Phase 7 Claims

[sparklesdani.livejournal.com]

Explanation via thewonderkitten:

We have a Claim Post! It can be updated whenever. People can claim as many damn people as they want to. It's largely to have a sense of organization and make sure we don't have fifteen different Stileses running around.

So like let's say. "Phase" (for lack of a better word) starts -- I decide I'd really like to play an elephant, Nicki Minaj, and my left shoe. So I hop right in there the start of the phase and claim 'em.

A few weeks later, I decide I'm really shit at RPing my left shoe. I don't want to play it anymore. I would, however, really like to play Dani's bra collection and the whole cast of Urinetown. So I go back to that claim post, remove my left shoe from my claim, and add Dani's bra collection and the whole cast of Urinetown. I can do this at any time throughout the phase because goodness knows we get sick of characters or want to break out new characters every five seconds or so.

At the end of like... a month or so, we scrub that motherfucker clean and everyone has to go in and reclaim characters. So if I was playing Nicki Minaj last phase, you are totally welcome to claim her for this phase and we can cycle through characters that way.

Guidelines for each new phase: We're leaving it up to you to decide, but please try to leave your characters that you believe are popular (i.e. the ones that are played most often in mafia or the ones most quickly snatched up) to be claimed by someone else. Maybe wait a day and if they aren't claimed, you can claim them again. Also, as soon as I mark you on the spreadsheet, I will link you to a new bios post (to be made shortly), so please try to fill that out with all of your characters so people can refer to it to get a feel of your characters.

However, this doesn't mean everyone has to wipe their slate clean, they can if they want. It's just a good way of knocking out inactive characters and letting people have a shot at playing previously claimed characters.

Suggestions for you: These are just suggestions and not requirements. Just some things that will help everyone involved. When you are claiming, or reclaiming, please try to include full name/full fandom. I, unfortunately, am not Google personified and I'm not sure whether X-Men and XMFC are the same fandom. Also, if there are different adaptations, please try to clarify which one you are using. For example, instead of saying Sherlock, say Sherlock (BBC) or Sherlock (2009 film). Also, for reclaiming, please try to just reclaim your most active ones at the beginning of the phase. If you have some that you don't play very much, maybe it'll be good to let someone else have a try.

Claiming Rules: Within the first 48 hours, each player will only be allowed to claim fewer than ten characters. Refer to this post for our reasons why.

I WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY CLAIMS WITH MORE THAN 10 CHARACTERS. I WILL REPLY TO YOU ASKING YOU TO TRIM THEM DOWN.

YOU MAY NOW CLAIM MORE THAN 10 CHARACTERS. PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THE BELOW POST, HOWEVER, BECAUSE WE ARE STILL MONITORING THIS ISSUE.

PLEASE READ THIS POST ABOUT CLAIMING AND NOT PLAYING CHARACTERS

Claims Spreadsheet

Comments

[queer-theory.livejournal.com]

Of course. I just claimed the people I'm actively playing with right now. I will always be picking up our people.

I don't know. I can take him on now (in two days). The more we do with John and Molly, the more she's going to be totally crushed by him and Sherlock. She was starting to get over the idea of having him, but now it's... yeah. Molly pretty much just spends every week being beaten up by love. It's getting hard to play.

[csichick-2.livejournal.com]

It's going to be a whole complicated mess. Especially when you throw Sherlock's feelings for Fiona into all of it.

For Molly's sake she and John should probably stay away from each other, so yeah, sounds like time to let you have him.

[queer-theory.livejournal.com]

Yeah... Molly and John shouldn't have had sex in San Francisco. That gave her hope. She's going to regret having done that. Honestly, she's becoming so hard to play that I may have to drop her at some point. I've never played someone so unhappy.

And she needs a week where her attempt to avoid everyone she knows actually works, if that's possible.

[csichick-2.livejournal.com]

Molly should stay away from Alec & Percy's wedding then. I've decided that Percy & Mycroft are professional acquaintances so Mycroft will be dragging Lestrade to the wedding. And Sherlock will be crashing without being noticed because he's stalking Mycroft.

I can always throw Nick at Molly again at some point.

[queer-theory.livejournal.com]

Except that Alec invited her. Oh well.

[csichick-2.livejournal.com]

Put her on the other side of the room then?

[queer-theory.livejournal.com]

I've dropped her.

[csichick-2.livejournal.com]

Poor Molly. She can never catch a break.

[queer-theory.livejournal.com]

It wasn't that I didn't want you to bring your people to a week for her, btw. I just meant that they don't have to talk to her. But the more I think about this, the more I realize that I just can't. I'm too depressed on my own without playing someone who alternates between falsely hopeful and nearly suicidal. I love her, but I can't play her just being constantly heartbroken anymore.

[csichick-2.livejournal.com]

*hugs*