Guinan's Office: Ten Forward OOC

♥    he loves me    ♥

Valentine's Weekend starts today! In honor of the holiday, your very own sneaky cupid Q will be doing a little omnipotent matchmaking - but no, he won't be putting on the diaper and the downy soft wings. It seems a small vial of Love Potion #9 was "accidentally" knocked over behind the bar, contaminating all of the drinks. If your character only consumes beverages produced by the replicators, you're in the clear; however, if your character orders from the bar, they are doomed to fall head-over-heels for the first person they see after taking their first sip.

Who your character falls for can be pre-arranged or completely random. Have they been working hard on a certain crush? Maybe they'd like to say hi to that cute guy across the room? Or perhaps they've been friends with this one girl forever and need a little push to take the next step? Plot with other players, or leave your posts OTA and go with whoever tags in first!

The effects will last from Friday, February 13th to Friday, February 20th!


♠    he loves me not    ♠

Perhaps omnipotent matchmaking isn't quite your thing, and you would much rather have someone a little more, well, human at the reins. It just so happens Mrs. Amelia Pond finds herself husbandless on Valentine's Day, of all days! Welcome to the inaugural year of Amy Pond's Blind Dating Service!

This event is entirely randomized, as it wouldn't be any fun any other way. You can sign up for romance, making new friends, or just meeting people you otherwise might not. OOC sign-ups will go on for a week here in this post, ending sometime on Friday, February 20th. Matches will be announced in the OOC comm that night. We will have a form in the comments section below where you can specify what type of date you're looking for. IC, Amy will have a post on Valentine's Day (that's this Saturday in the USA) where she will publicly announce her intentions and take IC sign-ups. The list of matches will then be published IC next Saturday, February 21st, along with a party post where dates can meet.



♣    we are never ever ever ever getting back together    ♣

Both of these plots sound like fun, but... What if you have a crotchety character who doesn't want to get involved? What if your character is too shy? Or maybe you are newly apped and haven't met any other characters yet? We have prepared a list of random scenarios to help your characters, in the same vein as a meme. We call this the "Date Gone Wrong" Plot Twist.

Your character(s):

(1) ...are locked in a closet together, or stuck in a malfunctioning turbolift for hours. What do they do?
(2) ...are forced to write and recite a love song/poem for their date. Do they go off the cuff, or spend hours making sure it's perfect?
(3) ...accidentally end up with the wrong date. Did that card say table 9 or table 6?
(4) ...are stood up. Well, that was rude! Here you got dressed to the nines and they didn't even have the courtesy to cancel! But they seek you out later, extremely penitent. Do you give them a second chance?
(5) ...have a friend sign you up. You think you're meeting your best pal for drinks, but they actually signed you up for a blind date and didn't tell you.
(6) ...get set up with your enemy. Of all the people you could have been matched with, why them? What's worse is you have to play nice through the whole date.
(7) ...make an embarrassing declaration. Was this a bad time to admit I'm pregnant?
(8) ...leave the bar. This formal date scene just isn't for them, so you hit up a replicator for a couple cheeseburgers and go on an adventure. Where do you end up?
(9) ...don't go on a date, but when they get back to their room they find flowers, chocolate, champagne - is it a secret admirer? Who could have done this?
(10) ...end up having a very successful date, and scoot off to find someplace more, ahem, private. Who could have anticipated the anti-grav chamber would be such a bad spot for sex?

These plot twists can be played with either of the events listed above, or a la carte if you have bigger and better ideas. Because they are random, their causes can be mysterious, blamed on the love potion, blamed on Q - remember, you're in space. Weird things happen.

If you're waiting for a character app to be processed, you can sign up as soon as you're cleared for comm access. We will keep reminding players about the sign-ups periodically through the end of the month so everyone has a chance to play!


➳   MARDI GRAS   ➳

Tuesday, February 17th, is Mardi Gras! Mardi Gras (also known as Fat Tuesday), is part of the Carnival celebrations, and serves as a good excuse to dress up, eat and drink rich foods, and have a good time. In honor of the holiday, Q (who is stunned humans could ever come up with such a fun celebration!) will transform Ten Forward into a bright and colorful party scene. Any food your character could possibly want, even if it's something the crew or the computers have never heard of before, will be available for feasting. Those who enter Ten Forward on Tuesday will be graced with costumes and carnival masks of the mun's choosing, as well as Mardi Gras beads. The beads will appear in strings around your character's neck, and throughout the day your character can give their beads to other characters as a symbol of attraction, friendship, or honor for some sort of accomplishment. Depending on what country you're from, Mardi Gras celebrations are all a little different, so please bring your country's favorite celebrations out on Tuesday for a little good fun! All effects will disappear by Wednesday.


WOW, that's a lot of events for February! And we'll be here to hit you with more in March! As always, all events are opt-in/opt-out, so if you're interested in one or several plots hit the comments section below and find the right top-level comment. If you're not, continue about your business. Here are the important dates and links one more time:

Now - February 20th: OOC Sign-ups for Blind Dating
Feb. 13th - 20th: Love Potion #9 Event
Feb. 14th: Valentine's Day! Amy Pond Begins IC Sign-ups for Blind Dating
Feb. 17th: Mardi Gras!
Feb. 21st: IC Blind Dates Announced + Party Post
Feb. 28th: Last Day for ALL February Events

>> OOC SIGN-UPS FOR BLIND DATING (RANDOM PAIRINGS)
>> OOC PLOTTING FOR LOVE POTION #9 (RANDOM OR PRE-PLANNED)
>> OOC PLOTTING FOR A LA CARTE "DATE GONE WRONG" SCENARIOS
>> OOC PLOTTING FOR MARDI GRAS
>> QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

Happy Friday (or early Saturday morning), Ten Forward! Our latest list of rooming assignments for January's apps have been tabulated via the random hat (with all requests submitted in the last week applied). All new applicants from this period will be assigned to a room with a roommate, unless your character has special considerations (such as an in-game significant other or family member they need to be roomed with, or a temperament/physiology that requires them to room alone).

Note: With AC wrapping up this weekend, we are going to do another rooming shuffle in February. We do this approximately quarterly to three times a year as new characters shuffle in and old ones shuffle out, so 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 can request one then. Therefore, only January's apps are being assigned rooms this period. If your character is roommateless, never fear - next month we will fix that!

Now, without further ado... ( Expand to see the full list of room assignments )

An IC roommate mixer post will go up on Sunday evening, to give people time to make any IC Intros still pending or to review this list. If we have overlooked anything, adjustments can continue to be made to this list until the IC roommate mixer goes up. Some information on rooms can be located here. Our master list of rooms and roommates is located here. Feel free to hit us with any questions in the meantime, and if you see any glaring errors or omissions, just let us know!

As of this post, Mack Gerhardt, Dylan Hunt, and Khan Noonien Singh have been moved to the brig temporarily to serve out sentences for individual counts of rule-breaking. Tsk tsk, fellas.

They will be returned to their usual quarters once their sentences have been fulfilled. Visitors are permitted to mock check in on them while there. If a security officer is needed for anything, let us know on this post and we'll send someone over.

There is an open log for sickbay checkups right over here in the main comm! Doctors on deck tonight include: Julian Bashir, Simon Tam, Beverly Crusher, and our good Nurse Rory Williams, with Trance Gemini available by request only. If you have a medical pup and are interested in volunteering in sickbay, just leave a comment here and we'll get you set up. Beverly will have a top-level thread in her office for any characters wishing to inquire IC about volunteering.

For new characters: If you're new to the game, it's standard Enterprise procedure to quarantine those who have winked onto the ship until they can be checked for any terrible space diseases. Your character will be required to visit Sickbay for a standard check-up and a vaccine if necessary. Tagging in is optional and can be done at your leisure; if you prefer to handwave your character getting the all-clear from the docs, that is allowed. If you are tagging in, specify the name of the doctor you want in the subject line of your tag, and they'll tag you as soon as they're available. If you haven't made your IC Intro yet and would prefer to do that first, please feel free to backtag on the Sickbay log whenever it is convenient for you. It will remain open as long as there is a need for it.

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). Rooming assignments will be done over the next few days, and if you have any questions about that please see our Welcome Post/Meet & Greet under the section entitled "Rooms."


If there are any questions, leave them in a comment here. Thanks, everyone!

Greetings, Ten Forwardians!

Can anyone else believe it's already December? Now that NaNoWriMo is over and holiday vacations are beginning, we thought this would be a good time to update you on some things you can look forward to throughout the month of December and January. Since this is a busy time for many, we're going to keep things relaxed, simple, and hopefully easy to follow.

+ Apps should be processed by the end of the night, plus...
     + For our new applicants: info pages, maps, important dates, and more!
+ IC and OOC Jobs will go live this weekend!
+ Characters will be able to canon update, and travel home and back if they so choose starting next week!
+ AC dates will run Jan 11th - 24th
+ Holiday game event: docking at a new destination... and more? :O

We'll have plotting posts and more info up throughout the weekend, but for now you can click on the cuts below for more details!

( More pages and info to check out, and what our new apps can expect )


( Looking for more CR? IC and OOC job postings will begin this week! )


( Canon updating and sending your characters home: how? When? )


( Activity Checks: January 11th - 24th )


( Holiday game event: docking at a new destination... and more? ) Keep your eyes peeled over the weekend, because there's likely to be a lot of activity here in the OOC comm.

Are you all as excited as we are? We hope so! *Squee!* Thanks everyone, and may your month be filled with laughter, fun, and excitement, both IC and OOC.

- The Mods

Sorry this is going up so late guys, but it is as always open indefinitely: our IC Roommate Mixer is up!

We had a few changes from the original list, namely we lost two characters so we re-rolled the dice for Tony Stark, Quark, and Rygel XVI. The dice hath spoken, and Tony gets the pleasure of a slightly less beautiful, leggy blonde as a roommate in Rygel. Sorry Tony (not really). Quark will have his own quarters until next month's apps are processed, at which point he'll get a roommate from the new pool of characters.

Check out this post if you need more info on what rooms on the Enterprise are like, and as always feel free to hit us with questions if you have them!

There is an open log for sickbay checkups and post-plot visitation right over here! Doctors on deck tonight include: Julian Bashir, Trance Gemini, and Simon Tam, with our good Doctor Beverly Crusher available by request only. If you have a medical pup and are interested in volunteering in sickbay, just leave a comment here and we'll get you set up. Beverly has a top-thread in her office for any characters wishing to inquire IC about volunteering.

For characters returning from Alemar III: If you just want your character available for visitors but don't need a medical character to see to you, put "Visiting Post" in your subject line so other players know you're open to threads (if you want to lock your visiting post to certain characters only, please specify that). Otherwise, put the name of the doctor you wish to see in the subject line of your tag.

For new characters: If you're new to the game, it's standard Enterprise procedure to quarantine those who have winked onto the ship until they can be checked for any terrible space diseases. Your character will be required to visit Sickbay for a standard check-up and a vaccine if necessary. Tagging in is optional and can be done at your leisure; if you prefer to handwave your character getting the all-clear from the docs, that is allowed. If you are tagging in, specify the name of the doctor you want in the subject line of your tag, and they'll tag you as soon as they're available.

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). Rooming assignments will be done over the weekend.


If there are any questions, you can leave them in a comment here. Thanks, everyone!

Good evening, everyone!

Yesterday we mentioned there may be some slight changes to our Day 3 plot schedule. Since our Deanna player has had some important real life matters crop up suddenly this weekend, our Saturday party post is going to be delayed slightly to either later tonight or tomorrow morning. The plot points will stay the same, the only changes are in scheduling. So take advantage of the extra time to hit yesterday's IC post or check the OOC plotting post, as there are folks trying to make connections and plans in there. We're still on track to have apps processed by tomorrow evening and everyone back on the ship by Monday.

Questions? Concerns? Let us know! Thanks, guys.

Good evening, players!

In preparation for mixing teams on Day 3 of our Alemar III plot, this is your first (but perhaps not last) plotting post. Your plotting e-mails should still be updated and used as you need them, but since there were some issues with the e-mails for some, we wanted to be sure everyone had a place where they could request CR, ask questions, and make plans. Here's a link to our last update for any who missed it. We're going to re-post some information below, but feel free to jump straight into the comments section if you want.


( Our 10 Plot Teams )

( The situation as of the start of Day 3 )

( What posts should I be looking for when this begins? )

Those IMPORTANT DATES again:
>> Friday, Sept. 12th (GMT-4)    Day 3 posts will begin; all Day 2 posts should be made by then
>> Sunday, Sept. 14th (GMT-4)    The final Day 3 posts will go up, all characters will return to the Enterprise
>> Monday, Sept. 15th (GMT-4)    Business as usual will resume, with any plot fallout on the Enterprise commencing
REMEMBER: Backtagging is love, and can continue for as long as it takes to wrap up your in-progress objectives after Monday. There is no cut-off date, so keep tagging at whatever pace is comfortable for you. This is for fun.


Okay, to keep things from getting overwhelming we've given each team a subthread (except for Team #10, since they have been split up to help with other teams already), plus a few places for general questions and requests. Players who want to plot with members of another team can just find that team and drop them a note, request assistance under their team's heading, or offer a character who doesn't already have something to do (for instance: if a member of the engineering team, once everything is fixed, wants to join in helping fight or rescue trapped characters). Toss some ideas around, make some new sub-plots, and have fun!