• The Meddling Press: The press make it difficult for the ministry to regain normalcy, as they print articles denouncing the swift changes and stir up dissent against the government.
• The Apparation Bug: At first it's only important officials that disappear, but it begins to spread to the regular wizarding community. Will anyone go untouched by the apparation bug?
• The MLE Search: Magical Law Enforcement sends out various hit wizards and aurors to look into the disappearances and murders. Romance and old enemies complicate the search.
• Muggles and Marriage: The number of purebloods is dwindling with every year that passes. As a result families like the Malfoys and Blacks are gettting a bit tense. Their way of life is at risk of perishing forever. They will do anything...anything...to ensure that purebloods remain the center of wizard life.
• The Muggle Invasion: Ever since the last battle with Voldemort, the line between the magical and muggle world has grown thin. Strange rumors spread through the muggle world that there is a secret world of witches and wziards living right underneath their noses, and suspicious muggles start noticing more magic and even attempt to catch witches and wizards performing magic. The ministry realizes that the more they try to get to the root of the disappearances, the more the muggles find out about their world. If there's another disaster, will the line rupture completely? Will the wizarding way of life survive?
• Life as Usual...?: There are relationships that are destroyed through current events, and relationships that blossom in the new conditions. There are marriages and deaths and break-ups and births. New friendships will be forged, old friendships will be tested, and in the end, everyone will have to make a choice...should they sacrifice their futures for the future of the magical world as a whole?
• Dark versus Light: Eventually a "dark" group emerges and a "light" group emerges from the chaos.

It's Your Turn!

The plot elements and characters listed above are starting points. As more members join, the admin ask that you post in this thread with your ideas. This plot is a collaboration, and the goal is to involve everyone at AG, so don't be afraid to offer your character as a major part of the plot. We're willing to talk about any ideas you have, anything from love/hate relationships to political conspiracies. Nothing is too small or too large.

The Ministry/Daily Prophet/common wizarding folk may try to pin the disappearances and assassination of Shaklebolt on the Irish, especially considering (if we include the imagined conclusion of the Dissie plotlines) that the Irish recently had a "Second War" of their own. I picked a date out of the air for my app because I couldn't remember exactly how long it was, but I think it was something like four or five years prior to this plot.

Hmm...with regards to the blurring lines between magic and Muggle, Lucinda will be tutoring both wizard children and Muggle children (mostly Muggle children, because she wouldn't be able to teach magic outside a school, and that's really what most wizard children need). When she gets involved with some magical people, perhaps they barge in yelling about the Ministry/magic in general while she's with a Muggle child? Or something to that effect.

Also, I want Lucinda involved with the new Minister, because she's an ambitious Sue. ;)

Ah Lucy, how I missed your ambitious Sue-ness...

The Irish would definitely be a quick and easy scapegoat, sort of like the Jewish in Nazi Germany. I imagine that after the war they became a society somewhat more integrated with the muggles, at least in the sense that there's more communication between the leaders of each group and blood has become less of an issue...mostly because a lot of the remaining pureblood crazies were wiped out by people like the Ballantine's. :lol: The Brits could say it's Ireland's fault that the line between the magical and muggle world is weakening and more of their secrets are getting out.

Right now, since we're waiting for more people to join and really get the plot rolling, it's important to set up relationships between the characters we already have. I think after Carmen gets over the whole Irish issue, she and Lucy would get along very well. However, I also see Carmen becoming a bit of a bad guy over the course of the plot, that she breaks a story that wasn't true or somehow puts people in danger. That could make or break a lot of her relationships.

The Sinistra twins, Lucy, and Carmen would all be affected by the blood issue, for their jobs and/or blood (I don't remember if Sadie's profile said anything to that effect). Maybe Carmen constantly writes bad reviews about the Sinistra's shop, and after she strikes up a friendship with Lucy (assuming she does), she goes there to buy something to help her teach and the Sinistra's torture her?

*throws ideas out*

Haha, I'm sure I speak for both of us when I say we'd love to do some torturing. I was thinking maybe Artemis might try to get a side job at the Prophet doing a style or enertainment column since their shop has become a bit of a trend setter. Perhaps during this endeavor (either successful or unsuccessful, doesn't matter) she somehow raises the ire of Carmen, who starts writing nasty articles about their shop?

We sort of have been seeing Apollo as this sort of sub-culture icon, he dresses odd but has a bit of the rock star look going. Artemis is pretty pro-muggle, and Apollo loves their culture so I can see them being targeted by the "evil powers that be" whatever they are. I don't see the twins as overly political, but rather popular. So if one of them made an idle comment one day that angered someone, they could easily become a target.

When things really start to get tense (I'm not entirely sure what you plan on happening...) but I was thinking it might be interesting if something happened to one of the twins either they get attacked or spirited away by the Apparation bug or something. What does happen to the missing people anyway?

Well seeing as we do seem to be a two for one deal here... I agree with most of what Artemis said.

From the Apollo stand point - he is pro muggle culture (they do have such nice clothes!) but still a Slytherin deep down inside his shallow little head and he will do just about anything if he finds it amusing or will give him more clothes. He lacks in morals unlike his dear sister and has friends everywhere including his old house. He is pro muggle culture but not pro muggle people if that makes sense.

I can see Artemis angering some group or another (maybe via the newspaper job?) and Apollo not knowing what to do for on one hand he will have his school cums, who were all mainly Slytherins, preaching one view point at him and his sister another. He is used to only making fashion statements not political statements so all of this would go beyond him and he would do what he always does - follow his sister, making the Sinistra's targets of the evil people (they need a better name than that...) unless of course the 'evil people' offer him nice footwear or something. He just wants to keep living out a normal happy wizard rock star life.

It would be interesting to have one of the twins spirited away but it yeah that depends on what happens. Is what happened in the 'The Glamor' by Christopher Priest going on, where the disappeared people just fade from the notice of those who haven't disappeared but are still living among them? That was such an odd book btw and I don't think I am doing a very good job of describing what happened... Or are they all being carted away and hula dancing for the 'evil people'?

That is an excellent question...I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you. This admin tends to ask more questions than give answers, haha.

Since we haven't really picked out a villain yet, I've left that and some other things pretty vague, so you're welcome to offer any ideas you have. I was imagining that the people taken all have information about something important and extremely secretive that happened in the ministry. The good guys want to keep it hidden and the bad guys, naturally, want to exploit it. Maybe something along the lines of a fourth unforgivable--instead of a spell that kills or causes pain or controls your actions, it controls your mind/emotions? So people's personalities would change suddenly, they would do things they normally wouldn't do otherwise, and there's no solid way to prove that someone is manipulating you without finding the manipulator and checking their wand.

It could link to WMPD (Wizarding Multiple Personality Disorder for those who don't know) and horcruxes somehow. Like, if you can extract and capture the ghost of someone's emotions, you can therefore control their minds. So maybe there are crazy people going missing from St. Mungo's and then coming back utterly normal, people like the Longbottoms and Lockhart. But at the same time there are people being taken--people who know too much--who go missing and then show up in random places with their minds completely wrecked.

That sort of magic would be incredibly complex, so the villain must be an evil genius type who works in the department of mysteries. Maybe this person wants to develop a spell that can capture all the hearts and minds of the muggles, and make them accepting and subservient to magic culture?

OK, so I completely pulled that out of my butt, but it's something. Let me know what you think. :) A name for the villains would be handy, actually, but I don't feel like digging around in latin dictionaries at the moment.


As to the stuff with the Sinistras and Carmen, I like it! She would fight against someone as utterly disgusting and low-class as Apollo getting onto the staff, but the Editor-in-Chief thinks that he would bring the Prophet to the cutting edge of wizarding society (I'm sure Carmen would have some cutting things to say herself, such as, "We might as well take it to the edge and shove it off then, if that sort of trash is news!"). If he got hired, and against her express wishes, that would be more than enough reason for her to hate him.

Something else...it's interesting that you brought up the difference between pro-muggle culture and pro-muggle. That's definitely a concept we could play with in this plot.

I can see Lucy losing the few wizarding students she has. Perhaps, to supplement the loss of income, she applies for a records or secretarial position in the Ministry? She'd either be refused because of being Irish and Muggle-born, or she'd be hired because of being Irish and Muggle-born; the latter situation of course involving a suspicious superior who thought they might be able to get information out of her. This could be especially useful if said superior assumed she was involved with the Irish resistance, being Muggle-born and living in Ireland through it.

If Lucy did get the job, I could see Carmen trying to exploit that.

Are we talking about Lucy getting tortured or Carmen? I could actually kind of see, as a humorous little side-plot, the Sinistras taking Lucy and trying to update her conservative fashion sense. (I picture Lucy in Victorian-esque Muggle clothing these days; skirts below the knee, high-necked ruffled blouses, etc.).

I very much like this idea, mostly because it comes back to Lucinda again. It makes a lot of sense, too, because Lucinda really regained normality when Marion shifted from her to Damien (in the plot we didn't get to...haha). What I understand is that if Damien had known how to use Marion against Lucinda, he could have had her in his power with a lot less hassle.

I can see them cooking up a fourth unforgivable that would extract the second self; it would just be streamlining and externalizing the WMPD process, minus emotional distress.

*Apollo resents his being called disgusting - He'll have you know he bathes much more than the average gent*

Apollo would be delighted to work for the prophet, and would undoubtedly write some of the most flakey articles imaginable with the potential to offend or charm all his readers depending on his mental state when he wrote said articles. Fashion in the wizard world as seen through the eyes of Apollo...oh dear the topics he could cover. They would be very pro muggle culture mind. Carmen will do her best to rid of him from the staff I imagine, and Artemis will come after whoever it is that is giving her 'baby' brother a hard time at his first legit job. Let the drama unfold! Especially if Carmen keeps writing bad reviews about his shop - Artemis is rather good at charms has she mentioned that?

Aw man, that would be great fun. One Sinistra twin would be all over that - as would his sister I would imagine but Apollo would adopt Lucy as a project to bring the Irish muggle teacher out of the Victorian era. Her reaction to such sudden attention from Apollo could go either way, she might get the impression he is hitting on her or she might be jaded by her friend Carmen's disgust with Apollo and hex him.

Moving out of Sinistra world... I like the idea with WMPD and a fourth unforgivable curse a lot. Our evil genius is going to have to be one amazing person that has essentially flown under the radar his entire life. So basically the missing people aren't in limbo but wandering around in random locals with broken minds/spirits correct? Or rather they could be potentially doing that.

Spiv's first alter here.

We were talking about this in the Cbox a bit, but Logan (as a young, ambitious genius working as an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries) would certainly be a suspect in the disappearances if not the perpetrator. He definitely has the god complex required for an endeavor like creating a spell to control people's souls.

...and not just cause I wrote him that way. ;)

Okay, so I'm totally double posting with a different character so that people see there's a new post and might actually reply.

Logan will be in the group of Unspeakables working on the soul-extracting Unforgivable. I imagine they'll all have their own motivations for working on it, and Logan's will be the eventual creation of a wholly superior being; like the Nazis, only concerned with the spirit too.

He and Carmen will eventually meet, and engage in a dynamic relationship. Carmen's just the kind of person who would bring out both sides of the worst in Logan: i.e., his manipulative puppeteer syndrome, and probably his anger every now and then. Dysfunctional to the extreme equals them.

I'll probably have him play out some stuff with Lucy, since his interest right now is in Muggle-wizard distinctions.

I may or may not have him become a little obsessed with Artemis. The way our thread is going, he sees her as intelligent and capable but held back by her idiot brother. I can see him getting all worked up about it and planning out this fantasy scenario where he frees her from Apollo and helps her "realize her potential." Depends on what Artemis the player thinks.

"Transitive Property of RP Drama"

Apollo likes Carmen (?)

Carmen likes Logan.
Logan likes Artemis.
Artemis likes Darien.
Darien likes Lucy.
Lucy = explodicus.

Gah, a love squiggle is forming in my head and it's painfully confusing!

OK, first things first. Carmen becomes obsessed with Logan who becomes <somewhat?> obsessed with Arty who is head over heels for Darien who's going to become obsessed with Lucy. Plot possibility: Darien, in his ga ga state, thinks that Logan is trying to mess around with Lucy when really he's more interested in Artemis, so he constantly complains about Logan to Arty which could sort of open the door for their romance...and dramatic threads. Dari, having never been passionate about something before, will do stupid Ballantine-esque things like challenge Logan to a duel and possibly end up as a patient in his own hospital when Logan uses the fourth unforgivable on him as a test run. That would be very sad, considering that he's one of the few people in St. Mungo's who could figure out how to reverse it, but I like punishing my characters. Carmen would latch onto that story, Arty would probably be furious, and thus they would go on a hunt into the department of mysteries to figure out what Logan did. That will be the point at which the big story breaks about the fourth unforgivable, Carmen's dangerous story that could get a lot of people hurt (such as Lucy, Apollo, and everyone else that isn't Logan/other bad guys). The idea of such a spell attracts dark wizards from all over the place (*insert more bad guys here to fill out this plot point*) The ministry (assuming we have some responsible ministry folk by this point) will crack down hard against the paper, maybe overrule free press or something like that, until they can get the situation under control, but this makes the public fight back even harder. And chaos ensues! (*fill in more plot here*)

Moving on. Another dimension to the love squiggle could be the improbable romance between Apollo and Carmen, just to throw in a little humor amidst this mess.

OK, that's all the plottage I have for now. Let me know what you think. <3

Oh, love squiggle. That's why we have the Transitive Property of RP Drama to sort it all out now.

As much as I like Darien, I think it's entirely possible that Logan would use him as a guinea pig for the fourth unforgivable. After all, Darien is the one thing standing between Logan's plans for Arty and himself (besides Apollo).

Just to give Lucy something more to do than be the object of another man's obsession, I think that after Logan performs the unforgivable on Darien she would, reluctantly, become more directly involved in the events. Obviously, since the curse is supposed to be like WMPD, which is something she has experience with, she'd begin working on a spell to reverse it. She'd probably ask Carmen/ministry friends she may have by then to help her contact the Unspeakables not working with Logan for help.

I like the way it is playing out as well. I think that Artemis would be more than willing to develop a friendship with Logan, but she's a little head over heals for Darien (and wouldn't it just kill her to try and be sympathetic as he's gushing over Lucy? *evil chuckle*). But she would definately flip out if he hurt Darien and/or Apollo. And you do not want to see her in protective big sister mode!

I also see her being pretty bitter around Lucy, simply because Darien likes her. Because normally she probably would either get along with her or be ambivalent.

lol- oh Arty you are in for an interesting time...

Yeah, I figured Darien's unfortunate crush would create some animosity between Artemis and Lucy. In fact, one of the main reasons I see for Lucy getting involved in politics again is to atone for something she feels is her fault, and to try and appease/make things right with Artemis.

It'll kill Logan to even like Artemis in the first place. He's such a loner that the idea of being dependent on someone else for his happiness will be really repulsive to him, especially since she doesn't return his feelings--but that Mona Lisa smile of hers won't let him go! (I love Zooey Deschanel for that, lol.)

I can't really see Apollo falling for Carmen - no matter how lovely or enchanting she may be... though stranger things have happened so it could work. It would be so amusing to have a love struck Apollo following Carmen around their mutual work place. He would follower her around there anyway once he got the job at the Prophet. With no Artemis to entertain him he would naturally look for someone to fill in that gap. Carmen would prove amusing to him - especially since half her cutting remarks would go over his head and come off as 'sweet' or he would think she was intimidated by his amazing sense of fashion and unable to formulate thought.

As to Logan... well may the god's be with Apollo should Logan decide he's in the way. I can only imagine my helpless fop against the evil mastermind we call Logan.

*moves on to Apollo's alter*

So at this point Sofia is not involved with all this love triangle mess - something she is quite thankful for and not really involved with anything... something I must remedy! So she is a ministry worker, more specifically an Auror, so I can see Carmen harassing Sofia in her spare time and being an overall thorn in Sofia's side. She has the added glamor of being the child of a former head of Aurors and from a pureblood family so how that will play into Carmen's need for a good story I don't know. But its a possibility so I figured I should mention it.

I was thinking of making her a candidate for the Head of the Aurors position but then figured she might be a bit young - but seeing as the minister of magic is a youngling I decided to leave that open ended. She would be able to easily handle being the object of hate, she would just borrow further into her work and issue commands while secretly gloating that she got the head of Aurors position in her head.

She might be friends with Sadie they were the same class year but I don't know to much about Sadie at this point. She would have heard about the Sinistra's and probably frequents their shop - finding Apollo to be the best case study when it comes to becoming better at disguise for her job, something which she needs to work on. She would know Logan by sight maybe? I figure Aurors and Unspeakables might have something to do with one another upon occasion though she's defiantly not bad guy material at this point, just a slightly crazy workaholic with an obsession with proving herself to her dead dad.

I am open to any ideas since my well of creativity seems to have deserted me *searches for it under pile of homework*

Time for some ketchup.

Har har.

(You know, catch up, ketchup?)

Anyways, here's what I'm getting so far; the relationships between all these characters is causing a sort of cat-and-mouse game which results in a confrontation between Holywell and Fletcher. Holywell's brain gets damaged, he's landed in St. Mungo's, and the other people involved decide to trek into the ministry and resolve the spell mystery. That's when the news about the fourth unforgivable breaks. Whatever happens from there we can work out later, because we've got more than enough material for the moment. :lol:

Something we really need to consider is what role Sofia plays in the ministry (She reminds me so much of Ivy...gah! *resists*). I can go either way with it, so I'll reserve my judgment until we figure out how/why she got the job and how we can work that in with everything else; pureblood privileges? They figure that since she's a young woman she'll be pushed around easily? Maybe the new minister appoints her as a way to please the pureblood sector and his eyeballs? I imagine that Carmen and/or Logan would play upon her dead dad issue to get information or whatever they want out of her.

*fishes for ideas*

I imagine that Logan would be pretty interested in Sofia, from an investigatory sort of perspective. After all, his private magical goal is to be able to create a perfect, successful human being. From what I understand, Sofia is extremely successful, etc., so I can see him kind of "studying" her to see what makes her so accomplished. I mean, he's a bad guy, but he's foremost a scientist, so he doesn't really consider himself a bad guy.

He would, probably, prod the area of the dead father, since trauma like that usually hinders success.

I had an idea for the Dept. of MLE thing. Maybe it's a competition between the "brunette hotties league" to see who gets the position? Maybe the new MoM doesn't really know much about that department, and consequently doesn't know who would best do the job, so all the top aurors have to really impress him. Good or bad idea?

*has a hysterically image of the 'brunette hotties' having a cat fight in the office before quickly hiking up their robes and applying makeup to seduce the MoM*

I am up for the idea. Dunno about Ariana but I think it would be fun to rp. They are all nice and loyal when in the field defending the world from evil wizards but once in the office they turn into little mean girls (for lack of a better description) - or we could make them all friends that don't care who get the position ( or so they say as they all strive to impress the MoM in their own special way) but when one gets the position the other starts seeing the attraction of going a bit evil and maybe helping out one of our villains. They would have a motive, since they will feel betrayed and cheated by the ministry. That might just be me projecting how Sofia would react if she lost the position to a fellow hottie that and she might see her all her ancestors proclaiming her a disappointment that should have gotten a nice desk job.

That came out a bit jumbled but hopefully you get the ideas that are trying to develop.

I think a battle of the hotties would be fun to see roleplayed, haha.

I keep wanting to post here, but I don't really have much to contribute at the moment. I know something needs to happen with Mycroft and Logan, I just haven't a clue what. Are they going to work together, or somehow be in opposition? Mycroft's really good with potions...what if we incorporated that into the fourth unforgivable somehow? What if Mycroft develops a potion that can reverse it, but the Department of Mysteries keeps it a secret so that they can use it to restore people they've interrogated or something?

*tosses ideas out*

Okay...looking waaay ahead to the end of the plot. I feel like in the final showdown the Sinistra twins are really going to prove their worth. Because everyone really underestimates them and their ablities (okay well mostly Apollo but I think everyone thinks Artemis is a little off her rocker for sticking with him). But they fail to realize that Apollo is actually really good at Transfiguration, and he was Slytherin so he's quite cunning when it comes to things like pranks and whatnot.

So I think that at like the end the two of them would totally take everyone by surprise and heavily contribute to the beating the heck out whoever needs a beating. (now mind you this would probably mean Apollo is transfiguring people into bright feather boas, mink coats, and sparkly tutu's, and Artemis dumping hot tar on people or something equally silly) but nevertheless I think that the two of them will really prove themselves as a bit awesomer at magic than people give them credit for.


On a completely seperate note I'm not sure exactly how Wendell will fit into the plot. I feel like as a natural "bad guy" and informant he would have some part in all of it, even if its only as like the errand boy. But by the end he will have mutinied (like he always does). He'll turn things (at least as far as he is concerned) to his advantage and when it's all said and done he'll still be hitting on the Brunette Hottie League and trying to ask Sofia to get a drink with him.

Oh...and hopefully he'll finally figure out that outfit he needs to "defend his sister's honor"

Some ketchup. A list of the threads we've done so far, with my thoughts following in italics.

• Darien and Lucy have met each other by unhappy accident and sparked the doppelganger drama. Will they meet again soon, with other characters or in an uncomfortable situation?
• Darien pushed Apollo's eyeballs into his skull after a WWW incident. Artemis felt rejected and Apollo felt like...he had eyeballs hanging out of his head, I supppose. We'll need to follow up on the Artemis/Darien relationship, but I currently don't have any ideas as to how. Unless he decides to talk to her about Lucy's makeover....hmmmm. <see below for the Lucy thing>
• Carmen met Lucy in Jarvey Estate and conducted an impromptu interview on a whim and a hope. I'm sick of this thread and don't want to finish because I feel like it's one of those threads that won't add anything in the conclusion that it hasn't done already. Any ideas to make the ending strong? Their relationship doesn't look like it's heading anywhere at the moment.
• Carmen was also forced to hire Apollo as fashion columnist for the Prophet. Feelings are rage and glee. I'm thinking that the fashion column will get popular fast. Then, maybe Apollo could pick Lucy at random for a makeover special, and Carmen has to watch the whole process for whatever reason, probably making horrible comments about Apollo to Artemis? We discussed something like this earlier. It would be a fun thread.
• Wendell has been busy. He's currently meeting Adoril in Honeydukes and trying to charm a date out of brunette hottie leaguer Sofia in the MoM. What a pimp. I want to see a date. It must happen, haha. What possibilities do you see in Adoril and Wendell's relationship?
• Mycroft and Fletcher are chatting and drinking. One of the more interesting relationships on the site because they have a kind of bad guy/bad guy connection. Do they make a deal to do something later in this thread?
• Fletcher meets Artemis and gets obsessed. Somehow, I see all of this weaving back to the Sinistra twins and an occurence that happens in their shop to spark more happenings.

Basically, now that a lot of characters have met a lot of other characters, we need to try and piece the relationships into our major plot arc.

In other news, the battle of brunette hotties is a go, Ivy will be returning as soon as Darien turns into a veggie, the Lee Jordan show is hilarious, and we have two new members who have posted threads that I would absolutely love to involve in the plot some more. So if you haven't posted in this thread yet *coughAmbzandLithecough*, feel free. It's not required or anything, but the more people that join in the plot weaving, the more fun and ridiculous it's going to get. We only get crazier from here! :lol:

Heil plottage! *salutes*

Wow, as of right now, everthing seems confusing. But, I'd really like to get involded some how. You know, get into the plot. I'm really up for anything you guys want or need. Just let me know!

*embraces kate*

Apollo has found a new friend me thinks. Finally someone with his interests. I dunno how they meet - maybe she reads his column in the prophet or is attracted by his bright plumage (or whatever it is he is wearing ) on the street one day. They would click big time, ditzy social butterflies with a love of fashion - thought you may not be as extreme. Just a thought there. They would have to meet in a post due to the slight age difference and house difference but that is easy to do...

I could see them becoming fast friends and Kate would more than likely get along rather well with the Sinistra's. Depending on how well they manage to interact (Apollo and Kate) there could be possible crushes/love interests on either side and maybe we could somehow initiate ourselves into the scary love amorphous blob that has formed.

Right sorry that might have been information overload *sorry Kate* but I am a shell shocked creature that has emerged from a weekend of working on final projects.

Apollo and Kate will get along nicely. I am exciteddd!

Idea! OK, for the fourth unforgivable, I thought at first that it would be sort of like an advanced Imperio. But what does everything think of a curse that acts like a dementor's kiss--it steals your soul, and the wielder of that soul can do whatever they like with it? Good idea or bad?

I like it. It's like Imperio without the effort of keeping up the spell, because once you have the soul you have the soul. I can see it being used for a sort of marionette thing, you know? If the caster wanted to control the person but wasn't ready for them to like, disappear or go vegetable, they could give instructions to the body the same way they could with Imperio.

Another question--would there be a way to replace the soul, unlike dementor's kiss?

There's probably some way to return the soul to the body, but it would probably take some sort of extreme measure. Or Sue Magic.

Oh, well, we've got the Sue magic covered. Everyone's saved!

okay i'm moving this from my welcome page because it probably has more relevance here.

Spiv:

I can see Anna being friends with Will. Its kinda hard with this character to really get any plotting going with her being so secluded but i'm sure we can come up with something. What about if they meet somewhere after not having talked for awhile and build up a friendship from there? I want her to get more social, slowly, but just be kind of awkward and such, you know?

Maybe after Darien gets his soul sucked out, Lucy comes to Anna looking for answers and a friendship develops from there?

Ivy:

I have no clue what to call you anymore... You change your name too much haha. Anyway, I like the mentor thing with Darien. Maybe they talk sometimes and he gives her advice and such... And then later on with the apparition bug and stuff Anna brings zombie-kate to Dairen and they could work together until he gets veggi-fied and she gets his job and gets all stressed out with all the demands people are putting on her etc.

Alison + Spiv:

Maybe Alain and Anna secretly had crushes on each other during school and now they meet again through Will and a relationship develops from there? Tell me what you think. Anna needs some love in her life I think.

It's that time again. Recap!

Here's the last one for you:

And what's happened since (Lord, we need to do this more often). I'll try to get them chronologically. Lemme know if I messed up anywhere. :wacko:

• Kiyoshi Komatsu and the rest of Amaterasu play a gig at the Hog's Head. Chaos ensues.
• Benjamin Astbury is appointed the new Head of Aurors. The BHL and Lucia are not pleased.
• Kiyoshi Komatsu gets locked out of his flat. Artemis Sinistra comes to the rescue.
• Logan Fletcher knocks over meets Kate Derum in Madame Malkin's shop. He revives her to avoid a liability--she thinks he's sweet.
• In one of his first acts as the new Head Auror, Ben Astbury attempts to finally arrest Wendell Darrow by tracing him to Jasper Christie's jewel shop; the clever blackmarketeer attempts to dissuade him.
• Lucia Archer-Chase has encountered Junior Undersecretary Edward Garrow getting drunk in the Leaky Cauldron. He disappears before she can put a name to the face. (See 1 below)
• Ivy Ballantine has returned from the dead. She's discovered by her old friend Lucy in the Leaky Cauldron.
• Edward Garrow shows up at St. Mungo's in the middle of the night (the night before the Minister's death, even) with a splinched leg that seems to have been destroyed. He claims to have been attacked by an Irish woman with auburn hair. Lucy Simington, summoned by Garrow, claims to know nothing of his attacker. His attending, Darien Holywell, sets about making him an artificial leg.
• Dermot Ballantine, Ivy's brother and Lucy's lost fiance, also returns from the dead after receiving a letter from Ivy mailed from Lucy's flat. He finds the flat and Lucy, and the two eagerly wait for the Ministry to open so they can get their marriage license.
• Alain Walmsley meets with Wendell Darrow and Will Channing (separately) in an attempt to get information on the goings-on of the Ministry, the MLE, and the BHL. Wendell informs him that the BHL are unhappy with Astbury's appointment and Will tips him off that Junior Undersecretary Garrow may be spending too much time away from work.
• Anna Hamilton's lonely reading of Dana Daring is interrupted by the friendly Kate Derum.
• Will Channing informs yet another family that they've lost someone due to the Apparition Bug. He meets up with Lucia Archer-Chase and shares his concerns with her as they bond over Pride and Prejudice and Colin Firth. (See 1 and 2)
• Apollo Sinistra and Jasper Christie attempt to steal a flying carpet from Jarvey Estate.
• Kingsley Shacklebolt, the Minister of Magic, has been found dead in his office. His assistant has disappeared.
• Sofia Robards and Lucia Archer-Chase hunt down the infamous criminal Jeffry Lickwiff, hoping for success and recognition for the difficult task.
• Ivy Ballantine is hired by Head of Aurors Benjamin Astbury. (See 3)
• Judy Baines plays Quidditch early in the morning; after dropping a Quaffle on the head of Kiyoshi Komatsu, the two old schoolmates reconnect.
• Junior Editor Carmen Snidgeton is forced to allow "Fashion Prophet" Apollo Sinistra to use the Prophet's PR funds for a makeover. Apollo, meanwhile, has the job of telling his sister, Artemis.
• In an attempt to sabotage the Apollo, Carmen sics Alain Walmsley, noted conspiracy theorist, on the Sinistras' Secondhand Shop.
• Celeste Le Cordier, French diplomat, stops by Christie's Jewels for a few new accessories.
• Judy Baines, aspiring reporter, convinces Carmen to print one of her articles in a spot that normally belongs to the recently article-less Alain Walmsley. She later finds him grocery shopping in the Alley and has the job of telling him.
• A third victim of what appear to be coma-like symptoms is discovered and examined by Anna Hamilton, Darien Holywell and Bram Jayden. All attempts at reviving the victims have proved futile, and the Healers are struggling to find the cause of the problem.
  
  1. Perhaps Will and Lucia get to talking about more frustrations with the Ministry at the moment and Will brings up his concern about Garrow's constant absences. They decide to take their concerns to Ben (?), who already dislikes Garrow; Ivy throws her two cents in and the four launch a surreptitious investigation (or something, since Ivy already knows what's up).
  2. What exactly is the Apparition Bug? Is it just that when people disappear that's what they blame it on? Are these the same people who later turn up comatose?
  3. How do the rest of the BHLers react? I'd like to see a thread with Ivy and the other Aurors.

And to try and give an idea of where we're going, at least as far as the fourth unforgivable goes:

• Daily Prophet is suspicious of Ministry because they're still not allowed in. (Alain may write lots of crazy stuff which is oddly accurate?)
• People go missing. People show up with their brains fried. People start going crazy. The Healers (Darien, Anna, and Bram) work together to try and figure things out. They don't get very far at first.
• Healers file complaints to Ministry, DP gets a hold of complaints, run to hospital to interrogate, and the pieces start fitting together. *hides plot hole*
• Fletcher catches Kate in a dark alley and uses her for target practice.
• Anna finds Kate. Darien is vaguely upset and has the unpleasant task of contacting those she was close with.
• Sinistra's, Darien, Anna, and possibly Bram if Brock can keep up, all chat about the situation and decide they need to do something about it.
• Alain/Carmen, who were conveniently hiding behind a bush or something while they were having this conversation, hop out and declare that it's in everyone's best interest if they joined forces and did a little private investigating.
• The symptoms of the Fourth Unforgivable victims resemble those who've been Kissed by a dementor; thanks to Artemis remembering a creepy conversation with Logan Fletcher, they figure out that it all leads back to the department of mysteries.
• They figure out a way for <insert list of names here> to get into the Ministry undetected.
• Fletcher, who is working late, detects them. He finds Darien snooping around his jar-o-souls and zaps him just when he plucks out Kate's soul.
• Other people show up, manage to catch Kate's soul, and Fletcher disappears.
• That morning the DP breaks a big story about a Fourth Unforgivable Curse. People are sad.

*boggleboggleboggle*

Wow. That plottage is pretty amazing. *ogles the boggle* :blink:

For points 2. and 3....


2. The apparition bug is just when people disappear and then reappear (sometimes, not always). They're the guineau pigs/victims for the fourth unforgivable. Alison and I just exchanged PMs about this, actually...this is what I told her...

My thought was that there are two things going on at once, and they're being confused for the same problem, the apparition bug.



3. Ivy + other aurors= hilarious. Must happen!

Ahh, that makes sense. Yes.

Do we have an incantation yet? Cause what I've got is "extraxi phasma," which is something like "extract spirit" in Latin.

Also, I had an idea. Some of the early guinea pigs of the fourth unforgivable retained their consciousness, right? So suppose one of them had come into St. Mungo's babbling about spells and extracti phantom and chest pain and stuff that sounded like nonsense, but the Healers remember it when Anna remarks that the victims seem empty or something similar, and they start considering spells? It might help some conclusions be drawn later.

P.S. The focus of this year is obviously the fourth unforgivable, so I don't think we should worry too much about the second group until next year after we've killed off some characters.

I think I might be able to help with some of the plot holes concerning obtaining files from within the Ministry and going undercover when the time comes. I'm thinking about taking up Teddy Lupin as a character and his metamorphmagus mad skillz might come in handy. After all, Harry is his Godfather so I'd imagine he'd drop everything he was doing to privately investigate his disappearance. If he strikes an accord with Daily Prophet he could probably go in masquerading as a certain Junior Undersecretary for them giving him access to all sorts.

I <3 Teddy. Ivy will too. ^_^ I like your idea for a plot, a lot; maybe what could happen is he masquerades as Ed, and then he runs into Ivy, and she freaks out, but he chats with her like it's completely normal? Once she finds out that it's not really Ed, she'll either hex him or kiss him...possibly both, haha.

Anyways, yes, we're a go for that plot?

Sounds awesome to me. Haha, I can see him running into Ivy and botching things up quite plausibly. I'd love for them to bump into each other.

I'm totally blown away by this thread -- if I offer a suggestion here that isn't plausible or is just plain dumb, please say so. I'm just going to jump in. Everyone's been nice, so I'll assume no one is going to use me for target practice now. :unsure:

I was thinking that maybe Nicholas gets involved in this whole Fourth Unforgivable plot when someone in his family is hit with it (disappear, turn up later brain-friend, or whatever -- I'm not sure which is more common?) I have no sense at all of his parents yet, but his younger brother is a good candidate.

Once someone close to him is effected, only then will Nicholas give two sickles about it. He's not a conspiracy theorist, so he would approach it very calmly and logically. When he (and I :) ) find out what's going on, then he makes his choice about what he wants to do for which side. I'm leaning towards the "dark" side, but I don't want him to cross over entirely. He's more of a Draco than a Lucius. Make sense?

I really don't know who is involved in what, so does someone want to point me in the right direction or tell me "Join this thread! Immediately!" or whatever it is you do to the newbies?