[center][h1]Hogwarts World Tour[/h1][/center]

[indent][h3]Tl;Dr[/h3][/indent]

Upon graduating from Hogwarts, our cast of young witches and wizards receive a bursary for foreign travel, enabling them to travel the world, starting with Europe. As a game, this will run as a series of short chapters, each focusing on one particular area and the adventures and antics of the group in each place. I really encourage players to come up with plots and locations and interesting sightseeing destinations and even to organise chapters themselves.

[indent][h3]Plot and Setting[/h3][/indent]

Obviously, this is set in the wizarding world of Harry Potter - but in 2007, ten years on from Voldemort’s final defeat, and so some scars still run deep, both personally and politically. Most of the world isn’t really documented (and things will have changed in the last ten years) in the books so we’ll be coming up with what we want/imagine certain areas of certain countries will be on the fly. To that end, I encourage people to ‘dibbs’ a country and officially establish what each nation is like, culturally, politically, and demographically.

There will almost certainly be no overarching plot outside the individual episodes beyond the continuity of our characters’ relationships with each other.

The O'Lustrum Bursary for Global Travel and Study is named for Aaron O'Lustrum, a journalist from the Republic of Ireland that reports on global affairs. Following the fall of Voldemort, the UK began a process of introspection and healing. While necessary, this resulted in less engagement with the rest of the world and, given the whole genocide thing, the UK isn't particularly well-regarded nowadays. The O'Lustrum Bursary is designed to remedy this somewhat, and it entails regular payments to the students for up to a year's worth of travel. For this, the students don't have to do anything apart from write fortnightly reports to O'Lustrum simply to say what they're up to and what they've noticed.

While the students may have one or two set events they want to check out, the bursary is designed for them to flexibly travel - and for us to not have to know exactly what we're doing next. ;)

[indent][h3]Episodes:[/h3][/indent]

[list][*] Setting Forth
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[indent][h3]Countries and Characters:[/h3][/indent]

Character sheets will be found in the character tab, as will nation sheets. The nation sheets are there so if any one of you is all "Hey I think France should be like this", you can totally establish that as canonical right off the bat. I do ask, though, that nobody posts in the Character Tab, at least for now. I get the feeling there might be a reasonable amount of info that ends up getting put in there and I like to be able to organise it, so I'll probably be the one that uploads everything in there. I might change my mind on that, in which case I'll let you know.