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Having been promoted to the new Captain, I find that it's my job to tell all members the ideas that I am currently thinking.


1. When the new years starts, all previous posts in the roleplay will be deleted, and the roleplay will begin anew. Thus, we can start over, without really starting over.

2. The Professor Program will be deleted. It's irritating, a hassle, and takes away from the roleplay which is supposed to focus on the students. The professors that have already been created will remain as NPC's, so anyone can control what they do. New ones will be made for the classes that currently have no Professor. Those who want to continue playing as your professor, please send me a message, and I will work out a solution with you.

3. Students are only allowed to sign up for a maximum of three classes. This way, no confusion is created with the crew members. Those classes that sudents sign up for will be mandatory to go to. You MUST post in all three of the classes, at least once every lesson. This way, Professors aren't left behind, and a little confused.

4. Post at LEAST once every three days. Yes, three is the magic number, because I am dead convinced that that is a good number.

5. Those students and roleplayers who get special recognition from me, or any other members of the crew will be reported to me. They will be given special priviledges, and even some prizes.

{This will continue to grow as I get more ideas and when the power stops being a retard.}

I want member, and crew input for this, so please, tell me!

Of course, that is probably a better idea, Ruruka. I'll have them moved to the Guild Pensive as soon as I can.

As for Number 5 --

Any members who get on the whitelist whike I am Captain will be given house points, and entered for a raffle for a prize from the Guild mule.

They also might be allowed a special character, if they win the raffle.

That's not too difficult to do.

Ah, I will bring this guild's activity back if it KILLS me.

I'll try.

And I will need you an Kani very much! You two are going to be my right-hand men... er... Women!

Yeah... That sounds right...

I'm so glad the guild torch has been passed into another pair of devoted and capable hands. I can't wait to see what new direction the guild takes. My suggestion on keeping time running would be to follow your three-day posting rule, and make each hogwarts day three of ours. the first day would be morning, the second noonish, and the third would be evening and night. So people in various locations would have to post accordingly and everything would go smoothly with the roleplay based on the date, rather than basing the date on the roleplay.

Well, let me know if there's anything I can do. The majority of my guilds have lapsed into inactivity, and so this is really my only guild with any sort of action occurring. As for the three day rule, there would be penalties for everyone who wasn't back in the castle during the evening.

Also, a feature I saw in a different guild was to have people "apply" for various character relationships beforehand. It was basically where people decided who was going to hate who, and who would end up falling in love etc. That system ends once the roleplay begins, but it's a good way to kick-start things and then let them take their own course.

Finally, an overarching guild plot line is always good, but involving every member of the guild is difficult. Therefore, I think there should be another forum for plotlines of small groups. The Troublemakers, for example, would be smuggling in things from the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, and the Slytherin Mauraders would be stalking the corridors in the evening day of the RP, scaring people and hexing them. The Adventurers would be exploring the castle and looking for secrets, and often getting in trouble for scouting out the dark forest. Each character would belong to one of these or other groups, and their group would come up with a plotline that it would follow, often intersecting with the plotlines of other groups.

Finally, I think all the teachers should be played by you, Rose, and the other crew. No crew member would have a set teacher, but if someone's out in the corridors after hours, they could occasionally run into whatever teacher happened to be there.

Hope these suggestions are useful, and let me know how I can help!

In hindsight, I think the club method would be enough, and we can let the relationships develop on their own. I really, really like the idea of each club being lead by a member of the crew, because we can discuss where the plot of each club goes in the Plot Discussion thread (I'll create it if you like the idea) in the crew section. That way we can talk about what goes on and involve everyone in the decision making process.

As for the house point system, it's clear we need to have a slightly different basis than hogwarts did. How about this: each house has a thread that people go to before they post in the rp, and simply add their name. This would let us know who was around during the three-day time. Every time the day advances (every three days) we'd clear the forum, and people would start adding their names again.

If someone's name is on the list...
Once: no points given or lost.
Twice: five points.
Thrice: ten points
Four times: 15 points
Five times: 20 points.

If someone's name isn't on the list after three days, they lose five points.

{ I agree entirely with what Ikamaru said. I know that our members are truly devoted people. And being so devoted, I think that devotion also applies to our real-world lives (well, those of us who actually have them, anyway). So yes, I think the Member Preoccupations thread idea would certainly be an asset to the guild. }