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Ladies, Gentlemen, and invited transgendered guests, Edmund's Alchemy Lab in Devon is pleased to officially announce the release of the Live Chat Module!

Live chat has been a long time coming, it allows you to chat without having to refresh the page.

118 of you managed to find your way to my lab in Devon over the last few weeks and activate this module in Beta mode thanks to 4 clues hidden in WizardCast Episode #1

For those of you who couldn't get the episode, here were the clues (note don't bother trying them now, they no longer work, the portkey is no longer located in Trelawney's Orb):

1) Danilo lost his portkey, he asked people to consult a seer to see if the seer could help you find the portkey. -> Translation: The portkey was located at Trelawney's Orb.

2) Danilo's portkey could only be activated with a password. This password (given to you by Mike) was "Question" (without the quotes).

3) The portkey led to Devon, a place you can only reach by means of that portkey. In Devon was located Edmund's Alchemy Lab. My clue was that the item in my lab that you should ask for when you found my lab was "Live Chat".

4) In order to get the Live Chat, you needed one more password, my lovely wife SerenityRose gave the password in the podcast "Chatter" (again without the quotes).

This module, which I will explain briefly in Episode 2 of WizardCast, allows you to chat without refreshing, it greatly increases the speed of the chat in the site and reduces strain on the server while giving you a more dynamic interactive experience.

Many of you who have activated the Live Chat Module have noticed bugs here and there. I will note that while sometimes the four clues will give you a special bonus, when the clues lead to being a beta tester of a new feature you will get to try the feature before anyone else but in exchange I ask you to tell me if you find any bugs. Several of the beta testers of the live chat module did in fact inform me of bugs, which should for the most part be fixed now.

For those of you who did not get the WizardCast clues and use them, fear not, the clues just gave people an advanced sneak peak. All users now have the Live Chat system enabled on their accounts. If for whatever reason (most common reason being you are blind and are using a screen reader that is incompatible with the live chat) you wish to turn the Live Chat off on your account, simply go to your Preferences and turn it off. Chat will continue to work for you as it always has if you choose this option.

I hope all of you enjoyed WizardCast episode #1 and stay tuned for WizardCast episode #2 coming very soon. If you haven't already, be sure to scroll down here in the MoTD and find the link to subscribe to WizardCast via iTunes. As a special bonus to iTunes subscribers, WizardCast Episode 2 will be available to iTunes subscribers a whole 24 hours before showing up here in the MoTD.

Also be sure to check out The Official WizardCast Website for other nifty features, and be sure to take our listener survey, available on the official WizardCast website.

We will be recording the interview with Aurora the evening of Sept. 2nd. If you have any Questions for her you must get them to me Before 5pm CDT on Sept. 2nd.

Also, we are having problems with Skype, so please do not try to send in voicemails there, if you would like to send in a voicemail for the show (and please do), send it to GizmoProject username WizardCast, or call us at 1-206-600-6WIZ (1-206-600-6949), we'd love to hear you on the show.

Thank you,
Lady of Fantsay SerenityRose

Ok, I'm sure you are tired of hearing about WizardCast, the official podcast of Hogwarts Live, but I had to post this additional message. WizardCast has now been approved for placement in the iTunes music store, so if you have iTunes, you can now subscribe to WizardCast and automatically receive the new episodes of the Podcast as they are released. As a special treat to those who subscribe, we will from now on place new episodes up in iTunes at least 24 hours before we post a MoTD here, so if you want to have first crack at getting those clues and finding your way to my lab, subscribe via iTunes today.

Hello my fellow members of HogwartsLive, it is my great pleasure to announce the first episode of the official Podcast of Wizards.Pro and HogwartsLive.com, WizardCast Episode #1 Is here!

For those of you who don't know what a podcast is, it is an internet radio show. In the first episode of WizardCast we have an exclusive interview with the founder of HogwartsLive himself, Headmaster Danilo. We also have a detailed description of the upcoming Upgrades and reset, and the latest in Fantasy and Science Fiction news.

Contrary to popular belief, you do not need an iPod or other portable MP3 player to listen to a podcast, all you need is a computer and a media player (Like Windows Media Player, Quicktime, iTunes, Winamp, or my personal favorite VLC).

In this podcast are hidden 4 secret clues, with these clues you will find yourself to a secret area of the game that cannot be reached without these clues. In this secret area you can find my Alchemy Lab and I have something very special for those of you who take note of all 4 clues.

To download Episode 1 of WizardCast, simply visit http://downloads.wizardcast.wizards.pro/
in your web browser. The podcast will begin downloading automatically.

As a special treat to all of you on HogwartsLive, it will be available to you via this link before it is available on the official WizardCast website.

So everyone get downloading and I hope to see you in my lab soon.

Enjoy the show!

Click here to play streaming version

Ok, once again, do not share the passwords or clues from the podcast with anyone, if they want the clues they need to listen to the podcast themselves. If it is found out that you have shared the passwords or clue, the prize you received from the clues will be taken away from you and you will also not be allowed to use the clues from the next episode either.

DO NOT SHARE THE PASSWORDS OR CLUES!

Our apologies for those who have had trouble getting to Devon, the portkey has been repaired, if you would please try again, you should be able to use your clues successfully.

I have fixed the bug with logging out at the inn, because of this glitch cedric's potion sale will continue through Sunday Night to help anyone who has lost hitpoints because of this glitch.

Alot of players who log out in the inn are losing their hp. I am going to ask kindly that you do not log out in the inn until this bug is fixed. Now if you have already done so and lost hp that you have bought. We will be happy to replace it. But to make our (Witchy's and myself's) life a little less hetic, I am going to ask that you refrain yourself from logging out there at the moment.
Thank you.

Ok, stop reporting bugs with Cedric, people have continually found ways around the hp cap with cedric and so therefore the new limitation has been put in place, Cedric will no longer sell you more max hit points then you are allowed to have, you are allowed to have 45 max hit points PER VE you have, plus 10 for each level (the 10 you get when you level up), no more, if you attempt to purchase additional max hitpoints past that point, cedric will take your gems but will not give you the hitpoints.

I repeat, there is no bug with Cedric, do not attempt to buy more hitpoints then you are allowed to have, there will be no compensation for you spending too many gems. We have warned you all that these limitations would be coming into effect for months, We have told you all about a maximum hitpoint limit, do not expect any compensation for wasted gems if you try to buy too many hitpoints, you will get NO compensation... I repeat again, NO COMPENSATION, so figure out what your max is, and do not go over that maximum.

Hello everyone, I am sorry to announce that due to a glitch the record of all purchased maximum hp from Cedric in the Hog's Head has vanished. There is not an easy way to get them back, so after your next VE your max hp may reset back down to the maximum you had from other means...

To help counteract this problem Cedric is having a sale on Vitality potion, You can now (until Saturday Only) buy Vitality potion for only one gem per dose of potion, and each dose will give you 5 max hitpoints (as opposed to the previous of 4 gems for 1 max hitpoint).