As we've now got an outline of a sandbox, and both James and Tom are going on a holiday for a while (poor James' is a working holiday outside a spanish city). I've been putting together a self contained story that will start on Monday (roughly 12am GMT) and run till the official launch.
I'm going away this weekend myself, but will have a start up post when I return. This will be an RP only event, and people will be limited to a handful of spells, although both ritual and other casting will be possible. Just wanted to give people a chance to warm up with this style of RP'ing for those who are unfamiliar. It should be a lot of fun.