New Members of the Admin Team

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*clears throat*

We'd like to introduce you to two new members of the admin team.

mouthy_merc and spring_lost - AKA Elaine and Len - have been crazy enough kind enough to agree to join our motley crew, and we think they'll both bring a great deal to the team.

It's their first day, so please welcome them, and give them a chance to ease into things as they learn the ropes and make a few new ones.

No springing difficult problems on them right away!

Weekly Entertainment

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In the interest of giving us a place to chat for those who can't use AIM at work or just want to babble about things OOC for fun, I'll be putting up a weekly entertainment post in the OOC every Sunday. Feel free to respond all week, chat amongst yourselves, go off on tangents, be completely ridiculous, make crack icons, donate to your local animal shelter, or any other off the wall behavior that involves being awesome and fun.

To get things rolling though, here's a question:

Anybody have any interesting hobbies (other than RP)?

I was just thinking about it since a random post in the open forum ended up in me and another player going "ZOMG ANOTHER KNITTER!" and that was really awesome.

Tag Someone New Week

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One of the topics that was brought up in the Open Forum was the common nervousness that comes with playing with new people, especially for those who are fairly new to the game. We all tend to fall into comfortable circles of playing, so to try to help with this and shake things up a little, we're stealing borrowing with love an idea from another pan-fandom island game.

We're declaring this week Tag Someone New Week. The point is, simply, to play out a thread or a post with someone you've never played with before, whether it's a character you've never interacted with, or a player you've never played with. This isn't mandatory, just something designed to try to get rid of some of the apprehension that comes from playing with someone for the first time.

The Great E-mail Check

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I think I'm done spamming your flists for today after this. Possibly. Hopefully.

Ahem. Thank you all for getting your e-mail addresses up on your userinfo pages. Now it's time to see how well they work.

We're going to be sending an e-mail to each address we have on file now. If you have multiple characters who share the same account, keep in mind that you'll only be receiving one e-mail. Here's what we need you to do if/when you receive your message:

- If you receive the e-mail in your inbox before Sunday evening (eastern time), please reply and let us know everything went fine.
- If you receive the e-mail but something went wrong - it went to your spam folder, you didn't get it until late in the evening, etc. - please reply and let us know exactly what went wrong.
- If you do not receive an e-mail by Sunday evening, please send us an e-mail and let us know.

Hopefully, you'll all receive our e-mails, and we'll receive all of yours. Please try to get back to us as soon as schedules allow, so we can begin to investigate what providers might not be working as well as we'd like. This will not only help us communicate with all of you better, but it'll give us a heads-up to give to new players in the future.

Again, if there are any questions, feel free to leave them here. Thanks!

ETA: All e-mails have been sent!

Your Fandom Weather Forecast for Sunday, July 20, 2008

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The weather today was partly cloudy, with temperatures ranging from 97 (36c) to 77 (25c).

Sunrise: 5:23
Sunset: 18:31