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Hogwarts World Tour


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Upon graduating from Hogwarts, our cast of young witches and wizards receive a bursary for foreign travel, enabling them to travel the world, starting with Europe. As a game, this will run as a series of short chapters, each focusing on one particular area and the adventures and antics of the group in each place. I really encourage players to come up with plots and locations and interesting sightseeing destinations and even to organise chapters themselves.

Plot and Setting


Obviously, this is set in the wizarding world of Harry Potter - but in 2007, ten years on from Voldemort’s final defeat, and so some scars still run deep, both personally and politically. Most of the world isn’t really documented (and things will have changed in the last ten years) in the books so we’ll be coming up with what we want/imagine certain areas of certain countries will be on the fly. To that end, I encourage people to ‘dibbs’ a country and officially establish what each nation is like, culturally, politically, and demographically.

There will almost certainly be no overarching plot outside the individual episodes beyond the continuity of our characters’ relationships with each other.

The O'Lustrum Bursary for Global Travel and Study is named for Aaron O'Lustrum, a journalist from the Republic of Ireland that reports on global affairs. Following the fall of Voldemort, the UK began a process of introspection and healing. While necessary, this resulted in less engagement with the rest of the world and, given the whole genocide thing, the UK isn't particularly well-regarded nowadays. The O'Lustrum Bursary is designed to remedy this somewhat, and it entails regular payments to the students for up to a year's worth of travel. For this, the students don't have to do anything apart from write fortnightly reports to O'Lustrum simply to say what they're up to and what they've noticed.

While the students may have one or two set events they want to check out, the bursary is designed for them to flexibly travel - and for us to not have to know exactly what we're doing next. ;)

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Character sheets will be found in the character tab, as will nation sheets. The nation sheets are there so if any one of you is all "Hey I think France should be like this", you can totally establish that as canonical right off the bat. I do ask, though, that nobody posts in the Character Tab, at least for now. I get the feeling there might be a reasonable amount of info that ends up getting put in there and I like to be able to organise it, so I'll probably be the one that uploads everything in there. I might change my mind on that, in which case I'll let you know.
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1) If you want to tweak it, go ahead, but I'd rather you not shake it up completely; while zipping through them and comparing characters it makes life a lot easier if I know where I'm looking in each sheet for what info.

2) Go for it.
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As I said in the interest check, I’ll give it a go but I have 0 idea of what I’m doing. CS time, I suppose?

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But you know the books or at the very least the films, right?

I've read the entire series once and seen the films. But I don't comprehend much so I will probably be deferring to you guys and a wiki a lot.
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But you do know the HP universe (at least somewhat), right? If you do, but are a bit rusty, it's nothing that The Harry Potter Wikia can't fix. If you don't know the source material I think you're likely to find this more research than it's worth, but I'll probably compile official canon versions of everything that's likely to turn up in the Episodes (or at the very least link to relevant HP Wikia pages), and so you'd only really need to pro-actively know what you're doing for passing details, which are less important.

Edit: Ninja'd. Deferring to the wiki is definitely A+++
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Started a CS in my character bin, it's hardly finished but you can see awful progress on it there.
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Cool. Post it over here when you're sorted or if you have any questions I'll be happy to take a look sooner. I'm a frantic micro-manager, although I try not to be, so I'll hold fire until/unless requested. :P
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Like him.

My only notes are:
1) Looks like Beck's got a drinking buddy
2) It seems cheap given that I've not yet posted him, but my Character #2, Will Lawrence, is also gunning for Head Boy. I don't want to pull rank or quibble or give up on it but we'd both be using that as a legit character development thing so I have a cool idea of what to do there. Let us consult PMs.
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@Jig Rooom for one more?
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I think he's good to go :) I may have another character up soon, but I at least wanted to get this guy up there first :P


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I'd be interested in joining! I'll work on a character now and hopefully have him up in a day or two. ^^ If, of course, having watched all the movies multiple times is the type of sufficient knowledge you're lookin' for.

(also how dare you @McHaggis for stealing my stolen CS formatting! I stole it first!! D;)
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Drunk Announcement


[@Everybody]
Woke up still drunk and in a room that's so unbelievably fucking hot that I'm probably going to be poking ice cubes down my smalls until further notice. I have an electric fan pointed directly at my face but the air in the room I'm in is so fucking warm it's actually contributing nothing to the whole 'Jig melts into a jiggly pile of goop' situ. Incidentally, all of my 'I expect everybody to see this' posts will be flagged with a centered heading like this one. Please keep an eye out for them, because, ya know, important.

Have seen character submissions and thank you for them but haven't quite gone through them with my usual Laser of JusticeTM yet because of aforementioned drunkery and the forthcoming ice cube situation.

Yes, everybody that has posted in this thread or the interest check and that would like to still submit characters may do so including secondary characters.

That said, the label of 'small group' is looking more tenuous by the minute and tbh there's nobody here that I don't think could play at the kind of standard I would ask of them, which is wonderful and also horrendous because it's gonna make crowd control difficult or arbitrary - but I shall endeavour to make sure that everybody gets to take part. What I shall therefore do, is fire my Laser of JusticeTM at

1) Any further participation apps from people I haven't played with before and people who haven't already posted in here or in the interest check

2) Similar characters. If two people present similar characters I'm going to ask them to work something out to distinguish them. Currently, heh, this means myself and @smarty0114 - sending you a PM shortly

3) Nobody has suggested they might do this, but third characters won't be accepted

4) Inactive characters or players. I will have an Official GM RuleAlso TM on inactivity which will simultaneously be both lenient and merciless because I am a creature of paradox

5) Characters who don't have an established role in the group dynamic, since all of us understanding the group is going to be twice as important since there's, well, about twice as many of us as I was expecting. This doesn't mean you need to be friends/enemies with everybody and I'm sure some characters will be more or less strangers to some others, but I do expect all of you to be talking to each other, based on having read each others' sheets, to work out some context for the group (and to make this info public so we all know what we're doing)

Currently I'm going to leave things in a state of flux so things can hopefully iron themselves out organically and it all turns out wonderful. What this means for your characters is that they're all more or less accepted. Hopefully none of the above seems overly demanding or stringent. I'd also encourage people at this stage to start dibbsing countries and shouting out Episode recommendations.

If, of course, having watched all the movies multiple times is the type of sufficient knowledge you're lookin' for.


The films tend to be a bit skimpy on the details but if you're willing to HP Wikia anything you're uncertain of, shouldn't be a problem.
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@Kirah - could you unbold the body text of your CS because that's gonna upset my poor poor eyes

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Was too drunk to post him last night with the result that two people's characters have already clashed with him. ;_;
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Fixed jig also I realized I totally put my month and day like an American and then I realized Mary's birthday was the same number as her month and somehow feel like I outsmarted myself
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Sober sheet readthrough comments:

@Gowi - good to go. Throw her in the CS tab when you're ready. If you could do me a favour and make the font colour a little bit brighter, that'd be handy. Then again, my laptop is currently outside so maybe it's just screen glare
@Smarty0114 - have PM'd you about the similarities between our characters
@Kirah - would appreciate if you'd bodge your stats down a bit or give yourself a few weaknesses. Two tens, a nine, and only one weak spot is maybe a bit much
@McHaggis - good to go. Throw him in the CS tab when you're ready

Yep, I know I said the CS tab was for my use only but if anybody wants to edit stuff, I'm not exactly gonna C&P everything across all the time. For those of you that'll be running multiple characters, please post them in separate posts so I can link to them individually.
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@Kirah - would appreciate if you'd bodge your stats down a bit or give yourself a few weaknesses. Two tens, a nine, and only one weak spot is maybe a bit much


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