Sabra La Tau OOC

THURSDAY
What: 3 planned events
When: 6PM EST, 7:30PM EST and 8-9 PM EST
Runtime: 3 hours max
Notes: These are planned to be "show" or "story" events. There's not a lot that can be influenced in these, but a whole lot to react to. Short of the epilogue, this will be the LAST show event we run.
GOOD ENDERS WHO REAPPED (or will reapp) :D Be ready
Event runners: Watanuki, Dera, Nishi, Lady, Kururu
Helpers: None! WE GOT THIS BROS

FRIDAY
What: 2-3 planned events
When: Starting about 7PM EST for the Prom
Next starts immediately after.. appprooooxxx 11-12PM EST for the moontime event.
Runtime:
First: 4-5 hours
Second: 4-5 hours. Done by 4am EST at the latest.
Notes: OKAYOKAY, we're running things damn near 24 hours with a break on Saturday morning to try to catch all the time zones. ALL OF THEM. DO NOT KILL YOURSELVES OR YOUR SLEEP SCHEDULE thinking you have to be in EVERY ONE (we for one, are doing shifts to make this work.) They will be designed to be simultaneous or with a built in reason why you'd be somewhere else, and EVERY event will have something for you to do. PLAY RESPONSIBLY. (I know, I know, but I had to try)
Event runners:
First: Nishi, Lady, Excel
Second: Dera
Helpers: ??

SATURDAY
What: At LEAST 3 planned events, more depending on you guys
When: Beginning at 12 noon EST
Runtime: Approx 6-10 hours
Notes: WE WILL NEED HELP FOR ONE PART OF THIS as to not die. Assistants should be fast, good with or at least like battles and be pretty flexible. Guaranteed right to be awesome in other things we're doing. We will probably start needing helpers in the early afternoon/late evening.

We are aiming to be DONE Saturday night, with ending cutscene somewhere around 8-9 EST (SUPER APPROXIMATE. SUPER APPROXIMATE) so that we can have the highest spread of people there for it. But we sure will use Sunday if we have to for final wrap-up of mod-driven scenes/threads.

We will have several events possibly running very close to each other. The person running yours will set up a channel for you to lurk to optimize your sabrapings. THEY WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE POSTS.
Event runners: Nishi, Dera, Lady
Helpers: Jace! ???



MAGICAL MOONTIME TIME CONVERSION.

OKAY GUYS.

THIS RIGHT HERE IS STILL WELL AND ALIVE. I've just been updating it as I go/hear about things. HOPEFULLY IT'S HELPFUL.

I do have the 21st and 22nd available (5 MST to 10MST, that is about how long it takes to run an event and get this old woman to bed in time), and sporadically through the rest of December. (I'm reserving a few days for 'me time.')

Remember if you want a specific keystone, and that player is still active, contact them! (If you are that player and just have no time and want me to run it, give me a yell we can do a thing! I'm mostly going on the original TAP TAP SO DUDES. SO DUDES. GOT ANYTHING IN MIND?)

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY!

This is to announce that on Saturday, December 31st I'm running a Messenger event, SNEAKING the Blanks a last talk at the Good Ended characters. It will be starting at about 5MST (4PST, 7EST and ass early JST (that's a real time)) and go as long as you all like. This should be well in advance of your new years parties (hopefully!)

MONSTERHUNTER! There are things going on over HEYAH! This is basically an OOC tap on the shoulder with an ANY OBJECTIONS to taking in the most FRIENDLY AND NICE OPHIUCHUS THERE EVER WAS. (:D) The post is, of course, open to any and all of the teams as well, IC-wise.

Attention moontimers! That Thing I mentioned in chan before will be happening Saturday night moontime instead because the weekdays after this weekend are of uncertain availability for me. :( IS THIS COOL

SO REMEMBER THAT AWESOME SURGEON ADVENTURE THAT'S THIS WEEKEND? WE'RE MOVING IT! TO NEXT WEEKEND. There is some ongoing IC fallout that the mods want to avoid squishing since that would be unfair—and there's the potential for things just as amazing as the planned event to come from it! Rest assured that however events unfold there will be things for everyone to play with. ♥ It's just a matter of waiting to see how everything finally settles before we get there.

As an aside, I am still updating the plot timeline (and you should be too as you have plotcentric threads :U) so you can still follow things there.

PS: WORD OF NISHI: "I will run it as long and hard as I can to try and get everyone. I'm pretty much gonna keep it as open as possible and as accessable as possible"

Just a quick reminder message that next weekend, Saturday the 26th stateside and Sunday the 27th moontime, I will need some Ophiuchus volunteers to get ready for the Twins game coming up in two weeks. Basically you will be bringing news and mystery things to blank teams, and I would like folks who can get it out within an IC day or two so that people have IC time to work on it. You do NOT have to help out for the game to do this, but I will also be taking volunteers for the game later.

Anyone available? Please? :D

Hey guys! I'm planning on doing a mini-thing with Ophiuchus and Librarian, and I need your help! Basically, I'd like Librarian to come around ICly with a list of people who have broken the rules and poke Ophi into delivering punishments. In order to facilitate this, I need you to do the following:

( Information goes here. )

Comments/questions/clarifications? I suck at explaining things, so I fully expect to cover this post with ETAs before the day is out. :Dd

As most of you already know, Mirror is planning a round of penalties. Most of them probably won't go off until after the plague is dying down, and I'll be staggering them to suit individual schedules / moontimers / hiatuses, etc.

( Blah blah blah info! )

Starting tomorrow evening (Sunday) til Thursdayish, Ash is going to be running a Pokemon mini-game! So in this post, PICK YOUR POKEMON PARTNER \o/

This is completely opt-in, and not everyone has to choose a Pokemon partner! You can just support your teammate(s) if you rather do that.

Where to Choose a Pokemon:
Serebii and Bulbapedia are super helpful! Getting suggestions from others works too.

After you pick your Pokemon I'll assign a moveset to it. During the intro post tomorrow Ash will give out color-coded Pokedexes that will give you details about your Pokemon :|b Then, on Tuesday Night a post will go up for dumb Pokemon battle antics that you can use for whatever. WEDNESDAY something will go up. I lied!1

The only limitations to picking your partners is ~NO LEGENDARIES~ no matter how fitting they may be. Everything else is fair game, as the Pokemon's levels will be capped so everyone's almost on the same playing field. Unless you get a magicarp, then you're screwed no matter what.

BUT YEAH questions, concerns, whatever go here! More details (like exactly what Ash is judging on/wants you to do, and rewards) tomorrow when the post goes up.

ETA ALSO BE CAREFUL picking pokemon powered by certain things (like sunlight). Don't want any comatose mons 8|a

Putting this up while I am thinking about it.

AT SOME POINT ON TUESDAY Ticky will be running a Sabra-wide mission for clothing and other neat shit. Teams will be told what they are doing and how to do it, the actual game will run until friday/early saturday to give people time to play stuff out. I have no specific time for WHEN Tuesday, but since that part is just "Ticky Explains It All" you don't need to be there exactly on time. As for when the game ENDS. I will have more specific times once we see how it is going.

=|b

Reaction to the Cepheus/Lepus/Morion partner swap has been mostly pretty positive, so let's DO THIS THING.

Current plan for the team swap is as follows: Lepus is going to request to trade teams from Surgeon, and there will be a willingly-participated ceremony/ritual thing to finalize it, to make it ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the codependent teams don't worry it will happen to them.

Afterward, two of the teams will trade dorms. Orion's the only team that's shown preference to stay in their original dorm, so if it's okay with everybody, we'll probably move Cepheus and Monoceros. Transporting stuff and replanting gardens can be a ~teambuilding activity~ for the new partners.

As for timing, I'd like to shoot to get in after the Friday or Saturday game, assuming neither of them go over, so the moon-time people can have a chance to play, or failing that Sunday. Whenever we can get as many of us on as possible, just for the change itself, which shouldn't take too long.

I think that's about it? Feel free to comment with questions/comments/pointing out massive logistical errors we've overlooked/etc.

ETA: The other teams don't need to be gung ho for the trade, just kinda, "uh okay" willing. We'll try to make it as little Judge-initiated as possible, and give the teams some discussion time to work it out ICly. WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT, GUYS. :|b

OKAY GUYS. I think you pretty much have the gist of the game now. Since CHRISTMAS IS COMING but I want to stay on schedule, I'm pre-emptively declaring Later Tuesday the 22nd (after the Loser game) to be DAY 2 of the game, and Saturday the 26th to be DAY 3. Now that you know how it's going, what I will PROBABLY DO is put up the post, the new cards and such fairly early (around 12 MST). Then you guys will have until that evening to do your discussions and pick your cards. I WILL still nag people come late evening, since it has to be done before I go to bed that night, basically. But this should offer plenty of time for people to make their choices.

ALSO! If playing stuff out is taking a while, discussing with your team OOCly to figure out what to do, then playing out getting there is very much encouraged (= It takes me a few hours to do all the work, so I do appreciate cards being selected sooner rather than later. But I understand lulz people have work/family/lives that might restrict RPing.

ETA: EDIT AGAIN. okay. I forgot there is a Loser Game on Tuesday! And I not want to override/take away from that in any way. What I will do is put up Day 2 after that game is complete in Tuesday. So it may be closer to midnight Wednesday. This is the best I can do for you kids. As I would rather not have a Sunday one where people who have to go to work on Monday are pushed to staying up late. Also, if you would be late Sunday, chances are you would miss the card choosing anyway.

Okay guys! Wife and I have been meaning to do a free for all mission, that means everyone is invited. It will have non-memory rewards and basically be pretty simple! We are starting at 8PM EST tonight.

Apologies for the late announcement, but due to needing to make a million cookies tomorrow and needing to fly to Arizona on tuesday, my time is a little squished =|b

ETA: SO YOU KNOW. While the mission allows for characters to be possibly VERY INJURED, how much danger they are in will be up to IC play, and participating in the mission itself is completely opt-in. However, the roleplay itself isn't very intensive. Wife and I will basically be rolling dice and telling you how things turned out. So if you are worried about TIME or ATTENTION, playing should be fine.

Oh and there will be no mingle thread or anything, as this isn't technically a game, but we will be doing teams as they arrive and are able to play, so there is a certain late period that you can still show up and participate with.

NOTICE! For a Character Thing that will happen :|a

On day 87, whenever Night rolls around, Allen's eye is going to finish regrowing. When this happens, it's going to create a brief (say, 30 minutes ICly; a post OOCly) area effect that should blanket the area for miles, so anyone who wants to opt-in and participate can.

Basically, it temporarily lets everyone see and hear what Allen does when his eye is activated.

What is that, you might ask!

- Trapped or sealed souls can be seen and heard. Hidden true forms if they involve a soul/handwavesoul. Squall's summons, Nora's dog form, Cielo's other form, Kagura's dog, and Mist on Orion, to name a few. Also, doubles on Sakura and Syaoran if they decided to call it that way? (We hadn't decided, durr hurr hurr, their call :|b) He also sees the souls in the Pillar, which look, for the record, like they are moving and speaking in unnatural slow-motion, completely unaware of their surroundings AKA extreme doped up. It's VERY disconcerting. That uh, shouldn't really apply, unless anyone is at the pillar during the window on Night 87. Then uhm. Sucks to be you. :( Oh, and chain imagery for EVERYTHING, for whatever they're bound to. Souls are chained to pillar. Shabby was chained to Rezo's eyes. Pyxispuppy probably has a jangly chain leash to Kagura.
- Everything is in black and white. No colors. :E

Basically, if Pyxis and Orion want to, they can meet their invisible dog and teammate, respectively. :|b

SO HEY I greatly overestimated how fast IC Days would be moving, so. . .!

Rather than the Belled Cat antics ending on Day 90, would folks be cool with it being wrapped up sometime by this Tuesday/Wednesdayish? There's no special ending involved, so if you ever want your ears/tail to disappear even earlier than this, feel free! HANDWAVE STUFF I am a lazy judge that doesn't think things through :|b

Also I am unclear if Kariya is still running an ophichus kitty mini-game or something, so that's also a good ending point. IDK!

Purely because I can (and also because on reflection, oh yeah, I have a judge who likes cats) I want to run a not-a-game for the characters with the cat collars. This will probably involve a lot of dead mice and deadly jingly things. I could probably do it on Wendsday night, Friday afternoon or Saturday afternoon.

WOULD THERE BE INTEREST IN SUCH A THING? Or no, there's too much cat stuff, OVERLOADOVERLOADOVERLOAD?

eta: someone pointed out that this is heavy on the cat stuff. which, I could include the notcat players but my brain is kind of frying after veiled's game/finals season. So if there was interest in such a thing it would be stuff like STRING DANGLERS and BAG RUSTLERS, or HUMAN TARGET. Something reaally simple. Also I am not adverse to spectators, so gawking is a++ by me.

SO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WERE BELLED:

Pyxis - Ikki
Vulpecula - Kaito
Pavo - Kururu
Cepheus - Syaoran
Cygnus - Cloud
Ophiuchus - Kurogane
Hydra - Fang
Monoceros - Sakura
Lepus - Mao
Canis - Cielo
Delphinus - Geddoe
Lacerta - Vash

For the remainder of the IC week (until the bells come off, aiming til about Day 90 Or earlier if we all get bored before then) these characters will have acquired the following:

~Adorable Kitty Ears :3
~Adorable Kitty Tail :3
~CAT-LIKE INSTINCTS/REFLEXES...or rather, the completely useless ones. Your characters may be compelled to chase shiny things, pounce on round objects, steal milk rations from others, fall and pretend they totally meant to do that, be an attention whore, and leave dead squidrats on their team's doorstep.

If your character is disappearing due to Veiled's game and you want to play this out afterwards, feel free. Maybe the week didn't count due to you being in a different realm, idk.

If you absolutely do NOT want this to happen to your character for some reason, then your bell can just be EXTRA LOUD AND JINGLY :|b Have fun!

۞ Ophiuchus has access to this basic information:

* Blanks' real names, and corresponding 'Sabra' names.
* The number of memories each Blank has won.
* List of which blanks are from the same worlds, and basic information on their relationships (including their relationships with Ophiuchus members).
* All of the information to be found on each Blank's Stats/Power Retention Memes (NOT including stats/powers for Ophiuchus members).

۞ Ophiuchus has rules to enforce. If your character is breaking one of these rules and you want Oph to come taze you (as I assume you do), tell them OOCly and they can assume they were tipped off ICly. Ophiuchus members themselves are basically ordered not to spoil anybody and not to help them without making them earn it.

۞ Ophiuchus is going to be charged to prank a different team every IC week. This week they have the following:

Ash - Delphinius
Kariya - Hydra
Kurogane - Monoceros
Lute - Pyxis
Marla - Cepheus
Michiko - Lepus
Othar - Vulpecula
Reno & Rude - Orion
Rezo - Cyngus
Ticky - Pavo
Tseng - Canis
Yamamoto - Lacerta

Feel free to use this post to coordinate those pranks! And if you have an amazing idea for a prank to be played on your team, don't hesitate to speak up. Your Ophiuchus might know what they want to do already, but more than likely you'll be helping them out.

۞ Are there any more questions or anything else that needs OOC clarification at this point?