peckish_ooc | Pre-Game Q&A

PRE-GAME Q & A

Hello all! We're so excited to finally share Peckenpaugh with you. As we move toward our September 1st start date, we'd like to ensure that all of the setting resources are clear, concise and informative. There're a whole lot of words here, but we may've left some important gaps that need filling in. Sometimes, this is intentional. Sometimes, it isn't. So, as you're reading, if you have questions about anything at all, please ask them here. We're looking for setting and rules questions in particular on this post. If you have a question about your own character concepts, please refer to the Dropbox or email for those.

We'll be answering questions here up until the end of August, so feel free to keep asking whenever you think of something! We may edit certain questions into our FAQ, or update items within the setting, itself, also, if we feel it would be beneficial. This post is unscreened, so all questions will be public. If you'd like to ask a question privately, please do so in the Dropbox or via email. While we encourage you to ask follow up questions, tangential questions or for elaboration if you want to, we want to keep this post readable, and ask that you please keep all off topic discussion on the OOC Chatter Post. Thank you! We appreciate it!

IMPORTANT DATES:
Cast List drops on Friday, July 5th, Afternoon (between 11a - noon PST / 2 & 3p EST)
Holds for Finchberry Alumni Only open Saturday, July 6th @ (noon PST / 3pm EST)
Holds open to the public on August 1st
Game Starts September 1st

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

We're going to drop the cast list for general viewing sometime between 11a - noon PST / 2 and 3p EST on Friday, July 5th. Holds will then open for Finchberry alumni only (players who participated in both GB and FWA) at noon PST/3p EST on Saturday, July 6th. At this time you may hold two names on the cast list. These holds automatically last until August 1st.

On August 1st, holds will open to the general public! So let your friends know! Any Finchberry holds that are incomplete will lapse at this time and must be reheld (no wait time).

Starting August 1, hold policy will shift:

You may only hold one character at a time. Once your first hold has been submitted and processed, you can place a second hold.

Holds last for 7 days. You may request a 2 day extension. If your extension ends, you must wait 24 hours before you can hold again. If you have held a name 3 times and have not completed the application, you will need to wait a month (30 days) before you can place a hold on that name, again.

Per our Application page, we've added an alternative to the 4+ paragraph psych write up for the Personality section. Our hope is that this will provide players with a bit of structure so writing personality isn't such a stressful process. You can totally still do it the old fashioned way if you want!

Kermit @

maledictorian and Jupiter @

gasgiant both showcase this new style of personality write up, if you'd like a reference.

Edited 2019-06-30 20:21 (UTC)

marry me

Edited (LMFAO OOPS I THOUGHT THIS WAS SCREENED (it literally says unscreened, i just don't READ)) 2019-07-04 23:45 (UTC)

😘

Catch me never writing a personality section again 😎

id rather die

Are they mandatory?

Edited (tfw you feel strongly your question has been answered somewhere but you looked twice and can't find it cause you're an idiot) 2019-07-14 21:37 (UTC)

Hey no problemo! Good question and thank you for asking. It looks like we weren't clear on that anywhere.

OOC, core classes are not mandatory. We'd like to see players enrolling each character in one or two of them, but we don't want to get in the way of anyone making a particular, specialized schedule.

In character, the three core classes are strongly encouraged for all years as they are seen as foundational to a student of magic's education, but they are not mandatory after freshman year. You can assume that Dr. Quirke or a Head of House would've stepped in to gently guide a student toward building a schedule that was either very specialized or very well rounded.

I just edited our FAQ to make that more explicit here.

😎got some kind of reading comprehension after all

thanks!

Uhhhhh, just to confirm.. even though the four major schools are public, there's some sort of application process with all of them, right?

So, the four major boarding schools DO have a simple application process. It basically entails filling out some personal information, like permanent residence, and affirming your desire to attend. They accept most applicants because they are public boarding schools, but because space is finite, they prioritize people living within their (very large) districts first. A lot of people want to go to Bottleby or Ilvermorny for Quodpot, and they can't take everyone, after all.

Bottleby, Ilvermorny and Peckenpaugh are all pretty straightforward about following these guidelines. Vercoer, though, does use loopholes in this process to weed out potential academic under-performers right from the get go, "losing" paperwork or claiming they don't have the room. It's a shady practice, but they've gotten away with it for generations.

Cool, thanks. 😎

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