in one form or another while treated.  By the way – we don’t have a veterinarian’s office presently.  I don’t advise being injured outside of a human form. The ranchers may put you down for fear of danger to their livestock or the military may take you away to be evaluated as a non-human.  Did you ever see E.T.?  Yeah, you will likely end up on the table cut open for exploratory surgery if non-human and caught.  Remember we’re between where they tested the atomic bombs in 1945 and where the UFO crash supposedly happened in Roswell in 1947… and even 90 miles apart from Cloudcroft each way.

• We have a new HUD system being created, those familiar with the WW Meter will find the transition easy enough when we implement it.  It’s still a little ways off before we go to Beta.
• The Lincoln Independent is BACK!  Any and all news you want to share should go to Hall Cole (hallcole) with any advertisements, news tips, scoops, etc!
• The next citizen classe will be Friday, 10 February, 2022 at 10am SLT, followed by the 15th of February, at 5 pm SLT.  There will be a 10 am SLT class taught weekly on Fridays (taught by Johnny Berry) as well so those who can’t make the late afternoon will have a chance to get the morning class. These will be held at Artemis University on the third floor
  
  – Citizenship class is required for rezzing, renting, and leadership roles in town.  This assures you know what the community rules and culture are and can help promote what we are and help bring us into what we will be.
• City Council – We will have elections for City Council members in May. Council members will represent the following commissioner positions that are electable.  All these roles are leadership roles requiring citizenship classes and abide by similar rules/role requirements to the Police Commissioner/Chief of Police.  They can help make our sim grouping something that attracts new people to Cloudcroft and the LCAR overall.
  • • Parks and Recreation
    • Planning Commission
    • School Commissioner
• Mayor’s Office – The Mayor is an elected role in our community – and has to abide by similar rules/role requirements as the village Commissioner/Chief of Police.  The next election is in May.
• We are evaluating a candidate for appointed village Commissioner/Chief of Police until May.. where they will have to run for office then.  If you want to run for the role of Chief (which is a very administrative-heavy role and responsible for that department’s operations IC and OOC,) please drop a note off filing for it with the Mayor’s office.  This role will mostly be managed OOC by Connor Silverfall as he’s our APEX administrator and will provide loads of OOC support to help anyone in the role of law enforcement.  Our goal is for this individual to be able to handle it eventually without owner/admin hands-on – because we prefer to not over manage.
• DFS Rentals – we have them if you want to have a DFS Farm, our HUD system will have us raising certain foods and medicinal ingredients, but we also plan on being able to utilize DFS ingredients to help make it worth still keeping going with your existing farming.
• We have our Valentine’s ball coming up – “Love in the Clouds” from 1 to 3 SLT in the Wild Mustang Saloon, this is coordinated by our own Kammy Page, and we hope to see her run more events for us.
• DFS Cooking Classes – those will be starting soon – keep your eyes open for Kammy Page to be announced when they are ready.
• We hope to be running a monthly Community Expo. This is a chance for you to get your RP business known.  Please drop an NC IC at the Mayor’s office (there is an in-box at the front counter) in the Village Hall to let us know you want a booth.  The date for this is Feb 25, 2023, from 10 am to 2 pm, and is an opportunity to promote your business or recruit for hiring.  We will post this in the SL events listing publicly for all roleplayers, in and in many groups, to come to check out. Please let us know ASAP if you want a booth.
• Want to be a host of regular RP events?  We welcome it and will post events for you.  
• Town Law Enforcement officer roles are open.  Please drop a note card in the inbox at the Mayor’s office with a “resume” to let us know.  Uniforms and Vehicles are issued to this role’s users.
• Dangerous animals.  At present, it’s only the WW Meter animals that are dangerous.  That can and will change with the implementation of the new HUD.
• The Ski resort opening party will happen soon – this will be limited to Citizens Only, and held in Otero County at “Ski Cloudcroft” in the Elk Lounge.  Keep an eye out on notices for community members there.
• Collaborative Roleplay
  We use APEX, which is mentioned in our Citizen class, and this does allow us to see if someone’s character has a warrant out for their arrest elsewhere.  Please be aware we will extradite when/if roleplay demands.  🙂
• Website updates – We will be updating this site ASAP with information on businesses, and any clarification on rules and our operations that may have needed to be updated for 2023.

I think that’s it for now.  I know it’s a lot, and I really don’t want to be making all this in multiple posts in the LCAR notices.  If you’ve read it all the way through I want to thank you very much, as well as thank you for your decision to come to Cloudcroft to roleplay.  Yes, it can be quiet sometimes, but your being here to roleplay is what attracts others to come roleplay.  This means you as the roleplayer are responsible for it happening or not for you in Cloudcroft and we thank those of you who are doing it now and welcome those of you who would like to become more involved.

Ok, I think I’ve gone on long enough.  

Thank you again for being part of Cloudcroft, for visiting, and for helping make us stand out for what a community should be.

Dr. Morrigan Horten
(Morrigu.Berry – still not a doctor in real life.)