New Townie, and an Announcement About Early Apps

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First of all, please sheathe your weapons (ESPECIALLY YOU, DEADPOOL) and put your hands together for our newest townsperson, Shokudaikiri Mitsutada (battlewithstyle), from Touken Ranbu Hanamaru. Welcome, Mitsu-bou; may your blade never be dull.

Second: given the reduced size of our player group and consequently reduced number of applications we now receive during open periods, we've decided to open up the Early Application process to everyone. (Something we would have liked to do a long time ago, if it had been feasible.) So now there's no requirement that it be the first time you've apped a teacher or that you must have no current students for the upcoming term. As long as you get your application in by December 3rd, and mark it as an Early Application*, you'll get feedback and a chance to make changes if there's anything we think is missing or needs more information.

*We've added a space on the application form just for that. You folks who've been storing apps as documents, please, before you submit them, go to the official form and check to see that your app matches it. Most of us have apps we've been saving forever and a day, and the app form does change over time, so let's make sure what we send in has all the correct information!