Subject: Okay.
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Posted on: 2018-01-09 17:25:00 UTC
The rules make more sense now than when I first read them (very tired and catching a cold at the time), so I'm in. You'll get an email as soon as I figure out who to send and with what.
Question: what's the host's function? Do they direct the exchanges, or are they just the official in-universe host, ie the person who volunteered their RC or wherever else?
~Z
Because the last time I tried setting this up, everyone (including me) ended up being way too busy. ^^; Anyway, let's try this again and hope people have more time for it! I'm going to set up the same rules as with my previous attempt, so if anyone wants in, just shoot me an e-mail!
ADMISSION AND SETUP:
1. You need to have Permission and at least two agents to enter this event. You don't have to have the teams participate in their entirety, either - any one of your agents can opt out based on whatever's most convenient for you.
2. All Boarders and agents will be going in basically blind - meaning that nobody will know who sent what until all the gifts have been opened! Hence, in order to enter, send me an e-mail (my address is clickable) with your attending agents and which gift each will bring. This may be either a "souvenir" from a mission you've published previously, or just something they happen to have that they want to give away. As soon as you've sent the e-mail, reply to this post with the word "Sent" and no message content, so everyone will know who's participating.
3. I will take six or seven other Boarders for this year's event, so the first seven Boarders to submit applications will be the ones attending.
4. Anyone with Permission can host this event. One of their agents must serve as an in-universe host for this event, but all agents are required to participate as players, including the host. I will confirm who the host will be if and when anyone steps forward - otherwise, Falchion will be the host this year. (My other participating agents will be my DIC and DMS-VG teams, but no other agents of mine will be participating, for some very spoilery reasons.)
EVENT RULES:
5. Once everything's been set up, preferably on New Year's Day, the Boarder volunteering the event host will set up an introductory post on the T-Board for this event. The most important rule: NOBODY MUST KNOW WHAT THE GIFTS ARE UNTIL THEY'VE OPENED THEM. All of the gifts will be wrapped and put in a big pile at the start of the game.
6. Once I've tallied the full list, I'll provide a list of the players, and a list of the gifts, but not a list of who sent what. The starting player will then be selected at random. Then when that player opens a gift, the agent who submitted it must speak up and confirm that they were the one who did so. Then that agent is the next to play! Thus, in general, the person who will play during each turn is the one who volunteered the gift revealed during the previous turn.
7. For each turn, the agent currently in play can either choose a gift from the pile (I'll provide the full list of gifts on the Posting Board) or, if others before them have already chosen gifts, they can "steal" a gift from the previous owner. A gift can be stolen up to twice; after that, it is locked to the agent it's ended up with, and cannot be stolen again. Note also that if a gift is stolen from any agent, THEY CANNOT STEAL IT BACK.
8. The game ends once everyone has received a gift. Since the first agent cannot steal, he/she will be given the choice to steal after everyone else has played.
And there you have it - hopefully this year we'll actually HAVE a Gift Exchange. Again, if anyone wishes to participate, just send me an e-mail with the agents planned to be involved and the gifts they'll be bringing. Good luck! :)
Everyone who's participating can check out the introductory post below. Have fun!
http://ppc-posting-board-2-proto.herokuapp.com/posts/6044
I understand that there's been some recent drama that's been overshadowing this thread, but I'm still interested in going through with the 2018 Gift Exchange (unlike last year, where everyone was just too darn busy :c), and I still need two or three more Boarders to have enough people to set it up. So, uh... Hello? Anybody?
For the sake of having this event at least start up in January, I'll give a one-week window for you guys to join in this event. Hopefully, if enough people do so, I should be able to set something up on Thursday or Friday, Wednesday evening at the earliest. Again, two or three more people shall suffice as long as they have Permission and at least one agent team.
The rules make more sense now than when I first read them (very tired and catching a cold at the time), so I'm in. You'll get an email as soon as I figure out who to send and with what.
Question: what's the host's function? Do they direct the exchanges, or are they just the official in-universe host, ie the person who volunteered their RC or wherever else?
~Z
On a meta level, the host is the Boarder who agrees to organize the event, i.e. set up the introductory thread, keep track of who gets what, and enforce the rules of the Exchange as the players participate. The in-universe host can be any one of the agents that this Boarder chooses, and has a similar purpose albeit within the story of the event/thread itself.
It doesn't have to be me specifically, either, although I am, as always, the one compiling the lists of people and gifts. If any participating Boarder wants to step up and be the host, all they have to do is ask - especially since this year will probably be as busy for me as the last, and I could use a little help for events like this! XD
...but given work and family things I just haven't had the time to respond to it until now. Your folks are added to the list along with Hardric's, which leaves about two or three more Boarder slots, as noted above.
And to answer your question from PM, I'd rather not describe the packaging in case it gives any of the gifts away - this is, after all, a blind-bag sort of thing. Nobody's supposed to know who sent what, or what gifts there are in the first place; I think package descriptions would kinda give that away a bit. ^^;
I shall imagine that everything is wrapped in eye-bending vantablack and urple paper. {= )
~Neshomeh
Totally enthusiastically without duress. The mail was sent, tell me if there are any problems.