Event Calendar January 2010

[adstringendummod]

✗EVENT CALENDAR

✗ 2010 // JANUARY
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17	18	19	20	21	22	23
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BLIZZARD ( 1/01 - 1/22 ) What's with all those snowflake icons?! January ushers in the harshest winter weather on record in Adstringendum in the form of a month-long blizzard/snowstorm. Stay in doors, bundle up, light your fires, and try to keep warm. Beware Baby, it's COLD outside! (Note: The blizzard doesn't stop for the events during this time. It keeps going...the color on the calendar just doesn't split two ways ^^)

Thou Shalt Not Lie ( 1/05 - 1/07 ) Suggested by alle_halle George Washington couldn't tell a lie, and neither can those affected by the event. No half-truths either. You must be truthful, no matter how much it hurts. Try as you may, there's no way to force a lie out...

It's The End of The World As We Know It ( 1/21 - 1/23 ) Suggested by joyinthefight It's the end of the world as we know it...or so say the Animus, who are sick and tired of everyone here (or just want to see what happens). On January 20th they announce that the 23rd marks the two-year anniversary of the city of Adstringendum, and everyone is getting sent home on that day. Better start packing...or not! Bye-bye! (Note: No one is actually being sent home; as always, it's an event, and the Animus just want to see the panic or emotional responses that might occur)

Flash-Freeze ( 1/24 - 1/30 ) Suggested by favorthebold What were you doing on the stroke of midnight on the 23rd/24th? Hope it was something nice, because you'll be doing it compulsively for the next week. Sleeping? Sweet dreams, see you when the event is up. Taking a shower? Better hope the hot water lasts seven days. Singing? Your poor housemates. Saying your goodbyes (thinking you were going home)? You'll be saying goodbye to everyone you meet. Sharing a secret? You'll be sharing a whole lot more. Or maybe you're just unlucky enough to be caught mid-hiccup or sneeze, alas...

[Past Months]
2009 | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC
2008 | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC

Comments

[blueeyekamikaze.livejournal.com]

DONT HATE ME
I ALREADY HAS QUESTION.

The going home one.
Is that going to be taking them from the point in Canon we nabbed them from?
Aka Havoc and Lust or Ran's for that matter?


Also
What were you doing on the stroke of midnight on the 23rd/24th? Hope it was something nice, because you'll be doing it compulsively for the next week.
Thanks for fueling my lolmeter in perversion mode. Really.

[turn-a-blindeye.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I understand your question. No one is going home, and nothing is actually changing, except that the characters THINK that they will be leaving Adstring, so they will have those days to say their goodbyes to people who do not belong to their world and they will not see once sent back to their canon.

Basically, you character thinks AD will go poof and they will be back home...like Dorothy being sent home from OZ?




XD I thought that too. One can wish!

[lecherous-kappa.livejournal.com]

They will be told by the Animus they're going home, but they will not actually leave. So they will brace themselves for it, and then it won't happen.

[immortalservant.livejournal.com]

Thanks for fueling my lolmeter in perversion mode. Really.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one <_< LOL

[iceandivory.livejournal.com]

Hitsugaya says thanks for the blizzard. Much better than the summer heat.

...He's going to end up being like one of those supply dogs, isn't he? The ones that dig people out of avalanches.

[blueeyekamikaze.livejournal.com]

loooooooool

[turn-a-blindeye.livejournal.com]

So cute! Come rescue the chibichiha!

[hits-then-heals.livejournal.com]

He better have that collar around his neck filled with booze.

[k0koro-kara.livejournal.com]

Will he be able to see above the snow? xD

[saucey]

NICE AND FRUITY!

Oh and you guys are EVIL DX

[turn-a-blindeye.livejournal.com]

There was almost a color called "tomato" used today...but alas, it was not fruity enough for the color-scheme.


But you love us <3

[ebbxandxflow.livejournal.com]

....

I can tell you right now.

The island boys will hate the snowstorm.

and omfgggggggggg the no lying event >3 Riku will be holing himself up in his room. He does not need himself giving into the urge to be his snarky uncensored preteen self.

thank you ilu~~~ >3 *cackles

[spandexisyouth]

Welcome! :D

[exarmatio]

...........I love you guys so hard.

[spandexisyouth]

We love you so hard back MONKEY ~cough, cough~

Er. This is Jackie. In the wrong account.

[divine-dork.livejournal.com]

No lying.

Seriously.

SERIOUSLY.

What has poor Dorksuke ever done to you X_X?</small?

[lecherous-kappa.livejournal.com]

LOL. <3 He doesn't have to talk at all. He can hide from everyone if you want.

[heartofalion]

OOCly that blizzard is so made of awesome. And the End of the World is evilness.

*throws two cents in the jar*

[al_truism]

Oh SHIT the goodbye event

Oh SHIT oh SHIT.

[enviousin.livejournal.com]

I FIGURED AL'D BE UPSET OVER THAT, ESPECIALLY WITH WHAT HE TOLD AKITO.

[immortalservant.livejournal.com]

All of the abovementioned are great recipes for annoying the master and her doggie vampire.

Let the torture begin! \o/

[derptacular.livejournal.com]

Iori's going to be so angry with the goodbye event, ffff.

And I pray that he doesn't have a nightmare or something for Flash-freeze. :|a

[blau-rakete.livejournal.com]

... that Goodbye Event is so mindfuck because... well, you modtypes know, and... dsfhdsjfdsg. Alfons will not be amused when the event is over and it turns out that... FFFFFFFFFUUU

And he's totally going to be stuck doing something horrifically embarrassing for that Flash-Freeze week :'D

[enviousin.livejournal.com]

Envy's going into hibernation for the lie event :| Srsly. (maybenotsrslybutsrsly)

I approve of these events. o/

[scarysnakelady]

/glees happily (and quickly, before they make us board the plane) at all of these events

Anko is going to hate the weather/Animus forever for a month-long blizzard though, jsyk |D

[general-mustang.livejournal.com]

-Snorts- So, Roy and Hawkeye have it in their heads that Adstring is the only place they can be together.

Perhaps the Lol perversion will really happen? ^^;

[haori]

Oh Colonel, whatever will I do without you?

*knowingly posted with the wrong account...because I find this much too amusing for my own good*

[shiroyukisheath.livejournal.com]

Quick question about the no lie event - does it force people to tell the truth when they talk, or just prevent them from lying?

So is it a 'spilling all secrets' kind of event, or a 'ask me a question and I'll answer it truthfully' event? And can the person refrain from answering at all?

Also? I LOVE the events this month...heee!

[turn-a-blindeye.livejournal.com]

You can still not answer, but if you try to reply, it'll be the truth. You cannot lie. You can dodge so long as the question isn't explicit enough... Jackie gives the example of:

"What do you want?"
"A sandwich."
"No, in the city."
"A coat."
"Are you going after power or prestige or what?"

[ladysummonr.livejournal.com]

Not sure how well the blizzard's gonna work out. I mean, realistically, the snow would pile up, easily up and over the doors and possibly some of the smaller houses. The water system would freeze, and the snow blocking the characters in means several days worth of light by PCD and candles, if you have them. And, don't quote me on this, but some of the poorer structures that characters live in (which I assume is a good majority) whose insulation isn't top notch due to being in a poor condition, plus the cracks that undoubtedly most of said poorer structures have are going to leak in cold air- espcially at night, when the temperatures tend to tip. No sun for a month means those houses are slowly going to become refrigerators, and it's going to get to very unpleasant temperatures in them, to say the least. The most? Most characters would find themselves dealing with hypothermia. Even if the water and temperatures were somehow taken care of, what about food? Unless given some kind of warning, the residents aren't going to know this is going to last so long. At best, most of them are stocked up for a week or two, if they're not one of those really cautious ones, or one of those who happened to take upon themselves to go to a greenhouse. The snow's going to make it, if not almost, impossible to get to those people who have food. And those plants need sunlight. By the end of the month, I doubt they'd be alive.

On one hand, it would be a great idea to really give the residents a perspective the situation they're in, and how perilous their lives truly are. Besides coming up with ways to solve the problems I mentioned above, you should inform the muns that this is not one of those events that a character's just going to have to sit tight and bear through, but something they're going to have to strain and work together to push through. Maybe a mod or staff assistant's character who will recognize these problems and assign groups of people who had the means of ideally tackling a certain problem- i.e., people with the ability to manipulate fire to light torches for warmth and light, etc.

For a regular group of humans, this would certainly spell disaster, and even for enhanced beings, it's going to be a struggle- and that's if they work together.

For the flash-freeze event, I honestly think this would work much better for a single day, or two at most, mostly because I'm pretty sure doing one week of nothing but a single thing (except sleeping) is pretty much impossible since you'd be (forced to be) ignoring your other needs. Not to mention, boring. Would anyone really want to post their character doing nothing but singing or eating, for examples, for seven days straight? It'd be a great short event, but after a few days, I'd imagine that it'd quickly lose its appeal.

Posting this in hopes of staff working to make remedies? ^^;

[kill-joo-ded.livejournal.com]

Hm. I think you've got a point with the blizzard. It's something that'll obviously take group effort and proactive solutions.

But with the flash-freeze event, I don't think the mods are saying that's the only thing that person will be doing all week. To do something compulsively is a lot like obsession or addiction, I think. You can try not to do it, but you'll have the urge, you'll feel like you have to do it at certain times or for a certain amount of time. And it'll make life difficult, for sure, but people live out entire lives with obsessive-compulsive disorder, so I think it'll be okay for a week.

[last-was-hope.livejournal.com]

Tell no lies?

Kaito might as well just go through that event with a piece of tape over his mouth, he's going to turn MUTE O_O

[foundtheheart.livejournal.com]

Jr. feels your pain on that. Or well, Rubedo as he will wind up introducing himself for that event. *Wrong journal, so what.*