A tl;dr will be part of the next post.
In the following I deliver the naked truth, no more and no less.
Welcome to a new day in Hogwarts! I'm Dolores Umbridge, aligned with myself. Cops will get "Ministry of Magic" as my alignment. There is no word of a recruitment. I'm a roleblocker. Target Night 1 was Lone_prodigy, I got "distracted", the pm hints hard at Dementors (cold, reliving bad memories, losing joy). Night 2 I targeted roy. Night 3 I went with Christina Mackenzie, I got blocked again. I'm warned about people who might punish me back.
My goal is to survive till the end while punishing everyone. I have to punish every night. The flavour says I'm a bureaucrat, former undersecratary and former short time professor at Hogwarts. By now I only appreciate to keep order anymore. I won't accept bad behaviour, therefore I punish people. A horcrux is not in my possession. There is no word of their existance in my role pm at all. Neither is the existance of Filch mentioned in my role.
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Day 2 was a good day, everything went smoothly, I enjoyed myself and we even managed to get rid of kingkitty. I had the feeling I could achieve my win condition, but no... Stupefy and Crab happened. I suspected him to be scum strongly, because I got crucioed Night 2. This means scum knew my name at the beginning of Day 3. I could not talk about this, because I would've been lynched right away as many pointed out. Actually LoC, L_P and Crab were the candidates who gave themselves away with certain posts (see my read list:
#2088). Flame_AC was on the list to inflate my read list (and a former gut feeling). I didn't put Crab on scum suspects because he was keen to jump at any opportunity to stab me. I was weakened, he obviously knew my role and was scum in my eyes (at that time). The general mood was in favour for him, there was no way I could lead a lynch against him. So Crab crashed into the game and swayed every opinion in his favour.
Just a quick reminder: He visited the N1 victim, he claimed being switched without any supporting evidence, put a vote on me without reasoning and nobody cared. He threatened to reveal his PR and actually did just to save 1 townie all the while he could still not be sure about LoC at all as he said. Moreover he "played bad" (his own words) by revealing my name.
All in all he did his best to subtly influence the general views, he basically joined the game yesterday and posted more than anybody (~100posts), the switcher mess was a very thankfull opportunity to make yourself look like town for anybody. He was scum #1 for me, but his claim changed this.
Of course I'm a salty he outed me, because if he is telling the truth, he is clearly in the game to help me, not get me lynched. Anyway, back to my D3 suspects:
LoC (
#1580)
He did not mention me once before this post. And the day I got crucioed and stupefied, he draws suspicion towards me before I even show up and reveal my situation. That's why I voted him. He could still be scum, just without any "presence of dark magic" as Crab said aka No power or horcrux?
L_P (
#1965)
He offered several of those overviews, but in here he made the important slip! Blarg talked about being tortured Day2, I only talked about being stupefied. The torture clearly refers to the Crucio curse, only scum would knew I experienced the same spells as Blarg.
Crab (
#1682)
He calls it "interrogated", which again would rather fit the bill of Crucio than Stupify. Also as I said above, he obviously knew I'm Umbridge, which is why he was the most suspicious one to me. If you look closer at the last day, you'll see various hints from him, that he knows about me, which can be true by his claim. The neutral classification was a subtle hint at my own alignment.
Let's set this aside for the moment and come back to my role. From a flavour perspective BSP can surely provide an overview about how Umbridge is NOT a death eater. She is a very shady and disgusting person, but not a killer. She was always only interested about herself and how she could maintain her position & power. If you want to, look here:
Wiki - Umbridge. I'm a true neutral and do not interfere with the win condition of Town or Scum.
Scum had already the task to find "V", it's unlikely they have more people to find. How would this recruiting take place? Tattoo the Dark Mark? Umbridge never had one, Malfoy would fit this far better, but even he wouldn't be scum. If Crab is indeed Argus Filch, why would he know about me if I can become scum? 1:1 tradeoff because start the game with someone knowing scum - is fun? I doubt it. Balancing wise this makes no sense. His role would be to support the neutral to survive himself not to out him...
Some breadcrumbs:
Roy was there anything else tonight? "You must not tell lies" was what Harry had to write onto his hand when Umbridge was in Hogwarts. Many other students were punished this way. Now as to her alignment, while she was in charge of Hogwarts I really doubt she is aligned with them. She indirectly supported the Death Eathers? Worked for the Ministry of Magic, even when it was taken over by "V". Probably scum? Maybe neutral?
- one post I directly referred to my alignment. Scum already knew my role, so I wanted to signal I'm not their enemy. All was written with the intention to survive the night! How should I make clear I'm neutral and not to be killed without giving away my role for everybody? I intended to show them I can support them indirectly (by blocking town) as a neutral (still Ministry of Magic even with V at charge).
Of course this was a lie, I can only survive by playing for town as we all know! If we find a way to choose a roleblock target, I'll be up for it, but we still have a scum switcher at work.
Also I do NOT believe we have to deal with Horcruxes.
- Because I'm Umbridge and I have none, I honestly thought there are no such things in the game.
#1234 - No secret win condition because I got no horcrux.
How many horcruxes do you believe to be in the game? 7 sounds too much, maybe the Hufflepuff Cup, Slytherin Locket and Ravenclaw Diadem were left out of the game? The Snake Nagini could be the poisoner and therefore be part of the game. Harry is in here and probably the dairy with Ginny?
Another hint that I do not have the Locket (I had to pack the info into some kind of fluff speculation, that's why there are more Cruxes named)
1869 - This was Day 3, even though I got blocked Night1. I thought somebody could react to this now! That's why I was keen on TWE and Retroid to talk about roleblock flavour.
#1306 - Ministry of Magic = Neutral
#2428
I'm not recruitable, this was purely speculation by Crab:
Currently she is neutral/non-aligned; I assume she can be recruited if they know who she is.
As stated above my understanding of good game balancing does not support the idea that one townie knows at the beginning about one scum member.
I knew I would have to come clear rather quickly in the game and did everything I could to survive. On the one hand I tried to signal I'm neutral and have no idea about the horcruxes, so Scum would not kill me. On the other hand I tried to help town as good as I could. I was aggressive and took hard stances to create discussions and find scum. Okay, I have to admit one thing: For the laughs I asked Roy about the spider picture, because I was the only one knowing he spoke the truth about no restrictions on him.
That is all. My faith lies in your hands people of Hogwarts. I'm a true neutral and lynching me will not help you in your chase of the Death Eaters. However my ability to block, can be helpful to your cause! Keep in mind if crab is still alive, he'll die with me according to his claim. Losing two people without getting any closer to scum would be bad for town.
The same goes for scum though, if they kill me, they waste one night to eliminate a neutral survivor.
PS: lol @miracle's theory, it was nice to read how you were not confident about your own thoughts
#1774
