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your summer BDE announcement!

Hello, all! I passed a very loud back to school section in Target yesterday which means summer is winding down. To make sure we're all getting the most of it, from Tuesday, August 6 until Tuesday, August 12, Fandom is taking everybody on a road trip! Welcome to a very chill BDE!

That's right, the island is moving again, this time across the famed Route 66 (with a stop in West Virginia because you have to get to Route 66). Every day the island will move to a different state, with the scenery changing, and some of the location's affectations/traditions/places/popular things becoming part of Fandom for the day. You'll even be able to venture into the surrounding towns. At the end of the week we'll end in sunny California, where….

…Well, okay, a multiversal nexus moving across the country in this case awakens some things, and so giant road stop attractions will follow the island across the country the whole time. Think Paul Bunyan, Giant Santa Clauses, the world's largest fork, etc. They'll catch up in California, where the denizens of Fandom get to just have the most ridiculous fights. Once they're defeated, Fandom will zap itself back home safely.

I'll put up a post every night CST listing the next day's changes to the island, but I need your help! You all might know some of these places, so this is going to be a brainstorming post in case there's anything you want to add, or if there's a roadside attraction you think we need. (Of course the giant ball of twine is covered, who do you think I am?)

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BDE NPCs: IC Brainstorming Post

It doesn't matter what year it is. Fandom will be Fandom... in slightly different ways and with slightly different tastes.

This is your IC brainstorming post! Tag in under one of the prompts for your Fandom and have a poke at a Day In The Life.

OOC brainstorming post is here.

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Umbridge BDE note [Cross posted]

If anyone has a piece of Resistance news for something that happened Sunday in UMBRIDGE WORLD that they want printed in Monday's resistance paper, let me know over at this post, please!!

The rest of the week is covered, we've worked all that out, but since Monday is the first day of the plot and all, there won't be any resistance links from the day before.

Current Mood: brainstormy!

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BDE Vampire AU Brainstorming

So we've all probably got a bit of an idea of what we want our characters to have been up to over in the AU. What we need now is to get hooked up with people who have similar plotting needs or just really dig an idea.

This is that post! Ask for help accomplishing something for your AU character. Volunteer to help others! The OCD's set up by what type of character you have/want so just ping in with what you're looking for/hoping for.

Original Info Post | Survivor Details | Vampire Guide

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Researchy Team!

Just a note for those who have signed up to do research on our zombie plague, today and tomorrow are your days to shine!

The library post today is up and ready for anyone who wants to exercise their book-smarts to visit, looking for a solution to our unfortunate outbreak of walking corpses!

While we have a small handful of legitimate clues already selected for some lucky RNG-d individuals to find, we encourage that you use this opportunity to really have fun with your role in this event. Feel free to have your character come up with completely off-the-wall information on the zombies. Make stuff up! Just because zombies aren't all really allergic to kumquats doesn't mean we shouldn't spend a little while thinking they are, right?

Current Mood: cold

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BDE: Timeline, information, and more.

Welcome back! We've got some treats for you!

( The (un)dead do not suffer the living to pass. )

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BDE Groups!

Good news, cats and kittens: You sort yourselves out very well. Everyone gets to be in the groups they signed up for!

( Yes, there is still more OCD... )

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Spring BDE Announcement & Sign-Ups

Starting on March 30th, Fandom is going to be invaded by zombies.

Yes, zombies. And they're dying to get to know you better.

Without giving too much away, the Girls With Guns club is going to be followed home by a very disgruntled Zombie Voodoo Priest (ZVP) on their next outing. He wants revenge and brains, and Fandom seems like the perfect place to start.

Starting on April 1st (yes, seriously), Fandomites are going to get bitten by the newly-raised NPC zombies that are terrorizing the island. Research will begin on Thursday, once everyone realizes the radio wasn't joking the other night about ZOMBIES.

Sunday will be the showdown, with a small group going up against our ZVP while others defend the dorms and town from the Fandomite Zombies. They're on a mission to add to their ranks, by force, and they're after your brains!

ETA the First: Sign-up deadline is Weds, March 25th, at noon CST.

ETA the Second: The more Fandomite Zombies, the better! Remember, all damage sustained during your zombification will be reversed at the end of the plot. It's a great chance to provide mental trauma to your friends and family for years to come.

[~~Wait for the OCD. Pinging before completion of the OCD means Ghanima will beat you down omg.~~ OCD is up, and no one will be smote. Except for zombies.]

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Yet more info! Safehouses, researchers, away teams and other stuff

Safehouses

The Safehouses will start from Thursday morning. They will work by having an adult or two in charge of a group of people in a largish space. This can be a common room, someone's house, town hall, the suites at the hotel, the gym, (lock in at Caritas?!) etc etc. The campus posts can be put up by students, and the adults ping in whenever they can, if availability is an issue.

The main point is to stay in groups, in a well-lit place with clear lines of sight.

There will be morning ones and evening ones - the evening ones are for sleeping, too. Those staying in the Safehouses can ping in whenever they like, with something of the feel of a slumber party for the night ones. There may be some small cracky things happening in the Safehouses to lighten the atmosphere, and keep everyone entertained.

We will be doing up a schedule of who and when for these soon.

Researchers

Everyone knows how this goes by now, but this time we'll be having research parties in the dorm computer labs as well as the library. There will be certain information found by them, both library researchers and internet researchers .

We'll be randomly picking the people who will find it, so feel free to have your character go off on wild tangents, finding all manner of bizarre possibilities, or simply find nothing at all!

These pieces of information will lead to the away teams being sent out, there to find the keys to the angels - five pieces of information that together will unlock the secret of how to defeat them.

Away Teams

There will be more info coming for the away teamers, but for now: there will be five groups, and they will start being sent out on Thursday/Friday.

Anyone who wanted to be a victim and got RNG'd out is welcome to sign up for the away teams. You must sign up below by midnight Friday EST or miss out. There will be a detailed away team post and a list of our away teamers on Saturday morning.

NPCs and you

WE WANT YOU!

We need people to play NPCs! People to play the angels and people to play NPCs in the past for our victims. We haven't decided on where each of the five locations will be yet, but the time period will be the 1920s/30s.

If you want make a suggestion as to where they end up and when, there is an OCD thread for that, too.

If you want to wrangle an angel or puppet an historical character, this is the place to let us know - we really can't do this one on our own! If you could indicate below if you
a) want to play an NPC,
b) whether you want to play an angel or a character from history, or both
c) Your availability the week of the BDE - more days you won't be available, or it will be spotty

There will be more to come !(Are you sick of this yet?)

[~~wait for OCD, plz~~ It is up - have at it.]

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Calling all Angel Victims

You may be experiencing a strange sense of déjà vu. Don't worry, it's not a glitch in the matrix.

The following people are our victims, who will be split into five groups of six: ( Cut for list )

Now, what we need from each of our victims is:

1) Pick one other person on the victim list that you want to be in a group with. (Make sure they're okay with it, first, though!) That way we can simply throw together three sets of pairs.

This does not mean you will disappear at the same time as the other half of your pair, just that you'll end up in the same victim group.

If you don't care, just let us know and we'll toss you in a group.

2) Nominate your two preferred days to become a victim to the angels - IF IT MATTERS (Monday to Saturday, only. No vanishing on Sunday.). Also, if there is a day that you absolutely cannot be available to be angelled, definitely let us know.

If you don't care, and you'll be available whenever, then let us know that, too.

You MUST ping with this info by Friday midnight EST, so we can get you a full schedule of character disappearances as soon as possible. If we don't hear from you, we'll just randomly assign you to a group and a day.

Old, old, old

Now, on to the next bit. As you would have read in the last info post, we need some characters who will be alive (but OLD) in 2008 when the away teams come looking, and some who will have spent their life finding out what the angels were. If you want your character to be one of those, please indicate so below. Numbers will be limited on this.

Live through the ages

This one is not necessary for the plot, but it would provide a very unique opportunity. We may still choose not to go with it, depending on how things pan out.

Do you have a character with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility who would refuse to go into stasis? Who would choose to stay out and age naturally, dying before 2008, to watch over their fellows?

If so, you can volunteer them below. This would be the end of your character, they would die, but they would get to live a full, if handwavy, life. Think about it, and if you want to, then sign them up, and we'll let you know.

( Limitations on the handwavy history/future you develop for your character (Now behind a cut, 'cause I'm wordy )

Next post? Yet MORE information. And just a reminder, the dates for this are Monday, 10 March to Sunday, 16 March.

ETA: Anyone who needs to pre-play their abduction, can you let us know in the magically created thread that is actually UNDER the OOC? Thank you!

[~~please wait for OCD, thanks~~ We have reached OCD. Go thou forth and ping.]

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Calling all Angel Victims [Or a Very Special Episode Of Fandom OOC]

And so I learn a valuable lesson about jumping the gun, and not catching up on things before I post.

Many, many apologies - I failed to note that the signups for various groups close at midnight tonight, and so jumped the gun rather spectularly.

Look for the same post tomorrow, only with a revised victim list, as the latest to sign up will be incorporated and the whole lot RNGd again.

Again, my apologies for the confusion.

(I've left comments disabled because I can't bear to delete all that OCD, but feel free to email me and poke me with sticks!)

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More about the Weeping Angels BDE

Okay, now that we have an idea of the sorts of numbers we're dealing with, it's time to outline in more detail what's going to be happening for this BDE. A list of victims will go up in the next post, and we'll be asking you to make some choices as well as nominate for groups. There will also be a further post on the safehouses, with more details, and specifics about how this is all going to work from an organisational/posting standpoint.

( All About The Victims )

( The Away Teams )

( Optional off-screen handwaviness )

( The Blinkers and Teleporters )

( That's great, but what about all the dead/old victims? )

( …what? )

Questions/comments are so very welcome, and there are more posts to follow in a minute!

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BDE Group Information and Sign Ups

As previously mentioned, we're trying full exposure with this semester's BDE. The following is a list of the groups of people we need for this plot, along with a description of what each group is going to have to do.

( The Victim Group )

( The Library/Internet Research Group )

( The Away Group )

( The Fighting Group )

( The Home Guard Group )

So, sign up! We need people to sign up to be in the victim group and in the away group. We need an indication of whether your character will be in the research group. We need adults to sign up to take safe-house posts (and an indication of your availability if it's limited - nothing beyond putting up the post will be required, but interaction would be dandy!), and we need our group of Finale blinkers and teleporters!

If you could also indicate if your characters won't be participating, that'd be great, too.

ETA: Now unlocked, so everyone can reply. And yes, you can sign up for more than one group, in case the RNG gods decide to smite you.

ETA II IN WHICH I PROVE I CAN READ: Sorry for the confusion. The Home Guard group is not just adults. We need townies and teachers to open "safe house" posts, but we also need students to open common rooms. So, feel free to have your students sign up there too.

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And More BDE Info for your Virus-y Enjoyment

As was promised, we have more information for you regarding the BDE of next week.

First, some background on the virus we're going to be fighting. This is an illness designed to wipe out magic users and those who associate with them. Therefore it was made with the express intention of being resistant to magic and other supernatural forms of healing.

The plague has an incubation time of between 24-36 hours depending upon the nature of the exposure and physical health (in other words, it's up to you, but there is an incubation period). It's going to show up as a very high fever, coughing, severe headaches, vomiting, terrible fever dreams and a telltale lacy rash. Because the designers believed in overkill.

Those with magical/supernatural healing powers will be able to use those powers to help reduce the symptoms (bring the fever down, calm the headaches, etc), but the illness will not be destroyed and will return with a vengeance after from a few minutes to a few hours (depending upon how strong the healer is and OOC communication).

The lucky characters who can self heal can decide based upon their canon and how they wish to play it what the results of that talent is. It can remove the symptoms, destroy the illness only to catch the next mutation coming through, become re-infected, however the player wishes to handle it.

Once the clinic is overburdened and the quarantine is declared, a temporary hospital will be set up in the Town Hall. This is where sick characters will need to end up to be treated and cared for by their friends and the doctors, healers, and healers' assistants.

Along with all this sickness and disease, we're going to need a research team. Because if magic doesn't help and medicine doesn't seem to be working, there's got to be a cure somewhere, right? (and there is, we promise! And when it's found, it will reveal some of the secrets of the island's past)

Classes will continue during this time (as teachers and TAs are able) and stores and the like are encouraged to stay open.

So below in the OCD, there are places to sign up for characters getting sick, assistants to step up to help the beleaguered clinic folks, and researchers. Also there's an OCD thread for characters who will be leaving the island for the duration of the quarantine.

Characters can definitely sign up for more than one of these threads - being a researcher or a healing assistant at first definitely doesn't mean the character can't end up ill.

There's no time limit for when you can sign up for these things. If you don't decide until next Wednesday that you'd like Character X to get sick, that's totally fine. We're just trying to get an idea of how things are going to fall out so we can plan accordingly.

I think that's it for now. Information will continue to be forthcoming, but any questions or comments you have are heartily appreciated and will be answered promptly!

ETA: You can definitely volunteer your characters to do all three things if you want! The threads aren't mutually exclusive.

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BDE Announcement and Information

From November 12-16, Fandom is going to be experiencing an island-wide plot, AKA a Big Damn Event. However, this BDE is different from the usual.

Fandom Island is going to suffer an outbreak of an extremely vicious and highly contagious illness, one that strikes quick and hard. It's a legacy of Fandom's past, and there's no known cure. Yet. Magic cannot heal it, drugs cannot cure it (though both may alleviate the symptoms temporarily in the early stages), and it's going to take all the people of Fandom to come together to save those who've been infected.

There will be the possibility for character death. Yes, it's that serious. Obviously, character deaths need to be kept to a minimum, but if you are interested in having your character die, let us know in the appropriate thread, including your reasons why you want your character to die, and we'll consider it. Comments are screened.

More information will be forthcoming as it gets closer, but we wanted to let you know now, so you could make any plans. There will be a chance for all characters - Teachers, Townies, Students - to get involved: as researchers, helping to care for the sick, or, of course, catching the illness. We're going to be staggering the rate at which characters get sick, so it increases as the days go on, but anyone who wants to can get sick. There will be a set list of symptoms, but it's up to you how badly or how many affect your character.

If you want to avoid this BDE, you can send your character(s) off island for that week. There will be no penalisation for missing classes, jobs, clubs, etc (this includes Teachers and Townies) but your character must be off the island by midnight November 11 PST and they cannot return until November 17th.. During that time, the island will be locked down in quarantine, with no one permitted to leave or arrive, by physical means or magic.

Okay! Questions, comments, desires for death, toss them in the appropriate OCD below. Comments are screened, but questions and comments and OCD madness will be unscreened asap.