Find the Horcruxes (ooc)

One more modpost from me for the night! Two short tidbits from the Various Information page.

The about the journals doc has been updated with some information that I've said in various places but it had never actually made it into the doc until today. It's about warding and such.

Basically, here's the scoop: you go to the bookstore and buy a journal. It is keyed to you, so it "recognises" you and it accepts any wards that include you. This, however, means that anybody who opens that journal can read those wards, unless there are locking charms installed on the journal to keep people-who-aren't-the-owner from opening it. These can range from charms that simply lock the journal down tight to charms that cause the journal to destroy itself in various manners, should someone other than the owner attempt to open it.

Example time!

Marlene buys a new journal. It is keyed to her. The journal recognizes itself as Marlene McKinnon's Journal. Alex Savage writes a journal entry and includes a ward to Marlene. The only journal that picks up on this ward is Marlene's journal. Even if Marlene picks up her roommate Roland Williamson's journal, she wouldn't be able to read Alex's ward to her, because the ward is keyed to Marlene McKinnon's Journal. However, if Roland Williamson picks up Marlene's journal and she doesn't have locking charms on it, he can read Alex's ward to Marlene (and any other wards that include Marlene among them).

It is, therefore, INCREDIBLY LIKELY that all DEs and all Order members, at the very least, have strong locking charms on their journals because, if they fall into enemy hands, they would be pretty much screwed because the enemy would then be able to find out who's in the other organization.

I realize this is probably really freaking confusing and probably only makes sense in my head because I'm nuts, but. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to try to explain better.

(And I've just realized I ought to add: sloppily done or weak wards might leave a sort of "mark" on other journals, where you can kind of tell that there's supposed to be something else there. Of course, you still have to go through the nasty business of using the difficult charms to break the wards.)



The second Various Information tidbit is considerably less confusing. Thanks to the lovely Kate, we have a "Random Shit" doc for your consumption. All sorts of random cultural bits and pieces, and if you'd like to add something, let one of us know and we can get you added onto the doc to edit it.

Hellloooooo! Dawn here (doctorplusone). Bringing in Sam Turpin, Melanie's older brother. Here's a few bits and baubles about him:

• Gryffindor, 1969 - 1976. Not a prefect, not a Quidditch player. He left that to Boyd and Ed - His BFFS!
  
• Related to the Dawlishes and the Rabnotts. His sister is married to Tiberius Ogden.
  
• Very friendly, like his sister, just not full of sunshine, daisies, and marshmallows.
  
• Had a really eerie intuitiveness about him. Generally knows what his friends are thinking/feeling.
  
• Feel free to call him a fag! He'll just punch the shit out of you for it.
  
• ...which brings me to his TEMPER. Have fun with that! Seriously. He's kind of a jerk when pissed off.
  
• You MIGHT recognise his voice (but only on occasion). He's a voice actor for The Story, mostly background players, but that's because he just left WADA last year. He absolutely loves doing this, but his real love is...
  
• His art. It's mostly abstract, but he can manage realism if the mood strikes him. He almost always as a camera on him, and he doodles and sketches comics. (THE SOON TO BE AXE HIT (with DINO-AUROR).

So! Friends? Enemies? Exes? Future dates?

Look I have the second pretty twin. *_*

This is Ulhas Nehru!

About him:
- he was in Gryffindor from 1964-1971
- he's an journalist for the Daily Prophet, for the International News section
- was a Quidditch commentatory in his Hogwarts years, from fourth and onward
- he's pretty much the opposite from his brother when it comes what he describes as fun... so drinking, eating greasy food? So him. He just has to get his brother to relaaaax a bit!
- because he's the younger twin, he's about an inch or a half shorter and not as built as Kamal is either (but still has something)

- he's slightly on the more spineless side. I'm pretty sure heights get him a little anxious so he doesn't go flying that much... he just stays to himself for the most part
- he's a floater when he comes to relationships. He likes being unattached but loves women too, that he's accidentally two-timed girls without actually meaning to. >>
- he writes lists a lot and signs his name on the posts with "Yours, ____"
- when it comes to articles, he writes FACTS ONLY.. just facts! No personal opinion or his own bias or whatever... or at least tries not to. So Rita? Yeah, he doesn't like your stuff.

Uhhh I think that's it but whatever I missed its going to be in his journal. :D Plotty stuff, guys?! Anyone want to be the girls he two-times? xDDD

-Khushi/Dorcas/Meredith/Dylan/Iona/Marion/Dahlia/andnowUlhas

Hey fellas!

I'm a little behind after all this weekend's game MADNESS. I know that there is that weak ward in Persephone's journal that implicates Xavier Avery in her murderous shenanigans, and that the DMLE probably broke it like the Order did. I was just wondering if anyone's gone to talk to him yet, or picked him up at all (... post stabbing-by-wife, aha) for his own ~protection~? Or what you were plannin' on with him, Britt?

Just wanted to know for future journal mentionings! And in case I missed something. D:

WHY HELLO!

This is Emily (rockrates on AIM), player of Gawain/Miriam/Peadar/Cecil/&Michael, falling prey to complete and total madness and introducing my sixth character: ROYDEN POKE!

Mr. Poke (asides from sounding like the name for some sort of whimsical marital aid) is a former Gryffindor, class of '68, who works in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Beings Division, specifically as goblin liason. In his spare time he also works with P.A.W.S., counseling new werewolves (of which there have been quite a number lately, egads). Royden's own aunt, a Hitwitch he was very close to, was killed by a werewolf when he was a boy.

His name is also notable because his father, one Monty Poke, published a bestseller in 1970 entitled "THE CRAFT: A Modern Wizard's Guide to Witches", which is basically a wildly sexist how-to on manipulating women into sleeping with you. He's also published more books on swinging, and in fact Royden's step-mum is a few years younger than Royden himself. Egads x2.

Royden however is nothing like his father, being a very genuine, outgoing, friendly sort of fellow who wears a lot of plaid shirts and only stocks bright red socks. He likes muggle gadgets and flannel. He isn't easily embarrassed and is rather uninhibited, though really dislikes his father's book. And the fans of said book. And being clapped on the back by fans of said book.

Also he has three cats and they are his darlings.

Loads more about him over here! Plot/Friends/Exes/&tc, all welcome!

Hai there! This is Chele with Magrat McGonagall!

Mags is a Gryffindor 1968 - 1975 and she was also on the Quidditch team from 1969 to 1975. Those of you that would have known her during school would know that she was a pretty bitchin' Chaser. Won a Quidditch trophy in '71 thanks very much. A lot of people thought she would have gone to play professionally but nope! She decided against it! Now she works at the Ministry as Lydia Townsley's assistant and has been her loyal, very unorganized assistant for about a year! She's a ball of fun, says what's on her mind more often than she probably should. The girl is pretty obsessed with Astronomy and ocean life. So she's fully of useless information that I'm sure she'll share with everyone!

Um. That's about it I guess!

BEFRIEND HER. Thank you.

Okay, because the log ended up involving 5 people, it's not quite done yet BUT, tonight James & Lily were attacked on their way home from supper with Mr. Evans around 7:30pm. They were walking down the block away from his house to a safe apparition point and were ambushed by Augustus, Lucius, and Dylan.

They managed to subdue one of their attackers before Lily was down for the count, then James was able to incapacitate one enough that he had time to grab Lily and apparate to St. Mungo's. He managed to get off a patronus message to Remus & Sirius before being taken in for care himself.

Lily sustained severe injuries, major bloodloss, and internal damage, along with the baby being put through some trauma so she'll be in critical condition through the night. The baby will have been determined to be okay by the wee hours of the morning, but Lily herself not out of critical condition until tomorrow afternoonish. She will, however, still be unconscious after that.

James will have been injured as well, possible broken leg and bleeding/beat up enough that he'll be checked into Mungo's too, but he'll be awake and in Alie's words "freaking out" about Lily too much to let them sedate him.

The DEs do get out of there before the DMLE can show up, sadly.

Let us know if you have any questions!