Pandora's Box OOC

Alright, my kids haven't had a whole lot to do this game day so if you have anything you want to do with Samara, Ron, Marietta or Michael today (the 13th) let me know so we can get something up. The week has kind of run away with me thanks to migraines and such so I haven't even realised that most of it is gone already but we still have time to get something up and started!

So yeah, randoms or anything like that, I'm totally open for. :D Give me a shout!

- Emmie

Date change:
Nightmares are back but that's not the worst thing coming for the day.

Shortly after midnight
Zacharias and Ginny have a run-in.

2:00 AM
Astoria has both a nightmare and a vision.
Percy has a nightmare while Ernie's outside standing guard.

Early morning:
Daily Prophet article mentions reports of nightmares to the ministry, as well as claims a red-haired seer predicted the next death.

8:00 AM
Ginny invades Percy's sanctuary.

10:00 AM
Marietta and Jaynedora raise a little hell in the form of living Inferi.
Dean has a look into Ron's memory of Penelope's murder.

11:00 AM
Astoria and Justin run afoul of living Inferi and take solace in each others' arms.
Eli and Adrian fend off, then investigate the invasion of the not quite dead.

11:30 AM
Angie gets the crap scared out of her by the living Inferi. Michael to the rescue!

3:00 PM
Jaynedora offs Samara Capper's mother; Zarkin Frood witnesses the event.

3:30
Theo "saves" Percy from his curses.

4:00 PM
Bianca sends Astoria an owl, asking to meet to talk about visions.

4:30 PM
Bianca and Astoria have that chat about visions.

6:00 PM
Alicia and George hole up in the WWW to avoid the chaos outside.

7:00 PM
Michael and Anthony talk memory speculation, zombie invasion, muggle warning system, & about The Lavender Situation.

8:00 PM
Ernie and Roger battle the living Inferi.

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Again, let me know if anything needs fixing!

-Meesh

ISO New and Unusual Threadings!

Hey all! Justin, Agatha, and Alicia are so far 'unscheduled' this game day, and I'd love to thread with some characters I haven't threaded with yet. Would Cho or Lee be up to a first thread? Am up for anything, from DMLE bad-arseness to massage sessions to shooting the breeze with mates to taking a trip to Hogwarts and searching through the library (Justin used to wince at the thought of libraries, but thanks to Astoria, has all new associations!).

You can poke me here, email, or AIM jaimebluesq.

So in all likelihood, Melinda will be the one to discover the bodies of Cecelia Capper and an unfortunate Bobbin's Botanicals employee in Hogsmeade. Anyone (DMLE or otherwise) in the area want to show up for that? :)

Hey yall!

Me again, but I'm bringing in a bad guy this time, because bad guys are fun! So yes, here is Fenrir Greyback! As of this moment, he's chillin in Azkaban still, but hopefully he'll be running free again soon, and you can bet he'll be more than happy to jump onto Pandora's train of horror and scare the shite out of anyone who gets near him! Since Bill Weasley isn't currently around, sorry Lav, you're target number one :P. Fenrir isn't fond of unfinished business, he definitely wants you to be either dead or a were, because why else would you want to live if you couldn't be an awesome werewolf!? I mean seriously, they're way better than everything else!

So I would like other interactions as well, up for pretty much anything, and Fenrir's first order of business is going to be tracking down what's left of his pack, closely followed by the second order of business: recruitment drive! I'd love to have some pack members for him if anyone is feeling that, so he's got buddies to help him wreak havoc :D Anywho, you know where to find me, hit me up, I'm almost always around in some capacity!

FJ <3

Date change:
No nightmares tonight; there's definitely a pattern here.

Early morning:
Daily Prophet article sensationalises death of Penelope Clearwater and attempts to save her by Ron Weasley. Also mentioned is a break-in at Lavender Brown's flat.

2:13 AM
Marietta successfully steals Lavender's dream database.

4:00 AM
Percy has more than one nightmare. Sometime later, he sends Theodore Nott an owl.

5:12 AM
Marietta owls Jaynedora about her success.

8:00 AM
Alicia and George go from a pleasant morning to a distressing one. George then sends Ron an owl. Later he owls Percy as well, with something up his sleeve.

9:00AM
Seamus goes to apologise to Lavender. It's extremely difficult.

10:15 AM
Samara invites several people over for her birthday. (Birthday is the 13th, party is the 14th).

11:15 AM
Percy helps Hermione transfer departments. Ernie is there as guard detail for Percy.

11:46 AM
Samara discusses family, recent events and her career change with her brother.

1:00 PM
Agatha and Cade play twenty questions about the cases and make breakthroughs.
Marietta continues to fool Zacharias into thinking she's pregnant.

Between 5:00 and 6:00 PM
George stages an intervention for Percy.

6:00 PM
Justin tries to have a serious conversation with Anthony. We'll see how long that lasts.

6:32 PM
Dean and Michael talk about what been going on, especially with Lavender.

7:00 PM
Adrian takes Melinda out to dinner.
Angelina keeps Alicia company since they both suspect Alicia will be having another nightmare tonight.

8:12 PM
Michael owls DA members suffering from nightmares his potion.

11:00 PM
Michael does his best to comfort Lavender. Again.

11:45 PM
Bianca has another vision and calls Jasper over.

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Again, let me know if anything needs fixing!

-Meesh

Please remember to tag your posts. If an appropriate tag has not been created yet, just let us know. Also, when your thread is complete, please tag it !complete and one of the mods will come along an remove the !incomplete tag for you.

Also, when sending owls, please remember to time-stamp them (just the initial owl; the replies needs not be unless you want them to be). It makes my life easier when I do the game summaries, so I know when stuff happens.

Thanks guys! :)

-Meesh

Now that Mister Corner has lured you into using his wares, here are the specifics on what is going to happen as a result.

1st Nightmare Night after using the potion: When your character dreams, they will not experience it directly - it will be more like watching a movie, rather than participating in the torture. This will, obviously, lessen the effect. [EDIT: movie as in POV movie like Blair Witch Project, where you're watching through the 'eyes' of one of the characters, still seeing the same 'view' you had during the regular nightmare, but not as personally affected.]

2nd Nightmare Night after using the potion: When your character dreams, it will be the same nightmare as before, no longer diluted, and instead everything will feel twice as bad. All the fear, disgust, terror, pain, all of it will be magnified.

Any questions?

-Jaime

Over the next two game days, there will be a major event going on that will affect all characters...

Have you ever wondered what happens to the bodies of those who are given the Dementor's Kiss? Their souls have been eaten, but their bodies remain, fully functional but without a mind to direct them. Pandora, in an effort to create havoc and teach Marietta Edgecombe how to really create panic, is going to use these soulless bodies to terrorize the magical community.

As of 11 AM sharp on Wednesday, November 12, the wizarding community will be invaded by a force of mindless beings (think zombie apocalypse as inspiration). These beings will suddenly appear in the Ministry of Magic, Hogsmeade, and Diagon Alley. They will be highly violent, prone to creating damage and maiming those who get in their way, but will not kill people. Having no soul/mind, spells such as Imperius and distraction spells will have no effect, nor are they affected by sensations like pain or heat or cold (not even the loss of a limb will stop them - it's just a flesh wound after all!). They will continue to go on until they are immobilized.

The Kissed are comprised of prisoners from Azkaban who were given their final punishment from Dementors, as well as those who had been Kissed during the reign of Pius Thickness because of their blood status or because they had rebelled against the administration. This means that it is very possible that your character may know someone who has been kissed, and may encounter this person during the rampage.

The vast majority of the Kissed will be wearing the same blue/grey pyjamas. Only a handful are wearing non-standard issue brought to them by family that actually visit with them.

It will take two game days for all of these "Living Inferi" to be neutralized, so for two game days they will be roaming the public streets and the halls of the Ministry, doing as much damage as possible.

If you have any questions, please let us know. Otherwise, have fun!

- Jaime

Date change:
Nightmares return and with them news of the another death.

Early morning:
Daily Prophet article talks about the death of John Davis brother of Tracey Davis.
DMLE staff are given another rundown on what they know now.

Various points of the day
Marietta shows up at Lavender's apartment, and scares her into thinking she's Pandora.

10:30 AM
Ron finds a surprise waiting for him at his desk.

10:43 AM
Ron owls George, blaming him for the practical joke.

11:00 AM
Bianca goes to tell someone in the ministry about her visions, and runs into Jayne.
Adrian and Ernie talk about the cases, revealing new information.

12:38 PM
Ernie and Michael go to Lavender's rescue.

2:15 PM
Penelope has a run-in with Jaynedora, and Ron shows up, trying and failing to come to her rescue after not being able to find her at her job.

4:00 PM
Lavender goes to talk to Professor Trelawney.

4:52 PM
Michael owls Ernie to apologise.

5:03 PM
Ron tells Percy about Penelope's death.

5:50 PM
Ron owls Kingsley to ask for protection detail for Percy.

5:54 PM
Ron tells Hermione what really happened that day.

6:00 PM
Alicia and George have a date.

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Again, let me know if anything needs fixing!

-Meesh

Hey guys, don't forget that Michael is offering up dreamless sleep potions to everyone in the DA. If your DA characters who have nightmares want some comment away because he's sending out the potions today in-game! I'll add your characters' name to the owl so that he/she gets a potion so you can just let me know on this post if you want.

- Emmie

I'm back in business everyone! I've caught up on my old threads and could use a couple new ones, specifically with Dean and Angie.

Any takers? Have I discussed any potential threads with these two and any of yours that I've forgotten about? If not, let's brainstorm and get me back in action.

Okay so I've been sick since Monday. I've actually only made it through one full day of work this week (called out once, left early once, and was actually told to stay home tomorrow). My replies have been slower than usual because typing through the haze of cold medicine is a serious process. So suffice to say I'm going to rest up and try to get better so I can actually function, both in game and IRL. I'll try to be back around tomorrow night or sometime Saturday.

I'm sorry to everyone I'm holding up!

Hihi!!

Back again, with Astoria Greengrass, fairly new employee at the Ministry in the Obliviation department! While Astoria is a pureblood, she's no where near the usual prejudice that follows them, and the fact that her father was a Death Eater is an embarrassment to her, especially now that he's in prison. His actions are keeping her from advancing in her field, as the ministry doesn't completely trust her, so she's basically on extended training period, which she's not happy about. Still, having a job is better than being trapped at home with her mother all day, so she doesn't have too much to complain about.

On top of those problems, she's suffering from the dreams, and is also a fairly talented Seer, so she's been having interesting visions about Pandora as well. Of course, now she thinks they might be a sign of losing her mind, so she's freaking out about that a little. So I need interactions for her! She was in Ravenclaw too, so any Ravenclaws would probably at least know of her, if they don't know her personally! Let me know!!

<3 FJ

Date change:
Sleep is peaceful, and users of journals are promised a fix by the following day.

Early morning:
Daily Prophet article talks about witches and wizards seeking escaped from the rampant killings.

5:20 AM
Tracey is in need of medical care at Mungo's, and Theodore receives an owl to go there.

8:00 AM
Ernie has a run-in with Zacharias.

10:00 AM
Alicia and Katie wake up after a girl's night out.

10:21 AM
Elijah and Samara discuss the nightmares and try to figure things out.

11:00 AM
The Weasleys have brunch at the Burrow.

11:25 AM
Marietta is assigned a mission by Pandora to prove her worth.

11:30 AM
Zacharias owls Roger and apologises for interrupting his night with Marietta.

11:32 AM
Ernie owls Zacharias to return his money and tell him to get help.

Late morning
Justin owls Bianca to tell her of Lavender's suspicions.
Bianca owls Jasper immediately after to inform him about Lavender.

1:00 PM
Bianca and Justin run into Lavender at a bakery supply shop.

2:31 PM
Michael fills Lavender in on what happened at the DA meeting.

3:21 PM
Ron owls Penelope to talk about her brother's death.

4:00 PM
Alicia runs into George at the Hogsmeade community pitch.

6:30 PM
Ron takes Hermione on a date.

11:30 PM
Alicia spots George at the Honeypot. Luckily, she's in disguise.

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Again, let me know if anything needs fixing!

-Meesh

Hey all! Just making sure everyone is making use of the wanted characters page. If there's a character you really want in game, comment there and we'll bold them on the available list as being most wanted! We also use that list for advertising for specific characters, so if we overlook someone you want, just let us know.

-Meesh

Date change:
Nightmares are back, and it seems like few have noticed the journal glitch.

Early morning:
Daily Prophet article talks about increased DMLE forces about Diagon and Hogsmeade.

8:30 AM
Adrian catches Percy Weasley drunk at the Hog's Head.

Mid-morning
Eli taps Roger for an experiment.

10:30 AM:
Zarkin Frood has a run-in with Samara and Theodore.

11:30 AM
Hermione and Ron stop avoiding each other.

Time change:
The glitches in the journals have become abundantly clear, far too late to call back anything already written.

3:00 PM
Agatha sets up a trick on Ron, and Adrian is party to it.

4:15 PM
Samara sends Theodore an owl.

6:30 PM
Dumbledore's Army meets to talk about what's been going on.

Sometime after 6:30 PM
Angeline and George catch up, then she goes out with the girls for a drinking session.

8:00 PM
Percy sends Penelope an owl.

8:35 PM
Penelope and Percy talk about their shared nightmare.

9:00 PM
Roger and Marietta are interrupted by Zacharias.

Late night
Jaynedora strikes again; this time it's the Davis family who suffers.

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Again, let me know if anything needs fixing!

-Meesh

Hey guys - I know there are a few things waiting on us, and we apologise for the delay. We'll answer all your questions once we've all have a chance to chat. It's a bit rough trying to catch us all on to talk over things during the holidays. We should be around tonight!

--Meesh

Alright so we might not get done RPing this for a while, so we are going to probably have to come up with an OOC idea of what all they discuss and come up with at this meeting so that we can refer to it IC from now on. So I suppose we could kinda treat this as like a character introduction post and we can post what all sorta went on in the threat, what your character had to propose and how that went over and any other sort of things that went down and reactions to that, etc.

We'll use the categories we had in the main thread to keep it simple. You can put your character's name under them and say what they would have contributed to those categories and then we can decide how others would have reacted to that contribution (but in OOC form so it goes much quicker). And also for things that may have already happened (like the big punching scene!) if you character didn't get to directly react to it, you can always say your character reacted off screen, etc.

Sound good?

- Emmie
(Michael, Ron, Marietta, Samara)
i.e. the characters who all had anger problems this weekend

Hey yall!! Back again!!!

Ok so this time I've got one George Weasley, King of Wizard Wheezes, enabling Pranksers everywhere! Obviously he's not quite the same happy go lucky guy he was during school, since he is minus his twin, plus Harry just died and he kind of liked him a bit! But after 3 years of being almost off the grid due to mourning, he's back in the game for the last few years and business is as good as it's ever been! He's hanging out in Diagon Alley with his dog, Gidget (of which there is a picture in his application) and generally just trying to the same happy person he used to be, at least in front of everyone.

So, let me have it! Who's in for interactions!?

<3 FJ