lightning_war post recap: April 28-May 10, 2008
Game date and time: Sunday afternoon, 13 September 1942:
Announcement:
Our community lightning_war has a new look!
(Please note that Lightning War is now on Insane Journal. If you are reading this on Live Journal or through an RSS feed, links will work, but clicking on journal names will take you to a Live Journal which will not have been updated and, in the case of new characters or those whose journal names have been changed, may not even belong to the game.)
Completed/Continuing Open Threads:
Bobby Macmillan has been having a difficult time since Evan Rosier was banished from his room. They skip the memorial service. (Complete--but comments are EXPLICIT.)
Anjali writes to her cousin Surya Patil. Rajinder sees what she's writing and they have a little argument. (Complete.)
Laurens van Rensselaer does not share Maddie Proctor's optimism about Yvon's condition or the likely consequences for Alessio. He has his doubts about the veracity of some of the things Dracaena's said, too. Dracaena and he discuss this at some length. (Complete.)
Yvon Malfoy dictates a journal entry to his younger brother, Lucius. Lucius convinces him to go outside and try to draw more strength from the land. (Complete.)
New Posts:
Text of the letter Király Ilóna was so afraid to read.
Dimity Ducas has had enough of life at the Manor.
Paul Pettigrew's concerned about students with the wrong attitude. Annie Lovegood's concerned about her brother Bilius. (Complete.)
Lalage Parkinson has some questions for her grandson, Austin.
Eustacia Gardiner has a job to do, and she's not looking forward to that.
Thecla Device grieves for the girl she believed was her friend.
Mercy Thomas pays a visit to the Diggory family, and enlightening conversations are had.
Eustacia Gardiner takes Aristotle Moody into custody, and tries to find someone to act as his guardian.
Susie Kyteler introduces Jack Randall to her brother and his friends, and then wishes she hadn't.
Hamish Diggory has a lot on his mind.
Cassie Campion is deeply upset by the reminder of her own losses.
Igor Karkaroff feels rather put-upon, and is very unimpressed with Jeremy Wood.
What's a day at Hogwarts without a few nasty tales?
Jezebel Walsingham is just as proud of her niece Dolores as Dolores thought she would be.
Lalage Parkinson is terribly worried, considering she really ought to know what happened to Portia...if it was her spell that's caused all the trouble. Perhaps she forgot?
Isaac Diggory is not best pleased by the news from Hogwarts.
Isaac Diggory sends out the necessary inquiries to get to the bottom of the matters which cause him concern.
Corinne Allison is relieved by Yvon's reconciliation with Alessio. Susie is upset by the realisation that if you're sleeping with everyone your partner's ever slept with, she's slept with a lot more people than she ever dreamed--including Corinne. (Definitely still in progress, as Jack just came in.)
Annie Lovegood is worried about her brother, but also extremely upset with him.
Aristotle Moody begs for his sister Dracaena's forgiveness (and hopefully her hospitality as well).
Charis Malfoy writes to Minerva McGonagall to tell her she's going to be late getting back to school.
Ryan Pettigrew is impressed with his brother Paul. Positively, even.
New Journals:
None this time, but there are some new NPCs:
Halász Sandor is one of Király Ilóna's former colleagues at Durmstrang, but he left a while before she did after receiving an upsetting letter from his brilliant sister, Sharolt. (PB: Sean Maher)
Everyone has a new journal at Insane Journal, even if they've been moved to a shared journal. Here's the list.
New Graphics:
Please be patient with us as many of the new journals are not yet set up and do not yet have proper layouts. That said, as IJ allows 100 icons per free user, there are a great many new userpics going around. Characters whom I know have loaded new userpics since the last recap include alessio, artisson, nicodemo, pinup_boy, stepan, truthinartifice, vilem and wind_frolicker, and I'm sure there will be more listed below in the comments, there always are!
hadrian has a new layout (with graphics and source code by grrliz @ LJ) that I have been tweaking in the hope that I will actually learn CSS. (This plan has been somewhat effective.)
Under New Management:
There are a lot of characters that are currently open. Check out the Adoptable Characters page for descriptions of the kinds of adoptions that are open and lists of characters available for each. If you are not sure, ask. :)