goose_ooc | ANNOUNCEMENTS: August 23!

Alright everyone, we have just about one week until the game opens! Yay! A few things to note:

We're still waiting on resubmissions from a small number of returning characters (i.e. anyone whose name has yet to be linked on the roster). If you don't get your resubmission in before Sep 1, they will be permanently removed from the roster! We're serious!!! :(

If you've held a new character, your hold ends on Sep 1 and you must wait 24 hours to rehold.

We'll try very hard to process all new character apps we receive before the game opens, but we apologize in advance if we end up with delays.

The plot calendar will be going up on Aug 31 at 8 AM MT, and there will be an IC/OOC on Sep 1 which will feature:
- The bus ride to school.
- Lunch and socializing.
- The Sorting Ceremony.
The IC community will open to journal posts on Sep 1 at 8 AM MT. There will be a message from Martin Pratt about some updates he made to the journals.

We're making some rule changes, so please read more below! Especially the bit about the three strikes policy!

DIVINATION:
Due to how MASSIVE this game has gotten, we've revised how Divination will work in the story. We've folded events that students can predict into the Plot Calendar, so you no longer need to rely on mod responses to get in some divining.

DIVINATION PREDICTIONS:

Divination students may select one event marked with this symbol (❋) to accurately predict at some point before the event takes place.

There are a limited number of these, and we can’t make enough for every Divination student to get one every month. If we notice that you’re grabbing one for three months in a row and other characters are unable to get one on time, we may force you to take a month off. Conversely, if you haven’t been able to claim one in three months, let us know and we will guarantee you one the coming month.

Your character may divine this information through any means you see fit EXCEPT by true prophecy. Those are reserved for fully fledged Seers, and there’s only one of those at Gooseberry, and he’s your teacher.

When you select an event, you may pick two of the following for your character to accurately predict:
- WHO: The character this event is happening to. If it’s a school-wide event or doesn’t happen to a particular character, your little Seer will instead get the sense that this is something with a larger scope.
- WHAT: What will happen to the character, but only in vague terms. For instance, if your character selects the event where someone gets locked in the storage room, they might know someone is going to get trapped somewhere. The mods will tell you exactly what your character knows. Please don't deviate from it.
- WHEN: The exact date the event takes place.
Reply to the Divination comment on the plot calendar claiming a prediction, and tell us which two aspects you’d like to predict. The mods will give you the exact information your character will be able to See.

You may choose when they make this prediction.

Claims are first come first serve.

These do not count as your plot calendar slot for that character.

Example: Suzy selects an event on September 18th, which will have Davy falling into a well. Suzy's player selects that she will know WHO and WHAT, so she replies to the mod Divination comment saying so. The mod account then replies to let Suzy know she can predict the following information accurately: "Davy is going to fall into something deep." The idea is that your character will not have enough information to stop the event and accidentally create a time paradox and/or ruin the person's plot.

THREE STRIKES POLICY:
In the interest of cutting down on the number of inactive characters, we've made our three strikes policy harsher. Previously it was three strikes per character, but from now on it'll be three strikes per player, regardless of which character(s) you were inactive with. (So, if you don't make activity with two of your characters in one month, you'll earn two strikes.) If you earn three strikes total, you will be asked to drop one of your characters.

We feel our activity requirements are pretty lax, so if you're regularly posting with all of your characters, this shouldn't be an issue. If you know you have a character you rarely play, please consider letting them go. If you're in a situation where you know you can't post and it'll negatively impact your activity, make use of the hiatus page to avoid earning a strike.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

i'm hype

i also need to finish my app BYE

You totally fucking do bc you get the name of an Impulse villain and also Solo's roommate and i want to read it

i..........

haven't touched teddy's app because i've been fretting over ennis's. there's not much to do but my brain has been having a hard time this month

oh nooo i am the worst at pressuring people

but i'm also at your disposal, so if you need help with anything or wanna plot anything that makes it easier for you to get together a character concept, idk if you heard but we're roommates and i might be able to help you out

(reapping was actually way harder for me than straight forward apping even tho the work is literally all there already, i procrastinated the fuck out of it, it was horrible, do not let me make you feel rushed)

ty ily. :C i don't feel rushed by you though!! i did this to myself

i THINK i have teddy pretty hammered out but every time i start to work on his app, i feel really guilty because i haven't finished ennis's reapp. ennis is A Struggle because i really hate the way i wrote his bio but i also don't want to rewrite it, and i'm stuck on skills because i'm like, "did i make him TOO good at too many art mediums even though he's bad at everything else?? is that okay??? is this okay?????"

but!!! i am very excited for teddy!!!!! i think i'm going to have him be a new student this year and he came from another private rich kid boarding school that probably looks down their noses at gooseberry because EW CAMPING SCHOOL, WHO WANTS TO LIVE IN THE WOODS WHERE THERE'S BUGS

i love hearing about new junior ebonhides because you and alex could've both said 'austin and teddy murder people in their spare time and are super judgmental about it' and solomon would love them both regardless. (that's a lie, he would've tried to gently suggest maybe they don't do that tho? but the atmosphere is there).

I had the same problem when i went to reapp olivia, because i felt strongly like i didn't delve in deep enough into her app in the first place, and i just generally hated it. but also didnt feel like rewriting it. it was a struggle for me. but that's mostly just because i failed all over the place with her in y1 so that was mostly my fault. ~~whereas with solomon i added five new paragraphs to his history~~

i mean, maybe they do. maybe i should email alex about it.

ok but charlotte is enough of a monster, teddy is going to be a Good Boy. maybe a lil bit of a prickle to him but still inherently Good. if i get him in by opening, i'm gonna have his mom send care packages to all his roommates.

yeah, i super hate ennis's app and i can tell i wrote it at 5am. ennis has also changed a lot since his original concept and i......... don't want to rewrite all of that, i can't think of the words to do it :^(

like, i know it's not a big deal but..... aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Edited 2017-08-25 04:42 (UTC)

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