Hi everyone!

A little birdie told me that some of you novices have been doing very well in your lessons—so well, in fact, that it sounds like there will be a few raisings shortly. As such, we’ve created two new boards: the Accepted Lesson Board and the Raising Board. They’re up and open for posting.

A few things to remember about who can use these boards:

• The Accepted Lesson Board: Accepted attending classes or pursuing independent studies, and Aes Sedai who are teaching lessons. Other full rank characters (namely Gaidin and Asha’man) do of course on occasion teach lessons, and will also be able to post on this board once the lesson has been authorized by the Mistress of Novices.
• The Raising Board: This board is for all sections and ranks—novices, Accepted, and Trainees gaining merit badges. However, an Officer will always post a “starter” post for your raising (except in certain cases, where you will receive permission to start without one of us), so please wait for us before beginning your raising string. Please note that post title formatting on this board should be kept to an absolute minimum; we understand that your raising is important, but if you use too much bold & italics, it means that someone else’s raising doesn’t look as important, which sucks for them. Officers will remove excess formatting without notice.

I look forward to announcing some raisings soon!

—Joni
Creator & Keeper of the Chronicles

Hi everyone!

Just thought you might like a little bit of warning: I’ve updated WordPress to the 3.0 version, and it’s now a nice sleek light grey version. Everything should still work exactly the same, however!

One nice new feature of WP 3.0 is that you can easily and quickly get a short link to your post. Simply click “Edit” at the bottom of your post, log in, and at the top of the editing page you will see a “Get short link” button just under the title text box. I don’t really know what relevance it might have, but I do have a feeling it’ll save us some time in the long run. So thanks, WordPress!

As always, if you have any questions about our WordPress system, simply email me at joni (at) wheeloftimerp.net. :)

—Joni

I’m happy to announce that we now have a Within the Wheel board! This means that any adventuring you might do outside of Tar Valon can now take place off of the White Tower board. Remember that this is only for characters who are allowed out of the White Tower… sorry, novices. ;)

Let the fun commence!

—Joni

Phew!

Thus concludes a bunch of research and a lot of fiddling from yours truly. I’ve found, created, styled, and implemented a new join form for us, because the last one seemed to work roughly 50% of the time. Grr. Hopefully this one will be a lot more reliable.

We’ve utilized some new fandangled technology (man I love the stuff) to bypass the biography request email—from now on, you can (and must) upload your character’s biography straight away, as well as your writer’s bio. It’ll save us a step, which will be quite nice for a change.

Anyway, just thought I’d share the join form joy! :)

—Joni

Hello WoT RP members, and members-to-be,

It is my pleasure to announce that our message boards are now fully functional, and all exist! I was waiting off on creating the rest of the boards due to some debugging issues, which have now been fixed. So, everything should be fully operational and just waiting for you to post on them! A huge, huge, huge shout out to my partner Luke who has been working on them this whole time. He’s truly worked some magic.

It’s pretty exciting getting the site going again. Things have been buzzing with join forms, writer pages, and of course the boards. Here are a few highlights:

• The string announcing the new Amyrlin Seat, Keeper of the Chronicles, and Mistress of Novices is almost done! Be sure to check it out on the White Tower Board, because it has a lot of back history for where the site is ‘re’starting from.
• Keep your eyes on the How to Use Our Boards page for some tips and tricks and essential know-hows.
• Add yourself to our Google Map of writers!

Last but not least, the Officers have discussed our policy on returning old characters, with a few notes. We’re only accepting characters back who were active and listed at the old site at the time of its closing. If you stopped writing with your character before the site closed, sorry, you’ll have to start afresh! Remember too that you can start a new character at the old rank you had (as in, if you had an Accepted you don’t have to start with a novice again unless you want to). Making a new character is totally the way to go, though, because then you don’t run into any weird storyline conflicts between the old and new sites. We have also put a deadline on reinstating old characters: June 30, 2010. So be sure to apply for them before then!

It’s so good to see all the posting that’s going on on the boards. Keep it up! :)

—Joni

Well!

What an exciting week it’s been. I’m very pleased to announce that our boards are almost ready for posting on—in less than a week, we’ll be fully back in business with boards that work and act much like our old ones did. I loved those boards so, so much, but I think I’m going to love these ones even more. Once the boards are fully operational, we’ll have a “grand opening” of sorts to announce to the world that the WoT RP is back.

But, since I know so many of you are just raring to go… you can now start submitting those join forms! And if you’re even more raring to go, start working on that extended biography and intro post—you’ll be needing them before too long. :)

Cheers,

Joni