Thursday is Maintenance Day Again!
Yay almost Friday!
So, maintenance. I have to update a few other things, but I thought ... for the sake of reference for those characters who've been here forever, we should have a plot timeline. It's blank right now, but I will be filling it out before long!weekend is over. Or Mandy will 'cause she loves projects like that. It will include links to the OOC plot descriptions and the time they happened, as well as proposed future plots (we're ... into october now, as far as plot lineups go? it's freakin' amazing. Granted, i just today invented the october one, so it needs running-by a co-mod and refinement, but! it is there in its sketchy outline form)
We've been getting a lot of great plot suggestions, and I definitely encourage you guys to keep it up. Even if we reject the initial idea (for whatever reason; usually because it isn't feasible within the parameters of the environment or it's a direction we don't want to go yet) we do keep it in mind and it might show up in some other form later on, so don't get discouraged. We have our reasons, even if they don't make sense right off the bat, and we definitely appreciate the interest in the game.
Last night Mandy and I were discussing plot timelines and whatnot, and we've officially decided to sync the lottery plots with the bigger group plots. So the lotteries are going to provide clues for the big group plot, and it'll be up to the characters to figure things out. These lotteries will be held roughly once a month. September's lottery is going to clue them in to a dementor attack, and September's lottery will be held after the end of activity check - also part of the sync, so that plot posts can count for the next month's activity check even if you don't manage to get in any other threads. The lotteries are also intended to eventually lead the way to an escape, but it'll be a long time before characters catch on ;)
That said, do remember that not every plot is going to be group-wide. Some of them will continue to be selective, and they are random rolls so it really isn't anything against players (though amending that, we do try to keep the random plots spread out among the players so it isn't simply mandy and me because we have the most characters and thus have higher odds of getting several pups in a random plot)
Also, it was suggested that we have a quick reference list of points of canon for the characters. The canon points should be displayed in everyone's profile, but I am willing to bet money that at least half of mine do not display this ::cough:: I will go in and fix this ... over the weekend, if not sooner. I do not wish to be hypocrite!mod.
That said, if everyone could comment here with your character's point in canon (age and date are preferred, but episode names/point in movie are acceptable if there's no set, established timeline with dates), that'd be great, and we'll get that updated so people looking at the game will have a quick reference at hand. (Also, if you could check to make sure your character is on that list where he or she should be, that'd be stellar).
So, right, as always, hit me up if you have questions/need clarification, and please make sure you reply to the by-fandom list.
Also, activity checks will begin next Friday, so those of you who don't have a thread yet should probably look into finding one.