smash_ooc | CHARACTER/GAME PERSONALS

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

► HANDY CHARACTER PLOTTING FORM

► 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!

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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.

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.

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!

Can do!

CHARACTER/GAME PERSONALS - FEBRUARY 2014

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