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Event Ideas - Charming - January 28, 2018
Do You Have an Idea?
We are always looking for the next big idea (or even moderately-sized idea) for events—something that can attract a large number of characters be it a hosted event or something else. Please post here if you have suggestions for...
- A one-off event (carnival, dance, flower show, etc.) that appeals to the middle and/or working classes, or to non-humans.
- A mini boardwide event such as the snowstorm and spiked tea we've had in the past.
- A major boardwide plot that affects characters from all classes and at least three usergroups.
RE: Event Ideas - Bella Scrimgeour - April 6, 2018
Okay so dream land got me this time.
- A large crisis in the Portkey Office occurs when several portkeys set up for a large event in the magical community (think quidditch world cup sized) causes its travelers to be transported to the middle of the Scottish wilderness with their wands fried. THUS, the travelers get lost in the Scottish wilderness without magic for days and have to do a Hunger Games style survival thing, only without the killing each other part. They meet wild obstacles like an acromantula colony, magical weather conditions, etc. Would be super cool if people could sign up with the knowledge that one of their chosen characters must perish for #realism.
RE: Event Ideas - Elladora Black - April 7, 2018
One off event:
May Day festivities for the working class of Hogsmeade/Irvingly (whichever suits) feat. Maypole dancing, beer and food because yay Bank Holiday. Could also include some mild love potion being spiked into the drinks/food because love is in the air in Spring? But on some people it backfires and spouses/courting couples end up hating each other.
RE: Event Ideas - Justice Rookwood - June 4, 2018
An inter-house competition sorta thing! Think triwizard tourney/pan-magical games except it would be two houses v. the other two houses! Students from each age group (intro/OWL/NEWT) would be chosen to compete in a number of competitions (something more creative than just dueling or potion-brewing, though :P) and earn points separate from the house points—though the houses with the highest scores in each age bracket should earn points at the end of the year!
I am 100% down for the chosen students being merit-based or evidence-based rather than randomized because it would promote participation in the first few months of school ;)
RE: Event Ideas - Ophelia Devine - September 13, 2018
HI HERE I AM WITH A CHRISTMAS EVENT IDEA YES I KNOW IT'S SEPTEMBER
The Muggle Studies professor (or someone) convinces the Headmaster to let them put on a Hogwarts production of A Christmas Carol. Roles are cast and rehearsals begin. During one rehearsal, Peeves decides to help everyone get a little more in the spirit of things... by sending the entire cast back to a 'Christmas Past' at Hogwarts.
From the perspective of those not involved in the play (professors, other students, eventually the concerned parents/relevant Ministry departments), it looks like 30-some students just up and vanished. For those who go back, they cycle through a bunch of random years at Hogwarts and get to meet (and have amazingly awkward threads with) their parents/older siblings/etc while they're still teenagers.
Since actual time travel is a bit outside Peeves' wheelhouse this would all be illusion (ie, the 'past' people wouldn't have any memories of the interactions when the kids come back to the present day), but that doesn't make it any less weird for the kids involved. xD
RE: Event Ideas - Prudence Browne - September 18, 2018
HI CAN WE HAVE A HALLOWEEN EVENT PLS
--- A hunt for the headless horseman in the Forbidden Forest (or Hawthorne Hollow)
--- Hogwarts Masquerade Ball (I know it's cliche but it's been a long time since we last had one!)
--- Halloween party with VE matchmaking Halloween games
RE: Event Ideas - Ginevra Blackwood - September 24, 2018
Halloween hurling roulette -
The Victorians believed that eating an apple while looking into a mirror could reveal the face of a future love.
Suggested Halloween event where there are no dance cards but instead you take a bite from an apple before each dance and the mirror matches you with someone for the next dance. All charms and no real seer-ing but a cute way to mix up the dance partners.
(perhaps building on Té's masque idea- where instead of a persons face, you see their costume - so dancing with no preconceptions of who you are dancing with)
RE: Event Ideas - Ophelia Devine - November 5, 2018
A "transfiguration obstacle course." Contestants bring a palm-sized inanimate object of their choosing, and must then transfigure it into a vessel designed to carry them through various obstacles (think flying, underwater, being chased by small but dangerous magical creatures, etc). Could be done as a last-man-standing or as a race depending on how dangerous the events are. Both the constant and their transfigured object should survive the course in order to win.
RE: Event Ideas - Edric Umbridge - January 5, 2019
A magical storm in Hogsmeade that goes beyond "oh no it's snowing in the summer". It's unpredictable (and avoidable if people don't want to thread with it) and changes all the time. One day could be clear, and the next day you have wind gusts so powerful it breaks windows and knocks down the candles inside, setting random houses ablaze. Flash flooding that seems to disappear the minute it hits a large structure, but washes away residents who get stuck in its path. Earthquakes that open up to a crack, but instead of falling down into the ground you seem to fall down until you're back where you began. Thunderstorms that blare annoying music instead of thunder, waking everyone up at night. Snow, except it's really cobwebs and covers the entirety of Hogsmeade.
You know, the usual.
RE: Event Ideas - Marmaduke Warbeck - January 5, 2019
A dragon (or dragons) unexpectedly hatches a large brood and all the Ministry's dragon catchers are not able to keep ahead of this amount of fire. A temperamental broody dragon (or dragons) is wreaking havoc. The same weirdos who try to raise pet alligators have smuggled some drakes home despite urgent warnings. Old Man Gunther keeps reporting drake sightings when no, Gunther, for the last time those are birds.
Time to brace for migration season!
RE: Event Ideas - Acacia Darlington - January 6, 2019
Quote:The_Kelly: Hogwarts: Summer Addition
Finn: Rofl
Finn: Hogwarts Summer Camp should really be a thing
The_Kelly: It would be hilarious. Like, the school does that for a summer, it doesn't end well, thus why it wasn't in the books XD
The_Kelly: "Several people got eatten Harry, not something that people like to discuss"
Finn: Someone probably died
Finn: Haha yes
Finn: Color Wars with Dragons
The_Kelly: That's how they got eaten
I legit think that this should be a thing.
RE: Event Ideas - Acacia Darlington - April 3, 2019
Someone gets the 'bright' idea to smuggle some Doxies into Hogwarts or the Ministry. Let the little creatures cause their chaos. Or worse, Hogsmeade or London!
RE: Event Ideas - Madeleine Backus - June 28, 2020
Entirely an OC event BUT since we won't have a eurovision to watch this year, perhaps a screening of the Netflix Eurovision movie, possibly with the Episode of father ted about the Eurovision before hand!
OR! For the a more involved Eurovision themed event!
-Everyone claims a eurovision country,
-Picks their favourite song ever submitted by that country as their 'entry'
- They are added to a youtube playlist, or thread here
-Players vote for their favs
-points are allocated Eurovision style 1-12 (or weighted based ie half as many total points as entrants)
- A winner is crowned!
could be done live if we were so inclined
RE: Event Ideas - Walter Staghart - July 26, 2022
This is more a Contest suggestion than an event, one geared to get unexpected pairings in threads. I've seen it done on many sites and it often works well. I don't know if it's been done here... other than it's not been done since I joined in February.
Basically its a random pairing of characters and a thread must be done to completion in a certain time frame to gain any rewards. People can volunteer up to 5 characters (or as much as players feel they can handle given timeframe to complete threads) and after a certain date, all signed up characters are randomly paired up. Players then can figure out a thread between themselves, or random scenarios could be generated as well.
Rewards would be based on number of completed threads within the set timeline (whether a weekend, week or month timeframe)
This could happen a few times a year perhaps, if people enjoy it.
RE: Event Ideas - Melody Crouch - July 26, 2022
(July 26, 2022 – 4:23 AM)Walter Staghart Wrote: This is more a Contest suggestion than an event, one geared to get unexpected pairings in threads. I've seen it done on many sites and it often works well. I don't know if it's been done here... other than it's not been done since I joined in February.
Basically its a random pairing of characters and a thread must be done to completion in a certain time frame to gain any rewards. People can volunteer up to 5 characters (or as much as players feel they can handle given timeframe to complete threads) and after a certain date, all signed up characters are randomly paired up. Players then can figure out a thread between themselves, or random scenarios could be generated as well.
Rewards would be based on number of completed threads within the set timeline (whether a weekend, week or month timeframe)
This could happen a few times a year perhaps, if people enjoy it.
This is like our thread roulette! There's usually one every few months or so, but it's the same concept I think! :)
RE: Event Ideas - Ida Chang - July 29, 2022
Have we ever done like a magical version of the World Fair/London's Great Exhibition?
Also: Ministry recruiting event or like... job fair?