announcements, updates & etc

The First Interhouse Challenge is taking place tomorrow, no more date changes this time. If you're new, you might want to look over the team lists and see which team you're on again.

Then, I need everyone to CLICK HERE and accept the invite to invitation to join ryear_challenge which is where the challenges will take place. This new community is just for where the actual action for the challenges will happen, future challenges as well as group discussions for challenges will still take place in renascentyears.

There's been group tags added for you guys to use for future team discussions, they are: team-alpha, phoenix, unbeatable-truffles, brooms-and-boom, legionnaires and untouchables.

ANYWAYS, how will the team challenges happen? Well, first of all, all future challenges will be different so we might not use this same format again. The format we'll be using for tomorrow will be similar to "Narrative/Table Top" RPGs (just we're going by third person) - if any of you are familiar with that. Basically it goes down to:

Player: Harry Potter walked cautiously into the room, it was dark and he could barely see more than three feet in front of him. He gripped his wand tightly and raised it in front of him, whispering "lumos!" under his breath.

Mods: In front of him stands a statute reminiscent of of a miniature troll, except miniature in this case still meant at least six feet tall. To the right of him lies a silver basin filled with a mysterious liquid. It looks slightly green.

Or in other words, players supply actions, thoughts, reactions, etc, basically everything you guys usually do in threads except this time the mods will be supplying the consequences of the actions. Touch something, throw a hex, use a charm, sing a song, etc? Mods will play the game masters and write the consequences.

I think it's pretty straight forward, this link gives a pretty damn good explanation of the basic idea. We will not be replying to each and every tag, of course, just after the most significant actions and the magical creature's reactions & actions so we'll be butting in as ry_npc pretty often. There will be six threads started by the mods - one for each team. For the tags in the challenge this time, we're aiming for speed, so if your tags are a bit short that's fine.

The starting tags will all be the same but the GM tags afterwards will all be different based on the characters actions. The winning team will be decided after all teams have finished. Whichever team handles the situation given to them best in the tags wins. Remember, the inter-house challenges are meant to promote team unity, creative usages of what they've learned in classes, etc.

You guys can start as soon as you see the threads go up, which will probably be in a few hours. If there are any questions, please ask :D

( 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!!

Lux again, with info concerning tomorrow's event.

Everyone still remembers the basic premise of Renascent Years included Interhouse Challenges, right? If not, well, reminder here!

( This is McGonagall's speech during the Opening Feast... which didn't get posted because I didn't want to spam the comm with too many logs )

Teams shall be posted tomorrow (or in twenty odd minutes when it strikes midnight). Anyways, a few notes about the teams:

** Assume they're actually larger than five people each. From now on when new characters are added to the game, they'll be randomly assigned a team. For IG purposes, assume they've always been part of the team since September.

** The teams will be called Team one, Team two, etc when they're listed, the characters themselves should get together and give themselves a team name, slogan, etc... or disagree and quibble all day long. 8D The teams were randomized, but whenever we saw besties stuck together we re-randomized them again so your characters will get the chance to interact with other characters they would in normal circumstances never talk to.

Questions?

By the way, week change! September 11 - September 17 = *week-004