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PLOT CALENDAR: FEBRUARY 2020
KEY
For the first two hours, each player can take one slot. After that time has 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.
Emoji Guide:
And now, the weather:
Emoji Guide:
🎂: birthday
🌟: player event
🎉: ic/ooc
📚: group project
🐙: animagus!
🔮: divination slot
🔢: arithmancy slot
🎓: specialized study
💯: point gain/loss
👀: stay tuned
And now, the weather:
☀️: sunny
⛅: cloudy
🌀: severe storm
☂️: rain
❄️: snow
🌁: fog
🍃: windy
FEBRUARY
01
SAT
☀
🌁
- Wildgulchers may have some trouble navigating their caverns today as Dr. Ranui has completely disassembled the photopiano for servicing. Parts are strewn all over the cave, and he politely refuses any offers of assistance. This is delicate work and it's going to take a while. He at least has most of the parts cleaned up and neatly stacked in a corner by the end of the night, but the photopiano is Out of Order for the foreseeable future.
- 💯 Losing 5 Points for being late to class today isn't such a big deal to Echo Ellerby, who stopped on their way to Central Classrooms this morning when they spotted a forlorn muscheron sitting alone on a rock. The language barrier made it a bit difficult to figure out what was the matter, but it seems the poor fellow is lovesick over another member of his tribe. Maybe this toadstool fairy needs a wingman?
- [STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS] receive a start during their meeting today. While hunting for stored dance decorations from last years winter semi-formal, the lights go out in the meeting room. There's a crash and a scrape and skittering before the lights come back up. When the lights come back up, Student Council members are met with a mess of decorations from events past, and several decorations, including a bubble machine, are missing.
04
TUES
☀️
It's Tetrazzini Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
- 👀 Desperate for love? Seeking your heart's desire? Maybe you just want a date to the dance? Adrian Gildersleeves has an arithmancy-artificing project set up in the Cafeteria today and it promises to make you a match! Fill out a test card and let the magic of algorithms tell you who should be your Valentine this year.
05
WED
❄️
- 📚 GROUP PROJECT!: Students in Symbology are going to be solving puzzle boxes together this week! Please check the comments below for your group assignments!
- This morning, when Gemma Zhao opens their locker a cloud of pink glitter and red paper hearts explodes in their face. It seems a freshman admirer thought this was a very romantic gesture. They're still picking glitter out of their hair at dinner.
06
THURS
☀️
- A letter falls out of Cicero Cook's bag on the way to class today. Aristotle Ahn manages to nab it and catch up with them, handing it off. How polite! Of course, the contents of the letter appear to be an anonymous love note, and Cicero mistakes Aris for the author.
- While trying to study in the library, Willow Quackenbush spots something odd: a muscheron is seated on one of the tables poring over a book that's twice its size! The little toadstool fairy has quite a collection of romance help books including a title called: Easy Love Magic for Young Witches. Mr. Zahidi even brings the muscheron another couple of books to look through.
07
FRI
☀️
❄️
- 👀 Students across all years have been deconstructing different aspects of the Cantis charm in Hermeticism this week. Gertrude McGilliguddy and Kermit Creekmore are working together in the cafeteria during lunch when their experimenting goes explosively wrong. Once the smoke clears, the two suddenly burst into an impressive unchoreographed duet, and they aren't the only ones singing...
- A Musical Curse has swept through Peckenpaugh and no one is safe! Well, no one but a handful of freshmen, who somehow managed to dodge the effects, and they've taken it upon themselves to rate the school's performances. As if bursting into song weren't bad enough, the lyrics of these improvised tunes come straight from the heart: singers may find that their words reflect true feelings rather than what they'd like to say.
[UP TO FOUR CHARACTERS PER PLAYER] may be affected by this curse, but you can only participate in the contest portion with two of your characters. Sign up below with a partner and on Curse Day we will assign you a prompt including genre of your song. In participating threads, up to 4 replies each will receive a score, and the team with the highest score will be crowned the winners.
- A Musical Curse has swept through Peckenpaugh and no one is safe! Well, no one but a handful of freshmen, who somehow managed to dodge the effects, and they've taken it upon themselves to rate the school's performances. As if bursting into song weren't bad enough, the lyrics of these improvised tunes come straight from the heart: singers may find that their words reflect true feelings rather than what they'd like to say.
08
SAT
❄️
- 🔮 Dr. Ranui is back at it again at Wildgulch, and this time there's a bit of a ruckus. While he, himself, is making a great deal of noise moving heavy metal parts around, what draws a crowd is the shrill cry of a cicada that pierces the afternoon calm drawing students from the dorm. Dr. Ranui holds a cicada stone in his hand, staring at it curiously as it screams. He doesn't seem to hear the sound, or notice the way it writhes in his fingers. With a shrug, he tosses the stone over his shoulder and into the hot springs.
The water begins to bubble and suddenly that stone floats to the surface with its wings spread and flapping. Dr. Ranui watches with a furrowed brow as Viola Warbeck tries to go after the shell, but they're intercepted by a chain of Muscheron that drop down from above. As well choreographed as oompa-loompas, the toadstool fairies snatch the cicada shell up and ascend, disappearing across the snowy hillside.
"Well that was certainly odd!" Dr. Ranui remarks before returning to his work on the photopiano. If pressed, he has no idea what students are talking about, and seems particularly resistant to believing anything about a stone that looks like a cicada's shell.
09
SUN
☀️
🌕 SNOW MOON TONIGHT!
- While not technically a supermoon, February's full moon -- the fourth largest of 2020 -- is still pretty darned impressive, and Mr. Hobgood's never going to waste an opportunity to have an Astronomy party! If you're not still mortified from that musical curse, head on up to the Astronomy Silo this evening for fancy moon-themed foods and fun.
- Zadie Lovelace manages to take home one extra large moon pie all to themselves for getting the most quiz answers correct.
- 💯 On the other hand [CHARACTER J] makes one too many joke answers and winds up losing 5 Points for their House.
10
MON
☂️
❄️
🎉 SPRING PLAY TRYOUTS ARE TODAY!
- 🎓 Animagus Studies & O&L are meeting this week!
- Students in Occlumency & Legilimency diverge a bit from the standard lesson plan this month. Rather than simply focusing on mind reading, they spend the class learning how to identify various mind altering potions (like Amortentia) simply by sight and smell. Most O&L students are leaving Mr. Purcell's classroom with a headache, but at least today it's because all those love potions are so damn heady smelling, and not because their minds were taxed.
- Five different freshmen try to invite Presley Mondragon to the winter formal today. The last invite comes while they're hiding in a bathroom stall from the previous (very overzealous) suitor.
11
TUES
☂️
It's Tongue Tuesday! in the cafeteria today. Your guess is as good as mine!
- 🐙 Animagus Studies students are really making headway! Armani Addams, Merlin Pletcher and Pax Sweetapple are feeling the fur this week!
- At any point from today forward at your own discretion, the above named characters may achieve their Animagus transformations. It is up to you to decide when that is!
- It's the official start of the NASBROOM season today and Mary Grace O'Malley is hosting a listening party at Wildgulch!
12
WED
❄️
☂️
🍃
- It's a miserable day today and Imogen Rainwater decides to skip Outdoor Magic to head into town and get something from the Gastrognome. When they arrive, they find Mr. Youngblood already there. He waves. Looks like he had the same idea and left Valkyrie Horvat in charge, again. What's the lesson plan, Val?
- 📚 GROUP PROJECT DUE!: Symbology Puzzleboxes
- As if the student body hasn't had enough of Valentine's strangeness, today during lunch the cafeteria fills with soft pink bubbles of various sizes, each in the shape of a heart. Popping the bubbles proves problematic: they impart a giddy feeling on anyone nearby, filling them with joy and energy. Skip Rider gets so caught up in the feeling that they grab Mia Samaniego and kiss them full on the lips!
15
SAT
❄️
🎂 Happy Birthday, Armani & Chanel Addams!
- Leftover Valentine's themed cookies are basically a penny a pop at the Gastrognome today!
17
MON
❄️
- President's Day. No classes!
- 🔮 While strolling through the Western Quarter, Fiona Moon happens upon Pocket, rooting around in the hollow of a large tree looking for something. They seem to catch her offguard. She's strangely evasive about what she's looking for and declines any offer of help, then wishes Fiona a good day before disappearing into the mud.
18
TUES
❄️
It's Truffle Mac Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
- Winifred Adler gets stopped by a freshman on their way to the cafeteria, and he looks like he's up to something. "I hear you upperclassmen been hankerin' for the good stuff," he hisses, furtively glancing around before producing a bag of lumpy tater tots from his jacket pocket. "I got your back if you can pony up." He shrugs. "Or I guess you can eat tongue again."
🎂 Happy Birthday, Maisy Morgenstern!
- 👀 Dr. Huang got stuck in some gnarly magitraffic on his way to work, so Divination students have a substitute! And she looks awfully familiar to a few students...
- 🔢 Unable to get to sleep, Maisy Morgenstern steps outside for a breath of fresh air to clear their head. While doing a lap around the island, they spot two people speaking by the boathouse. Something about one of the two speakers fills them with ill ease, but against that gut feeling they sneak closer for a better look. One of the two is Pocket for sure, her mannerisms as unmistakable as her wings glittering in the moonlight. The other — the one who fills them with dread — is a young woman Maisy does not recognize. Just when they're close enough to hear the discussion, they slip on the pebbled shore. Startled, the young woman flares strange shadowy appendages that hadn't been there a moment before, then skitters away less like a human and more like a spider. Just as spooked, Pocket disappears beneath the soil, and Maisy is left alone in the dark.
20
THURS
☀️
- Claudia Vega is hosting a Hermeticism workshop down on the Quidditch pitch, and all Hermeticism students are invited! There will be snacks, extra credit, and the opportunity to "accidentally" explode your worst Christmas present all in the name of academic advancement.
21
FRI
☀️
- Holland Graves eats dirt in the woods near Thorntrail when they trip over a crumpled cardboard box in the middle of the trail. With no one around to claim it, they pop open the top to find a note: 'Decoration for your dance. No one wanted it.' Sure enough, the whole box is filled with balloons and banners and streamers and centerpieces and more, all in Peckenpaugh Homecoming colors. Which is great, but maybe a little late.
23
SUN
⛅
❄️
🎂 Happy Birthday, Zadie Lovelace!
- It's a lazy Sunday afternoon, and Edgar Waxweiler is taking a midday nap back in their dorm when they're jolted awake by the sound of something heavy (and fragile) crashing to the ground. They spot the spiky green culprit on top of a dresser, and Zero Sugar Pepsi looks Eddy directly in the eye as she pushes a drinking glass right over the edge, then settles down for her own nap.
- 🎓 Arithmancy, Alchemy & Current Events are meeting this week!
- In Arithmancy, students spent the class period dissecting the Cantis Charm that caused the curse earlier this month, tracking down exactly what had caused such far reaching repercussions. Thankfully, with Ms. Altizer supervising in such a controlled environment, students only leave the classroom today with a song stuck in their head...for the next three days.
- Alchemy students study the various types of love potions, learning that the reason so few are effective is because they require a certain amount of obsession from the maker to be truly effective. Mass produced, they're impotent, 'made with love' weakens the effectiveness, too. For a second, it looks like Berzelius is going to launch into an impassioned speech about love versus infatuation, and then he snorts and says, "Naw, I'm just fuckin' with you guys. Don't brew Amortentia."
- 📚 GROUP PROJECT!: Raise A Baby!
- Students are going to learn
the consequences of romancethe joys and responsibilities of parenthood! - This Group Project is a mandatory assignment for all Home Mag-Ec students, but is open to all characters, as well. Students can have voluntarily signed up to receive extra credit in multiple classes, or a teacher might've recommended your character(s) for this "responsibility building exercise" if it's not their cup of tea.
A sign up post will be made available in early February! We will be RNGing parent pairs.
- Students are going to learn
It's Tomato, Okra & Shrimp Gumbo Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
HAPPY MARDI GRAS!
HAPPY MARDI GRAS!
- Home Mag-Ec Students and Culinary Club members are teaming up with kids from Elflock Local today to cook for a town-wide charity dinner tonight. Kids are excused from class to get their cook on, and with a bunch of middle schoolers helping, Mr. Potkin is no longer the least experienced chef in the kitchen! It's delightful mayhem, and once the food's done, everyone is invited. Locals pony up 2 Dragots per plate (1 dragot for students!) to get Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday dishes ranging from dragon's breath gumbo to super puffy pancakes.
- There are, of course, paczki and king cake to be had at the end of the meal. Wyatt Webberley winds up finding the baby in their slice of king cake. Thankfully, they don't choke on it — it is a sign of good luck, after all! Instead, Mr. Potkin brings them a lovely crown he's made to look like it was fashioned from hot sugar. You're royalty for the night Wyatt!
26
WED
☀️
- Looks like someone vandalized Aesthetic Magic's mural at the Zippy Dip, wizspraypainting variations on the phrase "GET POOPED PECKERPAW" all over their hard work. But the indefatigable Mr. Potkin is already rallying the troops to undo the damage, so come on down and lend a hand! Willow Quackenbush is so enthusiastic about helping that they put a little too much gusto into that cleaning charm and strip off several more layers than they meant to. Whoops! They went to far they can see a corner of the old mural peeking out, and if they look closely, they can just about make out the original artist's signature. Does that say... P. Potkin.
27
THURS
☀️
- Tybalt Zettler has had a pounding headache all day, and none of Healer Greatheart's potions or poultices can even touch it. Tired and irritable, Tibbles keeps trying to slip away from the infirmary to go about their day, but every time they think they've found peace and quiet it's interrupted by a piercing, tuneless whistle from somewhere up above...
- In Current Events, Ms. Dorkins presents students with a slew of articles reporting upticks in "unnatural magic" — magical phenomena that have no human or known magical being origin — since the new year. Almost all of it is tabloid fodder, but still the number of stories from across the nation is impressive. Her question: why might WizAmerica be placing such a growing focus in something like this?
28
FRI
❄️
- 🔢 Ian Fitzpatrick finds a destroyed journal half-buried in the snow in the Northern Quarter. Not like the ones the students use, no. This one is made from recycled paper and has been nearly torn to shreds. Most of the ink is smeared from what seems to have been many days spent lying in the rain and snow, and what isn't soaked is crusted over with lichen. There is one page that isn't wholly ruined: a picture of a vine and the words "thrives in fire" written just beneath. Along with the ruined book is a stone cicada's shell.
29
SAT
☀️
🎉 LEAP DAY FESTIVAL IN ELFLOCK FALLS!
🎂 Happy Birthday, Cedar, Hawthorne & Willow Quackenbush!
🎂 Happy Birthday, Cedar, Hawthorne & Willow Quackenbush!
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