The Campus OOC

Unfortunately due to the dwindling activity and lack of interest, the comm. will be closing in the future, once the new DR we are working on opens. In the meantime, events and Voice mingles will no longer be posted.

Mods can still be contacted per the usual methods.

When we have more information on the new DR available, we'll post about it at thecampusmods.

A discussion plurk for the new DR can be found over here!

This month's event is going to be different than all the others! It's going to be properly mod-hosted, involve puzzles, and first-come-first-serve riddle solving! The goal? It's mid-terms--time to break down the barrier! Oh, what wonders will lie in the outside world...?

Our basic break down so far is (and subject to change):
>The Voice hands out 1 of 5 riddles to unique groups of two(?)
>Groups are given maps of the Island and the Campus
>They must then try to find the specified location by solving the riddle
>Once character arrive at a location they will wait for IC confirmation from a mod to know if they've found the right area or not, and then they can commence searching or have NPC (mod) interaction. Mods will enter on occasion with hints if characters are searching without an NPC.
>Once the puzzle is found, the characters must report back to the Voice. Once all puzzles are found, a new post will go up for puzzle solving.

We will be dividing up the location finding and the riddle solving into two different posts--i.e. once all the riddles are solved we'll open up the puzzles for everybody to have a shot at too. Please let us know what you think about that!

THIS EVENT WILL HAVE A TIME LIMIT OF ONE WEEK. Groups that take too long run the risk of having another group reach the area and find the puzzle first. So please, stay relatively on topic. Remember this is your mid-term. All top-levels and threads should involve the search some how, but we WILL be making a top-level for mingling and questions.

Characters will break up into groups of two (feel free to plan ahead or just tag a random person), and will likely be restricted to only one-group at a time until that group fails or succeeds. That, or we might encourage thread-jacking for this event so groups of more than two can go looking at once. We're not sure about this, which is why were need your comments!

This event will happen during the week of the 20th, as opposed to the 15th, because we really need to iron some stuff out.

Plurk announcement + further info
2nd Plurk announcement + further info

Any suggestions, comments, or concerns, feel free to comment! Your input is very much appreciated in this new experience for both you as players in the DR, and us as mods!

The following edits were made:

pmatga ‣  pacman ghostly adventures
Reason: to make it easier to tell at a glance what the canon is for people unfamiliar

alternative universe ‣  DELETED
Reason: with multiple tags on an entry, it'll be unclear who it applies to anyway. plus we only want tags for series (plus the original character tag)

creepypasta ‣  obscure canons
Reason: if we're going to be broad, we might as well allow any loose characters in who don't necessarily have a "canon" so much as a mythology

a song of fire and ice ‣  game of thrones
Reason: while we're aware of the difference, it gets the same point across in fewer words, and it's the more mainstream of the two. we don't separate book vs. movie/show canons anyway, or even different adaptions unless they're wildly different.

elder scrolls: skyrim ‣  skyrim
Reason: shorter

ookiku furikabutte ‣  oofuri
Reason: very common fandom abbreviation / shorter. we like short tags

yugioh: gx ‣  yugioh gx
yugioh: dotr ‣  yugioh dotr
yugioh: abridged ‣  yugioh abridged
fallout: new vegas ‣  fallout new vegas
Reason: apparently we are very indecisive about colons. also it's easier to type.

We three mods talked over the poll results and after taking everything into consideration, saw it best not to "pick" one side over the other. Our community is obviously pretty divided on the issue, so we thought it best to make the closest thing to a compromise as we could. Taking some suggestions from the "delete it" voters, we came up with a new rule to replace the old one that we hope everyone can be happy with!

It is as follows:

▶ Fancharacters who are involved with any canon character(s) romantically, related to them in any fashion, or closely-knit friends with them, need to have more to their backstory/personality than just their involvement with said canon character(s). Basically, we want to see fancharacters who stand on their own merits, who can talk about things other than X canon character(s), and don't fall into the Mary-sue trope.

We also edited these general rules to be clearer and more concise:

▶ Game transplants and previous CR are allowed. PSL transplants are also allowed as long as they don't break any of the above rules.
▶ Effect rooms can not be entirely new settings/places or contain massive set-pieces/monsters. They can, however, be filled with puppies.
▶ Basically, don't be a dick and don't make anybody else feel uncomfortable.
▶ Be considerate of your fellow muns and don't harass anybody for any reason.
▶ No god-modding, infomodding, and etc.

And we'd like to remind everybody about this rule~

▶ Make sure to tag entries with the series your character is from. This includes when you post or comment on an entry.

As usual, if you have any questions feel free to ask!

After this month's event, I plan to add/edit the following:

+ Arcade room
+ Game room (this has board games and more traditional stuff)
+ More detail on the lounge area and vending machines
~ Pretty up all the flavour text and trim down all the information/text in general

Maybe some other things too, if anybody has any suggestions. I thought some in-campus games might be fun, anyway!

-Andy