The 8th Floor Mods (ministry_mod) wrote in thbreakroom, @ 2011-07-01 03:16:00 |
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► Mod Notes ► find_a_partner, find_a_player, find_players, gamesearch - these are amazing communities where you can go and post requests for characters, or directly recruit people for this game. We'd like to ask each one of you to go to those comms and either post an add yourself, or scour the ads for characters you want or you think our game could use. Everyone here has someone else they'd like to play with, so let's all work together and make that happen! ► CHANGE IN REQUIREMENTS! In order to count, a thread must have five replies per character. If the thread is dropped before that number is reached, the thread will only count for the last person who replied - not for the person who dropped the thread. Threads with no replies do not count. If this is going to be a problem, let us know. ► Please reply to this post to let us know you're reading these. The updates are very important. ► Character Gains/Losses We lost Terry Boot, Neville Longbottom and Theodore Nott. We gained a new player! Brandon brings us Justin Finch-Fletchley. Squeaky's also picked up a new character, Mary Macdonald. 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. A note about requirements. From here on out, if you have an 'X' next to your name at the end-of-the-month check, you MUST meet monthly requirements at the next end-of-the-month check, or your character will be removed from the game. 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 July activity check at the end of the month. ► Ongoing Events none ► Upcoming Events On the 4th, the DoMLE will identify the remains found on Christian Iles as belonging to Morag Macdougal, who has been missing for nearly a month. June 7th: London Bombings. One wizard was killed and 16 were injured. This was followed by several more minor incidents, such as the evacuation of 20,000 people from a city centre in Birmingham and a number of small explosions on the 21st. On the 13th, Padma and Pansy will meet in public to discuss the list and an attempt to injure or kill one or both of them will be thwarted. Just like every year, the third Monday of July is Hengist Day! Hengist Day celebrates the founding of Hogsmeade by Hengist of Woodcroft, who was driven from his home by muggle persecutors. He travelled across Britain in search of a new home before deciding to settle near the recently-built Hogwarts. Unfortunately, a giant had claimed that land as his own and was threatening the school. Although the Founders were able to keep the giant out of the castle, the students were still frightened so Hengist killed the giant and took his land. He built the Three Broomsticks Inn as his home and invited witches wizards from all over Britain to join him in forming the only all-wizarding village in the country. All businesses, including the Ministry, are closed on Hengist Day - except for the Three Broomsticks. July 24th is the grand re-opening of Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour. Fortescue's, which has been closed since its owner disappeared in 1996, is being opened again in the same spot (with much of the same decor) by Florean's granddaughter, Cecily Fortescue. In honour of the occasion, everyone who drops by will be given a free scoop of ice cream. On the 26th, the ban on new Apparation licenses is removed. Within hours, a student apparates into a muggle diner in Leeds. Obliviators are sent to the scene and the threat is contained. The ban is reinstated immediately while the Ministry works to figure out why their safeguards failed. QUIDDITCH: The Prides will play the Kestrals on the 2nd and the Magpies will play the Falcons on the 9th. On the 16th, the Kestrals and the Falcons will play for third place. The British and Irish Quidditch League Cup match will be on the 30th, and will feature the Pride of Portree and the Montrose Magpies. ► Behind the Scenes The London bombings will create a great deal of fear and unease among many witches and wizards, and even some who were in favour of lifting the restrictions are starting to wonder if total separation really would be easier and safer. There's an increased anti-muggle sentiment, with a lot of previously neutral people beginning to think of muggles as dangerous. The combination of Morag's brutal death and the unsuccessful attack against Padma Patil and Pansy Higgs will put the list of enemies back at the forefront of everybody's minds. Most of the people on the list are more frightened than they have been since it first came out, and even those who didn't take it seriously before are starting to worry. 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. If your character wants to be in either cell, they have until the end of this month to consider themselves recruited. They do not need to be recruited in-game, though some sort of mention to a member of their cell, or a journal to let us know they are in is required. If you would like to have your character unsuccessfully recruited, please see a mod for approval. |