While we all enjoy whatever form of work we do, wether it is wiki work, website creation, graphical design, posting, squad management, etc...it is all WORK. There is no pure fun that comes out of it on your end.

Now, before I get someone on my back about this because I have a reputation for not wanting lounge games as official activity....consider this:

Normally when I complained about that it was about random games such as pool reported for activity for competitions or weekly reports. This is an organized event planned purely for a night of fun. So yes, you CAN report it in your weekly reports but it has to be during the event. No random games of pool outside of it.

For the first night I am going to run one eight-hour period and only one. I realize some of you may be outside this time window but if it is successful (which I am hoping it will be) then of course we will do more of these and maybe do two periods so everyone can be accommodated.

For this week however...we are looking at starting from 6 PM EST (3 PM PST) to 2 AM EST (11 PM PST) in the IRC Channel #LoungeNight. It will be running throughout the whole night (or until we all die off) and you can join at any time for any part of the event. There are prizes and ICs to be won, but I'll get to that later.

Thus far I have a fairly large variety of games found that we can play. If anyone has a suggestion please COMNET PM me. So...thus far

iSketch (I'm sure most of you remember this from past HSCs)

Candystand Bowling

Candystand Pool

Nabiscoworld Poker

Nabiscoworld Backgammon

Nabiscoworld Checkers

Nabiscoworld Chess

Nabiscoworld Hearts

Nabiscoworld Golf

Nabiscoworld Reversi

Nabiscoworld Spades

Pogo Backgammon

Pogo Bowling

Pogo Bridge

Pogo Checkers

Pogo Chess

Pogo Cribbage

Pogo Dominoes

Pogo Euchre

Pogo Hearts

Pogo Keno

Pogo Monopoly

Pogo Poker

Pogo Pool

Pogo Roulette

Pogo Scrabble

Pogo Trivial Pursuit

Pogo Tumblebees

Pogo Turbo 21

Pogo Yahtzee Party

Yahoo Bingo

Yahoo Backgammon

Yahoo Blackjack

Yahoo Bridge

Yahoo Canasta

Yahoo Checkers

Yahoo Chess

Yahoo Chinese Checkers

Yahoo Cribbage

Yahoo Dominoes

Yahoo Dots

Yahoo Euchre

Yahoo Gin

Yahoo GoFish

Yahoo Hearts

Yahoo Hold 'em Poker

Yahoo Literai

Yahoo Majong

Yahoo Naval Command (battleship)

Yahoo Pinochle

Yahoo Pool

Yahoo Reversi (Othello)

Yahoo Sheepshead

Yahoo Spades

Yahoo Toki Toki Boom (Tetris spinoff)

Yahoo Word Racer

Yahoo Graffiti

Yahoo Towers

That's the list we have so far. Those playing Yahoo or Pogo will need a yahoo (or pogo) account. It also is great for tracking things.

As I said this is organized play and I will be giving out monetary prizes as well as some ICS merchandise and various other prizes. However, you are also free to gamble your own personal ICs per round should you wish. Who knows...you just might win and earn back your money plus some?

There will be no official rulings as to what rules you must abide by. Just play the game whatever way you all agree on. I will try to get you all matched in groups according to the games you want to play. For games like poker, cribbage, hearts, Chinese checkers, and such you can have at least 4 to a group so there is a fair amount of room for this. This list will be edited as games are suggested and can be played for this night. The idea is to have no-download games though so try and keep it to multiplayer web games. And should ANYONE find a multiplayer Sabaac/Pazaak client....let's just say you'll be hansomely rewarded. To make things easier on organizing this....to those that know in advance the games they want to play (maybe even suggest new ones) and know they can attend at some point during the night...comnet PM me with your prefrence list of games so you can get paired up much quicker that night. Okay so that should cover all our bases. Any questions feel free to leave them here...others might have the same question as you. I'll be more than happy to answer anything I didn't fully explain or leave out. Just...stay on topic and get along please? I dont want to have to get someone to lock an event topic. Allright so hopefully I'll see ya on Wednesday!