Welcome Post | Meet & Greet!

[ten_fwd_mods]

Greetings, everyone!

All apps have officially been processed, and we at Ten Forward want to give a warm welcome to all our November & December apps. It's been a busy winter, and we're so excited to have you all with us. We're all looking forward to playing with you and getting to know you, and we the mods are here as always to answer any questions you may have. Consider this rolling out the official welcome mat! Below is some helpful info, and this space can also be used to meet, mingle, plot CR, and update other players on who you play and where their Intros are.

• 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—such as an immediate Sickbay visit—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: On Monday here in the Eastern US, we will post an open sickbay log to play out any new character's checkups (as well as facilitate any plot, such as asking Dr. Crusher if you can volunteer to help), 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. Once your character has been cleared medically, they'll be released from the initial quarantine (of Ten Forward and the guest quarters only), assigned permanent rooms, and allowed to move more freely around the ship. Restricted areas are, of course, still off-limits (such as the bridge, engine rooms, conference rooms, etc). This is especially open to all November and December applicants, but should anyone need to visit Sickbay remember it is OTA!
  
  
• 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.
  
  At this time, we're also shuffling up some of the rooms who have lost a roommate due to a character drop, gained a significant other or family member through a late app, or need a reassignment for any other reason. We do this approximately quarterly as new characters shuffle in and old ones shuffle out. If you would like to switch up your rooming situation, drop us a line and let us know. We'll either put your character into the random hat and pair them up with a new roomie by dice roll, or if you have a special consideration like those listed above we'll take them into account. Shuffling is totally optional, so if you don't make a request to do so then you will stay right where you are, no muss no fuss. We'll post an OOC list of characters getting roommate assignments early next week, and an IC Roommate Mixer will go up next weekend so all characters can meet and mingle.
  
  
• Plot/CR: December'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. We also have a special Holiday Event Post that just went live earlier today. Tag around other people's requests and make some new connections.
  
  
• Join/Update the OOC Cast list: If you're new to the game or you have recently changed your character roster, visit the Contact Post to let us know who you play and what the best means of getting in touch with you are. This post is locked to members of the OOC community, and it is entirely optional if you would rather not post your information anywhere. Please note: if you're not comfortable with giving out certain info (like e-mail addresses or SNs) but still want to be represented, not all fields are mandatory. Leave any fields blank if you don't want that information public, and post what you're comfortable with. Nobody's privacy will be compromised.

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

[fallsinplace]

That's pretty cool. Gold needs someone to keep him in line. I love that there was this big thing about Baelfire. He's such an important character in the show, but he just turns out to be a scruffy pseudo-loser. Things like that are the reason I can't stop watching.

That gives you half her canon, then! She went to Rapture in the DLC. That's where she died, actually (though this Liz was only knocked unconscious and sent to another world). She rescued a little sister from Atlas.

[goldencobra]

Yeah. Well, when Henry was nine, he figured out that the town was weird and talked to his dad. And he explained the truth. So for a year, Henry got information that wasn't in the book. Like Hook and Pan and everything else we know. Ish. And Henry isn't scared of the man like everyone else so when he thinks he's doing something wrong, he'll say so. But he's also scared that the moment Gold get his real son back, he'll ditch Henry. Irrational huh?

And yus! I do love Rapture. I used to start new games just to listen to the opening sequence of Andrew Ryan talking about Rapture.

[oiseau_ou_cage]

Awww, poor Henry. It's okay to have issues little guy.

Man, Andrew Ryan is such a great character. I love everyone from the whole series, tbh. They're all such interesting people and I love that most of the time you're given a really deep sense of who everyone is and some insight into why.

[goldencobra]

Yeah. This is why he doesn't talk to the Neal we have. He's not impressed that his dad turned out to be Baelfire.

I do plan on getting a console that actually plays the Bioshock games but that requires money. It's on my to-do-list though! I used to go to my friends house to play but that was about six years ago.

[oiseau_ou_cage]

That is a sentiment Liz will identify with.

I kind of built my current computer to be able to play Infinite. >.> I might have a problem, but it's not one I'm liable to fix. Let's not even talk about how much time I've spent playing all the games.

[goldencobra]

They might actually get along. Yay!

I'm guessing it's about the same amount of time I sit making up more AUs for Henry. I even have a post in another journal all about the AUs I've made and I play them out in my head. And with other people.

[oiseau_ou_cage]

I hope so!

Let's not talk about how much fanfiction and how many PSLs I have Elizabeth involved in. I'd like to keep fooling myself into believing I'm an adult.

I look forward to playing with you!

[goldencobra]

Being an adult is overrated. Why do you think I play a small child?

And you!

/whistles...

[oiseau_ou_cage]

That thing you didn't post is awesome and impressive.

[goldencobra]

ikr? I have no life!