WWX: Hogwarts goes to war

sullivlo

The Ministry has fallen and now Hogwarts is under attack.

Dumbledore is dead. His parting words ring true: It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated. Voldemort claims to be the reason behind the death of his long time foe Albus Dumbledore and having done so begins to recruit what he believes to be the final pieces of the puzzle to defeat Hogwarts and Harry Potter once and for all. He and his army of Death Eaters will wage war on the school in order to crush the last bastion of the wizarding world that opposes him.

The school itself could feel the loss of one of the greatest wizards of all time and decided to try and help those remaining in their fight against the forces of Voldemort. The Sorting Hat appeared, but rather than providing the sword of Gryffindor, it gave a speech about the need for unity amongst those inside the school. Only if they stuck together would they be able to defeat the forces of evil. However, these words did not inspire much confidence in the group so the Sorting Hat bestowed special abilities on certain individuals to help them in their fight against Voldemort. Professor Trelawney, Mad Eye Moody, Rubeus Hagrid and the trio of Harry, Ron and Hermione were selected to harness these special powers for the good of Hogwarts.

Meanwhile, the murder of Albus Dumbledore had a profound impact on two of the key people at Hogwarts. Severus Snape, whilst having worked with Dumbledore throughout his time at Hogwarts, was viewed to have a played a key part in Dumbledore's death and thus viewed with suspicion amongst those in the castle. He also offered help to the student who schemed against Albus in an attempt to follow through on Voldemort's order. Draco Malfoy was unable to kill Dumbledore in the end, but once he saw Voldemort take the credit for the act he was emboldened to show that he was not in fact a coward and he himself began to plot against his former master and also his former schoolmates.


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Role descriptions:

The Evil Teams:

- Voldemort - The Leader of the Death Eaters
- Peter Pettigrew is an interesting character. Due to his time as Scabbers the rat, he appears as good to the seer.
- Regulus Black is a Deflector, and therefore is given the option before the game begins as to whether or not he wants to be a Death Eater, or become a part of Dumbledores Army.
- Barty Crouch is drawing on his past impersonation of Mad Eye Moody, and thus can choose one seer check every second night. When Barty dies, his power dies with him.

- Draco Malfoy - has the power to kill a player every second night.

**Voldemort can't die if Harry is alive. Harrys scar will hurt if Voldemort is attacked, and Harry can sacrifice himself to kill Voldemort, however, if he chooses self sacrifice, he must fight alone.**

Dumbledores Army:

- Mad Eye Moody (Seer) - can choose one person during each night phase to check if they're good or evil.

- Trelawney (Priest) - as a professor of Diviniation, Trelawney will learn what role the dead player played.

- Hagrid (Bodyguard) - can choose protect someone each night, however they cannot protect the same person two nights in a row. Hagrid can protect himself. Hagrid also has a one time option of trapping someone in the forest with Aragog if he is suspicious of their role.

- Harry, Ron and Hermione - have access to the Gryffindor Common Room, however they must earn the password through a task to get past the Fat Lady. However, if the Fat Lady sings, the password may change, and access may be revoked.

- Severus Snape - an unfortunate character that appears evil to the seer due to his previous assosciation with Voldemort.

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Other:

- Dudley Dursley (the school drunk who drank too much butter beer), only remembers his role after a few days, and he may only learn from the sorting hat on the day...

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1. mahamageehad
2. tritium
3. quickbeam
4. y0ssar1an22
5. dottie_lottie
6. partyjungle
7. sKeith
8. gufc21
9. Digital Solitude Amandadon
10. Strawberry Milkshake
11. Jayop
12. andy125
13. Lord TSC
14. Raze_them_all
15. The_Valeyard
16. grumpylumpy
17. Uriel.
18. Dan man
19. EMF2010
20. MicksJaguar
21. MrsFlushdraw

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Lynch form: https://goo.gl/forms/PWUsvRslZvETOAAL2

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Rules

1) Once you are killed do not post in the thread again.
2) Don’t cheat, it’s a game that relies heavily on the players having integrity. No PMing other players in the game, and no chat about the game outside of this game thread.
3) Please all try to reasonably contribute to the game thread and always remember to get a vote in as a minimum. The game is too small to mod kill inactives.
4) No posting of any PM's from the game mod or referring to the content of them.
5) Game starts with a wolf slaughter to be revealed at 10am tomorrow morning.
6) If you've got any questions for me send the mods a message.
7) Win conditions are listed above.
8) Don’t be a sensitive soul. While boards own forum rules clearly take precedence over any in-game rules that I have, this is a game where people will be insulted, there will be some bad language and people will try to provoke a reaction out of each other. Please accept this is part of the game and don’t go annoying the mods with the report post button unless really needed.
9) If someone misses 2 votes in a row without a good reason they will be modkilled by me and replaced with a substitute.
10) DO NOT EVER EDIT A POST. IF YOU HIT THE POST REPLY BUTTON THEN LIVE WITH IT. YELLOW CARDS AND RED CARDS WILL BE HANDED OUT TO PLAYERS WHO EDIT POSTS
11) Do not share your vote form password to anyone else. All votes for the lynch have to be made by yourself.
12) Have fun, make meme’s, take the piss and try to enjoy the game.
13) The mods have some secrets, but all players have been provided with the information they need to play the game. Mods will not enter into discussion on thread about mechanics of the game, we can discuss issues like that after. Clarification will only be given on things explicitly mentioned in this post.
14) The votes will be published when the Lynch is announced. They will be posted in order of who received the most votes and then in chronological order but with no timestamps.
15) People are free to post in the thread until the lynch and slaughter are announced. You are not dead until a post in the game thread announces it.

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Game begins now, first munch announced at 10am.

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Clarifications:
- win conditions: parity of Death Eaters and Students/SK and only one other alive.

y0ssar1an22

hello

quickbeam

sullivlo wrote: »

7) Win conditions are listed above.

First! :P

What are the win conditions?

quickbeam

quickbeam wrote: »

First! :P

Bugger it, Yoss!!! :eek:

grumpylumpy

So how's everyone feeling?

Game looks awesome mods, thanks!

grumpylumpy

quickbeam wrote: »

First! :P

What are the win conditions?

We're just playing for the joy of participation

MrsFlushdraw

Evening all

Have no clue about HP! saw the first film in 2003 and that was the last I ever watched!

Triceratops Ballet

yay, it starts!!

Guffy

Ha harry potter, this should be entertaining. Will give the roles a scan on break.

andy125

Hello fellow students, you all have wands in your pockets or are yas just happy to see me?

andy125

andy125 wrote: »

Hello fellow students, you all have wands in your pockets or are yas just happy to see me?

I told you it was a magic wand I was just in the wrong thread.

Also Andys a wolf :P

Lord TSC

Ha, I had no idea this was starting today! Awesome

grumpylumpy

Lord TSC wrote: »

Ha, I had no idea this was starting today! Awesome

Oh yeah same... Certainly wasn't sitting at home refreshing boards all day.... :rolleyes:

Lord TSC

grumpylumpy wrote: »

Oh yeah same... Certainly wasn't sitting at home refreshing boards all day.... :rolleyes:

Waving your wand, screaming Accio Werewolf Thread! :P

andy125

Deleted User wrote: »

I told you it was a magic wand I was just in the wrong thread.

Also Andys a wolf :P

Hello mick, shall we be friends this time or mortal enemies once again?

andy125

andy125 wrote: »

Hello mick, shall we be friends this time or mortal enemies once again?

Hey Andy, we will go with friends to start with at least

grumpylumpy

There's no friends in werewolf!

Yey, it begins !!!

Thought this game may have started earlier but I'm dead impressed at myself for doing loads of housework.

Triceratops Ballet

I'll be on the qt for the first day I've 2000 words of an essay left to write, so I'm gonna power through and then you can all have all my time!

WerewolfGM

quickbeam wrote: »

What are the win conditions?

Mod clarification

Win conditions are standard.
Win Conditions
Village/DA win when there are no more Death Eaters and the Draco is also dead.

For a Wolf/Death Eater win they have to gain parity of numbers with the village. E.g. 3 wolves and 3 villagers left = wolf win. They also have to wipe out the serial killer.

For Draco to win he needs to reach at least parity with each of the groups. (E.g. Draco, one Death Eater and one villager left)

Lord TSC

This gives me an excuse to post one of my favorite videos of all time :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

tritium

Evening all! Mods, thabks for setting up a super theme!

Mods, some questions and clarifications. Dudley-is this similar to the role in the halloween game? A player who finds out they have a role later in the game? Do we know which side the role is on?

Lord TSC

tritium wrote: »

Evening all! Mods, thabks for setting up a super theme!

Mods, some questions and clarifications. Dudley-is this similar to the role in the halloween game? A player who finds out they have a role later in the game? Do we know which side the role is on?

Well, we know who Dudley is now

tritium

Lord TSC wrote: »

Well, we know who Dudley is now

Haha afraid not, i think for the halloween game the player didnt even know they had a role until it was activated (think it may have been grumpy or gufc, they may be able to confirm)

grumpylumpy

tritium wrote: »

Haha afraid not, i think for the halloween game the player didnt even know they had a role until it was activated (think it may have been grumpy or gufc, they may be able to confirm)

Nah I didn't play the halloween game.

Was curious about this one too, the mention of the sorting hat makes me think they'll be told they're good (Griffendor, hufflepuff, the other one I can't remember), or evil (slytherin). But if that's the case then the sorting hat is... The mods? And they just choose?

Triceratops Ballet

grumpylumpy wrote: »

Nah I didn't play the halloween game.

Was curious about this one too, the mention of the sorting hat makes me think they'll be told they're good (Griffendor, hufflepuff, the other one I can't remember), or evil (slytherin). But if that's the case then the sorting hat is... The mods? And they just choose?

Oh the sorting hat just made me think they were going to stick all our names in a hat at some point and pick the owner of that role from that (or a sorting hat is a HP ref that went right over my head)

andy125

tritium wrote: »

Haha afraid not, i think for the halloween game the player didnt even know they had a role until it was activated (think it may have been grumpy or gufc, they may be able to confirm)

They didn't know if they were good or bad just that they were the drunk

tritium

Mods, another question. Can the bad teams communicate with each other in this game?

andy125

I doubt they seen a point with only 1 main evil team and 1 sk, its says on rule 13 that the mods have secrets so you never know

Triceratops Ballet

andy125 wrote: »

I doubt they seen a point with only 1 main evil team and 1 sk, its says on rule 13 that the mods have secrets so you never know

Curses on whoever wrote that one into the rules!! :rolleyes:

andy125

Anyway what i want to know is if you had the choice to be evil or good before the game starts what would you pick?

Personally i would have thought they picked the evil side as its a role that doesn't come up that often for people but i'm interested to hear what others think

Triceratops Ballet

andy125 wrote: »

Anyway what i want to know is if you had the choice to be evil or good before the game starts what would you pick?

Personally i would have thought they picked the evil side as its a role that doesn't come up that often for people but i'm interested to hear what others think

So we're trying to figure out if the Dudley role will be good or evil when it's revealed? I assume the character is in the books/films so will probably be simillar to that? what is he in the lore?

andy125

dottie_lottie wrote: »

So we're trying to figure out if the Dudley role will be good or evil when it's revealed? I assume the character is in the books/films so will probably be simillar to that? what is he in the lore?

Regulus Black is a Deflector, and therefore is given the option before the game begins as to whether or not he wants to be a Death Eater, or become a part of Dumbledores Army.

I want to know if they picked good or bad

tritium

tritium wrote: »

Haha afraid not, i think for the halloween game the player didnt even know they had a role until it was activated (think it may have been grumpy or gufc, they may be able to confirm)

It was the Dazzler if I rem correctly and it was something that could have swang either way for balance purposes. He ended up a baddie on my team

Guffy

tritium wrote: »

Haha afraid not, i think for the halloween game the player didnt even know they had a role until it was activated (think it may have been grumpy or gufc, they may be able to confirm)

Hmm..

Nope not me anyway...

Is this role a random allocation by the mod from a set mix of good or bad roles or will it be used by the mods after a couple of days to balance out the teams?

If the seer peeks the role before it comes active i assume it will come back as good? So the first 2 peeks will have to be added to the PP peek as maybe a good guy i guess.

Triceratops Ballet

andy125 wrote: »

Regulus Black is a Deflector, and therefore is given the option before the game begins as to whether or not he wants to be a Death Eater, or become a part of Dumbledores Army.

I want to know if they picked good or bad

Oh wow I totally missed that!
I think most people would pick evil TBH, to give themselves a challenge

tritium

andy125 wrote: »

Regulus Black is a Deflector, and therefore is given the option before the game begins as to whether or not he wants to be a Death Eater, or become a part of Dumbledores Army.

I want to know if they picked good or bad

I think we have to assume evil. If they are good then tbey appera to be a basic villager so it may be useful for them to reveal themselves

Guffy

andy125 wrote: »

Regulus Black is a Deflector, and therefore is given the option before the game begins as to whether or not he wants to be a Death Eater, or become a part of Dumbledores Army.

I want to know if they picked good or bad

Dont think its much of a choice tbh. Nrv or wolf? I kniw what i would go for. I think we should assume at least that reg chose to be evil as to assume or guess otherwise would be silly.

Triceratops Ballet

dottie_lottie wrote: »

Oh wow I totally missed that!
I think most people would pick evil TBH, to give themselves a challenge

To add to that, I think it's important that the choice happens before the game starts, i think if presented with the choice mid game you stick with how you've been playing to not appear obvious. But with the choice being before the game, it makes it much easier to play evil right out of the gate

If the deflector picks good/bad then the drunk role will be opposite I guess, it makes the most sense

grumpylumpy

Depends on the type of person/player I guess... The village has the advantage with more members, so if you just want to win choose village. If you like a challenge and the sneaking around and all choose death eater.

andy125

gufc21 wrote: »

Dont think its much of a choice tbh. Nrv or wolf? I kniw what i would go for. I think we should assume at least that reg chose to be evil as to assume or guess otherwise would be silly.

I am assuming they are evil i was just interested to hear if anyone would pick nrv

Guffy

Early player change?

andy125

**Voldemort can't die if Harry is alive. Harrys scar will hurt if Voldemort is attacked, and Harry can sacrifice himself to kill Voldemort, however, if he chooses self sacrifice, he must fight alone.**

I wonder how this will work?

If we lynch somebody and they don't die then we know they are voldemort if harry is still alive, i wonder can harry only self sacrifice when this scenario comes to pass or can he do it whenever he wants

grumpylumpy

surely it would go lynch voldy -> announcement that lynch failed -> harry gets PM about his scar -> can self sacrifice?

The_Valeyard

evening all

andy125

how are you vale, did you pick evil or good?

Digi has been replaced by amandadon. Welcome

Does Dudley have any special powers?

MrsFlushdraw

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Digi has been replaced by amandadon. Welcome

Does Dudley have any special powers?

Anyone else read it as Armageddon lol?

Guffy

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Digi has been replaced by amandadon. Welcome

Does Dudley have any special powers?

That's a strange question... i mean it glaringly obvious in the role description that there is no role assigned yet, as such.

MrsFlushdraw

MrsFlushdraw wrote: »

Anyone else read it as Armageddon lol?

Would have been easier to type Armageddon hehe