So, after our brief hiatus and our most recent activity check (we're still working on deletions, so please bear with us!), it is time for us to move our timeline forward into the month of November. This does not mean that you have to end all of your existing topics, but it does mean that any threads you start from this point on will take place in the month of November. Please keep this in mind when you write up and date your posts.

As stated, we had a bit of a dead period due to school and other responsibilities for many of our members. However, now that it's summer, we're going to return to our expectations of one post a week, or at the very least, one cbox drop-in a week. As far as threads go, while we don't want to rush anyone, we would encourage you to either start wrapping things up in some of the much older threads, or to just start fresh with something new in the current RPG month, which is November. We would also encourage anyone with subplot ideas to use the application and post them up, and also, if anyone has ideas for characters they'd like to see around, put those up in the requests section and then advertise them on ATR! Again, we're really eager to get things going again, and you guys being active members is the key to bringing the site back to life.

As you might have notice on the Bulletin Board or in the sidebar, there is a Hogsmeade visit coming up for all Hogwarts students year 3 and older, which would be every student on the site at the moment. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves and discuss subplot ideas and any threads you'd like to do during the visit. Alternately, as with the Hogwarts Express threads, we had a lot of success with just starting open threads and allowing people to jump in if they wanted to. Any of these options would be great, and we're hoping the Hogsmeade threads will get the site plots rolling again. Just make sure all threads are dated Fri, Nov. 4 - Sun, Nov. 6 as this is when the trip is scheduled.

Once again, thank you all for being so loyal and sticking around, even during the downtime. We appreciate you guys for posting in the activity check and being so willing to move forward, and we hope that we can get Oblivescence back to what it was before. You guys are amazing members, and we love you!!

-- CHERRI, EMILY, AND KELLI