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alt_sinistra) wrote2015-08-08 08:53 am
alt_sinistra) wrote2015-08-08 08:53 am
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Good news:
The wards are entirely under our control.
The 83 wards transferred beautifully to the Octoboros wards, and we are now back to the coordinates in use before 1983 (for floo, portkey, etc.) That in a very real way makes us part of the larger world again. We have vastly reduced the chance of another Atlantis or another Ys, and all sorts of other very bad things. We are not at risk of the 83 wards crumbling without notice, and if the other side tries to manipulate the wards, the Octoboros system is very robust.
Not ideal news:
The transfer flow was much stronger than we'd expected - that's part of why the light show all night. It is also settling at a much slower rate than anticipated. Until the magic disperses fully into the ley lines, we will not be able to open additional entry points to the country (such as to Ireland) or be able to take the Octoboros wards down entirely. That will be at least a month or two, maybe a lot longer. We should have better estimates of time within the fortnight. Magic near the major leys and Octoboros points may be unpredictably strong in the meantime: I will have maps later today.
Also, because the flow was much stronger than expected, it was exceedingly obvious to the other side, and there were a number of effects on people and places that we didn't anticipate. I'm so sorry about that. We're still not sure about some of the effects in Ireland, nor a number of other things, so there's a lot of work yet to do.
I'm on my way back to Hogwarts, but I desperately need some sleep before I try to do anything else.
The wards are entirely under our control.
The 83 wards transferred beautifully to the Octoboros wards, and we are now back to the coordinates in use before 1983 (for floo, portkey, etc.) That in a very real way makes us part of the larger world again. We have vastly reduced the chance of another Atlantis or another Ys, and all sorts of other very bad things. We are not at risk of the 83 wards crumbling without notice, and if the other side tries to manipulate the wards, the Octoboros system is very robust.
Not ideal news:
The transfer flow was much stronger than we'd expected - that's part of why the light show all night. It is also settling at a much slower rate than anticipated. Until the magic disperses fully into the ley lines, we will not be able to open additional entry points to the country (such as to Ireland) or be able to take the Octoboros wards down entirely. That will be at least a month or two, maybe a lot longer. We should have better estimates of time within the fortnight. Magic near the major leys and Octoboros points may be unpredictably strong in the meantime: I will have maps later today.
Also, because the flow was much stronger than expected, it was exceedingly obvious to the other side, and there were a number of effects on people and places that we didn't anticipate. I'm so sorry about that. We're still not sure about some of the effects in Ireland, nor a number of other things, so there's a lot of work yet to do.
I'm on my way back to Hogwarts, but I desperately need some sleep before I try to do anything else.
Re: Ireland
I wish Professor Flitwick were still alive. Some of the charms theory is - very dense. Especially about things like the notice-me-nots, and large areas of effect. (And it's not like anyone has ever covered entire countries before, or at least I'm pretty sure they haven't.) There's so many parts of this that are entirely new applications.
Evelyn and I are working on pulling together notes, things we know, things out of Alde's journal references (heavily annotated, and it means finding other supporting references.)
I think we may be able to bring down the notice-me-not and the enclosing aspects of the Octoboros wards, eventually - not while they're still so active, while the flow is still so loud. Bright. High. Whatever you want to call it. But we'll need to wait for the leys to settle before we can be sure, I think. I'm hoping we'll be able to start getting some more measurements this week that will give us some idea of the timeline, anyway, before we can do anything else with them.
Re: Ireland
Even if the way they designed it is utterly bizarre.