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Post by Sir Cadogan on May 21, 2022 14:00:42 GMT 10
omfggggg at the HK boot council, lol.
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Post by Sir Cadogan on May 21, 2022 14:08:59 GMT 10
Noooonnnn!!! Not Fleur!! Loved her board presence. Okay now I know what happened but still no idea what the dynamic is at all. Loves Wood still being in though, king!
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 22, 2022 13:02:15 GMT 10
Concise!General dynamics summary: Four pairs came together at the merge to force out a single, despite tensions between them. Ended up being Kingsley to take the fall, despite most people thinking that most other people would prefer Regulus/Moody just because everyone was cagey with throwing out names all weekend. Split round at F11 forced some to show their hands early. Lucius' group had been itching to take out HK for ages and technically succeeded, but botched it by blowing each other up before and during TC - and realising afterward that HK was far more loyal and honest than anyone else had been. Tonks switched the groups around a bit (and ended up dooming HK because the other group likely would have united against Lucius otherwise) and relied on Diggle sticking with the Order, but instead he protected his PBvO partner and voted out Tonks. At F9 everybody basically had enough of Lucius. Nobody organised the vote split properly between him and Wood for fear of being seen taking charge (part of what they were annoyed at Lucius over was his dozens of overlapping group chats), and they weren't expecting a tied vote - this only happened because Lucius voted against Wood. For the revote even though they'd all agreed by then that Wood had the Item and needed to be removed, a bunch of them were offline, and some of those who were around wanted Lucius out despite knowing that wasn't the consensus (Fleur because he'd been targeting her, and Regulus kind of for fun). So Lucius went and Wood stayed with the Item, knowing that his closest allies Lily/Crouch had intended for him to leave. F8 the remaining pairs united (Lily/Crouch and Yaxley/Diggle) against a threat that wasn't necessarily there as the singles had not intention of working together. Rather than helping the singles turn against each other and piling on the split vote to take out Regulus and gain a majority without being noticed, they chose to take the bigger swing and Fleur who was seen as the best connected and most capable player out of the singles - and that was only possible if they lied to everyone to arrange a split vote, then took out Fleur with just 4 out of 8. And that's also angered Wood severely, because his allies again left him out of the loop. So right now you have the two pairs ostensibly in power, if they trust one another enough to stick together. With Moody tied to Diggle more than anyone else, Wood in some weird love/hate/yell relationship with Lily/Crouch, and Regulus just trying to keep cockroaching through because everyone he's ever got close to has left almost immediately afterward. Two people will be Immune each round through F5, Wood has an Item which expires tonight, and another one has just gone into play who literally anybody could end up with. So the plans are rather messy, whatever gets agreed to is highly likely to get messed up further, and nobody is playing this perfectly ![:)](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png)
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Post by Godric Gryffindor on May 22, 2022 13:59:32 GMT 10
That is great! Thanks for the update.
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Post by Dolores Umbridge on May 22, 2022 15:25:32 GMT 10
Lucius and Wood's arc couldn't have ended in a more iconic way. They spend the round performing an elaborate trust exercise, swapping the idol back and forth, to try and mend fences after the absolute disaster that was the f11/10 round. And then in the end Lucius' turns on Wood anyway to try and save himself, which resulted in a TIE between them and a messy re-vote, with Wood somehow keeping the idol. Two icons.
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Post by Salazar Slytherin on May 22, 2022 17:41:20 GMT 10
Thanksssssssss for the update Pettigrew Rooting for Wood and Regulussssssss now ![:<3](http://i.imgur.com/L3NpwEv.gif) Do it for evil!
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Post by Salazar Slytherin on May 22, 2022 23:28:05 GMT 10
*i throw away the ssssssssnake ssssshtick for a minute becausssssse I can't type more than a ssssssssentence like that* rip to Moody, feel like he might have been able to make for a good swing vote at the final 5 once Wood and Regulus were taken out, but oh well? I'm assume the pairs split between Wood and Moody, Moody voted Wood and then Wood/Regulus voted for Diggle? If so then Moody definitely had this boot coming, though I don't know the specifics of the round. He might have been able to sway things elsewhere and survive had he shown up to the round, but we'll never know. Still rooting for the solos to take this out, buuuuut I don't think it'll happen for them next round unless they get both immune roles if I read the format right. Good idol play from Wood, but chances are he or Regulus dies next and then the duos rally the survivor against one another at 5. Not sure who I'd root for between those pairs? Actually no I know very much which pair I like more, it's Lily/Crouch. Lily doesn't do much on the boards but I do think her owl posts (which I never noticed until a couple rounds ago oops ![:<3](http://i.imgur.com/L3NpwEv.gif) sorry i thought you were boring when i just never saw people writing them!) are always among the most enlightening, while Crouch is the opposite where he's fun on the boards but says nothing in his owl posts. And then Yaxley/Diggle are the same thing (Yaxley is to Lily as Diggle is to Crouch), but a little less good in both cases for me. But based on the owl posts I don't see that happening lol, it seems like Wood is getting misplayed very hard by people that will need him if he survives next round, while Black seems to have pointed Lily out as the biggest threat in his eyes and would probably take her out at 5 if given the swing vote role. Or maybe this is all wrong and I'm a fool! Who can say, certainly not Rowena.
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Post by Godric Gryffindor on May 23, 2022 13:45:48 GMT 10
I am still hoping for Lily to pull the win ![:)](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png)
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Post by Mrs Walburga Black on May 23, 2022 22:12:20 GMT 10
Lily and Barty having the idol at their disposal definitely gives them an edge. Clever of them to hide it all this time.
Expecting to see Internet classic My Immortal included in this fanfiction challenge.
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 23, 2022 22:37:52 GMT 10
Indeed! Not 'all this time' though, as it only went into play last round after Wood used his. And we already gave a nod to My Immortal in the Merge Challenge - one of the tasks was to hide a link to it in a post. Also using it for this would require actually making sense of any of it ![:P](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png)
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Post by Godric Gryffindor on May 24, 2022 0:21:22 GMT 10
And thus ends the Malfoy-Wood duo... It wasn't to last unfortunately...
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 24, 2022 0:58:41 GMT 10
Right before the vote, Wood made a group PM with the entire F6 asking them to help resurrect Malfoy and vote him out again instead ![x_x](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/dead.png)
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 24, 2022 1:03:20 GMT 10
Right now we have two PBvO pairs in the final five which is incredible in the truest sense. There's been a sense of impending dread all week because they are obviously going to need to break either now or next round and nobody's sure how they hope it turns out, let alone how it actually will. Crouch/Lily have a slight edge because of the Hidden Immunity Item, especially if they can exploit the Immunity Pairs to get one of them safe even before Magical Council, but we're almost certainly looking at a tiebreaker Challenge to resolve the vote at F4, and possibly a Final Immunity winner wondering whether they have a better chance at winning if they cut their partner. Meanwhile Regulus is ready to extend his impossible run with every lucky break, and befriending every juror on the way out rather than burning them like the pairs have. ![:popcorn](https://i.imgur.com/C9oSv0k.gif)
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Post by Godric Gryffindor on May 24, 2022 10:29:26 GMT 10
Regulus might just win if he makes F3. Pretty big challenge threat, but also his vote could be powerful at F5 if the pairs want to flip.
You got this Lily!
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Post by Salazar Slytherin on May 24, 2022 18:20:13 GMT 10
Right before the vote, Wood made a group PM with the entire F6 asking them to help resurrect Malfoy and vote him out again instead ![x_x](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/dead.png) He issssssss a king
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Post by Godric Gryffindor on May 26, 2022 13:58:31 GMT 10
So I think Lily takes Yaxley, RAB takes Yaxley, Yaxley may take RAB with the F2 deal, but RAB is a massive Jury threat I think.
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Post by Godric Gryffindor on May 26, 2022 21:44:47 GMT 10
HMMMM now I have to wonder, is Yaxley going to see Lily having gotten none of the Jury's wands and take Lily?
Obligatory F3 prediction Yaxley takes Lily and Yaxley wins 6-3
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Post by Salazar Slytherin on May 26, 2022 21:54:58 GMT 10
I'm not sssssssssure whether Yaxxxxxxxley or Lily winsssssssssss a f2, but sssssssssurely he will know that RAB jusssssssst winsssssss at F2 with hisssssss underdog sssssssstory
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Post by Mrs Walburga Black on May 26, 2022 22:53:41 GMT 10
Interesting choice. I get it in the sense that he may worry that Lily has the better version of his game - being part of the pairs alliance but making it to four with her partner while Diggle and himself were betrayed by them - but the potential for Regulus' underdog story to rally the hearts of the boxed-out singles on the jury in particular is quite high.
We shall see what trials and tribulations await these men. At least the Order has officially lost.
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Post by Salazar Slytherin on May 26, 2022 22:56:44 GMT 10
Sssssssssssurprisssssssssing, let'sssssss ssssssee how it worksssssss out for him...
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