[DONE] Events!

[loresauce]

^{A thread for the events. I won't detail over Spirit Week and will leave that to dear beloved Alex, but I'll certainly put forward a few other ideas here that you can decide to keep or not.}

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Sparta Shelpey

Spawned from a parody post mocking the many things that plague both roleplay and fanfiction writing alike, Sparta Shelpey is the creation of Lore. A place where kittens and puppies and tadpoles coexist under the harmonious blue skies filled with triple rainbows and singing birds; where perfection is spat upon because this place is better than perfect!

Sparta Shelpey is not just a place to roleplay all your characters totally out of character, but is in fact a place to turn every single one of your characters into a Mary-Sue or Gary-Stu. That's right. You heard me. Sparta Shelpey is the event where all characters become so perfect that Edward Cullen's sparkles glare on in envy and jealousy, wishing and dreaming they could sparkle on your characters instead.

There will be no real plot to Sparta Shelpey, but there will be achievements! Yes, Loresauce would like to not only make Sparta Shelpey an event to roleplay your characters, but Loresauce also wants to offer you all goals!

In your character profile you can keep a space for "Badges" - your character will earn more badges as they complete achievements! There will also be gender specific achievements for you to work towards, so that it doesn't get too boring. Certain achievements will include:

- My Past Sob Story : Partake in a roleplay where your character can either reveal their traumatic and terrible past in a huge drama fest!

-QQue Tragedy : Partake in a roleplay where your character will suffer something so traumatic it can become a sob story.

- Think of the Children : Scold somebody for their inappropriate and immature behaviour in an amazing, sparkly show of decency, proving you have respectable morals.

- ShamWow! : Let a friend cry all over your shoulder because that's what friends are for! Absorb all their tears, but make sure you can hold ten times your own weight. Also, make sure you are the reason your friend is having a fit of tears to begin with.

- I'll Bite Yer Kneecaps : Continue fighting in a fight, even though you have exhausted every means of attack you have and you're technically incapable of fighting any more! May the Black Knight of Monty Python guide you in your quest.

- No Room for Two [female only] : Slap a bitch and put her in her place. There's only room for one beauty queen in Sparta Shelpey!

- I Challenge Thee to a Duel [male only] : Pull out your white glove and slap your mortal enemy across the face with it. The duel must be over the woman (or women) that you both covet so dearly. Sparkle brighter then Edward Cullen, take shirts off better then Jacob Black, and most importantly - look manly for the women while you fight.

[Dante]

This here reply won't be on the actual thread, but I just want to say that I LOVE THIS IDEA SO FUCKING MUCH. You have no clue how much I'm looking forward to this. And the awards? Those are EPIC.

[.: T O K I :.]

Slap a bitch and put her in her place.

My cat looked at me weird when I laughed out loud. XP

[loresauce]

I'm glad the idea has your approval. =3 I wanted to add achievements to Sparta Shelpey to add even more to it so it wasn't just a fun roleplay event, but it was a fun roleplay event where you can earn your altered character badges to display on their profiles. XD I'll be working on more achievements all the time too, so Sparta Shelpey characters won't run out of things to earn. (Until I can no longer think of achievements, at least... xD )

[Dante]

And in the unlikely event that you run out of things to do, we could put it on THEM to do things that are award-worthy, and when we see great enough things, we'll make up an award for it and give it to them.

Will the badges have actual images that can be displayed, or will it just be text?
(I'm wondering if maybe we can make an actual board for accepted Sparta Shelpey characters, so that this can be a full-time event, not just a spirit week kind of thing. They could have their own roleplay boards in some Sparta Shelpey category.)

[loresauce]

I'm actually working on some badge images myself. They're not going to be anything particularly uber cool. For now they're 75x75 images, and I'm trying to get it so each achievement has it's own special design (although some may end up looking similar. xD )

I'm also thinking of having 'special' achievements. Maybe milestone achievements or something like that. xP Ideas are welcome and I'll be running ideas by members, who'll be free to suggest achievements or other such things. xP I really wanna try get Shelpey members involved in this so that it's like a big event where everybody can participate and both suggest and earn things and roleplay, all at the same time. xD

(Loresauce needs a life. |D)

Also, I was thinking that Sparta Shelpey could have it's own category. I'm pretty sure you can hide categories as well, or at least limit access, so that we can run Sparta Shelpey for say... I don't know, three weeks or something, and then maybe have a week long break. Certainly there'd be an option to "pause" Sparta Shelpey for a period of time, whatever the reason may be. =0

[Dante]

BADGES BADGES BADGES BADGERS.

I think it should have its own category too that we can either have collapsed by default or something else, like having the boards on one line (like how affies and ads are on one line) Maybe one board for characters and rules and badges and the like, and one for roleplaying, since the locations that people can roleplay in should be as mary-sue and awesome as their characters (there should be mountains and deserts and ancient ruins and the like. XD) But yeah, we can easily make it so that posting isn't allowed in that category whenever we like. It just takes a few clicks under modify category (or board, whichever it is. I forget.)

[loresauce]

BADGES BADGES BADGES BADGES MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

-cough-

That sounds like an absolutely grand idea, Alex. I do have a few areas at hand that are both totally not the actual Shelpey and a couple of areas that are Shelpey but SPIFFY-FIED. Not too many, but just enough. So I can really see your suggestion working. XD Man I'm hyped about this.

[Dante]

And of course, there will be locked and stickied threads about S!S in the board somewhere (maybe it'll be INFO + CHARACTERS in one board and ROLEPLAYING in another) that lists some of the locations you can roleplay in, along with what S!S actually IS.

I'm using S!S as an abbreviation for Sparta!Shelpey. Your call though. MAKE AN ABBREVIATION.

[loresauce]

S!S works (and you can also make the joke Sparta Shelpey is sister to Shelpey Alley, so S!S in itself fits perfectly. xD ) In general there would have been about three locked and stickied threads in total - one detailing the areas of S!S - another explaining what S!S is and then a third for any extra bits if they are thought of. Perhaps detailing characters and achievements or something along those lines. xP

S!S be goin' places, yo. XD

[Dante]

So, should this thread just be its own thread in its own little S!S board/category? That's what I'm thinking.