Open and some notes.

[Astrid Whittaker-Dureau]

So, after a month of waiting patiently (and not so patiently in some cases ^_~) we are now open for play!

Just a few things to bear in mind:

1) Please put the date of the post in the subject line, using the following format: [dd.mm.yyyy] Current in game month = current RL date. Feel free to go about a month either side of the real date (though no posting in Hogwarts proper will take place until after September 1st for students) 

2) Please mention WHERE the thread is taking place.

3) Holiday events and dates:

July 25th - Hogwarts letters, Supply lists, O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. results arrive.

July 27th - 31st - Finnican Flynn is running a quidditch training camp with his old team, the Montrose Magpies. The House teams would have been informed and notices put up on the Notice boards. Bring your own broom, and there IS a fee. Takes place in Montrose, Scotland.

August 24th - Quidditch World Cup Final takes place in the Black Forest of Germany. Teams are currently unknown.

These dates are on the group calender (on the history page of the site, I believe). More may be added as we go along.

4) There is no four.

5) Remember, students are not allowed to use magic outside of school until they turn 17. Feel free to break this if you want to get your students in trouble.

Well, I think that's all my meandering done, so let's get down to playing ^_^

Astrid

[Rabble Rabble]

0) Hey, I was patient! I've even been to the hospital and all!
1) Yay for sane date format!

4) No four???? D: *flails*

--
Rabble; Anarchy and co-chairman of the J'axe Fan Club
I'm under 'Rabble' on the Whizzy Thing
My brain is hiding at the bottom of a jar of coffee-beans. Must drink my way to it!

[Cymiri [Cyetra, TMK]]

6] But why is there no four? THis is discrimination!

 

:)

 

*plots*

[Keita]

Rule Six - There is NO rule 6.
Rule Seven - No pooftahs!

</monty python reference>

*hides*

....

*also plots*

[cass coogan]

its just a scratch!!!!!!

lols and *erm* has an annoyed feline thing glaring at meeeeeeer

--
If I promise not to kill you can I have a hug?

[Meggan Cividanes]

It's only a flesh wound!

[Timmie]

Uhmm I'm sorry but i do not get this with the date inside the RP and
the date outside the RP. How do you mean that these two connect?

On 1 July, 01:02, Astrid Whittaker-Dureau <dragon.of.sto...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Cymiri [Cyetra, TMK]]

Hope this helps:

 

The game is played realtime. i.e, the characters are in 09 and suffering through the end of the year just like the rest of us :)

 

So when we opened for play in July- they, too, were in July 09.

  

Which doesn't mean you have to stick strictly and only to the current date. You will see a thread between me and Astrid/ Doret and Conner, for eg that is dated 15 July [ie, is taking place that day only], and still in active play. Although time has moved on for us, Doret and Connor are still living that day :) You will see he is in a thread with someone else too for a different date. And that is what the dates are there for, really.

 

Because while Doret could, conceivably, have a conversation with X in the morning and Y in the evening, if the time differences are pretty obvious, it would be pretty stupid if I was RP ing her talking to, oh, Connor in England and Mei in China at exactly the same date and time! Not impossible, in the magic world, but unlikely- and I would have to have offered some kind of explanation for it if I tried it. So it really helps us keep the timeline straight.

 

 I am pretty sure we got that one going around about the 'real life' date of July 07- so, not 'strivctly'  true to life. But, there are other threads with that date, so we went a little ahead in time. So there is wiggle room. Around about that 'real life' date, there were threads as far ahead as early Aug dates pitching up.

 

A flip side, though, is that the timeline the BOD are using is also realtime. So it would be silly, for eg, to post a Sep 01 [Back to Hogwarts] thread. That is a major event, and hasn't happened yet, so best to wait off 'til we get to the time before going there. You can expect to see the BOD starting up major timeline plots-things, like the sorting ceremony, on that date . And not before [again, allowing for a little wiggle room- what I mean is they won't be pitching up next week]- so in that sense, we are realtime- our characters will be back to school on Sep 01 RL side, and major events that we know happen on certain dates, or that are scheduled by the BOD for certain 'Hogwarts time' dates, will occur on those dates in 'real life'.

 

Hope that explained it a bit!