Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 11, 2022 21:46:01 GMT 10
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One of the most exciting times to be a Harry Potter fan was when the books and films were still being released. The later books were released simultaneously in all timezones, but the films were all open to fans for the first time at midnight screenings worldwide. Around the globe there were launch parties and celebrations, costume contests and quizzes... and interminably long lines for each of these things, as you possibly recall from our Day 0 Challenge.
Today we're going to be taking the celebrations to a whole new level by celebrating every new midnight around the world between now and the Challenge deadline.
Every hour, on the hour, we will release a new Gift ready to be claimed - starting in just a few minutes at 10:00pm AEST, which will be midnight in New Zealand. Fancy, fiery gifts just like this one:
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The contents of each Gift will vary wildly: rewards, punishments, jokes, surprises, plus everything in between.
All we can guarantee is that two of the Gifts will contain Individual Immunity - because...
both Sides will be attending Magical Councils tomorrow night!
One player from each Side will be Immune, and one player from each Side will be voted out. Just like in the first round, these Magical Councils will occur separately but simultaneously.
Here's how the Gift Releases will work:
- We have made 23 Member Groups for this Challenge, titled '10pm Gift', '11pm Gift' and so on through to tomorrow's '8pm Gift'. All times are AEST, like the box on the Quick Response box at the bottom of every thread.
- To open a gift and see what is inside, simply join the relevant Member Group. However you must do so AT or AFTER its opening time. For instance, the '5pm Gift' Member Group should only be joined at or after 5:00:00pm board time. Anyone who joins any Member Group before the time in its name - even just a fraction of a second earlier - will not only miss out on the Gift, but also receive a steep penalty far beyond the scope of anything else built into this Challenge. Do not to do that!
- Once you join a Member Group and open a gift, you can decide whether to accept it or reject it - simply make a post in your private Challenge thread saying the name/time of the Gift, followed by the word 'ACCEPT' or 'REJECT'. Like so:
6am Gift - REJECT
- You must post a decision to either ACCEPT or REJECT each opened Gift before you are allowed to open any other Gifts. Once again, breaking this rule will be heavily penalised.
- There is no time limit to open Gifts; in theory you could join all the Member Groups for all the Gifts shortly before the Challenge deadline, so long as you did it one at a time and accepted or rejected each one before opening the next.
- Each Gift will be granted to the first player who accepts it. However sometimes conditions will apply, and these will be outlined in the Gift description. For instance, the second Gift to contain Individual Immunity cannot go to a player on the same Side as whoever claimed the first Gift containing Individual Immunity. Thus the second Gift of Individual Immunity will be granted to the first player who accepts it from the eligible Side.
- If everybody who opens a Gift tries to reject it, the Gift will be granted to the last player who joined that Gift's Member Group, despite their attempt to reject it.
As a general rule we will not be confirming whether your attempts to accept or reject each Gift are successful. After the Challenge deadline, we will announce the winners of Individual Immunity in this thread and then tell everyone privately which other Gifts they were granted, if any.
Each player may only receive two Gifts at most overall. This should have no effect on how you play the Challenge, though, because you won't know whether your attempts to accept and reject Gifts were successful while it is running. So you can post that you are accepting every single gift, if you like. But as we work through the results, we will be assigning the Gifts in order based on all the above rules. And anyone who receives a second gift will become ineligible to receive any more gifts, even if they were technically the first player to try accepting some of the later ones.
After working through the full set of 23 Gifts in order, any Gifts still unclaimed will then be randomly assigned to eligible players who did not join its Member Group. Thus all 23 Gifts will eventually be granted to somebody.
Finally, a technical note: to limit any accidental rule breaches, the Ministers will be doing their best to keep each Member Group invisible until shortly before their times roll around. But due to our own real-life schedules sometimes this won't be possible, and we'll need to leave multiple Gifts accessible in advance of their official release. Whatever timezone you are in, please be sure to double check the time on the board before you join any Member Group.
Any Member Groups joined or ACCEPT/REJECT posts made after 8:30pm AEST tomorrow will not count.
Do not discuss this Challenge. Anywhere. At all.
Do not discuss this Challenge. Anywhere. At all.
We will announce the winners of Individual Immunity as soon as possible after the Challenge deadline. Both Sides will be able to send PMs up until 9:15pm, when the Magical Councils will begin.
The Immunity winners will be able to re-assign their Immunity to another player by stating their intent to do so in the Magical Council thread before 9:20pm, per the Rules. Votes and Switch/Flick Charms will be due at 9:30pm regardless, so we recommend that you leave a pre-vote list just in case your preferred vote target becomes immune, and you are unexpectedly kept offline during this window.
Any questions? Feel free to ask them here.
Otherwise, keep an eye on the clock! The first midnight approaches...