The 8th Floor Mods (ministry_mod) wrote in thbreakroom, @ 2011-05-15 06:52:00 |
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► Mod Notes ► If there's any reason you find meeting the requirements difficult, let us know! We're here to help! If you'd like to help us, we'd love any suggestions you have on how to make being active easier for you. Otherwise, you need you need 2 journals, and 1 thread to pass the May activity check at the end of the month. ► Please tag your thread posts as that's how we track activity - if your activity status seems wrong on the right, it might be because of a lack of tagging on posts. You can hover over your smiley or check mark to see how many threads/journals we have recorded for you. If there's a mistake that affects the passing of a check, let us know, and we'll get that fixed for you. ► Character Gains/Losses We lost Ron Weasley and Parvati Patil. We gained six new characters in the first part of May! New player Natasha has given us Lavender Brown, new player Dee has given us Theo Nott; Stars has picked up Bill Weasley, Squeaky has picked up Leanne Campbell, Jess has picked up Terry Boot, and Aimee has picked up Timothy Blenkinsop Please type your username into the box below, then press "Friends Button." Remember to do it for each of your characters. You have to be logged into a journal to use it for that particular journal. ► Ongoing Events The Ministry's restrictions are still in place, meaning that movement outside the home must take place by Floo or apparation only in densely-populated muggle areas. Broom-travel is no longer authorized no matter how far away one is from muggles, and travel by foot or by muggle means through dense muggle areas is permitted only by certain Ministry personnel. To everyone's dismay, the Quidditch Playoffs are still on hold because of financial concerns. The Ministry restrictions on travel have made it unlikely that enough fans would be able to attend to offset the costs. However! A Quidditch fundraiser is going to take place on the 21st that's expected to solve the problem. ► Upcoming Events On Friday the 13th, mysterious letters were sent out offering your character a chance to participate in the "Change Your Luck!" Scavenger Hunt. This is a light, fluffy, death-free plot that will continue for several months and will offer both characters and players the chance to solve the puzzles by searching Witch Weekly, the Daily Prophet and character journals for clues. Your character isn't required to participate if it's not something they'd be interested in or if they've got other things to occupy their time. It is possible to jump in later if you choose not to get involved from the beginning. Ian and Morag will be married on the 18th! The wedding will be held at Gylen castle. On the 21st, a Quidditch dinner/auction fundraiser will be held to raise the money the League needs to get playoffs going again. Dinner is ten Galleons and there will be a silent auction full of donated Quidditch memorabilia At 10pm on the 28th, the Malfoys will meet with Lestrange behind the face of Big Ben in London. A fight will break out between them at 10:07pm, briefly stalling the clock and causing it to run slower. Narcissa Malfoy will be killed at 10:20, at which point the clock will stop for 90 minutes. Muggles notice the clock stopping (it really happened, as a matter of fact) but word of the murder is restricted to the Wizarding World. Although Lucius Malfoy survives, he refuses to tell DoMLE officials who killed her but witness descriptions lead Aurors to conclude that Lestrange was involved. ► Behind the Scenes The Ministry has started cracking down on those who are violating the restrictions. Violators will receive a small fee of 25 Galleons (125 pounds) and spend the night in one of the Ministry's holding cells for their first offence. Rose Zeller was arrested by Ron Weasley on the 5th, Megan Jones will be arrested by John Dawlish on the 16th and Lee Jordan will be arrested by Neville Longbottom on the 24th. If those dates don't work out for you, please change them right away. The disappearance of the Greengrasses, plus the murder of a Malfoy will cause panic to start brewing in pureblood circles - especially those who supported the Dark Lord. Fears of who will or won't be next begin to rise, and some prominent purebloods put increasing pressure on the Minister and Auror team to find Lestrange. There's many a speculation that the 'Enemies of Wizardingkind' list is authored by Lestrange and has something to do with what Lestrange deemed 'bad' actions during the war, what with the mix of 'dark' and 'light' names. Other wild theories about the list start to crop up and people begin to be genuinely worried if they or someone they know is on the list. As May fades into June, uncertainty and a dark pall find themselves creeping heavily over the Wizarding World. So much for an 'era of peace'. OSTENDO, is still recruiting new members. For those of you who don't remember, OSTENDO's goal is to reveal the existance of magic to muggles. This group operates in independent cells, with each cell having only a passing knowledge of the rest, so that one turncoat can't take the rest down. While every cell knows that OSTENDO's purpose is to repeal the Statute of Secrecy, different cells hold different ideas about what should happen once the Statute is gone. For example, some think that muggles and wizards should be fully integrated, some think that wizards should be the masters of muggles, some think that wizards should come out to muggles but still live apart and some are just plain weird. Within our game, there are two cells, one for those who are generally pro-muggle and one for those who are generally anti-muggle. We're looking for volunteers for both groups, and for volunteers to be unsuccessfully recruited as well. If you're not sure whether or not your character would join, you can always decide later. Even if there's no "recruitment drive" going, you can still contact the player of someone currently in the group and ask them to recruit your character. And the flip side of that is, of course, The 'Enemies of Wizardkind' List. It's full of the names of people who OSTENDO believes would oppose overturning the Statute of Secrecy, though the TRUE nature of the List is unknown to the general public, and even most members of OSTENDO. As you can see, not all names on the list are visible there. In fact, your character might be on that list. If you think they would have been noted as an enemy but weren't, let us know and they can be added. We're not making a new list or anything, but we're noting it on the character page and it might have some effect later in the game. If you're on this enemies list and would like to have something terrible happen to your character in June, let us know. Limit: One. First come, first served. ► Summary VICTORY DAY! Kevin had trouble deciding whether or not to go, Gwen just used the day to practice for her auditions and Padma and George spent the day avoiding the festivities and the night drinking with Lee. Draco chose the occasion to announce an award in memory of Crabbe. After the fireworks, Pansy confirmed the reappearance of the Dark Mark and Zacharias just freaked out. Lee was glad he missed it. Later, Dawlish informed everyone that the last of the children injured in the stampede had been released from St. Mungo's. Morag got upset at Pansy for being Pansy, then sent her a necklace. Naturally, Pansy assumed it was cursed. Lavender discussed emergency script changes to her show. Rose got arrested. (But her mug shot was adorable, so I don't even know why she's complaining.) Bill and Fleur went out for the evening. Draco bought a ring AND DID NOTHING ELSE - you hear me, Aurors? Nothing. Gwen's practice paid off - she announced her new roles in the play. Padma had a breakthrough at work. A beautiful day made Leanne a little stir-crazy. Anthony can't catch up at work. NEW WITCH WEEKLY! YAY! Put on your shocked faces, people - Zacharias got drunk and talked about the stars. And not about Cormac wanting to be Captain. Not about that at all. Lavender had a birthday! Kevin complained about the restrictions some more, but considered having Harry Potter on his side to be a good sign. The Equalities Office and Susan Bones got flooded with angry owls. Theo's going to get stabbed and nobody seems to care. All characters were invited to join the 'CHANGE YOUR LUCK' SCAVENGER HUNT! Get your guesses in now, people! |