Fandom High OOC

Hello, Fandom!

Hope you've enjoyed all this relative normalcy lately, because on Wednesday, February 4th, characters on-island will be (as long as you want them to, of course) compelled to speak the truth! Yep, it's Truth Day again. Go on, cause havoc.

Seasonal greetings, Fandom, and happy holidays! For your final days before and into Christmas, here's advent:

Monday, December 22nd: It's raining tinsel, everybody.
Tuesday, December 23rd: Gremlins go door to door, singing carols!
Wednesday, December 24th: Commence the snow! Also, the air is made up of about 7% cinnamon - just enough to make everything smell nice.
Thursday, December 25th: Everyone wakes up to a small present! Nothing fancy, nothing expensive, just that one little thing you've been thinking you should get but haven't because you forget or it's never quite cheap enough to buy in the moment when you see it in the store...

Hello everyone! It's time to weetiny! Students, teachers, and townies alike will wake up as pint-sized versions of themselves next weekend, from Saturday November 15th through Monday November 17th.

A quick reminder about how this works:

- Participation is completely optional.
- If you choose to participate, your character needs to wake up as a kid (ages 4-10) on Saturday morning and stay that way the whole weekend until waking up back to normal on Tuesday morning.
- The kids won't be terrified to wake up in Fandom, due to the wackiness. It's more like they've always been here.
- Clothing will be shrunk down as well, and all the weapons will turn into toys so no one can hurt themselves accidentally.
- This is open to alumni and expats as well!

Time to go hunting for stock photos of small children, pics of your PB as a child actor, or screencaps from a flashback episode! Questions, comments, witty stories?

Hey folks!

Next week, the game is turning 20. Yeah, seriously. It's like five minutes from graduating college itself. How the hell did that happen?

In order to celebrate this momentuous occasion, we present BLAST FROM THE PAST WEEK! This kicks off on Monday, September 1st and lasts all the way up until Sunday.

Throughout this week, Fandom will be feeling nostalgic - and so will be exposing current characters to memories of events past. Your character may, during the week, run into 1) replays of events that your character has been a part of while on the island; 2) replays of on-island events that your past characters have been a part of and 3) replays of on-island events where you've received permission from the original player of the character to see something that they went through on-island.

We do ask that if your replay involves someone else's character in any way, you check in with that character's player before using it. We don't want anyone getting any information about characters their players wouldn't want them to have. Beyond that, though, these replays will be physically visible (if non-interactable) events, so anyone who's in the scene with you will also relive it! Consider this an excuse to go diving through old posts and beloved threads. (Though we do, again, ask you all to be mindful of other players' characters and not use this to give your character an unfair advantage over anyone. It's meant to be fun.)

This memory event will stir up the island's own memories, too. And that means that every. single. day this week, Fandomites are going to have to deal with weird events and invasions from Fandom's past. Here's what you can expect:

Schedule:
Monday, September 1st
EVENT: Everyone Has A Flavor Day - originally done for our 7th anniversary, this event makes every person on the island taste like something, whether it be matcha ice cream or bees.
Tuesday, September 2nd
EVENT: NO CURSING! From this day on until the end of the week, characters will be unable to curse. Also, characters wake up wearing flower crowns - or fierce hats.
Wednesday, September 3rd
INVASION: Snow monsters invade! They will attack all day, then melt by evening.
EVENT: Adults across the island turn into teenagers. Hope you still know how to fight!
Thursday, September 4th
INVASION: Dinosaurs! Yes, it's the return of the angry dinosaurs.
EVENT: Pony Day. Everyone turns into a pony. That's it.
Friday, September 5th
INVASION: Alligators that spit goldfish roam the lands. Yeah, we didn't understand it the first time, either.
EVENT: The entire island suddenly operates on Looney Tunes physics! The gremlins of Fandom decide to use this to shoot their shot and get extra active this day.
Saturday, September 6th
INVASION: Fandom gets hit by a glizzard, a whirling storm of glitter. The storm creates a dangerous sharknado! ... Just with dwarf sharks, instead of the really scary ones. Also, angry disco balls roll around the island.
Sunday, September 7th
INVASION: Jack O' Lanterns spawn across the island! As do zombie bunnies, out for their braaaains. Better not get between the two.
EVENT: Polar bears with Coke. Their timing could be better.

Have fun, and let us know if you have any questions! Naturally, any event that directly affects a character is optional, so if you don't want your character to get a flower crown or to turn into a teenager, you do not have to go along with it. Just have fun!

I am living in a Meme State of Mind this month, so you get another one this week that we haven't done since last year. Woo!

Tag your character into a comment. Other characters will then ICly respond with things they admire about your character. Yes, even if the pair of characters are generally antagonistic towards each other, here is the chance to reveal whether there's something positive hidden in there somewhere! (For an example, Jackson might tell Jim he admires his tenacity.) So, character-to-character basis, and positive things. Kind of like an IC anon love meme, yes. Except without the anon part. Now get to it!