A new OOC for a new cast.

Hello all, I'll be playing Patrick Bodkin. Driven Ravenclaw with a dream of becoming an Auror, and learning all the magic he can that'll be potentially useful for that.

Hello fellow Ravenclaw! I'll be playing Aron. His goals are a little less defined, being a muggleborn he is very new to magic. He favours the scientific method of testing everything, often with little regards for his own safety in the process.

Hello.  Half-blood Hufflepuff magi-zooligist trying to find out what happened to his brother.  It seems the boy just can't stay out of trouble.  Well, either of them.....
This message was last edited by the player at 21:48, Wed 22 Feb 2023.

Greetings everyone! I'll be playing Slytherin's little orphan, Filius (Fil). Like Aron, he was born into and raised in the muggle world, so he doesn't know anything about magic. While he has his rough edges, he's a good guy who really just wants to fit in, for once in his life.

I believe my sheet is ready for review, HM. ^^

So is mine, far as I can tell.

Mine aswell!

I have to get equipment and spells in place.  Unfortunately, work has been taking precedence.

Awesome. I'll go through the sheets tomorrow and once everyone is set up, we'll begin.

The game will begin with a pre-term shopping trip arranged by Hogwarts for First Years. So spells and equipment aren't really needed.

I'm hoping to get things underway this week, or early next, depending on when the sheets are done. I'm really stoked here, eager to begin lol.

Unless there is a significant reason to change things I should be good still from last time.

Well, if spells and gear aren't much of a big deal, I may be ready.  Except my description.

My sheet should be good from last time.

I’ll be an orphan Slytherin from a Pure Blood dueling/auror family. His family combines wand dueling and mixed martial arts to take down their usually weaker opponents.

Lots of Slytherins I see. Step back Gryffindor. Slytherin produces the heroes now! XD
This message was last edited by the player at 13:06, Fri 24 Feb 2023.

Heroes are still Gryffindor, the world doesn't need any more heroes, it needs people willing to do the real work.

I've opened the IC tread for you all. Sorry for the massive text dump but I hope you'll find at least some of it interesting to read and act upon lol.

Another Slytherin here! Ambitious, a bit arrogant, but not a bully: only inferior people need to bully.

I think I've finished her character sheet (except for a possible pet - undecided on that).

This might be a bit nitpicky, but what year is it currently in game? 2022?

2023, yes. Hope thats okay

Depends. is socil distancing a thing at Hogwarts :P

I doubt mundane diseases are much of a thing in the magical world.  I think the question is if we are doing a 'start of school year' September timeline is it 22 for a bit of a past catching up, or 23 for a future we catch up to?

Hey, if anything would be deuchy enough to mutate into a magical variant, it'd be Covid...

Joking aside, Good question. Hadn't considered that. Though I'm guessing we'll go through the sorting, at least. I dunno.

Only for Hufflepuffs.  Ravenclaws know it doesn't really work. Griffindors are all vaccinated and Slytherins think it's all a plot...



We'll do a September 2023 start, on an alternate timeline where any major RL disaster has no impact on the setting unless we all want it to.

I've learned is best to leave real life as far from roleplay as possible the hard way. Just wanted to know the year to get a general sense of technology level and know what day of the week it was.

And just so there's no risk of misunderstanding, I was joking about the covid stuff, and agree with Aron that it's best left out of the game.

Not that I really expect any of you to misunderstand, but you know what they say about assuming. Better to be safe than sorry.

Though with the current year at Hogwarts, I can't wait to see how they've integrated smart screens and iPads into the classes X)

They haven't.  It seems that technology more advanced than pens do not work at Hogwart's.  Hence why you use Lumos and lanterns rather than flashlights.  We are going to be pretty much cut off from social media at the school.

Oh I know. T'was but another joke fallen flat.
Hmm, perhaps I should rely less on sarcasm in a written medium. Damn, there goes 90% of my humor.

Ah well.

Irony and satire usually work better.  Sarcasm is mainly in the tone of voice and really has to be heard to be appreciated.  Though, sometimes, additional context helps....

Planning to post tomorrow morning. Absolutely exhausted today. Took my foster son out to a hockey game last night, and we didn’t get back until late. Mind you, our weekdays begin at 0530. So, yeah zombie mode all day to$ay.

Ouch!  0530 is nighttime, not morning!  Morning doesn't start until 0700!

Is everyone happy with their tokens?  I'm holding off posting quite yet because there are a few people who haven't had a chance to post. There's no rush though. I'm just Uber-Keen lol

Love my token. Excellent work!

Token's perfect

Token’s good for me.

Works for me.

Token's great!

I was disappointed when J.K. Rowling finally fixed a year for the stories (which I think didn't happen until the gravestones in Deathly Hallows). I interpreted Dudley's weird 1970s-1990s mix of birthday presents in Philosopher's Stone ("the racing bike, a cine-camera, a remote-control aeroplane, sixteen new computer games and a video recorder") as a sign readers weren't supposed to associate the stories with a definite year.

At the time I don't think they were.  A lot changed in the author's intent between the writing of the first and last books, perhaps due to the fame or due to the movies but in any case there is a significant range of ways to read both the muggle and magical worlds timelines.

Not to brag or anything, but Harry and I were born the same year.

Weirdly though, it was my parents who scarred me, not some rando house invader...

Do you want us to write an entire mini-scene for each post, or leave it at a key moment? I've left Pandora's post at the point Mr. Ollivander (or his replacement) would arrive, but I can write out the whole interaction if that's the idea.

Long day today. Celebrated my grandmother's birthday. Going to try and post before bed tonight. If that fails, I'll post early tomorrow for certain. Sorry for any delay.

Well, Happy Birthday to her!

Thanks! It's her 88th!

Heya - Sorry for the slow posting from me - Work has been caning me the last few days.

And happy birthday to your gran, Filus!

The worst Deathly Hallow just got worse by being replicated for a family tradition lol

No power where I am (DTE sucks). Even though my house is four minutes from one of its mobile staging grounds, and I live in the downtown area of my city, my estimated restoration date is tomorrow. So, approximately three days without power…. Really regretting not getting that transfer switch installed for the generator I bought last year. Current foster son came right when I was about to pull the trigger on that, so I delayed it. :/

Anyway, I’ll post Monday if I have power early, or Tuesday if not.

So, what's up, everyone?

Only just got power back. I'll be posting at some point today, but I'm still catching up on everything I couldn't get done while I was without power. Not that you're waiting for me though. :P

In other news, the Kentucky adoption process really stinks for out of state families. Every time a waiting family inquires on a kiddo, it's "fill out this six page document." Seriously, can you just save the thing for six months or something, Kentucky? Also, my home study answers all of its questions anyway, so the document feels extra pointless and tedious. I suspect Kentucky uses the document to weed out the serious waiting families from the casual ones. :P

Not much. Mostly just slogging through bad weather and aggravating children at work while nursing a migraine. Tiring, but nothing too bad.

Just been left out of energy the last week or so. Guess I'm just in a long winter funk.
I'm gonna try to get something coherent up in IC sometime later this evening. If not it'll be tomorrow.

Now, with venting done: How are you?

Has been consistently around 35° C for the past two weeks, so I'm melting. Otherwise, I'm good.

I would like 35°c for two weeks right now.  We get that for a day or two, then back to winter.
I have been working overtime the past few weeks.  We are short four people, some days five or six, depending on if anyone has taken a day off.  55.5 hours two weeks ago, 66 last week, only because I chose not to work the extra time Saturday before last.  Somewhere in between this week.  My wife and kids are starting to forget who I am.  But, we need the money anyway.  Got a parade to go to for Memorial Day.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 20:14, Fri 24 Mar 2023.

Storyteller you still here?

Last login in this and another game they DM is 2 of march, so not looking good

Well, let's keep hope alive. Might be some life turmoil right now.