When Lightning Strikes

When Lightning Strikes is currently on hiatus. We are not sure if/when we will reopen, but the mods have decided that they will be carrying some of the plot over into their other RP's. Please use the ask below to shoot us a message, or come and check out either one of the other RP's both of which are still going strong after over a year of gameplay each! We hope to see you there! ~<3

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Josh

Ric

Finn

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Please follow Kaz!

Mod note: Because their player also uses their blog to interact now and then as an indie as well, they've agreed to tag all of their out-of-game interaction with wlsoffplot. If you'd rather not see these posts, feel free to utilize tumblr savior in blacklisting them from your dash. If you don't have tumblr savior for your browser of choice, click here and scroll down to find links to where you can download the extension.

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Hola guys! I know we've been on your dashboards quite a bit lately but there are some changes going on, and we just want to give you the heads up before we start putting them into effect!

First of all, to those of you who have let us know about your activity, thank you! We know a lot of you have finals going on right now, so if you are in need of a hiatus, PLEASE let us know. The following lists divide you guys into three groups. People we've heard from, people we haven't, and people who are on hiatus.

Active:

Sam Dean Gisela Ric Josh Sookie Peter Castiel (pending) Godric Isaac

Inactive (we haven't heard from you. please get in touch or risk having your role reopened):

Bela

Hiatus:

Callum Tyler Finn Crowley Abaddon Charlie

Note that some players on the hiatus list may still post on the dashboard from time to time. They are considered still considered on hiatus until after finals. If you are on the inactive list, get in touch with us either through the mod inbox or through the OOC chat to let us know whether you're still with us actively or need a hiatus within the next 48 hours, or you will be removed and your role reopened for play.

In the same vein, we're going to really start cracking down on the rules governing activity (which are fairly simple. Do something at least once a week, and make sure you reply to your threads in a timely manner *looks at her own muse and glares daggers*). No one wants a dead dashboard, guys. It only encourages other people to die off and that's no fun for any of us. So use the ooc blog. Use our ooc chat (and if you're not a member yet, send us your screen name. We'll happily add you to it!). Plot with your fellow members. Make sure you're keeping up on your roommate challenge so we can wrap that up. Etc.

Okay, second order of business is PLOT. Obviously, you all that are here already know where plot stands. People are moving into town, going about their daily lives in our little safety net, etc, everything is nice and stable. Not for long. (*evil laughter here* ...and don't doubt me, I sit upon an evil throne of genius as we speak) We're going to be giving this place a shake up with a story arc and some in game 'occurrences', so you all will have something to either react to or join in on! Fun, right? Well, for us anyway. Our characters? Meh... probably not as much. But who doesn't love tormenting their characters? C'mon...

Next up, we have promotion! This isn't really your job or anything (we have a blog for it), but just as a heads up, we're going to start actively promoting this place to draw in some fresh blood here very soon, so hopefully you all will have new faces to ruin your life play with! And we all love new faces, yus? Yus.

 And finally, the playlist challenge. We'd love to make an official WLS soundtrack, so all we ask is that you make a list of five songs that you think represent your character's in-game self, and tag this post with wlsplaylist. We'll pick one from each list and make an official game soundtrack. This is completely opt-in, so you're not at all required to do it. We just think it's a fun little thing to get you all thinking about your characters, and we'll get a cool playlist out of it! You don't have to upload them.. a link to a youtube video is fine, and you are free to include lyrics or reasons as to why you picked the song... whatever makes it more fun and personal for you and your character!

Okay, that's it guys! Remember, if you're on the inactive list, 48 HOURS, or your characters will be reopened! Otherwise, good luck on finals to those who have them coming up, and happy writing guys!

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Hey guys! We just wanted to let you know, the page is gonna be under construction for a while, while we redo some things. So if some links seem to have disappeared for whatever reason, please bear with us! We hope to have it finished by tomorrow at the latest!

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*mutters* I don’t get why I have to do this…

So I lost a bet to Dean.

Don’t ask, won’t go into details, BUT this means I need to ask something of you: Think back to the time when we still had iPods, smartphones, mp3-players, whatever—anything that played music. Make a list of 5 of your all-time favorite songs that best describe you and write them down and hand them in.

Don’t ask.

I don’t know. He’s weird.

Do it, or don’t.

He’ll probably be grumpy if you don’t, though.

Ric

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Okay, this is how this is going to work: We want to make an official When Lightning Strikes Soundtrack.

Please make a list of 5 songs that remind you of your character and submit them to the main blog. If you want to, you can add a sentence or two about why you think the song is perfect, but this is optional.

(tag: wlsplaylist_challenge)

We’ll collect the songs and post a collection of it without the character names, because we want you to guess.

We may have a prize, not too sure about that yet. But, in the end, we’ll have a SOUNDTRACK for everybody to enjoy!

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Please unfollow John.

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Please unfollow Faolan.

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Just a quick note to let you know that I’m back from my a little too long hiatus, and so is Ric. I won’t have enough time to play Finn atm, so he’ll stay on hiatus and I’m going to give up on John for now.

Which brings me right to the dreaded a-word: Activity checks. We realize activity has been a little low lately and a couple of people have left the game, so we need to take inventory. Below you’ll find a list of all the characters divided into three groups:

1. Those we know are still active.

2. Those we don’t know whether or not they are still active. (If you're in this section - drop us a note within the next week or we'll reopen your character.)

3. The hiatus-list.

Please let us know about your characters within the next week and drop a note into the inbox on the main site if you want to switch lists.

active

Sam

Dean

Sookie

Josh

Peter

Zel

Isaac

Charlie

Castiel

Bela

Ric

 undecided

Godric

Jo

hiatus

Callum (after the current thread with Ric and Josh is finished)

Tyler (after the current Crowley thread is finished)

Finn

Abaddon

Crowley

[Bold names are the people we have heard from so far!]

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Guys, this is just a reminder that we do currently have a para challenge going around! If you happened to join us here at WLS after the challenge was posted, don't worry. We'll be sure to include you in the next one! And in case any of you forgot the premise of the challenge, please review the post below and remember to tag your replies appropriately so we can keep track of how far you all are!

Our first official writing challenge! (UPDATED)

Below you’ll find a list of current characters. Each of them has been paired with their (current) roommate, meaning you’ll share a cabin for the duration of this challenge. (People can always switch later, so don’t panic!) Not all of you stay in the same house (like Abaddon/Callum or Ric and the Winchesters), but we still want you to take part in the challenge and have a thread together. So put your thinking caps on and make this work!

The pairs are as follows:

Abaddon and Callum

Alaric, Dean and Sam (I’m sorry, OCD kicked in!)

Faolan and Peter

Finn and Tyler

Gisela and Godric 

Isaac and Sookie

Castiel and Charlie

Gisela and Crowley (a welcoming para)

So what does this mean? Basically, we want you to start a thread with your partner. This thread should have at least 15 replies total, but can be as long as you want. It should be about your characters living together in the cabin. Find out about your partner’s quirks, get to know the other. Set up rules (or break them), keep the cabins clean and try to survive the first night.

And, for God’s sake, don’t kill each other.

Please, just… don’t.

(Please tag your thread with “roommate character 1_character 2(_character 3)” so we can keep track of them and link them once they are done.)

Also, as another reminder, feel free to use the OOC blog to get in touch with your fellow players for plotting ideas, etc. We also have an OOC chatroom on aim, so if any of you would like to join us in there, please send us your screen names so we can add you to the room!

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Follow Jo Harvelle!

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Due to real life constraints, both Gabriel and Miranda have decided to leave. So please unfollow them here and here.

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Our Bill player has decided to leave, so please go ahead and unfollow them

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Hey guys! Before we get onto the announcement, we just wanna remind you all of a few rules... namely the ones regarding interaction outside of the rp and other accounts. We all know that we're not your only RP and that's perfectly fine. However, we ask that you please be respectful to this group and not promote from within. That goes for the dash, the ooc blog, and the ooc chat. If you want to affiliate with us, just have a mod get in touch with us (or do it yourself, in the case of you modding your own), and we'll be happy to do a promo post and add the links to our affiliates page!

Okay... now that that's taken care of....

As those of you who joined us in there may know, Chatzy turned out to be more of a pain than it was worth, thanks to the time out issue mostly. So we've switched the OOC chat back over to aim. If you'd like to be added to the OOC chat, go ahead and message us your aim screen name, and we'll add you in there! But please keep in mind, we do have a few rules for the OOC chat that we'd like you all to abide by, which we'll reiterate here, so make sure to look them over and follow them:

We're all for chatting OOC/IC whatever - but the point of the OOC chat is really to discuss things about the rp - not to pic spam, or talk about random stuff.  That's what IMs are for. By all means, if there's something personal you want to get off your chest and talk about, then we're all here for that and we'll support you the best we can - just ask to talk ooc for a bit and no one will mind. Otherwise, keep it rp relevant!

If it looks like we're IC at the time, then ANY OOC shout outs in there should be in brackets or parentheses. Whichever you prefer!

And finally, please remember that nothing that happens in chat is to be taken seriously/considered canon until it is brought onto the dash and played out properly. You may post transcripts of any chat/aim rps within 24 hours and call them canon, provided you have the consent of everyone involved, but basically, if we don't see it on the dash? It doesn't count toward any in-game plot. 

Okay, that's it guys! Questions? Comments? Just hit us up! Otherwise, stay awesome! And happy writing!

-Deano     

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Hey guys... 

Just a few goodies for y'all to peek at...

If you're waiting on replies, feel free to throw out HC's, request drabble prompts, jot down a character update post, or do one of the character development memes that are out there... 

Here are a few linky's if you're stuck for ideas;

Drabble Masterlist

The tarot drabble prompt list

In depth character development questions

One word headcanon prompts

Opinions and judgement

30 day character development meme

Layers character meme

Love, sex and relationship questions

Or have a wander over to;

rpmissionboard

fillmyaskbox

There are tons of these things out there, you don't even need to wait for a question, just pick a list and start working your way through...

Depending on which meme/drabble/ask prompt etc. you choose to do please don't forget to tag your posts appropriately - if it's a headcanon or piece of character development that fits within this verse, then no worries - if it's an AU drabble and not considered 'rp canon' then use the 'wlsoffplot' tag.  Please tag drabble or prompt requests as 'wlsoffplot' too, just in case anyone wants to track the wlsoffplot tag (to see what people are asking for) or alternatively tumblr saviour it if they want to see a 'canon only' dash... :3

Have fun!

~Sammy~

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@Bill

Can you open your ask box please!?

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Follow Bill!