You should know that your pic is more terrifying than any of the horrors that I've every seen on /x/.

Anyway, I've been working on /mu/ quite a bit. In the wiki it says that /r9k/ opens up the three rooms that /b/ had been hording to himself, so I was thinking that /mu/ and two other new characters would move into them almost immediately (I suggest /tv/ and /fa/). I've also got a character card almost ready for him, but I'll wait and see who's all here before I post it.

P.S. I've changed my name. "Ordinary /x/ile" was just a joke and I'm probably the only person who got it.

Well I'm happy to see somebody showed at least.
I wasn't sure if everybody would check their email in time.
I've got /tg/ /co/ and /x/ open right now in hopes of recognizing a name I'm missing.
I realized that Black Mesa Janitor never contacted me, and he was a big part of this.

Sadly don't have a great deal of time to spend here, but I'm here!

It seems everyone has their own area or categories they're working on?

Well, we never assigned anything to anybody, we were just working on whatever interested us most.
For instance, I did most of the work on /d/ because that's the board I frequent most often.
I say just work on whatever you're comfortable with, and offer suggestions when you can.
I haven't been working on it alot in the interim, but I've still got a few ideas lying around somewhere.

For the benefit of anyone who may be unfamiliar with the project so far : http://1d4chan.org/wiki/4_chan_anime should bring you up to speed.

Here's one of the old floorplan pics so we've got a better idea what we're working with.
I had suggested putting /mu/ and /o/'s rooms down by the garage, but that wasn't really agreed to.
/m/ is definitely down there though, and I think /n/ might make sense if /o/ does.
We'll probably have to rework the floorplan eventually, given that we keep adding characters.
We're probably pretty close to finishing off those that make sense to use though.
Alot of the boards really don't get that much traffic, or don't fit that easily into the story.

>>11211
Did I ever mention how much I hate pictures fucking with my text formatting?
I figured I'd go ahead and start to slowly work out another story.
Here's part one for your consideration.

/co/ is coming back from the kitchen with a midnight snack, when he notices the lights still on in /tg/'s room.
As he passes the doorway, he notices that it's cracked open just a bit so he decides to take a peek.
/tg/ and /d/ are sitting next to eachother at the gaming table in /tg/'s room and talking, each with a rulebook in front of them.
/co/ rolls his eyes and thinks to himself "I can't believe he still wants to run a game with her after what happend last time."
As /co/ starts to walk away, he's halted by a sudden burst of laughter from the pair inside the room.
Now his curiosity is piqued, and he returns his eyes to the slit of light coming through the doorway.

>>11212
/co/ watches as they take turns flipping through their books and pointing out pages to eachother as they struggle to contain their laughter.
"No way she's rolling up a character." thought /co/ "But what's so damn funny about a couple of rulebooks?"
/co/ gets a startled look on his face as he realizes that he was leaning on the door too hard, and it had managed to swing open.
"What are you doing hanging in the door /co/?" asks /tg/ "We're picking out the system for the next campaign. Maybe you can help us decide."
/d/ smirks at the invitation and shoves her book in front of /tg/'s face, her finger on a rolling table, and laughter bubbles out from them once again.
/co/'s curiosity overwhelming him, he grabs /tg/'s book off the table, and turns it so he can read the cover. He is greeted by the letters F.A.T.A.L.
"I've never heard of this one before. What one have you got /d/?" Tears rolling down her cheeks, she hands it to /co/? "What the hell is Black Tokyo?"

That's all I've got for now. Just typed it in a few minutes.
I'll hold off on the stories until we can get a few more posts in here.
Good to see we've still got a few people who'll be showing up though.

>>11218

So, this kind of proves the whole "we need all the semi-interested anons that we had at 4chan" thing, doesn't it?

>>11220
I've always known that we needed them.
I didn't really give everybody fair warning that this was going on tonight though.
I'm just putting this here until helpful /co/mrade can get this figured out with /co/
In the meantime, this thread probably isn't going anywhere.
Things might move a little more slowly, but we don't have to stop entirely for now.
As long as we can get a few people posting and in the mood again we're doing just fine.

Holy shit, X-tan. Nice to see you guys chugging along on this, it was always a pretty fun idea.

Aha, I'm late to the party, as always. Sorry about that, turns out my msn signed me out without me noticing >_<

Ah, excellent. Nice to see we've finally got a place to take this again. Sorry about not being here earlier, my sleep schedule is so bizarre I have no idea when I'll be awake anymore. In any case, though, I know a great drawfag who'd be willing to help us get some shit done for this project. I'll send her the info if she ever gets her lazy ass online. As usual, I'm not sure how much I can really contribute, but I'll do what I can. I'm just glad we have a place to discuss this without people whining about this being "too meta" and "not /tg/ related."

Also, Victimless Crime... of all the images available to you, you picked that one?

http://pride-kun.deviantart.com/

This is the DA account of the drawfag I mentioned. She also happens to be my sister, so I'm fairly sure I can convince her to crank us out some nice art, even if it's just a few yonkoma-style comic strips.

>>11238
>>11248
I thought you'd appreciate the humor of that picture Darc. It was an April Fool's joke after all.
It looks like your sister is a pretty good artist too. Any idea on what she might draw specifically?
I might try my hand at drawing a few things, but I don't know how in the hell it'll work out.
I haven't drawn anything since high school, and I haven't had an art lesson since grade school, so some practice is probably in order.
That, and there's the fact that I have neither a scanner, nor a drawing pad, which leaves me with either photos or drawing with my mouse.
I'll probably be doodling random things while I'm on the computer tonight, just to prove to myself whether or not it's actually worth sharing.

>>11249
The image is funny enough, it's just... kinda creepy. As far as the art goes, I'll probably direct her to the 1d4chan article of writefaggotry and see if she wants to illustrate one of them. Knowing her, she will, as long as she finds it funny.

>>11250
That'll probably rule out anything I've written.
Most of my jokes are in-jokes aimed at specific boards or board events.
Of course they might not be that funny in the first place either.
I've been doing a little bit of work on re-writing the previous "CoC game night" comic.
I'm hoping we can get a few people in here together at some point and get some more submissions finalized.
I don't like to be the only one posting stories/writeups, because I'd rather have the group's input.

Oooh, there's replies! Your sister's pretty good Darc.

>>11251
I'm going to try a bit of writefaggotry sometime either tonight or tomorrow, assuming inspiration strikes. I just hope it's better than the last one I wrote...

Here's what I've got so far of the reworked version.
I'm hoping I can get a measure of comedy to work in it, but you won't see it here.

Scene: /tg/ /co/ /x/ and /d/ are all sitting at the gaming table in /tg/'s room playing CoC.
/tg/ is sitting on one side, hidden behind a GM screen, and /co/ /x/ and /d/ are on the other.
/co/ and /d/ are sitting next to eachother, and /x/ is seperated from /d/ by an array of charms and "study materials" on the table.

/tg/: "The earth trembles and quakes as the ground before you fractures, straining against a force from below."
"You freeze in horror at the sight before you, as a mass of oozing black tentacles erupts from the earth."
"As they emerge from the depths, multiplying in number and growing in size, they reach out to grasp at your vulnerable flesh."

I wouldn't mind a little bit of clearing up as to the nature of relationship between /d/ and /v/. I mean, /d/ seems to pounce on /v/ a lot. Any reason why? Or just luck of the draw?

>>11257
Are we talking board wise, or character wise?
I don't recall alot of discussion regarding /v/ and /d/ together.

>>11258
Character. And not as an item since that's /a/'s role. I just kind of recall at least twice /d/ dragged /v/ off for whatever. I was just wondering the nature of their relationship if there is one at all or if this was just random/bad luck for /v/.

>>11250
I'm the guy who drew OP's pic. I decided to draw a picture of X-tan that is less creepy for ya.

I don't really have any ideas for this, but it certainly is interesting to follow.

>>11259
To the best of my knowledge, it was just bad luck on /v/'s part.
I don't believe that /d/ and /v/ really have much of a connection (so far).
We certainly haven't really written much about any sort of relationship that they would have.
That's not to say that they couldn't have one, but we haven't gone that direction just yet.

>>11263
Good to see we've caught your attention, and thanks for the pic.
If you're ever in the mood, we'd welcome any contributions you have.

If anyone's interested, someone from /ck/ came over because they heard /tg/ misses her or something like that. Not canon of course but maybe /ck/ could try to make a consolitary meal for /tg/? The /ck/ who posted was giving us some kind of recipe that had rose petal jam and skim milk and someone asked if she was trying to feed us elf food.

>>11274
I caught the thread (it's still up). It's kind of funny seeing /tg/'s reaction to /ck/ coming to visit again.
The initial reaction was fairly typical of /tg/, including a reminder that /ck/ "broke their hearts".
I think /tg/ as a whole still has a tender spot for /ck/, but they've settled on /x/ pretty well by now.
Using rose petals/hips was bound to evoke an elf food reference. Can't be helped really.
Watching the boards on 4chan provides plenty of ideas for future stories.
A portion of what we've written already is based on previous board interactions.

1d4chan seems to be down. That can't be good.

>>11286
I'm at least getting an error message from the site now.
Earlier the thing was just a dead end with no feedback.
Looks like they're working on the problem at least.
I guess I'll have to start saving THAT content to my HD as well once it gets back up.
I didn't expect I'd have to worry about losing our content from the wiki until now.
I should probably send out another email to remind everybody that the thread is here now.
I've been watching it nightly since I started it, but I don't want to be the only one posting.
I'll definitely have to see about editing the wiki once it's back up. No reason not to anymore.

>>11289
All of our content seems to be dissolving... I tried finding the threads on suptg but they weren't even there, any idea what's up with that? Between that and the wiki, that's all the information we had... if we lose that, all we'll have left is what's in our own HDs, and I've got nothing.

>>11291
If we lose it, we lose it.
As much as I've enjoyed this project, I wouldn't feel to bad about ending it if the wiki went permadead.
Starting over from scratch isn't really an option with so little activity right now.
I don't think that all of the character cards were actually posted ON the /tg/ threads, so losing the wiki would lose some of those too.
I'm expecting the wiki to come back though, and I did manage to save the /tg/ threads, so we aren't actually missing those.

Pic of /g/ for the chattin' folks

Good to see you guys are still alive. Shame you had to leave /tg/, but its for the best.

Hoping to see good stuff in the future. I may contribute more /tg/, /x/ and /toy/ later.

>>11317
Glad to have you.
It may interest you to know that we're getting close to starting a weekly thread on /co/
We don't have the boards full approval just yet, but it looks promising at this point.
We're sticking with weekly to avoid one of the problems we had over in /tg/

Noticed that the threads are being deleted fast on /co/. Apologies if you already read this OP, but I think it's still an important point.

Your suggestion was to get all the drawfags, writefags, other Anons, etc to work on a webcomic about the board-tans of 4chan. I say, why not just get a group of these people together - doesn't have to be large, in fact it'll probably be easier with a smaller team - and just let them submit comics under any theme they want?

If someone wants to do a board-tan strip, great. If someone wants to do a parody one-shot, fine. If continuity comes up, don't let it stretch out for more than a few strips. Running gags and recurring characters would be cool, but you could also challenge yourself to try out new scenarios and sports/locations/hobbies/formats to draw, or just say "hey, I'd like to try this out for the new strip" and discuss it with everyone else. Get a rota together, get some comics done in advance, get some feedback on /co/, advertise the place without being total fags about it ("lulz its /co/ teh webcomic"), and just have fun with it.

It doesn't look like we'll be hosting it at /co/; a janitor's been deleting every thread /co/mrade's been making.

>>11360
>>11361
Seems like its either one of the janitors against "original content" or the mods are cracking down on what they consider off-topic chatter. Either way, such is not a good sign for draw or write threads, no matter the quality of work.

>>11360
We've been looking at options outside of 4chan for a while. This thread being a bit of a placeholder itself.
Should 4chan ultimately decide that we can't hold threads there, we have other options.
Somewhere down the line, we'll have something worth sharing with them, and we will.
If they don't want to be exposed to the process that's fine.

I was actually discussing things a bit with helpful /co/mrade tonight and he had a similar view on the subject.
I think there's a way to make this project work, and I see no reason to try railroading anybody.
Having certain stories stick to whatever "canon" we can manage and having the majority of the content be one-offs is great.
That's pretty much what's been going on the few times that somebody has sat down and made a comic or a pic with any sort of context.

I don't think that the intention of the project was to create some sort of regimented storyline submission system.
We want this to be open and enjoyable for those involved in its creation, so that they have an easier time making it enjoyable for the audience.
The only reason we try to nail down any particulars at all is to keep some measure of a central plot concept and to keep the characters accurate.
If we make a character representing a board and the board itself has issues with it, we haven't been doing our job.

The subject of this project resurfaced in /a/ earlier today.
After some digging, found my way here. This project seemed like a good idea. I found the wiki page 1d4chan. Is what's on the wiki the some of the set ideas so far?

>>11372
I think the wiki page is serving as the general archive and reference point for the project. It'll have character bios for all the board-tans, plotlines within the series, and eventually an accepted canon for the entire project (as soon as everyone involved can meet together to discuss said canon). Basically, it serves as the main reference point for people interested in the series and for the writers/artists to rely on when creating new work.

btw, we're trying to get everyone who is involved already to get together so that we can begin work on the introductory story. If you see the contact list on the wiki page, be sure to email me or VC to let us know your preferred meeting schedule and when you'll be available to chat in IM.

Why not make a story based in people comments?
Just like this one http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4

being sitedropping faggot and posting this
http://z10.invisionfree.com/Board_tans/index.php?act=idx
It was the forum set up back when this first started back in September 08.
By the way, does anyone know of a good alternative to anonib for imageboard hosting

Didn't know you guys were still around. When you settle I might toss my two cents in again.

>>11373
Sent an e-mail. Let me know what's going on and what IM client to get. I usually just use IRC so I don't have an IM client right now, but I can just as easily put one on.

So THIS is the rock everyone has been hiding under!

Now that I have found it, I would be willing to contribute again. Might be pretty sketchy for me since its getting close to the end of the semester, but once mid May rolls around you have my full attention.

Holy Hell that's a lot of activity since I checked this thing last.
Good to see there's still this much interest in the project, and that some of the old guard have gotten involved again..
I will be sending out an email shortly to everybody who's contacted me, in regards to organizing some group chat sessions.
In lieu of the (hopefully still possible) weekly thread on /co/ we'd like to get everybody together in Windows Live Messenger every now and again.
If that gets a bit crowded, we may just shanghai the old Board-tan board, since their admin never returned my email.
If the two members I contacted can get back to me we'll likely have 2 more contributors including a drawfag.

>>11413
Do you mind posting your email at all?

>>11410
In a way, I am glad not to be the only person who got a little lost.

>>11415
Here's my email. I had put it up on the front page of the Wiki, so I forgot to mention it here.
Glad to see you and Janitor are still interested. I'm happy to see you guys still around.
We still haven't worked out a permanent location to host this at, though this thread or the Boardt-tan board remain options.
In the meantime, we're just trying to gather people together and hold occasional chat sessions.
I'd like to have us back on 4chan where we have the best chance for outside input, but it may no longer be in the cards.
Either way, we'll do our best to soldier on for as long as we can here. This project has been too enjoyable to just let it die off so soon.

>>11263
Wait you mean OP's picture isn't rule 63 X-tan?

The previous compilation of /tg/ threads was missing ONE thread, and I have uploaded a more complete version.
That can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lv54zz2qztm

>>11444
X-tan's sex is supposed to be unclear. Rule 63 doesn't really work on x-tan.

>>11458
The original /x/-tan was genderless. The one we use now is very much female.

Lately a few of us have been meeting up on Windows Live Messenger at nights to discuss the project and otherwise engage in tomfoolery.
Anybody interested can look up either myself or helpful /co/mrade, and we'll be happy to send you an invite if we have a group going.
/co/mrade's email for both the project and the messenger is merlin7777777@msn.com.
Feel free to just listen in or chat if you like, the company is enjoyable whether we're being productive or not.

Here, have an /x/-tan.

>>11693
Am I correct in assuming that somebody is trying to convince her to put on some pants in this picture?
The look on her face says "What do I need those for?" That's actually pretty funny.

Just one problem

How do you plan on drawing /b/?

>>11708
just a void of negative space on the page

>>11708
We've imagined him as looking kind of like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

>>11708 >>11720
/b/ is undrawable.
Some day I'll get to making a collage of various /b/-tans from the many 4chan-tan pics.

Hey guys, just putting this down so that we can have a few reference pics for our drawfags to work with.

>>11742
/b/ would be like that Chernobyl mutant thing, except it would be an amalgam of all the other boards

And it would be huge, either in size or in number

More pics:

/d/

>>11757
/d/ in a swimsuit

>>11758
/x/ in a swimsuit

>>11759
and again

>>11760
/x/-tan

>>11761
and again

>>11762

>>11763

>>11764
/tg/ (obviously)

>>11765
young /tg/ and /x/

>>11766
younger /x/-tan

>>11742
Here's another version of the lineup.

>>11767
older /tg/ and /x/

>>11769
D'AWW

>>11770

>>11771
Oh my, how did THIS situation come about I wonder?...

>>11772
/e/

>>11773
/co/ and /ck/

>>11774
/d/ and shota /co/

>>11775
/co/nrad and /co/lette

>>11776
Possible battle-mode version of /d/?

>>11777

>>11778
moving on to some /c/ material...

>>11779

>>11780

>>11781
/c/ and /b/

>>11782
next couple are /c/ and /a/, and that's all I've got for now...

>>11783

>>11784

>>11785

>>11786
more /c/-tan pics, straight off the press...

>>11787

>>11780
We were lucky to catch the attention of this particular artist before getting the boot from /tg/

>>11789
Aside from the /a/ and /c/ pic, most of his/her stuff features /x/

I'll throw in a couple of takes on /toy/ before I finish posting the rest of the last artist's work.

>>11790

Last two pics are a bit "suggestive"