User blog:Ckohrs0221/Expansion, Summer 2027

Ahhhh yay, that’s right! It’s expansion time!

I’m really excited about all of the ideas for this expansion, so please read the blog carefully, and comment or owl me with any questions!

The Disease
And you thought Scrofungulus was a thing of the past. Oops! It’s back! And it’s infecting everyone! We already have a Patient 0, so watch out! This disease is highly contagious, and it’s airborne. So even just conversing will spread it!

How it spreads
The disease is spread through the air-- so even just a conversation can get your characters infected! Because the disease was brought back through time, there will be some mutations that will occur. This isn’t the Scrofungulus you read about in History of Magic way back when.

Spreading Logistics
We’re trying to make this as realistic as possible…. while still manageable for the AI and St. Mungo’s folks. Not everyone gets infected at once… it sort of happens in waves. So, when you “sign up” to have your character get infected…. you will also tell us when you want your character infected. There will be three waves of infections-- the first wave will get 25%, the second 50%, and the last wave, the remaining 25%. There is a page to sign up which characters you want to infect. You do not need to decide right now how many you plan to kill-- just which ones you want to infect. This helps the AI team, and the St. Mungo’s team, to determine which characters will be getting ill. As previously stated, not everyone will get infected at the same time… and not everyone’s disease will mutate at the exact same time. The blog will be updated with which characters are at which level, so that there is a page for everyone to reference as the expansion continues. When you sign up, please let us know which wave you prefer to have your characters infected in. Characters infected in the first two waves will get sicker than those infected in the last wave, to give you some idea. We will try to honor your requests as much as possible, but we might alter some things to keep our percentages as close as possible (25, 50, 25).

The expansion is due to start the last week of Hogwarts-- Week 9. No one will get sick before then.

How it mutates
You will receive an owl from the AI team letting you know when your character has been infected, based on your indications of when you want your character infected. The AI team decides when the disease will mutate, and someone from AI will owl you letting you know when mutations affect your character specifically, and when new symptoms for your character are beginning to crop up.

Disease Mutations
There will be four levels of mutation for the virus. We’re going to keep the symptoms a secret until the mutation shows up, but this is what you can expect.


 * Level One - incubation period, minor symptoms, not very visible.
 * Level Two - Symptoms concerning enough to go see St. Mungo’s people, but not concerning enough to be hospitalized yet.
 * Level Three: Major, severe symptoms…. need to be hospitalized
 * Level Four- absolutely raging symptoms, very weak, potentially fatal-- a turn for the worse

To let you prepare, the following are symptoms of Level 1.
 * Nausea
 * Unusual Fatigue

Characters Affected
You can infect a certain portion of your characters. This will work the same way that exotics do. You can infect up to 40% of your characters. Of that 40%, you can decide how many (if any) that you want to kill--- yes, this will be a deadly disease! Sign up which characters you want to infect.

OOC
There will be templates to apply to your character pages to notify others that your character has been infected. There will be templates for Levels 1-4, and there will be a general “Infected” category as well. It is up to you whether or not you choose to put it in your character’s word bubble as well.