Hello again everyone! We hope the turkey's all settled for any of our Thanksgiving celebrators. :) We know the holidays can be really busy and hectic, even people who don't celebrate any of the many December based holidays can get sucked in to the chaos of it all, not to mention vacations, exams, and probably plenty of other things we're forgetting. Now, here's our present to you. For the months of November and December, we're going to give everyone some slack.
As long as we see some activity from you during these two months, there will be no penalties. This means you don't have to have the normal three journals and one thread. As long as we see you do something, a journal, a thread, you're fine. This doesn't mean you should slack off, but if you have to this is the right time ;) Full activity checks will come back in January. We'll still be here, there will still be December plot, but you aren't obligated to meet any requirements except be active and participate in anything you sign up for. The other side of this however, is that if you don't do anything (and unfortunately just commenting in a couple of journals doesn't count as activity with this), then you get a point against you.
With this, if you've come to find you just aren't feeling the game or don't have time and want to quit or drop a character, let us know. We don't bite and anyone who leaves us is welcome to reapply later :) We don't want anyone to do this without thought though, so if you just need some sort of hiatus for this time, just ask! :) We have no problem with this. But if you aren't fully active in January after taking your own hiatus, then you're out of the game since you were given the opportunity to not be fully active in December. If you've been having problems with activity or interest, just step back and consider yourself and your characters. We know that sometimes we don't feel a character as well as we might have when they were first picked up. One of us played Harry originally so we fully understand the feeling of not exactly knowing what to do with a canon character. What we suggest to do while working on that is picking up a character that can fit in to gaps easily, like a Sixth year whose small number gives them almost automatic plot, or Quidditch players who easily have something to talk about and every team both canon and our current teams have multiple members in play that would probably love to have additional team mates!
This isn't a mandatory respond-or-else post, but we will be emailing this out to everyone who doesn't comment to it. We need to know that you're reading this. No one will be left out if we can help it!
As mentioned within all of this, but to repeat on it's own, we will still have December plot! :D
On to more usual business! There was a Quidditch game on Saturday between the
Thor's Hammer and
Flying Furies( Thor's Hammer vs. Flying Furies )( O.W.L.S )To players with students taking their N.E.W.T.S next month, take this information to heart. We'll be needing your characters classes and such soon as well. Start thinking now! :)
This isn't one of those comment-or-boot posts! We want to know you read this so that we know that everyone is involved with this. So please comment. If you don't, then we will email you. We don't want anyone left out with this information. If you have any questions or comment, please ask!
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