Not everyone in game has told us if you want to be in our big plot yet! :( If Millicent, Demi, and Ron are interested still, let us know in this post! Speaking of the big plot, it's going to start today! :) How it'll work is that we'll be sending out emails to you on any given day. About three to four will go out in each round of emails. The deal with this is that you have three days from getting your email to write about it. You can do a journal, a thread by yourself, or a thread opener. You just have to express somehow what is happening in game to your character. This plot will last a little past Halloween and end on November 12th.
Other plot points you might want to know is that making potions and working in Herbology has been okayed! However, wand usage has still not be okayed by the team from the the Department of Mysteries. The school is still planning to carry on with their traditional Halloween dinner and a lovely bash is scheduled for afterward. If you're one of the more adventurous or naughty ones, the town's local "cabaret" AKA the gentleman's club AKA whore house is throwing their annual secret masquerade. ;) You'll need to be tricky and sneak to the party. We suggest going in pairs. Costumes and masks are required because what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors so the masks help maintain the secrecy. We'll have two posts up. One for the people who decided to be goodie-goodies and stay at school and one for the naughty ones that sneaked out to town. They'll be posted the day before Halloween because we know some people might have parties to go to, but it will still take place on Halloween. You don't have to join it within those two days, so don't feel like when November hits that you can't reply! In the end, the kids that sneaked out will be busted. Even if you're not caught, they'll know you were there ;)
For Quidditch plot, if Quidditch has been okayed then there will be a match between Dark Claw and Jabberwockies on November 7th!
Monthly activity check-ups. We want everyone to know that this month we are not going to be checking up on journal activity, but remember that after this month there will be and you'll need to make 3 journals per character. Please remember to reply to everyone that replies in your journal, no matter how late they reply to your journal or how long it's been since they've replied. Don't just come and make a journal for yourself and reply to people in your journal. That's all nice and well, but please remember to reply to other journals on the front page since they've given your the courtesy of replying to your journal.
Secondly, we are going to do check-ups on threads this month. That's one for each character and remember that doesn't count group threads. So that means that the two party threads coming up will not count as a part of your activity check as we encourage those for interaction between characters and players who haven't threaded with each other yet. We know there's not that many days in the month, but here's what you can do: an open thread (like Isabel's who's still open ;)) or do one by yourself. The alone threads need to be longer than four paragraphs. Regular threads need to go back and forth at least three to four times for it to count as activity.