So, our top three are:

• Dragons
• Egypt
• Veela

Dragons and Egypt aren't mine, so I'd like to open the floor to everybody for ideas, because I don't know what you'll be wanting. I pitched loosely for some Dragon Jurassic Park, but (a) don't know if that's what you're wanting and (b) have absolutely no idea for Egypt. We also need to decide where the Dragons are, and what Egypt is like as a place to be. If anybody wants to take the lead there, go for it. :)

Further question: do people want to dive straight into the action or would you rather have a few turns of just chilling in some foreign town to get the chance to talk to each other and see what's what?

PS: excuse my no-show yesterday. Was still absolutely fried from the weekend which had two 24hr+ days in it, so I basically just got my zen on.

I'm regretting not voting for Nurmengard. :(

After each/couple of episodes, I'll redo the poll. By that point, people's minds will have changed on what they're wanting, some people may have dropped out, and there'll be more/fewer things to choose from.

One thought I'd not really considered was, how do people feel about the group splitting up? There is a lot of us, and if some people want to do some episodes and other people want to do others, that might be a viable option. I wouldn't suggest we start off like that, but maybe there'll come a point.

Weren't we going to have that departure episode? Also, where is everybody???

Still around. Haven't said much because I haven't needed to, and I've had a lot of shit on my plate. Hopefully things will calm down a bit now.

Anyway my thought for Egypt includeda tour of the crypts, maybe a guest visit from some of Bill's old friends/co-workers. A panic attack from Mary as she realized how small and dark those tunnels really are. A mummy and hijinks. I bow to anyone with more knowledgeof Egypt or the ability to have time to research it and make this trip possible.

Just got a couple relationships up, I'll get the rest done tonight hopefully, or tomorrow morning if work kicks my ass :P

I am around, I just don't tend to say much until I need to.

Also I agree with Kirah's thoughts for Egypt. As well as maybe reaching out to the House of Life, ancient group of Egyptian wizards maybe? Just throwing that out there.

Just so y'all know, I'm gigging on a small island in Scotland this weekend, which means there's a 0.00000001% chance I'll be able to be online before Sunday and possibly also Monday. I'll endeavour to start the game as soon as I'm back, whether y'all are ready or not.

Okay everyone who has Mary or Kyle in their thing I've updated accordingly.

Also Mchaggis <3 Darren & Mary adorable

Yo yo yo, back from Scotland, sunburned and utterly frazzled from a crazy-good time that just kept coming up roses.

Gonna have a cheeky doobaroo and start thinking about putting together the IC either this evening or tomorrow. I'm then away for almost a week from Thursday, which'll give youse a chance to all post.

yo, hectic couple of days. Hoping to get the IC up in the coming hours and then I'll be out of town for a week. Since it's been pretty quiet in the OoC, if I don't hear from each player an Aye or an actual IC post by the time I'm back, I will assume you no longer wish to participate and carry on without you.

IC's up: have at.

Some quick housekeeping before I go to bed:
The date of departure is 30th July. I will (later) amend the reference to June in the IC to account for the students... literally only just having left Hogwarts so they've had a bit of Summer to stew before setting off.
I'll do some detailed stuff on available methods of transport later on (mostly to stop Apparition being a total gamebreaker) but for now just go with me on the portkeys. There are three, so feel free obliged to buddy up and use them. Please don't actually have the portkeys go until I'm back next week, though! :P
Aberdyfi passage is a Diagon Alley-esque location on the coast of Wales which I've totally made up so feel free to describe as you will. La Place du Fourmilier (Anteater Square - because anteaters are so fuckin' cute) is going to be an urbane Wizarding settlement in Paris - just somewhere to be for a little bit until we've worked out what we're doing in Egypt and also who's gonna be sticking around.
If relevant to your posts, heads of Houses:

Gryffindor: Neville Longbottom
Slytherin: Horace Slughorn
Ravenclaw: Filius Flitwick
Hufflepuff: Unknown
^{Unless HP Wikia contradicts this, but don't have time to check.}

That should be everything. Sorry I've been delayed setting this off and don't have any Will or Beck action for you just yet.

Don't forget: please at least shout out something here or post in the IC before next week or I'll assume you won't be taking part and the portkeys will leave without you! See you next week and have fun.
J xx

I will work on having a post up this weekend.

I work both days this weekend, but I will take my laptop in and work on the posts in down times.

Edit: kat as an excuse for not having the cousins show up together I think I'll have Mary at a sea side cabin with her father for the break between school and the trip. If that's cool, unless you had plans.

Edit: kat as an excuse for not having the cousins show up together I think I'll have Mary at a sea side cabin with her father for the break between school and the trip. If that's cool, unless you had plans.

Sounds good to me.

I'll try and have something up this weekend! Might need to wait until Monday, tho.

Okay post up for Mary.

I plan on working on a post for Kyle tomorrow during break/after work.

Edit: So, as an FYI (if anyone cares about accuracy): http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_phases.pl?year=2007&month=5&day=30&nump=50&format=p

Sorry if I've been AFK from the relations PMs guys; lots of RP and IRL stuff distracted me, but I'll respond to them sometime tonight if I can help it. Will work on a post when I've read Kirah ahd Luna's posts too.

I hate to say this, but with school coming up, I'm needing to cut down on my RP load and so I'm going to have to bow out of this. I apologize and I wish you all the best of luck with this :)

I'm working on my Kyle post, but I'll be at my other job today from 1-10 so I can't work on it until much later....