DRAGON RAMPAGE POST WAR

[Admin Sora]

Dragon Rampage Post War

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Timeline
OOC:
January 1, 2019 12:01AM EST - January 31, 2019 11:59PM EST
IC:
December 28, 2024 
Time the Dragons will be at Hogsmeade:
12PM-4PM
Location:
Anywhere in Hogsmeade village.


The annual Winter festival, held in Hogsmeade, has always been a popular attraction. Even after a week the crowds haven’t thinned at all. Today though, will be quite different. Without warning, several Hebridian Blacks fly overhead, their roars echoing through the wizarding village, the thunderous sound shaking the very earth. The Hebridian Black, native to Scotland, though not the mainland, is both large and aggressive. Usually only found on the MacFusty Dragon Reserve, something has riled up these dragons to fly south and somehow they’ve fallen upon Hogmseade in their rage...

Hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season! While this is Alohomora’s ‘Christmas Event’, we wanted to make sure everyone would be able to participate without interfering with holiday plans. The Dragon Rampage event is a SITE WIDE POST WAR in which all the affiliations of the site will be pitted against each other during the month of January. In a nutshell, dragons are ransacking Hogsmeade and you are caught in the middle of it. What you do, is entirely up to you, but the more you participate the better!

During this event, all threads that take place on December 28th should be threaded out in the Dragon Rampage board, even if it isn’t during the actual rampage! The Dragons will be ransacking Hogsmeade from 12pm to 4pm, so take that into consideration in the time your threads occur! Were you there before the dragons? During? Or are you helping clean up the village after?

Affiliations and Points

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All characters on the site are able to contribute to the event, even those not affiliated! Points earned will count towards one of the four following groups:
Purifiers
Heliopaths
Ouroboros
Unaffiliated
(Unaffiliated will include all the unaffiliated adults and all students that aren’t a part of a participating group.)

You will earn points by posting in character! Depending on where you post, you can earn different amount. Those amounts are:
1 Point - Posting in the Winter Festival.
2 Points - Posting in the Dragon Rampage event.

Now, as previously mentioned, this isn’t just any old event. It’s a competition. Which means there will be a winner in the end. Obviously, our groups are not equal in numbers, which may lead you to think certain affiliations have an advantage. Not true! At the end of the event all the points will be tallied, and averaged between how many characters are in the affiliation. Now, as with all competitions there will be prizes!

Prizes

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Winning Affiliation - 50G to every character in that affiliation that participated. (If you didn’t post in either board, you don’t get the galleons.)
Most Dragon Rampage posts (Top 2 Members) - 1 IC shop item of their choosing.
Top participating members of each Affiliation (4 total) - 75G.

But that’s not all! The results of this event will decide how the plot on the site progresses. The staff has created a plot outcome for each affiliation’s win, and once the winning affiliation is announced, so will that affiliation’s plot outcome. Each of these outcomes will have lasting consequences (good or bad) on the Wizarding world, and overall help shape the direction of Alohomora’s plot.


So, all you lovely members! Post away! We will announce the results once the event ends!

[Admin Sora]

THE RESULTS

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After a crazy 31 days of posting, the results of the the Post War are in!

With an astonishing post average of 10.25 our winner is:
HELIOPATH

In second place, with the post average of 3.43:
UNAFFILIATED

In third place, with the post average of 3.3:
PURIFIERS

Coming in last, with the post average of 2.35:
OUROBOROS

By winning this event each member of Heliopath that posted in the WInter Festival or Dragon Rampage will be awarded 50 Galleons. In addition, the Heliopath staff created plot will be the one we pursue! Heliopath members will have an opportunity to roleplay out their plot! I'll be creating a thread and tagging them all in it. 

Before I get to the details of that plot though, here are the winners of other awards. To keep things fair, I have limited it to a person only being able to win one of these next awards.

Our top two overall posting members for the event are:
Ali with 60 posts and Kierra with 79!
These two lovely members have one a free IC item of their choosing (With no price limit!)

The top four posting members of each member group (excluding the top to posters are:
For Ouroboros we have a tie between Puck and Audrey!
For Heliopath we have Suzie!
For Purifiers we have Sora!
For Unaffiliated we have Dez!
Each of these members will be awarded 75 Galleons (it will go to the character that did the most affiliation posts)

THE PLOT

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The Dragons were a distraction. Through Heliopath’s connections they have discovered that the culprits behind the Dragons is none other than The Purifiers. Several Purifier members were sent to rile up the dragons than lead them to Hogsmeade to cause a distraction while a second team infiltrated Azkaban Prison. The Dragon’s had just fallen upon Hogsmeade when Heliopath received the news of the distraction. Choosing to seek their revenge on the Purifiers instead of help protect the Village the members of Heliopath rushed to Azkaban Prison.

At Azkaban, Heliopath realized that they were unable to use any magic due to whatever wards were in place at the Prison to control the Inmates. Likewise the Purifiers were unable to use magic, though they had come prepared with magical items to make up for the lack of spells. But that didn’t stop this vengeful group from doing everything they could to stop the Purifiers.

This intense battle soon engulfed all of Azkaban and even the innermost chamber of Azkaban. Inside this chamber was an old, and strange looking device. It soon became clear that the distraction, this battle, it was all for this artifact. The Purifers were after it.

So, Heliopath destroyed the relic.

Blinded by their intense desire for revenge, Heliopath failed to consider the consequences of their actions when they destroyed the strange relic. Due to none of their ranks being assigned to Azkaban Prison, and not having any high ranking Ministry connections the organization didn’t know the importance of the item, or what it’s use at Azkaban was.

It took only a few seconds for them to realize their mistake. To feel their magical abilities return. The Purifiers scattered, abandoning their mission just as the first explosion shoot Azkaban. Then a second... And a third. Prisoner after prisoner, magical powers now returned, began their escape. The relic Heliopath destroyed had been the sole device keeping the prisoners powerless inside Azkaban. By destroying this device they had single handedly caused the largest Prison break in all of Magical History.

The destruction at Azkaban was devastating. Heliopath was forced to retreat as the walls started to collapse around them, leaving the Azkaban Aurors and eventual Ministry reinforcements to handle the situation. Unfortunately, reinforcements didn’t arrive in time.

Azkaban has fallen. The largest magical prison in Europe, housing hundreds of the most dangerous criminals in Europe. Nothing more than rubble. While many criminals were killed in the explosions and collapse of the prison even more escaped.

But to Heliopath? At least they thwarted the Purifiers. That’s all that matters… Right?