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Hello, Fandom! Two announcements for you today:

Thursday, May 29th is Emotional Baggage Day! Yes, characters will encounter random pieces of baggage with their personal traumas nailed onto them (or anything else they would label emotional baggage) in a nice, big font. Enjoy.

Saturday, June 7th and 8th will be AU Weekend! And if you want to know more about that, details are under the cut:

( Guidelines and such under here! )

weirderthanthou

Hello, island! Have you been comfortable lately? Well, we'll fix that, don't worry.

Come this Friday, May 16th a whole army of mini-godzillas will rise up from the sea! They've got to get to a portal on the other side of the island, folks, whoops.

On the way there, they will engage in fights at random. (They're just small and smart enough to avoid causing property damage.) They're, on average, somewhere between 7 or 8 feet tall, with some smaller ones here and there.

They'll have left the island when the sun goes down on Friday.

Have fun/sorry!

joan_of_bark

Hey folks!

This Friday, October 18th will be a momentous occasion: (almost) every faucet in Fandom will runneth with pumpkin spice lattes (regular or oat milk, depending on one's preference). Oh, and that means showers, too. Sorry, everyone! (Or enjoy.)

weirderthanthou

Hey folks!

Just a quick notice that this Friday, it will be raining paint on the island. It will magically disappear if it hits regular objects... but if it hits a sentient being, well, it dyes whatever it touches. What color? Any color!

Have fun!

my_own_advocate

Hope you're all recovered from Sex Pollen Week (tm), because next Wednesday, April 10th will be Truth Day (tm)!

Yep, you're all doomed to speak the truth. I hope you've all invested in duct tape.

deathsmajesty

Hey folks, I hate to interrupt all this showering with friends and stuff, but I have to ask...

Say, are you someone who ran off to the Big City and are now being sent back to your small town to adopt your estranged sister's daughter? Are you an artisanal chocolate whisperer whose beloved family-owned chocolate shop is about to be taken over by EvilCo, whose CEO is so hateful because they've never known love (and certainly not because your small town can't afford some bougie chocolate whispering)? Are you secretly royalty who has run away from your small European country to find true love (or their betrothed who was just left at the altar)? Or perhaps even a Cupid desperately trying to earn your wings and this is your LAST CHANCE to make sure that people fall in love (not that you ever could find love yourself!!!)?

Well. You're about to be.

This weekend, February 10-11, everyone (who wishes to participate) is going to turn into a stock character from a Valentine's Day Hallmark Holiday movie. Look, the best part about Hallmark Holiday Movies is that they're so cheesy and formulaic, you can can adapt them to pretty much ANYTHING. Which includes Valentine's Day! Our quaint little Fandom Town will suddenly be overrun with Big City People who have to come to this crazy backwater town because of career reasons/family crisis Townies who have whimsical jobs like "chocolate sculptor" and "dairy farmer" where the cows are fed on love and there are like 400 bakeries per capita, all of which are in danger of going under for some reason or another!

Will these high school exes find a second chance after she ran away To The Big City and broke his heart? Could that secret prince really be happy with a small-town bespoke hug designer? Is it possible for this star-crossed Cupid to get their wings after all by getting two people who hate Valentine's Day to fall in love? Can she win the Most Perfect Rose contest and save the public garden? Can the Cupid work together with the Valentine's Day-hating baker to make a cookie so delicious it makes people fall in love????

It's just ridiculous Hallmark Holiday tropes given a Valentine's Day makeover and people encouraged to be as nonsense as possible. There is no "how much nonsense is too much nonsense" here. Instead of snow, there are floating cherry blossoms. Do we have cherry trees? Who cares! It's ~*aesthetic*~ and that's what counts! Bust out those overwrought fanfic tropes! Second chance romance! Fake dating! Enemies-to-lovers! Incredibly terrible decision that you will regret on Monday! Go wild!

For anyone who isn't sure, here's a list of common tropes found in Hallmark Holiday movies. Feel free to adapt any and as many as you want and give 'em a special Valentine's Day flair. (Or don't! Maybe be a wandering Santa Claus clearly confused by the date. I'm not the boss of you.)

As always:
- Participation is completely optional.
- If you choose to participate, your character will wake up as an Au Hallmark Holiday version of themselves on Saturday morning and stay that way the whole weekend until waking up back to normal on Monday morning.
- This is open to alumni and expats as well!

(Credit for this idea goes to

badassprodigy for turning one of our D&D sessions into exactly this)

my_own_advocate

Hello, Fandom! We hope you've recovered from all the singing, because next Thursday, February 1st, the island's turning everyone into ponies (well, if the mun wants, of course)!

Adorable, multi-colored ponies. Stamped butts and all.

The event starts at dawn and runs until midnight. Feel free to use whatever pony creator (mute your browser on that one) you like if your poor, unsuspecting character has never been ponified before!

my_own_advocate

Hello, Fandom! I hope you newbies have settled in, because next Tuesday, January 23rd, music's coming to the island.

All day long, people on Fandom (if their players wish) will feel an undeniable urge to break out into song. What song? Well, that's up to you - you can have your characters break into a jukebox musical and do their best Swift, or you can come up with your own lyrics. Just as long as your characters sing it.

You don't know how badly I want to link to Herald of Darkness from Alan Wake 2 here. Aaaand I slipped.

Questions? Let us know in the comments!

amicia_the_amazon

Spring is in the air (because winter never came to Maryland, not that we're bitter)! And spring means the return of sex pollen week from Sunday, February 12 to Friday, February 17th. The pollen amps up characters' hormones and increases their desire for sexytiems unless their physiology prevents it/people from their universe don't get affected by it/that yogurt they ate last week left them resistant/whatever reason you need if you'd rather opt out of the whole thing. It doesn't make your characters do anything and is not intended to cause any trauma regarding consent issues.

We will not be following up with AU kiddos, however, because happy fun times don't always end up in pitter pattering feet! Instead, we will be bringing back Sex-Swap (Bits Switch?) weekend, which we haven't done since 2019! No, it doesn't involve tossing your car keys in a bowl, and yes, it used to be called Genderswap before Fezzik told us we keep using that word and he doesn't think it means what we think it means, because gender is one thing and bits are another.

Here's how this one works:

On Saturday, February 18, characters may -- if their player chooses -- unexpectedly wake up with surprise!sexybits. By this we mean their body will be temporarily transformed to what it would look and feel like if they were a person of their species with a different set of sexual organs. AKA "Bits and a body-type that don't look like the ones you went to sleep with." Said bits and body will be returned to their proper formation when everybody wakes up on Monday, February 20.

Speaking of everybody, we would never leave out those characters whose original bits are:

* intersex/multi-sexed
* self-transforming, whether at will or only under certain circumstances (shapechangers and clownfish, we're looking at you)
* From a species with more than two kinds of bits (there's no such thing as Opposite Day)
* From a species with only one kind of bits (there's also no such thing as Opposite Day)
* Sir Not Appearing In This Film (your character usually has no bits)
* beyond any description that your splooshy human brainsacks could comprehend

Those characters get Player's Choice: any set of bits available to their species except the set they went to sleep with, or if no such thing is available to their species, then you're welcome to have the character suddenly possess any set of bits available to humans, instead.

Again, this is not intended to cause trauma to either characters or their players and is entirely voluntary! It will definitely make going on a Spring Break trip more interesting, but that's another post.

okteiviakom

Yes indeed, spooky season is well underway, and starting tomorrow the island is again taking part in the festivities with a series of random events, leading up to Halloween!

The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, 25th: Black cats! Black cats everywhere!
Wednesday, 26th: "Blood stains" appear on random articles of clothing. Closer inspection reveals them to be exceedingly fake, and also smelling of either ketchup or some kind of dyed syrup.
Thursday, 27th: All food turns into something that might be served at a kids' Halloween party, no matter what you were actually trying to make. (DoorDashing from the mainland is hit-or-miss. You might get what you ordered, or you might get whatever this is.)
Friday, 28th: You are now wearing a Dracula cape. No, much like the Santa hats at Christmas, you can't get rid of it: if you take it off, another will show up within moments.
Saturday, 29th: Strange, creepy mutterings can be heard through walls. If you go into the next room to see what's up with that, there's no one there.
Sunday, 30th: Very gothic lit multi-pronged candelabras appear in homes and at businesses, while regular lighting appears much dimmer than normal.
Monday, 31st, HALLOWEEN: Trick or treat! Intermittent non-water showers of either candy or plastic spiders of varying sizes rain down from the sky.

Questions, comments, suggestions on what the hell I should wear to my friends' costume party this weekend?

my_own_advocate

Hello, fellow Fandomites! Welcome, newbies!

We'd like to spend this week inviting you into the game with a smorgasbord of Fandom's finest puns and memes. Which is to say that starting Monday, there will be a deluge of weird events, culminating in a TICKLE MONSTER INVASION on Sunday.

Yep.

Here's what you can expect:

Monday - it's that old classic, EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE. Characters are stalked by randomly-appearing luggage named for all their worst traumas. Oops, hope you didn't mean to keep that quiet.
Tuesday - is the bare midriff back? The BEAR MID-RIFF certainly is. Tune in and enjoy random heavy metal concerts by bears all over town.
Wednesday - SAD KEANU/MORPHEUS DAY: if you sit down in public outside areas anywhere, you are struck by sudden malaise. Pigeons will approach to keep you company. You will feed them bread, sulkily, or you will not. You will be unable to do anything but brood until you either find the strength to get up or someone pulls you out of your seat.
Thursday - CEILING CAT DAY. There are strange upside-down cats all over the ceilings, batting at your hair, making demands.
Friday - THIS IS FINE GUY. Everything's on fire. Finally, a reason for so many firefighters. (The fires will not actually burn or harm anyone, but they go out like any fire and they sure look impressive.)
Saturday - PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME. You feel the sudden but unmistakable urge to break out into dance at any point. Could be the Peanut Butter Jelly Time dance. Could be an impressive interpretive dance routine in which you try to communicate whatever you were feeling or trying to say at the time to your audience.
Sunday - TICKLE MONSTERS. These fluffy balls of fluffy limbs have a fluffy hand containing lots of extra human-looking fingers at the end of each limb, and they travel by rolling along and "walking on their hands." They can incapacitate you by tickling, and will try to bite off your fingers - so be careful!

existencemisspent

Who needs sleep? Well, you're never going to get it. . . .

Because I for one have not been tired enough IRL these last few weeks,* I have a random event for you all: Starting when they wake up Monday morning, May 9th, the residents of Fandom will find themselves struck down with a bout of epic sleeplessness. So epic, in fact, that those whose muns opt them in will be unable to even nap until sundown on Saturday.

Why, you may ask? Well, you see, Fandom has gotten word through her link to Eliot and Margo's universe that it's possible to talk to the moon. And she thinks that's just fabulous! Especially since when you talk to her, the moon is known to grant magical favors!

All you have to do to be able to do this is get Moonbrain. And how do you get Moonbrain?

Don't sleep for five days.

Fandom loves this idea, and she's going to enforce Moonbrain on anyone and everyone she can.

( And here's where I copy/paste my plot proposal! )

There are no signups for this, but I'm sure you will have questions or comments, so feel free to make use of the OCD below!

* why yes, that is deeply sarcastic. Why do you ask?

heroic_jawline

Because things have been far too normal around here, on Thursday, January 20th, instead of picking your own amazing icon to decide what a character's reaction to a conversation is, you hit the handy "random" button and then play it from there! Did they randomly turn into a different gender, different species, different age? Kiss someone super inappropriate? Well, these things happen. Play it out in the thread!

This is also you warning to make sure you have some weird icons in your mix. Cough. Have fun, kids!

sith_happened

As you may have noticed from the calendar, the game's anniversary is coming up on September 5, and it's a big one: our Sweet 16.

We will now pause and reflect on the passage of time.

*Ever the Same plays*

Okay! Naturally, we can't let something so monumental go by in a normal way and so the island will be having a Super Sweet 16 Party!

Yes, like the MTV show from the early 2000s.

Um. I didn't watch that show OR I refuse to admit I have. What does a Super Sweet 16 Party entail?

We're so glad you asked! A Super Sweet 16 Party involves a completely over-the-top themed party, an amazing outfit (or just giant: one girl got a dress so huge she had to stand on a ten-foot-tall mechanical platform to wear it), an incredible guest star (think Justin Timberlake or Pharrell Williams), and, of course being gifted THE CAR, which, unlike my own memories, is never a used Saturn. Ninety percent of the episodes involved some sort of entitled hissyfit over the car being not entirely correct, despite being a Porsche. Weirdly, none of these young people were catapulted into the sun.

Your Very Special Day could also include a hot air balloon ride, arriving to your party in a carriage or helicopter, or being accompanied by a dozen shirtless cowboys.

The island will be providing a dance, an outfit, and a car-type vehicle for each resident. Well, you have to share the dance, but everything else is individual.

....right. So what's the catch?

If you have a student: In the spirit of the game when we first began, this event will center the students. This will be a Soap Opera Weekend/gremlin-bite type event for them: each will wake up convinced that it is Their Special Day. They can wax poetic to a camera that isn't there about their themed party that evening, the kind of car/hoverbike/space ship (depending on their canon) they are getting, the stars they have invited, how much better than Alexis' party this will be, etc.

It doesn't matter what their actual age is: on September 5th, every student believes they are turning 16. They will then project their delusions onto the actual gifts the island has provided: a generic dance being played by the Caritas Zombies, a regular party outfit in their closet, and a blinged-up personalized golf cart that is great for zipping around the school lawn but not super practical for all of the steps.

If you have an adult (ie: someone not taking classes at the school this semester): You wake up entirely normal! The island has also provided party clothes for you: an outfit that would fit you when you were 16 years old, in the trend of the era when you were a teenager. You have also been provided a car waiting for you in the causeway parking lot: a sensible Honda Accord for each of you!

What Cait and Sidon will do with sensible Honda Accords is a problem for another day. The sensible cars AND the slightly less sensible golf carts will stick around after the event is over. Questions, comments, wailing and gnashing of teeth about how we've been playing this for SIXTEEN YEARS?! Comment away.

my_own_advocate

Hello, Fandom!

So, do you know the alots that roam the island? Those strange creatures, made of every instance a person grammatically bungled an 'alot' of anything into being? Did you know they have mating season every few years?

Guess what's happening this Wednesday from dawn till midnight? Ayup.

Hundreds of alots will flood into town, searching for the ideal circumstances under which to mate and spawn new and interesting alots. They'll do this by creating a grammar- and spelling-warping field wherever they go, mangling narratives, dialogues, and yes, everything your character might ICly write down anywhere.

And yes, the grammatical mangling will be something your character can actually hear - they just can't stop themselves from doing it. So break out your best dumb typos, your weirdest autocorrect mistakes, your most galling malapropisms - it's time to take the alot off the endangered species list.

Whether you like it or not.

heroic_jawline

Yes, it's the return of Everyone Has A Flavor Day, not seen since 2012! On Wednesday, Fandomites will wake up in the morning to find that if they lick themselves (...or someone else licks them), they'll taste like something special. Whether that be Beaker tasting like burning (why are you licking Beaker), Steve McGarrett tasting like coconut or Sam Eagle tasting like Freedom!! (or maybe apple pie), the effects are up to you and last all day!

Not dirty ~~who are we kidding~~! This will definitely not make Shenanigans awkward ~~again more lies~~.

Thank you to

defenderofdesmoines for reminding this one existed!

sith_happened

On Wednesday, June 2nd, instead of picking your own amazing icon to decide what a character's reaction to a conversation is, you hit the handy "random" button and then play it from there! Did they randomly turn into a different gender, different species, different age? Kiss someone super inappropriate? Well, these things happen. Play it out in the thread!

This is also you warning to make sure you have some weird icons in your mix. Cough. Have fun, kids!

weirderthanthou

Hello, everyone!

It's been a long while since we last did this. Since we have a fresh crop of characters who will have no idea what is going on, it's definitely past time for... Crazy Phone Day!

Yep, on Thursday, April 1st a squirrel and a gremlin are having a fight-to-the-death in the heart of Fandom's switchboards, and as a result, every voicemail or text you send to anyone will wind up in the wrong place. Yes, even if you're answering a weird text you just got out of nowhere from a perfect stranger!

So go forth, abuse each other's voicemail posts. And try to leave a link to the message you're responding to/the response you've sent to another message, so everyone can follow the whole weird game of telephone back to the source and have a good snicker about it.

Go forth, have fun!

firstofitskind

Hello Fandom! So a few weeks ago, there were a handful of extreeeemely mysterious thefts reported to the Trooper Station. This Wednesday, March 17th, the thieves are back... and they've struck the whole island this time!

The catch, though, is the things that have been stolen hold very little, if any, monetary value. But them being missing sure as hell is inconvenient! Think stuff like:

Pants buttons
Tabs from the tops of soda cans and/or lids from bottles/jars.
Fridge lightbulbs
Tupperware lids
Keyrings (not the keys themselves, just whatever item was being used to group them together)
Stickers on the router with the wifi password
Ice cube trays
The good phone charger
The battery door cover for the remote control

Etc, etc. Feel free to come up with other ideas as well, as long as they fit the "not actually valuable" criteria. So... grandma's fine china? Untouched. That one bowl in your cupboard that's the perfect size for a good helping of soup? Gone.

The particularly sharp-eyed might notice a trail of cereal bits around their home/the island that will eventually lead to their missing item perched atop a box of colourful freeze-dried marshmallows. Or they can wait until later this week when the culprits are brought to justice and their items magically return to them!

firstofitskind

As if turning into ponies this weekend wasn't enough weird, next week will see the return of Adults-to-Teens! Or, in the case of ageless immortals, non-biological constructs, and those who don't age in line with the human norm... the developmental equivalent thereof.

Specifically this will be happening Thursday November 19th to Sunday November 22nd.

The rules are similar to Weetiny Weekend: participation is voluntary, but if your character wakes up as a teenager, they stay a teenager for the duration, and they're not surprised to find themselves here on Fandom Island. Yes, that means some classes may possibly now have teenage teachers where before they had Totally Mature And Responsible Adults. GOOD TIMES. Also the upper age limit for this event is 18 (or their species' equivalent).

So go forth and find any necessary icons in preparation for upping the Teenage Drama quotient on-island by a significant degree!

sith_happened

Well, not today. Saturday. Which is why we are warning you in advance that on Saturday, the entire island will wake up encased in a crystal snow globe, like so:

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Where the "snow" is cake sugar-glitter and it gets all over everything. Every so often there's a gentle tremor like the globe is being shaken, and the glitter rises up and swirls gently around before settling down again. (And a breathable atmosphere inside, obviously. The glitter will settle all over your clothes, hair, and in your mouth if it's open, but not your lungs because this is pretty and fun and not death via enclosure/sugar.)

Because 15 years is a crystal anniversary! Did you get it?

Of course you did. You're all terribly smart.

And now I'm going to sit over here and contemplate that I've spent FIFTEEN YEARS playing this idiot.

heroic_jawline

To commemorate Pride on the island before the end of June, there will be a couple things happening this weekend!

There will be rainbows in the sky throughout Saturday and Sunday without the ugly summer thunderstorms that normally accompany them! There can even be double rainbows! We can control the weather, mwahahaha.

There will be an NPC-led Pride parade through town on Sunday that your PC characters are completely welcome to watch and/or join! Tiny, those baristas, Leroy--all modded for your convenience!

And the reminder to grown-up type characters to get their workshop descriptions in by Sunday!

heroic_jawline

Because the newbies haven't had anything weird happen to them yet :D

On Monday, June 15, instead of picking your own amazing icon to decide what a character's reaction to a conversation is, you hit the handy "random" button and then play it from there! Did they randomly turn into a different gender, different species, different age? Kiss someone super inappropriate? Well, these things happen. Play it out in the thread!

This is also you warning to make sure you have some weird icons in your mix. Cough. Have fun, kids!

sith_happened

No ides of March jokes this year, kiddos :)

But since everything is...decidedly not awesome...for us out here in the real world, we've decided that the island (for Absolutely No In-Game Reason) will have pop-up blanket forts, stuffies ready to be cuddled, hot cocoa at the perfect temperature whenever you need it, lovely things to read just around on tables, and endless baking shows on television. It will continue for as long as you (through your characters) need things to cuddle.

Consider it our fake internet hug to you.

Stay safe, everyone.

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Entries tagged with random event

Random Event: Emotional Baggage! Also: AU Weekend

RANDOM EVENT: Godzilla Migration

Random Event: PSL FAUCETS

Random Event! Paint That Dyes YOU!

Random Event: Truth Day!

RANDOM EVENT: Hallmark Holiday Special - Valentine's Day

Random Event: PONY DAY!

Random Event: ONCE MORE WITH FANDOM

Things Are Going Get Sexy In Here: Events For February

Event: 7 Days of Halloween!

Event: FANDOM INTRODUCTION WEEK

Random Event: Moonbrain! May 9-14

Random Event: Icon Roulette on Thursday, January 20th

Random Event: Sunday, September 5: Fandom's Birthday!

Random Event: Invasion of the Alots

Random Event Wednesday, June 30th: Everyone Has a Flavor!

Random Event: Icon Roulette!

Event: Wacky Phone Day!

Random Event: St Paddy's Day Mischief!

Adults-to-Teens!

Happy 15th Anniversary, Fandom!

Random Event Weekend PLUS a Reminder, Oh Boy!

Random Event: Icon Randomizer Day

Random Event Starting Sunday, March 15th

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