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Just a few things for our lovely players.

- There is, and always has been, a place that we gather to give each other love, and that's character_love. Anyone can join, post for any game they're in, any character they love reading, praise other players, what have you. We're trying to get it regularly used again, so why not just tout it here, yes?

- The Pledge = This is very important, and is actually required in order to play. Each of your characters will need to sign it in their own comment. If you have not done this yet, please do it as soon as possible. It's fun, and yet it's serious. We'd like this restart of the game to be fun and enjoyable to everybody, and part of it is the pledge.

- We're going to make a bit of a push to bring more focus on something that's been in game the whole time, but hasn't had a lot of attention. You may remember this from joining, long long ago in a faraway place called Greatestjournal. The City provided these personal computers to every character, they could be used for email and texting, computerish things. Your characters couldn't get rid of them no matter how hard they tried.

They will be changed ever so slightly to now include actual phone abilities. Giving them more of a Palm look:



All the previous information about them will stay the same. Email, chat, call, text, whatever.

Now. To use these, there are two options. You will see tags to this effect as well, one being !communications: the network and the other being !communications: other. Other means everything that is not on the open network. If something is on the open network anybody can reply to it. Anybody. If you want what you've written to only be viewable by certain characters, you need to put that in the subject line. So if you're writing Buffy it would be Lunch? (Buffy: text/email/im/etc) otherwise, just put something along the lines of Hello? (Network: chat/email/etc).

The most important part of this that ALL things that are open network MUST go in the community. Must. And if you want your private-to-certain-characters things to count as activity, they also must go in the community. If any of this is done in personal journals, it will not count. Please remember this.

- There were some fairly big happenings with The City itself before we closed down. We suggest that you catch up a little, because this will all be important, and we don't want anybody blindsided.

- Please make much use of the directory and friends list button. We do keep it up to date constantly, so there won't be any bad information there as far as we're concerned.

- Plot: We don't have a regular plot chat, as we're very scattered as a group and it's not easy to do. Once in a while it can be pulled off. But not often. When it does happen, it will be posted in we_connect. Otherwise, that's what we made the community for. But please don't be afraid to contact people on aim or by email either. Don't wait around for people to bug you for plot, you have to bug as well.

- Starting the 1st holds will return to their normal 3 day status with one 3 day extension (barring special circumstances, of course).

- We still have the Wanted Characters page, but it's undergone a little plastic surgery and become a little more organized. Please have a look, and don't be shy about adding your suggestions.

And Now The Really Important Part
Opening Plot Notice.
We're going to have a game-wide opening plot. It will involve everybody. I will make another post about it in a few days. It will have many details. Which is why it'll be it's own post.

Thanks!
-Mila

The Zombie plot has just a little over a week until completion. There are still characters out there who haven't had activity or notified us of hiatus. These characters will be removed from the community if they have not done anything by December 1st. Activity needs to be on posts new to November to qualify. Please be sure that you get in there if you have a desire to keep your characters here.

On another note:

It's come time for a rules reminder.

GOD-MODDING
» Don't do it. Seriously.

GENERAL PLAY
» The purpose of this game is that there are many different fandoms in the same place at the same time. This means you should get your character out there, and mix things up a little. Don't stick only to your own fandoms because that is really, really boring. Also, don't try to reenact entire storylines from your fandom, things here and there are fine, but this is a new place, filled with new experiences. One last thing, just because your character never ate a banana in canon, doesn't mean they can't try one in The City. (AKA - TRY NEW THINGS)

ACTIVITY
» We need to see something from you every two weeks in the form of AIM logging, comment logging, or a narrative. If you do not make this two week deadline a warning email will be sent. Activity checks will be done periodically. We're sympathetic to RL issues, of course, so please let us know if you won't be around or will need an extended hiatus. Please inform a mod directly before you go on hiatus or drop a character. Don't just announce it in the OOC community.

If you find any of your characters receiving warnings three times in a row, they will be removed from the community.

If you show no activity at all with no warning to us, you will receive an email, and then you will be removed with the option to return. If you find yourself removed from the community more than once for inactivity, you will not be allowed to return.

We felt these needed to be pointed out due to some complaints we've had and some things that we've seen. We want this game to be fun for everybody. The key word here is fun. It's a game. Godmodding makes things a lot less fun for other people. Please be careful of what you're doing, ask questions if you're unsure, ask permission to do things, and most importantly read what you're replying to and make sure your reply makes sense.

We're not very strict on activity here, despite it being in the rules, and we'd rather not feel taken advantage of because of that. We know that people have real lives, and we appreciate that. We're accepting of people who need to go on hiatus and take breaks. And we especially appreciate effort. But posting only when there are activity checks is not okay. We'll catch on, and removal will happen.

Character development is big in this community. We throw game wide plots and challenges at you occasionally, giving you a place to go with your characters and new things to experiment with. Leaving most of the play up to you guys. You decide on what you want to have happen to your characters, you decide what you want to explore. The idea of this game is that they get to meet a whole bunch of people they wouldn't have a chance to normally in a place that screws it up for everybody. That means people should be interacting with others outside of their fandoms. While we know you'd like to play with your fandom, and that's fine, getting outside of it is the whole point.

And the last point, which is not an actual rule, is log dropping. There have been quite a few complaints coming in from various places that a lot of logs are getting dropped. This really hurts the game, and hurts character progress. If you have to drop a log, please make sure that you're informing the person you're playing with. Everybody has their AIM sn and their email listed in the player contacts. Please use them. You can also PM the character journal if it comes to that. It happens to all of us at some time. But please don't make it a habit.

Now that this post is huge, we'd like to say thank you to everyone who is playing here, and we love you. You guys are awesome. You're creative and just as cracked out as we are.

Questions and comments can be left here, or as always, emailed to we.moderate@gmail.com.

-Mila and Nels

I stayed up pretty late last night finishing up a portion of the archiving. Obviously, I'm not close to done with the actual archiving, but I got up the old summaries. You can find them here. There are no links to the logs on them yet, but I thought it might be fun for people to be able to read back and get a vague idea of what has gone on in the past. What characters have been here. If your character might have been in the City before in a different incarnation, and what they might have gotten into.

As I get things archived, links will be placed into the summary pages so you'll be able to go and read stuff. They'll be just like the summaries that are done now.

So I hope you guys enjoy.

So for a little while, we're going to have a Special Guest Mod. She'll be a co-mod for all intents and purposes. She's going to help out with plot, and ideas and help me keep you guys active.

Everybody give a warm hello to Nels! Who you already know. But now has power. Which might have been a dangerous thing to do.

So thank you to BB who helped me run this place while I was off. And thank you to her also for doing the summaries last week, that was extra awesome.

I'd like to remind everybody that there is a plot community (we_connect) for your use in plotting. Hence the name. Please use it. I made it because we're all kind of scattered and can't be on at the same time. It's a way to get past any shyness you might have about contacting players that are new to you. Don't forget you can make your own tags over there, too. So you can tag your entries however you like in order to find them faster.

The archive is going very slowly. It's a large pain in the ass, but I'm dedicated to it. I DO NOT recommend adding it to your flists because when I do things, I tend to do them in bunches, and I know from experience that it tends to crowd everything else out. It is open, so you can check it out at any time. There are admittedly not as many posts there as I hoped there would be at this point, but it turned out to be a lot harder than I originally thought.

Please remember to post all roleplay IN the coexist community. No rp can go in personal journals. You are to treat those as regular journals. Or IM clients. Paper journals. Email accounts. Etc. You can use them for whatever your character would like, it will still be in character, and it WILL count some toward activity (if all you're doing is personal journal stuff for months on end, you'll get a talking to, but a good combination of that and scenes is okay).

Also. When you're going on a long hiatus (over a week/week and a half), or want to drop a character, you need to inform me through email (at the very least an IM). Otherwise I have no idea. I don't particularly like being blindsided. I'm not strict on a lot of things, and I think this is a fair request. I've added it into the rules for the future.

THANK YOU to everybody who is tagging their own posts. It's not a huge deal if you don't, it's just really helpful if you do. It takes me all of five minutes to backtrack and tag them, but I always do a little dance when it's done for me. So thank you, thank you, and thank you again.

As always, if you have a question, comment, or idea, you can email me at the mod email, catch me on aim, or send me a PM through IJ.

-Mila

This is BB, and I will be acting as a temporary mod for the next couple of days. Couple things I'd like to say, but first:

WheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! WHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Ahem. Okay, I'm glad I got that out of my system. While Mila is gone I think we should do something special. I'm not talking about just writing something and being active. I think we need a whee mini challenge. Those who participate will get a prize.

Since we have so many new people I think we should play capture the new people. Here is how it works, you will add the new people to your AIM F-List. When you see them sign on, IM them! Say hello and introduce yourself! Then copy & paste the log of your greeting in the comments. The person with the most "captured" new players wins.

If you're a new person, the same goes for you! Except instead of trying to capture a fellow new player, capture the old players! Again, c&p your log in a comment.

The winner who gets the most people will win an even BIGGER PRIZE.

For new players, I just went though and picked all the new people from the past couple of months or so. The lists are mostly evenish. Notice how I did not include their SNs! Ha, I am tricky like that. You have to find their information on the player contact page and add it on yourself.

New
Beth
Beth/Liz
Bonnie
Lyssa
Jewels
Nat
Emma
Jo
Juliet
Adrian
Angela
Jen
Kim
Pix


Happy hunting!

Starting sometime tomorrow (Thursday) and going until sometime late Tuesday, I will not be around. At all. I won't even be able to check emails, so any apps are on hold until then. If you owe me an app and you want to play before I take off, you need to get it to me today or very early tomorrow. If you owe an app and want to use the extra time to revise it, take it. This is several extra days on the holds for you guys.

Anything that you guys might need, questions you might have, you can direct at BB. She will be acting mod while I'm gone. Her info is in the player contact area. She's been at this game for a very very long time, and she's very knowledgeable. She also might possibly have something in store for you guys during that time. Behave and listen to her! ;)

I do expect to see activity even though I won't be here. *eyes* Naughty kids.


PS - In case anybody is wondering, I'll be at PAX.

Questions or comments before I go?

We've got three new ones! Beth brings us Pietro i_resist (He's AOA for those of you who know Xmen), A new Beth brings us Ebony (from The Tribe) i_knockitdown, and Jen brings us John Constantine i_amdamned.

Welcome to our two new folk!

We also lost one, Helena Bertinelli who didn't really get to see the light of day, unfortunately.

I also added the remove list to the flist button, so it's all in one place. Easy for me, easy for you.

I tried to have a chat again tonight and it ended in EPIC FAIL. AIM was not having it. (It's posted anyway. The frustration might amuse somebody. You have to log in to see it.)

It was brought up and agreed that people might like to have an actually scheduled chat where we can all be sure to be around and meet each other and formally do things and all that.

I'd like to narrow it down to a time when most everybody thinks that they can be on. So I'm going to start with dates. Let's say we find a day between and including Sunday August 24th and Saturday August 30th. We'll narrow it down from a week to a day that seems best to a time that seems best.

I'll post all updates in this, the original post.

And go.

Update: Shoot for Monday, August 25th? Evening?

Also, log in and view this. Kinda important to get more input

and I'm addicted to tagging.

Just as a heads up, I've added tags to this community. The list can be seen by clicking on the "tags list" link on the left side of the community page (probably can't be seen from your own character flist page).

If you have ideas for other tags, feel free to let me know.

A present for you guys.

New community - we_connect.

For.. dun dun dun.... PLOTTING. Yes. A community just for plotting. Since we aren't all online at the same time, I figured that this might help. You can use it, or not use it, as you please. I'm going to set up tags for it I've opened it up so you can tag things how you like so you can just hit your tag and have all the plot you've done there.

It even comes complete with an intro post you should all play with.

(You will have to request to be added, cause I didn't just want random people in there. If you want to add your ooc journal to it, that's okay to do, just be sure to comment and let me know what your ooc journal is.)

1. Barbara Gordon, Maxine Gibbons, and Kaylee Frye are now available for play.

2. The ban on Xmen characters has been lifted. As has the ban on Star Wars, LOTR and a couple others.

3. The Deceased page has been updated

4. The story has been updated

5. After the activity check (July 12) I have a huge challenge planned. It should be fun for everybody, but it's going to take some serious dedication. When the sign up post goes up, really consider if you can go through with this challenge, because if you say yes and then don't do it, it's going to ruin it for everybody.

6. I'm going to be undertaking setting up an archive of everything that was written on GreatestJournal. It's going to be in the community we_archive. Nobody will be able to join this community (there's no reason for it), but everybody will be able to access it. I'm also going to set up a summary of this, which will be easy because I'll just have to change the links. It'll just be a pain in the ass.

7. It was previously stated that the OOC community wasn't to be used for asking for plot, or just talking to one another, and I'm recending that. Use the OOC board for what you want. It's your place to communicate with other players, put up funny things, do whatever. It's your community. Just be sure you're posting in the game too ;)


And a special thank you to those of you who did ads for me. I really appreciate it a lot.

As always, if you have questions or ideas, please feel free to ask.

There are a few people who haven't posted in a while. I need to see something from you soon. I'm not going to do an activity check formally, but if I don't see activity, I will be removing people from the game. (There are the exceptions for this, don't worry, I know who you are)

Also, I would like to see people finish up the logs that are listed in the open logs list and start new ones as soon as possible. Some of them have been going on for over a month, and while I have no problem with that specifically, it's held up the game and there haven't been any new logs.

All Jacks who want to be should be a the Jack Log here. There's no posting order for it, so just jump in and go for it.

Dawn is the winner of the dare game, so she'll be coming up with our next dare. Then the first person to respond to that (once she tells me what it is and I've posted it), will get to choose the next one. These aren't challenges, they're more like interaction prompts.

If there's anything people would like to see, please let me know. If you have plot ideas, questions, anything, you can PM me here, email the mod email or find me on AIM.

I haven't forgotten about the challenge icons, I promise. They'll be coming at you soon.

Just as a note, we no longer have a Fae or an Erik, I know there were people involved with that character, so I thought you should know he's not in game anymore.

Please welcome Angela, of Bones fame, can be found at i_draw.

The recent mini-challenge was just an interaction prompt. The first person who answers with a narrative or log will get to chose the next dare.

Sorry I haven't been around to do the normal modly stuff, but I've been way busy with the things I came to Tucson for. Please don't think I'm not paying attention to activity though. Your activity should be as normal.

I've been without internet access for a couple of days. Sorry for my sudden disappearance. I thought that I would be able to be immediately hooked up when I arrived in Tucson, but it just didn't happen.

Anyway.

The challenge is now over, but that doesn't mean your logs have to be. You can continue with them until they run their course. It's not a problem. I just wanted them started. I'll get to the icons as soon as I can.

And OMG thank you guys for everything that you've said. It really means a lot to me that you enjoy this game so much. I really didn't expect to see anything like that when I finally got to check in. But it's such a lovely thing to be surprised with.

Thank you again.

I'll get to my regular modly duties later tonight when the parents have gone to bed. (part of edit 2: I lied. I probably won't do anything until this weekend. If I change my mind, you'll see it)

EDIT: By the way, we've got two (technically three) new characters! Welcome Wash (i_soar) and 21 & 24 of Venture fame (i_hench)

EDIT 2: I'd like to remind everybody of character_love for all your squeeing needs. Feel free to join it and spread the love.

InsaneJournal went down for everybody for over 24 hours. You can see a little bit of news info here - http://asylums.insanejournal.com/announcements/51282.html and you can see information about fund raising so Sqeaky can change providers here= http://asylums.insanejournal.com/announcements/51055.html

It looks like no data was lost, which is good.

Due to the outage, I'm going to give you guys until the 18th to work on your challenge logs.

By the end of the day on the 18th they need to be at least started.

Also, a decision about challenges has been made. If you sign up for them and don't participate, you won't be allowed to sign up for another one for some time unless you have a very valid reason for not doing it. If this happens chronically, you will not be allowed to participate in challenges at all. We do these things for fun, but you're ruining other people's fun by not taking part in something you've agreed to do. Especially when they're things like pairings, where your partner depends on you for interaction.




The words 'you' and 'your' etc used figuratively

In exchange for Meg coming back with Superman (i_dontlie), I have brought back Batman (i_crusade), so we've got two new characters. Everybody welcome back Meg.

I want to do a challenge, and have a few ideas, but would like to hear from you guys on what you'd like to try. So give me some ideas here.

Also, look here for a special something that's friendslocked.

Remember on the 11th we're going to be having an activity check. Which means you have to have had some activity between Feb 26th and March 11th. You won't be getting another warning between now and then.

I'm going to be busy this upcoming week, so you won't see me online much. If you need something, please send it to email, don't wait for me to be on AIM. If it's something fairly minor, you can talk to Lauren, and she'll use her temporary power to make the best decision that she can.

ACTIVITY CHECK MARCH 11. Don't forget.

We've got one new player and character, Nando has brought back Chris Halliwell (i_orb), and one new character from BB who has brought us Dexter's sister, Deb (i_unmask).

Everyone say HI!

Also, we will be having our first activity check on IJ. You have until March 11th to post something. Those who have not posted or sent some kind of contact to the mod email or contacted me personally will be at risk of being removed from the game. On March 11th, I will post a list of those who are safe and who is not.

EDIT: I just remembered I forgot Saturday, so the summaries and open logs list will be posted today.

I went and played with the character list, after asking a few people for their opinions. It was decided that it might be helpful for people to see what we've allowed in the past. So now pretty much every fandom we've ever had is listed there. There were a couple that fit in too many places, mostly from Marvel and DC, so I left just Marvel Comics and DC Comics up there so it could just be jammed in.

Take a look, let me know what you think.