(Not So) Top Secret Inugami Sports Day Post

[theoryandcalculation]

Hey guys! Since I got mostly enthusiastic response (yay!), I'm making this post so we can all discuss without playing telephone.

My PM, in case you need a refresher or are new to the conversation:

Every second Monday in October (the 12th this year) is Health And Sports Day in Japan, basically a public holiday promoting fitness and an active lifestyle that involves things like sports festivals and track and field days at schools and in communities. It includes both sports and races and other fun games like the three legged race, tug-of-war, obstacle courses, etc.

I had the idea today (a week away, I know) to have a mini-sports festival for Inugami as well! Basically a mingle log that would start with short demonstrations for clubs (just something written up, you wouldn't have to RP it) about what the club is about and then the mingle would have "stations" set up so people could RP their characters running a three legged race together or playing tug of war against each other or a 1-on-1 game of basketball or whatever. Nothing too formal (no brackets or anything, just prompts for RPing).

ICly it would be for club recruitment but also to somewhat subtly (or not so subtly) advertise the ways people have to defend and train themselves for fighting back against attacking native students/running the heck away from monsters. And for a bit of fun since everyone could use some.

I wanted to gauge interest in this from club heads before bringing it up to the larger OOC body on the OOC comm, so if you think you (or other people in your club) would be interested in something like this, please get back with me! I do know it's only two days after new arrivals, so we can also play with moving the date around (I just said the 12th since it is the holiday, but Inugami is Weird and we can be weird too). If a lot of people are interested but would rather wait for November when there won't be new arrivals, we can work with that too, I just wanted to see if anyone would be interested at all!

So from the responses I got back, the main concern from everyone was timing. I got one vote for November but most people seemed concerned about doing a mingle log two days after intro, so as I see it that's the biggest thing to decide at the moment. Options as I see them:

• The mods have offered to let us have it in place of the normal mingle intro on the 10th, but we would need to put it together quickly and make sure it's newbie accessible!


• Have it the 12th (2 days after newbie intros, but on the actual holiday in Japan)


• Have it later in the month (there's a call for an event around the 21st and a Halloween party on the 31st so we won't want to go over those) - I might suggest just later that same week, like around the 14th or 16th


• Have it in November

Other things to work out include the stations and demos. I'll include stuff about that in some subcomments.

It sounds like a lot but I don't think it will be. Thanks for your interest, everyone!! Let's make a great sports day!! \o/