December '14

[Cassius Lestrange]

12.01
PMG Internationals may now be reserved!

12.02
Secret Swap signups are up! Also, PMG temporaries now have their very own adoptables thread. :)

  

[Elsie Beauregard]

12.06
NaNo scores are in! Congrats to everybody who completed the task!

Addie with 16464 on Angharad Warbeck
Beanie with 10006 on Cassius Lestrange
Bee with 10098 on Elsie Beauregard
Emma with 10747 on Clarissa Cosgrove
Emily with 10035 on Torquil MacFusty
Jenny with 10516 on Annette Fontaine
Lauren with 10096 on Minnie Pendergast
Miri with 10051 on Persephone Van Helsing
Olive with 10156 on November Crouch
Ori with 10138 on Oliver Trask
Roo with 10540 on James MacFusty
Rosa with 10311 on Elizabeth Humphrey-Mavis
Soph with 13089 on Eva Sleptova

You may all claim your stamps and Lola set!!

Thanks to everybody who participated!

  

[Ursula Black]

12.06
A 'Lower Levels' forum has been added to Hogwarts for basement and dungeon threading. Due to forum clutter, should the Common Room forums be moved?

  

[Violet MacFusty]

12.07
Staff will be deleting dead threads and postlogs beginning January 1st. Want to save your stuff? See here for more info!

EDIT: We also have two new winter skins to release today! Previews can be found below:


Golden Beauty (Banner by Soph)


Secrets of Purity (Banner by Soph)

The default skin has not changed - as I am still working on tweaking things here and there. It will be released at a later date.

  

[Elsie Beauregard]

12.07

We're revolutionizing the Networking forum! Plottage will stay the same, but in order to help organize and minimize the craze of networking, we've created a new style of networking! In order to reduce the sometimes overwhelming size of the networking forum, now each player will have one networking thread with any/all of your current needs. See the New Guidelines and Bee's example if you need some help! All of the new forms and guidelines are outlined in the Networking Guidelines post, pinned at the top of the forum.

You will have until January 31st, 2015 to make the switch over before we clean the networking forum of all old threads!

  

[Ursula Black]

12.10
The Slytherin and Hufflepuff Common Rooms can now be found in the Lower Levels forum while Gryffindor and Ravenclaw are now in the Corridors forum.

  

[Lucius Lestrange]

12.17

We now have our reputation system up and running! Please post here to get your reputation ribbons, and consider setting up a reputation log! The application form has been updated to include the new field.

  

[Violet MacFusty]

12.18
The reputation update thread has been temporarily locked while the staff iron out some kinks. Stay tuned!

  

[Cassius Lestrange]

12.21
The reputation updates thread has been updated and reworded so that class = lifestyle. (And that is described in the thread!) Accordingly, the updates thread has also been reopened.

  

[Ellory Pendergast]

12.23
The Weekly Wenches are hiring!

  

[Abraham Aesalon]

12.24
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, y'all! Secret Swap gifts are up and ready to be wallowed in!

  

[Lucius Lestrange]

12.27

The Hogwarts Champions have been announced—better late than never xD They are as follows, though in no particular order:

Petra Septova played by Olive
Tom O’Hare played by Jenny
Castor Allaway played by Kayte
Lorna Van Patten played by MJ
Harvey Beauregard played by Bee
Persephone van Helsing played by Miri
Cillian Notting played by Stefanie
Oliver Trask played by Ori
Felix Parkinson played by Atlas
Tilda MacFusty played by Ladybug

Your characters will have been made aware of it Christmas Day, and it will be in the paper soon. Please check the Hogwarts Calendar for IC event dates; OOC, they will start one to two weeks before!

It’s not too late to have a champion of your own.

There are several international champions still available and we desperately need them filled—enough so that we’re now letting you play two (on top of any Hogwarts champ you might have!), as long as they’re from different schools. Please consider taking them on—remember, temporaries don’t count as real characters anyways ;) You can make your reservations here.

Lastly, accepted champions are asked to reply here with names and profile links!

  

[Lucius Lestrange]

12.31

As 2014 comes to a close, I’m here to remind you that end of the month means the AC is on the horizon! Due to travel and celebrations, the January AC will be on Sunday, January 4th instead of the usual date. To that end, I have some housekeeping notes:

• Please make sure that all characters are on the CML, and that the links you provide go to their accepted application.
  
• Please make sure their mini-profile is filled out—the only optional field is postlog! You can edit yours here.
  
• Double check that all of your characters either have a reputation ribbon or a pending post here!*

If any of these things are not done, your character(s) will be deactivated. Even if they’ve posted this month. Even if you’re on absence.* The usual policy really, but since this time of year is hectic I did want to press the point xD

Also, in the interests of having the AC run as quickly and smoothly as possible, no new characters will be accepted after January 2nd. Bonus points if you hold off on registering anyone new until after the AC >.>

* We appreciate that a) rep ribbons are a big undertaking, b) the holidays are busy, and c) we did have the thread locked for a bit. To that end, players who were on full absence are exempt from point three, but will be expected to get their ribbons up ASAP—we’ll be checking you in February! The exempt players are: Janni, Bex, Doodle, Emily and Jenny, the last of which we hope gets well soon!

  

[Elsie Beauregard]

12.31

Like the AC, Posting Wizard has been extended as well! December's competition and sign ups for January will close at the beginning of the AC on the 4th!

  

[Violet MacFusty]

12.31

Two hours early, but the Winter Labyrinth 2015 is open! Good luck!