Training

[shadowmods]

Just a quick reminder to everyone to sign-up for IC training. Alison needs everyone on the list by 5:00 CST today, so CR pairings can be made!

Goddess Plot

[shadowmods]

The problem with having libraries full of books from all over the world is that you can’t be sure what information is contained within them. It’s even harder when the building shifts around and you can’t always keep track of how many libraries there even are.

Enter our latest plot.

One of the books in the libraries is entitled You are the Goddess. It is a beautiful book, bound in leather with gold leafing and intricate hand drawn illustrations.

The idea presented in the book is that all women are part of the goddess. Each goddess has her own garden where their strength and beauty and individuality grow. But then the men (the “fire bringers”) try to enter a goddess’ garden. If they’re allowed to do so, they’ll begin setting the garden ablaze.

All nice and symbolic and metaphorical and gender stereotyping, right? Except the book is also enchanted. When a woman reads it, she will then feel the urge to pass it on to other women, encouraging them to also read through it with fanatical praise (basically preteen girls first discovering Twilight). On and on it goes. The more women who read it, the stronger the spell is.

The first person reads it, and it seems like a good point. A few more people read it and they begin to snap at men and quote the book a lot. A few more and the women are warrior goddess, shutting themselves away and trying to attack any men who come close.

If a guy can get a hold of the book, the key to the spell is clear. A kiss is all you need to lift the spell. The problem? How do you get close enough to kiss one of them?

A few notes:

1. This is open to anyone who wants to play. You don’t have to, though! Your character can happily avoid the whole fiasco.
2. This is not related to metaplot. It’s just for funsies.
3. If your character identifies as female and reads the book, the spell will affect them. If they identify as male, the spell will not.
4. The kiss does not have to come from someone your character loves or even knows. Just someone who isn’t affected. Feel free to mack on a stranger for the sake of breaking her free from the spell (with mun permission, of course).
5. The mods obviously do not endorse any ideas presented within this plot. It’s just for funsies.


The currently proposed timeline is as follows:

Day 131 (starting April 23): The book is discovered and begins to get passed around.
Day 132 (starting April 26): The women begin to get snappish and are distancing themselves from the menfolk.
Day 133 (starting April 29): The women are basically Amazonian warriors.

Feel free to use this spot to ask questions, volunteer to be the first person to find the book, or just plot stuff out!

hiatus

[braveandstupid]

So I really didn't want to do this, but I think I have to for the sake of my sanity. My work situation, while very secure at the moment, is about to get very stressful, and instead of falling further and further behind with things and struggling to keep up, I'm going to call a hiatus and give myself a little room to breathe.

As per my comment, I'm going to be on hiatus until May 15, but I'm hoping to be back before that. It will definitely be until the end of the month though. In order to avoid autopilot (I don't know why I dislike it, but I do), my characters are going to get lost in the temple. I will also be continuing to work on any threads I already have in progress, but if you'd rather wrap them, let me know and we will figure it out.

Elena Gilbert is going to wander into one of the rooms, get turned into a mermaid, and spend however long I'm gone swimming and collecting shells and other shiny things and generally not caring about anyone but herself. It'll be a nice vacation for her.

Dean Winchester (hasperkynipples) is going to also be wandering a room, and immediately find himself in a deep sleep. Because let's face it, he probably needs it. He will wake up and be very confused when I get back. Don't burn the temple down while he's gone. He's looking at you, Ben.

If you need to contact me for whatever reason, PM, IM (iluvroadrunner6) and plurk (iluvroadrunner6) are the best options.

Training OOC Plotting - Team Assignments

[mini_dean]

Hey All!

Consider that during the afternoon, Ben circulated around the candidates and verbally told them who they were matched up with for training so that they can go find their teachers and set up their own schedules.

For us muns? The full team match-ups are here: Google Doc Link

Since there are two people who know the Nysgod Blocking from the Dagaz school, and two who know a different style from their homeworlds, Ben teamed two teachers up with a group. That way it allowed them to be able to find a ways to work together to give everyone some kind of method to do this in case they can't make the "Nysgod" way work.

Obviously, it will be up to the mods who is able to really learn it, how long you need to train, etc, to make you really know how to do it.

Combat I stuck with a 1 on 1 match-up, except for a few double-ups just because there are more students that signed up than teachers.

Anyone who didn't talk to Ben in the IC thread or OOC signups, I took it that your character wasn't interested and didn't sign you up.

If you are NOT on the list and want to get training or train someone, hit up the old OOC post here and I can update it.

If you are ON the list and shouldn't be, let me know and I will take you off.

I tried to mix up the CR a bit so that you can hopefully get some new CR. Ben wouldn't know who's friends/enemies with who so if you don't like the match-up deal with it let me know and I'll see what I do.

Teachers! Feel free to use this post to reach out to your new students and plan how you want to approach your training plots (hand-wave, posts, etc)