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September 8th, 2008
September 7th, 2008
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Ok! So. There will be one permanent change to the game that will be happening some time real soon and Tes and Dream will be along to tell you all about that.
But! Tomorrow, for one day only, two things will be happening. Firstly - you're all getting the day off work. All of you ('cept the folks on base). Somehow there are Staff for all essential services - there are doctors, there are nurses, there are cops etc. They're just not the *usual* nurses/doctors/cops etc. Tampa's laying on staff for you for one day only, just so you all can have the day off.
What you do with your time is up to you, of course, but we have two anniversary things going on that you might want to throw any/all of your chars at. They can do either or both - one of which you will have to decide and set up yourself, the other I will be posting a huge open for.
It would be seriously awesome if we could get every char on the huge open but also, I'm aware, pretty unrealistic. I'll be putting that up immediately after this post but it will be set from daybreak tomorrow to the early hours of Tuesday morning (a plot that doesn't end at midnight, gasp!) and, stamina allowing, throwing all of mine at it to start the ball rolling.
But firstly the more personal plot. Those of you who have been with us from day one will remember (probably) that Tampa used to have a ghost problem - 'spirits' of all the unreincarnated fictional characters would show up randomly around the city as they searched for hosts, though they wouldn't interact or communicate with the rest of you. They are, technically, still running around just the same but the Endless masked them from site.
Tomorrow, for one day only, Tampa's sneaking away the mask. And, for one day only, some of them will have the ability to communicate. Only briefly and not for long but nonetheless, communicating. Odin might go laugh at Loki for throwing down with Hermoth, Jo might go visit Ellen... the visits will be brief and their content determined by you. Feel free to use this for good or for ill but remember that if there's fall-out angst you'll have to deal with it.
But! The moar fun plot. The area around the Complex (not the complex itself, through December will lay on a fine spread on principal when she realises what's going on) will become a themed carnival. And Tampa? Is the theme.
If a myth is represented in-game then there is a ride representing it in the carnival. The player who suggested this came up with some examples:
* Mini racing track with black Trans-ams
* Laser tag Danger Room
* Pirate ship fun house (Tinkerbell and PoTC)
* One of those sit down, surround 3-D space movies for Serenity/5th Element
* Hogwarts haunted house
* Complex maze for the Endless
The carnival - like any good one - will also have midway games and attractions. These will relate to the plots we've had, suggesting player came up with this example:
For instance, the storm could be a "squirt the water gun at a target to save someone trapped in a car
The rides and attractions won't necessarily advertise themselves as being the Greek Pantheon ride or whatever but they will all have a connection to a myth or a plot in-game. The Open post will take place in and around the carnival, let your imagination go wild.
Iiiiiiiiii think that's everything except to remind you all that as of today the area affected by the sevens is now one mile wider on all sides.
With love, the Chesty.
But! Tomorrow, for one day only, two things will be happening. Firstly - you're all getting the day off work. All of you ('cept the folks on base). Somehow there are Staff for all essential services - there are doctors, there are nurses, there are cops etc. They're just not the *usual* nurses/doctors/cops etc. Tampa's laying on staff for you for one day only, just so you all can have the day off.
What you do with your time is up to you, of course, but we have two anniversary things going on that you might want to throw any/all of your chars at. They can do either or both - one of which you will have to decide and set up yourself, the other I will be posting a huge open for.
It would be seriously awesome if we could get every char on the huge open but also, I'm aware, pretty unrealistic. I'll be putting that up immediately after this post but it will be set from daybreak tomorrow to the early hours of Tuesday morning (a plot that doesn't end at midnight, gasp!) and, stamina allowing, throwing all of mine at it to start the ball rolling.
But firstly the more personal plot. Those of you who have been with us from day one will remember (probably) that Tampa used to have a ghost problem - 'spirits' of all the unreincarnated fictional characters would show up randomly around the city as they searched for hosts, though they wouldn't interact or communicate with the rest of you. They are, technically, still running around just the same but the Endless masked them from site.
Tomorrow, for one day only, Tampa's sneaking away the mask. And, for one day only, some of them will have the ability to communicate. Only briefly and not for long but nonetheless, communicating. Odin might go laugh at Loki for throwing down with Hermoth, Jo might go visit Ellen... the visits will be brief and their content determined by you. Feel free to use this for good or for ill but remember that if there's fall-out angst you'll have to deal with it.
But! The moar fun plot. The area around the Complex (not the complex itself, through December will lay on a fine spread on principal when she realises what's going on) will become a themed carnival. And Tampa? Is the theme.
If a myth is represented in-game then there is a ride representing it in the carnival. The player who suggested this came up with some examples:
* Mini racing track with black Trans-ams
* Laser tag Danger Room
* Pirate ship fun house (Tinkerbell and PoTC)
* One of those sit down, surround 3-D space movies for Serenity/5th Element
* Hogwarts haunted house
* Complex maze for the Endless
The carnival - like any good one - will also have midway games and attractions. These will relate to the plots we've had, suggesting player came up with this example:
For instance, the storm could be a "squirt the water gun at a target to save someone trapped in a car
The rides and attractions won't necessarily advertise themselves as being the Greek Pantheon ride or whatever but they will all have a connection to a myth or a plot in-game. The Open post will take place in and around the carnival, let your imagination go wild.
Iiiiiiiiii think that's everything except to remind you all that as of today the area affected by the sevens is now one mile wider on all sides.
With love, the Chesty.
September 6th, 2008
Dear all,
So! I realised that a lot of people aren't going to be around much this weekend. So! As RR started over three days (March 7-9th) I'm going to hold off the celebrations 'til Monday. The truth telling plot will go ahead as planned tomorrow but the anniversary stuff will happen on Monday instead, and I will post the details of those tomorrow.
Mwah!
~Chesty
So! I realised that a lot of people aren't going to be around much this weekend. So! As RR started over three days (March 7-9th) I'm going to hold off the celebrations 'til Monday. The truth telling plot will go ahead as planned tomorrow but the anniversary stuff will happen on Monday instead, and I will post the details of those tomorrow.
Mwah!
~Chesty
September 5th, 2008
Premise || Characters/Claims || Apply || Rules
1926, Towertown, Chicago.
Prohibition's in full force, and the mob rule the streets. Speakeasy bars and dance halls thrive, serving illegal liquor, playing hot jazz, funding the mob and dodging the law. Go to a blind pig or some other dive, you'll find them serving moonshine whiskey or bathtub gin in cracked teacups. We're better than that. Half the Chicago PD drink here, The Fury's a top-notch joint. Specialist, too, which you've maybe noticed. Drinking alcohol's not the only illegal activity goes on here. We're a screwed up set, but it works. Everyone's got dirt on everyone else, and there's not one of us dares spill it for what the rest have got on us.
That's all swell, but there's trouble on the horizon. There's a new guy in town. An Irishman. Trying to muscle in on territory, carve out his own place in Chicago's underworld, and carve is the right word. A body's been delivered to The Fury's doorstep, and the last shipment of liquor got itself intercepted before hitting the docks. The game's in play, and no one knows where the next move's going to end. One thing's for sure: no one's going down without a hell of a fight.
Applications welcome at any time - play relaunches September 14th
Pimp us out! Invite people! Let's have lots of fun new characters to play when we relaunch.
September 3rd, 2008
I'm going out of town for an undetermined amount of time. It was totally unexpected, but very necessary. Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be Internetless while I'm gone. If I can possibly update, I will, but if not, I should be back sometime next week.
At about 7pm tonight AIM decided to log me out spontaneously and not let me back in. This sucks.
-Ry
Crossposting this all over the damn place.
- Main account won't log in on any service/program. I tried iChat, Adium, meebo, gtalk and AIM itself, to no avail.
- iChat at least gives me an error message, but the only thing I can find with that is similar complaints from other Mac users and responses to them saying "Oh yeah, that happened to me too." and giving estimates of a couple of hours to a couple of weeks until it's resolved.
- My alt account works just fine, which is bizarre, but at least I've got it. So you can find me on gtalk as ryenna and AIM as libraryenna until this is fixed.
- I'm going through and updating my alt's buddy list, but I'm afraid I might miss someone, so ping me on email or IJ if you can't get through to me on AIM (I have my anti-spam filters set very high these days).
-Ry
Crossposting this all over the damn place.
At about 7pm tonight AIM decided to log me out spontaneously and not let me back in. This sucks.
-Ry
Crossposting this all over the damn place.
- Main account won't log in on any service/program. I tried iChat, Adium, meebo, gtalk and AIM itself, to no avail.
- iChat at least gives me an error message, but the only thing I can find with that is similar complaints from other Mac users and responses to them saying "Oh yeah, that happened to me too." and giving estimates of a couple of hours to a couple of weeks until it's resolved.
- My alt account works just fine, which is bizarre, but at least I've got it. So you can find me on gtalk as ryenna and AIM as libraryenna until this is fixed.
- I'm going through and updating my alt's buddy list, but I'm afraid I might miss someone, so ping me on email or IJ if you can't get through to me on AIM (I have my anti-spam filters set very high these days).
-Ry
Crossposting this all over the damn place.
sleepy...This is so gonna be a long one even though I don't intend it to be, I can feel it.
1) The button has been updated.
2) Being September it is now, obviously, no longer summer. We're pretty slack about checking on who's updating from about June to August because people are busy-ass (including us) and even when people aren't on vacation it's often the case that the people whose chars they need are.
So far as I know, Tes being poorly aside, we currently have no-one on hiatus (please correct me if I'm wrong) as in about a week or so we will go back to keeping an eye on who's way behind. The game rules still state that each character is expected to update once a week though we don't mind so much if you miss one or two here and there - we start worrying when we get to three weeks or more.
So! Please check in on your chars and if someone's been out of circulation please try to put them back into it. If you're having major difficulty with a particular char and need to drop them then contact the mods, if you have difficulty with a char you don't want to drop try posting/answering a couple of opens/talking to other players/contact mods to see if we can think of anything.
3) Now! In order to give you a hand with number 2 above this coming seven is one you can really sink your teeth into. You can use it for crack/drama/silliness as you choose, all depends on what you want it for.
On Sunday when asked a direct question people will feel compelled to tell the truth. 90% of the time they won't be able to resist that compulsion and will say what they REALLY think/feel, and fairly bluntly (the 10% is to cover ass in case something comes up in an RP you don't want to deal with). This will apply to the entire city, excluding those on the Arches Complex and those on the military base. It will, as usual, begin at midnight going into the seven and end on midnight going out. So! If you needed to find a way to make a big IC revelation this is your chance, wanted to mortifiy a character by having them admit to a crush/kink/teenage obsession with the New Kids On The Block? Have at it.
4) I'm tempted to do an annoying graphic at this juncture. *tries to resist, gives in*:
ON SUNDAY RR IS EIGHTEEN MONTHS OLD!!!
We haven't decided how to mark this most auspicious occasion - yet. That's because we aren't going to decide: One of you is. The comments on ths post have been screened so that your fellow players can't see your suggestions and on Friday we'll sit down with the gathered suggestions, pull out the ones that are most workable, and then pick one or two at random out of a hat. At six months we changed our game banner on the info pages (to the current one with the chars at six-months behind the logo) and had a big party at the Arches, we had another big party at the Arches in March and we had the icon fest challenge thing ooc. Your suggestions should relate to IC - should the Complex get a makeover? Should we trade out one of it's facilities for something new? Add housing? Should Tampa get a castle or all its citizens gain an inch of height?
I um. Have a couple of my own but I think Lind and Tes would kill me but you they can't stop, bwah ha ha! Only limits are your imagination and our ability to work it into the game (changes can be permenant).
5) ...and speaking of permenant changes? We warned you a few were coming in September and October and here comes your first. As of Sunday's plot the city's official limits are no longer the boundary for the sevens - it is now one mile further out on all sides (including the water). This, obviously, still doesn't apply to the Base or the Complex.
6) We're due to remove the power limits from a couple more characters soon-ish. There are only four walking around unhindered so far (we chose from the most active chars at the time) and we're hoping to widen that pool slowly but steadily over the next few months.
7) We would like your plot suggestions (again) or comments/requests for things you'd like IC (at least one from each player would be way awesome, no upper limit). I'd offer for things you'd like OOC but with Lind busy and Tes sick, and me working full time, I'm kind of at my admin limit (looking at mems lately kinda makes me want to cry but while on that note? 2348 mems on GJ and 1160 here, and I've got skip 80 to go. You people rock). Mec and Karen have had to save my ass a couple times as it is, so! IC suggestions only for now please.
I think that's everything. I think. Any questions/comments regarding plot can also be added here and I will unscreen them so people can see the responses. All plot suggestions/requests and suggestions for celebration of our eighteen month ani will remain screened and we won't dob you in as the person who came up with them, so you can stay anon or dob yourself in as you choose.
With love,
The Chesty
1) The button has been updated.
2) Being September it is now, obviously, no longer summer. We're pretty slack about checking on who's updating from about June to August because people are busy-ass (including us) and even when people aren't on vacation it's often the case that the people whose chars they need are.
So far as I know, Tes being poorly aside, we currently have no-one on hiatus (please correct me if I'm wrong) as in about a week or so we will go back to keeping an eye on who's way behind. The game rules still state that each character is expected to update once a week though we don't mind so much if you miss one or two here and there - we start worrying when we get to three weeks or more.
So! Please check in on your chars and if someone's been out of circulation please try to put them back into it. If you're having major difficulty with a particular char and need to drop them then contact the mods, if you have difficulty with a char you don't want to drop try posting/answering a couple of opens/talking to other players/contact mods to see if we can think of anything.
3) Now! In order to give you a hand with number 2 above this coming seven is one you can really sink your teeth into. You can use it for crack/drama/silliness as you choose, all depends on what you want it for.
On Sunday when asked a direct question people will feel compelled to tell the truth. 90% of the time they won't be able to resist that compulsion and will say what they REALLY think/feel, and fairly bluntly (the 10% is to cover ass in case something comes up in an RP you don't want to deal with). This will apply to the entire city, excluding those on the Arches Complex and those on the military base. It will, as usual, begin at midnight going into the seven and end on midnight going out. So! If you needed to find a way to make a big IC revelation this is your chance, wanted to mortifiy a character by having them admit to a crush/kink/teenage obsession with the New Kids On The Block? Have at it.
4) I'm tempted to do an annoying graphic at this juncture. *tries to resist, gives in*:
We haven't decided how to mark this most auspicious occasion - yet. That's because we aren't going to decide: One of you is. The comments on ths post have been screened so that your fellow players can't see your suggestions and on Friday we'll sit down with the gathered suggestions, pull out the ones that are most workable, and then pick one or two at random out of a hat. At six months we changed our game banner on the info pages (to the current one with the chars at six-months behind the logo) and had a big party at the Arches, we had another big party at the Arches in March and we had the icon fest challenge thing ooc. Your suggestions should relate to IC - should the Complex get a makeover? Should we trade out one of it's facilities for something new? Add housing? Should Tampa get a castle or all its citizens gain an inch of height?
I um. Have a couple of my own but I think Lind and Tes would kill me but you they can't stop, bwah ha ha! Only limits are your imagination and our ability to work it into the game (changes can be permenant).
5) ...and speaking of permenant changes? We warned you a few were coming in September and October and here comes your first. As of Sunday's plot the city's official limits are no longer the boundary for the sevens - it is now one mile further out on all sides (including the water). This, obviously, still doesn't apply to the Base or the Complex.
6) We're due to remove the power limits from a couple more characters soon-ish. There are only four walking around unhindered so far (we chose from the most active chars at the time) and we're hoping to widen that pool slowly but steadily over the next few months.
7) We would like your plot suggestions (again) or comments/requests for things you'd like IC (at least one from each player would be way awesome, no upper limit). I'd offer for things you'd like OOC but with Lind busy and Tes sick, and me working full time, I'm kind of at my admin limit (looking at mems lately kinda makes me want to cry but while on that note? 2348 mems on GJ and 1160 here, and I've got skip 80 to go. You people rock). Mec and Karen have had to save my ass a couple times as it is, so! IC suggestions only for now please.
I think that's everything. I think. Any questions/comments regarding plot can also be added here and I will unscreen them so people can see the responses. All plot suggestions/requests and suggestions for celebration of our eighteen month ani will remain screened and we won't dob you in as the person who came up with them, so you can stay anon or dob yourself in as you choose.
With love,
The Chesty
September 2nd, 2008
I'm back!
I do, however, start my new job on Thursday, which means I have to be in bed at 11pm my time every night to sleep. So lord knows how that will affect tagging. But I wanted to give people a heads up.
Missed you all, hit me up for threads!
I do, however, start my new job on Thursday, which means I have to be in bed at 11pm my time every night to sleep. So lord knows how that will affect tagging. But I wanted to give people a heads up.
Missed you all, hit me up for threads!
September 1st, 2008
August 30th, 2008
Okay. I cave. I totally intended to be all updating like crazy this week and doing super awesome RPG catchup time--but apparently a week off wasn't nearly enough time to get ready to go back to school, or catch up on everything I've not caught up on this summer... So I suck. I've been reading and trying to keep up on responses but I realize I've paused mid-thread with a couple of people and I'll try my best to get on them for a minute tomorrow. I figure I need to warn that I'm moving back to school on Monday so this week is a bit up in the air. Move in Monday, shooting a film Tuesday, classes start Wednesday. So. Hopefully by Thursday I'll be all settled!
That being said, I *am* taking a mental week off soon (save classes and work) so like. I will exist again goshdarnit. And when that time comes...major pouncing.
And yeah, don't you love that all you wanna do is RP when it comes time to pack stuff? *sits amidst pile of clothes typing this and looks forlornly at clock* See y'all soon. Love and love.
<3
Lind
That being said, I *am* taking a mental week off soon (save classes and work) so like. I will exist again goshdarnit. And when that time comes...major pouncing.
And yeah, don't you love that all you wanna do is RP when it comes time to pack stuff? *sits amidst pile of clothes typing this and looks forlornly at clock* See y'all soon. Love and love.
<3
Lind
August 29th, 2008
Hello! I'm Mackenzie, and some of you know me from other games. For those I don't know, nice to meet you!
I've the former Radek Zelenka from SGA. Please be to friending him.He's going to be intro'd shortly.
I've the former Radek Zelenka from SGA. Please be to friending him.He's going to be intro'd shortly.
Just FYI!
Kari is coming to visit this weekend, so I'll be online (and so will she) but probably sporadically!
Kari is coming to visit this weekend, so I'll be online (and so will she) but probably sporadically!
lazyAugust 28th, 2008
Er. So it's before September when I find the motivation to do my Koschei's fireworks thing. I thought I'd post the thread itself this weekend, and do the fireworks part of it on Sunday, if people are interested?
August 27th, 2008
So...as everyone's noticed, the game's not been very active lately.
After some discussion between the mods, we've decided to revamp the premise and tweak the rules. Take a look so you'll be clear about everything, but the biggest change is that our pups will no longer be the actors/musicians in an alternate reality. Instead, our pups will be portrayed by the various actors/musicians. Think of it as them being cast in a movie set in a 1920's speakeasy. What this means, though, is that you may need, or want, to change your pup's name. We hope you'll decide to stick with current first names, but the choice is entirely yours. Surnames, though, should be changed. For instance![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
filler_up will now be known as Nathan Fillbrandt.
The other change you should be aware of is that all plot advancement will be in the hands of the mods, but that doesn't mean we don't need the pups to play! Every two weeks, beginning September 7, one of the mods will post an Action Post advancing the plot. Pups will then have the ensuing two weeks to respond to that development - although we won't pounce on you if you want to respond to an old Action Post after a new one's been posted - and how they react will determine the next development. We aren't deleting any of the old threads, and are staying with the currently developed plot. We'll be posting a timeline of events to this point before the first Action Post goes up so everyone can refresh their memory.
What we'd like from all of you now is to let us know if you're still interested in playing and the new names of your pups. Please comment to this entry by September 7 so we can all know who's who from here on out. And while you're at it? Pimp us to your RPing friends, let them know we're looking for players, and don't forget - you can have up to three pups in the game!
After some discussion between the mods, we've decided to revamp the premise and tweak the rules. Take a look so you'll be clear about everything, but the biggest change is that our pups will no longer be the actors/musicians in an alternate reality. Instead, our pups will be portrayed by the various actors/musicians. Think of it as them being cast in a movie set in a 1920's speakeasy. What this means, though, is that you may need, or want, to change your pup's name. We hope you'll decide to stick with current first names, but the choice is entirely yours. Surnames, though, should be changed. For instance
filler_up will now be known as Nathan Fillbrandt.The other change you should be aware of is that all plot advancement will be in the hands of the mods, but that doesn't mean we don't need the pups to play! Every two weeks, beginning September 7, one of the mods will post an Action Post advancing the plot. Pups will then have the ensuing two weeks to respond to that development - although we won't pounce on you if you want to respond to an old Action Post after a new one's been posted - and how they react will determine the next development. We aren't deleting any of the old threads, and are staying with the currently developed plot. We'll be posting a timeline of events to this point before the first Action Post goes up so everyone can refresh their memory.
What we'd like from all of you now is to let us know if you're still interested in playing and the new names of your pups. Please comment to this entry by September 7 so we can all know who's who from here on out. And while you're at it? Pimp us to your RPing friends, let them know we're looking for players, and don't forget - you can have up to three pups in the game!
What better day to introduce a character than on porn day?
The new Lee Adama from Battlestar Galactica is incoming.
The new Lee Adama from Battlestar Galactica is incoming.