Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 30, 2022 23:20:38 GMT 10
2nd Place - Regulus Black
Played by Gerard
"Tbh I'd rather remain a single if it's an option? I think I'll just cut my losses with pairs and move forward as an unattached free agent."
"I've actually put thought into working people and trying to do enough to justify people voting for me before they leave. Now... that isn't to say that I wanted people to leave when they did, but I've worked on relationships with people before the majority booted people from the game."
"Somehow, I have managed to sneak through. Round. By round. By round."
Peter Pettigrew
Sarah I know from your confessional that you've a sense of how epic this run was... but from the outside, knowing your ID, it was STUNNING! A pleasure and a thrill to follow at every step, and impossible not to get swept up in. You're one of my favourite people I've connected with in a game (even if it wasn't for long) and so I was overjoyed when you agreed to play this - but cautious not to get too invested because you almost signed on reluctantly and very pessimistically, noting that you've struggled to find much success in ORGs. Well please don't go saying that any longer! Even if all kinds of curses followed you doggedly as you lost everybody you cared about exactly when you started to solidify things with them (and the buggers didn't even leave you their Wands until super late!)
But I think because of the low expectations, rough start, and your off-kilter approach toward the twists (including the offer to take a new partner) your extreme celebrations of every minor victory (whether real or invented as I can't not mention the time you thought the Owl Post clues were rewards for getting votes ) made you the most lovable of underdogs. You made the Merge! You won a Challenge! and very impressively too! And when the numbers reduced and the full picture of the dynamics became possible to see, you seized every opportunity to forge the endgame that suited you best, fought hard at the Final Magical Council, and were just one vote shy of being crowned the Winner, with quite a few Wizengamot voters struggling to decide between you and Yaxley. Sure, it took some lucky breaks and some general incompetence by everyone for you to cockroach through the mid-Merge rounds, after all the bad breaks you'd faced already it couldn't have happened to a worthier cockroach! And as was noted by the Wizengamot, it was your subtle sociability and constant openness that made it possible for you to capitalise on the good luck, when it visited.
And more importantly: none of that seemed remotely feasible at the start of this, so I hope you walk away from The ORG of the Phoenix with more confidence and faith in yourself not only as a strong player but also as a wonderful and friendly person with a perfectly normal favourite colour, who others undervalue at their own peril. And I thank you for using this ORG to show that to the world
Dolores Umbridge
I know you must be disappointed by this outcome, but I hope you are incredibly proud of making it all the way to the end and coming within inches of victory. I know I am- to see you make your first FTC when the odds almost seemed impossible at times, pure poetry. Right from the beginning of the game you were doing your sneaky thing- the Lucius vote, for instance, was hilarious and actually paid dividends (including winning his jury vote here). Losing your partner right out of the gate was a blow, but you never let it stop you. And I think that's what I loved most about watching you play throughout, you never said die, and you were always cheerful and optimistic no matter the circumstances. It's so commendable, and your cockroach journey is one for the fucking ages omg. From pretty much the swap you were a marked man, but you always managed to be saved one way or another, worming out of things, making friends with the right people at the right times, or just the fickle hand of fate intervening. Your confessional was always one of my favourites to follow as well, an endless stream of thoughts and reactions. While it may be true that you got a bit lucky with those immunities post-merge, you played the endgame flawlessly and almost clenched it at FTC. Yaxley just edged you out, but runner-up one vote short is a huge achievement in it's own right. You were utterly delightful in this, congratulations on such an amazing journey.