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 Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 7:50 am
Angilwingz Great! Thanks!
Icee: I understand that the Town Cup isn't set in stone, but I wanted to have a place for it set up just in case.
Since we have general rules threads in all subforums, I only meant that the thread should be called town hall, in order to go along with the theme. When I said info on who's running what, I meant that if the general rules post made by adonis is called twon hall, then it would be fitting if we decided to do elections later on, otherwise, it would serve fine as a general rules and guidelines thread.
I also definetely think we should set up a common area, I think someone mentioned park. So I'd like for someone to set that up. Maybe Icee or Adonis since they're not house affiliated?
I'm not sure what I said to make it sound like it would be a guild inside a guild, my ideas for council are roleplay based and follow the rest of the guild. each house has prefects and reps that have jobs, why can't the grads have that too.
Sorry if that's confusing.
Ok. Everyone agree to make the thread Town Hall?
Also, the prefects and DHs for the House are for the Entire House, (grads and students) grads can even be one or the other. That's why I wanted to mention it so that it's not some sort of double thing going on. If we do have a City Council that will be for the rules of that subforum only. The DH and prefect job is guild-wide (not completely RP based).
If you guys want to do a park, either Adonis or an early graduate can set it up (as mods what about Alutian?) or Grey?
Good luck guys!
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 7:51 am
Angilwingz I noticed Avatar's comment in Godric's Hollow about needing a quote. The quote I used in Salazar's Cove is a quote about Graduation, and while I was looking for a slytherin appropriate one, I noticed a few that seemed good for the other houses. You guys dont have to use them of course, but I thought I'd share them with you because they're kind of inspiring..
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the one who'll decide where to go.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”“School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last.”“Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues”
"There is greatness waiting for those that have the courage to find it."
I LOVE THEM!
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:48 am
Lol, glad you like them. I thought they made good inspiring quotes if anyone wanted to use them for anywhere in the forum.
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 7:26 pm
-I love those! Thanks Angil!
Of the Ravenclaw ones, I like the first one best. I'll definitely put it in the RA. I really like some of the others too though; both Hufflepuff ones and the first Gryffindor one. Too bad they suit the other houses better.
-I'm fine with calling the thread Town Hall.
-I like the park thing.
-Does everyone else agree that Angil can make the post about the list of grads?
What order should the posts be in, and who should make each of the other three?
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 3:01 am
Not sure who should do what posts, but I think they should be in the order that Lyra mentioned them.
Aging - maybe Lyra cause form what I can tell she understands it the best.
Housing
Shops
Grad List
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:16 am
I agree they should go in that order. I have no problems whatsoever with Angil doing the Grads List. I agree to that Lyra should do aging. I could do Shops since I will be doing the Inn anyway. Now, we just have to let the Hufflepuff RA maker (Juni) do the Housing Post. Also, I do think that it should be called the Town Hall. We are kind of making this part up as we go along so there are no names that are already available to choose from so, I think it sounds good, makes sense, and is actually really cool.
Love the quotes Angil. I may use one but, I still want to look around a bit more and then I'll choose.
I like the park idea alot but, I think Lyra should make it. It was her idea. If she doesn't mind someone else making it then I don't but, I think it should be up to her. The one question. Are we going to have more then one park? One for every RA. (In real life there are parks in different areas in the same town everywhere [or at least we do in Florida, that may be because of the reserves though, not sure.]) I think it would be cool to have four eventually, but I think that we should start off with one because, of the whole issue of an inactive thread. However, in the future if we do decide to make it that way, we could have it so, that just like the houses you could go anywhere (what I mean to say is, just because your a Gryffindor you don't have to say in Godric's Hollow the whole time). Either way when we make it (if we do) then we need to make a post about the park at the top by Lyra or whoever will make it about what it's suppose to be to be there for (which is obvious to us but, I thought I should mention it anyway), like when a new thread is created in Around Hogwarts, when the Mods used made a new thread, they used Adonis to explain why it's there and what's if for.
And if you followed that all at 9 am your very smart cause now that I'm re-reading it, it doesn't look like that last part makes sense. I'll edit it later if I have to.
{I will be home later tonight so, I will be able to participate more in the conversation.)
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:34 am
Wait, so the park(s) will be part of the RAs? I thought it'd just be its own area. Kinda like how we have the Hogwarts Grounds instead of that random garden in the Forgotten Chamber. That most people forget exists. xp
[[Edit- Awesome quotes! blaugh ]]
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:50 am
I thought the parks were going to be one common thread.
We should definitely start with just one for now I think. And yes, Lyra should make the park I think!
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:54 am
Angilwingz I thought the parks were going to be one common thread.
We should definitely start with just one for now I think. And yes, Lyra should make the park I think!
I agree with Angil. If the RA's are going to be House-specific, the Park will be where all the grads can talk to each other, no matter what House they're in.
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:25 am
Is the park going to be something like the Discussion forums we have or more like strictly role playing area for the every house grad to join in?
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:07 pm
I would probably be like the great hall. Light Roleplaying like in the common rooms and RAs, and the parks allow interhouse mingling
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 7:37 pm
The park should definitely be for all the houses. As Angil said, like the Great Hall. (I'm fine with making the thread.)
At the moment, we don't have a place where the grads can just talk (non-RP), so maybe we could use the park for both RPing and chatting. As normal, put non-RP chat in double square brackets [[ ]]. Would this make it too complicated though?
I agree about who should make which post in the Town Hall. Has Adonis made all the posts he needs to? Can I go reserve one?
I sometimes have issues wording things so that they actually make sense, so I'll post a description of the aging here first before putting it in the Town Hall thread. I also want to make sure that we all still agree about it.
I think we may have originally decided that you age one year per term, but that means that eventually you'll be REALLY old.
Also, does everyone still think that grads should have to live in the inn for a term before moving to their RA? Perhaps the people who graduated ages ago can go straight to the RAs, but those who are only just graduating, like me, must live in the inn for a term. That sound ok?
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:18 pm
Here's what I posted about the aging, housing, and shops a little while ago. I edited a couple things like name of the main thread. Any major editing or questions are in double parentheses (( )).
Some of this stuff may need to be changed. I'll try to update it a bit.Lyra Elizabeth
Threads to create:
Town Hall - welcome, general info, rules
Residential Areas (sticky)
Inn (sticky/normal thread?)
St Mungo’s Hospital (normal thread)
Shops (normal threads)
((I forgot about St Mungo's. Does anyone want to create and run that?))
Town Hall:
Aging:
> You are now a Hogwarts graduate. After one term, you will be 30 years old. You will then age one year per term.
((I think we should maybe change this to just say that after one term you will be 30 years old. ie get rid of the "age one year per term" part.))
> Children:
At the start of each term (once you are 30), you may choose to have a child. After one term, this child will be 11.
He/she will then start at Hogwarts as a first year. They will be in the same house that you were in. Once they graduate, you can no longer have any children (remember that this will be about two RL years after you first graduated). You can choose to RP with either your original character or the newer one (the child; they will age as a new graduate would).
Residential Areas (RA):
> When you first graduate, you do not have a house and so you must live in the inn for one term while you "find" or "build" one. ((The exemption since we are just getting the subforum set up it that perhaps those who graduated ages ago should just move into the RAs.))
If you already have a family home up and running, i.e. if your current character is the "child" of your original graduate, then you may live in your parent's house.
> After one term, you may move to the correct Residential Area. There are four residential areas, one for each Hogwarts house. These are sort of like common rooms, except theoretically each one contains a bunch of houses. How they are organized has mostly been left up to each individual Hogwarts house.
> Gryffindor: Godric’s Hollow
> Ravenclaw: Eagles' Glen
> Hufflepuff: Brock’s Valley
> Slytherin: Salazar's Cove
>Entering another's house:
You must "knock" before entering someone else's house.
However, you can simply RP that someone opens the door (provided they haven't just RPed that they've gone out). You could also send an owl inviting someone to your house or letting them know you will be visiting theirs.
Shops:
> Once you have graduated, you can own your own shop. It can either be a shop from the HP books or one of your own making. All shops will be located in Hogsmeade.
There can only be a maximum of 10 ((are we changing this number?)) shops at any given time, on a first-come, first-serve basis. If a shop is inactive, it will be locked or deleted.
((This originally said: If a shop has less than 5 posts (not just by the owner) in a 3-week period, it will be considered inactive and locked or deleted.))
> No repeats of the same sort of shop.
> Alternatively, you may ask to work in another person's shop if you wish. Just ask the owner if they will "hire" you. Each shop may have one "employee", except the inn which may have two.
Current shops + owners:
1. Inn
2. ___
3. ___
4. [open slot]
etc
((Would everyone still like to keep the change that follows, or not?))
{{For when there are a few shops up and running:
Once you have graduated, you may work in someone else’s shop. Simply ask the shop owner if they will “hire” you (if they agree to, post in the shops application thread). You must work in another shop for one term before you can apply to have your own shop.
Each shop may have one owner and one “employee”. The one exception to this is the inn, which may have 2 employees. (Subject to change to two for all shops if there are many new graduates.)
Once you have completed the above requirement, you may create your own shop if there is a space available.}}
Ideas for shops:
(A good place to look is the HP Lexicon, under either Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley. Please try to make a shop that will get a reasonable amount of RP activity.
Joke shop
Sweet shop
Magical items/instruments shop
Potions shop/Apothecary (potions ingredients)
Miscellaneous/School supplies (quills and parchment, cauldrons, scales)
Animal shop/Vet (owls, cats, rats, toads, etc)
Bookstore: textbooks, interest books, novels)
Clothing store (robes, school robes, quidditch robes, dress robes)
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:04 pm
Alright so the park seems to be taken care of. Which I agree with completely. Using (()) will be fine. We use them all the time, it wont get to complicated.
I think Adonis is done but, we'd have to ask Icee for sure. Lyra you can probabl go and reserve your post, then we have to wait for Jun (or whoever is going to make the Hufflepuff RA), then I will post mine, and finally Angil will. I'll comment on the other stuff in a couple of paragraphs down.
I think again one year per term is WAY to much. Wizards and Witches are suppose to live really long but, not forever. With the possible exception of Nicholas Flammel but, he pasted away a long time ago now and Dumbledore did say that he did destroy the stone so the only other way to live forever would be able to make Horcruxses and I don't think anyone wants to do that but, then again...lol.
I think that those of us that Graduated years ago should probably have their own home by now but, I think it would probably look more uniform and would be more active if we all did it (that is to go threw the Inn). OR we could just say that we already stayed there and set up our Homes, then we could add at least a few places to our lists. So, in the end I would have to say the old Grads should have homes and those of you about to Graduate, like Lyra, should stay in the inn.
One the List of threads that need to be created, the Inn is not listed. I do think everything else is okay except for St. Mungo's. We decided a while ago to make that a regular thread, instead of a sticky. As for who should run it, I'm not sure.
Aging:
I think we should keep that how it is. Otherwise, we may be killing our original characters to soon.
Children:
I agree with what we already have for this.
Living and RA's:
The RA's sounds right to me. I forgot something though so I may have to edit this later.
Shops:
I agree with except I think we should limit it to 7-8 at least for now. We don't want them to be inactive, plus, we can always change that number.
Current Shops:
Sounds good to me.
{{Shops up and running:
I'd like to keep this part.}}
Ideas for Shops:
They all sound good to me.
The only other thing I can think of is that, since some or all of us will be living in the Inn, I do have to make that thread too. Should that be a sticky?
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 12:20 am
@Lyra:
St. Mungos I don't think St. Mungo's needs to be stickied, because the Hospital wing in Hogwarts works fine as another normal thread, I kind of think only the RAs and the park should be stickied, but it would be interesting if in the Hopital wing at Hogwarts, if anyone was hurt too badly, they were sent to St. Mungos for more intensive care.
Aging: I like the idea of ditching the one year per term or year, just let roleplay continue without over complicating it too much.
I think it'd be easier and less confusing to just say they have to wait one term before having a child character, and then at least one term to enroll that child in Hogwarts.
Inn: It's an interesting concept making people move to the Inn for one term, not sure how I feel about it though. confused
Shops: I think we should keep the number of shops a little lower to start since there are very very few grads right now. Maybe set it to 4, and when there are more grads, allow more to be open up? I also since right now there are so few grads dont agree with the shop shutting down too soon. These are good ideas, they just won't work all that well until we have more grads. This forum is going to move very slow at first in my opinion. (Another reason why I'm iffy on making people move into the inn first, it will slow the RA's activity down a lot.) I also think that shops should be able to have more than one employee. I'm thinking 3 or 4...this will also keep the shops from closing prematurely. I want to open a bar for example. So I would be owner, then I'd want a waiter and a bartender, maybe more than one of each. But we want the shops to be active, we don't want them to just die off and then have another one open for it to die, so I definitely think we should be able to have more than one employee.
Ideas for Shops: shops that would have stuff happen. Since the students tend to go to hogwarts with all their things and they shop in diagon alley for them, we should try to keep it hogsmeade style shops I think.
Basically everything you listed but not textbooks and school things. I don't think these shops would be very active because they're really for students, and students will only be able to go to the subforum once in a while. So I don't really think school supplies and quiddich robes would do well. If a shop sold them, it would have to be a book store that sold mostly books for adults and vended the newspaper...and also carried a few student books. But no shops completely centered on students, this is a graduates forum after all.
@Avatar:
I think Adonis's 2 posts are probably enough. But you make a point we have to wait for people anyhow so we can post in order.
Not sure why, but when I read the Inn idea the second time I liked it more. Existing graduates have homes for now, new graduates move to the inn. I like it. This will also keep a flow, after next term, both the inn and the RAs will get new residents.
I agree that we don't want to kill off our original characters too soon, so we shouldn't age too fast. (see above)
I also agree on what we have planned for children.
Again on shops, look at the number we have of grads and ask how many are actually active. I think we only have about a dozen, so I still think we should start with 4 really diverse shops.
The Inn...since people are living in it...it kind of strikes me as having the same function as the golden pear, so I do think this should be stickied.
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