[identity profile] nerdofthelord.livejournal.com
[Waves] [Just to say hi and Merry Christmas to whoever's still around, and just in case Livejournal takes it into their heads to start purging inactive comms.]
[identity profile] ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com
It's been awhile since we've had an ooc meme thread! And so: If a character of yours was a tea, what would the blend be? (And what would you suggest for others, so long as their muns don't mind?)

As an example- Elric is a white tea with a touch of valerian, willow bark, and damiana. It hasn't been steeped long enough, is rather tepid, and has a funny aftertaste that is might be poisonous.

((Thanks to Nny for this meme idea! If you need some tea-blend inspiration assistance, this site is a nice one.))
[identity profile] ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com
Hey all! As you may have noticed, our original Robin Hood (Penny-mun that was) has returned to pick up Robin and Pufnstuf.

Penny/Puf is fine with Robin being recognized as a legendary figure. That means your character can know about him from folklore, etc. Our rule against fourth-wall breakage does prohibit your character from recognizing he's specifically the Robin of the TV series Robin of Sherwood, however.

Other characters we know of who are fine with being known as legendary and/or historical:

Beowulf
- HH Beowulf is from the 2007 Avary-Gaiman film adaptation. Beowulf-mun is cool with your character knowing who he is and being familiar with the epic Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name. (This particular film adaptation goes so far as to posit the composition of the poem within Beowulf's lifetime and to imagine it's sung every year on, like, Beowulf Day or something.) This does not mean your character can have read/watched/etc the Gaiman-Avary film or script thereof.

Yukimura
- HH Yukimura is from Samurai Deeper Kyo. There was a historical Sanada Yukimura as well, and Yukimura-mun has stated that HH Yukimura is not surprised that he has become part of history. This does not mean your character can have read/watched/etc Samurai Deeper Kyo.

Mr. Wednesday
- HH Wednesday is from the novel American Gods. He is a god. Characters who would be familiar with his mythology of origin or who would recognize other supernatural beings are welcome to "recognize" the god who uses the alias Mr. Wednesday. This does not mean your character can have read/watched/etc the novel American Gods, coverage regarding the upcoming series, or what have you.

Anyone else who has a similar sort of legendary/historical thing going on with a character, feel free to post here and we'll add it to the list! Most of this is stuff that players already know just via regular gameplay, but new folks or newly-returned folks can't be expected to know it, so we may as well put it all in one place. (We can link it in the sidebar as well.)

Expandstarting the list! )
[identity profile] ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com
Hello, all ♥

First, we're very sorry the Hat's reward for the successful defeat of the Canadian Weasley Bear has not yet been posted! Between RL!fail and LJ!DDOS!fail, it's been more-than-usually difficult to pull anything together and get it posted.

It will be posted tonight barring acts of DDOS $deity. We like to think it will have been somewhat worth the wait. The Hat is beyond thrilled that its nemesis has been turned into a duck and thrown to France.

Second: We've gotten a couple of requests from folks to join the comm that we haven't been able to approve only because they haven't got the canon name and character name in their user profile. Since we can't really determine the identity (and therefore fictionality, eligibility, etc) from icons, we established that rule. It's usually not a problem: Normally, we just PM the person and ask them to add that info, then we're good. If PMs are disabled for their account (maybe LJ has changed its default options?) we're sort of stuck, though. So if this sounds like you, we promise we're not ignoring you. Please add that info and/or enable PMs so we can chat and find out what you're planning to app. *g*

(We once missed out on a Johnny from "The Room" that way. None of us had seen the movie yet, and had no clue who ... the Tommy Wiseau ... icons were. To think of the HH!joy that could have been! You're tearing me apart, Hagrid!)

OOC.

Mar. 27th, 2011 01:21 am
[identity profile] advancegenetics.livejournal.com
Okay, popping Ozymandias here, he's just not fitting which is the case with him every where lol Adam and Dean will still be around, just need to send this kid off to the popcorn room cause he's not really doing much.

OOC

Mar. 13th, 2011 09:19 am
[identity profile] edomedpeddler.livejournal.com
Had to send a few of mine off to the popcorn room because either I didn't do anything with them or they were difficult to play. Affected are Gwendal, L, Tachibana Shito, and Nero Wolfe.
[identity profile] ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com
Hello, all! A couple of news items:

LJ notifications are sucking

In case you don't check Status very often (we know we don't), the word is, LJ notifications will be lagging severely for the next week or so.


LiveJournal Status

We are currently upgrading our notification system. Some notifications may be delayed by up to a week. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience while we increase notification efficiency!

Status Updated: 5:41 pm GMT (Saturday, February 19)


HH players are reporting that they're sometimes receiving notifications but that it's unreliable. Many of us rely on LJ notification e-mails to let us know when we've received a tag. It isn't an insurmountable obstacle, but while notifications are unreliable, players are going to need to use whatever workarounds make sense to them. LJ PMs may not be your best bet, unless you check those manually rather than waiting for notification e-mails. Feel free to use the IRC channel - #hogwarts_hocus on ColdFront.net - or check the contact post to see if the folks you're threading with have AIM accounts. There's always direct e-mail as well.

Hat Shore is almost over

The Hat's reality show is going to be drawing to an end within the next couple of weeks. We're estimating one more event along the same lines of Yoda Boot Camp, and then a grand finale. Those characters whose players OOCly want them freed before the end, please e-mail the Hat (kahnooloo at gmail dot com) and the Hat will ICly use its singular vote to vote you off. The rest will be treated to a new and dramatic addition to the house ... Kojiro.
[identity profile] chinasorrows.livejournal.com
Why hello again! My hiatus is over, and now finally getting cosy in the new house. Unfortunately I am still without normal internet for something like fifteen days. I am, however, using mobile broadband so I will be replying to tags, just not very frequently. Thanks!

ooc: yes

Feb. 2nd, 2011 07:07 pm
[identity profile] ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com
Yes, the reality show characters are going to get to spend Valentine's Day with the rest of the school.

In fact, we were sort of thinking ... how about if the Hat Shore hosts the rest of the school for a Valentine's Day bash?

No chocolate plots in there please -- we've had a ton of those this winter; rather, the Hat would task the Hat Shore residents with planning and throwing the ultimate party.

(A Hat Shore event will be going up this weekend, which has nothing to do with Valentine's Day. We're only posting this Valentine's thought now because someone asked about Valentine's Day and the reality show. <3 )

Comments? Thoughts? Also, should there be boiled goose?

Can you really have Valentine's Day without boiled goose?
[identity profile] chinasorrows.livejournal.com
 Hey all! This week is pretty hectic RL-wise. Going through all those turbulent, and annoying stages of moving before, finally and thankfully, settling in in a new house. It would be nice to live somewhere for more than a year, and as I ponder such heart-felt fancies, my characters will be away in their dorms studying, since their grades are horribly dismal. This includes China Sorrows, Ulquiorra Schiffer and Sode no Shirayuki. If time allows I will return any posts I have yet to answer. Happy posting guys!
[identity profile] ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com
Sortings!

The Hat loves Sortings. It would never dream of making people miss them. Therefore, reality show participants will be brought to Sortings in the Hat's limousines whenever they wish. As soon as they're done talking to the person being Sorted, of course, the house elves will escort them back to Hat Shore. Addition in answer to a mun question: Unpopcornings don't involve Sorting or a Hat, so they don't fall under this category.

Hat Shore regeneration

Furniture, artwork, etc. are breakable. The actual walls, doors, etc. are not breakable and will regenerate immediately to resume the form the Hat had chosen. Same goes for the dome.

(Of course, if OOCly you want your character to leave Hat Shore for good, we can arrange for the Hat to ICly banish them or vote them off or something. The indestructability of Hat Shore and its dome allow characters who'd ICly want to leave, but whose muns want them on the show, to stay. ;) And if they didn't want the characters on the show, of course, they wouldn't have signed up.)

Answers to more Hat Shore questions as raised in chat and elsewhere~

Items from outside: House elves can bring your character things from the school if your character already owned the item, if the item is not alive, and if the item is smaller than a breadbox. They won't bring anything you didn't already own, i.e., no runs to Hogsmeade.

Staff: House elves are not staffing the house as maids/housekeepers the way they do in the school, because the Hat wants to see people have to cook and do chores. The kitchen is fully stocked with all manner of ingredients. The house elves will escort/chauffeur characters to and from Sortings, will prevent their escape from the dome in such situations, and will escort characters to and from reality-show events that take place outside the dome.

While we're at this ooc-commenting thing ... possibilities:

- Valentine can dose the dome with some kind of palliative and/or giggle-inducing happy drug. (Vlad's mun admits: "really, I just want to see a Very High Beowulf.") This could chill some characters out if they're unhappy but their players want to keep them in the dome. It could also make for some amusing times

- The Hat has put those musical instruments in the garage with vague ideas of some musical challenge. Hogwarts Idol, if you will. Anyway, song suggestions would be awesome. So far, the only one on the list is Map of Tasmania (nsfw) ...
[identity profile] ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com
Looks like most would prefer to kick off Real Hogwarts (aka "the Hat's reality show") the week of January 9. That's this Sunday.

Here is the cast and crew thus far.

We'd like to get more contestants/participants. (We've got enough offscreen crew/staff at the moment, and the contestants are going to get more RP opportunities out of this, whereas most of the behind-the-scenes planning and implementation are matters for handwaving.)

We know we have gotten a couple of new players since the planning post went up, and some characters have been newly unpopped as well. If you think you'd like to add a character to the reality show, feel free to comment here; for more details, see the previous planning post.

The main thing about the reality show is: it's meant to be funny, not angsty or harmful to your characters. It may not be your character's idea of fun (eating bugs, running obstacle courses, getting "slimed" a la Nickelodeon's "Double Dare"; we're not guaranteeing these events will be part of the show, but that's the kind of ordeal you can expect to face); but it's not meant to break their psyche. It's also not going to get soft-porny, as much as the Sorting Hat (or Baron Harkonnen) might be entertained thereby, because the cameraman won't be party to such things and will snark them, we are told. XD

There may be monster attacks!

That is all. (Though if you have questions, shoot.)

ooc note

Dec. 29th, 2010 07:15 pm
[identity profile] iam-beowulf.livejournal.com
Hey all! Just in case you missed out due to holiday obligations: even though it's been bumped off the front page, the Yule party post is still alive. Gametime =/= realtime. So you still have the opportunity to party down and/or reveal your char's identity to his/her Yule Goat recipient.

That is all. ♥
[identity profile] 3pc-point.livejournal.com
I was perusing an acting website and came across a list of questions to analyze the play and the character. Obviously they would also be useful in an RP setting. While I'm just passing this on, of course I'd love to see anyone's character analysis.

Expand31 questions under the cut )

Source: www.barbarakite.com
[identity profile] sincethe900s.livejournal.com
Real life has been cutting into my time and I haven't been able to play much for a while, so I'm going ahead and popping my characters: Holy Roman Empire, Drosselmeyer, and the little prince. Thanks for all the fun!

Please let me know if there's anything else I need to do.
[identity profile] vislor-turlough.livejournal.com
Okay, I have no idea HOW this happened. Okay, I have SOME idea how this happened. The last time I came across Livejournal RPGs on TV Tropes, there was a Troper Tales page listing various RPGs, and THIS time I came across Livejournal RPGs on TV Tropes, I find that they've just been given their own pages.

I have no idea how WE got one too.

In a nutshell, Hogwarts Hocus now has its own official TV Tropes page:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HogwartsHocus

Go wild.

Most tropes listed on the Wiki page have already been moved here, sans some involving popped characters (unless it can't be avoided)
[identity profile] ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com
Hello all!

Beowulf is holding the Yule Goat party on the winter solstice, which this year falls on Tuesday, December 21. Christmas this year falls on a Saturday.

Given this timeline, we were wondering when might be the preferred time to start the new event: the Real Hogwarts reality show. Of course, like everything else, this is opt-in. Characters who aren't opted in can be in the audience. The opt-in is OOC only; ICly, it'll be understood that the Hat and its assistants have put the whole thing together, and the usual house-elf posse can enforce compliance.

We envision Real Hogwarts as being like a combination of The Real World ("This is the true story... of seven strangers... picked to live in a loft...work together and have their lives taped...") and Survivor with a little bit of Double Dare mixed in. ICly, the show's planners are to be Vladimir Harkonnen, Valentine Wolfe, and Ariane Emory. (Yes, this is what Ari's compy post was really about!) Characters who've brought themselves to the attention of those characters will be natural picks for the show, but characters can be opted in who know nothing about them and have no interest in socializing -- we'll just blame the Hat's caprice.

Ari, Vlad, and Valentine will also be tapping student talent for set design/construction, challenge planning, and color commentary. Maybe other things too -- we're open to suggestions.

In order to ensure that you're able to keep up with whatever hijinks go on, please don't opt more than one or two of your characters to be cast members on the actual show. When choosing characters, keep in mind that our goal is crack rather than angst or character torture.

If you're interested in participating in any aspect of the show, please comment to this post and let us know what you're interested in doing:

Cast member / participant in show [any number -- we will split them into teams a la Survivor]
Commentator
Referee for challenges
Cameraperson? (we can use house elves for this, but if someone's interested ...)
Personal assistant to the producers (anyone want to wield a palm frond fan?)
Rabble-rousing dissenter against the Hat's tyranny?
Other thing we didn't think of

Note added: The planning-type characters won't get a lot of RP out of the event itself, since the planning is mostly handwaved. The real RP will be in the contestants interacting with one another, the camera/catering/referee sorts of people interacting with one another and with the contestants, and of course the audience can interact with one another when the Hat premieres the show in the Great Hall ...

Edited to add: here is the list of peoples so far! Edited again to add: looks like we have a fair assortment of offcamera people involved so now we really need more contestants!

Also let us know via this handy poll what timing you think would be the best for kicking this event off.


[Poll #1653614]
[identity profile] lemondrop-party.livejournal.com
Inspired by an ongoing thread where Sparklypoo is being compared to cotton candy:

If your character were a food / dish / recipe, what would it be? (Also, what would you suggest for others, if their muns are okay with having their chars called food?)
[identity profile] blue-ataru.livejournal.com
Apologies for dropping off of the face of the earth (yet again.) A lot of stuff went on that I won't go in to for fear of ranting, but I think it's settled enough for me to be back now. However, typing recently has become a very time-consuming process if it's more than a sentence or two at a time--thankfully my reward for hitting my NaNo goal last year is not doing it this year--so I'm going to be slow for the immediate future. For example, I started typing this last night :-/

I know I had ongoing threads before I vanished, Firekeeper/Blind Seer's Sorting and Valentine/Vlad's date being the two big ones that I can remember. Let me know if I'm missing any or if you want any of my characters for anything.

-Aayla etc.-mun
[identity profile] mello-n-choco.livejournal.com
Randomly, from a discussion on Twitter about who would use Twitter to take over the world...

So, if you pup were (or did try) to take over the world, which social network would they use, if at all? How would they control the masses? What would they put forth as next season's LOOK? How would they deal with resistance? (says she who will not get a facebook account) You're welcome to comment on mine, if you like, or just yours...I'm nosy ;)

Mello, through careful manipulation of Discovery and CNN (I will hold that any site you can register and comment on things is a social network site) as well as the usual suspects (facebook, twitter, livejournal, etc) would highlight some things, repress others, mock still more. But, he'd also go for the 'Control the source' type and try to take over those sites...Cracker style! Note: the mun uses this term in the accepted Hacker fashion to mean a black-hat hacker...

Yukimura would use the social and political networks. Cross-dressing would be come de rigur and ultra fashionable.

Wolfe, Sakon, Shito...wouldn't bother. L likes being behind the scenes and would remain a detective...

Jing would just steal it. He's more interested in treasures than control.

I...don't want to think about Akabane...

Maddie, when she's not being harassed by her mun and sent on bad dates...media sources *nods*

Profile

hh_mirror: (Default)
HH_mirror

March 2022

S M T W T F S
  12345
67 89101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

Expand All Cut TagsCollapse All Cut Tags
Page generated Jul. 10th, 2025 02:56 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios