let's sneak this on in before the newbies land

[solo_sword]

Guess what! It's that time of year again!

....Wait, you mean we didn't do this last year and it's been a different month every time? Well... shut up. Let's pretend! Because it's time fooooooooooooooor...

SOAP OPERA WEEKEND!!

That's right, boys and girls! September 10-11 we are going to revisit the wonderful crack that comes out when your characters stop being polite, and start getting real. Or something. There'll be an alumni event on Friday, September 9 so alumni, students, teachers and townies can all be involved. Then on Saturday morning, you have the option of making them wake up as a soap opera character.


For those of you who weren't around for previous years, Soap Opera weekend is exactly what it sounds like. Much like AU weekend and such, for a weekend, the denizens of Fandom go through some changes... Namely, while your characters are still themselves, they behave like characters on a soap opera and think this is totally normal. For instance, Jaina Solo will still know herself as Jaina Solo, she just may be the heiress to the Skywalker diamond mine fortune who goes around stealing her double's identity and escaping ruined weddings on horseback after catfights in the pond.

Monday morning, everyone will wake up themselves, and probably wtf a lot. Alumni will also get to hang around on Monday, as while they're spending the weekend lying to someone about whose baby they're carrying or going around getting amnesia, they're probably not thinking much about catching a portal home.


The Rules!

-DO NOT decide anything for someone else's character without their permission. If I want Belle to be the good twin to Hermione's bad twin, it's totally possible on SOW, but I'd have to drop a line to Belle's player to tell her what I wanted to do. Be as cracky as you want, but keep those lines of communication open.

-While participation is voluntary, it's unavoidable in the same way AU kids and AU weekends are. Which means you should have fun with it. *nods*

-You also have the chance to do things you wouldn't ordinarily be able to do in regular gameplay without a plot proposal. Which means if I wanted Annie to drown in a horrible boating accident off the coast, or if I want Susan to be a secret witch with a doll named Timmy who talks to her, I could do it. It just won't be permanent. On Monday, they'll wake up alive and well and completely normal. (I would appreciate if you drop a line to let the admins/me know if you want to kill someone in a mob war or something, since that that's something that could get big and affect more than your run of the mill death would. If you have any doubts about whether you can or should do something, ask.)

-This is so totally not a rule, but I highly encourage y'all to mix it up. If you're thinking you want your character to find a long-lost sibling, why not have it be a character you haven't played with before rather than someone you play with every day? For those of you wanting to expand your circles, this could be a really good opportunity to do so.

-Don't worry if someone else is using the same schtick. Soap operas aren't exactly original. In fact, if there aren't eight Alexis/Krystle-style catfights that end up in the lake, I'm going to be REALLY REALLY upset. Catfights are so 2008.


That's the basics. I'm also throwing down a comment below for brainstorming, should anyone have something they WANT to see that weekend that they don't automatically claim for themselves, or you want to find someone to be your new husband/wife/suspected babyparent/evil twin/supposedly-dead parent/Kelly to your Brenda.

Comments

Questions? Comments? Pie?

[solo_sword]

Pie sounds really good, actually.

Re: Questions? Comments? Pie?

[locointhecoco]

WHAT? WHY DO YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS CALL ON ME?

Re: Questions? Comments? Pie?

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

if you want to kill someone in a mob war or something

. . .

I swore I would never touch that part of War Games but doing it in a cracky mocking way is SO TEMPTING ALL OF A SUDDEN GOD DAMN IT.

Brainstorming!

[solo_sword]

Throw out as many ideas as you want. For they are AWESOME.

Re: Brainstorming!

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Three magical words: secret serial bigamy. I'm open to volunteers for people marrying into the Wayne fortune.

I need to come up with other things for Bruce (since he's basically a soap opera character anyway and I need to diversify), but that's the first thing that comes to mind.

Re: Brainstorming!

[locointhecoco]

I have thoughts! Pinkie is an alien cult leader promising her people will come and take the true believers away to the promised land. . . .

Re: Brainstorming!

[dollpocalypse]

Considering that I will probably allow myself to be entirely too distracted by this while moving into my dorm, I sort of want Topher to be Secretly Pregnant. As you do.

And maybe doesn't know who the father is. As you do. Yeah, you.

Re: Brainstorming!

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

I would like everyone to know that Doctor Butters would be more than happy to help diagnose anyone with any random thing they should feel inclined to be infected with.

He's an expert.

Re: Brainstorming!

[walkswithcoyote]

Oh, oh oh! I have to do something with Mercy, but I have no idea what! Though she could always be someone's secret illegitimate love child... Or carrying someone's illegitimate love child... Or, well, pretty much anything.

Help?

Re: Brainstorming!

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara is a secret princess on the run from [insert name here].

...OR IS SHE?

Re: Brainstorming!

[lockestheway]

Well, Peter obviously has to be an aloof Evil Overlord. Possibly from Bavaria. Or something.

He'd need minions and/or good-guy nemesises or anything else, though.

Re: Brainstorming!

[halfman-lion.livejournal.com]

Tyrion will be an evil assassin dwarf tied to the Lannister drug cartel. Because I have the icons and I'm gonna use them. Anybody want him to kill/try to kill your character, say the word!

Re: Brainstorming!

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

My first thought on Quinn was "pregnant and doesn't know who the daddy is," but that may just be because all my creativity at this time in the morning is icon-based. Maybe I'll play her as a poor-naive flower child who gets drawn into evil schemes right and left, because she'll Do Anything For Love.

Anyone want her to be a minion?

Re: Brainstorming!

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Seifer is going to be the reformed bad boy who becomes a priest.

WHO WANTS TO BE THE REASON HE JOINS THE 'HOOD AND COLLAR?

Re: Brainstorming!

[doyoufondue.livejournal.com]

You know having a father and son means I HAVE to make them an evil family on island who is trying to take over the place in order to... something something.

Profit.

Re: Brainstorming!

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

Lucrezia needs needs needs to do the black widow thing this weekend -- seduce, marry, poison, move on. (The poisoning doesn't need to be fatal. Since when does anybody stay dead on a soap opera, anyway?)

I am hoping to rack up an impressive number of last names by the weekend's end. Any takers? Please?

Re: Brainstorming!

[notagoose]

So basically my idea for Goose is that he was a former assassin called the Galaxy Stranger who quit his job when he was disgruntled with the line of work, fled underground and resurfaced years later in Fandom as a musician whose specialty was the electric guitar.

So I would love it if someone could either find out about Goose's former line of work or tried to take him out because of it...

Re: Brainstorming!

[whenshewasnice]

Because I can't resist doing something with my double PBs, Kate and Natalie are going to be twins. One's gonna be good and the other evil, except which is which is kind of debatable...

Also, Kate's coming with the added bonus of DID, which might be legit, or might be faked. (The writers clearly haven't figured out what would please the audience more...) One thing's for certain, though: her various personalities will be scheming and possibly having affairs all over the place, and so, I'm looking for people to be their partners-in-crime, secret lovers, whathaveyou!

Bonus points if these people haven't figured out there's more than one personality at work, and only know Kate as... Miss Jean from Lousiana, or whatever.

Re: Brainstorming!

[smartestone]

I've just now decided that Hermione has to crazy-stalk someone. Takers?

Re: Brainstorming!

[bitten_notshy]

I doubt anyone is still checking here, but I seem to have decided Jack has to be a (campy) EVIL LURKING VAMPIRE WHAT LURKS BY NIGHT for the weekend. Anybody need to get bitten?

OOC

[solo_sword]

THE SOAP OPERA WILL NEVER DIE. NOT AS LONG AS IT'S STILL ALIVE IN OUR HEARTS FANDOM HIGH IS STILL AROUND.

Re: OOC

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

I'VE MISSED THIS SO MUCH.

Re: OOC

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

SURE. DO THIS WHEN I'M MOVING INTO MY DORM. I SEE HOW IT IS.

*brb sobbing forever*

Re: OOC

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Trufax, part of the reason I look forward to SOW every year is to watch you geek out over it. IT'S A HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR. DON'T JUDGE.

Help!

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

I need ideas people!

Except for making Savannah a bitchy badass Cabal leader I have no other ideas! Work and evaluation have drained me!