February Summary 2012

Good afternoon, folks!

It's back to little ol' me making up the newsletter once again. SR and Desh did an awesome job with the previous one - I thank and applaud their efforts. Now March has arrived and spring is coming! Aside from some great OOC chatter, we have some IC things to give heads up for so let us get started.

OOC news

In the brief time between the last newsletter and now, we still managed to gain a new member that I would like to welcome now. Please greet Leyla who joined us on the 22nd of February, offer her plots, scenes and otherwise make her welcome among our little family. Welcome! :)

On this note, I would also like to send a wave of cheer to the last month's arrivals Arizae, Oryx and Fyrasha all of whom have settled in nicely and hopefully are finding plenty to do within our crazy Pern-life.

As we all know, Valentine's Day was in February and as a part of WoF's traditional celebration of it, we went with a slightly different approach this time around. The Enkala High School V-Day Prom held in the theme of Dragonriders of Pern! How cool is that? The Halloween showed us that we could all shift into monsters, this event has already proven that Enkalans are also excellent RL high school setting players. Naturally there are more brats and bums than actual straight-A students but where's the fun in all being goodie two-shoes anyway?

Anyway, the scene to the prom can be found here: http://www.dancingshadows.net/Windfury/index.php?topic=2093.0 If you want to join it, you are absolutely welcome to! If you have no date for it, well... make one up or hook up with someone on the party already. It happens! We welcome you to the fun even and remind you that the punch is more than likely already heavily spiked. The scene will be continuing until it winds down so no rush in wrapping it all up.

More information, the playlist and the ever-popular Enkala High Meme can be found on the V-day Prom forum here: http://www.dancingshadows.net/Windfury/index.php?board=46.0

As a part of my efforts to remind everyone to click for your forum and help us rise in ranks to be seen, let me point out the three buttons on the right in the bottom of the forum's every page. Click to vote and you can also raise the rating in the Fandom Topsites(RPGD). We appreciate your support greatly :)

IC News

As is customary, here is where we point out the new and exciting characters on the loose on WoF and Enkala Weyr/Hold. Since the previous newsletter, the following characters have been created: Brick(by Leyla)! I know, I kind of over-dramatized that but every new character is a step in the good direction, right? ;)

I'm not entirely sure if I have the IC and OOC news mixed today or if it's supposed to be the other way around(the V-day prom is still RPing but not in the timeline and universe we are playing it but the characters are the same we have running around IC! So hard to choose). But anyway, aside from the Gold Flight consequences being wrapped up and taken to the crowds in the form of Weyrleader negotiations and new Wing assignments, the previous Weyrleader is still attempting to scare the Hold into paying them more tithes, unaware of the reasons why they are getting so little of late. That sneaky little boy... *shakes fist*

The scene can be found here: http://www.dancingshadows.net/Windfury/index.php?topic=2083.0 if any Holder wants to swing by. Sadly since the Weyrleaders took no one but themselves from the Weyr, it is currently unavailable for more dragonriders. But then, if you have a great idea for it and your rider character, let me know and we'll work something out.

I would like to point out that very soon(some time between this newsletter and next), our time will move on, meaning the IC time will move into the Turn 1759, first, second and third months. Keep your eyes on the announcement board and try to finish up your older scenes that you want finished before we do that.

I am pretty sure I'm forgetting something but there we go. The newsletter with news from mid-February to the beginning of March was here. Enjoy your RP, bring your ideas to us, take part of the V-day prom and most of all - HAVE FUN!

January Summary 2012

A DRAGON APPEARS!

January Newsletter
(and a bit of February because we’re awesome like that)

SO! Newsletter! Ha! SR and Desh are co-writing this thing. And eh... yeah, I (SR) am not as organized as Nyaare, so it’ll be a bit different. Maybe Desh can add some structure (or taste!) but I’m just going to kick this off.

I think we normally start with the new members, yes? So from the top of my head welcome to Arizae, Oryx, and Fyrasha. Also a re-welcome for Kylee, who has finished her character at long last and is now also happily playing with us. We’re glad to have you all with us and we hope you’ll have a ton of fun on WoF =D

The new characters, again, from the top of my head are F’lai (by Kylee), A’lor (by Fyrasha), Emaela(by Oryx) and Z’en (by Arizae). If I missed any, it’s not personal, I just suck! T doesn’t get his shitty memory for names/faces from the milkman...

Oh and a happy birthday to Bexx! She turned REALLY OLD in January! Enjoy that Bexx, it’s all down hill from here baby!

Now then, that concludes the newsletter! Happy playing!

... <.<

Just kidding, I do sort of know how these things work. (Desh: Mmmhmmm)

We talk about January, in the January newsletter. So first off, the biggest breaking news of the past weeks IC news.

THE GOLD FLIGHT HAS ENDED!

Holy shit, did you ever think this day would come? (No) Well we certainly didn’t! It will be an amazing clutch what with the length of this beast. Anyway, it’s ended and stuff happened. Two bronzes (Gavanth totally started it) got into an amazing fight during the flight, taking themselves and a few others out of the race, leaving the way wide open for A’jan’s Zarath to win it, only rivalled by V’mer’s Bonth. Talmeth however, chose Zarath and thus A’jan, the cupcake man, is now our new Weyrleader! Yeeey!

The change of Weyrleader, of course, is creating some upheaval. Wings are being shuffled to match the perceived ideas of A’jan, and you can read his announcement on it here

As any weyrbrat knows first comes the Gold flight and than comes egg laying! We’re expecting a clutch at the end of the 1st Month of the new year (ICly, obviously) and then a hatching at the beginning of the 3rd month. So if you have an idea for a candidate? Now is the time! Search riders will be out looking for candidates and the weyrbrats will be starting to prepare as well.

As per usual, candidates have to be between 16 and 22 at the time of impression, so keep that in mind when creating characters for a clutch.

Now that we’ll (hopefully!) be having some candidates, we’ve also decided it is time to bring in some more manpower to handle all these youthful enthusiasts. We’re looking for someone to play a candidate master (or several someones even!) so if you have an idea for that, you’re also very welcome to make that. Weyrlingmaster Assistants are also needed as there will soon be even MORE babies to manage than before.
More info on this can be found in the brand spanking new topic Desh made here


In the past month and then some we’ve concluded the plot discussion and have some exciting new stuff waiting for us all to happen. We’re slowly getting the plot rolling and you’ll find out more about it as we go along, but if you missed it, or want to read up on it, or just want to contribute, you’re of course very welcome to do so. the thread can still be found here

You’ll find a summary of everything on the second page of the discussion and are VERY welcome to run with the proposed plot as you see fit, or add more to it IC and OOC.

In other exciting news, yours truly (SR, still writing, whoohoo!) has signed you all up for the craziest of posting escapades in a long long time. A bet was made, off-handed-ly with Nya that we could make it to 10,000 posts by our second birthday. WoF’s birthday is on May 14th and I’m rallying the troops to post lots and lots to make that mark.
Unofficially I’m calling it “The march to 10K!” And it’s epic and working a wonder so far. Activity is high and people are posting everywhere and I just wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU to everyone participating. You may all polish your honorary “posting machine” title and badge with due pride! You’re earning it with every post you make!

In the true spirit of crazy writing endeavours we have a few threads to honour this where you can find fun and adventure (and information).
Information on the march is HERE
You can get involved quickly with the resident plot generator (me!) here
And keep track of our overwhelming progress here

As of right now we need an average of 28 posts per day to make the mark. Seem like a lot? As it turns out, it really isn’t! We’ve been doing 35+ posts almost every day since we started, so don’t be startled by the staggering numbers, it’s really easy and all about fun! Every post you make is one for the tally, so post much and play stupid forum games (they totally count!) until your fingers bleed! \o/

Another fun event (and a lot less intimidating, at least.. I think) is our Valentines Day event! We did one last year and we’re doing one again this year. A deep Alternate Universe in which Enkala has turned into a modern day High School. Welcome to Enkala High! Let the horror begin.

For info on the event you can read the sign up right here

Sign up has closed already, because this newsletter is late, so I would tell you to sign up but we are already in the future! But fear not, you can of course still enter, just give us a poke in the cbox or via PM, or better yet... just join and have fun!

Just because you NEED a date doesn’t mean you can’t sneak in through the fire-escape, right? ;D
The section for this AU event is on the index, clearly visible with lots of pinks and reds (thanks to Khay for the graphic!) but if you have trouble finding it, or are lazy (like me!) here is a link

There is an information topic about the school, a major thread for the actual dance but you’re welcome to make threads elsewhere in the school for naughty shenanigans! Remember, it’s AU and all about having fun, so by all means, go crazy and do what you feel like!

We’re also working on a Prom Playlist. You can post your contributions in the “What the band is playing” thread and I’ll add it to the playlist as soon as possible. Here is the playlist.

A new Weyrleader, world changing plots on the horizon, and a prom! *squeel* It’s everything you could ever want! So grab your character (or make a new one!) and join in the excitement! Yeah, make a new one. Definitely make a new one! =D

December Summary 2011

Greetings,

As opposed to the normal IC and OOC news, I will be mixing everything up this time around so you’ll have to excuse me. The end of year has been tiring ;)

2011 is over! We are half-way through our second year of existence and it’s been rather action-packed IC-ly and OOC-ly. We have gained many new friends and members and on the sad side, lost a few to RL, inactivity and other reasons. I hope you are all doing alright out there, no matter what you are up to and Happy New Year, to you!

And a happy new one to us all on the Winds of Fury still, as well! The activity check has revealed a nice gang of folks we can continue the story of Enkala with. Now, we’re going to have to do a little discussing on how to do that and what we want to do. I look forward to your ideas, crazy and not so much. The thread for this discussion is here: http://www.dancingshadows.net/Windfury/index.php?topic=2001.0

Welcome back to Charlie, Star and Makato(Becky). It’s good to see old members return. I hope we’ll find plots, scenes and other fun together J That said, we have a returning bluerider D’jan, a green Weyrling Ny’ko and a new Weyrfolk character Zaria to play with so it shouldn’t be difficult to get stuff started.

I was thinking the other day about superlatives – the longest scene, the spam game that got the most views, the character with the most IC posts but then I decided that all characters created and played on WoF on the year 2011 are winners. We’ve had a lot of fun, there have been a lot of exciting scenes and our members have come up with such amusing OOC games, posts, opinions, etc. Thanks for being there, you’ve given me a lot of good stuff to look back on the year for.

We had two OOC-IC events – one of which was a roaring success and the other a bit less so but darn if we haven’t had fun going through with it! During the Valentine’s Day event we chose a Mister Pern 1758(M’rman!) and a Miss Pern 1758(Rayna!). Both are absolutely gorgeous, amusing, talented and went through an excruciating process of a beauty pageant in Enkala(both Weyr and Hold). That was also when our first alternate universe(AU) scenes were had with fantastic pairings that otherwise would never happen. Or they might, now that we know how they play with each other! You never know what those crazy Enkalans do.

In the other OOC-IC event, the Halloween, all characters that had been signed up, dressed up as something completely different. Monsters, werewolves, ghosts and Faranth knows what a leviathan is, flooded the boards in this AU posting match. For a while, WoF was quite the scary place to go to! The HW-tagged scenes can still be found on the forum so if you stumble upon them, be sure to have some popcorn to have on the side.

In September, we switched from the safe and cozy phpbb3 to a more modern and exciting SMF software. The transition was easy enough and we installed a few good mods to make the WoF experience even more enjoyable for us all. That said, if anyone is still having problems with this, please let us know and we’ll try to fix it or advise how to make it work.

In RP-world, the Weyr had a new set of dragons from Ista Weyr that transferred a whole Wing to help out the flailing Enkala and then a Clutch of 22 eggs! The Senior Weyrlings are preparing to graduate while the Gold Talmeth is getting ready to Clutch again. The Weyrling Barracks are still standing so I guess the new Weyrlings are a bit more tame than the previous ones. All can change, of course, so stay tuned!

Thread started falling and first losses happened both in rider and dragon deaths and injuries. But as always, Enkala Weyr pushes ever forward, ignoring the possibility of failing. How will the story continue is in our hands so get involved, jump into the RP and tackle the plot.

I mentioned the activity check but now I’d like to elaborate a little. With the last newsletter and in the beginning of December I posted the last Activity Check of 2011 to get the sense of what we have and who we still have around kicking. 13 people replied to the check, one of whom wanted their characters set inactive. I haven’t dared to count the number of characters that was set inactive but it’s pretty high this time which makes me very sad. Of course, the hope always remains that you will return and yoink the character back into activity(it’s as easy as sending me a PM with such a request by the way) and play with us again. Although Star and Makato did not reply to the check, since they had some sort of activity during the check period, I included them in it. 18 people who were previously active, had their characters set inactive. Perhaps you got busy, maybe another game caught your attention or something else came on the way, I don’t know. It’s entirely possible that you did not find on WoF what you wanted and stopped coming by. For you, I recommend the plot discussion to speak up on what you are looking for and what would make this place more attractive and interesting. Keep in mind, that you are always welcome back.

Again, happy new year and lets have a prosperous year 2012!