We have a grand total of three players left. It's time to close these doors.

It was fun while it lasted, guys. I just wish we'd managed to get this plot done.

I tried, but I really can't keep up with this game even at its slow pace. Sorry guys, I gotta drop. :(
I don't know how this is usually done here, but for what happens to her, I think it makes enough sense for Kadriye to leave the school shortly after the discovery of that body. People being found dead at the dance? Not very comforting. So she's going back home.

In a very close match, Dark managed to edge out and win a victory over Grey Path. It came down to Grey being over ten goals ahead when Dark Path's seeker managed to zip past and catch the snitch first, securing a victory for the Dark Path. Feel free to have your characters react accordingly!

In a short messy game, Dark Path took the Snitch first, winning against Light in a in a landslide victory. Please feel free to have your characters react accordingly.

This post should have gone up this weekend, and it's our fault for forgetting to do it. Like we said, plot will be happening during the Halloween party. But since it may take some time to get there, we wanted to sum up quickly so people can react accordingly, and keep things progressing past this point. 

During the party, several students discovered that one of the corpse-like decorations was in fact an actual corpse. It was a German 7th year girl, very high up on the totem pole, and chances are most people at Durmstrang know her family name. How she was killed remains a mystery, but she was found with the imprint of a white hand around her neck. 

If you'd like further details, you'll have to participate in the Halloween party thread to find out. ;-) Otherwise, that's all anyone knows for now.

Today, Wednesday the third, is Heinrich Kronenberg's birthday, for hose who wish to know. :)

Hey guys! Time for our monthly activity check. The following characters have not posted in at least the last two weeks without explanation, and thus need to post by next Friday or face removal.

Matthias Fettkenheuer

Kadriye Yilmaz - posted

As a reminder here are our rules on activity: "Characters are expected to post at least 1 thread or log every two weeks as well as keep up with replies to other characters and threads. Journal entries are not requirements, but they are encouraged. Activity checks will occur the last Friday of each month and a list will be put up on the OOC community listing characters that need to make a post or risk removal. Characters who have not made a post or participated in a thread by the following Friday will be removed. Characters who make this list two or more times in a row (or continuously meet the bare minimum to resist removal) face removal as well."

Keep in mind it should be very easy to post before next Friday what with the Halloween post going up Saturday. We would be most excellently pleased if everyone could participate in that, in a timely fashion, so we can get the plot rolling. Thanks all!

So, I'm sure you may have noticed we've been a bit absent the last few days. Our internet got shut off because Verizon screwed up the dates they were supposed to be moving our service to our new apartment. So we have not internet [or phone or TV for that matter] We've been borrowing a friend's wi-fi when at his house, just long enough to check emails, check the community, and make sure things are still running. I'm currently posting this from my phone. 

We expect to have service back today [Thursday] and are planning to keep our plot movement on schedule. Which means activity checks are coming up, and Saturday's Halloween post is set to explode in plot. Sorry we didn't get any heads-up on this to warn you guys; we weren't supposed to have our service cancelled until November 10.

Anyway, in the meantime, keep it up, and we'll hopefully be back on AIM tonight.

We meant to post the Quidditch results as they happened, but time got away from us. We finally managed to roll for results, and so far it's starting out the same as last year.

Dark vs Light - Light won, but it was a very close win
Dark vs. Grey - Dark won, by a landslide
Grey vs. Light - Grey won with a pretty solid lead.

We'll calculate exact scores in the future, especially for determining who goes to finals, but this is so you can have your characters react accordingly. The next matches aren't until November.

We'd wanted to discuss with you guys this idea in chat, but due to our own incredibly busy weekend schedules of late, we haven't had time to grab you all. So emails and OOC post it must be for now. The idea was this: A student wide information-hub of sorts called Revelio. Consider it a way to spread information, gossip, theories, conspiracies, trouble, and just plain fun without having to make full-on threads.

How does it work? You can either make a post and use the !revelio tag, or respond to an already existing tag. Make a point to state whether your posts is anonymous or whether it's broadcast through the revelio charm who you are. Revelio was created by students, for students, and the professor know nothing about it. Anything tagged !revelio is for student eyes only. You can even restrict it further, and use Revelio to address certain years, paths or people, the same way you would in your journal. So what does your character have to say?

The first two revelio posts will be going up shortly, to give you an idea of how it works and what to expect. You can respond the them, post your own, and have a ball. We'd like to use this to draw you into the upcoming plot. Activity's still a bit lax, and we need your participation to get anything going here. So let's jumpstart this one more time and see if we can bring it one.

The White Hand's coming. Don't you want to know what they're after? ;-)

Also, Crystal has expressed interest in having Kirsten captain the Grey Path Quidditch team. In that light, we should have captains on the other teams. Taavi and Matthias are currently the only seventh years on the Light and Dark teams respectively, so it'd be sensible to have them be captains. Sound good?

Hey guys! I know I'm still a bit slow, but that's because things have gotten incredibly busy at work lately, mostly because I've only got this week left. There's the very slight chance of being extended one more week, but it's unlikely I'll be having this maddening schedule after that.

With or without my extension, there will be active plot movements happening in about two weeks. There's been a push already in that vein, but it's going to get intense [we hope] very soon. We just wanted the students to enjoy the first few weeks of school before the proverbial shit hits the fan.

To that end, we really for the love of all RP, want to have a chat. Please comment here and let us know when you're free over the next two weeks so we can try to get everyone together even just for a couple of hours.

Any other questions, comments etc, you know the drill!

--Shell

Today, Saturday, is Antigone Kaligaris's birthday, for those who wish to know.

Today, Tuesday, is Ion Laieshi's birthday, for those who wish to know.

Today, Monday, is Kazimeras Seraichyk's birthday, for those who wish to know.

So, my open-ended job just got a little more open-ended. They let go one of the other admins, and need me to stay longer to help cover her vacated position. I could be there anywhere up to another two months. On the plus side, I've figured out a strategy. I can type up replies at work, send them to myself, and post them at home, or even reply from my email on my phone on my lunch break. Or have Ai post for me XD I can keep up my activity this way, unless work happens to be too busy to get a chance to write up a reply.

If you're in games with me on IJ, replies can come during the day because IJ's only partially blocked. Again, it depends on my free time at work. If it looks like I can't keep up, I may consider a hiatus or dropping characters. If I'm holding people up, please let me know so I can objectively see how much time I really have.

On the plus side? Steady income is a beautiful thing. :D

It's not a new character - I just gave Heinrich his own journal. XD Also, I won't be playing Liesl anymore, so I'm down to just four characters. Please run the friend list and add venomous and remove kleineviper! S'all for now!

Okay, so I'm going to be busier than I have been, specifically on Monday nights, for the next three weeks. I started a cake decorating class last night, the Wilton Course I class for those of you who are aware of it. It's 6:30-8:30, after work, so I'll be getting home at 9:00 EST pretty beat. This means I'm not going to be much for RPing on Mondays for the next three weeks. My temp job should be over at the end of August, and I'll likely be back to having way too much time on my hands then. Thanks for being patient with me guys. Don't hesitate to poke me if I've gone more than 3 days replying to you. I try to keep up but I may miss a tag here or there.

In the interest of keeping y'all updated:

As if being insanely crazed with work and then getting a nice bonus of s surprise sinus infection was not bad enough, I kiiind of shut my hand in a door the other day. Nothing's broken, but my fingers are pretty badly bruised, which means it really hurts to type unless I do it one handed and that gets old and tiring really fast.

Suffice to say, I am not going to be up to anything RPwise until it heals, because just the little bit of typing I have to do for work is making me want to stab myself. :(

I really hope it feels better soon, because a) OW! and b) I miss you guys.

That was way too much to type. Ow. But I wanted to let you guys know what was up. <3!

I'm going to have to take a hiatus. I'm feeling insanely overwhelmed, I'm having to force things when it comes to RP lately and I'm just not in the right head space to keep up at the moment - between work and real life and other things. I'm going to just force myself to take the next couple of weeks away and try to regroup or what have you. I'm probably not going to be around much on AIM, either, but you can always email me if you really need to get a hold of me.

- Lena

So I'll be starting a new [temporary] job on Monday. It's at a pretty high security place and a lot of sites are blocked, including everything I'd need for Salem. So I will only be available for RPing in the evenings, around like 6PM EST to maybe 11 PM EST. Sorry for the drastic cut in my online time, but I'll try to be very active in the few hours a night I'll be on.

Modly things may take a bit longer, but Ai's going to be stepping up to the plate a bit more, thank goodness. Like I said this is temporary, and luckily right around when the school goes on break anyway, so the timing isn't as bad as it could be. Also we want to have a group chat again soon, so we'll try to discuss a time to get as many people as possible!

Thanks guys, and please keep up the activity!

--Shell