Welcome Post | Meet & Greet!

[ten_fwd_mods]

Hello August Apps, and welcome to Ten Forward!

By this point we only have a few apps left pending, so we wanted to roll out the official welcome mat and say hello to all our new players. We're all looking forward to playing with you and getting to know you, and we the mods want to be available to answer any questions you have. We'll be popping in on all your intro posts, but we also wanted a handy official-type welcome up so everyone can meet, mingle, and be sure their questions get answered.

Our last few Meet & Greet posts cover some basics, like what's the deal with these "Food For Thought" posts, how we handle IC intros/opening posts here, what your character should expect when arriving, and a who's who of players and their muses. We'll go ahead and repeat some of the important basics:

• Intros/OPs: Your Opening Post can be where and when you prefer, as long as it isn't in a restricted area (ie: the bridge, engineering, crew operations). If you'd rather tag someone else's post to establish your entrance, that's totally allowed. The standard setup is to be winked into Ten Forward by Q, but if you need special arrangements leave a comment letting us know.
  
  
• Life On Board: 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. The medical staff will need to see them to clear them of disease and log their bio reading for future medical attention. Afterwards, they'll be assigned more permanent quarters and a roommate (unless there's a reason they cannot room with someone else), and be able to wander the civilian areas of the ship more freely.
  
  
• Sickbay: A sickbay post may be arranged to play out the new character's checkups, but it is not required if you would prefer to handwave your character checking out and getting the all clear from the docs aboard. If your character has any special medical conditions, let us know. If you have any other requests, leave a comment.
  
  
• Rooms: We will be assigning all new characters a room and a roommate by random draw. This means if you have special requirements or considerations, you should leave a request in a comment here with your character journal. Some examples would be: if your character has a spouse or SO they would prefer to be roomed with; your character is unable to share quarters because of their physiology/temperament; and the like. If you're bringing in a high-ranking Starfleet officer, you may be assigned VIP quarters. IC, the Enterprise crew would be sure any important officers would have the best rooms, but OOC we don't want you to miss out on building CR with another character, so all officers will automatically be treated the same as other characters unless you tell us otherwise.
  
  
• Plot/CR: August'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. Tag around other people's requests and make some new connections.

The current game plot: You may be wondering how the current game plot will affect your IC Intros. We've covered that here. We also have a number of really lovely OOC Intros floating around the comm, so scroll back and have a look. If you haven't made your own Intro post, leave a comment here telling us who you are and who you play, leave your preferred means of contact if you'd like to keep in touch with other players, and tell us of any plots and plans you're hoping to accomplish while here. Or, if you'd like something a lot more laid back, how about an OOC dance party? We do these every once in a while to share fun links, silly ideas, music and geekiness, so come cut loose with us! It's still brand new.

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!

Comments

[didnotwant]

Oh yes it will. Andrew will have a broken foot, bad bruising, and his asthma will be kicking his ass in a bad way by the end of the plot. I figure they can become sick bay buddies.

Andrew will be very annoyed Bernie likely won't be allowed to visit him. That'll be a fun little plot bunny.

[dreams_dont_die]

One of these days Dylan's stupid heavy worlder metabolism is going to kill him :/

[didnotwant]

Yeah let's not do that to him.

But I want to see Andrew start to trust Dylan. I think it'd be awesome.

still me, different face ;)

[sleepstotheocean]

Yeeeeeah, I'm not planning on taking it as close as canon does on one spectacular occasion! Besides, Trance will look after him once she gets him back.

I think giving Dylan a chance to hang out with kids will be great. I'd love to develop CR with him and Andrew!!! He really loves kids, though I do hope he manages to not give the small empath too many problems with the mess his head and heart sometimes are.

[didnotwant]

Man, I really want to see how Andrew's empathy is effected by all of the feels. Yes. ALL of them.

[dreams_dont_die]

Let's see how he goes with Dylan, then! You know the basics of Dylan's backstory, he has a hell of a lot of feels most of the time, he just compartmentalises them fairly well.