In Darkness - OOC

So while we were out to lunch, Nate and I were chatting, and he has opted to pick up Landon because of the if-then scenario and my dumb personal PB rule. If I end up picking Kyle back up, I'd have two Matt Dallas PBs, and I just can't do that. Besides, it's more fun for me if I'm not playing both Lan and Tris. >:D

So the change will be made on the who plays list. He's just going to swipe my journal, so no other changes there.

Wow. I totally missed maintenance last week, but hey. Flying does that.

So know how I said things about new characters going to the new island? Yeah, realized last night that wasn't fair because everything described the old place, so new players were at something of a disadvantage. Oops. So what I did was moved the new description to the mod journal, and am going to finish cleaning that up today so everything is geared toward new!island. So now it's fair. :)

I also changed the island link to a more accurate picture. Made a new ad and hit the ad comms today. I also changed the weather link, because funny thing about Fiji is that it's like, already tomorrow there? Yeah. So I changed it to a place in the Bahamas, so it's closer to most (all?) of our timezones. It's raining for the next couple days, people on the new island, FYI and all that. ;)

What else? ::thinks hard:: Still working on lottery specifics. Pretty sure we're going riddles. I just have to figure out 4-8 that'll make an accurate picture of the task. If I can't, I'll laze out and do puzzles again >:D

I did update the cast lists yesterday, so those are all set (post-move cast list is still in i_find; that'll stay there 'til next weekend).

The moon's on the 23rd, so everyone will be moved to the new island midnight of the 22nd (Friday night), so the wolves first day on the island will be furry. Jungle romp, woo! I can see them banging on Sev's door "I NEED MAH POTION!" ::amused::

Oh. The lottery plot after bears is going to be kidnapping, and they're going after under 18s (you know, kids), so if anyone had any younger muses bopping around, now'd be the month to sign them up >:D ::lures and enables and junk:: I'm also going to try to update our plot timeline through the next couple of months today, so if you guys have any plots off the list you really really really really want to do, either as group or select plots, pipe up and I'll stick it on there (personally, I'm looking forward to implanted phobias, 'cause if any of mine get rolled, they're so getting a fear of doors. >:D )

So, okay. I think this is it. If you guys notice anything that needs adjusting/cleaned-up/spell-checked/whatever, hit me up, 'cause Thursday is Maintenance day ... this week.

Hey.

I don't know how many were here when I was here last, so I'm just going to act like I'm totally new.

Hi everybody! My name's Lee, and I'll be bringing in this not so sweet and very far from innocent girl, named Kassandra into this world.

She's not going to bite or anything. It's actually usually her job to kill the things that bite. So feel free to talk to her once I officially bring her in. which will be either later tonight or tomorrow.

If you need me for anything, hit me up here or on her journal.

Look forward to playing :)

Okay. For this weekend's lottery:

Bruce Banner
Sir Didymus
Ichabod Crane
Chase Collins

will be participating. and oh dear god do I ever not look forward to Chase in a social scene. XD he might bring out the Hulk. idek. ::Dead dead so dead::

I don't know what it's going to be yet. Riddles, probably, as soon as i figure out which way I want the clues to go. Then someone's going to have to take responsibility for posting it in the network.

... or posting the riddles themselves in the network ::amused:: because really, what's to stop them from doing that? ahahahaha. ::cough::

um. so right, tradition stands. Lottery post will go up late night friday, though the actual meeting's saturday at noon. but a lot of us are nightowls or some junk? idek.

if your kid isn't going to show up, drop us a line so we know not to wait on you for threads.

Does anyone need a writeup on how the lotteries work or do we all have that down by now? I guess for reference you could click the "!lottery" tag and lookit the other writeups. Same deal. Friday morning there are tickets, and the "winners" have instructions to meet in a room (Different room though since this hotel is shorter; I'll address that in the header when I stick up the post) Saturday at noon, and we thread from there. >:D

All right. Not quite the disaster I imagined.

The current cast list for the old island's still in place in the mod journal. The new cast list for post-move is here.

Both directories reflect the entire "cast list", regardless of which island people are on. For example, the old!island directory still has Lily in 214, even though she's not actually present. The Algul Siento directory has everyone listed in the rooms they're going to be moved into. >:D I fully expect moved people to tattle to the others. "Oh yes, you're in a room/in a suite/across the hall from so-and-so" XD

If you need anything changed (or notice something wrong, someone missing), please speak up so I can fix it. I'm so about to start on move!reaction posts. I wanted to get 'em done last night, but i was so bombed when I came home i just ... hit what tags i had, showered, and crashed. So, yeah. ::Nods:: yeah.

Lottery is Friday. Eeek. Prepared, I am not, but I don't have work 'til Monday, so I'll try to work something up that isn't puzzles. I'll have Nate roll when he gets home from class and post the list tonight so people can tell me if they aren't going to be here this weekend so we can reroll. It'll just be moved people eligible since the lottery part is being held on Algul Siento, so if you know already you won't be here this weekend, pipe up. =P

Okay. Off to start posts I am. ::winds up for angst liek whoa::

'allo, 'allo!

Just touching base to report on our activity status.

We did lose one player who ... didn't do anything all last month anyway. People are welcome to notice Dana Scully missing as of right now, if they are at all inclined.

Everyone else did sign in, and everyone who wasn't meeting the new requirements is aware and has promised to improve.

There is a very small but growing chance Mandy might be returning to us. She's checking the stability of her muses in our other game (or will be), and seeing where things are going from there. If she thinks there's a good chance things will go well, she'll shuffle back over here.

And if she doesn't, I'll eat her soul.

As for the move plot which is Wednesday (as in, the characters signed up for the mid-week move are being swiped to the new island Tuesday night/Wednesday morning), is everyone pretty clear how that's going down? The small group is being relocated, but will still be able to network with the people on the old island, but can only thread with people on the new island. New applicants will be sent to the new island as well. The lottery will be held on the new island, but the plot will take place on the old one, but not until Friday (the 22nd), because Matt does love screwing with his captives.

There will also be webcams while the groups are split, so have fun with that. >:D Once everyone's on the new island, no more webcams.

Once the groups are merged (the 24th, 'cause the moon's on the 25th XD), the new writeup and cast list will be put in the mod journal and the faq will be updated.

If anything's not clear or you have suggestions/comments/questions/concerns, hit me up.

So, since we did opt to go with putting EQ magnitues in headers, here is a sample one. You don't have to put the duration if you don't want (they'll go between 2-30 seconds though, if you wanted to).

I do have a few requests:

Nothing over a 6.2 without contacting me about it first, since I don't want the island destroyed, and a bunch of 7.0+s over the course of the week can do that.

No more than one 5.5+ a day, please, so check the headers.

No more than one quake every hour, so please try to be specific with your times in the headers. (I mean "lunchtime" can be anywhere from 10:30 - 3 PM, so ...y'know =P )

We'll use the wiki richter scale page (here) unless someone feels like googling up a better one with more specific examples. 'cause there's a difference between 4.0 and 4.7. this I know. =P

Yes, some of the shacks will fall down in the bigger quakes. The contents of the stores and mall will shift while quaking.

I will be kind and say that the plumbing and electricity will remain intact despite quake magnitudes >:D

If you have questions, ask. I will likely get back to you after sleep 'cause is about that time.

So, as Tristan was whining about missing Lan (see how their usernames make sense now?), it occurred to me that since i dropped Kyle I could have Lan without violating my personal PB rule. (I'm inherently lazy, and ... I tend to use the same icon set over and over and over, and I feel weird with two characters with the same icons, but not weird enough to not be lazy, so I don't play Lan and Kyle or Brenna and Jaime or Ashley L/W and Ashley K in the same game at the same time).

Also, Nate has officially opted to pick up Balthazar, so yay on that. The rest of Mandy's kids will be missing tomorrow morning. Including Mal. So yes, Jaime's going to flip her shit. And it'll be funny to me.

I also may or may not be picking up River. I will decide this after I am home.

So right, this is Landon. Future-gen HP OC, a year below Tristan. Ravenclaw, Quidditch, the voice of reason in Tris' world. Always up for play and plottastic awesomeness.

I ... feel so horribly delayed with this write up. I mean, right? I usually have them done a week in advance and junk XD (whatever. I've been busy and stressed and I kept breaking the internet and ... and half of us are on hiatus and junk).

So right. This week, we are hasing earthquakes. For those of you who don't live in California or have never felt one ... I don't know how to describe them. The ground shakes or the ground rolls or buildings break or the world falls down. Things rattle, fall off shelves. Sometimes if they're deep quakes, the world just kind of heaves and rolls.

These are going to be all sorts of quakes. From tiny little 2-second tremors to building-shaking 30-second monsters. They will happen at random, so if you set up a post just try to skim the other posts set around the same time and if an earthquake was mentioned as being one thing, try to keep continuity in your post. Like, if Jaime has a post and is like "omg 9.0 at noon" and your pup has a noon post, please don't make yours a "i barely felt that" 'quake.

Edit If you could drop any quake-notes in the header, that'd be killer.end edit

The quakes will be starting Monday at midnight (so, way late Sunday night), and will be ending sometime on Friday.

Also! We have the move on Wednesday. So there's a variety of things to react to this week. I want to say I'll clarify the move later, but since I'm flying home on Tuesday night, I guess not so much with a later clarification, huh?

The characters listed on the move list will be relocated to the new island Tuesday at midnight, so the missing persons reactions can be posted Wednesday morning (or ... Tuesday late-night, dated to Wednesday morning).

Everyone else will be moving after the bear plot, so ... in a couple of weeks.

I have probably left out something vital, scattered as I am right now, so if you have questions about any of it ... go ahead and comment and I'll get back to you on the confused point.

Just so everyone is aware and we're all on the same page:

Halo is on a daytime slowatus. (Family stuff/hospital visits are in the daytime)
Mandy is on a full hiatus until further notice.
Sorcha is on a hiatus until further notice.

I know most of us know this as we have seen the back and forths over twitter, but for those ... two people who aren't following us all ... ;) Now it is all official.

Hello, and it's that time again!

If you could all kindly sign in with your name in the subject line, and use this form:

<textarea> <a href="THREADLINK">Character Name</a> (# of threads for character) (date of thread)

in the body of the comments, that'd be fantastically appreciated.

Failure to sign by Monday night in will result in removal from the game. Lack of threads with all characters or excessive dropped threads will result in us asking you to reconsider how well you fit into this game. If you think you can meet the new requirements, great, we'll see how things stand next month.

My apologies for the lateness of this. I had adventures on airplanes yesterday and I'm still adjusting to east-coast time. =P

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Hey guys --

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that we'll be doing checks early (yes, because of the move plot) and ending them earlier. Honestly, most everyone signs in within the first couple of days anyway, and .. consider this your week-warning.

That said, we'll be using this form:

<textarea> <a href="THREADLINK">Character Name</a> (total # of threads for character/# dropped) (date of most recent thread/complete or in progress?)

for sign-ins. We are asking you keep the one textarea box in the comment to make the copy/paste into the "safe" category easier on us. You can totally put all your characters in one box; just c/p the html part over and over and over ...

THIS IS NOT THE SIGN-IN POST. Checks will run from the 7th until the 11th. Anyone who hasn't signed in by Monday night will be removed.

This is just for those of us with a lot of characters that want to start getting our ducks lined up, so you have the form. Put it in a notepad document or something ;)

Since we did change the requirements mid-month, as previously stated, anyone who has only met the one thread minimum will pass checks, but will not be allowed to app further characters until their activity rises to the new requirements.

The only person exempt from this round of checks is our newest player; everyone else will be required to sign in.

'kay guys. If you have any questions, fire away. Otherwise, be ready for Thursday. Bwahahahaha!

Edit

If you need an example, you can look here

Anddddd, yet another for me! This is GW, signing in with Vance Astrovik, future superhero from Marvel comics, gifted with the mutant power of telekinesis, geek, former wrestler, and generally a very strange guy.

As always, plots are joy, and chatting is love!

First, I meant to do this ... a while back (like, a month and a half ago. Where did the time go?) when the discussion first arose in regard to acceptable fandoms and abilities. So my apologies for the timing of this particular rule.

And without further ado ... we have added a rule in regard to accepted fandoms on the rules page. It is as follows:

Fandoms, Realism, and You

While we do accept most fandoms, there are some characters (predominantly anime and comic characters) whose abilities cannot be translated as realistically as we would like. Therefore, all characters from anime, comics, and cartoons are reviewed a little more critically in regard to their abilities and the translation into the level of realism we desire for this game.

At this time, we do not currently accept webcomics or rock-operas/musical albums as playable fandoms.

If you have any questions about this, don't hesitate to let me know.

Monday (10/4)

Corrine Fisher - Pollux's necklace
Balthazar Blake - Veronica's necklace

Tuesday (10/5)

Ichabod Crane - Father's bible
Faye Valentine - Julia's lighter

Wednesday (10/6)

Harry Potter - Tom Riddle's diary
Daniel Peterson - New World Order badge

Thursday (10/7)

John Allerdyce - Wizarding pictures of LilyLu and Noah
River Tam - blue gloves (on floor)

Friday (10/8)

Sir Didymus - Sarah's vest
Isadora Raleigh - bottle of perfume from an ex-lover/former victim

'kay. If the assigned day doesn't work for you, let me know and I can swap you out for a day that works better, but most of you were on the 'no preference' side, so ... yeah.

Happy Effing Friday!

Edit Also, the music's cutting off at Noon rather than Midnight, so they get to have a peaceful afternoon and evening. :)

New character. ::shifty eyes:: she's the vet I was toying with like, two weeks ago or last week or something. She finally managed to tell me about herself.

yay, someone play with me!

Part IC will follow this weekend. Bwahahahaha. Along with the cast list. Probably. I should have time on the weekend.

Right now, I have the following characters paired into Doubles (meaning one bed):

Ichabod Crane/Katrina van Tassel
Jaime Davies/Malcolm Reynolds
Simon Tam/Kaylee Frye
Lily Evans/Balthazar Blake

Is anyone missing from that list? People who've coupled up in-game that the Heads would think would be sharing a room? (Mandy, are Lily and Balt room-sharing or suite-sharing?)

The following characters are in suites (two bedrooms, one common area):

James Potter/Sirius Black
Roland Fisher/Corrine Fisher
Lily Luna Potter/John Allerdyce
Cheshire, Lizzy Miles/Ariana Dumbledore
Spike Spiegel /Isadora Raleigh
Tristan Moore/Hugo Weasley
River Tam/Kyle Trager

Is anyone missing from this list? There are four five suites left. Or five, if Lily and Balthazar are sharing a room. Idk yet which way that one's going.

Also Mandy, unless you had someone else who was taking him, I gave Dug to Swan so Mal doesn't have to put up with him XD

Um. Okay. Think that's about it. And we're probably starting checks on Wednesday instead of Friday so I can have them done for the move so I know what my final cast list looks like.

Hello, hello, and how is everyone on this craptastic Wednesday?

I know, I know. We're all having days (week-so-fars?) from hell. I'd like to blame Tuesday, but I'm not sure Tuesday can actually suck muses this hard. 'cause. damn. It'll be better when September is over, maybe?

Anyway!

I have done some maintenance on the rules page. I've added a section to better outline our expectations for the game (the section titled "will you fit in here"), and I've added a section under the posting rules to address continuity issues because I've had/seen at least three players ruffle my/someone's continuity in the course of the game. Nothing major and all involved players were awesome at cooperating to smooth it out, so kudos to all of you, but I just wanted to have it in black and white so we know what style goes for this game for future players who run into the question.

( Copypasta for your convenience )

Since we changed the activity requirements without ample warning, we will allow the one-thread-per-character rule to slide for October checks provided you've been otherwise active. If you have a lot of dropped threads, however, you will not pass checks. If you have not signed in to acknowledge you've read the new activity requirements, please make sure you do so.

These requirements will be in place for the November checks.

All righty, guys. That's it for maintenance this week. I think everything's up to date and whatnot.

Thanks!

Good evening!

Is time to set up the next plot, and I wanted to give people ample time to reply.

This next plot is a select plot rather than a group-wide one, so only the following ten characters will be directly affected by it:

Sir Didymus - Sarah's vest
Corrine Fisher - Pollux's necklace
Isadora Raleigh - bottle of perfume from an ex-lover/former victim
River Tam - blue gloves (on floor)
John Allerdyce - Wizarding pictures of LilyLu and Noah
Ichabod Crane - Father's bible
Daniel Peterson - New World Order badge
Balthazar Blake - Veronica's necklace
Harry Potter - Tom Riddle's diary
Faye Valentine - Julia's lighter

What I need from you guys is an item of some significance to the character. Be it something sentimental (...yeah. you know where I went for Balthazar =/ ), something that would alarm them (something belonging to a left-behind significant other that said SO is never without), some relic of their past they thought they'd buried to forget, something that reminds them of a painful/traumatic time, etc. Something to shake them up, give them a startle, etc.

We're looking for smaller-ish items, books, jewelery, CDs if there's a significant song that would unnerve them, etc., something that can be left on their nightstand next week.

It will be a dated plot (2 items per day) so if you have a day preference to post your character's reaction, indicate that in the sign-up. :)

If you have questions or need suggestions, hit me up and we'll see what we can work out.

So.... because I cannot resist, here be another pup to bemoan his fate. And this one is good at bemoaning. Salem Saberhagen, formerly the human companion to Sabrina the Teenage Witch, formerly a warlock, and generally a somewhat adult sort of muppet. This is not your father's muppet, ladies and gentlemen.

As always, I am he are open for plotting.