McKinley High - OOC

This deserves a post of it's own, so it doesn't get lost in the episode discussion: in the past, at the end of the season we do a soft reboot to allow players to bring their characters back in line with canon, if they so choose. This summer is going to be a little different from last: instead, the game will be going on summer hiatus as soon as we finish playing out the events of the season finale. ( Cut for spoilers from the S3 finale... )

Past experience from last summer shows that things usually get slow during the summer anyway, so hopefully the break will do everyone good -- I don't want to close the game outright, since we still don't know what S4 has in store, but if the format isn't conducive to a canon-based game, it'll be harder to recruit and retain members.

If there are any questions, however, let me know -- have fun playing out the finale, and here's hoping I'll see you all back in Season 4!

~Stacey

As per feedback from my last mod post, I AM easing up on the character limits to allow players to apply for a second main character. This is subject to mod approval, since I still want to make sure that both of your characters aren't primarily interacting with each other. IF you are interested in picking up a second major character, please let me know before you start the application -- if it's going to be questionable, I'll let you know right away, and if it's far enough removed from your first character, I'll go ahead and place a hold for you. Standard rules still apply -- holds are valid for 3 days, two-week waiting period is still in place before you can hold/app a new character. (All current players are clear of the 2-week point, though, so that won't be an issue.)

(FYI -- We have special requests out for Puck, Mercedes, and Sebastian, so I will be trying to focus on them a little bit when I do my next round of ads this week!)

Oh, and the general consensus seems to be to stick with the one-week delay for the V-Day ep, despite the fact that it won't line up in real time, so watch the dates on that when the time comes!

Modpost time!

With fandom tensions running high after last night's episode, now's probably a good time to address keeping character bleed to a minimum. There's a fine line between characters fighting and that carrying over into OOC interactions, so consider this a reminder.

( Cut for potential spoilers )

Just a reminder for everyone: not all of us are able to watch the episodes live as they air on the east coast, so PLEASE be wary of spoiling the episodes for people who haven't had a chance to see the newest episodes yet! It airs Tuesday at 8pm EST, but other time zones get it later, and some people have to rely on streams and downloads and later air dates, or DVRs for when real life interferes, so for the sake of all of our players, please keep episode discussion to the discussion post at least through the weekend. That way everyone has a chance to watch at their own pace without having to worry about plot spoilers.

I'll be updating our rules to include a spoiler policy -- unless anyone has any objections, I'm proposing no spoilers outside of the discussion post through the Saturday after the episode airs. Let me know if we should extend it further!

Activity check complete -- we have some characters opening up, so we'll have another round of promo ads going out this afternoon to see if we can recast Brittany and Quinn (and Mike, Tina, Puck, Mercedes, Artie...) Plotlines with these characters can be assumed to be back to canon defaults, at least until we get new players and anyone with prior plot can discuss what to keep and what to toss with them.

With new episodes starting up next week, I thought it might be a good time to clarify how new episode canon and in-game timelines work, both for our new members and our veterans. It's been kind of a free-for-all so far, and I've been approached for clarification, so hopefully this will make sense and work for everyone involved.

The main confusion I've seen has been how to time canon events in game -- there's been folks who start posting about show canon immediately, and some who drag it out over the week until the next ep. Playing an episode Tuesday-Tuesday isn't very efficient, though, since it's not a standard school week, and assumes that everyone watches the eps live and immediately plots out character interactions that night. So here's the solution I'm proposing, and if anyone has any suggestions or additions, feel free to chime in. (I've clipped this directly from our FAQ and edited it, so hopefully it makes sense.)

( From the FAQ... )

Now that I've got everyone's attention... :)

If you're still with us, we aren't dead, we're just prepping for a bit of a turnover during hiatus. We've lost a few people, which has freed up a lot of characters, so we're going to be advertising heavily over the next couple of weeks to get our numbers back up before new eps start airing again, but the game is still a go.

Unfortunately, Melly emailed me last night to let me know she's withdrawing from the game, so that means you guys are stuck with just me holding the reins. For now I'm going to be concentrating on advertising and getting things running smoothly again, but I won't rule out tapping a co-mod after things get settled down a bit; I'll keep everyone posted and let you guys know if I need volunteers. In game, we'll proceed business as usual -- regularly scheduled glee practices and now rehearsals for West Side Story and student council campaigning (and hey, Halloween is coming up, too...) so feel free to keep posting! Since we've got so many major characters available, now would be the time to speak up if there's one you've got your eye on! I'm going to start recruiting in the next couple of days, so you guys get first shot at placing a hold and submitting an app, as long as it's within the rules, ;)

I know things have slowed down over the past few weeks, but I'm hoping to get us some new blood and have people interacting more.. If you have any questions or need anything at all, PLEASE don't hesitate to contact me, either through the mod email, the Contact-a-Mod post, or my own personal contact info -- I'll do my best to help!

~Stacey

ETA: Aaaaand already a hold on Kurt, that was fast, XD

We're looking at the season 3 premiere here this week, so consider this your call to action for the new season! If you are interested in sticking with us going into season three, PLEASE let us know in a comment to this post -- this is your official season three roll call. The deadline to opt in is one week: Friday, September 23rd, but feel free to plot and play and tackle the new ep as soon as it airs, :)

For those of you who joined us during the hiatus, this is how things will work when new episodes begin to air (returning players, consider this a refresher!). ( From the game FAQ... )

Another issue we need to address is new canon characters. A character will be considered fair game for play after their first episode airs, but keep in mind if you decide to pick up a new character, it may be very early in their development. Likewise, if a character leaves the show or is downgraded to a smaller role, they will not necessarily vanish in game.

Things have slowed down a lot in the run up to season 3, but we're hoping new episodes will motivate people to interact a bit more -- if you need any help with plotlines or have any questions, feel free to drop a line in our Contact A Mod page or email one or both of us!

Happy season 3! XD

( Confirmed players )

Now that the game is underway, we have a few rule adjustments to make. These shouldn’t affect you as the game is now, as they pertain to the Applications and Holds of new characters.

After the first major influx of applications and holds, we realized that there were some flaws in the rules already set down from the past game that we felt the need to address and change. We didn’t anticipate this problem before re-opening the games, which is why we had to scramble to try and fix things now.

Here are the new guidelines for placing holds/applications:

- One hold per player at one time.
- Now that the game is in session, we will be imposing a two week waiting period between applications. This applies if you are going for a second character or your third. Within that two week period, we’d like to see players actively- logging and interacting through journals with the character they already have in play. This is to prove that you have the capability to keep more than one character active at the same time. We’d hate to have a character neglected when another player has the potential to be more active and have the character more involved in the game. A hold cannot be placed until after the 2 week period has ended.

We’ve also had to address the game’s Character Limits, as we felt they were a little too vague. These are our clarifications to be imposed from now on.

- Each player is allowed 3 characters:
-One New Directions member/Main character* and 2 non-main character*/OC per player (with exception to what we've already approved) or 3 OCs.
*Main character applies to any of the main New Directions kids or any characters that have had ample screen time or a main story arc in Glee seasons 1 and 2 (i.e. Dave Karofsky, Blaine Anderson). Also, Mr. Schuester, Sue Sylvester, and Emma Pillsbury are considered Main Characters. If you have any questions on the status of any characters, please consult the Mods.


If you have any questions about our new rules, please feel free to ask here or drop a line into the Contact-A-Mod page.

Hey guys -- today was our official start date, so everyone is more than welcome to start posting: journal entries, rp scenes, aim chats, anything goes, :)

As for timeline, we've decided to keep things simple, so we can jump into summer plotting quickly: Nationals will take place tomorrow (Saturday, June 25th), with the kids back in Ohio on Monday, and then from there, feel free to move on to cookouts and pool parties and summer jobs. As always, if anyone wants to go back and fill in missing scenes or moments prior to Nationals, feel free to backdate a scene -- and if there is still plotting to be had, you're all welcome to do it here!

We do have some new faces, so feel free to make our new players feel welcome. Again, character meme and friending meme are both open and active now, so have fun! :)

As you can see, we have incoming players! All unclaimed characters are officially back on the market, so Justine, Joie, and Saskia are (re-)entering the fold -- just in time for plotting, :)

Since the game freeze went into effect before the end of Season 2 (Just after "Rumours"), we are opening a discussion post here for everyone to plot for the final episodes in preparation for our grand reopening, :) We will be advertising heavily over the next few days, and hope to draw in some new players this week, so we're planning to reopen for season finale scenes next Friday, June 24th -- in the meantime, here is your (very belated!) episode discussion post for 02x22 "New York" -- and if any one needs to discuss/plot for the last few episodes before that, feel free to do that here, too!



» SHOW VS GAME CANON

(The season finale is fair game for play upon restart; if you are deciding to keep something from the finale canon, please add discussion about when you think the event will happen over the next week so we can have an established chronology.)

Okay, guys -- we've got lots of new announcements, and lots of new developments.

FIRST: new mods! Michelle has retired, and Katie has turned the game over to us, Melly and Stacey, and we'll be working to revamp, reboot, and reopen the game. We're sending out a mass email to everyone on the contact list, so for those of you who don't know us, Melly plays Kurt, and Stacey plays Blaine and now Carole. Melly will be serving as primary mod, and Stacey as co-mod, so if you need anything at all, please don't hesitate to contact one of us; we'll be reopening the Page-A-Mod feature, and you can email/IM/message either of us through our character journals, as well.

SECOND: we need to get an accurate count of who is sticking around and who is opting out of the game, so we can update the character list and open it for new applications -- which is why we're calling for a head count. Everyone will have one (1) week to respond with your name, character(s), and contact info. After the deadline, all unclaimed characters will be put back up for grabs, so please get back to us quickly if you want to make sure you keep your characters!

( Click for more information, including a list of confirmed players, revised canon guidelines, and plans for the reboot... )

TL;DR: Game restarting, let us know if you want in, :)

Hope to see you all back here soon!

~Melly & Stacey

Hey guys, I've decided to place a semi-freeze on the game. It will still be running and it will be available to you if you feel the desire to log/thread/journal ect, but you shouldn't feel pressured to post any longer. I hope to recruit more players before we lift the freeze so that we can have more interaction.

Consider this a break if you will, and once the game is back in business, I will notify you by email.



» SHOW VS GAME CANON

(If you are deciding to keep something show canon, please add discussion about when you think the event will happen over the next week so we can have an established chronology.)

Some sad news, due to RL obligations, Saskia is no longer going to be playing with us. So please defriend
brittbritt and mattattack.

Also, just in case ya'll were wondering, I seem to have come down with a nasty cold, possibly flu. But I will be around this weekend for PARTAY shenanigans. If you wish to thread, just let me know. I'm looking at'chu Cherry. ;D And anyone else who wants some Tina action. Also, Betsy, how convenient that this last episode had fun times with Schue and Beiste around the same time we were planning fun times for them?! :D

ETA: JUST TO CLEAR UP ANY FUTURE CONFUSION: Anything that happens in an episode will be happening in game AFTER the episode airs. Unless stated or requested otherwise. I think that's how we've always done it. And we'd like to try to get all those plots wrapped up before the next episode. So we have another full week to get everything that happened in this episode in, and whatever we may like to add.

So Aims, it's up to you if you'd like Rachel's party to be this weekend, or if you want to hold off till next weekend. Either way, this upcoming week is Alcohol Awareness Week at McKinley. And then the Assembly will be going down next Monday. Hope that helped! Now party hard.


-Mel Mod

Alrighty, got an annoucement.

Since nobody does them anyway (xP) we will no longer be doing the Weekly Glee Rehearsal Thread. Le sigh...

However, the rehearsal time for Glee shall remain the same. Every Tuesday and Wednesday after school. In the Episode Discussion posts, if your character is performing a song in Glee, you can decide whatever day that falls on and just mention it there. For example, Tina performed "My Funny Valentine" (completely) yesterday during Glee. ;D

Also, Michelle, since you're not online atm (which is fine because I shouldn't even be online right now O.o) I wanna talk to you about when the Championship game is going down. I'm thinking this Saturday, if that works for ya. :)

Okay, that's mostly all. Also, sorry I've been kinda MIA lately. But feel free to attack me by email whenever you need me, Tina or Schue for anything. Or the rare moments when I am actually on AIM. Even if I'm "away", attack me anyway. Chances are I'm just being lazy. But I wont bite you. ^_^

-Mel the Mod.

Alright guys, you got yourself a new mod here. Two new mods actually. Your resident Tina and Mercedes are getting down to business.

I know we're all bummed to see Justine and Joie go, but I'm sure I can speak for all of us when I saw we wish them the best. Hopefully, this will not discourage any of you from the game. Michelle and I have no intention of changing things up too much. Jsquared was running a pretty tight ship, and we want to keep it that way. But there will be a few minor changes to the rules to keep an eye out for. But nothing that should effect gameplay too much. Promise. :)

Now I have something to ask all of you... PIMP. THIS. GAME. We have a ready and willing Santana on hold and a curious Artie. But we still need a Finn and a Quinn. And we're also opening Jacob back up as a playable character. And we lost our Terri recently, so we could use one of her too. So pimp pimp pimp. Thank you.

Now, some major plot points are going to be changed once we get new players. For example, all the stuff with Artie and Quinn and Tina is sort of in limbo at the moment. Once we get A and Q replaced, we'll talk plot and figure everything out. So anyone who was even just slightly involved in all that drama might wanna keep a lookout on that. And any other major plots involving the characters we lost. Limbo.

Both Michelle's and my contact information is all in the directory. We're here for you. We want this transition to be smooth as possible and we hope that, if anything, we can only improve this game. So let's get this party started!



-M&M

I did not forgot the Weekly Glee Rehearsal post this week. I figured that what with them working on Rocky Horror, Will would just get right into rehearsing for that. I meant to give this heads up sooner, but... I failed. But now for some announcements:

Paulina and Saskia, I owe you both semi-sexy times with Will and Tina. I was thinking of throwing up a thread either today or tomorrow. Just lemme know what works best for both of you and your characters.

Nicole, I can't remember if we agreed that Carl would still be playing the role of Eddie. I could just go check... but I'm lazy. If we did though, that's cool. I just wanted to make sure. And because Paulina and I decided something kind of inappropriate should happen with Emma and Schue, we should also work out when Carl confronts him about this.

Krista, since Devon's audition was right in the middle of them working on Rocky Horror, he would have introduced Devon to the club as a new member, but would not have subjected him to having to learn the entire show in a few days. So, if it's cool with you, Devon will simply be a party-goer. Because the Time Warp is not hard to learn.

Same as above with Janessa. Also, Paulina, we didn't really get a chance to talk about what Janessa would have done for her Glee audition. I'm sure she got in, but if we could just get an idea of what went down at her audition, that would be awesome. Thanks.

And last but not least, Flyers have been put up around town, and the very watered down Rocky Horror Picture Show is being performed on Saturday. And because I really should have done this sooner, I need to ask if having a Friday dress rehearsal in the evening will majorly conflict with any of your characters involved in the play? If so, then the dress rehearsal will be today during the regular Glee meeting. Mods, are we going with the Sue plot from RHGS? If both of you don't really mind either way, then we can all just pretend it didn't happen. However, if the dramz is what you're after, that's cool too. Just lemme know.

That's all I can think of right now... enjoy the eye candy. :D

-Melissa

Hi kids (again),

Just so we're clear about how we're handling OOC notes, please try to use something like --

((OOC: whatever your message is, it goes here))

-- if you need to leave a note for someone at the end of your entry or comment. However, we encourage you to find alternate means of getting in contact with your fellow players (and hopefully everyone has at least one way of getting in touch with everyone else, right? There's always private messaging!) and talk to them in other ways instead of leaving OOC notes.

Another alternative is to just leave a comment for someone, making sure to note that it is OOC, and deleting the comment so it isn't visible to anyone else.

Thank you for your time.
Justine (good mod... Joie is bad mod)

as an addendum to previous scheduling talk, just wanted to let yall know that lunch is in between 4th and 5th period.

got it?

got it.

:)

~ justine

Hello lovelies,

Just a note to tell you all that school will be starting the day after Labor Day, September, 7th. As is explained in the rules, the game is only canon through season 1, so we won't be following season 2 week by week, though we are all free to include show plots/songs/etc in the game. So until Glee comes back, feel free to play and establish your character's school routines and start interacting with other characters.

We will be having weekly Glee Club Rehearsal roleplays that will usually be open thread style. However, the first one will be an audition session. The thread will be posted the week of the 13th-17th (we're still trying to pick a day). Basically you will need to pick a song that your character would sing for their audition (you can embed a youtube video) and then write a short roleplay log of them introducing themselves to the club, explaining their song and then singing it. Since the rest of the Glee club will be in the audience then each character can comment their reaction to each audition.

I think that's it for now. If you have any questions don't hesitate to comment/im/email and ask :)

- Joie