Harry Potter mafia signup thread

Welcome to a new mafia game. This game is going to be crazy with players having multiple objectives. If you've played mafia before, you'll love it and if your new, I'll give you pointers along the way to make sure you understand. So with all good mafia games we need a back story. If you haven't read the books or seen the films there will be spoilers. It is the battle of Hogwarts, Room of Requirement where Harry Potter and his friends and allies are planning a strategy. Suddenly Voldemort and several death eaters burst into the room using the secret entrance from Aberforth Dumbledore's place. A great battle took place in which Voldemort and a few Death Eaters had to flee. However it is quickly pointed out that Voldemort had used the imperious curse 4 times during the battle but they have no idea who has been hit by the spell. Can you work it out before the new brainwashed Death Eaters kill you all? Also in the game are the 3 deathly hallows can someone gain all 3 hallows and become conqueror of death? [spoiler=Players list]1.Sygmassacre 2.Mayba 3.CheekyTeeky 4.Hoodlum 5.Dough_boy 6.Anaxagore 7.Elysium5 8.Chiarra 9.Huskers01 10.Vicious 11.Kyla [/spoiler] This game is going to consist of 17 players. It may take a while to fill but I am a patient man.

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. Im in

I'll play

/in Alohamora!

in but out if marcesk joins

In...but I know nothing about harry potter.

I'm in

Me too

in :)

I'll play

For the want of another reference, The game will "open at the close" of the signups. Okay, I'm gonna give you a riddle (not Harry Potter related) for the chance to start the game with the Marauders Map! The first person to PM me with the answer will win it. [spoiler=Riddle]Jeff lives in Australia and Oliver lives in England. Jeff wishes to send a package to Oliver, however he knows that Oliver is deemed a very dangerous man in Britain and all of his packages are intercepted and reviewed by the English government and anything that the government doesn't wish him to have, will not reach him. However if they deem the package as harmless, they'll send it through to him. Jeff knows that his package will not be allowed through the censorship process so he wraps his package in indestructible packaging and locks it with an indestructible and unpickable padlock and sends it. When the government receive this package they are frustrated that they cannot open the package and send it through to Oliver knowing that if they can't open this package, there is no way that Oliver will be able to open it. The question is how will Oliver open the package? [spoiler=Rejected answers]Oliver and Jeff cannot meet up or send an friend to meet up (however they can talk on Skype) Jeff cannot send the key because the government will intercept it and raid Oliver's place. Jeff can't send it to a neighbour or friend to give it to Oliver because Oliver has no friends except Jeff. Alohomora[/spoiler] [/spoiler]

Riddle closed. We have had 2 players get the correct answer and the one that found it first starts with the marauders map, don't worry there will be plenty of opportunity to nick it during the game. I have no wish to share the answer yet because the answer is just so satisfying.

Ok, I like this riddle too much not to try to answer. My first guess was the lame one: the padlock is one with numbers. Which would make this riddle very bad, as you can just brute-force it (try all combinations of numbers). So my second guess was: 1. Lock the package 2. Send the key 3. (once the key is received) Send the package. This way the security service doesn't know yet that they have to open that unbreakable package, so hopefully they'll just send through the package. However, they can maybe copy the key, which will defeat this exchange. So my third guess is (and I think this is the correct answer): [spoiler]After Oliver has received his package, he locks it with an additional unbreakable lock of his own and sends back the package. Jeff receives it, removes his own lock and sends the package back. Now Oliver can open it.[/spoiler]

I was thinking either your third guess OR oliver just mails him the original lock to use...

If oliver mails him the lock to use, the government could keep that original lock, send Jeff their own lock instead, and then once the package comes unlock it - check the content - and, if they still want, relock it with Olivers lock.