Third Task Ideas

Here is a place to start brainstorming ideas about the first task. I envision us writing that task here.

K.

I say that we continue off of what we have already come up with in the "Brainstorming" topic; what with the puzzle that the champions have to complete and all, earning a piece to the puzzle with the completion of each task. Anywho, as for the first task.

I was clicking around HP Lexicon in search of something to work with for this task, and came up with the idea to have the first task within the castle. To do this, we would have to pull everyone other than the three Champions out of the castle, and have the rest of the school wait outside for the champions to return. Of course, the objective of the task would be to find the first piece to the puzzle by answering a riddle, which they would be given a weak to solve. We would have to provide the Champions with obstacles, I figure, and Jack owns the Marauders Map, so someone would need to put some sort of enchantment on the castle, making aid of that sort useless to them.

OR, we could fallow in the footsteps of J.K. Rowling and put one of each Champions' friends in danger- perhaps one could each be in a different location, locked away with beasts of sorts. For example, we could take Andrew (assuming that it would be too difficult for Chase to play both Chase and Selene) and lock him in an empty classroom with a Manticore or something =P Though I can already see many flaws in that plan.

However, we would have to find a way to incorporate the puzzle into the task, so the Champions would have to make the decision along the way to either find the piece within the castle first, or their friend.

Once again, I'm simply throwing ideas at you in order to get the ball rolling.

you're wonderful. i like the first piece being inside the castle.


i think perhaps we could do the second piece at the Ministry of Magic, in some department.


the 3rd leg of the quest we might consider doing in St. Mungos, simply b/c I have, more or less fleshed that place out pretty well with where each department, is, etc

I think each champion needs to encounter a "power player" and to resolve some riddle or task in order to earn their puzzle piece. Perhaps Khaat at St. Mungos, Robert or Jen at the Ministry, um...One of Wilson's charries in Hogwarts?

Thoughts?

I adore the idea of having them encounter another character, as you suggested- and I love the fact that the tasks would be getting more difficult as they went on.

Precisely. And I think that whoever the grad character they encounter, that person needs to be at a different location, perhaps in the headmaster's office, for one student and they need to figure out how to get the password to get in, in order to fulfil what the grad asks them to do. then the next student might find them in the clock tower, etc.

But I'm thinking that the grad needs to ask them to actually go get something and that we need to have them run into obstacles in the way while they're looking for the thingamabob that gets the puzzle piece

and each little mini quest should get harder and harder with more obstacles.

OK. So, lets presume that each character needs to enter Hogwarts castle and to explore it in order to get the puzzle piece. They need to have to go past obstacles, and i would perhaps like to see someone like Nearly Headless Nick or Moaning Myrtle pose a bit of an issue for them as one of the obstacles. Perhaps continual annoyance and distraction until they satisfy some riddle or question from them.

I know we can lock the challenges to only the champion involved, but i don't know how we keep them from PM'ing each other about the riddle, unless we make all the quest challenges different.

I'd like to do something with either the wizarding portraits in the castle or the moving staircases as possible obstacles.

We could also set a magical creature lose in the castle and have them, ultimately, have to get the piece from the creature. Thoughts?

Perhaps we could turn off the privet messages to the members for as long as it takes for all three champions to solve whatever riddles are involved in the first task...? I know that we would certainly have to deal with the more... argumentative members if we chose to do this, but there is always the chat box, which would work just fine since it would only be temporary.

Scratch that, I've found a way to ban specific members from PMs. Problem solved.

LMAO! You're wonderful!

=P I'll put it to use as soon as the task starts- however, we'll have to let the Champions know before-hand that they have had their rights revoked due to the challenges they are to participate in.

yes. we will pm them before hand and give them a bit of notice.