Summer Semester Info Dump

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

Hey folks,

We finally have some details for you about how summer semester will be run. Letting you know about it now, way, WAY in advance so you can make plans and whatnot.


Summer semester will be summer camp time. Details about Fandom Summer Camp are as follows.

The Basics
* Summer is long, so there will be two terms within the semester that are roughly equal in length.
* Summer semester is optional. You can choose to only attend term one, only attend term two or attend both. STUDENTS - if you do not attend one term, you must either put up an availability post stating that you'll be away or go off the island for the duration of that semester. Students cannot stay in Fandom and not attend summer camp.
* Summer camp will be based on school grounds and in the preserve behind campus.
* Rather than classes, workshops and activities will be run by both teachers and townies. The nature of these activities are pending (as we haven't asked what people are interested in taking yet), but they will definitely be more interaction based and possibly wacky rather than normal school-type classes.
* All participating students will be campers.
* All participating teachers will be camp counselor types.
* All participating townies will either be camp counselor types or will be involved somehow.

Dates
Summer Term 1
Week 1 - May 22-26
Week 2 - May 29-June 2
Week 3 - June 5-9
Week 4 - June 12-16
Week 5 - June 19-23
Week 6 - June 26-30
Week 7 - July 3-7

Summer Term 2
Week 1 - July 10-14
Week 2 - July 17-21
Week 3 - July 24-28
Week 4 - July 31-August 4
Week 5 - August 7-11
Week 6 - August 14-18
Week 7 - August 21-25

Then Fall semester will start on September 4.

New Students
There will be a new enrollment session some time in coming weeks. This will be open for students, teachers and townies, and current players will be allowed to apply with new characters. The characters that are accepted will be allowed to join in on the summer camp fun. New students will be required to participate in the whole semester (both terms). If there is a character you would like to play only for summer semester (with no intention of keeping them on when classes start again), talk to us. We are willing to discuss this on a case-by-case basis.

But It's OOC For Them To Stay...
If you need a reason for your character to be forced to stay behind, contact us here at the friendly FH Admin Stealth Ninja Squad and we'll be happy to work something out to assist you with torturing your character.

Sign Ups
There will be a post in coming weeks getting you to sign up for Term 1. There will then be a post for you to sign up for different activities/workshops for that term.

Going Home
If you wish for your character to go home/go off-island for summer semester (either term or both) and do other things, that's fine. Please keep in mind that you are expected to play the character you signed up with once you get back. If you intend on having them go home in an effort to incorporate new parts of your canon (ie: you broke away during Season 1 and you want to include stuff from Season 2), you will need to discuss that with us first. This is just to ensure that no one goes too far to the point where it will adversely affect other people in your fandom or to the point where you're playing a very different character to the one you signed up with. We're not going to be rabid about this. We just want to be fair to everyone.



More details will be forthcoming as soon as we work them out. Teachers and townies, please keep an eye out for a post in the next week detailing workshop/activity guidelines and asking for proposals from you guys. Again, this is a while off, but file the information away for later usage and start figuring out what you want to do over the summer. We'll try to be as accommodating as possible.



The Friendly Fandom High Admin Stealth Ninja Squad

Things aren't looking up...

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

As much as I hate to do it, I'm going to have to withdraw - or at the very least, take an indefinite hiatus - from the game. My father spent all of last week in the hospital, came home and two days later was back in again. The second stay wasn't terribly long, but it just doesn't look like things are going to be clearing up anytime in the easily forseeable future.

Right now my biggest problem is not knowing when I'm going to have a ton of time on my hands and then suddenly have no time with no warning, so staying involved in a roll play game just isn't viable. I apologize if I'm leaving anyone in a lurch, but I need to put my time and energy into real life and it's not fair to other characters who are waiting for some kind of participation from me.

With any luck, the next month or so will see all this resolve and perhaps at that point, if the mods are willing, I can petition to get back into the game, but as things stand now I just can't devote the energy or time to highly structured game play.

I won't be deleting the journal, and if there's anyone out there who really wants to pick up this character with all of his attnedant bagage, feel free to contact me. But my guess is that if anyone wanted to play the character, they'd probably want to start over fresh with him.

If you're looking for me, I'll still get comments to this journal, or I can be emailed at: charactermuses at comcast dot net.

Shep!mun

gogremlins

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

So... uh... a few of us were in chat and AIM decided to kick us all out and now the room doesn't appear to be working.

Anyway... those of us who were there when it happened are now hanging out in VsLair, if anyone was looking to chat tonight.