Crossposted because it's that important.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

ENROLLMENT IS CLOSED

If you are not in the list that I posted a few days ago, have not been approved for posting at fandomhigh directly by principalconnor you DO NOT belong here and will be forcibly removed. Enrollment is closed at this time and unless you are an approved player, you may not post in the various fandomhigh communities or in the individual player journals. Period. Full stop.

There have been several instances of people who do not belong to this game reported to me. Unless and until enrollment is opened again and your character is personally approved by principalconnor, you may not post here. Period. In light of attracting people who have not read the rules and are showing up with duplicates of existing characters, something which is also strictly against the rules, I am also closing fandomtownies to membership until principalconnor gets back.

Only principalconnor can approve new students.

jerusalem_s is the right hand of God here, people, and what he says goes.

No one, and I mean NO ONE else is authorized to do anything when it comes to student/teacher/townie permissions.

This may eventually change but, as of right now, it's just the two of us... and I know damn well she hasn't approved anyone except our new webmaster in quite some time.

If this persists, everyone here should have these people friended and we will allow 'friends only' posts until the intruders desist.

Please be polite, but inform non-members that they cannot play here without first waiting for open enrollment and then being approved directly by principalconnor.

Thank you.

Comments

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

What really needs to happen and somehow the admins may need to foster this better is for everyone who is playing to meet and relate and communicate with each other. I know the SciFi Channel Characters + Archie group is considered pretty clique-y, which is a great reason why Lee asked Veronica to the Homecoming, etc. ------ perhaps we need more social events? Mixers? Have a fandomhigh buddy from a completely different fandom that you have to do...something with?

Also, many characters are here but don't play as often as other characters, which is an issue, whereas the SFChannel peeps are very involved in this RPG. Very involved. OMG involved. *sobs tears of great emo, omg*

[janet_fraiser]

We're a clique? Man, I just can't keep up with everything that's going on so I only hang out with a smallish group. Because, wow, you're right about the SFC people being OMG so insanely active.

I'm gonna go freakin' insane this weekend. So. Nuts.

But next week is going to be good for Janet. She's got plans, sort of, to get together with other characters. Well, loose plans. Sort of like, "If I post this, I've arranged that a couple of people will play. If they're available."

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Obviously what happened was that we all knew each other's characters or shared a love of robots and spaceships and then the storylines appeared and then we can't just, you know, IGNORE each other as we're all good friends. This doesn't mean we can't branch out, it just means that the "clique" has A LOT TO DO with the fact that we're the very active players. Incidently, we're all in the same genre and therefore cling together. I'm having a helluva time trying to figure what common grounds Lee and Veronica have but IT WILL WORK, I tell you. IT WILL WORK.

Plus, RC is so totally crushing on Janet. *flails*

[janet_fraiser]

Well, yeah, and we all said, "OMG, there are freakin' magic users and mutants and all that here, and all we have is our advanced tech!" And we clung together out of sheer self-preservation because how the heck else were we supposed to defend ourselves from the magic and the mutants without our Really Big Guns (when we could have them) and our tech. And it sort of evolved from there.

Oh, Lee can be totally agog at the good relationship that Veronica has with her dad. Because, wow, so not what he's got!

Really? Because I've got a potential plotline coming for Janet next week wherein she might have fun with RC.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Not that Lee is partial to violence or his gun, I do find it offensive that the special people keep their magic and their powers and their dangerousness and now all us SF tech people have is EMO ANGST. Lol.

Bonding over father angst or the lack thereof? YAY

oooh?!

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

As soon as Veronica forgives Lee for punching Cameron because he asked Kara to the dance, you mean ;)

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

*flails* I blame this all on time zones!!

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

*thoughts cliques were very in character for high school*

Huh, it's kinda hard to respond to everyone. I suppose SFC do have a lot of common ground. *clings to Archie OMG*

[janet_fraiser]

*agrees with Cameron*

OMG, too hard to respond to all! I love reading entries, but I can't respond to everything!

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

MFCD really needs to set up a meeting so all the virginal male characters can bond over Titanic.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Just doing meta-nattering here, not really agreeing or disagreeing with your comment specifically...

To a certain extent I think there's always going to be cliques of some kind, esp given a pseudo-high school environment. I mean Chloe and Angelus aren't exactly going to be hanging out together without some kind of good reason.

Unfortunately the flip side of that is that cliques are a double edged sword: great fun for the people in them, not so much for those on the outside who can't figure out how to get in.

The earlier made suggestion of mixers might be an idea. Or maybe just more external events that all of the characters can react to in their own way. I know for me it can be frustrating to try to get something going but be limited by how many characters my boy can actually interact with. And if one of those players gets caught up IRL or what have you, there goes the six degrees of FH that could've gotten Angelus doing something with somebody new.

External events, OTOH, give everybody even more common ground, so that might help act as an ice breaker of sorts.

As I say, I'm just riffing here.

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

Same here with the not agreeing/disagreeing - just kinda commenting. *waves to Angelus while she's at it, grinning*

As for the commenting in communities where you're not 'cleared'? I've really been trying to make sure to kinda police my own self and limit my posting to the ooc, icon and townie communities (since I'm only based in the town, at the moment - I'd like to attend FH too, but if that makes more work for anybody, just let me know, hmm?). When I'm in town and available, though, I try to interact with as many people as possible... and it's not a chore, either, not at all - Shane's a people person, she loves meeting new people especially pretty girls *cough*. :D I mean, so far, she's met a vampire, a guy from the 14th century, a time-traveler dude, a talking dog-wolf-cat thingy, a really sexy mutant chick, a slayer chick, a charmed chick (geesh, seeing a pattern here? hehe)... and she's loved every minute of it.

But yeah, that's a thought - instead of hanging out at the high school or in the dorms all the time, an idea might possibly be to go and hang out at the pub or at Deb's shop or go gamble away your allowance for the week at Geoff's place, occasionally. Really - the townies are all quite friendly folks :)

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

I compeletely agree, I can definitely see both sides of this. I think just as long as everyone is willing to respond to all posts made to them, that interaction will happen. It sometimes takes time to know people and it's natural that you interact with those that you are familiar with.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Dittos to everything.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

You're gonna cheat on me?

*cries*

[janet_fraiser]

Aw, poor John. *pats you* But I won't spy on dates without you. It wouldn't be any fun!

Oh, frell. If Janet ever goes on a date with Daniel. *headdesk* Half the school's going to be trailing after them!

[fh_jackass]

We're a clique? Man, I just can't keep up with everything that's going on so I only hang out with a smallish group.

Cause, meet effect. *grin*

Combined with the fact that I'm not up on all the SciFi shows and that you guys have been INSANELY ACTIVE (not a bad thing!), I haven't been able to keep track of who the characters are, let alone what they're doing.

But this doesn't bother me. I accept that I can't follow everything in this game, much as I'd like to. And I don't feel like people have been *deliberately* shunning other characters, I just think it's been a case of the game being very big.

So, yeah, I think more mixer-type events are helpful, as is "dating" outside your clique (like Lee - dude, he'd better treat Veronica right, or Logan's going to have to kick some ass. Not that he cares or anything.)

Logan should have another party soon. (Also, there are two rooms available in his house if anyone's interested in moving in there.)

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

OMG, I TOTALLY would LOVE AND CHERISH a Logan/Lee confrontation of some sorts. Hee. *loves on Logan lots*

[fh_jackass]

Me too! Maybe they can have homoerotic tension a confrontation at Homecoming. :)

*loves Lee*

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Now that could be amusing :)

[can_be_more]

Logan totally needs another party. That's where I met people.

Cuz one of the issues I have is that... I only have a couple hours after work to play, and then weekends. If there's something big and multifandom going on during the week, I can't really participate much, so instead I'm replying to what's already there. But seriously, Logan's party was probably the only place Aeryn was ever going to have time to talk to like, Rory at all, you know?

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Don't take this the wrong way - but you guys are totally a clique and a lot of people don't feel like attemping to breach it.

Personally, I'll interact with whoever is online when I am. But I'm lucky in that Veronica is a fairly strong character.

It is hard to keep up with everything, but the whole point of this game was to have fandoms collide and when you have 600+ comment threads with six characters all from the same fandom - it kind of defeats the purpose.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Also, many characters are here but don't play as often as other characters, which is an issue, whereas the SFChannel peeps are very involved in this RPG.

This is definitely an issue -- I'm familiar with all these characters, and I can pretty much follow along with everything, but I don't have time to keep up with everything and the outside-character stuff really confused the hell out of me yesterday. I can only imagine how it must be to those who have no idea about the BSG 'verse, etc.

Plus I worry that we're getting, well, a little too inside-joke/plot oriented. The SciFi characters are wrapped up in their own plotlines to the point that any characters who are outside those fandoms (and the muns who may not be familiar with them) are probably pretty lost, and it may be driving them away. To be perfectly honest, that's what's taking the fun out of it for me; I joined because of the fandom diversity, and the opportunity to interact with characters from totally different 'verses and see what kind of cracked-out culture clash there could be.

(To those of you behind the Skiffy characters: it's not that I don't love you, because I totally do, but I kind of want to branch out a little with Anders, and with Archie as well. I love that Archie is hanging out with these guys because he's so out of place, culturally and chronologically, but I haven't been playing that up as much as I wanted to.)

As for opportunities for people to meet up and communicate -- well, there's study hall, classes, and the common rooms, not to mention the joints in town, but I don't think we've been taking advantage of those as much as we could have.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

*flails at you with love*

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Well, there's Homecoming, Parent's Weekend and a proposed Halloween party at the Haunted Mansion.

The trouble is that the admin of this game and the rules are still being set up and we can't to everything at once. This wouldn't be so much of an issue if so many of the teachers (who were supposed to be our pool of mods) hadn't disappeared.

We're working on it, I promise.