Welcome Post | Meet & Greet

[ten_fwd_mods]

Hello everyone! Congratulations to all our players (and mods) who survived finals week (yay spring break!), and welcome to all of our March applicants! It seems like a great time to party, so let's roll out the red carpet and do some mingling, shall we?

As we're all excited to get to know everyone and play with your new characters, us mods are here as always to answer any questions you may have, so you will see some helpful links below to get you and your characters started. This space can also be used to meet, mingle, plot CR, and update other players on who you play and where their Intros are. LET'S MAKE IT SO! Engage.

☆ OOC contact/IC info: We are currently running a 2016 Roll Call! to update our records, so if you're new or you haven't hit this post already, this is the place to submit your contact info for our OOC contact post and your IC do's and don'ts list so we can plan for upcoming game plots. This post will be open until March 31st, so be sure to tag it soon! If you need a mod, all of our contact info is right over here.

☆ Game updates: We strongly recommend you join, follow, and/or track our OOC Community, ten_fwd_ooc. It's the best way to stay up to date with the game and any announcements from your mod team as soon as they happen. For you Plurk users, we also have a mod account over at ten_fwd where we try to mirror all of our OOC and Meme comm announcements.

☆ Getting started: You can intro your character as soon as you have your game clearance. The standard setup is to be winked into Ten Forward by Q, but you can also tag into someone else's post or enter your character anywhere that isn't in a restricted area (ie: the bridge, engineering, crew operations). If you need special arrangements—such as an immediate Sickbay visit—leave a comment letting us know.

Quarantine, Sickbay, and Rooming: Your characters' first few days on the ship will involve a lax quarantine to guest quarters, Ten Forward, and the lifts/hallways between the two only, until they've passed a basic medical check and had some vaccinations. There will be an open Sickbay log posted next Friday for the checkups. After their Sickbay visits, characters will be released from quarantine, assigned permanent rooms, and allowed to move more freely around the ship. All new characters are assigned a room and a roommate by random draw. There will be an OOC post about room assignments Monday, and an IC Roommate Mixer will go up the Sunday following our Sickbay post, so characters can mingle. This will include a linked IC tour and introduction to the ship.

--> More questions on WHERE TO BEGIN? Head over here!
--> Need more BASIC INFO about life on board and in the Star Trek universe? Head over here!

☆ Plotting and CR: March's plotting meme is located here, or you may leave a comment directly to this post if you're looking for any particular plots or CR for your character. Plotting/CR Memes typically go up the last week of every month, as do announcements for next month's plots/events and a log swap meet. We have bi-annual optional How's My Driving? Memes, and quarterly Handwaved/Offscreen CR Memes as well. The links will take you to our most recent ones.

☆ Activity Check: Our activity checks are bi-annual, and our next AC will run this summer. If you'd like more information on AC and what it entails, you can find out right here. We have a monthly check-in on non-AC months, which will run concurrent with apps opening and closing. No activity is required for check-ins, just a comment that you're still with us out there!

Are there any other questions? Did the mods overlook something important? Please feel free to contact us, night or day, using the e-mail address tenforwardmods [at] gmail [dot] com, or leave a comment on this post. We'll get to all your questions as soon as possible.

We look forward to meeting everyone! Come, say hi in the comments below!

Comments

[ethnobotany]

Stella here with just the one, Beverly Crusher ethnobotany. For those not familiar, she is from TNG-era, but not the game's timeline.

Basic need to knows:

She is the ship's Chief Medical Officer, aka head doctor. She and I are here for all of your sickbay needs and she usually has a top-level on the sickbay log each month for questions, etc.

I brought her here from the eighth movie First Contact and as a CR AU from a horror game called exitvoid. This means she is obviously not from game timeline, wears a different uniform even, and this is always fair game for comments. This also means that while she is still her loving, compassionate, and idealistic self, she does sometimes deal with PTSD triggers as part of an overreaching character development arc.

She will probably still try to adopt your character if there's even half a hint that they've been through something traumatic. Or just need a mom figure in their lives.

Any other questions about her / her similarities or differences from her canon self, just ask! I am happy to tl;dr about her in any form :)

As for me, I can always be reached at stellations or by journal PM. I'm a slow tagger normally, but always open for plotting. :) and someday I'll app in a second and be able to keep them around. someday /whispers into the void

[divaricate]

(Hi!!! I know you.)

Where is the application form re: the third bullet point? :|

[ethnobotany]

( Who are you again...? ...j/k ILU I am so glad you're hereeee! )

I want my character to have a space mom: y/n

THERE YOU GO she's seriously adopting Wanda because woooo

[divaricate]

(♥ x a million)

YYYYYYYYY. And Y. She needs adopting just as much if not more than Hayley does and god that is saying something

[ethnobotany]

gimmie

[thekillingword]

She'll be seeing a lot of Paul for his first week, as he kicks his Spice addiction.

[ethnobotany]

Awesome. She can totally help with that :) And if you ever want to thread it, feel free to let me know or hit up her sickbay threads!

[thekillingword]

I'll hit it up the next time I see one then