WELCOME & AU PLANNING - MAY 2017

[cordibus]

WELCOME TO THE FIRST PLANNING POST!

Congratulations on being accepted into the game. Now let's have a big meeting post, plan and have fun together!

AU PLANNING

The AU in this game is completely player's choice. We encourage you to take a look at the city and plan accordingly! Your AU information can be added to your character hub, should you desire. As long as it is available somewhere, and others can take a quick glance and know what the character's AU is.

We only ask that you try to keep everything tasteful and respect our decision if we feel you're going too far. As the game begins, you are free to continue using this post to plan or ask the mods first-post related questions. We'll do our best to answer in a timely manner!

The city of Eddan is very much a typical metropolis, so your characters can have any job that would make sense in a busy city. They don't have to be restricted to the school, or have a school job. If you're not sure, don't be shy about asking. There's a lot of freedom!

Roll the dice

There is also a randomized AU signup if you'd like to leave it to chance who your family members are and establish pre-game CR with new people. But if you'd rather leave it for now and wait for other app turns, that's also fine!

GAME START

The first log will be posted on MAY 13TH. Please vote on what time you want it to be posted. We'll go with player majority! (As a note, this will be done for all rounds).

Comments

[probablynoteren]

Yessss let gardening club slowly twine its vines around your ankles, we're here (quietly, ominously). :D :DD

Lenka here is an officer but mostly he's just around a lot in the background up to his elbows in dirt and people don't notice he actually does paperwork sometimes. I know Chikusa is also ninjaing around the club sometimes, and Minako's our cute resident exchange student! Always welcoming members or gatecrashers. ☆

I also figure there are NPC members hanging around from Jun's fanclub, so those y'all can do with as you please. :3c

In terms of what they actually do, I figure the school has greenhouses where they grow fruit and veggies and ornamental flowers to fundraise for [insert lovers' festival name here] (eventually we'll figure out a name for this, modship said they'll post a holiday suggestion list later). From the TDM I also surmised that there's, say, orchards or other little plots in the campus(es) that they can take care of depending on where they're at. The greenhouses for example could be the main thing/centrally located, but different grade levels within the club might have their own corner of whatever campus they're on to beautify or whatever they're doing with it. Teaches students moral fiber and creativity or something. /handwaves I'm kind of making it up as I go along

Feel free to suggest other events or activities they could be doing, of course. :D

IDEAS and stuff

[kokuyoyo]

So last night, for those not aware of it, I did a big ol' plurk filled with pretty pictures of greenery to try and think of ideas. Here are a few of mine:

- The Paths - Lovely almost tunnel-like paths (from a combination of the earth and trees over it) that is somewhere on the grounds. Upkeep is delegated to younger club members who don't have as much on their plate as those in older years, or members who mess up and this is their punishment.

- Sunflower house - SUNFLOWER HOUSES. Make a whole town of them. Probably part of some event? Sunflower mazes, little sunflower houses to play around in... Smooch your date in one of these bad boys, a+ plan

- Tree of 40 Fruit - "After sculptor Sam Van Aken bought a failing orchard in upstate New York full of hundreds of different fruit trees, he began the pain-staking process of grafting several of the different varieties together into one tree. Six years later, the result is this 40-fruit bearing tree, which includes some heirloom varieties that are centuries old." i'm not saying the GVGC needs one but they totally need one. Every generation of the club works on establishing one on the grounds? There is probably a whole orchard of these things.

- Circus Tree - ALTERNATIVELY, THIS, which is the product of six individual sycamore trees shaped, bent, and braided together like so.

- Upside Down Tree - Did you know that you can flip a tree upside down and its roots will become branches, and vice versa, instead of dying? Now you know.

- Club Bonsai - Every new member gets their own little bonsai tree to grow as celebration of them joining the club. There's like six different varieties in the plurk, so just, go wild.

- Will It Grow? - "Hey GVGC, can you grow plants on a bed? What about a musical instrument? Dining Table?" They have a challenge box open. Possibly working together with the art club?

- Good Luck Tree - you know those posts that go around of people having a "lucky statue" on their campus, and, around exam time, they just leave all sorts of shit around it, from coins to food to the WEIRDEST SHIT? This is Green Valley's, but it's a tree. Leave an offering for the tree god. (It's the GVGC's duty to make sure no one seriously fucks with it. Desperate students are horrifying.)

- Annual Wall Garden - There's a part of the school that is fully for the GVGC to plot out a vertical garden on its wall. Throughout the year, the GVGC both help put together the display, and come up with the layout for next year's garden.

- GVGC Food Challenge - Every couple of months, the club has a challenge for its members (or those in the cooking club too) to make a recipe entirely out of whatever is in season/the greenhouse has in stock. They then sell it, and whatever person/group/whatever sells the most of their product wins some sort of prize.

i swear to god i had more ideas, including section leaders, but I can't remember what those sections were for SO HERE U GO