Ok People lets start talking dates times and possible places to break out these new and gently used, or semi-retired characters! Your regular characters are welcome to attend if you don't have a new or less used character you'd like to bring out, and we can hold it in a public venue so random weirdos can join in too!

I'm thinking random grand event like a carnival or a mass alien abduction or something Oh and I totally have no life so scheduling is easy for me.

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I think you're in my head. That was my next order of business. I really like this idea, and have been rolling around ideas such as: "Mutual Endeavors scheduled to host first annual character swapmeet..." Or something. I'm not even sure swapmeet is the right word, let alone a word, maybe it should be hyphenated I dunno.

In any case (I say that a lot), I think we should start planning for an event like this. My thoughts on it are to schedule it a month from now, as it'll give people time to psyche themselves up for it and put aside the time, ahead of time, to participate. But my opinion is only one of many. Anyone else?

My daughter's wedding is Oct 21, the days around that will be busy for me.

Well phooey. Can't do November. That's NaNoWriMo, and we all know by now that I become dead to the world that month.

Well we are only one week through September so what if we shoot for the first weekend of October? I say weekend because thats usually a good time for people to find time. Or Thursdays.. I really like Thursdays.

That gives us a range of days from the 4th to the 7th (almost precisely 1 month!) to shoot for.

That should work for me.

I would like to suggest that we don't use an AOL Member room because some members here might not have it anymore.

Seems reasonable so far.

And we can set up an AIM buddychat room if that works for everyone. I'd have no problem advertising it on our front page and providing a link to all interested parties.

What about times?

I'm usually online sometime between 10 pm Eastern and 1 am Eastern.

When is everyone else around?

I think the general consensus is about the same time.

Most people are online and active in role-play between 8:00 PM and 3:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.

Mutual Endeavors is clocked for EST in the standard configuration of the site. I should try to figure out if it's possible to allow people to change it for their own time zones or not. Now that you've got me thinking about it and rambling.

Blah blah blah.

Many of the people I know personally, and role-play with, try to support the Rambling Rose Tavern and play there during its active hours of 9:00 PM to 2:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's open Sundays through Fridays, but not on Saturdays.

I, personally, am usually not online Saturdays in the evening because I have to be up semi-early for a weekly D&D game I participate in on Sundays.

HOWEVER, I could probably play for a little bit before "bedtime" or something. So if Saturday works good for most people, I'd be willing to start my vote for that day around those times.

I'm still voting for Thursday the 4th. Just because I like Thursday.

And I say we make it a open ended, 9:00pm to 2:00 am, come when you want to event.

Any ideas on what kind of event is going to draw the most people? Something that Goodies and Baddies both can play with.