Character Camp Revisions

[Lady Hammer]

Okay guys, I've planned out a new way for Character Camp to work that should be a LOT easier on everyone, including myself. I will have to do MUCH less governing, hehe! But before I make those revisions, since everyone is part of WD, I wanted to ask what you guys thought of them first and see if you had any suggestions.

After they are put into effect, we can begin a new season of Character Camp!



CHANGES:

• Instead of the haphazard "omg here's a problem now go fix it together!" thing that I was trying to pull off, there will be Interview Rooms where characters can go and sit down with a group and answer questions about themselves (think the Character Game that people usually start on Neopets). There will be a section for Main Characters, Minor Characters, and Villians / Antagonists.
  
• Lady's Cafe will be introduced and is a place that you can just RP your character with others freely, whether it's to get to know them better or yourself, or just 'cause you're bored.
  
• Verity Exams will be given every so often (and anyone can give one, you just have to ask me and give me an example of your exam) for Main, Minor, or Antagonistic Characters, and THESE ARE THE HEART OF THIS CAMP. If you're taking the Main Character Verity Exam, you need your character to pass, because it's a test of how... 'main character-y' they are. It helps to determine if they're a good, well shelled-out character and if they aren't, what it is that they can improve on to be a BETTER character. Chances are that if you are having trouble with your story and find out that your character can't pass the exam, if you just make a few adjustments to the behavior of your guy, it can make all the difference.
  
  That's what the Verity Exams are for. Just to HELP, not to make fun or pressure people, okay? I studied a lot about this before I made a desision to use it, and I thought you guys might put it to good use!
  
• Several RP places that have huge problems will be added in place of the obstacles that you had to solve before. There will be Libra's Farm, Pisces's Riverbed, Taurus Manor, and Leo's Royal Resort. Each of these places will have specific things about it that will serve as obstacles, like maybe at Libra's farm, there are sick animals, or *insert some other problem*. Instead of having ME come in and tell you when it's fixed, however, your characters interacting with other characters make the decision yourself. I might add more problem areas too, if this turns out working well.
  
• The Litmus Testing Room will be up too, when I get that coordinated. Or, someone else can run it (which would be wonderful). It'll test for Mary-Sues, Gary-Stus, Static Characters, etc. It can be used to diagnose what is specifically wrong with one of your characters if they fail the Verity Exam. Note, this is just to HELP YOU, so if it turns out that something IS wrong with your character, don't get butt hurt. You can always ask ANYONE for help!
  
• The Bonfire of Assistance (xDDDDD) will be set up where your character can go ask for help if it has any problems and doesn't know how to fix them.
  
• I might add more things, because I'm having a lot more fun thinking up neat ideas now than I was before. Hehehehe!
  
• The Tent of Introductions is where you can post character bios. Bios are always fun and I have no idea why, so you can put one, or multiple ones, here. Sometimes it's fun to read bios for other characters. ;D
  

THINGS STAYING THE SAME:

• Whoa, damn, what IS staying the same? Lol. There will still be an Orientation, so no worries there. That was TONS of fun.
  
• I'm thinking that I still want to keep the teams up, but I'll have to split people up just like I did last time. See, while I'd like to keep the tribal thing going on, I don't want it to be as competitive as it was last time. Instead, I want it to be like you're coming to Camp to solve problems, get to know yourself, etc... like you would USUALLY go to camp.
  
• Depending on how things go, I might keep the Tribal Hall of Judgement. Just to record everyone's progress and see if there are any problems going on that I should be aware of.
  
• There will be team cabins again, but those are just for RP purposes mostly.
  

If you guys have any suggestions, complaints, compliments or whatever, just lemme know! I want to know if you guys approve of this!

[cloverbud]

sounds good. how do you join?

[Lady Hammer]

Well you'll have to wait till Monday, but ON Monday, there'll be a Roster where you put a short little bio of the character/s you're putting in Camp, and then you jump straight into the Orientation and RP your introductions with other characters, make friends (or enemies ), etc.

[mysteria]

sounds cool.

[Lady Hammer]

Awesome awesome awesome. Anyone have any ideas? Suggestions? Does anyone want to help moderate? ;D

[mysteria]

I guess I could moderate

[absgg911]

*grins ebily* i want to help run something. I don't know if I could do the testing room, but I could be the...Bonfire Cheif xD who gives major help...of course lady will still have to help me.

but it sounds like it will work better than last time. it was tons of fun last time but this will be too, and this will help our lady keep motivated with keeping the site alive. ;D so yay.

[Lady Hammer]

OMG I need help SOOO BAD with the RP areas! Abbi would you be a doll and help me out with that? Just do whatever comes to mind and take the NPCS into your own hands (Leo, Pisces, Taurus, and Libra), and you don't have to do a whole lot. The characters who RP there just need obscure problems to fix, and I've already made the first one for each of those boards. Just, y'know, keep it going if you see that nothing is getting done.

:3 K?

[absgg911]

okay! do i need admin powers to do it or can i just start going crazy xD

[Lady Hammer]

You can start going crazy! ^^