Harry Potter and the Final Horcrux

Hello friends!

I'm off to band camp for a week, so I'll be back ater noon on Saturday. 

Oh, and Kate, you have my permission to god-play Fred and Angelina while I'm gone, if needed.

Hello all--

Early tomorrow morning, I'll be heading out to Washington/Maryland/New York. I'll be getting back Friday night and may or may not have internet access while I'm gone. Hotel wireless systems are sketchy these days. Anyway, I thought I'd let you all know in case my characters are needed. So, have a lovely week and I'll see you back next Saturday!

-Kate (Alicia/Oliver)

Okay, guys, we need your help.
I need to know who wants to quit, who wants to scrap the game or their character completely. I realize not everyone voted in the poll, you can still do that, and discuss, but this is important too. It's okay if you're sick of it, just tell us.
IF you aren't sick of the game, this is where we really need your help. We need ideas, logical ideas that will make sense to carry out to keep the game running. Some people just want to restart a bit...go back to a previous point in time. We could start again from September 1, if you want.

Kim and I spent a long time devising a plan, the way we want the game to go, Horcrux-wise anyway. We know where it's going, and we've been trying to get things going in that direction for far too long. It's just that no one has taken up the challenge.

Finally, if this game is going to continue, like many seem to want it to, we are going to need a bigger variety of characters. Yes, that may mean dropping your OC, or minor character, even for a bit, and I'm sorry. Unless you can get some new blood in here (see either of us for help in advertising) we're going to need more teachers and bad guys, for example. Minor character #12 may not be as important as Snape, for example. Please consider this as well.

Okay. After some discussion in which neither Kim nor I were present, it was determined that a few players aren't interested in continuing the game anymore. They propose that we have a final thread in the community, some time in August, before people start going back to school, if that's what they do, and have a final Harry/Voldemort showdown at Hogwarts. Everyone will post there (if you want, I guess you don't have to) and then, after that, that's it.
What Kim and I propose, of course, is to keep the game going. Kim has promised to stop nudging for two weeks, giving all of you still interested in playing to potentially post.

So, we're putting it to a vote. Feel free to converse, comment, tell us your feelings, but be warned, if you start to criticize any player or mod, we will disable comments. I know some of you have hard or hurt feelings, but please try to control yourselves, okay?

Hello all, Tonks/Charlie-mun here.

I'm here to inform everyone that I am going on an RP break.

I received a message from Becka (Cayden/Cecily) this afternoon, and she told me that her computer is out of commission for the time being. She hasn't said about how long it'll take to fix, but I assume it could be a while. There are computers at the library some four miles from her place, but she doesn't have a car, so it's not really all that convenient.

So, until further notice, Becka's characters are on hold until her computer gets fixed.

Okay, the Christmas party post is up. It'll probably be easier, if not as much fun, to do it in thread. So get posting, go crazy, enjoy the party. There are a few surprises planned, but do try to keep things civil.

So, if you're up to date with the community, there's a Christmas party planned for tomorrow. I was hoping to be able to do it sometime in the evening in a chatroom. I don't get off work until 6:00 Mountain Time (that's 8:00 Eastern), and though it's all George's idea, feel free to start early! But I thought it might be cool to give us all a chance to have a group chat like we used to.

If we could get as many people to participate as possible, that would be totally awesome.

Or I could just put together a thread... what do you guys think? Would you be willing to do a chat, or would you rather a thread? Discuss!

Okay, since I doubt anyone's really keeping track, I'm going to let you all know that Christmas Day, in game, is on Thursday. This upcoming Thursday, the sixth of July.

Please, please, please, please, I can't stress this enough, pleeeeeeease try to be active by then. It would just be so awesome if we could have some sort of large Christmas celebration for our characters. And maybe activity will spur again?

Megg and I have been talking about this quite distressing lull in activity. Hopefully a solution will be reached soon. We have been advertising, with no luck, and a lot of your characters are being put back on the market due to your inactivity. Yes, I've been nudging a lot, and I will continue to do so until I see results.

I hate to be the evil rule-dictator, but if this game is going to survive to completion, it needs it. Also, there is a Horcrux-related post that has only one comment, and needs to be wrapped up.

Pleeeease get on it.

Sorry to be evil and stuff, but I love this game, and want it to work.

Due to the fact that not everyone always keeps everybody on their friends list, and that people don't always actually log in to view their characters friends page, I want to make a rule that there should be no friends-locked posts. It's just not fair to force people to login, or to have them left in the dark because not everyone keeps up with the friends lists.

If you forget that's okay, but please try to remember to make sure all posts are public. This goes for journals and community posts.

It's just easier on everyone.