alt_fen | Saving lives vs getting Maule and co out off Council

stinaleigh posting in

Ok, things are running heavy today with our parties both aiming for the right thing, but one is going to be thwarted.

Arrgh!

(Phone posting no links)

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From:

cheyinka

Links!
http://alt-corax.dreamwidth.org/5697.html
http://alt-kingsley.dreamwidth.org/16332.html

(f5 f5 f5)

From:

cheyinka

Back in mid-November, there was speculation that Auror Lamont might be in league with a rebel group.

Bill, at least, thinks that that may be the case.

From:

kiya

Ahahaha I was just coming in here to post that link because CALLED IT TOTALLY CALLED IT. (I made my suspicions explicit to one of the players, who has been rather biting their lip on commentary since.)

From:

cheyinka

Your point 11 from that thread is what convinced me it was likely back then ("It is not useful to kill already disabled targets when actively searching for information and when under specific orders to not take out any wizards permanently; killing Stephen risks Barty noticing that she disobeyed."), so I can only imagine how much lip/tongue/entire face the player in question must have been biting :D

From:

aedifica

Woo! And Rachel seems to be temperamentally suited to Dogstar, too, she's not a "Dogstar but should have been Order" like Norma Brownmiller was.

I had wondered if she were part of a rebel group, but I couldn't find enough clues to prove it to myself. Rachel's player, you've been very good at keeping her cover!

From:

alt_player

Thank you!

From:

teceler

!!! http://alt-bill.dreamwidth.org/45314.html

Who was speculating that name was going to show up again?

From:

kiya

Whoever called that gets to do the CALLED IT dance too!

From:

stinaleigh

All the +1s!

From:

kiya

Not as sure about the temperament thing as all that, actually. We've been having discussions about how Dogstar doesn't really give a shit about casualties, particularly muggle casualties, and...

Okay, so, last night I thought she had wind of Barty's plot because she did her usual "I'm haunted by something awful" booty-call to Bill, sans booty call portion? And she acted - possibly on her own initiative from hints dropped here - to try to protect a handful of brutalised non-magical girls.

From:

teceler

My wild guess is that she thinks working with Dogstar is worth it for whatever reason, even if she doesn't entirely agree with them (based on what you've noted).

Either way she seems to have adapted pretty well to her situation.

(Also, huh, I hadn't thought of that last night. I mean, she was clearly bothered by something, but I hadn't connected the dots)

From:

aedifica

There is that. I was thinking more about how she killed Stephen without apparent need for forethought and then just went on with her business, and how prepared she was to injure Bill even though I think she likes him. So I wasn't thinking so much about whether she cares for Muggles as how she feels about violence.

From:

kiya

(Speaking here as someone who's producing epic quantities of Alternity fanfic,) it's fucking amazing what a Ravenclaw is capable of pulling off when they've worked their way around to logically mandated necessity, even against base personality.

Might rip 'em to shreds later, but the logic of the situation is its own law.

From:

teceler

this is also true. I mean, she's been working as an Auror, she'd kind of have to be able to manage violence, but...

[sigh]

I really want to poke at the insides of her head. It's so hard, with her being (sensibly!) secretive.

(Oh, look, new character to add to the WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR HEAD list.)

From:

kiya

Last night was full of interesting tidbits, I thought.

(Like her making clear in subtext that she was "adopted", for example, which made me decide that I agreed with whoever called it on her being the Brodie kid.)

From:

aedifica

ooh. Alternity fanfic? May I read?

From:

teceler

That would fit in with what we've been seeing with her. Brutal logic, and all that.

(Also now you've got me curious)

From:

aedifica

Does anyone remember when we heard about that? I'd like to re-read it!

From:

teceler

ah, it was a grim truth post. Moment.

http://alternity.dreamwidth.org/54972.html

From:

teceler

That it was. (I hadn't picked up the 'adopted' subtext, but I can see it now rereading it. Huh.)

I was actually considering making a post to try to pick it apart and then I woke up to this and, well.

From:

aedifica

Thank you! I hadn't even remembered that much about where/when it was posted.

From:

kiya

(Replied elsewhere.)

From:

stinaleigh

Me too, please.

From:

teceler

I only remember because it came up in discussion back when we were trying to work out what the hell was going on with Doholov

From:

teceler

basically this

From:

capericious

Sooo... not to be shamelessly proud but I am totally doing a jig over having called it! I had been hoping that she would be the Brodie kid for sooo long.
Oh Dolohov, your chickens are coming home to roost in a major way.

Edited Date: 2013-12-06 10:39 pm (UTC)

From:

alt_player

Dangit *I* want to read your Alternity fanfic.

From:

kiya

I think I'm going to have to come up with a way of releasing the fic when the Alternity backchannel goes public after year 7.

Parts of it have realtime play implications that may come out in game later (because I send it to several players as my primary audience), you see.

From:

alt_player

I do, too.

From:

alt_player

(I still crack up at 'Dinner and a Cardinal may be a bit of a non-traditional date but I'm sure those crazy kids can make it work!')

Bill's player

From:

stinaleigh

Ahh. I'd say post it to AO3 at the end. But I'd still love to read it as we go if you are ameable. Obviously, treating it entirely as fic and not canon until game posting would be the circumstance at the current time.