Night's Omen

Happy Spring, everyone!  I hope the weather is getting nice for all of you, and I envy you southerners for your warmth while I'm still wearing my winter coat some days, but it's that time of the year again.  Spring cleaning!  For us at Night's Omen, that means we're cleaning up the member lists.  What does that boil down to?  Well...

• All members without an in character post since March 1, 2008 have been labeled "Inactive'.  Exceptions to this rule extend ONLY to those who were courteous enough to put up a post in the absence thread before I went and cleaned things up.
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  Characters without an in character post since February 1, 2008 have been labeled 'Inactive'.  Exceptions to this rule extend ONLY to those who are active, contributing members of this site.  That means actively posting in character and keeping the site going.
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  All profiles that haven't been updated, meaning that the profile fields are still empty from the board switch all that time ago, have been labeled 'Inactive'.
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  Everyone with existing characters, please also remember to keep your Player and Character Info updated, such as if you make a new character.  It makes it easy for all of us to keep up with, and I updated some of them myself.  I don't plan to do it ALL the time, so try to keep up with it.
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  All Inactive characters have been removed from the Face Claim list.  The list is simply getting too long for us to save faces for those who aren't actively contributing.  Other players may want to make active characters with those faces.
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  Lists are updated.  If there are any names on any lists that I missed, feel free to PM me with the information, and I will edit immediately.
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  The advertising forum has been reworked and cleaned up.
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  Email address changes on newer accounts are caught up as far as we know.  Anyone who made a new character and had to use a false email address to register should post in the Email Changes thread, where our Tech Admin will be more than willing to fix that little problem for you.

As for those players and characters placed in Inactive, I promise that it's an easy fix.  All you need to do is contact me to have your character returned to their original group, though I'll admit there's a catch to it all.  If you don't contact me a second time with a link to an active thread, you're going right back where you started and losing your PB again.  Really, people, it is NOT that hard to stay active here.  If you didn't want to be here, then I should hope you wouldn't have joined, so help us keep this site going.  I deliberately used the dates I did because it gave everyone ample time to have been active in, and a lot of you still didn't make the cut.  Stay active, people, and let's get this site really rolling.

Speaking of the ad forum, I'd like everyone to welcome the newest member of the Night's Omen staff.  Lock is now the moderator of the Advertising forum, where she'll keep it looking shiny, and she'll also be handling profile histories in the future.  I will still be reading them for acceptance, but she'll be watching for major historical inconsistencies, mainly as far as real-life history is concerned.  We've had a lot of problems with histories that don't fit at ALL with the way it really happened, and so she'll be helping us remain accurate.

In other news, we also have a chat for Night's Omen!  This should help us in plotting and just generally getting to know all of our fellow players better.  Both new and existing players can join the chat at any time to ask questions or get involved.  The chat can be found here: Night's Omen Chat.

Once again, I'd like the throw out a welcome to all the new RPers we've been seeing lately, and encourage everyone to keep making them feel as welcome as you've been.  Great to see all the new threads and characters popping up, and with Lock on advertising and the chat up, hopefully we'll have plenty more!

Once again, anyone desiring access to the Broomcloset forums just needs to PM me.  They ARE still there, so if you had posts there, they didn't vanish, but the forums aren't visible unless you've been placed in a specific group to be granted access.  As long as you can convince me that you're 18 or older (I'm sure we really don't have those sorts of problems here, but just in case...), then you're good to go, and you only need to ask.  

Finally, and I know this is what everyone's always interested in seeing in these posts, here's our 'Want/Do Not Want' list.

Types of characters we want:

• Single Earth members
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  Humans
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  Vampires (Younger vampires only. Not all vampires are insanely old, and young vamps can be really fun.  This means 200 or younger, unless I give express permission.  No, that doesn't mean ask.)
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  Non-Hawk Avian shifters (Crows and Sparrows, baby!  They're getting so little love!)
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  Non-Cobra/White viper Serpiente shifters (Rat snakes, boas and pythons are cool, too!)
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  Pakana!  (Come on, hyenas are cool, and these ones are all touchy feely and cuddly.)

Types of characters we don't want:

• Falcon shapeshifters
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  Golden Hawk shapeshifters
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  Crossbreed shapeshifters
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  Made-up shifter breeds -- without admin approval for why they exist. If it's not on the shapeshifter list in the information forum, then it requires admin approval.  I don't bite.
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  Onyx trainees (There ARE other Guilds, you know.)
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  Old vamps (Anything older than 200 is going to require talking me into it, and it had better be effing awesome.)
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  Anything canon from another fandom
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  Anything that doesn't make SENSE.  This is a modern dark fantasy realm, people.  There are no fifteen year olds that can fight vampires, orphans are auto-fail, and superly-asian characters (even non-Asians who are super into the Asian thing are going to fall into this category.  There ARE other cultures.) will be refused.  This is NOT an anime story, and so anime characters will not be accepted.
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  Drama Llamas.  Seriously, guys, your character does NOT have to have a super depressing, tragic mary sue past to be interesting.  If you make a character like this, chances are pretty good that I'm going to tell you to tone down the drama and make a less cliched character.  Same with characters purely for smutty situations and ship characters.  Don't do it.  Just, don't.
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  This shouldn't be something I have to list here, but just to be safe...We follow the canon, while not actually touching the canon characters usually.  That means that none of the canons have any mysteriously lost children or other fandom-type stuff.  No, you can't be Jeshickah's daughter from before she was human, made into a vamp and even crazier than mommy.  No.  Unless you mention it to me and I don't start twitching and snap into an alternate consciousness that allows my body to go on a mass-killing spree, don't do it.  And if you don't KNOW that I won't do that and catch you in the crossfire, don't ask.
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  I've mentioned the 'Don't ask' policy a few times, but here it is in detail.  Don't ask.
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  If you don't follow this policy and you DO ask, I will give you an answer, and then an even more important policy comes into play.  Don't ask AGAIN.  While you may survive asking the first time, repeatedly hounding myself or one of my mods for something is the most surefire way to never get it.  Ever.  Everrrrrrr.