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This is a call-out to the people who play a single character where that character is a townie and who doesn't teach up at the school or get much interaction in town.

The mun is looking for ways to better involve the 'fringe elements' of the townies in stuff around town: ie. those characters who have no real chance to speak/interact with the student body, who may not be the most sociable of folk (IC or OOC), or who are limited by lack of internet time.

Inara can't be the only character from her fandom, who doesn't teach, is an only-character for their mun, and has reasonable difficulty socialising due to lack of unusual skills, opportunity, or character flamboyance. Her mun figures there's gotta be a few characters out there looking for people/opportunities/plotlines to involve themselves in.

Besides, she's a sucker for organising things. Especially plotty things.

So, are any of the townie characters, new or otherwise, who don't have too much interaction and aren't getting much play elsewhere interested in bouncing around a few ideas for plot, interaction and action and getting something moving? Comment to this post and the mun will send around a group email later on in the week for people to discuss stuff.

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He's not my only character, but I am trying to get him a little bit more involved in the game I'm just abit stuck for idea on how, so count me in if that's okay

That's fine. I know the feeling of being stuck as to how to include a character!

Cool, he's always after female company if that helps you at all!

I don't fit the description of your post, but I did want to mention this (because I think what you're trying to do is awesome): Aziraphale is planning on starting a book club, which would meet once a week at the shop. Open to everyone -- student, teacher, townie -- in the hopes of giving people who normally wouldn't an IC reason to interact. If that might be something you're interested in helping with, that would be awesome. :)

Inara (and mun) would definitely be interested in helping organise! (jsmithrpg at gmail.com)

I'm not sure I explained it so well, but the main reason for putting specifications on the characters involved was so that we don't get another situation/scenario dominated by the more active/interactive townies - give the quieter townies a chance to play without being automatically sidelined since they don't usually know people.

Absolutely understood. I just didn't want to step on anyone's toes. :)

I'll drop you an email!

Aayla's not my only character, but she's not very social. Neither is my other character, but I might think about opening him up by himself.
Aayla doesn't seem to have the need to visit popular "hang out" spots (other than Aziraphale's, but then she's just with a one-on-one chat with the angel).
Did enjoy doing tai chi with Serra though ~~(even if it got her called "boring" on the radio for the 2nd time in a row)~~.
Let me know what you have in mind, if it's not too terrible that I have 2 characters.

I guess I was thinking of people for whom their townie is their only interaction in the game. I didn't want the people who play a zillion characters with plotlines galore to add another plot to their collection.

But if you as a mun aren't getting much gameplay, then, sure!

Hey, Inara's pretty 'boring' too: she's either flat on her back in an NFB situation, or chatting with people in the park. No magic, no snark, no sudden manifestations of evil upon her...

"Life upon the wicked stage ain't nothing for a girl!"

I think most of the townies -- shop owners or not, regardless of activity level -- need more than just the popular hangouts to socialize. It's hard finding anything to throw my characters into outside of the same-old of the Emporium. I think Phale-mun's idea of the book club is good; we need more stuff like that. Michael and Ben would throw more parties, but my (all too real) workplace right now is a nightmare and hosting events is more than I want to contemplate these days.

(Totally off-center but if I can get my stuff organized I should draw Inara into the plot I'm working up to.)

You have a good point there about townie socialising. I think it's also a case of not just responding to the main post in social events (eg. Thanksgiving dinner at the hotel) but also responding to other characters and being willing to talk/explore with new characters.

The reason I put the 'limits' on the characters to be involved was largely to give the characters with NO plots a chance to get involved in something, rather than add another plot to an already busy character.

And I completely missed the post about the book club...

my (all too real) workplace right now is a nightmare and hosting events is more than I want to contemplate these days.

Right now, I know how that goes!

(And Inara would love to participate in plotness.)

BTW, Michael and Ben may be more active, but they're pretty sidelined when it comes to plottiness (hence me working on my own), and they're my only characters, so feel free to try to throw them in (even in just a fringe way) if you see fit.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Especially as schoolwork will be letting up after this week, and will be over in two. (Finally!)

You've got an email addy on your userinfo? I'll include you in the mail.

Yep!

I was icly talking to Sonia about getting people together to go christmas carolling..

Oh that's a fantastic idea! I miss Christmas caroling so much. I promise lots of cocoa and treats waiting at the book shop if the carolers will come by! :)

Christmas carolling would be fun - were you thinking students or townies or both? Lord, imagine the staff of FH singing christmas carols...

I'm guessing we're not going to bother with the PC-ness of 'non-denominational celebrations for the year end'? (Personally, I think you should call it what you want to, just don't preach it if they're not interested.)

Caroling would be fun! And I agree on your second point...

The idea was to get the students involved with the townies, so they could meet some of them and interact in a social way without .. y'know.. just buying something from them.

Also.. Aaron and Sonia were brainstorming icly about offering walk-back services for students who work in town and would be walking home after dark. Not because it's needed, although that's the IC excuse, but to give townies more chance to interact with the kids.

There's really not enough crossover, and Townies kind of get treated like hyped up NPC's - which they aren't. More social activities is a good thing.

Ben/Mike-mun and I had ideas for townie social events nearly two months ago, but weren't able to pull them off in realtime. Inara would have hosted social events, but she lives in a brothel - not exactly a desirable atmosphere!

I understand that there are several townspeople who own houses that might be opened up for more general use? We can't all live in flats over shops or brothels...

I understand Amber House has an unlimited amount of space inside. Also, I think Spike's has been suffering for patronage since Caritas opened -- maybe he would be willing to agree to rent out the space for events now and again.

Good ideas. Are Tara and Shane in Amber House?

Yes, and I believe it's owned by Dierdre of Amber -- although I don't know that I've seen her around lately.

At some stage we need to determine which townies are active, which are dormant, and which are dead.

I was going to mail Red about it, but I understand the mun's gone on hols for a week.

I wonder if dead townies come back as zombies. Maybe that's what happened -- we weren't being invaded, there was just an influx of zombie-townies trying to pick up their paychecks. :p

LOL. I think we may be due for another Zombie invasion, then!

Um, hi. :)

Although I don't yet play a character in Fandom Town, I'm hoping to once registration begins. I've created

dutch_apple_pie for Paul Forrester from the "Starman" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090527/) TV series, which followed the movie. If accepted Paul will wander into Fandom Town with his camera case, a duffle bag, and the clothes on his back. Feel free to include him in your plans. :)

Hi!

While we'd love to have you, I think that I should wait for the okay from Red (town mayor) before including Paul in any concrete plans. I will, however, keep your details around and if you're accepted as a Fandom Townie then we'll definitely work out something for Paul to do.

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Gotcha. :)

I may be slightly late to this discussion, but I've found that you just have to be willing to put yourself forward, really.

And I never would have thought of a Companion, one who is trained in all of the arts of seduction, conversation, and (fencing, flying) godess knows what else to be boring.

There's 'willing to put yourself forward' and there's 'being accepted'. For a lot of townies, occasional random interaction is about the extent of it - unless the character involved in a plot (or people are willing to involve them) - then there's not much to do but wander around and chat to people. Which might be enough for some players, but I suspect there are others who want more.

The other thing about being 'willing to put yourself forward' is that the reasons some townies get overlooked is probably because they are not naturally gregarious, either IC or OOC.

So it's all very well to tell people 'put yourself out there' - which I understand Red has been trying to say for months - but quite another to achieve it. And there's nothing more depressing than making a 'come play with me post'...and have nobody come play.

Salmoneus, whose mun has been having an awful time at work but is finally getting her feet back under her, is about to arrive back in Fandom with some interesting news and a new attitude. He's thinking of throwing a Solstice party (cause he had no idea what Christmas is). If this would fit with anyone's plans, please contact me? I haven't been around much, but when he gets back I'd like to get him more involved.

There was also the idea of creating a Fandom Idol... and having it simul-cast on the Pirate Radio at the school. I'm still interested in that if anyone's up for it....

ZOMG. Fandom Idol would be MAD!

I just don't know if there's enough townies for it.

We're currently mailing around - I'll include you on the next reply - do you have your email addy on your userinfo page?

Sure do.

If there aren't enough townies, we can always start preparations, and maybe by the time we're ready, there will be.

I wanted to bring in Aphrodite as a judge for Fandom Idol... *g*

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