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part 3 - characters [Sun Jun 01, 2008 at 10:28pm]
ok, we've decided on the location and it will be bellevue, washington. a guide of things to know about the city is being worked on, so don't worry about doing research.
next comes working on characters. right now i've seen activity from seven of the currently held characters, but i'm going to pimp for a few more people to join. as mentioned in the previous post, there were talks of having your characters be attached to a sort of premade title. i won't be posting a list of these or anything, but suggestions would be their role in the group such as the peacemaker or the instigator or even the person that just sort of goes along with everyone. you should probably come up with those now and i'll add them to your holds. we also need to work on the back story and how everyone met. i was thinking there would be a few founding members so to speak, like maybe they were friends in high school or sooner and everyone sort of came together through them. if you want your character to be one of them then mention that here, or if you want them to be a new addition to the group. all the characters need to have a connection to everyone else; the group is so small that there's no reason for someone to not even know of someone else. ok, i think that's all i have to say! i've made the communities, and you can join both of them with your characters journal - it should be ooc style and i've got plenty if you need to borrow one. the one thing that i would like everyone to do would be to make a post in the ooc community with what you've got on your character so far so we can start planning everything previously mentioned. i'll be posting my own character shortly - i think this will be his journal. this not the time to be shy, so throw your ideas out there and let's get this going! once this is all done, biographies and such should be written so we can actually get playing. alright, let's get discussing!

if you're just joining the group, you can comment here with who you want to play. after that, just jump into the discussion! (held so far: brody jenner, *cassie duncan, david cook, *hannabeth merjos, joel madden, kristin cavallari, kristen stewart, molly steele, nicole richie, rachel bilson, robert pattinson, sam merrann. if your pb has a star by it, it means i'm removing them from the list if you haven't show activity by tonight, 6/2)
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part 2 [Sat May 31, 2008 at 11:25am]
the only way i can think to address all the issues and still keep everyone organized and involved is to just make another post. i apologize for not replying to comments last night, ij was taking a very long time to load if it even loaded at all and i was frustrated. anyway, i'll do the same list as before.
1) a few people have expressed interest in a smaller town, and also a beachy location, and someone also suggested washington. soo maybe a smaller town in washington, and one event we could plan would to be a trip to the beach since california isn't too far away! i thini that merges all ths input from that one, so if that works for everyone then i'll look up some towns in washington.

2) everyone is ok with the age range, so our characters need to be aged from eighteen to twenty-two.

3) interest has been expresses in using these pbs: brody jenner, cassie duncan, david cook, hannabeth merjos, joel madden, kristen stewart, molly steele, nicole richie, robert pattinson, sam merrann. as you can see, the numbers aren't even. i'm ok with this but since the original number was ten and some people haven't come back yet, i was thinking of pimping in rps for a few more people. there was a suggestion of premades, but i think that can be discussed once we get farther down the road to characters. i figured everyone would sort of have a 'role' in the group, like a peacemaker of sorts and an instigator or whatever. it doesn't have to be anything you assign to your character, sort of just a we'll see what happens once we have our characters figured out and how they'll interact with each other.

4) there will be a mix of threading and aim!

5) i don't want to mandate how you should write your characters biography, but if you decide to go the route of detailed facts then you need to have at least five. i don't want to require examples because i don't feel comfortable judging you guys or rejecting people from a group psl. i took everyones opinions into consideration and have decided that we will be using ooc journals and ic uns. if anyone feels strongly that we should use ic journals also, then it can be changed.

6) i've decided to create one all-purpose ic sub-comm. i'm also going to make an ooc comm so mod updates can go there and official details for scenes and such.

i believe that sums everything up! once we finish up the discussion on location, we should start working on characters and connections. i really hope this works because i'm getting more excited as we gar farther in!
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