1. Spill the tea. What was going to happen if Figg hadn't needed to leave the Game? Or if you'd had to vote somebody out even after she left? How did these plans come about?If people were honest, ez: Either Mundungs, Abs or King (or doubt the latter, but his name was thrown around at some point. If people were lying to me probably me...?
2. How does losing them impact the Side dynamics moving forward? Do you think Alecto's absence will impact the other Side similarly?I think we were agreeing on voting Figg either way due to her absence, so in case she didn't quit, she'd go regardless, so it doesn't change that much - hope they are okay! send them lots of love from anon
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- It changed something, though - while now our main target was gone, we've got some new contenders, basically the runner-ups from the first vote, being Mundungs and/or Aberforth. I expect a similar impact on the PureBlood team, but I don't know for sure. If Alecto was as absent as Figg was over here, I'm pretty sure, they did agree on her leaving, too... so same goes for them I suppose.
3. How did you feel the Matchical Thinking Challenge went? Did you learn anything from the results?First of all: I LOVED it. It was so interesting on one hand thinking about yourself, but also guessing what your partner would think you would answer, like it has a lot of depth to it - only the time was WAAAY to short for a non-native-speaker / non-potter-head xD KUDOS to you, hosts!
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I think what I learned was that Yaxley is quite clever. It definitely helped that I brought up that magical dog pet so early on, which basically gave us 3 safe points, but I can also see his critical thinking abilites, like he knew what to answer at what point - only I feel like I messed a few of these up, by not knowing shit about the our universe haha...
4. Any thoughts about the Owl Post system now that you've had a chance to try it out? How about the Switch and Flick Charms, after more time to reflect on what they can do?OWL POST: Actually, there are some more layers to it than I thought. First, my offer to fleur might've helped strengthen our bond, so this was purely strategic from my pov. I still have my doubts on if it's even going to have a huge impact on the game, I think the strategic advantage from sending one post every other day, not sure, if you'll be getting an answer at all, or chosing the wrong player, like someone who's super inactive or something and bam you wasted your one opportunity that round. On the other hand, if the right info is given to right person at the right time, it could have an immense impact on the game, however, I'm nowhere clever enough to figure these variables out, so Imma keep on messing with the system instead of actually using it effectively haha.
SWITCH AND FLICK: Actually I talked about it before - with Mr. Moody, and again figured out some more layers to that SWITCH as well. First of all: you can obviously save your partner - if I had a better opening weekend with mine, I would think otherwise about it, but for me personally, I don't see that huge of an advantage on saving him as of now - at least when I compare it to the possible disadvantages it holds. One disadvantage: I'm putting myself in huge danger. If I come to a new Side in the middle of the game, I'll be the odd one out for sure. Plus, I would've to ground myself with 8 basically new people, so would my partner have to do. That is on one hand a bother, because you're almost starting from new, but on the other hand holds the potential advantage of bonding with 8 other people, giving you a great bunch of maneuvering options later on - hypothetically. Then again it's a pretty high risk, if you ask me. I think it's more likely, that the people over at PB would just cut me off, because a) (again) I'm the odd one out and b) I saved the one they were about to vote out (probabyl for a reason). So why would they keep me? To backstab someone else over there? That early on? I doubt it. Interestingly enough, as the game progresses, the less people it gets for me to having to bond with, but the harder it would get to actually find a crack in their rows (strong AS flashbacks of David's situation - bloddy damn). Imma keeping cracking my head about it...
5. If your Side attends Magical Council tomorrow night, what would you like to see happen? What are you doing to help push the Side toward that outcome?I would like to see myself stay
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Plus, I would love to see my closest allies, that I consider to be Fleur, King and Moody, to survive as well. Now this is interesting. With Fleur, Wood, Tonks and Potter, we have that "we all love each other and we're super awesome"- thing going on, which is strange, since I didn't have that much convo with Wood, Tonks, or Potter, yet. But I'm definitely rolling with it for now. Moody is someone who seems to be straight to the point and honest. Someone who gives me so much information and insights, definitely is one I trust at this point. King is very fun to talk to and also gives me strong opinions from time to time. And Fleur... Fleur is just Fleur - nothing else to add to that
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So those 3 - Fleur, King and Moody - are my top priorities at this point. Funny enough that they don't know about that. Basically King and Moody seems kinda close-ish from my pov, as does Fleur and King. But Fleur and I agreed on our Wood/Potter/Tonks-Fivesome so Idk how to approach her with other ideas, yet.
Another thing I have to keep in mind is 'how hard do I want to play'. If I'm trying too hard, people we get behind my agenda pretty fast, so I gotta keep my profile low for now - which is hard for me xD. I don't want to take the initiative just, yet, but I feel like I should. I hope that no secret Order group is in play already, but it could've definitely already happened at that point - and if so, the fact that I'm no part of it, would definitely bother me. If I create such a group so, I might come off as leader-ish which I HAVE to avoid - not wanna make the same mistake again. My head's on fire...
Congrats, hosts. You again managed to get me too invested!
Also one other thing that makes it slightly harder for me is a) not being a potter-head and b) only having seen the HP movies on German with completely different terms for a lot of things. But Imma find a way through it somehow.
Jeez, another novel...
Cheers
Digglety