The 12 Days of Charming

Ho ho ho! Santa Kayte is here again this year to bring you the 12 Days of Charming. To those new to our ranks (or extra forgetful), 12 Days is, quite literally, twelve days, in which each day brings with it a new challenge, riddle, or puzzle for you to solve. Complete all twelve to earn the 12 Days stamp!

Stamps not your jam? This is for you anyways—each day has one to five (or on some days, unlimited!) prizes available to be won on a first done, first served basis! I won’t tell you specifically what they are (what would be the fun in that?), but I can tell you that several Charmers have been enlisted as elves and, as always, the December Challenge stamp is buried in there somewhere…

Check back on Tuesday, December 12 for day one!

  

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— Aldous walks with a cane and pronounced limp as the result of a splinching accident. —

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Day I

For the first day of Christmas, I've kept the partridge and chopped down the tree for wandwood, leaving us with just the pear—we're getting the search & find out of the way early this year!

Somewhere on Charming, there is a pear. It looks like this:

Your mission? Find it, and send me the link to the post that it's in, either by private message here on the board, or DM on Discord! The first [REDACTED] to send me the pear's correct location will take home the first batch of prizes this season ;) You have until December 13th at noon Halifax time to complete this task!

I will leave you with a bit of a hint:

• It is not in the first post of its thread
  
• It is in an active IC thread
  
• It's location at least vaguely makes sense from a canon perspective...

HAPPY HUNTING!

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Day II

Yesterday saw Elaine, Kelly, Gin, Jordan, Fox, Kit, Athena, Beanie, Jen, and Fallin take home 10 House Points for the house of their choosing. Everyone else contributed to their streaks :)

Today, a trivia question:
Name three Charming Ministers of Magic!
PM the answer to this account or DM me on Discord by noon Halifax time to qualify!

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Day III

Yesterday saw MJ & Fallin each take home a playlist from Beanie! Everyone else contributed to their streaks :)

ANSWERS: You could have chosen any of the following Ministers:

• Faris Spavin (NPC)
  
• Darcy Potter
  
• Balthazar Urquart
  
• Justin Ross
  
• Ozymandias Dempsey

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Today, I'm bringing back the cryptogram—can you figure out the secret phrase? Each letter in the phrase has been replaced with a random letter or number, and Santa Kayte has provided you all the vowels you could possibly want!


PM the phrase to this account or DM me on Discord by noon Halifax time to qualify!

  

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Day IV

Yesterday saw Jordan, Gin, and Sallie each take home an Against the Odds! Everyone else contributed to their streaks :)

And of course, for those dying to know, the solution was:

YOU MUST BE MY HORCRUX, BECAUSE YOU COMPLETE ME

(Cherry has declared this "Amaranthacore" which, fair)

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Today, something I think is new to our 12 Days tradition: character bingo! Complete any row (vertical, horizontal, diagonal) of five on the bingo card by finding five DIFFERENT currently active characters that fit the briefs! The biggest catch? None of them can be your own!


PM the list of characters AND the categories for which they qualify to this account or by noon Halifax time to qualify!
(No DMs today, please!)

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Day V

Yesterday saw Athena, Beanie, MJ, Jordan, & Steph each take home a +1 modifier! Everyone else contributed to their streaks :) There are simply too many potential solutions to do a full answer key, but I hope you enjoyed your hunting of humans character bingo!

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Today, is Day 5—instead of 5 golden rings, let's do 5 glorious posts!

It truly is as simple as it sounds! Just do five IC replies of 200+ words to be in the running! Please note that these replies must be in IC, in-person threads (no journals or letters) and must be a to a player other than yourself (no self-threading, starters, or read-onlies). Head over to lonely threads if you need somewhere to start ;) Any posts on or after this precise moment can count.

Today, speed does not matter. Because I want you to take the time to give your posts the attention they deserve, the prize(s) for today will be raffled, with those who participate each getting an entry :)

PM your post links to this account or DM me on Discord within 24 horus of this post to qualify!

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Day VI

Yesterday saw Athena, Chris, Kelly, Kit, & Sallie each take home an Immortality Discount! Everyone else contributed to their streaks :)

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Today, we are visited by the ghost of Christmas past!

Since it's Day 6, we're looking for 600 words set during the holiday season before 1890 (for characters under 20) or before 1885 (for characters 20+). In these words, you should be engaging in some capacity with festive trappings (1 | 2 | 3). To qualify...

• Must be in an "in-person" thread (no journals or letters)
  
• Must be on one character account
  
• Can be spread out across multiple posts
  
• Can be a read-only or thread starter

Today, speed does not matter. Because I want you to take the time to give your posts the attention they deserve, the prize(s) for today will be raffled, with those who participate each getting an entry :)

PM your post links to this account or DM me on Discord within 24 horus of this post to qualify!

  

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Day VII

Yesterday saw everyone who participated each take home the December Challenge stamp! Everyone else contributed to their streaks :) In fact—there's still about an hour to get in touch if you want to complete Day VI~

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Today, another puzzle! This time, I've garbled a ridiculous HP pickup line into... something even more ridiculous. Use the letters below to find the secret phrase!

Newer stars went against the moon in darkened peace thy fast toad a haut

PM the phrase to this account or DM me on Discord within 24 horus of this post to qualify!

  

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Day VIII

Whew—that one was a doozy! Kit, Sallie, and Jen each took home an occupation lock, and MJ and Athena were able to add to their respective streaks! As to the solution...

I WANT YOU MORE THAN SNAPE WANTED TO TEACH DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS

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Today, we're revisiting the bingo concept with PLAYER bingo! Complete any row (vertical, horizontal, diagonal) of five on the bingo card by finding 4-5 DIFFERENT currently active players that fit the briefs! I've given you a free space, and ensured there are relatively easily findable solutions even for people who don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Charming community ;)

You can use yourself, but ONLY IF you do not also use the "FREE" square!


PM the list of players AND the categories for which they qualify to this account or by noon Halifax time to qualify!
(No DMs today, please!)

  

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THE ELVES ARE ON LUNCH BREAK

Heck of a day—will be back tomorrow with Day 9!

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Day IX

Day 8 saw EVERYONE who participated take home 5 house points and contribute to their streaks!

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Today, as promised, another cryptogram—can you figure out the secret phrase? Each letter in the phrase has been replaced with a random letter or number, and Santa Kayte has provided you not with vowels today, but with murder.


PM the phrase to this account or DM me on Discord by noon Halifax time to qualify!

  

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Day X

Yesterday saw Athena and MJ each take home a set or moodboard from Lady! Everyone else contributed to their streaks :)

And of course, for those dying to know, the solution was:

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU. NOT ME, NOT HERMIONE, YOU.

(It's a thing I swear)

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Today, a writing challenge! Inspired by The Twelve Days of Christmas, you'll need to include one word from each of the 12 categories below in your post! This can be in one post or multiple, but cannot be a journal/letter, or actually reference the song (that would be too easy!). Please bold the indicated words to make my life easier :)

1. Partridge / Pear / Tree
   
2. Turtle / Dove / Turtledove
   
3. French / Hen
   
4. Call / Called / Calling / Bird / Birds
   
5. Golden / Gold / Ring / Rings
   
6. Goose / Geese / Gosling / Lay / Laying
   
7. Swan / Swans / Swim / Swims / Swam / Swimming
   
8. Maid / Maids / Milk / Milking
   
9. Lady / Ladies / Dance / Danced / Dancing
   
10. Lord / Leap / Leapt / Leaping
    
11. Piper / Pipe / Piping
    
12. Drum / Drummer / Drums / Drumming

Today, speed does not matter. Because I want you to take the time to give your posts the attention they deserve, the prize(s) for today will be raffled, with those who participate each getting an entry :)

PM your post links to this account or DM me on Discord within 24 horus of this post to qualify!

  

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Day XI

Yesterday saw Chris take home a featured want ad! Everyone else contributed to their streaks :)

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Today is my absolute favourite challenge of the year: Anonymous Love! How does it work? Write a lil love note each for three (or more!!) of your fellow Charmers and PM them to me. Tomorrow, I'll be distributing them to their recipients for a nice little boost this holiday season <3

Today, speed does not matter. Because I want you to take the time to give your notes the attention they deserve, the prize(s) for today will be raffled, with those who participate each getting an entry :)

PM your notes to this account within 24 horus of this post to qualify!
No DMs, please!

  

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— Aldous walks with a cane and pronounced limp as the result of a splinching accident. —

— graphics by lady ❤ —

Day XII

Want to know who won the prize for Day 11? You'll have to wait until Boxing Day!

Today, the final challenge is upon us!

A CHARMING CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across
2. Make the best bankers
4. Muggle, but make it American
7. The last NPC Minister of Magic
10. Santa's anagram
11. House represented by a badger
13. Church of ____________; explaining why wizards celebrate Christmas since Kayte came up with it
15. Dobby the house _______
16. If it fits, I sits; if it doesn't, I adjust
17. The perfect tree for someone who doesn't want guests

Down
1. You need to know lots of these to work for Aldous Crouch
3. The perfect place to store your beasties, according to N.S.
5. Here be dragons!
6. Best watch your gold if you see one...
8. A very cost ineffective wand core
9. Miraculously, the current house points leader
12. Malfoys, Gaunts, Prewetts
14. Voldy-poo's mumsy

I've made a little crossword for everyone to complete! Complete it and send me your answers using the following form. There's no code word, just complete the puzzle!

Code:

<b>Across</b>
2.
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10.
11.
13.
15.
16.
17.
<p>
<b>Down</b>
1.
3.
5.
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8.
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12.
14.

PM your responses to this account by 12:00pm Halifax Time on December 26th

  

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