It is a sad decision, but meillureacademy is no more. It had a good run but it is time to say goodbye.

Leave the two comms meillureacademy and meillure_logs and run the following:

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Anyone who gamed here is very welcome to join the collective musebox at dustedoff.

Good Run of Bad Luck has begun! All charactrs with a first name from A thru J will have good luck. All characters with a first name from K thru Z will have bad luck. Effects last until 11:59pm.

Sign up for Stuck On You is still going on. Get your characters in quick!

Couple fun things coming up this week!

Friday, February 13 - Good Run of Bad Luck
Friday the 13th, a day believed to be the worst day for luck. For some it will be, for others it will be the opposite. Half the students and staff will be incredible lucky all day long while the other half will have the worst luck of their lives.

Saturday, Februrary 14 - Stuck on You
Stuck On You: students and staff will be stuck to a random person at some point during the day and only a kiss will release them. 1st thru 3rd years only need to give (and receive) a kiss on the cheek. 4th years and up will need to lock lips.

Both events will run from midnight to midnight on their appointed days. Please reply to this post with the characters you'd like to have involved and in which events.

<u>Good Run of Bad Luck</u> <b>Character:</b> <b>Year:</b> <b>House:</b> <u>Stuck on You</u> <b>Character:</b> <b>Year:</b> <b>House:</b>

Here's the initial cast listing for the spring musical. Parts that are bolded are set and won't be changed. Any rolls currently listed as NPC will be filled at a first come, first serve basis.

( cast )

If your character would like any of the remaining parts, just comment to this post.

<b>Name:</b> <b>Role(s):</b> <b>Voice Type:</b>

Info about the musical here

Crew sign-up is still going on over here

The animal event has begun! Enjoy your fur/feathers/scales or lack thereful~ Everyone will be human again by the end of Sunday.

Recap: Students and staff will turn into animals, often an animal they have an affinity with or have similar characteristics. The change can occur at any point during the two days but can only happen once. Once reverted back to human they will stay human. Humans-turned-animals will retain their human mind while in animal form but will be very susceptible to animal nature (ie. dogs will find it difficult not to chase after a throw stick, squirrels will feel high-strung). Humans-turned-animals will be unable to use human speech unless the animal is normally capable of it (ie. parrots). Those that understand animal speech will be able to understand the humans-turned-animals within their normal limitations (ie. horse-speakers can only speak to those turned into horses). Humans-turned-animals will not be able to communicate cross-species (ie. cats cannot talk to dogs). Humans-turned-animal will be able to use the palm journals, but will likely find it difficult (ie. size issues, vision issues).

Just a reminder that the auditions log for the spring musical is still going on. Students will be used to fill the roles first, but any shortages for the cast can be filled by staff. Cut-off is 11:59PM CST Friday January 30. Late replies will not be able to compete for taken roles after that time.

For those characters not interested in working on the musical but not being IN the musical, this post is for them.

→ Technical Director
→ Set Construction Director
→ Costume Manager
→ Stage Manager
→ Prop Manager
→ Small pit orchestra
→ Costume makers (2)
→ Hair & Make-Up (2)
→ Lighting (2)
→ Sound (2)
→ Set Building (as many as possible)

The cast and and rest of the stage crew will also be expected to help build, set up, and strike the set.

NPCs will fill any positions not taken by students or staff in both cast and crew.

<B>Character:</b> <B>House/Year:</b> <B>Job Desired:</b>

ALSO~ Don't forget that Animal Day is this weekend! Start thinking about what creatures your characters might turn into and any special considerations~

The Singing Journals event is extended through Monday. Enjoy your extra music.

Also, I was fail again. I forgot to ask which characters would be auditioning for Gold Crown's recital. Please reply to this post with your character's name, class, and whether they'd prefer a solo, pas de deux, or group number.

Now, for something new. All of us here enjoy writing to some degree. Or why else would we be using this medium for RPing? So we took all the names of the characters in the RP, mixed them together and paired them randomly. Your task, should you choose to accept, is to take one of these pairings and write a fic (it need not be romantic, just centered around those two characters). Feel free to pick more than one pairing or ones that don't involve one of your characters (in fact, I'd encourage it).

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Post completed fics to meillureacademy with completed fics using the following header.
TITLE → CHARACTERS → SUMMARY → NOTES → RATING → <font color="#FF0033">WARNINGS</font> → <lj-cut text="INSERT QUOTE HERE">

Some updates, reminders, and announcements~

Since we missed it last weekend (my fault since I wasn't able to post a reminder) Singing Journals event has been moved to this weekend. So Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the journals will be singing.

All students at Gold Crown Academy have auditions for the Spring Recital on Saturday between 10am and 4pm. Results will be posted Monday.

Spring Musical try outs and call-backs will be next Thursday and Friday. The musical they will be producing will be The Scarlet Pimpernel. A plot synopsis can be found here and the lyrics here and here. A description of the main roles is here. I'll put up a log of sorts next week for the try-outs.

I said there were events coming up so here they are! We're starting off with an old favorite then finishing off the month with something a little more involved.

January 9-10: Singing Journals
All journals will be prone to playing songs whenever opened. They might seem random, but at times they are eerily suitable. During the event, all journals will be locked in voice entry mode (which is a small change of how it's been done in the past). [example]

January 31-February1: Animal Day
Students and staff will turn into animals, often an animal they have an affinity with or have similar characteristics. The change can occur at any point during the two days but can only happen once. Once reverted back to human they will stay human. Humans-turned-animals will retain their human mind while in animal form but will be very susceptible to animal nature (ie. dogs will find it difficult not to chase after a throw stick, squirrels will feel high-strung). Humans-turned-animals will be unable to use human speech unless the animal is normally capable of it (ie. parrots). Those that understand animal speech will be able to understand the humans-turned-animals within their normal limitations (ie. horse-speakers can only speak to those turned into horses). Humans-turned-animals will not be able to communicate cross-species (ie. cats cannot talk to dogs). Humans-turned-animal will be able to use the palm journals, but will likely find it difficult (ie. size issues, vision issues). [example]

Along the line of non-magic-induced dates of import are the following:

January 17: Spring Recital Auditions for Gold Crown Academy. 10am - 4pm.
January 22: Spring Musical Auditions in the academy theatre. 3:30pm – 7:30pm
January 23: Spring Musical Callbacks, same location. 3:30pm – 6:30pm

Suggestions for the musical are still being taken here through Friday.

To better keep track of events and important dates, a calander has been made and can be found linked on the main comm under "Useful Links."

Last but not least, flists need to be updated, so here's a big monster list that should fix most people. Afterwards, there should be 35 journals and 2 communities from the game on flists. If there are many leftover journals that have been dropped, use the master drop list to remove everything and then use the master add list to put all the current journals back.

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Classes resume on Monday, January 5.

Though I failed to get a play put together for the fall semester, Meillure's theatre department will be putting on a musical for the spring semester. Auditions will ICly occur toward the end of January, and will be open to all students.

I'd like some suggestions for which musical the students will produce. Up to three titles can be suggested per player.

Also, I've noticed a decrease in activity going on, irregardless of the holiday season we just went through. We'll be having some events coming up, and some of the ones that have been particular favorites in the past will need an increase of activity in the game overall otherwise they won't be successful.

Last call for signing up for the Secret Santa! The list will be posted this evening (though students will have received their assignments this morning :| shhhh ignore the time futzing).

Time's up! Here's the list!

( Secret Santas )

Students will have received a message to their journal this morning informing them who they are to give a gift to and the person's room number (or however is easist to find them).

At the suggestion of the lovely derivatizing Meillure will be having a Secret Santa. Students and staff may both participate.

Whether a character is going home for the break or not, they are free to participate as long as they can arrange for their gift to be delivered on Christmas Day. After everyone has signed up, participants will receive a message to their journal indicating who they need to get a gift for.

Reply to this post with the characters that will be participating and assignments will be made on Sunday (characters will receive their assignments Sunday morning).

Meant to post this earlier ^^;

Finals are now complete and students are free to leave at their earlier convenience. However most will probably want to stay for the Winter Carnival that will be taking place on campus Friday and Saturday.

Thanks to Professor Taylor, Head of Aoi, a thick blanket of snow will cover the grounds during the Carnival. The pond in the back of the grounds will be frozen over for ice skating and skates can be rented for $1/hr. Hot chocolate and hot cider will be served at various locations around the grounds along with roasted chestnuts.

A snow maze will be located not far from the pond and those that bring back a token from the center will receive a gift card to a $10 local bakery (no leaping over the walls of the maze please, that's a bit easy to see with everything being white).

Saturday morning there will be a snowman sculpting contest, with the winner receiving a $50 gift card to the mall. Saturday afternoon there will be a snowball fight, with the winners... going inside for dinner a little less wet than the losers.

Enjoy the snow!

(As it is, Boston is predicted to get light snow Friday starting around noon and heavy snow starting around 3pm. Heavy snow with wind (reaching 25 mph) will continue through around 8pm. Moderate snow with wind (15-20 mph) will continue until about 2pm Saturday afternoon. [ The Weather Channel ])

As most are aware, Thanksgiving is this Thursday.

Students leaving campus to spend the holiday with family will be giving a turkey or ham (or if they'd like, tofurkey) to take home with them. Students staying on campus will have a grand feast Thursday evening in the dining hall.

Beware eating too much though! Food comas aside, anyone that stuffs themselves at the feast to the point of physical discomfort will (once that discomfort subsides) experience a state of extreme euphoria and be prone to lapses of judgement. The effects will last for two hours.

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After the mayhem of Hallowe'en and the calm of November, do be expecting announcements soon for holiday crack attacks!

Hallowe'en is over and those who were injured in the fighting last night will be healed according to the schedule.

☠ Anyone who dies will be taken to the hospital and will be in there for three days. They will be "dead" (aka unconscious) until noon on 1st November, when they will wake but they must stay in the hospital wing until 4th November.
☠ Anyone with grievous injuries (deep wounds/missing limbs etc) will be in there for two days.
☠ Anyone with moderate injuries stays in there for a day
☠ Anyone with less than moderate injuries will be politely told to sod off as they're busy

Don't forget the PARTY/FIGHT LOG is still open for backtagging.

An activity check will be coming soon.

Big rats, bats and vampires are all gone now ~ instead let the alien babies commence.

The huge piles of candy and little rats, bats and wailing sounds are still around. Anyone who was bitten over the last two days reverts to normal, even if you happened to get staked by Riku or frozen by Rupert. If you don't have an alien baby coming then feel free to watch the mayhem.

The alien babies will be around until 6pm Friday at which time they will all instantly turn into dolls. Remember they will all have the facial features of the human parent except for green skin and fully black eyes.

( ...like so )

( who gets which babies )

Lastly, the HALLOWE'EN PARTY is up to log. It doesn't officially start until 7pm Friday evening, but it is open early to accommodate the timezone differences of players. There will be all kinds of music playing (although symphonic metal will dominate due to the Hallowe'en theme).

Then at MIDNIGHT, the DEMONS will be unleashed until sunrise the next morning.

Slightly different format for the open log to aid in the party atmosphere. Put in the time of any thread start like so and then if your character is around at the time in that area; feel free to reply. I want to see how this format works for party logs.

Any questions to be asked here.

For the full run down, check the Hallowe'en tag.

HALLOWE'EN WEEK HAS BEGUN

Monday

Rats, cats, giant bats? Oh My! - Monday will see oversized rats (think R.O.U.S.es), creepy mangy black cats and giant bats are gonna be around. The bats will pick people at random to divebomb, pick up and hang in trees or thanks Erica poop on.

Tuesday and Wednesday

Vampires. These vampires are not Hollywoodized. These are more akin to the Transylvanian/Slav myths aka they are hampered by sunlight but it does not kill them.

Your characters can be stalked and hunted on Tuesday and Wednesday. If they get bitten, they will fall "dead" for about ten minutes wherever they are and then will rise as a vampire themselves. Midnight Wednesday will see them all become human again.

Thursday and Friday

SIM ALIEN BABIES. Not just sim babies, oh no. Sim babies are only born to males unless you download a mod for it. We downloaded said mod. :| This means both males and females are eligible.

All day Thursday characters will get abducted and then after three hours of random upping and downing of body stats, you will end up back in your dorm. You will feel a little sore and then an hour later, you will sprout a belly. An hour after that, it will get bigger. An hour after that, woohoo, magic babies like so. You will have to look after these little green babies until 6pm on Friday 31st, when they will change into dolls.

Sim birth - you get a short labour and then the babies literally appear in your arms. The babies will have green skin and their entire eyeball will be black, but facially they will look like their human parent.

Starting today, so the school is full of R.O.U.S.es and there is plenty of free candy around to eat - none of it touched by the vermin. Don't forget the only unaffected places on campus are the dorm rooms themselves. The common areas, halls etc are affected so only inside a dorm room are the characters safe from the creepies around.

This is not a week late. Nope.

Gold Crown Dance Academy's Winter Recital will be on Sunday, December 14 at 7PM. The following numbers will be presented. Tickets will cost $10 (Neko-sensei needs to make his rent after all).



Solo
Ella - Giselle, Giselle Variation*
Ginny - Sleeping Beauty, Lilac Fairy Variation*

Pas de Deux
NPCs - Le Spectre de la Rose
NPCs - Don Quixote

Group Ensemble
NPCs - Nutcracker, Waltz of the Snowflakes**

* Adjusted so they aren't en pointe
** Minus the bits with Clara and the Prince :|

Just a reminder that an activity check is imminent after Hallowe'en.

The activity has dropped off a little, please remember that to keep the game going, people need to post often as well as commenting. I have been seeing people commenting without posting or simply staying within a clique.

We don't want that to happen here; we've always stayed clique-free in our two-and-a-half years.

Posting at least twice per activity check is not a lot to ask to stop the game from stagnating.

While I'm in naggy-mod!mode, I want to remind everyone that keeping your spelling to an acceptable standard is required as per the rules.