Post by Alex on Oct 4, 2009 19:51:46 GMT -5
Warning: the following text may cause seizures in some persons unfit for AWESOME. Proceed with caution.
SHELPEY ALLEY;
WELCOME TO SPIRIT WEEK, 2009!!
OCTOBER 18th-OCTOBER 31st
You may be wondering, "How in the world does this work? It can't be anything like the Spirit Week at my school. And it lasts for two weeks, not one. Clearly this should at least be renamed to 'Spirit Weeks' in order to have proper noun/number agreement? Why is there confetti falling from my cursor? Why are my thoughts being read and typed into a post made well before I even thought these things? Is Vulpine psychic? Am I going insane?"
ALL GOOD QUESTIONS, DEAR MEMBER! (And yes, I am psychic.)
WELCOME TO SPIRIT WEEK, 2009!!
OCTOBER 18th-OCTOBER 31st
You may be wondering, "How in the world does this work? It can't be anything like the Spirit Week at my school. And it lasts for two weeks, not one. Clearly this should at least be renamed to 'Spirit Weeks' in order to have proper noun/number agreement? Why is there confetti falling from my cursor? Why are my thoughts being read and typed into a post made well before I even thought these things? Is Vulpine psychic? Am I going insane?"
ALL GOOD QUESTIONS, DEAR MEMBER! (And yes, I am psychic.)
The staff has decided to put together this event for several purposes, the first and foremost being for FUN. After that comes the crazy notion that this will maybe attract some new members. But that's beside the point and vastly inferior. Over the past few weeks, different themes have been debated and thrown around in that hectic mess we call the Staff Room- and this emerged.
As you've surely noticed, there is a new, colorful category of boards at the bottom of the forum. These, my dear friends, are the Spirit Week boards- also known as where the party will be held for the next two weeks (BYOB.) Upon further inspection, you may have noticed the names of the 6 boards listed under this category, and the seventh sub board located under this very board here.
These boards are the different themes of Spirit Week. They are: Halloween, Gender-Bender, OOC IC, r0L3PL4y, and Character Swap! They each have their respective descriptions listed under the board names on the main page, but I'll give you a brief summary of each:
SPIRIT WEEK: Where you'll find basic info and sign-up sheets.
Show Your Spirit: Creativity board.
Halloween: Any Halloween/Autumn-themed roleplay.
Gender-Bender: Change your character's gender.
OOC IC: Make your character behave completely OOC.
r0L3PL4y: Bad-roleplay-skills board.
Character Swap: Take over someone else's character for a thread.
The point of this event is to HAVE SOME FUN. We all know that roleplaying can sometimes feel tedious, and generating the muse to write a long reply is tough. In these Spirit Week boards, you can write as long, as short, as well, or as badly as you want to. (Unless it's MANDATORY that you roleplay badly. Then you must.) The creativity boards can be used to post artworks you've drawn that relate to anything that's going on, or to post stories that you've written about something that may not have been able to happen without that OOC IC board. Go out and live your dreamsssss!
As stated for the Character Swap board: not all members will want to have their character roleplayed by someone else. Since these ARE original (and thus, copyrighted) characters, the member must give their consent before that character may be roleplayed. It's a VERY simple form:
Your Username:
The characters you want involved (if any):
The characters you don't want involved (if any):
See? Not so hard to do.
There will be one last part of this Spirit Week that will actually take place outside of these special boards. On any given day, your Display Name and Custom Title are subject to change at the discretion of any staff member (nothing bad, we promise!) You're expected to keep this name and title until Spirit Week is over, or unless stated otherwise.
A last note before we turn you loose: EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THESE BOARDS ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER AND DO NOT CORRESPOND WITH ANYTHING GOING ON IN CHARACTER. Meaning, if two characters have a complete hatred towards each other, in here (if the members agree, that is) those two characters could be the best of friends. Anything you can think of works! And for the sake of roleplaying as liberally as we want to, Guild Alliances are going to be ignored, unless they play an important role in your thread. So don't worry about those, either.
Now it's just you, your character, and two weeks. GO WILD![/center]