Plot Event # 1

Truth be told, at this point Sandra has abandon the idea of a "standard" war and shifted more to terror tactics. She's not the leader of the DEs anymore, but if worst came to worst and the Order marched in she'd do her best to convince the DEs to burn Hogwarts to the ground - it's too big of a symbol to go untouched.

However, not all of Hogwarts has to be destroyed - maybe certain sections could be temporarily closed off.

That's what battles are Xem, chaotic, are they not. Besides, with neither group having a foothold in the castle, there's no proper way to plan a defence, and then the grounds for battle would be completely unrealistic, however if we use the escalation there is a decent background for the battle, and a very plausible one.

As for burning the school, have fun with that : D

End of the school year is fast approaching, we could finish with the battle.

And if we did that we could start the lockdown, not sure what that'd do for the summer camp though :/

Just an idea.

Samuel Grigori wrote:That's what battles are Xem, chaotic, are they not. Besides, with neither group having a foothold in the castle, there's no proper way to plan a defence, and then the grounds for battle would be completely unrealistic, however if we use the escalation there is a decent background for the battle, and a very plausible one.

As for burning the school, have fun with that : D

Battles are chaotic, but to an extent. If everyones just fighting who's gonna calm them down. It'll be a war with no ending which is definitely something we don't want right ? Think of it this way, The west hemisphere of the world vs the east hemisphere. If there was ever a battle like that no one would be able to calm anyone down

It's easy - you choose a certain number (3 probably) of judges who are good writers and you can trust to be impartial, and then have the judge the battle based on activity and overall writing quality. Whoever they choose wins.

It's better than deciding the winner beforehand at least.

I thought a war with no ending was what we did want? I thought that's what this site was all about. I thought the whole goal here was to create a huge war so that all you people who are obsessed with your characters having "battles" would be able to do it. War is full of battles.

Mmm, but there are millions of people in the western and eastern world societies, and only about a hundred on PA.

And yes, we do want a fully inclusive war, otherwise people get left out of the plot, the whole Idea of this was to include everyone, was it not? Because we're constantly in trouble for leaving Hogwarts or grads out of plots >>

And finally I'm not basing an IC thing off and OOC thing like writing, that's not how this works. A one hundred word post where someone dies will have a far bigger effect on my character than a 1000 word post where someone thinks about casting a spell.

I think this one will come down to tactics and good character, imo.

Great, that's pretty much everything I've been ignoring.

Long posts aren't only for those who read them, they help the writers too, Muffin.

Can we break up Slytherin house? I haven't got any ideas on it really but I think it's a good idea. :3

Jess Potter wrote:Mmm, but there are millions of people in the western and eastern world societies, and only about a hundred on PA.

And yes, we do want a fully inclusive war, otherwise people get left out of the plot, the whole Idea of this was to include everyone, was it not? Because we're constantly in trouble for leaving Hogwarts or grads out of plots >>

And finally I'm not basing an IC thing off and OOC thing like writing, that's not how this works. A one hundred word post where someone dies will have a far bigger effect on my character than a 1000 word post where someone thinks about casting a spell.

I think this one will come down to tactics and good character, imo.

Overall writing quality doesn't mean length. Personally I would nominate Selwyn (Liss?) as one of the judges for that precise reason as he/she doesn't believe in longer posts. The balance it out with someone who traditionally posts longer (maybe Amelia, I don't know) and then someone to round it all out.