19 November 2012 @ 07:56 pm
All right, here is the list of everyone who wrote an Oktoberfest fic/drew art/did graphics/all the other creative stuff you guys came up with and met all the requirements, thereby earning the prize of a canon outfit for one of their characters. If your name is on this list, comment to this post with which character is getting an outfit and we'll approve it. (Link to a picture of the outfit in question if possible!) Then you'll be good to go, and that character can find their outfit this nightshift (or during the dinner shift, if you want).

The list! )

Congrats on your prizes and thanks so much for participating! ♥ If your name isn't on here, it's probably because the entry wasn't tagged. If that's the case, just reply with the link to the entry and we'll approve you.
 
 
Title: Landel's Damned Minecraft Model Construction First Floor Beta Edition
Artist: Madred // [personal profile] madredhattie  and Amaraq // [personal profile] amaraqwolf 
Picture count:  44
Rating: G
Characters: The Once-ler, Skulduggery, Scar, Loki, a cow
Notes: The next time I say, "hey, let's build a model of Damned in Minecraft! It'll be fun and we can do it easily!" I should be slapped because when you put in at least 25 combined hours of work and you still haven't even managed to completely fill in all the walls and ceilings of the first floor, you've bitten off way more than you can chew.

So many blocks.... )
 
 
07 November 2012 @ 02:55 am
Title: A few things
Author: Vyndasia
Beta: None, and probably worse for it. 8V
Word Count: N/A
Rating: G
Character(s): Ishida, Orihime, Lloyd, Lee, Flora

More here )
 
 
03 November 2012 @ 09:50 am
Title: Various Sketches
Artist: Ireny // [personal profile] simplyirenic
Picture count: 5
Rating: PG-13 for one incidence of cartoony gore?
Characters: Lunge, L, Soma, Meche, Senna, Falis, Hokuto, the Once-ler, Allelujah, Scar, Loki. It's a blast from the past!
Notes: I blame Plurk for everything.

onward! )
 
 
01 November 2012 @ 02:58 pm
 
We have decided to extend the Oktoberfest deadline to Wednesday November 7th for those players who were unable to finish or ran out of time to start any projects within the October time frame. I think it is safe to assume that as long as you post your project to the community before midnight PST, it will be counted.

We apologize to those of you that were rushing at the last minute yesterday without knowledge of the possibility that we may extend the Oktoberfest deadline. You are certainly more than welcome to edit or revamp your projects if you so wish.

If you have any questions or concerns, please leave them in this thread and we will get back to you ASAP.

Thank you!
 
 
01 November 2012 @ 01:18 am
Title: Heads Up Display
Author: Aison ([personal profile] aison)
Word Count: 2370
Rating: Blood splatter.
Character(s): Mikado, Izaya, Castiel, the Trickster, Claire Stanfield, Shizuo, Shinra.
Pairing(s): Claire/trains? Izaya/pillows.
Summary: Mikado has a new skill. It gets him into a bit of a problem....
Notes: ...I can't write any characters that aren't mine, I'm so sorry. /dead

Also very light Durarara!! and Supernatural spoilers? And light references to this thread.

--He snapped his fingers. )
 
 
Title: For When You Screw Up
Author: Starry
Beta: Jansen
Word Count: 2044 (yay minimum effort)
Rating: Damned rating woo
Characters: Barnaby, Aigis and a small bit of Kotetsu
Summary: An essential what-if if they were ever to meet. Dark shit happens and the surprise was monsters.
Disclaimer: Apologies for character shitting on characters that aren't mine. Also this has a depressing, very rushed ending. Sorry bout that. Also this is the first time I've wrote actual fic since 2009 expect some QUALITY
Notes: For Jansen. Feel better dear. Even though you've already read this.

what am i doing )
 
 
31 October 2012 @ 11:01 pm
Title: Quincy Swimmer
Author: Nivi
Word Count: 860
Picture Count: 1
Rating: G
Character(s): Lloyd Irving, Kratos Aurion, and Uryuu Ishida
Pairing(s): N/A
Summary: Lloyd has a plan. Kratos has qualms. Ishida has a needle and thread. This can only go well.

You would make a fine Quincy swimmer, Kratos-san. )
 
 
31 October 2012 @ 10:56 pm
Title: (untitled)
Author: aluria
Beta: NONE so it's probably riddled with lots of stupid typos, whoops
Word Count: 2848
Rating: S for Stupid
Character(s): Tsurugi Kyousuke, Murphy Pendleton (unnamed), a pair of unspecified assholes, extremely vague/unnamed appearance of Marc, a nurse, Martin Landel, and introducing Nishiki Ryouma. because I can.
Pairing(s): Nishiki/Japanese food.
Summary: One boy, and his passionate quest for delicious food. And another hating his life forever.
Notes: THIS IS REALLY DUMB AND SHOULD BE READ BY NOBODY. I also apologize to Faye for whatever hideous ways I messed up Murph by writing him canonblind.

MAGICAL SOCCER ADVENTURES. but with none of the soccer. )
 
 
Title: Animal Crossing: Happy Town
Author: Ginga
Terrible Quality Photo Count: 27 OBVIOUS WARNING: VERY IMAGE HEAVY
Rating: G
Character(s): Byrne Faraday, a handful of helpless animal citizens, and genderbent Landel???
Summary:  What if Landel's Institute was in the world of Animal Crossing...?
Notes: THIS IS PERHAPS THE LAMEST ENTRY EVER and I could have done more with it, but it's a little more difficult making things work/look the way you want them to in Animal Crossing than I had imagined. Nook not selling the items I needed didn't help me any, either. I also apologize for the eh-ish quality of the pictures...cellphone cameras can only do so much. But I hope this entry is enjoyable anyway!



Welcome to Doyleton! )
 
 
Title: Lots of silly doodles
Artist: Lauren/[personal profile] latiaos
Picture count: 10
Rating: PG-13 for Scar's potty mouth
Characters: Scar, his BFF Loki, Lust, Link, Sora, Tsurugi, Scott Pilgrim, the Scarecrow, L, Riley, Soma, Vriska, Karkat, the Once-ler, Skullduggery, Flynn, Rapunzel, Gabe, and Castiel
Notes: ...Don't take anything on this post seriously.

To all the madness )
 
 
20 October 2012 @ 02:21 am
It's been four years. I was officially accepted into Damned on October 16, 2008, and since then I've had an amazing ride as a player, an NPC mod, a podcast host, a quotes curator, a linkateer, and an avid reader of all the awesome writing the playerbase has had to offer in all this time.

That's why it's been so hard to admit to myself lately that RP is just not fitting in to my life like it used to, and that good prose isn't coming to me as easily anymore. If it were up to me, my energy and time levels would stay pumped all the time and I would stick things out to the end here, because all you Damnedites are my sistahs and broskis forevs yo, fr srs. :( As it is, I think my RP cup is spent (at least for now), and I need to move on to focus more on things like school, work, and a growing pile of personal projects.

So... Yeah. I am dropping Scott Pilgrim and Rapunzel as well as my mod duties (although, I will still be helping the Linkateers when I can). Both characters can be assumed to have been in a deep sleep since dinner, and will have disappeared by morning. :( They both have extensive inventories, and their close CR are free to call first dibs on anything they want. If you're not sure what they have (I know their profile inventories are not the most up to date), just ask if there's a particular type of thing they have (i.e.: sentimental thing, weapon, supplies, something silly, etc.) and I can give you the closest thing to that.

How best can I express to you guys how much you all mean to me before I go, though? There are and have been so many people and things in this game that I love that I couldn't possibly mention all of them. Well, I started out expressing my excitement for the game with an Oktoberfest project, so I think it's only fitting that I go out on an Oktoberfest project. Check it.

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Title: Institute People
Author: Eryn (based on the song "Internet People" by Dan Meth, who almost certainly based his on "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel)
Beta: A little bit from Andro
Word Count: 478
Rating: PG (oh shit son, I said "shit")
Character(s): ALL OF THEM (yes, even the ones not explicitly included, and including every dropped character ever; y'all are awesome <3)
Pairing(s): ZEX/Humans, Guy/Claude, Artemis/Haku, Lelouch/Bulletin, Albedo/Nigredo, Roy/Hughes (implied)
Summary: A musical tribute to the world's greatest evil mental asylum and the patients who have frequented it over the years.
Notes: Apologies for the bad quality of the backing track. There was no instrumental version of this song, so I had to make my own – to mixed results. At least the spirit of the thing is there? ;; Just don't go listening to this on high quality sound systems or earbuds.

Download: Download + Lyrics )

 
 
01 October 2012 @ 09:40 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, [community profile] damned_institute!!!

As some of you may have noticed, the community [livejournal.com profile] damned was created exactly six years ago 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. 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 [community profile] damned_lounge.

Subject Line: Oktoberfest '12: [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:



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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 [community profile] damned_institute a fun place to be and here's to another happy year for the game. ♥ ♥ ♥

Also, we realize that the game might not necessarily be around for much longer, but the support you all give and the enthusiasm you show is what inspires us mods to keep this ship sailing! So thank you so much, again.

Have fun with the ficathon! With any luck, we might just make it to another October.