AAAAGH

[cheyinka]

AAAAAAAGH

"If anyone's going to have the honour of duelling Bellatrix Lestrange, I demand it for myself by right as my Father's son." Harry, this saving people thing you've got, it really kicked in at a bad time, man.

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[kiya]

So my chat window looks like this:

stormyhearted distracts herself with more F5ing.
stormyhearted says, "Oh, good, things are worse."
kiya says, "It's not even midnight yet, there's time."
kiya says, "Plot tends to run until 1 or 2 on nights like this."
stormyhearted nods.

(Transcribed with permission and swapped in for DW handles.)

[cheyinka]

Haha, I was just wishing there was an IRC channel to say "ahhhhhhgh no new posts AAAAAAAAAAAAGH NEW POSTS" in. :D

[kiya]

(Of course, it's after midnight now, in the timezone of which I was speaking.)

The one of my chats that tracks Alternity has fits of speculation in it that sometimes we remember to post in fen and a lot of, what was it tonight? *scrolls around*

Oh Barty.
Oh Ginny.
Oh gods.
Oh Tosha.
Oh. SHIT.
Oh, fuck a rusty duck.
Oh Linus.

Repeated at appropriate intervals! (I think I got all the relevant ohs.)

[stinaleigh]

Oh, JUSTIN.

This might just be the break we have been waiting for.

Damn, I should go to sleep. Not going to happen.

[kiya]

Or it will be a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day for a lot of people.

I mean, even more than it already is....

[cheyinka]

Gghhhhh Sally-Anne's journal entry just makes me more anxious. I don't want to lose Dolohov yet! I especially don't want to lose Justin ever - especially knowing what it'll do to Hydra, but just in his own right too! Argh!

[stinaleigh]

This is ending way too smoothly. Very anxiety inducing.

[ellemir.livejournal.com]

Can Voldie have found out about Azakaban yet?
I don't think he'd leave quietly if he had, which means that fallout will follow later.

[cheyinka]

Way too smoothly, yes.

[kiya]

"It's quiet. Too quiet."

[cheyinka]

Well, there we go

[stinaleigh]

Bella is going to have kittens...not just because Rookwood forgot Lucius is unavailable again. *giggles madly*

[kiya]

I'ma wondering if someone has Lucius's journal (or if PMs are accessible to a person from someone else's journal).

Because if Lucius is or becomes willing to share, Rookwood's reality problem turns into a potential benefit to the Order.

[cheyinka]

It really does, doesn't it?

And yes, PMs are accessible to a person from someone else's journal, because whoever was writing for Frank (I can't remember, it's almost 1am) could see PMs to him in Frank's journal, but not PMs just to Frank.

[cheyinka]

A non-AAAAGH thought: Can Narcissa tell that Lucius has been retrieved? Justin could tell that Hydra was in no immediate danger and they haven't even been married a year yet, have they?

[stinaleigh]

OK, no Bella response yet. I think it is safe enough to sleep.

'Night all.

[keshwyn]

I would be absolutely prepared to set up an IRC channel for this sort of madness. ;-) And I'm pretty sure nobody on freenode would be upset, so:

irc.freenode.net - standard port, #alternity

(Sysadmin IRL.)

[keshwyn]

I have to wonder if some of what Justin and Hydra have is NRE - new relationship energy. Though they've been together for several years at school. We don't know what Narcissa and Lucius's bindings were, of course, but I don't know if we can ascribe any particular mystical linkages to this one - it's entirely possible that Rachel got word to Narcissa that the operation was a success. It's not in the Order's interests to keep her in the dark about that right now.

[keshwyn]

And now we have Rockwood talking about "samples on file" and how he should be able to make their lives thoroughly unpleasant.

It's not enough to rescue them... It sounds like some of them may need to get dropped in Saltash for a bit just to protect them from Rockwood. Which I'm sure Lucius will just *adore*...

[kiya]

Are those samples from the prisoners or the Dementor-wranglers?

[jenett]

Padma's most recent made me have to point out this icon. (Text is from Sally-Anne and Pansy, discussing what to wear to the Siz/Raz wedding and rescue of Arista and Hector.)

[keshwyn]

Hmm. It's unclear to me, but it didn't even occur to me that Rockwood might be targeting the wranglers.

[kiya]

He's struck me as having the same cheerful and encouraging attitudes towards his subordinates as V.

(And the surnames he gave aren't on the list of people the Order sprang, so I'm guessing they're missing minions.)

[stinaleigh]

I haven't used IRC in ages. I would need a client. Suggestions? And also an Android app?

[batrachian]

My Android app of choice is AndroIRC, though I hear AndChat is also good.

[cheyinka]

/me joins

[keshwyn]

I'll post commands on how folks here can get operator bits on the channel too, in case we end up with trolls who have to get knocked off/banned. (I just have to get back to my work computer to do it, which won't happen until Friday.)

For clients, I'm partial to Colloquy or Xchat Aqua on the Mac, AndChat on Android, plain Xchat on Linux, and I'm afraid I haven't touched Windows in several years so I'm dirt useless for suggestions there.