Modlymodding.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

Hello, my goslings.

We've gotten quite a few new members in the past few days, so I'd like to come out and say some things before the next game starts:

BEFORE ALL ELSE. RULES. READ THEM, REMEMBER THEM, LOVE THEM.

1) On characters:
-A lot of characters we tend to dredge up here are outside of the core 7/bridge crew. If you see a name you don't recognize, chances are they're on Memory Alpha in the TOS crew. The exception to this is our interpretation of McKenna as being some kind of kick-ass chick named Caroline.
-Just because someone has been made something in a game doesn't make it "canon." Hell, if the next game started and McKenna was a dude, Giotto was dead and Kirk was Klingon, that would just be a fun new adventure.
-Even though I know some people (myself included!) have special attachments to characters, we don't own them. Anyone can jump in. If there's something you want to do, do it. The worst that happens is it doesn't work.

2) On playing:
-If you want to express love for a particular post, DE-ANON and love on it. A username means that you're you, not a character. And love is cool.
-There are times when the comm is slow and times when it exits, pursued by bear. When we're warping along, you'll get doubleposts. I'm changing the way we deal with these! From now on, unless there are CLEARLY meant to be two posts in a row, you should ignore the second one. If that's unclear, ask me and I'll explain.
-We don't claim characters here, we just jump in. So don't be afraid to change the course a character is going!
-On that note, try not to snipe characters. If you need an explanation of that, ask.

3) On me:
-I'm a first time mod, and am probably doing things wrong. If you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I'm not scary or mean, and will gladly explain why things are happening the way they are.
-I know the captcha is annoying, but LJ doesn't seem to want to turn it all the way off. If any of you have a suggestion, please let me know.
-I'm moving this weekend and won't have internets at my new place until the 27th unless I can pirate from my neighbors. This means that I'll only have access at work, and won't be able to be quite so active as I have been. If anyone wants to volunteer to help out during this period, let me know. Things I need: keeping order in posts (IE, deleting doubleposts, paying attention to the game) posting alt.enterprise.gossip on Sunday/Monday, being awesome. I pay in rocket ship underoos, of course.

Finally, I love you all and your crack. Get to playing!

Comments

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

McKenna was a dude, Giotto was dead and Kirk was Klingon

This is giving me ideas. Except the dead Giotto part. Can I kill Spock instead? (mostly because he's the one that people play the least.)

By snipe characters, you mean don't play a character you hate as an asshole just cause you hate them, right? I mean, unless there's some sort of OOC spore going around. Then, I think, it would be okay to portray them as an asshole, yes? Because of the OOC spore. For comedy.

Also, I love our interpretation of McKenna.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

Snipe means, in this case, "If someone is clearly having a minute-to-minute conversation, don't jump in and steal it."

But the OOC spore might be a good one. I was thinking the next game might revolve around gender/species swaps.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

Ah! That was what was bugging me, actually.

How about something like:

McKenna's a dude, Giotto's dead* and Kirk's Klingon. They're seperated and stranded on an alien planet nobody's acting like they're supposed to.

Communications between the characters as they try to make it back to the ship and back to reality.


Y/y?


*Giotto will not stay dead through the entire game.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

McKenna's a dude, Giotto's dead* and Kirk's Klingon. They're separated and stranded on an alien planet nobody's acting like they're supposed to. Also, why are those clowns looking at everyone like that?

Communications between the characters as they try to make it back to the ship and back to reality.


...because we're a crack comm, and we have yet to touch on coulrophobia. They're gonna kick us off the internets if we don't!

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

Can they be ~zombie clowns~? *sparkly hopeful looks* Because we haven't done zombies yet either, and zombies opens up possibilities for gratuitous Shaun of the Dead references, as well as the presence of Zombie Piers Morgan.

Also, we haven't killed any redshirts yet. Giotto doesn't count, because I'm bringing him back.

Also, I just finished watching Sulu and Kutner Escape from Guantanamo Bay, and I have this image of Chekov and Sulu watching it and when it gets to Kumar's poem, Chekov just goes all ~sparkles and hearts~ and thinks it's the sweetest poem he's ever heard (clearly the 'Harold and Kumar' movies were written by Russians) and Sulu's rolling his eyes at him.

Also, Chekov thinks that Sulu looks like Harold.

[vivid-butterfly.livejournal.com]

You got red on you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

Yes. I think we can do that.

Does Chekov sing HSM to Sulu? Cause then I'm on board.

Random comment fic! I felt ~inspired~

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

Every Thursday night Chekov turns up at Sulu's quarters with a different movie/movie set and forces him to watch them with him.

Some of them are all right, like Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (neither of them really got most of the jokes, but they still laughed like loons), and some are weird, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, who's plot was difficult to follow at best and downright confusing at worst.

Others, like the entire High School Musical series (fourteen movies in one night, and Chekov knew every song by heart) were annoying. By the end of the third one, Sulu was beating his head against the wall in a steady rhythm- thud, thud, thud, thud- but Chekov was so busy dancing that he didn't even notice. Or maybe he just thought that was Sulu's version of dancing or something.

The seven Harold and Kumar movies were actually pretty great, even though Chekov spent the entire time pointing out that Harold Lee and Sulu looked practically identical, and then he went sparkly during the second movie when Kumar started reciting his poem about Root Three. Chekov thought that it was the most beautiful, romantic thing he'd ever heard and for weeks he could be heard reciting it to himself while he worked, while he walked through the corridors, while he ate, or even in his quarters while they sat in companionable silence.

One night he brought the Terminator movies, which were great and full of action and heroic things and robots and explosions, but rather than enjoy them like he was supposed to, Chekov spent the entire time pointing out all the flaws of how the time travel in the movie didn't quite match up with itself. (He didn't think he looked anything like Kyle Reese, either.) It rather ruined the experience a bit.


Last week he brought the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy, the week before the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the week before that the Spiderman and X-Men trilogies. He brought the Harry Potter movies before that and the Chronicles of Narnia before that.

He talks through the movies, about the movies, about his day, about physics and math and Russia, and he is the sort of movie-goer that other movie-goers dread, the one that talks through the entire movie.

Every Thursday night Chekov turns up at Sulu's quarters with a different movie/movie set and forces him to watch them with him. Some are great, some are annoying, and some are downright wierd.

Sulu thinks he should have kicked him out the first night.

But in a way, he's glad he didn't.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

Also, I was going to say, if you'll pm me the appropriate opener, I'll post the next alt.enterprise.gossip if you aren't available to.