#burialnotice

Hey, all you cool cats and kittens, it’s ADMIN PIXIE again––– but of course, who else would it be?

I’ve got some particularly exciting news, so tune in for the following announcement:

Due to the recent arrival of a DAWN BRINGER in our owlery, I’m pleased to say that I can set a date for our first application reviewal!

APPLICATION REVIEWAL DAY is WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12TH. The submit box will close at 3pm edt/8pm bst on that day and acceptances will posted on the main at 5pm edt/10pm bst. Between those two timestamps, I’ll be sending out messages to every applicant, notifying them of the results.

Greetings and Salutations! Thank you for choosing Gringotts Wizarding Bank, the one and only bank of the Wizarding World, for your transactional needs. We’re not only the best choice for a bank, but the only choice.

Starting today, the GRINGOTTS GOBLINS would like to announce a trial period of GOLD–based transactions, deposits, and purchases, wherein players may earn points (GOLD) in reward for various deeds and general activity within the group. After saving up, they may then cash in their GOLD for fun features and services! If this venture proves successful, following any necessary adjustments this service will remain a permanent feature.

Following the publication of this post, each character blog will receive a message from the bank containing their VAULT KEY. This code is very important, so write it down! Without it, you won’t be able to keep up to date with how much GOLD you’ve earned!      ––  For more information about EARNING GOLD, check out the information desk here.     ––  For more information about CASHING IN GOLD, check out the transactions desk here.

HELLO, HELLO, TO ALL FRIENDS AND FOES ! It’s me, ADMIN PIXIE, your local admin and magical lore enthusiast.

I’m here to make some bite-sized official updates –– don’t worry, this will be short and sweet.

TO ALL OF THE CURRENT & FUTURE APPLICANTS: The application form has been updated with a new clause added into the connections section. Please take note and adjust accordingly. If necessary, you may re-submit any portion of an already submitted application to reflect the changes made.

TO ALL THE LOVELY, WONDERFUL PLAYERS:

Due to the increasing trend of setting event interactions on a timeline of the day on which the current event takes place, please make sure to keep the last 30 minutes (11:30 until midnight ) of AUGUST 1ST, 1950 open and clear of all activity.

To all those setting starters at the Potter manor: the Potter manor, the gardens, and the rest of the property are all heavily warded. Please make sure the status of your threads set at TIMESTAMP 001: MEMENTO MORI reflects that. Additionally - all magic cast within these wards, save for the simplest of charms, can and will backfire terribly on the caster due to the heavy chokehold of the protective wards.

That’s it! Thanks for tuning in!

FURTHER DETAILS ON OUR UPCOMING LIVE EVENT

The guests of the Norris’ dinner party dined in the absence of their hosts from the moment their appetizers appeared near their place settings until the very last morsel of the final course was spirited away by house elf magic. Not fifteen minutes after a pair of house elves served the guests with dainty plates topped high with tiny apple pies and even tinier cups of steaming coffee did one Mr. Fleamont Potter scrape back his chair from his seat at the table with a discordant screech and a loud and firm request for the rest of the guests to join him in the lounge. Without a single glance behind his shoulder and certainly without taking a single sip or bite of his dessert, he turned on his heel and left the dining room.

Those who humored his sudden request in the absence of a host or hostess to entertain them would have found the large, round table of the lounge cleared of all adornment save for a select few candles, and the chairs moved from their previous positions to surround the edge in a silent invitation for sitting.

Without a doubt, there was something strange about the entire evening, but Fleamont was determined to get to the bottom of at least one mystery, or so he claimed when he explained his plan of action to the guests that joined him around the lounge table: There was to be a SEANCE held to determine once and for all whether their invitations came from an eccentric dramatist or a dangerous fraud responsible for the wizard’s disappearance and any other sinister happenstance that may have befallen him. If Mr. Norris was truly gone from this world, Fleamont reasoned, what better place to try and contact him than from the heart of his own household?

USING CHARACTER BOTS

In order to help keep this event organized, we’ll be introducing TUPPERBOX to our discord server. This is a discord bot that will allow us to send messages as our characters! We’ll be happy to help everyone get set up in the server, but we thought we could go over the basics here to get everyone started.

The first command you’ll need to use is tul!register which should be formatted as the following: 

tul!register “full name” name:text 

For example, Orion Black would be registered by using the following command: 

tul!register “orion black” orion:text

Once this is done, messages can be sent from Orion Black but beginning them with orion: and then typing your message.

Next comes the fun part! Setting an icon to go along with the profile you’ve just registered. Find an image you’d like to use. Then you can use the tul!avatar command to set this as your profile image. In a message that contained the image you want to use sent the following:

tul!avatar “name”

Alternatively, if you have a url of an image you’d like to use (rather than a saved image), you can use the following command:

tul!avatar “name” url

Following with our previous example, these would look like this:

tul!avatar “orion black”

tul!avatar “orion black” https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/896113525948653568/mcu4HLRX_400x400.jpg

That’s the basics! We hope this helps and, again, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. We’re here to help!

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR LIVE WRITING EVENTS

If you have not done a live writing event before, or even if you have, we wanted to include some details of both our expectations of how this event will run and some tips and tricks for you to get the best experience out of it!

Our expectation is that this event will last for about three hours. Because of this we encourage our players to get comfy beforehand! Get yourself a snack, a cup of tea, or whatever you’d like to have with you!

The writing for this event is going to feel a little different than writing on the dash, mostly due to length. Given the time limit and the number of players, we encourage that replies stay limited to just a few sentences. 

We will set an order for players to reply based on who is present. There may be changes to this order during the live event but staff members will be sure to keep everyone updated to what those changes are.

Keep in touch with the staff members! If you have to step away for any reason that is perfectly fine, but please let us know so we can keep the event moving in a timely fashion.

GREETINGS AND GOOD AFTERNOON !   We hope you’re all having a lovely day, and we’re here to share a little bit of information with you!

Based on the poll we conducted in our server, we will be holding our very first live writing event at 2PM EDT / 7PM BST on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH. Further details about this event will be posted in the coming days, but please make sure to set aside some time to write! 

We tried to select a time that as many of our members could be around as possible, however we realize that there are one or two individuals who stated that they will not be able to make this time. If you were one of those people, don’t fret! The admins have an alternative event in mind for you and we will work out when that can be done on an individual level. If you stated that you could make this time in the poll, but something has come up, please let the admins know as soon as possible so we can include you in this alternative event.

Given that this live event will be the final part of our current event, we will be extending the evening at the Norris household to last, in real time, until the live event has begun. You may continue threads that are part of this event until that time, and you may now post new threads up until OCTOBER 3RD. However, please remember that the in game time frame will remain as originally planned, between 7PM AND 11:59PM on AUGUST 16TH, 1950.

Additionally, we want to make a quick apology. The admin team was somewhat busy yesterday and thus was not able to conduct our usually timed APPLICATION REVIEWAL & BANK TRANSACTIONS, but we will be righting that today! APPLICATION REVIEWAL will take place at 6PM EDT / 11 PM BST and BANK TRANSACTIONS can be submitted up until 8PM EDT / 1 AM BST.  

Finally, we are very thrilled to announce that on OCTOBER 3RD, Burial Society RPG will be going through some exciting changes, including the addition of 13 NEW CHARACTERS to our lineup.  

Thank you so much for your patience, and we hope you are as excited as we are about things to come !

Activity checks will look specifically at posts that further interaction within the group. For this reason, the only posts that count towards activity are starters or thread responses.

Additionally, the handbook now reflects our move from seven to nine days of inactivity. If you have any questions, please let us know !

HELLO, AND WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER ADMIN POST  –––  ‘Tis I, ADMIN PIXIE ! No longer one-of-a-kind, and happy about it !

There are a few things to get through, so buckle up and grab a snack!

First and foremost, I would like to formally & enthusiastically welcome our two newest members of BURIAL SOCIETY STAFF aboard –– Hannah and Rion have graciously offered their free time and energy to help steer the ship, so to speak, and are already doing an absolutely wonderful job. Welcome, welcome, and thank you so much to ADMIN GRINDYLOW and ADMIN JARVEY ! Expect to see a lot more of them around !

As you all know, a google form was sent to the discord and you were all asked to fill it out in your free time to inform the staff of where you’re at in regards to possible structural changes to the group and the way things are run here. The results, decided by popular vote and further discussed by staff, are as such:

––  As it was a close call, the group will remain open to new players for now, and we will continue operating the way we have been up to this point. We may reassess privatizing the group again at a later date.

––  A new batch of characters will be introduced sooner rather than later, and as always, players may sponsor the creation of new characters via the bank at any time. 

––  The activity limit will be expanded –– players will now receive activity check warnings after NINE days of inactivity.

The next event will be take place soon, starting on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH at 12PM EDT/5PM BST. Please try to wrap up as many threads or interactions as you can before this date, as all non-event interactions must at least be paused until after the event ends. 

Thank you so much for being here with us ! We have so many wonderful things in store, and cannot wait to reveal what happens next !