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Absit Omen is a Wizarding World AU set in 2018. We are a collaborative writing group from all over the world. Our plots are all member-driven. Happening Now

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xxFortnight Flier #75: 1 June - 31 August, Summer will end soon enough...

Absit Omen RPG
May 19, 2025, 09:02:11 AM by Absit Omen RPG
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May 2025
Issue #75
'Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.'
George R.R. Martin

Timeline
1 June 2018 - 31 August 2018

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June 9-Hogwarts Express Departs
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Featured Plot: Walls of Jericho

The wizarding world of Absit Omen is taking a turn for the darker, as it is revealed to the public that CAWW is developing a weapon of mass destruction in Disaster: USA Develops Muggle Killing Weapon. The push to develop this weapon stems from what the Americans believe to be the necessity of a 'fail safe' should the Statute of Secrecy be irreversibly breached, leading to a modern era of witch hunting.

Extremist Futurism and the worrying spread of muggle social media has stoked the flames of such fearmongering - not only in the US but in Great Britain and Europe as well.

Where do your characters fall, as opinions shift in favour of or against weapons development? Come join the fun with anyone in your cast, or feel free to write an NPC for the plot!


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Fletcher Greene

Edna Weschler

Ducky Kincaid

Peregrine Hyde

Xander Walton

Aurora Hawkins

xx[July 31st] Disaster: USA Develops Muggle Killing Weapon

The Daily Prophet
May 17, 2025, 02:24:39 PM by The Daily Prophet
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DISASTER LOOMS: USA Develops Muggle Killing Weapon
by Daily Prophet Editorial Staff
31 July 2018

BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Prophet must announce with all urgency that the Ministry of Magic has discovered that the Congress of American Witches and Wizards is developing, and is on the brink of finalising, a weapon capable of causing mass fatalities among muggles.

“The very existence of such a weapon,” declared Minister Carstairs, “endangers the precarious peace between wixkind and muggle society.”

The International Confederation of Wizards has just this morning moved to sanction C.A.W.W. and is calling for the immediate disarming and disposal of the weapon. Minister Carstairs on behalf of magical Britain stands with the ICW in this matter. Some ICW delegates are calling for the arrest of C.A.W.W.W Governor Cassius Inglethorpe for Yet-To-Be-Commited crimes.

“Whether or not our brothers and sisters across the pond realise this, our ultimate aim is peace. How can we have peace, knowing what persecution awaits us should the Statute of Secrecy be irreversibly broken?” reads a statement from Governor Inglethorpe.

Further reassurances have been issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs, to the effect that C.A.W.W. only intends on deploying their weapon under appropriate circumstances.


Discovery of this heinous project was uncovered by heroic British agents risking life, limb, and tongue. The Daily Prophet can also now safely confirm, without risk to brave Ministry personnel, that American spies have been operating in Britain for some years now, with the apparent attempt to ensure the British people be kept in the dark pertaining to their plans.

The exact nature of the weapon is at current time unconfirmed. However Ministry intelligence agents have linked its development to mysterious fatalities in Winthrop[1]. A more recent, unreported incident in Spanish Valley, Utah saw a noxious cloud settling in the streets of the muggle town - a cursed vapor harmless to magical kind but deadly to all others, human or beast. Ministry intelligence believes this was also an early test of a weapon that will soon be ready for use.

Knox Greyfriar, Carstairs' latest apointee to the ICW, spoke to reporters: "If you ask me, a level head in this situation is best. Fear must not be our strongest advisor in the face of adversity. Whatever is it be done, it must be done together."

In the forthcoming days, immediate to these troubling developments, Minister Carstairs will be delivering an official Opprobrium, the Ministry's most strident method of ardent disapproval, to Governor Inglethorpe.

The Daily Prophet is vigilantly confident when it declares its full support and admiration for our protectors that its readers will raise their wands in heart-felt agreement.
 1. 16th April - Mysterious Deaths Prompet Travel Warning

xx[June 2018] Beyond the front page...

The Daily Prophet
April 12, 2025, 03:09:09 PM by The Daily Prophet
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Beyond the front page...
Clippings and snippings from beyond the front page of the Daily Prophet over June 2018.

Knareswick’s Boon
2 June 2018 - An anonymous donor[1] has invested heavily in Mind Magic research at Knareswick Phrontiestery . When the Daily Prophet reached out for comment, the institution stated, “We are honored to be endowed with a gift that will provide crucial resources towards our sorcerers and apprentices, ensuring we cultivate the next generation of critical thinkers in the magical realm.” [...]
 1. 16th May - Rain-cheques Abhor a Clear Day

Merperson Attempts Escape
12 June 2018 - Plumbing issues were the least of Ministry problems after a merperson attempted to escape[2] yesterday, as was reported by a Magical Maintenance worker who found the incident more humorous than warranted.

In a statement released by the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, a lockdown was triggered on the entire floor. The Selkie in question has been in Beast Division custody since the discovered drowning of two muggles in March. Beings rights activists noted the controversy of this situation, as Merpeople have refused the classification of Being since Minister Grogan Stump’s revision of Being status in 1811.

Mermish translator Heliotrope Lejean has come under suspicion for having assisted the escape effort. [...]
 2. 11th June - The Dam Breaks


Blood Shortage at St.Mungo's
23 June 2018 - A contamination issue at St.Mungo's Blood Blank has prompted a shortage of blood, throwing both the hospital and vampire communities into quandary.

"It is both rare and unfortunate but contamination does occur despite our best efforts," reports a St.Mungo's representative. "In this case the contamination has been controlled but we must exercise caution or risk a genuinely harmful deficit."

The Being Division has requested for qualifying vampires to source their blood through consensual feedings for the next two months, so as to conserve the supply for vampires who are unable to do so. Those with difficulties in procuring a source may reach out to the Ministry's consultant vampire, Tristan Vaillancourt. [...]

Greyfriar Appointed to ICW
8 June 2018 - Knox Greyfriar has been selected by Minister Carstairs to be the next British delegate to the International Confederation of Wizards. Greyfriar had recently been quoted as saying he had no ambition for the post or any political office due to all the "hot air", but in a recent statment upon the announcement as said that he's "honored and enthusiastic" that he should have been selected. [...]

New Line-up for Chocolate Frogs
17 June 2018 -  A new array of Chocolate Frog Cards have been announced, adding to the extensive list of wixes already featured by the popular treat.

"We think it's a fantastic way to get young wizards and witches interested not only in magical history but in concurrent affairs," explains a chocolaterie representative. "So that when they see these names in the papers, there is a sense of recognition and context."

The new line-up features figures from various fields, including American wixes such as Samuel Lloyd and the Ministry's very own Head of Mysteries, Yavin Morgenthau.[...]

CAWW to Discuss Muggle Education Ban
27 June 2018 - Controversy has arisen across the pond, as the Office for Magic Relations and Education recently proposed preventing magical children from attending muggle schools. Governor Cassius Inglethorpe, who headed the office himself prior to being governor, is said to be in favour of the ban.

"Magical children are essentially being forced into an incomplete education," Inglethorpe explained in a recent interview for the Unlikely Times, "where they must deny their own culture and repress their talents."

Education specialists are divided on the issue. Some, particularly Futurists, argue that preventing wixes from pursuing muggle education will also cut them off from later entering muggle institutes of higher learning, where there is much that can be learned to the benefit of the magical world. Others agree that wixes who attend muggle schools then have less time to attain a full magical education.

The proposal will be submitted for discussion by Congress in August.
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