REMINDERS AND Y2 TALK

[goosemods]

Hey guys! I hope you're all surviving the game hiatus. ♥ Your mods are putting their feet up and recharging for Y2, but here are some reminders anyway:

• We'll be accepting re-submissions for returning characters Tuesday, August 1, 12 AM MT. If you monsters want to stay up that late to submit your updated apps first then SO BE IT.


• We'll be running through all apps in batches since we're anticipating having to read, like, 90 of these things. If you end up waiting on a response for a while, just chill. If we skip you in the order we probably hit a snag, but we'll get to you.


• All positions are first-come first-serve with the caveat that some positions aren't guaranteed to you just because you ask for it. Justify yourself, though, and we're unlikely to decline you the spot you want. Classes probably won't fill up too fast, but reserves, certain cheer squads and TAs are very limited.


• After that we'll have exactly two weeks before holds open on the 15th. There will be a preview of the cast list available on Sunday, August 13th. Details on exactly what time that will go up to come, but probably between 8 and 10 AM MT. Holds will almost certainly open at 8 AM because it's a weekday and that's when Meggie wakes up to have coffee and do mod stuff.


• The game will go dark on Tuesday the 1st. This means that there will be no new posts made to the comm. If you have anything you need to get up before then, please do so now. The characters will all know that this happens every summer for maintenance to the journal system.


• The OOC comm will still be open if you need to make announcements or post memes. There will be official Veritaserum and character re-introduction memes up on the 16th.


• Seniors will be removed from the comms on the 10th. :(


• Due to popular demand, cheer teams will have a new position available: mascots! These are first-come first-serve.


• Since I'll be working on the fresh Plot Calendar soon, I'm eager to hear what events you guys really enjoyed Y1. Are there any big ones you'd like to see revisited? Anything new you'd love to see featured?

Comments

YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[goosemods]

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[bubblewrapped]

Ok ok so just off the top of my head:

I wasn't here for a lot of them, but all of the specifically school/classroom based events were great. Squonks, Patronuses, the Amortentia lesson, the Laughing Draught and the Veritaserum all stick out as really cool to me. Generally, school/classroom stuff is very entertaining and it'd be great to revisit and/or see new stuff like this. I don't know that there are any iconic Harry Potter spells/potions that haven't been hit up already, though? Maybe there are? IDK?

I LOVED EVERY SINGLE EVENT AROUND VALENTINE'S DAY. The insane flower giving, climbing the ornery oak and the high tea especially. I am biased, though.

The Junior's monthly bonding where you had to chat and find commonality with someone else was a great idea IMO.

More stupid ranking lists and plagues, please.

Drunk Shakespeare was WONDERFUL and I really need a kid to stick in drama. Shit how did I miss that.

And also just anything I can throw together a small stupid IC/OOC for is something I love.

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[neattrick]

idk if there's a canon freshman who's posting those lists but Cam and I have talked about continuing that great tradition semi-regularly with our freshsophs

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[ninjaleo]

I am always a fan of a quarantine so I think these kids should continue to be disgusting at each other FOR sure

THE CUTE KISSY/MUSHY EVENTS like kissing and dyngus day and the oak climb omg they all Get Me in the heart so I'd love to continue those weird not-traditions

I know it was A LOT of work but I was recently rereading the murder games and those were stupid fantastic. I will assuage my guilt by offering my murder child to help coordinate them if you wanted next year!

seconding the drunk Shakespeare love. I know there were early rumblings of Drunk Grease and I'd loooove that

I would also participate in like. "Today you had oatmeal for breakfast!" As an event though so basically whatever you put up I will write in forever. Thank you so much for all you do :(

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[bubblewrapped]

Oh shit YES IDK how I forgot but I LOVED Dyngus Day and the event where people gave symbolic flower arrangements to people and ugh yes I am absolute garbage give me more mushy cute shippy stuff and let me roll around in it.

And AGREED Murdergames were GR8 but yes they seemed crazy from an OOC perspective. :C

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[neattrick]

I really enjoyed the event where everyone was kissing each other for good luck, partly cause of shippy reasons, but it was also just fun to have an event that was basically just like "here's a simple prompt, go an interact in as many pairs as your character can". Same with the mistletoe event! Anything that encourages me to get my characters interacting with people they don't usually interact with :>

I also enjoyed the lock-in! Maybe we could do something similar-ish but in the Lodge, so they characters could get stuck in different classrooms/etc but with random groups instead of their roommates?

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[browbeats]

I really liked how the Masquerade encouraged interactions between super random pairings and would love some another way for that to happen.

MORE DUMB PLAGUES, won't you kids ever learn?

Can we all agree to do more drunk posts

SQUONKCARE

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[sheepish]

i love quarantines/mass illnesses. :( i wouldn't mind if they had a lil more time for them to suffer out in the world before they were forced into quarantine.

events and dumb holidays that encourage branching out for random interaction!! something similar to squonk care would be cute where random pairs are paired off for a week. maybe rudiments has to take care of a magically realistic fake baby or maybe herbology students are tasked with caring for mandrakes.

more reasons for parents and family to visit! there are a lot of really cute families at PTC and i wanna see them again :( not necessarily more frequent PTCs, but just more reasons for families to show up and check on how their babies are doing in school and to make sure the forest hasn't kidnapped them.

i really loved field trips like the zoo visit. anything to get the kids off campus for a little while for a chance of scenery.

echoing what everyone else said but i love mushy shippy shit that gets characters to express their affection for each other and/or fret over their crushes

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[solveforx]

There should be a food fight ic/ooc. 🤔

Re: YEAR TWO EVENTS: What do you want to see?

[gonnabefamous]

I am useless but I love all the events that give these terrible children an excuse not to be themselves? Like, laughing bugs and amortentia, but also the masquerade. I may have more thoughts when my brain is less fried (hahahaha when is that).

QUESTIONS

[goosemods]

Re: QUESTIONS

[puphart]

if (in theory) we had a character we wanted to submit for a mascot position, where should we justify it? under their extracurriculars, or in a comment on the app, or somewhere else?

Re: QUESTIONS

[oh_girl]

so i just found out my rental is being sold or something and i'm getting evicted.

this is going to severely impact my time over the next two months to finish my apps, RP, etc, while i look for a new place to live and move.

if i do not get my shit in on time, will i still definitely lose my characters?

OTHER CHATTER

[goosemods]

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[solveforx]

Haha fuck yes mascots

Also I for serious considered taking the 10th off of work because I know I will be sad and worthless.

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[sunsoutgunsout]

OMFG MASCOTS YESSS DREAMS DO COME TRUE

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[magitechnically]

Echoing the..

OMG MASCOTS!!!

Thank you for all your hard work, guys!!! Hope you are ENJOYING YOUR BREAK SO SO MUCH!!!

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[browbeats]

MASCOTS!!

I'm excited to resubmit my apps and force myself to stop editing.

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[cheerpowers]

Vee would like to know if Ms Rhee is gonna be their mascot permanently now ;)

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[insightfulness]

I still havent started working on my apps 😑 the puppy has been ruling my life, but I am determined to crawl to my computer and finally start getting stuff done.

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[neattrick]

> "stay up that late"
> "12 AM mountain time"

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[professionalcorpse]

i'm still at toddler-birthday, but i am excited for all of these things in ways that i will elaborate on later.

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[fillefidele]

I am legit opening Dom and Jo's bios RIGHT DAMN NOW to finalise the things I've been working on in my head for months. Let's see how much I get done before the 1st..

Re: OTHER CHATTER

[fillefidele]

Also - is it sad that I have the launch countdown open in another tab?

Or that I grinned that it will be at 7am my time because that is a reasonable hour for me to be awake and submit them?

FINISH THE DAMN APPS FIRST HEATHER GOD.

[caritasmitis]

I'll be working on y2 Dom and Jo tomorrow, so I guess I'll just submit them when they're done!