CHARACTER/GAME PERSONALS - MAY 2012

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( Character/Game Personals; May 2012 )

Previous personals posts.

The CALENDAR. Stiiilllll working on the wiki calendar.

Let us know if you have any questions or concerns!

ACTIVITY CHECK

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ACTIVITY CHECK

Comment with your name, character, character journal, character canon, and links to activity samples.

WHAT COUNTS AS ACTIVITY?

• A post or thread in smashacademy, smash_logs, or tegaki. Activity that occurs over AIM, in journals, musesboxes, or outside of that will NOT count, even if it is Smash-related. What you can do however, is copy that over into one of the acceptable places. For tegaki, it needs to be an actual log and not a for-funsies drawing.

• If it's a post, a single post will do, regardless of the comments it receives, or lack thereof. If you can get us samples that have comments though, we'd prefer that.

• If it's a thread, we're looking for at least 6 comments from you. (So 12 comments if they are talking to someone, and they cannot be 1-2 word exchanges, or icon chains. We need to see your character's voice!) It can be 6 comments in a single thread, or 6 total spread throughout different threads.

• You may provide more than one link if you feel it'll help you pass AC, so long as they fall within the time limits described below.

You must provide samples dated from April 1st - May 9th. Log starting dates do not matter, so long as the TAG DATES fall within the relevant time. (For example, you could have started a log back in January and continued to tag it for these past four months, and tags done April 1st - May 9th will count). You must fill out Activity Check by May 9th, or your dude will get das boot. If your character was accepted after April 17th, you are not required to provide samples. However! If you want to, that's totally cool, and we'd prefer it if you at least say you're here so we don't accidentally overlook you.

If you're on a documented hiatus after April 1st you are not required to sign or provide samples, but again, if you want to go the extra mile, or are able to at least check in, we'd really appreciate that.

We understand sometimes you're just not feeling a character or you're having a lack of inspiration, or maybe Real Life is really kicking your ass lately. If you're having trouble with a character, you can talk to any one of the mods and we'll be happy to listen. If you feel like you're character squatting but aren't sure what to do or aren't certain, discuss it with us and we'll do our best to help you come to a resolution. Letting go of a character is never easy, but we'd like to avoid character squatting as much as possible for the sake of our current and potential future players.

Mod post: The Revenge of the Mod Post

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FOURTH WALL WEEKEND & NEW BLOOD

As our Fourth Wall Weekend comes to a close, we'd like to thank everyone for participating, regardless if you are in Smash or not. And if you just recently joined us, WELCOME! We've had a lot of lot of new blood come in these past few months, so everyone go ahead and make them feel at home. ♥ You may continue backdating 4th wall stuff as long as you desire, so long as it is contained in the appropriate tags. Could you give us input on what you thought of the future dating? Did it work for you? Was it confusing in anyway? Do you think a week was too long or not long enough? Would you like to see "big events" done like this in the future?

ICly, you can thank the little robot who could for saving the day: R.O.B. reversed the polarity of the portal, and all the "strange space people" went back to where they belong, (except for Caroline and possibly Cave, correct me if I'm wrong) Sunday night. Any carnage or damage caused by them will remain, such as the demolished buildings in FDC due to the Kraken. Don't worry, considering this is Final Destination City, things will get fixed up sooner or later...

ACTIVITY CHECK

Yes, it's about that time. Head on over to the ACTIVITY CHECK. page and sign in. Between Beauty Pageants and Auctions and Easter Bunnies and 4th Wall shenanigans, we figure there should be plenty of activity going on between all your dudes. But if you're having trouble making it, don't fret! You've got a week to get some activity in. Go do Personals and make it happen.

MAY EVENTS/PLOTTING

Looking to the month ahead, we the mods do not have "big events" planned, with the exception of Graduation, which will take place technically next month Friday, June 1st, which you can check out on the updated calendar. We should also note that No Pants Day is this Friday. This can be an optional one-day event; if you want to have your character strut around without pants of their own free will, by all means go ahead. If you don't want to participate, those pants can stay on. If you want to participate but don't think your character would be so bold and brazen, the strange nature of Smash Academy can certainly help you out by rendering any pants they do try to put on instantly destroyed. Have fun with that.

FRIENDLY REMINDERS

• Everyone did really well tagging things during the 4th wall event, but we can't stress how important it is to keep that up, event or not. Please remember to tag your entries, whether it's in smashacademy, smash_logs, smash_ooc or smash_random. Tags help us stay organized and especially help for things like Activity Check.

• Did you know we have a free-for-everyone-to-use NPC account? NO? Or you did and you just totally forgot? That's alright, so here's a reminder: subspaceemissary is free to use for any Smash Academy member for plot and shenanigans purposes. At the moment, this account contains Nancy Fuk, our cafeteria Ursaring with a laser eye, Resetti, our main truancy officer, Sandbag for any and all beat-em-ups, and more. Also, since Spring Break ended and classes started back up, mysterious stones have started appearing around the campus and FDC. How can you use these strange stones and our other Staff NPCS? Why don't you scroll down to the NPC RULES section of our rules and check out the details.

• app_this_plz is this weekend. What is ATP? It's an excellent way of trying to enable cast mates or whoever you want to see into games. We have a convenient ATP form for you to use if it helps; please customize and personalize it as needed so it kind of doesn't look like we're spamming everyone with the same cut-and-paste thing. If you'd like to see something in our game-advertisement, please don't be afraid to put in a request!

• And as a final reminder, and we really shouldn't be needing to remind you guys of this but please try to mind your manners. We don't expect everyone to get along or agree, and privately venting is certainly your own business, but we do ask for politeness and respect. Please be mindful that the things you say and do can easily reflect on Smash Academy as a whole, regardless if it's intended or not. It shouldn't matter is someone is or isn't in the game any longer, that person behind the computer screen is just as human as you and I.

Thank you for understanding!

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It's probably not much of a surprise considering how flunky I've been for a few months, but Saff's taking a bow from the game now. I've just been lagging, and everyone else should probably be a better fit for the characters I play than me, more so that I've been really acting well... off OOC wise.

Empo got sucked into the portal from the 4th wall event, and probably land on Hoenn, ditto for Brown but he got back to Mikage on the right timeframe. Amitie said her goodbyes to Kieran and Klug, and returned to Primp while Chika left a note to the team mentioning she went back to Mt. Silver.

Uhhh... if you want to keep tabs, my AIM's datpompadour, plurk is 12345612345678 and dw is imitations. See you guys on the flip-side.

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This is painful for me to write. But I'm going to let Sonny go. I still adore the character and I adore his CR even more, but when it comes to writing for him, I've lost all voice and will for him. Even with things that he should be all over, I open them up and then open up the reply and stare at the blank space and nothing worth anything comes of it.

Big apologies to Mako and the Muns of his team mates and trainer especially. I hope you're not too sad to see him go. He may be back some day. This is Smash, after all.

ICly let's just say he went to escort Chika back to Mt Silver and on the way back he stumbled into some kind of time anomaly. Or into the back of a van filled with pastries. Or into the arms of Justin Beiver. Or he and Justin Beiver got into a van filled with pastries and drove it into a time anomaly.

Thank you to everyone who made playing him so fun.