Secret Voldemort (Ministry Wins!)

[wendy]

Hey Trask remember when you called me an idiot

Or something resembling idiot

Was it idiot?

Do you remember??????

[adamtrask]

I was bluffing. You'll notice that we've been best friends ever since, Wendy.

[wendy]

I did notice that

[VHB]

Ministry Wizard Grimdark Von Mugglehasser, the good wizard with a cartoonishly ill-fitting and evil-sounding name, modestly takes his seat in the Ministry building and, as is his custom, meticulously checks and adjusts the straps holding his magical glass eye in place.

[palmer eldritch]

I'm Raidenmbledore

[palmer eldritch]

[palmer eldritch]

bread can't ban me until this game is over right

[VHB]

bread can't ban me until this game is over right

She could always ban you until the game starts.

[palmer eldritch]

are we using the same number of policy card deck as last time? that was 17 right

[VHB]

I believe it is the same 11F/6L deck and furthermore that the player breakdown is to be 6 Wizards / 3 Death Eaters / 1 Secret V [so 4 total Team Evil members]

[wendy]

No bannings

[surly]

bannings are obliviated for the duration of the game sick

[palmer eldritch]

I nominate pierrot

[wendy]

WHY THOUGH

WHAT ARE HIS CREDENTIALS

AND IF YOU SAY DILDO WANDS I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD

[Luke]

Okay, everyone can debate the merits of a palmer/pierrot ticket. When I'm on my computer I'll go over some details a little more and open the vote officially.

[palmer eldritch]

WHY THOUGH

WHAT ARE HIS CREDENTIALS

AND IF YOU SAY DILDO WANDS I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD

no one has any credentials yet

really I just saw the turn order in OP and decided I was gonna pick pierrot for no particular reason

he can be unpredictable and he seemed like the most fun person to see what they do with the cards I send

[adamtrask]

Then what happens when on down the line when we continue not to have any information and we continue to vote no like the good Witches and Wizards that we are?

[wendy]

Dildo wands are simply impractical

[VHB]

The unfortunately named Grimdark Von Mugglehasser believes that, since none of the good wizards in the ministry know anything about each other, let alone their opposition on the pure blood death-eating side, and that since the only way for any of us to learn anything is by trial and error, and that since this early phase of this session of Wizard's Parliament is the time when we can most afford to blunder and misstep, especially in the name of knowledge, that there is no reason to object to this pairing. Even if all goes ill, we will get this game's equivalent of a seer scan out of it and at least know where one of us stands.

Therefore, he moves his false eye around a little and votes Yes on Palmer/Pierrot.

[palmer eldritch]

laserblast is being obstinate of course

if we never voted for tickets we weren't on we might as well just draw cards from the deck now until the game ended with a random result

round 2 is the same as round 1 info-wise

[wendy]

Can you promise me that the undersecretary to the minister for magic lacks the authority to legalize dildo wands

[palmer eldritch]

unless we're defining round differently

[wendy]

i'm afraid of palmer

[wendy]

as of right now i think duke and vhb are evil

is it bad to say who you think is evil? will it help voldemort? is he allowed to contact them if he figures them out? my hunches are based on literally zero evidence.

[palmer eldritch]

if everyone followed your lead and voted no, we wouldn't have useful vote info

but sure, the arguments are nice

[wendy]

i'm also afraid of snatch and i don't know who to trust besides trask

but frankly i can't in good faith vote yes on dildo wands

if you could assure me in this imaginary scenario that dildo wands are not something in which you are interested, then maybe i could be swayed

[wendy]

frankly i'm less afraid of snatch than palmer

[wendy]

you know what. no. to dildo wands. to everything. i will be voting no.

[palmer eldritch]

if everyone followed your lead and voted no, we wouldn't have useful vote info

but sure, the arguments are nice

i'm acting rationally

are you a Death Eater, dude?

I just wanted my cool ticket to pass

[Luke]

Alright, a little discussion on how voting for governments works, then I'll accept votes.

You'll all vote privately, via slack or pming me. Your votes will be made public, but they'll all be revealed at the same time, hence filtering them through me.

You're allowed to lie about your vote, so I don't take public yes/no votes in here, and you can grandstand against your intentions to your heart's content.

A proposed government needs over 50% of the vote to be elected. A 5-5 split (or 4-4 later on), will be rejected.

If there are 3 failed governments in a row, the top law on the deck is automatically enacted. As there are more Pureblood proposals than Muggle Protection proposals, this slightly favors the Death Eaters when this happens, and good wizards and witches should weigh the consequences of rejecting a suspected gov't vs. the likelihood of auto passing a bad law.