HAPPY BIRTHDAY, damned!!!

As some of you may have noticed, the community damned was created exactly three years ago from today, October 1st, and has been going strong since then!

I think you veterans know what that means...



No, it has nothing to do with liederhosen or German beer festivals, but it does have a lot to do with FIC-WRITING and IN-GAME PRIZES!!! (It's also a good warm-up for NaNo!)

Basically:

EVERY PARTICIPANT WHO WRITES A FIC FOR OKTOBERFEST WILL EARN ONE OF THEIR CHARACTERS THEIR OUTFIT FROM THEIR CANON

RULES FOR THE FIC

1) Your fic must be over 2000 words in order to be eligible. We want to make sure people make a genuine effort to earn the participation prize!

2) Your fic must take place in the Landel's Damned setting. Your characters must either be in the Institute or the established area around it. Now, take into account that when we say "area," we mean the entire world--so a fic where the characters have escaped and are searching through the same world as Landel's is okay. The furthest from the setting you could get would be an ending where the characters make it back to their own world, but you couldn't write the entire fic in that setting.

3) Your fic must include characters who are actually at Landel's. While you can include characters who aren't on the Landel's roster on a sort of what-if basis, your fic should primarily focus on characters who are or have been in the RP.

4) As long as it meets the above criteria, your fic may include any plot and characters you want! So let loose! Stay on topic, but have some fun doing it!

5) If your fic, when posted, doesn't meet all of the above criteria, the mods can and will consider you ineligible to receive the participation prize. Just giving you fair warning here!

6) While it isn't mandatory, we strongly encourage you to write about characters other than the ones you play. After all, this is a chance to write about things you normally couldn't!

DUE DATE

In order to be eligible for a prize, all fics are due at 0:00 AM PST November 1st--that is, midnight on Halloween. (Spooooky, right? |D) However, you may post them whenever you want throughout the entire month of October.

FORMAT

When done with your fic, please post it with the following format to damned_lounge. (We do this on the lounge instead of the cafe since it's an official event and it'll only spam your flists this one time a year. \o/)

Subject Line: Oktoberfest '09: [Title of Fic] by [your name/username]

Title:
Author:
Beta: (if applicable)
Word Count:
Rating:
Character(s):
Pairing(s): (if applicable)
Summary:
Notes: (if applicable)

( Text of fic under a cut. )

Find the code here:

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <b>Beta:</b> (if applicable) <b>Word Count:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Character(s):</b> <b>Pairing(s):</b> (if applicable) <b>Summary:</b> <b>Notes:</b> (if applicable) <lj-cut text="teaser or description here">Text of fic here.</lj-cut>

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Any widely applicable questions that people ask in comments or that have been posed during past Oktoberfests can be found in the FAQ below. (Please check it over before you ask something!)

( FAQ )

We're so grateful for everyone's support over the years and we can't fully express how overjoyed we are that the game has lasted this long and that we have so many awesome players to thank for it. We will continue to try our best to make damned a fun place to be and here's to another happy year for the game. ♥ ♥ ♥

Thanks so much, everybody, and have fun with the ficathon! :D

OKAY SO I've been debating this for a while and I'm gonna put Luxord on hiatus. What with 358/2 Days getting in my grill, I need time to focus on what needs to be changed and, if it's too much, I may reset him all together. While that would be sad for all the CR lost, it wouldn't be the end of the world and, damn it, I'd rather play a new IC britfag than an old OOC britfag, but I might be weird that way. SO YEAH, Luxord's going into a coma for a while until I can figure out wtf I'm doing with him. Dahlia and Venom will still be conscious though, so. b

BLAME NOMURA, NOT ME. bbl with him.

I'm leaving the country because Immigration has found out the truth about me. I'm being sent to a far away place where there WILL be internet access, I just don't know how much.

So. For now I'm missing the Dinner shift, but I might be a little busy over the next two days. I'll probably put Rude and Chihaya on hiatus this shift too, unless anybody particularly wants one of them? Or I have plans I forgot... :|


~Soubi, Rude & Chihaya
(Sin, I'll get Soubi posted today, promise!)

ONE DAY I WILL HAVE STEADY NET ACCESS.
Hopefully that will start today, since the 'net at home finally got turned on!

For now, however.

Adam, Claudie, Sra, I hope you guys are down with backthreading! I should be able to post in the evenings/nights as well as during the day now, what with the 'net back on and all.

Sorry guys.

D: Like the title says.

Lauren, Grace, Bex! Do you want to backthread any? I'm going to post for my turns as soon as I stop having massive attacks of GUH WORK, but I was wondering if you'd all like to continue? ;A;?

Backthreading: Yomi-, Lockdown-, Lugnut-, and Forte-muns, I'll get back to your posts tonight. I'm sorry I missed yesterday, and that I've been so slow overall to make my responses.

...and on that note...I'm going to have to regretfully drop Starscream, and thus damned at the end of Nightshift. That sentence really hurt to get out, but... I've not been very productive with him, I know that. With all the things that have come up in my personal life, however, time has not been on my side, and right now damned is just a bit too fast paced for me; I can't churn out the number of posts everyone else seems to be capable of doing ^^;; And it's not fair to the other players to have to wait on me, my schedule, and my far-too frequent brain fogs when it comes to trying to get something meaningful out on the screen.

I want to come back with him sometime, however, so I'm keeping my journal open and will just have him fade away come the morning. I'll figure out how to distribute what few goods he has sometime before nightshift.

Thanks to everyone who made playing him so enjoyable. I hope to be able to come back soon.

- David

Hello everyone, I'm here to tadvertise of the existence of (:FANFARE:) damned_quotes!

For all of you people who don't know about it, it's a place for people to share some of the awesome and/or amusing things that have been said on damned. Anything from the IC community can be submitted, and who exactly submitted what is kept anonymous. Then on a regular basis the submitted quotes are posted for all to see and exclaim over. Or something.

And it's now October 1, which means it has just been updated with some brand-new bits of awesomeness, which can be found here. And? You can even contribute some more fun quotes to amuse your fellow players in the submission post here.

So yes. Go forth. Stalk. Find amusing posts. Share, and enjoy. ♥

She... he... whatever.

ANYWAY, point is, I've caught some kind of crazy throat-nose-sinus thing from being around a million small children. Not to mention that I'm due at work tomorrow at 6:15AM. SO, I can probably shoot off a post for each thread tonight, but after that I'm crashing hard in hopes I can kick this bug before I get seriously sick again.

So, short, day-long hiatus for Heiji, Touya, Chekov, Artemis, and Kurt. Sorry guys, work blows. /)_(\

~Serey/Kouject

(Retroactive hiatus? Lol.)

GREs and such are taking their toll on my underslept brain. I'm probably going to be out of commission, mentally speaking, at least until the weekend and I won't be able to give Scourge and Abe the attention they need. I might be able to catch the tail end of this shift, but I doubt it. Sorry!

RL sort of fails and it's keeping me from being able to keep up with things the way I want to. So to prevent further fail I'm going to have to take a hiatus for a bit. Hopefully not too long.

/sob