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PLOT CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 2019
KEY
For the first twenty-four hours, each player can take one slot. After the first twenty-four hours have elapsed, you may take one more slot per character. (Click here for times.) Some slots may be [pink], [blue], [brown] or [green]. Players may take only one color-coded slot per month, and the following month you will not be able to take a slot of the same color.
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And now, the weather:
Emoji Guide:
🎂: birthday
🌟: player event
🎉: ic/ooc
📚: group project
🔮: divination slot
🎓: specialized study
💯: point gain/loss
👀: stay tuned
And now, the weather:
☀️: sunny
⛅: cloudy
🌀: severe storm
☂️: rain
❄️: snow
🌁: fog
🍃: windy
NOVEMBER
01
FRI
🌁
☂️
- 👀 There's an assembly this morning...
- After the assembly, Maisy Morgenstern overhears a hushed but heated conversation behind a closed classroom door. Oddly, it sounds one-sided. Like a telephone conversation, maybe? Ms. Kwan's voice is recognizable behind the door: "No, no, no... can't take that away from... ... ... ... she won't... doesn't seem to... ... ... taking... ... everyone else...." "I don't know... ... ... better ... ..." "Is ... really even necessary? ... ... ... ... ... ... students, is ...?" "Not like that! I mean..." "Of course I believe you!" The volume rises and then the conversation abruptly stops. The silence that follows is almost deafening. Magically so. Now's probably a good time to scram, Maisy.
- By the steel gray banners popping up in the lawns of Elflock Falls's richest residents, it's safe to say that Malstrom Academy's homecoming dance is next weekend. If that weren't enough of a hint, one Malstromer has decided to make shopping at the Dis 'n' Dat difficult (to the immense displeasure of Dis 'n' Dat employees) by staging an aisle cloggingly elaborate hocomposal.
- Whether they were trying to cause trouble or just trying to get to the dang cookie aisle, honest, Constanza Wolff ruins the whole production when they knock over a sidestack of Extremely Bouncy Balls that causes the proposer to trip and fall. Looks like you may have earned yourself an arch-nemesis, Constanza.
- If Wyatt Webberley doesn't remember his sickly friend the Bowtruckle from the beginning of the school year, he's about to get a reminder. His boss, Dr. Kraus, sends him back to campus today with a delivery for Ms. Treetops: fungicidal medication for the little dude. Upon delivery, he learns that the Bowtruckle is doing quite well and has taken up residence in the gardens on the east quarter. Ms. Treetops thanks Wyatt for the delivery, and mentions offhandedly that no one is quite sure what the infection was. Odd...
04
MON
🍃
❄️
🎂 Happy Birthday, Presley Mondragon!
The first snow flurries of the year fall! The forest feels quiet today.
The first snow flurries of the year fall! The forest feels quiet today.
- This week, Symbology students of all years are learning how to apply sigils and glyphs via needlepoint. It's craft time, ya'll! Be sure to use a thimble. Mr. Stirling is surprisingly deft at stitching up beautiful magical designs while not emoting at all.
- Somewhere around midday, Mr. Qualls launches into a Muggle Tech Studies lecture about VHS tapes. This already somewhat useless examination of deprecated technology is rendered even more impenetrable (and painful) when Mr. Qualls's voice abruptly becomes the sound of a modem connecting, dial tone, screech and everything. Students are made to suffer for several minutes before, once again, it's long-suffering Muggle Studies TA Lionel Lovelace to the rescue. When Mr. Qualls gets like this, there's only one way to fix him — blow in his ear like he's a nintendo game cartridge...
It's Tom Yum Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
- 🎓 Animagus Studies and Alchemy are meeting this week.
- 📚 GROUP PROJECT!: Students in Alchemy & Animagus Studies are being paired up this month as meditation buddies. For the rest of November, you and your pal are expected to spend five non-sleeping hours a week meditating. Please check the comments below to see who you'll be meditating with, and good luck, buddy.
- 🔮 That nightmarish spirit stick proves a bit too buggy. Gertrude McGilliguddy gets their hands on it, intent on pranking a freshman, but instead find they've played themself! The spirit stick backfires and Trudy is cursed into a glitchy mess of changing colors for the rest of the day. Eventually Mr. Purcell helps to undo it, though not until early evening, because he's not just going drop everything for one silly prankster.
🎉 ELFLOCK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE!
- It seems Doug Bobson, CEO of WizBiz, Inc. still has his uses. Felicity
DeverillBobson takes the cut out of the CEO down to Elflock Liquor to try and rustle up some alcohol. In fact, it works surprisingly well! Felicity manages to buy whatever they want, and while Zed doesn't look up from his copy of My Haunted Blender's Gay Love Affair, he does say, "Oh, hey Doug." - Chanel Addams accidentally sticks themself while working a Muffliato Charm glyph into their cross-stitch. They leave class with a loud buzzing in their ears, and can't hear anything. Mr. Stirling advises they head to see Healer Greatheart, but if a smelly salve is unappealling, the effect will probably wear off by morning.
07
THURS
🍃
⛅
- 📚 GROUP PROJECT!: Sophomores in Charms are reviewing Cosmetic Charms. Please check the comments below to see your group assignments!
- Mr. Purcell catches up to his TA, Bijou Pascal, and tells her he has a job for her, which he expects her to prioritize to show how serious she is about his classes. What could this urgent matter possibly be?
Oh, just Queen Guinevere's birthday. Mr. Purcell drops three hefty notebooks into Bijou's arms and tells her that Queen G will be expecting a birthday party this next Friday the 15th. The notebooks are filled with lists of dietary restrictions, preferred themes, and approved and unapproved guests. There are a lot of notes on the guests. Apparently the Queen is very selective about who gets to attend her 18th birthday party. - 👀 Mr. Qualls had a bit of difficulty in the computer lab today...
08
FRI
☀️
- On the hunt for a few extra dragots, Wyatt Webberley lands a job squonksitting for Mrs. Voorhees and her sweet baby "pot bellied pig" Porkchop this evening. What follows is a heartwarming night spent bonding with sweet, sensitive Porkchop. Just kidding, it's a nightmare evening of endless crying, sweat and smelly squonk juice. Wyatt's sneakers will never be the same, but Mrs. Voorhees did pay them 24 Dragots (~120USD) for the night when she got back from her hot date with Mr. Willis. Damn.
- 🌟 Valkyrie Horvat held a quodpot meditation session today...>
09
SAT
☀️
🎉 QUODPOT GAME: vs Twin Peaks @ Peckenpaugh
- Students from Twin Peaks in Northern California make the trip out to Peckenpaugh to try their luck potting some quods. GO CRITTERS!
10
SUN
🍃
⛅
- Student Council is hosting a community service opportunity for all students today, prepping the Community Gardens for winter. Holland Graves somehow manage to land on Mr. Swint's good side as he supervises the mulching of his mandrakes. He gifts them with a Beautification Potion, saying, "I'm sure you'll get a lot of use out of this." Wow, rude.
- 🔮 Late, late tonight, Zadie Lovelace is stirred from sleep by a faint tapping at their dorm room window. Is that the party bug? Or someone throwing pebbles? They get up to check, pushing the window open and welcoming in a strangely warm breeze, but even holding their lit wand out to get a better look, they find nothing unusual. In the morning, a nagging feeling has them checking their window again. A vine with large purple blooms has grown around the window sill.
11
MON
☀️
- Tybalt Zettler and Anthony De Witt learn the hard way why you're not supposed to throw quods indoors. While horsing around in the main hall between classes, their ball careens off course and takes down the Quodpot Championship Trophy from 1997, cracking it right in two. Their attempts at repairing the trophy all wind up unconvincing (and, at one point, borderline inappropriate), until they're saved by Ms. Min, who not only helps repair the damage, but admits that she, herself, was the one who broke the trophy in the exact same spot back in 2003.
Well, her and an old friend. - 💯 Mercury's entire transit across the Sun is visible today! Mr. Hobgood is hosting a viewing party open to all students. Snacks, again, are available, and this time Mr. Hobgood holds a little quiz game about Greek and Roman mythology. [CHARACTER K] manages to net 10 Points for their House when they know the answer to a particularly tough question about the Eleusinian Mysteries.
12
TUES
🍃
⛅
🌕 BEAVER MOON TONIGHT
It's Toad in the Hole Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
🎉 BBQ & HOTSPRING PARTY FOR WILDGULCH
It's Toad in the Hole Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
🎉 BBQ & HOTSPRING PARTY FOR WILDGULCH
- Wildgulch took home the spirit stick and the win at the last pep rally, and today's the day of their party. It may be cold outside, but its roasty-toasty in Wildgulch's hobbit hole, where Dr. Ranui mans the grill while student attendees enjoy the warmth of the hot springs.
- Mr. Crockett is unusually energetic all day, and it's with an overabundance of pep that he bounces into Creative Writing Club that evening and encourages a timid freshman to read their multichapter Secrets of the Sultry Skeletons fanfiction aloud to the whole club. Oh! And why don't you help them act it out, Fiona Moon?
The fanfiction in question rivals My Immortal in quality, and no one in the circle claps harder than Mr. Crockett himself when they finish.
13
WED
☀️
❄️
- Cryptozoology & Magizoology students are studying natural defenses this week, and Mr. Trullinger asks a cryptonaturalist friend to bring in a tripodero they've been fostering to show off the creature's unique defense mechanisms. Phil the Tripodero's speed and telescoping legs are impressive, but he's deadly accurate with the little clay pellets he shoots from his snout. C&M Students learn the hard way that Phil is a crack shot with those little pellets, beaning several students in the chest and butt. It's a good thing Mr. Trullinger made you guys put on protective gear!
- Today's freshman Divination class is studying Alphitomancy, divining guilt via barley bread. After Dr. Huang very politely declines, they insist TA Audrey Poke have a piece to try the method out. Unfortunately for Audrey, a subsequent rumble of her stomach convinces the freshman diviners that SHE is the pudding thief! Hopefully she won't mind being leered at suspiciously for the foreseeable future.
14
THURS
🍃
⛅
- 📚 GROUP PROJECT DUE!: The Glamor Charm project is due for Sophomores today.
- It's Slam Poetry Night at the Gastrognome! Come down and check out the lyrical stylings of Elflock's locals! The event is open mic, so anyone can participate. Madam Beridze promises a Tart of Darkness and a cup of Cold Brew Over the Cuckoo's Nest coffee to anyone who gets up to perform.
- Viola Warbeck is just trying to make it to the restroom when they get shuffled onto the stage. In a fit of panic, genius, or both, they decide to passionately recite the nutritional info on their Granola K. Le Guin bar. And it crushes.
- [CHARACTER N] actually was prepared to perform, but when their mind blanks under the spotlight, Madam Beridze has to save them by casually coughing out their lines from across the café.
15
FRI
🍃
⛅
🎂 Happy Birthday, Valkyrie Horvat (& Queen Guin)!
- The lights are out in Central Classroom's second floor girl's restroom when Freya Norris steps in. They get the fright of a lifetime when they glance in the mirror and see not just the creepy single filing cabinet but a load of boxes and someone pulling a large cardboard box through the mirror. The silhouetted figure seems panicked to see Freya, too, and they shove the box in their hands back out the mirror as a distraction while they flee through some unseen escape on the mirror-side. To Freya's great surprise, the large, heavy box pops right through the mirror with a wet smacking noise, slides off the sink and lands with a heavy thump on the floor. The top pops open, and a banner reading "PECKENPAUGH HOMECOMING 2019" unfurls across the bathroom tiles.
If Freya examines the mirror, they'll find it's completely solid again.
18
MON
⛅
☂️
- Starting this week, Aesthetic Magic students will be planning and executing a mural on the Main Street wall of the Zippy Dip. Not a painter? Not a problem! Mr. Potkin encourages students to think outside the box of traditional murals. Make it three-dimensional! Make it sing! They're free to do whatever they want with this canvas, for better or for worse.
- Statue-turned-insult comic Yalldive Peckenpaugh still has a little fire left in her after Malstrom's last prank, and she's in fine form today. She ruins Magnolia d'Aguillon's morning when she calls them a snaggletoothed humgruffin on their way to breakfast (a what?). Mr. Lukashenko, on the other hand, doesn't break his stride when she calls him a pudding-faced nincompoop, and he simply sticks a paper bag over her head to shut her up.
It's Tiramisu Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
🎂 Happy Birthday, Ian Fitzpatrick!
🎂 Happy Birthday, Ian Fitzpatrick!
- 🎓 O&, Arithmancy & Current Events are meeting this week.
- Occlumency & Legilimency students may be particularly exhausted this week. Both sessions are focused on guarding precious memories from being altered. It's daunting work, and Mr. Purcell is uncommonly kind and engaged with his O&L students after, knowing how draining such magic can be.
- This week, Ms. Altizer introduces her Arithmancy students to the first half of a predictive equation that should allow them to divine future events. She anticipates her most successful arithmancers may be seeing the future as early as next month.
- This week Current Events students learn that there's a surprising amount of hubbub in the news about those invasive ents that sent the woods surrounding Peckenpaugh into a tizzy last month. It seems they've been pushed off Peckenpaugh's land, but still remain on the very edge much to the chagrin of local magical creatures. BoMB's diplomatic efforts are not going so well, and just about everyone on the wireless has an opinion about it.
- Ian Fitzpatrick's trip into town today takes them past the streetlight known locally as the Shoe Chandelier — where Malstrom kids like to throw the sneakers of Peckenpoos and Elflock Local students — when a strong gust of wind dislodges a pair that hits them right on the head! OUCH! These size 11 pink converse are still in amazingly decent shape despite appearing very old. There are a bunch of thumbtacks pushed into the heels, and L.Q. written on the inside of the tongue. Hm...
20
WED
☀️
- 👀 Get your Boogie Bots ready, Magirobotics Club, we're having a Dance Off tonight!
- On their way back to their dorm this evening Edgar Waxweiler happens to glance up to find a cloud of starlings dancing back and forth in the sky. The murmuration is oddly soothing, and the longer Eddy stares, the harder it is for them to look away, lost in the fluid patterns of the flock. The birds seem to hum. Or, not hum, they vibrate like electricity buzzing between Eddy's ears until it starts to make sense... Walk north. Into the hills. Find the seam—
Suddenly, something else is buzzing in Eddy's ear. "Heeeeeyyyyy, I'm SO totally bored. Let's go listen to some MUSIC!" It's Pocket, and she desperately wants to hang out. When Eddy looks skyward again, the birds are gone, and Pocket's buzzing off toward their dorm. "So, like, are you coming to my parteeeee this weekend?"
21
THURS
☀️
- 🔮 Mr. Potkin and Uriah Hatfield head into town to get the Zippy Dip's wall prepped for the incoming mural. As they're power-washing, some of that old hot pink paint starts to flake off. The more they clean, the more they find that whatever's beneath the top layer isn't just more garish paint job.
"Huh," Mr. Potkin says, peeling back some of the outer coat to reveal remnants of a much larger painting. An old mural. "Zippy didn't say anything about this."
They pick off just enough paint to reveal fragments of the letters LS & PA and a patch of trees before Zippy comes out, bearing milkshakes for the two of them. When he sees the scrap of the old mural, his face falls. "Paint over that," he says, uncharacteristically terse. "I don't want to see it."
22
FRI
🍃
☂️
🎉 POCKET IS THROWING A PARTY!
- The rain is pouring ceaselessly, so you know what that means! The time has finally come for Pocket's first big blow out of the year. Whatever she has in store for the students of Peckenpaugh, one thing's for sure: it won't be a pony party. Maybe she'll pick your suggestion for her party theme!
- There will be games of Spin the Bottle and Seven Minutes in Heaven at Pocket's party, with other (non-sign up) games potentially played as well. Head to the comments to SIGN UP.
23
SAT
☂️
- Appalachian History Club is looking through a box of old maps found in the Central Classrooms basement in search of interesting local sites. Valkyrie Horvat find a map dated to the mid-1980s depicting a muggle byway cutting very close to Elflock Falls. Ink has been spilled (or scribbled?) over most of the upper left quarter of the map, obscuring whatever it is that road leads to.
- While out and about on campus today Armani Addams spots something black and glinting in the dirt. They go to investigate, reach down to grab whatever it is, but find that someone else is there to snatch it up, quick, almost hurried. It's Bub, the groundskeeper. He hadn't been there the moment before, but that part isn't particularly unusual. Armani catches a glimpse of the glinting thing as Bub stuffs it in his pocket — it looks like the shell of a bug. The groundskeeper offers a friendly smile and a deep nod before heading off on his way, also not unusual, but there's something a little apologetic about it.
25
MON
🍃
⛅
- It's near midnight when Skip Rider's Wireless sparks to life. It's all white noise at first, but then it starts flipping rapidly through stations, picking up snippets of dialogue between bursts of static and dead air. "North... South... East... West..." the disjointed voices say. "North... South... East... West." Over and over, again and again.
It takes several minutes of fiddling with dials and violent problem-solving before the Wireless goes quiet, at which point it refuses to turn back on. Welp.
26
TUES
🌁
⛅
It's Tabbouleh Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
🎉 HIDE & SEEK @ THORNTRAIL!
🎉 HIDE & SEEK @ THORNTRAIL!
- 👀 While squeezing into the absolute perfect hiding spot, one student finds that someone has already claimed this area... along with a whole pile of that missing pudding.
27
WED
❄️
- While many students are headed home for the long weekend after classes, those sticking around can get themselves a free pumpkin soda float at the Zippy Dip today, toppings included. Just try to take it easy on how many toppings you take.
- The light dusting of snow today collects about a centimeter. It's a pretty little send off for Peckenpaugh students, and it melts by midnight as the temperature climbs back up above freezing.
🎂 Happy Birthday, Pax Sweetapple!
Thanksgiving Day! No classes.
Thanksgiving Day! No classes.
- There's a Thanksgiving dinner feast on campus tonight for those students who didn't go home. Some of the faculty is also in attendance, but not Mr. Zahidi. [CHARACTER W] finds out why when they drop into the library after dinner and find him sitting at a table across from Timotheye, engaged in a heated (and technically one-sided) argument about Warrior Cats.
He stops when he sees [CHARACTER W], and it's an awkward stand-off until one of them leaves.
29
FRI
☀️
- No classes today!
- Students still in the area can wake up early to get some killer sales in town! The annual Pompel & Swint price war means bargain basement prices on top shelf potions, and Joshua Strauss stocks up on enough hangover cures to start their own business.
- 🌟 The annual Morgenstern Family Swap Meet is today!
30
SAT
☀️
- Passing through the Central Green, Winifred Adler gets waved down by a Muscheron, baring the [small object] they thought they lost weeks ago.
"Thankzz lon'tzit, human spore," it calls up to Fred, and holds a tiny hand out for a handshake.
(frozen comment) SOPHOMORES in CHARMS: Cosmetic Charms!
Cosmetic Charms may not seem like a terribly important branch of magic to everyone, but they're a good introduction to charms that alter or enhance a target's outward appearance without changing its underlying state. It's sort of like pseudo-Transfiguration, or people who know how to contour.
Working in groups of two to three, sophomores in Charms will be demonstrating their understanding of this skill by mastering an assigned Cosmetic Charm, as well as with a 600-word essay on the concept. The students will be presenting their charm to the class, so they should pick one student to be the presenter and one to be the model for a (hopefully) successful charm.
Assignments:
GROUP A is: Bijou, Gideon, Scarlett
GROUP B is: Skip, Willow
GROUP C is: Cedar, Hawthorne