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The start of the school year 2016/2017 at Claremont Academy will be a bit unconventional! While the traditional Kick Off Dance will still happen, it will not happen uninterrupted! Students of Elysian Academy have their own nefarious plans, and will show up at the dance to put them into action! And it will be up to Claremont’s students to stop them. "Sales Pitch" : So, Kick Off. It started as a small idea, as a way to have some of the Claremont PCs team up. It went from there, and became something a bit bigger. The core idea still is the same : A way for PCs to team up, while actively fighting things! There’s more surrounding it now, however. A way to set up rivalries with the students of Elysian Academy, also known as Shadow Academy. And, if the thread goes well enough, a way to set up a connected plot. Something that’ll last for a while, something that connects various threads, both big ones, and if people feel up for it, smaller ones. Now, having others give their opinions and ideas will make the entire thing run smoother, and allow for people to be more involved in it, so there’ll be a lot of things for you all to comment on! Now, organizational things: The entire thing is barely more than a concept at this moment, and I want to incorporate other players into the process of turning it into an actual thread. Many things will depend on which characters are involved, how many of them are involved and so on. Generally, since it’ll be something that would affect all of Claremont, any Claremont PC works, and having many going around means there’s more potential for future plots to follow. I want to give everybody a chance to play their characters. Speaking from experience, there’s also some issues involved with having a large amount of characters, more on that further down. For the sake of momentum, pace and not having the threads drag on, I’d probably handle it with a few threads, happening parallel to each other. Generally speaking, the amount of threads and characters per thread will depend primarily on how many people want to get their characters involved. I have rough ideas for two to three threads, all handling different parts of what is happening, but I can always increase/decrease that number depending on interest. Some things where player input is appreciated: The rivalries mentioned above obviously work best if there is something that connects the two rivals, be it, for example, similar powers, similar upbringing, or the fact the two of them have nothing in common. Sure, not everybody will find a rival based on that (some might not find a rival at all, or multiple), but it would be cool to have a few rivalries happening, some recurring characters to use in future threads. Now, I could just go, look at everybody’s sheets, and quickly whip up something. But, since these are characters that might have a lasting influence on the PCs over the course of multiple threads, it feels better to do it a different way. If you have an idea, a concept, anything really, that you feel would work great as an antagonist to your character, write it down! It doesn’t have to be much, a single sentence is enough! Another part of it is the story. I do a fair bit of improvising when it comes to long-term stories, but the attackers having a good reason for what they do is really important. They’re putting themselves right into the Lion’s Den, they know exactly what they’re there for and have planned it out. In the Sales Pitch I mentioned a few ideas that came up when discussing this in chat, the attack being a diversion so they could steal an important item, student records, or something else. But, there could be a lot of other reasons! Essentially, if you have an idea for why they could be doing this, write it down too! The more ideas, the better! Maybe you have an idea for the item they’d try to steal in the diversion mentioned above, maybe you have an idea for an entirely different motivation altogether! More ideas mean that it’s more likely that in the end, there is a believable reason! If you have other ideas, concerns and so on, bring them up too! In this thread, in chat, per PM, whatever way you prefer! The more, the better! As a quick thing to add: This will happen around early september, so there's not a lot of hurry!