Good morning, afternoon and evening everyone! It's election time!

That's right!

Inside New Hogwarts will be holding an election for a New Minister for Magic and Senior Undersecretary for the Minister. Currently, the roles are vacant but in staying true to Democracy, we shall be voting.

Guidelines:
- Characters MUST work for the Ministry.
- Characters may NOT have a criminal background.
- Characters CANNOT be in-training. They must have some experience.
- Each member is allowed to make 2 characters to run for Minister and/or Senior Undersecretary. You cannot use the same character to run for both positions.
- Members are expected to be active during the election and throughout their term should they be elected.
- Members will have 1 weeks from today (Nov 10) to submit their applications for Minister for Magic and Senior Undersecretary. Please send them to me (Dean Stewart) and when voting begins your applications will be post for the members to read and decide who they want as their new leadership team.


[b]Alias:[/b]
[b]Character Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Position:[/b] Minister or Senior Undersecretary
[b]Brief Description of why your character wants this position:[/b]
[b]Ideas you have for potential plotting:[/b] this is important to know you aren't just going to sit and do nothing in your position

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In other news, I want to do something fun for everyone and I have two ideas. Please check out this thread

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Howdy! I'm taking votes from today until Sunday to see what sort of event the site would be interested in participating in.

The options are:

SITE BATTLE - as you know, Malachi's forces are mounting, though it is a slow progression, and there's been some criminal activity. If those in service to Malachi and his supporters (Charlie McPhee and Anashka Markovic) are interested in mounting a larger attack on an around of the site so people can get involved and do some real fighting (maybe kill off some characters lingering, lol) This would be mostly adults since the students are in school.

SPEED DATING - we did this before where members sign up characters and are matched for a week of RF posting to see if they click. When the week ends, they get a new match and new threads to post in for the week. Should you get along with your speed date, you can go from there and start new threads.

RANDOM CHARACTER MATCH UP WITH PROMPTS - You sign up, I match people randomly and give you a prompt to RP through.


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Hey Everyone!

Thanks for being here on Inside New Hogwarts with us! We love you all <3

I just wanted to take a few moments to tell you about a few changes and give you a few reminders! Nothing bad, I promise!

First off, you may have noticed the return to our Halloween Themed Skin! Thanks Nana for resurrecting/fixing this up for our viewing pleasure once again! It’s as lovely as every and puts me in the spirit of Halloween! With that being said, there is a Halloween Event running over in the Ball Room so don’t forget to check it out and have some fun. There’s still some apple prizes left for people to claim!

You may have also noticed a new board called New Members Start Here – this is for new members, obviously! A wonderful member of our site pointed out that they were rather overwhelmed about where to start when they joined and made a suggestion we could not turn down! Within this board are the main things we thought new members needed to view before beginning their journey with us as a way to help them.

We’ve brought in an idea that we know others have seen on various sites, an RP Buddy. Check out the information HERE and sign up to become one if you think this interests you and you can handle it!

Another small change we have implemented is a modification to our character application in regards to the activity check section. As you all know, whenever we do our site clean outs we are checking EVERY account for activity. We took note of accounts that have been with us since the dawn of time (site opening) that have as little as 30 posts made. While we understand life gets busy and sometimes muses are not there it’s important to be aware of what you can handle in regards to character numbers.

With that being said, if you have a number of characters and you can’t seem to find muse for them, don’t have plots for them, and just don’t have time to dedicate to them, no one will be mad at you if you decide to cut them from your roster in order to focus on characters who have more going on and create better rounded characters. This might also help if you are feeling overwhelmed.

The new criteria for the activity section of the character application are as follows:

The first 5 characters are free, but you need to wait 1 week between making your first character and your second character and so on.

6-10 characters require all active accounts to have a min of 25 posts and post ONE DIRECT roleplay link per character from the last two weeks based on the day this application is finished.

11-15 characters require all active accounts to have a min of 50 posts and post TWO DIRECT roleplay link per character from the last two weeks based on the day this application is finished.

16-20+ characters require all active accounts to have a min of 100 posts and post THREE DIRECT roleplay link per character from the last two weeks based on the day this application is finished.

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What is an RP Buddy?
An RP buddy is someone who volunteers to thread with new members and help them get acclimated to the site. They are the person that member can go to while they are getting started and getting familiar with the site.

RP Buddies are assigned to any new member who requests one.

Once an RP Buddy has been assigned, they are required to make the first contact with new members. Do not rely on the new member to come to you. You're job is to make them feel welcome and help them in getting their character off the ground from applications to building plots and storylines and being that first line of RPing for them so they can get their feet wet in our fascinating world.

How do you become an RP Buddy?
Reply to this thread and you will be added to the list of possibly RP buddies. Each new member will be allowed to select their own buddy off the list, and if they don't have a preference, they will be assigned someone in a rotation so everyone gets a chance.

Please do not sign up to be an RP Buddy if you are not active. To be considered active, you must be regularly posting at least once a week with one of your characters and logging in regularly. It is not fair to a new member to get an RP buddy who seldom logs on and therefore might miss their questions. * You will be removed if you are not active.

How do you get an RP Buddy?
Easy! If you are a new member, reply to this thread and request an RP Buddy. You can select one of the members listed or one of them will be assigned to you at random. And then you wait for them to reach out to you.

Available Buddies:
Ruth - Rosie Huntington
Tiare - Hina Avaiki

Request a Buddy:
[blockquote][b]Alias:[/b]
[b]Who do you want as your Buddy?:[/b] pick a character from the list or write Random!

Request to be a Buddy:
[blockquote][b]Alias:[/b]
[b]Character to be Listed as a Buddy:[/b]

This is just another quick reminder and then I'll stop bugging everyone.

Goblet of Fire Sign Ups ends on Wednesday (Sept 20).

We do character clean outs every three months near the end of the month. The last one was the end of June which means we have one coming up. This is not new to any member who has read the rules.

Just a rehash. You are required to have made 3 posts with your characters between July-Sept. This could be a post in July, 1 in August and 1 in Sept or 3 in July and nothing for Aug or Sept, but any RP posts between July 1 and the day we do clean out (which is usually any day in the last 3-5 days of the month depending on admin schedules).

If your character is a creature or has an abilities, you are required to specifically mention the ability or creature status in one of your posts between July-Sept otherwise you lose your status.

If you have posted an absence, your characters are safe if it is still active.

If you have posted a busy, it does not save your characters and they will still be unsorted.

Characters made within 2 weeks of the clean outs are safe.

Normally, we don't announce clean outs because it is your responsibility to remember and be posting regularly but with summer vacations happening I thought I would be nice.

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