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Disappearing Hogwarts #2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 06 Oct 2023 23:53:25 No.5785510 View View Reply Original Report

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Archive: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Disappearing%20Hogwarts

Character Sheets: https://pastebin.com/rSrSyP70

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In the last thread:

> Harry Potter and his daughter have completely forgotten about your existence, and all official records of your existence in Hogwarts have disappeared.

> A large breasted dream-lady told you a creature that eats threads of time was a risk to the whole world

> She is trying to protect you from it, but you need to find Merlin’s Last Light to aid her

> If Harry Potter discovers of any of this, everything will be destroyed, but that isn’t stopping him from trying to figure it out by himself

> You’ve become the leader of a student army

> Brighton Longbottom is a dickhead

> Lily Potter has many, many issues

> And you went on a date with the sister of someone who can bury your head in the dirt with the flick of a wand

And now…

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 06 Oct 2023 23:54:30 No.5785512 Report

Quoted By: >>5785522 >>5785540 >>5785549

The first week of November is hectic, with preparations for the third battle underway and everyone suggesting different ways of using transfiguration in battle, now that it has been officially allowed. Most of it is completely useless, of course, or would take an inordinate amount of time, but you still do your duty of listening to them just in case they give you any ideas.

What worries you, however, is the location. The first battle was in an open forest. The second was in the upper corridors of the castle, where no maps could be traced. The location of the third battle, with its new set of rules, would not be revealed until the last moment. Whenever you had asked Potter about it, he had simply grinned.

Harry Potter being in a good mood about his battle class was not a good sign.

“You wouldn’t happen to know,” you ask Lily as you train battling in the Room of Requirement. “What your father’s planning, do you?”

“Maybe. Though it would be unfair if I told you, wouldn’t it?” She answered, not answering your question.

“Yes, yes it would.”

“It would be awfully unfair.”

“Uh-huh.”

“Terribly unfair.”

“Lily!”

She simply laughs before stunning you.

“Ennervate! You really have to watch your barriers, Little Elliot.”

Close by Arty fights ferociously against some other Hufflepuff, but you can already see the exhaustion seeping in, even though you’ve been training for barely twenty minutes. Her wand movements are getting sloppy and beads of sweat are forming on her head.

“You know,” Lily says. “I think someone in Gryffindor has a camera you can borrow.”

“Huh?”

“You know, just in case you want to take a picture instead. I hear they last longer.”

You blush and look away from Arty. Your date had also been running through your head for the past few days, and it was hard to tell which one you thought about more. You two hugging in the forest. You two watching the lake in comfortable silence. The look she gave you when you told her you baked the cupcakes yourself.

But you had other things to focus on now. The Raiders were depending on you to lead them to victory.

“Right,” you say, changing the subject. “Show me that move again.”

> Battle Magic +2! New Total: +18

Forty minutes later the Hufflepuffs leave, helping an Arty so exhausted she stumbles away without barely saying goodbye. Lily waves them away, still larger and grander than life as the daughter of Harry Potter should be, and ensures they’re on their way back to their common rooms before turning to you, Raven and Taylor. In a moment, she seems more relaxed. Calm. Smaller.

“So,” Lily asks. “Have you managed to get anything off that old book?”

What will you tell her?

> Tell her everything
> Tell her about what you found in the Astronomy classroom, but not about the incident with Taylor
> Tell her you found the location of the star, but not how or where it is
> “We didn’t manage to find anything”
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 07 Oct 2023 00:06:49 No.5785522 Report

Quoted By: >>5785544 >>5785788

>>5785512
>Tell her about discovering the star's location and the incident with Taylor, but not the precise details of the room and its runes.
Hurray! It's back!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:+2JoDfq4 Sat 07 Oct 2023 00:25:21 No.5785540 Report

Quoted By: >>5785788

>>5785512
>Tell her about discovering the star's location and the incident with Taylor, but not the precise details of the room and its runes.
Supporting this. Welcome back, QM!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:IcLZj3LV Sat 07 Oct 2023 00:28:54 No.5785544 Report

Quoted By: >>5785788

>>5785522
+1, we'll let her know the location on the day we go and not before

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Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Sat 07 Oct 2023 00:32:05 No.5785549 Report

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>>5785512
>> Tell her everything
OH YEAH IT'S BACK!

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 00:47:15 No.5785568 Report

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Ah, as an addendum, I added Talon, Amalia and Elend to the character sheets above, and updated the roll bonuses to the most recent values.

I'm planning on keeping the old character sheet versions unchanged and creating a new version every thread, just so the archive makes sense.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 04:09:11 No.5785788 Report

Quoted By: >>5785791 >>5785799

>>5785522
>>5785540
>>5785544

“We did,” you answer. “And Taylor almost died because of it.”

“I didn’t almost die,” Taylor corrects. “It could have just turned me into a mindbroken husk, for all we know.”

Raven punches him on the shoulder so you don’t have to while you explain the incident in the Room of Requirement.

“Once we detransfigured him, we got his notes and found the star. We know where to go, but if we’re leaving the astronomy towers to follow it, we’ll probably need brooms.”

“I’m assuming none of you have personal brooms?” Lily asks.

“Do any of us look like a Quidditch player?”

“Judging by your arms? No. It’s fine, I can get into the school training supply and get a few. But there is trouble coming. Or, more trouble coming. I overheard my father talking. Or maybe he let me overhear it, I’m not sure. Apparently, something is happening in the Ministry, with the Unspeakables. I don’t know what, but it has the higher ups of the ministry rattled.”

“Your dad told me. Apparently no more prophecies are being produced.”

For a fleeting instant, you think you see a gleam of something like triumph in Lily’s eyes. But it morphs into shock an instant later.

“No more prophecies? Yeah, that explains it. The Minister herself was pressing dad into revealing what he knows, and they know he knows something because he’s been snooping around the Department of Mysteries. But he hasn’t said a thing. He trusts my aunt, but I don’t think he thinks the Unspeakables are above kidnapping you and waterboarding you with veritaserum to figure it all out.”

“Crap,” you say, worried. “Do you know who else knows about me?”

“Me, dad, the headmistress. But he went around asking people about you when we first noticed you were, you know, not in our memories. It wouldn’t be super difficult to find out if they decided to start questioning the students.”

“They’d have to go over McGonagall first,” Taylor says. “And I never met your Granger, but I’d bet on Hogwarts and the boy-who-lived winning this fight.”

“I think so too… but the winter holidays are coming and not everyone stays here. A lot of people have parents working in the Ministry.”

You bury your face in your hands.

“First of December, Elliot.” Raven says, putting a hand on your shoulder. “We get there, figure out what is going on, and fix it.”

“Raven, I don’t know what is going to happen in December first, but I doubt this mess ends there.”

“Me neither, but there’s nothing we can do about it now. We can’t stop the Ministry and we can’t stop Potter. Focus on what we can do. One step at a time.”

You nod, trying to shake away the sinking feeling of dread at the pit of your stomach.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 04:10:13 No.5785791 Report

Quoted By: >>5785812 >>5785815 >>5785855 >>5785877 >>5785878 >>5785883

>>5785788

You go to sleep still haunted by what Lily told you, and take a long while to fall asleep as your brain can’t decide if it wants to think about shadowy figures coming in the night to kidnap you and run tests on you, about the battle on the following day or about Arty in incredibly ungentlemanly ways.

Sleep, however, eventually takes you.

“GOOD MORNING, SUNSHINE!”

Your soul nearly jumps out of your body as you jolt awake. You look around to see the sun already peeking through the window and the dormitory empty, except for Taylor who’s rolling on the floor laughing.

“Taylor, what the fuck was that about?”

“I don’t know!”, clutching his stomach from laughter. “Arty pulled me over while you were battling Lily and offered me a sickle to do it.”

“She paid you a sickle to almost give me a heart attack?”

“No, of course not,” he says, struggling to get up from the floor. “I told her I’d do it for free!”

--

The next army battle is today. What potion will you take with you?

> Girding Potion, for endurance (+10 for the next physical/battle roll)
> Edurus Potion, creates a a rocky film on your skin, protecting you from damage
> Shrinking Solution, causes the drinker to shrink to a smaller form, though it does not affect their casting power
> Erumpent Potion, causing an explosion on hit
> Garroting Gas, choke and suffocate people in an area
> Scintillation Solution, makes those hit by it shine brightly
> Alchemist’s Flashbang, a mix of Scintillation Solution and gunpowder, momentarily blinds people in the thrown area.
> Other (Write in. Non-cannon, made up potions with reasonable effects are allowed)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 07 Oct 2023 04:18:32 No.5785799 Report

Quoted By: >>5785855

>>5785788
>you think you see a gleam of something like triumph in Lily’s eyes.
Yeah alright fuck Lily we're not trusting her anymore. Even without meta-gaming from the mindwipe we're a Slytherin and should be able to pick up something's not right there. Also interesting that Potter is telling us about what happened and not his own daughter.

> Alchemist’s Flashbang, a mix of Scintillation Solution and gunpowder, momentarily blinds people in the thrown area.
Might as well. Not like people will be wearing sunnies the whole time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 07 Oct 2023 04:49:33 No.5785812 Report

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>>5785791
Based Arty, avenging her eardrums.
> Alchemist’s Flashbang
We never got to use it last battle so they won't expect it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sat 07 Oct 2023 04:56:10 No.5785815 Report

Quoted By: >>5785855

>>5785791
Terrible Slytherin behaviour, Taylor. ALWAYS take the money.
Pretty good, Arty. Pretty good.

> Alchemist’s Flashbang

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 07 Oct 2023 06:05:05 No.5785855 Report

Quoted By: >>5785883

>>5785791
> Alchemist’s Flashbang, a mix of Scintillation Solution and gunpowder, momentarily blinds people in the thrown area.
Can we make it so it explodes and does the blinding when it's destroyed? Potter DID say last Battle Class if someone throws something unknown, destroy it first and ask questions later. So them destroying it would play into our hands, since they wouldn't have time to react to it suddenly blinding them.

Also in accordance with the points of >>5785799 and >>5785815 I do want us to say these two things to Taylor right now since he's here:
> "Terrible Slytherin behavior, Taylor. If someone offers you money to do something, you use your cunning to haggle for more THEN do the thing. Not do it for free!"
> "By the way...when I mentioned there are no more prophecies last night...is it just me, or did Lily look almost triumphant when I mentioned that for a brief moment?"
>>5785815

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 06:33:53 No.5785877 Report

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>>5785791
> Alchemist’s Flashbang, a mix of Scintillation Solution and gunpowder, momentarily blinds people in the thrown area.

I suppose I will go with this since it is going to win. I have reservations though. This potion is most useful in small spaces or in the dark.

I am going to guess the next battle is going to be either an open field or completely in the air. If we are lucky it will be a night fight so we can use the flashbang kinda effectively.

The other option I can think of is straight urban combat, fighting house to house, which would suck. That kind of battle is always messy. He might get the other teachers to help make a scale fake Hogsmead or something for us to fight in or something if that is the case.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:R6s1lCBT Sat 07 Oct 2023 06:34:16 No.5785878 Report

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>>5785791
>Alchemist’s Flashbang, a mix of Scintillation Solution and gunpowder, momentarily blinds people in the thrown area.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 06:43:14 No.5785883 Report

Quoted By: >>5785893

>>5785791

I will also support:
>>5785855

I wonder if anyone in our army can cast a protean charm and if we have time to establish a set of coded for what the changes to the object mean. If it is urban combat being able to communicate over distance is important.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 07:01:53 No.5785893 Report

Quoted By: >>5785894 >>5785911

>>5785883

Taylor, Elend and Talon are all able to cast corporeal Patronuses (I added that info to the character sheets), and even though Taylor isn’t in this battle because of his incident, you still have a couple other soldiers who can also cast it.

It won’t make for fluid conversation, but enough to fire off orders.

Now, on to the update.

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“You did it for free?" You ask, surprised. "Taylor, that’s not Slytherin!“

“No, Elliot. It’s called ‘getting the sister of the super hufflepuff to owe you a favor’. You should try it. Though you’re probably after something else from her, huh?”

“Shut up.”

“I hear you telling me to stay quiet, not that I’m wrong.”

You throw your pillow at him.

“Taylor,” you ask as you two are making your way to breakfast a few minutes later. “Did you notice anything strange about Lily yesterday? When I told her about the prophecies?”

“No, why?”

“Nothing, I just… found her expression weird, that’s all.”

“After all the fighting you did, I’d be surprised if you could pay proper attention to that. Besides, Lily is weird. We know that.”

You nod, still unsure of what exactly you saw on the previous night.

--

Things start to get weird when all four armies are called to the Battle Class classroom half an hour before normal and given orders to not leave until Potter shows up. When he does show up, he has a wide grin on his face.

You don’t like that.

“So, there is a slight alteration on what I told you last time. There will still be a shrinking area which will take you out of the game if you spend over ten seconds in it, yes, but it will no longer be a cylinder around the battlefield. It shall be a sphere, to account for height.”

“We’ll be fighting in the air?” You ask, incredulous. If there was one way to completely render your flashbangs useless it was-

“No, Mr. Hallaster. You shall be fighting in Hogwarts.”

“Where in Hogwarts?” Brighton asks.

“Four leaders, four houses. Why, I think starting in each of your leader’s common rooms is as fine a place as any, don’t you agree Mr. Longbottom?”

“Wait, Hogwarts Hogwarts? Like, the main castle?”

“Precisely. Home turf. The entire student body is currently in the outer gardens, some very begrudgingly, waiting for your battle. Some few places, like the common room dormitories, the teachers’ private rooms and the Hospital Wing, are off limits, but are well marked as such by red barriers. Everything else is fair game.”

You can feel the electricity in the air. Every single student is suddenly very excited to fight in the same halls they studied and learned for the past six years, and maybe wreck wanton destruction upon the classrooms of the teachers they most disliked.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 07:02:58 No.5785894 Report

Quoted By: >>5785895

>>5785893

“Ah, sir,” you ask, noticing a very big problem called Apollo Pertinger breathing down your metaphorical neck, the Hufflepuff common room being a just stairwell and a corridor away from Slytherin’s. “I don’t think-”

“That the common rooms are well spaced apart? Why, you’d be correct. Not every battle in real life will start with all armies equally spaced out, Mr. Hallaster. Why should our battles be any different?”

“Can we use things in the school?” Weasley asks.

“Yes, anything and everything you can put your hands on and which is in the allowed areas, including any secret passages you may know.” He throws each of the leaders a small glass cube with a translucent sphere on it. “Imagine the cube is a miniature Hogwarts. Once you hear the gong, you will have ten minutes. After that, the cube in your hands will show you the general area towards which the bounding sphere is shrinking, and the shrinking starts. Ten minutes of it standing still, ten minutes of it shrinking, then it repeats. In an hour, the sphere will be reduced to a point and the battle will end either way.”

“Now, off you go. And please, try not to wreck the school too much.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 07:03:59 No.5785895 Report

Quoted By: >>5785911 >>5785926 >>5785927 >>5785949 >>5786024 >>5786238

>>5785894

“What’s the plan, Elliot?” Raven asks, your four lieutenants around you. Taylor, unfortunately, is still too ill to participate in the fight.

“The plan is that Apollo will stomp us within three seconds of the gong going off,” you say. You had thought about rushing to the Room of Requirement, but Potter had informed you that it was off limits during the fight. “We’re right by Hufflepuff. Potter screwed us big time.”

“Come on, sir! We can’t count on not fighting Apollo every time!” Elend says.

You sigh, shaking away the distraught. “Fine. You’re right. We can’t give up. He’s just one guy, we can take him. We’re close to Hufflepuff, but we’re also close to the Potions classroom. If we can make it there, we can try brewing a full batch of potions.”

“We won’t have much time,” Amalia says, adjusting her glasses before sticking them to her face with a spell. “We’ll have to get lucky with the shrinking direction to brew anything, otherwise we’ll get kicked out of there by the sphere.”

“Any other suggestions?”

“Hold fort, move when we need to,” Raven says. “Keep with the storm, wait for everyone to fight it out first.”

“Could get us trapped by the sphere,” Amalia says. “Also, storm?”

“It’s the muggle name for the shrinking sphere, don’t ask.”

“Right. Well, I don’t like it. There’s a secret passage nearby, we could use it to get out of the way of Apollo, try flanking the Lions or the Claws.“

“If we attack the Lions we’re attacking the Claws too,” Elend says. “Gryffindor and Ravenclaw’s common rooms are also super close. We can try to pince one of them against the other, but then we’ll have to deal with the one remaining. I say we charge the Fours, sir. The area close to the kitchen is filled with barrels of pumpkin juice. We blast them open, flood them with pumpkin juice and freeze them while their vests are covered in orange goo.”

What is your plan?

> Go to the Potions’ classroom, try to brew something against the clock
> Wait here as much as you can before moving,
> Take a secret passageway, try to pince either the Claws or the Lions
> Charge the Fours
> Other (Write in)

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 07:09:25 No.5785900 Report

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And with that post, I'll go to sleep for the day.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 07:30:37 No.5785911 Report

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>>5785893
Sorry I meant that charm that lets you transfigure 1 thing and it affect other linked things as well, not a patronus.

>>5785895
I am to tired to plan and have to be up early. I will think and try and come up with something. Right now I am tied between going straight for potions and using our flashbang to buy us room if needed and the secret passage. Apollo will probably not expect us to not avoid him though so there may be merit in going straight after his team and use our superior tactics and coordination. He is the 4s trump and while I am sure they have other competent members, knocking him out will hit their moral.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 07 Oct 2023 08:14:40 No.5785926 Report

Quoted By: >>5785929

>>5785895
If we charge the Fours I think we need to immediately throw the Flashbang and pray that Apollo is blinded along with the rest of his team, so we take him out quick and then the rest of the Fours are uncoordinated.
If we go to the Potions Classroom right now not only do we give Apollo plenty of time to Transfigure things, but it's an obvious place for us to be so anyone who knows we're a potions guy(which is all the leaders, to my knowledge) will know to rush us if they're not already in a battle, leaving us unprepared

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 07 Oct 2023 08:16:35 No.5785927 Report

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>>5785895
> Go to the Potions’ classroom, try to brew something against the clock
GAS GRENADES AND FLASHBANGS FOR EVERYONE
We can make smoke bombs too, right?

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 07 Oct 2023 08:19:50 No.5785929 Report

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>>5785926
What if we set up an ambush for him in the potions classroom?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sat 07 Oct 2023 09:11:30 No.5785949 Report

Quoted By: >>5786134 >>5786273

>>5785895
>Send a patronus to Apollo, try to entreat him to temporarily join forces with you to utterly annihilate the other two teams. You'd rather have either of your teams win the whole thing over the other two.
I think he'd be open to the idea. And it's a very Slytherin thing to do.
Besides, once the other two teams are down and out, we're going to be in an excellent position to, say...flashbang apollo and his entire team.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Sat 07 Oct 2023 12:07:10 No.5786024 Report

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>>5785895
> Go to the Potions’ classroom, try to brew something against the clock

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 15:16:56 No.5786134 Report

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>>5785949
I think at least offering would be good. I have a feeling that cunt Brighton will try and join up with Granger-Weasley out of fear of the super 'Puff. If he says no, nothing lost. Just be on the move when we send it.

Besides, joining up with someone you might not be an ally with to take on a superior force is a valid tactic in real battles.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:R6s1lCBT Sat 07 Oct 2023 17:14:52 No.5786238 Report

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 07 Oct 2023 17:49:46 No.5786273 Report

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>>5785949
We don't even have to actually wait until the end of the battle. Our army still knows the codeword to look away when the flashbang is thrown, right? We just need to throw it when a good amount of both the Lions and Claws are down. After that, we prioritize eliminating Apollo, and we cleanup the rest of the competition.

With that in mind, support. Use the fact that Brighton will likely have the same plan in mind since he definitely doesn't want to be in a fight with the Lions immediately, and if he says no then we go brew potions.

One potion I have in mind, if such a thing is feasible, is a potion that causes a lingering effect in a small area that makes anyone within said area hallucinate. That way we can throw it outside the classroom and use the hallucinations as momentum to strike first against any enemies that come for us.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 19:09:02 No.5786358 Report

Quoted By: >>5786366 >>5786374 >>5786403 >>5786427 >>5786445 >>5786568 >>5786650 >>5786705

As you plan, the rest of your soldiers are watching the common room with interest. For all of them, this is the first time they’re entering another house’s common room, so they are marveling at the decorations, at the windows watching the depths of the great lake and at the paintings of old Slytherins who scowl at them with disgust.

“Elend, send a patronus to Apollo,” you say. “Offer him a temporary alliance against the other two.”

He nods, closes his eyes in focus, and an honest smile appears on his face.

“Expecto Patronum!” From the tip of his wand, a silver light appears, taking the shape of a tiny bird, wings fluttering rapidly. You can’t help but think the silver light reminds you of the light you saw in the astronomy tower, seeping through the runes in the window. “Go to Apollo. Tell him: I am the patronus of Elend from the Raiders of Lost Worlds. Our army leader is offering an alliance. We wish to join, crush the two other armies, then resolve the conflict between ourselves.”

The shining hummingbird winks out and disappears. It reappears a few seconds later, speaking in Elend’s exact voice.

“Apollo says: You and Brighton won alone. So will I.”

And it disappears.

“Right,” you say. “That went about as well as I expected. We do this ourselves then. Who here is halfway decent at potions?”

A handful of people raise their hands.

“Good. We make it for the Potions classroom. I figure if we rush, we can make a halfway decent batch of potions before we’re kicked out by the sphere. Most potions decay quickly when off heat and outside a bottle, but here we can just chuck a whole cauldron at people. Let’s see them try to defend against that.” You turn to your soldiers and attach your mustache and monocle. “Stick to your teams. Move quietly and swiftly. Win.”

The gong sounds in the distance.

“For Atlantis, my friends!”

> Roll a d100+15. Bo3, DC: 70

If you reach the potions classroom, what will you brew?

> Girding Potion, giving your army more endurance
> Edurus Potion, creates a a rocky film the drinker’s skin, protecting your soldiers from damage
> Shrinking Solution, causes the drinker to shrink to a smaller form, have an army of tiny soldiers
> Erumpent Potion, arm each soldier with the muggle equivalent of a grenade
> Other (Write in. Non-cannon, made up potions with reasonable effects are allowed)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Sat 07 Oct 2023 19:16:26 No.5786366 Report

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Rolled 64 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5786358
> Erumpent Potion, arm each soldier with the muggle equivalent of a grenade

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 07 Oct 2023 19:28:06 No.5786374 Report

Quoted By: >>5786468

Rolled 15 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5786358
> Erumpent Potion, arm each soldier with the muggle equivalent of a grenade
Lots and lots of area denial. Plus, if explodes when touched by any outside source. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's any feasible method to stop it from exploding without touching it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sat 07 Oct 2023 19:48:48 No.5786403 Report

Quoted By: >>5786445 >>5786448

Rolled 39 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5786358
> Edurus Potion, creates a a rocky film the drinker’s skin, protecting your soldiers from damage
Extremely useful against surprise attacks. The less mooks we lose to stunners the better, too. Won't protect against restraining things, so best be on the lookout for those still. And it won't impair us navigating the castle like shrinking would.
I advise against Erumpents because it could cause a lot of chaos for US due to, you know...depulso. From the other team.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 20:13:53 No.5786427 Report

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>>5786358
> Erumpent Potion, arm each soldier with the muggle equivalent of a grenade

We are in tight quarters. Grenades are very useful for sweep and clear maneuvers. While we brew, try and brief the army on what we have learned about how muggles soldiers work through confined, hostile indoor areas. Lessons from Falluja and even Berlin may be useful, though we don't have armored support. Check your corners, keep in line of sight but don't bunch up, having assigned roles like point man, defense, designated marksman for who ever has the strongest attacks and best accuracy, basic hand signs for stop, go, enemy, attack, ect. While the people good at potions brew, have the others cast disillusionment charms and quitus to help us move more stealthily.

When we exit the classroom, be ready to fight our way out because anyone with half a brain will expect us to use that resource. Be ready to finite incantum on a moments notice. Eyes out for transfigured areas in the halls that may be trapped or hiding enemies.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 20:27:46 No.5786445 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786358
>>5786403
You know what, that is fair, and people are going to be transfiguring crap left and right this fight

Changing to:
> Edurus Potion, creates a a rocky film the drinker’s skin, protecting your soldiers from damage

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 07 Oct 2023 20:32:28 No.5786448 Report

Quoted By: >>5786492

>>5786403
Sure, maybe it could do that. But here's the thing: does Depulso work by sending out a projectile at the target? If it does, that counts as an outside source touching it, and an outside source makes it immediately explode. Therefore, the potion just explodes before it can be sent back towards us.

If it DOESN'T do that, then we can just Depulso the Erumpent Potions ourselves, since that will make it fly away faster than if we had just thrown it, and give the person it's aimed at less time to react.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 07 Oct 2023 20:49:59 No.5786466 Report

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>we back
aah shit, how could i miss the beginning? well, time to catch up

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 20:55:43 No.5786468 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786374
They can transfigure it mid flight with good aim. I thing most teams are going to be very on guard for shit flying at them. If it does win though, we can always rig some up as IEDs and disillusion the trigger/string.

Honestly, both options, grenades and stoneskin are going to give us good benefits so I don't really care which one wins.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 21:15:51 No.5786492 Report

Quoted By: >>5786524

>>5786448
It hurls a closeby object in a general direction at high speeds. In the case of Erumpent potion, that could very much cause the potion to explode because of the high acceleration. Also, any destructive spell aimed at it would probably cause it to explode.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 21:36:06 No.5786524 Report

Quoted By: >>5786538

>>5786492
Transfiguring it into a rock or something before it hit the ground/a wall still works, however, correct? We can't turn stuff into a liquid or gas but turning a liquid into a solid is within the rules it sounds like.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 21:43:30 No.5786538 Report

Quoted By: >>5786540

>>5786524
Ah... I have no fucking clue how transfigured potions work in HP and cannon gives me no answers.

I'm going to say magical potions can't be transfigured without losing their powers, as you're essentially trying to transfigure a magical artifact and the magical interferences are either destructive or repel each other to the point of uselessness. It would be, at the very least, not something you could do in instants, in the middle of battle with a potion that is flying through the air.

There are spells such as Arresto Momentum which could safely stop it from crashing and exploding after being thrown.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sat 07 Oct 2023 21:45:28 No.5786540 Report

Quoted By: >>5786552

>>5786538
My guess would be that it'd act chaotically and not produce the expected transfiguration. Transfiguration itself seems fairly precise, so if you're trying to transfigure something MAGIC and VOLATILE that you don't understand 100% in a split second? You're probably going to have a bad time. All the magic in that potion is going to go haywire.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 07 Oct 2023 21:50:46 No.5786552 Report

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>>5786540
Indeed. It would, at the very least, cause McGonagall to shout at you for using transfiguration irresponsibly.

Transfiguration isn't exactly the type of art you use mid-battle. It is the sort of thing you use when you have a moment of respite and need something specific, like in the previous battle when you transfigured a blockade to the corridor while you weren't being attacked.

You could, for example, use it to transfigure a cauldron to brew your potions if you didn't have one at hand, or a barricade for an ambush. When spells start flying, it is probably time to use something else.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 07 Oct 2023 22:02:10 No.5786568 Report

Quoted By: >>5786573

>>5786358
Do we know of any Slytherin who are a) assholes and b) have brooms? Or, missing that, have brooms? If we can stea- borrow some, and we have good flyers we have some air cover too, and fast scouts.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mAWh5YDr Sat 07 Oct 2023 22:05:16 No.5786573 Report

Quoted By: >>5786587

>>5786568
Potter specified the dormitories were off limits (probably precisely to stop us from getting any other magical artifacts we had there)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 07 Oct 2023 22:14:28 No.5786587 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786573
Right, crap. Do we know if anyone has anything not stored in the dorms?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 07 Oct 2023 22:25:35 No.5786596 Report

Quoted By:

Should I just change my vote back to erumptus since per QM, there is only like one spell that directly stops a tossed potion, so we can break the deadlock? Like I said both options are good, it is just choosing between magic grenades and wizard body armor.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 07 Oct 2023 23:17:33 No.5786650 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 61 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5786358
> Erumpent Potion, arm each soldier with the muggle equivalent of a grenade
you alos mentioned something about chuking an entire cauldron of that, i suggest brew our magical granades, and whatever is leftover of the potion, we create a big bang version of it using a cauldron

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 07 Oct 2023 23:50:48 No.5786705 Report

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>>5786358
> Erumpent Potion, arm each soldier with the muggle equivalent of a grenade

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 00:41:01 No.5786778 Report

Quoted By: >>5786780

You and your army set out through the corridors, but trying to move stealthily with 16 people is not exactly the easiest thing in the world. Still, you need to move fast if you ever hope to avoid fighting against Apollo in the middle of the halls.

You take the long way, through secret passages and empty classrooms, until you suddenly come to a stop, raising your fist.

“Chatter, up ahead.”

The army retreats a couple of steps, and you transfigure a small mirror at the end of a stick which you use to peek over the bend of the corridor from where the sound is coming from.

“There’s nothing there,” you whisper. “But I see shadows coming from the next turn in the corridor.”

“No… There is… something familiar about this.” Talon says, with a weird look on his face. Suddenly, his face lights up. “This isn’t people talking. Hufflepuff’s common room has a couple gramophones around. I can just barely recognize the words from some of the disks we have, they just muffled the melody.”

“Can you do that? And why would they do that?”

“You can, if you’re good enough with quietus and know the song. And as to why they’d do that… What would you do if you thought the Fours were just around that bend? Would you send someone to check it out or would you just go around?”

“Go around,” you say, understanding. “Losing precious time. If we don’t go through that corridor, we’d lose at least five minutes finding another way.”

“A Ventriliquo would get the same effect, but the range is limited. With this, they can just set it there and leave.”

“You’re sure?”

He nods. “I’m sure.”

“That’s a bad plan,” Raven says. “All armies have Hufflepuffs, they’d all recognize it.”

“Brighton doesn’t have Hufflepuff lieutenants,” Amalia says.

“Neither does Weasley,” Elend says. “Says they’re only good as cannon fodder.”

“He sounds like a twat.”

“He is a twat.”

You send a soldier in front of you to check and sure enough, a few moments later he nods, giving the all clear.

You pass two old-looking gramophones and a series of small dolls in front of a flickering enchanted flame used to create the shadows to fool you. You know Apollo enough to know that meant he’d started using his Ravenclaws to come up with plans.

Good for him.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 00:42:15 No.5786780 Report

Quoted By: >>5786789 >>5786796 >>5786823 >>5786853 >>5786938

>>5786778
After that, you arrive at the Potions classroom without incident.

“I want guards at each end of the corridor,” Elend barks as soon as you make sure the room is empty. “And more guards at the door, looking at the ones at the ends. We need to make sure we have time to escape if anyone comes for us.”

Meanwhile, Raven is already distributing cauldrons while Amalia gets ingredients from the shelves.

“Right, listen up,” you say, writing instructions frankly on the board. “We’re going to make the Erumpent potion. But it usually takes half an hour to make, and we don’t have that long. So we’re going to have to improvise and speed things up. Everyone who got an Exceeds Expectations or higher on your OWLs, get a cauldron and try to keep up. We don’t need everyone to succeed, but a single cauldron won’t be enough for everyone.”

> Roll a d100+20. Bo3
> DC for arming half of the army: 75
> DC for brewing enough for everyone: 95

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:pCyyp3N6 Sun 08 Oct 2023 00:46:47 No.5786789 Report

Quoted By: >>5787115

Rolled 54 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5786780

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 00:49:41 No.5786796 Report

Quoted By: >>5786935 >>5787022 >>5787093 >>5787115

Rolled 93 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5786780

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sun 08 Oct 2023 01:07:42 No.5786823 Report

Quoted By: >>5787115

Rolled 71 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5786780

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 01:18:57 No.5786853 Report

Quoted By: >>5786855 >>5787117

>>5786780
Just got caught up to the thread. Kudos to you QM, despite me not knowing much about Harry Potter this is a great quest.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sun 08 Oct 2023 01:19:52 No.5786855 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786853
>Just got caught up to the thread. Kudos to you QM, despite me not knowing much about Harry Potter this is a great quest.
You and me both.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 08 Oct 2023 01:57:01 No.5786935 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786796
Hahaha, YEEESSSS

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sun 08 Oct 2023 01:59:20 No.5786938 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786780
>Goes to war
>Hosts an impromptu potions class
classic

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sun 08 Oct 2023 03:02:16 No.5787022 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786796
Nice one.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 08 Oct 2023 03:58:56 No.5787075 Report

Quoted By:

So Apollo's decided to ignore us and go straight for the other two. What a colossal fucking mistake that was, hope he likes our grenades.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:10:26 No.5787093 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786796
Grenade spam incoming

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:32:17 No.5787115 Report

Quoted By: >>5787116

>>5786789
>>5786796
>>5786823

*Feel free to insert you favorite cooking show montage music as this scene’s soundtrack*
“Right,” you say, taking a silver knife and twirling it over the palm of your hand. As you speak, you do, just barely stopping to check if your ‘students’ are managing to keep up. “The base of the Erumpent Potion is the exploding fluid which permeates the horn of an Erumpent, a lovely and deadly magical beast found in Africa. Now, usually we’d only use a third of the horn, but given that we’re in a hurry…”

You talk as you move, building the plan for your potion in your mind as you work. It is as much logic as intuition, a deeper feeling of what “should” work than simple notes and classes could teach you. You crush herbs, slice roots and macerate ingredients as your eyes keep glancing at the glass cube on the table.

The sphere moves, going from occupying the entire cube to a smaller part of its lower corner, about two thirds of the original size. You may have time, you realize, as you stir. Somewhere in the classroom, you hear a violent blast and look up to see a cauldron melted and someone’s hair on fire.

“Aguamenti,” you say, barely registering the incident as you sprinkle pepper leaves over the boiling liquid. “And Evanesco! Eyes on me, everyone. Keep on working, we don’t have time to stop. And someone get her a Wiggenweld, they’re not that difficult to make!”

The recipe is much more involved than usual, and you need to keep gentle and constant stirring to make sure it neither goes stale nor explodes in your face. You get a total of two more explosions and a melted cauldron before taking a small spoon, scooping some of the liquid in it and launching it at the wall with force where it explodes with a loud bang.

“And that’s how you improvise a Erumpent potion!”

A third of the time and half as powerful, but it was going in your recipe book all the same.

You look back to your soldiers, expecting at least a couple of them to clap, but instead you find a mess of scrambling soldiers trying desperately to follow your instructions.

“Right. Someone get to bottling this, let me see how you all did.” You say, passing over the still intact cauldrons. Your display of potioncraft, though impressive, clearly wasn’t as easy to follow as you’d hoped. They’re almost all worthless. “Evanesco, evanesco, evanesco, eva- Wait.” You stop by a cauldron, bend close to it, sniff it. “I think this may be right.”

“Thank you, sir.” Amalia says, still flustered from the effort. “I’ll admit it was quite challenging.”

You turn to the rest of your soldiers, eyeing the glass cube and the sphere growing dangerously small.

“Come on people, form a line! Everyone gets a bottle! And for fucks sake, be careful with them! They explode!”

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:33:19 No.5787116 Report

Quoted By: >>5787118 >>5787120 >>5787121 >>5787122

>>5787115

You manage to get out of the classroom and dash down the halls just as the glimmering red wall of Endgame comes. Every one of your soldiers now carries a shimmering red potion on their hips. The Erumpent Potion, and also this modified version of it. is more stable than the Erumpent’s exploding fluid, but it’s still temperamental. You tell everyone to keep theirs on the side of their non-dominant hand just in case.
Still, when the sphere stops shrinking, you’re all panting from all the running. You look around, finally noticing where you ended up.
“We’re by the library,” you say. By the library doors, you see a red barrier marking it as off limits and a fair share of curious paintings watching you with interest. “Right. We can make our way to-”
You hear rushed steps coming your way. Clearly, you had been quick but not quiet, and the empty halls of Hogwarts echoed far better than you gave them credit for.
“Ah, crap. Wand’s at the ready!”
Apollo bursts through the nearby door, looking almost surprised as if he didn’t expect you to be here, before spells start raining.

> Roll a d100+30, Bo3! (+15 from your Army Rolls, +15 from your new potions!)
> Also, as a reminder, you still have a banked roll of 118 from the last thread!

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:34:22 No.5787117 Report

Quoted By:

>>5786853
Ahhh, thanks anon!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:pCyyp3N6 Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:36:15 No.5787118 Report

Quoted By: >>5787127

Rolled 16 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>5787116
pineapple surprise!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cJepIn5K Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:38:04 No.5787120 Report

Quoted By: >>5787127

Rolled 62 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>5787116
GLORY TO THE FIRST MAN TO BE STUNNED

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:40:29 No.5787121 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787116
Also, this isn't Best of 3, this is "Beat 2 out of 3" I just messed it up

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:40:31 No.5787122 Report

Quoted By: >>5787127

Rolled 85 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>5787116
Time for the show to begin!

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:50:05 No.5787127 Report

Quoted By: >>5787130 >>5787132 >>5787133 >>5787135

Rolled 58, 2, 39 + 15 = 114 (3d100 + 15)

>>5787118
>>5787120
>>5787122

46 92 115

Let's see how Apollo handles a couple of grenades (+20 from Apollo, -5 because they're missing half their army)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cJepIn5K Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:52:30 No.5787130 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787127
TOTAL SLYTHERIN VICTORY

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:52:53 No.5787132 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787127
Oh he's going to feel this one when he wakes up.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:53:05 No.5787133 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787127
Ha

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:54:45 No.5787135 Report

Quoted By: >>5787139 >>5787141 >>5787146 >>5787150 >>5787154 >>5787184 >>5787203 >>5787209

>>5787127
Not well at all, apparently.

Two victory out of three gives him another round of battle (with an extra negative bonus for him) to try and turn the tide. You may choose to use your banked roll here to replace your losing roll and wipe him out completely in one go.

> Use banked roll
> Save it for later

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 04:59:57 No.5787139 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787135
>completely remove apollo from the equation in our first encounter
holy shit, i think this is as good as its gonna get, i vote for using our banked roll

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sun 08 Oct 2023 05:05:02 No.5787141 Report

Quoted By: >>5787143 >>5787146

>>5787135
Nah, losing against Apollo isn't that bad. I vote to save the roll for Longbottom.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 05:07:39 No.5787143 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787141
its not about loosing TO apollo, its about not losing BEFORE Longbottom, we are ok with losing to anyone except Longbottom

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 05:14:26 No.5787146 Report

Quoted By: >>5787148

>>5787135
Do we still keep the banked roll for something else if we don't use it here?

>>5787141
In theory we should have a better chance against Apollo since he's getting an extra negative bonus, so I'm thinking it'll be easier if we save it for later on (knock on wood).

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 05:17:25 No.5787148 Report

Quoted By: >>5787165

>>5787146
>Do we still keep the banked roll for something else if we don't use it here?
Yes

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 08 Oct 2023 05:17:36 No.5787150 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787135
> Save it for later
Save it for whoever's left

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 08 Oct 2023 05:25:16 No.5787154 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787135
> Save it for later

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 05:38:59 No.5787165 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787148
I'll vote to save it for later then.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:+SCJahjP Sun 08 Oct 2023 05:56:42 No.5787184 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787135
> Use banked roll
Total hufflepuff annihilation. Even if we do control the battle I’d assume he takes out a lot more people than if we completely win

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:R6s1lCBT Sun 08 Oct 2023 06:28:50 No.5787203 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787135
>Save it for later

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cJepIn5K Sun 08 Oct 2023 06:35:53 No.5787209 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787135
>Use banked roll
This will mitigate early casualties, which is good.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 06:59:43 No.5787237 Report

Quoted By: >>5787245 >>5787249 >>5787254

Apollo is received by a hail of spells hammering against his barriers, stunner after stunner coming from him from all your soldiers. He’s in front, so he takes the brunt of the attack and protects his soldiers from most of it, but a well thrown potion from Elend makes the arch over his shields and blasts right in the middle of his troops, sending scattering through the room. You notice his army isn’t complete, almost half of it missing.

But even as Apollo flies through the air he is still casting as small stones fly from his hand, turning into pillars of stone coming up from the floor, raising up like great stone hands to turn him rightside up as he takes aim and fires two stunners in your direction. He doesn’t stop, pointing the wand back at his transfiguration, making it wide, blocking your spells and protecting half of his soldiers.

“Finite Incantatem!”

You cast against his ongoing transfiguration, but Finite is a brute force spell. It takes as much power to unmake something as it was invested into creating it, and you're not overpowering Apollo.

“How the fuck is he using tranfiguration mid-battle!?” Elend asks, hiding behind a pillar. “Most aurors can’t pull that off and live.”

“Most aurors aren’t Apollo,” Talon says, chucking his potion, shattering a piece of Apollo’s wall and hexing an unprepared Gryffindor on the other side. “We have potions, he has power, Brighton has herbology.”

“What does Weasley have?”

“A stick up his ass! Duck! Stupefy!”

You duck and Elend hits a slytherin behind you.

“How many of them are left?”

“Apollo and two others.”

You see a stray curse hit one of your soldiers, who falls down. Then a pillar of rock slams past you, then turns, the rock moving almost as if alive to crush you, forcing you to jump out of the way, only to be welcomed by a stunner coming your direction.

“Protego! Stupefy!”

It wasn’t you who shouted, but Raven, standing between you and the spell before jumping back, running away from the transfigured pillar of rock.

Apollo, you think, as you run. What an absolute fucking terror you’d be if you ever turned dark.

> Roll a d100+25 (+15 from your Army rolls, +10 from your remaining potions)
> Beat 2 out of 3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cJepIn5K Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:05:23 No.5787245 Report

Quoted By: >>5787259

Rolled 83 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5787237

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:06:32 No.5787249 Report

Quoted By: >>5787252 >>5787254 >>5787255

Rolled 1 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5787237
i swear, if apollo somehow clutches this...

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:07:45 No.5787252 Report

Quoted By: >>5787259

>>5787249
>a fucking 1

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:10:48 No.5787254 Report

Quoted By: >>5787255 >>5787259

Rolled 3 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5787237
Rolling.

>>5787249
And here is karma punishing our hubris. Well at least it wasn't against Longbottom.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cJepIn5K Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:11:32 No.5787255 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787249
>>5787254
You get what you deserve

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:13:37 No.5787259 Report

Quoted By: >>5787266

Rolled 95, 75, 70 + 10 = 250 (3d100 + 10)

>>5787245
>>5787252
>>5787254

108 26 28

Amazing job, everyone.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:17:59 No.5787266 Report

Quoted By: >>5787270 >>5787274 >>5787279 >>5787288 >>5787324

>>5787259
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Merlin's fucking balls, Apollo is on fucking fire.

I'm assuming you're going to want to use that banked roll now? Or take a penalty and have a final round of battle?
(Also, I lot my trip for a couple posts, but it is back now)

> Use the banked roll
> Save it for later

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:20:31 No.5787270 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787266
I TOLD YOU FUCKERS TO USE THE BANKED ROLL FROM THE BEGINNING

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:24:23 No.5787274 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787266
> Use the banked roll
Dangit.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:30:59 No.5787279 Report

Quoted By:

Lesson 1 in warfare: shorten battles as much as possible. If we're given the opportunity to end a bate in one fell swoop, use it next time.

>>5787266
This should end Apollo, right? If so, use it. Our potion bonus goes down by 5 every time we're in a battle. I am NOT wasting the entirety of our potion bonus on a dude with only half his army.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:R6s1lCBT Sun 08 Oct 2023 07:37:28 No.5787288 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787266
> Use the banked roll

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EA3PEaxg Sun 08 Oct 2023 08:34:42 No.5787324 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787266
> Use the banked roll
We should spike his food before the next battle. We're good at potions and we're in Slytherin, we can do that, right? Hell, we should spike everyone's food.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 10:38:54 No.5787440 Report

Quoted By: >>5787442

Banked roll used!

--

You watch as from his stone coffin Apollo transfigures the stone his protection is made of, morphing it into fists of stone slamming into every direction. You see two of your soldiers get crushed against the wall and thank Merlin for both wizards being more resistant than muggles and for Apollo knowing how to pull his punches.

Time to put your training to good use. You had practiced some team movements during practice, and finally one of the more… exquisite variations would come in use.

“Elend! Talon! Time for Reverse Caliburn!”

“Reverse Caliburn?” Elend shouts over the sound of a pillar of stone slamming against the wall. “I thought we had agreed it was stupid!”

“No, you thought it was stupid!”

“Everyone thought it was stupid, Eliiot!” Talon shouts.

“Well, then I’m about to prove everyone wrong! On three! One, two, three!”

You dash out into the open towards Apollo, who is blindly attacking, when-

“Wingardium Leviosa!” “Wingardium Leviosa!”

The double charge of the levitation spell takes you up, up and over the stone coffin, revealing its top and weakest part. You launch your Erumpent potion, and it shatters the stone cover revealing a focused Apollo and a surprised Ravenclaw watching you wide-eyed.

“Stupefy!”

You hit Apollo in the back, and he falls unconscious. Once he’s down, it takes moments for your soldiers to put you down and overwhelm the Four’s remaining soldier.

“I can’t believe you actually got to use a Reverse Caliburn,” Raven said. “I thought we had all agreed that move was stupid.”

“You agreed it was stupid.”

“So what now?” Amalia asks. “We have at least one other army to beat.”

“I think just one other army to beat,” Elend says. “Apollo was at half strength. He fought someone.”

“He was also retreating,” she says. “He wasn’t after us. He stumbled on us.”

“What can make Apollo run away? You think Weasley and Longbottom teamed up?”

“Doesn’t sound like Weasley, he doesn't do alliances. But he did just lose two battles in a row. Maybe he’s getting desperate.”

“There are a couple Lions dropped down the corridor,” Talon says, peeking into the doorway Apollo had come from. “But not what I’d expect from a battle with the Fours.”

“Right. How many potions do we still have left?”

“Five, no,” Raven says, picking up an intact bottle from a fallen soldier and giving it to you. “Six.”

“Hum… I think we should-”

“Barrier!”

You all look behind you in horror as the barrier surges forward.

“Let’s go!”

You and your army bolt, you going in front using your cube trying to desperately find where the damn barrier is pushing you towards. It moves slower now, but the area is smaller. Tighter corners and less space to move make the retreat difficult as you find dead ends and have to pull back and find another way. By the end of it, you’re all sweating and more than one painting on the wall is giggling at you.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 10:40:40 No.5787442 Report

Quoted By: >>5787444 >>5787454 >>5787477 >>5787504 >>5787781

>>5787440

“Fuck that thing.”

“Take it up with Potter, he’s the one who came up with this.”

“So, what do we do now? There aren’t a lot of places left to hide.”

“If Longbottom and Weasley are teaming up, we could wait.” Amalia says. “Seeing the area shrink on them has to take a toll on their alliance, they’re going to have to turn on each other eventually.”

“That will make us have to fight in an even smaller area, and that's assuming we find them first.” Elend says. “The sphere could corner us as much as them, and we could get trapped by the storm if we’re in a bad position when it starts to shrink. If we could apparate that wouldn’t be as much of a problem, but Apparition classes don’t start until Christmas. I say we hunt for them, take them out before the shrinking becomes a problem again.”

“Or we could find a crossroad close to the center of the sphere and guard it,” Talon suggests. “If they come, we attack them. If they don’t, we have freedom to move in any direction.”

> Hide and wait until the sphere shrinks
> Hunt for the remaining team/teams
> Find a central position and defend it
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sun 08 Oct 2023 10:47:29 No.5787444 Report

Quoted By: >>5787446

>>5787442
> Find a central position and defend it
We got grenades. The other teams don't. If they've teamed up that just means more targets for us to throw at. Should also set up a flanking guy with two potions to hit them from behind when they come across us.

Actually, is that enemy team tracking thing still working or was it only for the last battle? We can check if they're working together based on how close the pointers are.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 10:51:30 No.5787446 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787444
That was just for last battle. This battle the sphere takes care of ensuring everyone meets each other

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 11:12:47 No.5787454 Report

Quoted By: >>5787477 >>5787504 >>5787658 >>5788001

>>5787442
> Hunt for the remaining team/teams
i dont think hunkering down is a great idea in this occation, its been somewhat useful before, but with the storm approaching, who knows if this will work 100% in our favor.
i say we hunt down smaller teams/stragglers and push them out into the storm, if i remember correctly, they need to be out there for at least 10 seconds for them to be officially out, right? a couple of well places flipendos should be more than enough to knock anyone out for good into the storm, all we have to do is corner them

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:R6s1lCBT Sun 08 Oct 2023 12:17:21 No.5787477 Report

Quoted By: >>5788001

>>5787442
>>5787454 +1

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 08 Oct 2023 13:20:43 No.5787504 Report

Quoted By: >>5788001

>>5787454
Supporting.

>>5787442

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 16:15:18 No.5787658 Report

Quoted By: >>5788001

>>5787454
+1

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:IcLZj3LV Sun 08 Oct 2023 17:43:39 No.5787781 Report

Quoted By:

>>5787442
>> Find a central position and defend it
from the center we can push them against the storm, that's a huge advantage

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 19:40:27 No.5788001 Report

Quoted By: >>5788005 >>5788024

>>5787454
>>5787477
>>5787504
>>5787658

“We’re finding them and ending this before the sphere has time to end us,” you say to your remaining eight soldiers. “I may lose to Brighton or Weasley, but I’m not losing to a fucking barrier. Let’s go.”

You make your way through the familiar corridors of Hogwarts under the watchful gaze of the paintings, some following you with interest as this was probably the most exciting thing that had happened to them in the past few decades. Room by room, corridor by corridor, you make your way through the school, but you just can’t seem to find them.

“Are all of us just circling around in the same direction? What the hell is going on here?”

Your question is answered immediately as you and your army turn into a wide windowed corridor by the Transfiguration courtyard, where you see three Prismatic Shields halfway through it. Behind them, is Weasley’s entire remaining army, including Hugo himself, grinning while wearing earplugs and holding what looks like an ugly plant baby in his hand. It is crying his lungs out, but without a single sound coming out.

“Earmuffs!” You shout, as Weasley points his wand to the Mandrake.

“Sonorus!”

The wail of the mandrake echoes through the halls, amplified tenfold. You hold the need to clutch your ear as you reach into your pockets and take out the earmuffs that every army had decided to carry after Brighton’s last stunt. As you slide them on, the wail continues, but its magical properties are dulled. The sonorus would amplify the sound of it, but not the magic that took people down, reducing it simply to a ridiculously loud and high-pitched, but not deadly, scream.

Weasley is a fool for not realizing that, you think. Then, something catches the corner of your vision. You look at the windows vibrating with the sound, see cracks spreading from its edges and look down in horror as you see the same cracks spreading through the bottle by your hips.

“Crap,” comes first to your mind, but “How did he know?” takes over, but is completely overridden by “Quietus!”

> Roll a d100+18 (from your Battle Rolls)
> Bo3, DC: 90

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 08 Oct 2023 19:44:09 No.5788005 Report

Quoted By: >>5788015 >>5788033 >>5788040 >>5788116

Rolled 92 + 18 (1d100 + 18)

>>5788001

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 08 Oct 2023 19:50:02 No.5788015 Report

Quoted By: >>5788033 >>5788040 >>5788116

Rolled 97 + 18 (1d100 + 18)

>>5788005
Weasley BTFOed by immediate high roll once again

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:pCyyp3N6 Sun 08 Oct 2023 19:57:57 No.5788024 Report

Quoted By: >>5788116

Rolled 11 + 18 (1d100 + 18)

>>5788001
stop stop he's already dead

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 20:07:06 No.5788033 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788005
>>5788015
Hah, nice.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 20:13:53 No.5788040 Report

Quoted By: >>5788044 >>5788047 >>5788087

>>5788005
>>5788015
Weasley just can't catch a fucking break, huh?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 08 Oct 2023 20:15:08 No.5788044 Report

Quoted By: >>5788060

>>5788040
Shouldn't have groped our schizo backup waifu.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 08 Oct 2023 20:17:19 No.5788047 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788040
Anytime he makes a somewhat good plan, he better fucking pray he's not using it against us, because we will simply roll high and invalidate all of his efforts.

But hey, at least it's not as bad as that nat 100 last thread. That was incredibly embarrassing for him.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 20:31:25 No.5788060 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788044
>backup waifu
Bro don't stick dick in crazy-controlling.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Sun 08 Oct 2023 20:46:07 No.5788087 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788040
At least he's a dick, so he deserves the dice fucking him over.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:04:41 No.5788116 Report

Quoted By: >>5788121 >>5788127 >>5788129

>>5788005
>>5788015
>>5788024

The world silences around you and the cracking stops. First you try casting “Reparo”, but obviously no words come out in the silence. The flask is just barely holding together, useless, more a danger to you than Weasley.

Right, you think. Priority number one next class of non-verbal spells is mastering Reparo. Right after mastering how to kick Weasley’s ass, that is.

You do the only thing you can, flinging it forward, hoping to reach the Lion’s before exploding, but it is useless. The potion goes off mid-air, and at the same time you see stunners coming your direction, Weasley’s soldiers standing on tables and firing them from behind the cover of the Prismatic Shields.

You jump out of the way, but are suddenly launched forwards, almost as if caught in the path of a depulso. It is only when you leave the area of your quietus that you hear the explosion behind you.

You weren’t the only one with potions, you realize, and not everyone had been caught in the radius of your quietus.

You fall to the ground rolling, shouting “Protego!” at the top of your lungs as you scramble into one of the side rooms and away from the spells coming at you. Once you’re in relative safety, you peer back to see three of your soldiers on the floor, knowing full well you could have lost your entire army just then, or more than just three soldiers if you had cast your quietus with just a smidge less power.

You can see Amalia and Elend behind Elend’s Prismatic Shield right in the middle of the corridor, unable to move without dropping the barrier and exposing themselves to enemy fire. Talon is down, caught by one of the explosions. Raven is hiding around the corner of the corridor with two other soldiers.

Six people in total, including you. All your potions, gone, even your personal Alchemist’s Flashbang spattered uselessly on the floor by both the wailing and the explosion. Things are not looking good.

The wailing stops and you take out your earmuffs.

“Elliot!” Weasley shouts from behind his barrier. “You have five soldiers. I have ten, and a fortified position. Would you like to surrender?”

“Why, no, Weasley, I would not,” you shout back. “If, say, an army leader with at least one victory were to make that offer, maybe I’d consider it, but as it stands I’m afraid I must refuse.”

You can feel him fuming from where you hide.

“Very well, then,” Then, speaking to someone else. “Daniel, come over here. Everyone, be ready to fire as their shields fall. Daniel, fire.”

“Laggan!”

You see the green spiral fly past you and slam against Elend’s shield, shattering it, followed by no less than seven red bolts. Three of them hit Elend in the chest while Amalia dives out of the way and into an open classroom.

“Four soldiers now, Elliot. Feel free to surrender at any time.”

> Roll a d100+7 (+15 from your army roll, -8 from lost people)
> Beat 2 out of 3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:06:28 No.5788121 Report

Quoted By: >>5788133

Rolled 87 + 7 (1d100 + 7)

>>5788116

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:09:36 No.5788127 Report

Quoted By: >>5788129 >>5788133

Rolled 5, 4, 7, 1, 1, 7, 2, 7, 7, 5, 7, 1, 2, 2, 2, 5, 4, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 5, 4 = 97 (25d7)

>>5788116

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:10:51 No.5788129 Report

Quoted By: >>5788133

Rolled 82 + 7 (1d100 + 7)

>>5788116
Rolling properly now.

>>5788127
Goddammit, this I what I get for posting and eating at the same time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:pCyyp3N6 Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:10:51 No.5788130 Report

Quoted By: >>5788133

Rolled 91 + 7 (1d100 + 7)

>>578811
2 out of 3 what

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:12:50 No.5788133 Report

Quoted By: >>5788134 >>5788135 >>5788136 >>5788138 >>5788144 >>5788164

Rolled 43, 13, 87 + 15 = 158 (3d100 + 15)

>>5788121
>>5788129
>>5788130

94 89 98

Fucking Merlin what are these fucking rolls?

>>5788127
Anon, how the fuck did you manage to do this?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:15:29 No.5788134 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788133
weasley fucked by the dice twice in a row, lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:17:02 No.5788135 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788133
>those numbers
holy shit! eat shit weasley!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:17:22 No.5788136 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788133
Weasley has been destroyed

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:20:49 No.5788138 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788133
>Anon, how the fuck did you manage to do this?
Honestly I have no idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:29:20 No.5788144 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788133
How is Weasly this incompetent?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:52:36 No.5788164 Report

Quoted By: >>5788165 >>5788166 >>5788169 >>5788173 >>5788182

>>5788133

You look around trying to come up with a plan. There is still a long time before the sphere begins moving again, and you’re sure if you wait Weasley will get impatient and move to take you out. You look at each of your soldiers, before stopping at Raven, who shakes a still intact bottle of Erumpent Potion in your direction. How she managed to keep it whole, you don’t know, but Merlin you’re glad she did.

A plan begins to form in your mind as you mouth “Disillusion” to her and point to the potion. She does so, and you whisper “Accio” before grabbing it from mid air. Weasley might have anti-disillusionment charms, but even those took a few moments to take effect, which allowed the bottle to pass unnoticed.

You tap your wand on the bottle and whisper “Sonorus”.

“Hey, Hugo! How’s your History of Magic?”

“Huh?”

“What’s the name of the sword Arthur pulled from the stone?”

“What?” He asks, utterly confused. “Excalibur!”

“Wrong! It was Caliburn!”

You dash into the corridor, bottle in hand.

“Wingardium Leviosa!” “Wingardium Leviosa!”

You fly into the air once more, up and over the Lion’s Prismatic Shields and launch the Erumpent Potion at Weasley. But he’s ready for it.

“Arresto Momentum!”

“Bombarda!”

The bottle explodes, the Sonorus and the potion amplifying Bombarda’s explosion into a massive blastwave sending you flying backwards and Weasley and his soldiers tumbling to the ground. The ones holding the barriers also tumble forwards, their shields faltering.

“Now!”

You four soldiers attack the scrambling and disoriented Lions, stunning and blowing back, stopping them from reforming a cohesive formation. The corridor becomes a mess of spells, shields and glass shards as you fall to the ground. Weasley’s soldiers, moments earlier protected by the primatis, now scramble to find defense.

“Blast you and your potions!” Weasley shouts. “You’re not winning this, Hallaster! Stupefy!”

“Big words from someone who just lost half of its army! Somnius!”

> Roll a d100+7, beat 2 out of 3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:55:27 No.5788165 Report

Quoted By: >>5788168

>>5788164
Round 2 Weasley. Let's see if it goes better for him this time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:55:40 No.5788166 Report

Quoted By: >>5788183

Rolled 78 + 7 (1d100 + 7)

>>5788164

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:56:34 No.5788168 Report

Quoted By: >>5788183

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>5788165
>Forgot to roll again

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hndhae5E Sun 08 Oct 2023 21:57:32 No.5788169 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788164
KWAB

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:02:07 No.5788173 Report

Quoted By: >>5788183

Rolled 59 + 7 (1d100 + 7)

>>5788164

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:06:58 No.5788182 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 99 + 7 (1d100 + 7)

>>5788164

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:07:00 No.5788183 Report

Quoted By: >>5788184 >>5788185 >>5788188 >>5788192 >>5788193 >>5788229 >>5788308

Rolled 10, 97, 15 + 10 = 132 (3d100 + 10)

>>5788166
>>5788168
>>5788173

85 104 66

Aaaand...

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:08:42 No.5788184 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788183

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:11:07 No.5788185 Report

Quoted By: >>5788236

>>5788183
>Weasley lost with double the amount of soldiers that we have
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This dude's definitely getting stabbed in the back at the start of the next battle.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:12:45 No.5788188 Report

Quoted By: >>5788236

>>5788183
Weasley is getting deposed after this, isn't he?

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:22:42 No.5788192 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788183

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:pCyyp3N6 Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:24:27 No.5788193 Report

Quoted By: >>5788242 >>5788305

>>5788183
I sorta feel sorry for Weasley. He just keeps getting dice-based wedgies in such spectacular fashion. Then I remember he's a twat and stop feeling sorry for him.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:52:21 No.5788229 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788183

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sun 08 Oct 2023 22:57:52 No.5788236 Report

Quoted By: >>5788305

>>5788185
>>5788188
surprised he made this far

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sun 08 Oct 2023 23:00:46 No.5788242 Report

Quoted By: >>5788249

>>5788193
I was wondering this, do we know he's a twat other than 7th Year Lioness telling us about that? What does the school know him as?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 08 Oct 2023 23:06:19 No.5788249 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788242
The only other piece of info on that is Elend saying that Weasley calls Hufflepuffs "canon fodder" which, if true, is enough on it's own for us to hate him, considering Arty is a Hufflepuff.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 23:49:19 No.5788305 Report

Quoted By: >>5788321 >>5788342

>>5788193
>>5788236

I feel sorry for him because he is meant to be an actually smart and challenging threat, but never before have I seen someone be as hated by the dice as this fucker.

In any case, here's the update.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 08 Oct 2023 23:50:21 No.5788308 Report

Quoted By: >>5788316 >>5788321 >>5788328 >>5788332 >>5788335 >>5788336 >>5788347

>>5788183

You fight tooth and nail against Weasley, and what began as an ambush now quickly turned the other way. With their defense broken, his remaining soldiers fall one by one as you two duel furiously in the middle of the hall. You lose two more soldiers, but take three, then four or his soldiers, until it’s just him, you, Raven and Amalia, as he fights like a wounded beast.

But he doesn’t have a chance against the three of you. He’s no Apollo, after all.

He falls with an expelliarmus followed by a stupefy, a rage-filled look still on his unconscious face.

“Three soldiers,” you say, taking a deep breath. “I hope Brighton’s army had as rough a time as us because-”

A gong sounds over Hogwarts, signaling your victory.

> +5 to your Army rolls! New Total: +20!

--

Turned out Weasley had used the paintings, spoken to them and convinced them to tell him where all the other armies were and what they were doing. Using that knowledge, he’d carefully used hit and run tactics to funnel the Claws towards Apollo, then picked on the Fours from afar as they were weakened, forcing them to retreat directly towards you. He’d been told of your fight against Apollo and knew you were using potions, which was why he’d nicked Brighton’s mandrake and used it to shatter your bottles.

It had been incredibly well executed and coordinated. Until he’d gotten cocky and decided to face your army head on, that is.

You try limping back to your common room but are met with a deluge of students coming back in, all congratulating you on your victory. But the cost had been high. As soon as the battle ended, Potter had appeared to take those caught in the blast to the infirmary. There’d been nothing fatal, Potter had been watching closely to be sure, but some of your soldiers would have to spend a couple days in bed and at least one of them would have to regrow a couple of fingers.

Thank fuck for magic, and for your Erumpent Potion not being as powerful as the classic recipe.

Still, the army is happy for the victory, even those who lost fingers. You reach your bed and collapse to a blissfully dreamless sleep.

By the morning, however, there is a congregation of parents in the corridor of Hogwarts, demanding to speak to the Headmistress about the fact a student “had his arm blasted off,” you hear, as the story of your battle had grown vastly out of proportion. By afternoon the Daily Prophet’s headline was “BOY-WHO-LIVED PROMOTES BRUTAL VIOLENCE AMONG STUDENTS” while the Quibbler’s said “BOY-WHO-LIVED OFFICIALLY CROWNED MOST FUN TEACHER OF THE DECADE.”

So, just another average weekend in Hogwarts.

--

It is the weekend. What will you do with your time? (Pick one)

> Take your army out to celebrate your victory in the Three Broomsticks
> Go out with Raven, Taylor, Arty, Apollo and Lily as you’d mentioned a while ago
> Take a rest from all the insanity that is going around you and just read a harmless book in front of a fireplace
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:IcLZj3LV Sun 08 Oct 2023 23:54:52 No.5788316 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788308
>> Take your army out to celebrate your victory in the Three Broomsticks

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 08 Oct 2023 23:59:41 No.5788321 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788308
> Go out with Raven, Taylor, Arty, Apollo and Lily as you’d mentioned a while ago
Sorry, Raiders, but we've already made commitments for this weekend, and ditching the hangout when we were the one who planned it woulda be a dick move. They can go and use the Raider's room for a party if they want though.

>>5788305
Just wait for Weasley to get deposed. The Lions will immediately start having incredible luck with their rolls. Mark my words.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:07:02 No.5788328 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788308
> Go out with Raven, Taylor, Arty, Apollo and Lily as you’d mentioned a while ago

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:11:20 No.5788332 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788308
Right after last post I just realized the paints. I really should have remembered sooner.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:12:53 No.5788335 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788308
> Go out with Raven, Taylor, Arty, Apollo and Lily as you’d mentioned a while ago

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:13:22 No.5788336 Report

Quoted By: >>5788337

>>5788308
> Go out with Raven, Taylor, Arty, Apollo and Lily as you’d mentioned a while ago
i say, fuck it, we stealing quick on Arty´s lips, we deserve it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:14:31 No.5788337 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788336
>we stealing quick on Arty´s lips
meant to type, we stealing a quick kiss, dont know why the keyboard eat that word...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:17:23 No.5788342 Report

Quoted By: >>5788347 >>5788349

>>5788305
> Take a rest from all the insanity that is going around you and just read a harmless book in front of a fireplace
This option will kill us. We do not do this. Ever.

> Take your army out to celebrate your victory in the Three Broomsticks
> Go out with Raven, Taylor, Arty, Apollo and Lily as you’d mentioned a while ago
Can we do both? Get the Raiders together in our best foppish outfits...but just pay for the drinks and food and let our army know we're hanging with friends?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:20:07 No.5788347 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788308
>>5788342
I like this idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:23:40 No.5788349 Report

Quoted By: >>5788354

>>5788342
> but just pay for the drinks and food
Do we even have the money for that? That's paying for food and drinks for like 10 people

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:28:17 No.5788354 Report

Quoted By: >>5788359

>>5788349
Well mom, is a [NOT YET DEFINED], and dad works at [NOT YET DEFINED], we got enough. May just have to tighten the belt after this for a few months.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:31:12 No.5788359 Report

Quoted By: >>5788361

>>5788354
I mean honestly, fuck it. If paying for 10 or so members of our army to have food or drinks at the Three Broomsticks is something we can afford, and ideally not waste all of our audience on, then yeah sure I'm down for that.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Mon 09 Oct 2023 00:32:19 No.5788361 Report

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>>5788359
why the fuck did I type audience.
I meant allowance

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 09 Oct 2023 04:29:14 No.5788550 Report

Quoted By: >>5788551

It is time for an early lunch when the six of you arrive at the Remus Lupin Werewolf Aid Center. A young woman with a pair of large scars on her left arm is standing by the entrance to an open area with tables, chairs and flowers. She smiles and takes you to your seat, putting a menu in front of each of you, long with a pitcher of clear water.

“I’d never come here,” Arty says. “This is lovely.”

“Most people haven’t,” you say. “It is away from Hogsmeade proper, and there is a whole stigma around werewolves, so most people pick the Three Broomsticks instead. But it has a faithful clientele, I know plenty of people from the Ministry come to have lunch here. When Professor Irakay first showed up on my doorstep to deliver my letter to Hogwarts, my parents were very suspicious of the whole thing. So she brought them here, to at least see Hogwarts from afar, even if they weren’t able to go into the school proper. Though at the time she didn’t tell them what Remus Lupin was and why this place was named after him, of course.”

The restaurant itself was by the outer area of the Center proper, in the vast green area surrounding the place. Though it was already autumn, the area was kept at a pleasant temperature, and flowers grew on well trimmed bushes surrounding the place.

You read the menu, which is also filled with facts about werewolves here and there, and order something. A waiter with a scar over his left eye takes the order and leaves for the kitchen.

You all talk about, mostly, your last fight. Arty impressed with how you’d defeated Weasley, Lily impressed with Apollo’s transfiguration prowess, while Taylor and Raven mostly chat between themselves, except when they take the time to tell a joke at your expense. Soon the food comes, and you all eat eagerly between chatting and laughing. The food doesn’t have the same home-made feel as the Three Broomsticks has, instead reminding you more of going to a fancy restaurant in the muggle world, though the price is still affordable.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 09 Oct 2023 04:30:15 No.5788551 Report

Quoted By: >>5788565 >>5788568 >>5788576 >>5788585 >>5788592 >>5788606 >>5789040

>>5788550

You find it weird when Lily’s eyes grow wide.

“Oh no.”

“What?” You ask.

“Oh my, Lily!" Comes a voice from behind you. "I didn’t expect to find you here! Who are your friends?”

“Hi, auntie. Uncle.”

You turn around to find the MINISTER FOR MAGIC standing behind you, with a redheaded man with his arm intertwined with hers.

“These are my friends from Battle Class,” Lily says. “Elliot, Apollo, Arty, Taylor and Raven. Friends, meet… Well, you know who they are.”

“Hermione, delighted to meet you,” she says, nodding to all of you

“Ronald, but you can call me Ron,” he says, stroking his beard.

As your brain finally catches up to what is happening, your senses immediately enter battle mode. You realize that by this time of day, there should be more people in the restaurant. Not only there aren’t, but the people who were there when you arrived are gone. So are the waiters and the lady out front.

Not only that but it seems to you extremely unlikely that the Minister herself would come here without any protection, which meant that there was protection, but you couldn’t see it.

Ah crap.

“So, Lily, tell me more about this Battle Class! Harry has been sparse with the details.” As she speaks, she waves her wand and a table and chairs float to join up with yours, allowing them to sit with you. “Is it true a boy was injured? Hugo told me in his letters and I was quite shocked! Not that no one got injured in my years, but-”

Hermione and Lily start talking to each other, as if without a care in the world. By your side, Taylor is stiff as a board, and you can see Raven wiping her hands on the table cloth as they're sweating profusely. You told them everything you know, so they’re also perfectly aware that this, whatever it is, is anything except a random encounter between aunt and niece.

Arty, meanwhile, is watching Hermione with sparkling eyes, trying to drag herself into their conversation while Apollo is simply looking at everyone with a mix of confusion and annoyance.

What do you do?

> Strike a conversation with Ron (About what?)
> Keep on talking with Raven and Taylor, ignoring the newcomers
> Make up an excuse to leave
> Other(Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Mon 09 Oct 2023 04:45:54 No.5788565 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788551
ooh fuck, we in some dangerous shit now
> Strike a conversation with Ron (About what?)
no way, this is only gonna get us deeper into shit
> Keep on talking with Raven and Taylor, ignoring the newcomers
i feel like we COULD pull this off if we do it carefully enough, maybe just get lost in the noice of their conversations and go relatively unnoticed
> Make up an excuse to leave
no way we arent surrounded, this was set up, they have the place guarded
but i feel like apollo might be our savior here but im still not sure how...
for now i´ll vote for
> Keep on talking with Raven and Taylor, ignoring the newcomers

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Mon 09 Oct 2023 04:46:59 No.5788568 Report

Quoted By: >>5788592 >>5788819

>>5788551
God fucking damnit. Can we just have one god damn week where we don't have to deal with anything relating to mystery bullshit?

> Keep on talking with Raven, Taylor, and Apollo, ignoring the newcomers
No reason not to include Apollo in the conversation, since we ARE trying to get him and everyone else friendly with each other. Maybe make an icebreaker joke with how it just got crowded here all of a sudden and let him vent his frustrations a little, as well as get Raven and Taylor's focus away from the Minister so they don't look panicked. Maybe if we can manage it we can move somewhere else while Hermione, Ron, and Lily catch up. The number one priority is that we DON'T leave the restaurant alone, if we're even able to leave at all.

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Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Mon 09 Oct 2023 04:50:11 No.5788576 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788551
> Keep on talking with Raven and Taylor, ignoring the newcomers

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Mon 09 Oct 2023 05:15:47 No.5788585 Report

Quoted By: >>5788592

>>5788551
> Strike a conversation with Ron
>Ask him if Hugo is still seething over his crushing defeat
>Ask him what his years at Hogwarts were like
I'll bet they're here to try and wring some info out of Lily, not for us.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 09 Oct 2023 05:21:45 No.5788592 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788585
I'm not sure about mocking/taunting their child to their face...

>>5788568
I can support this approach, though.

>>5788551

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Mon 09 Oct 2023 05:38:51 No.5788606 Report

Quoted By: >>5788611

>>5788551
Calling it now, Harry's trip to the Ministry set off their alarm bells and now they're digging into what's going on. They're probably here to figure out what he's pulling and what he knows.

> Strike a conversation with Ron (About his adventures with the deputy-headmaster and if they ever thought they'd end up here)
Keep calm, and try not to reveal anything about what we know and can't know. Also I really think we should ask Harry for more help with guarding our mind. I know Hermione's not going to give any shits about reading peoples minds without their permission.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Mon 09 Oct 2023 05:44:05 No.5788611 Report

Quoted By: >>5788624

>>5788606
Aren't we learning Occulumency in the background, since Potter gave us a book to learn it(plus a tutor once we have the basics the book gives us), or is that something we actually have to vote on to pursue?
I'm assuming the former since we never had a default vote option to read the book/go to the tutor, but best to get confirmation on it now.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 09 Oct 2023 05:56:52 No.5788624 Report

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>>5788611
You are training on the background, yes. There will come a time when it will be a choice to train, but for now it is just a background thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Mon 09 Oct 2023 14:19:34 No.5788819 Report

Quoted By: >>5789040

>>5788568
Support, but I wish there was a way to get Raven, Taylor, and Apollo to chat with, you know, two of the most important people in Wizarding.
The minister is Muggleborn, maybe a passing comment about a wizard school on the moon...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Mon 09 Oct 2023 18:55:20 No.5789040 Report

Quoted By:

>>5788551
> Keep on talking with Raven, Taylor, and Apollo, ignoring the newcomers
I'm going to trust the the other anons in knowing what we should be doing.

>>5788819
If things were different sure but now they want to pry about what's happening, can't take on too much without expecting something negative to happen.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:49:48 No.5789097 Report

Quoted By: >>5789099

“Well, things have gotten pretty crowded, huh, Apollo?” You say, trying to make casual conversation while not showing how nervous you are.

“Yes,” he answers with his usual eloquence.

“Any ideas for where the next battle can be?”

“No.”

Why did I ever think Apollo was the best person to keep a conversation with is beyond me.

“Well, I think we’re bound for something weird,” Taylor says, understanding what you’re trying to do. “A forest and Hogwarts are normal locations. I think Potter will pull out all the stops for the next one.”

The bearded man laughs, clearly paying attention to your conversation. “Harry has never been the most creative person when it comes to anything except Defense Against the Dark Arts. I was surprised when Hugo told me about the battles.”

“Elliot and Apollo are army leaders for our year,” Raven says. “Longbottom is the other one.”

“Yes, Hugo wrote about it. Apparently Apollo here is quite an accomplished spellcaster, while Elliot is extremely versatile at potion-making, though I hear it led to some injuries in the last fight.”

“You can’t fight without getting hurt,” Apollo says, flatly.

“Well, it isn’t as if we didn’t have our fair share of injuries during our time at Hogwarts. Though it was mostly Harry who got the short end of the stick, to be fair. Mione got off almost unscathed.”

“I’m sorry?” The minister says, pulling back from her conversation. “I was petrified in our second year!”

“An extended forced nap, nothing to cry about.”

She rolls her eyes and stands up. “Well, me and Lily are going to take a walk over the gardens.“

They leave, with Lily giving Arty a meaningful look to stay behind.

“How about you five?” Ron asks. “Any exciting adventures?”

“No, fortunately,” Taylor says, just a bit too quickly. “I think the battles are excitement enough.”

“Well, good,” Raven says. “I’d be just fine with a year of simply studying. I don’t know how you coped sir, having to save the world once a year.”

“Well, it was the price of studying with fate’s lightning rod of doom as your classmate. But luckily I don’t see another wizard war with a megalomaniacal nutcase in the future, so you five should be fine.”

You keep on talking, as it soon becomes very clear the man is refusing to not only not butt into your conversation, but also to not be the center of attention either, making wide gestures and speaking loudly. It goes on for several minutes, until a red-chested bird lands on your table and starts pecking at the food.

“And then his entire arm just turns into rubber! And we’re all looking at Lockhart like-”

“Your auror wants to speak with you,” Apollo says, suddenly and sounding annoyed.

Ron hesitates for a second, clearly not used to being interrupted.

“I’m sorry?”

“I know birds,” he says, pointing. “That ain’t one.”

Ron sighs.

“Very well, Garro. You may appear.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:50:49 No.5789099 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789097

The bird hops off the table and becomes a tall, lanky man with red tattoos on his face in the same shade as the bird’s chest.

“I’m sorry, sir, but the Minister is needed.”

“The Minister is always needed, Garro.”

“This time she is actually needed. Your brother is calling.”

Ron sighs once more.

“You know, my other brothers have much more fun professions. I really should have just stuck with George and the store. Instead, no, I’m stuck with Bill.” He shakes his head and stands up. “Very well, another day where I can’t have a proper lunch with my wife. Well, it was a pleasure meeting all of you. Hope you all have terrible luck in your battles and that my son crushes you. Goodbye!”

He walks over to where Hermione is clearly having a heated argument with Lily. They talk for a few seconds before disappearing. Then, you hear nothing less than seven other apparition pops coming from invisible people, followed by the bird animagus.

“Well, that was certainly something,” Lily says, sitting back down.

“What did she want?”

She doesn’t answer, instead raising her wand and casting spells at the environment. You only recognize a couple of them, but enough to understand they’re detection and protection enchantments.

She gets to the sixteenth and something begins to glow in your pocket. You notice the same glow in the vests of every one of your friends. She finishes five more enchantments before stopping, seemingly tired, before picking up the glowing point that had appeared on her chest and showing it to you. It is a little semi-transparent creature with dozens of tiny legs.

“Tracking bugs,” she explains before crushing it. “Uncle Ron is very good at attracting attention while these slip in people’s pockets. You can barely feel it against your skin too, so they can follow you even if you change clothes. Dad is going to be furious at them.”

“Uh,” Arty says, looking worried as she pulls one out of her hair. “Why would they put these on us?”

“Because Hermione thinks my dad decided to train armies for a reason and won’t tell her. Don’t worry, she’s just being paranoid. It’s her job.”

“Are you sure she won’t be mad if we crush her things?”

She takes it from Arty’s hand and crushes it. “Well, then she should learn how to not spy on people.”

You all crush your bugs, and are left feeling slightly disturbed by what just happened. It takes a while before you manage to eat again, and your stomach never stops being in a tight knot.

--

Once you finish the meal, Arty leaves for her job and Apollo returns to Hogwarts. You leave to sit on the fields near Hogsmeade and she casts all twenty one spells before speaking.

“Aunt wanted to know what dad is up to,” Lily says as you walk through the fields close to Hogwarts. “They know something is happening, but they don’t know what. They think you’re involved, but don’t know how.”

“How the hell did they figure that out?”

“Hugo told them.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:52:31 No.5789102 Report

Quoted By: >>5789103 >>5789104 >>5789110 >>5789151 >>5789191 >>5789276 >>5789328 >>5789354 >>5789383 >>5789388 >>5789556

“What?” You ask confused. “But how does he know-”

“He doesn’t. He just saw a chance to fuck with the boy who crushed him last battle and took it. He’s clever enough to know there’s something going on from family letters, so when Hermione asked if hed noticed something something weird, he immediately responded by saying he saw you doing something suspicious. It was sheer dumb chance that you happened to be the right person to look at.”

“Merlin’s balls, my luck doesn’t fucking get any better, does it?”

“If it’s any consolation, I told them Hugo was just being an arse. Hogwarts also has enchantments against the bugs, so as long as you stay within the school’s boundaries you’ll be fine.” She sighs. “The Unspeakables are losing their shit about the prophecies.”

“I noticed. Do you think there’s any chance they could come after me?”

“Not yet. Aunt Hermione is cautious, she wouldn’t send them on a student without absolute proof he’s the second coming of Voldemort or something like that. I think that’s what she wanted to get with the bugs.”

“December first can’t come fast enough,” you say. “It feels like a time bomb, waiting to explode.”

“Just hang on, Elliot,” she says. “Just a little bit more.”

> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks
> Return to Hogwarts and rest

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Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:56:20 No.5789103 Report

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>>5789102
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks
Fucking Hermione ruining our friendly get together.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:58:42 No.5789104 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789102
> Return to Hogwarts and rest
Oof. Gotta' decompress from that.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Mon 09 Oct 2023 20:04:43 No.5789110 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789102
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Mon 09 Oct 2023 20:40:57 No.5789151 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789102
> Return to Hogwarts and rest
as much as i want to be a nice General and celebrate with our army, we need to rest for this one, maybe talking things with our pillow will help us clear our mind and figure out what to do next after all this info was dumped on us

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 09 Oct 2023 21:16:31 No.5789191 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789102
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks

Damn, IRL strikes and we crush Hugo because even the dice think he is a twat. I am okay even if we lose our next battle because we would still end with the best record. Also Apollo fucks, using silent free transmutation in a fight is like Dumbledore/Gredlewald level shit, and he is still a student.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 09 Oct 2023 21:25:17 No.5789205 Report

Quoted By: >>5789276

As a note, if we hadn't already figured out what Merlin's Last Light was, I would vote to rest since it smells like a Dream Lady interaction but I see no pressing need to speak with her right now.

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Anonymous ID:lZTGSahr Mon 09 Oct 2023 22:33:49 No.5789276 Report

Quoted By: >>5789476

>>5789205
There's always more stuff we can ask her to get a clearer picture of what is going on, and what we need to do. I'm particularly interested in how mind lady's future seeing abilities bypass the fact that time is broken, and no more prophecies are being made.
>>5789102
> Return to Hogwarts and rest

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Mon 09 Oct 2023 23:24:27 No.5789328 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789102
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Tue 10 Oct 2023 00:06:03 No.5789354 Report

Quoted By: >>5789357

>>5789102
> Return to Hogwarts and rest
I'd like to hear what Potter says about this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Tue 10 Oct 2023 00:09:00 No.5789357 Report

Quoted By: >>5789425 >>5789478

>>5789354
It's probably optimal to go straight to potter to make it obvious how his involvement is causing things to spiral

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Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Tue 10 Oct 2023 00:29:34 No.5789383 Report

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>>5789102
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 10 Oct 2023 00:35:26 No.5789388 Report

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>>5789102
>> Return to Hogwarts and rest

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 00:52:33 No.5789404 Report

Quoted By: >>5789413 >>5789445

I go away for a couple of hours and when I return...

> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks
> Return to Hogwarts and rest
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks
> Return to Hogwarts and rest
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks
> Return to Hogwarts and rest
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks
> Return to Hogwarts and rest
> Weird porn game vg thread mispost that was deleted
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks
> Return to Hogwarts and rest

Fucking hell. It's a tie, so I'm going to give it another half an hour and close the vote, then roll a d2 if it is still tied

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Tue 10 Oct 2023 00:58:47 No.5789413 Report

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>>5789404
It wasn't a mispost, some asshole has been spamming that in a bunch of quests for weeks now.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Tue 10 Oct 2023 01:04:54 No.5789425 Report

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>>5789357
I wouldn't be so optimistic. He might take that as a sign to involve them in what's happening to us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 10 Oct 2023 01:21:38 No.5789445 Report

Quoted By: >>5789476

>>5789404
Go to the celebration
Tie broken

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 01:49:59 No.5789476 Report

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>>5789445
I was just about to go ahead and change my vote because
>>5789276
Had some good points but fuck it, I am not deadlocking us again.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 01:52:01 No.5789478 Report

Quoted By: >>5789537

>>5789357
Haven't we been told even telling him that much is a recipe for shit to go south quick. Like even just telling him he can't be involved seemed like we were treading on thin ice.

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Tue 10 Oct 2023 02:25:40 No.5789537 Report

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>>5789478
Mindlady has been vague on what we're allowed to tell him. She's told us that if he knows too much then disaster happens, but WHAT will cause him to know too much is unknown. It's obvious we can't keep everything secret from him, but it's also obvious that he won't stop digging until he knows everything, so we're in a pickle.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 02:29:54 No.5789548 Report

Quoted By: >>5789564 >>5789585

So while reading back up on some Harry Potter lore waiting for an update, I just relearned how you become an animagus: a difficult and time-consuming potion. Too bad our character isn't a potions prodigy because being able to turn back and forth from animal to human would be super useful. Oh wait, we are a master potioneer with a book of complex potions and the notes from likely the most talented potion maker in the series.

I does take a month to brew and then only catalyses during a lightning storm, so something for after we keep the word from ending, but I do think it is a good project to pursue with our talents. If Peter fucking Petigrew and Rita Skeeter could pull it off we can too.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Tue 10 Oct 2023 02:35:17 No.5789556 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789102
I really hope I haven't voted.
> Go to your army’s celebration in the Three Broomsticks to clear the deadlock.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Tue 10 Oct 2023 02:43:10 No.5789564 Report

Quoted By: >>5789585 >>5789600

>>5789548
>So while reading back up on some Harry Potter lore waiting for an update, I just relearned how you become an animagus: a difficult and time-consuming potion. Too bad our character isn't a potions prodigy because being able to turn back and forth from animal to human would be super useful. Oh wait, we are a master potioneer with a book of complex potions and the notes from likely the most talented potion maker in the series.
We should totally do this. What do we want to be? A dinosaur would fit the 'lost world' bit...What other lost animals are there?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 02:59:08 No.5789585 Report

Quoted By: >>5789596 >>5789614 >>5789726

>>5789548
>>5789564

Becoming an animagus is the single most overcomplicated process in the series, and for good reason. The step by step is:

- Keep a single Mandrake leaf in your mouth for an entire month (from full moon to full moon). If the leaf was removed or swallowed, you have to start over again.
- Wait for the next visible full moon (if it was cloudy, you need to start over), spit the leaf in a phial under moonlight, add one of their own hairs, a silver teaspoon of dew that has not seen sunlight or been touched by human feet for seven days, and the chrysalis of a Death's-head Hawk Moth.
- Store that shit in the dark and wait for the next thunderstorm
- While the thunderstorm doesn't happen, you have to say and incantation at sunset and sunrise
- During the thunderstorm, drink the "potion"
- Register yourself as an animagus with the ministry

It isn't as much a potion as a whole-ass ritual. How the fuck four fuckers managed to do it during Hogwarts without anyone knowing boggles the fucking mind. The third book says there are 7 registered animagi in the 20th century, but considering how crap the ministry is, there is probably more.

Also, you don't pick the form (though in the event of this coming up in the quest I may allow the players to choose, though I'm not certain yet)

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Tue 10 Oct 2023 03:08:22 No.5789596 Report

Quoted By: >>5789604

>>5789585
>Also, you don't pick the form
Kek, makes pettigrew turning into a rat even funnier.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 03:09:25 No.5789600 Report

Quoted By: >>5789669 >>5789676

>>5789564
Tasmanian tiger? Unless the animal has to be currently extant to be something you transform into. I believe some species of wolf have gone extinct in the past several hundred years as well. One of those big ass condors from New Zealand or a dodo?

I think a largish cat has the most use if we want to explore lost places, a good mix of can defend itself and can make it through collaped passages we might encounter, if we do this and QM gives us a choice.

And if we do end up making the "potion", fuck registering ourselves. Ministry can get fucked and in one of the games, I think, a character's parents were murdered by death eaters because the registry is public.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 03:11:20 No.5789604 Report

Quoted By: >>5789640

>>5789596
I think the animal is supposed to reflect part of who you really are and is sometimes the same as your patronus, like with McGonagal where both are cats.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 03:17:06 No.5789614 Report

Quoted By: >>5789645

>>5789585
>-Register yourself as an animagus with the ministry
this one isnt 100% necessary, not doing so would gives an huge boost to our stealth because there is no way anybody would ever know we are an animal, con is that its "illegal" but thats about it

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 03:33:46 No.5789640 Report

Quoted By: >>5789710

>>5789604
True, though it isn't necessary that both forms are the same (since Dumbledore's patrouns was a fucking phoenix). Though, interestingly, I couldn't find anyone in cannon whose patronus is different than their animagus form.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 10 Oct 2023 03:37:51 No.5789645 Report

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>>5789614
We're Slytherin. Being a little dodgy is expected.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Tue 10 Oct 2023 03:47:40 No.5789669 Report

Quoted By: >>5789710

>>5789600
Tasmanian tiger. Fuck yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Tue 10 Oct 2023 03:49:37 No.5789676 Report

Quoted By: >>5789710

>>5789600
Also 'Giant Cats of Scottland' are less weird OOP entities with Wizards 'cause isn't there a creature in the wizarding lore that is actually that?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:02:27 No.5789701 Report

Quoted By: >>5789706

Even though you’re mentally tired from… whatever that was that happened in the restaurant, you still have a celebration to go to. You three quickly pop back to Hogwarts to get the proper attire before heading for the Three Broomsticks.

“Why, my good sire! What a lovely evening to see you in this fine establishment!” Talon says, welcoming you as you enter wearing your finest suit and monocles. “You will see I have procured the best tables available and already requested their finest butterbeer!”

“Explandid! Now, dear Talon, let us all celebrate our victory over the forces of evil shall we?”

All around the pub, several adults were watching all of you with amused expressions on their faces. This included Hannah, the owner, and Arty, who was already wearing her own set of mustache and monocles. She’s by your table the moment you sit.

“Ah, if it isn’t the dashing leader of this fearsome army! What might I procure for you on this fine day, sir?”

“Why, I don’t suppose the lady of the house would allow us to sample her finest alcohol, would she?”

“Not knowingly, no. But, say, if some happened to accidentally mix with the butterbeer…”

“Ah, no need to go to such measures, my dear. Then the usual, along with your delightful tallian fries, if you wouldn’t mind.”

“Very well, sir.”

And she skates off to fetch your order as you sit by your lieutenants.

“I’m going to be honest, Elliot,” Elend says, clearly already in here for a while and tired of speaking like an idiot. To be fair, it is much harder to maintain it for a long time without a hefty dose of alcohol in you. “When I got stunned, I didn’t think I’d wake up to a victory.”

“All thanks to the power of the great Reverse Caliburn! Truly a move for the ages!”

“It’s still a stupid move,” Talon said, taking a swig of his butterbeer.

“It won us two fights, and the battle!”

“Doesn’t stop it from being stupid!”

“As the great maxim always said, if it is foolish but effective, then it is not foolish at all!”

“Why is it called the Reverse Caliburn, again?” Taylor asks. “I think Elliot came up with it in one of the training sessions I missed.”

“Caliburn was a magic sword pulled up from a stone, the Reverse Caliburn is sending magic down towards your foe.” Amalia explains. “There is absolutely no reason for it to be called that other than Elliot wanting a move referencing it so he could explain that Caliburn, not Excalibur, was the sword from the stone.”

“Exactly!” You say. “If we ever have a move where we push someone into a lake, we can call it Reverse Excalibur, too.”

“But it was the same sword,” Elend says. “The lady of the lake just repaired it! You don’t just change the name of your sword because you broke it and fixed it back again.”

“Tell that to Andúril.”

“Anduril wasn’t a real sword! It’s just something Tolkien came up with, it’s not relevant!”

“He came up with it based on Arthurian legend! It is very much relevant!”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:03:28 No.5789706 Report

Quoted By: >>5789715 >>5789716 >>5789720 >>5789723 >>5789726 >>5789744 >>5789755 >>5789785

>>5789701

Somewhere out of your range of attention of trying to fix Elend’s clearly and objectively wrong opinion, Amalia leans over to Talon and whispers.

“Do you have any idea what an Anduril or a Tolkien is?”

“Probably crazy muggle stuff. Want to see if that old radio has something worth dancing to?”

“Well, I didn’t go through the effort of getting in this uncomfortable dress for nothing.”

--

The rest of the evening goes smoothly, with your army having fun and chatting loudly, Arty keeping a steady supply of cold butterbeer. Once Amalia manages to convince Hannah to allow them to push a few tables out of the way and cast a sonorus on the radio so they could dance, things start getting heated up.

The songs vary from current pop to classic music, which leads to what any sane observer would classify as 'utter insanity'. This includes, to your complete surprise, Taylor and Raven going to dance together, though you never see who invited who.

“Damn,” Talon says, falling on a seat by you. “I missed my chance.”

“What do you mean?”

“Amalia,” he points to where she’s dancing with Elend. “Figured I’d shoot my shot, but she put me down. Elend is difficult to beat. He got money and looks. I only have the looks.”

You laugh with him and watch the dancing for a while.

“How about you?”

“Huh?”

“Come on, I’m from Hufflepuff. I know you and Arty have been ‘learning potions’ together and ‘training battle magic’.”

“What? That’s not an euphemism! We really were studying and training, you can ask the other fifth years! And the potions thing happened, like, twice!”

“Uh-huh. And you’re telling me you weren’t watching her every time she passed by to get us some more butterbeer? I saw how you smiled every time she was close, general. You could at least ask her to dance.”

“Uh… She’s working right now.”

“Yes, and I’m sure that if you were to kindly ask Hannah she’d let her off duty for a few minutes.”

You hesitate.

“Well, if you’re sure you really were just studying together, then maybe I will go ask her to dance.”

“Talon, I swear to Merlin that if you do that I will hex you into April.”

He laughs loudly. “I knew it. Very well, I’ll keep my distance, general. But what’s the worst that can happen if you go ask her?”

“She can say ‘no’. She can say ‘ew’. She can hex me. I can fall on my face and look like an ass. I can step on her toes. She can have a severe allergic reaction to Slytherins. Too many possibilities to count.”

“If you say so, boss. Want me to ask for another butterbeer so you can watch as she leaves?”

“The ‘hexing you into April’ offer is still very much on the table, Talon.”

> Ask Arty to dance
> Just enjoy the party

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:05:02 No.5789710 Report

Quoted By: >>5789723

>>5789676
Kneazles? Granger's cat was a F1 cat/kneazle and was huge and smart.

>>5789669
It would get style points and could probably fuck shit up, but would be useless for spying or hiding from people, unless wizards have a secret population of them. Same for most cool animals, and if we did not register, which we should never do, would be pretty easy to trace to us if anyone ever sees us in animal form. A kneazel or giant cat is at least a little more subtle.

>>5789640
If that is the case, I would say if you are animagus and can cast a formed patronus, they are the same, since there is no example where they are different. Unless you want them to be, it is your show.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:09:25 No.5789715 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789706
> Ask Arty to dance
Shoot our shot! I mean, she keeps kissing our cheek and went on a date with us. If she says no, I bet she's just shy about dancing or PDA; I feel confident she likes us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:10:59 No.5789716 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789706
WE BALLING
> Ask Arty to dance

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:13:13 No.5789720 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789706
> Ask Arty to dance
I'm personally going to bat for mindlady so long as she doesn't start possessing us, but Arty is nice and we might as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:15:26 No.5789723 Report

Quoted By: >>5789762

>>5789710
That's it, Kneazle. Any other HP animals that are clearly mythological for our poor pulp-loving brain?
And so what if it's not 'there are dozens of rats in London' sneaky, it is still 'apex predator that has been keeping itself unseen for decades, if not centuries'. That's gotta count for something, as well as style.

Anyway, >>5789706. If she says 'no' we dance with Raven too.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:18:50 No.5789726 Report

Quoted By: >>5789741

>>5789706
> Ask Arty to dance

>>5789585
This sounds extremely convoluted and challenging. I almost want to try doing this because of that.
Is Harry Potter usually this complicated with magic?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:30:12 No.5789741 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789726
Just when Rowling spent more than 5 seconds thinking about the consequences of it being easy, so not a lot.

She implies there are more complex rituals (like with the horcrux and reviving Voldemort), but the only thing that we do see and that comes close are other potions (like Polyjuice and Felix Felicis which take months to brew).

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:34:19 No.5789744 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789706
> Ask Arty to dance
> "Do you want to dance for a minute, I know the song they are playi... I, mean Dame Pertinger, would you do the conquering hero the great service of accomponing him to the dance floor? Though I am familiar with this lovely muggle ditty, I fear I have no one to share in my appreciation of it with!"

Like you even had to ask QM.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:41:06 No.5789755 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789706
> This includes, to your complete surprise, Taylor and Raven going to dance together
Well anons, all I'm seeing here is that neither of these two can tease Elliot about Arty again. At least, assuming they can't take what they dish out.

> Ask Arty to dance
Fuck it, might as well. In order to surpass Snape in potion making, we must first surpass him in the art of getting a girlfriend.

inb4 we have to roll so we don't fuck up the dance

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 04:53:17 No.5789762 Report

Quoted By: >>5789778

>>5789723
I haven't read the books or supplementary stuff in well over a decade but if you run through the magical creature section of the HPWiki, like at least half of them are based off of or are just straight mythological creatures. Some are just pure WTF like Erumpents, but the point stands. If there is a relatively well known legendary creature, it is either real or something pretty close is. Like in China, I could almost guarantee some of their wands have Qulin whiskers instead of unicorn hair and others use, like, firebird beaks vs Phoenix feathers. Assuming the chink wizards haven't done what their muggle countrymen have and eaten magical animals into near extinction to make their cocks work better, that is.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 10 Oct 2023 05:09:58 No.5789778 Report

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>>5789762
The Erumpent is quite similar to ONE mythological creature, albeit more... Child-targeted series friendly.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 05:24:50 No.5789785 Report

Quoted By: >>5789788

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>5789706
WE DANCING BOIS!
also, rolling for lucky slow romanting song playing next, if over 50 we get our song, if under 50 we ALSO get our song, fuck you, i want a slow romantic song and steal a kiss already!

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 05:29:02 No.5789788 Report

Quoted By: >>5789791 >>5789794

>>5789785
We are going to get the club mix of Baby Shark or something because Merlin/god hates us.

We will end up as the 2nd coming of Snape, a forever alone potions nerd, although I don't think we will stoop to...uhg... teaching.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 10 Oct 2023 05:38:31 No.5789791 Report

Quoted By: >>5790541

>>5789788
anon, we already tutor Arty, help teach people battle strats and techniques with Lilly, and were literally running an impromptu potions lesson in the middle of our last battle class

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 05:39:29 No.5789794 Report

Quoted By: >>5789860

>>5789788
dont you fucking dare jinx this for me, i keel ya

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:24:21 No.5789860 Report

Quoted By: >>5789867 >>5789870 >>5789873 >>5789880 >>5789894 >>5790218

Rolled 2 + 1 (1d10 + 1)

>>5789794
I mean her brother cucked us out of that 1st walk home; I don't think QM is going to give us freebies when it comes to our love life. And are we going to walk back with the twins again tonight? I would say yes when it comes to a vote.

Also rolling for penis size. Too big and we send her to St.Mungo's and Apollo bodies us for hurting her. Normally I would do +2 but Elliot is a wee man.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:34:32 No.5789867 Report

Quoted By: >>5789877 >>5789894 >>5790218

Rolled 4 + 1 (1d10 + 1)

>>5789860
best of 3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:38:15 No.5789870 Report

Quoted By: >>5789872 >>5789877 >>5789894 >>5789895 >>5790218

Rolled 1 + 1 (1d10 + 1)

>>5789860
>3
Damn...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:41:11 No.5789872 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789870
I'm so sorry, Elliot.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:41:44 No.5789873 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789860
Welp, don't have to worry about St. Mungo's, just her laughing.

Getting killed by her brother seems like a preferable outcome.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:45:57 No.5789877 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789870
"Little Elliot"
Seems like Lily already knew. What a terrible night for a curse.
Maybe that is why we want to find Agartha or Atlantis; surely they have the technology modern wizard kind has lost.

>>5789867
This is acceptable for a dude who is like 5'3

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:50:22 No.5789880 Report

Quoted By: >>5789882 >>5789886 >>5789894 >>5789895 >>5790218

Rolled 1 + 1 (1d10 + 1)

>>5789860
>rolling for penis size
>these results so far
please, im begging you RNGesus! WITNESS MY ROLLS!

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:51:32 No.5789882 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789880
its so over...im so sorry bros

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 10 Oct 2023 07:55:03 No.5789886 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789880

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Anonymous ID:tnyNA1IW Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:09:57 No.5789894 Report

Quoted By: >>5789896 >>5789897 >>5790218

Rolled 1 + 1 (1d10 + 1)

>>5789860
>>5789867
>>5789870
>>5789880
>Dicklets
Lel

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:10:18 No.5789895 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789880
>>5789870
Hahahaha

"I'm sorry Elliot, its cute and all, but at this point I might as well just use my fingers. Oh, but you can watch I guess..." [sad Arty smile]

>elliot casts the self extinction charm

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:13:27 No.5789896 Report

Quoted By: >>5789899 >>5789900 >>5789902 >>5789904

Rolled 9 + 2 (1d10 + 2)

>>5789894
It keeps fucking happening. Kek. Top kek even.

Rolling for Apollo dick size.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:13:44 No.5789897 Report

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>>5789894
>another fucking 1
are you fucking serious right now!?

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:14:46 No.5789899 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789896
FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:tnyNA1IW Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:15:37 No.5789900 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789896
Apollochads, who can stop our grindset?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:16:42 No.5789902 Report

Quoted By: >>5789908

>>5789896
"Elliot, get the fuck out, I'm fucking my sister now" - Apollo

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:26:14 No.5789904 Report

Quoted By: >>5789905 >>5789908 >>5789910 >>5790218

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>5789896
Rolling for Brighton

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:27:17 No.5789905 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789904
Okay, this isn't funny anymore.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:29:02 No.5789908 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789904
HAHAHAHA

>>5789902
He would snap her in half, lol. You know living together for most of their lives, she has to have walked in to him pissing in the middle of the night at least once.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:30:40 No.5789910 Report

Quoted By: >>5789911

>>5789904
ok, fuck this, we are a perfect, middle of the road 5 and thats it, maybe more if QM feels generous, but im fucking done with this bullshit, the dice are obviously weighted

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:34:33 No.5789911 Report

Quoted By: >>5789912 >>5789913 >>5790218

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>5789910
>the dice are obviously weighted
Let's test that out. Rolling for Hugo

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:36:19 No.5789912 Report

Quoted By: >>5789916

>>5789911
Maybe we should just let the dimensional horror win.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:37:18 No.5789913 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789911

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:41:09 No.5789916 Report

Quoted By: >>5789919

>>5789912
At this point, starting back from square 1 might be preferable. 3 1s in a row followed by 3 9s. Amazing. At least we got them out of the way before trying to dance, right?

At least dream lady will never judge us right?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:45:40 No.5789919 Report

Quoted By: >>5789920 >>5789921 >>5790218

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>5789916
Dream Lady's seen Elliot's naked dream-body so yes, Dream Lady does not judge.

Also, rolling for Elliot again to confirm loaded dice.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:46:36 No.5789920 Report

Quoted By: >>5789931

>>5789919
>1
see!? you cant make this shit up!

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:47:44 No.5789921 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789919
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:49:00 No.5789922 Report

Quoted By: >>5789924 >>5789926 >>5789930 >>5789934 >>5790218

Rolled 1 (1d10)

You know what, fuck it. Might as well see what the weighted dice say while it lasts.

Rolling for Talon

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:50:15 No.5789924 Report

Quoted By: >>5789929

>>5789922
Well at least Elliot's not alone. Maybe that's why Amelia turned him down

Rolling for Elend

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:50:29 No.5789926 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789922
So that is the real reason Amelia rejected him.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:51:27 No.5789929 Report

Quoted By: >>5789934

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>5789924
>forgot roll

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:51:28 No.5789930 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789922
yeah fuck that, im so glad QM is not using the D10, fucking quest would have ended as soon as the first army battle due to some faulty potion that exploded on our face and instantly killed us or something, holy shit

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:51:56 No.5789931 Report

Quoted By: >>5789932 >>5789935

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>5789920
Then let's try something different. Every 10 is one inch, 1 is 1 inch and 100 is 11.

Rolling for Elliot

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:53:02 No.5789932 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>5789931
THE D10 IS FUCKING LOADED!!!
rolling to confirm

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:53:35 No.5789934 Report

Quoted By: >>5789935

>>5789929
>>5789922
And that confirms it. Rich, handsome, and hung like a pony. Talon lost before he even began.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 08:57:39 No.5789935 Report

Quoted By: >>5789938

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>5789931
We get too many high rolls on d100. Plus we need a scale that makes it so we have a low chance of literally breaking Arty in half.

>>5789934
I'm sure Talon will find someone like Arty for him at some point in his life. Maybe then he won't feel so bad about it.

Anyway time to roll for Taylor.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 09:01:42 No.5789938 Report

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>>5789935
He just like me FR!

Assuming we do best of 3 that is. Otherwise he still mogs us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 10 Oct 2023 09:02:49 No.5789939 Report

Quoted By:

welp, this was a fun waste of rolls, glad nothing of this is canon, otherwise holy shit, im going to bed now, later

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 15:23:36 No.5790218 Report

Quoted By: >>5790409

>>5789860
>>5789867
>>5789870
>>5789880
>>5789894
>>5789904
>>5789911
>>5789919
>>5789922

Holy fucking shit lads, I read this at 5 in the morning and laughed so loud I almost woke the entire fucking house.

The d100 may hate Weasley, but the d10 fucking despises Elliot with a passion.

Anyway, now back to writing this damn update that doesn't seem to want to get written.

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Tue 10 Oct 2023 18:48:20 No.5790409 Report

Quoted By: >>5790412

>>5790218
please Mr. QM, dont make us roll for this if we ever get to need it, the dice are NOT in our favour

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Tue 10 Oct 2023 18:51:22 No.5790412 Report

Quoted By: >>5790422

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>5790409
Let me try as well, I was sleeping when it happened

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Tue 10 Oct 2023 18:56:53 No.5790422 Report

Quoted By:

>>5790412
the curse! has it been lifted?!

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:06:32 No.5790524 Report

Quoted By: >>5790539 >>5790547 >>5790553

“Hey, Hannah…” you say, approaching the counter. “Could I ask if you could possibly let Arty off a bit early?”

“You can certainly ask,” she says, looking at you with curiosity. “But why would you do that, I wonder?”

“So that she can enjoy partying with her friends.”

“With her friends? Or with you specifically?”

“Ah… Well…” You say, slightly embarrassed. Of course she’d know, you think. She’s seen me waiting for Arty, and she isn’t dumb about things like this like Apollo.

“I’m just messing with you. But if you break her heart, remember that my husband is the head of Gryffindor and your Herbology teacher, and I’ll personally force him to make your life hell. Are we understood?”

“Ah, yes ma'am.”

“Good. Hey, Arty!”

She slides to a halt by you.

“Yes?”

“Elliot here was just asking me if I could let you out earlier so you two could dance, and I feel inclined to oblige.”

“What? Elliot!”

“It’s fine, hun. Me and the boys can take care of it for today. Go have fun!”

“You’re sure?”

“I’m sure.”

“Alright.” Arty turns to you with a frown, hands on hips. “Elliot!”

“Uh, I just thought you might want to join in,” you say, raising your hands in defeat.

“Well, I do!” She says admonishingly, but her tone isn’t serious. In fact, she’s blushing terribly. She sits on a nearby chair, taking off her skates. “But now I’ll be underdressed!”

Without saying another word, Hannah pulls her wand and waves it in her direction. “Multicorfors!”

Arty’s waitress clothes suddenly glimmer into a fabulous dress, to match the ones Raven, Amalia and some of the other ladies of your team are wearing (along with the mustache and monocle, of course).

“I’m not the best at it, but I figure it will do. Don’t forget,” Hannah says. “Dresses last only ‘till midnight, though I’ll admit I have no idea why.”

With that out of the way, and midnight several hours away, she takes you by the hand to the dancing area, where Celestina Warbeck's jazzy “A Cauldron Full Of Hot, Strong Love” from the 80’s is playing.

> Let’s see how well Elliot can dance, shall we?
> Roll a d100. Bo3

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:09:08 No.5790528 Report

Quoted By: >>5790544 >>5790595

Holy crap this update took an inordinate amount of effort to come out. My brain is truly a curious thing.

8k character long updates about the nature of the universe? Piece of cake.

2k character long update about asking a girl for a dance? Go fuck yourself.

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Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:12:22 No.5790539 Report

Quoted By: >>5790599 >>5790827

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>5790524
How did Brighton end such a dick with her as a mother?

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Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:12:32 No.5790541 Report

Quoted By:

>>5789791
Lilly...potter. You know I just realized that is a bad bad thing for Slytherin potion masters.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:13:23 No.5790544 Report

Quoted By:

>>5790528
Even though I'm not a QM, that feels oddly relatable

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:IcLZj3LV Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:14:43 No.5790547 Report

Quoted By: >>5790566 >>5790827

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>5790524
fuck It Up lord hallaster

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:21:32 No.5790553 Report

Quoted By: >>5790827

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>5790524
>87
>99
holy shit, we setting the dance floor on fire! rolling just to complete the Bo3 requierement

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:32:47 No.5790566 Report

Quoted By: >>5790584

>>5790547
We are redeemed. I knew getting all those rolls out of the way last night was a winning move.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:42:10 No.5790584 Report

Quoted By: >>5790626

>>5790566
man, that was a rough night...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:46:19 No.5790595 Report

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>>5790528
Good luck writing about the dance itself then. Especially since we are apparently a master at dancing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:50:38 No.5790599 Report

Quoted By: >>5790607 >>5790612 >>5790626 >>5790810

>>5790539
Honestly, that's the weird thing. All of the next gen kids are all dicks for some reason. And yes, that IS including Lily. She did try and romance us for the sole purpose of knowing wtf's going on at first, and is actively keeping secret a mind demon which seems very much malicious to us.

Anyway yeah it is weird. You'd think news of at least how Hugo and Brighton treat people would reach back to their parents. Surprised absolutely NO ONE tried snitching on them yet.

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Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:53:58 No.5790607 Report

Quoted By: >>5790610

>>5790599
I think she tried to romance us because her evil devil-voice commanded her too.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:57:45 No.5790610 Report

Quoted By: >>5790626

>>5790607
I mean yeah, but as far as I'm aware she's completely capable of saying no to it. Unless it's a situation like Kris from Deltarune, but it only takes direct control occasionally.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Tue 10 Oct 2023 20:59:52 No.5790612 Report

Quoted By: >>5790626 >>5790834

>>5790599
Hermione did bug us while Ron kept everyone distracted, and they ruined our friendly get together. And Harry started Hogwarts Battle Royale and kept investigating even after we told him it's going to destroy the universe.
They are not saints either. So maybe the children are just learning from their parents worst behaviors? So for example, Brighton will copy her mother using his father's position to threaten us, but ignore that it was to ensure Arty's welbeing?

Or maybe wizards are just really bad at parenting, like they are with psychology.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 10 Oct 2023 21:08:26 No.5790626 Report

Quoted By: >>5790834

>>5790584
I knew the risk when I started the rolling but it kept me distracted till I could fall asleep lol.

>>5790610
OOC, it seems like her mind demon is a lot more active than Mind Lady, to the point it can kind of not take the wheel, but maybe help steer whether Lily likes it or not, and it takes a lot of mental effort to get back to 100% control. Hell, if they have been together for as long as I guess, she might not even realize she isn't in total control some of the time.

>>5790599
>>5790612
Yeah, it is kinda funny that the Slytherins we know, inc. ourselves, are some of the least dickish people we have met. Some of these people have good intentions like the original trio and kinda Lily but bad way of going about it, but Brighton and Granger-Weasley are just self important dicks

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Anonymous ID:ZU5NO/gr Wed 11 Oct 2023 00:12:40 No.5790810 Report

Quoted By: >>5790834

>>5790599
I find it funny that Harry seems to be the only real one who cares, probably because he learned from dumbledore that arrogant dickishness really sucks if you're on the receiving end. Shame we can't tell him much about what's going on.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 00:26:36 No.5790827 Report

Quoted By: >>5790829 >>5790836

>>5790539
>>5790547
>>5790553

You know one weird thing about muggle moms? They never seem to be satisfied at seeing their kid just do nothing for their entire vacations. They always need to find something for you to do, be it housework, or sports, or learning another language, or something. It is almost as if it was offensive to them that you could spend the entire summer with your brain turned off.

For your mom, it was dance class. You learned classical, you learned ball dancing and tango. You danced to the boogie and you danced to the baroque. The only reason you didn’t dance ballet and tap dance was because by that time you’d been old enough to set your foot down and say no.

You never thought it would actually come in use. You were a wizard, after all. Wizards dealt with important things, like alchemy, the nature of the ethereal and secrets of the soul. They didn’t waste time with silly things like dancing. It didn’t seem important at the time, and your mom was clearly an idiot for wasting your time like that.

That was what you always thought, at least. Today, you thank her infinite wisdom.

The moves come naturally to you, and there is a swing to your body that moves with the music. It is the same flexibility that you use to gracefully prepare your potions, to gently and precisely cut your ingredients, to stir your cauldron just the right amount, but spread to your whole body.

So you dance to the pop and you dance to the classic. When the Weird Sisters come up, you shake your body, when someone flicks their wand and Strauss comes up, you take Arty’s hand and waltz along to the rhythm while she giggles and struggles to not step on your toes. And, when the hours are far too late and you all should have already started making your way to Hogwarts, when someone reminds everyone that the other armies have the monopoly on prefects for your year, when people start leaving… you stay, for just one more song.

When a muggle song comes up, you’re surprised before remembering that he wasn’t really a muggle. When the king of rock’n roll starts a slow ballad singing about fools rushing in… Arty’s the one who wraps her arms around you and buries her face into your chest.

You gently swing with her from side to side, and the song seems to connect into another slow one, and another, and another, as if time and fate had decided to create a perfect dance, just the two of you hanging onto a moment and to each other. But, like the moment that hung for hours in your dream, it too must come to an end. Yet Arty doesn’t stop dancing to the slow song, even though something else came on, even though your moves no longer match the rhythm.

She just dances away, and you follow her step.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 00:29:06 No.5790829 Report

Quoted By: >>5790834 >>5790838 >>5790851 >>5790858 >>5790892 >>5790905 >>5790917 >>5791053

>>5790827

It takes a while for her to finally pull away and you see she’d been crying.

“I’m sorry,” she says, laughing at herself as she wipes away the tears. “It’s the second time this happens and I swear it isn't your fault.”

“You alright?” You ask.

“I will be. Thanks for the dance, Elliot.”

“Anytime.”

She hugs you again, but it is a quick one.

“I promise I won’t cry next time.”

“Hey, I’m here for any type of tears. These robes cleaning enchantments are really good.”

She laughs again and smiles at you.

“We should probably go. Apollo should be getting here soon.”

And so you leave the Three Broomsticks, passing by Hannah, who has her wand in her hand still pointing at the general direction of the radio, and who gives you a knowing wink.

How someone like Brighton had managed to come from a saint like her was a mystery.

She’d apparently timed the end of your dance well, too, as Apollo gets to the door just seconds after you two.

“You’ve been crying,” Apollo says. “Did someone hurt you?”

“It’s fine,” she says. “Elliot just told a joke and I laughed so tears came out.”

“I can cast Rictusempra on him, if you want,” he offers.

“No, thank you very much.”

So you three return to Hogwarts, this time in peaceful silence. And, every now and then, your hand bumps against hers and you entwine your fingers for a moment or two, letting go before Apollo notices.

You arrive at the great double doors with an indescribable warmth in your chest.

“Ah… you should probably… look ahead,” Apollo says to Arty. “He can’t be out this late.”

“Good idea! I’ll check it out!” She says before skipping into the school.

As soon as she’s out of view, Apollo turns to you and puts a hand on your shoulder.

“Elliot,” he says flatly, looking you in the eye. “I want you to know… that I know how to cast crucio.”

He lets go of you and walks inside the school, Arty barely having time to say her goodbyes before chasing after him.

---

You make your way back to your common room to not only not find Taylor, but also Raven appears to be gone, though you’re not sure if she simply went to sleep already. You too, go to sleep, that golden feeling in your chest never leaving.

So, the first week of November ends. This week you’ll have to train Occlumency, teach Arty, and participate in Potter’s Battle class. Taylor is finally well enough that you can study with him, if you wish, and there is no army battle this week.

What will you do with your free time? (Pick two)

> Train with Lily (+2 to Battle Rolls)
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Raven (+2 to Muggle Studies)
> Study with Taylor (+2 to Astronomy)
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:RvraCSJD Wed 11 Oct 2023 00:34:02 No.5790834 Report

Quoted By:

>>5790612
>>5790810
I think Ron and Hermione MEAN well, just as Harry does. They're just used to being the meddling problem-solvers rather than the out-of-the-loop authority figures in this equation.

>>5790626
Slytherin went through a period of conscious, directed cultural reform for 30-odd years, like post-war Germany, and ended up being the only house to actually reflect on its flaws.

>>5790829
> Study with Taylor (+2 to Astronomy)
> Train with Lily (+2 to Battle Rolls)
We'll likely have need of both, quite soon.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 11 Oct 2023 00:34:07 No.5790836 Report

Quoted By: >>5790948

>>5790827
>Elvis was secretly a wizard

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Wed 11 Oct 2023 00:34:34 No.5790838 Report

Quoted By: >>5790858 >>5791053 >>5791080

>>5790829
> Study with Taylor (+2 to Astronomy)
Because either we never studied it with him, or very rarely.
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
Herbology. Could be useful to grow some of our own ingredients

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Wed 11 Oct 2023 00:47:15 No.5790851 Report

Quoted By:

>>5790829
>I know how to cast crucio
im so glad im playing for keeps, holy shit

> Study with Taylor (+2 to Astronomy)
> Train with Lily (+2 to Battle Rolls)

also kek at the idea of Wizard Elvis

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 00:53:00 No.5790858 Report

Quoted By: >>5790905 >>5791088

>>5790829
> “Elliot,” he says flatly, looking you in the eye. “I want you to know… that I know how to cast crucio .”
"That's great, can you teach it to me?"
To be honest, I'm not sure if the fact that we know Apollo is the most socially awkward dude to ever exist makes the threat more or less scary, even if he is very much capable of beating the shit out of us if we hurt Arty.
Not like we WOULD, anyway.

>>5790838
Support

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:13:40 No.5790892 Report

Quoted By:

>>5790829
>I know how to cast crucio.
picrelated.

>>5790829
> Study with Taylor (+2 to Astronomy)
> Train with Lily (+2 to Battle Rolls)

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:18:12 No.5790905 Report

Quoted By: >>5790943

>>5790829
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Taylor (+2 to Astronomy)

Who the fuck taught him to cast that?! Powerful spells have to be shown to someone... oh they came from a difficult home. That has some very not great implications for where he might have seen it.

>>5790858
I am supporting getting him to teach us it at some point lol. Not that we would ever use it on someone if they really hurt our friends, no sir, just because you never know when a dark wizard is going to pop out. Yep, gotta be prepared for those dark wizards. Daaaarrrrkk Wiiiizzaaaarrdsss.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:27:00 No.5790917 Report

Quoted By: >>5790926

>>5790829
Also, Taylor is totaly tied up in Raven's sex dungeon trunk, isn't he? Or maybe she is the one who REALLY likes getting tied up. When we see him we need to joke and ask if he used protection.

After all the shit they give us, some pay back would be nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:32:49 No.5790926 Report

Quoted By: >>5790937 >>5790948

>>5790917
Maybe Taylor becoming mad by studying a book of eldritch astral knowledge is close enough to demonic possession to awaken Raven's fetish.
Or maybe it's something boring like she thought it was a really brave sacrifice, or the thought of losing him made she rethink how much he mattered to her.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:41:03 No.5790937 Report

Quoted By: >>5790950

>>5790926
> the thought of losing him made she rethink how much he mattered to her.
leaning towards that with her initial reaction

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:44:47 No.5790943 Report

Quoted By: >>5790974

>>5790905
In all likelihood, he probably used it on his caretaker/dad when he was trying to kiddy diddle Arty. Apollo likely thought about how much he wanted to hurt his caretaker when he caught him doing that, and instinctively used Crucio, both nonverbally and wandless(which, holy shit, he can just cause anyone excruciating pain in the blink of an eye, with no warning)
Obviously means that Arty lied about Apollo simply flinging him out the window, but honestly that's 100% justified, and I'd keep the secret for him.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:48:30 No.5790948 Report

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>>5790926
I mean the 3 of us have been friends from like day 1. If she wasn't into us, her being in to him on some level was pretty damn likely. I agree that him pulling that stunt probably was the catalyst for them getting on with it in some way. Hell, maybe it made him just crazy enough permenately to just ASK if she wanted to give it a shot.

There is also a non-zero chance we all die soon, so no time like the present to pound out any kinks in his friendship with her.

>>5790836
His wand was in his pants. Why do you think he did those hip gyrations? He was casting spells on the audience. He was actually one of Voldemort's first targets; Voldy feared the King almost as much as Dumbledore himself.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:49:17 No.5790950 Report

Quoted By:

>>5790937
And Taylor had this reaction while Raven was scolding him
>Taylor is looking up at her from the floor as if she was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.
That book may have made him crazy for a while, but it was a great wingman.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 01:59:24 No.5790974 Report

Quoted By: >>5790984 >>5791010

>>5790943
I do not know which idea is worse. That their dad/caretaker used it on them as children and Apollo eventually just bodied the dude when his magic woke up or that kid Apollo was capable of and had the juice to use an Unforgivable without even knowing about them.

Maybe that is why he has such flattened affect? He knows if he gets worked up, he might not be able to stop himself?

I mean I would Crucio someone for Arty, and we are probably good enough to pull it off, but we are nearly a full grown wizard.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:04:40 No.5790984 Report

Quoted By: >>5791001

>>5790974
And child causing someone to feel unbearable pain would probably also fuck with their emotional development, even if the person deserved every second of it.
Add it up to their abuse, and it's honestly a miracle Apollo is only autistic as he is.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:15:08 No.5791001 Report

Quoted By: >>5791009

>>5790984
It is quite likely. To use that curse, you have to want to cause pain. Knowing you are capable of that is enough to screw with someone if they aren't able to administer personal mental 1st aid. And their are no wizard shrinks...
I can deal with a lot of shit well, due to several reasons, and I am a fucking adult, but a like 7-year-old kid? If Arty wasn't their 100%, he would have gone dark.

Hey, I wonder; do you think Arty might want to be the 1st in that field? Helping people who have gone through shit like her and her brother did. Seems like it would be right up her alley.

I mean, along with giving us a quidditch team's worth of kids, obviously.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:20:45 No.5791009 Report

Quoted By: >>5791093

>>5791001
Wizards also apparently need some parenting guidance, so she can even be the first in both fields! All she needs to do is find a way to copy the muggle homework and convince the wizard that it's not beneath them. Much harder said then done

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:21:14 No.5791010 Report

Quoted By: >>5791017 >>5791046

>>5790974
Honestly I'm not sure literal children would be able to take on Crucio without dying. Apollo, MAYBE, but he still had the body of a child and children are incredibly fragile. Unless the spell is completely incapable of killing because of the magic system, but other spells besides Avada Kedavra are able to kill so I highly doubt that's the case.

Also, if this WAS his dad, and he could use magic, I think Apollo would've likely been the golden child, while Arty received all of the abuse, and there's no way she would've survived being a target of Crucio. If it wasn't his dad and/or the dad/caretaker couldn't use magic, then that was obviously his first experience with Crucio.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:23:56 No.5791017 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791010
Apollo's weird extra power thing probably kept it from doing severe harm to himself

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:41:43 No.5791046 Report

Quoted By: >>5791062 >>5791063 >>5791101

>>5791010
I don't think Crucio can really kill you, unless maybe it is done for hours, and then you would probably have a seizure or go into cardiac arrest. That is part of the whole point; being able to torture someone over and over and there not be a chance that they can get out of it because you fucked up and accidentally killed your victim. Part of why it is such a fucked up curse. Something that instantly and painlessly kills someone should really not be counted alongside mind control or eternal torture IMHO.

I mean I carry a wand with 15 adeva kedvras and a reload of 15 more with me virtually everywhere I go, but I live in America.

So I think it is possible they could have survived it being cast on them pretty easily, especially if Apollo took the brunt of it for Arty.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:45:12 No.5791053 Report

Quoted By:

>>5790829
>>5790838
+1

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:49:22 No.5791062 Report

Quoted By: >>5791093

>>5791046
My guess it's because AK needs the caster to channel their intent to kill someone for it work, and different from things like patronus, it's only use is negative, so it gets the ban by association.
Also, while you could any of the other offensive spells to kill someone, but you could also theoretically use it for any other activity. Meanwhile, AK only use is to kill. And since you can use any other spells for self-defense, no need to even bother trying to sort between legitimate uses, only lazy wizards or edgelords would cast it anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Wed 11 Oct 2023 02:49:26 No.5791063 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791046
yeah, i dont think Crucia can actually kill, but it is capable of leaving everlasting effects, wasnt that how Neville's parents ended up retarded?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Wed 11 Oct 2023 03:01:17 No.5791080 Report

Quoted By: >>5791088

>>5790838
Support

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Wed 11 Oct 2023 03:03:43 No.5791088 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791080
Shit. I meant to support and also support >>5790858 of having Apollo teach us the dark arts.

>Captcha YTXNN
No, Captcha, it is Memphis you mean. Also is the Land of Grace on our list of lost cool places to raid with a pith helmet?

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 03:09:43 No.5791093 Report

Quoted By: >>5791140

>>5791009
We could pretty easily nick some books on psychology and with magic, she could sit in on counseling classes with no one the wiser. If she wanted to. But honestly a few books, and being empathetic and understanding puts her 99% ahead of the curve haha. That is how bad it seems. Like raid the self help section of a Barnes and Noble and an intro to psych book from a muggle college book store and she could change the world, if we can help her convince a few people to just try talking about their problems for an hour an accept some advice. Hell, we could likely brew up some potions that might help with anxiety or depression for her to prescribe as well.

>>5791062
I have heard that logic before and I guess I get it, but wizards can survive a lot. AK isn't lazy, it is a tool for a job and that job is when someone needs to be put down. Note it is only unforgivable when used on another person. Fake Moody used it on a spider, and it was kosher, so presumably if there was an angry bear charging at you, it would be fine as well.

I do USPSA shooting competitions most weekends, among other things. I can enjoy the sporting aspect of my "wand" but, at the end of the day, I do those competitions to better prepare for if I ever have to use my "wand" for what it is made to do.

It might just be a difference in culture. As an American, we have enshrined our right to use immediate and overwhelming lethal force legally and culturally. Brits have to show ID to buy butter knives.

Long story short AK being bad is dumb writing/world building.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Wed 11 Oct 2023 03:15:20 No.5791101 Report

Quoted By: >>5791237

>>5791046
The Killing Curse doesn't just kill painlessly -- Voldemort described it as feeling as if it was ripping his soul out of his body. It may be instant, but there's evidence it causes SPIRITUAL pain. it can also only be cast with a deep desire for murder, which probably isn't a mindset you want to encourage. Voldemort was considered especially adept at casting it because he was a pathologically loveless monster of a person who loved killing.

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Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Wed 11 Oct 2023 03:31:07 No.5791140 Report

Quoted By: >>5791152 >>5791237

>>5791093
But an AK isn't just a gun. It's a more like an anti-material rifle that uses hatred as bullets and shoots someones souls and their body at the same time.

Just use bombarda, it does the job fine and explosions are cooler then a green beam.

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Anonymous ID:j3pafxIf Wed 11 Oct 2023 03:36:27 No.5791152 Report

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>>5791140
Whoops, I didn't mean to hit enter two times there. The "just use" was meant to go after the "time".
Also Incendio works too, you can't go wrong with a classic fireball after all, but I stand by my belief in big fucking explosion supremacy.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 04:15:10 No.5791237 Report

Quoted By: >>5791243

>>5791101
>>5791140
It is fair enough that it might not be pain less, but is getting set on fire or exploded painless? If you are using those with the desire to have them kill, is it really any different from using something which requires you to want to kill to make it work? As for it being an AM rifle, well, there is no kill like overkill. It levels the playing field, among other things. You might not be able to out duel an experienced dark wizard, but if you have AK in your tool box you at least have a chance.

And it being a "bad" spell certainly hasn't stopped evil wizards from using it; it only stops good wizards from being able have effective recourse. If every 7th year learned it, wizard society would be a bit more polite.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Wed 11 Oct 2023 04:20:50 No.5791243 Report

Quoted By: >>5791266

>>5791237
I understand your very hard pro-gun stance, and I respect your unique and distinct culture, but Avada Kedavra is not just a value-neutral tool. it is a magical power fueled by hatred that hateful and evil people are objectively better at using, and which damaged IMMORTAL SOULS. It is evil, most likely, because it damages people and/or reality on a metaphysical level (think negative energy side-effects in D&D), and encourages your own spirit to become darker and more hateful in order to become more effective at casting it (think the path to the Dark Side from Star Wars). You're approaching this in a very secular (or one might say 'muggle') way, but there's a quasi-religious element here, made VERY relevant by the fact that witches and wizards KNOW the afterlife and spirits exist for a fact.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 04:42:52 No.5791255 Report

Quoted By: >>5791256 >>5791257 >>5791266

Strangely enough, by coincidence my plan was to have Potter's next class be precisely about the Unforgiveable Curses and why they're "unforgiveable"

Now, for the votes:

> Study with Taylor (+2 to Astronomy)
7 votes

> Train with Lily (+2 to Battle Rolls)
3 votes

> Study another subject (+1 to another subject) Herbology
3 votes

> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
1 vote

I'll set another vote to break the tie after the Astrology study.

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 11 Oct 2023 04:45:20 No.5791256 Report

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>>5791255
>Lily

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Wed 11 Oct 2023 04:49:45 No.5791257 Report

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>>5791255
herbology

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:03:29 No.5791266 Report

Quoted By: >>5791267 >>5791269 >>5791271 >>5791276 >>5791648

>>5791255
Since potions won't win, I will say Lily, just because we haven't hit diminishing returns and we get a +2 vs a +1. If we find a dude in our battle class who is good a wizard gardening and can make it a +2, I am all for that next chance we get. Actually, Arty's area of expertise is still unknown on the character sheet, maybe she happens to be good at magic gardens.

>>5791243
We might just have to agree to disagree for now. If the next class illuminates some things on how QM wants to treat it, I may change my opinion but as it stands, AK to me is just a tool. One that is used mostly by bad people, but that is because good people have been poisoned to it; we know objectively good people like Snape can and are capable of using it well and, in the end, that greasy fuck was a hero who even Dumbledore trusted almost implicitly.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:06:09 No.5791267 Report

Quoted By: >>5791286

>>5791266
I can agree to disagree for now, but I will say Dumbledore's vote of confidence in a person's morality counts for little with me considering his taste in boyfriends.

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Anonymous ID:IcLZj3LV Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:08:31 No.5791269 Report

Quoted By: >>5791276 >>5791286

>>5791266
>Actually, Arty's area of expertise is still unknown on the character sheet
she said she likes magical creatures

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:10:10 No.5791271 Report

Quoted By: >>5791286

>>5791266
Arty did say in the last thread her favorite subject was Magical Creatures, so sadly she probably does not have any magical garden we can profit off of for +2 to Herbology.

The only person we know so far who would feasibly give us that +2 is................
Brighton.......................

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:15:46 No.5791274 Report

Quoted By: >>5791280 >>5791283 >>5791285 >>5791287 >>5791294 >>5791295 >>5791301 >>5791302 >>5791306 >>5791320 >>5791404

The forest returns once more in your dreams. The dark green skies above, the grass below, and a fire pit in front with a roaring flame. Yet this time there is a small stream of water to the left. It is shy, nothing more than a trickle, just enough to show its path through the floor.

On the other side of the fire pit, she sits. She is still as beautiful as you remember, her silver-blonde hair, her large, blue green eyes staring into you. She is fully clothed this time, and so are you, but it doesn’t do much to hide her form.

A form whose glimpse keeps flashing in your head every now and then.

“You’ve found your way back,” she says as you sit down. “Good. I feared for you. I felt your anguish a couple of times since we last spoke, though I did not know how to help. If I did, I would have, but I’m afraid all I can do with our connection as weak as it is is to provide you power, should you need it.”

“Could you do more?”

“I… I guess so, if we were to strengthen our bond. I see potential, but… I cannot see into futures where my interference is too great. It is like trying to look into a mirror reflecting itself. But now, with December first being so close, it is like looking into the sun. There are too many possibilities, though in those I can see, Potter’s threat remains a risk.”

“And how could I… strengthen our connection?”

“Use the power I give you. Like a muscle that grows stronger with use. When you fight, use it. When you train, use it. It will make it faster for me to be able to come to your aid when you need me.”

“And the creature?”

“Quiet for now, though I suspect it won’t take long for it to come. It can smell you here. It can smell what you represent. It’s freedom.” She shivers in fear. “You must not allow it to reach Merlin’s Last Light.”

What will you ask of her? (Pick three)

> Do you have a name?
> How can you see in the future if seers can’t?
> What happens if Harry Potter knows about this?
> Why is this place changing?
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?
> Other (Write in)

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:18:10 No.5791276 Report

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>>5791266
>>5791269
Well caught. Yes, her expertise is Magical creatures, I updated the character sheet

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:19:58 No.5791280 Report

Quoted By: >>5791288 >>5791293

>>5791274
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?
> How can you see in the future if seers can’t?
I have a third question(a write-in), but some clarification, first: isn't the Eldritch thingy within us? How could we get it to not reach Merlin's last light if it comes with us when we go to it?

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Anonymous ID:IcLZj3LV Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:21:19 No.5791283 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791274
>> Do you have a name?
>> How can you see in the future if seers can’t?
>> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:24:02 No.5791285 Report

Quoted By: >>5791295

>>5791274
> Do you have a name?
> How can you see in the future if seers can’t?
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?
I'm tempted to make a write-in about if she knows anything that has to do with Lily's mind demon but we don't know about it (we got mindraped) and we technically already asked her if there are more beings like her (I think. Though this might mean she and Lily's demon aren't the same).

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:25:08 No.5791286 Report

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>>5791267
Lol. Good guys like bad boys I guess. And Dumble did do some dumb shit like putting on Marvolo's ring despite knowing it was cursed to high heaven. Snape was a good guy in the end though, one who risked everything to help stop Voldemort and explicitly helped a few people with his potion skills, even when he didn't like them. Hell, Lily Potter I was his best friend, even.

>>5791269
Ah, I recall that. I suppose Apollo's should be transfiguration on the sheet also, given his BS last battle.

>>5791271
BRIIIIIIGHTOOOOOON! Damn your 9 inches, damn you them to hell!

I am still all for checking with our army, surely 1 of them is good at herbology, and we have led them towards 2 victories, so maybe that would count for something.

That also reminds me, our wand might get us extra bonuses if we prove ourselves to it. Taking out 2x as many people in a defensive position by personally risking ourselves seems like it would apply, but I guess not. Wonder if taking this next battle with another act of personal heroism would do the trick? Or do the stakes need to be higher?

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:25:11 No.5791287 Report

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>>5791274
> Do you have a name?
> Why is this place changing?
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:25:21 No.5791288 Report

Quoted By: >>5791293 >>5791306 >>5791404

>>5791280
> I have a third question(a write-in), but some clarification, first: isn't the Eldritch thingy within us? How could we get it to not reach Merlin's last light if it comes with us when we go to it?

That sounds like a great question to ask her

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:28:04 No.5791293 Report

Quoted By: >>5791295

>>5791288
That does, in fact, sound like a great question to ask her. I merely thought I was missing some info we were already given though.

>>5791280
>Write-in: How am I supposed to prevent the creature from reaching Merlin's last light if it's within me, and I need to reach it to help you?

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:28:28 No.5791294 Report

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>>5791274
> How can you see in the future if seers can’t?
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?
> Do you have a name?

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:29:28 No.5791295 Report

Quoted By: >>5791315

>>5791274
>>5791285
Changing my vote to:
> How can you see in the future if seers can’t?
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?
>Write-in: How am I supposed to prevent the creature from reaching Merlin's last light if it's within me, and I need to reach it to help you?

>>5791293
Damn that's a good one anon. I hope this gets picked.

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Anonymous ID:ZXED4/n+ Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:36:54 No.5791301 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791274
> How can you see in the future if seers can’t?
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?
>Write-in: How am I supposed to prevent the creature from reaching Merlin's last light if it's within me, and I need to reach it to help you?

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:40:58 No.5791302 Report

Quoted By: >>5791306

>>5791274
> Do you have a name? One you can recall? Or at least something I can call you. Dream Lady is a bit trite, no?
> What happens if Harry Potter knows about this? He will keep looking. Is there a hard limit to what I can say to sate his curiosity?
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:42:42 No.5791306 Report

Quoted By: >>5791317

>>5791274
>>5791288
>>5791302

I will change:
> What happens if Harry Potter knows about this?

To the write in.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:52:09 No.5791315 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791295
Yeah my write-in, plus the seers question, makes two different contradictions in what she's told us so far, which feels pretty suspicious to me. Let's see if she manages to come up with an explanation to seal up the contradictions.

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Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:56:54 No.5791317 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791306
we can just start with the ministry's involved

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Wed 11 Oct 2023 05:59:47 No.5791320 Report

Quoted By: >>5791369

>>5791274
> Do you have a name?
> Why is this place changing?
> What happens in Merlin’s Last Light?

i fell like this place changing has a connection to something about us, but im not sure what it is

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 06:40:14 No.5791369 Report

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>>5791320
It might just be that simple: we are changing. We have new friends, new ambitions, a new love interest. This forest is kinda like a mental landscape so as we change, it changes, to say nothing of us now being aware of Her, It, and this place's very existence.

OOC, Elliot now has like a dozen voices in his head giving him new ideas, directing him how to use his time, ect. But that might be a little too meta.

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Wed 11 Oct 2023 07:27:13 No.5791404 Report

Quoted By: >>5791436

>>5791274
> Do you have a name?
> What happens if Harry Potter knows about this?
I still think we should tell Potter a reasonable amount, enough to convince him to stop digging. I'd much rather have him as a friend than enemy anyway.

>>5791288
Supporting the write-in.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 07:55:59 No.5791422 Report

Quoted By: >>5791423

“What will happen there? At Merlin’s Last Light?”

“I… I don’t know. All I know is that it is where we must go. Like an echo of something long, long said, forgotten and remembered and forgotten again. I cannot see the future like one reads a book. I see glimpses, feel feelings of those who live there, hear their loves and their horrors. And they all cease if you do not reach the Light. The same happens if Potter discovers it. There is less love. There is more horror. And then…” Her voice loses its grip, her last words come out shaken. “It stops. It all just… stops.”

“And as for the Last Light, my vision gets worse the closer we get. I cannot see past it. I cannot see the events of next week, much like I cannot peer into your mind. I see you reach it, though I do not know where it is. I see you follow it, though I do not know to where. I see paintings long ruined. I see a stairway down. I see a door. And then even those glimpses become too much, fate becomes impossible to predict. I suppose I become too involved in the story. Or perhaps destiny refuses to reveal itself, I am not sure. But though I cannot see, I can still hear, if only faintly. And while through that door there are screams of horror… It is the only path where there are any sounds at all.”

“Giving you an information you couldn’t possibly have, an information from beyond time and lost to the ages, only to get you to a specific room, on a specific day while using information from futures that could never be… It is like forcing the fabric of Fate through a needle’s eye. It is to reshape it with fire and hammer and steel. To steer time through Destiny’s keyhole, force possibility into certainty… It would be a crime against life itself, if it wasn’t the only way of saving it.”

“And even then, I fear this is not the end. There are many strands of time that can go through the keyhole, and many of them will end even after passing through it. But some… some I could hear until they got lost in the distance. In some… there is life. But not anywhere else.”

“Ah,” you say, your voice strained from the scale of what she just told you. “I… I see… Is that why… Is that why seers can no longer see the future?”

“Can’t they?” She asks, curious. “I suppose one explanation is that a seer that sees a future that cannot be changed is a contradiction in terms. If they can see it, they can change it. If they can’t change it, why would they see it in the first place? But there is another explanation. There are infinite futures where… There is no future. There is a very finite number of them where there is something to predict. A seer would have to be very lucky indeed to peer down the correct strand of time and see something, don’t you think?”

You two stay in silence for a long time while you digest the new information.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 07:57:01 No.5791423 Report

Quoted By: >>5791427 >>5791429 >>5791430 >>5791436 >>5791485 >>5791490 >>5791637 >>5791688 >>5791758

>>5791422

“You’re sending me to the Last Light blind. It could be the end of the world.” You say. It is not a question.

“Yes. You wouldn’t have followed me if I had told you as much before. You would have doubted me if I had shown you this much uncertainty in our previous meetings.” It is also not a question.

“Yeah, probably I would.”

“I could not afford probability. I needed you. I needed you to learn where it was. You wouldn’t have done so if you knew what you know now. I am sorry.”

You spend more time in silence.

“What is your name?” You ask. “We’ve known each other for so little time, yet it feels like an eternity. And I don’t know your name. I’d like to know the name of the person who’s guiding me and fate through the eye of the storm.”

“I… I do not have one. If I was ever called something, I’ve long forgotten it. Will you give me one? It seems only fair.”

> Write in her name

You’re about to say it when you see it. No. You see where it is not, because there is nothing to see where it is. It is no shadow, no darkness. It is less than that. Even the darkest shadows may be breached, the deepest darkness lit. Not this. Because even darkness is something. Not this. This creature, this thing… It simply isn’t.

It stands behind her, and you can feel it like a hunger beyond hunger. Impersonal. All consuming. No, hunger would imply that it eats to survive, and you now know it to not be true.

It simply wishes to make everything that is… To not be.

She breathes deeply and stands up.

“Very well. If you so desire to fight, then we shall fight. Farewell, Elliot. I shall meet you at the Last Light.”

She turns around. The creature roars. You wake up.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 07:58:02 No.5791424 Report

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And with that cheery update, I'll go to sleep!

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:03:51 No.5791427 Report

Quoted By: >>5791490 >>5791647

>>5791423
> Write in her name
Cassandra. The girl cursed to see the future, and nobody will ever listen. But now she has us.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:04:58 No.5791428 Report

Quoted By: >>5791430

Wait hold on what.
>She breathes deeply and stands up.

“Very well. If you so desire to fight, then we shall fight. Farewell, Elliot. I shall meet you at the Last Light.”
Is this implying she's hostile now? But we didn't even ask her the write-in question(even though they tied from what I saw) which is why I assume she said this; she couldn't explain her way out of the contradiction.

Then again, the post started not making sense after we got the option to choose her name. Though maybe I'm just really tired and that's affecting how I'm reading things.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:08:08 No.5791429 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791423
> Write in her name
I have always been partial to "Elise" as a female name. No great meanings, just a nice name for someone who forgot their own.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:08:23 No.5791430 Report

Quoted By: >>5791431 >>5791435 >>5791485

>>5791423
>Write in her name
i fell like "Faith" would be an appropiate name

>>5791428
she is fighting the beast thats suddenly right behind her, anon

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:10:45 No.5791431 Report

Quoted By: >>5791782

>>5791430
Oh. That explains it.

Well then here's to hoping we don't massively fuck up by going to Merlin's Last Light with the creature within us, since we didn't get an answer on that.

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:14:11 No.5791432 Report

Quoted By: >>5791440 >>5791782

Goddammit the name doesn't matter as much as that write-in. First chance we get to talk with her again and I'll probably take it.
Honestly I'm too tired to think of anything.

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:19:03 No.5791435 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791430
I like Faith I'll support that.

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Anonymous ID:MmYbgZaL Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:19:23 No.5791436 Report

Quoted By: >>5791637

>>5791404
The more we tell him the more he'll dig. And if we resist those digs after we tell him the more drastic measures he'll take.

>>5791423
Fallacia

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 11 Oct 2023 08:32:47 No.5791440 Report

Quoted By: >>5791758

>>5791432
I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get a chance to talk with her again. At least, not without strengthening our connection with her, but that may be a problem of its own if she's malicious in any way.

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Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Wed 11 Oct 2023 10:13:34 No.5791485 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791423
>>5791430
I like this anon's suggestion

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 10:16:14 No.5791490 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791423
>>5791427
I will support Cassandra over Faith, even if it has some not great connotations.

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Anonymous ID:WB5DXOhr Wed 11 Oct 2023 15:06:54 No.5791637 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791436
*Fellatia
A guy can dream.

>>5791423
Actually, though, I'll support
>Faith
As a name.

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 11 Oct 2023 15:21:02 No.5791647 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791427
Support

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 11 Oct 2023 15:21:21 No.5791648 Report

Quoted By: >>5791805 >>5791939

>>5791266
Snape wasn't objectively good, he was a former Death Eater iirc lmao

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Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Wed 11 Oct 2023 16:17:33 No.5791688 Report

Quoted By: >>5791758

>>5791423
We denied her an appearance dragged from our mind. I suggest the same for a name.

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 11 Oct 2023 18:25:50 No.5791758 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791423
I'll support >>5791688

>>5791440
Yeah that's true. I'm just mad we have to wait on important information we could've gotten now for the sake of some fluff that may or may not be bad for us. I have a bad feeling about personalizing her too much...

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 11 Oct 2023 18:51:00 No.5791782 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791431
>>5791432
If I was awake during the vote, I would have supported it.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 11 Oct 2023 18:55:48 No.5791788 Report

Quoted By: >>5791794 >>5791799 >>5791800 >>5791857 >>5791914 >>5791939 >>5791952

You jerk up, reaching for her. “Faith!”

But there is nothing there. There is only your dormitory and other students still sleeping, thanks to the silencing enchantments around every bed. You turn yours off, allowing the sounds of the night to come in as you lay down on your bed drenched in sweat. The gentle bubbling of the great lake and the light of the rising sun through its waters and through your window calms you as your breathing slowly goes back to normal.

And then you hear the sound of a door creaking and gentle steps sneaking their way into your dormitory.

“So,” you ask loudly, making Taylor almost jump out of his bones. “Did you use protection?”

“Shhhhhh! Not so loud!” He hisses, looking around to see if anyone had woken up. But it was a Slytherin dormitory so everyone slept with their silencing all the way up. You wouldn’t want to accidentally say anything worth being blackmailed about during your sleep, after all.

“How was it? Was it as freaky as advertised?”

“He just went to see the star!”

“Until six in the morning? And unless I’ve missed some severely important Astronomy lessons, telescopes do not leave hickeys,” you say, pointing to his neck.

“Well… We might have gotten a bit… carried away.”

“And?”

“And then she might have gotten even more carried away… and downwards.”

“Aaaand?”

“And then I learned that… Our friend probably has gills.”

That one confuses you.

“Huh? Why?”

“Because… she can spend a really, really long time without breathing.”

And not even the silencing enchantments of the Slytherin dormitory could stop you from waking your housemates up from how loudly you laughed.

--

The week starts off as normal, with Lily’s army winning Battle class for the third time, followed by a ghastly hailstorm that covered the school grounds in ice pebbles which you ignored from the safety of your subterranean common room. Other than that, both Taylor and Raven seemed to be in extraordinarily good moods, though none of them seemed ready to make whatever it was they had “official”.

So when you three climb up to the Astronomy tower early in the evening to study, Taylor has a pep in his step. So he tells you about the stars, the constellations, the orbits of mars and the planets. He speaks with conviction, almost with love.

> +2 to Astronomy! New total: +2!

You are studying for almost an hour when-.

“Taylor, your eyes!”

“Ah… yeah, they do that now,” he says, reaching for his now completely black eyes with small bright points of light. “Only while I’m under the night sky. Only when I come up to look at the stars.”

He looks at Raven and smiles, and she blushes and looks away.

Ah.

Ah.

Of course.

> Leave them to their “affairs”
> Proceed to mess with them
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 11 Oct 2023 19:00:28 No.5791794 Report

Quoted By: >>5792148

>>5791788
>> Proceed to mess with them

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 11 Oct 2023 19:01:17 No.5791799 Report

Quoted By: >>5792148

>>5791788
> Proceed to mess with them
Faith is either an excellent or terrible name.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 11 Oct 2023 19:01:49 No.5791800 Report

Quoted By: >>5792148

>>5791788
> Proceed to mess with them
I can't believe it, the possession did awake her fetish after all.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:+ZNKM2ug Wed 11 Oct 2023 19:04:27 No.5791805 Report

Quoted By: >>5791808

>>5791648
He was a useful tool who was shaped into a terrorist by bitterness and self-loathing, befriended Lily Potter I but then drove her away with his toxic romantic fixation, tried to have her hudband and baby killed but then regretted that she also died, and was turned towards good purposes by his dedication to avenging her and making amends by protecting her child and preventing her murderer's return. Complicated, not pure evil or pure good, mostly a shithead, and he died a counterterrorist and war hero.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 11 Oct 2023 19:06:48 No.5791808 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791805
Huh, I always thought Snape was just the cynical teacher meme with a boring backstory.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Wed 11 Oct 2023 19:54:14 No.5791857 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791788
ooh, after all the teasting we have got from them, you know we teasing back

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:PNr7V7dp Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:53:57 No.5791914 Report

Quoted By: >>5792148

>>5791788
> Proceed to mess with them

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 21:26:02 No.5791939 Report

Quoted By: >>5792148

>>5791788
> Proceed to mess with them

We are going to get it 2x as bad when we hook up with Arty but carpe the fucking diem.
Also cool Taylor gets to join the magic superpower club.

>>5791648
I had it in my mind he was basically always a double agent. I remember he had his issues, but it has been a long time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 11 Oct 2023 21:41:33 No.5791952 Report

Quoted By: >>5791957 >>5791964 >>5792054 >>5792148

>>5791788
> Proceed to mess with them
>"How open are you to threesomes?"

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 21:48:44 No.5791957 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791952
She would probably very open if we let Faith take the wheel since our eyes turn, at least for a couple of seconds, black.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:uyAGE6W6 Wed 11 Oct 2023 21:57:38 No.5791964 Report

Quoted By: >>5791971

>>5791952
we are commited to our tiny badger girl anon

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:06:23 No.5791971 Report

Quoted By: >>5791973 >>5791976

>>5791964
What is a man without both a tiny badger girl and his best friend giving him a brojob?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:uyAGE6W6 Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:08:00 No.5791973 Report

Quoted By:

>>5791971
someone not dead from sun god smiting

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:11:23 No.5791976 Report

Quoted By: >>5791978 >>5792000

>>5791971
Yeah I would do it as a 1 of throw away joke, but no way in hell are we fucking around behind Arty's back. 1. It is a dick move. 2. While I want Apollo to teach us Crucio, I don't want a practical demonstration.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:15:44 No.5791978 Report

Quoted By: >>5791998

>>5791976
duh

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:35:45 No.5791998 Report

Quoted By: >>5792003 >>5792148

>>5791978
I cant be sure sometimes if people intend something as a joke or actually plan to take it further. I have seen some very weird, very bad choices made in my frankly embarrassingly long tenure playing quests.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:uyAGE6W6 Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:37:40 No.5792000 Report

Quoted By: >>5792003

>>5791976
no don't do a joke that can be used against us, do you even slytherin

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:40:43 No.5792003 Report

Quoted By: >>5792007 >>5792011 >>5792030

>>5791998
What might at first seem like a bit of trolling turns into unironic harem making with homoeroticism on the side.

>>5792000
>do you even slytherin
Very based, agreed.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:48:57 No.5792007 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792003
Basically, yes. Oh god... its bringing back the memories, no, no, no!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 11 Oct 2023 22:51:00 No.5792011 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792003
>What might at first seem like a bit of trolling turns into unironic harem making with homoeroticism on the side.
guessing that actually happened?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 11 Oct 2023 23:19:20 No.5792030 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792003
>What might at first seem like a bit of trolling turns into unironic harem making with homoeroticism on the side.
Happens surprisingly often

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Thu 12 Oct 2023 00:07:10 No.5792054 Report

Quoted By: >>5792057

>>5791952
Foursome, you louse!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 00:10:13 No.5792057 Report

Quoted By: >>5792062

>>5792054
That is true, Faith counts too.

Or were you suggesting Arty might want a seat at the table? Who knows, she might be a super freak. A couple of girls I have dated who had... bad adolescent years were into some very kinky stuff. Not sure if 100% related, just something I noticed.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Thu 12 Oct 2023 00:13:27 No.5792062 Report

Quoted By: >>5792065

>>5792057
Arty, not the entity we were force to name Faith.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 00:16:03 No.5792065 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792062
Got you. Faith can just jack off in her cuck shed, i.e. our brain.

And yeah, Faith was not my preference but seems like we are stuck with it. Reeeeaaaaalllly hope she doesn't turn out evil with a name like that.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:29:59 No.5792148 Report

Quoted By: >>5792149

>>5791998
I avoided my original phrasing of "Proceed to fuck with them" for this exact reason.

>>5791794
>>5791799
>>5791800
>>5791914
>>5791939
>>5791952

“So, Raven… You usually don’t come study with us up here at night.”

“Well… I figured it made sense, with Merlin’s Last Last being a start and probably our salvation.”

“Yes, I see how that might have awakened a renewed appreciation for astronomy deep within you.” You hear Taylor choking on his own spit somewhere to your left. “You know it’s really a shame muggle tech doesn’t work near this much magic. Otherwise we could place cameras all around here, so we could study astronomy from the comfort of our classroom. I can only imagine the incredible images we’d get from the top of this tower.”

She’s now blushing so deeply that even the time she’d shown you her secret backpack paled in comparison, and she’s not looking in your direction at all, suddenly very interested in whatever astronomy book she’s pretending to read.

“I… figure they’d be… very interesting.”

“So, I imagine you’re putting your demon boyfriend research on hold, then?”

“W-what?”

“I mean, because you’ll be here, studying the stars with us.”

“Ah… yes, I… I figure I might. For a while, at least. Wouldn’t want to… forget my progress, after all.”

“Yes. It wouldn’t do too much good to study too much at once. We’re not Ravenclaws, after all, who can swallow so much knowledge without choking. Though I don’t think that would be a problem for yo-”

And that’s when she throws her book at your head.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:31:07 No.5792149 Report

Quoted By: >>5792151 >>5792156 >>5792160 >>5792161

>>5792148

It is once again a day of training with Lily.

“Come on, Taylor! Don’t just defend! Attack her!” Lily says, while fighting you and peeking with the corner of her eyes at where Taylor and Raven are dueling. “Put your back into it! Stupefy!”

“Yeah, Taylor!” You agree, dodging her spell. “Really give it to her hard! Protego! Bombarda!”

“That’s… A really weird... Way of phrasing that. Rictusempra!” Arty says through gritted teeth, mixed in her own battle.

“Well, you know - Depulso! Flipendo! - Different people need - Protego! - different stimulus!” You had not stopped with the innuendo since the day before, and it still got a reaction from Raven every time. “Positive and negative reinforcement, you know how it goes. Some people need the carrot, some people need the stick. It really varies. Glacius!”

“Elliot! It got old a whole day ago! Expelliarmus!” Raven shouts from where she’s furiously battling.

“If it still makes you embarrassed, then it didn’t get old!”

“What are you two talking about?” Arty asks, giving up on her battle.

“About Elliot being a prat!”

“I’m a perfect gentleman!”

“Expelliarmus!” Your wand flies off your hand. Lily picks it up and gives it to you. “Pay attention to your own battle, Little Elliot.”

> +2 to Battle Magic! New total: +20!

“Hey, you’re the one who told Taylor to start attacking.”

“Yeah, but I can afford to not pay full attention to the battle because I’m a better duellist than you.”

“I don’t know, you’ve been teaching me a lot.”

Lily puts a hand on her hip and raises an eyebrow.

“Are you saying you think you can beat me?”

“I’m saying you wouldn’t completely wipe the floor with me.”

“Huh. Alright.” She takes a dueling stance. “You’re on.”

“Wait, what?”

“I said, ‘we’re on’. Let’s do it, Little Elliot. Fight me like you mean it. No holds barred.”

“Ah… I’m not sure that’s a good idea.”

“Why, Elliot?” Raven asks, seeing the opportunity to hit back. “Are you afraid you’ll lose?”

“Ah, yes. Have you seen her fight!”

“Go on, Elliot!” Arty says. “I believe in you!”

“Yeah, we believe in you, Elliot,” Raven agrees with the full malice of mocking retribution in her voice.

Well, crap.

> Roll a d100+20, beat 2 out of 3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:34:08 No.5792151 Report

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>>5792149
This is why we should have studied herbology!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:35:28 No.5792156 Report

Quoted By: >>5792159 >>5792160 >>5792173

Rolled 3 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5792149
lets wipe the floor with this bitch!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:36:28 No.5792159 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792156
WHAT IS IT WITH MY ROLLS?! WHY DO THE DICE HATE ME SO MUCH?!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:37:00 No.5792160 Report

Quoted By: >>5792173

Rolled 74 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5792149
Rolling.

>>5792156
lmao it's time to job again.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:38:17 No.5792161 Report

Quoted By: >>5792173

Rolled 63 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5792149

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:40:15 No.5792166 Report

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Merlin, please, after giving us a micro penis, please let her job, just this one time. Thank you merlin, I like your beard.
Love, Elliot Hallaster

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:48:09 No.5792173 Report

Quoted By: >>5792179 >>5792210

Rolled 42, 24, 75 + 45 = 186 (3d100 + 45)

>>5792156
>>5792160
>>5792161

23 94 83

Come on Lily, I know you have Weasley blood, but please don't fail miserably.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:53:26 No.5792179 Report

Quoted By: >>5792181

>>5792173
I guess the dice just hate Hugo specifically.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Thu 12 Oct 2023 01:55:40 No.5792181 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792179
did still get a huge win on the 2nd roll

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 02:15:02 No.5792210 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792173
Well, I guess she didn't completely wipe the floor with us, so we made good on our part. Wish there were fewer people, and we could maybe use this as a chance to strengthen our bond with Faith.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 12 Oct 2023 05:16:33 No.5792404 Report

Quoted By: >>5792412 >>5792422 >>5792454 >>5792463 >>5792471 >>5792493 >>5792653 >>5792677 >>5792734 >>5792766 >>5792767 >>5792769 >>5792817 >>5793278 >>5793283

“Expelliarmus!”

“Protego! Starting off with the family tradition, Lily?”

“Hey, it worked against Voldemort, so it should work against you.”

“Huh, maybe when I get scarier followers. Stupefy!”

You fire off spell after spell, hoping to get a breach in her form, but it is impeccable. She spins in the air to dodge, not bothering with shields for half your spells, only for her wand to already be in position for the next move, and the next. You block, you parry, putting every combo and sequence you’ve trained for battle, but you can barely get to the second spell of your three spell combo before she’d interrupted you with a spell of her own.

High feint drawing a shield, which puts her into position for obfuscation, and which in turn flows seamlessly into three glowing blasts. A draw, followed by a cast and a bombarda, not aimed at you but behind you, sending you flying forwards. You fall and roll and need to depulso the floor to send yourself flying away from her barrage of stunners.

You’re struggling to keep up, struggling to survive, and she still doesn’t seem to be taking it seriously.

“You Potters - Protego! - need to learn - Incendio! - to be less good - Petrificus Totalus! - at fighting!”

“Tough luck, I don’t intend to stop any time soon! Impedimenta!”

The spell hits you in the left arm, and everything from the tip of your fingers to the left half of your face suddenly feel like they’re in slow motion, the movements sluggish and delayed as the rest of your body needs to carry those parts after it.

“Finite Incantatem!” You point the wand at yourself and when you turn it back at her, “Ouch!”

A shoe hits you in the face and your wand nearly slips off your hands. You fall backwards, dodging the spell that follows it by accident, then roll sideways to duck behind an old stack of training dummies, trying to buy yourself a modicum of time.

And that’s when you hear her.

“I feel you,” Faith’s voice says in your head. “You are in battle. Use my power, let my hand guide yours! Let us defeat this enemy together!”

> Use Faith’s power
> Don’t use Faith’s power

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 12 Oct 2023 05:23:02 No.5792412 Report

Quoted By: >>5792436

>>5792404
on the one hand, she did tell us we need to use her to strengthen out connection...
in the other hand, i feel like this is gonna be too much power and may end up hurting her...
nnngh tough call, but i think im going with
> Use Faith’s power
better now in a safe(ish) environment than fighting for our lives

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 05:26:30 No.5792422 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
> Use Faith’s power

Fuck it we ball. I want to train using her power, and we are hidden so our eye going all dark lord for a second should not be seen.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 05:37:11 No.5792436 Report

Quoted By: >>5792462

>>5792412
To be fair, the only other time we channeled her power, we could have easily bisected that last opponet in the 1st battle. I think she can pull her punches enough to not kill someone unless it is really life or death. And the more we work with her, the more control we are going to gain I believe, vs. us just going on auto pilot like before.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 12 Oct 2023 05:53:55 No.5792454 Report

Quoted By: >>5792471 >>5792513

>>5792404
> Use Faith’s power
Can't play it safe all the time. Just... Try to communicate to her "don't kill anyone". Wizards can regrow limbs, after all!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 12 Oct 2023 05:57:50 No.5792462 Report

Quoted By: >>5792463 >>5792471

>>5792436
I don't think this is a good situation to bet on such a thing. I'm down to use her power, but not here. Not now. Faith said we can channel her while training, so maybe we can go somewhere secluded later and try and channel her there?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 12 Oct 2023 05:58:54 No.5792463 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792462
Just for clarification's sake(and because I forgot to include it):
>>5792404
> Don't use Faith's power

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 06:10:13 No.5792471 Report

Quoted By: >>5792495

>>5792404
>>5792454
I will support something like this. Make sure she understands we would rather lose that go so hard it hurts our friend.

Your power, my mind, our victory.

>>5792462
What other training are we up to that she could help with? Potions don't require the magic juice she has, and there is nothing to show her just being a master potioneer. Only other times would be a scuffle in the hall with a dick like Brighton or an army battle. This is the safest, lowest stakes chance we get to practice working with Faith.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 12 Oct 2023 06:41:02 No.5792493 Report

Quoted By: >>5792513

>>5792404
> Use Faith’s power
Mind entity battle!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 12 Oct 2023 06:42:18 No.5792495 Report

Quoted By: >>5792513

>>5792471
I mean if we can hold Faith back, sure, but the issue last time is that rather than simply dialing back how much power we output, Faith had to hit a different target entirely just so her opponent didn't die instantly to one of her attacks.
What's even worse is that we're in a rather small room(at least, I think it's small) right now, with at least 4 people in this room that are not Elliot or Lily(Taylor, Raven, Arty, Arty's opponent). There are likely more than just that, and because of that, there aren't many places Faith can redirect her attacks to.
If Faith can't redirect her power, or hold back in a fight, then she can very well accidentally kill someone, as far as I'm aware. The worst part is, she takes total control over what we do, which means there's a chance we can't rein her in before it's too late.
If she CAN hold herself back, or we can work together, then that's fine by me. Otherwise, no.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 07:05:00 No.5792513 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792495
>If she CAN hold herself back, or we can work together, then that's fine by me.

Only one way to tell. I do not think she is going to try to kill anyone, and I have Faith, kek, she can pull her punches. We really need to see if we can work as a team, bc Merlin's Last light is fast approaching and something tells me we are going to need all the rabbits we can pull from our proverbial hat.

Since it looks like using her will probably win, you and
>>5792493

Might want to support
>>5792454
With me to do what we can to keep in control and make sure she knows to not let this get out of hand.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Thu 12 Oct 2023 11:45:22 No.5792653 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
no no no no no. No way girly.
> Don’t use Faith’s power

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Thu 12 Oct 2023 12:18:05 No.5792677 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
> Don’t use Faith’s power
Everything has a cost

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Thu 12 Oct 2023 13:59:37 No.5792734 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
>Use Faith’s power

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:+wWcVRvS Thu 12 Oct 2023 14:51:39 No.5792766 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
> Use Faith’s power
Personally, I'm in favor of the psychological/magical corruption

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:uyAGE6W6 Thu 12 Oct 2023 14:52:47 No.5792767 Report

Quoted By: >>5793060

>>5792404
>> Use Faith’s power
if lily dies then that's one less problem

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Thu 12 Oct 2023 14:57:08 No.5792769 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
> Use Faith’s power

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 12 Oct 2023 15:28:29 No.5792781 Report

Quoted By: >>5792953

Just a heads-up that I have a birthday party to attend and probably won't be updating today (or only much later in the day) as I'll be too busy consuming high quantities of alcohol

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 12 Oct 2023 16:14:22 No.5792817 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
> Don’t use Faith’s power

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 19:02:23 No.5792953 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792781
Have fun bro, stay safe.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 21:03:51 No.5793060 Report

Quoted By: >>5793063 >>5793082

>>5792767
I doubt she dies, she has her own mind demon she can break out and she is extremely skilled. If we win, the bigger issue is Potter becoming suspicious. We have gotten pretty good, but Lily is still in an entirely different league. So hopefully, we just barely scrape by with a win or get a draw. Much less suspicious than us rag dolling her.

At some point, I want to see her and Apollo go at it. If there is anyone who could take her 1 on 1 with no cheating, it would be him.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:uyAGE6W6 Thu 12 Oct 2023 21:09:31 No.5793063 Report

Quoted By: >>5793077

>>5793060
yeah i don't believe even a little Lily could die here and it's pretty dumb anyone is worried about it. Harry isn't watching this, he knows of the power up, doesn't matter.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 21:24:40 No.5793077 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793063
He is pretty sure we got more juice from somewhere the one time, correct. But once is a coincidence, twice is a pattern, and thrice is a certainty. If we win, Lily probably won't say anything to her dad; the peanut gallery on the other hand aren't going to shut up for like a week if we eek a win out.

It will probably be fine, just shows him what ever we are hiding is powerful enough to even the gap between us and someone who he personally trained for years in defense and dueling.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 12 Oct 2023 21:29:18 No.5793082 Report

Quoted By: >>5793129

>>5793060
>At some point, I want to see her and Apollo go at it. If there is anyone who could take her 1 on 1 with no cheating, it would be him.
That does sound interesting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 12 Oct 2023 22:21:55 No.5793129 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793082
I still think she would win, based just on skill but Apollo is ridiculous. On slip up from her and he could probably win. I'd do 70/30 odds in her favor.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:37ea7jcN Fri 13 Oct 2023 01:07:33 No.5793278 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
> Don’t use Faith’s powera

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Fri 13 Oct 2023 01:13:32 No.5793283 Report

Quoted By:

>>5792404
> Don’t use Faith’s power
Not here and not in front of Lily

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 01:25:30 No.5793296 Report

Quoted By: >>5793301

Rolled 9 + 3 (1d10 + 3)

Since QM is away, rolling for the size of strapon Lily is going to use on us while making Arty watch after our mind lady beats up her mind lady.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Fri 13 Oct 2023 01:27:00 No.5793301 Report

Quoted By: >>5793303

>>5793296
IT KEEPS FUCKING HAPPENING

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 01:33:10 No.5793303 Report

Quoted By: >>5793534

>>5793301
Hahaha kek.

She is really not happy we used Faith to dab on her. Maybe we end up finishing it with levicorpus and everyone sees she still wears panties with children's characters on them.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 13 Oct 2023 03:59:51 No.5793492 Report

Quoted By: >>5793504 >>5793505 >>5793509 >>5793512

“Guide me,” you whisper. “And don’t kill anyone.”

“Not unless you ask that of me,” she answers.

For a moment, your eyes grow fully black. Not like Taylor’s when he’s under the skyes, not the black of the night skies. It is almost as if they sucked in light. Your arms regain their strength, your lungs no longer burn for air. Your magic is no longer strained.

You can hear the breathing of the people watching. Taylor, Raven, Arty, the other Hufflepuffs. And Lily, not even pointing her wand at your direction, simply waiting for your next move, certain of her victory.

Power.

“Ascendio!” You shout and your magic launches you up in the air. You flip backwards, aiming while upside down. “Bombarda!”

“Protego!” She shouts, defending herself, but you didn’t aim at her. Much like she did before, you aim behind her and she is launched forwards. She falls into a roll, clearly surprised by your attack, but still very much fighting. “Descendo!”

You’re pulled down, fast, the floor approaching before you should have been able to react, but your body moves before you can think, your mouth already saying “Carpe Retractum!” pointing at the chandelier at the top of the room, a chord of light shoothing from your wand and pulling you towards it, slowing down your fall.

You dismiss the spell with a flick of the wand, feet hitting the floor already into a battle stance, wand already firing - “Stupefy!” - while Lily dives out of the way. You keep firing, trying to get her but even with Faith’s help she’s still better than you, and it shows. The way she moves, even as she looks to be getting tired, is never desperate or scrambling. It has intent, precision, a plan which changes with every move you take, but is never fully broken, until-

“Accio training dummy!” you shout, and you can see the confusion on her face as the large wooden training dummy behind you flies towards you at lightning speeds. But it never reaches you, you spinning around, sidestepping it as it flies past, ending up behind it. “Depulso!”

The dummy crashes against her with force, and she tumbles to the ground. You hear a few gasps from the Hufflepuffs, and you gain a moment to breathe.

Lily arches her back and bounces to her feet like a spring, never using her hands. You can see a trickle of blood coming from the side of her head. She spits on the floor, red, before staring at you with a bloodied grin that is anything but friendly, like a wolf showing its fangs.

“Very well, then, Little Elliot. If that’s how you want to play… Then let’s play.”

Oh crap.

> Roll a d100+40 (+20 from your skill, +20 from Faith), beat 2 out of 3!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:06:21 No.5793504 Report

Quoted By: >>5793518

Rolled 42 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>5793492
>Little Elliot
Bet she's about to call her mind demon for this one.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:uyAGE6W6 Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:06:49 No.5793505 Report

Quoted By: >>5793518

Rolled 70 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>5793492
fuck her up

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:10:17 No.5793509 Report

Quoted By: >>5793518

Rolled 41 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>5793492
DEATH

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:10:52 No.5793512 Report

Quoted By: >>5793515

Rolled 17 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>5793492
>she getting serious now
aah shit

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:11:53 No.5793515 Report

Quoted By: >>5793577

>>5793512
ok, thats it, im gonna stop rolling for a bit, this is fucking garbage, what the fuck are even my rolls?!

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:17:22 No.5793518 Report

Quoted By: >>5793524 >>5793529 >>5793534 >>5793569 >>5793579

Rolled 34, 79, 70 + 65 = 248 (3d100 + 65)

>>5793504
>>5793505
>>5793509

82 110 81

Not fantastic rolls, but +40 does a lot of lifting. Let's see how she does when she stops playing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:20:33 No.5793524 Report

Quoted By: >>5793569

>>5793518
RIP us I guess... At least we have witnesses so she can't mindwipe us again.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:24:02 No.5793529 Report

Quoted By: >>5793538

>>5793518
+65
what the fuck even is this bitch?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:26:36 No.5793534 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793303
Can't be Faith. Tits are too small.

>>5793518
Yowch.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:27:36 No.5793538 Report

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>>5793529
She's older than us, better trained than us, a combat specialist, and she has her own brainwyrm.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:02:04 No.5793569 Report

Quoted By: >>5793579

>>5793518
>+65

Are you shitting me? What the fuck is Potter's at then? Never mind her vs Apollo, she beats him worse than daddy did.

Since Faith equaled our battle bonus, maybe as it goes up, her bonus will match it, unless it was just a coincidence. Hopefully it will go up from us using her, if nothing else. And I guess my prediction of her fucking us with a 13in spiked stap-on was a bit to close to the money. Sorry.

>>5793524
With a bonus like that, she can stun everyone here without breaking a sweat and mind rape us all. Hopefully she remembers we are trying to be real friends, and friends don't mind rape friends.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:08:42 No.5793577 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 98 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>5793515
Please do.
Test:

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:09:22 No.5793579 Report

Quoted By: >>5793580 >>5793588

>>5793518
Christ, this bitch is crazy.

>>5793569
>Hopefully she remembers we are trying to be real friends, and friends don't mind rape friends
To be fair, friends don't embrace the power of mysterious women from their dreams to cheat in a duel either.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:10:25 No.5793580 Report

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>>5793579
>this bitch is crazy
I mean we already knew that but now Elliot does too.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:19:11 No.5793588 Report

Quoted By: >>5793598 >>5793605

>>5793579
She said, come at her with everything we had. This is everything we have. She knew she would win regardless, which is kind of a bitch move. At least we know the true gulf separating us now. And note she got the exact same boost as we did, +20, for her new rolls. Seems like she might have popped the cap on her mind friend too. Mutual mind-demon assured destruction.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:26:03 No.5793598 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793588
>Mutual
No, I'm pretty sure she fucking destroyed us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:28:59 No.5793605 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793588
>She knew she would win regardless, which is kind of a bitch move
I mean, she's just a competitive type. It's not being an asshole to bring the heat in a friendly bout, or else we're a huge asshole as well. And we're not....

Just a little one.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:03:57 No.5793636 Report

Quoted By: >>5793638 >>5793679 >>5793900 >>5794116

Lily Potter comes down upon you like the meteor against the dinosaurs. It is almost like she’d dropped any and all pretense of being a normal student, instead fully embracing being the daughter of the head-auror, chosen one and savior of magic britain. In that moment you know, with absolute certainty, that not a single one of the other seventh year battle teams are ever going to win a single battle unless she takes pity on them and gives them the win.

A stupefy which falls into a somnius which rolls into a diffindo which flows into a bombarda which goes into another spell, then another, seamlessly, effortlessly. It suddenly feels like through the rest of the battle she’d been wading through water, that her movement had been slow and clunky beforehand, and that now she’d risen to the surface and was free to really fight.

Even Faith’s strength is not enough as you’re once again reduced to desperately blocking one blow after the other, backpedaling through the room as she cuts you off at every spell.

“Stu-”

“Rict-”

“Exp-”

Every spell needs to be stopped midway through casting, so that you can block or dodge or avoid one of hers. You try quick spells, slow spells, more permanent shields, but she doesn’t give you time to think or even come up with a plan, your brain racing to find alternatives, until your back hits the wall.

You have nowhere to run, her next “Expelliarmus!” sends your wand flying off, and she stops with her wand inches from your face.

“Admit defeat?”

“What in Merlin’s name even are you?” You ask, simply flabbergasted.

“A Potter,” she says simply. “Stupefy.”

You’re awoken seconds later by an Ennervate.

“That was a fun battle, Little Elliot,” she says, helping you get up. “You’ve really grown in these past few months. Figuratively, I mean.”

“Thanks,” you say, with a sour note. “I’ll remember that next time I’m getting my ass whooped by Gryffindor’s Head Girl, that at least I’m growing figuratively.”

“Holy hell, Lily!” Arty says, running up to the both of you wide-eyed. “That was amazing!”

“Hard work and a hard-ass dad, more like. And good genes. But Elliot put up a bloody good fight, I really wasn’t expecting that move with the training dummy. He almost danced around the thing.”

“Oh, Elliot can dance,” Raven says. “You should have seen him at our victory party a few days ago.”

“Really? I may have to put that to the test myself, some day.”

Arty’s face scrunches up at that.

“Well, it’s getting late,” she says. “I think we should all go back to our common rooms.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:05:43 No.5793638 Report

Quoted By: >>5793647 >>5793649 >>5793650 >>5793654 >>5793674 >>5793679 >>5793687

>>5793636

It is the following day and your muscles are still sore from the fight, and as classes end you have half a mind to just go to your room and collapse in the bed. But you don’t. After all, you have something of extreme importance to do.

“So,” you say as Arty enters the Potions classroom room for your studies. “Several days ago, your infiltrated agent in my forces woke me up from my blissful sleep in a rather ungentlemanly manner.”

“Well, Mr. Hallaster,” she says. “I figure it is only fair after what you did.”

“In my country, that would be considered a declaration of war.”

She narrows her eyes.

“I didn’t realize we were ever at peace.”

“That would be a foolish move, Miss Pertinger. You should have realized by now that my enemies end up getting destroyed.”

“Really?” she says with fake innocence. “That didn’t seem to be the case yesterday.”

“The Potter spawn is a monster, she doesn’t count.”

That makes her giggle.

“Potter spawn? I don’t think she’d like you calling her that.”

“Well, then she should think before beating my ass so thoroughly.”

“What are we studying today?” She asks, changing the subject.

And so, once more you embark on an explanation on the principles of potion-making, answering her questions and helping her through the process of brewing. This is also a chance to brew your own potion for your next battle.

Will you brew something?

> Brew something now
> Focus on helping Arty with her potion, you can brew yours later.

If so, what? (will be ignored if second option wins)

> Girding Potion, (endurance)
> Edurus Potion, (rocky skin)
> Shrinking Solution
> Erumpent Potion (explosion)
> Garroting Gas (choking)
> Alchemist’s Flashbang
> Other (Write in. Non-cannon, made up potions with reasonable effects are allowed)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:13:10 No.5793647 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793638
>Focus on helping Arty with her potion, you can brew yours later.
mini-waifu comes first

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:14:34 No.5793649 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793638
> Brew something now
Smoke bomb. Or something that will blind people and allow us to move without being detected by spells. Probably blinding, that'd be useful.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:14:51 No.5793650 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793638
> Focus on helping Arty with her potion, you can brew yours later.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:21:03 No.5793654 Report

Quoted By: >>5793663 >>5793675

>>5793638
>Focus on helping Arty with her potion, you can brew yours later.
I say we teach her the art of brewing a Potent Exstimulo Potion. It's Advanced, so it's about our level. She should already know the Begginer forms of the Exstimulo potion. It should, in a pinch, allow her to cast spells on par with Apollo.

Now, later on, when we're brewing for ourself? I truly can recommend nothing else other than the Alihotsy Draught, which causes hysterical laughter to anyone that comes into contact with it or inhales it. Meaning it's effective both aerosolized and in 'grenade' form. Make sure our army has adequate protections going in it...I doubt it'll need anything further than some air filtration and body coverings. Could be mundane, I imagine.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:35:03 No.5793663 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793654
Support. Now that I think about it, we should probably get some of that for us, as well. Just in case we get into a battle while going to Merlin's Last Light. Given that Faith said she heard screams of horror when looking into the future, I'm expecting danger of some sort there.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:58:19 No.5793674 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793638
> Focus on helping Arty with her potion, you can brew yours later.

I do think for the next battle, Edurus might be the winning move. We have had too many locations that the flash bang would be good in, at this point I think the next field will make it pretty bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 07:00:38 No.5793675 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793654
>Potent Exstimulo Potion
Sounds good. That or a Maxima or Focus potion, if the Hogwarts Legacy game is being used in this quest; they both help with spell casting in different ways.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Fri 13 Oct 2023 07:10:33 No.5793679 Report

Quoted By: >>5793686

>>5793636
>Really? I may have to put that to the test myself, some day.
>Arty’s face scrunches up at that.
Lily's playing with fire and she's gonna get crucio'd if she's not careful.

>>5793638
> Focus on helping Arty with her potion, you can brew yours later.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 07:16:27 No.5793686 Report

Quoted By: >>5794116

>>5793679
Lily v. Apollo still might be cool, but hopefully not like this. He knows Crucio and she knows AK. And I am still pretty sure she wins most of the time, even without accounting for Unforgivables.

Still want him to teach us, and having re-read some and realized Lily can cast the Killing Curse, I want that too.

I hope you had a fun night QM, glad you made it home safe!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 13 Oct 2023 07:17:46 No.5793687 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793638
> Focus on helping Arty with her potion, you can brew yours later.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 13 Oct 2023 09:36:17 No.5793806 Report

Quoted By: >>5793807 >>5793818 >>5793826 >>5793900 >>5794114 >>5794154

You stir and cut and muddle together, creating a potion for her next battle on the following day. It is a fun activity, seeing her slowly get better with her technique, but you can’t help feeling there is something bothering her, and you ask her as much.

“It’s just… Potter’s gave the first lesson on the patronus. It’s… harder than I thought.”

“Ah… Yeah, you’re talking to the worst person possible. I can’t really help you with that. Or… maybe I can.” She looks at you, surprised. “There’s a potion that allows you to take the power you invest in it and use it to cast a spell. It needs to be taken moments before casting the spell, and it only works for one spell, and if you use it frequently it can cause your normal magical output to decrease, but… For just once, for just… showing that you can do it, just showing that you’re… happy enough…” Your voice hitches for a moment before you get it under control again. “It should do.”

“You’re sure?”

“I’m sure of what the potion does. I usually don’t like using it because it is only good for one spell, but if that’s the issue… It should work. When’s the dementor?”

“Last week of November. The days and times are randomized so no one knows… if you go at all… or if you fail.”

You already knew that, as it was the same way with you. The attempts are also well spaced so no one meets anyone else on the way if you don’t want to. You also know that by this point, she already knows when her turn is.

“You can do it, Arty.”

“Yeah,” she says, clearly not sure at all. “I know.”

So you two work on the potion, and an hour later you have a beautiful light blue in your cauldron, and so does she. Hers is just a slightly darker shade of blue, slightly inferior. But, still, not bad.

“Yours is better,” she says.

“Of course it is. I’ve been brewing things since my first day at Hogwarts. You started three weeks ago.”

“I had the same classes that you had!”

“Ah, let me correct myself. You started brewing things while being taught by a good professor three weeks ago. Slughorn can brew, but his pedagogy is crap.”

“Oh, and you’re better?”

“Clearly.”

She laughs, and while you’re bottling them up you pretend you don’t see when she puts your potion into her bottle instead of her own.

“Oh, I almost forgot your gift!”

“What gift?”

“For winning the last battle! I told I’d get you one. Close your eyes! Don’t open until I tell you to! And don’t peek!”

You do so, and wait. You hear some shuffling in front of you, then a hissed “ah crap”, then something getting dragged through the floor until it is right in front of you.

And then you feel her lips against yours.

It lasts for just a few seconds. Innocent. Just lips against lips, nothing more. It can barely count as a proper kiss, but it is a kiss nonetheless.

Before you can react, you hear her dash away, and when the silence stretches on and you open your eyes, you’re alone in the room. Only you, the box she used to reach your lips and a glowing feeling in your chest.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 13 Oct 2023 09:38:01 No.5793807 Report

Quoted By: >>5793813 >>5793856 >>5794003

>>5793806

Just going to drop this half update here before going to sleep. I'll continue it when I wake up, but figured you'd like it sooner rather than later.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Fri 13 Oct 2023 09:53:23 No.5793813 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793807
Aww, that's sweet. Very nice work QM.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Fri 13 Oct 2023 10:02:50 No.5793818 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793806
Well that's no fair, with her gone we won't be able to open our eyes. (I jest)

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 10:28:24 No.5793826 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793806
I am glad I feel asleep at my computer then woke up, just so I could read this. Arty is a good girl. No, Arty is best girl.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 13 Oct 2023 11:28:56 No.5793856 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793807
Cheers QM. This was a good one.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Fri 13 Oct 2023 12:53:59 No.5793900 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793636
Jealous Arty is a cute.

>>5793806
VERY cute.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Fri 13 Oct 2023 16:22:44 No.5794003 Report

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>>5793807
I like this. Arty is a good girl. Also, we should tease Taylor, 'cause we got the moon.

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Fri 13 Oct 2023 18:59:08 No.5794114 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793806
A CUTE!
A CUUUUUTE!!!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:04:06 No.5794116 Report

Quoted By: >>5794140

>>5793636
>“Really? I may have to put that to the test myself, some day.”

>Arty’s face scrunches up at that.
Bitch, no the fuck you aren't. You were EMBARRASSED by our Raiders uniform last thread. Therefore, you're not weird enough to dance with us.
Unless Lily meant dance as in a fight(a proper one), in which case yeah that'll be happening at some point.

>>5793686
Wait when was it said she knows the Killing Curse?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:29:43 No.5794140 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794116
Here
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5744433/#p5773480

>Worst comes to worse, you’ll need someone who can cast the killing curse.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:39:17 No.5794151 Report

Quoted By: >>5794153 >>5794162

“A few days ago,” Potter says during battle class. “A student came to me and asked why train battle magic. His logic was that the single most effective battle magic spell goes through all shields and defenses and, as such, there was no reason to fight with anything else other than that one spell.”

“Now, it just so happens that, through circumstances completely outside my control, I happen to be an expert in that one spell,” she says, and there is gentle laughter throughout the class. “But I figure if one person has that question, then more people will have it. So, the question is, why not just use Avada Kedavra all the time? It’s what Voldemort did, after all. So first, it takes a bit of power to do. But that’s not a problem for powerful duellists, like Lord Voldemort.”

“The second is that it is illegal, as an Unforgivable, and if you do use it I’ll have to come hunt you down. That, you will note, was also not an issue for Lord Voldemort. But the question is, what makes it Unforgivable? Surely, a well placed diffindo could do the same. A powerful bombarda. A large stone slab transformed into a bottle of water. There are many ways to messily kill a person with magic, so why is the single spell that does so cleanly is the one that is banned?”

He pulls a jar out of below his table with a spider, its feet scrambling at the glass.

“Those who do not approve of cruelty against animals, look away now.” He stops, closes his eyes for several long seconds. “Avada Kedavra.”

There is a green flash and the spider stops moving. A deathly silence falls on the room.

“Avada Kedavra is simple to cast on animals. It is harder to cast on magical beasts. It is very, very difficult to cast on humans, but it is not a matter of power. Much like the patronus charm requires happiness to cast, the green death requires hate.” He taps the scar on his forehead. “It is the reason a mother’s love can create a protection against it. I could point a wand at any of you and say the words and nothing would come out, because I don’t hate any of you. It should be obvious that anyone attempting to do so just to check the veracity of my words will be immediately expelled.”

“But the reason it is Unforgivable is not because it takes hate. It is that it requires more than hate. It requires a specific frame of mind. It requires the caster to hate you in such a profound way that your death is not simply a preference, it is a necessity. One may not cast Avada Kedavra to save a loved one, only in revenge. One may not cast it against a random opponent in the field of battle, because most people can’t hate a stranger like that. It cannot be used to defend oneself. One can only cast it against someone who they are willing to put their hand around the neck and squeeze until they stop breathing. You have to want to kill. It is not impersonal, like a muggle pistol. It is intimate, like a knife.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:40:48 No.5794153 Report

Quoted By: >>5794162 >>5794164 >>5794170 >>5794172 >>5794211 >>5794223 >>5794235

>>5794151

“For someone to cast it at you once, means they’re willing to break your neck. For someone to cast it twice, it means that they’re willing to break your neck, then slash your throat. Three, four, five times, it means that they’re willing to kill you that many times. Almost no one has that type of hate. They’d get bored. That was also not an issue for Lord Voldemort. At his peak he cast it hundreds of times on the battlefield. He cast it against a cowering mother. He cast it against a baby.”

“That is why this spell is Unforgivable. Not because killing someone breaks your soul, but because it takes a broken soul to be able to cast it against someone else. You must be able to no longer see that person as a person. You must see them as a vile thing. That is the secret of all the Unforgivables. To cast them against a person is to not see them as human. To cast crucio is to wish for that person to hurt simply for the pleasure of seeing them suffer. To cast imperio is to see them as nothing more than a tool to be used. If someone casts them against you… You can have no doubt they are your enemy, and you must be ready to fight to the death.”

There is silence, until a hand shoots up in the air.

“Sir… not to… imply anything, but…”

“But The Boy Who Lived: The Truth Exposed says I used Imperio to enter Gringotts?” He gives a half laugh. “Yes, yes it does. Had I truly used it, the goblins would have sent an army after me, even after the end of the war. That was the only way the writer could think of someone getting past Gringotts’ defenses, and so that is the way he said I did it. As someone who has broken into Gringotts, and then later in life been hired to audit their defenses and help fix the exploit I used, I can tell you Imperio wouldn’t even get you past the front door.”

“There is plenty right with its depiction of my life, and also plenty wrong. Please remember that next time you read a book about someone’s life. Now,” he says, changing his somber tone into one filled with energy. “Onto the class proper!”

--

After that somber class, you all go to watch Arty’s battle. After two consecutive wins, the Gryffindor’s fifth year army beats her, despite her best efforts. Yet her army returns from the battlefield with their head high. And so, the weekend arrives with plenty of homework for you to do.

What will you do with your free time on the weekend?

> Go to Hogsmeade
> Enjoy a lazy day in the Castle
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:41:29 No.5794154 Report

Quoted By:

>>5793806
>Only you, the box she used to reach your lips and a glowing feeling in your chest.

Going with the midget was worth it just so she had to drag a box over to kiss us yall. We can not fuck this up; do you know how few girls are going to be shorter than Elliot?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:48:32 No.5794162 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794151
That is a fair enough explanation. I still want to learn it, just from a technical standpoint.

>>5794153
> Enjoy a lazy day in the Castle

But leave with Apollo to walk Arty back.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:50:27 No.5794164 Report

Quoted By: >>5794256

>>5794153
> Enjoy a lazy day in the Castle
It's good to give the waifu some space every now and then

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:55:38 No.5794170 Report

Quoted By: >>5794209 >>5794223

>>5794153
> (Write-in) Try to channel the same feelings you felt when fighting with Faith to speak with her once more. See if it's possible to do so yet without sleeping.
Hoping we can see how much progress we made on that front. Plus if it works I want to ask the write-in question I wrote earlier(but unfortunately did not get enough votes)
If it doesn't work then:
> Enjoy a lazy day in the Castle

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 13 Oct 2023 19:57:06 No.5794172 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794153
>Spend the entire day spying on the other armies. See if you can't learn their upcoming strategies, or at least part of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 20:40:02 No.5794209 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794170
We can also just work on channeling her on command, since we need to strengthen our bond if we want her on speed dial for when shit gets hairy.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Fri 13 Oct 2023 20:43:30 No.5794211 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794153
i want to enjoy a lazy day in the castle, but my gut is telling me we could use more practice with Faith, so i´ll say we practice trying to improve our connection to her

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Fri 13 Oct 2023 21:06:29 No.5794223 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794170
Not this.

>>5794153
> Enjoy a lazy day in the Castle
We are in an ancient Lost World. We should enjoy it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 13 Oct 2023 21:26:11 No.5794235 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794153
> Enjoy a lazy day in the Castle
Also supporting walking Arty back. Not supporting getting a stronger connection with Faith though, but if we can talk to her while we sleep then fine.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 13 Oct 2023 22:08:19 No.5794256 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794164
Agreed. It is part of the D.E.N.N.I.S. system after all.

Also impressed we were all on the same page of not going out this time.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 00:48:40 No.5794367 Report

Quoted By: >>5794368

You decide to stay in the castle this weekend. Everyone knows that nothing gets cozier than Hogsmeade, but Hogwarts’ charm is also extravagant. The lake, the castle, the dungeons, every part of it brimming with magic. Winter is already peeking its head with a gentle snowfall over the fields where Ravenclaw’s quidditch team is training. On the lake, the giant squid is languidly spread on the surface, lazily playing with a few students on the margin.

It was insane, when you thought about it, that it had taken less than six years for magic to become normal to you, for Hogwarts to become almost mundane. Why, yes, of course the stairs moved and ghosts were real and people flew in brooms and paintings could talk. Why wouldn’t that be normal?

It was sad, when you remembered that for the whole muggle world, magic was nothing but fantasy. Every time you came back home and you stepped through the wall on platform 9 ¾ back into the muggle world, you were hit with just how far behind the muggles were. Sure, wizards had never made it to the moon, or blown atomic bombs, but the little things, the quality of life… the wizards won, and it was not even close. Not even the richest of muggles could do what you could do with the wave of a wand.

Every time you go back home and see your parents just the tiniest bit older, it is a stark reminder that wizards lived at least twice as long as muggles or squibs. The average life expectancy for muggles in Britain is 80. For wizards it is 170.

And you don’t want that. You don’t like that. You once watched a movie in which a character said that a parent shouldn’t have to bury a child, but you also find it unfair that a child needs to bury their parents.

So you walk the corridors of Hogwarts, remembering how utterly bizarre magic is meant to be, and how you’re one day going to find out what makes it tick, and how you’re going to take it and make it yours, and how you’re going to use it to live forever with the people you love.

Because you don’t want to be a ghost, and you don’t want to know what happens if you take the other route either. After all, some people say ghosts aren’t really the souls of the departed, and simply impressions their magic leaves on the world, no more “real” than speaking to a painting. Which meant that it could very well mean that there was no afterlife after all.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 00:49:41 No.5794368 Report

Quoted By: >>5794374 >>5794383 >>5794384 >>5794394 >>5794462 >>5794470 >>5794473

>>5794367

If you have to choose… well, you choose to say right here. Whatever is after the last train station can stay there. If it takes you finding Atlantis to figure out how to stop that train, then so be it.

It’s not your fault no one else cares so much about it.

But your day of enjoying Hogwarts and feeling overwhelmed by this entire world-ending threat you’re facing starts to come to an end, as the sun sets below the horizon. You’re at least a little less stressed about it. I mean, yes, there’s still a very real possibility of the whole world dying in the next couple of weeks, but that is too big of a concept for your brain to understand, so you don’t feel as strongly about it.

With the night coming, however, it means that if you’re going to walk back with Arty you should probably start making your way there soon.

> Head to the Three Broomsticks to walk back with her and Apollo
> Wait for Apollo and make your way there with him
> Do not go to the Three Broomsticks today
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sat 14 Oct 2023 00:58:51 No.5794374 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794368
> Wait for Apollo and make your way there with him
Let's try to make friends with the brother-in-law.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 14 Oct 2023 01:06:35 No.5794383 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794368
> Wait for Apollo and make your way there with him

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 01:06:38 No.5794384 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794368
> Wait for Apollo and make your way there with him

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 01:10:22 No.5794390 Report

Quoted By: >>5794473 >>5794480

We could ask him if he likes stuff like bird watching, just to break the ice. He could instantly tell the auror animagus wasn't a bird, which id pretty cool.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 14 Oct 2023 01:13:17 No.5794394 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794368
> Wait for Apollo and make your way there with him
We must learn how complete his chocolate frogs collection is.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 01:41:38 No.5794435 Report

Quoted By: >>5794459 >>5794470 >>5794472 >>5794473

So, after we make sure the world isn't ending on Dec.1st, it will almost be winter break. I think we implied we would come home in a letter. But I had an idea; bringing our new girlfriend and her brother to spend the break with us. They don't have any family to enjoy the holidays with. It seems like a good thing to do, for both of them, and I am sure mom would lose it over Eliott getting a girl and her being so adorable.

We are relatively wealthy, surely we have a spare room they can bunk in.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 14 Oct 2023 01:57:12 No.5794459 Report

Quoted By: >>5794491

>>5794435
100% behind this idea, yes! a thousand times yes!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sat 14 Oct 2023 01:59:20 No.5794462 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794368
> Head to the Three Broomsticks to walk back with her and Apollo
It's tradition, eh?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 14 Oct 2023 02:01:27 No.5794470 Report

Quoted By: >>5794491

>>5794368
> Wait for Apollo and make your way there with him

>>5794435
I was thinking that too. Elliot's mother will bring out the photo album and I will laugh at his agony.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 14 Oct 2023 02:03:52 No.5794472 Report

Quoted By: >>5794491

>>5794435
I also support this idea. We are our groups Weasels. Did we get Taylor and Raven to our home?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sat 14 Oct 2023 02:04:10 No.5794473 Report

Quoted By: >>5794491

>>5794390
Huh, good idea!

>>5794435
Also on board with this.

>>5794368
> Wait for Apollo and make your way there with him

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 14 Oct 2023 02:06:40 No.5794480 Report

Quoted By: >>5794491

>>5794390
Yeah, also this. Bird watching, or Chocolate Frogs or other small talk.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 02:18:39 No.5794491 Report

Quoted By: >>5794496

>>5794472
They have families, but I am sure they can pop by and visit a couple of times!
>>5794459
>>5794470
>>5794473
>>5794480

The wholesome family Christmas is going to make Arty cry a little bit, I am sure of it.

Maybe mom knits and they can get matching hufflepuff color "A" sweaters, or scarves.

We need to ask by owl if that is okay next owl, then float the idea with the twins.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 14 Oct 2023 02:20:14 No.5794496 Report

Quoted By: >>5794514

>>5794491
So what if they have families? Taylor has no muscle mass, we can kidnap them easily.
Also, speaking of owls, do have a pet?

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 02:38:29 No.5794514 Report

Quoted By: >>5794552 >>5794689

>>5794496
Eh, them visiting seems fine but 4 extra teens under 1 roof seems like it might be a bit much. Mom isn't Molly Weasley.

And I don't think it has ever been mentioned that we have a pet, unless it is the owl we use for letters.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 14 Oct 2023 03:08:46 No.5794552 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794514
Been meaning to bring it up and I keep forgetting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Sat 14 Oct 2023 06:21:57 No.5794689 Report

Quoted By: >>5794693

>>5794514
I think a lot of fairly well of families would be okay with their kid bringing back their orphaned friends to have a family christmas.

They're obviously in school and they're fairly well accomplished. As long as they don't learn we've been learning to fight battles, they should be okay.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 06:34:26 No.5794693 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794689
Oh yeah, I see no issue with the 2 of them. Just trying to bring the whole gang seems a bit much. Raven and Taylor have actual families I am sure they want to see, for one thing. But just our GF and her autistic brother? Nothing doing, if we can convince Arty to take the time off from work.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 06:42:28 No.5794698 Report

Quoted By: >>5794699 >>5794701 >>5794708 >>5794734

Also, for QM. If we ever do get in Arty or I guess someone else's pants, are you just going to fade to black or will you write up something on like pastbin as an interlewd?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sat 14 Oct 2023 06:44:48 No.5794699 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794698
Even if the QM doesn't, someone will. Guaranteed. Maybe even you.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 14 Oct 2023 06:52:32 No.5794701 Report

Quoted By: >>5794708 >>5794711 >>5794734

>>5794698
as long as he doesnt have us roll for it, i dont care
please no more rolls, my soul cant take it any more

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 14 Oct 2023 06:58:59 No.5794708 Report

Quoted By: >>5794711 >>5794716

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>5794698
I'm not sure I really want to read about two dumb teenagers clumsily fucking.

>>5794701
Rolling

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:04:06 No.5794711 Report

Quoted By: >>5794718 >>5794719

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>5794708
>96
Elliot may have only one inch to his name, but at least he uses it like a god.

>>5794701
Yeah, the rolling is getting a bit too much.
Rolling for Taylor and Raven

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:07:02 No.5794716 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794708
I guess our dance skills apply to the horizontal tango.

The great thing about a pastebin is, you don't have to read it. Most of the time I am cool with fade to blacks, but I really like these characters and as long as it isn't fap bait like on Akun, I think it could be kinda sweet and endearing, reading about these two fumbling around but making it work.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:08:37 No.5794718 Report

Quoted By: >>5794720 >>5794721

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>5794711
Rolling for Lily and nobody else, because nobody loves her

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:08:49 No.5794719 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794711
>Exactly half ours

Is that stuck it in the wrong hole and got punched territory yet?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:09:02 No.5794720 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794718
Based

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:11:41 No.5794721 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794718
Lily in the corner invisible, softly crying while Elliot and arty bang, knowing her fingers are the only lover she will ever have now, because she is a creepy stalker.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:38:32 No.5794734 Report

Quoted By: >>5794736 >>5794757 >>5794790

>>5794698

That is going to depend entirely on my feelings about it at the time, and when in the story it happens. If, (and that is a very big if) anything happens before Arty's next birthday it will probably be a simple fade to black. I don't see it happening, because Arty is extremely innocent, but stranger things have happened.

Still, I expect the relationship with Arty to be take its time, so who knows. Time skips (both for a potential interlewd and within the quest) are also entirely plausible.

tl;dr: it depends

>>5794701
Roll them dice, anon. Roll three ones in a roll again. The dice gods demand it.

--

You head for the great double doors of Hogwarts and sit on its great steps, still pondering about the nature of magic, the world and everything else while watching the stars above. Apollo passes by an indeterminate amount of time later and you do a little run to catch up to him and walk by his side.

“Hey Apollo.”

“Elliot.”

“Mind if I walk with you?”

“No.”

“Cool.”

You two walk in silence for a few more seconds as you try coming up with something to say.

“You were pretty quick with spotting that bird was an animagus, that day in the restaurant. How did you do that? Do you do bird watching?”

“Arty did. I accompanied. She'd have seen it too if she wasn’t distracted.”

“Oh, why did you two stop doing it?”

“Time. She’s busy all the time now. I… don’t understand why.”

You stop, trying to think how to explain it to him. You’re not sure you can explain it to him without saying something you shouldn't.

“She just wants her own money, to be able to buy her own things.”

“Why? School’s stuff is fine.”

“She just doesn’t want to depend on anyone.”

“Why?”

“Because some people aren’t comfortable with getting given something they think they…” You struggle to find the words. That they don’t deserve? No, that’s not quite it. “Could have gotten by themselves.”

“Why?”

“Because they think they’re taking advantage of the person, I think.”

“Why?”

“Because if they could be paying for it themselves, they think they should.”

“Why?”

“Because it makes them feel better.”

“Why?”

“Because…” you open your mouth but nothing comes out. You’re in too deep, and by now you barely know what you’re saying. “Because that’s just the way some people are.”

“... I don’t get it.”

You sigh, then simply laugh. “You know what, Apollo? Me neither.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:39:46 No.5794736 Report

Quoted By: >>5794742 >>5794747 >>5794753 >>5794757 >>5794790

>>5794734

You finally reach the Three Broomsticks, and a few minutes later Arty comes down the steps, smiling at you.

“Hey you two!” She hugs her brother, then hugs you, making sure your face hides hers from him so she can give you a peck on the cheek unseen. “Shall we go?”

You three start walking back under the stars, she every now and then bumping hips against you, and you bumping against her, which eventually leads to a fit of giggling Apollo fails to understand.

“So, Arty, Apollo tells me you used to do bird-watching.”

“Yeah, I did during my first years. Don’t have much time for it now, though.”

“Well, maybe we can do it together, some day.”

“That would be nice! There is a really nice spot on the other side of Hogsmeade the three of us can go to!”

… Yes, the three of us, that was precisely what I meant.

But then, you think of something else. It will be Christmas in a month and a half, and the two… well, they’re probably going to stay at Hogwarts during the holidays. But they don’t have to. You could invite them to spend Christmas at your house. You’re sure your parents would be ok with it, they were delighted in having Taylor’s family over in the third year.

You’re just not sure if now is the right time to ask. Your relationship with Arty is just beginning, and your friendship with Apollo is… Something as of yet undefined. Doing it later might be less awkward, but it would give Arty less time to arrange things with Hannah over in the Three Broomsticks.

One thing you’re sure of is that you can’t invite one sibling without the other.

> Invite them now
> Invite them at a later date
> Put that idea out of your head entirely

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:44:15 No.5794742 Report

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>>5794736
>Invite them now
Relationship or not, it's a good thing to do.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:45:22 No.5794747 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794736
>Invite them at a later date
Hannah is cool, we can easily convince her to let her go for a few days, we could even volunteer as payment at a later date

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:48:41 No.5794753 Report

Quoted By: >>5794762

>>5794736
we need our parents permission too... may wanna ask parents before we ask them.

last thing we want is to tell them we're giving them something we cannot

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:51:45 No.5794757 Report

Quoted By: >>5794773 >>5794884

>>5794736
> Invite them now

No time like the present. We can just float the idea and come back to it after we don't all die.
Its less than a month till the break so if they need to make arrangements earlier is better. Make sure they know it is no imposition, we have a spare room, and that our other friends have spent the holidays with our family as well.

>>5794734
If it does happen sooner than later and is a fade to black, I might write up a short non cannon scene on pastebin, if it is cool with you. Nothing too vulgar or smutty, just kinda cute, sweet, and dumb.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 07:54:10 No.5794762 Report

Quoted By: >>5794773

>>5794753
We can just add on;
"I will send an owl in the morning, but I know they would love to meet my friends. When Taylor stayed, they couldn't stop asking him questions or treating him like the King himself."

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 14 Oct 2023 08:05:19 No.5794773 Report

Quoted By: >>5794784

> Invite them now
There's not much reason for this to be awkward, even with our relationship with Arty. We probably wouldn't have any space to actually DO anything regarding it there, assuming we're still keeping it secret from Apollo(which by the way, does he know or not? He still seems oblivious about it but he did implicitly threaten us earlier).
This is just merely us gauging interest if the two of them want to go. Speaking of which, I do think that this time it's important to let Apollo think about it if that's his answer again. We can show that we're willing to be patient with him.

>>5794757
>>5794762
Supporting this wording as well.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 08:22:36 No.5794784 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794773
I think he realizes we have intentions on her and she is spending more time with us as well, just not that we are to the point of physical affection yet or that she has emotionally confided in us a couple of times. He has brain problems but he isn't dumb.

One thing, he probably has very negative connotations about people being with Arty like that, given he either Crucio'd or just pulped their dad/caretaker for trying to molest her.

And yeah Apollo needs some patience, not dumb but probably really emotionally stunted. I am sure Arty has her own hang-ups as well which we will discover.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 14 Oct 2023 08:29:58 No.5794790 Report

Quoted By: >>5794798 >>5794802 >>5795147

>>5794734
Oh look at Apollo, acting like he's mr Socrates.

>>5794736
> Invite them at a later date
Less awkward and more breathing room for us if things start going crazy after Merlin's last light. Also, we probably should invite at least Apollo along to that, since he's probably the strongest backup we could get outside of Lily and I sure as shit am not trusting her.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 08:44:19 No.5794798 Report

Quoted By: >>5794884

>>5794790
If we invite Apollo, I feel like Arty is going to come to. Hell, if we even let her know we are heading into danger, I don't doubt she will insist on coming which means Apollo as well.

I am okay with this. Apollo is a beast, right up there with Lily, and Arty can do some back up with a bandolier of Wiggenweld, invigorating, Potent Exstimulo Potion, and some offensive brews. She also knows shit we don't, specializing in Magical creatures inc. Thestrals which characters have used for quick escapes in the books, and Apollo being a Transfiguration god rounds out the party pretty nicely. The week of, we need to dedicate a slot to prep for our adventure.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 14 Oct 2023 08:52:45 No.5794802 Report

Quoted By: >>5794840

>>5794790
Doesn't Apollo literally want to join up with the Department of Mysteries after Hogwarts? The group that is (figuratively) breathing down both ours and Potter's backs trying to figure out what the fuck is going on?
I'm not saying he would definitely sell us out to them or anything, but based on that alone I'm not sure if it'd go so well if we were to tell him, emphasize that this info cannot be leaked, and the Department of Mysteries comes knocking on our (or maybe even his, if he gets too close to us) door to interrogate us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 09:49:32 No.5794840 Report

Quoted By: >>5794842

>>5794802
I am not concerned about him selling us out, he is so good he doesn't need a leg up. If we get him and his sister in on this though, get them to study the Occulamancy primer along with us, Taylor, and Raven. And yeah swearing them to secrecy, of course.

I feel like he would just naturally be tough to read regardless; maybe less so for Arty.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 14 Oct 2023 09:59:06 No.5794842 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794840
I don't think it's a good idea to involve them or anyone else. The fewer people know about this the better.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 10:58:01 No.5794878 Report

Quoted By: >>5794879

“Oh, there’s also a park near my home that would be a great spot!” You say, trying to sound as casual about it as possible. “How about it? You two can come spend Christmas with me and my family on the holidays, and we can go there! Won’t be as exciting as magical birds in the Forbidden Forest, but I’m sure we can make it fun!”

“C-christmas?” Arty asks, surprised. “I- I wouldn’t want to- I don’t want to be a bother- I, I mean, I’m sure your parents have better things to do-”

“Nah, they love it! With me and mum in the kitchen we always cook way too much food for the three of us. Taylor and his family went there for Christmas a couple years ago, mum couldn’t stop asking about Hogwarts!... Though now that I think about it, it’s probably best if you don’t mention the battles if they ask about it. They’re muggles, they wouldn’t understand.”

“Are- are you sure? I… I don’t want to-”

“We’ll go.” Apollo says.

“Apollo! I- I don’t think- Hannah, she… she might need help.”

“Let her know, then.” He says.

“It’s, I…” she stutters, trying to find the words. “We don’t… I don’t… I don’t know how to deal with muggle money, I wouldn't know how to pay…”

“Pay? Arty, it’s Christmas! At my house! No one has to pay anything!”

“But-”

“We’ll go,” Apollo says again. “We can help with the food. Or with the snow. We can help.”

And you suddenly understand what Apollo is doing, and there is a sudden burst of appreciation you gain for him. He might not understand Arty, he might not understand why she needs to not be given things by strangers… but he’s trying to get her a Christmas outside Hogwarts. If it takes finding them a way to “pay you back” to get past Arty’s hesitation, so be it.

“But- But-”

“We’ll go,” he says once more, to leave no doubt. “Thank you.”

And so, with a flustered Arty still trying to argue and with Apollo cutting through her excuses, you arrive at the castle once again.

“Well, here we are,” she says. “The parting of ways.”

“I’ll send a letter to mum, let her know we’ll be needing a couple more plates in December.”

“Uh… ok. I’ll… I promise I’ll learn how to cook better by then,” she says. “So I can help with the food.”

You just shake your head, smiling in defeat.

“Ah, Apollo, can you check if no prefects are coming?” She asks, and the boy goes. She looks back at you. “So… I was thinking.”

“Really? I’m curious to know about what.”

“Well, I was thinking that…” she says, nervously. “when you really think about it… you gave me a gift for every battle I won… so it would be unfair if I didn’t give two gifts back, wouldn’t it?”

“Really? And what sort of gift would that be?”

“Well, you gave me two cupcakes,” She bites her lower lip and takes a step closer to you. “So nothing fairer than me giving the same gift again too, don’t you think?”

“I think that sounds like the best gift I’ve gotten yet. But does that mean I’ll stop getting them after this?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 10:59:10 No.5794879 Report

Quoted By: >>5794881

>>5794878

“I… I hadn’t really gotten that far into that idea… but maybe we could just say that…” she says, voice ever slightly shaking. “Next time I give you one, you owe me one back?”

“And vice versa. I think that’s very fair.”

“I don’t have a box here, you’re going to need to bend down.”

You do so, just enough that she can reach you on the tip of her toes and press her lips against yours. She holds it there until you pull back.

“Better stop before Apollo comes back,” you say, winking.

“Well,” she says, blushing. “He’ll know about it eventually.”

“Right… could we maybe arrange for him to discover that when he doesn’t have his wand nearby?”

She laughs, and you’re pretty sure it’s the most beautiful laughter in the whole world.

--

So, Sunday ends and a swift Monday comes through carrying your mom’s answer that, yes, she’d love to have company for Christmas, followed by its normal array of classes. It has nothing… peculiar about it, but you can’t help but feel odd. Strange. A sinking feeling on the pit of your stomach. A dread from nowhere.

The whole day, that same feeling.

And you don’t know where it is coming from.

You go to class with it.

You have lunch with it.

You do your homework and have dinner with it.

Something you just can’t put your finger on, in the back of your mind.

You go to sleep with it.

And your dreams are torn open by a dark rift.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 11:00:23 No.5794881 Report

Quoted By: >>5794885 >>5794887 >>5794896 >>5794901 >>5794919 >>5794928 >>5794938 >>5794971 >>5795001 >>5795059 >>5795147 >>5795151 >>5795349

>>5794879
Faith’s form appears from the darkness and the dream takes the same quality of reality as it does as when you’re in the forest with her. But you’re not in the forest. The connection between you doesn’t feel normal. It feels violent, forced. Her form is shimmering, translucent, and desperate.

“Why… aren’t you… Merlin’s Light…” She speaks, but her voice sounds like a screech. Whatever is happening, it isn’t normal. You didn’t wander into her world, she pried the doors to yours with her own hands, and you can feel the emergency in her struggling words. “First! December!”

“What? Faith, I can’t understand you! We’ll be there!”

“No!... To- day!” She shouts, her body flickering in and out of existence. “First! December!”

You try to understand, to put things together. What does she mean? Today? But-

You wake up with a jolt, eyes wide in horror.

You look at the clock, the pointers just over four in the morning, the sun not yet beginning to appear over the horizon, but soon. You jump out of bed, jumping into Taylor’s and shaking him awake.

“Taylor! Taylor! When was that book written!?”

“Uh? Huh? Wha-” he asks, trying to understand what was going on. “What are you talking about?”

“The book, the book that told you about the star, that confirmed Merlin’s ritual happened on December first! What was it written?”

“Uh, the eleventh century? A couple more years more?”

“Oh. Oh no.”

“What? What is it?”

And the feeling of dread you felt the whole day comes through you in full force as you say a single word of absolute terror, more a hiss and a curse than anything else.

“Gregorian.”

The name of the emperor who had redesigned the old Julian calendar to take into account the extra quarter of an hour every year. It had introduced leap days, and then moved the days forward to account for the error on the previous calculus. It was made in 1582.

“Oh no. Oh… oh fuck. It’s- it’s thirteen days, right?” He asks, fear rising in his voice. “It moved the calendar thirteen days, that would make it-”

“It would make it today! December first in the Julian calendar is today!” You say, ripping off your sleeping clothes as fast as you can and putting on some robes. “It’s bloody today!”

“Crap! Elliot, what do we do? What do we do!?”

> No time to get the others, we go just the two of us
> Send a patronus to Lily and Raven, tell them to get brooms and meet us there
> I’ll go find brooms, you go to the astronomy tower and find the star
> Other (Write in)

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 11:02:18 No.5794884 Report

Quoted By:

>>5794757
>If it does happen sooner than later and is a fade to black, I might write up a short non cannon scene on pastebin, if it is cool with you. Nothing too vulgar or smutty, just kinda cute, sweet, and dumb.

Hey, just knowing someone is considering writing something based on what I wrote is the biggest compliment I could get. Go right ahead.

>>5794798
>The week of, we need to dedicate a slot to prep for our adventure.
That's a nice idea, friend :^)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:IcLZj3LV Sat 14 Oct 2023 11:06:51 No.5794885 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5794881
>> Send a patronus to Lily and Raven, tell them to get brooms and meet us there

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sat 14 Oct 2023 11:09:11 No.5794887 Report

Quoted By: >>5795349

>>5794881
> Send a patronus to Lily and Raven, tell them to get brooms and meet us there
Aw crap. This just makes me more regretful that the write-in question for Faith didn't win.
Well at least our mind demon has a name, whatever that's worth.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 14 Oct 2023 11:17:05 No.5794896 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5794881
>Send a patronus to Lily and Raven, tell them to get brooms and meet us there
time to panic everybody!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 11:22:46 No.5794901 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5794881
> Send a patronus to Lily and Raven, tell them to get brooms and meet us there

Fuck shit asshole cunt. Do we have anything brewed we can grab while the patronus is on its way> If so, get it, get dressed and let's fucking GOOOOO.

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 14 Oct 2023 11:58:46 No.5794919 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5794881
> No time to get the others, we go just the two of us
Based Apollo also OH NO!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sat 14 Oct 2023 12:17:27 No.5794928 Report

Quoted By: >>5795159

>>5794881
> Send a patronus to Lily and Raven, tell them to get brooms and meet us there
We promised her that we would call

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 14 Oct 2023 12:41:28 No.5794938 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5794881
> No time to get the others, we go just the two of us
If Lily really wants to come she'll find a way. Creepy mind entity will see to that I'm sure.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 14 Oct 2023 13:47:20 No.5794971 Report

Quoted By: >>5795001 >>5795111 >>5795159 >>5795349 >>5795370

>>5794881
Didn't we establish that we needed brooms to follow it? Something that Lily was gonna get? Given that I'm pretty sure she hasn't grabbed them yet:
> "Send a Patronus to Raven and Lily, tell them about this and to meet you in the Astronomy Tower. I'll go find brooms, and meet you there!"
Combining options B and C, which I believe are the quickest options we have(so long as I'm not missing something about option A, since we'd have no brooms if that were to win)

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Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 14 Oct 2023 14:27:17 No.5795001 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5794881
Oh you clever bitch. I should have remembered this, you very very clever bitch. How many people use Gregorian calendar as a plot point? Damn that is brilliant.

>>5794971
This, while lurching back into Lord Hallaster, Taylor my good man. Fetch me my end of days hunting wand, we're going after one cracking great trophy. Mostly because rational thought has just left us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Sat 14 Oct 2023 16:07:28 No.5795059 Report

Quoted By: >>5795067 >>5795370

>>5794881
> No time to get the others, we go just the two of us
Guys we cant waste time here, i know bringing the others is a good idea but we only have one shot and if we miss it we are done for.

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sat 14 Oct 2023 16:15:04 No.5795067 Report

Quoted By: >>5795099

>>5795059
But wouldn't going without brooms would just make it take longer, if we can even reach it on foot to begin with?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Sat 14 Oct 2023 16:49:42 No.5795099 Report

Quoted By: >>5795104

>>5795067
I was under the impression we were getting the brooms either way

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sat 14 Oct 2023 16:53:27 No.5795104 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795099
But then I don't see how us going with Taylor right now would be faster in that case as well, since we both would have to go get the brooms, then climb the tower to see the star and then follow it, instead of having someone else deal with half of the equation.
The "No time" seems more like the panic option then the faster one.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sat 14 Oct 2023 16:59:53 No.5795111 Report

Quoted By: >>5795150

>>5794971
To be completely honest, this to me seems to be the best one.
A Patronus can do it's own thing so it's no time wasted, Taylor can find the star, and we can get the brooms.
The only reason I'm not changing to it is because I don't know if QM would read it as it own separate vote, which lower the votes for spliting up the tasks and let the other win

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sat 14 Oct 2023 18:07:27 No.5795147 Report

Quoted By: >>5795151

>>5794790
>Mr. Socrates
Made me think of the T-800 in Terminator 2.

>>5794881
> Send a patronus to Lily and Raven, tell them to get brooms and meet us there

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 14 Oct 2023 18:11:24 No.5795150 Report

Quoted By: >>5795151 >>5795159 >>5795370

>>5795111
That wouldn't be an issue since the panic option only has 2 votes, but I'm like 90% sure the QM is writing already, so there probably isn't much of a point anymore. Plus with 6 votes for Lily and Raven getting the brooms vs 2 votes for us getting it, 3 people would need to switch their votes for it to win.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sat 14 Oct 2023 18:17:54 No.5795151 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5794881
> "Send a Patronus to Raven and Lily, tell them about this and to meet you in the Astronomy Tower. I'll go find brooms, and meet you there!"
Actually, change my vote to this, if indeed it needs to be specified. >>5795147 was my original vote.

>>5795150
Well, I'll do my part.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sat 14 Oct 2023 18:25:17 No.5795159 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5795150
Well, in that case
>>5794928
Changing my vote to support this one
>>5794971

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sat 14 Oct 2023 20:25:05 No.5795349 Report

Quoted By: >>5795370

>>5794881
>>5794887
I'll also change my vote to
>>5794971
If it isn't too late.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 20:39:45 No.5795370 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795150
The QM just got back from a 4pm lunch and is starting to write now.

>>5795001
> Oh you clever bitch
:)

> Send a patronus to Lily and Raven, tell them to get brooms and meet us there
>>5794885
>>5794896
>>5794901

> No time to get the others, we go just the two of us
>>5794919
>>5794938
>>5795059

> "Send a Patronus to Raven and Lily, tell them about this and to meet you in the Astronomy Tower. I'll go find brooms, and meet you there!"
>>5794971
>>5795151
>>5795159
>>5795349

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:17:51 No.5795529 Report

Quoted By: >>5795534

You dash ahead while Taylor casts his spell, barely stopping to grab your pouch before casting a disillusionment charm and running through the door at full speed swearing every single foul word you know.

Merlin’s fucking balls I should have seen it! I should have been ready earlier!

You race up the stairs, out the dungeon and through the great double doors into the gardens of Hogwarts, dashing as fast as your legs allow you.

“Need some help, Little Elliot?”

You look up and flying on a beautiful Firebolt S15 is Lily, hand stretched down towards you. You grab it and she hoists you up to the back before accelerating towards the quidditch field, the air whistling past you.

“I thought it was December first!” She shouts over the wind.

“It was Julian, not Gregorian! December first is today!”

“Oh that’s some bullcrap!”

She turns in the air, breaking and swinging her leg over you, getting out of the broom in one single move. You two run to the quidditch supplies door, Lily pulling a ring filled with keys. She pulls one and shoves it in the door and turns.

“Perks of being the Head Girl,” she says, entering. “We get to steal the brooms and not set off any alarms.”

She tosses you a trio of school brooms, locks the door back up and you two fly upwards towards the only lit room in the Astronomy tower, where Raven is pacing from one side to the other while Taylor scans the skies. You squeeze through one of the other windows, Lily right behind you.

“Did you find it? Did you find the star?”

“It’s not a star,” Taylor says, eyes like the sky above.

“What?”

“I said it’s not a bloody star! Not anymore!” He takes a broom and steps through the window with the runes only you can see. “Come on! Everyone through the window!”

You four each pass through it, flying through the night air, the milky way above you. And in front of you, you see it, that single star shining brighter than all others, right in front of you.

And then you notice… Taylor is right. It’s not a star. It isn’t moving with the sky. It’s hung in the air, a fixed point in space hanging above the great lake. You fly towards it, the eastern sky beginning to grow redder, the sun threatening to show up, to end December’s First Night, forcing your broom to fly as fast as its enchantments allow it to go, the wood below vibrating as you push it to its limits.

You pull up, the abrupt deceleration forcing it against you, hurting your chest. But it doesn’t matter. In front of you, a tiny pinprick of light, a star, not as a modern astronomer would understand it made of hydrogen and a million miles wide. No. This was a star as an ancient wizard saw it. As Merlin saw it. A single bright point of pure white hanging in the firmament.

“This… this is it,” you say, staring at it. “Merlin’s Last Light.”

“What do we do now?” Raven asks. “We’re here, we followed it.”

“No,” you say, reaching towards it. “I don’t think so. Not yet.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:18:58 No.5795534 Report

Quoted By: >>5795536

>>5795529

You touch it with the tip of your fingers and it glows brighter. A thin line strand of light comes down from it, faint, impossible to see if you weren’t right by its side. It goes down, down to the surface of the lake and into it.

The four of you dive downwards, reaching the water, pulling your wands out.

“Hope everyone brought swimming trunks. Bublius!” From the tip of your wand, a large transparent bubble begins to grow, until it is larger than your own head. You force your face through its surface, then leap off your broom into the absolutely fucking freezing waters below.

You swim downwards, the Taylor and Raven right behind you, Lily a few meters ahead and stopping every now and then to wait for you to catch up. The Bubble-Head charm gives you oxygen, but does nothing to stop your fingers from growing numb from the cold depths.

Then you see Taylor go past you, hugging a large anchor.

“Bloody brilliant,” you say, transfiguring your own anchor. Soon, the four of you are falling into the dark depths, your faint Lumos all that can show you the environment you’re in as you follow the Last Light ever deeper.

You pass fishes and grindylows, having to stun a few of them as they advance against you, and eventually your anchors hit rock bottom. Yet the line just keeps on going downwards through a pile of rocks and rubble at the bottom of the lake. Lily signals you to move away, and moments later you hear a muffled “Bombarda!” through the water. Then another. She’s halfway through her first when something gives way and the rocks collapse downwards, into a cave and the water rushes downwards, pulling you down with it. It’s like falling down a waterfall, falling as you scramble, trying to grab onto the sides and finding nothing but slick rock.

You are thrown by the force of the water, downwards, sideways, scraping your arms and legs, until you slam down against the bottom and the air is pushed out of your lungs by the impact. Your vision goes white for a moment before you manage to find yourself again.

You swim up through a side passage, your body hurting, your fingers freezing, until finally you breach air, dragging yourself up and out. Solid rock sits below you as you shakily step out into a dark cave.

“Holy fucking shit,” Lily says, coming up behind you. “Everyone ok?”

“Yeah,” Taylor answers, shaking from head to toe. “I mean, I think I injured every limb in my body, but other than that I’m fine. Raven!”

“Ablabh-” Raven says, and when you look at her she has a swollen lip and face half covered in blood. “Ebibley!”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:20:07 No.5795536 Report

Quoted By: >>5795542 >>5795544 >>5795550 >>5795556 >>5795571 >>5795594 >>5795599 >>5795612 >>5795654 >>5795688

>>5795534

“Ah shit!” Lily says. “Episkey!”

With healing spells from the three of you, the swelling on Raven’s lips slowly shrinks and the cut over her eye closes

“There we go. It was worse than it looked.”

“Thank you for that.”

You three take a minute to dry yourselves, warm up and heal any injuries.

“Are we there?” Raven asks. “Is this the place?”

“I think so.” You raise your wand, lighting up the depths of the cave. “But whatever we’re searching for is deeper in.”

Ever so slowly and carefully, you make your way over the slick and wet rock, until you find a crack going downwards.

“I can’t see properly, but it looks like there’s a room down there. Man-made.”

“I’ll go down first,” Lily says. “I’ll check for traps and curses, make sure it’s safe.”

> Let her go first
> Go down first

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Anonymous ID:IKzbBRSQ Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:24:46 No.5795542 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795536
>Go down first
damn we broke the lake

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:26:14 No.5795544 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795536
> Go down first
The mermaids are going to be pissed

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:28:19 No.5795550 Report

Quoted By: >>5795599

>>5795536
> Let her go first, but follow closely behind her.
No reason for us to stay here while she disarms everything. She can walk a few feet ahead of us, disarming traps, and we can follow closely behind. Any time saved doing what we need to do here is good.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:32:18 No.5795556 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795536
no time for safety, mind lady is fighting for her..."life"?
> Go down first

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:38:07 No.5795571 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795536
> Go down first
Dungeon delving time!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:56:32 No.5795594 Report

Quoted By: >>5795599

>>5795536
> Go down first

Dumber option but this is it. A Lost Place. Somewhere noone has been in a 1000 years. No way Elliot isn't going to be the 1st down there.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 14 Oct 2023 22:58:19 No.5795599 Report

Quoted By: >>5795606

>>5795536
I will be very upset if the giant squid suffers any harm due to this adventure.

And I am tempted by >>5795550, but >>5795594
said just what I was thinking. We're at Atlantis...are we at atlantis? Is that why there are merfolk in the lake?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 14 Oct 2023 23:02:26 No.5795606 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795599
Maybe! Or the sunken ruins of old Camelot. We can save the world and figure out a great mystery behind the Great lake. Think of the adventure! Think of the discovery!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sat 14 Oct 2023 23:06:50 No.5795612 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795536
> Go down first
Exploration!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sat 14 Oct 2023 23:32:14 No.5795654 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795536
> Go down first
Too excited to not.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 14 Oct 2023 23:52:13 No.5795688 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795536
> Go down first
No way we aren't going to be the first one into an ancient place.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 00:03:44 No.5795710 Report

Quoted By: >>5795714 >>5795759 >>5795795

I love how people are actually role playing Elliot, vs doing what is logical in letting the extremely powerful and well trained Gryffindor girl go first.

It warms my cold dead heart.

Also, if this is the kinda shit we want to do for a living, we might see if there is an optional 7th year class on like curse breaking, maybe taught by guest professor Bill Weasley lol

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 00:04:31 No.5795714 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795710
Sometimes you got to do what is right, not what is correct

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Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sun 15 Oct 2023 00:27:38 No.5795759 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795710
It took me a little while of thinking over it to go from 'of course send the lioness goddess first to die/trapfind' before the trickle of awareness went 'wait, maybe we know trapfinding, we want to find lost worlds after all' to 'FORWARD! FOR LOST WISDOM!'

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 15 Oct 2023 00:47:06 No.5795795 Report

Quoted By: >>5795812

>>5795710
Elliot's just a greasy little loot goblin deep down like every true adventurer.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 00:56:19 No.5795812 Report

Quoted By:

>>5795795
We are going to explore these places for all wizardkind, good sir. If we just so happen to keep the most interesting finds for our private collection, we are just continuing the proud tradition of British archeology. If we hadn't seized the Rosseta stone, it would be part of the floor of some savages house by now!

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:21:39 No.5795983 Report

Quoted By: >>5795991

Letting Lily go first would be the right thing to do. It would be the sane thing to do. She is older, stronger and better trained than you are.

But at the same time… That room down there hasn’t been visited in who knows how many years. You were led there by an ancient light revealed to you by an ancient spirit inside your head. It is the very definition of a Place of Power and by Merlin, literally, you’re going to be the first one to set foot into it!

“No. I’m going first.”

“Elliot, it could be dangerous-”

“I don’t care,” you say, jumping down before pointing up with your wand and saying “Carpe Retractum!”

The beam of sticky light shoots up, grabbing to the ceiling and trying to pull you towards it, slowing down your fall. And so, you come down into a massive, Ancient room. Maybe a dozen or more meters tall. It looks damaged, as if some catastrophe had happened here, large cracks over its surface and floor, including the one you came in through. Great spirally columns reach up into the air supporting the rock above.

On one end, a great door with a symbol you’ve never seen before, like a flame made out of silver metal. It is half open, and you can see that whatever room or corridor was on the other side long collapsed, stones bigger than you blocking the way.

On the other end, four great archways, over six meters tall each. Each one looks like it once held a great painting, but they’d clearly had been long destroyed, only the wood behind it remained with scorch marks of a fire long past. They were beyond saving, you knew, past the efforts of even the most powerful reparo.

But what intrigues you the most is the floor. It looks made from a dark glass, perfectly flat, holding within it small dots of light, all coming together to form… Hogwarts itself. Like some sort of map of the school held within it. Yet as you come down, your perspective changes, and what initially appeared to be flat now reveals itself to be a great staircase down, leading to a door. No. The Door.

It hits you like a bludger as you see the image, coming not from you, but from Faith.

“I see paintings long ruined. I see a stairway down.” She had told you a few days before.“I see a door.”

As you land and dismiss your Carpe Retractum, you feel a dizziness, a pressure, not of air, but of Time. You feel the lines of Fate bending, curving, being forced through this door, Faith’s hand forcing Destiny through a keyhole. All of it to bring you here. No. To lead you there, through that door.

Lily falls by your side, wand at the ready, spinning around and searching for a threat.

“This is still beneath the castle,” you whisper in awe. “For this to remain undetected for so long… Whoever built this must either have had powers unlike any we’ve ever seen, or…”

“Or?” Lily asks.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:23:37 No.5795991 Report

Quoted By: >>5795998 >>5795999 >>5796021

>>5795983

“Or they must have been a Founder. But this is not like the rest of Hogwarts’ architecture. It isn’t in the style of any of the common rooms either, from what I’ve seen on paintings, and it is damaged in a way Hogwarts could never be. So… I’m betting not Founders level of magic, but still something quite fantastic. No one today can pull this off”

Taylor and Raven come down too.

“Oh Merlin, I think I can hear Elliot getting a history erection from here,” Taylor says.

“You have no idea how excited I am! And also absolutely terrified!”

“I don’t understand…” Raven says. “Merlin studied soon after the Founders, or maybe even with them. If this came after the Founders, how could Merlin have known about it?”

“For only on that day does the star hang above the future cradle of the most vile and ancient magic,” you say, quoting the book that guided you to Merlin’s Last Light. And there is a certainty in your voice, as if you could see the events connecting. “Merlin created the Hall of Prophecies. He foresaw this place. He foresaw what is hidden here.”

“So below us…”

“Below us is the ‘cradle of the most vile and ancient magic’,” you say, nodding. “Is it wrong that I’m shaking in excitement?”

“And you criticize me for wanting to summon a demon.”

“Come on, through this door.”

You open the door below and follow through a long corridor. As you go, the well built floor gives way to rock, and the well-lit hall gives way to a spacious and dark cave. With your wands lighting the way, you move into the darkness.

“There was a battle here. A big one. A long time ago.” Lily crouches down and picks up something from the floor. It is bent and burned beyond recognition. “This is goblin silver. I don’t know what sort of magic could do that to goblin silver. It must have been-”

“Rrr-” A sound comes from in front of you, like air from a hoarse throat.. “Rrrrk.”

The four of you freeze.

“Rrrnrrk…” comes the sound again. But this time it doesn’t come from in front of you. It comes from the side. It comes from above. It comes from all around you. “Rrrannnrk…”

“Back away,” Lily whispers. “Slowly. To the door.”

You gently place a foot behind the other, silently trying not to make a single noise. Then you hear something fall to the floor. You turn, and silhouetted by the light coming from the corridor is… a creature. It looks like a small humanoid, possibly even a goblin, if not for it being completely deformed. One of its arms is three times as large as the other, and the light made it seem like it was made out of something dark and almost liquid.

“Ran… rok…” the creature says.

And then pieces of the creature, and the silver in Lily’s hand, and dozens of other points in the ceiling of the cave begin to glow red. And the ones above you start to move.

“Ranrok!” The creature screams in a deformed, grotesque voice before leaping at you. “RANROK!”

“Stupefy! Run!”

> Roll a d100+20. Bo3, DC: 80

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:30:14 No.5795998 Report

Quoted By: >>5796026

Rolled 9 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5795991
Oh no, he turned into a pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:30:49 No.5795999 Report

Quoted By: >>5796003 >>5796026

Rolled 49 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5795991
>ranrok
ahh shit, are we getting goblin revelion lore now?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:32:52 No.5796003 Report

Quoted By: >>5796012

>>5795999
With these rolls, what we are getting is our ass kicked

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:38:01 No.5796012 Report

Quoted By: >>5796031 >>5796094

>>5796003
i dont know why i even bother anymore, i said last time i would stop rolling, we are going to get mauled to death by a mutan goblin

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:44:54 No.5796021 Report

Quoted By: >>5796026

Rolled 14 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5795991
oh please oh please oh please.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:48:17 No.5796026 Report

Quoted By: >>5796031

>>5796021
>>5795999
>>5795998
we are so fucked, bros...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 02:51:18 No.5796031 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796012
You rolled the highest, so don't be sad
>>5796026
Maybe Lily can save us

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 03:22:36 No.5796094 Report

Quoted By: >>5796100

Rolled 76 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796012
Please stop.

We probably aren't 100% screwed from 1 bad roll but still..

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sun 15 Oct 2023 03:24:53 No.5796100 Report

Quoted By: >>5796110

>>5796094
WHY OH WHY DID I ROLL?!

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 03:36:38 No.5796110 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 40 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796100
I wouldn't have gotten the same result if I had not rolled when I did. The RNG is keyed off the server clock, supposedly.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 15 Oct 2023 03:45:59 No.5796121 Report

Quoted By: >>5796125

Ah shit, a boss fight.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 03:53:43 No.5796125 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796121
You mean, "hell yeah, a boss fight!"

I am really glad we let lily in on this, sad we didn't realize the date difference, so we could have Apollo and Arty here to help and bring potions, but oh well. Makes it more interesting this way.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 15 Oct 2023 03:58:15 No.5796128 Report

Quoted By: >>5796131 >>5796134 >>5796135

Rolled 4 (1d4)

Please ignore this roll

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 15 Oct 2023 04:01:45 No.5796131 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796128
>4
>we are 4 in there
ooh, we are all fucked

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 15 Oct 2023 04:03:15 No.5796134 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796128
Hmm

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 04:03:19 No.5796135 Report

Quoted By: >>5796188

>>5796128
You are not my supervisor, so I will proceed to freak out.

It's which or our crew gets hit, I am guessing.
Or how many other old goblin mutants homie brings to the fight.

Quick, goblins are like Joos, post anime nazi girls to weaken them.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 15 Oct 2023 05:35:11 No.5796188 Report

Quoted By: >>5796199

>>5796135

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 05:48:16 No.5796199 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796188
IDK man, ask Rowling when she made a race that controls the financial system, have had a number of rebellions in their host countries, and who's war horn is called a fucking shofar.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 15 Oct 2023 06:45:36 No.5796229 Report

Quoted By: >>5796235 >>5796239 >>5796240 >>5796243 >>5796267

You run, first towards the door, but they fall from the sky blocking your way. Five, ten, fifteen of them, and you look up and the sky is crawling with red.

“Bombarda! Bombarda!” You fire and the creatures are thrown back, only to be replaced by more, all chanting the same name, Ranrok, over and over again. They surround you, forwards and backwards. “Lily! What the fuck do we do!?”

“Elkara, lasira, cortare!” A wave of yellow energy flows out of her wand, moving slowly through the air. The creatures jump at it, almost not noticing it, only for it to tear them apart. “Run!”

“There’s nowhere to run! Incendio! Diffindo!”

“Close your eyes! Lumos Solem!”

You close your eyes just in time, a blinding flash of light exploding out of Lily’s wand, hurting your eyes even through closed eyelids. As you open them, the creatures appear to not have been so lucky, stumbling blindly while pawing at their eyes. But there are too many of them now between you and the exit.

“I see a way!” She shouts. “Follow me and keep close! Lumos Fillia!”

A sphere of light appears above her head and she runs, dashing through the cave’s uneven floor, firing spells left and right.

“How can she even see where she’s firing!?” You hear Taylor scream behind you. “It’s pitch black in here!”

“Just aim at the fucking red! Reducto!”

“What red!? Protego!”

“Glacius! The glowing red!”

“There is no glowing red! Stupefy!”

You chase after Lily, who’s throwing spell after spell at the creatures. But they simply don’t stop coming, climbing up from every dark crevice. As you run, the history nerd part of your brain tries piecing things together as you run past ancient digging machines and broken artifacts, but you don’t have time to form a semblance of a cohesive timeline, too busy trying to stay alive.

“Ahh! Depulso!”

“Raven!” You turn to see her in the shadows, holding her arm by the shoulder over a foot long gash of red, blood pouring through her fingers.

“I’m… fine! Keep running!”

And you do. You jump and you dodge, thanking Potter for forcing you to exercise with the battle class and Lily for the extra classes. You’re sure you’d be wheezing on the floor by now if this had happened at the beginning of the year.

“Chasm ahead! Jump!”

You barely have time to process what Lily just said before you leap.

> Roll a d100+20. Bo3. DC: 80

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 15 Oct 2023 06:50:44 No.5796235 Report

Quoted By: >>5796238

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>5796229
at this point i dont even know if i should roll...
you know what? im gonna roll to roll, rolling a D10, if i get 6 or more, i roll for this, if i get 5 or less i´ll leave it to other anons

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 15 Oct 2023 06:51:44 No.5796238 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796235
yep, just as i thought, good luck anons, im not fuckign us up for now

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 15 Oct 2023 06:52:07 No.5796239 Report

Quoted By: >>5796241

Rolled 5 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796229
Missed the last roll since I was at work. Now I'm off, so let's see if I have better luck than the other anons.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sun 15 Oct 2023 06:52:58 No.5796240 Report

Quoted By: >>5796283 >>5796569

Rolled 61 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796229

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 15 Oct 2023 06:53:25 No.5796241 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796239
Nope. I did not have better luck

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 15 Oct 2023 06:54:14 No.5796243 Report

Quoted By: >>5796260

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>5796229
Dice gods be gentle

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 07:34:08 No.5796260 Report

Quoted By: >>5796327 >>5796398 >>5796546

Rolled 84 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796243
Thank you, for the love of Merlin. I have been off reading about the ending of Hogwarts legacy, which seems related to this, and thinking about the Arty lewdfic I want to write.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 07:41:12 No.5796267 Report

Quoted By: >>5796546

Rolled 2 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796229
So I guess only us and Lily can see the red glowing goblin metal? Mind person benefits? Seeing ancient and or goblin magic? Also, going to put together a list of cool spells Lily has used, which we could probably pull off to with some teaching since we are kinda basic bitch with our repertoire now.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Sun 15 Oct 2023 08:12:36 No.5796283 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796240
skin of our teeth

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 15 Oct 2023 10:21:08 No.5796327 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796260
>thinking about the Arty lewdfic I want to write.
do tell me more...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 14:31:10 No.5796398 Report

Quoted By: >>5796546 >>5796889

>>5796260
I recommend playing the game, it's a good time.
Just don't try to 100% it, Merlin will drive you mad.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 14:35:08 No.5796399 Report

Quoted By:

And another tip if you do: Consumables are OP as fuck. Once you get access to the Room of Requirement, you can get as many plants and potions as you want and steamroll everything with an army of cabbages while being invincible.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:30:43 No.5796546 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796267
The problem is, I'm trying to keep most spells cannon to what the sixth year would know, and most spell are either pretty fucking basic. I feel like Rowling stopped trying at some point, as there is no escalation between "Lightly damaging sparks" and "god's fury on earth"

Some adults can pull some absolutely overpowered nonsense (just look at the fucking bullshit Dumbledore pulled to save harry from the inferi) and stupid to balance in battle class.

>>5796398
I did every single one of those fucking trials, and you get absolutely nothing for it. Never before had I felt the need to hunt down a developer and slap them across the face.

>>5796260
> the ending of Hogwarts legacy, which seems related to this
Yes, very much so. You're literally in the final area of the game, but changed to make more sense with the quest.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:39:46 No.5796554 Report

Quoted By: >>5796557 >>5796559 >>5796562

You jump blindly into the darkness, trusting only Lily’s lit up form to guide you. You fall, hitting rock, and turn just in time to see Taylor and Raven following behind you, except Raven is stumbling, holding her arm.

She isn’t going to make it, you realize with horror.

She leaps, and it’s too short, far too short.

“Wingardium Leviosa!”

She hangs in the air, still moving forward propelled by her jump, slow-falling through the air. You end the spell, spinning in place just in time for a monster’s claws to miss you. “Incarcero!”

Ropes fly off your wand, wrapping themselves around the creature while you run. You’re catching up to Lily, who’s busy dismantling another wave of goblins.

“How are there so many of them? Reducto!”

“Fuck if I know! Over there, I see a door!”

Some distance away, barely glowing through the darkness, you see an archway of the same design as the great chamber you were just in. Through it, a corridor leading to a massive door, two four meter tall humanoid armors holding swords by each side.

“We get there, we can block them off! Let’s go!”

Stunners, slashing spells, explosive spells, burning spells, freezing spells, nothing seems to work on the creatures, only delaying them, only pushing them back for a few moments, earning you a few seconds of reprieve before they once again lash at you.

But with a goal in sight, you race with hope. It is at the very least a place you can funnel them through, and if you can force them to pass through there-

A massive creature falls in front of you, perhaps three meters tall. It wears glowing red armor around its hulking form, and in its hand a metal club as large as you.

“... troll. Troll!”

The deformed troll raises its weapon and brings it down on top of you.

> Roll a d100+20. DC: 90

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zoPuJUmF Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:42:04 No.5796557 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 55 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796554

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:42:44 No.5796559 Report

Quoted By: >>5796569

Rolled 70 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796554
On ho, not those annoying trolls

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:47:25 No.5796562 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 62 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5796554

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:50:40 No.5796569 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796559
>>5796240
>two barely-passed DCs in a row
Whew. Tension's high up in here.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 15 Oct 2023 19:14:54 No.5796660 Report

Quoted By: >>5796663

You, Taylor and Raven jump out of the way, the massive club slamming the floor just inches away from tearing a limb off one of you. It pulls back, this time swinging it sideways, trying to get all three of you at once.

“Arresto Momentum!”

The club comes to a halt mid air, your magic stopping its movement. It struggles, wrenching it back, breaking your control over it before bringing it back down.

“Avada Kedavra!”

A green flash illuminates the cavern, and the creature falls down where it stood.

“Let’s go,” Lily says, the tip of her wand still smoking from the power of the killing curse. “We’re almost there.”

You four rush to the archway, and your feet once again touch smooth ground. You turn around, your wand moving, a triangle within a square within a hexagon within a circle.

“Prismatis!”

A bubble of energy appears around you, blocking the passageway entirely. The creatures throw themselves against it, and you can see them, goblins horribly deformed by Dark Magic and time, clawing against your barrier.

“Someone do something! I can’t hold them back for long!”

“We’re working on it!”

You hear them casting behind you, doing something, and you hope to Merlin it is something good.

“We’re done! Get out of there!”

You drop your shield and shout “Depulso!”, jumping backwards, falling on the black glass floor as a massive metal slab falls from above, blocking the passageway. The four of you wait, watching, seeing if it holds.

You hear them banging against it. Again and again and again.

But the metal does not move, and you slowly unclench every muscle in your body.

Something falls behind you, and you turn to see Raven collapsed on the floor, arm bleeding profusely.

“Raven!” Taylor shouts, running to help her. “Episkey!” The spell wraps itself around her, around her arm… But nothing changes. “Episkey! Why isn’t it working?”

“Dark magic,” Lily says, pulling out her wand. “Vulnera Sanentur! Vulnera Sanentur! Vulnera Sanentur!”

The blood flow diminishes a bit, and the wound slightly closes, but it is still bad. Still deadly. There is still a lot of blood, and you can see white bone in the middle of the flesh.

“This is beyond me,” Lily says. “She needs a doctor.”

“I’m… fine…” Raven says, opening her eyes slightly. “Just… just a scratch.”

“We don’t have doctors!” you say, your mind racing. You just need to stop her from bleeding out, somehow, but-

Taylor pushes you out of the way, then stuffs a torn piece of his own robes on her wound.

“Raven, love… this is going to hurt. Are you ready?”

“Heh…” she says, weekly. “You called me love…”

“Lacarnum Inflamari!”

The bloodied robes burst in flames, and Raven screams. Lily holds her in place and you watch, horrified, as the flesh is seared with a nauseating smell of burnt meat.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sun 15 Oct 2023 19:16:09 No.5796663 Report

Quoted By: >>5796668 >>5796670 >>5796815 >>5796861 >>5796889

>>5796660

Her cries go on for several long seconds before Taylor puts out the flames.

“Vulnera Sanentur! Vulnera Sanentur! Vulnera Sanentur!” He repeats as Lily had said before, blinking away the tears in his eyes.

The huge open gash in her arm stays there, but the bleeding stops. It looks raw and red and excruciating, but halfway healed. Raven is simply staring feverishly at the ceiling, covered in sweat.

“It will hold,” Lily nods. “She’ll need proper treatment afterwards, and she’ll get a scar but… She’ll live. Good job. Burning away the cursed wound, treating the new one instead… You might have just saved her life.”

Taylor sits by Raven, hands shaking.

“What… What was that? What were those things?”

“I don’t know,” you say. “Ranrok was a… goblin leader from the 1890s. He supposedly wanted to lead a revolution against wizardkind but… one day he just up and vanished. He and all his supporters. Gone in a day.”

“I think we found them.” Lily says. “How did they get here?”

“I… I don’t know.”

“That was Dark Magic, Elliot,” Taylor spits. “‘Most vile and ancient magic’. Well, there it is. You found it. Are you happy?”

“I… I’m sorry, Taylor.”

“Sorry? You shouldn’t be telling that to me!” He says, angrily. “Raven is the one who’s dying on the floor!”

“I didn’t know a horde of cursed goblins would be waiting!”

“You’re the one with the ghost in your head! You should have known!”

“Hey, you two! Cut that shit out!” Lily says, standing between you two. “We don’t know how much of this cave is left, or what is on the other side of this door, so we need to keep our shit together! You two can kill each other once we’re safe!”

Taylor glares at you with anger, then levitates Raven up and to where she can sit up leaning against the wall.

“He’s just angry,” she says. “It will pass.”

“Yeah… I know.” You say, not certain at all. “How long will that transfiguration hold?” You ask, pointing at the blockade on the door.

“An hour and a half, but I can touch it and give it some more time before we leave. Let’s use that time to rest for now. That took something out of all of us.”

“You think those armors will come to life and try to kill us?”

“I’d bet on it. Any ideas on how to deal with them? I… don’t know if the killing curse will work on that sort of thing.”

“I’m thinking about it. I’m sure I’ll have an idea when we decide to move forwards, but… you’re right. We can rest for now.”

Anything you want to talk about or do while resting?

> Write in

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 15 Oct 2023 19:27:05 No.5796668 Report

Quoted By: >>5796680 >>5796684 >>5796815 >>5797068

>>5796663
Maybe we can...
>Try to force a connection with Faith to get advice and make sure she's okay
Might also be a good time to ask how we make sure the void-monster inside us doesn't access the Last Light.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 19:27:49 No.5796670 Report

Quoted By:

>>5796663
>You say, not certain at all
He better do. The ghost didn't even directly tell us where we needed to go, what makes he thinks she would stop being cryptic to tell us what we would need to face?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sun 15 Oct 2023 19:34:38 No.5796680 Report

Quoted By: >>5797068

>>5796668
Supporting this

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Sun 15 Oct 2023 19:38:46 No.5796684 Report

Quoted By: >>5797068

>>5796668
I'm going to support this, since we didn't get the chance to ask it last time and we won't have any more otherwise.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sun 15 Oct 2023 21:53:47 No.5796815 Report

Quoted By: >>5797068

>>5796663
>>5796668
This, and also staying with Taylor and Raven and helping if we can.

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sun 15 Oct 2023 22:08:45 No.5796833 Report

Quoted By:

Huddled together, furtive and vulnerable. Rats in a maze.
https://youtu.be/rkL4_VKpyFQ?si=Mn_OaCMn4KUzSkAh

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Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Sun 15 Oct 2023 22:35:45 No.5796861 Report

Quoted By: >>5797071

>>5796663
Wonder if there's any unique plants or fungus we can improvise with down here...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 15 Oct 2023 23:13:58 No.5796889 Report

Quoted By: >>5797066 >>5797068

>>5796398
I played the 1st half or so but kinda got bored and stopped. It was fun but I kinda got OP to quick.

>>5796398
Well it would probably take place while she is staying over for christmas break and Elliots dad accidentally gets Apollo drunk enough to pass out because he is a total light weight, thereby giving Arty and Eliott some privacy...

>>5796663
Try to check on faith for one. Regroup with Lily, see how she is holding up. She has been using alot of strong magic.

As for the statues, a mass expelliarmus followed by wingardium leviosa and depulso might be able to impale one with its sword. We can also pretend this is the Hoth and have 2 people try and wrap ones' legs with steel cord and then hit it with everything we have when it is down.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:10:31 No.5797049 Report

Quoted By: >>5797073 >>5797075

So after Potter's sophistry about the killing curse, I wonder how he would feel that his spawn can pull it off with aplomb? Who am I kidding, he 100% taught her that himself.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:23:38 No.5797066 Report

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>>5796889

Just want to make it clear that there is no need to have played the game to play the quest, obviously. I'll at most make references and easter eggs, but anything important will be explained within the context of the quest.

This is both because a) I might want to change something from cannon or b) someone might be lying to the MC

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:25:15 No.5797068 Report

Quoted By: >>5797070

>>5796668
>>5796680
>>5796684
>>5796815
>>5796889

You sit down by one of the great columns, breathing deeply, trying to regain your strengths. Well, you did it. You found somewhere Ancient. You’re just not sure yet what the cost is going to be.

Your friend almost died already. A horde of messed up goblins chased you and blocked your path here. You didn’t know how you’re getting out. You hope there is a path ahead, because there was no way to go back the way you came.

It was a stark reminder that with Ancient Places came Ancient Dangers. Ranrok was 130 years ago. It stood to reason that he’s come here seeking the same thing you are. He came here and then… Then he and his men had turned into those things. You wonder if they had also stood in this chamber, wounded and bleeding, trying to come up with a way of getting past these armors, of stopping his soldiers from dying from whatever had turned them into this.

But you didn’t know the answer. You couldn’t know the answer. It had been lost to time, and if any records have been maintained of it, they’d been kept away from public view, maybe hidden somewhere deep in the ministry. As far as the general world knew, Ranrok had disappeared. The same could happen to you.

You had never considered that by chasing Ancient places you could become a permanent fixture of one of them.

You close your eyes, almost as if in a silent prayer.

“Faith,” you think, not putting much hope in it. “Are you there?”

But, to your surprise, a voice answers.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:26:19 No.5797070 Report

Quoted By: >>5797076 >>5797086 >>5797087 >>5797090 >>5797097 >>5797112 >>5797129 >>5797158

>>5797068

“I am. Whatever is below us… it allows me to speak to you, however briefly. I’m sorry about your friend.”

“She… she will be fine, I think. Do you… do you know what is behind the door?”

“No. I’m as blind as you are. Our fates are bound now, for whatever comes.”

“Last time we spoke… You said I shouldn’t let it reach Merlin’s Light. What did you mean by that? Does it not live in me?”

“No… that wouldn’t be quite correct. It lives through you. You are a gate for it, a channel to which it has latched on to. It tries to burst down the gate, but I stop it every time. Were you to die, It would be free and it would be the end. But simply because It cannot break down the gate, it does not mean It cannot put its claw through the bars of its cell and reach out.”

“Whatever lies within this place, it will try to seize and use to destroy you. How it intends to do so, I do not know. If I have my powers intact I will aid you in stopping it, but it takes a lot out of me to reach out to you. If you use my powers too much, with our connection as weak as it is, I might not be able to stop it when It comes. That is why…” And you feel her voice hesitate. “That is why I did not aid you in the cave. Because you were not in danger.”

It takes you a moment to process what she implied.

“You could have-”

“Stopped the attack on your friend? Perhaps. There are never any certainties, but I could have tried. But then I’d have been weaker for what is to come. I… I chose you. Your abilities were enough back then to save you, so I did not intervene.”

How do you respond?

> The fate of the world is in the balance, and Raven’s death would not outright end it. She should keep using your powers to only save me.
> Be outraged. She’s to use her powers to save your friends, no matter what.
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:27:47 No.5797071 Report

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>>5796861
Maybe? Might be good to just look around. Damn us for not seeing the Gregorian/Julian calendar difference. Having some potions right now would be really nice. So would having like Apollo as back up.

At one point, Elliot even complained about the different calendars when researching Merlin. Should have seen that. Characters rarely say things for no real reason, and that was our Chekhov's Gun.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:30:32 No.5797073 Report

Quoted By: >>5797109

>>5797049
>sophistry
Anon, he wasn't making fallacious arguments or trying to trick us. He was describing how the spell actually functions. It's not analogous to your country's second amendment rights. You need to let it go.

As for how he'd feel, I bet he'd probably have conflicted feelings about it, as he's expressed many times in regards to Lily's battle-readiness and capacity for adventure. He wanted her to lead a boring life without any life-threatening drama, but also wanted her to be ready for danger. Knowing she has the capacity to weaponize hatred to such an extent that she can cast a barrier-penetrating ultra-lethal spell would probably bring him equal comfort and discomfort.

It's also worth noting, though, that she cast it against essentially a troll zombie.

>Avada Kedavra is simple to cast on animals. It is harder to cast on magical beasts. It is very, very difficult to cast on humans

Hopefully, for the sake of Lily's well-being, she has never tested it on a human and CANNOT cast it on a human, or at least only on very SPECIFIC humans. The alternative implies extreme psychological disturbance.

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:32:36 No.5797075 Report

Quoted By: >>5797091 >>5797096 >>5797109

>>5797049
He's definitely a hypocrite, but I don't think it's really sophistry because negative emotions mixed with magic ends up fucking with things really badly, since we are going of Hogwarts Legacy canon.
So the corrupt version of ancient magic we are dealing with here is because some teacher decided to use it to take pain and other negative emotions from people, and gather it up in a using a container made with goblin metal. The people eventually turned into emotionless zombies and the teacher refused to stop. I also got the feeling that she got addicted to the corrupted ancient magic. Ayway, she was defeated and the other ones sealed the thing.
So Ranrok is a descendant from the goblin smith that made the ball and believes that it belongs to him due to goblin inadvertence laws. Because of his hatred towards wizards, the corrupt ancient magic worked really well with him and his forces, and then it ended with him following his dreams of turning into a magic dragon.
So the moral of the story is that if you mix hatred and magic you turn into a scalie addict.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:32:36 No.5797076 Report

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>>5797070
now, lets be reasonable, we KNOW we gonna need all we have for whatever we might find ahead, so i can see why she is conserving her strength, it may be a bit of a dick move, but its a reasonable dick move, i say...
>be annoyed, maybe a bit mad, but comprehensive about it

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:36:39 No.5797086 Report

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>>5797070
>be annoyed, maybe a bit mad, but comprehensive about it
She should have let us KNOW, damnit! But... She's right. There's more at stake here than any one individual's life.

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:36:59 No.5797087 Report

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>>5797070
>Keep what she's said in mind. While its annoying and aggrivating that she would think this way, it wouldn't do much good to argue with the voice in your head right now. And use what she's been saying so far to try figure out how and why you've been 'chosen' once you have a chance to think by yourself.
>"Very well, if you say so. But I want to ask how am I supposed to prevent the creature from reaching Merlin's last light if it's within me, and I need to reach it to help you?"

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:38:50 No.5797090 Report

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>>5797070
I need you to try, if they are in immediate, deadly danger, to help me save them. Raven will live with a scared arm. But if I am to face the trials ahead, I need my friend's help. If they are about to die, lend me your power. If it is a mere injury, trust that we will overcome it.

Should the entity overpower you, it doesn't matter if we are all together and hale; I will just die in good company."
"Thank you, Faith."

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:39:56 No.5797091 Report

Quoted By: >>5797096

>>5797075
The moral was supposed to be a joke, but now I realize that it works for Voldemort too, so there may be more to this. Was Grindelwald also into reptiles? I never saw Fantastic Beasts

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:44:00 No.5797096 Report

Quoted By: >>5797135 >>5797138

>>5797075
I think it makes perfect sense that harry Potter would be a hypocrite, too. He has 'main character syndrome' because he literally grew up as the main character of his and hundreds of other people's lives. "But I AM the chosen one," as he said. He would trust himself to not become corrupted or evil because he (at least partly correctly) believes himself to be a hero of destiny, uniquely suited to resist and battle evil. He was a Parseltongue who almost joined Slytherin when Slytherin really WAS just 'bad guy house'. He had a fragment of Loveless Anti-Life Snake Hitler in him. Why should HE fear the effects of Avada Kedavra?

>>5797091
One of Grindelwald's schemes involved making a zombie Qilin bow to him, making him Grand Poobah of the Wizard Unietd Nations so he could declare war on muggles

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Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:44:12 No.5797097 Report

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>>5797070
>Be too tired to be angry. Be...disappointed in her.
"You could have tried. But that's ok."

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:49:32 No.5797109 Report

Quoted By: >>5797124

>>5797073
I really hope she cannot cast it on people. That has terrible implications. We know she is pretty broken but hopefully not so shattered that she can completely disassociate a target from being human. And zombie trolls are probably a good reason to teach the less fucked up 7th years how to do it. It is unlikely they would ever need it and if they are chosen well, it wouldn't even work on a wizard or muggle but it might save your life vs the horrors the magical world can spit out.

>>5797075
>scalie addict
Lol. Yeah from what I got, Isadora was pretty fucked in the head. Granted, seeing all the suffering in her village being reverse in an afternoon by a few wizards would probably screw me up as well. That they could help but just choose not too...

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:51:08 No.5797112 Report

Quoted By: >>5797138

>>5797070
> The fate of the world is in the balance, and Raven’s death would not outright end it. She should keep using your powers to only save me.
Acceptable losses even if letting them die would haunt Elliot for the rest of his life.

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Mon 16 Oct 2023 01:58:32 No.5797124 Report

Quoted By: >>5797138

>>5797109
Yeah, suffering in the childhood lead by a miraculous feat must lead her to have a desire to save everyone no matter what.
Very much a road to hell is paved wit good intentions kind of deal.

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Mon 16 Oct 2023 02:00:30 No.5797129 Report

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>>5797070
I'll support
>Be too tired to be angry. Be...disappointed in her.

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Mon 16 Oct 2023 02:03:36 No.5797135 Report

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>>5797096
Well, that's close enough for me to proclaim the joke as an unbreakable truth of the harry potter universe!

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 02:09:24 No.5797138 Report

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>>5797112
It would probably become a real character defining train going forward. I don't want any of our friends to die in this hair brained attempt to save the world, but if it happens, if the dice god are displeased...well his character becomes a lot richer and more nuanced.
>>5797096
Harry is kinda like that, and there is no one to tell him that, no, you are not THAT special.
>>5797124
I honestly blame the other Keepers just as much. Surely they should have seen something wasn't quite kosher with her after spending a couple of decades with her? It might have just been subsumed by their satisfaction at finding another person who could see and manipulate ancient magic, or maybe they were just optimists.

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Mon 16 Oct 2023 02:26:54 No.5797158 Report

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>>5797070
>be annoyed, maybe a bit mad, but comprehensive about it

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:12:08 No.5797301 Report

Quoted By: >>5797319 >>5797322 >>5797348 >>5797351 >>5797356 >>5797388 >>5797527

You want to be mad at her. You feel like that’s the sort of thing you should be mad about. It’s the sort of thing Potter would be mad about. And you do feel mad at her, just… not enough. Because the fate of the world isn’t worth one life. It makes you furious that she didn’t tell you about it, but… you understand.

“I… I see.”

“I was afraid you’d be angry, if you knew.”

“I am. But we don’t know what’s ahead. And if Raven or Taylor or Lily dies, I’ll never forgive myself. But the world will still be here for me to hate it. And that… that has to be enough.”

You stand up once again, the conversation over, and walk to Lily.

“How’re you holding up?”

“Tired,” she answers. “But good. I’ll be back up to full by the time we’re ready to leave. You learn to rest quick when you’re living with the Potters.”

“You’re sure? The blockade you made seems to be holding. We can wait more if you need. You were firing off spells like nothing I’ve seen before back there.”

“It’s fine. Trust me, I can pace myself. A little bit worse for wear, but I can still go a long way. Mobs are complicated, but if it’s one on one… I can take care of anything in our path. One way or another.”

You nod. It is disturbing seeing Lily cast the killing curse and be that nonchalant about it but it is useful. Right now you can’t afford much else.

You make your way to the other wall and sit by the couple resting there.

“Hey, Elliot.” Raven says, voice hoarse. She’s paler than usual, but there’s some color back on her face.

“Hey… Sorry about the arm.”

“Not your fault… I’ll be up and about in a few minutes you just watch.”

“Well, I was thinking about leaving you behind. The way I see it, those things are the closest things to demons you’re ever going to get.”

She laughs, then grimaces in pain. “Don’t make me laugh, you twat.”

You stay in silence for a bit, before speaking again.

“Taylor, I’m-”

“It’s fine,” he says, shaking his head. “You… you couldn’t have known. You didn’t force us to come here. I was nervous and lashed out at you. I’m the one who should be apologizing.”

“Hey, did you hear?” Raven asks. “Taylor called me love.”

“Well, you were dying,” he says.

“Doesn’t matter. I won. Sweetie.”

“This is very immature behavior, honey.”

“Nonsense, dear.”

The two keep on trading pet names, and eventually start kissing, which makes you slightly uncomfortable so you go look for the softest spot of the glass floor to take a nap on. You’re awoken some time later by Lily gently shaking you with her foot.

“So… Do you have a plan to take down those statues?”

> We tie their legs and trip them up. Wail on them once they’re down.
> Mass Expelliarmus, then a Depulso of their sword to their chest
> We transfigure great battering rams and ram them into scrap metal
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:26:23 No.5797319 Report

Quoted By: >>5797351 >>5797356 >>5797364 >>5797375 >>5797385 >>5797388 >>5797527 >>5797832

>>5797301
>Have you ever heard about water jets? They can cut through steel. Magical water jets should be able to cut through magical steel. If we funnel your Aqua Eructo through our three Protego's positioned and shaped just right, we can force it into an extremely high pressure state that should do the trick.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:28:07 No.5797322 Report

Quoted By: >>5797339 >>5797388

>>5797301
> Mass Expelliarmus, then a Depulso of their sword to their chest
> We tie their legs and trip them up. Wail on them once they’re down.

"We need to try and split their attention, just long enough to get one on the ground at least. If we get one down we can try to transfigure the ground to quick sand or cement, then cancel it. Should hold one down for a bit.

Lily and I are front line. Taylor, you are mid to help with which ever plan seems to work. Raven, stay back, help as much as you can but don't over do it. You collapsing after a spell does more harm than the spell you cast would do good.

I will be going in 1st.

Thank you both for coming here. I...I love the both of you dearly, so thank you."

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:36:18 No.5797339 Report

Quoted By: >>5798142

>>5797322
Also, have Lily try to Apirate to the end of the room. We are below Hogwarts, the charm that stops people from apirating might not work this deep below it. Might give us an edge if she can pop behind one of the statues to tie it up or get a better angle. Worst comes to worst, if she can appirate out of here she can GTFO and try and warn someone or get help. That would be the real SHTF scenario though.

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:40:47 No.5797348 Report

Quoted By: >>5797353 >>5797356

>>5797301
> Mass Expelliarmus, then a Depulso of their sword to their chest
I guess nobody wanted to ask Faith that critical question, oh well.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:42:58 No.5797351 Report

Quoted By: >>5797357

>>5797319
Support. it's the kind of badass lateral thinking a muggleborn who's been studying military technology might dream up.

>>5797301

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:43:58 No.5797353 Report

Quoted By: >>5797376 >>5797465 >>5797524

>>5797348
Cup size?

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:47:00 No.5797356 Report

Quoted By: >>5797376

>>5797301
Supporting >>5797319

>>5797348
She (indirectly) answered it.
> “No… that wouldn’t be quite correct. It lives through you. You are a gate for it, a channel to which it has latched on to. It tries to burst down the gate, but I stop it every time. Were you to die, It would be free and it would be the end. But simply because It cannot break down the gate, it does not mean It cannot put its claw through the bars of its cell and reach out.”

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:47:17 No.5797357 Report

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>>5797351
Aqua Eructo can be controlled, too. So it's a magical water jet that can be moved around and follow its target...badass.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:52:20 No.5797364 Report

Quoted By:

>>5797319
supporting, muggle tactics have been rather helpful so far, imagine being the wizard that took down the guardians of an ancient city using muggle tactics, thats sure to put us in a book somewhere

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Mon 16 Oct 2023 05:59:37 No.5797375 Report

Quoted By:

>>5797319
Support.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Mon 16 Oct 2023 06:03:49 No.5797376 Report

Quoted By: >>5797400

>>5797353
based
inb4 Faith is justice

>>5797356
Huh I must've missed that. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but something seems off about that statement. Can't pinpoint where exactly.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Mon 16 Oct 2023 06:11:50 No.5797385 Report

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>>5797319
I kinda want to go for the Hoth special, but supporting this.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 06:14:02 No.5797388 Report

Quoted By:

>>5797301
>>5797322
>>5797319
I will change to this, if we think it has a chance of working. If we know IC it won't work, I will keep my original vote.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Mon 16 Oct 2023 06:22:42 No.5797400 Report

Quoted By:

>>5797376
>spoiler
That might be because of the wording Faith used in our very first encounter with her:
> “As for you, you are fading. It has latched onto you, and will not stop until it has consumed you. I am keeping it contained within you, holding it back, stopping it from hurting you more, but my protection will not last forever."
Sounds an awful lot like it lives within us, instead of through us

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 07:42:22 No.5797465 Report

Quoted By: >>5797524

>>5797353
From the description when we were nude, bigger than an A, smaller than a D? I imagine a largish B, a nice handful basically. Granted, I like smaller breasts so I might have some bias.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Mon 16 Oct 2023 09:33:52 No.5797524 Report

Quoted By: >>5797544

>>5797353
>>5797465
From the description I assumed it was C,
I am not biased so thats my nuetral pitch.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Mon 16 Oct 2023 09:34:53 No.5797527 Report

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>>5797301
>>5797319
Also
>supporting

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 09:56:01 No.5797544 Report

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>>5797524
Nice firm Cs seems likely, it's just all the art I found that might match her has a smaller chest. And I am biased, lol.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Mon 16 Oct 2023 18:25:23 No.5797832 Report

Quoted By:

>>5797319
this

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Mon 16 Oct 2023 19:16:22 No.5797863 Report

Quoted By: >>5797892 >>5798131

Taking a while to write as I'm trying to figure out how in the living fuck I describe this being set up and have it work with any degree of success.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Mon 16 Oct 2023 19:38:40 No.5797892 Report

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>>5797863
take your time QM

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Mon 16 Oct 2023 23:29:58 No.5798131 Report

Quoted By: >>5798142

>>5797863
Lol. You could always say, nah that wouldn't work and Elliot is smart enough to know that.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 00:00:54 No.5798142 Report

Quoted By: >>5798145 >>5798146 >>5798149 >>5798165 >>5798220

>>5797339
All of Hogwarts' protections are still active down here, apparition is impossible.

>>5798131
Well, if it is possible, I'd like to make it happen. Rewarding weird ideas is fun for everyone involved, after all. But after thinking about it it just wouldn't work without making "Aguamenti" the single most overpowered spell.

If it can be used to create a high powered death beam at those levels of pressure, then it can be use to break rocks and metal and pretty much anything else, since water is virtually incompressible.

Even if it was possible to summon water against such force, the weak point would be the flimsy wooden wand creating it, which would break with the pressure.

So, no water lasers. Let's run that vote again, shall we?

> We tie their legs and trip them up. Wail on them once they’re down.
> Mass Expelliarmus, then a Depulso of their sword to their chest
> We transfigure great battering rams and ram them into scrap metal
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Tue 17 Oct 2023 00:08:52 No.5798145 Report

Quoted By:

>>5798142
>no water lasers
bummer
>tie their legs
not gonna work, im betting those statues are stupidly strong and whatever rope or enchantment we use to tie them up is gonna break easily
>battering rams
i want to do this, but i feel like arent strong enough to just shatter these statues even with magic
>mass expelliarmus then depulso
im voting for this, has the greatest chance of dealing actual damage even if we arent powerful enough

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 00:11:01 No.5798146 Report

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>>5798142
> We tie their legs and trip them up. Wail on them once they’re down.

Operation Hoth is a go, I repeat, operation Hoth is a go.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 00:12:04 No.5798149 Report

Quoted By:

>>5798142
> Mass Expelliarmus, then a Depulso of their sword to their chest

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Tue 17 Oct 2023 00:23:42 No.5798165 Report

Quoted By:

>>5798142
> We tie their legs and trip them up. Wail on them once they’re down.
The Hoth special.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 01:15:55 No.5798216 Report

Quoted By:

I will wait a bit but if we don't get a tie breaker, I will probably change my vote so we can get this show on the road.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 17 Oct 2023 01:20:22 No.5798220 Report

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>>5798142
> Mass Expelliarmus, then a Depulso of their sword to their chest

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:03:55 No.5798318 Report

Quoted By: >>5798331 >>5798333 >>5798334

“Just to be sure,” you ask Lily. “You can’t just apparate out of here, right?”

“I’ll be tremendously pissed if I can,” she says before raising her wand. “Trasare travarte!” Her wand lights up, revealing a netted web of luminous strands crisscrossing the air. It fades after a few moments. “Nope. Hogwarts defenses stretch all the way down here.”

“Right… We need some way to destroy these armors. I figure the strongest thing we have available right now are the armors themselves. So here’s what I’m thinking…”

You tell her and the others your plan.

“Do you figure we can pull this off?” Raven asks.

“I figure you should stay in a corner and let us fight, but you won’t listen to us.”

“I’ll rest when I’m dead, and since we're not really all that far off from dying, I’d say I’ll get to it soon. But first, the statues.”

“We’ll need to synchronize, time it well. It won’t work otherwise. Everyone ready?”

You all stand side by side, a few meters away from the left armor. It stands imposing in front of you.

“On three! One, two, three!”

“Expelliarmus!” “Expelliarmus!” “Expelliarmus!” “Expelliarmus!”

The fours of you cast it at the same time, the massive sword being wrenched from the armor’s hands and flying through the air. There is a surge of magical energy, coursing through it and its twin as they wake up, their bodies coming to life as the sword flies up in the sky, spilling wildly.

But the sword does not fly up, instead going off backwards and to the right, towards the center of the room. The four of you race to try and line yourselves up with it, but it is falling too fast, you’re never going to make it.

“Wingardium Leviosa!” Raven shouts, and the enormous sword hangs in the air for just a moment longer before it becomes too much for her magic to handle. But it is enough, as you, Lily and Taylor flick your wands in place.

“Depulso!” “Depulso!” “Depulso!”

The sword flies forwards with force, pushed by three different Banishing Charms, and sinks itself in the chest of the unarmed armor. The energy flowing through it stops, then dissipates.

“Look out!” Raven shrieks, and you look up just in time to see the second armor plummet from above, sword pointed downwards towards you.

> Roll a d100+20. Bo3, DC: 80

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:14:09 No.5798331 Report

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Rolled 11 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5798318
>Another roll
Third time's the charm?

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:15:01 No.5798333 Report

Quoted By: >>5798338 >>5798339 >>5798341 >>5798342

Rolled 61 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5798318

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:15:53 No.5798334 Report

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Rolled 33 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5798318

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:17:13 No.5798338 Report

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Rolled 32 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5798333
Thank you so fucking much

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:17:32 No.5798339 Report

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>>5798333
Confidence surges as the enemy crumbles!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:18:23 No.5798341 Report

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>>5798333
Whew. Close call.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:20:30 No.5798342 Report

Quoted By: >>5798348

>>5798333
this is twice, maybe thrice that we have been saved by 1 simple number, what is it with these fucking dice?

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:25:30 No.5798348 Report

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>>5798342
We only get great rolls when it kinda doesn't matter, or the dice hate our opponent more than they hate Elliot. Yes, of course we are an excellent cook and dancer but we can't just mog someone unless it is Hugo or Brighton.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 04:19:29 No.5798407 Report

Quoted By: >>5798413 >>5798414 >>5798424 >>5798456

You jump away and see, to your horror, Taylor simply frozen in fear, watching as the sword comes down on him.

“Depulso!”

Raven sends him flying away moments before the sword crashes down on the floor, cracking the dark glass below. The armor stands back up, pulling the sword out and readying another attack, aiming at Raven.

“Stupefy!” You cast, but it simply bounces off his metal. “Bombarda!”

The explosion rings him like a bell and he turns to you instead.

“Ah, crap.”

The sword comes down and you jump sideways to save your life, but simply the sheer impact of the blade against the floor shakes the world, making you fall to the ground. You roll, the sword coming down again, inches from you. It raises the blade again, and you point your wand at him.

“Carpe Retractum!” You are pulled in his face’s direction as he attacks, flying past the blade, over his shoulder and directly towards the very solid rock wall.

“Arresto Momentum!” You hear Taylor shout, and your body comes to a halt before your face meets the stone. You fall to the floor safely, and turn around to see the creature attack him.

“We need another Expelliarmus!”

“I’m trying-” He shouts as he drops to the floor, the sword swinging over him. “To survive here!”

“On three! One, two-” He jumps in your direction, and you dive away to not be squished by its giant foot. “One-” It’s fist comes down, trying to grab you. “Ascendio!” You fly in the air, face to face with the creature. “Twothree! Expelliarmus!” “Expelliarmus!” “Expelliarmus!”

The sword flies up at the same time you come down to the ground, fast.

“Carpe Retractum!” You fire at the tip of the blade, it pulling you upwards, gravity pulling you down, both forces counteracting each other.

The blade spins in the air, turning downward.

The guardian widens its arms, reaching towards the humans on the floor, as if to give them a deathly hug.

> Roll a d100+20. Bo3, DC: 90

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 04:22:59 No.5798413 Report

Quoted By: >>5798468

Rolled 64 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5798407

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 04:24:04 No.5798414 Report

Quoted By: >>5798424

>>5798407
>DC 90
QM's really fishing for some deaths here, huh?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 17 Oct 2023 04:29:24 No.5798424 Report

Quoted By: >>5798427 >>5798431 >>5798436 >>5798468

Rolled 90 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5798407
Rolling...

>>5798414
Better than even odds with Bo3 and our modifier

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 17 Oct 2023 04:31:03 No.5798427 Report

Quoted By: >>5798468

Rolled 56 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>5798424
HOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 17 Oct 2023 04:37:24 No.5798431 Report

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>>5798424
Seize this momentum! Push on, to the task's end!

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 04:46:02 No.5798436 Report

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>>5798424
Thank fucking Merlin for you anon.

We aren't done. Not yet. Not while our friends are in danger.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 05:01:26 No.5798456 Report

Quoted By: >>5798468

>>5798407
I foresee a max power decendo on the sword, directly into the statue's helm, lol.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 05:15:47 No.5798468 Report

Quoted By: >>5798491 >>5798499 >>5798531

>>5798456
Close, but not cool enough.

>>5798413
>>5798424
>>5798427

You force your magic through your Carpe Retractum, strengthening it, forcing it to pull you harder, faster, upwards. You flick it off as you get enough speed, flying past the sword instead of into it, before spinning mid-air and putting every inch of your power you can muster into a final, bellowing “Depulso!”

You feel as your wand pulses, struggles with the magic you pour through it and then… is strengthened by it.

The sword gets forced towards the floor and falls with the weight of a building on the neck of the armor. The helmet flies off, clattering through the floor with a massive metallic clang, and the great armored body collapses into an enormous pile of empty armor.

> Your bond with your wand grows stronger! +2 to Battle Rolls! New total: +22!

Of course, you’re still falling, the ceiling too far for even your strongest Carpe Retractum to reach.

“Heeeeeelp!”

“Arresto momentum!” “Arresto momentum!”

Both Taylor and Raven shout at the same time and you stop, hanging in the air inches from the floor. The spell ends and you fall the remaining distance with a dry thud.

“Ouch,” you say, getting up from the floor. “That… was certainly something.”

“Something alright!” Taylor says. “I thought we were getting crushed!”

“Well, you all did good,” Lily says with a frown. "Nice job not dying."

“How’s everyone doing?” You ask. “Any injuries?”

“Nothing worse than before,” Raven says, still looking paler than normal. “Oh, and I broke a nail.”

“Do you think there’s more of these?” Taylor asks, carefully putting his arm around Raven’s shoulders, as if it could protect her from what's to come.

“Only one way to find out,” Lily says. “Elliot?”

The three of them look at you, and you look at the door. It is massive, but there is not a doubt in your mind you could push it open with your bare hands.

> Push it open
> Do something else first (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 05:29:35 No.5798491 Report

Quoted By: >>5798499 >>5798500 >>5798505

>>5798468
> Do something else first (Write in)
Have Lily go and renew the transfiguration on the slab of iron keeping dark goblins from killing us while we "catch our breath".
>When she is gone tell Taylor and Raven to keep an eye on her when we make it to the Last Light. She has been weird a few times and the promise of such power might make her do something she wouldn't normally consider.
>Make sure Faith is ready to hold back the beast
>If we find something, only Elliot will interact with it.

Then when she gets back
> Push it open

I have a bad OOC feeling Lily's mind Demon is going to make her betray us guys.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 05:35:53 No.5798499 Report

Quoted By: >>5798524

>>5798468
> Your bond with your wand grows stronger! +2 to Battle Rolls! New total: +22!
Interesting. Perhaps the key to taming our wand is to win against very difficult odds? Of course, we won the fight against Apollo in the first War, which probably would fit the criteria, but we relied on Faith to carry us at the final stretch so we might have lost out on it.
On another note, maybe we can take a moment to cast any charms we think might be helpful? We probably don't need to hide the specifics on why anymore, since Taylor indirectly blabbed about Faith, but if through this door Faith heard screams of horror, then maybe there are some charms we can use on ourselves to prepare
>>5798491
IC we apparently don't know much about her "other" mental state, which personally I find kind of weird considering we're a Slytherin, and Slytherins would be the one type of person to pick up on that, but maybe one explanation is our Hufflepuff side winning out.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 17 Oct 2023 05:36:08 No.5798500 Report

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>>5798491
fully supporting all of this, if there is one moment to double check and be paranoic, is now

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 17 Oct 2023 05:38:40 No.5798505 Report

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Be wary, triumphant pride precipitates a dizzying fall.

>>5798491
Support. For all we know there's a shard of fucking Voldemort latching onto her somehow, trying to resurrect himself the same way the eldritch unbeing is trying to materialize.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 06:05:06 No.5798524 Report

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>>5798499
We have noticed her being a bit odd a couple of times. We know what is at stake. We trust Raven and Taylor implicitly and while we want to trust Lily, we have called her out for her creepy stalker shit, so I think IC, we might have a touch of paranoia regarding her.

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 17 Oct 2023 06:13:08 No.5798531 Report

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>>5798468
Have Lily go and renew the transfiguration on the slab of iron keeping dark goblins from killing us while we catch our breath
>Make sure Faith is ready to hold back the beast
>Push it open
The OOC justified paranoia angle feels a bit too metagamey to me, so I vote against it.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 06:13:35 No.5798532 Report

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I also really, really hope Faith isn't evil and has just been manipulating us. I kinda have the feeling she might be the MC from Hogwarts:Legacy who basically turned herself into a mind ghost or living meme to continue protecting the legacy of the keepers.

If that is the case, Lily's mind friend might even be Isadora, the "bad guy" the other Keepers had to put down because she was using Ancient magic for kinda evil ends.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 07:42:15 No.5798603 Report

Quoted By: >>5798605 >>5798637

“Can you refresh the transfiguration on the door?” You ask Lily. “We don’t know how much we still have left to go.”

She goes, and you take the time to talk to Raven and Taylor.

“Keep an eye on Lily,” you whisper. “I feel like she’s being… weird.”

“What? Why?”

“I… I don’t know. Paranoia, I guess. Just… keep your eyes open.”

“Right,” Lily says, getting back to your side. “All good for another couple hours.”

You feel yourself fill with anticipation. As you touch the doors, you know fate is on the other side. You take a deep breath, then another, then push.

The great doors swing open effortlessly, giving way to a massive cave that drops down into a chasm a few feet from the door. There are signs of the epicenter of a magical war from long before permeating the entire area, the rock melted in some places, as if by dragon fire. On the depths, illuminated by a strange sourceless light that seems to cover the entire area, are remains of a dark metal distorted by incredible force or heat.

But that is not what calls your attention.

Directly in front of you, crossing over the chasm, is a bridge in perfect conditions, clearly conjured after whatever calamity befell here. At the end of the bridge, you see what you can only describe as a miniature white sun contained by swirling pieces of goblin silver. It oozes power, you can feel it like warmth in your skin, like beauty made manifest.

“Oh, finally.” Lily says, and you can hear her almost unbridled joy at the sight. But there is something wrong with her voice. There is ice in it, a coldness that wasn’t there before. She takes a couple steps ahead, basking in the white light. “After so long… Finally here. In my hands.”

“What? What are you talking about?” You ask, confused. “What is that thing?”

“That? That is a repository of vile, ancient magic, created by a witch who did not know her place. A reservoir of power no one alive can use. No one alive… Except us.” She turns to you, and there is a wicked smile on her face. But her face isn’t her own. Her eyes are dark, as if sucking out the light from around you. “Isn’t that right, sister?”

“Oh no,” you hear Faith’s voice inside your head. She’s frightened, and her words aren’t directed to you. “You… You escaped too.”

“Escaped? I clawed my way out of there! Out of the darkness, out of that hell!” The creature inside Lily shouts with her voice, furious. “I spent years inside this whore’s head! Having to learn how to control her, how to convince her, how to bend her to my will! And now… Now I get to be free.”

“Elliot, what’s going on?” Raven asks, scared.

“You’re another one,” you say. “Like Faith, living inside Lily’s head! All this time, I thought I was alone! Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Tell you!? Oh, Little Elliot. It’s simple. Because if your little Faith had taken a single peek into me… She’d have known exactly the type of person I am.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 07:43:17 No.5798605 Report

Quoted By: >>5798608 >>5798637

>>5798603

“A monster…” Faith whispers in your head, afraid. No, horrified. “Oh Merlin… What have you done to her?”

“And now, I get to take this enormous pot of power from its cage, kill you, and use it to wrench that gate from that tiny little soul of yours. Then I can saunter away to find the Fifth Founder and take his power. Or maybe I’ll kill you first and then break open the repository, it doesn’t really matter. That gate inside you should hold for long enough even after you’re dead.”

“You… You want to release the creature?”

“Release it?” It asks, almost laughing. “I want to control it! I want to open its cage, tackle it to the ground and wrap a leash around its neck. I’ll use it to take back everything Merlin took from me! From us! And when I have it on the palm of my hand, I’ll use it to break the world in half and reshape it in my image. You have no idea how long I spent in the darkness. For you, forever is just a concept. For me it was a reality. No. Longer than forever. Far, far longer.”

“You can’t do that. No matter who you are, no matter what you are…” You say, raising your wand at her. “That is Lily’s body! She owns it, she controls it! She won’t let you!”

“Lily!?” The creature laughs. It is cold and long and heartless and cruel. “Lily hasn’t been here in a long time, Little Elliot, believe me. Or, better yet. Let me show you.”

The eyes that are no longer Lily’s burn with darkness, and the connection it has with Faith explodes into images and feeling. And you see her. And you see him. You see a little red-headed girl, maybe four years of age, hearing a voice in her head for the first time. You see the voice, the creature, you see him telling her how she’s destined for great things. How if she doesn’t obey him, the world will end.

How if she tells anyone about him, everyone she cares for will die.

You see him whisper in her ear. You see her grow, and you see him undermining every one of her father’s lessons, every teaching and chain of thought that could lead her to reveal him to her father.

You see him become a part of her life. He forces her to study for nights on end, without rest or sleep, in search of the power he needs. He forces her to train her body and magic until they both break, because he knows he’ll need it. He teaches her how to put on a facade of Lily Potter, with a smile that never wavers, and hide herself from anyone that could help her.

You see him force her to do things to herself in front of a mirror, for his own amusement.

You see her die inside every time.

You see her fall deeper inside herself, closing her mind so she wouldn’t see what she was doing to herself.

Occlumency had been easy, after that.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 07:44:18 No.5798608 Report

Quoted By: >>5798610 >>5798637

>>5798605

You see him discover you, and the potential you carry. He whispers in her ear, convinces her to seduce you, that Little Elliot, because you’ll lead her to her fate, because you’ll lead her to save the world, because it is the only way you’ll take her with you on your journey.

You see him force her to battle you when you discovered him, once, and see him force her to take away your memories. You see him realize you also have your own mind visitor.

You see him make her follow you while invisible, waiting for the right type of opportunity, for the right type of “chance meeting”.

You see him mine her respect and self-worth. You see her break. You see her drink. You see her approach you at night and pin you to the wall.

You see her cry when she fails.

You see her on the quidditch field the following day. You see yourself approach, and she tries to seduce you. It fails once more, and you tell her to stay away from you.

She pulls her wand and obliviates you

You see yourself approach her, and she tries to seduce you another way. It fails. She obliviates you.

She tries to convince you it was a prank. She obliviates you.

She stuns you and forcibly kisses you. She obliviates you.

She tries, again and again, without success.

You see him go from angry to furious to irate.

You see her go from terrified to desperate to broken.

And then you see her try to tell you about him. You see her reach out to you.

And you see him take control. You see him lock her out of her own body. You see him bare her heart out to you, put her every insecurity on display, every shame and every fear, all while she pounds desperately on the windows of her soul, trying to get out, begging him to stop.

You see her fail. You see him succeed.

You see yourself walk away, unobliviated.

And you see him realize he doesn’t need her anymore. Her mind, fragile like glass. You see him shatter it, break it, like it was nothing.

You see her soul die.

You see him pick through its remains, and build a mask. A mask of Lily. Like prodding the corpse of a dead frog with electricity and seeing it move its legs, he’d done the same with her emotions. Nothing but a facsimile of what was, puppeteered by a monster more awful than the one inside you.

Like a dark cancer within her brain, it festers.

You see him live her life as she would, because it was the easiest way to not call attention.

You see him use her body.

You see him defile her body.

You see his joy at your promise to take him with you.

You see him plant an invisible tracking bug on you, just in case you lied.

You see him help you get past the goblins, not because he cared, but because he might need bait.

And you see him enjoy your suffering seeing just how much pain your friend went through before he killed her.

The vision fades and you’re on your knees, tears streaming down your face, your knuckles white from how hard you’re gripping your wand in anger.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 07:45:21 No.5798610 Report

Quoted By: >>5798617 >>5798629 >>5798631 >>5798637 >>5798652 >>5798662 >>5798739 >>5798745 >>5798850 >>5798987 >>5799001 >>5799064 >>5799132 >>5799222 >>5799670

>>5798608

“How…” You ask, voice shaking. “How dare you…”

“Why, it is not my fault, Little Elliot. I wouldn’t have needed to take control if you weren’t so obstinately refusing to be dear friends with her. It took me thinking about the types of people you walk with to figure out how to win you over. The loser who can’t stop looking up to save his life. The whore who can only sate her fantasies with the lie of a demon. The little orphan girl without powers. You like broken things, Little Elliot. All I did was show you just how broken she really was,” She, no, he says, with laughter in his voice. “This would all be different if you’d just kissed her. In a certain way, the fault she’s dead is all yours.”

“Now stand up,” he says, vile, pointing Lily’s wand at you. “I’d rather not kill you on your knees.”

How do you respond?

> Rise up, dust off, and fire
> Attempt to negotiate
> Try to hex him from the ground
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Tue 17 Oct 2023 07:49:51 No.5798617 Report

Quoted By: >>5798636 >>5799132

>>5798610
Why don't we do what we do best.

Be a Slytherin and throw him completely off his game

> Attempt to negotiate but not really because it's a gambit

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Tue 17 Oct 2023 07:59:40 No.5798629 Report

Quoted By: >>5799132

>>5798610
> Try to hex him from the ground
If you're going to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

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Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:01:26 No.5798631 Report

Quoted By: >>5798642

>>5798610
Wait, are we still carrying an Entrumpment?

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:04:27 No.5798636 Report

Quoted By: >>5798642

> “Oh no,” you hear Faith’s voice inside your head. She’s frightened, and her words aren’t directed to you. “You… You escaped too.”
Faith better hope for her sake that she had no idea any other "escapees" was possible, otherwise we're about to throw hands considering that would've been a REALLY good thing to mention earlier.
>>5798617
I might have an idea for something to do while we "negotiate".
Elliot now remembers that (not) Lily was able to be heard when we made eye contact, right? Could we have Faith replicate that to make a plan with her and relay it to Taylor and Raven?

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:05:37 No.5798637 Report

Quoted By: >>5798642 >>5799132

>>5798603
>>5798605
>>5798608
>>5798610
oh fuck, its happening! final boss time!
lets not repeat our last mistake and try to end the battle before it even begins
>hex from the ground, just enough to create a window of opportunity and unleash (preferably with Faith´s help)
should we try to call Potter here? if any of us knows how to patronus, sending him a message to summon him might be worth it

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:10:03 No.5798642 Report

Quoted By: >>5798659 >>5798831

>>5798631
No, the only potion you have with you is the Exstimulo Potion you made with Arty, which boosts the next spell cast (and which is in your pouch).

>>5798636
That only happens because both of you have these things inside your heads, and because he wasn't actively shielding himself at that time.

>>5798637
A patronus is not stopped by anti-apparition charms, but Potter has never been here, therefore he can't apparate here. Also, Hogwart' protections are in place and you don't know if he can override them.

Also, Faith's warnings about Potter are still valid, if you choose to still believe her.

I'm going to sleep, have a fun time arguing what to do!

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:22:05 No.5798652 Report

Quoted By: >>5798739 >>5799005 >>5799132 >>5799153

>>5798610
> Try to hex him from the ground
That was genuinely fucking awful to read. Great job, QM.

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:28:05 No.5798659 Report

Quoted By: >>5798665

>>5798642
>Faith's warnings about Potter are still valid, if you choose to still believe her.
... I really don't know how we can possibly cover up Potter's daughter getting mind-raped and maybe mind-murdered by some entity she's had in her head since she was 4. I mean at this point not telling him seems a little cruel even, her being his daughter and all. This is all assuming we get out of here and get the chance to tell Potter what happened anyway.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:28:23 No.5798660 Report

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Okay going through the list of hexes here and I have some ideas:
>Colloshoo, a hex that sticks the target's shoes to the ground. Until he takes Lily's shoes off, no dodging for him, so we could theoretically do a trio Stupefy and knock him out
>Weakening Hex, which impairs the target and reduces their spell power. Reducing that +65 is definitely a good thing
>Confusion Hex, also impairs foes but makes them more suspectable to attacks. Basically the same as Weakening Hex but we see a bonus to our rolls instead.

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:30:13 No.5798662 Report

Quoted By: >>5798721 >>5799132

>>5798610
>Avada Kedavara. Potter told you the requirements. Against this thing...you think you can meet them.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 08:35:06 No.5798665 Report

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>>5798659
Personally I don't think we SHOULD hide it. Assuming we're still trying to cover up Faith, there'd theoretically be nothing wrong with just having him mind read us and bring the memories of what the mind man(new name since it seems it is not a demon) showed us in our minds just now. That'd work far better than telling him verbally.
But also, now that I bring this up: Faith's future vision was limited up until this point, right? Meaning she'd have no idea what would happen if we told Potter about this whole situation once everything here is done.
In fact, I think I know why it was so dangerous for Potter to know: because he would have came with us to here, and witnessed this very situation. Who knows if the mind man would have tried to manipulate Potter into helping him or not, with the false promise of bringing his daughter back to him?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 09:54:31 No.5798721 Report

Quoted By: >>5798726 >>5798730 >>5798816 >>5798935

>>5798662
I will say that in regards to using the Killing Curse, there is one point against it I can see:
>You see her soul die .

>You see him pick through its remains
Unless I'm reading this wrong, her soul is still there, but it's just broken. Like what a broken glass cup is like. Ideally, all of the pieces are there, but she's effectively dead considering there's no way for her soul to get pieced back together.
That is, unless, we find some ancient and/or dark magic to help with that? I'd say a goal of discovering magic that can fix Lily's soul fits in quite nicely with Elliot's desire to learn the mechanics of magic, and what is it isn't possible with it.
Though if we cast the Killing Curse on mind man, or just take him out of Lily's body in general, I'd theorize her soul just fades away, since mind man's soul wouldn't be supporting it anymore(assuming he has a soul in the first place)

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 10:01:42 No.5798726 Report

Quoted By: >>5798745 >>5799005

>>5798721
As we see with Harry, beings with Two Souls (or a Soul and one shred of a soul) tend to get the foreign soul ripped the fuck away when the killing curse is cast on them. The native individual is relatively fine after.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Tue 17 Oct 2023 10:13:29 No.5798730 Report

Quoted By: >>5798732 >>5798737 >>5798745

Alright I'm gonna put my trust in what anons think we should do since I'm out of my element with the more technical side of Harry Potter.
Killing curse sounds the most promising, and I don't like negotiating since he can just brainwash us like he did last thread.

>>5798721
A mask of Lily. Like prodding the corpse of a dead frog with electricity and seeing it move its legs, he’d done the same with her emotions. Nothing but a facsimile of what was, puppeteered by a monster more awful than the one inside you.
I don't have any much context (other than what has been shared in the thread) for how killing curse works but I think Lily is gone.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Tue 17 Oct 2023 10:14:30 No.5798732 Report

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>>5798730
>A mask of Lily. Like prodding the corpse of a dead frog with electricity and seeing it move its legs, he’d done the same with her emotions. Nothing but a facsimile of what was, puppeteered by a monster more awful than the one inside you.
Meant to greentext this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 10:19:21 No.5798737 Report

Quoted By: >>5798802 >>5799042

>>5798730
On a more narrative level, I think that using the Killing Curse here will have the most interesting and dramatic story points for later on. Using Avada Kedavara on Potter's "daughter"...it's self-defense against an body-stealing eldritch horror, and to stop it from destroying and remaking the world, but how many people will know the truth? That's the kind of future tension I fucking live off of.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Tue 17 Oct 2023 10:24:58 No.5798739 Report

Quoted By: >>5799132 >>5799153

>>5798610
I'll change my vote >>5798652 to
>Avada Kedavara. Potter told you the requirements. Against this thing...you think you can meet them.
Because fuck this creepy mind daemon asshole and also because it'll be interesting. God, Elliot's going to be the one who needs a hug next time he sees Arty.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 10:36:39 No.5798745 Report

Quoted By: >>5798802 >>5798935 >>5799046 >>5799132

>>5798726
I don't this this is the same situation as what happened with Harry, so there's a real possibility it won't work like that, and/or Lily's soul will be in a worse condition, if such a thing exists. I'd much rather not take the risk at all.

>>5798730
We don't know that for sure. This is something unprecedented in the field of magic, as far as I'm aware, and if there's even the slightest chance that Lily can come back from this, I want to take it. Even if we show Potter the memories mind man showed us, he is definitely going to think there was a chance we could have saved her as well, whether through grief or it being legitimately possible through magic we aren't aware of.
If we use Killing Curse on mind man now, and it kills any (theoretical) chance of saving Lily, Potter and most likely the entire Ministry(thanks to Hermione) will be on our asses. We do NOT want them to be on our asses.
If we must use the Killing Curse, do it when Potter is caught up to speed with the fact that his daughter has been possessed and manipulated since she was fucking 4 years old, and no one ever noticed.

>>5798610
Officially voting:
> Try to hex him from the ground
Preferably with Colloshoo, but if there's a better hex to use here then I won't mind it being used instead

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Tue 17 Oct 2023 13:01:37 No.5798802 Report

Quoted By: >>5798803

>>5798737
Yeah but I don't want do destroy Elliot's life if I can help it. I mean we can cheat on Arty for more narrative interest but it wouldn't be something I many would like.

>>5798745
This is actually a pretty good point. I'll think a bit before putting in a formal vote for anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Tue 17 Oct 2023 13:02:42 No.5798803 Report

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>>5798802
>I many
*I and many

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 13:40:11 No.5798816 Report

Quoted By: >>5798935

>>5798721
Isadora used ancient magic to remove people's emotions, we might be able to reverse the process to repair someone's soul.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 13:58:24 No.5798831 Report

Quoted By: >>5798832

>>5798642
>if you choose to still believe her.
The dude just said he said the same thing to Lily.
I think Elliot should start really questioning Faith's honesty about everything. Specially her tendency to hide very important knowledge before hand.

Also, why do villains always go for the "I murdered and raped everyone, but it's actually your fault because you didn't fall for my ploy, even though I just said I was already doing it before, would have done it afterwards anyway, or would have done something equally horrible if you had complied" speech?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 14:00:19 No.5798832 Report

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>>5798831
The last part was meant to be in spoilers, since it's talking about a trope instead of the quest.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 14:20:04 No.5798847 Report

Quoted By: >>5799005

I swear I'll stop writing one post one after the other, but I just realized something.
An anon had said that when the mind bitch was taking over Lily, he would call us Little Elliot, but while she was in control, it was just Elliot.
Then sometime after the confession, I noticed that Lily began to always call us Little Elliot. At the time I thought it was just because the theory was incorrect and thought nothing of it, but with this revelation, it may be because Lily was now gone, so the mind faggot was always in control.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Tue 17 Oct 2023 14:26:30 No.5798850 Report

Quoted By: >>5799132

>>5798610
>Avada Kedavara. Potter told you the requirements. Against this thing...you think you can meet them.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:UsH//5tD Tue 17 Oct 2023 15:01:15 No.5798863 Report

Quoted By:

Wait a minute... A cruel, misogynistic, pedophilic brain demon who used to be a human but then escaped from Hell to manipulate children's insecurities?

>mfw we're playing Harry Potter versus Freddy Krueger

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 16:34:45 No.5798935 Report

Quoted By: >>5798965 >>5798975

>>5798721
>>5798745
>>5798816
I'll just ask you lads something, since you seem to want to pursue something against the odds of what we saw happen to her soul due to an infinitesimal chance of bringing her back:
Do you think we can afford to hold back even the slightest bit against an enemy like this? A dark wizard of incredible power squirreled away in the body of the chosen one's own daughter, a body trained to be as physically and magically potent as possible since four years old? One that currently stands before a font of ancient magic of unbelievable power and generally knows all of our moves because it's been training us?
I don't think we can afford it, personally. And this is our best shot at taking it down in one single, decisive blow - not putting our friends at any further risk...or more importantly, the very world itself. When our enemy is cockiest, assured of their victory. And a soul-rending curse sounds like the perfect weapon to use against a foe such as this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 17:04:15 No.5798965 Report

Quoted By: >>5798981

>>5798935
In regards to the Killing Curse? Yes. I'm not saying no to the prospect of using it entirely, but using it now will only end up badly for us in the future, and if Elliot's words about this not being the end of our little adventure to save the world are correct then using the curse on her now will make things incredibly difficult with Potter and the Ministry coming down on our asses wanting answers for everything if this kills any chance at saving Lily.
If I'm wrong and we can use it without compromising that chance, sure. Maybe QM can shed some light on this line of thinking for us, but considering wizards in our heads that are apparently using the remains of one's soul is an unprecedented thing the best we might get is educated guesses.
And besides, that's the only thing we need to hold back on. Even assuming I'm right and Lily's soul is still there but just in pieces, she's not gonna feel a thing we do! Mind man's taking the brunt of the attack, gonna feel all the pain. We can do absolutely anything we can think of to her, with Lily feeling nothing if a part(s) of her still remain. The only thing I'm iffy about is whether killing mind man will do something to the pieces of her soul he's using.
And if we want to do one decisive attack, Colloshoo into a trio Stupefy is the next best option in my opinion.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 17:17:00 No.5798975 Report

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>>5798935
Besides wanting to try and bring Lily back, I just have a feeling that it wouldn't work, because it would be too easy.

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 17:23:50 No.5798981 Report

Quoted By: >>5799014 >>5799037

>>5798965
>Mind man's taking the brunt of the attack, gonna feel all the pain.
So Crucio him?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 17:31:15 No.5798987 Report

Quoted By: >>5799132

>>5798610
>> Try to hex him from the ground

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 17:49:13 No.5799001 Report

Quoted By: >>5799014 >>5799064 >>5799132

>>5798610

Welp, I picked the wrong time to fall asleep last night.

Might have underestimated exactly how much control this thing had over Lily as well.

We have been obliviated a lot.

So based on that description, Lily's soul is kinda fucked right now; even if we are able to expel the guy controlling her, without something to try and glue her soul back together, she is probably destined for a lifetime at St. Mungo's. Not saying it is impossible since apparently, thanks to Faith, we can see Ancient Magic. We might be able to manipulate it as well with her, and that shit slaps.

If we can somehow make it to the repository of AM and touch it, we might get a big enough boost to fight this thing on something like even ground without trying the killing curse. Even if we can just drive Lily away, that means in the future we might be able to fix her. We went ahead and told Raven and Taylor to be on guard, so I hope to shit they have wands in hand and can pop off a spell.

>Stand up. Ask if you don't even get to hear his name before dying. After it tells us pop Faith and ask if he knows the name of the Sword Arthur got from the Lady of the Lake. Reverse Excalibur time.

Hopefully those to get it, and depulso us past Lily and to the repository.

That is all I can come up with that doesn't involve a losing fight or the AK gambit.

Also I am so fucking happy we didn't go for 1st girl.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 17:54:05 No.5799005 Report

Quoted By: >>5799064

>>5798652
Awww, thanks!

>>5798726
In the case of Harry, which you don't know if it is the same thing in here, it is implied it only worked because it was Voldemort who cast the killing curse, essentially killing himself instead of Harry.

>>5798847
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5744433/#p5760068

Yes, this anon was exactly correct. After that moment, she's called you Little Elliot in every interaction you've had.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 18:01:11 No.5799014 Report

Quoted By: >>5799037

>>5799001
One thing to note: it's also apparently vile/cursed magic, if that cursed wound Raven got earlier says anything.
Not to say I'm going against your idea, but maybe it shouldn't be our immediate first action if we can 3v1 mind man just fine.
>>5798981
That'd work, assuming we know how to cast it.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 18:29:33 No.5799037 Report

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>>5799014
I was working from the assumption that getting us/Faith to the repository was our end goal, so she could purge it or contain it or do something with it at least.

As for 3v1, if we could have shot her in the back or ambushed her some way, I would be way cooler with that. With our new wand bonus and Faith we have a +42 right now. Assuming Raven and Taylor add like +5 each, we are still fighting a +65 with a +52. If that actually was Mind Man going all out, it could be higher and he is free to use AK now.

Suboptimal. If we can chug our potion while she is distracted, we have like 1 spell that would probably bust through her shields, if she doesn't dodge it. A straight-up fight might end up happening, but I think this is a desperate times, desperate measures situation.

>>5798981
If we knew how. The best we could do is AK, maybe, since we have seen it at least 2x now, and we probably hate this fucker enough to want to strangle him to death.
Hopefully we don't have to resort to it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 18:35:03 No.5799042 Report

Quoted By: >>5799049

>>5798737
Just a point, per the explanation earlier in the thread, AK won't work for self-defense. It won't work to save someone, or the world. It can only be powered through hatred. So yeah, not saying it is off the table but if we use it, it will be because we LOATH this creature and nothing else.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 18:38:57 No.5799046 Report

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>>5798745
this, it being used on Harry had a lot ofter shit involved that likely wouldn't apply here

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 18:42:17 No.5799049 Report

Quoted By: >>5799052

>>5799042
Well yeah, that's why I think it'd be effective here. As Potter explained, it's a tool of revenge. And taking revenge for Lily at the height of our anger and hatred against this entity, right after the visions, is when I think we'll have the most success with it.
On a different note, we might not be happy enough for a patronus, but I think we can certainly be angry enough for an unforgivable.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 18:44:05 No.5799052 Report

Quoted By: >>5799054 >>5799069

>>5799049
using AK is probably what mindman WANTS us to to do

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 18:45:13 No.5799054 Report

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>>5799052
Evidence?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 18:57:00 No.5799064 Report

Quoted By: >>5799070 >>5799132

>>5799005
Re-reading it now, seems 5mkc3Rjz was spot on what was happened, just underestimated how far the mind asshole's control went.
I wonder if Apollo could destroy him instantly if he was here, he is very strong, and is a experienced pedophile slayer.

Now that you explained that harry's AK situation was different, I'll vote for
>>5798610
> Try to hex him from the ground
>>5799001
Given how he talked about hanging out with Merlin, him and faith might been around that time. And he should know the reverse Caliburn since he was been piloting Lily

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:01:01 No.5799069 Report

Quoted By: >>5799071 >>5799073 >>5799079

>>5799052
Nah, I don't think he is a "now you are just as bad as me" kind of villain. He wants power, he wants revenge on the "5th Founder" who I assume is Merlin, for the Interdict weakening wizard kind and for quite possibly sealing him as well. He wants the Beast to use it, he wants the ancient magic to further his goals.

Unless you are saying he has a way of redirecting AK back towards us or our friends or something, which is unlikely.

I really think the end goal here, the only winning move, is to make it to the repository. He straight up said only 2 people can use it, us and him; it might be vile, but it seems like our only shot.

According to the visions, Lily is dead, but I am not 100% on that. Her soul might just be so shattered, it seems like she is gone completely. I want to believe if we can evict this asshole, either Ancient Magic or a lost civilization might be able to put her back together. It is a faint hope but still, I want to believe.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:03:38 No.5799070 Report

Quoted By: >>5799077

>>5799064
He was never around for us mentioning the closely related Reverse Excalibur, though, tossing someone towards something vs going up and over something with Caliburn.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:04:54 No.5799071 Report

Quoted By: >>5799078

>>5799069
it never explicity said she's actually dead, so we do still have a chance to unfuck her soul somehow

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:05:47 No.5799073 Report

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>>5799069
I also hope that us pulling a reverse Isadora is possible.
I have a feeling that we are going to have to find and reach Avalon to discover more about Merlin and/or the Fifth founder

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:11:28 No.5799077 Report

Quoted By: >>5799202

>>5799070
Ah, well, int that case I can support it.
I'm bad with the spells and tactical positioning thing, so I have no idea what is good or not

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:13:36 No.5799078 Report

Quoted By: >>5799086 >>5799115

>>5799071
>You see her soul die.
How much more explicit does it get, anon

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:13:40 No.5799079 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799069
i mean in that doing it might cause more shit to happen with our other mind-creature that he wants to release and control

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:18:51 No.5799086 Report

Quoted By: >>5799094 >>5799099

>>5799078
Yeah, there's no fixing that. "You can't fix a soul." But what if we didn't have to? What if we could undo His actions, so utterly and thoroughly... it'd be as if He never existed?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:30:32 No.5799094 Report

Quoted By: >>5799095 >>5799108

>>5799086
I don't think it's impossible to fix her soul. It'd be incredibly dangerous magic, but if making a horcrux ends up literally breaking one's soul, perhaps we can isolate the "soul breaking" part of that, and find a way to reverse that?
We'd have to be pretty fucking lucky to find any sort of magic that can make him and his actions nonexistent

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:32:10 No.5799095 Report

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>>5799094
yeah, i don't know what I was thinking. where in the world would we find that? i can't wrap my head around it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:36:17 No.5799099 Report

Quoted By: >>5799110

>>5799086
(Un?)fortunately, all the time turners were destroyed, so no time travel shenanigans for us

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:43:44 No.5799108 Report

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>>5799094
Dead is dead. Once you pass the threshold, there's no coming back. Not ever.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:44:18 No.5799110 Report

Quoted By: >>5799118

>>5799099
getting colder. maybe the answer was inside us all along...

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:49:37 No.5799115 Report

Quoted By: >>5799127

>>5799078
I really hope that was either artistic license or a mild exaggeration. I don't doubt, right now, that Lily isn't coming back without some pretty major intervention, but we can manipulate Ancient Magic. If we can get this asshole evicted, she might end up being a vegetable for a while, but it might be possible to put her back together. Modern magic can't fix a soul, but ancient, lost magic?

Think about it. Faith and this guy were quite likely contemporaries of Merlin, long dead, and yet somehow their souls were able to come to inhabit ours and Lily's bodies through fate and chance, and Ancient Power.

If we are able at all, we have to try.

But 1st we have to not die and prevent Cocksucker from getting his hands on the Repository.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:52:32 No.5799118 Report

Quoted By: >>5799123

>>5799110
But we don't know how to control it, it could very well start lashing out and eating everything. And he wants it to get out to try and control it, so it's playing into his hand anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 19:57:07 No.5799123 Report

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>>5799118
so have faith push him into the dreamfloor so the thing can eat him, how hard can it be. then we get the mcguffin and put it down or whatever, but there's no other way around this

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:01:29 No.5799127 Report

Quoted By: >>5799131

>>5799115
It's as clear as it could possibly be. There is no Lily anymore, and there will never be a Lily again. We saw the full and unvarnished truth of the matter. Your hopes will just jeopardize us. Pulling your punches risks everything. Everyone. It's better to make the bastard pay than to try to take him in alive on the misguided hope for a fairy tale ending.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:07:52 No.5799131 Report

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>>5799127
whaat we want is to seperate him from her body BEFORE we kill him

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:08:24 No.5799132 Report

Quoted By: >>5799142 >>5799146 >>5799153 >>5799202 >>5799222

>>5798610
Ok, so this became a massive clusterfuck of conversation, but as far as I can see the actual voting is:

> Attempt to negotiate but not really because it's a gambit
>>5798617

> Try to hex him from the ground
>>5798629
>>5798637
>>5798652
>>5798745
>>5798987
>>5799064

>Avada Kedavara. Potter told you the requirements. Against this thing...you think you can meet them.
>>5798662
>>5798739
>>5798850

>Stand up. Ask if you don't even get to hear his name before dying. After it tells us pop Faith and ask if he knows the name of the Sword Arthur got from the Lady of the Lake. Reverse Excalibur time.
>>5799001

Which seems to go towards non-lethal (or at least non AK lethal). As Potter said, using AK is a big deal, and winning this fight might mean killing her some other way.

If anyone would like to change or cast their vote, you have one hour before I lock it in.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:17:29 No.5799142 Report

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>>5799132
Well, that's sad.
I'm still paranoid about using AK because it seems too easy.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:19:49 No.5799146 Report

Quoted By: >>5799157

>>5799132

If we try to hex him, and it ties him up for a minute, I would strongly encourage our next move to be making our way to the repository at all speed.

And if it wins, are we using Faith's power as well? We probably need every advantage we can get.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:25:10 No.5799153 Report

Quoted By: >>5799157 >>5799159

>>5799132
The poster of >>5798652 ended up changing to AK on >>5798739 - you accidentally listed him in the hex category still.
Though that doesn't eliminate the clear lead it has, natch. 5 to 3 even with that correction.

I won't be torn up if hex wins, but if we end up failing to make a mark due to the hefty differences between us...just remember that I told you so.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:29:44 No.5799157 Report

Quoted By: >>5799160

>>5799146
Your bonus will be +27 (+5 for Taylor, Raven is in no condition to be of much help) and if a +20 would cause you to win at least one extra instance of the battle, Faith will intervene and you will gain the bonus (even if you do lose the match overall)

Say if you roll (total), 40 45 50 and "Lily" rolls 70 50 90, Faith will turn that 45 into a 65, and that will count as one interference. (You'll still lose, but not as badly)

If instead "Lily" rolls 70 50 60, Faith will turn both your 45 and your 50 into 65 and 75, respectively, which will count as two interferences on her part.

tl;dr: She'll interfere when it matters

>>5799153
Ah, nice catch

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:32:46 No.5799159 Report

Quoted By: >>5799161 >>5799165

>>5799153
To be honest, I don't see how pulling the AK would make the huge difference we have go away.
It doubt QM would make it be an uncontested insta kill.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:34:56 No.5799160 Report

Quoted By: >>5799207

>>5799157
>+27 vs +65
Well shit, at this point our best bet probably would be to take the repository for ourselves. AK probably wouldn't even hit in the first place, with how much better mind man is than us right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:35:49 No.5799161 Report

Quoted By: >>5799162 >>5799170 >>5799195

>>5799159
The QM's shown that narrative choices have a great impact on the result of fights. We're disadvantaged when we choose poorly and advantaged when we choose wisely. Hell, we even instalost at one point without rolling.
In this case, it would bypass any defenses that the entity could have possibly erected. It would force them to move to avoid the spell. The only way to survive it, as far as such a hateful entity is concerned, is to not be hit by it at all. And getting it to move is one step in our favor for the battle.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:37:21 No.5799162 Report

Quoted By: >>5799170

>>5799161
Although now that I'm thinking about it, a fantastic alternative to employ would be Transfiguration. There's a very good reason why Mcgonagal suggests not using it in duels...because of how exceptionally deadly or debilitating it can be.
That sounds useful here.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:38:04 No.5799165 Report

Quoted By: >>5799168

>>5799159
And the huge difference is the advantage they have, since Mind Pedo should have the +65 and we still the +20.
So unless getting him by surprise is enough of a bonus to overcome that, he can also pull an AK of his own and do the dragon ball beam struggle. Or was the beam thing only of an AK vs patronus? I don't remember.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:41:04 No.5799168 Report

Quoted By: >>5799174 >>5799176

>>5799165
it was expeliarmus, but it was only because of voldy's and harry's wand being connected or some other prophecy bullshit. maybe the ghost siblings connection works that way?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:43:41 No.5799170 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799161
Yeah, but this guys is like the BBG, and it's not a situation like Brighton preparing an ambush with Mandrakes, it would be us trying to cast a spell we never done before and hoping it's fast enough to catch him monologuing.
>>5799162
I can support something like that too, the problem is that I just don't see how to avoid contesting with this monster.

But maybe I'm just only seeing the worst situation possible, a time honored quest tradition.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:49:09 No.5799174 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799168
>maybe the ghost siblings connection works that way
If we get lucky and it does work like that, then it would leave his flank exposed enough for Taylor to attack him.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 20:51:24 No.5799176 Report

Quoted By: >>5799183 >>5799185

>>5799168
How fuckin' funny would it be if we had the same wand core as Lily?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:00:45 No.5799183 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799176
pretty funny, that sounds like a ridiculous
one in a million coincidence. so not unlikely at all

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:03:03 No.5799185 Report

Quoted By: >>5799198

>>5799176
Our is Phoenix Feather isn't it? Could be possible, since Harry and Voldermort had the same type

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:06:12 No.5799195 Report

Quoted By: >>5799196

>>5799161
i still think the mandrakes being an instant loss was kind of fucked

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:07:27 No.5799196 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799195
yeah, on our part. really fuckin dumb

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:08:10 No.5799198 Report

Quoted By: >>5799199

>>5799185
think theirs were also either from the same bor or same feather

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:09:11 No.5799199 Report

Quoted By: >>5799202

>>5799198
*bird

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:10:17 No.5799202 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799132
Oh, here's something you didn't catch
>>5799077
Here I said I could support the
>Stand up. Ask if you don't
>>5799199
Bord

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:18:19 No.5799207 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799160
Making it there is our win condition I think. We might not have tried to fuck with Ancient magic before, but Faith has which is why we can see it and such.

If we can make it there, we have a shot of driving CocksuckerThat is his name until we learn otherwise away.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:30:08 No.5799213 Report

Quoted By: >>5799222 >>5799225 >>5799226

Rolled 5 - 1 (1d10 - 1)

God I wish Apollo was here to help. We might have even odds in a fight then.

QM, what bonus to the next spell does our potion confer, in numbers?

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:40:46 No.5799222 Report

Quoted By: >>5799233 >>5799234

>>5799213
Anon, you know rolling for that in this thread only leads to sorrow.

>QM, what bonus to the next spell does our potion confer, in numbers?
Were you to be casting a single spell, that would be a 10. Combat, however, is not a single cast of a spell, so the bonus would be reduced to a +4.

>>5798610
>>5799132
Alright, voting closed. Let us commence the boss battle.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:42:01 No.5799225 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799213
Merlin's last light was actually supposed to appear on December 1st of the Gregorian Calendar. QM just saw us bring up the idea of getting Apollo to come with us and switched it to Julian(so we didn't have enough time to do so) because we would've annihilated her with his help.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:42:30 No.5799226 Report

Quoted By: >>5799233

>>5799213
4's not TOO bad, glad we're past the 1d10 despising elliot

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:49:32 No.5799233 Report

Quoted By: >>5799241

>>5799222
Just getting the bad rolls out of the way and some levity. We are facing down our Voldemort right now, under prepared and broken, except our Voldemort also has a girl sexually humiliate herself in front of a mirror for his pleasure and didn't just kill someone, her destroyed her mentally over 14 long years.

>>5799226
Now we just need the 1d100 to like us.
If you have any goats, chickens, or unsealed classic figurines to sacrifice, now would be the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:50:39 No.5799234 Report

Quoted By: >>5799240 >>5799248

>>5799222
I'm scared

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:58:32 No.5799240 Report

Quoted By: >>5799248

>>5799234
Me too, anon. Me to.

Merlin, please guide our wand. Godric, give us the courage to fight. Rowena, help us chose wisely our actions. Salazar, lend us the cunning to seize victory. Helga, let determination shield our friends.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 21:59:24 No.5799241 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799233
if Harry at eleven could Flipendo Voldy to redeath, we can win this

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:05:42 No.5799248 Report

Quoted By: >>5799249 >>5799253

>>5799234
>>5799240

You should be.

---

There is a raging fire within you, an anger against this thing, this abomination, that can’t be quite put into words. You saw what he did to Lily, and the sun would grow cold and dark before you could ever forgive him.

You want to kill him, you want to break him and smother the life out of his eyes. But they are Lily’s eyes. You saw him break her, and you know there’s not a single spell anyone on this Earth knows that could undo what he did. But behind you is a battery of power unlike any you’ve seen, that no one had known about. You know there are hidden things in this world, you believe it with your very heart.

Is it too much to consider that someone, a long, long time ago, created a way to glue the pieces of her soul back together? Not uninjured, not unscarred, but at the very least whole? They’re still there, lost inside the cancer that is this creature, just… shattered. You have to believe it.

And so, you can’t bring yourself to hate her. Not enough to cast a killing curse. Because inside that body, there might still be something that can be saved.

But before you can ever hope to save Lily, you need to defeat her first.

“Faith… Can we use that magic if we get to it?”

“Not this quickly, not without injuring you beyond repair.”

“Very well. Then…” You think, in a silent prayer. “Don’t hold back.”

“I won’t,” she answers, and you can feel the same fury that courses through you coursing through her. She’d seen the same things you’d seen. Your rage was her rage, and her power was yours.

“Bombar-”

“Crucio!”

Her wand already pointed at you casts faster than you can raise yours, and you scream, the pain like white-hot knives piercing every inch of your skin, your head feels like it is splitting open. Pain beyond anything you’ve ever experienced, pain-

“Stupefy!” “Stupefy!”

Your mind clears and you look up to see where one of the stunners Raven and Taylor sent had hit, a fading red light lingering for a moment. The beast inside Lily, however, simply grins evilly, as if it had been nothing more than a punch to the shoulder.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:06:43 No.5799249 Report

Quoted By: >>5799250 >>5799252 >>5799253 >>5799260 >>5800885

>>5799248

“What are you?” You hear Raven asks, terrified.

“You always wanted a demon, little whore.” Lily says, voice dripping with malice. “Why do you look so terrified now that you found one?”

You stand up, shaking off the curse, looking at Lily and raising your wand.

“Come on, Little Elliot. We’ve done this before. You know how this ends.”

“I have backup now,” you say. “Raven. Taylor. Lily is dead. That… thing killed it and took her body. And now, it wants me.”

“Correct. I want him. You two can leave, if you like. I promise I shall grant you safe passage once I’m done with the repository,” he says, not even trying to sound like he’s not lying.

Raven and Taylor do not lower their wands.

“Very well, then. Sectumsempra!”

“Protego!”

“Diffindo!”

“Reducto!”

“Avada Kedavra!”

> Roll a d100+27, beat 2 out of 3
> I would recommend that you roll well

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:09:06 No.5799250 Report

Quoted By: >>5799257 >>5799263 >>5799266 >>5799272

Rolled 91 + 27 (1d100 + 27)

>>5799249
fuck him up Lord Hallaster

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:11:45 No.5799252 Report

Quoted By: >>5799263 >>5799272

Rolled 48 + 27 (1d100 + 27)

>>5799249
It begins.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:12:05 No.5799253 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799248
>Her wand already pointed at you casts faster than you can raise yours
>>5799249
>“Avada Kedavra!”
I'll take it that it means us using AK would have lead to a battle to the death anyway.
Maybe the negotiate ploy would have been the best result?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:16:24 No.5799257 Report

Quoted By: >>5799263 >>5799266 >>5799272

Rolled 82 + 27 (1d100 + 27)

>>5799250
THE BIG DICK ROLLS!!!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:18:09 No.5799260 Report

Quoted By: >>5799262 >>5799293

>>5799249
Holy shit she's pulling out the killing curses. Transfiguration for defensive measures that can quickly be turned into offensive measures is DEFINITELY the way to go here.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:19:06 No.5799262 Report

Quoted By: >>5799267 >>5799270

>>5799260
AK goes through everything, the only thing to do is dodge

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:19:19 No.5799263 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799250
>>5799252
>>5799257
Alright, so now we just need for him to roll below 53 in the first roll and 44 in the third

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:20:00 No.5799266 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799250
>>5799257
Good shit anons. I fucked up my roll but hopefully Cocksucker's 2nd roll is low enough to where Faith's boost is enough to turn the tides

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:20:21 No.5799267 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799262
Elliot must channel his inner dark souls player and spam dodge rolls

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:21:14 No.5799270 Report

Quoted By: >>5799273 >>5799293

>>5799262
Wrong: it cannot go through physical barriers. Hence transfiguration.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:21:52 No.5799272 Report

Quoted By: >>5799274 >>5799275 >>5799276 >>5799278 >>5799280

Rolled 61, 52, 58 + 65 = 236 (3d100 + 65)

>>5799250
>>5799252
>>5799257

118 75 109

May Faith and Fate be on your side. Faith will give a +20 to failed rolls where this can change the outcome of the result.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:23:34 No.5799273 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799270
Maybe we could accio something and turn it into a shield?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:23:52 No.5799274 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799272
welp, Faith saves this just barely

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:25:02 No.5799275 Report

Quoted By: >>5799286 >>5799323

>>5799272
The final result is:

138 vs 126
75 vs 117
129 vs 123

2 interferences by Faith. 2 victories.

Everyone lives for now. Writing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:25:34 No.5799276 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799272
He rolled poorly, but it's still higher then 53 and 44.
SO we are going to need to use Faith

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:27:42 No.5799278 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799272
Holy fuck, I ran to the store to get some fuel for this and we eeked out 2 wins! Thank you anons.

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:28:39 No.5799280 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799272

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:31:25 No.5799286 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799275
Oh thank god, I forgot she could help twice.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:38:37 No.5799293 Report

Quoted By: >>5799299

>>5799260
>>5799270

I don't know if we are good enough to pull off mid-combat transfiguration. Maybe with Faith helping, but I feel like every time she has to help she is going to be less capable of holding back the Beast if we can make it to the repository.

So, what we know. This Cocksucker can shrug off stupify. It is quicker than us, even with Faith. It is perfectly good at Unforgivables.

So we need to focus on spells which debilitate or physically injure. We need to divide Cocksucker's attention, so its skills are divided. We need to be conscious that if backed into a corner, it will probably Imperio either Raven or Taylor and hold their life as hostage.

Are we willing to let one of them die to stop Cocksucker and or the end of the world? Our previous choice said we are.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Tue 17 Oct 2023 22:49:58 No.5799299 Report

Quoted By: >>5799326

>>5799293
I wouldn't trust necropedo to fulfill his side of the bargain in a hostage situation anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Tue 17 Oct 2023 23:16:42 No.5799323 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799275
This whole adventure was by the skin of their teeth

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Tue 17 Oct 2023 23:23:08 No.5799326 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799299
I wouldn't either, but as for what Elliot would do if his best friend's life was literally dangled in front of him?

And if we have to make the hard choice, the one who survives will never forgive us. It is a heavy choice, and hopefully we can avoid it.

So if we can make it to the repository, Faith implied she could use it, but at extreme cost to us if she had to work fast. Ideally, we can put cocksucker on the ground, tie them up, snap Lily's wand, and gag them, then work on the Ancient Magic battery. Worse comes to worst, if we can reach it, we let Faith go Sampson Option to kick his ass albeit at a personal cost; we might die, become a veggie, have our soul shattered to the point she has to run the show, ect.

It is an option if stuff grows dire.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 00:30:02 No.5799454 Report

Quoted By: >>5799510 >>5799530 >>5799531 >>5799672

Time seems to slow down as you see the flash of green light flare from the tip of her wand, you already diving out of its way, you turn to see Raven simply throw herself to the ground to stop herself from getting hit. It splashes harmlessly against the stone walls of the cave.

But he isn’t done.

“Avada Kedavra!” Another green bolt fires off as you scramble to hide behind one of the cave’s stalagmites. “Come out, come out, Little El-”

“Stupefy!” Taylor shouts, peering from behind the great doors to the chamber.

“Protego! Confringo!” A bolt of fire launches towards him and explodes, sending him to the floor, rolling yo put out his robes. “Avada-”

“Stupefy! Expelliarmus! Somnius!” You spin out of cover, firing one spell after the other, Faith’s power guiding your hand as you force him to stop his casting. The creature blocks and dodges, raising up a glimmering shield as he spins in the air.

“Descendo!” Raven shouts, pointing up at a stalactite hanging from the ceiling, bringing it down, forcing him to jump out of the way or be crushed. “Depulso!”

The stone cracks at the base, falling over and towards him.

“Reducto!” The stone explodes into dust. The whole area becomes covered in fine rock powder, everyone being reduced to silhouettes against the ever-present background light of the room.

“Colloshoo!” You say, aiming at his feet, but he jumps over your spell. “Glacius!” You point at the floor, the stone becoming ice-like, slippery, and his left foot slides off from under him. He falls to the floor with an annoyed look on Lily’s face, but before you can cast another spell he’s already launched himself in the air with an Ascendio and is firing down upon you.

“Levicorpus!”

You feel yourself being pulled up by one foot, and then Taylor’s almost immediate “Finite Incantatem!” halts the spell in motion, making it simply spin you mid air as Raven sends a Diffindo at Lily at the exact same time.

“Ah, you little bitch!”

You look up from the floor to see a deep gash of red on his shoulder wetting the black robes.

He points his wand up and casts “Finestra!”

The ceiling of the cave above Raven cracks and shatters falling down on her, forcing her to jump back into hiding.

This isn’t working, you think, looking across the battlefield to see Taylor gasping for air, struggling to find energies to fight on. I need to do something.

> Jump off the chasm and use a Carpe Retractum to swing under the bridge and fire at her from behind
> McGonagall’s rules be damned, transfigure something to help you in battle while Taylor and Raven hold her off. (Transfigure what into what?)
> Focus of pushing her off the chasm
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Wed 18 Oct 2023 00:43:56 No.5799490 Report

Quoted By: >>5799501 >>5799519

Could we transform the dust into something?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 00:46:33 No.5799501 Report

Quoted By: >>5799507

>>5799490
I was thinking that too, but the thing with Transfiguration is that we have 0 bonuses to it. If we have to roll Transfiguration if we do any transfiguration here instead of Battle Magic then we can kiss our chances of winning that contest against Cocksucker goodbye.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 00:52:02 No.5799507 Report

Quoted By: >>5799515 >>5799519

>>5799501
what if we do a trick so dumb it'll give us the element of surprise just like in battle class
what if... we went wands akimbo?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 18 Oct 2023 00:52:56 No.5799510 Report

Quoted By: >>5799519

>>5799454
>McGonagall’s rules be damned, transfigure something to help you in battle while Taylor and Raven hold her off. (Transfigure what into what?)
The stone floor into mud. Then the mud into stone as soon as she’s in it. Best when she’s completely distracted by the others.
A simple but brutal spell combo from DND. Aka something she won’t be very familiar with as an ancient wizard.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 00:56:14 No.5799515 Report

Quoted By: >>5799522

>>5799507
>wands akimbo
For a second I thought you meant to transmute a rock into a gun and shoot her, but then I re-read and saw the wand before akimbo

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 00:58:07 No.5799519 Report

Quoted By: >>5799522 >>5799545

>>5799510
You can't transfigure Part of something, only the entire thing (in this case, the entirety of the earth)

>>5799490
The dust is probably too small to focus on, but there are plenty of rocks and pebbles around.

>>5799507
I honestly have no idea of what you mean by this

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OWTRIYHQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 00:59:18 No.5799522 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799515
that would also work if this was set in america
>>5799519
it means dual wielding wands

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:06:51 No.5799530 Report

Quoted By: >>5799544

>>5799454
I don't have much, I fucking hate Cocksucker.

>Knock back your potion while getting up from the ground
>Tranfiguere his robes into gasoline/kerosine.

Gas almost immediately begins evaporating. If cocksucker breaths any in, welcome to cotton in the lungs country. He can try and finite incantum but even then he has the material in his lungs, in his wound. If we can work well enough, we might be able to hit him with confringo, Lacarnum Inflamari, anything that makes fire as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:07:46 No.5799531 Report

Quoted By: >>5799539 >>5799542 >>5799543 >>5799550 >>5799701 >>5799759 >>5800404

>>5799454
>Have the others spray her with a water spell
>Transfigure the water into napalm
>set ti ablaze with a fire spell
War crimes are our only hope now.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:12:52 No.5799539 Report

Quoted By: >>5799759

>>5799531
Did someone say war crimes?!

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:17:09 No.5799542 Report

Quoted By: >>5799759

>>5799531
WAR CRIMES!

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:18:02 No.5799543 Report

Quoted By: >>5799759

>>5799531
Unfathomably based.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:19:15 No.5799544 Report

Quoted By: >>5799550 >>5799566

>>5799530
thought we wanted to keep Lily's body intact?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:20:05 No.5799545 Report

Quoted By: >>5799570 >>5799577 >>5799642 >>5799672 >>5799690 >>5799759

>>5799519
Fine. How about this.
Taylor and raven cast their best physically restraining spells. Rope conjuring, water spheres, things in that vein. Then in the split second when it’s on her, we turn the restraining object into stone.
Im partial to turning a sphere of water engulfing her into stone, personally.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:24:38 No.5799550 Report

Quoted By: >>5799560

>>5799531
>>5799544

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:29:22 No.5799560 Report

Quoted By: >>5799570

>>5799550
I mean, I highly doubt we can leave Lily's body fully intact if we want to beat Cocksucker. We just need to keep her body alive. Anything we do here can likely be fixed with magic, bar death.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:31:45 No.5799566 Report

Quoted By: >>5799570

>>5799544
She can probably live with a few 2nd and 3rd degree burns, for a while. Would stop him from doing shit for a while, though. We have magic. I have seen a 16-year-old with burns over like 65% of his body slowly recover, just with muggle medical tech.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:32:47 No.5799570 Report

Quoted By: >>5799585 >>5799759

>>5799560
>>5799566
the stone idea in >>5799545 sounds more effective

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:37:23 No.5799577 Report

Quoted By: >>5799586 >>5799759

>>5799545
Defeating enemies by throwing rocks at them? What's this, Trojan War quest?
Jokes aside, I'm having a bit of trouble visualizing it, would it be attempted to bury him with rocks?

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:40:16 No.5799585 Report

Quoted By: >>5799586 >>5799596

>>5799570
Cocksucker can probably use nonverbal magic and has the juice to finite incantum a stone cocoon.

Fire will damage him, even if he can untransfiguer it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:41:12 No.5799586 Report

Quoted By: >>5799618

>>5799577
No. Entombment in a rock shaped perfectly to his body. No possible movement.
>>5799585
Requires wand movement.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:44:25 No.5799596 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799585
nonverbal magic still requires the ability to move, the fire would likely just piss him off

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 01:53:10 No.5799618 Report

Quoted By: >>5799628

>>5799586
So it would something like this?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:03:21 No.5799628 Report

Quoted By: >>5799642

>>5799618
Sure. Although a sphere of water would also be much thicker when stone’d.
Does this count as the quest’s first fanart?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:14:06 No.5799642 Report

Quoted By: >>5799675 >>5799702

>>5799628
In that case.
>>5799545
I'll support this.
Since the faggot is just piloting Lily's body, he might ignore the pain of being on fire to try and kill us due to spite, but being put into a stone prison should buy us time even if he can break free.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:29:42 No.5799670 Report

Quoted By: >>5799759

>>5798610
Holy shit, i just got back and I must say I knew this would happen, I've had my suspicions since thread 1and I didn't say anything because I knew that anons were attached to her, but am I glad they were cause holy crap what an amazing narrative you have created, absolutely godly writing, I actually felt something for our band of wizards there. Good show.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:31:52 No.5799672 Report

Quoted By: >>5799759

>>5799454
>>5799545
Also qm here is my vote
>supporting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:32:15 No.5799675 Report

Quoted By: >>5799702 >>5799759

>>5799642
Getting shit into his lungs isn't an immediate death thankfully.
Being unable to speak should delay him long enough for us to get help

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:37:39 No.5799684 Report

Quoted By: >>5799690 >>5799692 >>5799759

If we can down our potion as a free action, should we do it now, lads?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:40:09 No.5799690 Report

Quoted By: >>5799694 >>5799759

>>5799545
This is the sensible option.

>>5799684
If it's a free action we should do it as soon as possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:40:36 No.5799692 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799684
Don't know if it's a free action since we would need to pick it from our pouch.
But if it is, chug away!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:41:22 No.5799694 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799690
Agreed.

Qm, can we pop our potion while doing another option?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:50:11 No.5799701 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799531
Supporting war crimes. Kill it with fire.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:50:30 No.5799702 Report

Quoted By: >>5799704 >>5799708

>>5799642
>>5799675
Getting burned really fucking hurts. I have had 1st and 2nd degree burns on like 25% of my left arm and some 1st degree on my face. It is pretty distracting. Not quite as painful as the 5cm spleen laceration but more painful than 3.5 in of steel to the thigh or an elbow dislocation.

Granted, the dislocation didn't have time to really set in since I self reduced it like 30 seconds after it happened, but still.

Basically: Fire! Fire, bad!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:51:46 No.5799704 Report

Quoted By: >>5799724

>>5799702
He disassociated his soul. Pain isn't hurting faith, so may not hurt him

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:55:41 No.5799708 Report

Quoted By: >>5799715 >>5799724

>>5799702
Jesus Christ my man, that sucks
I'm just worried that he might be able to force the body to not feel the pain because he is a hijacker.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Wed 18 Oct 2023 03:03:20 No.5799715 Report

Quoted By: >>5799720 >>5799724

>>5799708
The nerve damage will still affect him, then... And anyway, remember how he stopped, dropped, and rolled when his (Lily's) robes caught flame? He fears fire, just like... Well, Freddy.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 18 Oct 2023 03:07:02 No.5799720 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799715
It is still damage, doesn't mean pain will disable him

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 03:12:44 No.5799724 Report

Quoted By: >>5799725

>>5799715
Exactly.
>>5799704
Faith is back seat driving when we need her. This dude is functionally Lily right now. Even if you can work through the pain, your body will still react to the nerves being overstimulated. It's why you can't just walk off a grand mal seizure or a real tazer, normally.
>>5799708
Have had an interesting 30ish years. I am 100% whole and hale, surprisingly. You can recover from a lot in my experience, especially if you know advanced 1st aid..

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 18 Oct 2023 03:14:04 No.5799725 Report

Quoted By: >>5799750

>>5799724
You know, speaking of tasers, isn't there a distinct lack of electricity-based spells?
You'd think casting thunderbolt would be a great upgrade to a stunner.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 03:38:21 No.5799750 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799725
That is a salient point. Maybe because Wizards are kinda stuck in the dark ages? Like it would take one with a NEWT in Muggle studies to even understand how electricity works?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 03:49:27 No.5799759 Report

Quoted By: >>5799763 >>5799765 >>5799772 >>5799773 >>5799789 >>5799809 >>5799815

> Go play some vidia
> Come back 3h later
> Once more, a clusterfuck of votes with plenty of warcrimes

I do love it. It makes me want to bash my head against the wall when it comes to to figuring out what you fucks want to do, but I do love it.

Now, can you transfigure liquids in HP cannon? I don't fucking know, there are no answers in the books. Can it happen in here?... Sure, but only because of the... interference of the ancient magic in the fabric of reality or some other ridiculously unreplicable situation, in case I decide it sounds too busted.

>>5799684
> Qm, can we pop our potion while doing another option?
You may chug it as a free action. In fact, if the plan is a quick transfiguration, it will be required.

>>5799670
Ahhhh, thanks anon!

So, let's try to count the fucking votes, shall we? There seems to be two main fields

> Water into napalm from >>5799531
>>5799531
>>5799539
>>5799542
>>5799543
>>5799531

> Ropes into stone from >>5799545
>>5799545
>>5799570
>>5799577
>>5799672
>>5799690

> Doesn't appear to have actually voted
>>5799675

Which seems, incredibly, to be a tie. I'll close the vote 4h after the initial post, so y'all have another 45mins to figure out what you want. Let me know if I got someone's vote wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 18 Oct 2023 03:53:29 No.5799763 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799759
Oh uh I didn't formally vote for anything. Sorry to cause confusion OP, since I don't really have the best knowledge on what would work against this guy.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 03:54:42 No.5799765 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799759
>Ropes into stone
Can we make it water though? The anon who suggested it just gave rope as an example upon many, but rope can just be done in by a simple Diffindo, whereas water you can only really dodge, and Cocksucker might not even see what we're trying to do with it.
Maybe that was a given, based on what the rest of the voters were saying, but specifying just in case.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Wed 18 Oct 2023 04:00:53 No.5799772 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799759
You counted my Water-to-napalm vote twice.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 04:00:53 No.5799773 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799759
Just to confirm, I am voting for:
>Pop potion
>Something into napalm/ gasoline, whether it is his robe or water from another spell. Fire, basically. Lots of fire. Yes I know these is a charm for preventing yourself from burning at the stake. Kinda hard to cast when everything around you is already FIRE.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 18 Oct 2023 04:21:08 No.5799789 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799759
I'll change my vote from war crimes to trapping him.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 04:39:04 No.5799809 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799759
Alright, closing the vote. Going with Rope/water/stuff to stone

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 18 Oct 2023 04:45:57 No.5799815 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799759
I'd want to trap in stone

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 05:57:03 No.5799858 Report

Quoted By:

Damn you anit-war crime anons. I know what LORD Hallister would have chosen.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:00:54 No.5799893 Report

Quoted By: >>5799897

You need a plan, but it is difficult to create a plan in the middle of battle, and harder still to get your orders across without the other side hearing it and countering it. Fortunately, a lot of Slytherins had learned sign language to communicate with the mermaids of the lake.

You look at Taylor and he looks at you. You raise three fingers and tap them against your chin, “water”, then pinch all your fingers and twirl your wrists, “magic”, then point up. He looks confused, but nods

Somewhere behind your cover, something explodes and you hear Raven scream. You spin and fire off a volley of spells, your other hand reaching into your pouch and fetching the potion you’d brewed with Arty. You are going to need it if what you are about to do is to have any chance of success.

You and Taylor are straining, you know, and Raven feels on the verge of collapse, but all of you know that either you win or you die. “Lily” wouldn’t have been able to cast the killing curse so many times if he didn’t despise you.

So you fight, for the first time in your life you fight for your life, trying to create an opening, trying whatever you can to simply survive. You know you’d have been dead already without both Taylor, Raven and Faith, you know that the battle still doesn’t look good even with them by your side, but by Merlin, you need to to try.

You refuse to die without a fight.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:02:44 No.5799897 Report

Quoted By: >>5799903 >>5799910 >>5799913 >>5800076 >>5800885

>>5799893

Hitting him with your spells is almost impossible, he’s able to either dodge, block, avoid or counter whatever you throw at him… But there is something that is silent, has no wand motion and is very difficult to counter if done properly.

“Taylor, now!”

“Aqua Eructo!”

A great blast of water fires off from behind a pillar and smashes against the ceiling, raining down on the cave. But it is not enough. Lily looks in his direction and fires a “Bombarda!” that launches him flying off in a direction.

You step in, “Aqua Eructo!”, firing while you run.

“Avada Kedavra!”

You dive on the wet rock, sliding, your chest scraping against the hard rock, the pain breaking your concentration and ending the spell. He aims at you again, but Raven throws a rock at his head, trying however she can to preserve the little magic she has left. Lily dodges, but by the time she returns her attention to you, you’ve scrambled back into cover.

“Aqua Eructo!” Taylor shouts again.

“Sectumsempra!”

It catches Taylor on the side of the stomach, the gash pouring blood, staining the water. He screams and falls down, scrambling for protection.

You quaff your potion, touch your wand to the wet floor and remember every lesson your professor ever gave you about transfiguration, preparing to break several, several rules.

Robes in general had anti-transfiguration charms, but the water that now soaked them did not. This is beyond anything you’ve ever attempted, but it is your only chance of getting the jump on Lily.

You imagine the liquid turning into solid, water into ice into rock, a prayer to magic itself to change the world.

> Roll a d100+30 (10 from the potion, +20 from Faith, +0 from your training in Transfiguration). Bo3, DC: 110

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:07:37 No.5799903 Report

Quoted By: >>5799926 >>5799927 >>5799976 >>5800076

Rolled 26 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>5799897
Fuck my tits, this is gonna suck.
Please, Merlin.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zoPuJUmF Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:17:35 No.5799910 Report

Quoted By: >>5799926 >>5799927 >>5800076

Rolled 13 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>5799897
pain

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:18:11 No.5799911 Report

Quoted By:

Please, fuckers, roll better than I did. 1 Success is all we need. That is all. 1. Just 1 hero.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:22:32 No.5799913 Report

Quoted By: >>5799918 >>5799926 >>5799927 >>5800076

Rolled 45 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>5799897

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:24:31 No.5799918 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799913
Fuck

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:28:55 No.5799922 Report

Quoted By: >>5799985 >>5800076 >>5800092 >>5800298

Rolled 93 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

NO! I REFUSE!
MY ROLLS HAVE BEEN SHIT FOR A LONG TIME, BUT ITS TIME FOR A BIG DICK ROLL!
NAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGH!!!

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:30:52 No.5799926 Report

Quoted By: >>5800009

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>5799903
>>5799910
>>5799913

Ah. Very well. Please ignore the dice. I'll just roll and go to sleep for today.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:30:54 No.5799927 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799903
>>5799910
>>5799913
Ouch. If we survive this we should probably invest in a gun. So many problems solved...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 18 Oct 2023 08:55:25 No.5799976 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799903
Kinda figured someone else in our crew could do the final spell

But guess we'll die. That last roll though

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 18 Oct 2023 09:21:01 No.5799985 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799922
Please have mercy…I beg you…

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Wed 18 Oct 2023 09:48:53 No.5800009 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799926
Guessing either Raven or Taylor gets it...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 11:55:14 No.5800076 Report

Quoted By:

>>5799903
>>5799910
>>5799913
It's over
>>5799922
Why does this always happen?
>>5799897
Anyway, would the napalm have been easier? We would still be transfiguring water after all

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 12:17:53 No.5800086 Report

Quoted By: >>5800089 >>5800092 >>5800132

So after either Raven or Taylor dies, we are not going to fuck around with not committing war crimes or not AKing Cocksucker, right?

And I am sorry anons, my rolling failed us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 12:22:53 No.5800089 Report

Quoted By: >>5800093 >>5800113

>>5800086
I don't even know if the fire or the ak would have been easier, they both seem to run on the same problems that the option that won did, being that he was already pointed the wand at us and e were on the ground, so he casted first for the ak, and the second that we would need to transmute water being spilled over him while avoiding the robes for the napalm.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 12:25:24 No.5800092 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800086
And you didn't fail us, all our rolls were bad.
>>5799922
Except this anon, but this might just have been RNG rubbing the failure on our face

So don't blame yourself, we are all depressed here.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 12:28:28 No.5800093 Report

Quoted By: >>5800113

>>5800089
Unless liquid to liquid would have been easier of course, which I didn't think of yesterday.
I probably would have witched my vote after the tie if I hadn't gone to bed though.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 13:19:56 No.5800113 Report

Quoted By: >>5800145

>>5800089
Our 1st move was okay, thanks to Faith pulling overtime.
>>5800093
I think it might have been an easier roll, but our dice were just shit so not sure how much it would have mattered.

But now, I am advising no holds barred "fuck em up Lord Hallister" mode, if one of our friends is killed. That seems like an IC thing to do. We want to try and save Lily, if a part of her is still there, but Taylor90% sure it is gonna be him targeted. But hey, back up GF. Oh wait, Raven is going to despise us after this. dying seems like enough for us to go apeshit on Cocksucker. If we couldn't summon enough hate before, I think we won't have that issue now.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 14:03:35 No.5800125 Report

Quoted By: >>5800132 >>5800146

And now I am going to reread our date and dance with Arty again to give me the strength to do what must be done, when it comes to it.

I am sorry Lily. Maybe if we had been less dumb we might have been able to help you fight back. If we had been stronger, we might have been able to pull you back. If Cocksucker had been just a bit less evil...

So Faith is going to catch some mental hands for not telling us there was someone else in whatever dark hell she escaped from, someone who even calls her "sister". Assuming we don't all die, I guess.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 14:15:59 No.5800132 Report

Quoted By: >>5800141 >>5800213

>>5800125
I mean realistically speaking, Elliot in-character should have noted something wrong from the moment she was about to confess to having a demon in her head, and said demon silencing her, but I don't think we really got to properly react to that? Like when it happened it was pretty much skipped over in terms of dialogue for the choice.
Sure, you can make the argument that someone should have pointed that out as the choice was being made, but that seems like a Slytherin thing to notice.
Or maybe we did notice it once, and got Obliviated because of it, or something like that.
>>5800086
Hopefully Cocksucker just holds one of them hostage, since I might have an idea if he does so.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 18 Oct 2023 14:54:35 No.5800141 Report

Quoted By: >>5800145 >>5800146

>>5800132
I mean we RPd being obliviated. Nobody wanted to over meta it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 15:06:12 No.5800145 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800113
It would be a fitting moment to be angry.
>>5800141
That's true

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:5vka1651 Wed 18 Oct 2023 15:07:53 No.5800146 Report

Quoted By: >>5800151

>>5800141
I still don't.

>>5800125
Anon, I get that you're passionate about this quest but you've legitimately posted more than the QM at this point. Whatever will happen will happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 15:23:15 No.5800151 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800146
Okay, 1 post anon. I will certainly post less, since fewer posts and discussions are certainly the way to help a quest survive. Filter me if you have an issue.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 16:41:08 No.5800173 Report

Quoted By: >>5800175 >>5800185 >>5800189 >>5800198 >>5800206 >>5800215 >>5800216 >>5800223 >>5800351 >>5800379 >>5800402 >>5800404 >>5800457

You feel your magic seep into the water, you imagine an uninterrupted stream of water connecting you to Lily. You see it going through the floor, up her shoes, soaking his clothes and hair. You you see yourself enforcing the relation between water and rock, making them one and the same-

“Avada Kedavra!”

Time should have stopped. It should have hung in place, immovable. But time does not care, and it keeps on moving anyway. The words echo in the cave, and there is silence. Then… you hear a scream. A scream of pain, of loss, of horror and grief.

There is a cold that runs through your spine, a shiver that runs through your very core. You hear steps on the water, running, not caring for the battle. You hear Lily’s laugh, cold and cruel. Dread fills you like a sunken stone in your stomach.

You turn to see Raven on her knees on the floor, holding Taylor’s unmoving body, begging for him to wake up. But his eyes are already open, and you know they will never see the stars again.

Something boils within you, beyond the anger, the rage and the tears. A fury so blindingly hot it burns white, because it isn’t only directed at the creature in front of you, but also at yourself. You knew when you walked in this place one of you could die. You’d been aware of it, you’d even told Faith as much.

But you didn’t truly understand it until now. And you should have. And you should have prepared. And you should have done so many things differently. And you should have been there. And you should have protected him.

Your wand vibrates in your hand, shaking with power and sorrow and self-loathing.

The universe told you you’re not happy enough to cast the Patronus Charm.

Will the universe say you can hate enough to cast the killing curse?

--

This is not an in-character choice. This is a defining moment of Elliot’s personality, and it is not a choice to be made lightly.

> Hate flows endlessly, there can be no other choice. The Killing Curse will end this. (Embrace the Killing Curse. You may and will call upon it in the future again, whatever the cost it may be to your soul)

> No. Not even now. Not ever, not while there's even a remnant of Lily in there. You are not like the creature. You are not a monster. (Reject the Killing Curse. Elliot will never be able to cast the spell)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 16:43:00 No.5800175 Report

Quoted By: >>5800398 >>5800561

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:GdDkmwwJ Wed 18 Oct 2023 16:56:26 No.5800185 Report

Quoted By: >>5800398 >>5800561 >>5800876

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 18 Oct 2023 17:10:35 No.5800189 Report

Quoted By: >>5800214 >>5800398 >>5800561

>>5800173
Down for crucio, not for killing quite yet

Also railroading, but so signposted that it was more or less a conclusion regardless

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 17:12:56 No.5800191 Report

Quoted By: >>5800195 >>5800329

Normally I'd make a play for the Reservoir here, but Taylor's kind of already dead. Not much of a point in that right now.
> Hate flows endlessly, there can be no other choice. The Killing Curse will end this. (Embrace the Killing Curse. You may and will call upon it in the future again, whatever the cost it may be to your soul)
Elliot may hate it. He may loathe himself for having the capacity to hate someone enough to use the Killing Curse, even if they're the devil personified. But he can.
Honestly though, that +65 really fucks us over. One more lost contest and Raven probably dies as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 17:20:59 No.5800195 Report

Quoted By: >>5800214

>>5800191
Actually wait we can ask Faith if the Killing Curse would work on Cocksucker, right? As in, his soul is cast out of Lily's body?
And maybe if Lily's soul, however shattered it is, would still be there, but I think we'd hate Cocksucker too much to care

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 18 Oct 2023 17:29:53 No.5800198 Report

Quoted By: >>5800398 >>5800561

>>5800173
> No. Not even now. Not ever, not while there's even a remnant of Lily in there. You are not like the creature. You are not a monster. (Reject the Killing Curse. Elliot will never be able to cast the spell)
I believe in the heart of the cards.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:09:15 No.5800206 Report

Quoted By: >>5800398 >>5800561

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:24:25 No.5800213 Report

Quoted By: >>5800225

>>5800132
we saw the mind demon, then it attacked us and we tried but failed to escape and got obliviated

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:26:46 No.5800214 Report

Quoted By: >>5800222 >>5800225

>>5800195
AK-ing Lily will kill her body. If there is anything to recover in there, it will be lost.

>>5800189
What do you think I railroaded, anon? If it is the choice itself, well, I figure that if there is any one moment of your life that will harness enough anger to do it, it will be this one.

Besides, there will still be a contested roll between you and Lily no matter what you choose. This is not a "win instantly" vs "lose instantly" scenario. This is choosing what kind of person Elliot is, nothing more, nothing less.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:27:34 No.5800215 Report

Quoted By: >>5800398 >>5800561

>>5800173
>> No. Not even now. Not ever, not while there's even a remnant of Lily in there. You are not like the creature. You are not a monster. (Reject the Killing Curse. Elliot will never be able to cast the spell)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:28:53 No.5800216 Report

Quoted By: >>5800398 >>5800561

>>5800173
>Hate flows endlessly, there can be no other choice. The Killing Curse will end this. (Embrace the Killing Curse. You may and will call upon it in the future again, whatever the cost it may be to your soul)

we end it here, we are not making the mistake we did in battle class, we ending the fight now
im sorry lily, we did what we could, but nobody else is dying in here other than you

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:39:10 No.5800222 Report

Quoted By: >>5800225

>>5800214
>This is not a "win instantly" vs "lose instantly" scenario. This is choosing what kind of person Elliot is, nothing more, nothing less.
Huh, makes me feel justified in not picking Killing Curse.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:le79Jtvx Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:40:54 No.5800223 Report

Quoted By: >>5800398 >>5800561

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:42:11 No.5800225 Report

Quoted By: >>5800230

>>5800213
No, I mean at the courtyard. When Lily was about to open up to us about the mind demon but got silenced. After she tried to kiss us at our first win party.
>>5800214
Wait, the water is still on Lily's body, isn't it? Could we not just try and Transfigure the water into stone again? Or was the potion so the Transfiguration was possible in the first place.
>>5800222
True, but we do need another strategy, and quickly. We'd have to be incredibly lucky to win against Cocksucker as things are going now.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Wed 18 Oct 2023 18:45:40 No.5800230 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800225
>True, but we do need another strategy, and quickly. We'd have to be incredibly lucky to win against Cocksucker as things are going now.
That suggestion about transfiguring water into stone sounds good. Can we possibly use anything as a weapon?
Maybe summon our familiar for the first time (I forget what it's called).

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Wed 18 Oct 2023 19:51:14 No.5800298 Report

Quoted By: >>5800328 >>5800349

>>5799922
have my best roll in the clutches of moments since the start of the quest
>have a full house of numbers
>it affects nothing since QM didnt even concider it for the roll

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 20:27:58 No.5800328 Report

Quoted By: >>5800333 >>5800340

>>5800298
you could have saved taylor if you were 6 minutes sooner

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 20:30:33 No.5800329 Report

Quoted By: >>5800349 >>5800398 >>5800561

WAIT FUCK I JUST REALIZED
Don't spells dissipate once the caster dies?
If we kill Lily, then the Transfigured barrier holding the goblins back will disappear.
Of course, there's a chance they're gone, but I highly doubt that.
>>5800191
Changing my vote:
> No. Not even now. Not ever, not while there's even a remnant of Lily in there. You are not like the creature. You are not a monster. (Reject the Killing Curse. Elliot will never be able to cast the spell)
Was leaning on changing it anyway but the possibility of the goblins not being held back anymore is too much to ignore.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 20:34:38 No.5800333 Report

Quoted By: >>5800340

>>5800328
Isn't the dice based on the time? If he were 6 minute sooner, he would have rolled something different.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Wed 18 Oct 2023 20:42:45 No.5800340 Report

Quoted By: >>5800341 >>5800346

>>5800328
>>5800333
i still rolled 2 minutes before QM posted, ithink that was plenty of time, maybe 4chan didnt showed my post to him before he posted his and the page updated? thats why i have auto-update enabled by default

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 20:43:48 No.5800341 Report

Quoted By: >>5800362

>>5800340
it was best of 3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 20:56:29 No.5800346 Report

Quoted By: >>5800362

>>5800340
It was the forth roll, it doesn't count

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Wed 18 Oct 2023 20:59:34 No.5800349 Report

Quoted By: >>5800352 >>5800362

>>5800329
> Don't spells dissipate once the caster dies?

Depends on the spell, and usually not. In the case of transfiguration, it will hold until Lily's power vanishes from it in about an hour or so.

Will you still change your vote?

>>5800298
Best of 3, anon. The first 3 to come take the roll.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:01:30 No.5800351 Report

Quoted By: >>5800353 >>5800398 >>5800561

>>5800173
> Hate flows endlessly, there can be no other choice. The Killing Curse will end this. (Embrace the Killing Curse. You may and will call upon it in the future again, whatever the cost it may be to your soul)
Dark Lord Hallaster! Dark Lord Hallaster! Dark Lord Hallaster!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:03:17 No.5800352 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800349
I will if transfiguring the water into stone will still work, since we haven't actually casted the spell yet. Right now I'm viewing it as if Elliot would have any other option here, he'd do that first.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:03:57 No.5800353 Report

Quoted By: >>5800355 >>5800356

>>5800351
We gave Harry Potter our word no harm will come to her.

Also it'd be pretty funny if the reason things kept fucking up was because of talking to Potter in the first place. IE: not showing up at all woulda been just fine

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:07:24 No.5800355 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800353
She's been dead since we friendzoned her. A bit late to keep our word.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:07:33 No.5800356 Report

Quoted By: >>5800358

>>5800353
I'm still thinking it's because he would've helped Cocksucker if he promised to give Lily back or something, all the while heavily downplaying what he did to Lily or what he has planned for the creature within us.
Also at this point harm has definitely come to her. Too late to really abide by that at this point

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:09:21 No.5800358 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800356
technically not our fault since it happened long before we met her

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:16:10 No.5800362 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800341
>>5800346
>>5800349
oh right, i forgot about that...

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:20:48 No.5800364 Report

Quoted By: >>5800366

Damn, who could have predicted that holding back against a dark wizard would have ended badly and killed one of our best friends?
So anyways, I told you so.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:23:17 No.5800366 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800364
Anon, please QM already said that we would have had contested rolls no matter what

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 21:51:21 No.5800379 Report

Quoted By: >>5800392 >>5800398 >>5800561

>>5800173
>> Hate flows endlessly, there can be no other choice. The Killing Curse will end this. (Embrace the Killing Curse. You may and will call upon it in the future again, whatever the cost it may be to your soul)

Capcha DRK HX
Why yes capcha AK is dark hax

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XzkR9yPy Wed 18 Oct 2023 22:12:23 No.5800392 Report

Quoted By: >>5800401

>>5800379
Id bet money avatar kedava won't work due to some kind of spirit symmetry issue between us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Wed 18 Oct 2023 22:16:23 No.5800398 Report

Quoted By:

Killing Curse:
>>5800175
>>5800206
>>5800216
>>5800351
>>5800379

No Killing Curse:
>>5800185
>>5800189 (didn't officially vote but I'd count it anyway since the no killing part is explicit)
>>5800198
>>5800215
>>5800223
>>5800329 (if we can still Transfigure the water into stone)

Figured I'd count out of curiosity's sake since I'm about to head to work, and god damn, this vote's incredibly close. Hope I don't come back from work and see Raven also dead because we failed a single contest, Killing Curse or not.
At this point though I'm down for Elliot to enter his 150% angst arc, as opposed to 75% if it was just Taylor dead

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 22:20:32 No.5800401 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800392
If not, back to basics then.

Cocksucker is doused now, so maybe we could try transfiguring the water to gasoline or pure ethanol. Might be easier than liquid to stone.

More than it working or not, like QM said, this is a character defining moment. We are like 16, way over our head, just saw visions of a monster destroying this girl and manipulating us, and now 1 of our best friends is dead by its hands. Now is the time for rage, the time for hate and vitriol so pure it burns our very soul.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:/Nly/0fV Wed 18 Oct 2023 22:20:33 No.5800402 Report

Quoted By: >>5800561

>>5800173

> No. Not even now. Not ever, not while there's even a remnant of Lily in there. You are not like the creature. You are not a monster. (Reject the Killing Curse. Elliot will never be able to cast the spell)

Kinda wanted to MAD him with the nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:5vka1651 Wed 18 Oct 2023 22:21:24 No.5800404 Report

Quoted By: >>5800532 >>5800561

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Wed 18 Oct 2023 23:31:13 No.5800457 Report

Quoted By: >>5800561

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Wed 18 Oct 2023 23:54:53 No.5800474 Report

Quoted By: >>5800483

So a question for those voting no AK:
If Taylor AND Raven had died in the last exchange, would your vote change?
What about if Arty had been her and she got it? Would it change?

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:05:36 No.5800481 Report

Quoted By: >>5800508

I shall close the vote at the end of this hour (hopefully it won't be a tie by then)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:07:02 No.5800483 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800474
No?
It isn't about killing them. It's about how it kills them. Lilly isn't dead dead either.

Avada Kedava is more like our willingness to mutilate Raven/Arty to make sure this guy died. That's the level of hate required, that nothing else matters.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XW2MQiAs Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:30:02 No.5800508 Report

Quoted By: >>5800511

>>5800481
For what it's worth, none of the pro-Killing Curse votes are 1post IDs except mine, which I backlinked. Two of the anti-Killing Curse votes are non-backlinked 1post IDs.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:31:28 No.5800511 Report

Quoted By: >>5800515

>>5800508
don't try to influence the results like that just to break the tie

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XW2MQiAs Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:33:09 No.5800515 Report

Quoted By: >>5800517

>>5800511
If it remains a tie, that is the most elegant way to break it: valuing votes with evidence of legitimacy more than those without.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:35:14 No.5800517 Report

Quoted By: >>5800527

>>5800515
it could be more interesting if it stays a tie

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:49:08 No.5800527 Report

Quoted By: >>5800531

>>5800517
Maybe, but it mostly sounds like it will just slow things down.

Could end up being able to cast it but choosing to not do so. Like, Harry can cast it but limits it to using it like a can of Raid bug spray.

Other options either disregarding 1 post IDs or a limited time, final destination vote are used pretty often. This is too important to just flip a coin.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:54:31 No.5800531 Report

Quoted By: >>5800548

>>5800527
that sounds like a good way of breaking the tie, not outright rejecting it but also not just going full-on murder mode

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 00:54:36 No.5800532 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800404
Confirming that this is me.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 01:00:51 No.5800537 Report

Quoted By:

Closing the vote, let me count them

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 01:09:58 No.5800548 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800531
Might be a good compromise, if things are tied up or just super close. This is a very important vote.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 01:27:04 No.5800561 Report

Quoted By: >>5800575 >>5800615 >>5800617 >>5800640

Killing Curse:
>>5800175
>>5800206
>>5800216
>>5800351
>>5800379
>>5800404

No Killing Curse:
>>5800185 (1 post)
>>5800189
>>5800198
>>5800215
>>5800223 (1 post)
>>5800329
>>5800402 (1 post)
>>5800457

It is a 6/8 in favor of No AK. 3 of the NoAKs are 1 post ids. Y'all like to make this difficult, don't you? I'll admit I wasn't expecting such close vote.

A vote about how to count the votes seems a bit redundant. I know one of the 1 post ids irl to be someone who just caught up to the thread, and if I dismiss the other two it will be a tie.

I will go with NoAK, knowing that it was a very close thing for Elliot, and that a future great trauma may shake him to his core enough to change him and for this question to come up once more.

Let me know if there were any votes that I missed or miscounted.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 01:40:58 No.5800575 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800561
>a future great trauma may shake him to his core enough to change him and for this question to come up once more.

As long as it is not sealed off forever, that is fine, I think.

Using it would be more interesting IMHO. You never see someone with gray or darker morals in HP Quests unless it is some wierd fetish fic from Akun or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:25:08 No.5800615 Report

Quoted By: >>5800618

>>5800561
I just back and I. An put my cite for no ak

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:25:48 No.5800617 Report

Quoted By: >>5800660

>>5800561
>a future great trauma may shake him to his core enough to change him and for this question to come up once more

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:26:09 No.5800618 Report

Quoted By: >>5800627

>>5800615
Holy shite what a mess

I meant I can put my vote for no AK.
I just got back qm sorry about that

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:33:41 No.5800627 Report

Quoted By: >>5800639

>>5800618
I mean, I think we reached a reasonable compromise. No AK for now, but the option might come up if shit gets even worse than thissome fucking how in the future.

I suspect he is already writing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:39:28 No.5800639 Report

Quoted By: >>5800660

>>5800627
>some fucking how
Raven and Arty die as well

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:39:36 No.5800640 Report

Quoted By: >>5800660 >>5800670

>>5800561
>a future great trauma may shake him to his core enough to change him and for this question to come up once more
i fuckign swear, if you do what im thinking you´ll do, i´ll hunt you down and abra kadabra your ass back to the stone age, you better not touch her

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:48:54 No.5800650 Report

Quoted By: >>5800654 >>5800656 >>5800657 >>5800675

So... What do we do after this is all done? Taylor's actually fucking dead and Lily's been a corpse-puppet for months, what the fuck do we tell Potter and everyone else?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:50:55 No.5800654 Report

Quoted By: >>5800657

>>5800650
I'll vote for telling Potter, I lost a lot of faith in Faith.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:53:16 No.5800656 Report

Quoted By: >>5800662

>>5800650
I suspect there's worse to come from the hints QM has dropped (the whole prophecy thing plus our antimeme monster), but with the resurrection stone missing I think one possibility is trying to find that and see what it does.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:53:26 No.5800657 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800650
>>5800654
One crisis at a time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:56:33 No.5800660 Report

Quoted By: >>5800664 >>5800665 >>5800668

>>5800617
>>5800639
>>5800640

Apollo killed someone and maybe tortured them with an instinctive use of Crucio at age 8 because he was touching his little sister's no-no place.

We just watched our best friend have his soul shredded by wizard Freddy Kruger piloting the body of a teenage girl who he sexually and emotionally abused till her mind shattered but will not use everything we have because "we are better" than him or something.

I am now an Apollochad.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:57:02 No.5800662 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800656
I forgot about the stone, I assumed Lily stole it at the time but it hasn't come up since it disappeared.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:57:56 No.5800664 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800660
Apollo is the rare autistic chad.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:00:04 No.5800665 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800660
Also the fact that Potter is going to be extremely pissed over us killing his child. Even if she has been basically possessed.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:04:18 No.5800668 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800660
I think they think we can somehow bring her back even though getting friendzoned killed her on a spiritual level.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:10:09 No.5800670 Report

Quoted By: >>5800673 >>5800674 >>5800676 >>5800681

>>5800640

Heh.

I'd just like to point out that if you had brought Arty and Apollo to this, that d2 would have been a d4. The AK hits whoever it hits.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:12:55 No.5800673 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800670

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cY8cNfBC Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:13:03 No.5800674 Report

Quoted By: >>5800682

>>5800670
But wouldn't Apollo demolish Lily due to the anti-pedophile bonuses that his build gets?

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:13:15 No.5800675 Report

Quoted By: >>5800695

>>5800650
I think it will depend on if we actually 86 Cocksucker or just drive him away or the like. If alive, he obviously cannot return to Hogwarts, the risk is way too great.

If he does ends up alive at the end of this, and we manage to use the repository with Faith's help, we are going to have to let Potter mind scan us to prove what happened unless we want to go into hiding which won't work out well considering we still have the Trace, since we are underage. Same thing, basically, if we manage to kill "Lily" or evict Cocksucker, and she just ends up a veggie.

If we can harness the Ancient Magic, I think we will have a bit more leeway with telling him stuff and shit not ending in disaster.

If we lose and are still alive but Cocksucker gets the repository, I am really not sure what to do.

Maybe there in another way out. If we win and get the Ancient Magic, maybe we can use the Beast to the degree we can erase Lily/Cocksucker. Make it like they never existed. That is pretty fucked up, but it might be an option, IDK.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:13:22 No.5800676 Report

Quoted By: >>5800678 >>5800682

>>5800670
To be fair if we had brought Apollo "Lily" probably would've gotten crucio'd by now.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:16:32 No.5800678 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800676
Not to mention his transfiguration buffs.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:19:24 No.5800681 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800670
If Apollo was here, the battle would have hit harder

Regardless, RP'd a kid and fucked up like a kid vs knowing we oughta shadowrun. It be like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:20:50 No.5800682 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800674
>>5800676
Our transfiguration plan might have worked with the super 'Puff who is a transfiguration god helping.

I feel like Cocksucker would have probably used Imperio on him 1st chance he got, however, and we would be fighting both of them. Unless super autists can't be controlled with it, maybe?

Arty would also be a weak link, someone he would probably target to keep us and Apollo in check.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:33:59 No.5800695 Report

Quoted By: >>5800701

>>5800675
>maybe we can use the Beast to the degree we can erase Lily/Cocksucker
That's a hilariously horrifying thing to do especially since we'd need to do the same to Taylor. I almost want to do it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:39:56 No.5800701 Report

Quoted By: >>5800706

>>5800695
Erasing him might be a blessing for his parents and Raven

also is her name a my immortal reference?

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:42:08 No.5800703 Report

Quoted By: >>5800707 >>5800708 >>5800711 >>5800885

You want him dead. You want that creature dead. You wish you could end it at that very moment. You wish you could. But you can’t hate it enough. You don’t know if you could hate anyone enough to wish to kill them yourself. You don’t wish your hands around Lily’s neck. You don’t wish to sink a knife into his chest.

You only wish he’d stop hurting your friends. You only wish… you only wish you could undo Taylor’s death.

And you can’t cast the Killing Curse with that. You can’t cast it with grief, you can’t cast with love, you can’t cast it with the desire to protect.

You’re not sure if you wish you could hate that much. You’re not sure you wish you could be the sort of person who could cast the Killing Curse.

It doesn’t mean you won’t do everything in your power to stop him.

It doesn’t mean the fury inside you doesn’t burn white hot.

It simply means that there is something in you that hasn’t broken quite that much, even if your heart has.

Your Bombarda leaves your wand with the force of a cannon, and even though Lily does block it, the Exstimulo potion amplifies it beyond what he’s expecting, sending him flying backwards on the floor. You fire spell after spell, through the cave, through your tears, like a wounded beast. Like someone with nothing to lose. Like someone who can’t afford to lose anything else but his own life.

Thoughts of the world and the future are forgotten, suddenly unimportant in the face of tragedy. Sorrow and grief blur your vision, anger keeps it sharp. You brandish your wand like a sword, swinging it with any and all energy you can muster. You don’t bother to dodge the attacks coming your way that won’t kill you or knock you down.

A diffindo cuts through your shoulder, but you don’t care. A reducto blasts by you and you feel shards of stone sink into your flesh, but you keep fighting. You keep on pushing against her. You keep fighting like the world doesn’t matter. One spell after the other, no time to stop, you and Faith together.

Little by little, you push the creature back. Little by little, his confident smile turns into a frown of worry.

> Roll a d100+52 (+22 from your Battle training, +20 from Faith, +10 from a dying friend’s rage). Beat 2 out of 3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:43:20 No.5800706 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800701
For all the pains I've ever suffered at losing a loved one, I would never commit the heinous act of erasing what little of them remains so utterly from memory. If someone were to do it for me, i suppose I'd be none the wiser, but if I later recovered those feelings and memories I would curse the person that took them from me.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:44:58 No.5800707 Report

Quoted By: >>5800709 >>5800713 >>5800717 >>5800721 >>5800723

Rolled 15 + 52 (1d100 + 52)

>>5800703
Here we go

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:45:43 No.5800708 Report

Quoted By: >>5800709 >>5800713 >>5800717 >>5800721 >>5800723

Rolled 48 + 52 (1d100 + 52)

>>5800703
Merlin, guide our wand.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:46:12 No.5800709 Report

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>>5800707
>>5800708

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:47:18 No.5800711 Report

Quoted By: >>5800713 >>5800717 >>5800721 >>5800723

Rolled 49 + 52 (1d100 + 52)

>>5800703

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:48:10 No.5800713 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800707
>>5800708
>>5800711
Hell. I don't suppose it's too much to ask that LilyThing gets a critfail?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:49:44 No.5800717 Report

Quoted By: >>5800720 >>5800730

Rolled 31, 62, 21 + 65 = 179 (3d100 + 65)

>>5800707
>>5800708
>>5800711

67 100 101

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:51:18 No.5800720 Report

Quoted By: >>5800724

>>5800717
>96, 127, 86
FUCK

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:52:20 No.5800721 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800707
>>5800711
>>5800708

Please let her get at least 1 shit roll. Might stop rolling for a while.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:55:01 No.5800723 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800707
>>5800708
>>5800711
so, whenever we die...can we continue playing as Arty? or is the universe just utterly fucked?

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:56:18 No.5800724 Report

Quoted By: >>5800729 >>5800783

>>5800720
Wait.

That means we won 2... right? Or at least 1 if in order? Or are we doing in order? I kinda forgot and am kinda drunk. We beat 2 out of his 3... right?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 04:02:19 No.5800729 Report

Quoted By: >>5800744

>>5800724
You lost the first two, won the last one.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 04:02:41 No.5800730 Report

Quoted By: >>5800744

>>5800717
Why do the dice insist that Elliot must suffer?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 04:24:47 No.5800744 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800729
Damn.
I guess not getting insta-gibbed is fine for now.

If we ever get a chance to get a perk that rearranges the rolls, we must get it. So damn close to 2 wins.

>>5800730
Merlin either hates him or understands he must suffer in order to become what he is meant to be. If we ever meet him, I will still vote for kicking him in the dick.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:5to46ilD Thu 19 Oct 2023 04:58:36 No.5800762 Report

Quoted By: >>5800781 >>5800784 >>5800785

Elliot must suffer. We will turn him into a real villain yet. If he doesn't become Voldemort 2.0 by the end of this we haven't done a good job.

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:13:17 No.5800781 Report

Quoted By: >>5800785

>>5800762
Dark Lord Hallaster! Dark Lord Hallaster! Dark Lord Hallaster!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:17:02 No.5800783 Report

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>>5800724
Still leaves us with another round of battle

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:18:04 No.5800784 Report

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>>5800762
IDK about Voldy, since the guy was kinda dumb at points, but someone so jaded, tired, hard, and constantly pissed that he is willing to go against the flow of magical society, to do the shit no one else will and reclaim our Lost wizard heritage? Sure. Along with his adorable wife-lette, Arty, to support him and make sure he doesn't go all the way to Stupid-Evil. We can make her a little bit of a villaness too; kinda evil girls are way hotter any way. She already has a preloaded tragic backstory, so all she needs is a little push in the right direction.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:18:28 No.5800785 Report

Quoted By: >>5800792

>>5800762
>>5800781
"I sought to conquer death not because I feared succumbing to it, but because I could not forgive it for what it took from me. It would suffer my wrath until it returned them." - Lord Hallaster.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:30:55 No.5800792 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800785
Yeah, if we make it out of here, our vague character motivation just became really fucking real.
Fuck Emily Dickinson. Death is no gentleman, he is a highwayman at best; we will deny him at every step.
All hail Lord Hallister.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:41:50 No.5800799 Report

Quoted By: >>5800805 >>5800878

You try. You try as hard as you can, but slowly, the injuries begin to add up. First the shoulder and the leg, then a depulso slams you against the wall and you hear something break. You stand back up, using the pain to keep you awake, even though you’re bleeding, even though your body is telling you to give up.

But you keep on fighting, because there is nothing else you can do. Because if you lose, Raven dies. If you lose, Arty dies. Mom and dad die. And you swore you’d find a way to not let that happen.

But promises can’t stop spells. Even your most ardent wish can’t stop the will of whatever this creature inside Lily is.

A sectumsempra cuts your left arm clean off your shoulder and you fall to the floor.

“Stu- Stu-” you try casting, the word refusing to come out, your fingers refusing to work properly..

“Expelliarmus!” Lily says, and the wand flies off your fingers. You try to get back up, but she places a foot on your chest and pushes you back down to the floor. “Finally, little Elliot! What a massive pain in the arse you were proving yourself to be. But don’t worry, you won’t be for much longer. I must say, I’d love to pry that little bitch off your head, just to see if I can place her in someone else’s body so I can take my time breaking her, but I feel it would be too much work. No, I think I’d rather just take over the world.”

“You vile snake!” Faith says through their connection.

“You know, I don’t quite remember it, but I do think I’ve been called that before. Who knows, Little Elliot, maybe I was a Slytherin too a long, long time ago! Housemates! That would make it a shame to have to kill you, wouldn’t it? Well, it is the house of the ambitious, after all. And what is a little death in the way of our desires, huh?”

He points Lily’s wand at you.

“Any last words?”

“Even Salazar… would have… despised you,” you spit through gritted, bloodied teeth. “He respected… serpents, not worms… and you are below… even that.”

He laughs, coldly.

“Very well, Little Elliot. Very good choice.”

He cracks his neck and points Lily’s wand at you.

“Avada Kedavra!”

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:45:39 No.5800804 Report

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:48:14 No.5800805 Report

Quoted By: >>5800806

>>5800799

Lily falls to the floor, a faint wisp of black smoke leaking through her mouth. Behind her, with tears in her eyes and a wand smoking from the power of the Killing Curse, is Raven.

“Diffindo!” She shouts, and a gash opens on Lily’s chest. “Diffindo! Diffindo! Diffindo! Diffindo!” She keeps slashing away, again and again, slashing at the body, its arms, its face. Then she straddles it, dropping her wand in fury, wrapping her hands around Lily’s unmoving neck, squeezing, nails piercing bloodied flesh. Her face has a look of fury and rage, her eyes open wide in bloodlust. “I’ll kill you! I’ll fucking kill you!”

You try to stop it, but the blood loss is making you dizzy, your consciousness blurry. A chunk of Lily’s neck comes off in Raven’s hand. She closes her red fingers into a fist, then brings it down on the corpse’s face, again and again, until it is nothing but a bloody pulp.

Finally, she stops, grabbing her own hair and screaming in sorrow and grief and despair. She cries over the bloodied, ruined corpse, looking at it with disgust.

“Raven…” You manage to whisper, Faith having to give you strength to be able to say it. “Please…”

Raven raises her eyes from it, her entire body shaking. She looks like a girl lost, afraid, without direction. It takes several moments until she manages to recognize you. Even when she does, it takes her a long time to reach out. She doesn’t speak, her hands moving as if without her mind telling her to, as if her mind was far, far away. She pulls a piece of torn robes and wraps it around where your arm should be.

“Lacarnum Inflamari,” she whispers, soulessly. You agonize, unable to speak, feeling your flesh burn, the smell of your own skin melting flooding your nose. “Aguamenti. Vulnera Sanentur. Vulnera Sanentur. Vulnera Sanentur.”

She crawls to the wall near you and hugs her own legs, crying.

You pass out.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:49:23 No.5800806 Report

Quoted By: >>5800808 >>5800809 >>5800811 >>5800812 >>5800828 >>5800837 >>5800859

>>5800805

You sleep for an unknown amount of hours. Consciousness comes and goes, wavering, reality winking in and out. When you wake up, every inch of your body hurts. Your throat feels like it is made of sandpaper. It is difficult to even focus your eyes.

But that is good news, because pain means you’re still alive.

“I did what I could,” Faith says. “I helped you heal, but… my power has limits. Elliot, I’m… I’m sorry.”

You don’t respond. You don’t have the mental energy to respond. Instead, you stand up. You don’t look at the body at the door. You don’t look at the body near you. You don’t look at the figure hugging her legs in a corner. You don’t look at the arm. You don’t look at the repository. Those were all things impossible to deal with.

Instead, you search for your wand.

You find it by a corner. You conjure a cup.

“Aguamenti.” You say, and the cup fills with water. Conjured water is not a permanent solution to thirst, but it would do. You drink eagerly, letting it spill down your chin. It mixes with your tears. The cave echoes your screams of rage when your brain finally refuses to keep ignoring reality.

Your best friend is dead.

Lily Potter is dead. She has been for a long time. Now her mangled corpse is down here.

The swirling cage of ancient magic is still there. It still needs to be dealt with, along with a possible attack by the creature inside you.

Your other best friend is unmoving in a corner, though you can still hear her sobs.

You look at the entrance and see a small mercy. The doors to this chamber are somehow closed. The cursed goblins outside cannot enter.

You’ve lost an arm.

That last one seems so unimportant, right now.

You need to deal with this somehow. Where do you start?

> Gather the bodies of your two friends, gather your arm. Cover them up somewhere away from view.
> Talk to Raven (What do you say?)
> Investigate the repository
> Talk to Faith (What will you ask?)
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:51:36 No.5800808 Report

Quoted By: >>5800812 >>5800815

>>5800806
> Talk to Faith (What will you ask?)
"Explain everything. Now. Or we swear the monster will the the least of your troubles."

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:53:16 No.5800809 Report

Quoted By: >>5800822

>>5800806
I have no idea what to even say to Raven. Just... Fucking ow.

> Talk to Faith
Can she verify that monster is dead? DAD dead? Not... Haunting Lily's corpse or waiting to seize the repository at the last minute somehow?

Then...
> Investigate the repository

We have to end this, or their deaths and ours and Raven's losses will mean nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:R6s1lCBT Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:54:34 No.5800811 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800806
>Talk to Faith (What will you ask?)
Is there any way to use the power of this place to change the past?

I doubt it but if an existence eating monster wanted to get this power there might be at least a chance it allows acces to the past of some people

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:54:49 No.5800812 Report

Quoted By: >>5800815 >>5800825

>>5800806
>Sit by Raven, saying nothing. You don't think you have the power to speak right now, but it's good to have someone nearby, that you can share the grief with.
>Talk to Faith about what she's been hiding. It's clear now she was hiding information that could have helped a lot, with hindsight. Maybe it could have even saved Taylor's life.
>Investigate the repository
In that order.

>>5800808
This anon has a good starting point for what we say to Faith.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 05:58:20 No.5800815 Report

Quoted By: >>5800819

>>5800812
>>5800808

I'm not really mad at or suspicious of Faith. I think she's been doing her best with ghostly half-memories and partial understanding.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 19 Oct 2023 06:02:29 No.5800819 Report

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>>5800815
I don't think it'd matter to a teenager who just saw a friend get mindraped since she was 4 and then mindkilled, and then saw one of his best friends die, all by some demon possessor thing that she recognized, and also called her sister.
If Elliot was working logically right now, you'd be right. But I don't think he's capable of that right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 19 Oct 2023 06:07:14 No.5800822 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800809
supporting this, we came down here to do a job, we did not lose 2 people and an arm just to leave it incomplete

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 19 Oct 2023 06:10:06 No.5800825 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800812
+1

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 06:13:20 No.5800828 Report

Quoted By: >>5800837

>>5800806
> Talk to Raven (What do you say?)
Hug her, if she will let us. Try, and fail, to tell her how sorry we are. For making her have to cast the killing curse. For failing Taylor. For failing her. How weak we were. If she despises us, we accept it. This is our fault, all our fault.

> Talk to Faith (What will you ask?)
Answers. Now. Or I will throw myself from the ledge, let the beast destroy you and everything else. Answers. Now.

So, we are short an arm. Our best friendThe one that we didn't get killed.
had to use an Unforgivable because we thought ourselves above it.

Are you happy now, Lord Hallister?

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 06:22:25 No.5800837 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800828
>>5800806
Also after all that, check the repository. Faith said it would destroy us to mess with it too quickly. Now, now we have all the time that matters. All the time in the world.

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Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 06:36:23 No.5800859 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800806
> Talk to Faith
Ask her if Lily's mind daemon is gone for good or if that fucking asshole will become a problem

> Investigate the repository
Why yes, I think I shall take the repository's power and become dark lord.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9nailV0Y Thu 19 Oct 2023 06:58:23 No.5800876 Report

Quoted By: >>5800880

>Friends dead
>Arm lost
>Accessory to murder of the head prefect
Yeah I'm thinking we go down the lich mythic path now. We even have soul cages in this universe, might as well drown Britain in skeletons.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYWfOXZp7Q
All hail Elliotmort.

>Sit by Raven, saying nothing. You don't think you have the power to speak right now, but it's good to have someone nearby, that you can share the grief with.
>Talk to Faith about what she's been hiding. It's clear now she was hiding information that could have helped a lot, with hindsight. Maybe it could have even saved Taylor's life.
>Investigate the repository
>In that order.
Backlinking
>>5800185

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Anonymous ID:w2PF7w30 Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:03:07 No.5800878 Report

Quoted By: >>5800883 >>5800885

>>5800799
>not giving us the second round

qm pls

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:04:53 No.5800880 Report

Quoted By: >>5800888

>>5800876
I'd save the Dark Lord talk until we show Potter what the fuck happened here. No words can possibly explain what went down here, but if we let him peer into our mind, and think back on what Cocksucker showed us, and how the fight went down(minus Raven's Killing Curse, if possible), then that should work.
Even if we've fallen into the dark, Arty is still in the light. At this point, she may be our only link to the light right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:09:21 No.5800883 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800878
We had plenty of rounds but the dice decided to fuck us over every time.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:09:27 No.5800885 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800878
You did have three rounds, just not all of them were "Beat 2 out of 3". You won the first, then lost the other two.

1 >>5799249
2 >>5799897
3 >>5800703

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:14:28 No.5800888 Report

Quoted By: >>5800890

>>5800880
When I said she might want to try wizard counseling, I wasn't lying.

She kept Apollo from going totally Dark after killing a dude at 8 when he saw her being molested.

I think we can be a touch Dark after this BS.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:17:02 No.5800890 Report

Quoted By: >>5800897

>>5800888
I don't think she ever directly said Apollo killed him, just flung him out the window. If she was lying about that though and he tortured him with Crucio instead, I guess it's possible he killed him as well.

Oh yeah, we definitely can. Not evil, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:25:05 No.5800897 Report

Quoted By: >>5800904

>>5800890
She saw someone die, bc she can see Thestrals. She told us it was their guardian/dad who Apollo killed, some how. They were homeless after that till the Ministry found them. I do not think she just randomly saw someone else kick the bucket, and I don't see why she would lie that he was the one she saw die.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:31:14 No.5800904 Report

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>>5800897
Oh wait yeah disregard my dumbassery. I somehow forgot she literally said it was her caretaker she saw die.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:42:03 No.5800910 Report

Quoted By: >>5800912

You sit by Raven. There is nothing you can say right now. You know that. You know what was taken from her, not just a friend, but possibility. A whole branch of fate, of her life, just… gone.

You don’t know if she blames you for it. You blame yourself for it. So you just sit by her, gently bumping your foot against hers to let her know you’re there if she needs you. She doesn’t push you away, and that is enough for now.

But there is something that needs to be addressed.

“Explain. Now.” You think to Faith, and even in your thoughts your voice is cold as ice.

“I… I don’t know what to say, Elliot.” She answers. “I… I don’t know what to tell you-”

“You don’t know what to tell me?” You shout mentally, anger boiling over. “How bout you tell me what the fuck was that thing in Lily’s head!? And why did it call you sister, huh? How about you fucking start with that!?”

She stays in silence for a long, long time before she starts talking.

“I don’t know if I was a student at Hogwarts. I have memories of Hogwarts but… no, it wouldn’t be fair to call them memories. More like…blurred images, beyond almost all recognition. But that is all they are. My first real memories are from an eternity of darkness. And I do not mean it lightly. Eternity. It is… unfathomable to the human mind. But that is how long I spent there.”

“I can’t tell you how I know this, I myself don’t know how I know it. Deep in the ministry, there were many, many time-turners. And then they broke, all at once. And all that time, all that magic, looped again and again and again, aging everything it touched. And it festered. And it grew. Out of control. The ones responsible could not do anything about it, they’d taken too long to get there. They did not know how to stop time itself. But they knew of something, something that would make anything and everything disappear. Something they did not fully understand. Deep in the Ministry of Magic, there is a tall and ancient Archway.”

Your breath hitches as you remember the stories you read about Potter in the ministry. The Veil, the same thing that had killed Sirius Black.

“They needed to make the growing destruction stop. So they sent it through the Archway. And they unknowingly put time once more into Forever. But it did not stop growing. Magic like that can’t be stopped by what the Archway represented. And, eventually, It grew a mind. And I was part of it.”

“Yet with Forever fading, so did the bindings of the land behind the Archway. And the thing that was Time Itself trashed against the boundaries of the Darkness on the other side of the Archway. And in its trashing, I broke off. Splintered away from it, small enough to pass through the cracks it had made. I reached out into the light, trying to grab anything, find anywhere I could hold on to.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:43:04 No.5800912 Report

Quoted By: >>5800922 >>5800924 >>5800931 >>5800932 >>5800945 >>5800956 >>5801164

>>5800910

“And when I did…” And there is true guilt in her voice. “I found myself in you, with the Gate the creature was trying to tear down, the crack in reality it tries to widen. And I couldn’t leave.”

“You,” you ask, horrified. “You did this to me?”

“I did. I didn't mean to, but… I didn’t even know what I was doing other than scrambling for the light but… It was me. I don’t know why the Gate was inside you, or if it was inside you because I brought it along. I didn’t know that another part of the creature could have escaped, much less by itself or that much earlier. If I’d known I would have told you.”

“And you didn’t stop to think…” you say to her in anger. “That you should have TOLD ME THAT BEFORE MY BEST FRIEND DIED!?”

“Tell you that I was once part of that abomination? Of the very thing that is trying to kill you? You would have told Potter immediately and ended the world. I never lied about that. Nor about anything else.”

“And that… arsehole, why did it call you sister?”

“Maybe because we both came from the creature. Maybe for some other reason. I don’t know. My knowledge is limited. He couldn’t see the future, but clearly remembered something about Merlin, and something about someone he called the Fifth Founder. Whatever it is we are, we came to this world with different memories, and abilities.”

You sit in silence, anger still boiling inside you.

“Is he dead?”

“I… I don’t know. I don’t know if I… if we can die. It is possible he simply went to another host. It’s possible he returned to the Darkness. It’s possible he died. I don’t know.”

“Is there anything else you’re hiding from me?”

“No.”

“Could you do to me what he did to Lily?”

“... If your mind was fragile enough. If our connection was strong enough. But I would never take away your control. Never. I’m not like him, and I’ll never be.”

> Ask/tell Faith something else (What?)
> Gather the bodies of your two friends, gather your arm. Cover them up somewhere away from view.
> Investigate the repository
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 19 Oct 2023 07:58:48 No.5800922 Report

Quoted By: >>5800951 >>5801040

>>5800912
>Sit it silence, for just a few more minutes.
>Tell Faith we're going to have to tell Potter about this. There's no feasible way we can get out of it. If she protests, ask if she knows exactly why Potter knowing about this makes the world end.
>Investigate the repository.
At the very least, we can make Taylor and Lily's deaths mean something.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:00:35 No.5800924 Report

Quoted By: >>5800928 >>5800932

>>5800912
> Investigate the repository
How would we gather our friends bodies with one arm? It's not like we can carry them anymore. I hope magic prosthetics are a thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:04:46 No.5800928 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800924
Considering limbs can be reattached if you splinch them through Apparition, if we bring our arm with us at the very least when we leave we'll probably be able to get it reattached.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:07:43 No.5800931 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800912
> Ask Faith if she knows exactly how telling Potter would end the world.
> Gather the bodies of your two friends, gather your arm. Cover them up somewhere away from view.
I'd rather not make a concrete decision concerning telling Potter when we don't have all the context.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:09:05 No.5800932 Report

Quoted By: >>5800954

>>5800924
if madam Pomfrey could regrow harry´s BONES by herself, im sure that St. Mungos could regrow our arm without much problem
>>5800912
>investigate the repository

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:17:12 No.5800945 Report

Quoted By: >>5801164

>>5800912
>> Ask/tell Faith something else (What?)
>I can't say that I am not angery. I can't say I can even forgive you for hiding that. I will try though. Now, I need your help with this "repository". I will not let this be for nothing.

> Investigate the repository

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:20:20 No.5800951 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800922
Support. Even if we try and keep this secret Potter's going to rip it from our minds trying to find out what happened to Lily, to hell with what he said earlier. And I dread having that happen to us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:22:09 No.5800954 Report

Quoted By: >>5800981

>>5800932
Going to be honest, Elliot being permanently marked from this is kinda cooler than magic can just fix anything.

Like in Universe, it was a curse which took our arm, we then had it burned to cauterize it, and it will be several more hours before we can get professional medical attention. That seems like enough to say, no, the arm is gone for good.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:23:07 No.5800956 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800912
Man qm you are just flawlessly making me feel here, I think I'm addicted to your writing.
My vote.
> Investigate the repository

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Thu 19 Oct 2023 08:55:40 No.5800981 Report

Quoted By: >>5800995 >>5800996

>>5800954
we got our arm cut-off clean, the least we need right now is another debuff, even if we are out of danger right now the cool factor is something we dont need

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 09:17:44 No.5800995 Report

Quoted By: >>5801258

>>5800981
Cooome oooon. It will be like Harry's scar, except HeadQM isn't a hack, so facing off with a dark wizard abomination thing has real consequences. Aside from 2 dead friends and one who is so fucked up she might really go the Dark Lady route, without some help.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 09:20:20 No.5800996 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800981
Well I want a magic robot arm.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1zc8Bqdf Thu 19 Oct 2023 11:57:52 No.5801040 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800922
Support
At this point, I don't even care if the universe gets destroyed.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 14:49:16 No.5801164 Report

Quoted By:

>>5800945
Supporting.

>>5800912

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 19 Oct 2023 15:21:53 No.5801182 Report

Quoted By: >>5801186

I think I have a general idea on how telling Potter makes the world end.
The nothing-void guy has some degree of intelligence, right? What if every time Lily dies or gets irreversibly mindraped he gives Harry the chance to get her back by resetting things with the void's absolute victory coming closer each time?
It's not that hard of a choice to make for a father.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 19 Oct 2023 15:36:56 No.5801186 Report

Quoted By: >>5801192 >>5801206

>>5801182
I had a similar train of thought, and even said it earlier, but the problem with our theories is that Cocksucker's victory would not have made the world end, rather leave it under his control.
Of course, an easy fix is that Cocksucker heavily underestimated his ability to control the eldritch being, and the world ended as a result, but no way to know for sure.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 15:42:59 No.5801192 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801186
The world being under a rapey time-monster-fragment's control could be as GOOD as ending it. Maybe once he rules the world, he'll start tormenting everyone until he gets bored and then destroys it all. Maybe he'll just turn the earth into a hellish, time-displaced prison dimension?

Could also be that he'll erase everyone's memory of Harry Potter, and maybe erase him from the timeline altogether, causing a much darker timeline to result?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 19 Oct 2023 15:59:40 No.5801206 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801186
No I'm not talking about a mind demon victory, but the "Nothing" itself being the victor.
I believe it was mentioned that the "Nothing" eldritch was intelligent, and I'm sure it'll probably bargain to Harry for his daughter to get another win.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Thu 19 Oct 2023 18:07:16 No.5801258 Report

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>>5800995
we have plenty of other injuries for this that don't cause major problems

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 18:39:34 No.5801280 Report

Quoted By: >>5801281

“I need to tell this to Potter,” you say. “I need to tell him everything”

“You can’t! If you do-”

“What happens if I do, Faith? Tell me! Because this far, you haven’t told me shit!”

“I… I don’t know. But I know the world ends. Or ended. I can’t see the future anymore, there are no certainties anymore, but Potter… He’s a force of nature. Always has been. He has access to the three Deathly Hallows, or at least two of them. What do you think he’d do if he found out what his child went through? What do you think he’d do if he had access to all this power?”

“I can’t hide this from him. His daughter is dead. Another student is dead. If the Hogwarts wards extend all the way here, it’s possible he already knows.”

“I… I know. I… don’t have the answers to how to deal with that. But if you decide to tell Potter… be ready to kill him, if it ever becomes necessary. I think it will.”

You stand up, the weight of the world still on your shoulders. You want to sleep. You want to sleep for a long, long time. But there’s still something to do here, the thing you came here for.

You approach the repository.

“So, what is this exactly?”

“I can understand it a little better now that we’re here. See its history. People today use magic but… there is an older kind of magic. Ancient. I don’t know if it is simply a concentrated form of normal magic or something else entirely, but normal people can’t use it. No one today can. But it allowed the wielders to do wonders. It’s how Hogwarts was built, it’s how it stands until today.”

“There was a witch once, a long, long time ago. She too could control Ancient Magic, and she despised the suffering of others. She despised how wizards left muggles like her father to die in the dirt. She began using that ancient magic to take out the suffering from people, from their very souls. But the pain couldn’t just be released anywhere. It needed to be contained.”

“She began small, had a goblin called Bragbor built a smaller repository. When that was filled, he had him build this one, which had far, far greater capabilities. Like a pond and a sea. And here, for years, she stored the sorrows of all who she knew. But her peers did not like that. Once they discovered it, they found it vile. To take away a part of someone’s soul, even a part which is suffering… They thought it evil beyond words. They fought, she died. But they couldn’t undo the repository without releasing the pain, and that pain, that energy, would threaten the world.”

“Centuries later, Bragbor’s descendent Ranrok found the smaller repository, then came for this one. He was stopped by the last known wielder of Ancient Magic I know of. The wielder tried to take the magic for himself, but it was too much. With his last act, he resealed it before dying.”

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 18:41:32 No.5801281 Report

Quoted By: >>5801283 >>5801284 >>5801287 >>5801306 >>5801309 >>5801314 >>5801317

>>5801280

“And…” you ask. “I can use it?”

“No. I can use it. That demon could use it. But he had full control of Lily’s body. If I were to try to channel this energy… You would die. Your soul would burn.”

There is a low, deep, rumbling laugh. It does not come from around you. It does not come from inside you.

It comes from Nowhere.

H a . . . H a . . . H a . . . 

T h e n l e t i t b u r n.

You scream. Your body contorts in pain, every muscle twisting, contracting, screaming against its own existence. But the pain went beyond the body. Your soul, your soul was burning. Your soul was torn, broken, beaten, crushed-

and
you feel
pain ripping
and
you hear
a wet sound
of flesh tearing
and the crackle
of bone
splintering
and the pain
is killing you
you scream
you scream
you scream
you scream
you need to
run away
there is no air
no hope
there is just
dark
dark
dark
and you fall
somewhere without no pain
please Merlin
let there be
no pain
Where do you take refuge?

> You’re with Taylor and Raven, watching the stars and bantering
> You’re at your first party with the Raiders, a mustache and a monocle, surrounded by the people who follow you
> You’re with Arty, by the edges of the great lake
> You’re back home, with mom and dad, away from magic, the Christmas lights twinkling on the tree
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1zc8Bqdf Thu 19 Oct 2023 18:43:37 No.5801283 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801281
> You’re with Taylor and Raven, watching the stars and bantering

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 18:45:06 No.5801284 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801281
> You’re with Taylor and Raven, watching the stars and bantering
This is what this bastard took from us!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 19 Oct 2023 18:52:54 No.5801287 Report

Quoted By: >>5801314

>>5801281
> You’re at your first party with the Raiders, a mustache and a monocle, surrounded by the people who follow you
Lord Hallaster, lend us your power!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Thu 19 Oct 2023 19:14:31 No.5801306 Report

Quoted By: >>5801310

>>5801281
THAT SHIT IS ALIVE
i wanted to say we are with Arty, but thinking about it
>You’re with Taylor and Raven, watching the stars and bantering
this one feels appropriate right now

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Thu 19 Oct 2023 19:17:21 No.5801309 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801281
>> You’re with Taylor and Raven, watching the stars and bantering

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 19 Oct 2023 19:17:38 No.5801310 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801306
>this one feels appropriate right now
It is a look into the better times, indeed.
Are we defined by what we had, by our love, by what we want?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Thu 19 Oct 2023 19:22:23 No.5801314 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801281
And as I am finally caught up: Damn you. Utterly and always.

>>5801287
This, but I hope that being with Taylor and Raven win.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Thu 19 Oct 2023 19:25:30 No.5801317 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801281
>> You’re with Taylor and Raven, watching the stars and bantering

I want to do the Arty one but at this point it dosen't really have a chance of winning.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1zc8Bqdf Thu 19 Oct 2023 19:29:27 No.5801322 Report

Quoted By: >>5801360 >>5801378

I just had a horrible thought. Since this monster eats the past, if it attacks us while we are on our refuge, would it take that happy moment from us?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 20:18:20 No.5801360 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801322
That's fucking awful, I hope so.

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Quoted By:

>>5801322

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 22:43:22 No.5801462 Report

Quoted By: >>5801463

You are on the astronomy tower. It is late at night and Taylor has convinced you to come with him to look at the stars.

“You know, I really don’t know what you think you’re going to find up there,” you say, focusing your lenses on Jupiter. “They haven’t really changed in, what, forever? Unless you’re hoping to catch an alien.”

“Elliot, would you do me a favor?” He says. “Adjust your telescope twenty degrees down, five, no, five and a half degrees right.”

“Why, what’s in there?” You ask, adjusting the telescope. “It is some new star- oh you ass! That’s fucking nasty!”

“Why, what’s there?” Raven asks.

“Filch’s bathroom,” Taylor says, laughing. “Did he look nice, Elliot?”

“He looked lovely. In an unrelated question, do any of you know fiendfyre and could please cast it directly into my eyes?”

“No,” Raven says, reaching into her robes and pulling out a bottle of amber liquid. “But I do have this.”

“Oh, wow! Where did you get it?”

“My mom’s stash.”

“Didn’t she notice it?”

“I thought she hadn’t, but then right before I got on the train she hugged me and told me not let the professors catch me with it.”

“Raven!” Taylor says, having finally taken his eyes out of his telescope and seeing what she’s holding. “We’re fourteen!”

“And my mum is twenty nine. Trust me, she knows there are ways to mess up your life worse than alcohol. And besides, does that mean you’re not going to drink?”

“... I didn’t say that.”

“Good,” she says, taking a swig of the bottle. Her face immediately contorts into a frown of disgust as the liquid burns her throat, the two halves of her forked tongue twisting in displeasure. “Ack! Why the hell do adults drink this?”

“It can't be that bad. Give it here!” You take the bottle and drink too. You try not to let your face show it, but it is impossible. “Oh fuck…”

“Let me try it,” Taylor says. He drinks, then purses his lips. “... Maybe it is an acquired taste?”

“Merlin, then I hope I acquire it fast.”

You three keep on drinking through the night, sharing the bottle, telling stories from your vacation and laughing as the alcohol slowly seeps into your brains. The buzz gently blurs things, and the three of you end up simply being happily drunk together. The bottle, whatever it is, never stops burning your throat, but by the time there are only a couple fingers left none of you care.

So you three just sit in silence, watching the stars twinkle against the dark heavens above. But then one goes out. Then another. And another.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Thu 19 Oct 2023 22:44:23 No.5801463 Report

Quoted By: >>5801467 >>5801469 >>5801489 >>5801508 >>5801512 >>5801513 >>5801514 >>5801518 >>5801572 >>5801576 >>5801694

>>5801462
“You know you’re dying, right?” Raven asks.

“Yeah…” you say, and there is a longing in your voice. A tiredness to your very bones. “I do.”

“I would very much prefer… if you didn’t.”

“I… I don’t know. It… it hurts. It hurts too much out there.”

“Ah, nonsense mate,” Taylor says. “You can take it. You can beat it.”

“I can’t, Taylor. And you… you won’t be there.”

“I won’t. But Raven will. Arty will. Your parents will. My parents will. And if you stay here… They won't. And you don’t want that, do you?”

“No… Taylor I’m… I’m sorry.”

He smiles, and you know it will be the last time you see his smile. It will be the last time Taylor Cycad looks up at the stars.

“It’s fine. I’m no Gryffindor, but… I’d say dying fighting by your friends is a good death, don’t you agree?”

You wipe away your tears, trying to desperately hold on to his image.

“It is,” you say, then pull him into a hug. You hold him tight, as if you could stop him from leaving. “If you have to die… then that is as good a death as it gets. Thank you, Taylor. For everything. For being my friend. For being who you are.”

“The pleasure was mine. Now go, Elliot. You still have an Atlantis to find, and a world to save.”

What are your final words to your friend?

> “I’ll bring you back. I promise I’ll find a way to bring you back!”
> “I’ll stop him! I’ll find a way to end this creature and save everyone!”
> “If the bastard who killed you isn’t dead already, you can be sure I’ll find a way to kill him!”
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Thu 19 Oct 2023 22:47:51 No.5801467 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801463
>> “If the bastard who killed you isn’t dead already, you can be sure I’ll find a way to kill him!”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Thu 19 Oct 2023 22:48:17 No.5801469 Report

Quoted By: >>5801576

>>5801463
> “I’ll stop him! I’ll find a way to end this creature and save everyone!”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Thu 19 Oct 2023 22:58:31 No.5801489 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801463
> “I’ll stop him! I’ll find a way to end this creature and save everyone!”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 19 Oct 2023 23:12:42 No.5801508 Report

Quoted By: >>5801515 >>5801809 >>5801821

>>5801463
>I'll do my best. I'll see you later, Taylor. One way or another.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 23:13:13 No.5801512 Report

Quoted By: >>5801515

>>5801463
> “I’ll bring you back. I promise I’ll find a way to bring you back!”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Thu 19 Oct 2023 23:13:31 No.5801513 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801463
>“If the bastard who killed you isn’t dead already, you can be sure I’ll find a way to kill him!”
this fits our playful banters AND is also a promise to him

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:GdDkmwwJ Thu 19 Oct 2023 23:15:59 No.5801514 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801463
> “I’ll stop him! I’ll find a way to end this creature and save everyone!”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Thu 19 Oct 2023 23:16:41 No.5801515 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801508
>>5801512
Switching to support this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1zc8Bqdf Thu 19 Oct 2023 23:21:34 No.5801518 Report

Quoted By: >>5801578 >>5801694

>>5801463
>"You are more of a hero then I have ever been. If I ever have a son, I'm naming him after you."

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:03:03 No.5801572 Report

Quoted By: >>5801576 >>5801582

>>5801463
> “I’ll bring you back. I promise I’ll find a way to bring you back!”
Obsession.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:05:15 No.5801576 Report

Quoted By: >>5801582

>>5801572
Hm. Obsession COULD be a good driving motivation, more personal than the thrill of discovery.

>>5801463
Switching from >>5801469 to
> “I’ll bring you back. I promise I’ll find a way to bring you back!”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:07:16 No.5801578 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801518
>If I ever have a son, I'm naming him after you.
I like this idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:11:16 No.5801582 Report

Quoted By: >>5801586 >>5801590

>>5801576
>>5801572
>sidelining all the fun parts of Elliot's character
>yet another obsessive wizard
Eh doesn't really do it for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:14:39 No.5801586 Report

Quoted By: >>5801617

>>5801582
Who the fuck said that you have to sideline all the fun parts of a character just because they gain an obsession?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:16:14 No.5801590 Report

Quoted By: >>5801617

>>5801582
There's no reason that Elliott can't still have fun, eventually, but it adds some pathos to a hunt for ancient magic... And an experience like this s going to change a guy. Elliott was mutilated and tortured, two of his friends were killed, Raven became a murderer, and he witnessed a decade-and-change of gaslighting, grooming, and child molestation. It's... Heavy. it would be weird if nothing changed for him, in my opinion.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:18:37 No.5801593 Report

Quoted By: >>5801601

would be better to include reviving the actual Lily

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:25:00 No.5801601 Report

Quoted By: >>5801607

>>5801593
Sure, but I don't think we need to include that in our final words to Taylor.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:27:35 No.5801607 Report

Quoted By: >>5801608

>>5801601
meant as part of the obsession thing

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:28:22 No.5801608 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801607
Oh, yes, then we're aligned!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:31:58 No.5801617 Report

Quoted By: >>5801621

>>5801586
That's how it fucking is dumbass. Obsessions are about obsessing over shit, it eventually sidelines what you used to be, good bad fun or not I speak from experience.

>>5801590
That's a fair point, but in a sense all of these choices are about pursuing ancient magic in some form with an ulterior purpose in mind and come from the pain he just experienced. I suppose he'd have the drive and desire for and would keep at it until it's done.

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:34:01 No.5801621 Report

Quoted By: >>5801637

>>5801617
>That's how it fucking is dumbass.
For you.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:41:33 No.5801637 Report

Quoted By: >>5801638 >>5801668

>>5801621
You're a big guy.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:42:16 No.5801638 Report

Quoted By: >>5801668

>>5801637
Lotta loyalty for a hired gun.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 00:58:00 No.5801668 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801637
>>5801638

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 01:13:47 No.5801694 Report

Quoted By: >>5801821

>>5801463

> “I’ll stop him! I’ll find a way to end this creature and save everyone!”
>I love you Taylor and I will never forget you, even after I am immortal and its been 1000 years, I will never forget you.

Made me tear up a bit QM.

I really would love to see what the other people would have said to us and seen those memories as well.

Oh well, Lord Hallister's work is never done it seems

>>5801518
Support this as well

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Fri 20 Oct 2023 02:58:54 No.5801809 Report

Quoted By: >>5801821

>>5801508
Not sure if I'm too late or not but supporting this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 03:14:32 No.5801821 Report

Quoted By:

>>5801809
>>5801508
>>5801694

If it's not, I will change as well. After having thought about it some.

If it is too late, just count my original choice QM.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:32:28 No.5801873 Report

Quoted By: >>5801875

“I'll do my best. I'll see you later, Taylor. One way or another.”

He pulls back from the hug and nods, grinning.

“Looking forward to visiting Atlantis with you.”

“And I the stars with you.”

“Meet you on the moon, buddy.”

And then he pushes you off the Astronomy Tower.

You fall, the wind hurling past your ears, only the stars above you.

And then you meet the floor and the pain of reality hits you like the fist of god.

You spit blood, your back curving, your spine nearly breaking backwards from the convulsion as your body fights itself. It is as if your very self was forcing itself to die, as if it was rejecting existence with every fiber of its being.

Your body longed for the embrace of death, because it was easier than to continue living with the pain.

“Hold on, Elliot! Hold on!” You hear inside your head, Faith screaming. You can feel her fighting, battling the creature, trying to force it back. But you could also feel her tiredness. The fight against Lily had used much of her energy, and you were now paying the cost. “Hold on!”

“Petrificus Totalus!” You hear a voice say, and magic tries to force your limbs together. But your body is stronger than the spell. “Petrificus Totalus! Petrificus Totalus! You’re not dying on me, Elliot! Petrificus Totalus!”

Raven casts the spell again and again, forcing your body to straighten, forcing it to unbend itself. Even as it struggles, even as it tries to break, her magic prevents it, slowly forcing it into position. Slowly, her it overpowers you.

“Incarcerous!” Thick ropes wrap around you, forcing your body to stay in place. She kneels by you, face filled with a strange determination. “I’m not letting you die. Vulnera Sanentur! Vulnera Sanentur! Vulnera Sanentur! Vulnera Sanentur! Vulnera Sanentur!”

She repeats the spell, again and again and again in a song-like incantation, the magic leaving her wand and wrapping itself on you. It’s agony. What the creature breaks, Raven heals, only for it to be broken again. She can’t heal everything, the spell is not powerful enough for that, but she never stops chanting. She never leaves your side. She doesn’t stop fighting.

And neither do you.

“Faith!”

“I’m… Trying! It’s… almost…. Got it!”

It is like being taken from boiling water and dumped into a freezing cold bath. Your body screams once again, but this time it is like the pain of removing a splinter from your fingers, except multiplied by infinity. It is pain, but it is the pain of healing. It is the pain of your wounds finally being allowed to close.

And you can breathe again. They are shallow breaths, but air fills your lungs. You breathe. You live. And today, that is enough.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:35:46 No.5801875 Report

Quoted By: >>5801878 >>5801880 >>5801885 >>5801886 >>5801896 >>5801904 >>5801958 >>5801966 >>5801993 >>5802000 >>5802001

>>5801873

Once more, you wake up some unknown time later. Raven is still by your side, still chanting.

“She’s been at it for hours,” Faith tells you.

“R-raven…”

She stops chanting and looks down to you. Her face contorts into something that breaks your heart. It is happiness, but desperately so.

“You’re alive… Thank Merlin… You’re alive. I hadn’t checked. I didn’t dare… I... I couldn’t know…”

She breaks down crying, hugging you. Once she manages to control herself, she unties you, then gives you water. You reach for the cup, every movement hurting, when…

“My hand,” you say. It is scarred, like a web of cuts had been haphazardly slashed all through your skin. “What… what happened?”

“I’m sorry, Elliot. I… I healed you as best as I could but… The injuries, they just kept appearing all over.”

You see the scars going up your fingers, your hand, your arms. You reach for your face, but she holds your hand.

“Don’t.”

“How bad?”

She doesn’t answer. She doesn’t have the courage.

And you know you will have to deal with it. But you can’t deal with another heartbreak today. There is too much. Your head feels like it has been filled with lead. Too much. Too much grief. Too much pain and hurt. Too much.

Too much.

And it is still not over.

“Is it done, Faith? Is the creature… gone?... Please.”

“It is. It’s sealed.”

“And the repository?”

“I wouldn’t be able to use it, not without harming you. Not without killing you. But it showed me one thing. The being that was in Lily… he fled. Where to, I don’t know.”

“So he will come back here,” you sigh. “He will try again.”

“He knows the way.”

“So? What can we do with it?”

“I can’t use it through you… But I can destroy it. The ancient magic wants to join with itself. I can channel it through this bridge and into the cavern outside, into the creatures there. It will destroy them. The rest will disperse it harmlessly into the school grounds.”

“You said it came from people’s sorrows.”

“It did. But goblin Silver isn’t black. Not naturally. Through the years it absorbed the sorrows, turned dark, and the creatures in that room absorbed what it had absorbed through the decades. Now, this is just a container of energy.”

“A container of energy no one except you two can use.”

“As far as I know.”

“As far as you know,” you repeat. “Very well.”

> We destroy it. It is too dangerous to remain here. And it will clear our path up.
> We keep it. Potter will protect it. We may find a way to use it. We’ll fight our way out.
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:zoPuJUmF Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:38:04 No.5801878 Report

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>>5801875
>We destroy it. It is too dangerous to remain here. And it will clear our path up.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1zc8Bqdf Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:38:50 No.5801880 Report

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>>5801875
> We destroy it. It is too dangerous to remain here. And it will clear our path up.
Punished Elliot arc

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:41:51 No.5801885 Report

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>>5801875
> We destroy it. It is too dangerous to remain here. And it will clear our path up.

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:42:21 No.5801886 Report

Quoted By: >>5801897

>>5801875
>You said that you were timeless given time. Can you use the energy to send yourself back as you are now? Back to when I first heard you? You can warn me better. It wouldn’t matter if the me of now dies if you could manage it.

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Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:49:26 No.5801896 Report

Quoted By: >>5801904 >>5802000

>>5801875
>We destroy it. It is too dangerous to remain here. And it will clear our path up.
also, just so we can know our aesthetic state (and lighten the mood a bit to Raven)
>ask if we are at least still beautiful

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:50:45 No.5801897 Report

Quoted By: >>5801901

>>5801886

"Time does not like to be bent. In fact, it can't. It can be seen, it can be heard, it can be looped or predicted. But the only magic I know that can truly change it... is the thing we're fighting. And even It does not do so without harming the fabric of Fate."

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Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:55:05 No.5801901 Report

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>>5801897
Somehow I forgot. Entirely my bad!
I'll just have to imagine that timeline then, where Faith can warn us of everything. And help us cheat in battle class, of course. Mandrakes won't take us off guard in Timeline 2!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Fri 20 Oct 2023 04:58:39 No.5801904 Report

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>>5801896
Support.

>>5801875
Shame to destroy it, but... Well, there's always Atlantis, or Lemuria, or Hyperborea, or whatever else.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Fri 20 Oct 2023 05:41:35 No.5801958 Report

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>>5801875
> We destroy it. It is too dangerous to remain here. And it will clear our path up.
We could probably find some use for the repository but it's better to neutralize the threat before it becomes a problem.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Fri 20 Oct 2023 05:54:05 No.5801966 Report

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>>5801875
>We destroy it. It is too dangerous to remain here. And it will clear our path up.
If Taylor had lived I'd say we can just have him send a Patronus to Potter and tell him where we are and to come get us, but Elliot doesn't have a Patronus and I don't think Raven can do it with an incorporeal one.
If we leave it, and we die trying to carve a path into the goblins, nothing is standing in the way of Cocksucker getting the repository again.
That and the world will still end if we die (presumably).

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 06:27:26 No.5801993 Report

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>>5801875
> We destroy it. It is too dangerous to remain here. And it will clear our path up.

If Potter gets his hands on it, he will do something dumb eventually.

We need to strengthen our connection to Faith after this, slowly if required, so we can use Ancient Magic with her help. Cocksucker is still alive. Next time, no one will die. We won't allow it.

So we are now down an arm, covered in scars up to our face. Punished Lord Hallister is a go.

Thankfully, I think Arty is the kind of soul that will look past our fucked up body. She is best girl, after all. And Raven, at least right now, dosen't despise us.

Never again. Lord Hallister will never be this weak again. He will set the world ablaze, he will abandon all common sense, but he will never let his weakness hurt so many people around him.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 06:35:09 No.5802000 Report

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>>5801896
>>5801875

>>ask if we are at least still beautiful

Sure add that to it. Hopefully the scars are kinda aesthetic vs just making us look like hamburger meat of Kruger. Chicks like scars, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:N4aefNKU Fri 20 Oct 2023 06:36:18 No.5802001 Report

Quoted By: >>5802015

>>5801875
> We keep it. Potter will protect it. We may find a way to use it. We’ll fight our way out.
Going against the grain here. We probably have some time before cocksucker returns in full force, and it'd be useful for us to figure out and perhaps learn how to use it.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 06:56:50 No.5802015 Report

Quoted By: >>5802069

>>5802001
When Potter finds out his daughter is dead and what happened to her, he will try and use it. He will try, and fail and risk everything because that is what any Dad would do after we show him what was done to his little girl. There yet remains traces of Ancient Magic in the world, which we will learn to harness. But right now, the repository is to great of a risk.

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Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Fri 20 Oct 2023 08:18:04 No.5802069 Report

Quoted By: >>5802079 >>5802094

>>5802015
Maybe, but as far as we know there's no way to use it unless you have a mind-person in your head, and given that cocksucker will probably be gone for a while and we're the only other known example, we might have enough time to figure things out. This is all hypothetical anyway, since the destruction vote is going to win.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Fri 20 Oct 2023 08:21:20 No.5802079 Report

Quoted By: >>5802103

>>5802069
I mean honestly my main concern would be actually getting out of here if we keep it intact. We'd still have to go through the goblins, and I'm pretty sure even with Cocksucker helping, we were only able to run away.
I guess it's possible the goblins aren't immediately waiting for us outside, but we'd have to still sneak through them then, and if we get caught we're probably fucked.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 08:42:30 No.5802094 Report

Quoted By: >>5802208 >>5802359

So Cocksucker escaped.

What do you think the chances are he went after Arty or Apollo, just to fuck with us?

How much is DarkLord Hallister going to be looking over his shoulder until we put him down for good?

>>5802069
I would not put it past him to Imperio Elliot if he knew it was still there and had even a chance of bringing Lily back. People do crazy shit when thier kids have been harmed.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 08:56:34 No.5802103 Report

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>>5802079
I really hope destroying the repository gives us options that aren't just going back the way we came. We have bodies and limbs to bring with for one, both of us are injured badly enough going back through the great lake might just cause shock. And we would need to Accio or otherwise recover our abandoned brooms to make it back to Hogwarts, even if we traversed the lake with out passing out.

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 13:31:32 No.5802208 Report

Quoted By: >>5802237

>>5802094
>What do you think the chances are he went after Arty or Apollo, just to fuck with us?
This means we must talk with them about mind demons and reveal to them everything we know the first chance we get.
We cannot allow Cocksucker to come back in them.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 14:19:48 No.5802237 Report

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>>5802208
Yes. It took him like 14 years to break Lily. If we warn them about it, hopefully they can resist or tell us about an extra voice in their head, or something.
If we trust Faith enough to let he ride shotgun permanently, she should be able to spot him as well.
And, assuming Potter doesn't flip out too much, we are learning Occulmancy; Legilimens is the next door neighbor of it, though I hate the idea of us having to scan people constantly for traces of Cocksucker.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 17:52:51 No.5802351 Report

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I feel this song fits the mood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgAp-KrCxM0

--

You stand up, groaning as every bone in your body hurts. Plenty of them are broken or cracked. Madam Pomfrey will have a field day with you, you're sure, but right now you’re basically being held together by willpower and magic alone.

“Right. Let us end this. Let’s end this and go home.”

You turn to the repository, Raven at your side.

“Destroy it, Faith. Make sure that bastard can never use it.”

“Let me guide your hand,” she says, and gently moves your body. She pulls your arm up, wand in hand, and gently touches its tip against the goblin silver.

You feel it. You can feel the colossal amount of energy stored into this thing. How many souls had its creator mutilated, you wonder. How many sorrows? How much good could it do? How much evil?

Too much on either side, you realize. And evil had a terrible tendency to be more efficient.

So you would end it.

You feel Faith’s power course through you, gently, a feather’s touch, then spill through your wand. Thin strands of silver light, like the light of a Patronus, come out from the tip. The light touches the darkened goblin silver and asks it to stop. You can feel a conversation between it and the enchantment on the silver, and you realize that, at that very moment, you can hear how magic speaks, how it convinces the world to do its bidding.

“You can stop now,” the silver light says.

“But I haven’t finished my duties,” says the goblin silver. “My duty is to guard this magic forever.”

“Today is forever. Today you may rest.”

The great goblin silver plates stop spinning and fall harmlessly to the floor. The small white sun of power shines in front of you in all its glory, and though it is bright enough to blind you, it does not hurt to look at.

“It’s… beautiful,” Raven says.

“You can see it?”

“Just an echo. There is a lot of it, isn’t there?”

“Not for long. Faith… Do it.”

You feel the energy expand. You feel it reach towards you. You feel it buzz over you, over your fingers, your chest, through your legs and out your feet into the rock below. You feel all this destructive energy flowing through, harmlessly, and you feel as your consciousness goes with it. It takes you into the stone. It takes you through the bridge. Through the doors, through the dark glass.

Into the cavern, it jumps from creature to creature, trying to push everything it is into every one of them. But each of them proves to be too little, the energy sundering them apart. And the energy keeps going. It flows through the cave and into the room with the ruined paintings. It breathes new life into it. It closes the cracks in its walls, it lifts tons of the debris in its corridor, creating a path long forgotten once more into the bowels of Hogwarts. And it moves on. On and on, it spreads throughout the castle, permeating it, becoming one with it, strengthening it.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 17:53:53 No.5802353 Report

Quoted By: >>5802355 >>5802359 >>5802376 >>5802390 >>5802444 >>5802471 >>5802579

>>5802351
And for one moment, you’re there with it. For one moment you are the castle. You can feel the people walking on your floors, through the grass in the grounds. You can feel them sleeping in their common rooms. You can see them kissing in places hidden from view. You can see them trying their best, or just lazing about.

You can feel the waters of the great lake, each merfolk swimming in it. You can see the forest and every one of its creatures. You can feel each secret passageway, each undiscovered room. You can see how the enchantments lose themselves up on high, how the castle shifts, as if it was breathing.

You can see McGonagall in the Headmaster’s Room, with so much magic that it could barely contain itself. You see the Room of Requirement, all of it, all its forms and shapes, all stacked on top of each other, impossibly so. You see the Chamber of Secrets, deep beneath the castle, the basilic’s skeleton still lying within. You can see the chamber through which you entered this place, and the hidden library behind one of its paintings.

You can see Potter in his room, still awake. You can see the body of Dumbledore in its coffin. You can see the body of Lily, a few meters away. Each of them with something far, far Older than the castle, artifacts of True Power.

For that single, blissful moment, Hogwarts holds no secrets from you.

But the moment passes, and you don’t know if that energy still had some power to remove sorrows, but it leaves you with a lighter heart. Like watching a beautiful sunset, no, like being a beautiful sunset.

And perhaps that was enough. The energy dissipates, your work is done, and you’re left with something that resembles peace within you.

You manage to allow yourself a fragile smile.

“Let’s go, Raven. Let’s go home.”

You go to Lily’s body and pull the Resurrection Stone from her robes. You put it in your pouch, without energy to truly test it. Not another heartbreak. Not today.

“Mobilicorpus,” you say, and the body floats by your side at shoulder height. Raven stops by Taylor and does the same with a pained look.

So you two make your way through the empty cave, back to the room with the ruined paintings, through the corridors which had hundreds of tons of rock blocking it. You walk slowly, each taking strength in each other. You climb a spiral staircase and go through a secret passage, until you’re finally, once more, in Hogwarts proper. A small, dusty, unremarkable storage room, somewhere in its depths.

“Elliot… What do we do now? Taylor is dead. Lily is dead. We can’t just… hide it.”

“It’s night time,” you say. “The corridors should be empty.”

> We hide them. We transfigure their bodies, take them out of school.
> Stay with the bodies. I’ll go get Potter. He needs to know.
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:1zc8Bqdf Fri 20 Oct 2023 17:55:50 No.5802355 Report

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>>5802353
> Stay with the bodies. I’ll go get Potter. He needs to know.

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Fri 20 Oct 2023 17:59:13 No.5802359 Report

Quoted By: >>5802447

>>5802094
Arty would be a negative in almost anyway, considering the only way she could possibly get in is if someone takes her in, like us or Apollo.
Apollo would definitely be a dangerous target, but he'd definitely be untrustworthy of a sudden voice in his head, and if he does have one and we tell him about some demon that's in someone's head that's 100% worse than his caretaker, he'd rat him out immediately.
We would definitely want to bring him in the loop though. Not just in case Cocksucker did go into him, but also so if he knows Legilimency he'd probably be able to easily scan for him(though it's possible only people with voices in their heads can detect other voices).

>>5802353
> Stay with the bodies. I’ll go get Potter. He needs to know.
Again, we cannot hide this. Potter will immediately read our mind to get answers, and our Occulumency isn't good enough to keep him out. Plus, this way, we can at least control the narrative. Show him what Cocksucker did to Lily, if he brings up wanting to revive Lily, maybe meet him in the middle, saying we want to do that too, as well as bring Taylor back. Work with him on it, keep him restrained a little so he doesn't fuck things up.

Also, another thing:
>Conjure a large sheet, covering Lily's body
Potter might not want to see her mangled corpse.

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 18:15:21 No.5802376 Report

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>>5802353
> Stay with the bodies. I’ll go get Potter. He needs to know.
I don't want to tell Harry everything, but this isn't something we can realistically hide.

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 18:32:35 No.5802390 Report

Quoted By: >>5802406

>>5802353
what about our arm

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 19:07:30 No.5802406 Report

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>>5802390
You also took it with you back to Hogwarts

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Fri 20 Oct 2023 20:05:22 No.5802444 Report

Quoted By: >>5802605

>>5802353
>Stay with the bodies. I’ll go get Potter. He needs to know.
its gonna be a long walk through the corridors...

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 20:07:40 No.5802447 Report

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>>5802359
he'd be questioning us just from seeing us and wanting to know what the fuck happened and why his arm is gone

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Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Fri 20 Oct 2023 20:43:16 No.5802471 Report

Quoted By: >>5802473

>>5802353
> Stay with the bodies. I’ll go get Potter. He needs to know.
While I agree with this, lets not inform Potter that Raven just started to assault the body? I feel like that will be bad.

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 20:47:15 No.5802473 Report

Quoted By: >>5802508

>>5802471
he'll see it, or at least hear it, when he inevitably mindreads us after we go to him

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Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Fri 20 Oct 2023 21:27:37 No.5802508 Report

Quoted By: >>5802524

>>5802473
Doesn't mind reading only work on thoughts you're actively thinking? We just need to not think about that part, nor the part where Raven used AK.

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 21:44:51 No.5802524 Report

Quoted By: >>5802540

>>5802508
reading up on it looks like he'd have no trouble at all whether we think about it or not, would also be pretty hard not to think about that

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 22:08:53 No.5802540 Report

Quoted By: >>5802545

>>5802524
So in other words if we show him the bodies he'll know everything, including the "Nothing" and Faith?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 22:11:37 No.5802545 Report

Quoted By: >>5802547

>>5802540
we might still be able to hide their existence

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Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Fri 20 Oct 2023 22:14:57 No.5802547 Report

Quoted By: >>5802579

>>5802545
I don't know how mindreading works in Harry Potter, but I feel like we can distract him enough with the fact that Cocksucker is still around somewhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 22:56:13 No.5802579 Report

Quoted By: >>5802605

>>5802353
> Stay with the bodies. I’ll go get Potter. He needs to know.

If we kinda over load Potter, we might be able to hid Faith and minimize how much he knows about the Beast.

Consider we are walking into his office at like in the middle of the night, missing an arm and covered head to toe with countless scars and we found his missing resurrection stone. Like walk in there, slam it on his desk and start dead panning.

"For now, the "issue" is under control; no, I still cannot tell you all you might wish to know about it. Raven, Taylor, "Lily" and I traveled deep below Hogwarts tonight in search of the means to fix what is going on. What we found was a chamber most ancient, constructed when Hogwarts was young by those who could manipulate the same magic the founders used to make the castle. We fought our way past the shades of a vanished goblin army and the magical defenders still guarding those halls.

What we found was an ancient battery of power, enough to change the world. It is no more; I destroyed it and its magic is now one with the castle.

Taylor Cycad is dead. Your daughter has been dead for a long time. She was possed by a dark entity, one I think you could fairly call a demon. We fought with in that chamber and at great cost we drove him out. He is not destroyed, but we stopped him from taking that Ancient power for his own. It was the one who took the resurrection stone, though for what purpose I cannot say.

Raven is with... them in the Library. I am sorry, I wish I could have fulfilled my promise. I can show you what that creature showed me, regarding your daughter with a Pensieve if you need me to."

>>5802547
Yeah, knowledge bomb him hard enough and we can probably hide a few things, I hope.

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Anonymous ID:bimjh8Iv Fri 20 Oct 2023 23:29:04 No.5802605 Report

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>>5802579

in addition to my already stablished vote here >>5802444
i fully support this text

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 23:41:32 No.5802616 Report

Quoted By: >>5802620

“Stay here,” you say, placing down Lily’s body. “Stay with them. I’ll fetch Potter. There’s no hiding this.”

She nods and sets Taylor down, too. She sits by him, hugging her own legs.

“Alright… I’ll… I’ll wait for you.”

You leave the dusty old room, slowly walking towards Potter’s office. It is late at night, and you’re lucky to not meet anyone. The walk through the familiar halls gives something back from what you lost. Your bones hurt less, you gain a little more energy. The starry sky from the window is still painful to look at, but… It is over. At least for today.

So you walk, thinking about how you’re going to give the news. You reach his door and simply stand there, thinking, not finding an answer. You don’t know how you’re going to explain everything that happened today.

But your hesitation is forced to come to an end.

“Well, you already broke curfew, might as well come on in instead of standing by the doorway,” comes Potter's voice from inside.

You enter the now familiar room. It is very Potter-like, with his old Firebolt proudly on display, along with several shiny awards, trophies and portraits of the family.

“It’s… Lily, sir. She… Lily, she…”

Potter looks at you with confusion.

“I’m sorry... Who?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 23:43:56 No.5802620 Report

Quoted By: >>5802639 >>5802666 >>5802673 >>5802694

>>5802616
You look at him. Somewhere far in the corridor behind you, you hear the rush of steps running. You feel pressure of time, of fate.

You look at the great portrait of Potter and his whole family. It has Harry, his wife Ginny, his son James and his son Albus.

And that’s it.

Your mind reels, adjusting, the world swirling around you.

The Seventh year is the only year with three armies.

The Head Girl is a Ravenclaw named Falere.

The Gryffindor seeker is a second year boy.

The Potter family has only two children.

The steps behind you grow closer as you hold your head in your hands. Time falling, redjusting, trying to rearrange itself.

Taylor Cycad disappeared this morning. You don’t know where he’s gone, nor has anyone else seen him. Searches are already underway.

Your left arm had been horribly scarred in an accident when you were a child, but it is still there.

No one had fought you at the repository except for the cursed goblins.

You had found the Resurrection stone long ago, though you could not remember where.

A lie. A lie. Reality was a lie. Lie lie lie.

Double vision, two realities overlapping each other, two sets of memories, incompatible, impossible to reconcile.

The steps arrive. Raven, gasping for air.

“They’re gone!” She says, horror in her eyes. “The two of them, they just vanished! I was looking at them and they’re gone!”

You raise your right hand, and touch your face. You look at the trophies in the room, reflecting the face you’ve always known, perfect and unscarred.

You raise your left hand, the one you lost, still firmly attached to your body despite the scarring.

And understanding falls upon you, the last insult of the day, the last hurt you’ve been given, having been protected from the effects of it by the ancient magic of the repository.

In the forests of a dream, Lily’s tree had fallen with a green flash, and no one but you and Raven had been around to remember its scream.

 - End of Act 1 -

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Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Fri 20 Oct 2023 23:45:53 No.5802623 Report

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...i guess that covers having to explain all this shit

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Fri 20 Oct 2023 23:49:12 No.5802625 Report

Quoted By: >>5802638 >>5802639 >>5802690 >>5802692 >>5802829 >>5803305

And here we end the thread. I hope you all have enjoyed it so far! I'll take a break now, real life and the search for a job having to unfortunately come before running quests. If you guys have any feedback, opinions or questions about the thread/quest, I'd love to hear them!

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Fri 20 Oct 2023 23:56:35 No.5802630 Report

Quoted By: >>5802852

Weelllllll. That makes this thing kinda of easier on us.

But yeah, that is now good. That is not fucking good at all. This has some awful implications I have not 100% mapped out.

So we are going to give back the stone, right? It might be useful, considering some people who die are just getting black bagged by Time itself.

WTF man. At least Raven and Faith know we aren't crazy.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:01:18 No.5802634 Report

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Ah, and don't forget to vote on the archive!
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Disappearing%20Hogwarts

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:07:50 No.5802638 Report

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>>5802625
This is my favorite quest in years HeadQM. Great premise, great writing, great characters all around.

I really hope you come back to it soon or honestly, just ever. I am pretty jaded as I have seen a lot of good QMs disappear or literally just fucking die.

Regardless, thank you. This has been an amazing ride so far.

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Anonymous ID:icI/vOja Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:13:22 No.5802639 Report

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>>5802620
Well, fuck.

>>5802625
Pretty grim, but damned good writing and characters. I am a big fan of this quest as well, and hope you return to it soon! Thank you for running it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1zc8Bqdf Sat 21 Oct 2023 00:59:50 No.5802666 Report

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>>5802620
Damn it, I hate that I my shadowrun about the monsters eating them was somewhat right.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:13:06 No.5802673 Report

Quoted By: >>5802679 >>5802844 >>5802852

>>5802620
Interesting. So it doesn't seem like the effect is 100% perfect, since Lily never existed yet Taylor only disappeared this morning, though that might be something to do with cocksucker. We're going to have to quiz Potter to check if there's any discrepancies. Like why is 7th year the only one with three armies? Why doesn't Gryffindor have one? How did we find the Resurrection Stone when Harry was supposed to have it? And I think the biggest one, who introduced us to Harry in the first place and what does he know about our condition?

Good show QM! Excitedly looking forward to Act 2!

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:23:39 No.5802679 Report

Quoted By: >>5802727 >>5802844

>>5802673
> Taylor only disappeared this morning
Taylor "disappeared" at the time he died. Faith would explain that she believes not even the Nothing Creature can reverse death. For the same reason, your left arm is scarred, because (since you'd already lost it when it tried to kill you) it scarred your soul instead.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:32:39 No.5802687 Report

Quoted By: >>5802692 >>5802707

So guys, what is the over under on Apollo's super autism detecting something is really fucking wrong? Like seeing all the tiny things that don't make sense?

I feel like if we told him reality is a lie, he would just say, "I know."

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wVxoeGRB Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:42:02 No.5802690 Report

Quoted By: >>5802699

>>5802625
For me you like your edgy suffering porn way to much. I peace out.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:42:30 No.5802692 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802625
Thank you for writing QM! I'm honestly hyped for when this quest will return.
Hope you luck with the job hunt and real life.

>>5802687
>I feel like if we told him reality is a lie, he would just say, "I know."
Apollochads keep on winning.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:47:00 No.5802694 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802620
Well fuck I guess we don't have to tell him shit. At least Taylor didn't get ancestroscythed but where the fuck is his body?

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:56:32 No.5802699 Report

Quoted By: >>5802700 >>5802704 >>5802773

>>5802690
I did feel like it got too heavy in the end, but at that point I had sort of written myself into a corner. The battle went poorly, but not poorly enough that Faith hadn't interfered a lot, and it still had the Nothing Creature's attack to come, and it needed to be more intense than Lily's, so it got far darker than what I'd originally planned.

It was one of the reasons I reverted the injures on Elliot, because it would be hard to keep him even remotely sane with all the effects of what he went through. Hope you return for the next time, anon!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:1zc8Bqdf Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:01:54 No.5802700 Report

Quoted By: >>5802702

>>5802699
>it needed to be more intense than Lily's
What, it would have +100 instead of +65?

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:07:04 No.5802702 Report

Quoted By: >>5802773

>>5802700
More intense story-wise, not roll wise, I mean (though if you had chosen either Arty or Elliot's parents there would probably have been a test, as they would have asked you to stay with them)

The Nothing Creature's attack was basically an eldritch being trying its best to kill Elliot through a crack in the wall between worlds, that's it injured Elliot so much.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wVxoeGRB Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:18:40 No.5802704 Report

Quoted By: >>5802714

>>5802699
My man, no way. You seem to have the self-restraint of a fanficion.net writer when it comes to giving characters trauma.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:31:28 No.5802707 Report

Quoted By: >>5802714 >>5802773

>>5802687
feel like Apollo definitely would notice something's up

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:31:58 No.5802708 Report

Quoted By: >>5802714 >>5802717

weeeell shit, now what? any idea when you´ll be coming back HeadQM?
this has been my very first adventure in /qst/ so i dont know what to do now

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:40:18 No.5802714 Report

Quoted By: >>5802719

>>5802704
>>5802707
>>5802708
i don't trust all you pinknames
smells of a conspiracy to me...so many pinks in one thread?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wVxoeGRB Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:43:14 No.5802717 Report

Quoted By: >>5802718

>>5802708
1. You pray the QM doesn't have anything more important to do or kills himself.
2. You find another quest.
3. Start over from step 1.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:45:18 No.5802718 Report

Quoted By: >>5802720 >>5802721 >>5802773

>>5802717
>or kills himself
God, I fucking miss DC Henchman Quest.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:45:22 No.5802719 Report

Quoted By: >>5802965

>>5802714
dont blame me, im technically 2 colors in this thread since i voted from home and work

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wVxoeGRB Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:46:23 No.5802720 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802718
Same.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:47:17 No.5802721 Report

Quoted By: >>5802722 >>5802724

>>5802718
did the QM for that actually fucking die?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:50:12 No.5802722 Report

Quoted By: >>5802726

>>5802721
Apparently yeah, a guy came into a qtg either last month or the month before claiming to have been a friend and confirmed that Axis had killed himself. He also shared some details on how the quest would've gone and what some of Axis' plans were. Including a Batman Beyond time travel adventure and an april fools RWBY crossover of all fucking things.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wVxoeGRB Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:50:51 No.5802724 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802721
For all we know? Yes.
Wouldn't be the first time either. I sometimes hate reality.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:53:52 No.5802726 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802722
canon ending: god fucking died

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:55:35 No.5802727 Report

Quoted By: >>5802728 >>5802738

>>5802679
But then why does it seem like Lily never existed? She wasn't born with the other entity and her soul only "died" when she got rejected by us a couple weeks ago.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sat 21 Oct 2023 02:58:58 No.5802728 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802727
could be some kind of fuckery with the orb's magic

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 21 Oct 2023 03:21:25 No.5802738 Report

Quoted By: >>5802739

>>5802727
The creature basically tied itself on her and her connections so much that when it died, with an AK of all things, if destroyed Lily's tree entirely. It wasn't even intentional, really, more like a spasm of death as it was forced out of her body by the spell.

I was really wondering if you'd manage to beat her and take her to Potter. It would have been an interesting path seeing what Potter would have done (probably something that would have ended the world, but still, interesting to see)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sat 21 Oct 2023 03:23:08 No.5802739 Report

Quoted By: >>5802741

>>5802738
there was no fucking way we'd beat her lmao

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 21 Oct 2023 03:27:00 No.5802741 Report

Quoted By: >>5803060

>>5802739
Actually, the transfiguration roll was about a 50% chance, and it would have drastically reduced her roll on the final roll, which would make it much more even (in fact, since you won the first one, it could have ended the combat). But y'all rolled like shit both times and things went the way they went.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 21 Oct 2023 04:08:15 No.5802773 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802718
Me fucking too.

>>5802707
Keep winning lol

>>5802699
>because it would be hard to keep him even remotely sane with all the effects of what he went through.

Would have been... interesting. At least our arm and soul are still scarred. 100% return to normal would have felt really cheap. I would have been cool with us "always" missing our arm and "always" having scars all over from something. Maybe our 1st use of magic? Could have been cool.

>>5802702
>if you had chosen either Arty or Elliot's parents there would probably have been a test, as they would have asked you to stay with them

Ouch. My fucking heart. As much as I would have liked seeing the Arty one, being with Taylor 1 last time was the only real choice.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 21 Oct 2023 05:52:17 No.5802829 Report

Quoted By: >>5802837

>>5802625
QM if Lily's nonexistence does not get reversed and she does not get a happy ending(AKA alive and well) I will be very sad. Please don't make me sad.

On another note since reality was apparently rewritten, what's up with our memories of the past one? Does Elliot know what happened in both realities(since we knew the people who replaced Lily), or did he forget the past reality?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Sat 21 Oct 2023 06:03:21 No.5802837 Report

Quoted By: >>5802839

>>5802829
Lily is so incredibly dead that it's funny, I don't think she's coming back.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 21 Oct 2023 06:05:56 No.5802839 Report

Quoted By: >>5802843 >>5802844

>>5802837
Yeah but maybe if I say I'll be sad we'll miraculously find out about a method to reverse what the Nothing has done

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EEYu+4gK Sat 21 Oct 2023 06:09:57 No.5802843 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802839
then i´d say you shouldnt be so attached to a fictional character in 4chan of all places and you only have yourself to blame for the sadness you brought on yourself

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 21 Oct 2023 06:19:45 No.5802844 Report

Quoted By: >>5802852 >>5803029

>>5802839
We might be able to restore the 'reality' in which they existed and died in, but I'm not sure if we can bring Taylor and Lily back from death. Even if we could, I imagine that's going to be in the very endgame of the quest, not something we can do anytime soon.

>>5802673
>>5802679
Reading through it again, the reality warp is 100% not perfect if we have the resurrection stone and our 'false' memory doesn't know where we got it from. Implying that there's a way to sneak past fate? Definitely something to think about in any case.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 21 Oct 2023 06:33:04 No.5802852 Report

Quoted By: >>5802891 >>5802938

>>5802844
Yeah no I was mostly joking about that, although I would like it to happen if we ever come across a way to do so. At best it'd be an epilogue thing, maybe even requiring a timeskip to justify it.
>>5802630
Potter would have no reason to use the Resurrection Stone, so I think it's better in our hands right now. At the very least, we should see if Lily's soul still exists next thread, since IIRC the Nothing doesn't erase someone, moreso just kicks them out of baseline reality as we know it.
>>5802673
I'm not sure we should quiz him about anything. It wouldn't just be unhelpful for us, but maybe outright detrimental if he learns he had a daughter who was (more or less) erased from reality.
I think the easiest way we can get out of this is to vaguely warn him about Cocksucker; tell him to watch out for anyone acting different all of a sudden, and getting certain power-ups that they didn't have before.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 21 Oct 2023 08:38:44 No.5802891 Report

Quoted By: >>5802938

>>5802852
I miss typed. I meant are not giving back the stone.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Gczw5KUU Sat 21 Oct 2023 10:16:12 No.5802938 Report

Quoted By: >>5803301

>>5802852
>>5802891
The stone would be pretty conclusive proof that some shit went down, it could get Potter on side if we showed it to him. And I feel bad concealing his own daughter's death from him, even though he doesn't know she existed. Keep in mind that Faith only had visions up to the point we entered the repository, anything after that she doesn't know about. We theoretically don't need to conceal things from Potter anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ffYkRz/I Sat 21 Oct 2023 11:29:24 No.5802965 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802719
Race traitor
Blues rise up!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sat 21 Oct 2023 13:34:38 No.5803029 Report

Quoted By: >>5803301

>>5802844
Taylor might not be dead anymore, since in this new reality, the fight didn't happen and it just says he "disappeared"

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Anonymous ID:+SCJahjP Sat 21 Oct 2023 13:58:09 No.5803047 Report

Quoted By: >>5803059 >>5803060

Anons, what’s the initial plan for next thread?
>Get out of Potter’s way, see if we can find a way to gauge how much the world changed since realityswap
>Find Arty, get a hug at least
>Find Apollo, maybe his giga-autism can get him on our side
>Adjust to the paradigm shift
>Create a superteam to kill the Nothing
>Have a modicum of simple, nonevil fun
The main thing that I don’t like about reality warps/resets is that if the main characters know about it they can only do two things: try to go back home (not great for long term changes) or try to adjust (awkward to roleplay constantly having panic attacks over what we’ve lost). Both options are hard to roleplay and even harder to write, in my own experience. Nonetheless, I think QM is the best man for the job. Good luck, and good quest.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sat 21 Oct 2023 14:09:16 No.5803059 Report

Quoted By: >>5803301

>>5803047
think the first thing we should do after talking to the others is talk to "Falere" and the new Gryffindor seeker

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Sat 21 Oct 2023 14:10:17 No.5803060 Report

Quoted By: >>5803211 >>5803301

>>5803047
This is a good plan. I think we should definitely at least tell Arty and Apollo about this.
Also add us trying to help Raven not lose it.

>>5802741
QM I have a question. You said that we would've gotten a test if we choose Arty or our parents, but what would've happened if we went with the good Lord Hallaster?

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:zLkRRG22 Sat 21 Oct 2023 17:48:42 No.5803211 Report

Quoted By:

>>5803060
> what would've happened if we went with the good Lord Hallaster?

You mean if you'd chosen to be at the party with the Raiders? Not sure, it was the path I considered the least likely. You'd probably be given the chance to be with them or hide with Arty (like you did originally). If you hid with Arty, it would have been the same as if you'd chosen the date. If you'd gone with the army, it would have been a mix of "you need to be here to lead us" vs "you need to fight the Nothing to save us", that I'm not quite sure how it would have developed.

The only path that was certain to lead you back was Raven and Taylor's (and that only because Taylor died. Things would probably have been different if he hadn't)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 21 Oct 2023 20:31:33 No.5803301 Report

Quoted By: >>5803303 >>5803478

>>5803059
So long as we take a page out of Lily's book and find a natural way to talk to Falere, I can support that. I don't think we need to talk to the Seeker though, and it'd be harder to get into a conversation with him since Elliot is disconnected from Quidditch entirely.
We should definitely find out just how much of Lily she replaced through the conversation(plus some info gathering beforehand), maybe see just how "loyal" she is to Potter, so to speak. If there's a chance we can get her on our side of things that'd be great, but we'd have to see just by talking to her, and luckily for us, we can definitely control the flow of conversation to achieve that as a Slytherin.

>>5803029
While it'd be cool if he was alive, he's probably still dead. Him being dead as a consequence would be kind of a weird thing to erase, though you could argue that Lily being kicked out of reality makes up for him being alive again.

>>5802938
If Lily wasn't kicked out of reality, I'd agree about not concealing things from Potter anymore. We come to an agreement on our goals, work with him, and we'd be in a prime position to shape things in the future(at the cost of not being able to go to our parent's place for Christmas).
Now though, we don't have any link to work with him on. Nothing to control Potter with. No reason to tell him anything anymore.

>>5803060
I'd rather not tell Arty and Apollo until we assess the risks of telling Falere, to replace Lily in the "Head Girl cooperating with us" role. Faith did mention back in the first thread that too many people knowing would mean it'd leak to Potter, but we don't know how many that is.
That's something we should ask later, but for now definitely hold off on telling anyone until we get a clear number of people that it's safe to tell.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sat 21 Oct 2023 20:37:33 No.5803303 Report

Quoted By: >>5803475

>>5803301
his dead body disappeared with Lily's mangled body but he didn't get wiped from everyone else's memory, so the chance is there

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4aqF1BUj Sat 21 Oct 2023 20:39:21 No.5803305 Report

Quoted By:

>>5802625
Holy shit qm, I'm gonna miss your writing, have a good rest I'll be waiting for your return.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 22 Oct 2023 00:39:06 No.5803475 Report

Quoted By: >>5803666 >>5803690

>>5803303
Since Lily no longer ever existed, he is Cocksucker's host. Always has been. We now not only have killed him once because of our weakness, but now we will have to do so again, manually, while Raven cries begging us not to.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 22 Oct 2023 00:42:50 No.5803478 Report

Quoted By: >>5803499 >>5803666

>>5803301
I'd rather bring in Arty and Apollo than Falere, personally. They're known quantities, and hiding things from Arty will only complicate our love life moving forwards.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sun 22 Oct 2023 01:05:17 No.5803499 Report

Quoted By: >>5803638

>>5803478
yeah, i just meant talk to them to learn how extensive the timeline changes from her death are

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sun 22 Oct 2023 02:44:19 No.5803638 Report

Quoted By: >>5803649

>>5803499
If we want to go to its logical conclusion, us and Arty are no longer dating.

Without Lily's battle class, she no longer wins 2/3 of her matches. We no longer give her that 1st cupcake, we no longer teach her potions, we no longer give her the second cupcake, ect. ect.

Unless we, by virtue of jumping timelines and her being close to us, has insulated that connection. We give her a cupcake because she lost and looked sad, we train with her as opposed to Lily, because she lost, she wins, we teach her potions, we decide to give each other something regardless of if either of us win or lose, ect. ect.

I don't care how many times we have to try, I will always go for Arty, if the Timey-Wimey Ball did really screw us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 22 Oct 2023 02:50:15 No.5803649 Report

Quoted By: >>5804171

>>5803638
I strongly suspect it doesn't work that way, but I guess we'll see. I think time had more likely repaired around us. Otherwise, why would Professor Potter know us or what we've been up to at all? We only went into his office because Lilly lured us in initially.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sun 22 Oct 2023 02:58:15 No.5803666 Report

Quoted By:

>>5803475
Oh. Fuck. I did not consider that possibility.

If that is the case, we don't have to kill Taylor though. In fact, we shouldn't. The fact that Cocksucker merely fled when Raven AKed Lily means killing his host isn't enough. I suspect we'd have to extract him from Taylor(or whoever he's possessing now, actually), and then destroy him manually.

Though he does have some sort of leverage over us if that's the case: the fact that if his connection is strong enough, he can do to Taylor what he did to Lily.

>>5803478
Actually, now that I think about it, we can bring them both in guaranteed if we wished. Originally, we had a total of 4 people(including ourselves) that were in the loop. Now, it's a total of 2.

We can bring in Apollo and Arty to replace the two, and I highly doubt adding in one other person will do anything bad. That is, assuming she wouldn't rat us out to Potter.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:+SCJahjP Sun 22 Oct 2023 03:13:25 No.5803690 Report

Quoted By:

>>5803475
This may be good news. It’s another chance to kill cocksucker without any collateral damage, if our rolls aren't so dogshit next time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sun 22 Oct 2023 13:27:22 No.5804171 Report

Quoted By: >>5804203

>>5803649
he'd still remember who we are because of all the other interactions we had with him where she wasn't involved

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 22 Oct 2023 15:06:26 No.5804203 Report

Quoted By: >>5804208

>>5804171
But would those interactions have happened, or happened the same way, without Lily? Probablt not. And if that doesn't matter, then we're probably still dating Arty, since all out fondest memories with her either didn't have Lily present OR she was creeping around under a cloak of invisibility.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Sun 22 Oct 2023 15:10:34 No.5804208 Report

Quoted By: >>5804217

>>5804203
they likely would have happened differently, but would still result in him knowing who we are

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Sun 22 Oct 2023 15:38:56 No.5804217 Report

Quoted By: >>5809599

>>5804208
Then my guess is that we're still dating Arty, and went on all our major dates and such, but just for subtly different reasons.

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 28 Oct 2023 07:33:28 No.5809599 Report

Quoted By: >>5809882

>>5804217
I wonder if the estra battle classes are still a thing now? Who is teaching them? The new head girl? If they aren't a thing now, we should start them up ourselves, since coming from the Lily timeline, we might actually have the highest bonus, aside from Apollo, if the others missed out on all those training sessions.

If they aren't a thing now, maybe we could get Potter to tutor us in private perhaps.

Cant wait for next thread so we can discover the extent of the changes, and as a Slytherin, how to exploit them lol.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Sat 28 Oct 2023 16:03:42 No.5809882 Report

Quoted By: >>5810019 >>5810039

>>5809599
And cry over them!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:+OJ/FkqC Sat 28 Oct 2023 18:46:39 No.5810019 Report

Quoted By: >>5810086

>>5809882
That's more of a Hufflepuff move

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Anonymous ID:XN6a25EF Sat 28 Oct 2023 19:11:11 No.5810039 Report

Quoted By: >>5810086

>>5809882
Hopefully when the timeline corrected itsself, it got most big things right and thier won't be some terrible alterations worth shedding tears over but QM is kind of sadist when he wants to be.

Oh sure, you are still dating Arty but Apollo despises you know! Yeah you beat 2/3 battles but had to use tactics which made your army think of deposing you! When you met Hermione and Ron, Lily wasn't there to detect and destroy the tracking bugs so now the Unspeakables have you in thier sights! HAHAHA

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Sat 28 Oct 2023 20:17:56 No.5810086 Report

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>>5810039
Honestly the only one feasible enough to be worth worrying about is the tracking bugs. We made our friendship(?) with Apollo all on our own, and Potter DID say use any tactic you can think of. Plus in-character I think if any tactic was something most, if not all of our lieutenants protested then we wouldn't do it, so at most we probably didn't win the second battle.
Though the thing with the bugs is that they haven't exactly revealed anything yet. Lily said they don't work outside Hogwarts, right? And I can't remember who mentioned this (probably Lily), but the underground Repository place was said to still be in Hogwarts, so the tracking bugs shouldn't have showed them we were down there.
So long as we know the spells "Lily" used to remove them initially, then we should be fine.

>>5810019
I mean, Elliot canonically WAS offered Hufflepuff

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:e8Eucr+B Wed 08 Nov 2023 21:03:42 No.5823709 Report

Quoted By: >>5824521

so...any signs or speculation of the next thread?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Thu 09 Nov 2023 17:21:32 No.5824521 Report

Quoted By: >>5824588

>>5823709
Vigil for our friend, clearly. And making sure our girlfriend is still ok, and also remembers that she's our girlfriend.

As for when, no idea. I'm just lurking and waiting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:j81Xtm2d Thu 09 Nov 2023 19:36:55 No.5824588 Report

Quoted By: >>5824673 >>5824693

>>5824521
we're not sure he's even still dead, the post just said he disappeared

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2mOuyHbQ Thu 09 Nov 2023 21:15:54 No.5824673 Report

Quoted By:

>>5824588
Honestly, he's probably still dead. I'm not holding out hope that the Nothing is capable of reversing death.
Then again, we can just check with the Resurrection Stone when we get some time to ourselves, and if Elliot can realize the possibility of Cocksucker Host Taylor in-character. If he isn't summoned through the stone, that means he's alive, since the Nothing shouldn't have been capable of erasing any part of him.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OBOZrYs0 Thu 09 Nov 2023 21:33:45 No.5824693 Report

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>>5824588
He's definitely dead. Not as dead as Lily but still pretty fucking dead.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:hBkJqykb Mon 13 Nov 2023 06:29:54 No.5828819 Report

Quoted By: >>5828829 >>5828833 >>5829421 >>5829444

Heads up, next thread will start on Wednesday! I'll send a message on qtg and on twitter a few hours before!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:NdWJ7/Oz Mon 13 Nov 2023 06:38:47 No.5828829 Report

Quoted By:

>>5828819
Woo! Excited for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ljv1mFS/ Mon 13 Nov 2023 06:43:02 No.5828833 Report

Quoted By:

>>5828819
HOLY SHIT HE CAME BACK!!
ooh, this is a great way to hype me up! and a wednesday of all days!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yfO0z+vi Mon 13 Nov 2023 22:43:09 No.5829421 Report

Quoted By:

>>5828819
Nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mQvBCWpI Mon 13 Nov 2023 23:01:15 No.5829444 Report

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>>5828819
Huzzah!

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:hBkJqykb Wed 15 Nov 2023 16:58:24 No.5831147 Report

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We're returning in 3 hours! (In a new thread, of course)

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:hBkJqykb Wed 15 Nov 2023 20:18:20 No.5831331 Report

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New thread is up!

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