#wizard weekly

"Every 10 steps will bring you back to start, four times returned and on the fifth, you will be interred.”

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You get 10 actions.

Actions can be used to move through a door into the next room or to search for hidden doors in your current room.

After using your 10th action if you are not in the maze's final chamber, you will be returned to the start. The fifth time you run out of actions, you will be eliminated.

Some rooms have more than one hidden door, revealing one by entering the room through it does not mean there aren't others.

Revealed doors will stay revealed after leaving the room or being returned to start.

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Start

Search

Go A

Go B

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*What do you do?*

I look around the room, going back and forth between the two doors.

Hmm...

I dig a small silver coin out of one of my many pockets, and decide that heads is A, tails is B.

That's tails! Room B it is.

A DUEL SPELL

I SUMMON MULTIPLIANCE STAPLER DRAGON IN ATTACK MODE

WIZARD RACE

Anyways I'm gonna talk about it now. no readmore because mobile tumblr is dumblr, sorry.

So, only slightly relevant to anything, but I did the entirety of the game during the school day. Started around 11:30, but I didn't find my first charm until about 12:45 (I had to go to an assembly then eat lunch)

Finding the charms was a pretty fun challenge, the only one I didn't get on my own was the heart (thanks for that one @wizardgoblin )

had to take another break after submitting the charms because I had to get back to school, by that time 3 people were already done. No big deal to me, all I wanted was top 13. So I do my work for that class and open Tumblr again to start phase 2.

This is a good point to say I love codes and cyphers, so I was very excited at the idea of the next part, only to metaphorically fall on my ass because I forgot that the actual question was on the main post about the game. Once I found that again I copied it onto a sheet of paper so I could write out the sounds as I figured them out. And so the teacher of my next class wouldn't flay and crucify and sous ve me for using my phone, but more so i could write my thoughts.

This bastard. (affectionate)

That symbol right there caused me the most trouble of everything, I thought for a moment I was going mad because I couldn't find anything like it in the sample text. But you know what? I think it's better that way. Made me think harder. I was kinda skipping around on words while translating, going for the easy words first then the words that I felt would be important. Decided I would hold off on this word and skipped back to the line above it to solve the big word up there. Catchphrase. And the last word was "Weekly". I realized then that this had to be "Wizard".

I'm glad that the "z" sound wasn't in the passage, it made me think harder about the puzzle, and that was fun in hindsight.

(please ignore the blatantly mistranslated word on the second row.)

Unfortunately I don't have timestamps for exactly when i entered the maze, but it was probably around 3:40, as I remember realizing school was about to be over, which meant I'd have to drive home before finishing if I didn't get through fast.

MAZE SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE IT RUINED FOR YOU. DO READ IF YOU'RE STUCK AND WANT TO PLACE. IM NOT YOU MOM.

On the first page of the maze there were three options to choose where to go. I translated the first option, If I recall correctly it was scoundrel. Did not want to deal with that, the second option I couldn't translate immediately, so I skipped to the third option. Merchant. Sounds safe enough, I should go there.

So I did.

Reading the options, and knowing I was at a merchant, I decided to barter, and got an item. Cool. Sick even. So I move on.

[something] [STRENGTH] [STEALTH]

Decided to go stealth, and remembering how the merchant went, I choose the stealth option. Made it out with a cool gem. Encountered the dragon. Decided I didn't want to give up the candle and tried using the gem. Back to the start. Same path with the merchant, chose the option i didn't translate for the monster, and decided to try and charm it. Sandwich aquired. Not a good offering, back to the start. Merchant and gem? Close but no. Finally, I decided to try and fight the monster. It worked, and the item visually matched what I got from the merchant much more that the other items, sure enough, it was a good enough offering, and I got to move on.

Last part of the maze. 14 options, one was correct, spotted it immediately. Escaped at 3:57 pm ctz, day one of the race.

“Draco fucks me, and I love it.”

It started as a pleasant interview about the Malfoy-Potters’ newly remodeled group home, and it rapidly spiraled into a hellish Fiendfyre.

A deranged former Wizard Weekly reporter barged into the interview. She proceeded to vulgarly berate Harry Malfoy-Potter, insisting that “our strong, powerful Saviour would never let a weak, whiny Death Eater fuck him.”

We are all aware of the Saviour’s fiery temper, so naturally we were shocked at his response!

Harry merely smirked and said, “Draco fucks me, and I love it.” He continued with several more explicit praises of his husband, which we will not be repeating.

Unfortunately, Draco Malfoy-Potter was not present to share his thoughts on the matter. “I wore him out last night,” Harry chuckled. Continued on page 3.

You enter the deepest level of the dungeon where the council locked away the warlock last seen in possession of the Scrying Stone. You see the desiccated bones of the warlock still hanging from the ceiling by chains manacled to his ankles. Below his dangling skull is a chest carved from smooth black stone and sealed by thick bands of iron with arcane runes of locking scrawled all along their length. On the top of the chest, there is a smooth indentation in the stone in the shape of a five-fingered hand.

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*What do you do?*

Draco Malfoy: “Fuck off, I’m in love with Harry Potter.”

On Saturday afternoon, a herd of rogue Dementors caused quite the disturbance in The Three Broomsticks when they tried to attack a group of third year Slytherin students.

Pub owner and acting bartender, Draco Malfoy, leapt into action. In an impressive feat of defensive magic, he cast several corporeal Patronuses in quick succession, forcing the dark creatures to retreat into the corner until Ministry reinforcements arrived.

Malfoy, 36, told Wizard Weekly that this was not the first time these wild Dementors had shown up to his workplace unprovoked.

“I did my time in Azkaban,” he said. “But when I was released on good behaviour, I received many death threats.” Malfoy paused, taking a breath in. “Many feel that I deserve to suffer the same fate as my father.” His mouth twisted, his voice quiet. “Sometimes I think they’re right.”

World-renowned Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor and Saviour, Harry Potter, soon arrived on the scene with several large chocolate bars. “Fuck, Draco,” he said, angry. He broke off a piece of chocolate and handed it to Malfoy, who took it and smiled in resignation.

“The Ministry is bloody useless,” Professor Potter continued. “This is why I turned them down when they offered me Head Auror.” He paused and looked pointedly at the Wizard Weekly reporting team. “Make sure you include that last bit in your article.”

Malfoy opened his mouth to respond, but he was interrupted by Gryffindor fourth year, Colin Creevey. (Colin is named after his late uncle, war hero Colin Creevey).

“That was wicked, Mr. Draco!” Colin exclaimed. “I took the perfect photograph of your corporeal Patronus”—Malfoy stiffened and went very, very pale—“a stag, just like Professor Potter’s!” He grinned, showing them the photo. “You must really love him.”

Harry Potter’s eyebrows furrowed as he took a closer look. “It looks… just like mine,” he said slowly. He turned to Malfoy, who had gone very quiet as he stared at the picture.

“Your Patronus used to be a Thestral—I’ve seen it,” Potter continued, voice gruff. “How long?” He laughed roughly. “When did it change?”

Malfoy shook his head. “Two bloody years, Potter.”

“C’mere.” Harry Potter’s voice dropped low. He pulled Draco Malfoy in for a long, scorching hot kiss and disapparated them both to an unknown private location.

We reached out to Draco Malfoy the next morning when he returned to open The Three Broomsticks. When asked about his current relationship with our Saviour, Malfoy smiled and said, “Fuck off, I’m in love with Harry Potter.”