CHARACTER/GAME PERSONALS - FEBRUARY 2014

[mansionstaff]

YOU KNOW HOW THIS WORKS. Want to make some CR or Plotting happen? Here's where you plan it out.

► HANDY CHARACTER PLOTTING FORM
<b>Player:</b> <b>Character(s):</b> not a bad idea to also briefly list what they might be like or where they frequent for new/unfamiliar players! <b>Seeking:</b> Log / Meet New People / Interaction / People to Bother / AIM logs / Tegaki logs, ect. <b>Goals & Directions:</b> optional but recommended

► GOALS & DIRECTIONS: Hey, some of us have been here a really long time and might not know what direction to take our characters in anymore, or maybe you've been here only a few days and don't know where to start. There's no better time to start than now, so don't be afraid to express what things you'd like to do with your characters, regardless if it's something that might happen in the near future or a long ways away. Fall in love? Fall out of love? Graduate? Experience what it's like to be the opposite gender? An animal? In the body of someone else? Save the world? Try to destroy it? The more other players are aware of what you want to do, the better your chances are of making your wishes into reality!

► THIRD PARTY SUGGESTIONS: Suggest new CR or character ideas, even if it has nothing to do with your own characters. Just put a "THIRD PARTY SUGGESTION" in the title of your comment when you browse the Character Plotting threads, and who knows? Maybe you just suggested a great interaction or idea no one has ever thought of before. And don't forget to spread the love around with as many people as you can so everyone gets a suggestion or two!

► You know the usual rules: play nice, you don't have to say yes to every offer, be polite and all that jazz.

► Previous personals posts.

► The CALENDAR has been updated!

Let us know if you have any questions or concerns!

Comments

GAME PLOTTING

[mansionstaff]

Temperatures as still crisp but things will get hot hot hot come mid-month.

Or cute and fluffy, however you want to work it. That's right Cupid Bots are coming Friday the 14th, so make sure you hash out your shenanigans.

Even before that though, love is definitely in the air! Goombella and Knuckles are getting married on Saturday the 8th. The log is up already!

And as always, intermittent plots and events are more than welcome. Or hey, maybe hash some ideas out for the future months to come.

Previous game plotting.

[manforflowers]

I mentioned this before once on plurk, but it was late at night and I might as well put it here.

To summarize: who doesn't love the shit out of markets. There are so many markets in video games. What if there was a market log, either in the city or at the school?

If your character sews or crochets or knits, if they do crafty things, they can sell them here. If your character has levels in blacksmithing or leather making or trapping furs, they can peddle their wares. If your character cooks or bakes or makes their own jam, they can have a food stand. Perhaps even if they have an excess of old equipment or junk they don't need, they can clear up some space in their inventory and make some coin.

It'd be a way of drawing attention to your character's hobbies and have them make pretendy time money. Clubs could use the opportunity to hand out flyers. Or if your character doesn't have a booth, they can wander around lamenting how they only meant to pop in and take a look, but ended up spending all their money somehow.

I don't know if NPC vendor characters is possible but that might also be cute. I need this in my life.

[mohawk_tomahawk]

yes this thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis

[will_be_god]

That would be neat. Cyrus will attempt to sell his self-printed book.

[sicklypriest]

A market festival! Yes, I am all over this idea. It would work well as an annual sort of event too. Merchants from all over can come every year.

THE IDEA YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

[tank_rockarms]

Sometime after the wedding and Valentines, Bowser is going to go kidnap some fairy princesses and then everyone a number of people is kittens and Bowser is Meowser.

Do we all agree with this.

Re: THE IDEA YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

[(Anonymous)]

a cat is fine too (yes)

CAT SUITS

[icequeen_aran]

WOW THAT WAS ME a cat is fine too (yes)

DORM EVENT REVIEW

[raw_angel_power]

So, how does everyone think the integrated events for the dorm logs went? Could they have been done a little differently so as not to take away from the freestyle aspect? Or did you guys feel as though the events weren't taking away from the miscellany that the dorm logs have tended to offer? Thoughts, suggestions, and discussions are welcome in this thread!

[forgetbeam]

I LIKE IT but.. bias for reasons. It gave some neat new stuff to play around with instead of standard "HERE IS ROOM, COME BOTHER" fare, while still leaving an opening to do other miscellaneous things. As for suggestions... I dunno. Maybe spacing the events out a little more next time date wise? Not that it actually even matters.


A+ would dorm again.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

I'll see what I can do about the spacing. Maybe cut down on the events? I know the Nancy week was... well, a week, so it took up a huge chunk of the two-week span.

Another thing I could do is change the time frame of dorm logs to encompass a month. That would leave plenty of room.

[icequeen_aran]

I really love the prompts. I feel like it's easy to forget weird whacky stuff is a regular occurrence for Smash, especially when you might get new characters in who hear from veteran characters, "YEAH THIS PLACE IS SUPER WEIRD" but don't actually see it happening for themselves. Basically I think it's good a good compliment to the setting and helps build it.

I saw a lot of people spending (probably) a long time writing out/feeling inspired to write out prompts for each of the events which I'm not sure if they'll burn out on trying to do that all the time for every one but THEN AGAIN no one is forcing them to do that either, so this is probably a moot observation.

I'll agree though that spacing them out a little more might be better suited to the current speed of the game.

But yes I really love them and would enjoy more.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Part of me wondered if holding these whacky or special sorts of events would be better suited to the calendar. I was actually talking with Prince, Bret, and Toni on a bus ride about this and my concerns were that it might take away from the dorm logginess and it might be better to just... suggest ideas for the month ahead. However, this "just put them on the calendar" thing, while it will give the calendar even more use, would essentially be "vote for small monthly gamewide events to happen, like personals!" and hoping for people to make posts about it. This might have worked if our community was more active and journals posts were more prolific, but as the game currently stands, we're not, and without a mod proactively posting the event in smash_logs or wherever, the event might just be a leaf in the wind. I'm also in the same line of thought you are with the compliments to the game. I'm just hoping for the best way to execute them, because it gave me more of a sense that YES, THINGS HAPPEN HERE.

It really is up to the person. At first I was worried that every post would just be an endless list of what's going on during each specific day or set of days, but it started to get less prevalent as more people sort of did their own thing. It was probably due to not really knowing how to take it at first. I think it worked out fairly well, and I got some good threads out of the prompts.

[icequeen_aran]

Yeah, while I'd be more than happy to add it to the calendar I feel like it definitely will not get the same kind of exposure it needs for people to remember/utilize it easily--at least, like you said, with how the current game activity levels are.

I think it is well suited in dorm logs and best executed there.

I THINK YOU SHOULD KEEP DOING IT I think it has been working out well people will definitely find their place with them in due time, sooner or later. Even if one person does their own thing that doesn't mean it's not something they can't otherwise reference--like elsewhere for a log hook, or have their character be aware of what's going on and not look out of sync with the rest of the game when replying to someone else's network post referencing it or something.

[sicklypriest]

Yeah, that's reasonable. I'll keep them in the dorms for now and focus on spacing. I'd love it if you added them to the calendar!

[icequeen_aran]

Can do!

Re: GAME PLOTTING

[will_be_god]

Since it's Olympics time, I say that's prime time to have the long-discussed Mario Party event.