Thankies for the confirmation on dates, that helps me a lot with plans. I'll let the Bounders and Mootians know the window so folks can start volunteering (themselves or others--*chuckle*.) I also have some of our Éclair: Second Servings (ESS) folk eagerly awaiting camp as trainees as well.
There is a Fashion show Fryday the 15th at 9pm in Needlehole, and Bree Market is Saturday the 16th. I won't be able to help on the 15th--I've promised to help with the show--but I think it would be loads of fun to briefly visit the Market on our way to Rivendell on the 16th if a run is scheduled that eve. (Market usually starts at 9, but this month they started earlier. I'll check with Miss Lerillos to see what the start time for May's market will be for certain.)
I like the idea of inviting folk to the Story Night as an official kick off, yet I also know some folk would like a chance to do all the Flying the Coop quests for a chance at the Cloak. I do not know what else you folks have up your scheduling sleeve for Week 2 activities, though. So with all that in mind--as well as knowing not all folk are on NA time--here is my rough Camp schedule proposal based on the dates you gave me:
Sunday, the 3rd at 2pm- Green Eggs Camp: basic starter quests (Which Laid First, The Early Bird, and The Sky is Falling), which will open all Flying the Coop quests.
Wednesday the 6th at 3pm and 8:30pm- Flying the Coop: Shire & Lone Lands (both runs during both time periods)
Thursday the 7th at 3pm and 8:30p- Flying the Coop: Ered Luin & North Downs (both runs during both time periods)
Fryday the 8th at 9pm- Story Night in Needlehole, Official Kick-Off for Week 3
Sunday, the 10th at 9am and 2pm- Green Eggs Camp (Hopefully having both times will make it easier for folk to be ready for Rivendell from the 11th onwards.)
Wednesday the 13th at 3pm--Rivendell Run [may be difficult to get enough Chicken Tender escorts--possible Tinnundir/Bree alt]
Wednesday the 13th at 9pm--Flying the Coop: Tinnundir
Thursday the 14th at 3pm--Flying the Coop: Bree
Thursday the 14th at 8:30pm--Rivendell Run [possible Tinnundir/Bree alt]
Fryday the 15th at ?--Rivendell Run (If this works better for folks--I just can't help)
Saturday the 16th at ?--Rivendell Run (We can either try an afternoon, or do the crash the Market evening run)
I could also offer an open Camp on either the afternoon or eve of the 16th (whenever we don't offer the Riv run) for whatever else folk need that's NOT Rivendell.
This leaves Sunday open for a "LAST CHANCE" run, or if everyone has gotten it by then, we can offer another open Camp for whichever else folk need to get their Cloaks. Of course, we could always try to do a Free Range run on Sunday...but...well, that's just crazy clucking, really. ;)
Shire/Ered Luin/Lone Lands/North Downs can usually make it okies with a minimum duo Tender escort (and duo only in case a Tender drops connection--one can do it if high enough level to one shot stuff). Bree and Tinnundir are better with three or more.
Let me know how this sounds so far when ya have some time to think on it. I don't know what else non-chicken-y you might have scheduled, so there may be conflicts. These are just my opening suggestions, I'm not married to them-so feel free to say "Nope, nope, ok, nope" etc. You are free to schedule the other times I haven't, I just have some RP groups during certain times where I won't be able to help, and most of my usual Tenders won't be able to either (the Fashion Show, I know, we'll have a lot of Tenders there.)
I will do a little "Welcome to the World of Chicken" post after we settle on a schedule with some basics about communicating between Chickens and Tenders, a mini chicken RP glossary, as well as a link to the Roz's chicken guide for folks who want the entire lowdown beforehand. I'll also be posting notices on the Moot sub forum and the ESS thread. I'm hoping we'll be able to have a Fowl Marshall for all the runs, but I can't guarantee that just yet.
Worth Noting:: I know F2P folks have issues using the chicken version of /world channel or any userchat channels due to the "this character isn't old enough to use this channel" timer to prevent gold spammers from rerolls that is hard for F2P chickens as each session starts the timer again which for all but Free Range runs means they will never be able to use those channels. I'm not sure how we can work around that other than teaching them to use the ~(name) for tells since chickens can't fellow. I'll have to double check to make sure F2Ps don't have issues with /regional as well. I know /emotes and /shout can help if they fall behind /say range as both reach farther than /say, but if they fall way behind those work arounds won't help them.
Sorries for so many words. I tried to be as brief as clarity seemed to allow.