VIP Membership

What It Costs

VIP Membership comes in two tiers, paid in real money through PayPal. Both buy exactly the same perks; they differ only in how often you are charged, and in one permanent mark described under Founding VIP below:

• Monthly: $5.00 per month. PayPal charges you automatically every month until canceled. You hold the standard ⚡ VIP tenure rank for as long as the subscription runs.
• Annual: $50.00 per year. Twelve months for the price of ten, two months free for committing to the longer arrangement, and annual subscribers additionally earn the ⭐ Founding VIP star, shown on your profile and in the VIP office.

There is no gold price, no gem price, and no Donator Point price. This is the one place in the castle where the currency is the unglamorous kind you also use for groceries. Billing, payment method, and cancellation are all handled on PayPal's side. The castle simply asks PayPal whether you are still a subscriber and adjusts your fortunes accordingly. Cancel through PayPal and the recurring charge stops; your perks wind down at the end of the period you have already paid for.

You can start a membership from the Donate via PayPal button at the foot of every page, which now opens on a VIP Membership tab (the One-Time donation is one tab over, exactly where it always was), or from the VIP office in the Prefect's Lounge. If you already pay monthly, that tab offers the yearly plan instead, and when the yearly one starts the castle cancels your $5 plan for you and keeps whatever days you had left. Yearly members see only the one-time option, having already agreed to everything on offer. Either way it renews automatically until you cancel, and canceling is a single click in that same office. The full terms, in plain language for once, are in the Cancellation Policy.

What You Get

For as long as the subscription is active, the following accrue:

• 20 Donator Points per real day: dripped in daily, roughly 600 a month. These are earned, not gifted, in the sense that the castle counts real days rather than handing you a lump sum and trusting you to ration it.
• A daily allowance, every real day: +250 gold, +1 gem, and +10 forest turns. A small standing stipend that shows up whether or not you log in, no questions asked.
• 50 Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans every month, delivered straight into your Candy Stash. Some will be chocolate. Some will be earwax. That is between you and the tin.
• 10% cheaper forest healing while active. The field medics quietly knock a tenth off the bill, because you are, after all, a patron.
• One Streak Freeze per month: a single get-out-of-jail token for your login streak, in case real life schedules itself over a game day.
• A tenure rank on your profile and in the office: a rank that climbs the longer your membership continues without a gap; see Standing below for the full ladder. It is rented, not owned, and it appears as a pill on your profile and as the ladder in the VIP office, never as an icon beside your name in chat. Annual subscribers also earn the ⭐ Founding VIP star, a separate, permanent mark shown in the same two places: once earned it stays lit for good, lapsed or not.
• Your account is never deleted while active: the usual inactivity broom that sweeps abandoned characters out of the records will not touch you for as long as you keep paying. Stop paying and you rejoin the mortal queue.
• No edit window on your chat messages: fix or rewrite your own posts for as long as they exist, where everyone else gets ten minutes.
• The VIP Studio: a name effect, a default chat ink, and a theme, all picked from the Lounge and described in Your Look below.
• An animated avatar frame around your profile picture, on automatically, no picking required.
• The emote pack in chat: eight small images you summon by typing their name between colons.
• Name recoloring and custom titles in the Lounge get the same 20% member discount while your membership is active, once you have earned access the ordinary way; VIP shaves the price, it does not waive the Lounge's own lifetime Donator Point threshold. See Custom Title and Name Colorization for the exact numbers.
• 2 days of early access at the Seasonal Event Desk before it opens to everyone else.
• A Friend Pass for every 12 months paid: a free month of membership you can hand to someone who is not currently a member. Details in Friend Passes below.
• A shot at that month's exclusive collectible in the VIP office, free of charge for as long as you are active. See The Monthly Collectible below; it also opens to anyone who simply donates enough that month, membership or not.
• 20% off Donator Points, wherever cosmetics are sold: the Wardrobe, its premium colors, dorm decor, the Cosmetic Emporium's badges, and the Term Pass premium track all charge an active member a fifth less. See Cosmetics, at a Discount below for exactly how the number is rounded.
• Two days' early access to the weekly rotating rare: the robe that changes over each week at Twilfitt and Tatting's and Tomes and Tassels is visible, buyable, and giftable by members two days before it opens to everyone else.
• 7 free Wardrobe gifts a day instead of 5: an active member's daily allowance of no-cost gifts runs two higher than everyone else's. Paid gifts, item and wrap alike, get the same 20% member discount as anything else in the Wardrobe.

Cosmetics, at a Discount

An active membership takes a fifth off the Donator Point price of everything cosmetic: Wardrobe pieces and premium colors, dorm decor, Cosmetic Emporium and Badge Catalog badges, and the Term Pass premium track. The math is simple with one small floor: 20% off, rounded down, with at least 1 point shaved off anything priced 2 or more, so a 2 Donator Point item still drops to 1 rather than rounding away to nothing. A 1 Donator Point item stays 1: a priced item never becomes free. The 250 Donator Point Term Pass premium track runs 200 for a member. Gold and gem prices are entirely untouched; the discount only ever applies where Donator Points are the currency, and only to a member's own purchases, never to a gift's recipient or to a clubhouse the whole House chips in for. The price shown at checkout is always the price actually charged, checked fresh the moment you pay, so a membership that lapses between browsing and buying is billed the full amount instead.

How the Drip Works

The membership is built around two different clocks, and it pays to know which is which:

• Real days govern the Donator Points and the daily allowance alike. Twenty DP, 250 gold, 1 gem, and 10 forest turns land once per real day, every day, whether or not you log in. The DP, gold, and gems pile up and wait for you; the turns, being turns, only last until your next new day.
• The calendar month governs the bulk deliveries: the 50 beans and the single Streak Freeze land once per month.

Nothing here requires a button. The perks attach to your account and apply themselves; your only ongoing duty is to let PayPal keep charging you.

Your Look

The Lounge keeps a small workshop for active members called the VIP Studio, three dials and a shelf. The first dial is a name effect: your name in chat, on the forums, in blog comments, and on your profile can glow (Lumos), shimmer, throw sparks, or smolder (Ember), your choice, off by default. The second is a default chat ink: six colors that exist nowhere else in the castle, plus thirteen familiar ones checked for actually being readable against the chat background, applied automatically so you stop retyping color codes by hand. Once you're an active member, all six exclusive colors also become typable mid-message with their own backtick code, whatever your own default happens to be: `D for Phoenix Ember, `F for Basilisk Emerald, `I for Imperial Amethyst, `N for Nundu Teal, `S for Spellfire Crimson, `U for Unbreakable Cobalt, mixed as freely as the ordinary codes and reset the same way with `0. Nobody outside an active membership can ever make one of the six appear; typed by anyone else, the letter vanishes without a trace rather than showing up as stray punctuation. The other thirteen still work for everyone exactly as before, the ink just saves the retyping. The third is a theme: one of seven palettes (six House and event colors plus the default Castle Gold) that retints the gold trim across the castle and your profile to match.

The shelf next to the dials holds the animated avatar frame, a ring around your profile picture that switches on for every active member with nothing to pick, and the emote pack: eight small images (a Golden Snitch, an owl, a wand, the Sorting Hat, a phoenix, a cauldron, a butterbeer, a bolt of lightning) that appear in chat when you type their name between colons, such as :snitch:. Only an active member's own messages render them; everyone else typing the same colons just gets the plain text back. If you keep the Hide floating animations preference switched on, your emotes and anyone else's hold still instead of looping, the same rule the rest of the castle's motion already follows for you.

`& Light White`^ Light Yellow`# Light Cyan`@ Light Green`g Extra Light Green`k Aquamarine`J Medium Blue`m Wheat`x Burlywood`y Khaki`Q Light Orange`p Light Salmon`% Light Magenta

ParchmentSnitch GoldPatronus BlueFloo GreenMintSea GlassRavenclaw SkyWheatBurlywoodKhakiPumpkinSalmonRose PinkPhoenix EmberBasilisk EmeraldImperial AmethystNundu TealSpellfire CrimsonUnbreakable Cobalt

:snitch: :owl: :wand: :sortinghat: :phoenix: :cauldron: :butterbeer: :lightning:

Every pick made in the Studio is filed on your account and stops rendering the moment your membership lapses. Nothing is lost: the same picks come back, unchanged, the day you renew.

Standing

The tenure rank is rented, not owned, and unlike most rentals it improves the longer your membership runs unbroken, whether those months come from your own payments, a gifted month, or a redeemed Friend Pass. Stay subscribed with no gap longer than 7 days between one term ending and the next one starting, and the rank climbs five rungs by continuous months of membership: ⚡ VIP from day one, ✨ VIP Silver at 6 months, 🌟 VIP Gold at 12 months, 🔥 VIP Phoenix at 24 months, and 👑 VIP Eternal at 36 months. Miss the 7-day grace window and the count resets to zero; the rank you had already reached does not carry into the new run. The rank shows as a text pill near your avatar on your profile and as the ladder in the VIP office. Chat, the forums, and blog comments carry no rank icon at all: your chat line shows your House or club tag, your chosen name effect, and your ink (see Your Look above), and nothing announces your membership mid-sentence.

None of this touches the separate ⭐ Founding VIP star, described next. The star is permanent and does not reset, gap or no gap; the lightning ladder is a running tally of current patronage.

Friend Passes

Every twelve months you have paid for, the office files you a Friend Pass: one month of VIP Membership for someone else, at no cost to either of you, no PayPal involved. An annual subscription earns its pass immediately, though the office only makes its rounds twice a day, so expect it within a day rather than on the spot. You can hold up to three passes at once, and none of them expire.

To spend one, visit the VIP office and name a recipient: anyone who is not currently a member and has not received a Friend Pass from anyone in the last year. The office keeps that ledger too, and declines politely if either condition fails, or if you try to file one under your own name. Delivery is a private owl to both of you, not a public announcement.

Founding VIP

The ⭐ Founding VIP star is the mark of the annual commitment. It belongs to two kinds of patron: the long-standing supporters who held the original yearly arrangement before any of this had a monthly option, and anyone who today subscribes at the $50/year tier. Monthly subscribers hold the standard tenure rank instead, the same ladder as everyone else. Both unlock the identical pile of perks; the star simply says you paid for the whole year at once. The two marks differ in one important way at the end. The tenure rank is a sign of current patronage: let the subscription lapse and it goes dark, the way the rest of the perks do. The ⭐ Founding star is not. Once earned, whether by the old yearly arrangement or by an annual subscription today, it stays, permanently, a record of having committed to the whole year at least once. You can stop paying and lose everything else and the star remains, which is rather the point of calling it founding.

Gifting

You can also buy a month of VIP for someone else. Their public profile and in-game bio carry a Gift VIP link; follow it and the castle hands you a PayPal button that charges you the standard $5 for a single month, which lands on the recipient's record rather than your own. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription: nothing renews. Gifts come one month at a time; there is no yearly version, so a year of generosity is twelve separate kindnesses, each tacked onto the end of their term. It spends real money rather than your Donator Points, which it leaves entirely untouched. If the recipient is already a member, the gifted month is simply added to the end of their term, leaving whatever billing arrangement they already have running undisturbed.

Members who prefer not to wait for a pass can still buy a month for anyone.

Canceling

There are two doors out. Inside the castle, the VIP office carries a Cancel auto-renewal button that instructs PayPal, on your behalf, to stop the recurring charge; or you may cancel the subscription directly from your PayPal account, where a Manage billing in PayPal link will also deposit you. Either door has the same effect: the next charge, whether it falls next month or next year, simply never happens, and you keep every perk through the end of the period you have already paid for. The castle does not confiscate what it has already sold you. Only when that paid term finally runs out does it notice the lapse: the daily drips stop, the tenure rank goes dark, and your account quietly rejoins the population of characters that can, in principle, be swept away for inactivity. Nothing you have already received (points, gold, beans) is taken back. The subscription buys an ongoing condition, not a deposit.

VIP vs. Donations

The castle has two ways to take your money, and they are not the same.

• Donations are one-off: you give once and receive a batch of Donator Points (and the associated perks) to spend at your leisure. See the Donations page.
• VIP Membership is recurring: a sum billed monthly or yearly that keeps a tap running, daily points, a standing allowance, monthly beans, a Streak Freeze, cheaper healing, the tenure rank, and deletion immunity, for as long as the tap stays on.

Neither is pay-to-win. Both are, fundamentally, a way to keep the servers running while the castle thanks you with conveniences and a shiny mark on your profile.

The Monthly Collectible

Once a calendar month, the office sets one item on the counter that neither gold, gems, nor Donator Points can buy: dorm decor in even months, a familiar or a wand in odd ones. The stock is planned years ahead, and no two months across the whole run ever put out the same piece twice. Whatever sits on the counter this month exists in this month alone, and nowhere else on the calendar.

Two doors open it, and neither needs the other. Hold an active VIP membership at any point during the month and you already qualify, no separate step beyond the subscription itself. Or, without joining VIP at all, donate more than $10 in that same month (a VIP charge or a gifted month does not count toward this figure; see VIP vs. Donations above, only a plain donation counts) and the door opens the same way. A Claim it button appears the moment either condition is met, and it checks the instant you press it, not some earlier visit, so a donation made minutes ago already qualifies.

The month runs on the office's own clock, not yours: it turns over at midnight UTC, which may land a few hours off from your own evening depending on where you happen to be reading this. Claiming is instant, permanent, and limited to one piece per player per month. The item lands directly in your Wardrobe or your Dorm's owned collection, free and clear, yours to keep whether your membership or your donations continue after. It cannot be bought outright, gifted to anyone, or placed in a club's shared clubhouse. A dorm piece stays exactly where it landed: your own dorm, permanently.

What is not on offer is a second try. The office keeps no record of who almost qualified last month, so a month that closes unclaimed simply closes, for good, and no later month ever brings that piece back around.

See It All at Once

Every perk on this page, plus name colorization and the custom title, renders together on one page in the Lodge: look for "See Every Perk" under Support.