Steady, Lads. I'm working with Admin to see if we've got a 'glitch' somewhere.

This is how it's supposed to work (from the stickied "New? Read this First" thread:

"Junior Patron
Once you have activated your account, you will have a Junior Patron status. Being a Junior Patron when signing up serves to help you acclimate to the Guild and gives the Guild staff an opportunity to meet you. You can read all posts in any forum but you have some posting restrictions:

1) Entrance Hall forum: you can start new topics/polls or reply to existing topics/polls.
2) Apothecary forum: you can only reply to existing topics.
3) Dungeon - Alchemist lab forum: you can only reply to existing topics.
4) Story/PBM - Mead Hall forum: you can only reply to existing topics.

5) You are restricted from posting in all other forums. "

Meanwhile, we're working on getting a batch of Junior Patrons moved up this weekend. Thanks for your patience and understanding while we all adjust to this new forum software.