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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 5, 2022 0:33:04 GMT 10
Congratulations on your first Immunity win! By now you're surely into the swing of things, and yet we only one round left before the weekend! ![:ha](http://storage.proboards.com/7158043/images/VOvCOHdjdczxDlacdwiV.png) But don't let us make presumptions, tell us how you're really feeling! 1. You've now prepared for two Magical Councils which did not need to occur. Did you have a plan in place, had the Challenge results gone the other way? 2. Describe the Side dynamics for us. What do you think your place is within Grimauld Place, and are you comfortable with that? 3. What plans do you have for this coming round? Are you also planning further ahead, or is it still too early for that? 4. Has there been much discussion of Hidden Immunity Items? How does the knowing they are in play affect your Game? How are you feeling now about Lucius' letter? 5. Are you surprised that we're yet to see anyone saved by a Switch Charm? Do you think it's likely one will be cast this round?
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 1:15:19 GMT 10
Another round, another anti-climax. I actually do wish we had gone to Magical Council. The vote had been Dung for two days but then Aberforth decided to go completely inactive (I haven't heard from him in almost two days now!) so people were getting restless and wanted to switch it up to him. Which I don't particularly care about but I can tell that Dung is very close to Tonks and Oliver and not with me. So Dung staying around doesn't help me and only helps him. I tried to forestall it recruiting Fleur and pointing out that a last minute change of a done deal might expose our alliance. It seemed to work for tonight but given Aberforth is more useless than a Squib even when he is online, I don't think I can oppose his boot any longer. It would burn up too much social capital and cause fractures in the FLTWood Mag alliance before we've even had a single vote together.
After being ignored on the first day, I received THREE letters from the Deatheaters. The ones from Hedwig Killer and Lestrange weren't of much value to me but the one from Lucius was a gold mine of information! For one, it let me know that Lucius was Crouchy's no 1. ally because he trusted me with the idol information (see below). I still have no idea how those two figured it out so quickly because Fleur and I were struggling to decipher the scraps of parchment that us social rejects had to settle for!
I sacrificed a day of sleep (and suffering on my night shift now because of it) to complete the challenge, even though I knew that I would likely be first and Oliver would pick up the idol. I even pulled a little mischief to help Oliver by making "subtle corrections" in the Puffs wiki page so the others would have the wrong answers and so that I could feed Oliver the correct ones. It worked and we have the HII! And by we I mean him. I'm 95% sure that Lucius has the Deatheaters HII so that is a jacked couple (maybe Crouchy was even hinting that to me when he called them the power couple likely to make merge - they're definitely sitting pretty right now!). But I'm OK with it. A Hidden Immunity Item gets a lot of its power by being, hidden, duh! And the way they've been done in this War has meant that several people will know about it.
Fleur who is the Queen Bee of our Side with her stinger in everyone's honey pots, has read between the lines of the Owl Post and knows that Lucius is calling the shots on the other Side. I'd rather Lucius and Oliver be seen as the power players if that allows Crouchy and I to hide in the background. A wise Conner once told me that my problem was I played OTTN5 when I really needed to be playing MOR3 to actually get to the end and face the Wizengamot. So his advice, along with my time limitations, has protected me from my natural instincts, and to be a little more content in the shadows for the time being.
I'm not surprised that Kinglsey didn't switch with Travers. He's probably given me even less to work with than Dung, so I can't really see him play in a selfless way and expose himself to having to talk with the others. I'm going to keep casting the Switch Charm because of the theme but also because I find Crouchy to be really endearing and if he can go far, I'll count that as a win for me too.
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 1:49:27 GMT 10
Hidden Immunity Item Journey Got dropped this for being a social reject ![](https://i.imgur.com/Vkcz14Y.png) I was fed most of the answers by Lucius but I'm going to guess that the clue provided a Portkey via a bit.ly link which takes you to portkeyofthephoenix.proboards.com/I'm guess it also says to do a reverse image search of the background of the Hogwarts Grounds board where we compete in challenges, and find the artist of the background to crack open the password protected board. Now I famously am tech incompetent so it took a lot of inspect elements practice to isolate the background ![](https://i.imgur.com/ckC6IyY.png) I've never even tried reverse image searching before, but there's always time to try something new! That takes you to which reveals that Lisa Günther is the artist The thread leads you to this ![](https://i.imgur.com/Mp2IgV1.png) Checking the Puffs wikia page, the only character that has an additional 6 roles is Sally Perks. Her minor roles are: Hermione #1 Blondo Malfoy Rowena Rita Scooter Dragon Bippy However, I knew that Oliver wasn't going to be the most active and regular with posting and I was worried someone else might grab it in the mean time. So I made a few "corrections" and changed Blondo to Blonde and added Ravenclaw to Rowena and hoped that they would be subtle enough that wiki editors wouldn't catch it. In the interests of the fandom, I promise to revert the edits eventually but I fear that if Tonks/Fleur find it soon they'll suspect Oliver/I for having it because the others aren't online that much. It's a little underhanded but I feel it's fair because there are other websites that they can go to for the roles
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 1:50:23 GMT 10
Oops forgot to add the bit.ly link - bit.ly/37z8quI
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 1:54:49 GMT 10
I'm still a little sus on Oliver. I don't even think he's intentionally being deceptive, I think he's just a little messy (which I know is very rich coming from the Queen of Mess). He went silent during the critical hours of the idol information and the potential vote.
I warned him that Lucius didn't want his alliance with Crouchy known to the others, but then Oliver blurted it out in the group chain - and someone as switched on as Fleur is going to weaponise that information! I don't even think that he ignored me, he probably didn't even read it.
To make matters worse, he also suggested that Karkaroff was close to Crouchy and then I had to worry that booting Aberforth might piss Karkaroff off and screw up Crouchy's alliance on the other side. He didn't reply to my messages so I didn't even know how we should address it. Again, I don't think it was intentional. But I am a little worried that I've thrown my game in with his crowd and he's just not the most reliable ally.
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Episode 3
May 5, 2022 6:16:48 GMT 10
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 5, 2022 6:16:48 GMT 10
Hi Lily Potter. We’ve noticed that your editing the Puffs Wikipedia page is an ID issue, as your IP address is recorded there and cannot be removed. And there may be people playing who have seen or can access your IP address from other game boards. The issue is exacerbated by the fact that we only picked this up after you’d told Wood about having done this. We’re still working out what the best way to deal with it is, without drawing even more attention to it. In the meantime, we need to be sure that you won’t make things worse by mentioning this again in PMs or on the board. Please let us know as soon as you see this.
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Episode 3
May 5, 2022 8:23:59 GMT 10
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 8:23:59 GMT 10
Sorry understood
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Episode 3
May 5, 2022 8:26:15 GMT 10
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 8:26:15 GMT 10
Do you need me to edit it out of my owl post or are you happy to do that?
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 5, 2022 9:03:14 GMT 10
Your Owl Post letter to Lucius was not sent because it contains something that would breach PM rules. We'll also ask you to please not tell anyone that this is the reason it went unsent - you can pretend you posted it late or in the wrong thread, etc.
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 9:17:54 GMT 10
Understood
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 5, 2022 10:56:46 GMT 10
Hi Lily Potter, We won't be giving you any punishment now, partially because your IP address is still on the Wikipedia page edit history and we do not wish to draw any attention to that. However, you should consider yourself warned in the strictest possible terms and won't be given any leeway on rules breaches moving forward, especially when it comes to ID issues. If there's even an inkling of uncertainty, we'd much prefer that you ask us about it before you act rather than forcing us to take action afterwards. And hopefully we won't ever need to revisit this.
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 11:04:12 GMT 10
Thanks Peter Understood
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Post by Lily Potter on May 5, 2022 11:41:40 GMT 10
Ooooooh I did not like that last Owlpost from Yaxley. It's going to put me in a very precarious position.
I feel like Lucius definitely has the HII on the other side now because Crouch teamed up with Yaxley as well to give me and Diggs a heads up about the HII clue I don't feel like I can withhold the information from Diggs because the information will get back to him that I didn't pass on the information, and that's going to hurt Crouch's alliance with Yaxley if it comes out.
I don't particularly mind because I know that it's gone...but then how do I manage that with Fleur... she and I have been "working" on the parchments together, and now she's doing the same with Tonks. If I don't tell her, I know she's going to find out (she's also close with Diggs) sooner or later and she definitely won't trust me moving forward.
I don't super trust anyone in the Order but I would say that Fleur and then Oliver are the only ones I have a decent working relationship with.
I distrust Tonks more than anyone on our Side - the others outside of our alliance haven't been interacting with me that much but I feel as though Tonks is actively excluding me from her long term plans - she's been withholding so much from me (Oliver says she received a Day 1 Owl from Crouch that she's decided to not share with me) and ignores my missives for hours even when we're online (she also shared her parchment clue with Fleur and Oliver but not me, and I suspect she's much closer to Dung and Kingsley than I am). But for the sake of our alliance which hasn't even voted together, I'm just putting on a fake smile. It's not the worst that I don't want to work with her moving forward because I didn't get good vibes from Hedwig's Killer (I feel like there's a line between trying to stay in character, and just being an asshole - it's likely their personality naturally selected for that avatar) and I haven't received any information to suggest that HK is working with Crouch (I assume his two closest allies are Lucius and Yaxley).
To throw a deeper spanner in the works, I'm reasonably confident that the Ministry will cast a war-wide Switching spell tonight. After tonight, we'll be down to 16 which is perfect to rearrange into 2 tribes of 8. That will also allow the weekend for us to get to know our new Sides. This timeline will also ensure we hit 11 by the following Thursday when presumably we merge (to get to a jury of 9). I feel reasonably safe now, but a swap could definitely expose me and the information that I've given out, or conversely withheld. Swapping onto a side without at least two of Crouch/Lucius/Yaxley/Fleur/Oliver could also be quite troublesome for me.
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