Closed rp: JD & Jack

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

So they'd got through potions, but the conversation they'd had had brought up some interesting things. Jack also wanted to know a few things from the picnic, well since he passed out it was only right. Jack wasn't sure if he wanted to go hide in bed or sit outside. Though bed seemed the nicest place and more private.

Jack wants to talk, but he really doesn't know how to begin, he's lied so much and played a part too long. "Want to go back to my room to talk." He asked. "And then talk."

(no subject)

[ermioni.livejournal.com]

Hermione briskly walked up to the owelry with several pieces of neatly folded parchment clutched in one hand. She grabbed some of the owls of their perches and tied one to their legs, and sent them off. With a satisfied smile, she headed back to her common room.

( Owl to Harry )

( Owl to Ron )

( Owl to Ed )

( Owl to Lily )

( Owl to Sirius )

Uh....Hello....

[neil-pye.livejournal.com]

Uh, hello everybody. I'm sorry I haven't been 'round or anything but you see I took an awful lot of mushrooms and wandered off into the mystical gardens. I was like, tripping really hard for days and I got like, really incredibly lost. I kept trying to find my way back here but I, like, couldn't, right, and I ended up having to survive by eating dirt, rocks, sticks, and unicorn poo.

At one point I holed up in a cave 'cause it was like, raining, right, but I soon found out that the fire ants had the same idea and when I woke up I was covered in them. And those little bastards bit me all over. Like, all over. So then I had to jump into a mystical stream that apparently is occupied by lots of really hungry mystical piranha and they tore off all my clothes and bit me on the bum. That's why I'm wearing nothing but this loincloth fashoned from poison oak.

That's another story...

Anyway, the whole adventure was a bit of a drag. And it appears that like, nobody even came looking for me. Thanks a whole lot.

Does anyone have any herbal tea?

Disgruntled Raven To Hot-Handed-Stephen Maturin, hexed surprisingly well, considering

[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

( Disgruntled Raven To Hot-Handed-Stephen Maturin, hexed surprisingly well, considering )

Raven to Professor Stephen Maturin, extremely heavily warded in triplicate

[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

[morning after drunken!owls]

( Raven to Professor Stephen Maturin, extremely heavily warded in triplicate )

((Scene starts here, rated Rish for the smut.))

Owls to the Potters

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

As per his promise to Ron, Sirius sends out two owls.

( Warded Owl to James Potter )

( Warded Owl to Lily Evans Potter )

Abby's in the Hospital (Open RP to Agnes, Ford, and anyone else who'd be in the hospital wing)

[cafpowgirl.livejournal.com]

Abby ran into Ford and Dawn and been led by Ford to the hospital. With Ford's towel around her shoulders like a cape, she approaches the skeleton, curtsying in front of it. "May I have this dance, Mr Bones?" Though the skeleton didn't nod, she took its bony hands in her own and started to dance. "You want me to tell you the truth? Ok..." Her voice dropped to a low whisper. "You're dead..."

owls a trois

[conriocht.livejournal.com]

( owl to Oz )

( owl to Stephen )

( owl to Lily, lightly warded )

Owls to Kaylee and Tommy

[housewife-bree.livejournal.com]

( Owl to Kaylee )

( Owl to Tommy )

OOC--New Community!

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

Because of the love that has become Jack/JD (because they're so freaking cute and adorkable!), I have now, like Sturdy Tables, created a community.
You may now throw things at me, yes.

konmanklutz

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO JOIN AND SHARE IN THE LOVE. ...Really.

Open RP

[l-farineli.livejournal.com]

Dr Kay Scarpetta was sitting quietly in the library, studying occlumency. Her thoughts were of the man she was going to question and how her studying would find the truth that he kept a secret in his head. As loneliness surrounded her, she studied more.

Application for Galinda Upland (Wicked, musicalverse)

[msgalindaupland.livejournal.com]

A slight blonde girl in a pale blue outfit walks into the Sorting Room. There's a slight air of dottiness and confusion about her.

( This isn't Shiz University... )

Heavily Warded Letter, Charmed to burst into flame if touched by someone other than Sarah

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

SENT BY HOUSE ELF

((After the Drunken Owling))

( Sarah )

Mod Announcement.

[dice-addict.livejournal.com]

First of all, apologies that this is so delayed but what with the difference in our timezones (Liz in America, Damien in Europe), we're having trouble meeting up long enough to deal with situations properly. Such as -- and I'm sure you've all guessed that is going to be the focus of the announcement -- the Jadis application.

Godmodding is not allowed in hogwarts_hocus. That's a basic rule of RP, and we intend to hold to that. It has never been allowed and the original conversation with Jadis-mun was not about whether she could auto-attack characters but whether she could attack them at all without being popcorned for attempting to kill them. The mod ruling on that was that since being turned to stone wasn't the same as being killed, Jadis could turn people to stone without being popcorned. However, absolutely nothing was said about her being allowed to turn people to stone without mun permission, since it was taken for granted by the mods that any player would have the sense and common courtesy to ask for permission before performing any attack at all on a character.

Secondly, we had no clear policy on what to do about godmodding before this incident because we were hoping it would never come up. It's disappointing to have to deal with it, but the mod ruling is that godmodding will result in suspension from the game for all characters played by the guilty mun, and popcorning of the character in question that godmodded. In this case, there was another character who has been accused of godmodding, also played by the same mun, but as we never had this rule up before, we're showing leniancy in this case (and only because it's the first one) and simply depowering the character which would otherwise be popcorned. The suspension for the mun was decided upon as being two weeks long, which should hopefully be long enough for everyone to calm down and move on, so that no grudges will be held once she returns to the game.

Thirdly, for those of you that want to keep RPs which happened within the app? Unfortunately, that's not completely possible. The Sortings are, and always have been, open for everyone. It would be OOC for only chars capable of meeting Jadis on equal ground to show up there, and since the app caused so many complaints to be sent the way of the mods, it was thought best to take down the app and retcon the entire incident. Jadis-mun gracefully agreed to provide any missing threads for conversations, if you'd like to replicate them in another Sorting app/RP post/whatever but as far as HH canon is concerned, Jadis never applied.

As regards actual events, we're willing to work with muns that want to further character development to try to set up scenarios/RPs that'll let them get back whatever it was that they lost, be it a chance to have a goddess bitchfight or a pony.

Fourthly, we noticed in the comments to Jadis-mun's public apology -- which she graciously offered to post -- that some people were dismayed that the app had been taken down without prior warning. Again, we're sorry for that, but we didn't want to have any more chars wandering in there and more bad blood being caused, and since mods can't actually edit posts and we took about ten hours to come to a decision on the Jadis situation (yes, we did manage to find ten hours to spend on MSN despite the timezones, go us!), we thought it was best not to have any new complaints slung our way while dealing with the pleas to ban the person responsible.

A better solution would have been to simply disable commenting, but mods can't do that to a post either, only freeze ongoing comment threads, so that option relies on having a mun that is online at the time and is cooperative, with Jadis-mun being the latter but not the former. Therefore, in the future, we'll put up a post warning the player base if an app looks like it will be deleted due to us not being able to get the mun to lock comments for one reason or another.

Fifthly, if we haven't covered anything, if you're unclear on our policies, if you have any better ideas to make, comment. We run the comm as best as we can, but we are not omnipotent. If you have a problem with something, we need you to tell us so we can fix it, and if you think we're actually doing something right (I know, I know, what are the odds of that?), then tell us that as well. What works, what doesn't -- feedback is the best way for us to judge how we're doing, and how all of you are doing.

~Damien & Liz.

Open rp: In the grounds

[bounty-coins.livejournal.com]

After being sorted, Domino needed fresh air... and a cigarette. As the hat had already complained about smelling like cigarette smoke, she decided to be nice, for once, and smoke outside. She felt like she needed a good stretch anyway. She wandered about the grounds, with her sunglasses on, and swinging her numchuks. So far, she hadn't seen any action. Quite frankly, she was getting bored. 'Magic people suck.' she thought.