Important Updates!

[hughes]

STILL USING KIMBLEY ICONS HERE. I WANTS ONE. ;_;

Okay, so, lotsa updates to make!


Inactivity:
We've sent out inactivity e-mails to anyone who has a character who hasn't posted in two weeks (give or take a day). (Yours truly included. T_T;) (Remember, posting exclusively to damned_bulletin does not count as being active. Only your posts in landels_damned count towards how active your character is.) We basically want to make sure that no new applicants are locked out of playing who they want.


M-U Tonight:
WE HAVE OUR LIST! The people who will get carted off tonight for experimentation aaaree....

Chase Young - NPC Doctor: Vegas (AIM: talionisshinra)
Larxene - NPC Doctor: Alleria (AIM: AlleriasChao)
Miles Edgeworth - NPC Doctor: Lindsay (AIM: scientiflc)
Solid Snake - NPC Doctor: Court (AIM: that damn showy)

Players and NPC mods involved in M-U, please make sure to get in contact with the person/people you'll be threading with. Basically, we're hoping that the NPC mods and the players will work out what they want to happen during experimentation (in terms of powers being messed with and stuff, or if you want it to be straightforward psychological creepiness or whathaveyou), but before you actually start the thread, you need to make sure you run your ideas by either me or Court and get the stamp of mod approval.

If your character got M-U but you don't want them to go through with it, no sweat. Just comment here and we'll randomize another eligible character in their place. :3 (We're also going to be adding a section about M-U to damned_info and clarify the Special Counseling entry to curb confusion.)


ATTN ALL NPC AND DOCTOR MODS:
NPC mods and damned_doctors players, I think it'd be best if we all sat in a chat (or a friends-locked entry somewhere) together and clarified stuff about the plot so that we could make sure we're all consistent with what we write, and perhaps us main mods get some suggestions from you guys about the vaguer aspects of the plot we've been slowly forming. (Credit to theladyfeylene to working with us on that. <3) If that makes sense. 8D;;; COMMENT WITH YOUR INPUT ON A MEETING PLACE AND TIMES YOU MIGHT BE AVAILABLE, PLZ.


Regarding the Landel's Valentine's Dance Idea:
Very cool idea and very plausible in terms of what the Institute would do... but unfortunately, due to the fact that we currently have so many other, more dire things that need to get done first, it'd probably be too much of a hassle in terms of organization to get done. :/ Sorryy.... It's not necessarily impossible, but... yeah. DX


Regarding the Landel's Wiki Idea:
I have mixed feelings about this--on one hand, it'd take a ton of time and overseeing to get it going and keep it going, and the fact that it'd rely on the contributions of players could make it a hassle to keep it organized despite everyone's good intentions. Plus, we'd have to make sure to add a section about it to the rules, and make certain contributions for particular characters mandatory while making other things optional, which might end up in some pages being more detailed than others, not to mention the fact that in terms of putting up rules and guidelines there, we'd have to make sure we edited things both there and in damned_info, which... might end up with contradictory facts after a while.

But on the other hand, the search and tagging feature might make it a way more efficient place to store all the rules and guidelines and information in general, plus, although there's the risk of official information getting messed with, I trust all of you enough to follow whatever rules we set about which pages can be edited/created and which are off-limits. <3 Wikis do provide perhaps a better place for all of our default information pages to be to begin with, and there's much more capacity for good organization in the sidebar menu.

In short.... I think it's a really excellent idea if executed correctly. :) Big kudos to firefly99 for thinking it up. In fact, I've already registered a page on a free wiki service here. I've set the wiki to be edited only by people who get invites, but thankfully, there's an easy "Apply to be a Writer" button on the front page, so it'll be easy for you guys to get access and for us to make sure you're legit players and approve you. XD

So... although it's probably best if you guys hold off from actually writing anything, it's best if you start applying to write there soon, so we can approve everyone who needs approval. XD; If that makes sense.


Regarding damned_visitors:
We're still not sure exactly how this is going to work out tomorrow (Landel's tomorrow, not RL tomorrow), but one thing so far is for certain: Each player may only choose ONE of their characters to have ONE visitor. (Unless it's an adult and a small child, as small children visiting would be disallowed otherwise.) Sorry, but it's the only way we can possibly keep things manageable, so start pondering over which character you're going to choose. ;)


The results of the VERY IMPORTANT POLL:
First morning shift shall be four RL days long! Regular day shifts shall be three RL days long! And as for nightshift....

...Dear god, that particular poll was far too close for comfort. 8D Although 2 RL weeks got ONE more vote than 3 RL weeks, the neck-in-neck results lead us to believe that it'd be best to do a separate, newer poll with only those two options and see how the votes turn out. (Since if you factor in the one-week vote as a two-week vote, and the two two-month votes as three-week votes.... it's still tied up. XD;)

SO. HERE'S THAT.

[Poll #913529]

AND.

[Poll #913530]

(^Keiji Fujiwara would be PROUD.)


...AND THEN THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVERY AFTER

THE END

8DDD

Comments

[reunion.livejournal.com]

HAY LOOK I APPLIED TO WRITE AND STUFF AND HIT THE CHARACTER LIMIT. I WIN SO HARD.

And I think it's pretty easy to tell who I want for a visitor. :x KAASAN!!!!!

[miltia.livejournal.com]

Either a chat or a friends locked entry would work. There's plusses and minuses to either. Personally, I can see the friends-locked entry getting buried, and overall discussion and getting things set out straight would be a lot slower, not to mention possibly messier.

Alternatively, it might be easier to do that, in case we all don't have the same times that we can be online for a chat.

I've had a question I've been meaning to ask in regards to Crane, anyway, and it'd probably be a good idea to understand all this stuff first, so...whatever is decided works for me. I know I haven't really been online that much lately, but I will.

As for times, I'm at school from 7AM to 3PM M-F, with no real computer time anymore, and as such a student, I shouldn't be on my computer any later than 10:30 Sun-Th. Friday nights, however, are pretty much free, as are Saturday nights. XD''

[dead-draven.livejournal.com]

Dude, I love the wiki idea. I am registered and itching to post a rant, and I look forward to you guys getting it up and running ASAP!

Also.

I KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP POST THE OC REGULATIONS OR SO HELP ME I WILL SIC MY CHARACTERS ON YOU IN THE NIGHT Any chance of the OC regulations getting put up soon? :D

...xd I kid, seriously. Take as much time as you guys need, I just want to keep poking you so you don't forget or anything. Sorry I'm so annoying. D:

[twelveapathy.livejournal.com]

I lol'd that Larxene got picked for M-U, I really did. SHE IS NOT HAPPY, AND BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN THE BITCH IS UNHAPPY. Nevermind that I didn't post for her for the last two shifts.

Also, I was discussing this with a few people, and decided that Larxene's visitor should be:

Her conscience/Jiminy Cricket.

No, I don't know how I came up with that. I'm so sorry.

[numberii.livejournal.com]

It's a very good thing that only one of my characters has any real family to speak of, huh? *laughs* Here's hoping that the Damned Visitors thing works out well.

As for the Doctor/NPC Mod thing? I suggest a locked entry in either damned_lounge or damned_doctors. AIM can get very confusing at times, and with the text limit it would only be even moreso. That, and for those who aren't online at the same time (or who have family that will randomly drag them off), it won't be delayed for fifty million years.

On the topic of the Wiki... no one else understands my characters! My artistic vision! If I do not do it, no one else will be able to! *goes on and on in a tl;dr manner*

...or something like that. ^_^;

Hughes would totally top. Both of them. At the same time. Yes.

[colortheory.livejournal.com]

HOW COME AXEL IS WINNING THE EXTREMELY SIMILAR POLL IN MY JOURNAL?!

Voice actor love wins. XD

it would so pwn if President Shin-Ra came to visit Rufus...

[offduty.livejournal.com]

ohsnap, I still need to vote in that one. XD; I knew I logged off at, like, two in the morning feeling like I forgot something. >_O;

DUDE THAT WOULD WIN. HARDCORE.

[theheirshinra.livejournal.com]

I can be reached at talionisshinra as well as Tykimikkblack.

[theheirshinra.livejournal.com]

Rufus would have a coniption.

[felled-hero.livejournal.com]

I already have decided for my visitor thing, but I actually need to talk to you about it.

I also think a post for the discussion would work. You know I'm on pretty much whenever, but I'm not always on AIM. Or remember I'm on when I am on. Because I lose like that.

And man, I remembered now that I had a bunch of things I wanted to talk to you about, and then I was doing the whole 'not on' thing and forgot until now. But I shall be in touch!

And Hughes is mortified that he's been included in this poll. ;)

[theheirshinra.livejournal.com]

Geez, I'm an idiot. For meeting times, anytime from 8am-5pm my time (I think that's 12pm-10pm EST) I should be on.

As for Rufus' visitor, I would like it to be Tseng.

[just-shiny.livejournal.com]

And that is why it would pwn! XD

[theheirshinra.livejournal.com]

No. I'd prefer to have Tseng as his visitor. I don't need Rufus doubting his sanity.

[wyna-hiros.livejournal.com]

Maybe a mod community might be easier for you guys?

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

Just in case you looked at this post before it was editted, you only have to handle Chase's thread 'cause Alleria was nice enough to take up Larxene for us. :D

[bond-off-lame.livejournal.com]

-Brenda

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

I was definitely thinking about that, too. XD

[just-shiny.livejournal.com]

Never mind. I didn't read it carefully enough.

[just-shiny.livejournal.com]

Pssh. Spoilsport.

[theheirshinra.livejournal.com]

Will do!

[numberii.livejournal.com]

I SUPPOSE THAT WOULD BE CALLED 'FISTING', WOULDN'T IT!?

We love you, we really do~! :D?

[clone-boy.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I still think the dance would be a neat idea. Like, it could be treated as a shift or something? (one main post and people posting to the main post?).

[theheirshinra.livejournal.com]

It's not really up to me in the end. I'm suggesting who I'd like as his visitor. If the mods prefer President Shinra, that is their decision.

[felled-hero.livejournal.com]

Oh, I second this idea.

[pimp-plan.livejournal.com]

For visits, since they can supposedly bring back the dead and apparently our character's lives are all lies anyway, would it be possible for Zelos' mom to show up? I really want her to sit down and tell him that he's a failure and she wishes he was dead. :D If not, Seles is cool too.