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BDE Spring 2024: It's Not A Lake, It's An Ocean

Hello, Fandom! Hope you've had a cosy time lately, because we're heading into darker, deeper waters. (Metaphorically speaking. Mostly.)

From Tuesday, April 23rd until Saturday, April 27nd, Fandom will be under siege by a phenomenon inspired by the Dark Place from Alan Wake. (Inspired by, and with the numbers filed off, since the sequel canonized your mayor as part of the Alan Wake-verse, whoops. Do not feel beholden to any video game rules; what's relevant to this BDE will be provided, everything else is improv.) What is the Dark Place? Well, it's a nightmare realm that feeds on creativity - and makes creative works real, in increasingly twisty, bendy ways.

So what's this going to look like?


On Tuesday, April 23rd participating characters on Fandom wake up feeling a surge of creativity. It doesn't matter in what form: if you're inclined towards the written word, you suddenly find yourself caught by a story; if you're a crafts person, you may suddenly feel a deep desire to crochet an awesome penguin family, and so forth. You'll feel compelled to go with that urge, though not in a fully life-eaty way-- no skipping classes, but definitely using your free afternoon to sit down and finally paint that masterwork.

The next day, the surge of creativity continues - but creations also start to come to life. Your penguin starts talking and going for walks, or you round the corner and find that painting you did of the Devil's Nest as a giant Vegas Strip-style architectural marvel is now reality! Cool, right? Think fun and zany!

And then Thursday comes around, and the Dark Place begins to twist all creations to its personal favorite genre: horror. Creatures become destructive, newly-created places turn into dark labyrinths that try to swallow you up, and sometimes the shadows move and stalk you. Uh oh.

By Friday, the turn into a horror story is complete, with the Dark Place glomming on to particularly productive people and creating a shadow self from their worst nightmares. (That doesn't mean your character must be obsessively working, though there's definitely precedent for obsession and you're welcome to play with your character being sucked too far into the process to notice... anything else.) These shadow selves hold all your worst impulses and twist them into the shape of a horror movie antagonist. You can fight/defeat them at any point - they just have to be gone by the finale.

The finale? Fandom must yank creative control back from the Dark Place, and turn this horror story into an action piece.

So how far does this 'creativity becomes reality' thing go?


As far as you'd like! Owned buildings and characters are free game to tweak and change through creativity - we would like to ask you to put your name in under the OCD if you're planning to have a shadow self running amock, but otherwise, it's your canvas. Provided, of course, that everything does go dark by Thursday.

We do ask that if you want to change something about the island that you don't own - an existing public building, or adding a new place - you put in a request below. We'll get back to you and let you know if it's okay with us.

So how are we going to fix this?


Why, by our old and trusted processes: research. The Research Team will meet up at the library on Thursday to start figuring out what's going on, concluding in a Special Collections visit on Friday. The Special Collections visit will be preplayed.

Once research team has determined that the Dark Place is trying to tell a story - a horror story, to be exact - and that arc of the story can be bent, it's up to our two-pronged strike team to do the rest. One group will stay in the safety of Town Hall to rewrite the story to the best of their ability. The other will set out to make that story real - through no-holds barred combat against the Dark Place's creations in the Park, all played on Saturday. This should be more of a free-for-all and doesn't need to be preplayed, but we're willing to NPC individual threads beforehand on request.

Deadline is Friday, April 19th.

And that's it! Any questions, comments, etc? Let us know.
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BDE Reminder!

Hey, y'all!

We forgot to put the deadline in the post because we're new/out of practice at this, but please get your sign-ups in for the heist/finale portion of the BDE over here by tomorrow night! Don't miss your character's chance to burn down and/or break into a Walmart!
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BDE - The One With Spirit Halloween

It's that time of year once again, folks! Yes, the spooky season, but it's more than just that. It's time for a BDE! A BDE where we’re gonna punch late-stage capitalism in the face.

Welcome to the invasion of the business-snatchers! Or, more accurately, the invasion of all brand names that push out small businesses with low prices and low wages. But fear not, Fandom will prevail! But first it'll be a little weird.

tl;dr down with capitalism )
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Reminders!

Workshop ideas are due Sunday, April 23rd!

So are student and teacher applications!

The WereWhatever BDE goes from next Wednesday, April 26th until next Friday, April 28th!

Graduation is on Saturday, April 29th! Like we've done for the last few years, if you want to bring in NPC relatives/friends/acquaintances/archnemeses to cheer for you, go right ahead! And I just put up the post for your post-graduation plans! (If you want to drop a non-graduating character, that goes here.)
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BDE: Attack of the Werebeasts!

Hello, folks!

This is just your convenient heads' up that we are being invaded from Wednesday, April 26th through Friday, April 28th. Invaded by what? Well! Werebeasts!

A whole host of angry, tall, maul-y versions of animals you know and love, to be specific. On Wednesday morning, a massive werepanda will fall from a wrongly-scheduled portal, followed by a host of other weres. They will immediately do what were things do: attack things both living and not. Anything they scratch? Well, it becomes another were-thing!

The werebeasts will cause general havoc around the island as well, as with their rudimentary intelligence they may be tempted to start fires, steal food, and do property damage. Please do let us know below if you're planning to significantly damage a property in some way, but we are open to ideas. Werebeast attacks will get worse and worse as the days progress, until it's all out anarchy on Friday.

Okay, but does that mean I get to be a were-thing?
Absolutely! Anyone who gets scratched by any of the were creatures can pick something from this list*-- which is also, conveniently, the list of werebeasts you're likely to encounter. Your character will then transform into that creature for the duration of the plot, or until one of a few possible events occur.

* ignore all the other info on that page besides the list of possible werebeasts; it's not relevant to our BDE.

Events? Okay, so there's rules. What are the rules?
Werebeasts are stronger, taller, and meaner than their regular counterparts. They can't be killed. You can, however, fight one until it's incapacitated, in which case it will revert to its previous form, perfectly healed. It will then sleep eight to twelve hours, and turn back into a werebeast the next time the moon rises.

The beasts from the portal will turn into adorable dwarves when they're injured in such a way. Werebeasts of Fandom will turn back into themselves. But this is temporary.

If you want to turn someone back permanently before the end of the plot, you have to hunt down and incapacitate the werebeast that turned them. Once you do that, everyone the beast has scratched will turn back into their old selves.

And how do we get rid of them?
You can kind of guess where we're going... the werepanda is the progenitor of all the werebeasts. There will be a big fight between Fandom's finest and the werebeasts on Friday. You can sign up to be one of the folks who takes down the werepanda - depending on sign-ups, we'll pick two to three people via RNG for that final fight.

So there's no research component?
Well, not a specific one. You're encouraged to go do research whatever way you like, and try whatever werebeast cure you can find across the many dimensions Fandom has access to. They just won't work. You're also welcome to figure out the knock out the progenitor = end the curse part. If you do, feel free to bring it up at the town hall meeting on Friday morning.
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Fall BDE 2022: The One With the Time Traveling Jerkass

It's the most wonderful time of the year...or is it? It could be both in the same week! Well, either way, you get an interesting exam week! Our Fall 2022 BDE goes from Wednesday, December 14 to Saturday, December 17.

A lovable (ish? If you squint?) Time Changing Jerkass named the Master from Doctor Who is coming to town! He's coming to mess with the timeline to own the libs for the lols because he would like to see the destruction of the human race. Since there are a lot of humans on Fandom Island who are pivot points of their own universes, this is like one-stop shopping for bad guys. Plus we've had a few Doctors here and he hates them. He's a crazy mastermind--definitely not the kind of dedicated jackass who would travel 106 years back in time, ingratiate himself into the Russian court, name himself Rasputin, all so he can capture the Doctor and have a dance scene set to a specific song, so ignore that linked video--who jumps all over time and space.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is not to defeat him (because that wouldn't undo the changes) but to travel back in time and fix the one thing that would set everybody right: stopping the Master from making the changes before he starts.

I am intrigued! How, pray tell, does the timeline change?
Pick a character from your canon or an FH character (with permission from the player, of course) to be your character's alternate parent, with all the changes to backstory, appearance, and powers that might entail. Imagine a world where, say, Rey's father was Obi-Wan Kenobi! Tony Stark's mother was Peggy Carter! Diego and Five Hargreeves' father was literally anyone else! Think how well-adjusted they'd be! Or you can go a different way and have Eric Northman make you a vampire: a very different form of fatherhood. Play that new-you character through the week, either in familiar situations or on BDE adventures. Some people might even be changed enough that they side with and help the Master. As always, you don't have to change your character, but if you are it has to happen on Wednesday. This isn't a rolling effect.

For example: starting December 14, Ingvar Island's father wasn't IKEA - it was Nemesis Island. Instead of creepy dolls, not!Ingvar (now Ingrid) sucks in canon nemeses of FH characters (for example, Anakin Skywalker v. Palpatine and not, say, v. sand) from across time, who will wander over to Fandom to attack or otherwise mess with the FH characters. The nemeses need a day to figure out boats, so they will show up on the island December 15th. The nemeses' invasion will backfire a bit because some of the FH characters are now AU versions of themselves and don't have the particular weakness their canon nemesis generally exploits. They might even like the nemesis now! Live out your weird hatefic dreams! You can have a nemesis even if you haven't made your character an AU version of themselves, and you can play them out of your own journal since finding icons has become...difficult. Sigh.

We just ask one thing: that each and every one of your nemeses has an improbable 1995 fashion statement on them. Maybe it's Oakley glasses! Maybe it's a baseball cap from the 1995 Coca Cola catalog. Maybe it's a t-shirt with Coolio's head on it. We're not gonna judge your nemesis, but pick something fun.

This small invasion twigs everyone to realize that the personality shifts aren't just Fandom Doing a Thing.

Cue the Research and Finale Teams!
We'll need people on Thursday to start researching. People were weird on Wednesday, there are random bad guys showing up and monologuing all over the place while looking like extras from a Green Day music video, it's the end of the semester...characters are genre-savvy enough to put some things together. It's the holidays, so exploring night-time ghostly interventions to make people have a change of heart would not be a bad place to start, nor would going through handwavy Fandom records and remembering Nemesis Island, where we defeating the bad guys in one-on-one combat. Looking into timeline divergence is a good idea, too. We'll RNG the person who'll get to point us towards the Master, so sign up in ye handy sign up section down below if you'd like that to be your character.

By Friday, we'll need science and engineering-minded people to try to build a time machine. As you do.

And on Saturday, we'll need a group of four characters to travel back in time, confront the Master, and set the timeline right again. Meanwhile, the rest of you get to deal with an invasion of highly punchable, highly moddable NPCs dressed like 90's extras - and your own nemeses again, if you'd prefer - from Ingrid island. The whole issue will be fixed by early Sunday evening, Fandom time. If you'd like to be on the finale team, please sign up by Sunday night for great RNG justice.

Once the timeline is restored, how does that affect everyone?
That's, again, up to you! If you would like your character to remember being Rosa's secret child, you can! If you want to have amnesia about all or some of the events, you can do that too! If you want to remember but DENY THAT YOU DO FOREVER, that's also a great option!

Ye Helpful Timeline:
Wednesday: AU Timeline Shenanigans! FH characters wake up with entirely different backstories! Enjoy explaining your lives to your friends/family/roommates!
Thursday: CUE THE NEMESES. Which...does not go as planned and only lasts an hour, give or take. They retreat back to the Not!Ingvar island where the Master tries to come up with a new plan. Meanwhile our characters can start realizing this isn't just an advent thing and start doing research. One lucky RNGed character will figure out that this isn't a Scrooge thing but is actually a Master thing.
Friday: ...does anyone know how to make a time machine? Let's meet in the library and do science!
Saturday: PULL THE LEVER, KRONK. Our elite team goes back to 1995 to stop the Master from getting this idea to begin with. Everyone else is busy punching bad 90s fashion! Balance is restored! Steve Rogers fucks off into the 1950s! ...wait. Wrong time traveling plot.

So, questions, comments, etc?
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BDE Sign-Ups: The FH Characters

Well, folks, your fans have been submitted (and I loooooove them), you've done some plotting, and now it's time to sign yourself up for what you want to happen to your characters for the BDE!

If you know what you want to do with your characters, go ahead and ping them into the appropriate thread so those playing the fans can see what it is you want them to do and you can plot as needed. ((For clarification, you don't have to have direct interaction with a fan in order to have your characters start behaving weirdly on Thursday through Sunday. The power of handwave can also compel you!) If you're bringing a character back, killing someone off, pairing them up or doing something otherwise big, they need to be signed up.

If you don't know what to do with your characters, brainstorming is over here, go take advantage of it!

There's no deadline on signing up for this, just the fun of building anticipation!
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BDE: Fan Applications

Hello, all! You might have read the earlier BDE post and thought "I have ideas on how to be a fan!" Well, this is the post for you!

What we need are people who will be around and available to play from Wednesday, April 27th through Sunday, April 30th. Playing a fan means you have to create the journal, find a PB, and get your kid out there. These can be totally original characters, or you can base them off of something (ie, "that girl on Tumblr that hasn't stopped talking about Tom Hiddleston for a year straight", "the serial fic starter with 106 WIPs on AO3"; "the 'but actually' Redditor"; "the 'it's about ethics in gaming!!11!' Twitter troll; "the 'I've just showed up on the internet and all of these arguments are new to meeeee' Discord kid"; "the casual fan who thought they'd come to this convention to make friends but omg yikes"; "the Big Name Fan whose veeeeeeeeeeery specific kink warped how everyone watched this show for three seasons"; "the annual flouncer now on their fifth email name"; "the viral TikToker"; or our favorite, "the Fandom Old who is just. so. tired. of the discourse.") Just remember that these should not be canon characters.

Submit your application below, please! We're leaving them unlocked to encourage more of you to apply.



EDITED TO ADD: Please have your apps in by Sunday, April 24th!
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Spring BDE: Attack of the Fans, Redux

Wayyyyy back in the dawn of time, aka Summer 2013, we had an invasion of Fandom High fans. For the last sixteen years, the radio station's signals have reached another dimension through handwavy handwavy magic stuff, and people have been watching our adventures, thinking it's just a television show that's been broadcast for their viewing pleasure. And some of the more die-hard fans have come to see Fandom in person on vacation--some are repeat offenders, even--and they will be OH. MY. GOD. SO! HAPPY! to meet all their favorite characters! (They think everyone in Fandom is a TV character. These fans are a little fuzzy on what's real and what's not sometimes.)

This will take place from Wednesday, April 27th to Sunday, May 1st.

For the first day, these fans will be available for interaction to get their squee all over your characters, annoy them by begging for pictures and spoilers and by showing them this fanfic they wrote about you, hope you don't mind it's a 200K WIP self-insert RPF! They also have to see if Summer's Jello shots are as amazing as advertised. On the second day, the fans will be gaining the ability to rewrite the "show" the way they want... which means that they'll be changing your characters' lives and situations all willy-nilly. They have Some Plans for ways to spice up graduation, too.

Things will go back to normal as of the finale on Sunday. Well. More or less.

Who's going to be playing these fans?
Well, you can! This is one of the few times you can play a non-AU kid original character at Fandom High. There will be a sign up post where you can get more info and submit a short app. Everyone is encouraged to become a fan (here's a link to the ones who caused problems last time, if you're unsure what we're looking for)! Chaos, after all, is the point.

It's happening at graduation? I wanted to bring in my senior's family!
Oh, they are absolutely still invited to show up the Friday before and will also be subject to the whims of the fans. There will be a slot for signing up your guests in the larger sign-up post.

What kinds of things are the fans allowed to do to our characters?
Pretty much anything you set your imaginations to. Remember, these people are coming in with a fan's perspective. So they can try to set up characters they want to be together (regardless of current pairing), send characters off on a bus out of town if they don't like them, set them up in an AU (so many coffee shops), turn them into a Mary Sue, whatever you feel comfortable with.

Keep in mind, these fans won't be doing anything to your characters without OOC permission.

What if I want to bring a character back?
Yay, you can! All former/dropped/retired characters are encouraged to be brought back, though you'll have to sign them up so we know who's coming.

What if I want my character killed off/sent away/put in an emocoma for four days?
That can also be done. Again, we'll ask you to sign them up for that so we know it's happening.

I have alumni and/or expats. How are they affected by this?
If your alumni are off island and you want them to stay there for the whole plot, they're not affected at all unless they talk to someone who's been changed, or who tells them about it. If you want the fans to bring them back into town randomly, you can do that too!

Will my character know their lives are being changed?
That's entirely up to you! The level of effect will be up to every individual player, and we can blame Fandom for why some people are affected and some aren't. So if, for example, the fans paired up two random characters:
--Both characters could be totally into it without realizing anything's wrong.
--Both characters could be together without having any idea how it happened.
--One could be totally into it while the other doesn't know how this happened.

How your characters react to the changes around the island is totally your decision. If you'd also like the fans to try and change your character and not have them affected by all, that's fine! Just work it out OOCly with someone playing a fan, and there's no need to sign up for that.

How will the fans know what I want from my character?
There will be a sign up post about a week from now. If you're planning to do something big (new pairings, deaths, bringing back old characters) we ask that you drop a comment in there to say what you're planning to do. This is also where you'll list graduation guests, seniors. This is so the fans can see what it is you want done and so things can be looked over by the admins in case any plots toe the line. If you want a specific fan to work their mojo, you can also work things out OOCly and preplay things, too.

Will my character remember this afterwards?
Yep! Everyone will have full memory of the events.

What if I want to keep something the fans changed?
That depends on what it is. If the fans pair up two characters and you decide you'd like to keep them together, or gave your character a job as part of a stripper AU or something, go for it! But anything that is given/taken away during the plot will go away as of Sunday. So if you made your character a millionaire, that money will be gone when the plot's done, etc.

If you have questions on whether something would be allowed, feel free to ask one of us!

I have no ideas!
That's not a question!

There'll be a place to brainstorm in this post. You can even ask for suggestions for your character in case anyone has any suggestions on what people would like to see from them.
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NPC Requests for the BDE!

Hello, folks! This is your catch-all post for any and all NPC requests for the long weekend. Let us know down here if you want just one to a few regular shooty cultists, or a Colt or a Julianna (outside the daily post for interacting with them).

We'll try to get to you as soon as we can. Modding for all the non-named NPCs is of course also totally cool.
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BDE Reminder!

Hey folks! Just a quick reminder that BDE sign-ups close tomorrow, so get yours in!

For the two strike/research teams: incursion/science team, you'll receive your preplay invitation on Tuesday. Finale team, yours will come on Wednesday.
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BDE: Let’s Do The Groundhog Again

Hello, Fandom! Thought we’d forgotten about your semesterly trauma rollicking fun event, had you?

This year’s BDE will take place from Friday, December 17th (you read that right) through Monday, December 20th in what we’d like to call "Let’s do the timewarp again!" but it’s really less of a warp and more of a loop. See, 2021 seems to be the year of time loop stories, and I don’t know about all of you, but the admin team also kind of feels like we’ve been reliving the same day over, and over, and over, and over again…

On Friday morning before classes, a piece of Blackreef Island will accidentally zip through time and space and wind up buried into the coast by the Abandoned Warehouse District. Specifically, it’s The Complex, an icy-cold section of an” already cold island that’s home to two mad scientists, Wenjie and Egor, and their various labs built into and under the island itself. Well. Right now it’s just home to Egor, as Wenjie accidentally launched herself into another AU entirely, but that’s a story for another day. Or possibly never.

Anyway, there’s a little problem with Blackreef: it repeats the same day over and over and over again. Egor and his small army of heavily armed, confused, aggressive and bemasked henchpeople, have volunteered to be there. They like living in a time loop. You can’t permanently die! You have so much fun! You… don’t know you’re in a time loop! Oops. No, it’s only interlopers Colt and Julianna - Blackreef Island’s former and current security chiefs - who remember.

And some of you guys, starting Friday. You get a never-ending last day of exams, and you get a never-ending last day of exams, and you get a never-ending last day of exams! This is not going to be as exciting to Fandom as it is to Egor’s people.

It’s up to Fandom to figure out why this little piece of Blackreef is stuck to our island and get it to go away, all the while dealing with your less-looped-in friends and family. Have fun!

So how does this time loop work? )
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BDE sign up reminder

Hi folks! Just a quick reminder to sign up here if you'd like to help negotiate with the Trash King in our finale on Friday. I'm going to try to knock things into shape for it tomorrow, so sign up by tonight, please!

The other sign ups, for infiltration and battling, are head counts and have no deadline but "before we do the thing". (So Thursday and Friday, respectively!)
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Quick BDE clarification

Hi folks! It's come to my attention that people are not sure what to have their characters do, either in the hole or on the surface. So I wanted to clarify real quick:

I am down with just about any investigation/escape attempts your characters want to try. Want to catch a raccoon? I'll NPC one, you just won't get useful answers out of them until the current preplay goes up next week. Want to build a trebuchet or try to use an explosion to blast your way out of the cavern? I mean, Travis will pout at you because he worries about explosions in enclosed spaces, but as a player I am all for it!

Please don't feel like you need to wait for me to prompt you, or like the things you try might screw up my plot. I specifically designed this sucker to be open and flexible, so you could bring whatever ideas you liked to the table and try them out. The only things I specify are:

1. On the surface: No one tries to go into the Trash King's compound on the preserve until Thursday, when I can block out space to NPC some lab raccoons for you -- if you want to find it and wonder and mention it to others, that's fine. It is tucked away and looks like a vaguely dumpster-shaped trash heap, though. The EPA would cry about this thing.

2. In the hole: You're not going to successfully make it all the way to the surface with your escape attempts. There's like 600 ft of solid rock between the cavern and the catacombs. It's just not gonna happen. (If you want to blast your way into a cavern full of goblins? I mean, I'd double check with the admins maybe about modding goblins living under Fandom, but otherwise I have no complaints!)

Other than a few specific threads in the finale, I really wanted this to be very player driven. If you have an idea for something and you're not sure if it would break the plot, I am happy to field questions! Either via email or Discord or with a comment here! I am almost always checking my email and am only a little less often at least keeping an eye on Discord. If you @ me, I'll see it and respond asap.
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BDE Finale planning!

Hello, everyone who is in a hole and everyone who is not! We're about a week out now, so it's time to talk about our summer BDE finale!

It's pretty simple, really: you just have to find the Trash King and convince him to leave. He's just a raccoon! How hard can it be?

. . . Well, he's a raccoon with a king quadcopter. Which is a giant raccoon themed drone with a crown on it that spits exploding mines and concrete blocks. So, uh. Maybe a little bit hard.

On Sunday, July 11, one lucky raccoon will have earned enough points holing people (I bet he got bonuses for those canons!) to get a catapult attachment, meaning not only can he swallow things up, he can spit them back out! He'll have a grand old time with this, until Wednesday, July 14, when a team of investigators will manage to catch and interrogate him, and discover that the mastermind behind all this hole-y nonsense is hiding out in the preserve! (This is already being preplayed.)

On Thursday, July 15, a post will go up for anyone who wants to to go do recon, sneaking their way into the Trash King's compound, a giant dumpster made of scrap and trash, where raccoons are performing Important Trash Experiments . . . mostly involving trying to feed scraps of hole-d food to various hole-d wildlife -- though watch out, because they might just get holed themselves while they're in there! In town, planning will surely commence to launch a proper attack on the compound! And on Friday, July 16, the time will come to attack!

So I'm looking for a bunch of fight-happy people to take on the King Quadcopter outside the compound while a few wiley negotiators sneak in, find the Trash King, and convince him to leave Fandom alone already.

Then, Saturday, July 17, that handy-dandy catapult function will be used to launch all those in the hole back up to the surface, along with all their chaotically mixed up worldly goods! The Trash King will move on to greener, less canny pastures, and Fandom can get to what it does best: cynically recovering from bizarre trauma and rebuilding.

Sign up below for our fight team and negotiators! And a headcount for infiltrators, so I know whether I need to recruit anyone to assist in NPCing lab raccoons. . . .
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Reminder: raccoon interrogation!

Hi folks! Dropping in on your Sunday to remind you to sign up here if you'd like to be in on raccoon catching/interrogations! I'll probably set up for preplaying tomorrow morning, so honestly you have until like 10 AM EST tomorrow.
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Reminder: BDE!

Hey folks, just a reminder that our summer BDE begins this Sunday aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Signups/brainstorming happens here. No official deadlines on the headcounts for the hole or investigation crews, since those will be mostly self-directed, but I'm going to say the deadline for RNG of raccoon investigation is next Sunday (July 4), so we can preplay if we need to.

Oh and also, we could definitely use more folks falling into the hole in week two! So far we've got five people for week one, three for week two, and three for week three. Feel free to either switch your week or sign more folks up!
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Summer BDE details and sign up!

It's tiiiiii-iiiiime!

That's right, folks, this summer's BDE is coming up! And this time, we're taking a page from a cute little video game, Donut County! From June 27 to July 17, get ready for Fandom to be invaded . . . by holes!

You see, the raccoons running the brewery have done such a good job that they've drawn the attention of the Trash King, the self-appointed king of all raccoons. He'll be arriving on MonSunday, June 27, and opening a brand new donut delivery service to capitalize on all us Fandomites. Order a donut and one will be delivered right to you! A delicious, freshly baked tasty treat!

Or possibly a physics-breaking hole that swallows up you and all your worldly goods. Definitely one of those two things!

How the holes work )

The timeline )

But what about the people who get sucked in? )

Holes will be moddable, or played out through [personal profile] trashiestking by myself and/or a volunteer. Please let me know when signing up if you think you'd like to have the hole NPC'd — you can change your mind later either way, but it's nice to get a heads up!

ETA sign ups for the raccoon interrogation will close on Sunday, July 4. All other sign ups are open ended, as they're generally self-directed.
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BDE Details and Sign Up!

Hello, Fandom!

We're here with an update on the details for your upcoming BDE, which starts Monday, April 26th. Now that classes are over, an evil crystalline creature will strike the school's tower and take up shop within the castle unnoticed.

On Monday morning, you all wake up with a strange feeling of dread... )

Questions? Concerns? Something to keep me awake for the last half hour of my shift?
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BDE Pre-Announcement and Brainstorming

Hello, Fandom!

We interrupt your sex pollen week for an early announcement that we will be having our BDE from April 26th through to April 30th this year -- and we need your help.

Starting that Monday, Fandom will transform into a nightmarescape with the castle as its evil beating heart. But these nightmares won't be entirely generic - they'll be based on the collective subconscious of the island. Your greatest nightmares and fears will blend together into a dark whole, forcing a sense of helplessness over the island that goes hand-in-hand with a sapping of your power to fight back against it.

But to shape that nightmarescape, we need to know what that collective subconscious looks like. We're not talking about specific memories or terrors from your past; we won't be giving you visions of that terrifying Snuffleupagus that almost destroyed your body and soul during that trip to Tijuana that one time.

Instead, we're looking to reshape the island physically, somewhat in the vein of the video game that inspired this BDE. One man's fear of abandonment and one woman's fear of losing her family's minds to conspiracy theories might come together to form televisions that turn people into mindless zombies. A fear of swimming and a fear of monsters in the dark? There's now an evil tentacle monster living in the duck pond.

And so on, and so forth. It doesn't have to be two fears coming together - it can be three, or four, or even just one. We're opening up this post for you guys to toss in your character's fears, but also hopefully to get you guys to brainstorm together a bit and come up with cool options for us to help shape the island with. So: ideas! Let loose!

Note that putting your idea out here does not mean we absolutely will use it, but we'll be doing our best to incorporate as much as possible into a layout for the island for BDE week.