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Welcome to the Academics weekly assignment for the week of July 31st, 2022! These weekly assignments will give our Professors the ability to showcase some of their lesson ideas here on the website. Each assignment will be posted for a week, in which everyone will be able to read about the topic and respond to the assignment prompt. This week's assignment is "Magical Geography - Appleby Village" created by Arne (tqrpiar).

Hello witches and wizards!

As we start August, we are excited to announce the winner of last month's giveaway, as well as announce this month's new prompt!

In July, we had many fantastic pieces of art submitted that fit the zodiac sign prompt! From beautifully constructed pieces to artwork out of this world, those in our art community showed their talent once again! And so, without further ado, the July winner is… Silquer! They will receive the prize of 150 Potter Points and 100 House Points today.

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Now onto the August giveaway & theme!

To reiterate, the Monthly Art Giveaway is a way for players to create any art form (MC build, render, drawing, writing, craft, etc.) while fitting a specific theme. One winner will be randomly picked at the end of the month, and will receive 150 Potter Points and 100 House Points!

This month's prompt is to create a piece involving your favorite Potterworld class subject!

Giveaway Guidelines:

Greetings everyone!

After much deliberation and consideration, we have come to the decision to discontinue the Housemaster role. We’d like to thank all current, and previous, housemasters and heads of houses for their work and contributions to their role. It has not gone unnoticed!

What about house cups?
Don’t worry! We’ll still be doing the house cups, and there’ll still be a celebration for the winning house. We even have plans to expand on this, so e.g. the Great Hall becomes decorated with the winning house’s color for a while.

We’ll also be looking at trying to balance House Points a bit more so it’s fairer for every house. Right now, with the current system, certain houses have a clear advantage over other houses, and we want to help even the playground a bit.

The future for house cups is exciting!

Why this change?
After reviewing the 6 months the Housemaster role has existed, and the HoHs, the value it has provided to the server hasn’t really been anything big and worth the effort it takes for the teams to be active and complete their responsibilities. With the discontinuation of Roleplay and the Inquisitorial Squad, we feel this is another step in entering a new state where Potterworld is more focused on making new game-play for the server, without requiring staff members to become ‘actors’ and manage aspects of the community.

At the end of the day, we believe that a strong community is self-run. This is something that has been clear for many years, as the involvement from HoHs and Housemasters hasn’t been that much, and the community has still flourished and remained strong, if not stronger.

Thanks, everyone! We hope you’re excited for the future, just as much as us!

We are excited to announce that the Poltergeist subdepartment will be moving from Community Management to join Technology & Development!

These changes will establish closer communication between the playerbase and our Developers, and it will increase transparency with players regarding valuable core aspects of the server. We will be making some large backend changes over the next months to adjust how we handle suggestions. This will increase the efficiency and communication in the team. As a result, this new system will also decrease the wait times for suggestions to receive an official decision. Effective immediately, we will no longer be sending out initial responses to suggestions to accommodate and match these changes, as well as creating a smoother and simpler system for us to work with.

We will also be making some changes to how we gather feedback and suggestions, such as slightly raising the amount of AC received from filling forms out, working on shortening forms, sending out broadcasts in-game when forms are released, and using new methods to gather statistical data. We can't wait to see the effect these changes have and how the Poltergeist team grows with them!

Welcome to the Academics weekly assignment for the week of July 24th, 2022! These weekly assignments will give our Professors the ability to showcase some of their lesson ideas here on the website. Each assignment will be posted for a week, in which everyone will be able to read about the topic and respond to the assignment prompt. This week's assignment is "Wizarding Fashion - Adaawaḵ Wilp-siwilaaks" created by Lyra (myriadofanger).

Our latest expansion, The Mark of the Healer is now live! A brand new six-part questline, called Rising Healer, a new Fast Travel quest, called A Repair for a Ride and the all-new Merlin's Magical Hospital Build await players in our latest update.

Rising Healer
A brand new six-part questline is now live! Players will encounter Via Oxley, a student who wishes to learn the art of healing, and over the course of six quests, embark on a fantastic journey to discover more about Via, the Oxley family, and secrets that lie within several towns... There is also a brand new healing spell available in Rising Healer: Supported called Saniteris! Check your quest journal to begin!

Rising Healer: United
Level Requirement: 40
Rising Healer: Supported
Level Requirement: 50
Rising Healer: Comforted
Level Requirement: 59
Rising Healer: Challenged
Level Requirement: 65
Rising Healer: Recommended
Level Requirement: 65
Rising Healer: Reunited
Level Requirement: 74

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Other New Content
- A Repair for a Ride: A new fast travel quest that will take you from Appleby to Riddleyard! You can speak to the Boat Captain on the shore near Appleby to Begin! Level Requirement: 60
- Merlin's Magical Hospital has been released on the world! Head to London to be able to explore this beautifully redesigned hospital and discover the few hidden secrets that are hidden throughout it.

Credits
Quest Design & Implementation: chail3y, HektorTM, apaulled, AzureAsh, NSgaming, Lbby, Miss_Strudel
Skins: Bertnana, kaae, Ralie...