MryRPG | Aging, Timeline, and Age Blocks

Aging
I'd love to give you all freedom to age your character whenever you feel like it, but by doing that it makes conflicts with other characters and makes it very hard for everyone to stay together. Because of this we will have a system for aging our characters. For the most part, every real life month will be one season in Mystery (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall). Therefore four months will equal one year. At the beginning of each season rotation we will post a journal notifying everyone that one year has passed. Every character will just age up one year at that time rather than doing birthdays and risking confusion about when to age up your character. This way you just wait for us to tell you to, and then you can age your character one year. Even if you had a foal, for example, that was born at the very end of the rotation, you will still age them up. This keeps everyone moving at the same rate. Don't worry about missing something, you can always rp and write about their past, but you can't rp and write about the future.
Every few months we will hold events. When these events take place the game time will freeze. However long it takes these events to finish, the season will remain as it is unless specifically stated otherwise by us in a journal at the end of the event.

Timeline
You will notice in the gallery a folder that is called "Timeline." As of right now this is empty. This is because the timeline is yet to be created. As time goes by and events are completed, the admins will add summaries of what has happened within that time slot. We will try to do one summary at least every game year, though we also have other lives to attend to do so don't hold us to that. We will definitely have a summary after the completion of every event to record what has happened and sum up everything from that event. This will be a good place for those who join in later on to catch up with everything that they've missed. Not only that, but it is our way of writing our own history, literally.

Age Blocks
We do realize that by making it so that every character grows one year every four months, you will probably get a bit of art done of them in that time. This is great for you! However, with foals, it isn't realistic for them to be super fast or strong, ect while they are very young. This is why we have instilled age blocks for stats so that we can keep things realistic. The blocks are as follows:

Newborn - Blocked at lowest stat stage
1 Year - Can obtain first stat stage (25 ExP)
3 Years - Can obtain second stat stage (50 ExP)
5 Years - No more blocks; can obtain any stat stage

Remember, just because your foal can't reach a certain level doesn't mean they can't keep collecting experience points. You could have all 400 points by the time they reach 5 years old. You just can't put them into the blocked stages until they have reached the appropriate age.