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ONE YEAR!

Wow! That’s all we can say right now. One year ago today, I (Admin Karli) officially announced Homenum Revelio to the tumblr world. I started this roleplay on a whim. I was frustrated at the lack of rps for what I wanted at the time and so HR began. I quickly asked Nicky to help as admin as HR got more attention and more players than I thought it would. Here we are, a year later, still writing, thriving, enjoying our group… and it is more than I could’ve ever imagined. We never thought it would get this far and are so grateful to the people who helped make it so.

We are a loving, close knit community full of committed, talented, and creative players. We could not have done this without all of you. Thank you to our lovely players:

The Sagacious Amos

The Charming Ashley

The Lustrous Beth

The Cunning Christie

The Perspicacious Ellie

The Effulgent Gabe

The Gleeful Gracie

The Insightful Ilya

The Kindly Kat

The Clever Kait

The Cheerful Maggie

The Fantastic Mary

The Delightful Midge

The Determined Pat

The Scintillating Sebastian

… and all the other players that are no longer in our roleplay. You may not be writing with us any more, but every one of our players, past and present, are important to us and have helped HR thrive.

**A writing prompt will be released later today to celebrate our anniversary!**

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NEW BIO BATCH.

This is unprecedented, folks: we now have all character bios taken! We can’t even begin to explain how elated, grateful, and awed we are by the reception you all have given this game. We are delighted and impressed with all of your portrayals and the depth with which you write your characters, both bio-made and player-built. We’re so excited to have come so far, and to have every single bio we wrote now claimed. But not for long...

That’s right, it’s new bio time! There are SIX NEW CHARACTERS on their way, and their bios have been queued-up to post over the next three days (with two bios per day). These characters will be:

Alastor Moody

Lucinda Talkalot

Kingsley Shacklebolt

Annalise Fawley

Alaric McKinnon 

Rosalia Clearwater

Current players should wait to send applications for any characters from this new batch until two days after the last bio posts to give everyone a fair chance to peruse them all! 

Application review for the newest batch of bios will be set after all biographies are released. After the initial acceptances, we will continue to review on a rolling basis.

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A PLAN IS FORMED.

The engagement of Vanessa Abbott to Jayesh Rosier has been the talk of the Wizarding World for weeks. Gossip columnists for the Daily Prophet, Witch Weekly, and lesser papers have all predicted that their wedding will be the event of the decade. To celebrate their upcoming nupitals, the Rosier family is putting on a classy and intimate engagement party with a mere one-hundred lucky attendants. 

While the rest of pureblood society talks about their excitement over this party - such a lovely thing during wartime! - Isla Selwyn-Macmillan catches a conversation about the mysterious orb that had been at the heart of a recent failure of the Order, allowing many Muggles to be killed. It appears that after being whisked away from the Notts’ home before the Ministry arrived, it was moved to no less a place than the main Rosier Estate...the very site of the upcoming party.

Isla, of course, is invited to the party, along with her husband, Archibald Macmillan. She believes this party could offer both a front and distraction for the Order to infiltrate the Rosier mansion and finally steal the real orb from its new rumored location.

The problem is... most of the Order will not receive an invitation. To make this work, they’ll have to turn into someone else. Someone a little more “appropriate” for the event. Good thing Mundungus Fletcher knows just the place to acquire Polyjuice Potion.

DETAILS.

With the engagement party not for several weeks, select members of the Order have been tasked with gathering materials from purebloods who are expected to attend the event. This can be anything that will work with Polyjuice: hair, teeth, fingernails, etc. These items should be obtained as inconspicuously as possible, but the secrets of the Order remain the upmost priority, and so may be gathered by any means possible.

The following characters have been assigned to the task (chosen through a randomizer based on players who volunteered to participate):

Remus Lupin & Peter Pettigrew

Branwen Yaxley & Ryland Greengrass

Emma Vanity & Fabian Prewett

OTHER THINGS TO NOTE: Isla and Mundugus should both have plots and threads revolving around the orb discussions and the stealing of Polyjuice Potion. These paras can happen with any character that makes sense through plotting with other players!

Another event post regarding the actual mission infiltrating the party will come in a few weeks. Every single character will have a role to play in that event. We will choose these roles closer to the event through some dice rolling and some admin decisions. 

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THE WRITING SPRINT HAS NOW ENDED!

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who participated!

We hope you all had fun and feel productive! You should - look at that dash!

Let’s all give a special thanks to SEB for running the sprints! GO SEBASTIAN!

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That is the end of the new batch of bios - which means we once again have open characters available for application! You can find our guidelines for application here.

Note that we are still and always open to non-bio character applications as well!

Applications can be sent in at any time! The next round of acceptances will be Thursday, June 25th at 5pm CST! After that initial acceptance, we will continue with two day rolling acceptances as normal. 

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TODAY’S APP REVIEW HAS BEEN DELAYED!

It will be completed @10pm CST today!

We apologize profusely for the unanticipated circumstances and the lack of notice!

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THE WRITING SPRINT HAS NOW ENDED!

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who participated!

We hope you all had fun and feel productive! You should - look at that dash!

Let’s all give a special thanks to SEB for running the sprints! GO SEBASTIAN!

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NON-BIO CHARACTER RESTRICTION: HALF-BREEDS

The admins are putting a temporary cap on half-breed characters due to the number of half-breeds currently active in the game. While we love all of the ones we have (we really do!), we want to keep these sorts of characters to a rarity given that that’s how they’re depicted in the books and as such, are issuing a moratorium... at least for now!

We feel like one in ten is a pretty good game ratio for half-breeds to full-wix, given that the Order probably has a higher percentage of all varieties of “outcasts” and “oddballs” than the magical world does overall. Currently we have three half-breeds out of twenty-three active characters and thirty-two characters overall, so that’s just about perfect. When our ratio skews back we’ll be happy to lift the cap and let in some more!

Secondary characters, particularly those related to existing half-breed characters, are exempt from this temporary cap!

If you want to talk to us off-anon about a particular character idea you’re percolating for a half-breed, we're always open to discussion and possible exceptions! Given their apparent rarity in the world of magical Britain, however, we think we have enough for now... probably! If you are granted an exception, all we request is that you put in your application a why behind making this character a half-breed.