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Now that the school year is over, and I'm going to do my best to make sure that we stay on schedule!


Ongoing - All thread art and banners are due
August 1st - Game details are completed
August 2nd - Test thread for crossword puzzle up
(in the intermittent time, fix anything you see needs to be fixed)
August 2nd - Schedule with school dream is set
August 6th - Thread is ready to go, all prizes are bought, and any kinks in the plot are fixed
August 9th - All remaining kinks and grammar issued have been fixed.
August 10th - The ball starts at noon!

There are two items I think should be addressed that haven't been brought up yet.

1) Decorative art - Are we ordering any? The rooms look kind of plain without random pieces of art to make the room like nice. I was thinking something along the lines of masks, crystals, clouds, pixies, swirls, etc...

2) Fundraising - Are we going to try a mini fundraiser to get a little extra funds? We could auction off a couple pieces of art, and maybe an OC story with it.

Things to do before the ball begins
- Make tekteks
- Finalize tekteks
- Finish crossover stuff with school dream
- Figure out who is doing what art
- Commission art
- Figure out who is doing banners
- Commission banners
- Figure out what games we are having
- Assign games to people and format them
- Buy prizes for contests and games
- Get list of headings for all banners
- Figure out who is doing post styles
- Write character descriptions
- Write personal bios
- Write room rules
- Work out kinks with plot
- Work out kinks with games
- Work out scheduling difficulties, and apply them to the plot
- Write room intro and make it perfect
- Get sig art

Please help me fill in anything I might have forgotten! heart

I updated the list! Now, I'm going to make it my personal mission to make sure that we stay on schedule! heart

Wow, we only have about a month left to get all of this done. @_@ The bios, rules, etc shouldn't take long. The art/banners/post styles are being ordered and handled by Broken. pinch of salt and pepper (a.k.a. Harmonic) is doing our banners and post styles.

I think the biggest thing we're going to have to worry about in this last bit is getting our test threads together, and working out the kinks in the games. Cutting it this close makes me a bit nervous to be honest.

Do we all use the post style each time we post?

I just updated our list. The next things on our list are:

1) Figuring out game/plot details and mechanics (in-progress)

2) Writing personal bios

3) Fixing our character descriptions to make them somewhat uniform and grammatically correct

4) Make our list of rules

I'd also like to see a test thread go up soon, and just be adding all of this information as we get it. It will help us see what's missing, and what we need to get done. I'm going to work on the room intro a bit more. I'm also going to work on the main plot for the ball a bit more to make it more concise. Let me know if there's anything big you think needs to be changed about our room intro.

Btw, do we have any volunteers to map out the castle? Someone mentioned having one to help guide our guests around since we're not going to be staying in one spot the whole time.

I think so too. Thanks for volunteering! I'm hoping we can keep the group together so it doesn't get too messy, but a map certainly helps. Hopefully it won't take too long to come up with one, but let's do that after we get rest of the art and games finished.

We need some random art to decorate the thread with, but I think I can edit some clip art to make it work.

I think the artist I hired last year would be able to do it. She's doing the News Room art at the moment, so she may or may not have time.

Updated! biggrin

As for games, we still need a couple more mini-games for mask finding. I was thinking we could do one along the lines of each person taking a turn, and accuracy determining the winner.

We could also do something where everyone has to do something at the same time, like sing or something.