UPDATE :D

Jan 11, 2012 08:21

Hey everyone -

So, as you guys have probably noticed, Bait's been experiencing a little case of suspended animation lately, but we're alive as ever. Gwenny and I have both been Delayed by life lately, like Galdalf stuck at Isengard. And, since I man both the head of the Order and the Ministry, I just wanted to apologise to you all for not being around or in touch as much as I should've been. I had surgery over Christmas break but I'm well again now, and I officially announce that Bait's going to be swept of any cobwebs it might have collected and get this place up and running full steam again!

FIRST, I wanted to (very briefly) talk about LJ's format changes. It seems like it works perfectly for some people but is really impossible to use for others. Gwenny is our formatting genius here so she's been working really hard to come up with some possible solutions we could try so the site we use is functional for as many people as possible. More on that later - but there will not be any changes without all of us deciding what we want to do together. So you don't have any unexpected surprises coming your way, but a post all about that will be coming eventually once coding details are hammered out. Applause to our RP techie for that. ♥

SECOND, U CAN HAS MOAR PLOTZ. Even though Bait is set up to have some overarching plot in place, the rest of you have just as much say in what happens as we do! :D We are all driving the car here, so the wheel is anyone's to take. In fact, we REALLY encourage it. So for anyone who is hesitant to take their character an unconventional direction or be the instigator of bigger plots - stop ur worrying, you Regulus you LOL. Bait has a structure but it's made for you all to build on it and go wild making this war BIG. Mods will do plot stuff too obviously but no one's restricted to waiting for us to plan the next big event, any character can start them. It'd be fun AND helpful for us if anyone wants start a riot, attack anyone/anything, break a law, blow up a bridge, stalk/tail someone, design a weapon, organise a meeting, make an alliance, get arrested, turn someone in, steal something, publish an article/newsletter - LITERALLY ANYTHING. The floor's yours, please do dance, because you all are absurdly creative and we want there to be more player-made radical action taken that affects everyone.

THIRD, I want to give everyone a rundown of just some of the main plots that we all are together aiming toward, this way we're all in the know and can have all our characters act accordingly so we get there. This isn't all that's out there or anything, but hopefully it'll bring people up to speed a bit so we can all add ideas and fill in blanks in comments. PREPARE FOR A BULLET LIST...

-ORDER-LED REVOLUTION: The Order needs to go from being passionate to dangerous. To become more militant not ONLY against the DEs but juuust as strongly against the government. This means acting as a group and independently, and no one has to wait for Moody or Sirius or Rose or anyone to organise something every time either. People will start quitting their jobs, disobeying orders, spreading their message, taking finding DEs into their own hands by tailing them or breaking into their homes for evidence, threatening Crouch Sr or other Ministry loyalists - anything we can think of. They still want peace but they know with things as they are, they're not going to get it without fighting fire with fire.
They have to cause just as much shit for the government as they do while taking care of the business the Ministry refuses to (like how Bella and others like her are untouchable and don't get arrested when normal people are being detained and arrested for going outside at night or Being Suspicious~). Maybe we could look to actual war-time anti-government groups in history for references! :D
All this culminates in a VERY public and influential take-over of the Daily Prophet headquarters. They'll wall themselves in there and use it to publish the truth, undermine the government, and shake the country out of it's Crouch-supporting, fearful haze and start a revolution. Being in the Order will mean risking your life, actively breaking the law for the good of the people. So every member start acting up, wipe that smirk of Crouch Sr.'s face!
FEEL FREE TO USE COMMENT HUR TO VOICE IDEAS, Y'ALL

-MINISTRY PUNISHMENTS: To help the Order get from A to B, the Ministry's going to be doling out fun little punishments that will push them to the point where this is unsolvable peacefully anymore. ANYONE who didn't register their wand is going to be punished in various ways. Some are going to be fined into submission, others threatened, and if all else fails the Ministry has some nasty spells developed to make your disobedient little lives miserable.
-There will be a fine to start with, followed by threats, and anyone who still refuses will be subjected toooo...
-Vitandus, a spell designed to magically excommunicate the subject. People won't be able to talk to you or your to them, until it's lifted. It WILL be work-around-able, but it'll force everyone to get pretty creative in order to get their characters to be able to talk to each other and organise themselves!
-A darker, more brutal punishment awaits Order members who still refuse to be obedient, so tread carefully~ Anyone who ever wanted their character to be in a horror movie, just keep standing against the Ministry and we'll deliver.

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THAR - general update post, I congratulate anyone who made it through all my babble LOL. There's the Catch-up post here on OOC, AND this post's comments to plot things and bounce around ideas. Also, anyone whose stumped for ideas you can just comment here with your characters names and people can throw suggestions out at you or tell you their character wants to get up to some mischief with yours. DEs, Order peeps, Ministry guys and everything in between, hit me with your best shot!
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