Calendar: August - October 2011

[paradisamods]

CALENDAR: AUGUST - OCTOBER 2011

The dynamic calendar shows roughly the next three months (or 12 or so weeks) and what's planned for Paradisa, both IC and OOC. This page is maintained primarily by Dolly and Valerie.

Why a dynamic calendar?

People work best with organization. Turns out, mods and players could both use a calendar that allows us to see further than just four weeks, something that can continually change and be updated with new developments. This way, information is easily updated and changed to reflect the present, rather than something we had planned at the beginning of the month. We can add, we can remove, we can reschedule.

What matters most, now, is that people use it.

How do we use it?

Read it, of course! There's a link to the calendar on the sidebar, and it goes to the tag, meaning the first post you see will always be the most up-to-date calendar there is. Every month we'll start a new post, bumping off the previous month and putting the new month at the front/top. Updates should be continuous, and we'll have links to any event that has an OOC entry or a significant post or whatever's necessary. If there's a specific mun in charge of the event, they'll be listed there too.

Denotes OOC events

Denotes IC events

Denotes Group Losses

And it isn't just future events; if you're doing a spur-of-the-moment event like a meme on yuuyuupandaland, put it on anyway. It's good to put it there for reference.

There's also a text box here if you have any events you want to add or update or change.

UPDATE
<b>EVENT NAME:</b> Event name. <b>OOC/IC:</b> Is it OOC or IC? <b>LEADER:</b> Who is running this plot? <b>DATES:</b> Dates. **Must be concrete/confirmed with mods! -- if not, go to the PLOT ENTRY page!!** <b>DETAILS:</b> Brief summary of event, and any pertinent links.

What can we put on it?

Anything that you might want the public at large to know about!

AUGUST 2011
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	1 4th Wall Event (YYPL)	2 →	3 →	4 →	5 →	6 →
7	8	9	10	11 Riful Plot	12 →	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21 Language Plot	22 →	23 →	24	25	26	27 Kids Turned Bad
28 →	29 →	30 →	31 →

SEPTEMBER 2011
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
				1	2 Headspace Plot	3 →
4 →	5	6	7	8	9	10 How's My Driving?
11	12	13 Ice Cream Tuesday	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24 How's The Game?
25	26	27	28	29	30

OCTOBER 2011
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16 Paradisa Scouts	17 →	18 →	19 →	20 →	21 →	22 →
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

AUGUST 2011

4th Wall Event | July 31st - August 6th | Opt-in/out Following the success of last year's 4th Wall Meme, we will be bringing it back again this year! Whether you're looking to test out a voice in Paradisa's setting or just want to revive some old muses, everyone is encouraged to participate. Tell all your friends! It's open to anyone and everyone, not just Paradisa players. Contact: VALERIE Email | LJ | Plurk | AIM Riful Plot | August 11th - 12th | Opt-in/out Plot Chart | Plot Lead-up | Evidence sign-ups | Synopsis Kidnapping Sign-ups (closed) | OOC Tag A more detailed run-down of events will be available late-July/early-August. For now, see the Plot Synopsis for more details. Contact: DOLLY Email | LJ | Plurk | AIM | Text Language Plot | August 21st - 23rd | Castle-wide Whatever automatically translates everything around Paradisa? Switched off. This means that if characters want to talk, they'll have to stick to the languages they know! Details TBA. Contact: STICK Email | LJ | Plurk | AIM Kids Turned Bad | August 27th - 31st | Group-specific loss The kids of the castle are just sick of it all. For a few days, they're turning bad, and making sure that everyone knows exactly how much they don't like this place. With gangs. OOC post Contact: JONESY Email | Plurk | AIM Back to Top

SEPTEMBER 2011

Headspace Plot | September 2nd - 4th | Opt-in/out Characters' rooms are turned into physical manifestations of the inside of their heads. Much like the dream plot, but instead of exploring dreams, you explore minds. Details TBA. Contact: STICK Email | LJ | Plurk | AIM How's My Driving | September 10th The post should go up before afternoon E.S.T., so that our muns in the later timezones don't miss out. Linklist * HMD tag * Giving and Receiving Good Concrit * Operational Details: Critique, Communication, Courtesy, Consideration, Et Al. Ice Cream Tuesday | September 13th | Opt-in/out We all scream for ice cream! Details TBA. How's The Game | September 24th A chance for the playerbase to discuss how the game is doing and how we can continually improve it. Back to Top

OCTOBER 2011

Paradisa Scouts | October 16th - 22nd | Group-specific loss/Opt-in/out As the great and wonderful Rock Star Meteor Shower blazes through Paradisa's skies, a strange crabbiness seems to have settled into some citizen's hearts. Will those blessed with the Power to set things be able to help save Paradisa citizens from a life of terrible moods and silly crime strings before the second part of the meteor shower comes around? More details TBA! Contact: ISHMAEL Email | AIM Back to Top

Comments

[thiefoflight.livejournal.com]

[molotov]

Characters' rooms are turned into physical manifestations of the inside of their heads

GUNS. GUNS FUCKING EVERYWHERE.

[variare.livejournal.com]

Fuck yeah.

[mouthiness.livejournal.com]

Language Plot

FUCK YES DEADPOOL TROLLING IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES. Also fake translating for others for further trolling.

[hulloeverything.livejournal.com]

So. For three days. Only River will be able to understand the Doctors.

Gallifreian, what? :P

[fishy-go-byebye.livejournal.com]

Del too :D

Er, I mean, she speaks everything ever. It's part of the Endless thing. Also, if they're with animals instead of people, they look like the animal~

[hulloeverything.livejournal.com]

Awww. So that makes 2 people the Doctors can talk to other than each other lol.

[variare.livejournal.com]

THIS LOOKS AWESOME but I have...no idea what language they speak in Xenosaga. They all seem to speak the same one, but... /SCREAM

At least Jr. KNOWS other languages. Thank goodness.

[gevurah]

I DIDN'T... want to comment in Stick's plot entry because it felt incredibly rude to do that to her and maybe not the correct place to discuss it either. I hope this is okay here?

Follow this:

I hate to be a negative Nancy and honestly, looking at the calendar and seeing we have more stuff for August, it throws me off. I really love the idea of a language plot and I'm okay with this in particular -- so I think it's the kids loss (gangs were mentioned, so I imagine it might get emotionally exhausting again to see the kids being manipulated by the castle not too long after a major villain plot + Slenderman back in the spring) added on that makes things a bit awkward to manage. I'm not sure how to maneuver around the plots since the Riful Plot was emotionally exhausting for many characters, so I was under the assumption they would have downtime for it.

I'm not even sure what I'm saying anymore. I LOST TRACK OF WHAT MY POINT WAS. But it was like someone once mentioned a long time ago somewhere, that plots need to be scheduled in a way that works well with the player base. Throwing more events after a major one can burn people out really fast. ;(

[rogueofheart]

The kids thing is a player run loss that Jonesy requested to be placed on the calendar. If it wasn't placed on the calendar, he and those that joined in would still be going through with this loss, which is not intended to be a serious plot at all. Would it still be an issue? Or is it the illusion that there is a lot going on?

[gevurah]

I think it's definitely the illusion. We have downtime after Riful plot, then the language plot (which honestly this isn't really my concern!) and then it's followed closely by the kids loss which I'm not too sure what the details are but it will involve kids being "bad" so I assume destruction of property, possibly some physical altercations, etc.? Then after that there's the Headspace Plot. It's three small events but they come very close to each other, so... yeah, I definitely think it casts an illusion of "too much" happening. I mean, personally I can opt out if I want. Like you suggested in the other post, not tagging/taking a hiatus is something I don't mind. I was just thinking about other people who may be burned out.

Oh my god... do I make sense here...

[rogueofheart]

If it's the illusion, the group losses are now coded as a different color so people can differentiate between plots and simple losses. Hopefully that will clear a little confusion!

The language plot is really intended to be a laid back plot, while headspace is opt-in/out. Also, if anyone has an issue with Jonesy's loss, we strongly encourage people to talk to him and those participating. c:

[gevurah]

I think my concern was with the group loss was recalling the vampire loss in June, it went from a group loss to sort of a game-wide event that affected many characters. (Of course, that's also an extreme example since lol kids and lol vampires. :E) It all comes down to how it will be played out since we can't determine how characters will react till it's show time. But I will definitely hit up Jonesy.

Thank you, Val! And so sorry for the random and I really hope it didn't come off as an attack or pointless whining. It was mostly the group loss I was concerned about but took it to the wrong place. I'M SORRY ALJFSELK. But thank you again for answering everything for me!

[valerie]

Not at all! Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and I hope that things are a little clearer for all now. :)

[too-fairytale.livejournal.com]

GODDAMMIT

I really wanted to do the headspace plot but it's taking place during Dragon*Con. :(

[boylolita.livejournal.com]

Mte it's like the exact same days. That plot sounds awesome :(

[too-fairytale.livejournal.com]

Oooh, are you going too? /brofist

[boylolita.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, if everything comes together. /bro-fists back

[too-fairytale.livejournal.com]

I'm excited as hell. The guest list this year is sort of insane, even without Nimoy.

[boylolita.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of a pop culture failure and don't know about 99% of the people on the list, but my friends are super pumped and I'm just looking forward to tagging along and soaking it all in if my foot gets walkable in time.

[hesam-bb.livejournal.com]

(omg I'm going to be there too and I only know like 3 guests....*cough*)

[hesam-bb.livejournal.com]

The headspace plot sounds amazingly awesome but I will be missing it due to d*con

:(