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hello ghoulfriends!

so, before this post goes any further, i just want to firmly state that wizardhq is NOT closing. now that that’s been said, i want to talk about something. 

when an rp has been open for a long time, it goes through eras. like our muses, we develop, we change with the times. one thing that hasn’t really developed since the beginning of the rp five years ago is the multimuse rule. at times its been fun being allowed to run wild with how many characters we’re allowed to write. but i think it’s starting to hold us back. i didn’t really know how to go about changing this, especially when so many of us have many beloved muses, like myself. but i had a crazy idea recently.

i’m asking if everyone with more than two characters will choose the ones they can’t live without at the moment, and drop the rest. when i say drop the rest, i don’t mean permanently. with some html work, they’ll be marked as non-playable characters on the main. when it comes to plots or threads / paras, you shouldn’t drop whatever you have with characters temporarily gone-- they’ll be back! however, they will be unfollowed. i know this is a lot and potentially scary, especially if you have put a lot of work into your characters. however, our activity has crawled to an inconsistent pace. player of the week didn’t pan out the way i had hoped, and i think the way to get more members and bring the activity back to where it was before is to focus on building back up consistent activity, without having too many characters on our plate. 

activity will return to being a one week limit, and player of the week will be nixed in terms of activity. the interactive element will continue to be apart of the roleplay though, and player of the week will take on a new meaning in the roleplay in the near future as we continue to go forward with the episode. on top of that, the multiple character rule will be changing to four characters total for future members. that means if you have four graduated alumni, you can’t pick up anymore characters, or if you have four students you can’t pick up any applied-for alumni, etc. current members also won’t be able to pick up any brand new muses if you’re at the two character max and or have muses waiting in the wings to be brought back, although this will be irrelevant for most roleplayers who were already at the max anyway.

this will not affect you being able to pick back up your characters that you temporarily dropped. at the end of each month, on a roleplayer to roleplayer basis, you will be able to pick up a number of characters depending on if you weren’t on every activity check, and you weren’t skating activity by rarely posting, spam posting before the activity check, etc. remember, we will be repairing the bad activity pattern we’ve been in. (for anyone worried about their character falling behind in the episode, remember that time is irrelevant right now and they’ll have time to catch up when they’re back! you’ll also be able to resume any threads from the episode / timeframe once they are.) however, you will not be able to bring back muses after you’ve dropped them if you’re over the new four character max.

again, i know this is a lot to digest, but remember i have the best interests for the rp in mind!!! if you support my decision, please LIKE this post and then message the characters to the main that you’re keeping. 

until the changes have been made, i won’t be actively promoting on the promo blogs or on the main. if anyone wants an update or even just wants to say hey and get a hello back, feel free to! otherwise, when i log on i will be working or answering questions if anyone has any.

hey everyone! i want to make an admin post to address something i’m a little concerned about after chatting with multiple people and seeing a few multi-muse starter calls. this episode is long term. it’s meant to go on for over a month, maybe even two. it’s the main timeline; the background to any other threads we may write in-between. this is not a normal rp event where you have to rush to write everything at once, and thus, burn yourself out. this is the anti rp event. we’re still keeping to players of the week. i made a post here saying to choose the character / player you want to write on most to start out the episode. while you’re still allowed to write on all of your characters at any time, i’m worried that the episode has everyone thinking that they’re supposed to rush to write it. we’re supposed to take our time to write through each chapter, on each character, chronologically. if you have multiple characters, that means you have to move them all through each chapter. there is no skipping, and no picking and choosing which one will write which. if this is too much, then you may need to drop some characters and reconsider how much is too much for your muse load / how much time you have to write weekly. this is all also already addressed on the bottom of the episode in the important notes section, and on the previously mentioned post here.

𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆.

as far as roleplaying goes, since i know that i’m not the only one who is having delays with getting to their writing, i’m trying to think of some solutions. we haven’t done this in awhile, but we could change how roleplay time is working in the rp. an ic month could last longer ooc so that way everyone doesn’t feel like they’re missing important season or moments to be written. that’s the thing about rp. everything is on a timeline, whereas when you’re writing a book or a personal piece, it’s on your own timetable. feel free to message the main, reply to this post, etc, with any ideas you may have. PLEASE REBLOG THIS POST TO DEMONSTRATE YOU READ IT IN FULL.