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The Curtains Are Closing...

It’s been quite an adventure here on Fifteen Minutes RPG, one that’s lasted about a year and a half, and Mods Kina and Rach would like to say thank you to everyone who has been apart of the show. It’s been a wild ride, and a lot of fun, but unfortunately, this group is taking its final bows.

What does that mean for its members? Well, roleplayers are still welcome to use the dashboard and their blogs to post and interact with each other, but the group, itself, will no longer be actively run. More info on this can be found in our last post on the subject, here. It’s sad to see it go, but it’s had a long run, and main pages, blogs, and the AIM chat will all stay standing, and members are more than welcome to roleplay on or off of the dash with each other. 

Thank you to everyone who has made this one of our most successful groups yet and we wish everyone the best in their IC and OOC endeavors moving forward. We love you!

Hello everyone! A bit of an elephant in the room here, but we figured it was time we address it: Fifteen Minutes RPG seems to be on its final days. Activity isn’t what it used to be, everyone who is making efforts to be on still has a lot to do in their real world lives, and that’s all completely understandable. This sentiment is not necessarily a final one as we could always pick up the group and revive it, but if not, we just wanted to clear the air about what would happen in case the group really does die out here.

While the roleplay, itself, would technically and officially be “closed”, that doesn’t mean that the people and characters within it would be forbidden from continuing to write within it. Obviously it would be a power trip for us to say anyone is forbidden from posting on their blogs and roleplaying with each other from that point forward--and we wouldn’t want to put that in place, anyway. It would be sad to see this group, a group that we’ve all been a part of for a year an a half now, no longer be in our lives, so anyone would still be welcome to use their characters and do what they like on the dashboard. For the most part, it would just mean that the main pages would be shut down; perhaps an exception would come about here and there, but it wouldn’t be actively run anymore, so things such as regular upkeep, queued birthdays, monthly event posts, etc. would no longer come about. It would also mean not to expect the active attendance of people within the group, as remaining involved in it would be strictly by choice and in no way an obligation (so seeing others around would be a treat, but don’t necessarily expect it). Other than that, everything would still stand as is. We mods have no intention of deleting any main blogs or character blogs, and if those within the group still want to interact and even make new characters, the group would function more as a freestanding indie group rather than a structured roleplay group, the survival of which would be determined by those who choose to stick around. The AIM group will obviously still stay standing as well as it’s more of an OOC social gathering than a RP function, and we have no intention of losing touch with our fellow members of this group, even if it goes.

However, this future is not set in stone. Mods Kina and Rach are willing to put in some last efforts to see what comes about and depending on the turnout and how it makes us feel, we’ll decide the fate of Fifteen Minutes RPG at a later time. Today, it still exists in the same way it has been, and we even have a few event posts and such in store, so adjust your activity according to your hopes for this group and stay tuned! 

We love you all very much and will no matter what happens moving forward. If we really are on our way out, let’s go out with a bang.

PLOT RETCON NOTICE

Hello everyone! This is just a notice to all Fifteen Minutes RPG members to observe the following plot changes moving forward in the group:

Charlie Gallagher: He is no longer a father. Whether or not Artemis still has a baby can be determined by her roleplayer but Charlie’s role in the plot as the baby’s father has been erased entirely and information for the baby would have to be resubmitted to the main page as her presence as Fawn Gallagher is no longer canon. This means that so far (most likely until Dean’s child is born), no child in the immediate Gallagher family is currently an uncle/aunt. This also means that Charlie has not been staying mostly at the Cole residence and has mostly been at home or working to save up for his own place, which can now be to blame for the times he hasn’t been around to socialize rather than raising the baby. Although fatherhood had been specified as the reason for some of the softening of Charlie’s personality, especially in situations relating to his ex-girlfriend, it can now be attributed to time passing as well as support from his friends.

From this point on, these plot adjustments are now stated as canon and characters connected to them should be address them accordingly. If there are any questions or if other reliant plots/connections need to be adjusted, feel free to ask anyone involved how to move forward. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate all cooperation moving forward!

Hey everybody! With the holiday season coming around, we decided to keep it classic with one of our warm and fuzzy favorite AU weeks, so from Sunday, November 13 @ 12 AM EST to Monday, November 21st @ 12 AM EST, the group will take place 10 years into the future; The year is 2026, marijuana is legal nationwide, there are scientific advancements towards same-sex couples having babies, the debate over legalizing prostitution has become the new hot button issue, and your characters are all ten years older and–maybe–wiser. Where have they gone in that time? What’s changed? What’s the same? That’s for you to decide!

Remember, though that this AU week is like every other, so it is typically based on wherever your characters stand now and its effects do not necessarily have to carry on the same way the next time we have this AU week (but if you choose to keep things the same, that’s up to you!). It also doesn’t have to be in any way like the future week you adopted in the last AU. There is no pressure for continuity when it comes to any AU weeks, including future ones (though if you want to keep things the same, that’s cool, too!). If you do not want to participate in this AU week, that is allowed, but be sure to inform anyone whose plots may rely on yours so that they can potentially figure something else out. Similarly, if you do want to participate, be sure to discuss what you’d like to do with your fellow roleplayers, otherwise they might figure things out without you!

A few notes based on our recent experiences with future weeks: don’t worry too much about being completely canon with your character’s future if something has changed or isn’t fully in place yet. If you’ve changed your mind about something, if your character’s endgame isn’t in the group yet, or something else that plays a crucial role in your character’s future, just plot something different. It may not be what you truly see happening to your character in 10 years, but it at least opens you up to enjoy your week without feeling stuck, underplotted, or by yourself. Also if you have characters without endgames–whether it’s because they’re not in the group yet, they’re not active, or you just don’t have an endgame set at all–come up with some new ships for the week! It doesn’t mean that you have to stick with them or that original endgames are no longer in place, plus it might make for some good ship test driving. As stated previously, nothing you do in one future week has to stay for the next ones. The main importance is to have fun and enjoy your time with your fellow roleplayers writing in a different time for your characters, so don’t stress out, just enjoy yourself! We’d also like to note that as of today, there is a little over 2 weeks before the AU starts, so use that time wisely; talk to your fellow roleplayers, come up with ideas–get prepared so that you won’t feel lost when the week begins. It’s way easier to enjoy your week if you know what you’re doing with it!

To help get into characters and give everyone some more insight on what this AU means for your characters, you might want to prepare some things to post once the AU begins. Here are a few suggestions:

• Pick a new profile picture to better depict where your characters are now • Change your characters’ profile description, and maybe even their URL if they’ve had any name changes • Post mini bios to explain what your characters; life is like in this AU. You can even fill out the following survey to do this: -Name: -Age: -Current Work/School: -Current Living Situation: -Relationship Status (and to who!): -Any kids (and with who!): -Any notable physical differences (hair changes, tattoos/piercings, body, etc.): -Any notable personality differences (self-esteem, priorities, hobbies, etc.): • Post some pictures that show importances in your characters’ lives, like the way they look now, their partner, their pets

With that all in mind, have fun, everyone! We can’t wait to see what you all come up with.

Hey everyone, we have some big info and little info, so please be sure to read this entire post and like it to let me know who is and isn’t paying attention.

We’re going to start by thanking everyone who has been involved with the group in some way shape or form lately, whether participating in events, interacting on the dash, or just actively talking to everyone on the OOC AIM chats. We really appreciate it! 

However, as all of you may have noticed, many of the posts that have been made lately for events have included warnings about inactive characters being excluded, and our right as mods to do so. We would like to take the time now to make a blanket statement that unexcused inactivity in general can and may result in any of the following: 

- Plots and ships involving inactive characters to be changed/scrapped (this goes without saying as it is in our rules, but as a reminder) - Characters being excluded from events - Characters being unfollowed without Roleplayer consent - Roleplayers ultimately being removed from the group without notice

If any of this seems unfair, please keep in mind that in most roleplay groups, characters are unfollowed after weeks of inactivity, and there are many in this group that have been inactive for months. 

If you are going to be inactive for a valid reason, please inform one or both of the mods about it so that we may excuse your absence! Being busy is a valid excuse as real life takes priority over fictional life, however, we can’t know that you’re too busy to join us if you don’t contact us about it (and if you do so and then end up participating in online/roleplay activities elsewhere, it invalidates the excuse altogether). We are a very lenient group but the mods here don’t enjoy being taken advantage of, nor do we want to waste our own time including characters that aren’t even active participants in the group anymore. And when members of this group have gone so far as to contact us by phone to let us know why they currently aren’t available for the roleplay, it makes it kind of insulting for others to just drop off and not even let us know when and if they are going to return. We can’t know you’re still interested in this group if you don’t talk to us about it, so after a certain amount of time--and we do give it a lot of time--we have to take the decision into our own hands.

If at any point your character is unfollowed and you want them to return to the group, you will have to prove your activity in the group before we will grant that. However, we cannot promise that the faceclaims will still be available, and any characters that are premade (as in not originally written by the roleplayer whose version is being unfollowed) can be given to other roleplayers. For example, if I write the character of Jack and Sally plays him but goes inactive, we have the right to unfollow Sally’s Jack and give the character to Rose.

We’d like to think we’re all friends here at Fifteen Minutes RPG, so we would appreciate being treated with respect, and when decisions like this are made, having them be understood and respected as well. 

Now, with that aside, some routine maintenance to the main pages has been performed and we have some missing info. To see if we need anything from you, please check below the cut and get the info to us ASAP! 

We appreciate everyone’s cooperation and look forward to all of the events in store for this group this season!

Annnnd we’re back to the canon! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our second ever Psycho Murderer AU week! It was a whole lot of fun and we hope you guys enjoyed it as much as we did, but now we’re back to the canon timeline and no one’s dead–well, hopefully. What have your characters been up to over the course of this past week? Did any drama go down? Did anything new come up? That’s for you to decide and show everyone. Can’t wait to see what Chaplin Cove’s been up to while we were all casually RPing  everybody’s deaths in an alternate universe. Hopefully nothing comes back to haunt us!

Just a reminder that our Psycho Murderer AU will begin AT MIDNIGHT!  From 12 AM EST on Sunday, October 9th to 12 AM EST on Monday, October 17th, Chaplin Cove will be thrown into a Psycho Murderer AU! Someone, one or more of the characters you all know from the group, has taken on the role of a crazy killer and is bumping off the townspeople one by one. Will your character be one of the first to go, or will they have to try to outrun the killer? That’s what we’ll find out!

For more information, please refer to our original post here. It’s gonna be quite a horrific week, so watch your back!

Hey everyone! October is here and so is the return of one of our favorite AU weeks ever, so try not to make any plots or commitments for the next couple of weeks; From 12 AM EST on Sunday, October 9th to 12 AM EST on Monday, October 17th, Chaplin Cove will be thrown into a Psycho Murderer AU! Someone, one or more of the characters you all know from the group, has taken on the role of a crazy killer and is bumping off the townspeople one by one. Will your character be one of the first to go, or will they have to try to outrun the killer? That’s what we’ll find out!

We all remember last year’s fondly, but here’s a refresher on how this is going to work: a character has already been nominated, so if it’s not one of yours, you don’t know who it is. Throughout the week, we’ll have a stream of posts from the temp blog announcing the deaths of certain characters, most likely with small blurbs loosely explaining their death. Any of your characters can die at any given moment, so again we must state, do not make any plots for this week! You could have an idea and then your character can die before it’s executed, so to keep from any disappointments, don’t have anything in mind. By the end of the week, we’ll announce who the killer was, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to see everyone, IC and OOC, trying to figure it out along the way!

We are going to assume that everyone is participating in this AU, and is therefore agreeing to be used in its plots, unless we are told otherwise, so if you would like to pull any or all of your characters from the week, let us know ASAP so we won’t include anyone that doesn’t want to be included. We know that it’s a heavy theme (though it will be executed somewhat comically) and not everyone is into horror/crime, but we need to be told in order to know who to pull from the week!

And of course, the blogging from beyond the grave has returned! We’re going to establish (and this is an example of the comedic side of this AU week) a side of Tumblr meant for the dead. It’s called Tombler, and it’s only among those who have been killed. To establish that your character is talking on this social-media-for-the-dead, we request you tag any of their posts after your character dies with TOMBLER (preferably in all caps to make sure you get people’s attention, ja feel). Other social media platforms reformed for the dead, such as Instagrave, can also be in place, but please still tag them as TOMBLER for clarity.

Only the living can talk to the living and only the dead can talk to the dead except for a few special exceptions, which will be the poltergeists. This year, due to less roleplayers and more characters, poltergeists will be elected twoper roleplayer! We will make a note of who becomes one in their death notice so you’ll know who’s been decided of yours. Please do not break this rule by making someone else of yours able to communicate with the living. We did put thought into who has this ability and would rather not have it disrespected.

A few more notes: The killer will be wearing a black ski mask and clothing, so even though everyone who dies will have seen their killer, they won’t know what s/he looks like. Feel free to discuss the murderer or anything else during this week. Though the main point of the AU is to escape the psycho killer, life does go on in the meantime, so don’t feel obligated to post nothing that doesn’t have to do with the town murders. Also, please be sure to tag your trigger warnings, as there are sure to be many this week, and feel free to have deceased characters connect with people from their lives that they’ve lost! This might be one of the only chances you get to write your character associating with a late friend, relative, child, or even pet!

Finally, some notes about character involvement. First of all, starting now, there will be a new character ban until the end of the AU week, simply because we’re going to be writing up the death notes for the characters involved so adding new characters means fitting them into what we’ve already written. Any new characters can be posted as soon as Monday, October 17 when the AU is over, so talk to one or both of the mods if you want anyone followed at that point! Second, not every character is going to die, and for a few reasons. For some, it’s because we can’t find a connection between every single character and the killer(s). Last year we struggled with connecting every single character to our murderer, so while we’re going to try and get as many victims as possible, some might make it out alive. However, we also reserve the right to intentionally exclude certain characters for activity purposes. If you haven’t been on much, or if you haven’t been on certain characters much, you might find your characters not involved in the AU. To be fair, we can’t tell you’re going to be participating if you haven’t been for a while, so it would feel like a waste to spend time using your characters if you aren’t using them, yourself.

If you guys have anymore questions, let us know! We look forward to seeing everyone play this out and get a little spooky with us for October!