HO HO HO, GUESS WHAT: STAFF HAS UNLEASHED YOUR OVERLORD ON 12 DAYS MUAHAHAHA

No but srsly, welcome to 12 Days of Charming!!! We've got a few new people to our lovely community, so to put it directly quoting from Kayte last year simply: 12 Days is, quite literally, twelve days, in which each day brings with it a new challenge, riddle, or puzzle for you to solve. Complete all twelve to earn the 12 Days stamp!

What are stamps, you ask? WELL! Charming has a great participation program that allows you to collect fancy little stamps for different challenges you do around the board/community! Head on over to our stamp station to learn more :D

Stamps not your jam? This is for you anyways—each day has one to five (or on some days, unlimited!) prizes available to be won on a first done, first served basis! As always, the December Challenge stamp is buried in there somewhere…

Check back on Friday, December 12 for DAY ONE!

Alright friends, we’re gearing up for the start of 12 Days tomorrow, I hope you’re ready!

As a note, this will be added at the end of every challenge, but please send your answers to Faustus Prewett and NOT thru Discord.

This is to ensure I keep the timestamps of when yall sent them in one place. Thank yooouuu and see you tomorrow ;)

WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO 12 DAYS!!! Let's kick it off with a cryptogram to warm up, shall we? I've given you a little clue to budge you along.


PM the mystery phrase to this account by noon PST time tomorrow in order to qualify!

Starting off strong, my friends!! Yesterday saw Kit, Lauren, Fallin, Emma, Jenna, Miri, and Chris take home 10 House Points to the house of their choosing! Feel free to send me your preference for house points and student credit via Discord!

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Today we’re going ahead with a writing challenge!! ‘Tis a simple one today: Join or start 2-3 open threads! Each of your posts/thread starters must be 300+ words and include the following 12 words (exactly as they appear! i.e. no "carols" as opposed to "caroling" etc):

• ghost
  
• joyful
  
• giving
  
• caroling
  
• ornaments
  
• tinsel
  
• evergreen
  
• yuletide
  
• firelight
  
• wreath
  
• reunion
  
• humbug
  

Not to worry about speed when it comes to this challenge. Take time with your posts, and the prizes will be raffled off, with those participating each getting one entry <3

PM your post links to this account within 24 hours of this post to qualify!

A little late today, I apologize for that! Congratulations to Lauren who won a Featured Want Ad from yesterday's raffle! Everyone else contributed to their streaks, which you can see here! Also don't forget to DM me your preferred House Points from yesterday!

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Y'all, it's been a really fucking hard year. Idk about you but I'm about to put my head thru a wall...

SO we're showing love in more ways than just love notes (that'll come later in the week). Today, your task is to submit three threads to our This Thread is Awesome thread. Each thread must be for at least 1 different player (so if one thread has player A and B, then the next thread can have either player A or B, but has to also feature a different player too).

EDIT: Pls also make sure to add WHAT you like about the thread into your compliments! After all, it IS about celebrating our community and our glorious writers!! <33

PM your post links to this account within 24 hours of this post to qualify!

Loved seeing the appreciation for our fellow members!! Let's keep it up, yeah? I always love seeing that thread getting replies :D Our Day III winners are Lauren, MJ, Kelly, Kit and Chris who all took home a +1 modifier! Everyone else contributed to their streaks :D

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Today for DAY IV, I need your help! Four calling birds have been let loose on the board and have replaced characters avatars! Return them to me as fast as you can by PMing me the names of the four characters they've replaced!


PM your post links to this account by 12pm PST Dec 17th!

Well done everyone!! Our four calling birds have been properly gathered and returned to their nest. Meanwhile the avatars of Sybilla Rowle, Sam Leakey, Nicodemus Dursley and Dean Hudson have more or less been restored to rights. Congratulations to Kit, Jenna, Fallin and Kelly for each gaining an Immortality Discount! Everyone else contributed to their streaks <3

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I've taken liberty of copying one of Kayte's past challenges! We're throwin' it back to 2022 with a 10K LITE (it was easier when we called it Nano but they've gone the way of the dark side aka AI so I better not hear any 'but it's not really 10k since we're not writing 10k words!' xDD) We've got 3 prizes to hand out today, so get your engines started!

There are two ways to play:

• ROUTE ONE: Post 500 words across all your characters. You will lock in your streak for today, but will not be eligible for a prize.
  
• ROUTE TWO: Post 1000 words with *one* character. You will not only lock in your streak, but be eligible for a prize.
  

Once you've figured out what strategy works for you, make sure your word counts are in each post counting towards today's challenge!

PM your post links to this account by 12:59:59 AM PST to qualify!

Happy Holidays everyone and welcome to Day VI of 12 Days of Charming! Yesterday's was a bit of a doozy. Congratulations to Kit who won a prize set from MJ! Everyone else contributed to their streaks.

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We're going for some more positivity ahead of the weekend: send in some love notes for/about your fellow Charmers! You must send comments for four or more players, which will be anonymously sent out tomorrow <3

The prize will be raffled, so no rush on getting your comments in!


PM your post links to this account within 24 hours of this post to qualify!

It's BINGOOOOO TIMMMMMEEEEE!!! Complete any row (vertical, horizontal, diagonal) of five on the bingo card by finding five DIFFERENT currently active characters that fit the briefs! The biggest catch? None of them can be your own!



PM the list of characters AND the categories for which they qualify to this account within 24 hours to qualify!

Ok I have to admit something...I completely forgot that B I N G O often times actually had rows corresponding to the letters, so when some of y'all messaged me saying you got "Row B", I sat at my computer scratching my head for longer than I'd care to admit trying to figure out what part of the assignment (that I had given you guys) I had misunderstood. I got it tho. -hides-

EMBARRASSMENT ASIDE, let's do a Prize Roundup! Thank you all for participating in BOTH the bingo AND the love notes. It warms my heart to see y'all be so enthusiastic about our community <3 Congratulations to Té who won the Day VI prize: A Playlist from Beanie (Cassius Lestrange) and to Kit for winning a Retired Stamp!

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ONTO DAY EIGHT. HUZZAH.

We have more community cultivating activities today! As some of you might know, we have quite a few Character Surveys within our Games sub-thread. Some of them have gone by the wayside so I'd like to REVIVE THEM FROM THE DEAD.

I've created new threads for a few of them since we're approaching 2026 (dear GOD how the fuck is it already 2026), so go forth!!! Links to the threads are below!

Main Character Survey | Bridgerton Edition | Character Tag Survey | Character Vices Survey

Your task today is to fill out 2-3 of these. Preferably with different characters to get those creative juices flowing, but if you only have 1 character, then pls by all means fill it out multiple surveys with that 1 character ^_^

Prize will be raffled so no rush on getting your responses in first!

PM the links to your responses to this account within 24 hours to qualify!

On the 9th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to meeeeee....

An anagram!


The weird ass phrase above is an anagram of a currently active thread title. Your mission is not only to unscramble the letters to find the title, but to then find the link to the thread in question!

PM the thread link to your responses to this account within 24 hours to qualify!

DAY VIII PRIZES | Congratulations to Kit, Fox, Té, Gin and Fallin who all won an ATO!
DAY IX | Congratulations to Chris who won a prize set from meeeee!

(Love notes still haven't gone out yet sry for the delay folks!)

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Another cryptogram for you today!!! However, your job is two-fold.

1. Solve the Cryptogram.
   
2. Send me YOUR interpretation that has to do with the cryptogram's phrase. Don't be afraid to get creative! But also pls explain to me how you interpreted it xD
   

PM the thread link to your responses to this account within 24 hours to qualify!