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When to Submit a Plot to the Admin Team
Updated 7/31/2021 (Random Event suggestions section added)
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If you have a plot that you would like to play out in-game, you need to run it past the admins first, by sending an e-mail to fandomhighadmins at iambicnut dot com containing the information requested in the Plot Submission Form. We don't want to ruin anyone's fun, we just want to keep things at a manageable level. This also allows us to keep track of everything that's going on, and to make sure that your plot won't clash with another plot that you might not know about. Not everything that goes on in the game has to be run past us first, of course. The rule of thumb is:
- take a significant amount of time to play out
- affect or involve a significant number of people (That includes anything happening noticeably on-island, such as any drastic events that get broadcast on radio that people might feel they need to react to if they know about it, or large public happenings anyone can stumble onto.)
- involve NPCs from your canon visiting Fandom Island
- have a lasting effect on your character
Pregnancy/Children - Don't use pregnancy as a plot lightly. Babies are not disposable. If you do intend on having your character become pregnant/otherwise acquire a child, you are expected to carry through with it logically and correctly. Student characters will be sent home in their third trimester for their parents to deal with. There WILL be a baby and the character WILL be expected to keep and care for it if they remain in the game. BABIES ARE NOT DISPOSABLE. End caps lock. If you're going to have a kid brought onto the scene, your character will be expected to deal with it, including its effects on their social life. Please submit all pregnancy/child-related plots to the admins first. (Also, try to keep pregnancy scares to a minimum.)
Player-character death - No player-character deaths (even canon ones) are permitted without prior admin permission. Non-canon character death plot proposals will only rarely be accepted, as death has a huge effect on the other characters in the game and it's unfair to impose that kind of trauma on everyone on a regular basis, so please take that into consideration. We get a lot of character death requests. Don't take it personally if you're told no. When it happens, we want death to remain significant. If characters die too regularly and then come back to life, it lessens the impact.
- only involve one or two people
- have no NPC characters coming in
- don't have a lasting effect
- don't last longer than a week
- minor off-island plottishness with NPCs from your canon (visits home, phone calls, etc). You should run that past other players from your canon though.
- anything involving normal pets (just make sure you clear it with your roommate first)
When you have a wonderful idea for zany Fandom Island magic, it should definitely be sent to the admin team, and we have a form for that!
We will grasp tight the Preciousss like the greedy Hobbitses that we are, and pull it out of our Random Events hoard for the admins to run when the time seems right, unless:
In those cases, we'll confirm that you're running the event and set up a date on the Plot Calendar that works for you.
If it's a suggestion for the vault, but the admins are so jazzed about the idea that we want to run it right away, we'll add it to the Plot Calendar and let you know when it's happening, but you can still assume it's our responsibility to announce and run unless we confirm otherwise with you.
When in doubt, e-mail us at fandomhighadmins at iambicnut dot com, and we'll be sure to clear things up.
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If you have a plot that you would like to play out in-game, you need to run it past the admins first, by sending an e-mail to fandomhighadmins at iambicnut dot com containing the information requested in the Plot Submission Form. We don't want to ruin anyone's fun, we just want to keep things at a manageable level. This also allows us to keep track of everything that's going on, and to make sure that your plot won't clash with another plot that you might not know about. Not everything that goes on in the game has to be run past us first, of course. The rule of thumb is:
Plots that generally need approval:
- take a significant amount of time to play out
- affect or involve a significant number of people (That includes anything happening noticeably on-island, such as any drastic events that get broadcast on radio that people might feel they need to react to if they know about it, or large public happenings anyone can stumble onto.)
- involve NPCs from your canon visiting Fandom Island
- have a lasting effect on your character
Plots that DEFINITELY need approval:
Pregnancy/Children - Don't use pregnancy as a plot lightly. Babies are not disposable. If you do intend on having your character become pregnant/otherwise acquire a child, you are expected to carry through with it logically and correctly. Student characters will be sent home in their third trimester for their parents to deal with. There WILL be a baby and the character WILL be expected to keep and care for it if they remain in the game. BABIES ARE NOT DISPOSABLE. End caps lock. If you're going to have a kid brought onto the scene, your character will be expected to deal with it, including its effects on their social life. Please submit all pregnancy/child-related plots to the admins first. (Also, try to keep pregnancy scares to a minimum.)
Player-character death - No player-character deaths (even canon ones) are permitted without prior admin permission. Non-canon character death plot proposals will only rarely be accepted, as death has a huge effect on the other characters in the game and it's unfair to impose that kind of trauma on everyone on a regular basis, so please take that into consideration. We get a lot of character death requests. Don't take it personally if you're told no. When it happens, we want death to remain significant. If characters die too regularly and then come back to life, it lessens the impact.
Plots that generally don't need approval:
- only involve one or two people
- have no NPC characters coming in
- don't have a lasting effect
- don't last longer than a week
- minor off-island plottishness with NPCs from your canon (visits home, phone calls, etc). You should run that past other players from your canon though.
- anything involving normal pets (just make sure you clear it with your roommate first)
Random Event suggestions:
When you have a wonderful idea for zany Fandom Island magic, it should definitely be sent to the admin team, and we have a form for that!
We will grasp tight the Preciousss like the greedy Hobbitses that we are, and pull it out of our Random Events hoard for the admins to run when the time seems right, unless:
- You specify that you'd like to run it
- You don't specify, but something about the plot description prompts us to ask.
In those cases, we'll confirm that you're running the event and set up a date on the Plot Calendar that works for you.
If it's a suggestion for the vault, but the admins are so jazzed about the idea that we want to run it right away, we'll add it to the Plot Calendar and let you know when it's happening, but you can still assume it's our responsibility to announce and run unless we confirm otherwise with you.
For all of the above, and anything else you dream up:
When in doubt, e-mail us at fandomhighadmins at iambicnut dot com, and we'll be sure to clear things up.