The 8th Floor Mods (ministry_mod) wrote in thbreakroom, @ 2012-03-01 14:52:00 |
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► Mod Notes ► The regular Quidditch season is nearly over and the play-offs are beginning later in the month. This schedule will be updated with the Quidditch scores. After that, it's all on you to talk about your games, what happened in them, etc. The team bios page has a list of both in-game and OC players on the teams. If you want to make up names for the other players on your team, just drop box the names and pbs to us, and we'll get them on the list. ► Please take a few minutes to go to the drop box and fill in one of the copy and paste questionnaires. These will help give us a little more content for Witch Weekly. ► Any plot ideas or events? We're not requiring you to come up with one, but if you have any, we'd love to hear them! ► Character Gains/Losses We're happy to welcome L to the game, along with her Astoria Greengrass. We've also got another new character, Alecto Carrow, who's brought to us by Squeaky. Cormac McLaggen and Natalie McDonald were removed for inactivity. 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. 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. ► Ongoing Events The Daily Prophet is still stirring up discussions about wizarding children who were in Muggle schools until recently. Rumours are starting to circulate the Ministry that there are people looking to start some sort of official alternative. The Quidditch World Cup draws ever closer, so people will be talking not just about the play-offs, but also which players are going to be selected for the national teams. England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland are all fielding teams. ► Behind the Scenes DEUS EX MACHINAS FOR EVERYBODY! YAY! Hey - so you know that thing you wanted to do that wasn't really realistic for some reason, like being on a World Cup Quidditch team? Well, good news! Just stop on by the Hog's Head where every glass of Butterbeer is spiked with Felix Felicis for the entire month of March! A very enterprising employee of Aberforth Dumbledore's has decided to try to boost sales by getting people to associate going to the Hog's Head with having good things happen to them. Nobody's going to figure it out - it's just going to happen and then stop happening at the end of the month because it's not cost-effective. We just linked you to an article on Felix Felicis so you have no excuse not to handle this realistically. Read it before you get your drink on, okay? EVERYONE GETS ONE DAY AND THAT'S IT. (ETA: I should say you're not required to get dosed. It's just an option available to you if you need luck for something to happen. If you don't need luck, it would just be a pointless waste of time and you don't have to bother with it.) Choose yours wisely. When you reply to this post, please be sure to tell us that you understand what's going on here or, if you don't understand, ask us to explain it. ► Upcoming Events On 5 March, Diagon Alley will be overrun by about 25 muggle children. These children are the orphans that were left behind after the war against Voldemort. There may be some who are actually muggleborn witches and wizards and whose families were targeted specifically because of that, but most of their parents were simply collateral damage. They were escorted into Diagon Alley by someone nobody will be able to describe, in hindsight, and will afterwards be abandoned with an allowance and instructions to spend money on whatever they want and to have fun. The Ministry will announce that it is officially considering funding a school for children in the Wizarding World who are too young to attend Hogwarts on 8 March. The main backer of the new school proposal is Professor Pomona Sprout, and the school will focus on learning the theory behind magical concepts without using any magic at all. Students will be taught basic educational concepts like reading, writing and maths but muggle subjects will be ignored. Keep an eye out for future announcements about 15 March. And buy a helmet or possibly a bunker or something while you're at it. George Weasley is not to be trusted. OSTENDO will be publicly connected to the List on 20 March by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. The Ministry will issue a statement denouncing the group and referring to its members as criminals, but the language used will worry and even offend some. You'll see later. In an attempt to negate the damage, OSTENDO will visit a muggle hospital on 23 March and heal everyone inside. Word of the "miracle" will spread throughout the muggle world, and a full-page ad will be taken out in the Daily Prophet claiming credit. The Ministry of Magic will be forced to denounce this technically illegal act, causing more ill-will towards them and the Statute of Secrecy, especially amongst muggleborns whose family members will have figured out what happened and will start questioning why they don't do that all the time. The World Cup Team Roster will be announced on 25 March, probably through Witch Weekly in-game although in the "real world" everyone will find out through the Prophet and the Wireless as well. On 29 March, a counter-proposal to Professor Sprout's suggested primary school will be issued. Basically, a few people are bothered by the idea that the children who would attend the proposed pre-Hogwarts school wouldn't learn science or muggle history or anything else they'd learn in the muggle schools they're no longer allowed to attend. Upon receiving this new proposal, the Ministry suspends progress on the first and decides to let them both fight it out. More information will be made available in April when it becomes relevant. |