announcements, updates & etc

First things, first: Please touch the friends remove button here. All inactive characters have been removed from the game. Also, make sure to take a look at the PBs list and check to make sure we didn't accidentally remove yours. If you notice a name that should be removed and is still there, let us know as well. The PB list somehow always ends up with the least attention from us.

The Challenge Team list has not yet have the removed characters taken off from it, since that leaves one team with only 3 members and another with 6. It will be updated with the new batch of applicants, which will be done in the next few days hopefully.

Next up, events!

22 December: Home for the Holidays. Since no one replied saying their character is staying at Hogwarts, we take it to mean that there's no need to plan for a Christmas plotty within the school, yes? Then we'll assume all is well at Hogwarts.


23 December: The Dashing Wolves concert for winning team, Phoenix! We're not going to put up a thread for you, but you guys can do so if you wish. As usual per Dashing Wolves concert style the lead vocalist, Gerard Llewellyn will end up with his shirt off (if not completely naked) after five songs, snog his bassist twice and encourage his audience to follow his lead... which, seeing as 70% of the audience members are female, there will be a lot of bouncing boobies. Hogwarts staff will be feeling slightly horrified because they're old when the news of the concert makes the cover page in several witch publications. How would team Phoenix have fared? ;D

31 December: New Years Charity Bash. This is the event for everyone who's anyone to be at to show off their wealth. It's invitation only. For this event, I'm hoping for kids from families who are rich, old money or have parents who are celebrities or Ministry workers to be invited to. Characters can bring dates of course, and formal dress. There is a plotline connected to this, but I don't want to reveal too much right off the bat.

I would like a speculative number of how many and which characters would have the background to be invited to such an event before we plan too much into this plot. So, characters with money or ministry/important parents, raise your hand?

8 January: Return to Hogwarts. Self explanatory.


That's what is planned for the next two weeks. Now here is where we ask everyone if they have any ideas for events to happen in the next following months, or certain macro plotlines they want to see. Major school wide pranks? They can be written into the calendar so everyone knows when they happen. The calendars for the next few months haven't been made yet, and we'd love to include things the players want to happen so, let us know!

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!

♥

( CURRENT HOUSE STANDINGS )


( APPARITION LESSONS )


( INTERHOUSE-CHALLENGE/TEAMS )


( HOGSMEADE WEEKEND IS TOMORROW! )


( HOW HALLOWE'EN IS HAPPENING )

Please ask if there are any questions!

♥ Lux

P.S. First Quidditch match is happening in November, Gryffindor Vs. Slytherin.

P.P.S. Please don't actually change the date of the entry in renascentyears when you post a thread/log (or in your journal either honestly), it messes up when they show up on the f-list and sometimes don't even show up at all which makes it a bit of a mess when we're counting house points or checking activity at the end of the month!

EDIT!x3 I updated the Calendar as well. Take a look at it!

EDIT @ 29.06.08 Please update your friends list, as we have new additions to the game as well as take a look at the Challenge Teams list again as (almost) every team has a new member or two!!

Event today!

19; Eaten Alive!
Apparently, some student must have thought Herbology to be a particularly boring subject as they have brought in Flesh-Eating Slugs into the greenhouses and set them loose overnight. Now they are everywhere and anyone who enters the greenhouses (and perhaps even the surrounding gardens, these slugs spawn fast!) are in danger of having a chunk of their flesh digested if their fingers wander into the bushes.

Also, upcoming significant dates includes the 25th were the first challenge will be announced and the 28th which is the second Hogsmeade weekend of the year and the last one before Hallowe'en.

Heads & Prefects might want to decide on what they want to do for the Hallowe'en party, theme, polling, whatever before Hogsmeade weekend as we're assuming that most students will be purchasing their costume then. Or buying materials to make said costume. That or there can be a dramy party and the student body can throw rotten eggs at the prefects/heads in revenge. ;)

By the way, all the team name conversations make us very happy ♥

News:
Tomorrow's issue of Quidditch Pro Weekly is posted. We're not going to post an issue weekly, of course, but for the game wise, an issue comes out every Monday filled with top notch info about players, games, brooms and other Quidditch related mania for those characters that are Quidditch fans!


Week Change:
Today, April 27, 2008 = 27 August, 2023 in game time and April 27 - May 3 marks *week-002. Those of you who have been properly tagging your posts in renascentyears, we love you ♥


Important Dates:
Returning Hogwarts students are expected to be at Kings Cross, Platform 9¾ on September 1, 2023 (May 1) to board the Hogwarts Express. The train is scheduled to leave at 3 PM, so don't be late! The train is expected to arrive around 6 PM in time for Sorting of the new First year students and dinner will follow shortly after. First day of classes is on September 2 (May 2)!

We'll have up a general thread for both the express and the opening feast on Thursday (or at least one of them).


Other Things:
Keep your eyes on the Calendar, as we'll update it with events. We'll also finalize a method for House Points, as we really would like to give Prefect characters a chance to actually dock points - we just gotta figure out how. :D

If any of you have any ideas for big school wide plots, or feel creative enough to write up (or offer an idea for) a news article (gossips, quibbler, quidditch, scandals, anything!) please do, we'll definitely use it!