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Hello, Fandom!

Have you signed up for a team yet? You've got until Tuesday!

As you all might have guessed at this point, Fandom Advent has gone a bit off the rails. Someone has co-opted the season by launching a weather satellite into Fandom skies, and after a week of charging up, it's about to start UNLOADING on the island on Monday morning. Beginning with the clouds rolling in, so it's not easy to find...

Research team, your job will be to determine the satellite is there at all, figure out its position, and deactivate it. Some of you will be receiving hints about how to do this, but we're keeping things open enough for creative ways to blast the damn thing out of the sky. There will be a post on Saturday in which you can play out this blasting to your heart's content; clues will be deployed starting Wednesday, but Town Hall will be open for your researching needs (dive into those archives!) as of Tuesday and Jesse will be there to do any herding and guiding.

Strike team! Bears are cute, right? Especially advent bears! Well, not these bears. As the weather satellite spins completely out of control on Saturday, MASSIVE bears will attack. A giant one half the size of the school will lead the charge, and slightly smaller ones will defend it. Stop it, before it smashes the school entirely! ... watch out for those mind-controlling attack reindeer, too. There will be a preplay for 'this is everyone grouping up for their Avengers moment' and 'this is where we defeat the big bear' purposes, all fighty in the middle will be liveplay.

So what's this advent going to look like?
I'm glad you asked! Here, have your events list. All of these events stack - so by Saturday, you'll have sharkicanes and snow angels messing up your day on top of all the bears. Fun, right?

MONDAY THE 14TH
- Sharkicanes attack! No, it's not a hurricane of shark this time, it's candy canes that traverse the newly-laid snow on the island like shark fins and attempt to drag people into the snowbanks to drown them.
- Powdered sugar falls from the sky periodically, turning characters flighty and childlike for a minute or so when it touches them.

TUESDAY THE 15TH
- Rock-candy icicles: which are delicious, but about as dangerous as real icicles if they're falling from the sky. Which they are.
- Marzipan boulders rolling around the island, obstructing stairs and traffic.

WEDNESDAY THE 16TH
- Snow angels attack! These angels resemble the Weeping Angels in their looks and movement pattern - they can only sneak up on you if you're not looking at them. If they're in your face, however, they start to attack -- with their claws and their fangs. Ever been hit by really dense ice? Ow.
- Rivers of lava-heated chocolate spring up left and right, cutting through the snow.

THURSDAY THE 17TH
- Lights slither across Fandom's streets, trying to strangle you - or drag you to some really mean, pointy holly wreaths.
- The mistletoe is back! But instead of stalking you until you kiss anyone, it hollers abuse at you.

FRIDAY THE 18TH
- Attack of the inflatables! Inflatable decorations spawn on the island and/or come to life if you've got any, with flesh as solid as any creature despite their looks, and they won't stop until they devour you whole.
- Fruitcakes appear outside your door, but they're brick-like and can't be moved. Don't trip, guys.

SATURDAY THE 19TH
- FINALE DAY! An earthquake rocks the island... and reveals a massive bear, eyes glowing red and attacking everyone. He's brought friends. And a bottle of off-brand soda.
- Evil reindeer rush through the streets, using their red noses to turn people into their thralls! ... Mind you, they're reindeer, so they'll probably just use you to find them food. Or attack people attacking them.
weirderthanthou: (jesse - ooc - wink wink)
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Hello, Fandom!

We're here to announce your Winter BDE 2020! It'll run from December 14th to December 19th. And we're not telling you what it is. Yet. Let's just say the island will be a moderately chaotic place losing its mind to holiday bliss in a slightly different way than usual. ... and last year.

What we are telling you is that we'll need a team of crack scientists and magicians to go camp out at Town Hall, or poke around their own workspaces to unveil, study and destroy a device causing havoc on the island. And we're also going to need a bunch of volunteers who are willing to fight something really big and fuzzy while they work on Saturday the 19th.

Everything else? Well, you'll find out next Saturday.

Now, here's your Fandom Advent for the week...

Monday, December 7th - One single rickshaw is covered in Christmas lights and chugs slowly through the streets.
Tuesday, December 8th - You wake up and there's a cookie on your pillow.
Wednesday, December 9th - Someone has left discarded Santa hats in your closet. They disappear when you try to put them on.
Thursday, December 10th - A reindeer is squatting on your roof. It won't leave. (Until the next day, of course.)
Friday, December 11th - Nothing seems to be happening? Except when you listen very carefully, something in your kitchen seems to be gently humming 'Carol of the Bells'.
Saturday, December 12th - Today's weather report predicts a small sprinkling of chocolate in the early afternoon.
Sunday, December 13th - Is that mulled wine coming out of your tap, or just bad grape soda? It tastes like bad grape soda.
weirderthanthou: (jesse - cleanse)
[personal profile] weirderthanthou
As requested, a post for all your brainstorming needs!

Let us know down here what you're looking for, or what you're thinking about doing. Need someone to join you in terrible memory swapping (that's one hell of a potential meet cute)? Need someone to fill your heart with liiiiiight? Have a few possible scenarios you want to play with but you're not sure who might be up for what with whom?

Well, that's what this post is for.

[[ have at! ]]

BDE Reminder!

Sunday, August 16th, 2020 08:29 am
my_own_advocate: (lucifer - too. much. netflix)
[personal profile] my_own_advocate
This is just your quick reminder that the BDE starts on Wednesday, August 19th!

No, there's still nothing to sign up for, but whatever, heads ups are cool.
weirderthanthou: (jesse - float like a feather)
[personal profile] weirderthanthou
Hello, Fandom!

It's time for your summer BDE! From August 19th through August 22nd, we are getting invaded by... *drumroll* NIGHT MARES.

... or, well, a radical offshoot of those Night Mares. They will sneak into Fandom early in the morning of Wednesday August 19th, taking up residence in the dark shadows of every home. They're here to feed on your deepest, darkest memories. They'll be weak, at first, coaxing nightmares from the denizens of Fandom in order to suck up that lovely terrible energy.

With time, they'll get stronger, drawing up bad memories even in the daytime hours - provided they can stay in the shadows, as they are allergic to light. And then come the weekend, the rain clouds come in...

ExpandMore details under the cut! )

And that's really all there is to it. Questions? Comments? Leave them under this post.
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[personal profile] sith_happened
Sign up over here by tonight for current characters to get kidnapped/NPCs to submit as newbies to get kidnapped for our lovely BDE that will start on Saturday.

Class sign-ups end on Friday night (over here) and it's super fine to have a head-canon using them for what your NPCs would be taking/teaching!

And in this post, please let us know if you're non-kidnapped student/teacher would be up for getting paired with an NPC that will not arrive for great "stuff to worry about at the picnic" justice!
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[personal profile] heroic_jawline
So there's good news and bad news. The good news is that the trainwreck of a shitstorm of a 2019 is over in two days. The bad news is that it has collectively sucked all of our brains so hard that we didn't have any new applications for the Spring 2020 session.

But we can work with that through our BDE! It turns out that we didn't just bring back an amazing collection of gluhwein mugs from our trip to Cologne: we also brought back a stowaway Krampus, the terrifying half-goat, half-demon coin flip of Jolly Ol' Saint Nick. He, if you aren't familiar with the legend, steals bad children (and townies and teachers) and takes them off to his lair to do various and vague nefarious things to them. He has also 'napped all of new students and teachers for the semester, so no one new will actually be showing up for the welcome picnic -- which is how will we kick off our BDE.

The timeline:
--The welcome picnic will continue as scheduled on Saturday, January 4th. We are looking for a few volunteers to be Big Siblings and Teaching Buddies whose siblings/buddies never arrive, as well as people who would like to invent and NPC a few new students/teachers for the event, kind of like you would for a Parents Weekend event (so please check in with people you'd be canon sharing with, however brief). The NPC students and teachers will finish the event, nope out hard from attending FH this semester, and disappear back into the multiverse. We also need a few PC volunteers to be kidnapped from the welcome picnic and join our NPC newbies and their extremely disgruntled bus driver. Krampus might also be spotted around town on that Saturday but would be written off as a new, extremely terrifying looking, teacher.

Fandom herself is doing a Random Event for the day of the welcome picnic, with presents appearing all over the place as a late gift for the new people who weren't there at Christmas. For non-kidnappees, the gifts just contain useful stuff like hair dryers, alarm clocks, bath products, desk lamps, etc, all things that students or teachers might need. For kidnappees that don't get grabbed by Krampus directly, they contain a creepy evil toy that drags them into the gift box, which contains a hellish portal straight to Krampus' sack. We'll contact the kidnappees to find out their preferences on getting 'napped.

--By the next day, people can definitely notice that we got smaller rather than larger following the welcome picnic and volunteers may assemble to try to figure out What's Wrong This Time, Dangit. The kidnappees and the NPCs will also get a chance to chat amongst themselves and try to come up with an escape plan from where Krampus has stuffed them: in the caldera of Ingvar's volcano. (Spoiler alert, their plan won't work.)

--By Monday, January 6th, researchers have found an ancient ritual of peace and hope at Yuletide that miiiight either banish Krampus or convince him the island's inhabitants have the Spirit of Christmas and carry it with them even though it's technically past December 25th. (We'll pick a Very Lucky Researcher to discover what this is.)

--On Tuesday, January 7th, we Attempt the Ritual. And that really ought to work, but not everybody is ever going to be wholehearted about it, and some people aren't Christian and could rightfully be annoyed by the whole Christmas is Not A Secular Holiday To People Of Other Religions Who Get It Shoved In Their Faces thing, and some people are aliens and Don't Get Christmas, and some people are disillusioned because life happens, blahblahblah. So Krampus is kranky and sends out his army of creepy evil toys to destroy us. Because Fandom is super excited to see evil toys again. Freaking 2019.

The good part of the fight: it's super obvious that the toys are coming from Ingvar, so we know where to go to rescue our friends! Plus Ingvar, who is now a toddler and was just trying to Get Into the Spirit of Christmas, Okay, is also annoyed by his new friend being not as nice as he'd thought and will help us (well, "help") with his own army of misfit creepy dolls and stuff. Thanks? Sorta? Ingvar? Together, Ingvar's toys and our fighters will free the NPCs and the kidnapped characters, and be Fully Done With Christmas, Thanks Ever So.

Questions? Comments? Really great ideas for NPCs to get kidnapped? Please sign up by Thursday, January 2nd!
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Well, the antics of Team Ill-Fated Computer Repair sure have stirred up the hive - enough that they have made a crucial error and informed the island when the group is getting brought to the Junkyard and that, friends? That gives the island enough time to plan.

Friday
As was mentioned in the previous writeup, Friday is for planning and preparation.

Bad guys!
You're all going to be on high-alert right now. There is proof of a vast conspiracy on the island and it came scarily close to causing some real damage. Now is not the time to be subtle! Loom. Intimidate. Make it as hard as possible for these rebels to get anywhere. They must be stopped!

Rebels!
This is time for you to go for broke. The island has been sabotaged and Kitty has the only clue, an empty nesting doll. Your friends are getting dragged off to the Junkyard on Saturday, so that only gives you about twenty-four hours to plan a daring escape for them. While the Daring Escape itself will take place on Saturday in the Junkyard, that doesn't mean that we don't have time for a few crackpot ideas on Friday, too. Stockpile weapons, make grandiose plans, plot ambushes - however your character would get ready for a guerrilla battle is a-okay. Maybe you wanna do a bit of counter-espionage on the bad guys. Check in with people, make plans, have fun with this.

Folks who have been given items to find, Friday is the day to do it! Make posts, you can either find them by fiat, or involve other people. Bad guys, show up and heckle, try to figure out what they're doing.

A (bad guy free) post will go up Friday afternoon for everyone to bring what they've collected and try to figure out what next.

Saturday
At high noon, the doors of the Toybox will open and the members of Team Ill-Fated Computer Repair will begin their walk down to the Junkyard. That gives your characters plenty of time to set up and make preparations for the storming of the Bastille Junkyard. Bad guys, you get to join on the walk, and fight in the big brawl once it's joined!

Here, pretty much anything goes. You know all those cool plans you came up with on Friday? Put them into action today! Tear down Car Crusher and Junk Biter! Fight the oppressive police state! Rescue your friends and show the Toymaker that you're not puppets! Even if some of you are, literally, puppets!

You'll have to take down the Toymaker and maybe, if you're really, really lucky, you'll rescue more than you bargained for, too.

At the same time, the strike team will be down trying to fix the mechanism below. They already have their instructions, except for one last thing...

Because, you see, even when the Toymaker's control is broken, the island has gotten so turned around all summer that she's not going to know quite how to get home. So once the strike team finishes draining the Toymaker's power away, some of the equipment is going to punch up through to the surface - conveniently, right in the middle of the Junkyard, where everyone else is going to be fighting.

There, everybody needs to help calibrate the island by reaching out to the sensors and focusing on a memory they have of the island. A good memory, clear and pure, where they were happy. With everybody inputting their memories and good feelings (don't worry, you don't lose them!), the island will be able to break out of that AU pocketverse and finally find her way home.

Once Fandom breaks out of the pocketverse, indoctrinated characters can come back to their right minds and dropped characters will vanish from the island. You'll all arrive home, where Causeways and portals work again and the island will think really hard and really long before taking another vacation ever again.
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Signups for groups and items end tomorrow morning at 10am EST (the best time zone)/2pm GMT.

Signups for ending indoctrination close tomorrow morning at 6 am EST/10 am GMT. If you haven't gotten your characters signed up by then, they wake up on Wednesday!

Signups Here

BDE Signups Reminder

Thursday, August 8th, 2019 10:19 pm
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy "Banzai" Li (zzzCollegeAU: Nerd)
[personal profile] spin_kick_snap
Hey all, please don't forget to sign up for the BDE over yonder!

We still have plenty of room for people on Team Ill-Fated Computer Repair, the Strike Team, and finding items! Most importantly, people should still sign up for the days they want to throw up the indoctrination and become themselves again!

Thanks!
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It will probably come as a terrific shock to you, but there's a reason the island hasn't been able to make it home. You see, once upon a time, long, long ago, in a galaxy very much like this one, there was once an entity named...The Celestial Toymaker, aka "The Way Ingvar Gets All His Creepy, Evil Toys." Fandom Island has tangled with him before - back when he kidnapped people from the island and made them wander through his creepy living dungeon full rooms stolen from alternate realities.

Looks like he's still up to his old tricks. Only this time, rather than kidnapping people, he's kidnapped the whole damn island.

Welcome, dear friends, to ExpandBabes In Toyland )
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Hello, Fandom!

On April 29th, it’s time again for our Spring BDE! Yep, everyone is going to wake up on Tuesday morning to find out that a shield has appeared around Fandom, blocking off the Causeway. OH NO! What danger awaits us?

… nothing is going to happen. In fact, portals off the island will work just fine. Two intrepid Fandomites will examine the barrier and find out it’s a protective spell meant to keep bad things out, not good people in. Once that spell is broken, the shield will give way to reveal…

Expand...that vampires have overrun Baltimore. )

And now: sign-ups! Please make sure to get yours in by Friday, April 27th!
sith_happened: (Vader: ZOMG BIKINI)
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Greetings and salutations! The end of the semester is nigh, bringing with it thoughts of holiday treats, strange polar bears handing out sodas, and the BDE! This year we're bringing back a foe we haven't faced since the dawn of time Winter of 2006: SNOW MONSTERS!

They're bigger, they're badder, they are really unhappy about global warming!

...and they still bear an uncanny resemblance to Calvin and Hobbes' snowmen.

Here's how it'll play out:

Wednesday, December 19: A blizzard comes into Fandom, knocking out regular power supplies due to the heavy snow and winds. Smartypants with generators feel smug, the community center and school spontaneously generate fireplaces for coziness/not freezing to death for those without generators to slumber party it up. In the heavy snow of the blizzard, the arrival of a Giant Glacier of Doom, snapped off from the Arctic due to climate change and floating over by Ingvar, goes relatively unnoticed.
Thursday, December 20: It is still blizzarding. This is clearly not an Advent calendar shenanigan, and also it's flipping cold outside. The generators owned by the smartypants start being destroyed by *dun-dun-dun* snoooooow monsters, brought to Fandom via the Giant Glacier of Doom. The monsters are only appearing in singles/pairs for now, and can be modded for your fighty needs. You can also ask a friendly neighborhood mod to play a fight sequence out with you. The Glacier of Doom can also be seen through the snow, along with the snow monsters on it practicing their dance moves, carrying placards protesting global warming, and plotting to kill us all.
Friday, December 21: The blizzard has finally stopped but there is now a good two feet of snow on the ground, with drifts that can completely cover doorways. It's really tough to get around unless you are a snow monster. The snow monsters are tooootally ready to get you if you pop out of the few places that are warm, and are now running around in larger gangs of five-to-ten. Clearly they've got to go. Plotting to get rid of them commences!
Saturday, December 22: Big fighty/protest/dance scenes in town and outside the school walls. Research teams get together to combine their amazing/ridiculous ideas and send what monsters remain--but more importantly, the glacier--away. And then there's hot cocoa.

How can snow monsters hurt my character?

They're made of snow and ice, so think concussions, broken bones, and puncture wounds from icicles. If your character gets knocked out and left in the snow, exposure could also be a problem.

How do we beat them?!

Well, they're made of snow, so they melt. Coffee, hot water, lightsabers, battery-powered hair dryer, peeing on them (WE REMEMBER YOU, OLD SHEP), are all effective, but the monsters can re-form a few minutes later as long as there's still snow around. Making sure they're all gone means getting rid of the glacier itself, but we can't melt it down completely because that would raise the level of the ocean too much.

To mix this up, we've decided to try out two research groups--one centered in town and one in the school since getting between the two areas is going to be tough--to brainstorm solutions. We have a few ideas as back-ups, but we wanted to see what you crazy people came up with on your own. We'll limit the research groups to four characters each for ease of conversation/coding and will RNG it on Sunday, December 16 if we get more volunteers than we need. We've also added a brainstorming OOC thread down here for those who have amazing ideas but not necessarily a character who could pull them off.

Since we're close to Christmas and the New Year, this is going to be a pretty light, fun event where you can get as involved as your RL lets you. We will be preplaying the glacier removal, but everything else will be live!

Questions, comments, funny stories?
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Hey folks! This is both a quick reminder that you can still sign up for the BDE over yonder until tomorrow evening, and a little bit of extra OCD for you all.

Specifically, for the wood-dwellers: happy to have you aboard! We just want to know exactly when you're planning to be abducted - among the first wave on Friday afternoon, the second on Saturday morning, or the final one on Sunday. Not only are we trying to make sure the spread is right, but we're also going to RNG one character from Sunday for a task in the finale. So if you post to that - please let us know if you don't want to take part in the RNG.

OCD below!

BDE: Into The Woods

Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 06:20 am
rebelseekspizza: (dante white: kinda hipster)
[personal profile] rebelseekspizza
Hello, Fandom!

Time goes fast, doesn't it? It definitely feels that way, because your summer BDE will be happening from Friday, August 10th through Sunday, August 12th! Specifically, the afternoon of Friday, August 10th, when the unexplored wooded area will be cloaked in shadow, impenetrable, and draw to it unwitting Fandomites...

Yep, some of you are getting lost in the woods! On Friday Afternoon, Saturday Morning and Sunday Morning, a spell will come over various Fandomites that will drive them to walk into the woods. There, they'll become trapped, sapped of powers, with the ghosts of sins past that roam in the dark. OooooOOOooooooh...

Well... ghosts of sins past...

Specifically, they'll come face to face with the ghostly reenactments of terrible things seen by inanimate objects (anything that can be reasonably anthropomorphised) in their lives before Fandom: that whale-headed coatrack in the hall of your childhood home, perhaps, or that one plush toy you had when you were ten that just didn't seem right... ... effigies of which are also roaming the woods, attacking people left and right. ETA: Or as I put it later today, "... basically objects are taking your characters to account through ghostly apparitions/replays and attacks by giant versions of those objects, and what crimes they're upset about and how they do that is otherwise up to you."

In order to save their friends, the rest of Fandom must band together, find their way into the forest, and defeat the evil that lies within the woods.

Check out the descriptions in the OCD below, and tell us if you have any questions!
intotheout: (meow)
[personal profile] intotheout
Hi folks! Just a reminder, sign ups for this spring's BDE close tomorrow night! So head on over here if you want to help research, close a portal, or get eaten by a monster!
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[personal profile] livingartifact
Hello! We interrupt your regularly scheduled Wednesday to bring you important news: this spring's BDE!

Have you ever gone out with some friends for a night on the town, looked at your beverage for the evening, and thought to yourself "this would be way more fun if this drink gave me superpowers"? Well you're in luck. On Fandom, from April 19-22, that's just what those fun social cocktails are going to do. Which is good, because cocktail superpowers will be the only things that can get rid of the evil, soul-eating monsters.

ExpandThe basic rundown )

ExpandCocktails )

ExpandTremens )

ExpandBut my character can't have alcohol/drink liquids at all )

ExpandCoffee )

tl;dr

From the night of Thursday, April 19 through the evening of Sunday, April 22, cocktails in Fandom will give you superpowers. Which you can use to fight off evil monsters. Coffee will heal you up afterwards.

There are a few headcounts/sign ups below, and of course, ask me all of your questions! Sign ups will be open until 11:59 pm PST Wednesday, April 18th.
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[personal profile] rebelseekspizza
Hey all!

Sign-ups for the BDE close tomorrow night, so get yours in now! And please don't forget to tell us if your evil AU character is available to fight in the preplay. We can use a few more baddies!
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[personal profile] suitably_heroic
Hey, Fandom! Signed up for the BDE yet? If not - or if you already have but you're looking for ideas - this post is for you. Or if you already HAVE signed up AND you have ideas (we're jealous), let us know your plans down below and maybe someone'll be inspired!

[[ ocd up! ]]
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[personal profile] rebelseekspizza
Hey, Fandom! It's that time of the season again! From Thursday, the 14 of December to Sunday, the 17th, last year's End of the World AU is coming back - in reverse!

Sure, Monster Zoe's been destroyed, and the future island reattached to the rest of the world - but as it turns out, the rest of the world also lies in ashes. (Albeit a little less full of giant crazy monster-bosses). A tough sell for a people already beaten down and broken - and some of them have snapped. Certain of the world's inevitable doom, they construct a cobbled-together time-machine to return to Fandom and bring the world to a quicker, more merciful end.

A day later, fellow AU-ites with a more optimistic view of the world will find out about their plans and follow them to Fandom, in an effort to stop them from summoning a nameless horror from the depths. But by then, AU-folk-gone-cult will have unleashed a sickness onto the island that can turn the locals into gibbering, cultish accomplices - and started the ritual to unleash the beast from the sea.

So what kind of AU characters can I app for this?

Whether you go for Camp Cult or Camp Save The World, you can app an AU counterpart for any character you play or have played in the past. Yes, even if you didn't play in this AU before. Yes, even if you're not an active player at the moment. Everyone is welcome.

All of the AU characters are still hollowing, slowly losing their memories over time, but that's a gradual process. They can be as far along in it as you want, provided they still have enough consciousness to make decisions. Like jumping into a portal across time and space.

Evil AU people are encouraged to try to fly under the radar as long as possible, to avoid their plan being found out - even if their good islandmates are spilling the beans on day two.

And what about our regular characters?

They can stay regular, or they can be affected by the plague the eeeeevil AU-ites bring with them. That'll cause a slow process of being susceptible to suggestion on day 1, to being fully crazy and all-in on the summoning-the-Eldritch-from-the-deep on day 4. They can start changing on any day of the BDE, and will be cured by the end.

What else do you need?

We'll need a research team to start research on Friday into a way to disrupt the ritual, and a strike team to take out the summoners on Sunday. That will be preplayed, unless everyone who signs up prefers liveplay.

ETA: What if my character is dead in the AU?

The cultists got some practice in before ascending to Eldritch-summoning - and they brought some of the dead back with them.

Those restored dead function mostly the same as the living do, but they can be controlled by evil AU cultists because of the ritual (ie, they can be commanded to do things). So any formerly dead person who comes back will either have to avoid the cultists, or wind up doing their bidding.

The deadline for sign-ups is Monday, December 11th. OCD up!
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[personal profile] heroic_jawline
SHARKICANE! Because Sharknados are so 2013.

A long time ago on an island not so far away, Jeff, the God of Biscuits, really wanted to open a bakery in Fandom but he was short on the cash he needed. Naturally, he went to another, less minor, god for a loan to cover the difference.

...he chose Eshu, the Nigerian mischief god. Jeff: great at baked goods, not so great on noticing when choices will come around to bite him later. Eshu decided to lose the loan in a card game transfer the debt to a group of actual loan sharks because it'll be hilarious. He's sitting off on the sidelines with popcorn, and Fandom will get to deal with SHARKICANE: THE MORE METEOROLOGICALLY PLAUSIBLE DISASTER FOR THE EAST COAST.

Rolls right off the tongue, huh?

So how will this work?

At the beginning of the week and entirely unrelated (probably. Jeff owes some weather gods money too), a hurricane will begin to develop in the Atlantic.

On Thursday, August 3, the loan sharks will pay a visit to Jeff, and make him an offer he can't refuse: pay the interest of his loan or get eaten on Saturday. They gave him a couple days, y'know? They didn't have to do that. It's also announced that the hurricane will make landfall on Saturday, so everyone is encouraged to buy flashlights and candles, non-perishable food, and toilet paper because it's not a disaster if you haven't bought toilet paper.

On Friday, August 4, the loan sharks' enforcer sharks begin circling the island, catcalling Jeff and making generally terrible fish puns. Winds start kicking up on the island and it begins to rain. The waves on the shore get more menacing.

On Saturday, August 5, against most known rules of non-Sharknado physics, the hurricane scoops up the sharks and begins dropping them--and a ton of rain and wind--onto the island. Yes, they can crash through your house! Yes, they can swim in the lake! Yes, you can kill them with chainsaws!

...and yes, they knock out the power for all of your cuddling-in-the-dark-and-missing-air-conditioning shenanigans.

On Sunday, August 6, a group of heroic Fandomites will test an Extremely Good Theory of Hurricane Dissipation. Namely, dropping a huge ice cube (or a few dozen frozen sharks…) into the eye of the hurricane. Is this a terrible idea? Very likely! Has this ever stopped anyone on this island? NOPE. While our heroes/heroines are doing this, the winds are still blowing, the rain is still coming down, and the sharks are still eating NPCs you don't like and wreaking havoc on the teal deer and alot populations.

What do we need from you?

--We need nerdy volunteers to discover the theory that giant ice cubes can destroy hurricanes, and volunteers to fly into a shark-ladened hurricane and chuck frozen sharks into it. We also need people who can figure out how to freeze sharks.

--We need business owners/homeowners to volunteer their places up for storm/shark damage.

--We need at least one person to kill a shark with a chainsaw.

So! Questions, comments, amazing fish puns?
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Salutations, Fandom! We promised you more details about the BDE, and lo and behold, we bring you details

DAY ONE: The island wakes up and finds that the mainland is gone. Any kind of mainland. The expanse around them is all ocean, and mobile phones and the internet have stopped working. By afternoon, tremors are hitting the island.

Reason for concern, right?

Of course, rooting out the tremors will reveal that there's a smallish infestation of giant easter bunnies - about the size of a house - in the park, and every time they jump, it shakes the island. Oops. Research team? Hit the books!

DAY TWO: The research team has been hitting the books. They figure out something has gone totally wrong downstairs, and root out a way to fix it.

Meanwhile, the amount of crazy animals on the island has exploded. What will you see - and probably have to fight, they're all aggressive - on the island? Jackalopes, snipes, alligators spitting goldfish, drop bears, hoop snake, wild haggis, the ferocious Nauga (where Naugahyde comes from, naturally), and the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.

Oh, and an alot of teal. Multiple alots of teal. These aren't aggressive in the fighty sense, but they will totally stalk anyone who talks too much, in large groups.

DAY THREE: We journey into the catacombs of the island! Deep in the machinery of the island, you will fight a nearly endless supply of crazy critters - including the dreaded gremlin-squirrel hybrid - on your way to throw the switch that will set everything to rights.

Wot we need from you
Sign-ups! We need research teamers for the weekend (April 15th and April 16th), a headcount of who wants to go into the island's catacombs for April 17th, and anyone who wants to be the one who throws the switch will need to throw their hat into the ring in the appropriate OCD. Deadline for sign-ups is Thursday, April 13th.

That's it?
Yep! It's a nice, fun, no-frills Easter throwdown. Mod your own crack, or bug us for an NPC or brainstorming for plans!

Upcoming Events!

Sunday, April 2nd, 2017 12:52 pm
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We interrupt your genderswap weekend currently in progress for an announcement about some upcoming events. First, on Saturday, April 8th the island is bursting into song... again! Yes, it's the return of Once More With Fandom, the forcing-you-to-sing-your-feelings-out extravaganza we all know and love.

Our second announcement is about the BDE. This one will be scheduled for Easter weekend, April 15th-17th. Because it's Easter, it'll be a chill, play-as-you-wish affair with absolutely minimal sign-ups, so anyone can opt in or out as they please and on an hour-by-hour basis. Something is shorting in the bowels of the island, sending the island across the planet to god knows foggy where, and cutting off all communications.

Clearly, one of those terrible, soul-breaking BDEs is about to happen again and we should all be terrified. Right? Right?

... Instead, the catacombs underneath the island are going to spit up a veritable bonanza of weird mutant animals to invade the island, with earthquake-inducing easter bunnies at the forefront. The only way to stop them is to go on a hunt inside the machinery of the island.

And damn, but it's full of bunnies.

We'll post more information - and sign-ups! - in a couple of days.

Questions, comments, pie?
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... not to be confused with the normal Saturday brainstorming post that went up earlier.

Hi, folks! Sign-ups have closed, now it's time to brainstorm! You're all good to go, so consider your sign-ups okayed. This post is here for a couple of things:

- Coordinating backstories between villagers and the newly-hollowed or already-bemonstered;
- Setting up fights between regular folks and monsters or regular folks and bosses;
- Anything else you might want to play with.

Note to anyone signed up as a fighter and/or a boss: We have selected two bosses to include in the finale and contacted those players accordingly. Anyone who signed up as a fighter will be distributed across these two bosses and EVIL ZOE, with the first two fights happening on Saturday - preplayed - and the last one happening on early Sunday morning, also preplayed.

That means anyone signed up as a fighter can already expect one fight. It also means that if you applied for a boss and you weren't contacted by us, you... can still play a boss! Either by posting your boss in open posts across the BDE, or by hooking up with any would-be fighters who'd like a crack at a boss outside our finale path, right here in this post.

If that doesn't make sense... ocd up!

Reminder: BDE!

Saturday, November 26th, 2016 11:23 am
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Hey guys!

This is just a reminder that if you want to play an AU copy of your character in the BDE, or play another role, sign-ups close on Thursday, December 1st!
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Okay, so when we first came up with this BDE, we did not expect we'd be living under the actual apocalypse when we ran it. Sorry.

On the other hand: here's your chance to FIGHT THE FICTIONAL APOCALYPSE. From Wednesday, December 7th through to Sunday, December 11th, post-apocalyptic Fandom will merge with Fandom itself, cutting the island off from the rest of the world and forcing everyone to confront their AU selves from a world where things - we're not saying how, what, or which - went catastrophically wrong.

Yes, even worse than a Trump Presidency.

Wednesday will see flickers of our post-apocalyptic AU arriving on island, washing across various locations with the fog: if you want your character to not be around for this BDE, they can take these scares as a 'KAY, TIME TO GET AWAY FROM THIS PLACE' and bail. From Thursday on, however, the island will be wreathed in fog, and strange and twisted creatures will roam the island. Fandomites will wake up to find their homes and businesses in disrepair, with monsters potentially behind every door. (Even the dorms will not necessarily be safe - the only 'safe space' will be the shanty settlement in the park.)

And soon enough, they'll discover that many of these monsters used to be people they know.

Okay, so what kind of AU selves are we talking about?
Whatever terrible events transpired on Fandom to make the AU world that way, it ate at the memories of those on-island. The deterioration of memory for these AU selves can be at whatever level you choose, though we do stipulate that no one remembers the actual event that made things this way.

First comes forgetting. Then comes the changing. There's a certain point where enough memories are lost that a person goes hollow; people at this stage will be like zombies, violent but empty-eyed. The changing process continues after this, twisting their bodies further, taking significant traits and expanding on them to monstrous - and sometimes monstrously beautiful - levels. We don't want to hark back too much on the game that inspired this BDE, because we're not taking many of its rules, but an AU copy of your character could wind up grotesque but beautiful or just grotesque - it's up to you.

Eventually, the change will make enormous monsters of them all, if they survive the earlier stages. The biggest and most powerful of them all will eventually gravitate to places that are familiar to them, even if they are almost entirely out of memories. There'll be a cap on these, but we'll talk a little more about that later.

One thing does need to be said up front: we are placing no active limits on anyone in the range of 'still has a bunch of their memories, but not much' to 'zombie, beginning to change into something terrible'. That means not just all active characters - not just all active players! - on the island can be played in this range. Dropped characters can also be apped for this.

So there are different categories...?
Yes! Four of them!

1. AU Villagers with most memories intact
These are capped at two per person and no dropped characters. Those people who, in our AU, have managed to hold on to most of their memories will congregate in a small shanty settlement built in the Park. There, they are just trying to survive and cling on to sanity and companionship.

Characters who cannot rot in this way - immortal mutants not truly made of flesh, angel-demon hybrids who don't respond to the infections of mortal men, etc - also fall under this category, but if you're planning to lean that way, please let us know in your application so we can keep a tally of the more-or-less healthy. (Though again, even these people can't remember exactly what happened.)

2. The hollow
Close to zombies, the hollow are still alive, but their memories have passed and they now largely rely on old creature instincts. They're violent and will lash out at anyone, but they are still fundamentally human: no strange feats of power, or anything.

You can app any character as this, including dropped characters.

3. The monstrous
These are hollows that have started to change, but are not particularly powerful yet. Depending on what your character was like as a 'normal person', they'll see attributes increased - greater strength if they were a bodybuilder, flaming arms if they had a firey personality, whatever makes sense to you - and their bodies will be in a state of slowly-twisting.

You can app any character as this, including dropped characters.

4. The bosses
The truly monstrous and the truly bizarre. These characters will have mutated into something almost unrecognizable, deadly and powerful. They flock to one place or another from their memories and stay there, but they'll destroy anything in their path.

These are limited to one per person, and we'll pick up to four of these at random for our finale. (Please let us know if you can't play an antagonist in the finale.) These are limited to active characters in game.

Do I need a separate journal for this?
Yep; playing an alternate version of your character will involve making a new journal, so people can keep your character's real self and AU self apart.

So walk me through what's going to happen, exactly
On Wednesday, as we said up above, there will be flashes of this AU world across the island. People can leave until midnight. Then the fog will set in and block the island off from the rest of the world. The island will twitch and go grey and post-apocalyptic, rotting and terrible. Characters will not be replaced by their AU selves - they'll be able to encounter their AU selves out in the world instead.

Since the collection in the library will also be replaced by post-apocalyptic Fandom's books, a research team will be able to start digging into the question of what happened, how things can be put back to rights, and most immediately important, how to defeat the terrible bosses taking up space in various Fandom hotspots.

Like, say, the horrific twisted creature that was once your Principal who now haunts the upper levels of the school. That one.

By Saturday, the research team will have found ways to defeat the boss monsters. People will be able to fight the various boss monsters, defeat Boss Zoe, and return things to normal. WOO.

And how's that finale thing going to work?
Easy! A few days before the BDE starts, we'll post the names of all the bosses people have applied to play. Other players can then indicate an interest in fighting this boss - or not. The only one that's truly vital to the plot is Zoe, but the more we have, the more we can raise the stakes.

Questions? Comments? Pie? Otherwise, the application forms are below! There will be a brainstorming post closer to the day.

All apps are due on December 1st.

BDE finale day!

Sunday, July 17th, 2016 01:12 am
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Everything from the last four days is still happening, but now there's a full on DESSERT STORM. Cotton candy cloud cover is complete. Chocolate and cola rain is falling all over the island, accompanied by high winds, rock candy hail and powdered sugar blizzards abound. Discorded animals are running amock in the mess, and Discord himself is cackling delightedly from the center of the hedge maze.

Which is just where our heroes have to venture.

BDE Day Four!

Saturday, July 16th, 2016 12:57 am
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It's pretty well nutbars out there.
  • All the stuff from Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday is still going on
  • Several buildings around town are now floating
  • Every statue and lamppost in town is wearing a propeller beanie
  • The gremlins that don't have wings are the size of linebackers and playing pranks on people instead of biting
  • Giant bunnies and squirrels with pointed fangs are menacing people out and about
Discord is still available for personal effects, and the hedge maze is learning how to lure people in on its own.

BDE Day Three!

Friday, July 15th, 2016 12:17 am
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Here is your weirdness forecast for Friday!
  • Everything from Wednesday and Thursday
  • Pears have faces and voracious appetites for lint
  • Some of the grass near the duck pond is alive and cheers when it gets rained on
  • Empty lots, open spaces (like lawns and beaches), and the water around Fandom is all checkerboard patterned
  • Chocolate rain is still isolated, but getting more widespread. Some spots are getting powdered sugar flurries
  • Some of the gremlins have wings
  • There's a large stage at the entrance to the hedge maze in the park with a big red and gold and fur trimmed throne on it.
Discord will be holding his coronation as King of Fandom (because monarchies are the epitome of chaos) in the afternoon (posted early for timezones). Folks are welcome and encouraged to try to attack! There will be Discorded wildlife to draw them off, or Discord himself can transform their weapons or otherwise dodge their attacks.

BDE Day Two!

Thursday, July 14th, 2016 12:46 am
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Hope everyone's having fun so far! Here's our island wackiness for Thursday:
  • Everything that happened Wednesday
  • The cotton candy clouds are now covering most of the island, with periodic spots of chocolate rain. Smaller clouds may still stalk people around the island.
  • The streets are now soap! All of them. Including the stairs. With the ambient atmospheric humidity from those chocolate milk storms, it's gonna be pretty slippery
  • The hedge maze is fully grown with ten-foot hedges, and it's developing tempting pockets of creepy wackiness. Is there a wacky thing that will mess with your character's head really hard? It's quite possibly in there. ETA: Also, there's a giant tower free-standing stone fairy-tale tower in the middle of it.
  • Bunnies have grown giraffe legs and are stampeding through the dorm grounds
  • Teal deer are wearing water-squirting boutineers aimed at face height
  • An alot of polka dots has taken over the Perk. It makes a mean Americano.
Today also marks the beginning of Discord showing up in person! If you'd like to meet with Discord, ping in below with a link to where you'd like him and a note on what, if anything, you want him to do to your character! Critters are moddable, or also available for NPCing, if you like.

BDE Day One!

Wednesday, July 13th, 2016 12:12 am
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Here's your list of island-wide and large scale effects for Wednesday!
  • People have been turned to ponies! Or griffons or dragons. More species = more chaos!
  • A hedge maze is beginning to grow in the park. All features of the park are still accessible; the route there is just more convoluted. By sundown the hedges will be about five feet tall.
  • Dessert weather report: partly cotton-candy-cloudy with scattered patches of possibly semi-sentient chocolate milk rain. Clouds are low-flying and prone to picking on solo targets, especially anyone who already looks miserable
  • Cartoon physics have begun. Please begin to stock your bicycle pumps for squashing incidents and comically undersized umbrellas to use as parachutes after walking off unexpected cliffs!
These effects are all moddable. NPC encounters, including with Discord, will begin tomorrow.
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Just because our characters are forgetting doesn't mean we have to. This is your reminder that sign ups for Element teams and research clues are due by tomorrow, at 11:59 PST. We could especially use a couple people for the research clues! Sign ups are here.

And now we return you to your regular amnesiac programming, already in progress.
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Hi folks! It's that time again! Just in time for your characters to not even have begun to recover from losing all their memories, we're having our summer BDE! Because when it rains in Fandom, it pours. Chocolate milk.

You see, a very special guest will be coming to town, arriving Tuesday night, July 12th, and sticking around right through Sunday, July 17th: Equestria's very own answer to malicious whimsy: Discord!

ExpandWho now? )

ExpandThe plot )

ExpandSo what does this mean for me? )

ExpandThe signups )
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Hey, all! Interrupting this AU Kids weekend to bring you a reminder that signups for the BDE are still there! You can still have your character infected without signing up, but the other threads will close tomorrow night at midnight CST.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled children.
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Welcome, boys and girls, to this season's BDE! We're going to be going into some X-Men lore for this one, so let me introduce the Brood!

The Brood are a parasitic, insectoid alien race from Marvel Cosmic. They travel around, looking for people to infect with their spawn because that's the super disturbing way they reproduce. Basically, they stab you with one of their tentacles, and you're implanted with an embryo, who will in a pretty short amount of time take over your body and mind and then kill you, leaving a Brood in your place. And having most recently tangled with Kitty, they're going to have tracked her back to Fandom, where there are plenty of unsuspecting people who they can take over!

Kitty's sorry, y'all.

Expandthe plot! )

Expandon being infected )

And of course since the call will be going out to alumni, this means that the plot is open to all. If you have a character off island who might be able to help out in some way, bring 'em on in!

Not only are there signups in here, but there's a brainstorming thread. Get your Brood revolt on! Band together to fight! Figure out how to make an IG space battle work!

BDE NPCs!

Saturday, December 19th, 2015 11:19 am
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While today's great spectacle involves the coming of an empathy plague, where you'll all feel each other's feels, yesterday's monsters and visions are still running amock. You can find their descriptions here.

Need an NPC? Drop us a comment in the appropriate OCD, and the admin team will try to get there as soon as possible. We don't know all the offered monsters, so we'll roll with what we know.

Want to play an NPC? Did you submit a monster, or do you have permission from the submittee, and do you want to play a round of monster? You can let us know down below that you'd like to NPC. We have a special account set aside for icon space if you need it - shoot us a line if you do.
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As of this morning, the BDE has begun! Characters will receive terrible nightmares until waking this morning, after which the island is going to get blanketed by monsters and other terrible things. The three options for this are outlined here.

We've got a whole range of baddies from people's canons lined up: you can find their descriptions here for modding purposes. These Generic (or less-than-Generic) Mooks will be running around the island all through today and the weekend for fighty purposes, except for in the usual safe areas.

If you want just any bad guy from any of those offered in NPC form, poke us here and we'll set you up with whatever monsters we are familiar enough with. (If you're a player who'd like to step in and do some NPCing in that regard, also feel free to mention as such in the comments on this post so people can find you, but this isn't something we expect of anyone. We have a fresh new NPC account set aside that we're more than willing to share the password for, for icon space)
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Hey-o, Fandom!

As we announced last week, this semester's BDE is running a little late: December 19th through 21st! No, that's not because we ran out of time - it's because the Three Ghosts of Christmas are visiting Fandom! And they're cranky.

And a little early, truth be told, but they've been asleep for a while: it happens.

The Past
On the morning of Friday, December 18th, the Ghost of Christmas Past will be the first to set foot on the island. He will appear to islanders in their dreams, being cryptic and drowning them in imagery from their pasts. Upon waking, Fandomites will find that their nightmares have come to life.

This can happen in three different ways. One: creatures that tormented your character in the past might appear on island, aggressive and ready to attack anyone who passes by. For instance, demons from Dante's limbo might manifest themselves across the island. These will be our baddies for the weekend - if you want to contribute yours to the pool, please describe them in the OCD below. Any such creature will disappear if it's been damaged enough.

Two: Moments from your character's past might replay themselves in the physical world around the character, visible to everyone around them. For instance, Darth Sion might appear to reenact the beginning of the traumatizing battle that nearly cost Atton his arm. When the moment is finished, whatever NPCs were conjured will vanish.

Three: Something evil from a character's past appears, as in option two, but they'll taunt the character instead of reenacting anything. They will also vanish with time, but that time can vary from a few minutes to the entire stretch of the plot. So Darth Sion might appear, but instead of repeating the moment, he'll have some new choice taunts for Atton. Note that all of this hails from the character's subconscious-- so the constructs will only know what the character knows, and say what the character would expect them to say.

Creatures conjured through the Ghost of Christmas Past will keep turning up on the island during the BDE, and you'll be able to continue to have visions and so on until the morning of Monday the 21st.

The Present
On Saturday, December 19th, Fandomites will receive visions chastising them for matters they've left unresolved at that present time. The Ghost of Christmas Present will appear during these dreams. Upon waking, characters will find they can feel everyone else's feels. Yep: it's an empathy plague! Considering characters can still be tormented by their visions at this point, it's not gonna be a lot of fun feels, either. Some people will be better at shunting this stuff away than others (such as Jedi), but emotional shielding won't work as well as it usually does.

The Future
And yep: on Sunday, December 20th, it's time for the Ghost of Christmas Future, who comes bearing confusing nightmares with ghoulish imagery of the worst times in people's futures. These don't need to be what canonically happens; much like Reunion Weekend, you can pick and choose from any number of AUs you come up with yourself.

When Fandom wakes, the future-visions won't go. They'll remain as glimpses in the corner of your eyes... or tableaux which, like Christmas Past, play out in front of all of your friends. At this point, the magic will have seeped into the buildings themselves-- walls might suddenly manifest terrifying phrases from a character's future in screaming white letters, again, visible to everyone. For instance, Edward might get Nothing is true, everything is permissible - the Assassin's Creed - or have a wall suddenly declare Justice runs in crimson rivers; Dante might see the words I loved you, brother somewhere.

Everything from days one and two will remain active, too, which'll lead to a nice clusterfuck.

But wait, this lasts four days!
Yep! Our research team will discover on Sunday that the solution involves finding the True Meaning of Christmas (TM), and the books will be clear that it helps to have little happy children around, too. Kids under 8 will be immune to the ghosts and their effects, so they won't have to fear any harm. On Sunday night, a group of fighters will create a safe corridor towards the park, while organizers set up for a rollicking early Christmas party.

Monday morning will see a Very Fandom Christmas Celebration-- and the joy will disperse those nasty ghosts.

Anyway, sign-ups follow down below! Your deadline is Tuesday, December 15th.

ETA: The OCD for the fighty team mentions Friday night; this should be Sunday night. Apologies.
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Good morning, folks! We're here with two announcements - one minor, and one major.

First of all, we'd like to let you all know that this semester's BDE is set for December 18th through 21st. This means it will run a little into finals week - the Friday, to be precise. There's a specific plotty reason for the timing, we promise, and we'll let you know more about that sometime next week - we'd just like to get the warning out well ahead of time.

Second of all, it's time again for Fandom Island to go alternative! On December 5th and 6th (right over Saint Nicholas weekend, sob), your character may be transformed into a different version of themselves as a result of Fandom weirdness!

ExpandGuidelines and such under here! )
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No more changes to the Matrix today, folks! You're breaking it. BUT. We do have a last set of superpowers for you!

- Mega-stomp! Leap high, come down, deliver some nice area of effect damage!
- Control Fandom wildlife! Make the alots do your bidding! Charter a teal deer!
- Breathe fire! You... breathe fire!
- Or one of your own powers back.

Enjoy rampage day!
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Hello, Fandom! Tomorrow, your sim will begin to lose structural integrity in a big way!

- the towers themselves can now be attacked! Clear out all the bad guys and you get... a super bad guy! Fun! (Beating a super-bad guy mostly just means you won't get sent to special sim for your troubles. Rejoice.)
- the island's streets will get three times as large, making space for vehicles. Which will arrive in abundance. DRIVE A SPORTS CAR THROUGH FANDOM!
- NPCs will double in quantity.
- the school is going to get blown up, and will remain as a floating pile of rubble.
- there will be helicopters in the sky, painted funny colors.

SUPERPOWER LIST:
- The ability to change your clothes with the power of your mind!
- Jello blast! You can shoot super-strong jello from your hands, which entraps people.
- Flight: you know you've always wanted to fly. And/or kick a helicopter out of the sky.
- Your choice of one of your own powers back.

We'll also toss up the first spaceship escape post set for tomorrow evening!

Meanwhile, you can still request NPCs here.

YOUR DAILY SIM UPDATE

Thursday, July 30th, 2015 08:12 pm
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Hey-o, folks! This is what you can expect from Matrix Fandom tomorrow!

- Come tomorrow morning, to show case that It's Serious Now, the sim will get all dark and spooooky Tron-like/gritty-looking.
- Which also means it will rain. A lot.
- And every building will look decidedly taller than it actually is.
- Zinyak is going to amp the nightmare side-dimensions up a lot: they are now actively trying to mess with your fears. Still through pop culture, mind you, but the fear will now be embedded at the core of every side-dimension, and conquering it is the only way to shake off the dimension's effects and break it.
- In related news, some NPCs are running around outside dressed as Scooby Doo-- sorry, Wooby Woo-- and can throw people around with their minds.
- Baristas now ask you quiz-show questions before serving.
- The Mooby World mascot has come to life and now moos at whoever passes by.
- And last but not least, thanks to Tali's efforts, each person within the sim will receive one of these four superpowers:
1. Superspeed, complete with running-up-the-walls power
2. Super-jumping, super-high!
3. Control Fandom precipitation: the ability to make it rain stuff, Fandom-style. BLUEBERRIES! PAINT RAIN!
4. One of their own powers that they lost.

Which one they get is entirely up to the player!
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... or 'what will the Matrix be doing tomorrow', we're starting off our changes relatively small!

- The NPCs wandering around the towers become more noticably alien-like, have Star Wars-esque blaster rifles, and they will get aggressive if you get close to the towers;
- Thanks to accidental crosspollination of code, ridiculous weapons and outfits can now be found in most Fandom stores: weird costumes, bananas-on-a-stick, dubstep guns;
- Similar glitches are causing NPCs (including rickshaw drivers) to wander around in hotdog suits;
- All restaurants now serve flapjacks. Yes, all of them;
- When approaching either of the bars, the Cheers soundtrack will now start playing softly in the background, in an attempt to pacify everyone.
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HELLO FANDOM!

Your BDE starts in two days, so here I am with a little extra information and a little extra bit of sign-ups. Specifically, this is about the finale, which will start late Saturday and end on Sunday.

ExpandLil' bit of extra starts under the cut! )
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Hey folks! It's that time again! ... BDE time, I mean. That time. Yep.

From July 29th through to August 2nd, Fandom will be INVADED BY ALIENS! Specifically, by the Zin as led by Zinyak from Saints Row IV. But these aliens are not the 'knock 'em around and kill 'em' straightforward types: rather, they're here to run an experiment on the locals that they hope to roll out to all of Earth later. Something to make the process of conquering a planet and sucking it dry of its human resources a little easier... a little less unpleasant... a little more civilized...

... by plugging the people into the Matrix.

(They're not calling it the Matrix. But it is totally the Matrix.)

Yep, on the morning of July 29th, everyone who signs up for it is going to be teleported off the island and hooked up to a big ol' server running a parallel, happy version of Fandom, where crazy stuff doesn't happen and everyone lives communally as any baseline member of their species. Sure, there's some weird new landmarks and that whole 'nobody has powers, everyone is a healthy specimen of their species' thing, but it's Fandom. Wacky happens, right?

Except no communications signals can leave the island, you can only wander a few hundred feet onto the mainland before hitting an invisible wall, and acting out leads to some strange consequences...

ExpandSo how does this work? )

Anything Else?
As the BDE progresses, changes will occur in Fandom's simulation. We'll publish these in the evenings (CET) before they actually happen, so you can adequately prepare for the changes. Otherwise: it's a digital reconstruction of Fandom, filled largely with NPCs who aren't actually people! Cause all the (super- or unpowered) mayhem you've ever wanted to cause but couldn't because destroying things is bad, yo!

The world is your sandbox this go-around. Literally speaking.

And to end this post, a great big thank you goes out to the player who suggested running a BDE along these lines and got the brain juices flowing. Now, onwards to the sign-ups! Which close Wednesday, July 22nd.

BDE Reminder!

Saturday, March 21st, 2015 12:50 pm
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Just a reminder that today is your last day to sign up for any of the BDE finale teams! We'll be running the RNGs tomorrow and contacting people with further instructions and/or links to preplays from there!

And just an aside that we're loving all of the taking this and running with it that you guys have been doing, between reacting to stolen items and cursed items and the sickness that's been taking over the island. We're very much looking forward to seeing what you guys do in our last week as things come to a head!

BDE Heads-Up!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 08:14 am
[identity profile] needfully-yours.livejournal.com
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Today, the island is going to be celebrating by... turning all of the water in Serenity Cove a sickly, inky black! Not green, that would be a silly way to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, and the island has, in fact, been losing most of its traces of green for a while now. Most of the trees in the preserve are in the process of dying now, a good many are just straight-up dead, and the rabid teal deer seem none too happy about that. Aside from their frothing and angry charging and the occasional tree falling or branch dropping, the preserve is going to be eerily quiet.

How festive!

The black cove water will be sticking around until the end of the BDE, and will be slowly seeping out from there to engulf the rest of the island's shoreline as well. Happy BDE'ing!
[identity profile] needfully-yours.livejournal.com
It's (almost) finale time! So here's the rough shape of what's going to happen, and then we'll get into the nitty-gritty.

ExpandTaking Down Leland Gaunt )

QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? CONCERNS?

We may have missed something, in writing this up, or you may have questions about how it all works. Below, you'll find sign-up forms for the various roles in the finale -- some of which can overlap, i.e., anyone can be a Negotiator, or a Clinic Volunteer -- and also space to ask any questions you might have.

Sign-ups will be open until Saturday, March 21st, midnight PST.

BDE Heads-Up!

Thursday, March 12th, 2015 09:39 am
[identity profile] needfully-yours.livejournal.com
We love how you guys have been playing with the trees dying in the preserve (and, of course, everything else you've done during the lead-in to this BDE thus far), and we're going to give you a little something else to play with out that way, now!

Yes, as of today, not only are the trees dying, but the local wildlife is beginning to grow sickly as well. Including, sadly, our good friends the teal deer. They appear to have gone rabid. Please, try not to get bitten, as they've gotten quite hostile. You might not want to talk terribly much while in the preserve, either, as, in true teal deer fashion, they're still attracted to the sound of people talking at length.

This has been your regularly scheduled BDE update! Keep an eye open for further signups and finale information over the weekend!

BDE Heads-Up!

Sunday, March 8th, 2015 06:06 pm
[identity profile] needfully-yours.livejournal.com
Sign-Ups for cursed items have closed! If you signed up for a cursed item from Leland's shop, you should have received an e-mail from us with the all-clear. If not, please drop us a line over at our needfully.yours @ gmail.com address so we can make any arrangements we might need to make and double-check our contact information for you so we don't miss you again.

We'll be sending out another, longer e-mail with more information on purchase arrangements and so on to all of our victims either tonight or tomorrow, so keep your eyes on your inboxes! Thanks!

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