7.24.10;; OTM&The Family

[Rebecca]

Hello kiddos! How are your summers going? Mine's going too fast with band. It's crazy. Like, really, really crazy. In two weeks I've had eighteen hours of band. And it's about to get worse. I go to band camp for a week on August 1, so don't expect to hear from me until August 8.
Because I'm just that big of a band nerd. >3

So anyways, what was I supposed to talk about. Ah, that's right, The Family and Of The Month Awards. See, I'm not scatterbrained. I just like to talk about myself.
ANND FAV'S SUGGESTION.

First order of buisness: The Family.
I have an official list of characters who have been accepted into The Family and I must say, it's getting pretty big. Dawn and I were talking about the sudden increase in numbers, and agreed that we don't want like thirty cats running around in The Family.
So for awhile, I'd like to ask everyone to take a chill pill on the reproducing aspect of it.

The Family
Adanna
Irkella
Osiris
Nightingale
Fox
Lacebark
Torrent
Gravity
Athena
Dewlyn

**Correct me if I've missed anyone...

Now for the OTMs, the famed OTM Awards that are awarded each month by the Staff are now going to be awarded... by you!
How great, right?
These OTMs are for the month of August, since July is almost up.
Here's how it works:
Members log out of their accounts to anonymously suggest the one character they'd like to see get the Character of the Month award and the one person they'd like to see get the Member of the Month Award on the OTMs Preliminaries Board.
The top three characters and people with the most suggestions will be put to a poll, and whoever gets the most votes by August 10th wins!

Why August 10th? Because today is July 24th. So then, who's ready to vote for people besides the Rachel and Auden for the MOTM and Birchstar and Sparrowstar for the COTMS?
By the way. you can suggest admin now since we aren't voting on it.
This is my first OTM as a possible suggestion. Somebody pinch me! ;___;

Rachel has given us a great suggestion, and it's one that we're going to make permanent. It's called the Character Update! You see, we need to update all of our character bios at least monthly. Why?
Because we can't have Shrewheart running around as a warrior in the role play when his character bio says otherwise, or a cat doesn't stay 16 moons old forever. It confuses poor Rebecca horribly, so please start to update your bios regularly.

That is all.

[frosty]

My summer is busy too. Reminding you guys that I'm leaving on the 29th (IM MISSING SEASON TWO OF JERSEY SHORE D:) and coming back on the 9th.

Anyways, with The Family.
Dawn, Pretzel, and I are bringing in Verity, Cosmica, and Oakley respectively. They are old characters of mine, and Gravity's kits.
I have also given Blue permission to bring in Everest ad Sigrid, kits of the late Anastacia and Valor.
I think I have te authority to do that, considering I created The Family. And I think I should be involved in decisions regarding them and limiting their numbers. :/

And, Lexxa us bringing in Osiris' and Irkalla's sister, Persephone, as discussed with Dawn.

Drenn and Torrent will also be having two-four kits. I believe I'm playing Siv, Blue is playing Stormfast, and Kexxa is playing two of them.

All of this has been discussed on te cbox with Dawn, Lexxa, and I.

[Dawn]

I do believe you mean Irkalla as opposed to Irkella, Petally ; )

Except Lexxa changed the name of her incoming rogue to something else because Rachel was going to use Persephone. I don't recall the name at the moment and, lets be honest, I am way to lazy to go look in the limbo cats to find it.

Also, Frosty, no offense but didn't I kind of start the family? By having Adanna bring Snowberry and Ahmose to come and live with her in her 'camp' all those months ago. It just snowballed when Iris and Ahmose had kits, but please don't say you started it. It was more of a combination of my starting idea, then yours and Petally's combined efforts with mine to work it into something more than just some random family.
Yes, you should have a say in if we should limit characters, but I think Petally was putting it up more as a suggestion than an actual rule.

And now on to the summer being almost over.
Once school starts, Dawn will be attacked and mauled by work. Going into IB is supposed to be a social life killer, so I apologize in advance if my activity decreases exponentially.
I promise promise promise that if I get so inactive it's just disgusting, I will delete my characters, or at least Blizzardtail as he is a medicine cat, and stop weighing you down.
I made sure to get an off hour for homework, and school tennis is not until spring, so it won't be as bad, hopefully, as when I just randomly vanished last year.
Again, I am so so sorry, but I can't drop IB without at least trying it first. Or I will feel like a failure ;--;

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[frosty]

The Family started with Miko, Fallenangel, and Anastacia, all of which were my characters. You furthered them by bringing in more characters like Ahmose, and Petally furthered them by bringing in Kestrelclaw.
That's why I'm taking credit for creating them.
But I do feel a though I should be included in all decisions regarding then. :/

[Dawn]

But when you think about it, they were all just random rogues running around killing others. Yes, they were a family by blood ties but they didn't interact much.
The 'camp' brought them together and made it so that they had an almost Clan like existence, though not as civil or caring as Clan life I dare say.
I'm not taking complete credit for the idea, it did involve the three of us all together for it to really grow into what it is today. But it was not the idea of a single person alone.
Yes, you created the staring characters. But I created the 'camp' which brought them together. Then Petally created their title and all that. It took all of us.
And as I said, I do agree that you deserve a say in it, though as I also said, I think Petally put it up as a suggestion more than an overlord rule.

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[frosty]

Yes, you created the camp with Adaana and Ahmose and Snowberry.
Then Iris began interacting after she ditched Snapdragon.
And then Kestrelclaw and Briarflower came in.
And then Iris and Adanna and Snapdragon had kits.
That's pretty much how it started.
I wasn't aware Petally created the name. I always thought it was just a mutually chosen name that kind if stuck.

Dawn and I were talking about the sudden increase in numbers, and agreed that we don't want like thirty cats running around in The Family.
So for awhile, I'd like to ask everyone to take a chill pill on the reproducing aspect of it.

That's more of a rule than a suggestion, I think.
I do agree that they should now be limited, I'm just saying that it was me that started the originals and I want to be a part of decision making regarding them.
For generation six, ecluding Oakley and Verity and Cosmica, everyone should be allowed one cat in The Family. It was never intended to be the huge production it is now.

[Dawn]

As I said, I agree you deserve a say.

And if you agree, I don't see why you are arguing with the suggestion. She did say take a chill pill in the reproducing aspect, so it really does sound more like a suggestion than a rule to me, but it's pointless to sit here and argue back and forth about it.

I think that we should also not post up any more rules or anything about it here, perhaps we should move this discussion to the staff board or something. That way, we can fine point everything before introducing it so as not to create confusion.

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[frosty]

I didn't argue with the suggestion.
I was upset because there was a rule made regarding something I am a part of without my consultation.

But yes, no rules or updates should be made without staff discussion, I think.

[Rebecca]

Frosty, I apologize for taking this into an update and not consulting with you on the matter before doing so. Next time we will discuss it on the Staff Board. However it was meant to be a suggestion, and not a rule.

Yes, I started to call The Family The Family because, well, calling them Adanna, Ahmose, Iris, Lacebark, Dalila, Nightingale, Fox and whoever else I'm leaving out was a lot of work. And I guess the name stuck. o__o

I'm honestly lost on the subject of who started the entire thing. Frosty did have Miko and Fallenangel and Valor and everyone else back then, but it wasn't a group of cats. They were just randomly killing each other.
Then Adanna and her siblings were born, and a small group formed which eventually led to The Family. I take no claim in the credit of starting it. I only brought in Kestrelclaw, Isis, and my other rogue characters later on.

[pretzel]

How about we all just calm down and stop fighting/arguing/angrily discussing, eh? I'm really sick of conflict right now and I can't take anymore. You all did/didn't start The Family; not one person specifically started it and not an entire group started it. The Family was a collaborative effort between a few, as it sounds to me.

Discussions should be made in the staff board, not just in the cbox, with all staff available at the time giving input.

Let's just put this all behind us now, hey?


Yay for new ways of getting OTMs! I feel better now that it's not just the staff deciding who gets the awards.

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