What Even Is This Place?

And if you could make sense of that, kudos.

But you came here for answers, if I have my guess correct.  What is with this Bakery place and what the hell is with the dire warning on the tin?

Well, I can at least tell you where it all started and where it's going and you can decide if it makes sense from there on out.

Belial: Yes, do explain.  I am certain we would all be delighted to find how you intend to extrapolate sense from this... catastrophic failure of all intelligent reasoning.

Jacien: I'm no expert, but I'd almost say that sounded rude.

And you'd be right, Jacien.  Belial is being an ass.

But Belial's usually an ass!  We kind of expect that around these parts.

ANYWAY.  Before I was interrupted, I was going to talk about the history of the Bomb Shelter and the Bakery in particular.

Honestly, I'd planned the Bomb Shelter months in advance as an April Fools prank on the site.  I didn't expect it to be popular enough to stick around and be useful.

Khareesh: If it's any consolation, the creators of the first internet memes probably thought the same thing.

True enough, I suppose.  What started out as a prank grew legs and started walking around on its own halfway through my planning time.  The Bakery itself was an homage to Cake Wrecks, and a speedbonding I ran on our previous RP site that featured a bakery that produced wrecks and ONLY wrecks.  As if an homage to an homage isn't a wreck in and of itself.

All of this and you have yet to either make sense of this mess or get to the point.  You begin to test even my patience, and I am a very patient creature.

You're certainly not being very patient now.  What's the matter, did you not get your coffee this morning-please don't kill me help I think the devil's gonna kill me~

If you haven't figured out by now that he's contractually obligated *not to*, you are nowhere near as resourceful or intelligent or intuitive as your profile would lead us all to believe, Khareesh.  I mean, someone has to be the bearer of awkward honesty.  It might as well be me.  You don't need to like me anyway.

And that's good, because at this rate, I think I don't.

AHEM.  If you boys are done derailing my post?

As you can see, we seem to have put a crack in the Fourth Wall.

I'd call it more than a crack.

That too.  But the Sundered Weyr has had, from the beginning, clearly outlined IC and OOC sections...but what about a place to blur the lines and throw the usual rules out the window?  What if your characters could come together over poorly-spelled cake to criticize you personally about your choices regarding their lives?

That's right, the Bakery is an In-Character place...with Out of Character rules.

I somehow doubt you thought this through particularly well.

You're complaining.  You can call me an idiot to my face and you're complaining.

He wouldn't be happy if I hanged him with a new rope.  Some people are just impossible to please, you know?

But.  The Bakery is a bubble outside of space and time where our characters are aware of each other, and us, and our plans for them.  They can come gawk at the atrocious cake decorating and complain about their writers!  Or, you know, any other futzing with the Fourth Wall you happen to want to do.

It's crazy, it's chaos, it's fun.

FUN, says the guy with plans to kill my sister!

Well, not for a while yet.  And you won't remember when you walk out that door, so it doesn't really matter too much now does it?

So pull up a thread and start an RP conversation with serious OOC twists and ramifications!  Talk to your own characters!  Talk to other players' characters as a player and not through your own characters!  The possibilities are endless.  :3