Weeping Angel BDE: Bringing it all together - how will all this work?

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Hopefully, quite well. This is the nuts and bolts stuff, how it is all going to work.

Firstly, we have a new comm, just for this BDE. fh_dontblink. This is where all the posts set in the past, for our victims, and where all the posts set in 2008 for our away teams, will take place.

Basically, for each of our victim groups and away teams, there will be a discrete, self-contained adventure within the BDE, as the members survive in the past and find answers in the now, all coming together at the end.

Posts from the Past

The posts set in the past for the victims will be put up twice a day, from one of the fh extras journals (with appropriate icons), by one of the admins or mods. There will be OCD, of course, but it will be minimal, allowing for the victims to create their own within it. This will allow for as much or as little interaction as the victims want.

These posts will be used for:
-the victims arriving in the past
-any victims who are already there to find the new arrivals
-interaction between victims and between victims and NPCs

Wholly personal posts between victims or victims/NPCs can still go in your personal LJs. Essentially, the rules for the new community are the same as for the current communities, this one is just for specific things!

We very strongly encourage OOC communication between the members of each victim group, to decide what you're going to do. The environment will be moddable within the time period, and you will be free to decide where you are going to stay, how you're going to deal with being stuck in the past, how you're going to get food, money, etc etc, or even if you want to stay together as a group.

If you decide you want to run a mini-adventure between yourselves while back in the past, you are welcome to do so - just email the details to us for approval.

We know that this is a very structured BDE, it needs to be by virtue of how complex it is, but we want you to have as much freedom as possible while your characters are stuck in the past.

Posts in 2008

The away team posts will go in this new community, as well, but they will be put up by a variety of people. Don't worry, there will be a schedule.

These will vary between being a question and answer and boggle situation, as the away teams find their friends from Fandom, much aged, and being a mini-adventure where a journal/CD/SD card/etc has to be retrieved.

Again, strong OOC communication is encouraged between the away team members.


Meanwhile, back on the island…

Classes will continue as normal, pending the teachers still being on the island. In the event that they're not, a study hall style post will go up for watching of videos or some other substitute teacher style class.

Safehouses are not mandatory, though the school administration will be strongly encouraging people to spend as much free time in them as possible, particularly the night time posts. They will be a place where people can go and not have to worry about being constantly on guard.

They will be set up with OCD, sort of like a class, so that anyone who simply wants to establish their character being there, but doesn't have time to play, can ping them in and not have to worry about it.

There will be a computer lab post put up daily from Tuesday, so people who want to research that way can go for it. There will be a special thread in the daily library posts from Tuesday for the researchers, as well, so as not to overload the library aide on duty. (There are also a limited number of computers in the library, and it's reasonable to assume the school had free wi-fi, so people can bring their own laptops to access the internet from there.)

The victim groups will be announced as soon as possible after midnight EST Saturday.

Questions and comments, please!

Comments

[withoutverona]

I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere, but there's one thing I'm not quite clear on: How are we handling the differences in the amount of time victims are in Timeline A before going into stasis and switching to Timeline B? Like, if one player wants to age his or her character by the full two years, while others in her group are limiting the time in the past to a handful of days, can they interact with the same NPCs in the same posts, even though the interactions might be months or years apart in "real" time? Or are the dontblink posts only for the first few days in the past while everyone's at the same point in time, and anything beyond that needs to be ficced out in our personal journals?

I hope this question makes some sense outside my head!