Inspiration Station - Printable Version

Inspiration Station - Printable Version

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Inspiration Station - Charming - July 9, 2018

Inspiration Station

We’ve all been there: you want to thread with a new partner but aren’t sure where to start, or you’d love to post an open for Suzie McCharacter, but are rather at a loss. What’s a roleplayer to do?

Check the calendar. There are events going on—some one-offs, some recurring—in any given month that would be excellent settings for your thread in question! Pay particular attention to the details of the event—often times, players include a magical element that can go horribly awry
Read the paper or the magazines. Current events—whether true or fabricated—are a great place to start, and your fellow Charmers took the time to craft the pieces in our publications. Why not take a gander and see what sparks your imagination?
Accomplish something! Our monthly writing challenges and ongoing stamp program offer prompts and/or challenges to complete and get those creative juices flowing.
Get educated! The "Did You Know?" thread is full of fun tidbits about the era—and what a strange era it was! Read through some of the offerings and consider what you could do with them!
Seek help from a higher power. The suggestionizer is here to get the ball rolling for you, or to bring about a twist of fate when a thread is already in progress. Are you brave enough to try your luck?

In addition, always remember that as the first poster, getting the ball rolling is your job unless you and your partner have come to another arrangement. Your character doesn’t have to directly interact with anyone, but there should be something about your post that invites interaction—don’t make the second poster do all the work to make things engaging!

Members: please post below with your ideas for thread prompts, scenarios, or places to find ideas!

RE: Inspiration Station - Flora Mulciber - July 11, 2018

Sometimes I've found that the best thread ideas come from the best thread titles! I've compiled a list of them that you're free to pick and choose from! It's editable so you can both add some and cross out the ones you've used!

RE: Inspiration Station - Cameron Gillenwater - August 22, 2018

I PRESENT: HOGWARTS IDEAS.

Some of these are definitely bigger than single-thread plots, and it might be best to run some of these through staff, but my 6am brain is cranking out ideas and I must post them somewhere :P

Book Club meetings get intense, ending in a number of students receiving detentions for sneaking into the Restricted Section without a pass in search of new—and forbidden—knowledge to share.
Struggling students form a study group. They grow. They achieve. They pass their damn exams and build friendships along the way.
Student attempts to blackmail professor. It works...at first.
A number of students wake up in the Hospital Wing. They have no memory of what happened to cause them to end up there.
The bottom level of Hogwarts (i.e. dungeons, etc.) is flooded, leaving the Hufflepuffs and Slytherins to bunk with the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors.
Poor attempts at an atmospheric charms lead to a raging, magical thunderstorm over Hogwarts that tampers with professors’ and students’ magic.
A magical bug invades the halls of Hogwarts, leading students to act out of character and forget basic details about themselves. In turn, this leads to students believing that their friends are being kidnapped—and replaced!—by imposters.
Fight-turns-accidental-death leading to a series of lies, pointed fingers, and blackmail.
Student searches through whatever Hogwarts records they can find at the school to answer questions about family secrets.
Student goes missing during a quidditch match.
(Possibly illegal?) potion brewing ring. Soothing draughts, pepperup potions, etc.—all sold and traded from the comfort of the common rooms UNTIL one ill-brewed potion threatens to collapse the entire operation.
Student’s diary is stolen. They wake up to find their secrets circulating.

RE: Inspiration Station - Cameron Gillenwater - August 22, 2018

(August 22, 2018 – 10:22 AM)Cameron Gillenwater Wrote: I PRESENT: HOGWARTS IDEAS.

I PRESENT: MORE HOGWARTS IDEAS.

A student accidentally commits a crime during a Hogsmeade weekend, and only a handful of students know about it. While at first they all agree to keep quiet to protect their friend, the introduction of reward money tests loyalties that would have otherwise never been questioned.
Students run a competition between themselves to see who can invent the best spell, potion, or breed of plant. All seems well—at least until one of their inventions goes awry.
A parent receives word that their child has been spending time with less favorable types and choices have to be made. Is the blood of the covenant thicker than the water of the womb? We'll see.
DYK? The first ballpoint pen was invented on October 30th, 1888. A student returns to Hogwarts with one after Christmas break, causing an uproar (and perhaps awe!) among those skeptical of muggle technology.
After word comes out that a student may have to leave school due to a family death or financial difficulties, their friends come together to keep them from leaving.

RE: Inspiration Station - Ophelia Devine - October 12, 2018

According to Cassell's Household Guide, a comprehensive book on Victorian life published in 1869, if the young woman did see a gentleman friend and felt she couldn't ignore him, she would have to take the initiative and offer her hand. The gentleman had to wait for the lady to recognize him before lifting his hat (not simply touching the brim), and he had to use the hand farthest from her. If she offered her hand, the gentleman had to turn to walk with the lady instead of stopping. And above all else, the conversation itself had to be reserved: Cassell's dictates, "Strict reticence of speech and conduct should be observed in public," without "loud talking" or "animated discussions."

Only under extreme circumstances could one perform the practice of "cutting," in which you stared directly at someone you knew with no sign of recognition. Cassell's called this "the most ill-mannered act possible to commit in society."

— Have someone 'cut' an acquaintance in public; the 'cut' party is devastated and bystanders are looking around like. Could make an excellent thread for the Silencio stamp, and Rumor Mill fodder!

RE: Inspiration Station - Holly Scrimgeour - February 7, 2020

Workplace Drama

Aurors vs. hit wizards office drama. Some auror makes a snide comment about the importance/skill level/intelligence of hit wizards, prompting a war of sorts between the offices. Cue light sabotaging of cases, prank wars, and general mischief that shouldn't be condoned but is for the sake of pride.
Conflict between a superior and an office employee. There's plenty ways this could happen and I rarely see these conflicts happening.
Employee moves into a higher rank at the Ministry and is not immediately accepted by their inferiors. Cue a battle to earn respect (even if it means going too far and losing it.)
A top player on a quidditch team makes a switch to another team, seemingly out of nowhere. A series of "quotes" are "leaked" about why the player switched. They might be real, and they might be fabricated—but they definitely cause a lot of drama.
Random disease outbreak in one of the hospitals, causing a few of the healers and hospital staff to go into quarantine together for days on end. Cue panic, bickering, and everything in between.

Hamish Darrow