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Trick or treat the forums

Posted by Kim on October 14, 2017, 12:00pm

trickortreat.pngIt's that time of year again!

Visit the IC forums during October and look for topics with titles that begin with "Trick or Treat". These are open roleplays - though there may be some restrictions on how many people can approach the door at once - so feel free to stroll your own characters down the walk and see what fate has in store!

This is a super fun event that allows for lots of quick scenes and introductions between characters who would have never ordinarily met one another.

Find a topic!


Want other people to trick or treat your character's residence?


If your character is ready to accept IC trick or treaters, please first read the rules. Then, post up a topic in one of the IC forums using a topic title like this: Trick or Treat: Your Character's Name Here

Describe your character's home, then sit back and wait for the IC trick or treaters to start rolling in.

Feel free to post the link to your forum topic in the comments of this post if you want more visitors!

Rules and tips


Start only one trick or treat topic per person. You can trick or treat in as many topics as you like, but please, post only one topic of your own so that we have enough trick or treaters to go around.

This is a friendly event, even if your character is normally a baby-soul-eating demon -- please do not join in order to assault or harass other characters. Moderators are on duty to help if things get weird!

Closing your topic: If you need to close your trick or treat topic to new visitors before the end of the event, please add the word (closed) to the title of your topic. Include the parenthesis. This will remove your topic from our lists of eligible topics in the news posts.

Stay flexible: Also keep in mind, sometimes trick or treaters need to go AWOL during their scenes. Stay flexible and don't get too caught up in a posting order, so that one person needing to study for a test doesn't prevent others from ringing your doorbell during this two week event. :)

Accolade eligibility: You're eligible for candy accolades for each thread you trick or treated actively at any point during the event, meaning you kept participating at moderate levels until the mini scene was over (your character exiting counts as the scene being over), or, if you did your best but stopped receiving responses from the OP before you could complete the scene. You cannot earn candy for trick or treating your own topic, not even as an anonymous character. You must visit other people's topics to earn candy accolades.
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You can earn a jack-o-lantern accolade if you host a Trick or Treat topic for at least seven days, between October 14th and October 31st. You must respond consistently to all trick or treaters until either they post leaving, the event ends, or you close your topic to new trick or treaters with a wrap-up post. If you simply stop responding before the 31st, you may be disqualified from getting a neato pumpkin! However, you are strongly encouraged to keep your Trick or Treat topic open until the end of the event.
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Accolades can only be awarded on user profiles -- if you participated in the event as an anonymous character, you will receive a message asking for your permission to award the accolade.

Comments

SkyeAnnMarie

October 25, 2017
9:39am

wow this is a nice event

DaBoisBackHome

October 16, 2017
11:13am

Okay, thanks!!

Kim

October 16, 2017
8:26am

@DaBoisBackHome: Both are fine. :)

DaBoisBackHome

October 15, 2017
9:13pm

Question: Is a Halloween party/trick or treat thing okay to do for a topic (There's a community Halloween party being hosted, but trick or treating will be going on too)? Also, I know we don't get candy from trick or treating our own topics, but are we allowed to anyway? Thanks in advance and sorry if someone already asked this.

MSochist

October 15, 2017
10:12am

"It's that time of year again!"

It feels like it was just yesterday, to be honest haha.

Kim

October 15, 2017
8:56am

FreeJayFly is exactly right :)

FreeJayFly

October 15, 2017
3:41am

@Vanderhuge

So long as you have 'Trick or Treat:' in the title and are hosting it, you should be good to go. :>

Vanderhuge

October 15, 2017
12:35am

Is the title of our threads strictly limited to our character's names? What if I added more than just a name?

For example, Trick or Treat: Triston's Infernal Fire Station

That would satisfy the rules while adding my own creative twist on it. I noticed that some of the threads didn't follow that particular rule exactly (like Lex's amazing pub), and I'm wondering if we're allowed to do the same.

Kim

October 14, 2017
9:25pm

The lanterns are given to people who host topics. Just go visiting existing topics and you'll get only candy. :)

FreeJayFly

October 14, 2017
5:27pm

Aww yay! I just got back, but I've been looking forward to getting at the current threads all day today. ò w ó

Tusitala

October 14, 2017
5:03pm

I wouldn't mind the candies but I definitely dont want a latern on my profile... is there a way to get one not the other?

duckling_

October 14, 2017
3:51pm

I cannot wait to read and hopefully participate in so many of these roleplays!!

This is by far one of the best events we do here ^^

Kim

October 14, 2017
3:48pm

You don't have to do anything. I give out all the accolades within a few days of event ending.

Dathmach

October 14, 2017
2:37pm

Is there some kind of request you have to file after you're done with a scene? Will it be handled by the mods or a computer automatically?

Light_Of_Love

October 14, 2017
2:17pm

https://www.rprepository.com/community/forumthread.php?t=45617

Welp, I did a thing [*Never participates in anything*]

KansasVenomoth

October 14, 2017
1:29pm

I hope holding a trick-or-treat type event during a football game is acceptable. XD

Kim

October 14, 2017
1:17pm

You don't have to stick with one character to trick or treat. You can use a different one for every topic you visit. You can even send a second one into the same topic after your first one leaves (although you'll only get one candy accolade per topic you trick or treat, regardless of the number of times you trick or treat it, which is fine - you'll just be there for more mini RP scenes.) :)

Dathmach

October 14, 2017
1:06pm

How does it work with characters? Do you use one? If you're allowed to use more than one, are you allowed to go to the same house more than once via using different characters?

Asroc

October 14, 2017
1:05pm

The only one I have who isn't fond of humans is Asroc. Don't worry. He won't hurt anyone.

Kim

October 14, 2017
12:59pm

@Dathmach - I've almost never seen a character hosting a trick or treat event display any kind of bias toward older trick or treaters.