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I think my problem is how I differentiate between Out of Character chat and In Character talk. Given this is a RP I'd expect people to be RPing as character, like Monika and so to be reply as said characters (Agent Rutherford for example), so I read that part of this thread as In Character. When people are talking using their normal Board handles in this thread (if it was a pre-organised RP thing like the Purim RP or something on the T-Board this would be different) I'm reading as if its Out of Character, ie whatever is being said out of character by Scape for example is being directed at the person behind Monika, not Monika themselves. Which, is where my comments and views stem from, because I'm talking Out of Character, to other people Out of Character.

I guess my point of view is a little different to everyone elses.

Er, Storme, I also know who it is, and I can't see any indication that Scape or Nesh were commenting on the poster (who for the record is a Boarder in good standing, anyone who's concerned) rather than the character they were RPing. I also haven't seen any indication that the RP is going 'horribly wrong' - people are responding to them as the character, who is really disturbing, not as the PPCer, who made a thread tjat got responses.

Unless there's been some nasty talk in the chat, I think you're reading way too much into this.

hS

To anyone who wants to see my proof of who 'Monika' is, also email me and I'll show it to you.

Because are we talking about the character, Monika or the person who is behind the screen name? Assuming the former, then yeah. If i was ever in a situation with someone like that character I would advise them to seek mental help.

But, I don't think this is the case with this poster. Mostly, because I can tell you exactly who it is (even if I worked it out as I was typing this post). And unless they are a very good at hiding who/what they truly are, they have not come across as a psychopath to me either here on the Board or on Discord before. Initially I thought it was at best, a RP going horribly wrong (which I still hold out hope that it might be) or at worst a troll, designed specifically to aggravate us because of not only the type of character they were 'RPing' but also the exact matter which is associated with the 'verse the character is from.

Being who I am, I try to believe in the best of people at first, even online and I'm also willing to play the Devil's Advocate and in that mindset, I saw Scape's post not as a suggestion to the character but as a direct attack at the person behind the keyboard, and replied with that mindset in mind. It may not of been right, but it's what I felt should have been done.

Novastorme

P.S To the Boarder who posted as Monika, I know who you are, but I'm not going to reveal just yet unless I'm given a very good reason to. My email is clickable if you want to contact me to help sort things out if there are things to sort out, and I will post on here in your stead if you wish to remain anonymous while this situation is sorted. Be aware however, that this does not mean that I will become a mouthpiece for you to carry, whatever this is on. So do not try it, or my patience.

Have a cupcake!

Have a triple chocolate cupcAke and don't forget to blow out the candle!

Have a potatoe(sic).

Just wait a little the black-hole chocolate coffee with red berries coating and the black-hole coffee eclairs and actual coffee are coming...

This character, Monika, comes off to me as a giggling psychopath. If it hadn't turned out to be someone RPing, I'd have been telling them in no uncertain terms to leave us and the person they're stalking across the Internet the hell alone and possibly trying to figure out which authorities we should be contacting. Telling the character to seek mental help instead of continuing their stalking behavior is pretty reasonable, IMO.

~Neshomeh

Not saying that I personally like the idea or premise or genre of DDLC (I'm not typing out the whole thing), but going for that line immediately? Bit harsh really.

Respect YMMV is all I'm saying.

Hope you're enjoying the new friendo I gave ya. :)

It'll just be "alternative facts" or "fake news"

Bear in mind though that all of this was written before Fantastic Beasts 1 came out, so some of it may well be disproved by the film. :)

hS

Per Pottermore, there are eleven main wizarding schools. If you don't live in a country with its own school (or within a school's primary intake area), you are probably either home-schooled, or taught by correspondence course. One assumes that Muggle-borns tend to be grabbed by whatever the nearest school is, even if it's several countries away. There are also non-approved schools, which Pottermore gives only a passing mention to.

Given that J.K. Rowling is a clear Hogwarts Exceptionalist, the documents written by her have a certain... incompleteness when it comes to the other schools. That, of course, means there's a huge opportunity here for wild speculation! Everything that follows is either direct from Rowling via the Pottermore link, or sheer invention on my part. ^_^

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Hogwarts: (Intake: British Isles) Hogwarts was a compromise which pleased none of the Founders. Hufflepuff originally floated the idea of a central magical location which wizards from all the warring factions of Britain could gather in, but the other three were the ones who insisted on making it a school. Ravenclaw wanted a research establishment, Slytherin wanted to teach practical magic - and Gryffindor wanted a combat academy.

Beauxbatons: (Intake: Europe west of Germany & north of Switzerland) The Triwizard Tournament was originally founded to try and stave off war between Hogwarts and Beauxbatons after the English possessions in France were taken by the French. (The situation was made even more complicated by the fact that Scotland was allied with France, but Hogwarts was mainly English.) It was repeatedly cancelled due to wars and outbreaks of nationalism between the two; the 1792 cancellation was intended to be temporary, but after Napoleon's rise to power in France, it remained in place due to tensions between the schools which amounted to outright hatred.

Durmstrang: (Intake: Scandinavia, Eastern Europe) The reason for the tension between Durmstrang and the other European schools is simple: Durmstrang was in the Eastern Bloc, and fell under Soviet influence (partly due to its hatred of Grindelwald the Wizard Fascist). Igor Karkaroff was hated for many reasons, but one was that he was the first non-Communist head of the school in nearly a century.

Koldovstoretz: (Intake: Russia) Koldovstoretz is known from an ancillary text, but isn't shown on the map of schools. The reason for this is simple: nobody knows where it's gone. It went into hiding during the Russian Revolution of 1917, and has never come back out. (This may sound absurd, but their students play Quidditch on entire trees; they're used to moving large objects around.)

Uagadou: [Intake: all Africa, purportedly] Uagadou is not actually a school: it is a city, the capital of the only independent wizarding nation in the world, that just happens to contain a school. The fact that this is not acknowledged is due to a long-term, deeply racist trend of diminishing the achievements of African wizards, in an effort to brush over the fact that they were the founders of magic; see for example Rowling's characterization of Uagadou students as unruly and mischievous.

There are actually multiple other large, famous, and ancient African schools - but the International Confederation of Wizards refuses to acknowledge them, for much the same reasons. Supreme Mugwump Akingbade has tried to change this, but been stymied by bureaucratic stubbornness.

Ilvermorny: (Intake: North America) While theoretically drawing from the entire continent, Ilvermorny barely receives any students from outside the MACUSA heartlands in the US north-east and west coast. Canadian parents don't see why their children should be bound by MACUSA laws (such as wand registration), wizards from the US south have been in low-key rebellion against the MACUSA government for centuries, and families from Central America would rather send their kids to Castelobruxo.

Castelobruxo: (Intake: Theoretically South America) Castelobruxo actually gets most of its students from Central America, because of its legacy of conquest. The school was actually founded in Yucatan by the Maya, then taken over by Aztec (Mexica, rather) wizards a couple of hundred years later. When the Spanish came to conquer Central America, Castelobruxo moved south - and established itself in the Amazon by force, demanding that native South American wizards submit to their 'far superior' magic setup. Throw in the later effects of Portuguese colonization, and you end up with a school that's in constant tension with its own local population.

Mahoutokoro: (Intake: Japan) Mahoutokoro is actually an exercise in deceit. Every aspect of it - from 'oh, we love this Quidditch you've taught us' to 'our students fly to school on birds' to 'ooh, cherry wood wands are the most stereotypical BEST!' - has been designed to trick Westerners into dismissing it as a cute little school that's not worth worrying about. What they're actually up to is anyone's guess.

The Missing Three: There are three other schools that have never been mentioned, and much like Koldovstoretz's exclusion from the map, this is absolutely deliberate. Here's the story:

-The Chinese School, despite being almost as large as Uagadou, has been in a state of feud with the international wizarding community for decades. They openly flout the International Statute of Secrecy, and have been directly involved in multiple revolutions in China, including the Communist Revolution.

-The Tibetan School, which served wizards as far away as India, was destroyed by Chinese soldiers during the conquest of Tibet in 1951. Many of its teachers and students escaped, and have established an educational network across southern Asia. The name is maintained on the list of the Eleven, both in defiance against the Muggles who burned it, and in the hope that it will one day be restored.

-The Australian School is known to exist, because wizards from as far away as South-East Asia and Polynesia claim to be graduates from there. But as far as anyone can make out, it exists in another plane of reality entirely; its graduates all come out as devoted mystics, and just insist that they learned their magic in the Dreamtime.

hS

Isn’t the entire plot of your game you mucking with the other characters so you can have the player all to yourself?

I think that sounds like exactly what we handle.

Though now I have to wonder - is 'Nana' a ghost? Or other type of nonhuman? Clearly she must be benevolent, if she loves young children!

... Not that I expect said young child to still be a child much longer after this story ends, but still.