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Hi Hatters!

As a follow up of our last post, we're going to be ironing out some details for you. As of today, this will be the FINAL month of the game. we do apologise for such a rushed close, remember that it's perfectly alright to mess around with logs and forward and backdate things as you see fit. This means the official last day is September 2nd, aka the beginning of the new year. Due to the feedback we've received, the send off is going to be a 4th wall log open to all former and current players. The premise behind the party will be a celebration of Hogwarts, so it's a meta way of paying our respects to the game. We're very excited about it and we're currently tossing around some ideas, so if there's anything in particular you'd like to see please feel free to make a suggestion here. It's probably obvious at this point, but AC will not be tracked for the remainder of the game or for this month. Go nuts!

As for the future of the game, we've noticed a high interest in turning the game into a Musebox/Dressing room for some light hearted play. We will be going forward with this idea! When the game closes, dressrobes will become the open community for play and it will be lightly modded but mostly for casual fun. You'll still be free to contact us if you have any issues or concerns!

Once again, on behalf of all the mods from the past and the present we'd like to thank every single one of you for every ounce of love you've given this game. The demand for AU games, particularly Harry Potter ones might have dwindled, but we can say with some certainty that the game holds as special a place in our hearts as the canon it was based on. We hope you've all had a fun time here, even if you've recently joined and now we urge you to get your end game plots and playing rolling so we can send the game off with good feeling.

Eight years is an incredibly long time and we're so proud of all of us for taking it this far. Once again, thank you all!

Alright guys and gals! Summer is upon us, but not to worry, we have a few things lined up for everyone to get up to over the holidays!

ㄨ Our first port of call, beginning Friday, July 12th and running to Monday, July 15th will be a wizard rock festival, held in Aberdeenshire and hosting famous rock bands both old and new! The festival will last for a total of four days, and though attendance through the entire event isn't mandatory, it's best to arrive early so you don't end up pitching your tent in a ditch. There will be several different stages, with food and general facilities available throughout.

Just make sure that you wear plenty of sunscreen! Sunstroke is no joke.

ㄨ Later in the holidays, from Saturday, July 29th to Saturday, August 12th, there will be a non-mandatory school trip to Orlando, Florida. Though mostly for the benefit of the Muggle Studies students, it’s been opened to all students who might be interested in taking a trip across the pond. While Walt Disney world is certainly a major focal point, if that's not your scene, don't forget that there are many other attractions - SeaWorld, Epcot and Universal Studios, to name but a few! Most of the students are old enough to be trusted not to get into too much trouble, right?

ㄨ Finally, at the end of summer and running from Thursday the 25th to the Tuesday the 30th of August, there will be an inter-school quidditch tournament held at Hogwarts! The Hogwarts Express will be running an extra service, one week early, and though no one has to be there, what kind of impression would it make if the home team didn't make a good turnout to cheer their players on!

For this event, we will be taking applications from all years and all houses to fill the Hogwarts team, and using RNG results to decide which schools will win each rounds. The competing schools will be;

» Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
» Beauxbaxton’s Academy of Magic
» Durmstrang Institute
» The Salem Witches’ Institute
» Mahoutokoro

Due to the potential for large crowds at this event, it will also be an open fourth-wall! We encourage you to bring in any characters that you’d like to try out, to see how they work in the setting as well with as each other!

The latter two events will come with their own plotting posts, but please use this one to plot for the music festival, ask any questions, and of course to make any suggestions as to possible band names and Orlando attractions you’d like to see featured.

The following people are on the inactivity list for this month:

Jane Foster
Meulin Leijon*
Mamma Gkika Jaeger
John Watson*
Rose Lalonde*
E. Aster Bunnymund*
Coraline Jones*
Marshall Lee*
Gamzee Makara*
Keith Jones*
Mituna Captor*
Ellis Smith*

These people must provide TWO posts, threads, or logs during July to remain in the game. If you are on hiatus for more than two weeks in July, you won't be required to post, but you will stay on the inactivity list for August.

IN ADDITION, if you're on this list, we'd like to hear from you in some way, whether that be PM, comment here, IM, email, or just having your character post, to let us know that you're still interested in the game (IC comments to another character's post do NOT count, simply because it is very easy for us to miss them). If we don't hear from you by July 15th, we'll assume that you are no longer interested, and your character will be swept.

Link your one post or one thread. Remember if it's a thread, it has to be at least TEN COMMENTS TOTAL. This is MANDATORY FOR ALL PLAYERS.

This excludes characters that come in after the activity check.

If you're on hiatus, post it on the hiatus post, but you have to have been on hiatus for a MINIMUM OF TWO WEEKS DURING THE MONTH TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE ACTIVITY CHECK. If you're on the inactivity list for the month, but happen to take an extended hiatus that month, you won't be required to post, but you will still be on the inactivity list for the following month.

You have until July 1ST PST to post your links here. We'll be reminding you throughout the month!

The following characters are on the inactivity list and must make double AC this month:

bubblingover
lovesmuppeteer
thisonetime_withkeith

You can use this HTML:

Character Name: Character Journal: Activity Links: <a href="">Here</a>

And as always, if you have any feedback for us, don't hesitate to let us know!

The following people are on the inactivity list for this month:

Feferi Peixes (bubblingover )
Bro Strider (lovesmuppeteer ) *
Ellis Smith (thisonetime_withkeith ) *

These people must provide TWO posts, threads, or logs during June to remain in the game. If you are on hiatus for more than two weeks in June, you won't be required to post, but you will stay on the inactivity list for July.

IN ADDITION, if you're on this list, we'd like to hear from you in some way, whether that be PM, comment here, IM, email, or just having your character post, to let us know that you're still interested in the game (IC comments to another character's post do NOT count, simply because it is very easy for us to miss them). If we don't hear from you by June 15th, we'll assume that you are no longer interested, and your character will be swept.