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PLOT CALENDAR: OCTOBER 2019
KEY
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:
🎂: 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
OCTOBER
01
TUES
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⛅
It's Tapenade Tuesday! in the cafeteria.
Pollen levels are still very high today!
Pollen levels are still very high today!
- At exactly 10:10 AM, the sophomores suddenly gain access to the journal system! Wow, hope no one's writing anything super embarrassing in there. The freshmen are still split off onto their own channel, but you know what? That's probably for the best. For the next few hours, inks randomly change color and journals make odd sounds, but it clears up by curfew.
- 💯 Valkyrie Horvat puts the spirit stick to good use, sneaking it out to charm half the tables in the cafeteria into blaring test cards. Just try to enjoy your Tuesday Tapenade, now! The culprit is caught not long after lunch, losing 5 points for their house and gaining a Sunday detention with Mr. Youngblood and Bub, cleaning up after the game.
02
WED
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⛅
⚠️ POLLEN LEVELS EXTREMELY HIGH TODAY ⚠️
- 👀 In fact, there's so much pollen in the air today, it looks like it's snowing...
- Mr. Trullinger is very excited to introduce a new member to the C&M family... a cactus kitten! He and Mr. Youngblood found the little one in the woods near campus earlier last month, miles from the cactus cat's usual range. Mr. Trullinger will be fostering the kitten for the time being, and since yinzer gonna be spending so much time together, he's taking name suggestions from the class. Any name suggestions welcome; he will absolutely be letting it choose its very own name from the list.
03
THURS
☂️
- Sign ups for the Homecoming Float Competition & Homecoming Committee open today!
- October 3rd is National Kevin Day (apparently...?)! A day to honor the Kevins in your life. Today [everyone's first name shows as Kevin in the journals]. Is it a bug? Is it a joke? "Who knows!" says Mr. Stirling, with an uncharacteristic amount of energy that indicates that he definitely does know. It is a free ticket to ruin your sibling's life if you have the same last name though.
04
FRI
🍃
⛅
🎉 PEP RALLY!!
- 💯 After the pep rally Lionel Lovelace runs into Dr. Ranui on his way to tuning and cleaning the photopiano at Wildgulch and he invites them to help. Sure, this had been assigned as a detention for two students back in September, but evidently it sounds like fun for Lionel, because they decide to tag along.
While he works, Dr. Ranui talks about the history of the contraption: a muggle device retrieved from an abandoned theater — oh, he can't remember from where — and magiteched up by the previous Head of Wildgulch. It's only actually been here since the 1950s! Dr. Ranui fancies himself a great deal friendlier than the old bloke, but he hasn't quite figured out how to leave his own mark at Peckenpaugh, and— As Dr. Ranui goes on, Lionel sees something green sticking from one of the exposed pipes, pulls at it and finds a long leafy vine.
"Well, that's not supposed to be there," Dr. Ranui says, and he and Lionel spend several minutes just deweeding the photopiano. Once it's all cleaned out, Dr. Ranui awards Lionel's House 15 points for their help.
- 💯 Imogen Rainwater sneaks out early and charms all the beater bats in the Quidditch equipment shed to scream when they're swung. The teams are in for quite a shock when they show up for practice later that morning. Imogen almost gets away with it (Mr. Youngblood thinks it's pretty funny), but they're caught, losing 5 points for their house and earning a Sunday detention with Mr. Youngblood and Bub cleaning up the stands after the game.
- Starting today, Elflock Falls is all decorated for Halloween. Storefronts and residences have put out jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins, skeletons, cobwebs and fairy lights decorate windows, and tiny fake ghosts have been charmed to float around lamp posts once they turn on in the evening. For the rest of the month, flameless candles illuminate the paths of the riverwalk, giving it an eerie glow at night.
07
MON
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⛅
- 📚 GROUP PROJECT!: Juniors in Potions are doing a project on modern ingredient conversation rates. Please check the comments below to see your group assignments!
- Mr. Trullinger has a guest speaker in town this week for Cryptozoology and Non-Human Languages. Rhodaea, a famed centaur author and chef (and close friend of Mr. Trullinger), is here to talk with C&M students about centaur food traditions. She'll also be reciting a bit of centaur poetry for Non-Human Languages students later this week.
- Student Council receives the decorations they ordered for the Homecoming dance! Oh. But there seems to have been a slight mix up with the shipping. This is going to require some creative problem solving from members of the Homecoming Committee.
👀 How're they going to deal with this mix up...?
🔮 It's Tapioca Tuesday! in the cafeteria today. Oh, wait, no. Sorry kids. Looks like we're fresh out of pudding :(
- Local Quodpot Hero Ray Mayo is back in town to have his birthday at the Zippy Dip. Why don't you sneak down to have a peek? Zippy tells his employees to expect a bit of a crowd. In Ray's honor, The Dip is featuring Quodpot Floats today, soda pop with a scoop of ice cream that send an explosion of edible confetti into the air when you puncture it. Predictably, it turns out to be utter mayhem, but at least those floats are tasty!
- Anthony De Witt braves the crowds and manages to bump into Ray Mayo, himself, in line for the bathroom. Ray's happy to give an autograph, and even asks if Mr. Woodward is still teaching Transfiguration up at the school. "Those puppets, man," he says, shaking his head. "They weren't right." Upon hearing that Dorothy Min is the current Transfiguration teacher Ray's smile broadens and he thanks Tony for the information by offering to sign something else.
- As if the crowd alone weren't bad enough, Freya Norris accidentally spills a Quodpot Float on Mr. Richard Swint. Just as his anger seems like it's about to boil over, the ice cream explodes, coating the potioneer in colorful edible confetti. He's furious and Freya is banned from Mr. Swint's half of the Potions Shop. Mr. Pompel insists they are still welcome on his side, and even leaves a sizable tip behind at the end of his meal. You know what? Worth it.
09
WED
☂️
- Mr. Youngblood makes Valkyrie Horvat handle the class today, but not because he's hungover—because he lost his best goddamned ax, and he's gotta stomp up and down these goddamned woods looking for it. Show them a movie or go bowling, or... just do whatever you wanna do. As long as most of 'em are alive by the end of the day.
- If his behavior by dinner is any indicator, he's still on the hunt. Maybe Valkyrie should have a couple more lessons ready.
- Today, for dinner, C&M and NHL students are invited to sample a classic centaur dish prepared with local ingredients by Rhodaea, Mr. Trullinger, and a student volunteer.
- 💯 Poppy Kreitzer is selected to help and finds themself playing firefighter when Mr. Trullinger manages to cause a small inferno while trying to fry something. Poppy's quick thinking averts a real disaster, and they earn 5 points for their house, and a promised Free A on the next C&M assignment.
- After dinner (a vegetarian dish of spiced nutty spread, fried ramps and barley), Elijah Rainwater is one hundred percent positive that this is their new favorite food. Rhodaea is happy to pass the recipe on, and even points them to good places to find ramps near Thorntrail, though they'll have to wait for late March to start foraging.
10
THURS
☀️
🎂 Happy Birthday, Gertrude McGilliguddy!
- Guess Dr. Huang wasn't just worried about inauspicious spirits when he recommended covering your crystal ball between uses. Wyatt Webberley learns that the hard way when their ball catches the sunlight and sets their dorm's couch on fire. The mid-day fire alarm causes a bit of excitement for Wildgulch, but there's no extensive damage.
- Today in Home Mag-Ec, Mr. Lukashenko gives students an important tip: "Did you know almost all muggle hotels come with a panini press?" He then pulls out an iron, and proceeds to make a perfectly adequate grilled cheese with it. That's right kids. Today is all about cooking with things that aren't meant to be cooked with. After a brief lecture about making coconut shrimp with a coffee maker and frying eggs on a car dashboard (wipe it off first), he instructs his students in the fine art of iron-based sandwich craft.
11
FRI
🍃
☀️
- Get your gloves and pull on your boots, because Student Council is sponsoring a school-wide clean up of the Greentooth River. This volunteer event has students walking the banks of the Greentooth picking up garbage and beautifying the place a bit.
- In a fire pit near the banks of the river, Freya Norris finds partially burned papers. It's mostly uninteresting. A ledger, a few receipts and a promissory note regarding a sale of pudding. There's also a melted plastic pudding cup among the debris.
- Whether they're actually after more garbage, or just looking to get away and slack off, Ian Fitzpatrick wanders away from the group, past a thick wall of shrubs, and finds themself standing face to face with Pocket. "Oh! Hey! Glad you're here! Can you take this?" Evidently, she was there to help with clean up, too. Pocket shoves a garbage bag full of bottle caps (and nothing but bottle caps) in Fitz's hands and clicks her tongue before disappearing into the dirt.
13
SUN
☀️
🌕 HUNTER'S MOON TONIGHT
🎉 ADVENTURE CLUB TRIP!
🎉 ADVENTURE CLUB TRIP!
- Adventure Club is taking a trip for the long weekend. It's prime time for the colors on trees to change, so Ms. Min has arranged for a camping trip in the hills northwest of campus. It's a great opportunity for nature lovers and photographers, and the trip is open to non-members. The group sets out bright and early Sunday morning for two days and one night in the wilds of West Virginia. Sign up below if you'd like to attend. :)
- 💯 Back on campus, two freshmen get into a scuffle over the last serving of pudding at lunchtime. Holland Graves breaks up the scuffle, earning a black eye and 10 points for their House from Mr. Youngblood. Who knew a pudding shortage was such serious business?
14
MON
🍃
⛅
Indigenous Peoples Day. Classes Cancelled.
- 🔮 On the way back to campus after their weekend adventure Armani Addams trips over something and takes a nasty fall. It wasn't their own shoelaces that got them, but a strange dark green vine that wrapped itself around Armani's ankle and now refuses to let go. It has to be severed from the rest of the plant to get it off, and the vine shrivels up once Armani has been freed. Ms. Min then transfigures her pack into a wagon, and enlists a few students to help cart Armani to campus. Healer Greatheart concludes there's nothing to worry about—it's just a bad sprain. After an application of some very green-smelling and tingly ointment, Armani is sent home with a nevermelt ice pack and advice to keep off it for a few days.
15
TUES
🍃
☀️
It's Takoyaki Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
- There's an obstacle course contest for pups at the Elflock Falls Dog Park today. Come on down after class and cheer on your favorite pup! Peckenpaugh students are even getting involved, running a dog wash to raise funds for free check ups and discounted spay/neuters at the Peck 'n' Paw.
- Bijou Pascal has the great pleasure of giving Queen Guinevere a bath, although Mr. Purcell thinks they could've done a better job washing between her toesies.
- This dogwash proves to attract more than just dogs. Chanel Addams winds up saddled with washing a squonk for a little old lady who insists her sweet baby Porkchop is just a pot bellied pig. Naturally, the squonk feels like it has inconvenienced Chanel and almost immediately begins to melt in their hands. High school is all about making memories, and this smell is not one Chanel will be forgetting.
- The last customer of the day is a filthy Bearigold, who ambles right out into the middle of the park unchallenged by locals. Bearigold has no money, because she is a half-bear half-ferret magical creature, but Merlin Pletcher scrubs her down and brushes her out anyway. She seems delighted with the service, and nuzzles Merlin until they fall over.
- While taking a walk through the gardens Presley Mondragon spots Mr. Trullinger, Ms. Min and Ms. Treetops discussing the strange vine that was found during the camping trip this weekend. Evidently, Ms. Min had taken the shriveled clipping with her. Ms. Treetops takes the vine and immediately drops it, recoiling as though she's touched something scalding. "Get rid of it," Presley hears the Herbology instructor say. "But don't b—" The teachers spot Presley eavesdropping, and Mr. Trullinger steps in to steer them away. You're JUST who he was hoping would come help him rustle up some of that elusive pudding.
17
THURS
☂️
- 📚 GROUP PROJECT DUE!: The Potion Conversions project is due for Juniors in Potions today.
- When Madam Beridze brandishes a potato peeler in front of Music class today, it's not because the class's consistent missing of Allegretto direction has finally made her snap. No, today Music students are studying music theory by making their own instruments out of produce.
- Gertrude McGilliguddy winds up with a potato flute that's actually pretty impressive! Maybe vegetable craftsmanship is their true calling. Have you considered Aesthetic Magic?
- Coriander Picquery is trying to fashion a set of bagpipes from a pumpkin. They hollow it out, but not good enough, because when Music TA Gertrude McGilliguddy swings by to help figure out why the sound is so muffled, they blow gourd guts all over Trudy's face.
18
FRI
⛅
☂️
- Ms. Treetops sends Scarlett Hatfield to take the trimmings from today's class to the compost in the back of Greenhouse B. They hear strange noises as soon as they enter. A soft metallic crash and the sound of fleeing footsteps. Brave Scarlett goes to investigate, but all they find are a few cans half stuck in a pile of grass clippings. Upon closer inspection, they seem to be empty containers of... pudding?
- An evening storm frightens the cactus kitten, who seeks shelter from the noise and the rain in the Common Room of Joshua Strauss's House. Josh learns the hard way that the cactus kitten's spines are finally growing in; while giving the kitten's head a scratch for comfort, they jab themself quite hard with one of those sharp new needles. Ouch!
19
SAT
☂️
🎂 Happy Birthday, Laszlo Pataki!
- 🔮 Pax Sweetapple quite literally stumbles on Mr. Youngblood's long lost ax this morning. Seems like the ax handle's embedded in a clump of tree roots and no matter how hard they pull, Pax can't get the dang thing out. Is Mr. Youngblood sure he just lost this?
- 👀 When Mr. Youngblood can't make it budge either, he sets a challenge for the students...
21
MON
☀️
- 🎓 Animagus Studies, Arithmancy and Occlumency meet this week! Unfortunately, it's a whole lot of meditating and number crunching this month.
- There's an Orionid meteor shower today, best visible just before dawn. Mr. Hobgood's been encouraging students to attend an early morning watch party outside the astronomy tower for weeks, promising breakfast and extra credit for Astronomy students. The man delivers! He provides a huge picnic breakfast spread as well as coffee and juice for attendees. It's all very tasty, and the event might be worth it just for the food. Turns out Hobgood's an accomplished cook!
- Running late for class, Winifred Adler is taking a shortcut through the woods near Thorntrail when a glint of something shining on the forest floor catches their eye. It's a dented can of Ozark Howlin' Harry's Authentic Cream Corn, half-buried in foliage, and there's several empty cardboard boxes stashed behind a tree nearby. Looks like this corn's been out here a while, too, it's all brown and goopy and... wait, is this chocolate pudding?
22
TUES
🍃
☀️
It's Tortellini Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
- Laszlo Pataki doesn't leave the central classrooms building until late, and they're the last student out at the end of the night. As they're heading toward the door, they hear Locker 206's distinctive wail of "Help me!" echo through the halls.
They hear it again a moment later. And again. "Help me, help me, help me!" Over and over and over.
When they try to find the source of the sound, there's no one to be found. There are no other students in the building.
23
WED
🍃
⛅
🎉 SUNDAE PARTY AT THORNTRAIL
- Thorntrail celebrates their September Pep Rally victory with a build your own sundae party in their dorm. Wonder if there'll be any crashers?
24
THURS
🍃
⛅
- Ms. Dorkins needs some help clearing out old boxes of supplies from Print Club's storage closet. Print & Yearbook Club members and a students looking for a bit of extra credit (or who just want to help) spend the afternoon picking through some truly ancient banker boxes.
- [CHARACTER X] uncovers a flaking daguerreotype plate of the class of 1859. The still magical picture captures the exact moment that a grinning young man in the back row pops out a glass eye and pokes it back in. Is that...? No. It can't be.
- Willow Quackenbush nabs a Peckenpaugh Afterprom 2006 t-shirt that's kind of cool in a vintage way, except someone's slapped a bright Wildgulch blue handprint on the back.
- Xenia de Bourgh, sorting through stacks of old unused photos from yearbooks past, finds an old picture of Mr. Qualls when he was still very much alive, standing with a young man who bears a striking resemblance to him. Huh.
27
SUN
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☀️
- Dez's Dining Room is serving up All You Can Eat Pancakes with a variety of sweet toppings today from 1AM to noon. Whether you're a curfew hopper, or just an early riser, swing on down to Elflock Falls to grab some post-homecoming breakfast. For every corsage or boutonniere that gets brought in during the morning event, Dez's will donate 10 dragots to Peckenpaugh's Herbology Department (and recycle/compost the parts that went into making the tiny bouquets). It's a good, yummy cause!
Anyone there between 1:30AM and 2:45AM will spot Liquor Store Zed and Mr. Crockett — or is that Mr. Crockett and Liquor Store Zed? — chowing down on pancakes and bacon. And sausage. And ham. And turkey bacon. And—wow that's just a lot of meat. Don't worry about being spotted, tonight, they won't tell if you don't.
- 🎓 Alchemy & Current Events meet this week!
- Students in Current Events spend almost the entire class time discussing the interim administrator of the Bureau of Aurors. She's scheduled to give a speech on Tuesday, and both classes this week are dedicated to discussing the current state of the Bureau of Aurors and the interim director's speech, which does not seem to go over well in the media. This seems to upset Ms. Dorkins, who thinks nobody's giving the interim administrator a fair shake. They're giving up on her. They're giving up on everything!
- In Alchemy, Students are studying how anger affects potion brewing. Mr. Berzelius illustrates by having students use comically small implements to brew Screaming Snakes Hair Growth potions. Naturally, things don't go well.
- Winter Carmichael can't keep their cool when they've got to use a pipette that looks like it came from a Biologist Barbie playset. The potion overheats and explodes, and for the rest of the evening, [All Alchemy Students], Mr Berzelius, and [anyone who may've been on the first floor of the Central Classrooms building at the time, including Current Events students] must deal with hair that's been turned to snakes. Which, for the record, Mr. Berzelius thinks is pretty rad.
29
TUES
☀️
It's Tomato Soup Tuesday! in the cafeteria today.
- Today in Artificing, students are learning about charge stones! These stones are often used to power and direct driverless magical vehicles, especially useful in major public transit systems, like the sub-subway. Dr. Ranui teaches the students how to make smaller versions of these stones, and the back half of the class is dedicated to demonstrating their use and building a miniature train track all the way around the Artificing workshop.
- Ramona Grimsditch is picking up after class when she realizes most of the charge stones aren't where they're supposed to be. There's a clatter near the window, caused by something small and mushroom-shaped dragging one of the last remaining stones out the window. Does Ramona follow the tiny thief?
30
WED
☀️
- Edgar Waxweiler nearly trips over Peckenpaugh's teeniest troublemaker today when the cactus kitten comes tearing out of the Aesthetic Magic classroom, trailed by a tissue paper ghost stuck to one of their new quills. Eddy manages to save the kitten from its attempted haunter, but, from the looks of Mr. Potkin's classroom, the ghosts might have needed their help a little more. Yeesh. What a mess.
31
THURS
🍃
☀️
🎉 HALLOWEEN! Trick or Treat in Elflock Falls
- Every year on Halloween, Peckenpaugh students sneak up to the library's tower. There's a door up there. A door that won't open for anyone—not Mr. Zahidi, not Ms. Kwan, not Bub. That's never stopped students from trying, though, and especially on Halloween. They say if you knock and announce yourself, something will happen. The door will open, someone will invite you in.
As far as anyone knows, nothing has ever happened. The door stays silent and shut. But this year, for some would-be trick-or-treaters, something knocks back. What happens next is up to them.
📝 This is a PETITION EVENT. The petition form will be posted as a separate post in the OOC later this month.
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