September 2018

09.01

The AC is underway—lists and deactivations are in progress! Remember that if you lost a character you did not wish to lose, you may post in maintenance to take their soul back from the reaper starting Wednesday, September 5th. If you currently have no active characters, you may post immediately to reactivate one!

Posting Wizard has rolled over! August's winners were Bree (@Edric Umbridge) with 230 and Kit (@Roberto Devine) with 20. This month will be an epic showdown amongst Kelly, Fallin, and Lauren!

Our final batch of Summer Raffle winners have been drawn! They are...

A set (with rotating avatars!) from Lady	Hawke (@"Fortuna Lockhart")
Immortality Discount	Kelly (@Acacia Ruskin)
Against the Odds	Bree (@Edric Umbridge)
Featured Want Ad	MJ (@Elias Grimstone)
Character Playlist from @Cassius Lestrange	Lynn (@Ophelia Devine)
Moodboard OR set from Bee	Kayte (@Aldous Crouch)
25HP	Kit (@Roberto Devine)
25HP	Finn (@Billie Farrow)

Thanks to everyone who participated this summer!

It's back to school day at Hogwarts! This means that...

• All Students go back to Hogwarts today! The Hogwarts Express leaves from London and stops in Irvingly before arriving in Hogsmeade. Carriages take students in years 2-7 from Hogsmeade Station to the castle, while first years arrive at the castle via boats. Everyone gets there in time for dinner and the sorting ceremony!
  
• First Years may now post in the Sorting Ceremony to find out where they truly belong! Please remember to update your CD entry once sorted!
  
• All students should give some thought as to what courses they're taking. It's not mandatory, but can be v. helpful to professors (and disorganized players)
  
• Quidditch Tryouts are underway! Please make sure you register before posting in the appropriate thread. Tryouts run until September 9th.
  
• Professors should start thinking about class threads and homework assignments ;)
  

To whom it may concern, we still have an assortment of Hogwarts Staff and Prefect Positions open!

Please be advised that the school year calendar in the Roster thread is from last year.
(Kayte might have forgotten about it, and plans to update it this week!)

Our second annual Camp Charming has wrapped up! Thanks to everyone who participated in any way. Completion ribbons (aka the stamp) go to...

Kayte (@Aldous Crouch)
Bree (@Edric Umbridge)
Hawke (@"Fortuna Lockhart")
Kelly (@Acacia Ruskin)
Beanie (@Cassius Lestrange)
Fallin (@Sisse Thompsett)
Lauren (@Elladora Black)
Bee (@Elsie Beauregard)
Finn (@Billie Farrow)
Kit (@Roberto Devine)
MJ (@Elias Grimstone)
Lynn (@Ophelia Devine)

In addition, we have a few bonus!awards, regardless of whether or not the players completed CC. They earn you absolutely nothing except bragging rights =P

Overachiever Earned requisite posts with just one character	Bee (@"February Lynch"); Bree (@Edric Umbridge); Hawke (@Emmeline Woodcroft); Jon (@Charles Caulfield)
Holy Fork! Achieved 500+ posts	Bee, Jon
Merlin's Thong! Achieved 1000+ posts	Bree, Hawke
Participation Trophy Participated in 5+ events	Kayte, Bree, MJ, Hawke, Bee

And last but not least, Fallin and I alone completed the Summer Reading Challenge

09.03

Happy new skins day! Our resident graphic folk and our coding monkey (ily Te!) have been hard at work crafting four new skins for this season!

Sweater Weather by Te (@Prudence Browne), Hocus Pocus by Nolan (@Burton Beasley), The Hogwarts Express by Bee (@Elsie Beauregard), and The Witching Hour by MJ (@Elias Grimstone) are available for use now, as are our summer skins still!

Got killer banner ideas? Keep your eyes pealed for our Winter banner call in the next couple of months!  

09.15

Only six days late kill me, but the school quidditch rosters have been fleshed out! Unlike all of you, your characters would have found out on the 9th or 10th as they were supposed to xD Any remaining slots are now available to simply grab, but you cannot slide a character in if they tried and failed to get it already!

If you've made the team, don't forget to update the history records!

09.17

Attention everyone! Someone (read: me) nearly lost us the Play-By Directory. The good news: it's not all gone! The less good news: we are down to a cached version from earlier in the month. Please all take a moment to double check that your claims, especially the recent ones, are on there. If not, please update accordingly! Sorry for the trouble >.>

09.26

The AC is coming! The October AC will take place on Saturday, October 6th! To ensure you survive, please make sure that...

• Your mini-profile is filled in with height properly formatted
  
• All of your characters have been listed in the Character Directory—check back on your entries to make sure they were processed properly!
  
• Characters made before the last AC have posted at least once this month
  
• This one's more for staff, but that your full profile has been filled in ;)

If all of the above are squared away, there should be no reason for you to fall inactive in the upcoming check! To our new members: the AC requires no work on your part. The staff team simply makes sure the above is seen to!

With September winding down, you also only have until end of day Sunday to complete the September Writing Challenge. How many of your new vocab words can you squeeze into one post? ;)

Last but not least, there is some strange mail floating around…