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badfic_ooc2012-12-27 04:05 pm
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Plot Update/Mod Posts: Happy Holidays!
With apologies for the belated update; feel free to backdate to Christmas Day proper.
Christmas morning, everyone will have woken up in the Manor, with a large tree in the main hall - under the tree will be one gift for each character from the Author; it can be something from home that they didn't have here, or something with other meaning, completely at MUN option. While it can be a prank, it should at least be in "good spirits", not something that would break a character.
Until January 1, the Manor will be decked out with Christmas decorations still, and the traditional mistletoe will be appearing and disappearing randomly in doorways and other parts of rooms. If someone walks under it, they're trapped there until someone kisses them - whether a peck on the cheek or going all-out. In theory, if they're there long enough - 6-8 hours - the mistletoe will go away...
But who wants to be stuck standing in one place for that long?
And, for the mod announcements.
We're doing some further renovations, and would like to get people's opinions:
We are considering scrapping the static Activity Check in favor of something more typical - an OOC comm post, put up on the first of every month, that people can reply to with links to one or another thread from the month previous. The rules will be as stated and more enforced; unless we get contact from a player about a hiatus, emergency, or something where they can't be present, one month with no activity is a strike, two months with no activity is a drop.
Would everyone present currently prefer the check-in posts monthly, or staying with the static activity page?
There are also going to be a few setting adjustments. Around New Year's, some of these will be adapted IC'ly with small things as the realm the Manor exists in takes on more of a life of its own; for OOC adjustments, the two main ones are to app restrictions and character memory-loss.
We will be allowing canon AU's; OC's aren't really something that would work within the way the setting functions, but the author's a fangirl, and there's enough AU plots for her to drag people from those. AU applications will require a bit more information, as we'll want to know what deviations there are and how the character's different from canon; we would prefer it be noticeable differences, and will have a full set of rules for it on the Apps page just before this goes into effect, likely around the new year.
The other change, effective immediately, is to memory and memory loss; how much characters remember on returning home for canon updates, or if a character is dropped and picked up, is completely to MUN option - they can not remember anything, have hazy memories, or full recall. If you opt for full recall during a canon-update in a way that would change how canon events go - for example, character development here changing their behavior, or something they learned here being put into use there - the canon update will need to be cleared with the mods, and what changed from canon events will need to be in the OOC post for the canon update. Future castmates will have the option of either rolling with it, depending on their canon point, or for their character to be from an unaltered version of the timeline with normal canon events.
The site layout is also being worked on as I type this, and should be finished soon! There may still be tweaks going on for the next few days, so things might be a little off here and there as they're being fixed.
Christmas morning, everyone will have woken up in the Manor, with a large tree in the main hall - under the tree will be one gift for each character from the Author; it can be something from home that they didn't have here, or something with other meaning, completely at MUN option. While it can be a prank, it should at least be in "good spirits", not something that would break a character.
Until January 1, the Manor will be decked out with Christmas decorations still, and the traditional mistletoe will be appearing and disappearing randomly in doorways and other parts of rooms. If someone walks under it, they're trapped there until someone kisses them - whether a peck on the cheek or going all-out. In theory, if they're there long enough - 6-8 hours - the mistletoe will go away...
But who wants to be stuck standing in one place for that long?
And, for the mod announcements.
We're doing some further renovations, and would like to get people's opinions:
We are considering scrapping the static Activity Check in favor of something more typical - an OOC comm post, put up on the first of every month, that people can reply to with links to one or another thread from the month previous. The rules will be as stated and more enforced; unless we get contact from a player about a hiatus, emergency, or something where they can't be present, one month with no activity is a strike, two months with no activity is a drop.
Would everyone present currently prefer the check-in posts monthly, or staying with the static activity page?
There are also going to be a few setting adjustments. Around New Year's, some of these will be adapted IC'ly with small things as the realm the Manor exists in takes on more of a life of its own; for OOC adjustments, the two main ones are to app restrictions and character memory-loss.
We will be allowing canon AU's; OC's aren't really something that would work within the way the setting functions, but the author's a fangirl, and there's enough AU plots for her to drag people from those. AU applications will require a bit more information, as we'll want to know what deviations there are and how the character's different from canon; we would prefer it be noticeable differences, and will have a full set of rules for it on the Apps page just before this goes into effect, likely around the new year.
The other change, effective immediately, is to memory and memory loss; how much characters remember on returning home for canon updates, or if a character is dropped and picked up, is completely to MUN option - they can not remember anything, have hazy memories, or full recall. If you opt for full recall during a canon-update in a way that would change how canon events go - for example, character development here changing their behavior, or something they learned here being put into use there - the canon update will need to be cleared with the mods, and what changed from canon events will need to be in the OOC post for the canon update. Future castmates will have the option of either rolling with it, depending on their canon point, or for their character to be from an unaltered version of the timeline with normal canon events.
The site layout is also being worked on as I type this, and should be finished soon! There may still be tweaks going on for the next few days, so things might be a little off here and there as they're being fixed.