finalfantasyland | Announcement: Garden Festival & Booth Applications

Hello everyone! You might have seen some mentions of the Garden Festival before, but here's the official announcement --

ff_land's first ever Garden Festival will be held from August 1st to August 15th at our shiny new events community,

ff_eventsquare!

(If you go to that comm, though, it's just a sad and empty place for now, because we're not done setting up yet!)

So what's the Garden Festival? It's basically an excuse to throw a party :D Well, in all seriousness, it's actually so that non-members get a chance to see what it's like in

ff_land. Right now the only public communities are

ff_land,

ff_classchange, and

moogle_workshop. But for 15 days, there'll be tons of activities and games running, and everyone is welcome to participate, especially non-members!

Even better; if you've participated and decided that hey, it's a pretty fun thing, maybe I wanna join; you'll get to keep all of the prizes that you've won (in the form of game points)!

And for our current members, the Garden Festival is also a chance for you to run activities!

lightofeilia mentioned the booth system earlier in a post over at

airship_lounge, but basically the gist of it is that these activities and games mentioned above will be held in the form of booths/stalls, kind of like at a carnival. So if you have an idea for a booth and want to run it, you can apply at this post. There's also a suggestion thread in the comments if you have an idea but don't particularly want to run a booth.

If you don't have an idea but want to help out anyway, you can brainstorm on other suggestions and fill out a booth application later. If you just want to help out on someone else's booth, there's a helper application you can fill out and post as a reply to an existing booth application.

Booth Application Form

Helper Application Form

What's the reward for running booths? YOU GET GIL! Yes, shiny gil. Because of this, however, there'll be a limit to the number of booths that are gonna be held, just so that we don't overcrowd. We'll get back to you on the limit as soon as we see how many people are applying.

Schedule
Applications will be closed on July 15th. From July 16th to July 31st, all booth owners will be setting up their booths over at our events community. Then, we'll open the festival on the 1st of August.

Let's get those applications up and running!

Note: The events in

ff_eventsquare will be public, so you do not need to join it in order to participate in the Garden Festival. The only people that will be invited to it are those running a stand.

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Booth application
Name: Yin and Breyzy of

breyzyyin
Class: White Mage (Yin) and Soldier (Breyzy)
Booth Name: Speciality Job Class Rating Booth
Booth Info: Everyone has been sorted into Job Class Categories over at

ff_classchange, correct? So we know if we're Soldier, Thief/Ninja, Monk, Dragoon, Black Mage/Red Mage, White Mage/Summoner already. But there are SO many different job classes in the FF series! What if someone was a Samurai or a Dancer? A Time Mage or a Viking? A Paladin or a Dark Knight? A Geomancer or a Mimic? To those who want to find out what their secondary profession in the FF series might be, this booth is their best bet! ♥
Proposed Layout/Setup: Our booth would be set up with a general information section, guidelines for applying (such as being sure to vote on others who are also applying, etc.), a rating application...and perhaps a list of the jobs being considered for the rating itself (or a link to a wiki page for them, lolz). There would also be a stamped list for when members were stamped with a Job Class so others could see which job they were sorted into. Members would be encouraged to either post their application in a public entry on their own LJ and linking to it in a comment to the booth, or, if they felt more comfortable doing so, posting the entry in a comment itself...either way would work. Then others would vote on them from there! When a certain number for a majority is reached (probably five votes or perhaps more depending on how active the activity is)...that person will be announced stamped with the job profession others felt fit them the best.
Prizes/Participation: A shiny, shiny personalized stamp for each person who participates will be the main reward! ♥ But gil and points could be given depending on voting participation before a person is stamped and after...and perhaps some could also be given for applying as well. Not sure of how much would be a good amount for those yet. XD
On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being easy and 5 being difficult), how much work do you think will go into maintaining this booth?: ...With two of us and a potential other helper? 2 or 3 maybe, depending on how active the booth is or how inactive it could get (as either one presents some amount of challenge). Still, it would be fairly manageable with both of us there to help out. :D
If you answered 4 or 5 to the above question, would you want a helper to help you out?: N/A...though helpers could be pretty nice too, it just depends on where you feel they are needed more! :D

Alright, this should be good! I assume you'll start writing up the applications soon? You'll have a month from now, but yeah XD

Yes, we'll try to have them up for you soon! XD

Are you guys going to include Red Mage, Summoner, and Ninja in these? Since they're kinda secondary and don't usually figure in as much as the primary six? *is just curious*

My two cents as far as this goes... I think putting in Red Mage and Summoner at least would be a bit redundant. The main canonical Red Mages we know of are listed under Black Mage (I don't think there are that many pure Red Mages outside of games with job class systems?), and same thing goes with Summoners (with the exception of Rydia, the other main canon summoners are also White Mages). Ninja might work separately but the only main named Ninja that has a vastly different personality from a Thief is Shadow, I think? And maybe some of the FFIV:TAY ninja characters but I wouldn't know.

We weren't originally planning on it, actually. Summoners usually always figure into White Mage votes (with the exception of Rydia)...although we weren't sure totally about Red Mage and Ninja! O_O Hmm...it seems like Tako prefers keeping Red Mage out, so maybe we should keep Ninja out too (with the exception of Shadow, they're all pretty Thief-like...so it might give the Thieves who apply a chance to get something different! XD). ♥

Why don't you just do like c_s and allow any job title to come into play and make the stamps on the spot? Or is that way too much work?

We were actually, but not for the ones originally on

ff_classchange because there wouldn't be much variety for members (that's why we were calling it the "secondary profession" rating...so it wouldn't include the jobs that are the "primary" ones here). We thought the idea for the rating booth was specifically for the job classes that didn't make the sorting cut? If that's not the case, then we'd be happy to include all of them. ♥

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