Welcome to the start of term! Where getting back to your dorms after the welcoming feast may take an unexpectedly haunting turn. Will you be able to use the advice of some castle portrait inhabitants to help out a ghostly new acquaintance in trouble? You may just escape an unfortunate outcome of your own!
Organized by:
Adeline Morior, Anne-Marie Gagne, Aquaria Sandalwood,
Katherine Laurier, Lex Green, and Rose Dove,
with Prof. Sindor Aloyarc
Timeline:
• September 3: Week One Posted
• September 10: Week Two Posted
• September 17: Week Three Posted
• September 24: Week Four Posted
• September 30: Everything Due
Up For Grabs:
330 beans and 2 shinies spread over 18 tasks! (15 beans per task, 15 bonus beans each week for submitting all tasks over any given week by end of activity).
• The Moving Staircase award:
For completing 9 tasks.
• The Haunted Hallway award:
For completing all 18 tasks.
Join in:
This is a castle-wide activity. Post below expressing your interest in joining and we’ll add you to the list! You do not need to wait to start submitting any available tasks.
** Participants: **
Silvana Mandeville
Dibyarup James Potter
Amy Smith
Prof. Kendra Givens
Prof. Will Lestrange
Kalgri Sicaria
Tia Lovegood
Mia Fountain
Penelope Friar
Marianne Moony
Lyra Kasia
Rosemary Sharpe
Scarlet Leslie-Lewis
Maeve Madden
Holly David
Janne Halla
Uma Daurka
Lara Westbrook
Ellie Vernez
Dawn Diya
Scarlet Robloutain
Alexandra Rosier
Dittany Fiadh Gealbhan
Keep track of your progress with the "Portraits of a Haunted Hallway" Spreadsheet.
— QUESTIONS may be posted below or sent via Private Message to any of the organizers. Please include the task organizer AND myself, Prof. Sindor Aloyarc, on any and all private submissions or inquiries to assist with activity tracking.
Questions might include:
• How late can I start participating?
You may join in at anytime, however everything is due by Saturday September 30th at 11:59pm (HOL time).
• Why are there tasks missing?
On posting days of any given week, Organizers will present their own tasks as schedules allow. Tasks will be numbered to maintain the general order for tracking, however will not necessarily be posted in this same order. If you aren't seeing something, check back a little later and you should be good to go!
• Why are my tasks not up to date or correct on the spreadsheet?
Please allow for a full 48hr to pass before reaching out to the organizer in charge of said task asking about something that’s remained undocumented in the spreadsheet. If you’re noticing an error, feel free to reach out at any time. Something like bonus beans not being added yet, for example, can go unnoticed at first (especially if someone was a bit focused on updating their own tasks), and will usually get caught by end of week, but you can always touch base to be sure.
• What if I can't (or don't want to) do a Task?
If accomplishing parts of this activity becomes impractical or undesirable for any reason, please feel more than encouraged to ask for an alternative if one hasn't been provided, suggest something, or skip that section altogether. Our goal is to have fun! We simply wish to support your most enjoyable experience.
• How do I post Graphics?
A few popular Image Hosting sites are Postimages, Imgur, and Imgbb where you can upload your work, the locate a direct link toward sharing elsewhere. The “BBCode” to attach on The Roost forum submissions (which can be accomplished automatically for you by the click of a button from options at the top of your editing page) is [*img][*/img] with url in the middle (i.e. [*img]link[*/img]) — NOTE: You would remove the asterisks (*) in order for this code to be successful. They’re added here to display the example effectively. Images imbedded directly into posts must be kept within 600x600 pixels.
• Can I come and go as I please?
Absolutely! There are no rules against passing over anything you're not interested in, or doing tasks out of order. No pressure at all.
• Do I have to post submissions to the forums?
While we love seeing people posting/interact together should that be their preference, if you would feel more comfortable turning in some or all of your work via private message where prompted otherwise, that's perfectly fine!
