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PLOT CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER 2019
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Happy First Pcal!! For the first two hours, each player can take one slot. After the first two 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:
๐: birthday
๐: player event
๐: ic/ooc
๐: group project
๐ฎ: divination slot
๐: specialized study
๐ฏ: point gain/loss
And now, the weather:
โ๏ธ: sunny
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: cloudy
๐: severe storm
โ๏ธ: rain
โ๏ธ: snow
๐: fog
๐: windy
SEPTEMBER
01
SUN
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๐ MOVE-IN DAY!
- Welcome to Peckenpaugh! It's a busy, blustery day as students battle big winds to get themselves moved in to campus. The Yeehawls all arrive by 1PM, but students trickle in throughout the early afternoon. Regardless of when they arrive, the kids are given free rein of Elflock Falls and campus until the evening. Once you're done unpacking your stuff, why not hit the town, or maybe fly a kite? It's certainly windy enough.
- NOTICE!! A charmware update to the journal systems has left them a bit buggy! Sophomores can't access the journals at all and Freshmen seem to be on their own "channel" independent of everyone else. Wonder what else is wrong...
- From 8AM to 2PM, Gertrude McGilliguddy is only able to access the Freshmen channel, and what they find is disturbing enough to make them put their journal away until it's fixed by 2.
- Within three hours, Jupiter Quigley nets a detention for shouting 'Eat my entire ass, Wyborn' at Mr. Youngblood. Jupiter smugly believes she's earned the first detention of the year, but the title actually goes to Edgar Waxweiler for getting in a squabble with some Malstrom Academy kids an hour earlier. See you two in detention!
- That evening, everyone gathers in the auditorium for convocation. There's a brief but enthusiastic welcome from Administrator Kwan. Then, over a dinner of grilled goodies, students watch as freshmen and new transfers are sorted into their respective houses.
02
MON
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- Happy Monday! Today is orientation for new students and freshmen. Upperclassmen volunteers are tasked with showing new students around, and Club Presidents and TAs are encouraged to introduce themselves to their classmates.
- Anthony De Witt is leading some lost freshmen back to central campus from Thorntrail when they're almost attacked by a rampaging bear! Oh, wait, no. It's just Bearigold, and she bowls over two freshmen before getting that scritch behind her ear she so badly needed.
- The Moody Muscheron have cultivated a welcome back message in fungus for kids in the grass outside the central classroom. The note, which reads 'HฦLLO AGAIN HUMAN SPORฦS' is certainly nice, but maybe not for Coriander Picquery, who winds up in the infirmary with an allergic reaction.
- Mary Grace O'Malley and Oliver Goodliffe are organizing a little shindig to welcome everyone back to school, which means it's time for a trip to the old Elflock Liquor. Want something fancy? Better fork over some dough and make sure they know by dinner! Oliver's fake mustache might have been a little overkill, though; Zed's too engrossed in the story of Bigfoot Big Heart to even glance at his fake ID when they go to checkout. Seems like a good day to score some booze!
03
TUES
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It's Taco Tuesday! in the cafeteria.
- Journals still seem to be on the fritz. Throughout the day, strange comments from unknown sources show up in entries. Mr. Stirling assures concerned students that it's just freshmen and sophomore writers glitching into the main journal channel as he's trying to fix things.
04
WED
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Classes Start Today!
- It's another breezy day, and students may find it obnoxiously impossible to hang onto things like loose papers or fashionable accessories. It's almost like the valley wants you to be late to class!
- Today, teachers turn a blind eye to the annual Deeplurk tradition of trying to paddle as close to Elflock Falls as humanly possible in row boats and without magic.
- Ms. Gunzenhauser doesn't even bat an eye at Freya Norris when they walk into central classrooms sopping wet after their boat capsized.
- Imogen Rainwater and Elijah Rainwater rowing together manage to get the closest before the magic ejects them from its radius, sending them scooting across the surface of the water like a skipping stone. They don't stop until they reach the shore.
05
THURS
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- It's the first day of Freshmen Potions today. You know what that means! It's time for Mr. Berzelius's annual "Oh no! I've spilled acid on myself and now my arm is melting! Someone help!" Safety "Drill."
- Unfortunately for Potions TA Zadie Lovelace, she finds herself tasked with consoling a crying fourteen-year-old who was badly scared by the show. Don't worry, kiddo. It was just wax. Honest.
- ๐ฏ When he pulls the same stunt for juniors in Potions later that morning, they prove themselves well familiar with the old prank by now. Chanel Addams breaks the standing record for fastest time tracking down the first aid kit and earns 10 points for their house.
- ๐ After class, Oliver Goodliffe sampled Laszlo Pataki's experimental drink for the party and proceeded to spend most of the rest of the evening in a semi-euphoric state. He burst into a loud song in the middle of dinner, and absolutely tweaked the nose of anyone he could reach.
06
FRI
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๐ QUIDDITCH & HOUSE CHEER TRYOUTS TODAY!
- While cheerleaders are able to escape the muck by taking their tryouts inside, today's off-and-on rain showers ensure that no Quidditch hopeful leaves the pitch with clean leathers.
- Student Council is staffing the concession stand during tryouts, giving out free snacks and sports drinks to students. Valkyrie Horvat, feeling an excess of House pride, sneaks in and charms the sports drink supply to stain everything the liquid touches pink for the rest of the day. Thankfully for them, they manage to get away with their little prank scott free.
- ๐ Edgar Waxweiler and Jupiter Quigley are due to serve their detentions tonight, but their friends have other plans. Will this be a reenactment of The Great Escape, or will Ms. Altizer have more company for the evening?
07
SAT
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๐ THERE'S A PARTY TONIGHT!
- Everybody's been oriented, toured and tormented by classes and tryouts. With that all out of the way, it's time to celebrate being back in the most irresponsibly teenaged way possible: a rager! The Wildgulch Juniors have organized a little shindig down on the riverbank south of campus tonight and everybody's invited.
- There will be a game of Spin the Bottle as well as a fun Rowboat Treasure Hunt Challenge. Head to the comments to SIGN UP.
- On their way to the party, Wyatt Webberley is almost busted by Chief Tan. As the Chief's footsteps draw closer to their hiding spot behind a tree, the mossy earth beneath Wyatt's feet softens. Moments before they're found, Wyatt is sucked right into the dirt! A split second later, they're safely ejected from the earth, trampoline-like, right at the edge of the party. They're a little dizzy, and a lot muddy, but at least they made it safe.
As they regain their senses, they notice that a young woman stands beside them, her skin iridescent black, flecked with gold, and a pair of glimmering gossamer wings folded down against her back. "Party hard, but party safe!" she says, handing Wyatt a small monogrammed handkerchief to tidy up. She taps the old ray-ban shades she's wearing and then falls, abruptly, into the ground as though swallowed up. Thanks, Pocket!
08
SUN
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- It's International Literacy Day! To help beat that hangover, why not head down to The Gastrognome for coffee and a free Edgar Allan Poefiterole? Today, only! Mr. Crockett, Dr. Ranui and Ms. Gilda Santos are doing select readings there throughout the day to collect donations for Elflock Public Library's adult literacy program.
09
MON
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- The results of Quidditch and House Cheer tryouts are posted outside Mr. Youngblood's office in the central classroom building
at 9amby 11amright after lunch. Congratulations, young athletes!- It seems the freshmen have some opinions about who made the cut for Quidditch this year...
- ๐ฎ ๐ GROUP PROJECT!: Juniors in Charms are working on Atmospheric Charms. Please check the comments below for your group assignment!
10
TUES
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It's Tuna Salad Tuesday! in the cafeteria.
- Looks like the journals are still pretty buggy. :/ Today, anyone with an 'R' in their last name is unable to use vowels in the journals. The problem seems to have been sorted by curfew, at least!
- Gertrude McGilliguddy doesn't actually have an 'R' in their last name, but due to an administrative error, they're suffering along with the others. That might explain why Ms. Gunzenhauser has been pronouncing their name wrong the last two weeks...
11
WED
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๐ WELCOME BACK PECKENPAUGH! FESTIVAL IN TOWN
- The locals sure are glad to see teenagers flooding their streets (and shops) again! Students get a half-day of classes before it's time for the Welcome Back Peckenpaugh! Festival in Elflock Falls. There's food! There's fun! There might even be a chance to hit one of your teachers with a pie.
12
THURS
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- Ian Fitzpatrick slips, falls and hits their head in the shower this morning. They spend the rest of the day making eerily accurate but largely meaningless predictions about the immediate future. Do they have The Sight now?
- Home Mag-Ec students are using
trashrecycled materials to make their own aprons today. They can find just about anything in this pile that was definitely not scavenged from dumpsters, from old jeans and neckties to takeout containers and rubber gloves. Time to get creative, kids!- As TA, Harrison Hartshorn is generously gifted Mr. Lukashenko's demo apron, which is made from toilet paper rolls. His feelings will be hurt if you don't wear it, Harrison.
13
FRI
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IT'S FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART I
- Today, [one student per player] wakes up and is unable to find any pens, pencils or quills. All day. They continuously lose them once they've gotten one. The only writing implements that seem to want to be found are yellow crayons.
14
SAT
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๐ HARVEST MOON TONIGHT
๐ Happy Birthday, Anthony De Witt!
๐ Happy Birthday, Anthony De Witt!
- ๐ฎ Tonight, Joshua Strauss opens their journal and is greeted by the smell of woodsmoke and...oh. Wait. No. That's—their journal is smoking! Thankfully slamming it shut smothers whatever was overheating, and it seems the book is fine outside of a few singed pages. Can't Mr. Stirling just...do a rollback on this update???
15
SUN
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- Welp, looks like Zed finished his book. Wyatt Webberley decides to pop into Elflock Liquor just before curfew, and they seem to be successful at first. They get all the way back to campus before they realize he must have swapped their vodka popsicles for the non-alcoholic kind and sent them on their way. Hey, at least they're fancy yogurt pops.
16
MON
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- Looks like the journals are—you guessed it!—still pretty buggy. After lunch and until well after curfew, [CHARACTERS WHO ARE ARIES OR CAPRICORN] find that anything they write in their journal shows up backwards!
- ๐ GROUP PROJECT DUE!: The Atmospheric Charm Project is due for Juniors in Charms today.
- ๐ Making use of the prize she won at the festival, Valkyrie Horvat and her fellow senior Mothgardeners play a prank on Thorntrail, using the charmed squid to fill the Autumn House's common room with about 2 1/2' of fluff.
17
TUES
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It's Tamale Tuesday! in the cafeteria.
- ๐ All Specialty Courses meet for the first time today! Each teacher goes over their syllabus and expectations for the year. Newcomers to Specialty Courses will find that, excepting Ms. Kwan, who is always this way, their instructors are all a great deal more animated and focused. Occlumency & Legillimency, unsurprisingly, goes long.
18
WED
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- ๐ GROUP PROJECT!: Seniors in Transfigurations are working on Untransfiguration. Please check the comments below for your group assignment!
- The sun's getting low. Merlin Pletcher, Chanel Addams, Armani Addams, Freya Norris, Wyatt Webberley, and Edgar Waxweiler are all out and about on campus when each of them hears something odd, a cacophony of chattering and rushing sound. Looking up, they find the source: a flock of starlings dance in the sky above. The strange black cloud of birds bends and twists back and forth overhead, folding in on itself like putty. The student watchers find themselves mesmerized by the display for a couple of minutes until, abruptly, the cloud of birds disperses. As if that weren't odd enough, each of them finds their eyes drawn to the ground, to some glinting thing in the still damp earth. What seems to be a small pebble of polished obsidian at first glance turns out to be a shiny black cicada shell, hard as stone.
19
THURS
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- A warded entry written by Armani Addams and intended for Chanel Addams winds up being warded to Valkyrie Horvat. Yikes! Embarrassing! Boy, these journal glitches are really getting out of ha—oh, wait, this one was user error. Will Armani fess up?
- ๐ Arithmancy and Occlumency & Legilimency meet today! Looks like they're getting right to it. After a dense and gruelling lecture [STUDENT IN ADVANCED STUDY Q] dozes off in a chair in central classrooms and sleeps right through dinner!
20
FRI
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๐ PEP RALLY!
๐ Happy Birthday, Xenia de Bourgh!
๐ Happy Birthday, Xenia de Bourgh!
- It's House versus House for the first pep rally of the year! Come on down to the Pitch and show off your school spirit for a chance to win a party for you and your Housemates.
21
SAT
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- Late Saturday night, Presley Mondragon awakens to the sound of someone relentlessly banging on keys and pulling the levers of the magical photopiano outside. They head out in their pajamas to yell at whoever's making a racket at this hour, but find no one there. The "music" slowly comes to a stop, and Presley feels like they can't get back inside fast enough.
23
MON
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- ๐ Performing Arts Club members are putting on an improv event. Spectators welcome! Each club member is assigned a random role and they must stay in character through the entire skit. You laugh, you lose! (Check the group assignments section below to see what role each member was given.) How'd it go? Well...
- [PERFORMING ARTS CLUB MEMBER S] is eliminated almost immediately when they step out on stage and crack after seeing the ridiculous wig Madam Beridze has donned for the act.
- Felicity Deverill loses their composure when they get frustrated with a freshman heckler in the crowd.
- Ramona Grimsditch squeaks out a narrow win with an aggressively bad pun.
- [CHARACTER V] who was watching from the audience, choked on pop corn from laughing so hard.
24
TUES
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It's Tater Tot Tuesday! in the cafeteria.
- Pax Sweetapple is really trying to pay attention in Herbology today, but some huge bug won't stop buzzing around their plot and—asking them to hang out? Oh, and it's wearing sunglasses. Hi, Pocket.
- Ms. Treetops is less-than-amused by the distraction and tells Pax to stop bothering that cicada. Their sensitive joint-vetch does not appreciate this tense energy right now!
- ๐ Alchemy & Current Events meet today!
- Mr. Berzelius talks at length about emotions and how they affect every aspect of magic. Did you know that dark wizards who try to utilize the Patronus charm summon flesh eating maggots instead of Patroni? It's ... hard to say if he's kidding.
- Meanwhile, in Current Events, a news story about the ongoing auror controversy somehow gets Ms. Dorkins going on a tale about her son's summer in club soccer that takes up a third of the class time.
25
WED
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- Ah, the first fire alarm of the year! Second and third period are cut short today when the walls of Central Classrooms are shaken by a loud boom from somewhere inside. Students are made to wait outside for about an hour and a half while everything gets checked out. Mr. Berzelius and Ms. Altizer eye each other with suspicious jealousy, but it's not Potions or Hermeticism that caused the mishap! It was Mr. Lukashenko experimenting in the Home Mag-Ec classroom. Whatever he was doing in there, the whole building smells like burnt molasses for the rest of the day.
26
THURS
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- ๐ฎ Students bound for the computer lab this morning arrive in a darkened room. Every computer has had its desktop emptied of icons and background changed to a field of purple flowers and Mr. Qualls is nowhere to be found. This most puzzling conundrum is solved by Muggle Studies TA, Lionel Lovelace who manages to fix the problem by reverting each screen to the default background image. Mr. Qualls reappears out of the iMac in the back after, unsurprisingly disoriented, but still grateful.
- ๐ Animagus Studies meets today! Ms. Kwan tosses out candy for right answers or when it looks like her students aren't paying attention. Hard to say what sort of reinforcement style she's going for, here. [ANIMAGUS STUDIES STUDENT X] does get beaned in the forehead with a tootsie roll, though.
27
FRI
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- It looks like a siren has moved into Lake Peckenpaugh. While out canoeing today Merlin Pletcher saves a freshman being lured into the waters by the literal scruff of their neck. Club members have to pack up today's adventure a bit early as a result. Later on in the evening, Ms. Min can be found talking through the incident with Mr. Trullinger and Bub.
28
SAT
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- Lydia Dwyer is sitting in the window seat at the Gastrognome when they feel like they're being watched. They glance outside and find the source of that creepy-crawly feeling: from across the street, a young boy stares at them, standing perfectly still except that he's continuously flicking a lighter. He stares, and stares, and stares. Flicking and flicking and flicking. And then his mother stomps up and drags him off. Mm, yikes. Kids are weird.
29
SUN
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- Students passing by the central classroom building this morning are in for a surprise. The statue of Yalldive Peckenpaugh has been vandalized! The monument to the school's founder has been dressed in a set of Malstrom's storm gray robes with the Storm Rider mascot mask placed over her head. Around the statue, the words "EAT SHIT PECKENPOO" have been written in... manure? Ew. Worst of all, she's been charmed to hurl PG-13 insults at passersby. Raise your hand if you got called an unmitigated pill bug.
Between Bub, Mr. Potkin and Ms. Gunzenhauser, they manage to fix most of the damage by the end of lunch, but Mr. Potkin seems pretty disheartened by the vandalism. Not only is this a big setback in his work of restoring and reviving the statue, she also has some mean things to stay about his tie. No one is quite able to fix Yalldive's potty mouth before the day is through.
30
MON
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- Pollen levels are very high today!
- ๐ GROUP PROJECT DUE!: The Untransfiguration Project is due for Seniors in Transfigurations today.
(frozen comment) SENIORS in TRANSFIGURATION: Untransfiguration Project!
Untransfiguration is the art of returning a Transfigured item to its original state. Ideally, you'd have some idea of what that original state is so you can cast accordingly, but what happens when you don't? Just solve this simple equation! Ms. Min has assigned each group an item to Untransfigure. Students do not know what the Untransfigured item will be, and theyโre expected to use the equation to figure it out, but just in case, she's also included a riddle as a fun hint! They're not very good, so don't get your hopes up.
EXAMPLE: Before splitting off into groups, Ms. Min has the students try to work out one Mystery Untransfiguration as a class. An oversized stuffed dinosaur sits on a stool up front, a sentence written on the chalkboard behind it:
Bright lights and a blind fool in disguise in a warm winter's scene, wrapped up in a job and a time that's not his own, undone by anxiety.
See? Simple! Itโs clearly Ms. Minโs very favorite ugly Christmas sweater! Really, these riddles solve themselves, you wonโt even need the equations.
Assignments:
GROUP A is: Anthony, Briar, Freya, (Elijah)
GROUP B is: Kermit, Lionel, Winifred
GROUP C is: Valkyrie, Joshua, Jupiter
GROUP D is: Merlin, Harrison, Imogen
GROUP E is: Gertrude, Audrey, Xenia
We wonโt be writing out the individual riddles, but we fully encourage you guys to come up with tortuously bad riddles and imagery to puzzle over!