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Episode Ideas:
None of these are set in stone. These are just things that I've come up with. If you'd like to add your own, please PM me (if you fancy some secrecy) or post it in the OoC section. Once we have all the characters in, I'll set up a poll to see which ideas are the most popular.
While checking out the wizarding red light district in Amsterdam, some of the gang, particularly the boys, encounter a group of veelas in a particularly predictable sort of establishment with probably predictable consequences.
But we’ll keep it clean, mods.
But we’ll keep it clean, mods.
This one’s pegged in their diaries as an event not to be missed. There is a wizarding tournament of some kind (say, duelling, or a local variant of Quidditch, or a thestral race) where anybody can take part, and some of the team want to participate - as a team or as rivals. Or it could be the Quidditch World Cup where people are supporting different teams.
One of the main European ‘tourist hotspots’ are the battlefields and cemeteries of the first wizarding war, which ended only with Dumbledore’s defeat of Grindelwald. Grindelwald's aims not being entirely dissimilar to Voldemort's, this visit gives the group a chance to reflect on their own recent history.
Muggles aren’t the only ones to have glamorous cruises or train journeys. O’Lustrum personally wangles tickets for them to take a trip on the Wizarding!Titanic (to America) or the Wizarding!Orient Express (to wherever the hell that goes. Russia-ish), replete with a chance to gussy up, party, and there may even be a murderer on board. Failing that, a goddamn dragon/sea monster attacks.
Because I haven’t murdered anyone in far too long.
Because I haven’t murdered anyone in far too long.
While sightseeing in Eastern Europe, an actual goddamn war breaks out between muggles and wizards. While powerful magic prevents the rest of the world from discovering the broken Statute of Secrecy, the group is out of their depth and must actually survive.
The world has many wonders, and not all of them are magical. Touring somewhere Scandinavian, the group makes a bet to survive without magic for a week. Hilarity ensues.
Yes, cult.
Traipsing around urban North America, the group becomes aware of a quasi-religious group of witches and wizards, and maybe even some muggles, who are simultaneously very open and very secretive about their organisation. Basically an excuse to make jokes about scientology.
Traipsing around urban North America, the group becomes aware of a quasi-religious group of witches and wizards, and maybe even some muggles, who are simultaneously very open and very secretive about their organisation. Basically an excuse to make jokes about scientology.
The gang visit wizarding Jurassic Park, where the keepers believe that they have tamed dragons, enabling a kind of 'flying with dragons' experience for tourists and bucket-lists. The predictable occurs.
A requested location that I'd probably tack onto a plot idea if one isn't regional-specific.
While touring the Great Pyramids of Giza, the group encounters a chilling secret... (HalfOfLancelot's idea, so he'd be taking the lead :P)
While travelling in Transylvania, the gang encounters a count who invites them to stay. My instinct is to basically parody Dracula here, but it's Kittyluna's idea, so it's up to her.
Character Sheets:
In addition to your own sheets, be aware of other characters. We've all been at school together for seven years, so we'll have friends/rivals/etc among the group. Talk to other players and work out your collective backstories. :)
I should warn you that there's been quite a bit of interest so this probably won't be first-come first-served.
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[*] Flying:
[*] Muggle Studies:
[*] Care of Magical Creatures:[/list]
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Pre-emptive note:
yes, prettify them if you want
yes, prettify them if you want
Player: Your username
Name: Not a trick question :)
Date of Birth: You’re 18 by the Summer of 2007
Gender: Also not a trick question :)
Blood Status: Pure, Half, Muggleborn
Wand: Length, wood, core, flexibility
Personality: What you’re like
Appearance: Whatchu look like. Photos are fine, so long as you look plausibly 18
Background: Family situation, personal history, etc
Aspirations: Hopes and dreams for the future
House: You know the ones
Academic Record: How well you did at Hogwarts, notable accomplishments/roles/responsibilities, exam results, etc
Skills: Give yourself a number/10 for each of these and add new fields as appropriate. No real limits apart from common sense.
Name: Not a trick question :)
Date of Birth: You’re 18 by the Summer of 2007
Gender: Also not a trick question :)
Blood Status: Pure, Half, Muggleborn
Wand: Length, wood, core, flexibility
Personality: What you’re like
Appearance: Whatchu look like. Photos are fine, so long as you look plausibly 18
Background: Family situation, personal history, etc
Aspirations: Hopes and dreams for the future
House: You know the ones
Academic Record: How well you did at Hogwarts, notable accomplishments/roles/responsibilities, exam results, etc
Skills: Give yourself a number/10 for each of these and add new fields as appropriate. No real limits apart from common sense.
- Transfiguration:
- Charms:
- Herbology:
- Potions:
- Defence Against the Dark Arts:
- Duelling:
- Flying:
- Muggle Studies:
- Care of Magical Creatures:
Nation Sheets:
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Nation: Name of the nation
Landmass: Doesn't have to equate to its muggle equivalent.
Politics: Political system and general mood of the population
History: A bit of backstory maybe so we know where it came from
Points of Interest: Interesting locations or whatever
Episodes: If it's tied to a given episode (name the episode)
Landmass: Doesn't have to equate to its muggle equivalent.
Politics: Political system and general mood of the population
History: A bit of backstory maybe so we know where it came from
Points of Interest: Interesting locations or whatever
Episodes: If it's tied to a given episode (name the episode)
Characters:
Gryffindor:
Ravenclaw:
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Slytherin:
Hufflepuff:
Established Nations:
The United Kingdom
The O’Lustrum Bursary
The O’Lustrum Bursary is a stipend paid to graduating students of Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry for the purpose of travelling the world. Aaron O’Lustrum himself half-funds the bursary from his family’s own (enormous) fortune, while the Ministry of Magic funds the other half.
The money is paid on a monthly basis, but not into the students’ own accounts, as they will presumably be Gringott’s bank vaults. Instead, the students must inform the programme’s coordinators of their movements so that the money can be accessible from whatever banks they can access abroad. This also ensures that the students move around, and don’t just stay in one place. Payments continue for up to one calendar year on the provision that the students write to O’Lustrum every two weeks simply to let him know what they’ve been getting up to.
The money is paid on a monthly basis, but not into the students’ own accounts, as they will presumably be Gringott’s bank vaults. Instead, the students must inform the programme’s coordinators of their movements so that the money can be accessible from whatever banks they can access abroad. This also ensures that the students move around, and don’t just stay in one place. Payments continue for up to one calendar year on the provision that the students write to O’Lustrum every two weeks simply to let him know what they’ve been getting up to.
O’Lustrum is a native of the Republic of Ireland, but attended Hogwarts like everybody else in the British Isles. He subsequently began working for the UK Ministry of Magic in the Department of International Magical Cooperation, and eventually became a diplomat. O’Lustrum was a vocal opponent of Lord Voldemort and fled the UK to Poland upon the death of Rufus Scrimgeour. Here, he began working as a reporter, finding and verifying reports of Voldemort’s reign of terror in an attempt to get the international community to intervene. However, the UK was considered politically cancerous and was excluded by much of the international community.
Following the defeat of Lord Voldemort, O’Lustrum returned to the UK, this time as a foreign correspondent. Well-liked and well-regarded due to his actions during the Second Wizarding War, he had privileged access to the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and between them agreed that the UK needed to better understand the rest of the magical world and vice versa. Thus was the O’Lustrum bursary founded; it is now in its third year.
O’Lustrum remains a journalist abroad. He is in actual fact a (not brilliant) seer, giving him some literal prescience and a good idea of where he needs to be when. The students will know him from a talk he gave to them in the seventh year, explaining the Bursary.
Following the defeat of Lord Voldemort, O’Lustrum returned to the UK, this time as a foreign correspondent. Well-liked and well-regarded due to his actions during the Second Wizarding War, he had privileged access to the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and between them agreed that the UK needed to better understand the rest of the magical world and vice versa. Thus was the O’Lustrum bursary founded; it is now in its third year.
O’Lustrum remains a journalist abroad. He is in actual fact a (not brilliant) seer, giving him some literal prescience and a good idea of where he needs to be when. The students will know him from a talk he gave to them in the seventh year, explaining the Bursary.
