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As per the calendar and only a day late, the game wide how's my driving is now up! Please consider participating. :)

Regardless of potential excitingness, May's theme is Through the Looking Glass by a very narrow margin! The vote was incredibly split this time, so it'll be interesting to see what happens next month. :)

Go crazy with your AUs, guys! And remember to use this post to plot if you'd like to!

WOW I definitely dropped the ball on this one, guys! Sorry this is so extremely behind schedule. ;; Let's get to it!

Please only vote once, and the winner will be our theme for May. Losing themes will appear again next month in the voting, with some taken out at mod discretion to get us down to twelve potential themes total. The culled ones might make it into the running next time if we're short on ideas. Usually ideas taken out of the running are because of consistently little support for them, or there are others very similar to it.

Theme participation is optional, so if you hate the one that wins, feel free to ignore the entirety of it for the duration of the month. There will be an info post up if it's a particularly involved theme, and you can do plotting in the same post.

Underwater: Potentially in the city of Atlantis, you're all underwater. Mer-people abound.
Dark / Nightmare: A definite nightmare. Darkness, death, decay is everywhere: dead friends, rotting corpses, violent strangers, a broken-down city.
Road Trip: Everyone is divided into cars and is going on a road trip.
Be a Rock Star: Like above, everyone is divided into groups, only this time they're in a band.
Video Games: You're in some kind of video game. Team up, collect items, beat monsters.
Telepathy: Characters are all telepaths suddenly. Moreover, they can be bonded into pairs, with all the hokey hallmarks of telepathic pair bonding. (Mutual co-dependence, strong empathy, etc.)
Timeskip: Characters post from different places along their timeline, or are from a different point entirely for the duration of the month.
Candyland: The whole place is candy. Creativity abounds from there.
Music in Me: Everyone starts breaking out into song and dance, apparently for no reason at all. Problem is, the songs also reveal what the singer truly feels, so if she was trying to hide something, this event will now proceed to reveal it, through the usage of song and dance numbers.
Through the Looking Glass: Characters find themselves traversing alternate universes of themselves not seen in OPN- worlds where they died, where they aren't human, where they didn't save the world in time, ect.
Flip the Chessboard: Characters are now the opposite of what they usually are. Lawful Evil becomes Chaotic Good, male becomes female, slouch becomes hard worker, hero becomes villain. The choice of what kind of trait is flipped is up to the mun's, of course.
Matters of the Heart: Characters suddenly fall in love. It doesn't matter who it is or where he/she comes from, they're in love. Maybe they've always been like this, maybe they're going on their first date, maybe one of them has finally mustered up the courage to tell the other. However, like with any other good love story, there is always an obstacle.

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VOTING WILL CLOSE MAY 2. Feel free to spam and try to garner up support for your theme of choice in the comments. Voting is short this time because I was so behind, sorry! ;;

If you want to change your vote, make sure you're logged into the journal you voted with, and click on the "Poll #____" link at the top of the poll. Top left will be "Fill out Poll". Simply re-select a new radio button and hit submit, and voilá, you changed your vote!

Hey guys! 8D This is a little ahead of schedule, but I'm so eager to get feedback that I can't wait any longer, lmao. Effectively this post is to check in with you players and see what you like or dislike about the current way things are run, and the way we mod.

I know it's a little unusual for RPGs these days, but in essence I prefer to run things very democratically. If we ever make big changes to the game, rest assured that I will poll you all first to make sure that what we're doing is in accordance with the majority of the players' interests. You guys make the game, not the mods, after all. :) I will try to hold mod veto to only rare circumstances.

That said, we've been open for over a month (yayyyy woohoo) and I figured it was about time to see what you all thought of things! I'm including two general polls, of things that are the major topic of most games' discussions - apps and activity checks. The results are screened so that the statistics are viewable, but who said what is not.

Please feel free to leave comments here to discuss among each other (and us, as the mods) any policy changes you'd like to propose about anything, whatever it may be. Rules are intended to be flexible; I'm here to help the game run, not to police people. If you'd like to leave us a private comment, please use the mod contact page, as comments are screened there. Everything has been great so far, and I love all of you!! ♥

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And finally, the feedback I would have to you guys as a mod to players is:

1. Please please please tag every post your character comments on. Seriously. Please do it. XD

2. If everyone could branch out and tag more posts, I would love it, but I don't intend to regulate this in any way. Just as a suggestion!

3. I'd like to see people getting to know each other OOCly, too, and create kind of a community atmosphere. Again, I don't intend to regulate this at all, it's just what I'd like to see. If anyone has suggestions on how to do that, feel free to tell me! Maybe I've just missed the loop and you're all befriending each other where I can't see it, LOL.

And the winner for April is... Don't Wake Me Up! /the crowd goes wild yeahhhh

Okay uh, the description provided for this is as follows: "A perfect dream. Everything conspires to bring contentment and happiness: seemingly better relationships, jobs, living accommodations, whatever. The catch is, staying too long will be deadly in one form or another."

If you'd like to ignore that catch at the end, feel free to. I'd also like to encourage people to plot out specific dream scenarios and have the "guest" characters in the dream be buying into it. For example, if character A lost the love of their life in a tragic accident long ago, their perfect dream might consist of being reunited with them and living a happy life. Having the people tagging into the post be that long lost love could be an interesting option.

Obviously there's a lot of possibilities here. As usual, use this post to ask questions or plot things out. B) Stay classy.

Please only vote once, and the winner will be our theme for April. Losing themes will appear again next month in the voting unless we get a ton and I have to cull the least popular out. This time two were culled out, but they might make it into the running next time if we're short on ideas.

Theme participation is optional, so if you hate the one that wins, feel free to ignore the entirety of it for the duration of the month. There will be an info post up if it's a particularly involved theme, and you can do plotting in the same post.

ANYWAY, let's get to voting! Here's the descriptions for each theme:

Underwater: Potentially in the city of Atlantis, you're all underwater. Mer-people abound.
Pegasus: A beautiful city in the interior of Earth, covered with flowers and a great forest. In the forest is a pond, and the pure may encounter a pegasus and even be able to ride it for a wonderful chance to fly.
Dark / Nightmare: A definite nightmare. Darkness, death, decay is everywhere: dead friends, rotting corpses, violent strangers, a broken-down city.
Don't Wake Me Up: A perfect dream. Everything conspires to bring contentment and happiness: seemingly better relationships, jobs, living accommodations, whatever. The catch is, staying too long will be deadly in one form or another.
Underwear: It has to happen sometime! You're all suddenly in your underwear.
Road Trip: Everyone is divided into cars and is going on a road trip.
Be a Rock Star: Like above, everyone is divided into groups, only this time they're in a band.
Let's Do a Play: Everyone is part of a theatre troupe putting on a play.
Video Games: You're in some kind of video game. Team up, collect items, beat monsters.
Telepathy: Characters are all telepaths suddenly. Moreover, they can be bonded into pairs, with all the hokey hallmarks of telepathic pair bonding. (Mutual co-dependence, strong empathy, etc.)
Timeskip: Characters post from different places along their timeline, or are from a different point entirely for the duration of the month.
Candyland: The whole place is candy. Creativity abounds from there.

[Poll #1723238]

VOTING WILL CLOSE APRIL 1. Feel free to spam and try to garner up support for your theme of choice in the comments. B)

If you want to change your vote, make sure you're logged into the journal you voted with, and click on the "Poll #____" link at the top of the poll. Top left will be "Fill out Poll". Simply re-select a new radio button and hit submit, and voilá, you changed your vote!

Sorry to spam you guys with a thousand mod announcements here, but I just wanted to let you all know that I created a mod plurk! If you don't use plurk, it's not a big deal and you shouldn't worry about it. If you do use plurk, friending it is still optional - it's just going to be used to make announcements and such, and for players that prefer plurk over IM to PM us there if they need to.

Likewise, if you're concerned about privacy, I suggest following it instead of friending it. Uhh... I think that's it. :|a And as always, feel free to friend me, too!

--Vivi

VOTING CLOSED. THE WINNER IS....

Into the Dream, aka characters act out scenes from their daily lives! Part of this theme is that the other participating characters have a suspension of disbelief, and fully buy into the part that they're acting out.

I was planning on doing up an info post, but there's not much point for this because it's so dependent on each individual character, and is rather self-explanatory. Feel free to use this post for ideas and plotting, though!! A couple posts we have already that fit the theme are Ami's post about fighting monsters and Ash's Pokemon tournament, just to give you some examples.

Please remember to tag your entries, and use the !theme: march '11 tag appropriately. B)

I know this wasn't scheduled to go up until the day we open, but since Leah was kind enough to give us a ton of good suggestions, we have enough to get voting! Please only vote once, and the winner will be our theme for March. Losing themes will appear again next month in the voting unless we get a ton and I have to cull the least popular out.

Theme participation is optional, so if you hate the one that wins, feel free to ignore the entirety of it for the duration of the month. I'll write up the info post on March's theme, which will contain a bunch of pictures and description about potential settings, and ideas for plotting. Actual plotting will happen in the same post. In the future, I'd be perfectly happy to take volunteers to write up the info posts if someone is particularly enthusiastic or knowledgeable about a theme.

ANYWAY, let's get to voting! Here's the descriptions for each theme:

Wild West: What it sounds like! Stuck in the wild west.
Underwater: Potentially in the city of Atlantis, you're all underwater. Mer-people abound.
Pegasus: A beautiful city in the interior of Earth, covered with flowers and a great forest. In the forest is a pond, and the pure may encounter a pegasus and even be able to ride it for a wonderful chance to fly.
Dark / Nightmare: A definite nightmare. Darkness, death, decay is everywhere: dead friends, rotting corpses, violent strangers, a broken-down city.
Don't Wake Me Up: A perfect dream. Everything conspires to bring contentment and happiness: seemingly better relationships, jobs, living accommodations, whatever. The catch is, staying too long will be deadly in one form or another.
Still Dreaming: Basically the classic, "you wake up into another dream" scenario. Terrifying situations where the characters keep waking up every so often, still stuck within an equally terrifying situation. Rife with potential for characters not realizing that they're still dreaming.
Into the Dream: Characters play out events from their daily lives with other characters.
Underwear: It has to happen sometime! You're all suddenly in your underwear.
Road Trip: Everyone is divided into cars and is going on a road trip.
Be a Rock Star: Like above, everyone is divided into groups, only this time they're in a band.
Let's Do a Play: Everyone is part of a theatre troupe putting on a play.
Video Games: You're in some kind of video game. Team up, collect items, beat monsters.

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VOTING WILL CLOSE MARCH 7. Ordinarily voting will last a week, but because it took time to get suggestions this month, it's going to be a short voting process. ;3; Sorry about that, guys!

Feel free to spam and try to garner up support for your theme of choice in the comments. B)

Finally, would anyone be interested in us putting up a post explaining our app process? I realized that there's more going on behind the scenes when we review apps than is probably apparent, so if you guys are curious, I'd be more than willing to do a post that explains how we decide and what we look for. Transparency is good for everyone, after all.