OOC (out of character) thread

[Meme Pennywise]

Hellene Harpie

I will...I will...Σκατά στα μουτρα σου you κνώδαλον!

OMG Hellene! Such a potty mouth! Hahahaha  

[Ronan Aalto]

Oh My Hellene... and she's having a go at Chase? hahahaha.  

[Kai Merha]

This is just a reminder, Hacktivity Week caps off this evening. 3nodding  

[Lin McGearloch]

I have graveyard shifts for the next week starting tonight, but if I pop awake, I'll try to tie mine off as best I can.  

[Skinny Sally]

Adamant freebie
Turns you into a giant diamond.... lol  

[Draconia St George]

Bizarre! What is that a reference to?  

[Skinny Sally]

Draconia St George

Bizarre! What is that a reference to?

I saw it on one of the EI threads following Adamant Vault. Lol I just happened to see it there  

[HH Bloodgood]

Thanks to everyone for participating in Hacktivity Week! I was happy to see people venture out of their comfort zones a bit and adapt to a different format. I hope you all had fun.

We'll be moving on today to Saturday, aka Date Night! Feel free to utilize any thread you want for your dates. Jewels Underne will also be setting up a new thread for the Haunted Hollow Park, New Salem's wooded area and the location of some interesting caverns....  

[Melody Nocturna]

Oh, Draconia, that reminds me, where do you want to do the double date?  

[Draconia St George]

Drake, Manny, Glen and Chase will meet up with Melody and Roswell at the Die-ner after they go to the wrestling event. So if you guys want to rp going somewhere else, first, please do.  

[Marceline LaGhede]

I'm just giving everyone a fair warning... I may not be very active today. Without getting too deep into personal details, today is the anniversary of my father's death (and coincidentally, it's also his birthday) and while I've always been busy enough to skirt past it without so much as a tear shed, this year I can't escape it. I need to take a 24-hour hiatus from the internet and just... allow myself to grieve like a normal human being.

Folks are welcome to NPC my characters if it seems necessary, but I'll be back in the game tomorrow. This has been a really rough couple weeks for me and I appreciate you guys being patient with me. Things are looking up in the upcoming week.  

[Tori Underbridge]

I LOVE what's happening in the wrestling thread right now!! heart  

[Rorrim Rory Bludworth]

Coming up after Date night: Mid-terms week!

For those of you out of the US, Mid-terms marks the middle of the semester.

Semester = half a year

So, Mid-Terms are the quarter-school year mark. Each class gives the students either a test or has a large project due to evaluate how well the students are doing. Then, while the students have a couple days off, the teachers meet with their parents and give the parents updates, called Conferences.

So here's how our schedule is going to go:

Monday is Mid-Terms. We'll be the day, though since it's mostly tests, it should be relatively brief. Mostly, you'll want to show how your kids are progressing at school, show any problems they have, etc.

Tuesday-Wednesday, the students are off! Hurrah! BUT....It's Parent-Creature Conferences time! Your students parents (Or gore-dians) will be meeting with HH Bloodgood and possibly other teachers to find out about how their children are doing. That means you'll have an opportunity to rp as your student's parents!

If your student's parents/goredians are far away, find a way to bring them here. Parent/Creature conferences are important!

Thursday marks the beginning of Howliday Break! Uhh-merican Fangsgiving takes place that day. Some of the students are traveling to New Goreleans for the break, and some are going elsewhere or staying home. Start working on your Howliday break plans! It's up in the air how much of this we'll actually rp.  

[HH Bloodgood]

Guild change:

We've added a new subforum called the Thread Archive. This is where threads that aren't in (relatively) active use will be stored. We're going to loosen up on the restrictions of making new threads as our kids start venturing places besides the mainstay threads.

This would, for example, give Meme and Ronan the chance to make a 'Movie Theater' thread rather than roleplaying that in the Haunted Hollow park thread. (Though of course, that's perfectly all right as we have things now)

There are going to be some rules put in place for new threads, of course, since we don't want a new thread started for every single interaction. But the basic idea is this:

-If characters are going somewhere and one of the current settings isn't appropriate, you can get permission to start a new thread. The thread should lay out the setting fully in the first post, as well as give an idea of why the kids are there. If someone brand new comes into the guild, they should be able to read that first post and understand what's going on in that thread.

-Once the thread is done being used, if it seems like it won't be used anytime soon, it will be archived.

-If anyone wishes to use that thread again, it'll be moved out of the archives and a new situation will be established in it.

This way, we can build up our "Monster High World" without having to backtrack pages searching for a thread we want to reuse in the future.  

[HH Bloodgood]

Inactive bios are being moved into the Archives as well, in case those users ever come back.