| [Plot] Secret Santa! |
[Dec. 9th, 2011|10:34 am] |
One of our players had an idea for a fun holiday plot! Secret Santa!
Comment here with your pup(s) that you want involved in the Secret Santa gift exchange. I'll randomly assign pups for them to buy presents for. They might have no idea who the person is, they might be friends, or they might hate them--WHO KNOWS?
Sign-up will be open for one week (until Friday, December 16th). After that, I will email you with the character your pups need to get presents for.
Hypothetical Example:
I play Watson from Sherlock Holmes. I sign Watson up for the gift exchange. I get an email from myself saying Watson is Isabela's Secret Santa. He doesn't really know her, but he does a little research (Maybe with Sherlock's help.) Sometime around Christmas week, he makes a post in the main UTR comm that says something like ( "To Isabela" ) and has a link to what he got for her. "A present left anonymously under the community tree for Isabela".
At this point, Secret Santas can either reveal themselves, or remain anonymous like Watson did, by leaving it at a community Christmas tree at Taunton. Anyone who tries to take a present that isn't addressed to them will become bright green, hairy, and covered in warts due to magic protection spells.
A few side notes:
Please only sign up your active pups. If you have a random character that you usually keep in the back of a closet, chances are not too many people in the game even know who they are. It will be more fun for other people if characters (or at least muns) know who they're getting presents for.
Please try to make sure you're able to pick gift ideas and post descriptions/pictures of them by the end of December. If you're a few days late, that's okay, but if you're going to be mega-busy over the holidays, don't sign up 20 pups because you probably won't have time to do it.
As far as IC explanation, this will be another 'weird and wacky vortex' thing, where pups (whose muns sign them up) get letters notifying them that they are participating in a Secret Santa exchange, even though they didn't sign up for one. This lets Grinchy pups get involved too, and allows for hilariousness. If your pup needs extra motivation, there can be some sort of punishment caveat (green, hairy, warts) if they refuse to participate. Bah humbug, indeed! In short, it is OOC-optional for muns, but IC-required for pups once you sign them up!
Sign up your characters for Secret Santa by commenting to this post! (Comments are screened for maximum SURPRISE!) Deadline for sign-up is 12/16. |
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[Dec. 9th, 2011|03:28 pm] |
Okay, so this has approval from Mandy and Jewels, FYI, because they are awesome.
I don't know if anyone besides Jewels, Sage, and myself is super into American Horror Story, but it's fantastic. And seeing as the ghosts are bound to the house (and the best characters, IMHO), it'd be hard to bring them in, right?
NOT ANYMORE.
Gaz Membrane, our resident spooky girl who's got an undead henchman already, has just found a house in LA that she bought from a relator who's kind of milquetoast and terrified of her. She wasn't put off by the stories that people had been murdered there. Honestly, she's kind of comforted by it.
If you pick up an AHS ghostie, feel free to have Gaz see them. She won't be scared, and will probably ignore them or try to be buddies. The more NPC ghosts (Beau, Infantata) will be there, NPC'd away, unless someone wants to play them. Of course, if you want to pick up one of the ghosts and have them not be dead, that's totally your option (but isn't half the fun that they're dead?).
I'd been kicking around a way for me to app one of them myself, so I hope this helps open up a whole new fandom to people. |
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