Guinan's Office: Ten Forward OOC

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. If you would like more details about sickbay, here's the wiki page.

Once your character has been cleared medically, they'll be released from quarantine, 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). Everyone passes through Sickbay once they arrive. Rooming assignments will be posted tomorrow, and the IC Rooming Mixer will go up on Sunday.

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. Within a few days of arrival, 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. If you would like more details about sickbay, here's the wiki page.

Once your character has been cleared medically, they'll be released from quarantine, 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). Everyone passes through Sickbay once they arrive.

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And did we mention rooming assignments? We did! Our finalized list of assignments has been tabulated and the OOC announcement has been edited with this information. Please click this link and check it out to ensure everything looks correct. The IC Rooming Mixer will go up on Monday, at least in as much as it will be Monday in the Eastern US. ;)

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After a relatively uneventful winter season, the Enterprise is finally making port again—at the beautiful ocean planet of Pacifica! It's the perfect place to hold an event, such as the wedding of two passengers, Finnick Odair and Annie Cresta. Scientists and botanists on board will enjoy many strange and beautiful new forms of plantlife, one of which has some interesting effects on people's moods ... not that anyone realizes this until some plants have been brought aboard for study, some weeks after the ship has left the planet. It's also a month of festivals and holidays, a chance to make a new love connection (or a new friendship), and for new passengers it's a trial by fire as strange things seem to happen one right after another all month long...



Pacifica, the "jewel of the galaxy", is a beautiful ocean planet renowned for its warm blue waters and fine white beaches. Some even say it rivals Risa as the ideal place for a holiday, a special event, or a secret rendezvous. The Enterprise's purpose there is peaceful, while the Captain tends to some diplomatic matters and the scientists aboard do a little research into the local flora, so passengers are invited to disembark, enjoy the beaches, visit the Submersible Research Institute and other "floating cities", and meet some of the locals (perhaps even swimming with some of the planet's aquatic life).

Read More about Pacifica at Memory Beta.




While there, botanist and current head of the biology lab, Keiko O'Brien is excited to disembark and collect some samples. There is a beautiful and unusual plant growing all over the land where passengers of the Enterprise have disembarked, and when in bloom it sends off a pollen that appears to affect the way passengers are acting... everyone just goes 'hippy' and has to tell everyone they're just plain super, just because they are. There is an odd compulsion to pick flowers, hand them out to others, and talk about peace, love, and good vibes. Angry characters are super chill; peaceful characters are really confused, but with hugs and love suddenly running amok with everyone, at least nobody gets hurt.

Things will get really interesting when Keiko, unaware that the sudden increase of peace and happiness is caused by the blooming plants, brings a few on board to study, and the pollen starts making its way through the Enterprise's filtration systems. Suddenly people who haven't even been on the planet start feeling the love, too! The effects of the love plant will last until February 20th, at which point a Lab log will be posted and all botanists, scientists, and other interested parties will be invited to tag and research the effects of the plant — with freedom to experiment on other technicians and volunteers, by their own arrangement.




During this love fest, Amy Pond will be hosting another Blind Dating Event! Like last year's event, an OOC sign-ups post will go up independent of this post, players will be randomly paired up by dice roll to other characters looking for similar interactions, and these can be relationships, friendships, or hook-ups. A party-style post will go up on February 12th, giving the whole weekend for dating shenanigans.

Additionally, February 8th and 9th are the Chinese New Year and Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday, respectively. Then again on February 29th, it will be one of our rare archaic Leap Days. Players can look forward to some interesting surprises on these days, courtesy of Q. What surprises are those? You'll have to refresh the main comm on the mornings of to find out...


**Additional small plots may crop up throughout the month for extra fun, so keep your eyes open for event posts in the OOC comm as they happen. Mods and volunteers have been busily at work thinking up new things to bring to Ten Forward.**

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. If you would like more details about sickbay, here's the wiki page.

Once your character has been cleared medically, they'll be released from quarantine, 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). Everyone passes through Sickbay once they arrive. Rooming assignments will be posted tomorrow, and the IC Rooming Mixer will go up on Sunday.

☆ An IC school post will go up once monthly, and can be tagged & backtagged into until the next one goes live!
☆ If you are handwaving attending a class or have special arrangements with one of the teachers, you can drop the players a line in the sign-ups post.
☆ When posting in as a teacher, please put the name of your class/course in the subject line of your tag, that way it will be easy for players to find!
☆ There are Teachers Lounge and Student Common Room top-levels for characters to mingle outside the classroom setting; if there is need for other top-levels outside the classroom (ie: a Detention area, Nurses area, Clubs/After-School Activities, etc.) leave us a suggestion here and we'll add it!
☆ If you are unable to post in this month for whatever reason, handwaving attendance is fine, though we always encourage posting around to make new CR!

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. If you would like more details about sickbay, here's the wiki page.

Once your character has been cleared medically, they'll be released from quarantine, 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). Everyone passes through Sickbay once they arrive. Rooming assignments will be posted tomorrow, and the IC Rooming Mixer will go up on Sunday.

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. If you would like more details about sickbay, here's the wiki page.

Once your character has been cleared medically, they'll be released from quarantine, 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). Everyone passes through Sickbay once they arrive. Rooming assignments will be posted tomorrow, and the IC Rooming Mixer will go up on Sunday.

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After some rather harrowing events on the Enterprise, including visions of dead loved ones, spooky sounds and visions, and in particular the accidental murder of the ship's captain* in what was supposed to be a holodeck simulation, passengers' frayed nerves are soothed by a festive party in Ten Forward and the ship docking planetside, where the antsy and eager to explore can finally stretch their legs. Unfortunately for some, the trip planetside won't be a relaxing vacation, as passengers are being abducted to play in a grisly game. For those who stay aboard the Enterprise it's not all sunshine and bunnies, either — it's baseball and cats! Two player plots invite you to have some peanuts and crackerjacks, and think about pet adoption.



NOTE: Our Día de Muertos party was mislabeled with an OOC note saying it wasn't open for tags. It is, in fact, a party post! It has now been edited to express that a little more clearly, and we apologize for the misinformation. Your characters are free to tag in, mingle, make candy skulls, play cards, or just gripe about their ridiculous costumes. You know how Q loves a good costume!

Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a holiday traditionally celebrated in central and southern Mexico on November 1 & 2. Even though this coincides with All Saint's Day, it's actually different from any Halloween celebrations. Based on the ancient beliefs of honoring one's deceased loved ones, the idea is that happy spirits will provide protection, good luck, and wisdom to their families — and of course the dead still like to party! The spread Q has laid out in Ten Forward includes music, card games, dancing, and lots of food. Raise a toast to someone your character has lost, or just come for the party. And it wouldn't be a Q party if silly costumes weren't involved.




The ship has kept sailing, and has now been called to action at the planet Folnar III. It will dock there this evening, November 2nd, and will remain there until Sunday, November 29th. The ship's mission is a peaceful one — while the Federation has been aware of Folnar III for several decades now, it's only just joined the Federation — peaceful talks, treaties, and negotiations need to take place. Bo-ring! as Q would say. The good news is that while the senior staff are occupied in these talks, everyone else is free to explore the planet.

Its varied landscape provides a number of places someone could go. Explore the rivers, the mountains, the lush fields; marvel at the Folnar Jewel Plant, so named because it secretes a resin that hardens into a beautiful gemstone. The local fauna is just as remarkable as its plant life. Or stay close to one of the cities, where there are opportunities to shop, barter, eat unusual foods, and meet some of the locals. While Folnar III isn't a poor planet, its cities are modest and the people suffer from the usual worries of having enough food and medicines. Perhaps the Enterprise can help with that...

While the planet is lovely and the cities are safe for the most part, there is a rogue among you. Someone likes to abduct people for sport, pitting them against one of Folnar III's most terrible creatures ... which brings us to our latest plot based off of the Star Trek canon. This time the inspiration comes from the episode "Darmok".



Darmok Event. Your character has been abducted! While on Folnar III, a transporter beam not belonging to the Enterprise has whisked your character away from where they were and deposited them in a rural part of the planet many kilometers from the nearest city. You aren't alone — one of the other Enterprise passengers has also been taken, and is just as surprised as you are to be there. To make matters worse, it's not a passenger you get along well with, and you soon discover that the translation field Q has provided has been knocked out of service. Assuming you don't speak the same language, you now can't understand a thing the other person is saying!

You would think being stranded on an alien planet far from civilization with someone you can't work with would be bad enough, but that's not the rogue's only game. One of Folnar III's more deadly creatures is trying to make mince meat out of you both, and you have got to find a way to work together to ward this monster off long enough for someone to come rescue you!

This plot is available only to players who opt in. If you do not, then don't worry! You will remain far from the lonely part of the planet where this creature resides. You don't know this, but you are being remotely watched as you struggle to survive for the entertainment of the rogue who took you and any who pay to watch along (someone please keep the Hunger Games cast away from this, jfc). The scattering field that took out the universal translator has also taken out transporters, so the Enterprise cannot beam you to safety. You will be marooned overnight until someone can collect you. So you better start making friends, and figure out how to fight that creature together. The episode synopsis on Memory Alpha imparts this gem about the story: "Dathon's hope was that by facing a common enemy, the two sides could learn to understand one another and bring the two species closer together."

Players can plot amongst themselves to decide who wants to get marooned together (this is helpful if your character has an enemy you want this kind of CR with), or you can tag in with interest in playing out this plot and let a random player find you (or the mods can assign duos). This can happen at any time the ship is docked at Folnar III, so there won't be an IC event post for this plot; once you've got a partner to get marooned with, you can make your own post to play out these events.



For those looking for something a little less intense, smaller plots will be happening on the Enterprise while she's docked at Folnar III. Steve Rogers is hosting a baseball game on the holodecks on Wednesday, November 4th! Sign-ups are still open, so you'll want to visit the player's plotting post for more information and updates.

Then, starting on the 15th, Q is at it again! One of the ship's newest members, Shadow, is longing for his pet cats. That doesn't seem like such a bad thing, until you realize that he has more than 30 pet cats! Because Q is so magnanimous, he will be porting Shadow's 30 cats onto the Enterprise. Cats, cats, everywhere! It's a kitty invasion! These pet felines will be all over the ship for two weeks. Halfway through, Shadow will open up opportunities for your character to adopt a pet if they so choose. All of his cats are healthy, vaccinated, and come with collars and tags (and yes, they all have their own unique names). They're pet ready to go to a good home. Any who are not adopted by the 28th will be sent back to Shadow's world, and Spot will continue to reign as lord cat of the Enterprise.


**Additional small plots may crop up throughout the month for extra fun, so keep your eyes open for event posts in the OOC comm as they happen.**