fhplotterywheel | let's sneak this on in before the newbies land

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.

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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.

Edited 2011-08-27 03:58 (UTC)

Ahahahah. MARRY ME, BRUCIE.

HOW DARE YOU? HE'S MINE!

BITCH, PLZ. BRUCE AND I HAVE A LOVE THAT'S PURE AND TRUE AND HAWT.

DON'T MAKE ME CUT YOU.

BRING IT, BLONDIE. I'm bringing my gun to this knife-fight!

Re: Brainstorming!

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Steph: *FACEPALMS FOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER*

Jason: *joins in the facepalming and quietly dying*

I kind of feel like this is a good place for a standard soap opera long-lost-sibling thing.

Oh, I so approve of this line of thinking. :D :D

Sign me up for marriage. Yep. Jamie will make a mean bride, I tell ya.

Yep. I'll be a Bruce bride.

Me tooooo!

It's not like Lex isn't already going to get married three times before he's thirty anyway.

Mmmm, maybe Bruce needs a little Marjorine spread all over his love?

Secret princesses on the run (OR ARE THEY?) need to finance their lives on the run somehow (OR DO THEY?).

Beside Cara needs more things to not talk to Bruce about.

Could he be Quinn's ex-husband? And they can have some kind of Dark Secret about their time together?

From entirely the wrong journal, but sure! Bruce could have a few exes as well, and countless Dark Secrets.

I see you mentioned a kid down below. Want to recruit somebody IG to be their secret love child who who was given up for adoption and has apparently gone through some extremely rapid soap opera kid aging syndrome? Or did you have something else in mind?

I really shouldn't be in this post before 6:00 AM.

Oooh. Having a kid who was given up for adoption and is now back for revenge, Kendall Hart-style, sounds awesome. I like this plan.

If the kid then murders Bruce at some point in the weekend, causing an issue of inheritance with his 30 wives and husbands, all the better!

I may need a lawyer to read Bruce's will.

This is why I love SOW. Any insanity I throw out there can be a legitimate plot thread. :D

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I would totally be happy to have Mercy be the secret love child given up for adoption, rapidly aged and now out for revenge!

Lucrezia would love this! Is it okay to tie it to her black widow motif -- that she attempted to poison him and move on, and has no idea that he's still alive?

That works for me! I kind of want to have multiple attempts on Bruce's life anyway, so that works nicely. :D

Okay, in that case, I think maybe she needs to try to keep poisoning him all weekend and fail at it, comedy-of-errors style. Spike his drink just before someone else knocks it over (or before it gets passed to someone else entirely, who drops dead) ....

Ha! Sounds good to me.