announcements, updates & etc

First of all, December Calendar is up!

Please remember to tag your posts in renascentyears with the week, and the people involved. If your name isn't a tag yet, let us know!

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Secondly, the Halloween Murder Mystery and Interhouse Challenge threads aren't completed yet. But, by today it's been a good month since then and I have a good feeling that they won't be completed any time soon. It's also sorta affected my own RPing this month so I would rather not drag them on any longer.

So, to conclude the Halloween Murder Mystery game, comment with your guess as to who the "Murderer" was. Comment as the character you play with, I mean, so if you play two you have two votes.

As for the Interhouse Challenge threads... I am not sure how to conclude them and pick the winning team. Suggestions please? I would love to wrap them up, give out the reward for this month and start the new challenges for January (and this time we'll use a different format!). I was thinking of choosing the team who have completed the most so far in the challenge, how does everyone feel about that? Or is there a better way that someone can think of?

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Lastly, house points are updated! These points include the points won during the Quidditch match. I decided to add them to the house points because quidditch match points are such a wildcard, if we rely solely on posts to count for points than Hufflepuff will probably never catch up due to the lack of puffs we have. Don't worry Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, you'll catch up to the other houses with the next quidditch match!

Oh, and these house points include deductions by the prefects. Gryffindor has had 30 points removed because of various actions by Andrew Finnigan and James Potter while Ravenclaw has 10 points off because of Abbey Dixon.

Haleigh Harper on the other hand, deserves a round of applause from her house for earning it 90 points during this points count. The most points earned by anyone in the game so far!

( The Current House Points )

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I've also done a quick activity check, those of you in danger have been given an LJ Nudge except for grangerweasley because you haven't even friended the mods account yet!? You have one week to post an entry or thread/log to save your characters. As always, if you ever need to take a hiatus please let us know on the hiatus post (except you're not eligible if you've been LJ Nudged if you don't have a good reason since it's been 4+ weeks of inactivity).

So yes, please comment with your murderer vote and if you have suggestions on how to choose the winning team for the interhouse challenge, please offer it!

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Okay, major updates, everyone!

First of all, apologies. I (Lux) had a really bad case of Bronchitis that didn't seem to want to go away and when I started getting better earlier this week, Skif ended up with RL issues of her own so we both ended up leaving you guys hanging for a bit longer then our AN hiatus was supposed to be. We're both back now so it's time to brush off the dust that has collected over the last couple of weeks!

First of all, we've cleaned out the character list from the last Activity Check as well as added some new characters. With that said please Update the Friend's List!

Secondly, as a follow up to the activity check, there will be an e-mail sent out to everyone. Please reply to it ASAP (or at least before the 17th) or let us know if you didn't receive it.

All of the lists on rymods [character, contact, parents, quidditch, pbs & friends add] has been updated. Please check them for accuracy, even if you're an old player because we removed a handful, added a handful and noticed that we've been missing one person for awhile! So, just to be sure we don't carry on any boo-boos on the list, take a peek at them for your information.

Third, since we're on the topic of the 'third' as per the FAQ those who have been part of RY since the beginning, cleared the last activity check are allowed their third character - if they wish for one. (We could use more Hufflepuffs or Quidditch players! Bullies, please?)

Lastly (for tonight) we are currently on *week-008 until the 14th. If you're ever feeling a little lost on what to post about, please take a look at the calendar! There's something random scheduled to happen every week so if you're feeling a little lost on a topic to write about, take a glance at it. You're all more than welcome to suggest any events you would like to see happen as well!

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Lux here. An activity check was done this morning and of course, at the same time house points were tabulated!




Randomly, no Prefect has yet really taken off any points. C'mon Prefects, be mean!


Aquaredics
It's September 20, folks. Those who have preordered the new broom series will receive it in this morning's owl post! Apologies to any characters who don't have their name listed, those four were the only ones that have mentioned purchase or gifts of the broom that I've been able to gleam from the journal entries. Those who missed the preorder date, but have somehow scrambled enough galleons to purchase it may do so on their own come Hogsmeade weekend (the 31st!)


Activity Check
Unlisted names are safe. Give yourselves a pat on the back! Activity is counted by either a thread/log OR a journal entry (and not a liner entry at that) at least once every two weeks. This means you should at least have two of either at the end of the month.

If your name is listed below, you have until the 31st of this month to take your character off the list by either making a substantial journal entry or playing a thread/log.

If you are unable to please comment to the Hiatus post or reply here before the 31st to save your characters. If anyone knows that the situation is for any of the names listed (computer down, no internet, etc) then please let us know as well!

If you believe there are any mistakes on the list, let us know as well!

In Danger
Hugo Weasley
Olive Nguyen
Wendy Holmes
Callum Hopkins
Charlie Smith
Ryan Wright
Cosette Zabini
Gabriel Nott
Vivienne Moon
Aveline Fenette

Week-change! May 18 - 24 marks September 18 - 24 in game and *week-005.

A lot of things are happening this week, IC & OOC wise!


Events

September 19 - 21 marks the I smell Divinity event!

Professor Trelawney has apparently purchased a boxful of questionable special incense that will help her Third Eyeless students to See. This special incense smells like... lemons?! The incense is sure is strong though, strong enough that her students start to hallucinate See the most peculiar visions around themselves and of others. Have they all discovered their Third Eye? Not just her students either, apparently those who have classrooms close to the Divinations classroom have started having visions as well by the second and third day!

That's pretty self explanatory, isn't it? Trelawney bought some incense that would usually be used for the wildest night parties, used them for her classes and now her students, as well as those with classes close enough are high to their eyebrows!

Of course, the event is optional as to whether your character wants to be inhaling the special incense or not (they could have a stuffy nose or have skipped class & missed it). To my knowledge there are only three students are taking Divinations which means everyone else who wants their character to get a whiff would probably have to say their character has been near the Divinations classroom at some point as Prof Trelawney is burning them all day, everyday. Until the 21st when the other professors catch on and tell her to trash them. :)

The effects of the incense will last for another 24 hours, longer if they went back and caught more whiffs of it. Let's hope no one tries to jump out of the windows ♥


Activity Check

RYear's first activity check will take place this week. As always, activity will be checked on the second last week of the month to give inactive players a chance to save their characters for that month with a post or thread in the last week.

House points will probably be updated during that point seeing how we'll be combing through every post & entry. Has any prefect taken any points yet? :D



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