ATTN: MOD POST: THE LEGEND CONTINUES

[gone_byebye]

This is for all the people who're going to be taking the opportunity to shed characters in the move, or who want to retire characters along the way. More specifically, it's for me to handle them properly. Our normal deletion and retirement procedures involve sending an email to the mods so that I can remove characters from people's rosters during app season, but let's be honest- there's going to be a lot more deletions than usual during the migration. Switching back and forth between email accounts to accurately remove pups from people's rosters isn't going to be the easiest thing in the world. So, here's what I'd like to ask folks to do:

- If you want to DELETE a pup during the move to Dreamwidth, there will be a thread under this post with DELETION in the subject line. Tag there and tell me which pups of yours you want deleted and give their journal names.
- If you want to RETIRE a pup during the move to Dreamwidth, there will be a thread under this post with RETIREMENT in the subject line. Tag there and tell me which pups of yours you want retired and give their journal names.
- If you want to ASK A QUESTION, just go ahead and tag the main post. This includes questions like 'who exactly are my pups again?' in the cases of people who've forgotten.
- If you have secret pups or wish to maintain anonymity, e-mail me or ping me via AIM; my email address is camwyn at megaloceros dot net.

Thanks, folks!


ETA: Just a note to add that while we don't/can't/have no intention of mandating individual IC reactions, technically a deleted character is considered officially removed from the continuity of the game.

ETATA: Clarification of retirement vs. deletion, and how it pertains to app availability, is done here. Please read that first and put any questions you have in that thread. Thanks.

Comments

DELETION

[gone_byebye]

Deletion requests go here.

RETIREMENT

[gone_byebye]

Retirement requests go here.

[noteful]

Questions:

If we have a currently retired character we're ready to delete, should that go here?

And if we have a currently retired character we'd like to leave retired, do we need to do anything?

[gone_byebye]

For my sanity's sake, I'd be happier if you put them both on this post. It'll make it a little easier for me to keep track.

[noteful]

Will do!

Thank you.

[gone_byebye]

Glad to be of service!

Re: DELETION

[agonistes]

Al Swearengen - funnyasallhell
Bill Compton - mrvampirebill
Charlie Crews - still_a_cop

Thank you!

Re: DELETION

[herdivineshadow]

Steerpike masterofritual

Re: DELETION

[ex_captaincy633]

Mia Dearden protege
Carter Hall warmace
Aragorn striding

Re: DELETION

[austen.livejournal.com]

Eames - mrdreamsbigger

Re: DELETION

[lunamystic]

Valiar Marcus: loyaltyandlies

Thanks. *sends tea and snacks*

[Edited to move Turtle to Retired.]

UN-RETIREMENT

[gone_byebye]

Requests to un-retire a character that you yourself used to play and would like to play again at Dreamwidth go here.

Re: DELETION

[dynastessa]

Nathaniel/John Mandrake - notnathaniel
Gale Hawthorne - setsthetrap

Fat Charlie Nancy - fat_charlie [previously listed as retired]

Re: RETIREMENT

[dynastessa]

Okay ... having read those threads up there, I think I need to change things a bit.

What I understand is putting any pups under this category means they will still be remembered for having been here in one time-stream, but are also re-appable in One Universe Over, unless we state they can't be in the next modly post?


Tristran Thorn - tristranthorn
Sora - aerora
James Potter - notthatpotter
Namine - naminemory

Ruby - cannotforget
Ned - piesordeath
Nico di Angelo - the_ghostking

Re: DELETION

[minkhollow]

Okay, per the clearing-up, please disregard my previous comment, now that I know what the hell the plan is.

Still deleting: Carl, Cosmo, Conflict Diamond, old retirements that are not Angel or Imp. (Any of that stuff happened so long ago that I can deal.)

Also still deleting any of Quin's that aren't Mark or Val. Those four won't be re-listed on the new cast list (I'm planning to re-app Imp, but I'll just start over from scratch there).

Re: RETIREMENT

[minkhollow]

Making this retirements, mine:
Angel Dumott Schunard (the_antiangst)
Imp y Celyn (withrocksin)

Retirements, quinby's:
Valentine Wiggin (empath_wiggin)
Mark Cohen (bohemian_mark)

CLARIFICATION RE: RETIREMENT VS. DELETION

[sophistry]

Moved from upthread, so as not to clutter things up:

If you have retired a character, or are retiring them now, and want that character to stay retired, you should re-add them to the new cast list when it launches (in a few days). As before, characters listed as '[RETIRED]' on the new cast list cannot be apped.

If you have a retired character, or are retiring them now, and don't re-add them, they will remain listed on a legacy version of the cast list for the sake of posterity/nostalgia/preserving game history/etc. Your version still existed in game continuity and their story Stays Happened, but a new version can be apped under the One Universe Over clause.

If you delete a character, then ~officially~ that character was never here. However, we do not and never will police what individual pups remember about that deleted character, or how they react to a new version turning up, or etc. etc.

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Or, to put it another way:

I want my character's game history to Stay Happened, and I want to keep other people from apping them: retire them, and re-list them as '[RETIRED]' on the new cast list when that launches.

I want my character's game history to Stay Happened, but I am okay with a new One Universe Over version being apped: retire them, but don't re-list them on the new cast list.

I am okay with having my character technically removed from game continuity (though individual players/pups may remember them or not, as they choose): delete them.

Re: RETIREMENT

[vivien]

I think I have this right... I want to retire:
Susan Pevensie = once_a_queen

She existed, her story happened at Milliways, but if someone wants to app a different version of her, it is okay.

Yes?

Re: DELETION

[vivien]

Connor Temple = leconnortemple

Re: DELETION

[have_no_mercy]

Tess Mercer - have_no_mercy
Maxima - perilous_kiss

[have_no_mercy]

Clark is being adopted (did you get the e-mail?) but the DW journal will obviously be created anew. Do I need to list hero_farmboy anywhere?

[skidmo]

So...I think I know who they are, but just to be sure, who exactly are my current pups?

Re: DELETION

[innerbrat]

Deleting: Clare Bennet (lilmsmiraclegro

Question

[death_gone_mad]

I don't intend to play fowl_beast in Milliways any longer, but I still want to keep his room upstairs, à la Ro-Man in his permanent cell. Is that retiring, deleting, or leaving alone?

Re: Question

[sophistry]

I think we can consider that retired - just add him to the 'RETIRED' subthread above, and then don't bother re-listing him on the new cast list.

(Unless you want to keep him from being apped by someone else, in which case... do!)