Poetry Fair - Discussion Thread

[Akkaido Kivikar]

Wow, your planning is so meticulous, you don't really see the effort till it's all posted up for everyone to see.

[Aiwendil]

I knew it...okay, second version after dealing with the picky comments (Yes, it really looks better this way, I know)

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                 THE EXPLORERS
              in collaboration with the
        RED CRYSTAL ORGANIZATION
                     present the

                   POETRY FAIR

           Have a weakness for poetry?

Then visit the Explorers' Outpost on the [24th
of October at 8pm utc] for our Poetry Fair.
Several poets will present their works and
catering won't be missing!

    Food provided by the Stonehead Tavern.
Fine with this Mordaan? Then we should try to get them put up as soon as possible.

[Mordaan]

Ok, looks great!  I'll create the books and will look to get them but up in various places as soon as possible.  Thanks again for your efforts.

[Sarras Volcae]

unfortunately I can't make it, sorry 

[Aiwendil]

Just a short update on the ToDo list.
Posters posted in the event thread, the Hydlaa Message board and the Gugrontid Message board.

ToDo list

• IC talk with Mordaan about all this - DONE
  
• A poster for the forums - DONE
  
• IC and OOC contact with the Stonehead about the food - DONE
  
• Hiring some people ICly to transport the food and drinks to the camp - Job offer POSTED (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Caraick - Applied IC (pending to see if his char will be healthy
• Finding guards (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Anaros - Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done
  • Remyl - Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done
  • Suati - Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done (and not really sure if she has time)
• Finding poets (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Beronden - Applied OOCly, IC talk half done (needs more infos after the IC talk with Mordaan)
  • Lace - Applied ICly, talk half done (needs more infos after the IC talk with Mordaan)
  • Jonoth - Applied OOCly, no IC talk done yet
• Finding barkeepers (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Stelanso - DONE
• Getting at least the OOC permission of some writers to read their poems (IC would be even better) - Illysia allowed us to read her poems OOCly (Aiwendil/Lhaa/Mordaan)
  
• Including the Stonehead in the event thread for the help with the food - DONE
  
• Asking GMs to fix poster for us - All agreed, so contact the GMs about it. I suggest 6 posters in hydlaa (each gate, Library, Harnquist, Kada El's, Red Crystal Den) and three in Gugrontid (Malco, Blacksmith, Stonehead tavern).(Mordaan)
  

Edit: changed the in-game posters point

[Geoni]

I would have applied for to read poetry, though if i were to do it, then i would like to have poems that are IC. I found out to late now to make all of the preparations and writing. I am not so sure about making shortcuts for saying things that consist of multiple quatrains/paragraphs, though i will be more than happy to attend. I wish that i could have done the poetry in time.

[Marqsaynt]

I would have applied for to read poetry, though if i were to do it, then i would like to have poems that are IC. I found out to late now to make all of the preparations and writing. I am not so sure about making shortcuts for saying things that consist of multiple quatrains/paragraphs, though i will be more than happy to attend. I wish that i could have done the poetry in time.

Never too late! (Except after the 24th ) I'm sure some great poems have been written in a fraction of the time and under much more adverse conditions. If you want to write a poem, go for it, don't let a short deadline hold you back.

Hmm...

"There once was a Kran from Nantucket..."

[Dralion1221]

"There once was a Kran from Nantucket..."

Oh dear....

Anyways, I'm not sure if I am able to make it. I'll be there if I can.

Dralion puts on her glasses and squints. "Now about those 5 different projects I have to do that are due next week...."

[Lhaa]

I would have applied for to read poetry, though if i were to do it, then i would like to have poems that are IC. I found out to late now to make all of the preparations and writing. I am not so sure about making shortcuts for saying things that consist of multiple quatrains/paragraphs, though i will be more than happy to attend. I wish that i could have done the poetry in time.

Hey now, we aren't asking for novels now.
You have time to write, a day should be enough for a poem. Or if you like to write often perhaps you can do the workshop we'd have liked to run if... any of the poets was a bit more active.

As for the shortcuts, we tend to use one per command but for poems I guess you can join a few every shortcut, just have to make sure (again) that you are slow enough for people to catch up and deal with all tabs while they read your poem. Would look something like this:

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    <shortcut01 name="POEM 1"><![CDATA[/shout line1
/shout line2
/shout line3
/shout line4]]></shortcut01>
    <shortcut02 name="POEM 2"><![CDATA[/shout line1
/shout line2
/shout line3
/shout line4]]></shortcut02>
    <shortcut03 name="POEM 3"><![CDATA[/shout line1
/shout line2
/shout line3
/shout line4]]></shortcut03>
...etc...


Staff list:

• Announcer - Mordaan
  
• Poets/Reader - Lace, Daichie, Beronden, Awendil/Lhaa (backups)
  
• Guards - Anaros, Suati/Hevore/Caraick (unconfirmed), Haraun (backup)
  
• Barkeeper - Stelanso, Domec, Lhaa/Aiwendil (backups)
  
• Lector - None
  

ToDo list:

• Hiring some people ICly to transport the food and drinks to the camp - (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Caraick - DONE
• Finding guards (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Anaros - Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done
  • Caraick- Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done
  • Hevore- Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done
  • Suati - Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done (and not really sure if she has time)
• Finding poets (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Beronden - Applied OOCly, IC talk half done (needs more infos after the IC talk with Mordaan)
  • Lace - Applied ICly, talk half done (needs more infos after the IC talk with Mordaan)
  • Daichie - DONE
• Finding barkeepers (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - DONE
  
  • Domec - DONE
  • Stelanso - DONE
• Getting at least the OOC permission of some writers to read their poems (IC would be even better) - Illysia allowed us to read her poems OOCly (Aiwendil/Lhaa/Mordaan)
  
• Asking GMs to fix poster for us - DONE
  

[LigH]

Gag Harmond already offered support for e.g. carrying food IC (remember the fountain meeting, Lhaa).

Boy, this tea gets more expensive each day...

[Aiwendil]

Okay, we transported the drink to the camp. So everything is prepared now. I have a Kran alt there holding all the stuff.

And to make it clear, this is no RCO event. Of course all people who want to read a poem are welcomed to do so, even if they didn't apply. We only did the applying because we wanted to make sure to have at least some poets there. So if you have a poem ready in shortcuts feel free to come and read it.

For the event I suggest that we put all barkeepers, announcers, guards and poets in a OOC group to help with the organization. We used to do that in the Den for our events and it turned out to help a lot if people are poked OOCly as well before they should get on stage.

Seems we have to do without the Lector. Not really a problem, It was just a nice to have.

Staff list:
unconfirmed

• Announcer - Mordaan
  
• Poets/Reader - Lace, Daichie (unconfirmed), Beronden, Awendil/Lhaa (backups)
  
• Guards - Anaros, Suati (unconfirmed), Hevore (unconfirmed), Caraick (unconfirmed), Haraun (backup)
  
• Barkeeper - Stelanso, Domec, Lhaa/Aiwendil (backups)
  
• Lector - None
  

ToDo list:

• Hiring some people ICly to transport the food and drinks to the camp - DONE
  
• Finding guards (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Anaros - Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done
  • Caraick- Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done
  • Hevore- Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done
  • Suati - Applied OOCly, IC talk needs to be done (and not really sure if she has time)
• Finding poets (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - (Aiwendil/Lhaa)
  
  • Beronden - Applied OOCly, IC talk half done (needs more infos after the IC talk with Mordaan)
  • Lace - Applied ICly, talk half done (needs more infos after the IC talk with Mordaan)
  • Daichie - DONE (Not sure if he can make it)
• Finding barkeepers (if someone applies OOCly playing it out IC...otherwise preferable IC) - DONE
  
  • Domec - DONE
  • Stelanso - DONE
• Getting at least the OOC permission of some writers to read their poems (IC would be even better) - Illysia allowed us to read her poems OOCly (Aiwendil/Lhaa/Mordaan)
  

[edit: Forgot something, I will create an IRC channel for the event tomorrow in case of a server crash. I will post the channel name here after I created it]

[bloodedIrishman]

I have bad news. I am unable to attend and read my poetry. I am without internet at my home, unfortunately. Until this thursday.

[LigH]

Funny - I can't find "lector" as english term in http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de ... but I believe that you guessed the german term to exist, as "publisher's editor".

It may not be the same ... but I will try to ensure that one of the Knowledge Seekers will be there, to offer authors a review of their poetry for Jayose's expanded library, if they like.
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Thanks to an anonymous messenger, I got sources of different meanings - e.g. a native speaking foreign language teacher, or a lesson reader in a church.

About Akkaido's remark below: Well, that could be even better matching.

[Akkaido Kivikar]

I assumed they mean "Lecturer", someone to give out a lecture on how to write PlaneShift poetry IC.

[Aiwendil]

Sorry, leo.org gave me this, so I used the word. But I'm not a native english speaker so I guess that was wrong .