Your Piratical Random Events Schedule

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A reminder post will still go up in the early hours, but here's a schedule so you can plan in advance:

Tues: Invasion of parrots who cling to your shoulder and repeat everything you say.

Wed: Pi-rats! Some of whom break into spontaneous pirate operetta that sounds suspiciously like Gilbert & Sullivan.

Thur: Invasion of (moddable) pirates who will swordfight anyone they see, but exchanging blows means exchanging insults (bonus points if you can get your insults to rhyme with theirs).

Fri: Tor-toga party. Held in the park - it was supposed to be a Tortuga party, celebrating its culture and food and all that, but due to a misprint, the posters all say its a TOGA party!

Sat: Invasion of wee deadly pirates. They're classic pillaging and looting pirates ... which would be terrifying if they weren't six inches tall.

Sun/Mon: Sun morning people awake to find their clothes have turned into pirate costumes. Which is handy, because the island accidentally slipped through a time warp back to the 1600s, and it's pirates ahoy! Ships sailing, drinking and carousing and adventure on Tortuga.

Tues: The taps of Fandom run with rum, grog, and ale (ginger ale for the non-drinkers), instead of water.

Wed: CITRUS FRUIT EVERYWHERE. Open a cupboard? Face full of limes. Open a door? Covered in oranges. You get the idea.

Thur: Talk like a pirate day!

And over on Tortuga itself, there are random cannonballs to be avoided, glimpses of teams playing baseball badly and of three headed monkeys to be had, as well as lots of shipwrecks, abandoned pirate hideouts, ruined forts, and general pirate detritus that remains from hundreds of years ago. Also, anyone randomly digging on Tortuga will find buried treasure - essentially worthless, but pretty or silly or punny.

(All credit to those who came up with the ideas!)

It's also a really gorgeous tropical island, with rainforest and beaches and little towns that aren't populated by pirates! At least, they say they aren't pirates. But you can't really trust a pirate to tell the truth, so who can know for sure.

E-mail Addresses on Your Userinfo Pages

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It has come to our attention quite a bit recently that some internet providers don't like our admin e-mail address (administration@fandomhigh.net). E-mails from us get eaten or sent to the spam folder, and e-mails to us disappear into the great unknown. So, we'd like to check to make sure that everyone is able to receive e-mails from us and send e-mails to us.

To do this, we first need to know what e-mail addresses you guys are using. We'd like to ask you to please check the userinfo pages of each of your characters to make sure that a) there's an e-mail address listed there, and b) it's an e-mail address you check on a regular basis.

Keep in mind that the e-mail address(es) you choose will become the "public" address on file for your character, not only because it will be the one openly listed on your userinfo, but because this will be the address at which we will contact you for both private matters and public ones, such as passing on information for a plotty part in a BDE, or contacting you if you've volunteered for the Big Sibling program.

If you have different e-mail addresses for each of your characters, that's fine. If you want to make different e-mail addresses for your characters now, that's fine too. (We recommend Gmail, because you can have a hundred million addresses all forward to the same one account, which makes checking it easy as pie. Mmmm, pie. )

Please make sure there is a working e-mail address in the userinfo of each of your characters (including alumni) by Friday, at noon eastern. We'll be collecting e-mail addresses and will explain how the check will go then. Questions? Comments?

Anonymous Love Meme

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It's been a bit since we did this, and I know y'all probably know how it works from past uses here, as well as your RL flists, but:

1. Make a comment to this post with the name of your character. (If you play more than one character, you can make a comment for each of them.)

2. Go through and leave anonymous comments in other characters' threads saying nice things about them. (About the character or how they're played, or even something you like about the player; any of this is acceptable as long as they're nice things.)

3. Read the comments your characters get and wallow in the warm fuzzies.

Please, please do not say anything harmful or negative to anyone in this post. Any negative comments will be deleted. This is not a criticism meme. This is about making people feel good.

And! Anonymous commenting is on, of course, but if you have any questions, feel free to ping me on AIM at BunchofFHChars.

Your Fandom Weather Forecast for Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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The weather today is balmy and beautiful (I'm sensing a trend) -- highs of 95 (36c), lows of 78 (25c), with a chance of isolated thunderstorms.

The humidity remains high. Also, there's parrots.

Sunrise: 5:21
Sunset: 18:32