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3 Minute Dates once again!
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bluth-illusions.livejournal.comYep. It's that time again. Fandom's most frequent and only in-game speed dating event, Three Minute Dates, will be taking place at Caritas IN TWO WEEKS on Saturday, September 17. For those of you who don't know or need a reminder, you sign up here, I pair you up with other signer uppers for five rounds of sweet pinging action, and maybe your characters fall in love and get married and have babies. Or at least you get five threads of conversation with someone that maybe you've never played with before!
The ground rules, as always:
*Three minutes will equal ten total pings, five each. Take another ping or two to wrap up if you need to, but please be efficient!
*3MD is open to both adults and teenagers. Teachers and students will NOT be paired together. Students and townies MAY be paired together if I can't avoid it and/or if they're close enough in age.
*A strong effort to pair people by sexual preference will be made. However, depending on how the lineups fall, gay/bi characters may end up with uninterested straight characters, and two straight characters of the same gender may get paired up. It happens sometimes. Sometimes there's a whole round just for that. It depends on the matchups.
*You can sign up with as many on-island characters as you want, but please keep in mind that each one commits to 5 threads with people in all sorts of time zones. Try not to sign up more than you can handle so everyone can have a chance to complete all of their dates.
*The post will go up Friday evening (September 16) and will be available for slowplay through the weekend. The bulk of the playing should take place on Saturday, but if you need to wrap things up on Sunday, that's fine. If you sign up and later find out that you won't be around at all on September 17, PLEASE let me know to take your characters off the list, especially if you've signed up with multiple characters. And if you know you won't be around at all that day, please don't sign up. It never feels good when somebody has a thread or two without any interaction.
If you're interested, please leave a comment to this post with your character's name, type (student, teacher, townie) and gender preference (if any). Comments are screened by default, questions will be unscreened and answered. Also, if you're signing up a townie that can't drink at the Devil's Nest, let me know if you'd rather be matched with teenagers or adults (or no preference). Signups will be open through Tuesday, September 13 at 11:59 PM Central to give me time to smash random numbers together.
*UPDATE: In a change that I can't believe I didn't think of and nobody else has ever asked me about before, the IG start time will be a bit later than the usual 6:00 Fandom Time in order to make sure that the characters in town who have certain allergies to the sun can participate. That's right, 3MD is OFFICIALLY vampire friendly.
The ground rules, as always:
*Three minutes will equal ten total pings, five each. Take another ping or two to wrap up if you need to, but please be efficient!
*3MD is open to both adults and teenagers. Teachers and students will NOT be paired together. Students and townies MAY be paired together if I can't avoid it and/or if they're close enough in age.
*A strong effort to pair people by sexual preference will be made. However, depending on how the lineups fall, gay/bi characters may end up with uninterested straight characters, and two straight characters of the same gender may get paired up. It happens sometimes. Sometimes there's a whole round just for that. It depends on the matchups.
*You can sign up with as many on-island characters as you want, but please keep in mind that each one commits to 5 threads with people in all sorts of time zones. Try not to sign up more than you can handle so everyone can have a chance to complete all of their dates.
*The post will go up Friday evening (September 16) and will be available for slowplay through the weekend. The bulk of the playing should take place on Saturday, but if you need to wrap things up on Sunday, that's fine. If you sign up and later find out that you won't be around at all on September 17, PLEASE let me know to take your characters off the list, especially if you've signed up with multiple characters. And if you know you won't be around at all that day, please don't sign up. It never feels good when somebody has a thread or two without any interaction.
If you're interested, please leave a comment to this post with your character's name, type (student, teacher, townie) and gender preference (if any). Comments are screened by default, questions will be unscreened and answered. Also, if you're signing up a townie that can't drink at the Devil's Nest, let me know if you'd rather be matched with teenagers or adults (or no preference). Signups will be open through Tuesday, September 13 at 11:59 PM Central to give me time to smash random numbers together.
*UPDATE: In a change that I can't believe I didn't think of and nobody else has ever asked me about before, the IG start time will be a bit later than the usual 6:00 Fandom Time in order to make sure that the characters in town who have certain allergies to the sun can participate. That's right, 3MD is OFFICIALLY vampire friendly.