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The Future Location of Fandom High

Happy Sunday!

We modly types, as frustrated as you have been with LJ’s shenanigans over the last year, had been working on feasible back-up plans for our game and we finally have enough of the logistics worked out to share one with you!

While many of you may have taken the suggestion that we move to a commune as a joke, we took the time to seriously consider it. After a long debate on the matter, we've decided that the best course of action would be to purchase a few acres of property and give it a shot. Now, to make things more fair for our non-American players, we've decided to choose a location that can not be thought biased in one way or another.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia! Yes, it’s technically one of the coldest places on Earth, but we’re going to be spending most of our time inside anyway, and the dollar really does go further there.

Along with with land, we have also secured a goodly number of yak and steppe ponies for the use of the players. It may take a small period of adjustment, but we think that this sort of life will come easily enough to those of us who have roleplayed as characters from such settings.

In order to help you all with this move, we've gathered a few helpful links!

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g293955-Mongolia-Vacations.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia/History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia/Culture
http://www.kayak.com

While we understand the burden of such a move would take time on the part of the players, we would very much like to have everything set up and fully populated before the second summer session. There are a set number of yerts available that have already been assembled, so any players who arrive late will have to build their own.

It's a big change, but we feel that, together, we can manage this!

[Poll #1830645]

Poll Reminder!

Just a heads-up that the second FH location poll closes tonight at 11:59 Pacific, so get your votes in!

Poll Results: Reply Hazy, Ask Again Later

Hey, folks.

The location poll ended up thusly:

I want to stay on Livejournal, period. 18 (45.0%)
I want to move to Dreamwidth, period. 10 (25.0%)
I want to wait until Livejournal Release 90 to see how many known bugs have been fixed, then vote. 12 (30.0%)
I don't want to do any of those things and have another suggestion which I'll leave in the comments. 0 (0.0%)

Though staying on Livejournal got the most votes of each individual category, the "Wait And See" option received enough that the final balance of stay vs. go is still uncertain.

So, though there was one latebreaking alternate suggestion of moving away from the journal format entirely which we're seriously considering (buying up cheap land, forming a commune, and becoming the Fandom High LARP would work for you guys, right?), for the moment we're going to go with waiting until Release 90, then re-polling with a final* yes/no vote.

As mentioned earlier, Release 90 is already in Russian beta, which means it will probably go live late this week or early next week, so the wait shouldn't be too long!

Questions, comments, pie, cake, and ponies are always welcome.

[*No sales ever really final. Should the main vote be to stay, we'll always be willing to re-examine the situation if LJ does something in the future that makes RPing here unreasonably difficult. ]

Poll Reminder!

One last heads-up: the FH Location Poll closes tonight at 11:59 pm PST. AKA in about 5 hours!