[identity profile] brimtoast.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] alt_fen
I think we've been spending enough time together (and for me, it's been very enjoyable time) that we should get to know each other a bit more. So here's a post for that purpose. Some things I'd love to know about you, my fellow fen, are:

-Your name and a little about yourself. (Age, job, where you live, anything about you that you consider important)

-How you got here. (History of the path you took to finding this game, not just how you heard about it but what made you care enough to actually check it out. And what made you interested enough to want to stay and spend hours and hours discussing it)

ETA: I had more, but after writing my own answers I realized that this was plenty to start with.

I have put my own answers to the questions in a comment. I really look forward to seeing what everyone has to say.

Re: And about the game

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Date: 2008-11-16 12:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alt-player.livejournal.com
I didn't realize you went to Reed as well! It sounds like we didn't overlap...? You ought to friend me on Facebook - my real name is, after all, very publicly attached to my journal.

- The player who went to Reed College

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Date: 2008-11-15 06:42 pm (UTC)
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Name and a little about yourself:
I'm Deb. I'm 45 and teach. I have a commuter marriage, so I live in Texas and slave in Ohio, where it is currently doing this:



Image (http://pics.livejournal.com/lapin_agile/pic/000266z5/)


I'm especially likely to be seen here at [livejournal.com profile] alt_fen on days when I have a huge stack of papers to grade -- this weekend, for instance! -- and not at all during stretches when the teaching part of teaching is intense. (Clear as mud, that, I know.)

How you got here:
Ah, that's easy. I read Peg Kerr's journal and she's been talking up this game since the summer. I was a huge fan of Nocturne Alley and loved playing at Nraged. (I may well have been there with a different LJ name, though, I can't really remember the chronology. If so, I was [livejournal.com profile] conversant.) I'm hooked on this game for two reasons: (1) I'm engaged by the subtle and unsubtle shifts from canon to this AU, and (2) because I really like the playing style (the short dialogue-only comments; the parallelism from comment to reply [first line/pgraph responds to first line/pgraph and so on] -- this keeps things sharp and moving; it was true of NA and is beautifully true here, as well). I'm hooked on [livejournal.com profile] alt_fen because you guys are great!

Ideas for Growth:
I've got no good ideas about how to bring people into the fen, except that I think the expansion of players may bring some of their acquaintances along, which helps gradually through word of mouth. I hope, at least.

There are sometimes good plot moments for bring more folks on board, so we fen and the players might look for those opportunities for re-pimping the game.

And we might suggest to the mod (she said, suggestively) that in addition to the weekly updates, it might help to have periodic summaries of "the action to date" (after each term of school perhaps ... or after a major plot milestone passes). It's already hard to imagine anyone reading the whole game to catch up.

Maybe the mod would also consider adding a post-dated [livejournal.com profile] alt_fen entry with a regularly-update linked index of fen post topics: that could help us and any newcomers find explanations of those game issues we've discussed in the past.

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Date: 2008-11-15 08:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wintercreek
Maybe the mod would also consider adding a post-dated [info]alt_fen entry with a regularly-update linked index of fen post topics: that could help us and any newcomers find explanations of those game issues we've discussed in the past.

I was just thinking that some kind of crack pot idea/red herring/brilliant theory index would be a great resource, both for us and for new fen.

Date: 2008-11-15 08:38 pm (UTC)
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Why don't we start aggressively using tagging? We've already got the tagged weekly updates; if we tag everything, we can just link to the tag cloud page.

I like the idea of doing a periodic "action to date" summary. I had originally planned to do it once a year, but how about three times a year - Christmas, June, and September? That way, each school term + the summer is covered. And our first one is coming up, too, then: I'll have it for the New Year.

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Date: 2008-11-15 07:57 pm (UTC)
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Name and About Me: Hello! My name is Monica, and I'm a 25 year old Library Science/Information Policy grad student. This accounts for both my interest in fetching references from posts (librarian!) and my fits-and-spurts type involvement with the game (procrastinating grad student!).

How I Got Here: [livejournal.com profile] pegkerr, basically. I followed [livejournal.com profile] nocturne_alley and loved [livejournal.com profile] nraged, so when Peg said that a new game and fan community were opening in similar style I hopped on board. I started following NA part way through, so I'm delighted to be in on the ground floor with Alternity.

The Game: I really haven't the foggiest how to engineer greater publicity for the game, since it always seems to be Internet serendipity that brings these things to my attention. I have a relatively small flist and many of the people on it are RL folks in addition to the population of fannish friends (although there's some delightful overlap). I think the best thing we can do as fen is to be active and enthusiastic in our discussions, which includes being as welcoming as possible - commenting back to newcomers, et cetera. Maybe doing these introduction posts periodically? I'm assuming that this game will run for years (I hope so!) so a chance to meet new fellow fen once a year might be a good opportunity for helping new followers feel more connected.

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Date: 2008-11-15 08:47 pm (UTC)
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Hooray! I want to go into LibSci right after I finish my undergrad! What school are you at? I'm currently at the University of Illinois U-C, and we have a really nice LibSci program here.

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Date: 2008-11-15 08:05 pm (UTC)
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Britney, 22. I'm not working as a temp but I consider myself to be in a temporary job while I live with my parents and save money to move out. I live in Pennsylvania, but graduated from Smith in May.

I learned of the game from [livejournal.com profile] flourish, and since I remember the original Alternity from back in the day (I *think* Alternity's been in fandom longer than I have, and it's one of the first fanfics I read) I thought I'd check it out. I too was a huge fan of TIN and miss it, and was ready for a new RPG to watch. I always wanted to play in TIN (and, to an extent, this game) but I don't have the dedication to show up on any regular schedule. :) From experience I've learned that I have more fun watching than I do playing.

I'm currently a week or so behind -- I've checked out the game a few times, but I haven't read most of the comments. I'll have more time to catch up next week.

Date: 2008-11-15 08:21 pm (UTC)
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*waves*

I've been missing you here. (But then I go AWOL, too, fairly regularly, so it could be more me than you.)

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Date: 2008-11-15 08:45 pm (UTC)
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I'm Denise, I'm a linguistics undergrad at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I'm the president of UIUC Buddhist Club, I'm vegetarian, and I'm 20. I want to go to Library Science school after I finish my undergrad, and be a stay-at-home mom someday.

I found Alternity because of the post on Nraged, like a lot of people here I'm an old NA fan, and I never really found an rpg I could really get into after NA finished, so I'm exited by how good Alternity is coming along so far!

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I go by Jenett pretty much everywhere except work these days. I'm 33, and live in Minneapolis in a tiny little house with a cat, a folk harp, and a bunch of books.

I'm a librarian at a private high school in the Twin Cities (I've been a paraprofessional there since 2000, finished my MLIS in 2007, wrangled some new duties to go with the degree, and now my boss - the MLIS requiring position - has taken a new job, so I'm sliding into his position in January for spring semester, and will be applying to keep it. (Said school believes in, shall we say, a far more diligent hiring process than Hogwarts appears to.) I am looking forward to Alternity keeping me somewhat sane in the process - it's going to be a busy spring for me.

I found the game through [livejournal.com profile] pegkerr and was delighted: I'd heard great things about (but hadn't followed) Nocturne Alley. I'm particularly taken by the meta-analysis options here (for similar reasons that I like Shadow Unit

-Your name and a little about yourself. (Age, job, where you live, anything about you that you consider important)

-How you got here. (History of the path you took to finding this game, not just how you heard about it but what made you care enough to actually check it out. And what made you interested enough to want to stay and spend hours and hours discussing it)

Date: 2008-11-15 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] muggleangel.livejournal.com
How do you pronounce your name? My mom's name is Jeanette and she is very fussy about how it is said.

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Hello, fellow librarian! A private high school library sounds like a nice working situation. :)

Date: 2008-11-17 02:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenbookwench.livejournal.com
Woohoo, another Shadow Unit fan!

Date: 2008-11-15 10:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angstalaska.livejournal.com
I'm Rob. I live in alaska, i work for a non-for-profit Adult Education company that helps people get GED's and Jobs.

I'm a gamer nerd from back in the day, and a Potter enthusiast. I read about alternity on a video game blog, however. Rest is history.

I'm apparently the only dude here.

I dig brevity.

Date: 2008-11-15 11:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alt-player.livejournal.com
We have some male players in the game. Just thought I'd mention that. :)

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Date: 2008-11-15 11:27 pm (UTC)
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This is a cool thread! I'm loving reading and kind of getting to know you all, because, as in NA (I played Lucius in NA) the fen are a vital part of the game and add SO much to it. We're thankful for you guys. You keep us on our toes!

--Pansy's and Amycus's player

Date: 2008-11-17 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aquagia.livejournal.com
Haha, I do have to say--I loved that evil bitch Lucius in NA. It was one of those "Wait, but I'm not SUPPOSED to like him, he's a bad guy" kind of things.

So kudos.

Date: 2008-11-16 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sugarjet03.livejournal.com
Hi, I'm Erin. I'm 23, and graduated this year from undergrad with a major in English and a minor in Music. I was born and raised in NC, and currently live one town over from [livejournal.com profile] brimtoast (hi, neighbor!).

I heard about the game through [livejournal.com profile] flourish and [livejournal.com profile] heidi8. I hadn't done anything fandomy in a long time, but this seemed like it would be fun, and it definitely has been :)

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I'm Erin, an almost-30 (like next week almost), currently unemployed and job-hunting librarian, living in the Washington, DC area.

--How I got here: Well, I discovered fandom during an emotionally exhausting period in my life, towards the end of my graduate program, and it helped me get through the writing of my Master's thesis. HP was my first fandom, and I mostly lurked, but it's still a fandom that I feel a real connection to. And one of the things I discovered (I don't remember how exactly) was a wonderful game called [livejournal.com profile] thatwasthen and [livejournal.com profile] this_is_now. I was so enamored of the humor, pathos, quality of writing, and multi-voiced nature of it, that I started following it regularly and commenting in the fan-comm. I looked into other RPGs when it ended, but nothing quite caught my attention in the same way. And then when I saw Peg Kerr posting about [livejournal.com profile] hpalternity, my interest was piqued, and then it was even more piqued when [livejournal.com profile] alt_moderator commented to say that there were several TWT/TIN alumni playing in the game. So I started following it and was quickly sucked, and then I was sucked all the way to the other side and became a player, which is why I haven't commented here recently. It's hard to comment to speculation posts without giving something away!

Date: 2008-11-17 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenbookwench.livejournal.com
That should say "was quickly sucked _in_"....! Curses upon my too-fast commenting finger!

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