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Disappearing Hogwarts #5

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 24 Feb 2024 02:12:35 No.5934243 View View Reply Original Report

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In the last thread you:

> Got threatened by Scorpius Malfoy, who seeks the Resurrection Stone

> Discovered the identity of the ghost in your head

> Told Arty and Apollo the truth about everything that happened this last semester

> Had a lovely Christmas with your girlfriend and got a very special gift

> Discovered the Fifth Founder’s grave is in Avalon, of all places

> Began learning Battle Magic from an insane Death Eater, and gave up the command of your Army to Linda

> Got threatened by voices in the dark demanding the Stone, unleashed Potter upon them and discovered they were part of the Minister for Magic’s personal guard

> Learned Avalon is located in St Mungus, where the Malfoy’s have been paying for “renovations” for several weeks

> Got into a fight with your girlfriend

> And heard a prophecy about how you’re, possibly, going to end the world

And now…

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 24 Feb 2024 02:13:24 No.5934245 Report

Quoted By: >>5934247

>>5934243

HE IS HERE.
THE ONE WHO WILL TEAR APART THE VERY STARS IN HEAVEN.
HE IS HERE.
HE IS THE END OF THE WORLD.

There are several seconds of silence as the prophecy echoes through the Hall of Prophecy. You brain refuses to find a way to react to what you've just heard.

Only people mentioned in a prophecy are able to make it sound off, as far as you understand. This means that either you’ll be the one to “tear apart the very stars in heaven” or you’ll be the “end of the world” personified. Or both.

You don't see how any of those could possibly be a good position to be in.

“Right,” Potter says, voice strained. “You might want to put that back.”

You do so, still blindfolded.

“Let’s go, Fawkes.”

The old phoenix brushes against you and your body is consumed in painless flames. You reform back at the Headmistress office, still in a daze, stumbling forward as if you had been hit over the head.

“Shhh. It’s fine, Fawkes,” you hear Potter say. You turn to see him cradling the great bird on his arms, feathers gray and black and scorched. He’s gently shaking it, as if it was a mewling baby. “It was enough. We’ll take it from here.”

The bird turns its head, pointing to an old, unused golden perch on a corner. He takes the phoenix there and it gingerly climbs atop it, wincing as if every step of its taloned feet hurt. Fawkes turns and leans forwards, Potter leaning too and rubbing his forehead against the bird’s.

“Tell Albus we all miss him down here,” he says, voice almost a whisper.

The phoenix lifts its head and gives a piercing caw. It is a wail of courage and defiance, but also of utter tiredness, like a warrior who has seen too much war and too much time pass between his fingers. Then it burns away and falls into ash, no small infant to be found among the dusty gray.

“Goodbye, Fawkes,” Potter says. “Until we meet again.”

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You wait in a separate room for the hour to pass, both you and Potter in deep thought. You hear as the Headmistress arrives. You hear as you arrive and have the strange talk with her. Then she leaves and Potter appears and takes you to the past.

“We could have just walked in the room,” you say. “That would have broken the loop.”

“Indeed,” he nods. “But we didn’t, therefore we hadn’t, therefore we wouldn’t, therefore we didn’t.”

“That… raises some questions about free will, doesn’t it?”

“Yes, and feel free to ponder them at your own time. Now let us go to my office, there is much to discuss.”

You leave the Headmistress Office, him under the cloak, and once you get to his office you collapse on a chair by his desk as the door closes behind you and he goes somewhere deeper in his office. A few moments later, he appears sitting on the chair opposite to you, holding something silver in his hands with the certainty and stability of someone who knows exactly how to use a .44 Magnum.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 24 Feb 2024 02:14:26 No.5934247 Report

Quoted By: >>5934249

>>5934245

“Uh-ah P-professor?” You stammer out. “What- what are you doing?”

“Pondering if I me blowing your brains off would be the thing that triggers the apocalypse or if it is me not doing it.” He sounds deep in thought, but his eyes never stray from you. “I normally use spells to deal with dangers, but if there’s one thing Voldemort has taught me is to never use deadly spells to deal with prophecies. Do you like it? Uses contraband goblin blackpowder instead of gunpowder, so it doesn’t react spontaneously with magic at these quantities. The runes help stabilize it too.” He points to the several engraved runes all over the cylinder, barrel and grip. “One of a kind. Saved me a couple of times, but I never thought it would help me save the world.”

“Professor, it’s not what you’re thinking!”

“Really? Because from my perspective it sounds like you’re going to destroy everything that everyone holds dear. Help me make sense of that, Elliot.”

“I- I know as much as you, Professor!” You say, automatically raising your hands and knowing full well that there’s no chance Potter misses from this distance. You speak as fast as you can, struggling to put the words together. “I’m, I’m just a kid, how would I ever destroy the world!?”

“I don’t know. How would you ever make your presence disappear from my memory and from Hogwarts’ records? How would you ever put your hands on the Resurrection Stone? How would you ever make your best friend disappear? Many questions go unanswered with you, Elliot, and things have stopped looking good a long while ago. Fawkes vouched for you when she came to save you from that Dementor, but even if you are good-hearted, as muggles say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“Maybe you do find Atlantis and stumble upon a room you shouldn’t,” he says. “And erases us all from time. Maybe you get creative with your friend’s summoning rituals and accidentally summon the Unseelie upon the world. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Don’t get me wrong, Elliot. I’ve seen people foretold to cause great destruction. But to tear apart the stars? That goes beyond mere teenage folly.”

“The prophecy could be wrong!” you say, grasping at straws.

“I’ve seen prophecies be misinterpreted. I’ve seen fake prophecies. I’ve seen misheard or incomplete prophecies. I’ve seen prophecies cause themselves. But I’ve never known a prophecy to be utterly wrong. That means that you, Elliot Hallaster, are fated to destroy the world. You are fated to be the end of the world.”

He cocks the hammer of the gun.

“It- it could be a figure of speech!” You stammer out, sweating. “Could just be that I’m a revolutionary! That I change things so much it’s basically another world! Or that I stumble on a theater during a play with a night scene and break the scenario with the night sky!”

“It could be. It could be that fate’s last scream was about a random play. Or it also could not be. Are you willing to make that bet, Elliot?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 24 Feb 2024 02:15:28 No.5934249 Report

Quoted By: >>5934250

>>5934247

“And if my death is what causes it?” You ask, knowing that with you dead… the Gate within you will open and the Beast from beyond time will burst through. “If you killing me sets off the chain reaction that ends the world? Maybe my ghost! Maybe the mark I left on my soldiers!”

“Always a possibility.”

“So, if you kill me now…” you hesitate, trying to find a single reason why he shouldn’t just shoot you. “Then you are locking us in that future! But if you keep me alive, then… You can always… kill me later! When you discover if and why I’m a danger to the world! But if you kill me now, well, there’s no reversing that!”

“True,” he says, standing up and pointing the gun at you. “But there’s also no reversing the end of the world. I think I’ll take my chances.”

There’s a loud noise, a blinding flash. You don't even have the reaction of jumping out of the way, just putting your arms in front of you as if they could stop a bullet and…

Nothing happens.

You slowly open your eyes again, hands shaking, wondering if you have magically gained the ability to be bulletproof. You stare at Potter, who is sitting down once again.

He taps his fingers on the table.

“And not even when I give every indication I’m going to kill you… You show no indication of being a world-ending threat. That makes it very, very hard to kill you.”

You’re too shocked to speak.

“I should shoot you,” he sighs, and there’s a intense look on his face. “I know I should. And with a real bullet instead of blanks. It is the most reasonable, most sensible course of action. If Alastor Moody was alive, he’d slap me for even hesitating. He’d have you dead before the prophecy was even finished speaking. But I can’t do that. I am here trying to convince myself that I’m not making a mistake, that I’m not dooming my wife and children by letting you leave, simply because I’m too weak to pull a damn trigger. Hoping you’ll reveal you’re a demon, Baba Yaga in disguise, Voldemort returned. Hoping you’ll give me any excuse for me to kill you and end your threat.”

“But I can’t. Because I can’t kill a child, no matter how many prophecies there are saying I should. Not when they have committed no sin I know of. So all hail Dark Lord Hallaster, or whatever it is you’ll become, while I do my damndest to stop fate from becoming reality. And you… will stay far, far away from any apocalypse machines. Otherwise me and my silver friend here will be visiting, and this time there won’t be any blanks.” He waves the gun and the door creaks open behind you. “You may go.”

You run.

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[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 24 Feb 2024 02:16:29 No.5934250 Report

Quoted By: >>5934282 >>5934298 >>5934317 >>5934352 >>5934387 >>5935701

>>5934249

When you return to the Slytherin Common Room, Linda is sitting on a table, looking over plans from soldiers and school armies.

“There you are. Looks like I’ll have less trouble than I thought with Battle Class. Brighton is stepping down too, at least temporarily. Something about his family…” She finally looks up from her notes and sees the haunted look on your face. “What happened?”

You don’t have the words. You don’t think you’ll ever have the words.

“I think…” You finally say, forcing your voice out of your throat. “I think we may be in trouble.”

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What will you do this week?

> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+5 to Battle Magic, -30 to all rolls during the week)
> Skip tutoring this week

And with your free time… (Pick 2. If attending tutoring only the most voted will be selected. Otherwise, the top 2 will.)

> Prepare potions for a future journey
> Attempt to go to St. Mungus (How?)
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QTfos5QG Sat 24 Feb 2024 03:06:56 No.5934282 Report

Quoted By: >>5935156

>>5934250
Fucking hell, potter. Fucking hell.
Anyway, to answer the question:

> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (Save girlfriend from fucking deatheather)
> Other (Figure out how to get St. Mungus)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Sat 24 Feb 2024 03:25:05 No.5934298 Report

Quoted By: >>5934317 >>5935156

>>5934250
> Skip tutoring this week
> Prepare potions for a future journey
> Attempt to go to St. Mungus (Thestrals)
Damn. The world did almost end right there

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 24 Feb 2024 03:43:54 No.5934317 Report

Quoted By:

>>5934250
I'll back >>5934298
Woof, that was tense.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Sat 24 Feb 2024 04:34:28 No.5934351 Report

Quoted By: >>5934839 >>5935156

How long do polyjuice potions take to brew? I'm thinking we teleport there from the three broomsticks wearing someone else's faces and snoop around. Unless Salazar specifically locks eyes with Elliot he won't have a clue we were ever there, right?

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 24 Feb 2024 04:34:54 No.5934352 Report

Quoted By: >>5934387 >>5935156 >>5938727

>>5934250
holy fucking shit, Potter you absolute lunatic...
also, gald to have you back HeadQM, i havent been this excited for some 4chan text in years
also also, i finally started working on that fanart i was talking about last thread, progress is slow, but i feel like a quick WIP Sneak Peek should help me with some motivation, if you could provide me with some feedback on their looks, that would be awesome
now, back to our choices:
>Attend Crouch’s "tutoring"
> Other (Write in): Study St Mungus itself, anything history related to its creation or even some building schematics would be great to let us know what to do when we get there

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:E/7UmVL8 Sat 24 Feb 2024 05:44:02 No.5934387 Report

Quoted By: >>5935156

>>5934250
>>5934352
+1

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c/3b+qPi Sat 24 Feb 2024 19:27:31 No.5934839 Report

Quoted By:

>>5934351
Three months i believe. And we cant teleport yet. We'd have to ask someone who can, and good luck figuring that out

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sat 24 Feb 2024 20:47:05 No.5934913 Report

Quoted By: >>5935156

reminder not to forget that the best possible thing we can do to try to get to st mungus would be to abuse the room of requirement to see if it can generate a quick and discrete way to get there and back.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 25 Feb 2024 00:32:23 No.5935156 Report

Quoted By: >>5935185

>>5934351
One month. It takes some special ingredients to brew, but you bought them a while back.

>>5934352
It looks great! One thing is that in my mind Apollo is strong, but lean (More in the format of Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne than Ben Affleck's, though he's not even close to that level of buff, obviously). I mentioned who were my references for Linda, Taylor and Apollo here (https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5831320/#p5872712) though I still can't remember where I got my mental image for Arty. There are also descriptions on the character sheets, if you haven't checked those out.

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>>5934282
>>5934352
>>5934387
Attend Crouch's tutoring

>>5934298
>>5934298
Skip tutoring

>>5934282
>>5934352
>>5934913
I'm going to bundle these as "Plan journey to St. Mungus" and lock in the votes.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 25 Feb 2024 01:07:20 No.5935185 Report

Quoted By:

>>5935156
>Apollo is strong, but lean (More in the format of Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne than Ben Affleck's, though he's not even close to that level of buff, obviously
ahhh i see, i´ll have to do some modifications then

my references for Linda, Taylor and Apollo here (https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5831320/#p5872712)
ooh thank you, i forgot what thread was this on when i asked that, thats gonna be very usefull

>character sheets
oh yeah, i got most of my references and mental images from there, but thanks to this new (old) info i´ll be able to get more stuff done, thanks a lot for the input! i´ll try to post more soon

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 25 Feb 2024 06:19:14 No.5935406 Report

Quoted By: >>5935408

“He pointed a gun at you!?” Arty shouts as you tell them what happened. “And pulled the trigger!?”

“Honestly, that’s probably the sanest thing Potter has done this year,” Linda says. “Only way he’d be saner is if he’d actually shot him.”

“I just told you there’s a prophecy about me ending the world and that’s the part you’re freaking out about?” You ask, stopping your pacing from one side of the Room of Requirement to the other.

“He shouldn’t have done that to you!”

“Well, yeah, but that’s just because I know that if he kills me, the Beast gets out and everyone dies. If not… You don’t play around with a prophecy about the end of the world. If it was about anyone else… I’d probably agree with the whole shooting part.”

“So what are we going to do?” Apollo asks.

“First, not die. That’s a good first step. Second, go to St. Mungus and find the Fifth Founder. Third, find a way of metaphorically, peacefully, gently, tearing apart the heavens and destroying the world.”

“Step one is in progress,” Linda nods. “What about step two? We need a way of getting out of Hogwarts, preferably undetected. Then a way from getting to St. Mungus.”

“I was thinking about that and came up with a few ideas. But first…” You close your eyes, thinking thrice about a way out of Hogwarts. Then you turn to a great painting hanging on the wall and pull it open like a door. On the other side, you find… a note. “A Warning from the Headmistress: This room was used as a point of resistance during the war, and so was this exit. It unfortunately also allows students to sneak out undetected, in a way that is not easily fixable. Sealing it, however, proved quite simple. If you require its use to escape the clutches of a Dark Lord, please say the password below and it will open for you, while also warning me that it has been opened. Expect to lose a few dozen house-points if I find your reason displeasing.”

And the password Suscrofa below.

“Well, that was a dud,” you say, putting the note back where you found it. A quick test also reveals a floo-capable fireplace is also beyond it's reach. “So, my other ideas. First we have Floo. Gets past both getting out of here and getting to St Mungus. The problem is, the only fireplaces connected to the Floo network are Potter’s and the Headmistress’. No way we’re getting to McGonagall’s office, so the alternative is… Going to the office of the guy who pointed a gun at me.”

“He’d catch us.”

“Not if he’s in class. Even he can’t apparate inside Hogwarts, not without preparation. We run in while he’s in class, throw in the floo powder and get out of there as fast as possible.”

"Couldn't he just time-turner and stop us?" Linda asks. Yes, you had promised Potter you wouldn’t tell anyone, but the apocalypse quickly overrode that promise.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 25 Feb 2024 06:20:16 No.5935408 Report

Quoted By: >>5935409

>>5935406

"It... doesn't quite work like that, from what I understand. Unless you plan ahead to create a loop, it seems things... aren't modifiable. He can still be caught by surprise. So he could use the timeturner to go back and see who it was, without interfering, but not to stop us."

"Still sounds risky."

“Option two is brooms. We’ll ping the security systems, and even though I won’t show up, you three will.”

“Thestrals.” Arty says. When everyone looks at her quizzically, she elaborates. “Thestrals are better than brooms for this. Most people can’t see them, and they don’t fall to an anti-anti-gravity jinx. Also, I have no idea what direction London is, but they know. They can take us there.”

“Good idea. We fly over the walls, possibly all the way to London if necessary. Third idea is… We get someone else involved. We pay off a seventh year, I don’t know, blindfold them, take them to the secret library, and get them to apparate us from there.”

“What? Elliot, that’s insane!” Linda says. “We can’t tell someone else that there’s a place in Hogwarts you can apparate from!”

“Look, apparition is the easiest, fastest way there! If any of us could do it, that would be grand, but we can’t and I don’t think we should wait two more months so we get the hang of it!”

“Still, that’s asking for trouble. Besides, who would we even ask?”

To your surprise, it’s Apollo who answers.

“Falere.”

“The Head Girl?” Linda asks, shocked.

“Riley’s sister. I think… if Riley asked, she’d do it. And for money.”

“Or we could ask literally anyone else. Aren’t you friends with some seventh year Hufflepuff?”

“No.”

“Arty?”

“Uh… I prefer animals and people my age. And you two.”

Linda buries her face in her hands. “Maybe we could use a Slytherin?”

“We are not using a Slytherin!” You say immediately. “They’d sell that info for a half-eaten candy bar.”

“Yeah, I know. Fine, we can figure who to use later, if we go with that option.”

“So, all those options assume we’re going at night, when there’s less people there and no one working on the basement's 'renovations'. But if we want to go when everybody is there, on normal hours… Then Floo and Apparition still stand. We go to Hogsmeade on the weekend, and ask someone to Apparate us or Floo there. The only problem is that for Floo, the only fireplace I know is the Three Broomsticks, and I don’t want half of Hogwarts to see us going.”

“The Hog’s Head has one. In a back room. Riley, uh, told me.” Apollo says.

“When did she tell you that?” Arty asks, narrowing her eyes.

“Uh, a couple days ago,” he says, sounding ever so slightly embarrassed.

“If we want to use that, we’ll have to get her at least partially involved too,” you nod.

“There’s also another option,” Linda says. “We’re having to jump through so many hoops because the wards will track when we enter or leave. But they won’t track you.”

“You’re suggesting I go alone?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 25 Feb 2024 06:21:27 No.5935409 Report

Quoted By: >>5935414 >>5935431 >>5935456 >>5935470 >>5935560

>>5935408

“I’m saying it’s an option. We’re not going to get there and just pop Avalon open in a day. This is a reconnaissance mission more than anything. We don’t know what we’ll find there, or how far we’ll get before we find something we can’t deal with. Maybe we get there and there are ancient runes we’ll need to come back and research about. Or a beast we can’t kill, a barrier we can’t pass. Or who knows what. If you go alone… Potter will never know, and no one else needs to be involved. You go on a thestral, find what you can, and get back. Might even make it easier for all of us to go, when time comes to really get into Avalon, because Potter won't be watching.”

“Me, all alone, in the middle of the night?”

“Indeed.”

And though you’d never tell her that, you can’t help but think that if you went alone… Arty wouldn’t be in the blast radius if something went wrong.

--

You spend the hours researching St. Mungus while you let the ideas run through your head, pondering what you’re going to do. It had been built four hundred-ish years ago, in the middle of what was, at the time, a small lake, because that location was “particularly resistant to stray magical powers which could hinder the patients' recovery.” No one seemed to know why that was the case, but after it being attributed to the “natural patterns of the wind” by someone who was decades later discovered to be a charlatan, the hospital was built.

You’d bet a galleon Merlin had foreseen that exact chain of events.

St Mungus doesn’t have an overwhelming amount of security, at least not on the ground floor, where the reception and administration areas are. This includes the Floo fireplaces. First floor is for creature-related injuries, second for magical diseases, third for poisons and botched potion effects, and fourth for spell damage, where you’d met Gilderoy. Finally, the fifth floor is the visitors' tearoom and hospital shop. Those floors have some measure of security, usually to stop the patients from wandering where they shouldn’t.

But what you want is not on any of those floors. It is in the basement, used for storage of rarer materials and equipment. Exactly the place Malfoy’s foundation is working on. From what you can see, the workers are on normal working hours. Anything else would attract too much attention, and they had to maintain a certain amount of discretion.

So getting in the basement seems relatively straightforward and simple. What you’ll find there, however, there’s no book or newspaper that can tell you. And however it is you decide to go, you should decide now so you can plan and prepare properly.

> Break into Potter’s office and Floo from there (Night time)
> Ask Riley to Floo from the Hog’s Head Inn (Day time)
> Ask a seventh year to apparate you from the secret library (Night time)
> Ask a seventh year to apparate you from Hogsmeade (Day time)
> Fly away on thestrals with the others (Night time)
> Go alone on a thestral (Night time)
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 25 Feb 2024 06:32:48 No.5935414 Report

Quoted By: >>5936393

>>5935409
> Go alone on a thestral (Night time)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QTfos5QG Sun 25 Feb 2024 07:02:46 No.5935431 Report

Quoted By: >>5935442

>>5935409
>Other (Attempt to die).
We know potions and poisons. Can we *fake* into Mungus? Maybe not even poisons, can we get Arty to wound us by a good mauling?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 25 Feb 2024 07:25:46 No.5935442 Report

Quoted By: >>5935456 >>5935675 >>5936393

>>5935431
>fake into mungus
potions and poisons?, nah Potter is too good to know we could fake that, and after how suspicious he is of us, he would immediately realize we are after something outside of school
now, a good mauling...thats a more belieaveble excuse...
surely Arty knows about a creature that could fuck us up "enough" to not be easily cured at Hogwarts but easily cured and Mungus, under the excuse of "needing to rest for a bit" im sure that should give us enough time to wander around and not mess us up so much that we arent in a completely incapacitated state...uugh decisions decisions...

then again, flying away by thestral sounds like the least complicated option yet sneaky enough for us, my main problem is, if we are going alone to Mungus, where Salazar is 100% going to be, thats gonna leave us EXTREMELY vulnerable without anyone even remotely close to help us, maybe if somebody else goes along with us, that would be a better plan, but who knows how easily it is to manage multiple thestrals...unless our companion rides along with us, but the only one remotely small enough to do that would be Arty and im NOT risking exposing her like that, not without more people

so i guess
> Go alone on a thestral (Night time)
is my choice

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:E/7UmVL8 Sun 25 Feb 2024 08:31:45 No.5935456 Report

Quoted By: >>5936393

>>5935409
I’ll vote
> Go alone on a thestral (Night time)
As a recon mission, but maybe talk with arty about what >>5935442 said. Who knows, could be a good chance to get in there without ANY suspicion and a longer window of opportunity to sneak around.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Sun 25 Feb 2024 09:21:52 No.5935470 Report

Quoted By: >>5936393

>>5935409
> Go alone on a thestral (Night time)
Yeah we need to do some recon before we head into the darkest dungeon and get everyone killed.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Sun 25 Feb 2024 14:00:41 No.5935560 Report

Quoted By: >>5936393

>>5935409
> Go alone on a thestral (Night time)
I could easily figure out most of these options and you guys still wasted our slot, goddammit.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QTfos5QG Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:04:56 No.5935675 Report

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>>5935442
You know this is true but do you think if we poisoned someone else, or maybe worked on really obscure, old potions, could this work?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:34:34 No.5935701 Report

Quoted By: >>5935706 >>5935727 >>5935752 >>5935928

>>5934250
>Something about his family

Oh fuck, my prediction might be right.

Last thread there was a half sentence about a "couple" disappearing from St. Mungos. We know of exactly one couple at the hospital. One related to Brighton.

A headline about muggles seeing thestrals as well.

On the train ride, Linda mentioned a ritual involving a sword which had slayed a woman and a rope which had hung a man. One she didn't know what did.

I would strongly suggest sending an owl to Agusta if we can. Asking Professor Longbottom if anything had happened, regarding his parents. That we knew his grandmother, at least a bit from our own stay there.

>>5934250
> Skip tutoring this week
> Attempt to go to St. Mungus (How?)

Ask the Room of Requirements for a place with a Floo-Place. See if Arty can help us with some Thestrals. If we absolutely have to, ask a person who has learned Apparition to give us and our friends a ride to somewhere near St. Mungus.

I am almost done with a Valentine fanfic. Yes I do have too much time on my hands.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:37:33 No.5935706 Report

Quoted By: >>5935928

>>5935701
>the Longottoms were sacrificed to open a gateway or something
Ah fuck.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 25 Feb 2024 18:05:13 No.5935727 Report

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>>5935701
And I completely ignored the fact there was another update. Fuck me to tears.

> Ask a seventh year to apparate you from Hogsmeade (Day time)

Falere.

Apollo and Riley is fun. Because Falere is fun.

And because Riley already sucking Apollo's soul out is both amazing and something which which will make me rewrite a bit of the Valentines fanfic.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 25 Feb 2024 18:35:07 No.5935752 Report

Quoted By: >>5935755 >>5935928

>>5935701
To expound on the possible ritual Linda mentioned, which I could not quite place,

https://www.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/comments/2icve2/i_found_a_passage_that_describes_the_ritual_for/

https://ethshar.fandom.com/wiki/Seething_Death

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 25 Feb 2024 18:37:40 No.5935755 Report

Quoted By: >>5935789 >>5935928

>>5935752
Oh shit, it's a magical grey goo scenario? Or... A means to free the Beast within us? Fuuuuck.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Sun 25 Feb 2024 19:08:38 No.5935771 Report

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didn't expect to come back to Potter fucking shooting us

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 25 Feb 2024 19:30:58 No.5935789 Report

Quoted By: >>5935795 >>5935808 >>5935845 >>5935928

>>5935755
Yeah. Not great. Sub-optimal. Might just be an off reference because QM likes Easter Eggs, it seems. But, fuck. That is bad for our boy regardless. Best case? We just get a dementor summoned, our fucking Kryptonite.

And Salazar did want to un-chain the monster in Elliot's soul so he could collar it, make it do his bidding. Use it to reshape the world.

If he couldn't do so because we destroyed the giant source of Ancient magic he was after, what else he do?

I don't know if magical grey goo can manage to reach the stars. But it could be the end of the world.

Potter is at the end of his rope. As much help as he could offer, it is now to dangerous to give him more info, to let him find out more. He literally pointed a gun at our face. A miss fired blank killed Bruce Lee. A blank still can send bits of a round at you face. That is not okay. A person discharging a firearm in your face is not acceptable, even if you could survive. He got the flame chicken to use the last bit of his life to transport him and Elliot to the deepest part of the ministry. We might need to really kill him, assuming we live past the next week or so.

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Sun 25 Feb 2024 19:40:01 No.5935795 Report

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>>5935789
We should get that Draught of the Living Death made like I wanted months ago. The question is how to get it into Harry's bloodstream.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 25 Feb 2024 19:51:53 No.5935808 Report

Quoted By: >>5935845 >>5935928 >>5936135

>>5935789
Here's a question for you lads.
What do you reckon a Boggart would do in our presence? It'd have to decide on what form to take between three different niggas.
I have no idea what the biggest fear of the nothingbeast could be.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 25 Feb 2024 20:21:28 No.5935845 Report

Quoted By: >>5935928 >>5936135

>>5935789
*Brandon Lee
RIP

>>5935808
The boggart might well take the visage of Lily Potter II, to be desu.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:47:06 No.5935928 Report

Quoted By: >>5935978 >>5936135

>>5935701
>>5935706
>>5935752
>>5935755
fucking hell...this escalated beyond stupidly dangerous real fucking fast
>>5935789
>Might just be an off reference because QM likes Easter Eggs
no way in hell is JUST an easter egg, remember how we almost got completely fucked by the calendar thing when we went for the star thingy? this was HeadQM´s only hint about whats gonna happen, i think Elliot should be able to figure it out and connect the dots given how we went through the same thing last time, we need to warn the Longbottom's and try our best to prevent them from becoming ingredients in a summoning ritual
>>5935808
>>5935845
i have 3 theories/options to this
1. it straight up becomes Salazar
2. any of our friends dead, but most likely Arty
or 3. the boggart tries to become Lily, but since in this timeline she never existed, the boggart has no idea what to copy from, gets stuck and creates some sort of horrible amalgamation using the entire Potter family tree

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 25 Feb 2024 22:31:37 No.5935978 Report

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>>5935928
Personally, I think it'd take an amalgamated form of our biggest fear, Helga's biggest fear (which is probably the nothingbeast, I would assume?), and the nothingbeast's biggest fear.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 26 Feb 2024 00:45:59 No.5936135 Report

Quoted By: >>5936302

>>5935845
>*Brandon Lee

My bad.

>>5935808
Explode? Elliot has been shown to be terrified of exactly 2 things I believe. Ice skating and dementors. The Reverse Mirror of Erised would probably show us starring in Dementors on Ice. Helga had been horrified before by Salazar, when she learned what he did to Lily II, but hasn't had anything paralyze her with fear that we know of. The Beast? Horror from beyond time. Might as well wonder what Cthulhu is frighted of. Relatively small early 20th century ships.

>>5935928
>the boggart tries to become Lily, but since in this timeline she never existed, the boggart has no idea what to copy from, gets stuck and creates some sort of horrible amalgamation using the entire Potter family tree

Ahhhhhhhhh.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 26 Feb 2024 03:14:47 No.5936302 Report

Quoted By: >>5936407

>>5936135
Hang on a minute, I think I know what the nothingbeast fears most.
Going back.
The boggart takes the form of the Veil, beyond which a dementor reaches out.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 26 Feb 2024 04:54:54 No.5936393 Report

Quoted By: >>5936394 >>5936753

>>5935414
>>5935442
>>5935456
>>5935470
>>5935560
> Go alone on a thestral (Night time)

Won't affect this next update, but marking it here to make it clear what option won. On with the update!

--

On Monday evening, you and Arty are standing at the door to Potter’s office. She’s glaring at it so intensely it would catch fire, if it was physically able to do so.

You still need him to get to your tutoring, after all.

“Hello, professor,” you say when the door opens and you step in.

“Hello, Elliot,” he nods from where he’s standing, watching the view from his window. “Glad to see you haven’t destroyed the world yet. Can I assume, from the way Ms. Pertinger is glaring at me, that you’ve told her what happened last time you were in this office?”

“Yes,” she hisses. “Very much so!”

“Then I must warn you, Ms. Pertinger, if he hasn’t told you yet, that Elliot has been named in a prophecy of vast destruction. As someone who has lost many, many people because of their prophecy, I recommend that you leave. Break up your relationship with him. Change schools if that’s what it takes for you to stay away. I can personally get you to Ilvermorny in America, if you desire. For your own sake.”

“Professor!” You and Arty say in outraged unison.

He turns to you and there’s a grim look on his face.

“Is she going to stay in Hogwarts every time you go on another adventure, like the one you had with Taylor?” He asks, voice cold, hard and sharp. “Because unless she is, she’s the one most likely to die next. Are you willing to risk that, boy of prophecy? Is she willing to stay behind for her own safety? I ask this out of concern, not only for her, but for the world. Grief can be a great catalyst for destruction, and we cannot afford you going on a rampage, can we?”

“That’s why we’re learning how to fight!”

“And in a year of hard training, she’ll still be less magically powerful than your average fourth year and her shields will be able to withstand a single stupefy before shattering. Why do you think Scorpius threatened her? Because she’s a weak-spot, and an easy one at that. And if you keep her close, she will die.” He is no longer looking at you, his piercing gaze on Arty. “Leave. Live. You’ll find someone else. Someone who will love you the same and who doesn’t have doom upon his head and a knife to his friends’ necks. Or don’t find anyone, and if he survives, he’ll find you afterwards.”

Arty is shaking, face red in anger, her grip on her wand so hard her knuckles are turning white.

“I’m not a coward!”

“I never said you were, and never will. And neither was Ginny. But she knew I couldn’t fight if I thought she was in danger, so she stayed away when I left to hunt for Voldemort’s horcruxes. And so should you.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 26 Feb 2024 04:55:56 No.5936394 Report

Quoted By: >>5936395 >>5936458 >>5943795

>>5936393

She glares at him, eyes red and with tears.

“I’m not leaving!”

“Then I’ll put roses on your grave, and kill your boyfriend if his grief makes him break the world.” He throws a pinch of Floo powder into the fireplace and the flames glow green. “Now come, your tutor awaits.”

--

You appear on the rocky island, Arty stepping away from Potter as soon as he’s done with the apparition.

“Oh, look at that, girlie. Been crying? Has big Potter been mean to you?” Crouch asks, with the ever deranged look on his face. “I can give you something to really cry about.”

Potter tosses him the modified, gimped wand. “Do your worst today,” he says, before apparating away.

“Don’t have to tell me twice.”

The training is utterly brutal, with Crouch going all out with spells on you once more. You fight hard, and you can feel the improvements of his training. You tire less, your muscles are less sore, and you can react faster. He’s still an utter beast, however, and fights like one. But he isn’t the one you worry about.

Arty is fighting too, and she’s fighting with a fury you’ve never seen before. She’s not just mad, she’s completely enraged, taking out on Crouch her anger against Potter. For the past two weeks, she’d collapsed from exhaustion before you. Not today. Today she fights, and fights, and fights. As if her wand was her claws, she fights like a wounded animal, longer than ever before. When you still have the power to cast powerful spells, she fights. When you’re reduced to basic stunners and barely controlled bursts of energy, she fights. When all your magic runs out, she fights. When Crouch hits you with three stunners in a row and finally drops you because you’re too busy worrying about her to battle properly, she fights.

When you wake up, body sore, magic sore… She’s still fighting. Covered in scrapes and cuts and grime and sweat and blood. Fighting with tears in her eyes, and a fire that doesn’t end against Crouch who is laughing maniacally. And when you, still on the floor and with no one noticing you’re awake, use the opportunity to trip Crouch over, she’s there to bellow “Stupefy!” with a voice hoarse from shouting spells.

The red bolt hits him straight in the chest, and he finishes falling the fall you’d started.

She looks up in the air and shouts “And I quit your fucking Battle Class!” before collapsing on the floor.

> +4 to Battle Magic! New total: +42

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 26 Feb 2024 04:57:13 No.5936395 Report

Quoted By: >>5936401 >>5936404 >>5936412 >>5936609 >>5936614

>>5936394

The infirmary is empty around you, now during lunch. You had been allowed to sleep on a chair by the side of her bed, and had skipped potions in the morning. She’s been asleep for a full sixteen hours.

“Madam Pomfrey says,” you say, as you notice she’s waking up. “That this was the single most severe case of magical exhaustion she’s ever seen, that you could have died if it went for longer, and that if it even comes close to happening again she’ll personally ban you from, and I quote, ‘whatever nonsense Potter is putting you through’, and that if he doesn’t agree, she’ll quit. So it is sufficient to say you’ve made an impression.”

“Sorry,” she says, sounding ashamed.

“She says you’ll probably won’t be able to use magic for the next week.” You gently caress her face. “But you did get him.”

“I did,” she says, grinning. “You helped.”

“Would be dumb not to use the opportunity. But Madam Pomfrey is right. You can’t push yourself like that.”

“I… I was just so mad with what Potter said that…” She bites her lips, looking down. “I know I don’t have as much power as everyone else. I know that. But I’m not a princess in distress.”

How do you respond?

> Say that she’s not, and that you’ll help her learn how to fight her own way
> Say that she’s your princess, and that if she wants to fight, she can fight. You can’t ask her not to fight with you, but she can’t risk her life carelessly like that either
> Say that she’s not, but that Potter had a point. You can’t fight properly while worrying she’s safe on the battlefield. Ask her to stay away from any future battles
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 26 Feb 2024 05:07:17 No.5936401 Report

Quoted By: >>5936412 >>5937189

>>5936395
>>Other (Write in)
>She is a princess, a warrior and ours, she is Our Warrior Princess
>proceed with a soft kiss
>then continue with > Say that she’s your princess, and that if she wants to fight, she can fight. You can’t ask her not to fight with you, but she can’t risk her life carelessly like that either

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Anonymous ID:PJfX+YGo Mon 26 Feb 2024 05:12:03 No.5936404 Report

Quoted By: >>5936495

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 26 Feb 2024 05:15:01 No.5936407 Report

Quoted By: >>5936412

>>5936302
>Hang on a minute, I think I know what the nothingbeast fears most.
Going back.

That is smart. It became something out of Nothing. It has intelligence. It knows where it came from. It probably can't return to Nothingness from a simple spell, like the Killing Curse. It can return if the concept of time is taken from it. The thing introduced by the ministry throwing hundreds of Time Turners into the void.

Time turner. Which there is only one left, apparently. A thing created by Merlin. The guy who, along with the founders, sealed a rift in reality.

Helga's worst memory was:

There is
Another memory
Not from you
From
Someone else
An old wizard
No
Not an old wizard
Merlin
And
Three others
Hogwarts in the distance
And a rift
Into darkness
An eternity
Of horror
An eternity
Of Nothing
And then

Her last memory. Before she was tossed into the place between Time and Timelessness. I am not sure if Salazar was tricked into sacrificing himselt or if he was still a dickhead back then but a good person deep down. If he was damaged so badly But I know Helga would toss herself into Hell if it was needed. I think maybe Salazar had his soul harmed when he ripped himself free. He was a dickhead but also befriended the other founders. I don't think someone who is so hideous he forced a young girl to sexual abuse herself for his enjoyment could have stayed friend with a person like Godrick. Couldn't have tricked Rowena. Or been close with Helga.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 26 Feb 2024 05:30:46 No.5936412 Report

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>>5936407
> I don't think someone who is so hideous he forced a young girl to sexual abuse herself for his enjoyment could have stayed friend with a person like Godrick. Couldn't have tricked Rowena. Or been close with Helga.
I mean, they did famously have a falling out, and he DID essentially become a Dark Lord in all but name, rigging the school they lovingly crafted with secret weapons t stage a future race-war against their wishes. If Salazar Slytherin was a good person at some point, he definitely wasn't by the end, not even by the standards of his peers in his own era. Salazar Slytherin BEFORE being traumatized by a veritable eternity of limbo was already the sort of guy who would have gleefully gassed most of our main cast.

>>5936395
Ugh, this hurts... But we both signed on for this, for maybe outliving our partner. Dumb, passionate, beautiful young love.
I back >>5936401

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 26 Feb 2024 06:57:34 No.5936458 Report

Quoted By: >>5936473

>>5936394
wait, it JUST hit me, she quit battle class while basically telling Potter to fuck off, i think she is finally growing (in a metaphorical sense).
is she becoming more like a snake than a badger now? thats not something she would have ever done by herself, are we changing her for the better?...worse? whatever it is, i love it

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 26 Feb 2024 07:25:06 No.5936473 Report

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>>5936458
A badger is exactly the sort of animal to fight fiercely against foes that can far outclass them in defence of what they care about.

A Slytherin would try to reason with Potter, or try to end his threat through subterfuge. A Hufflepuff would scream in a legendary Gryffindor's face for threatening or undermining her relationship, like a badger will scream at a lion.

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Mon 26 Feb 2024 08:55:20 No.5936495 Report

Quoted By: >>5936514

>>5936404
I don’t think that’s happening. He pulled a gun on us. He then said he would kill us if we’re near any “apocalypse machines” while we have no idea for sure who or what is or isn’t one.
The only way we get back in his good graces is after we save the world and tear him a new one after telling him everything.
+1 to the vote though.

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Mon 26 Feb 2024 10:05:52 No.5936514 Report

Quoted By: >>5937217

>>5936495
Elliot is the apocalypse machine.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 26 Feb 2024 12:35:22 No.5936609 Report

Quoted By:

>>5936395
>Say that she’s your princess, and that if she wants to fight, she can fight. You can’t ask her not to fight with you, but she can’t risk her life carelessly like that either

>Mine and mine alone. Till the end. But that end will be a long, long time from now. You are a princess, Arty, but one who isn't going to be saved. One who is saving me. With every single kiss. With every single glance, every single bump against my shoulder. Every single time we hold hands. But, I don't want to see you like this again. Please, promise me. Do what you can. Do what you must. But… please don’t don’t do something that will make me destroy the world. I love the world. The world gave me you.

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Mon 26 Feb 2024 12:40:37 No.5936614 Report

Quoted By: >>5936753

>>5936395
> Say that she’s your princess, and that if she wants to fight, she can fight. You can’t ask her not to fight with you, but she can’t risk her life carelessly like that either
>Save that for when our lives are actually at risk
I seriously hope the penalty we are getting to our rolls doesn't bite us in the ass at St. Mungus!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 26 Feb 2024 17:05:17 No.5936753 Report

Quoted By: >>5936826 >>5937217

>>5936614
I love the interaction we got by the vote going towards training again this week. Arty telling Potter to eat a dick, standing up for us. Making the healer at Hogwarts for like forever threaten to walk out. But yeah, right now we have only like a +27, with a girding potion, to at least a couple of rolls in a fight I think.

Before asking Hufflepuff Prime for a hand. +25, there.

Maybe we can chug a Maxima potion and an Edurus Potion too, squeeze another few bonus points out. +10 and +5.

If we add an aging potion, probably get a bit more but when Arty had one of her soldier drink one, he had to go to the infirmary for like 2 days and it only lasted for a few minutes.

12+15+5+10+25

A max of +68, if we are knocking back potions like a fiend.

>>5936393
>she’ll still be less magically powerful than your average fourth year
>if you keep her close, she will die
>Then I’ll put roses on your grave, and kill your boyfriend

No one threatens the wife. No one hurts her like that. Potter is getting a black eye before the spring ends.

Also, since "princess" looks like it will win. Kiss her as well.

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Anonymous ID:p+UShXxi Mon 26 Feb 2024 19:36:16 No.5936826 Report

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>>5936753
I'm thinking since we didn't vote to go this round (getting the anwers instead of thinking, ugh) we'll do it next after the penalty goes away, maybe. And he didn't threaten Arty but he sure doesn't have any confidence in either of them. Our hero mentor right there, thanks a bunch.

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Anonymous ID:QTfos5QG Tue 27 Feb 2024 04:45:38 No.5937189 Report

Quoted By:

>>5936401
This, but possibly calling her Xena to her confusion.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Tue 27 Feb 2024 05:12:06 No.5937217 Report

Quoted By: >>5938956

>>5936514
Badass codename. 「APOCALYPSE MACHINE: Dark Lord Hallaster」

>>5936753
He didn't threaten her. He's saying Elliot will get her killed, and he'll be sad about it, and maybe kill Elliot depending what we do next.

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Anonymous ID:6433VS+3 Tue 27 Feb 2024 05:19:16 No.5937224 Report

Quoted By:

i would like to know how does excrement waste disappearing from Hogswart too

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 27 Feb 2024 06:57:48 No.5937290 Report

Quoted By: >>5937291

“You’re wrong,” you say, cupping her face with your hand. “You are a princess. My princess. My warrior princess, who saves me with every kiss she gives me. And if my warrior princess wants to fight, she can fight, and there’s not a single person in the world who can stop her.” You kiss her. “But please don’t almost kill yourself just to tell Potter to fuck off. Don’t get me wrong, I loved seeing you do it, but… You make my world brighter. Please don’t take that light away.”

She kisses you back. “I won’t. And you too. I know you said that going alone to St Mungus is the best option, but… Be careful. You said we’d be together for a long time. I intend to collect for as long as I can.”

“I did not allow you to stay here just so you could transform my infirmary into an improvised snogging room!” Madam Pomfrey says, shocked, as she enters the room with a set of potions for Arty. “Your girlfriend will be fine! Now, out!”

--

The rest of the week is torturous. With Arty under rest, you have to face Crouch’s training alone, along with Potter’s gloom. Even during classes he seems darker, more stressed and more quick to snap at people goofing off. The Battle Classes return, and the challenges are harder than ever, pushing people much harder than before.

Most students don’t see it, or just shrug it off. Only you and your friends know what he’s dealing with. When Friday arrives after Apparition classes, you join Linda, no, you join Raven in the frontlines, where you battle through a grueling trial filled with painful traps against Apollo, Riley and Summer Nott, who has taken over Brighton’s Claws. She’s… less than spectacular, and gets eliminated quickly when she clumsily gets pinched between the Raiders and the Fours. Raven’s maneuvering gets you through them, but the last remnants of Apollo’s army get the attention of Riley, who comes in to sweep both of you.

It’s not a victory, but it is a very respectable performance for Raven’s first outing as general, and it is good to see your friend in her old form again. On the weekend, the Three Broomsticks is filled with Lions celebrating their victory, while the other armies watch them with sour looks.

“Elliot, how difficult would it be to make a deadly poison?” Linda asks, traces of Raven still showing.

“Depends,” you say as you watch Riley be thrown up and down by her army, something which Hannah quickly puts a stop to. “Do you want it to taste like pumpkin juice or butterbeer?”

“Is there an actual difference?” Talon asks with genuine curiosity.

“Of course,” you say, as if it was obvious. “Beer bottles are more expensive than the ones people use to store pumpkin juice.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 27 Feb 2024 06:58:49 No.5937291 Report

Quoted By: >>5937294

>>5937290

“Plotting to kill someone is not nice,” Arty says, sliding by your table to drop off some food. She’s physically recovered, though casting spells is still painful, and had insisted on returning to work. “And Riley prefers drinking Gillywater, do you think you have anything that tastes like that?”

“I’m sure I can figure something out.”

“Are you two doing something this week?” Amalia asks. “Me and Elend wanted someone to go to Madam Puddifoot on a double date.”

Elend seems to be awfully embarrassed by that. As far as you’ve heard, the two of them had become much closer recently, though the boy didn’t seem to be ready for anything serious.

“I’m sure that they have other things to do,” Elend says, quickly.

Amalia, of course, doesn’t really seem to care that he doesn’t want it and looks determined to drag him into a relationship kicking and screaming.

“Uh, I…” plan to break into St Mungus in search of Avalon’s entrance “I’m busy this week, but,” you glance at Arty, to check her reaction, “But I think next week I may have some free time.”

“That’s lovely!”

“That’s… great to hear,” Elend says with a half-forced smile.

Though the ruckus is great, you, Linda and Apollo all stay until the end of Arty’s shift. Most of the people involved in the attack against you had been caught and locked up, but there had been one, the armless one, who had escaped. So you three wait. Riley celebrates until the late hours, and when she goes away with her army, soon it is time for you four to follow.

And, finally, the way back is peaceful and without threatening voices.

When you finally reach the dungeons, you say goodbye, kiss Arty and… she slips a note in your hand before waving and sauntering away.

--

“Are you sure Apollo won’t freak out?” you ask, not half an hour later.

“He knows I study late and skip breakfast sometimes. The other girls can cover for me.”

She’s wearing only her nighties, the same ones your mom had bought her. She’d changed into them right here, in the Room of Requirement, of course. The only other thing in the room, besides the divider behind which you’d both, separately, changed into your night clothes, was a comfortable looking bed.

The note had only said “Room of Requirement. I want to sleep.”

The only type of couple that had any luck in Hogwarts were same-sex couples of the same House and in the same year. Everyone else was split up either by gendered dormitories, year-based dormitories or which common room they had access to. Or, in your case, all three. But fortunately for you, the Room of Requirement didn’t care about any of that.

You couldn’t do it often, the risk of being caught by roaming prefects was real even if you were particularly proficient in avoiding them after so many years sneaking with Taylor to see the stars, but every now and then? For being together and sleeping in each other’s arms? Yeah, it was worth it.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 27 Feb 2024 07:00:39 No.5937294 Report

Quoted By: >>5937308 >>5937329 >>5937331 >>5937333

>>5937291

So you climb into bed and she snuggles her back against your chest.

“That training is paying off,” she says. “Your arms feel bigger around me.”

“You too,” you say, placing a finger on her belly and pressing gently. “I think I can feel a six-pack if I press hard enough.”

“At least I can eat twice as much. But this hand,” she says, taking it and placing it on her breast. “Can stay right here.”

“Are- are you sure?”

“You’ve done it once before, haven’t you?” She asks, biting her lower lip. “Did I get you to blush?”

“A bit.”

She shifts against you. Very much against you.

“Can you really sleep like this?”

“With… some difficulty.”

She giggles.

“Then consider that punishment for not getting that picture you promised to your warrior princess.”

“I’m working on it.”

“Then work harder.”

“It’s… going to be difficult to work any harder than this.”

And she laughs out loud.

--

Will you attempt to go to St Mungus this week?

> Yes (What preparations will you make?)
> No

If yes, the preparations will take all your free time and the excursion itself will take all of your free time. If not, what will you do with your free time? (Pick two)

> Attend Crouch’s tutoring (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Tue 27 Feb 2024 07:21:06 No.5937308 Report

Quoted By:

>>5937294
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
Arty needs to get us up to speed, and potions remain our special sauce for any upcoming confrontations.

I'll leave preparations up to smarter anons with better understanding of the lore.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 27 Feb 2024 08:12:02 No.5937329 Report

Quoted By:

>>5937294
first of all, i find it both hot and stupidly cute that we are sneaking out to sleep together, yes, stuff gets a bit steamy, but its still cute, love it, makes me sad i´ll never be able to experience this and lost all my chances when i was younger.

now, on to serious bussines:
>will you attempt to go to St Mungus this week
49% of me says we are 100% NOT ready for this and we will risk everything if even the smallest of things goes wrong...but the remaining 51% of me says that if we dont, we´ll miss whats probably our biggest chance of not only getting confirmation of our suspicions, but also any advantage of time and upperhand we could possibly have. so here is what i propose:
obviously, we skip the tutoring this time, we want as much of an advantage as we can, so we cant be sore and gimped by the negative rolls
we need to prepare an invisibility potion, maybe several (this, depending if we can take stuff from the games of course, as how its mentioned here: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Invisibility_Potion
this potion was never really shown in the movies or books, so i guess HeadQM would have to either allow or deny that
if we can brew it, then making a few of those would be ideal, plus study and practice all of our known concealment charms and spells
finally, all the other potions that could help us with our rolls, stamina, damage recovery, defense, everything. and keep at least one of each in case of emergencies or anything goes wrong
we do not HAVE to fight, its just a reconnaissance mission, but i think i speak for all of us when i say "its almost guaranteed shit WILL go down"

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:E/7UmVL8 Tue 27 Feb 2024 08:15:20 No.5937331 Report

Quoted By:

>>5937294
> Yes (What preparations will you make?)
Brew some potions of invisibility (for obvious reasons) and a potion of alchemist’s flashbang, in case we need a distraction/combat advantage. Also make sure that if we use a broomstick we take off any potential tracking charms on the thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Tue 27 Feb 2024 08:16:27 No.5937333 Report

Quoted By: >>5937365

>>5937294
>Yes (What preparations will you make?)
Invisibility, memory, strength, focus, wiggenweld, Shrinking, and Growing potions. A bezoar for antipoison purposes. DO NOT take the thingy that makes noise in response to treacherous presences. DO NOT take the resurrection stone, because although it'll probably be needed to actually do some fifth founder related shit, this is just a recon.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Tue 27 Feb 2024 09:05:45 No.5937365 Report

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>>5937333
+1 Time for a stealth mission

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 28 Feb 2024 18:43:23 No.5938657 Report

Quoted By: >>5938658

I just noticed that for the past however many posts, including last thread, I’ve been saying “St Mungus” instead of “St Mungo’s” because I’m a idiot who can’t spellcheck his fucking location names. Hopefully this changes from now on. So strap in, because this is a big one.

--

You spend the rest of the week working on potions. You have a big supply of Girding Potions, but you brew some Eduro, your Alchemist's Flashbang, Garroting Gas, plenty of Wiggenweld, Slowfall, and one of each from Erumpent, Exstimulo and Strengthening Solution, as they are far too unstable to hold more of them together. You think about brewing some invisibility potion, but they’re not worth the effort for the four whole seconds they hide you. Finally, just to be sure, you break into the cabinet with more expensive ingredients and take a single bezoar with you, the cure for most poisons.

The difficult part is getting them into your pouch without them crashing against each other and breaking. Surely, someone had invented something for this? Aurors took potions with them on their missions, surely they didn’t all just go clinking away.

You store that thought away for further research when you get back.

And, of course, you send a note to Potter saying you won’t be going to the tutoring this week as Arty is still recovering. Wouldn’t want to leave the insane death eater waiting for you, after all.

Thursday, you ready yourself. On Fridays, you figure, there is a bigger chance of people staying with their loved ones in St Mungo’s since they didn’t need to work early on the next day. So Thursday it is. You wait in bed until everyone is asleep and mostly gone from the common room, then sneak out under Disillusionment, through the dungeons and out the front door of the castle. You wait until you see the shifting, semi-translucent form of Arty wobbling down the stairs, carrying something large.

“Let me carry that,” you say, reaching for the big chunk of meat she’s holding, but she pulls back.

“No, don’t want you smelling like blood while you’re sneaking around. Let’s just get to the forest and then you can float it.”

You run through the empty fields until you’re deep into the forbidden forest and can drop the charm, then begin heading even further in.

“Are you sure you need to do this alone?”

“Yeah. Otherwise, someone else would know, and with Potter in the mood he’s in… No, we can’t risk that.”

“You know that I love you, right?”

You stop, smile, then kiss her in the semi-darkness.

“I’m not going to die, Arty. And I love you too.”

“I know you’re not going to die, but… At the same time I want to cast petrificus totalus on you and drag you back to the castle.”

“Trust me, I want to go back to the castle myself,” you say, tapping the green insides of your robes. “Slytherin, not Gryffindor, remember? I am utterly terrified, but the prospect of finding the entrance to Avalon is fortunately overriding every single self-preservation instinct I have.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 28 Feb 2024 18:44:24 No.5938658 Report

Quoted By: >>5938660 >>5942678

>>5938657

She laughs, which is what you want, and you go back to making your way through the forest. After several minutes of walking, you reach a clearing where you drop off the chunk of meat. Arty raises her hands to her mouth and lets out a weird, throaty thrill-whistle.

“The fuck was that?”

“Feeding call,” she says, simply. “It’s how they let their friends know there’s good food somewhere. I’d usually just wait until they smell it by themselves, but we should get you as much time as we can. Oh, look, there they are!”

Three huge dark-winged skeletal horses come flying down and land by the meat, then stop, looking at both of you. Arty nods and bows slightly, and the creatures gently approach, pulling the meat apart with its sharp beaks. You wait a bit, then approach, gently petting their backs while they eat.

“Hey, I recognize this one,” you say. “It’s-”

“The same one from last time,” Arty says, nodding. “And from our first date, too. I think she likes you. Always knew thestrals were smart.”

“Well, now that they’re here…”

You take a few steps away and start stripping.

“Wha- what are you doing?”

“Getting rid of my school robes. Can’t go on a stealth mission with a uniform saying where I’m from, can I?”

“You- you could have warned me!”

“I don’t see you looking away.”

She blushes, but keeps staring.

Once you’re down to only your pants and shoes, you reach into your pouch and pull out your camera. You raise it in the air, pointing downwards, and take a picture of yourself.

“Here,” you say, grinning like an idiot as you approach her shirtless. You give her the black square the camera produced. “Here’s your picture. I’ll get you some Developing Solution once I get back.”

“T-thanks.”

“Made you blush again.”

She doesn’t respond, just watching as you dress back up into plain black cold-weather robes, along with gloves on both hands. Once the thestrals are done with the food, you pet the one Arty said liked you, rubbing her neck.

“Hey, friend. Could you give me a ride?”

She gives an odd, but affirmative, whistle.

You turn to Arty. “You sure they won’t be tracked?”

“No. They’re always coming and going, and breeding. No way of keeping track of all of them.”

“Good.” You pat the thestral’s back and she kneels down. “Smart indeed.”

“Hey, when you come back…” Arty says, blushing harder than when you were shirtless.

“When I come back…?” You ask, mounting the thestral.

“When you come back… We’ll see.”

“Arty, that sentence made no sense!”

“That’s because I'm embarrassed to say it! Now go! Go before I drag you back to the castle!”

You gently tap the creature below you, and it rises up. You’ve never ridden a horse before, and now can see the reason saddles were created, as the creature’s bony back immediately starts poking the bottom of your column. The discomfort is the cost of greatness, you figure.

“Do you know where St Mungo’s is?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 28 Feb 2024 18:45:26 No.5938660 Report

Quoted By: >>5938662

>>5938658

The creature gives a high-pitched thrill, then gallops away at full speed, flapping its enormous wings as it takes flight, its sound only outmatched by you screaming “I hope that means yeeeeees!” as you hold on for dear life.

--

Once the thestral is in the air, the journey becomes much smoother. You can only figure riding one of these without having seen someone die would be utterly terrifying, as you’d have nothingness below you. But the creature soars majestically through the air, in a way you’re pretty sure is completely ignoring all laws of physics because there’s no way a winged horse would be able to fly without magic to aid it.

You can feel as you pass the barriers of the school, and you’re soon gliding south-east, the general direction of London. You briefly wonder how in Merlin’s name this creature can know where St Mungo’s is, but quickly decide that if owls can find people just by damn name, there’s nothing wrong with thestrals knowing places.

The cooling air hits your face and you briefly regret not casting a couple of warming charms before leaving. Now that you’re out of Hogwarts, you can’t cast spells without being tracked until you’re back somewhere magical. But it’s no matter. Soon the cold turns into an overwhelming sense of freedom as you soar over Scotland at ridiculous speeds. You can see mountains and gullies below you. In the darkness, you see small collections of lights as you pass over more villages, then a winding road on which a single car is beetling its way home through the hills.

You hug your mount’s neck, gently rubbing it up and down, as if to say she’s doing a good job, and she appears to appreciate it. You don’t know how long it takes, losing yourself in the view and the desire Arty was here to share it with you. It is probably more than an hour, less than two, when you finally see the glow of London in the distance.

Not long after, your stomach gives a jolt. The thestral’s head is suddenly pointing toward the ground and you slide forward a few inches along its neck. You’re descending at last, and now bright orange lights are growing larger and rounder on all sides. You can see the tops of buildings, streams of headlights like luminous insect eyes, squares of pale yellow that are windows. Quite suddenly, it seems, you’re hurtling toward the pavement. You grip the thestral with every last ounce of your strength, bracing for a sudden impact, but she touches the dark ground as lightly as a shadow and you slide from her back, looking around at the street where a condemned department store called “Purge and Dowse” has stood for the past many decades.

“Can you wait for me somewhere out of view, girl?” You ask, voice still slightly shaken from the experience. “Maybe on top of the tallest building around?”

She presses her head against your face, then flies away, hopefully not leaving you alone and heading back to Hogwarts.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 28 Feb 2024 18:46:28 No.5938662 Report

Quoted By: >>5938664

>>5938660

“Well… Whatever happens, happens.” Then, after a second thought, "I should think of a name for her."

This late in the night, fortunately - or more precisely, because of the many protection enchantments placed around the hospital - there are no muggles around, so you just take a quick glance around before leaning close to a mannequin on the window of the old department store.

It’s not exactly “inside” but… you point your wand at your face and whisper “Finite Incantatem”. Earlier in the day, you had shakily allowed Apollo to do the stupidly difficult feat of Human Transfiguration on you (through controlled and named spells, not free transfiguration, of course), and changed your face to that of a different boy entirely. Then, you had allowed him to do so again to change you back into yourself. While there were stories of wizards whose Transfiguration was good enough to basically duplicate the effects of Polyjuice, the only one you had confirmed evidence of such a feat was Grindelwald, and Apollo hadn’t gotten there yet. But transforming someone back into themselves was far easier than transforming them into someone else, so he’d done a good enough job.

You dismiss only the second set of transfigurations, the ones making you look like yourself, going back to being… no one in particular.

“Merlin, I hope I don’t have to come back here to be treated for transfiguration sickness once this is over,” you think, then step through the solid window and into St Mungo’s. The reception area still has some people, even this late at night, so it is fairly simple to mingle with the people there. Some have some obvious but non-urgent malady, others are there for a late visit. No one pays attention to you. Why should they, after all? It’s only a hospital.

So you walk around, pretending to go grab some water by a water spout, before quickly ducking under the “Do Not Cross - Renovations in Progress” sign, and tapping your wand on top of your head, the Disillusionment taking effect.

“Potter was right,” you think as you need to force the spell out. “Casting spells under a form that isn’t your own is more difficult than normal. I may need to drop the disguise if I get into a fight.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 28 Feb 2024 18:47:30 No.5938664 Report

Quoted By: >>5938700 >>5938712 >>5938718 >>5938782 >>5938956

>>5938662

You stealth through the mostly empty corridors, searching for the basement’s entrance. The floor of the corridors of the area have been torn away, revealing the stone beneath, and in some rooms it has been replaced by new, anti-slipping floors. Some rooms are still under more severe renovations and-

You freeze as you take a turn. At the end of the corridor, a set of stairs leading down. Sitting by the stairs on a chair, mostly covered by shadow in the poorly lit corridor, is a man. You can’t see his face in the darkness, but clearly, whoever they are, they’re guarding the way down. He’s resting his head on the wall behind him, in a way that suggests that he could be sleeping, or simply leaning against the stone. No way to tell from where you stand, and no way of getting closer without exposing yourself.

You’re fairly far from the main areas of the hospital where other people are, but… you’re not sure if a full-blown battle would go unheard.

> Try to stun him from where you stand
> Throw a bottle of Garroting Gas to make sure he chokes, then get closer for a stun
> Cast Quietus on the corridor behind you to muffle the sounds, then toss an Erumpent to blast him against the wall
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Wed 28 Feb 2024 19:15:36 No.5938700 Report

Quoted By:

>>5938664
> Throw a bottle of Garroting Gas to make sure he chokes, then get closer for a stun

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2jhsrjUA Wed 28 Feb 2024 19:41:54 No.5938712 Report

Quoted By:

>>5938664
>> Throw a bottle of Garroting Gas to make sure he chokes, then get closer for a stun

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 28 Feb 2024 19:53:52 No.5938718 Report

Quoted By: >>5938727 >>5938956

>>5938664
>Other (Write in)
>A combination of quietus on the corriror followed by the garroting gas
we dont want him coughing and giving us away to whoever is around

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 28 Feb 2024 20:08:52 No.5938727 Report

Quoted By:

>>5938718
also, just to be clear, im the anon thats doing this >>5934352 im just posting from work

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Wed 28 Feb 2024 21:18:35 No.5938782 Report

Quoted By: >>5938927

>>5938664
>Quietus, THEN try to stun him from where you stand.
I feel like an intruder charm is going to be in place. We need to make sure any sound from it going off is muffled before we do anything.
A simple stunner is the least likely to be noticed as amiss.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:06:24 No.5938927 Report

Quoted By: >>5938939 >>5938997

>>5938782
Quietus would weaken our stun on top of being nerfed while on a different form

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:08:19 No.5938929 Report

Quoted By: >>5938932

we could try to just distract the guy somehow instead of directly attacking him

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:12:10 No.5938932 Report

Quoted By: >>5938933

>>5938929
then we risk gettting caught on the way out (if it works)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:12:58 No.5938933 Report

Quoted By: >>5938946

>>5938932
matters significantly less on the way out than it does on the way in

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:20:05 No.5938939 Report

Quoted By: >>5938946

>>5938927
it doesnt have to be the most powerful spell in the world, just enough to muffle the sounds, so even if nerfed i think it should do the work good enough, its a much better option that screaming "DEPULSO!" followed by the trashing sounds of his body being thrown to the wall without any form of sound reduction

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:30:52 No.5938946 Report

Quoted By: >>5938947 >>5938964

>>5938933
Still a risk we could copletely avoid
>>5938939
Its not the Quietus I'm worried about, its the Stupefy. We've seen those getting tanked before and we are on a weakers state. If we have to do it nonverbally because the range of the Quietus affects us too then the guy will tank it for sure, and that'd get us into an actual fight. We are allegedly a bit far from other people, just get this one over quick without overthinking it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:31:50 No.5938947 Report

Quoted By: >>5938950

>>5938946
no matter how we get in, we'd still likely have to do some fighting to get out even if things go to plan

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:33:38 No.5938950 Report

Quoted By: >>5938952

>>5938947
If thats the case, better get a potential obstacle out of the way now and not then

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:35:28 No.5938952 Report

Quoted By: >>5938961

>>5938950
we'd probably have dropped the disguise by the time we got back to this guy, if we get into a fight with him it'd be better to be at full strength than weakened by our cover

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:l8LQJQP0 Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:37:29 No.5938956 Report

Quoted By:

>>5938718
Supporting.

>>5938664
I'm >>5937217 on mobile.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:43:04 No.5938961 Report

Quoted By: >>5938963

>>5938952
Or get the drop on him and just not let him fight back at all

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:47:14 No.5938963 Report

Quoted By: >>5938967

>>5938961
and if he gets backup...?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:47:18 No.5938964 Report

Quoted By: >>5938967

>>5938946
>we are on a weakers state
from what?, we specifically dropped the turoring this week specifically for this mission, we are at our peak right now

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:52:23 No.5938967 Report

Quoted By: >>5938970

>>5938963
Do you see anyone else around
>>5938964
>"Potter was right,” you think as you need to force the spell out. “Casting spells under a form that isn’t your own is more difficult than normal. I may need to drop the disguise if I get into a fight.”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 01:57:08 No.5938970 Report

Quoted By: >>5938980

>>5938967
a guy who gets suddenly attacked isn't just going to not tell anyone, and they don't need to be within visual perception to get some kind of alert from him

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 02:07:35 No.5938980 Report

Quoted By: >>5938985

>>5938970
He's not gonna alert anyone while unconscious

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 02:13:12 No.5938985 Report

Quoted By: >>5938993

>>5938980
as already said, we can't confirm that he'd actually get unconscious because of being weakened by the disguise

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 02:33:33 No.5938993 Report

Quoted By: >>5938996

>>5938985
Thats what the gas is for

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 02:35:50 No.5938996 Report

Quoted By: >>5939015

>>5938993
how would we do this without the resulting gas cloud attracting unwanted attention?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 29 Feb 2024 02:37:03 No.5938997 Report

Quoted By: >>5939015 >>5939054 >>5939094

>>5938927
Man, I wish the magic in this quest worked by actual harry potter rules instead of the weird ass shit we got goin on with limited magic pools and shit. Isn't it supposed to be that you can cast the vast majority of spells perfectly fine as long as you can repeat the motion and incantations correctly? Shit's only supposed to be limited by skill and physical stamina. Just an annoyance of mine that I see in a lot of HP fiction. The books never said shit about that all.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Thu 29 Feb 2024 03:03:18 No.5939015 Report

Quoted By: >>5939166

>>5938996
The gas cloud would disperse in the air with none the wiser
>>5938997
What rules, there's no fucking rules in HP.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Thu 29 Feb 2024 03:41:10 No.5939054 Report

Quoted By:

>>5938997
I prefer this, especially since it forces us to think more tactically and enables plot points key to this quest like the whole deal with the Pertingers.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 29 Feb 2024 04:17:16 No.5939094 Report

Quoted By: >>5939096

>>5938997
In the books it is implied to exist some form of energy requirement, otherwise everyone would be casting the most powerful spells all the time. In fact, on the fourth book Moody says:

"Avada Kedavra’s a curse that needs a powerful bit of magic behind it — you could all get your wands out now and point them at
me and say the words, and I doubt I’d get so much as a nosebleed. "

Which implies that there is such thing as a reserve of magic people can access, or at least a magical maximum each person has. Also, fighting is physically draining. In any other quests with fighting, you'd be limited by your physical exhaustion, which recovers over time as you rest. The same is true here, but with a magical exhaustion. Most spells single spells are not specially draining, it is the continuous casting of them, repeatedly, over a short period of time which causes you to be tired.

Don't get me wrong, if you tried to cast the killing curse three times in a row you'd be exhausted, but most battle spells are made to be effective, because anything else would get you killed in the battlefield.

Also, this was one long ass discussion. Closing the vote on Garroting Gas + Quietus

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 29 Feb 2024 04:19:28 No.5939096 Report

Quoted By: >>5939111

>>5939094
>"Avada Kedavra’s a curse that needs a powerful bit of magic behind it — you could all get your wands out now and point them at
me and say the words, and I doubt I’d get so much as a nosebleed. "
This is specifically referencing intent to kill. He means that they wouldn't be able to kill him, because they don't want to kill him. Avada Kedavara is absolutely spammable (and IS spammed throughout the series) without being any more exhausting than a stupefy, the efficacy of it just needs you to be a psychopath to actually kill your targets with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 29 Feb 2024 04:36:41 No.5939111 Report

Quoted By:

>>5939096
I want to be clear here: How you run your quest is up to you in the end, and it's definitely far too late to change any sort of mechanics right now. I'm not encouraging anyone to do that, and in fact discourage changing the already-established way of things work.
I just wanted to point out a gripe that I personally have with a lot of HP fiction, autistic as that may be. I'm in the camp that if you're going to do a [franchise] thing, do the mechanics of the setting as presented; otherwise, do your own thing. I still dig the quest.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 05:54:17 No.5939166 Report

Quoted By:

>>5939015
did you forget gas moves?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 29 Feb 2024 06:58:18 No.5939216 Report

Quoted By: >>5939218

You breathe deeply, reaching into your pouch with your left hand and feeling for the cork with the markings of a bottle of Garroting Gas. You turn and try casting quietus nonverbally. It takes three tries but you manage to get it done and the corridor falls into an even deeper silence than before.

You focus, envision you plan, then fling the bottle as hard as you can towards the man as you jump out of cover already casting. The bottle shatters on the floor and fills the corridor with gas as you use your stored breath to cast a Stupefy, chaining it with an Expelliarmus and following it with a Somnius, a combination you’ve practiced many, many times in your training for Battle Class.

All three spells hit the target, who simply jerks in his chair.

What?

Holding your breath, you approach the man. He is unconscious, yes, but… he’s also wandless. Worse, if you keep this choking gas here, he’ll suffocate to death. You point the wand away from the staircase and think “Ventus!“. The wind blows, dispersing the gas until you can breathe again a few moments later and you can turn your attention back to the man.

He’s wearing St Mungo’s uniform, head slumped on his chest. Alive. But he hadn’t reacted to your attack, not even to the bottle being thrown, or to the gas. So he had either been asleep or… Or someone had stunned him before you.

You feel your hair stand up on the back of your neck as a sense of fear envelops you. Had this been an employee of the hospital who had been stunned by one of Scorpius’ men or one of Scorpius men who had been stunned by someone else? Maybe people hired by Salazar himself, or maybe some group of Unspeakables, coming here under Granger’s orders. You don’t know, and you don’t fancy waking him up to find out.

You put him back in the position you found him, thanking Merlin for not having used anything more destructive, then slowly make your way back down into the basement. The renovations are mostly completed, with many shelves being shuffled into the completed parts, and an area at the back that is blocked off with a great tarp.

You cast a slew of detection spells, but they show nothing.

“Why?” You ask yourself. “They wouldn’t leave it unprotected, would they? Would alarm enchantments trigger any wards of St Mungo’s itself? Helga, any ideas?”

“Only that Arty would have already told you to turn back. This smells like a trap.”

“And if she’d been alone here, do you think she’d have turned back?”

“... No.”

“Then we keep going.”

You reach the tarp and pull it back, revealing a great hole in the ground with a ladder going downwards, disappearing into the darkness.

“Well, that’s why I made potions,” you say, chugging a Slowfall potion and jumping in, hand always in the ladder in case you need an abrupt stop. But you don’t, and reach the ground after a long way down, landing softly on the bedrock floor.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 29 Feb 2024 06:59:20 No.5939218 Report

Quoted By: >>5939219

>>5939216

You’re in what appears to be a laboratory of sorts. There are tables with notes, cauldrons, diagrams and books, all which seem to have been used in the last couple of days. Past the tables, there is a large, open area, clearly of a different time, one oozing Ancient Magic. It is a wide chamber, a dark marble floor, the center of which seems to be in a half-light even though there is no obvious light source anywhere, while the outer edges are covered in darkness. In the middle of the chamber, a great green stone, almost like a frozen emerald flame, as tall as three men and just as wide, only slightly translucent such that its edges are barely see-through but anything beyond the first few inches on each side are opaque.

It is not as Powerful as the Mirror of Impossibility, but you have no doubt it’s just as old.

“No,” Helga says. “There’s new magic here. Well, still Ancient but less old. As if it was renovated, or changed, long after it was originally built. How far after the original construction or how long ago, I cannot say.”

“Do you think-”

“This is useless!” A male voice comes from the other side of the great stone, echoing through the great hall, and you duck behind one of the tables. It sounds more frustrated than angry. “We’re never getting this thing open.”

“It’s been only a couple of weeks,” a feminine voice answers, calmer. “There’s more we can try.”

“Not like this. And you heard them. Their new machine should be able to break the stone. I’m no specialist in goblin metal, but they’d need to be wrong by a couple orders of magnitude for them to fail.”

“And it will be ready in four weeks. We have time.”

“Oh, sure. How much progress have we made so far? Zero. We’ve been at it for a week, so if we multiply the progress we’ve made now by four… I’m not a specialist in arithmancy so correct me if I’m wrong, but that still sounds like zero.”

“We are gathering knowledge,” the woman says.

“Knowledge that is taking us nowhere. You are aware of what happens if they get what is on the other side of this door, correct?”

“I have some idea.”

“Then you know we need to try something else.”

“That could prove problematic. The Longbottoms, they-”

“We can’t worry about them. If they die, they die. If their families must grieve… They are good people and have my condolences, but it is necessary. It is the right thing to do.”

The Longbottoms? How could they be involved in this? You had sent an owl to Augusta a while ago, asking if the couple who had disappeared from St Mungus was her son and his wife, but the letter had gone unanswered.

“You know what she would say to that,” the woman says, sounding bothered.

“She’ll have to deal with it whenever we meet her.” The man sounds deeply worried. “Four weeks to stop him like this… Are you sure you don’t know what the symbol means?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 29 Feb 2024 07:00:54 No.5939219 Report

Quoted By: >>5939222 >>5939231 >>5939235 >>5939236 >>5939243 >>5939560 >>5939619

>>5939218

“Not off the top of my head. If I still had my books, maybe I could find something, but now...” The woman sighs. “Very well, then. Shall we go? The spell on the guard won’t last much longer, and I still need to reset their alarms.”

“Give me another hour, there are still things I want to try.”

You suddenly realize how exposed you are. You are hiding behind a table and they’re behind the great emerald rock, yes, but if they were to head in your direction you’d have nowhere to hide. The only way out is the completely exposed ladder upwards.

You want to see what they’re seeing, see who they are, learn more, listen to more of their conversation and study the notes and books on these tables. But staying here risks being found out and going away then back risks having to actually face the guard and, apparently, whatever alarms there were originally, not to mention spending even longer in this place with the chance of being caught. And you still have to get back to Hogwarts before breakfast. Two hours on the way here, two hours to get back… didn’t give you too much leeway to wait around.

> Retreat to one of the upper rooms and wait until they leave
> Try to sneak around the stone through the shadows and catch a glimpse of the two
> Leave. You have enough information for today
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Thu 29 Feb 2024 07:05:36 No.5939222 Report

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>>5939219
> Retreat to one of the upper rooms and wait until they leave
Who they are is less important than seeing if we can be the first into Avalon.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 29 Feb 2024 07:39:55 No.5939231 Report

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>>5939219
>Retreat to one of the upper rooms and wait until they leave
why do their voices sound like Hermione and Ron inside my head....

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Anonymous ID:nfLakDbM Thu 29 Feb 2024 07:46:24 No.5939235 Report

Quoted By: >>5939240 >>5939243

>>5939219
> Try to sneak around the stone through the shadows and catch a glimpse of the two
If we’re rolling for stealth anyway, I want to find out what - and who - we really ARE dealing with, and quickly. After all, we’re on a timer here and we can’t afford to lose another hour.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 29 Feb 2024 07:48:02 No.5939236 Report

Quoted By: >>5939546

>>5939219
>Head up and reenervate the guard. Tell him that you saw two suspicious people head down here and watched them stun him before heading further down, so you wanted to make sure he was alright.
Fuck the spooks, I bet this guard isn't a bad person. Apparently he's moral enough not to be in anyone's pocket and does his job well enough that he warrants being stunned. And we run little risk of him discovering our identity right now because of our altered looks.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 29 Feb 2024 07:58:06 No.5939240 Report

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actually, you know what? fuck it, im changing my vote to >>5939235
he right, we already here and we´ve sneaked before, getting info on WHO ELSE we fighting is worth it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:DEF5zSwW Thu 29 Feb 2024 08:09:05 No.5939243 Report

Quoted By:

>>5939235
>>5939219
>support

I bet they're talking about us.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 19:41:42 No.5939546 Report

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>>5939236
the whole point of gassing him in the first place was so that they wouldn't know we're here

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:3IdaTaXG Thu 29 Feb 2024 19:51:32 No.5939560 Report

Quoted By:

>>5939219
>> Try to sneak around the stone through the shadows and catch a glimpse of the two

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Sj/w1Ap6 Thu 29 Feb 2024 21:19:16 No.5939619 Report

Quoted By: >>5939628 >>5939774 >>5940457 >>5940813

>>5939219
You know, they might be talking about stopping Salazar. Wonder if this is the Rowena and Godric hosts.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 29 Feb 2024 21:25:37 No.5939628 Report

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>>5939619
there's also the "symbol"

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Fri 01 Mar 2024 00:28:44 No.5939774 Report

Quoted By: >>5940457

>>5939619
I was thinking that too. Good thing we have Helga, who can scan for fellow mind people, AKA Rowena and Godric, right?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 01 Mar 2024 05:57:56 No.5939972 Report

Quoted By: >>5939973

No, you refuse to back down now. This is Avalon you’re talking about! You’re not going to back away without at least seeing the damn door!

Making sure you have the strongest disillusionment you can cast on yourself, you make your way to the edge of the great black marble floor and squeeze yourself against the wall, gently, gently making your way around. One quiet step after the other, you slowly circle the great emerald flame, which proves to not be emerald after all. As you keep moving to get behind them, it changes. As if it was burning, it flickers and shifts, not only in movement, but in color too, yellow, blue, white and so on. All shades except black, in a mesmerizing spectacle.

You move until you can see one of them. The woman. Her face is thin and worn now, her eyes seem overlarge and her hair, white, is wispy and dead-looking. She’s dressed… she’s dressed like a patient.

“Maybe some plan to get inside St Mungo’s without anyone questioning?” You ask Helga.

“Easier than breaking in every night, unless they take your wand,” she says.

“In that case you’d have to take someone else’s,” you agree. “Like that poor guard up front, for example.”

You keep on walking and the man comes into view. He’s almost bald, also with gray hair and sunken eyes. Maybe he had once been handsome, but time had torn it from him without any kindness.

“They don’t look like they’re pretending to be ill.”

“More than one way to look frail. Don’t forget, they dropped that guard by themselves.”

--
Recommended Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_439qLQzHs
--

This side of the flame is flat, as if a flame that had been cut in half. Not only that, but it finally settles on a single color, red. Not ruby red, but blood red. This face of the flame is intricately decorated with flaming motifs coming out of a center door, covered in inscriptions in many, many languages. Phrases and names.

You can’t read most of them, but the one you can, you don’t need to remember your latin, because you know it by heart. You’ve read it many, many times.

“Without lies, this is the utter truth. That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below.”

The first lines of the Emerald Tablet, the Tabula Smaragdina, widely considered to be the stone tablet with the instructions that gave birth to alchemy. Somewhere else, you read names which you recognize, even in their original language.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 01 Mar 2024 05:58:58 No.5939973 Report

Quoted By: >>5939976 >>5939980 >>5939996 >>5940052

>>5939972

“Amirita”, it’s sanskrit, if you’re not mistaken. “Kimia”, is greek. “Aab-i-Hayat”, persian. There are others, which you recognize only in passing, but that you know for certain the meaning, which is confirmed when you find the one you’re looking for.

“Lapis noster.”

Our Stone.

One of the many old names… for the Philosopher’s Stone. All others, different names of different cultures for the Elixir of Life.

You feel a chill run through your spine, your hands shaking.

The central door is framed by the same phrase, repeated in all of these different languages.

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death” it says, over and over. Within its center is the symbol of a Line, within a Circle, within a Triangle. Below it, three slots. One is thin, with several bumps in the middle, almost precisely the shape of the Elder Wand. One is small, the size of a thumb, in the shape of a four-sided pyramid, very similar to the Resurrection Stone. One is an indentation in the stone that forms a hook-like shape, on which something could be hung, like, for example, a Cloak of Invisibility.

And the puzzle finally fits. The reason why Salazar had picked Lily Potter, of all people. Why Lily had stolen the Stone. Why Scorpius wanted it back so badly.

Like keys to a lock, only opened by the Master of Death.

The final artifact to defeat it.

You had heard the stories of Avalon’s healing, yes. But there was something else known to be a source of great healing. Something else that promised life unending. You had heard both tales, over and over, in many different versions.

You just had never considered that they could be one and the same.

The thing Flamel had tried and failed to create.

The True Philosopher’s Stone.

“Avalon!” you shout inside your mind with a certainty strong as steel, a mad grin on your face. “Stone of Life Eternal! No matter how long it takes! No matter how! I promise! You will be mine!”

And your limbs move on their own as Helga yanks on them at the same time she shouts inside your head “Elliot, watch out!”

You fall to the floor as a bolt of light slams against the stone wall behind you.

“Oh, would you look at that,” the woman says, pointing her wand at you again. “The boy sent a late servant. Worry not, we shall deal with you quickly.”

Crap. “Stupefy!”

“Expelliarmus!” She shouts, firing the charm at you, and at the same time as the man points at you, “Petrificus Totalus!” and from his bare hands comes a red bolt aimed at exactly the spot you were going to jump to, and you need to push yourself off the wall to avoid getting hit. You fall in a roll, your battle instincts kicking in, raising wards and casting spells as you go.

> Roll a d100+38. Bo3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 01 Mar 2024 06:04:30 No.5939976 Report

Quoted By: >>5939977 >>5940013

Rolled 4 + 38 (1d100 + 38)

>>5939973
fuck, lets see if all this training if finally paying off
please RNGesus, help us in our time of need!

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 01 Mar 2024 06:06:32 No.5939977 Report

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>>5939976
...a-at least i got the l-low roll out of the way...
please anons...dont let it end like this

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Fri 01 Mar 2024 06:24:52 No.5939980 Report

Quoted By: >>5939981

Rolled 81 + 38 (1d100 + 38)

>>5939973

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 01 Mar 2024 06:25:51 No.5939981 Report

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>>5939980
YES! thank you!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Fri 01 Mar 2024 07:14:02 No.5939996 Report

Quoted By: >>5939997 >>5940009

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>5939973
Watch me roll a 1

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Fri 01 Mar 2024 07:15:18 No.5939997 Report

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>>5939996
I'm relieved and disappointed in equal measure.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Fri 01 Mar 2024 08:03:39 No.5940009 Report

Quoted By: >>5940011

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>5939996
That's not how you do it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 01 Mar 2024 08:07:36 No.5940011 Report

Quoted By:

>>5940009
neither is that way...

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Anonymous ID:E/7UmVL8 Fri 01 Mar 2024 08:14:51 No.5940013 Report

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>>5939976
So, at best, we survive to another round and are at an advantage. At worst, we die here and now.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 01 Mar 2024 09:32:50 No.5940034 Report

Quoted By: >>5940037

I would very strongly recommend popping a Girding Potion, Exstimulo, Strengthening, what ever we have at first chance. Channel Helga. Then do what we can to get the hell out. I don't think we are beating a pair of full grown wizards, including one who can use wandless magic. We also still have Potter's portkey toe ring. Don't know if it will work down here but if we can make it back up, it probably should given we know the ground floor of the hospital allows for apparition.

I will also reread the past few updates, since I flew through them after getting back from being off for the last few days on a little vacation. I feel like I may have missed something important. I really hope we don't die here and make me have to delete the Valentine's lewdfic I was close to finishing.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 01 Mar 2024 09:37:03 No.5940037 Report

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>>5940034
supporting everything in this post, the moment we reach a critical point in this battle, pop-off the toe ring

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Fri 01 Mar 2024 10:05:13 No.5940052 Report

Quoted By: >>5940063 >>5940424 >>5940426

>>5939973
> “Oh, would you look at that,” the woman says, pointing her wand at you again. “The boy sent a late servant. Worry not, we shall deal with you quickly.”

I’d bet these are definitely allies based on this line. The question is whether or not they have Rowena and/or Godric in their heads now. Helga can check that if/when we get them to ceasefire for a moment.

Also,
> “Avalon!” you shout inside your mind with a certainty strong as steel, a mad grin on your face. “Stone of Life Eternal! No matter how long it takes! No matter how! I promise! You will be mine!”

Am I the only one who feels this is a bit out of character for Elliot? Like I know one of our main motivations is to find the secret to immortality but I don’t think it’s ever been to the point of sounding like an actual Dark Lord.
Unless that line was a reference to something and I don’t know where it’s from. That’s possible too.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 01 Mar 2024 10:14:59 No.5940063 Report

Quoted By: >>5940424 >>5940426

>>5940052
>bit out of character for Elliot?
not just you, given the scenario we are and the importance of being focused, that one line did felt a bit off, like, it would make sense in literally any other scenario, not when we are sneaking for our lives

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 01 Mar 2024 16:00:52 No.5940424 Report

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>>5940052
>>5940063

We found a means for us to live forever. To let our parents live forever. For Arty to not die in 20 years.

We were so crazy after figuring out that Avalon existed Linda had use the Petrifaction Hex on us, and we still had a stupid grin on our face. Elliot can get a bit nutty.

And Potter is probably right. We do have the potential to become a Dark Lord. We are that ambitious. But we are also a good person. We want that power to save the people we love. I think it fits his character okay. If you found the means to complete your life's dream you would probably get over excited, slip up even when you needed to be calm.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 01 Mar 2024 16:03:31 No.5940426 Report

Quoted By: >>5940495

Rolled 43, 87, 2 + 20 = 152 (3d100 + 20)

>>5940052
>>5940063

Hum, maybe I didn't emphasize enough that awe he was feeling. The idea was that he was so stunned by what he was seeing that he momentarily forgot where he was (which was why he didn't see the woman casting at him until it was too late and Helga had to assume direct control for a moment) which is very much an Elliot thing to do when confronted with Ancient Things.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 01 Mar 2024 17:01:05 No.5940457 Report

Quoted By: >>5940495

>>5939619
>>5939774

From what we know the spirits need a relatively young host. Or that is what Elliot speculated, given Salazar's hosts and Helga popping up in himself.

But if they entered into someone who has had their mind completely shattered? Might be that that would work. At least for a while. And we know of two people in this place which would fit that condition, might be that these people are the Longbottem's themselves. That they disappeared because Rowena and Godric took over. That they are using the two but their bodies aren't going be able to last if they stay with them, which is where that comment came from.

The man just used wandless magic. According to the wiki, it takes someone of incredible skill to pull that off. Godric would fit that bill I think.

>Alice was a round-faced woman with short hair, and her son Neville resembled her quite strongly. By the mid-1990s, however, her face became thin and worn, and her hair had become white, wispy and dead-looking,[3] which was most likely due to her insanity from the Cruciatus Curse along with older age.

This is straight from the wiki. Sounds a lot like:

>The woman. Her face is thin and worn now, her eyes seem overlarge and her hair, white, is wispy and dead-looking. She’s dressed… she’s dressed like a patient.

A few possible options. She is the real Alice Longbottom. Either with a mind ghost piloting her or is under a curse like Imperio but more powerful, letting someone use her body. That this is someone impersonating her with Polyjuice, the reason she "disappeared" was so they could pull a Crouch and keep Neville's parents in a suitcase to use their hair.

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Fri 01 Mar 2024 18:09:56 No.5940495 Report

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>>5940426
For me that part was fine. I get that. It was more that Elliot kinda sounded like some kind of supervillain with that line.

>>5940457
Them needing to latch onto someone young might not be true.
With Helga, she just kind of latched onto us randomly, so there was no process behind that. With Salazar I wouldn’t put him above intentionally possessing children when he doesn’t need to because they’re easier to manipulate. I think he could have possessed Draco, for example, but as QM said, he is part of the house that had come to define Slytherin. I doubt he’d make much progress trying to manipulate Draco for his goals.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 01 Mar 2024 18:12:29 No.5940497 Report

Quoted By: >>5940499 >>5940633

“Incendio!”

“Incarcerous!”

“Depulso!”

You fight, raising protegos and firing at the two, and though you know it takes incredible skill to do wandless magic, even more with specific spells rather than uncontrolled bursts of power, the two seem… Sluggish. Old. Weak. Their technique is precise, but also sloppy, as if their bodies couldn’t quite accompany the speed of their brain.

And they don’t seem evil. They cast spell after spell, but none that could actively kill you. No diffindo that could tear off a limb, no bombarda that could blow you to pieces. Stunners, disarming charms, leglocks and tickling curses, but nothing to truly hurt you. Not at first, at least. As the battle drags on, they notice their own frailty and start upping the ante, as you see them sweat and pant.

But the result of the battle, unless they decide to unleash some hidden power on you, is decided already. You’re young and spry, they’re old and tired.

And there’s something about them. Something almost… familiar. As if you had seen those faces before.

Because what sort of person would not recognize the symbol of the Deathly Hallows? Only someone who had lost the last twenty years, maybe more.

“Prismatis!” You shout when you finally get the opportunity. The bubble of magic shimmers into place, blocking you from them.

“Come on boy,” the man says with more bravado than confidence, pacing around you, looking for a way to get through the barrier. “You’re trapping yourself.”

“No,” you say. “I’m having a conversation.” You turn to the woman who has her wand still pointing at you, and lock eyes with her.

There is a moment of silence.

“Rae?” You hear Helga ask.

“Puffpuff?” The woman asks, eyes wide, voice shaken. “Puffpuff, is that you in there?”

“It is,” Helga Hufflepuff says, voice unsteady and brimming with happiness. “Good to see you again, old friend. Could you kindly get Godric off our backs?”

--

They feel thin as you hug them, bony, though not malnourished.

“Goddy, it’s good to see you!” Helga says as you sit down at one of the research tables.

“I can say the same to you!” The man says, smiling. “I see you found a host much healthier than ours!”

“He’s a good one indeed. Who are yours? What happened to you?”

“I don’t know. We woke up after… after the darkness… in these people. Longbottoms, they called them. I didn’t remember a thing about our lives, but Rowena did. She reminded me of who I was, and we spent some time getting our bearings. Even tried to escape, but we were caught. Then we saw him. A boy, not much older than you…?”

“Elliot, sir,” you say, stretching your hand and shaking his. “Elliot Hallaster. It's an honor to meet both of you.”

“Blond, arrogant. And Salazar was in him, Helga. And he had changed.”

“We know,” you say. “We fought him once already, that boy, Scorpius, isn’t his first host. He killed a friend of mine, and did unspeakable things to his host. And he wants what’s behind that door.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 01 Mar 2024 18:14:32 No.5940499 Report

Quoted By: >>5940511 >>5940512 >>5940515 >>5940608 >>5940762 >>5940813 >>5940963

>>5940497

“Avalon. Merlin’s healing powers.” Rowena nods. “I think he wants to use it to create a body for himself, or empower his host. With the power in there… he should be able to create a body that can manipulate the… Other Magic. Sorry, this woman doesn't know the proper name for it.”

“We call it Ancient Magic,” Helga says. “I escaped about six months ago, or was torn out of… of that Darkness. But I didn’t come alone. I brought… I brought a passageway with me. An entrance. Or an exit. If Elliot dies, the passage will open and… and that thing on the other side, that awful Thing will cross.”

“And Salazar intends to let it do so, then tame it and break it, take its power for himself.”

And you tell them everything that happened the last six months.

“Salazar, you foul beast!” the woman in the body of Alice Longbottom says. “He’ll bring doom upon us all! He doesn’t know what he’s doing!”

“Why? Couldn’t he do it?”

She shakes her head.

“A thousand years ago, Merlin called the four of us. Salazar had already left us, but Merlin said it concerned the fate of the world, so he returned. We met with Merlin and he brought forth the Cup of Sorrows, and made a grand ritual. He used it to bind us all, sacrifice us all, to create what you now call the Interdict of Merlin. But something went in a way he didn’t expect.”

“The ritual failed?” You ask.

“No. The ritual took him along. But it didn’t just take him. It broke him. That Beast you mention, that foul thing that keeps trying to breach into our world, it isn’t just darkness made manifest. Because even Darkness needs something to build upon. That Beast within you, the thing which seeks to destroy everything in its path… That’s what’s left of Merlin, twisted beyond all recognition, but still just as cunning.”

“What?" You ask, wide-eyed. "How- how do you know that?”

“Because we each got splinters from him into us," Rowena says. "The Helga I knew didn’t have powers of prophecy. Godric, for all his prowess, couldn’t cast spells without a wand. And I didn’t know a single thing about the nature of this ritual before coming out of the darkness. But now they do. And I never thought being alive in this form the way we are would be possible, but now I understand it. I remember the grand power that flowed through him, as if it had coursed through me. I remember his horror as he understood what was happening. I remember him blasting all of his grand artifacts away from him, his Wand, his Stone, his Cloak and more, for they needed to remain in this world if it had any chance to undo what he’d done. And I remember my mind being torn in far too many pieces to ever be recovered, knowing that I had doomed the world.”

> Is there any topic you’d like to ask or talk about?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 01 Mar 2024 18:15:42 No.5940501 Report

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By the way, this was the moment you were supposed to discover who Faith was.

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Anonymous ID:26GI3bXR Fri 01 Mar 2024 18:34:17 No.5940511 Report

Quoted By: >>5940761

>>5940499
>That’s what’s left of Merlin, twisted beyond all recognition, but still just as cunning
FUCK, i should have said it! AGAIN! If he had fucking super clairvoyance then why did he create the Time Turners that made the damn thing in the first place?

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 18:40:34 No.5940512 Report

Quoted By: >>5940813

>>5940499
>The Beast is Merlin
never expected that to be the reveal

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Fri 01 Mar 2024 18:46:57 No.5940515 Report

Quoted By: >>5940528 >>5940535

>>5940499
You know, I was expecting Merlin to still be around. Maybe as a true immortal wizard who has some sort of convoluted goal to sticking around or something. At least I was half right.

ANYWAY, planning time.
So there are 3 things that make up the Beast:
-Merlin
-A bunch of Time Turners
-Darkness
As far as I understand it, Merlin is where the Beast gets it’s consciousness from, so if we kill the Merlin part we’d theoretically have a time manipulating beast that has no will. Of course, it’d still be “free” when we die, so even though we don’t know what that’d entail we should probably kill it entirely at some point. Knowing what to target first is good to know though.

For now, I have a couple of suggestions for things to talk about. For one, how mentally stable Alice and Frank are, since if mind spirits residing in their head can’t help them, nothing will.

Then we need to get them up to speed on who Alice and Frank are if they don’t know already, since if people know human vegetables mind-wise are suddenly competent people for the first time in 40 years then that’s a leak we have to fix. We might need to bring Brighton into the fold, for example, so he doesn’t go spreading that fact around and possibly alerting Salazar and/or Potter. He can tell Augusta the same.

Then we need to get all their research and whatever insight they have on this door so we can use it for study. Rowena doesn’t have her books, but we have a whole library from ancient times that includes one of her books, so if anyone has the best chance of finding out how to open the door, it’s us.

Finally, make a plan to come back in 2 weeks(maybe 3, but I don’t want to cut it TOO close to Salazar’s 4 week ETA in case they suddenly get it done earlier than expected) which gives us time to scour the library on how to open the door. Then we all get back in our proper places. Rowena and Godric as patients, and us as a student of Hogwarts.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 19:02:39 No.5940528 Report

Quoted By: >>5940535

>>5940515
too bad we don't have a way of bringing the two of them back with us

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Anonymous ID:26GI3bXR Fri 01 Mar 2024 19:08:56 No.5940535 Report

Quoted By: >>5940544

>>5940515
pretty sure the hallows are the key, which means... you already know
>>5940528
The portkey. Alice and Frank should know how to apparate too, maybe we could give them a reminder?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 19:23:41 No.5940544 Report

Quoted By: >>5940575

>>5940535
did you forget about the problem that people would notice they're missing?

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Anonymous ID:26GI3bXR Fri 01 Mar 2024 20:00:28 No.5940575 Report

Quoted By: >>5940625

>>5940544
Everything seems to point to people already noticing it right now. They've probably been hiding or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:E/7UmVL8 Fri 01 Mar 2024 20:33:53 No.5940608 Report

Quoted By: >>5940621 >>5940623 >>5940630

>>5940499
>Who was the fourth founder?
Let’s not forget why we came here.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 20:40:22 No.5940621 Report

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>>5940608
*fifth

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Anonymous ID:26GI3bXR Fri 01 Mar 2024 20:40:36 No.5940623 Report

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>>5940608
fifth*

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 20:41:23 No.5940625 Report

Quoted By: >>5940724

>>5940575
we also don't really have anywhere to hide them

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Fri 01 Mar 2024 20:46:37 No.5940630 Report

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>>5940608
fif*th

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Fri 01 Mar 2024 20:47:19 No.5940633 Report

Quoted By: >>5940657 >>5940668

>>5940497
>Helga and Rowena have gutsey girly nicknames for each other
cute!
>Is there any topic you’d like to ask or talk about?
yes, will all of us being together and maybe gangin up on Potter would be enough to make him understand we arent an evil olverlord in the making? is there a chance we could convince him that we are the good guys now that we have what could be described as the most important adition to our team in the form of the actual founders of Hogwarts? we dont need to tell him anything regarding any prophecy, but if we can convince him that we have the founders on our side, that could be enough to finally fully convince him to leave us alone and maybe actually properly help?...just a thought

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Fri 01 Mar 2024 21:10:26 No.5940657 Report

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>>5940633
>gutsey
i meant cutesy
also, maybe catch them up to speed to the "modern" world would be ideal, also explain the history of their bodies so that they can blend in a bit better in case they need to hide

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 21:21:08 No.5940668 Report

Quoted By: >>5940794

>>5940633
don't see how it could make things worse, since he already knows the prophecy

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:14:19 No.5940724 Report

Quoted By: >>5940726 >>5940732

>>5940625
They can crash in the secret library, its Rowena's after all.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:15:50 No.5940726 Report

Quoted By: >>5940730 >>5940732

>>5940724
wouldnt they be noticed by Harry´s map tho?

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:20:51 No.5940730 Report

Quoted By: >>5940732

>>5940726
As long as they dont come out, Harry won't see them.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:23:18 No.5940732 Report

Quoted By: >>5940734

>>5940724
>>5940726
>>5940730
i thought it got sealed off

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:25:29 No.5940734 Report

Quoted By: >>5940745

>>5940732
You thought wrong. Harry did find the path to the repository but the library is still there. Elliot said so earlier in the thread.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:33:21 No.5940745 Report

Quoted By: >>5940746

>>5940734
of course it still exists, i mean sealed off as in no longer accessible

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:34:49 No.5940746 Report

Quoted By: >>5940750

>>5940745
Would Elliot have suggested apparating from there if it somehow got sealed off in the background?

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:38:28 No.5940750 Report

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>>5940746
forgot about the other entrance

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:52:33 No.5940761 Report

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>>5940511
I assume the Darkness fucked with his gift of prophecy, since as The Beast he's the death of time and fate.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Fri 01 Mar 2024 23:54:33 No.5940762 Report

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>>5940499
>"What do you suspect Salazar got from Merlin?"
>"Do you have any advice for me regarding Potter?"
>"What was so important about creating the Interdict, why did we NEED to restrict magic in such a way?"
>"Is there anything hidden in Hogwarts that either of you know about that I could retrieve to help us?"
>"How can we subdue Salazar for good?"
>"Is there anything you know about Salazar that we could use against him, either to lure him into a trap he can't resist or to put him off-balance in the middle of a fight?"
All I can think of.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:pbOR/pxR Sat 02 Mar 2024 00:43:38 No.5940794 Report

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>>5940668
If we reveal what it is that killed them, how they came back, or what Salazar is doing, Pitter will probably deduce what was done to make mysterious girl appear in the Mirror of Erised, and why seeing her made him cry, and what that implies for the children he still remembers, and go berserk.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 02 Mar 2024 01:10:15 No.5940813 Report

Quoted By: >>5940901 >>5940918

>>5940512
Yeah, did not see this one coming.

>>5939619
I will say this was a good spot.

>>5940499
Give each of them a Girding Potion, a Wiggenweld for one thing. We just fought two geriatric so hard the could have died.

Ask them more about Merlin. Find out what splinter, what BS is likely stuck in Salazar. Wandless magic, clairvoyance, the ability to create crap like the Deathly Hallows... or damn. The part of Merlin Salazar has might be artifact creation. What other powers did he have? I doubt that we can do the exact same shit they did 1000 years ago today but Scorpy boy pulling something out of his ass would be bad.

Our next goal is apparently to get the other two Deathly Hallows. Given the state Harry is in, the Cloak might be hard. If we didn't know the location of Dumbledore's body from when we set free the Ancient magic, it might be impossible. "Lily" had years and managed to get the cloak, at points, and the stone. We might have to really kill Potter at this point. I don't think we are convincing him to let us borrow the cloak, given he pointed a gun at our face.

We could also do some evil shit.

Get Neville and Brighton to visit Frank and Alice. Not Agusta, she would be able to tell if her child was really her child or just a ghost using his body, but those two never knew them before they were insane. Say we managed to bring them back, at least for a bit. Reverse Flowers for Algernon'd them. Get them on our side, at least for a while? That is horrible, to make them think their loved ones had come back, but our enemy is the greatest wizard in history combined with a Nothing Beast which will destroy the world if he gets out.

Rowena apparently has the skill to fuck with the security enchantments at the hospital, which is useful. Her and Godric have also been able to get to the entrance of Avalon a number of times. The will be useful when we have to come back here with in a month, before the goblin digging machine is completed.

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Sat 02 Mar 2024 03:33:35 No.5940901 Report

Quoted By: >>5940943

>>5940813
Can't tell if this is the point we can feed Potter a little more information without him accidentallying everything.

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Sat 02 Mar 2024 04:21:14 No.5940918 Report

Quoted By: >>5940921

>>5940813
Salazar knowing about Avalon is definitely something he got from Merlin, anything else is anyone's guess. Though he's had years to make an artifact and we never saw him use one so its likely he doesn't have a Time Turner in his pocket. Killing Harry though, yeah no dice. We do need to speedrun the Deathly Hallows, if we can get the founders their real bodies that's GG.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Sat 02 Mar 2024 04:24:23 No.5940921 Report

Quoted By: >>5940931 >>5940963

>>5940918
big problem: their real bodies likely no longer exist

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 02 Mar 2024 04:44:38 No.5940931 Report

Quoted By: >>5940963

>>5940921
They'd hypothesized that Salazar was trying to sue Avalon to rectify that by making a new one or transforming his current one.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 02 Mar 2024 05:06:07 No.5940943 Report

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>>5940901
At this point, I don't think we can tell Potter much of anything. Too big of a risk. Maybe tell him shit which will lead him in the wrong direction, at best. Use him if we have to ensure our survival. This entire thread has been a fucking ride, from bad to worse, to I want us to kick Harry in the dick for making Arty feel bad. At the very least we now have the 2 other Founders on our side, so that is a win even if their hosts are people to old and broken down to really fight well. We also learned Helga's nickname was Puffpuff which is adorable.

Also learned we have a 4 week timetable to get shit done or the goblins fuck everything by breaching Avalon for an evil Cocksucker. Found out there is a way to save Arty. Trying to look on the bright side here.

I wonder if getting Rowena some books from Fitzgerald's library could pay off. Getting them a couple of wands? Ones that more closely matched Frank and Alice's original ones. Godrick is working on wandless magic alone and can still knock out a mall cop so Rowena can borrow that guy's wand. Or fuck, if we could manage, getting Agusta to give them back their original wands, from back before they became mindless husks, assuming the ones who tortured them to insanity didn't just snap them in half when they caught the Longbottoms.

We just so happen to have a person who can confirm or deny that, one who kicks the shit out of us 4 nights a week.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 02 Mar 2024 05:39:44 No.5940963 Report

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>>5940921
The 5ths does, buried in Avalon along with King Arthur. Possible Salazar is trying to reconstruct his, as just a body with no mind so he can flee into a body capable of using Ancient magic. He was pretty confidant he could Lily to manipulate the power in the repository, but he had been with her for like 14 years and had completely taken over by that point. When Helga was as new to us as Salazar is to Scorpius, she said trying to use the repository would kill Elliot.

>>5940931
>or transforming his current one.

Could be. Turn Scorpius into a form able to use Ancient magic. But he also said at Last Light he would find the 5th to steal his power. We should ask Rowena if she knows what that means. What his power is. Fuck, even what his name was, since she had a kid with him and seems to have a lot of her memories. The ability to create a true Stone of Immortality is big, but the 5th was on the level of the other founders and helped build Hogwarts. If there is something we need to know about him, the best and likely only person to answer that is right in front of us.

>>5940499
QM, I will add asking Rowena about the 5th founder. What she can recall. Even if it is just a name since along with preparation, we need knowledge.

Helga said with enough time and effort she could probably migrate to a new person. We have Arty and Apollo. Just saying. Wonder if 4 weeks is enough?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 02 Mar 2024 08:02:56 No.5941048 Report

Quoted By: >>5941050

The new information takes a while to settle in. Rowena Ravenclaw and Godric Gryffindor in the… uh, not flesh. Frank and Alice Longbottom, Brighton’s grandparents, were their hosts. Merlin had become a thing which now wished to devour all things, made of Darkness beyond Time.

It is quite a lot to take in, so you decide to start with questions closer to "normalcy".

“So… The two people whose bodies you’re in… They are my… colleague’s grandparents. In the last Wizard War, servants of the Dark Lord Voldemort tortured them into insanity.”

“We figured as much,” Rowena says. “This… form we’re in, this thing we became, it can only share the mind of someone who has space to share. We ‘fill in’ the space left in your soul. An adult already has too much clutter for us to be able to live there, so we can only live in children. Or… in people like this.”

“With their minds in the state they’re in,” Godric says, sighing. “We were able to take full control, but we’re straining them. If we stay for too long… they’ll die, and soon. If we leave, well, the process of extricating ourselves and the process of settling into someone else, they both take time. Time that we don’t have.”

“Salazar did it in a week,” you say.

“Salazar had a decade of experience in this form. We have weeks. We can’t afford to leave these bodies now. Besides, the more developed the mind, the more kinship there needs to be between us and our host.”

“Haven’t people noticed that you’re… you?”

“We try to maintain the facade, we try to pretend nothing has changed, but it’s difficult. The Longbottoms they-” there’s a grieving look on Rowena’s face, and a hint of tears in her eyes. “They think we’re getting better. Our stunt trying to escape didn’t help. Instead, these bodies are just dying faster. The look of hope in their faces… I held this woman’s son in my arms and… And he cried on my shoulders. I don’t remember much of my life, but I am sure I have never despised myself quite like I did that day.”

“What we’re doing to them is monstrous, but there is no other way,” Godric says. “I’ve seen the state of this time’s magic. I’ve seen the damage the Interdict has done. If Salazar gets access to Ancient Magic, to the power he had when we built Hogwarts… He’ll be unstoppable.”

“How long do they have?”

“A couple of months, at most. Hard to say.”

“Can’t you help them? Bring them back?”

“Help them? No. Bringing them back is possible but… it would be a last gasp of sanity that would break their body. They would be here, and then they would die.”

You sit in silence for a while, processing, before the lateness of the hour reminds you that you still need to gather information.

“You said before, something about four weeks?”

“Yes. To open the doors to Avalon, they need these three artifacts. They don’t have them, so they hired a goblin named Gortuk to build them a great drill to break it open.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 02 Mar 2024 08:03:58 No.5941050 Report

Quoted By: >>5941051

>>5941048

“Could it even be done?”

“Perhaps. Goblin metal has always had… ‘interesting’ properties. I remember always meaning to study it in life, but never got around to it. According to their notes, they have found a way to empower it somehow. Once it is built, in four weeks, it should be able to break down the door.”

“So the only way to get in first-”

“Is to find Merlin’s Wand, Stone and Cloak,” Godric nods. “I remember him using the wand and the Cloak, though I have no memory of this Stone that Rae mentioned.”

“In this age we call them the Deathly Hallows, taken from Death Itself by the Peverell brothers in the 13th century. Clearly, they’re older than that. I have the Stone, though I have never used it, and I know the location of the other two.”

“That’s fantastic!”

“No, it isn't. Because Salazar knows it too. Everyone knows. The Cloak of Invisibility is with Harry James Potter, the one who defeated the last Dark Lord and one of, if not the most powerful wizard in the world, and at least one of the most influential. And the Elder Wand is in the hands of Albus Dumbledore’s corpse, who is buried at Hogwarts, in plain view of Potter’s office and covered in protection charms.”

“And, from what you’ve told us, this Potter fellow doesn’t like you very much.”

“Oh no, I think he likes me. But he also thinks I’ll be the one responsible for ending the world and tearing the very stars from the heavens because of a prophecy, so… He probably isn’t helping me get access to even more power.”

“I see. That is problematic. And Salazar considers him enough of an obstacle that he’d rather go through the trouble of taking over the scion of a great House and creating a machine of such proportions than facing him.”

“Exactly,” you nod. “What I don’t understand about all this is… why? If Merlin had the gift of prophecy then… how did he not foresee this?”

“It is difficult to say,” Helga answers through your mouth. “A thousand years is a long time to foresee. I had clarity because of the horrors that lied beyond Last Light lit fate with incandescent light, but the future is not clear cut, even to those who can see it.”

“Merlin once described it as standing atop a mountain and looking around,” Ravenclaw says. “You can see most of the things around, but the other mountains still block your view. There are still shadowy places, there are still lakes which reflect the sun too brightly to look at directly. Prophets can fail, even if their prophecies are true, and that becomes even more difficult when you yourself are involved in the future.”

“And Merlin was definitely involved in the future.” Helga agrees.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 02 Mar 2024 08:04:59 No.5941051 Report

Quoted By: >>5941053

>>5941050

“Why did he do it? Why create the Interdict?”

“He never told us what he was doing when he called us, so we had no idea of what was going to happen.” Godric says. “I can… I can only hope he had a good reason to cast us into the darkness. Not that I would not strangle him for doing so if I met him today, no matter the reason but… I hope he at least had a good one.”

“Do you have any idea what Salazar could have gotten from him?”

“The location of Avalon, at the very least,” Ravenclaw says. “I certainly didn’t know it and we only found out because we followed his men. Though Merlin was also an extremely proficient Legilimens. It is possible he could have used that to put his voice inside other people’s heads without their host knowing, as you hypothesized. Other than that, I do not know.”

You talk some more while you take pictures of, well, everything, and you ask about possible weaknesses Salazar could have, besides his arrogance, any secrets in Hogwarts that you could use and other such things, but it is for naught. They know nothing to help you on that front that doesn’t require their control of Ancient Magic, but say they'll try to remember more later.

“Any suggestions on how I could deal with Potter? Do you think that if I show that I have three of the four founders with me he’ll suddenly decide to help me?”

“And how are you going to do that?” Godric asks. “By the fact we say we are? With our memories jumbled as they are, we know little that isn’t in history books about us, little that these hosts of ours didn’t already know. And of the things that aren’t public knowledge… Even if we tell them as proof, how would this Potter of yours verify their truth if they aren’t in any book? Legillimency will not be able to access us, and a potion of truth will also only affect the bodies, not us, and the bodies are not aware when we are in full control like this. Besides… He has a messy prophecy that you will end the world. You have Helga’s visions saying that he would. You are in as much of a position to share information as he is. A race to see who causes the apocalypse first is… not recommended.”

“Right… One final question, because it is getting late and I need to get back to Hogwarts soon. When we fought Salazar in the shape of Lily Potter, he said he was going to find the Fifth Founder and take his power. It was searching for his grave that we found Avalon, so the regenerative powers of Avalon aren’t all he wanted. And everything I read points to him being your husband, Rowena, but I can’t find a single register of his damn name. So, please… who was he?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 02 Mar 2024 08:06:15 No.5941053 Report

Quoted By: >>5941054

>>5941051

She gives a sad smile.

“He was… kind, in the beginning. Loving. And then the relationship slowly began to turn sour. Worse and worse, to the point that I hated him. Utterly despised him. He was never physically abusive, I would have killed him if he was, but I hated him in the way you can only hate someone you love deeply. We split up many times, and came together again many times more. I shall spare you the details, because they are both unimportant and also inadequate for someone your age.”

“But he was brilliant. He never showed us the true extent of his power, but I suspect he was more powerful than the four of us, though he never liked the spotlight. A great healer. Great at transfiguration, like no one I’ve ever seen, except for Merlin. He always said the spirit of Atlantis lived within him, within all of us. And when he died, I cried, and also felt relief, and then guilt for feeling relief. But he was dead, and no one could bring my dear and hated Lailoken back. Though what Salazar could want with his body, I do not know.”

The name hits you like a slap to the face.

Lailoken.

Lailoken.

A legendary madman and prophet who lived in Scotland in the 6th century.

Often identified with the name of Myrddin Wyllt.

Who was also known as Merlynum.

Also known as Merlin.

Oh you motherfucker.

“Really?” You say, voice strained. “Lailoken? How… interesting. Just out of curiosity, when Merlin got into Hogwarts, was your relationship already strained?”

“I think it was in the year after I found him with another woman for the first time, but it is hard to say. The memory of our lives are almost in complete shadow. Why?”

“Don’t you dare say it!” Helga chastises you in your head. “Not until we think properly about it and what it means!”

“Ah… No reason, just trying to put together a timeline of events, that is all. Well, it is late, and I need to go back. I’ll try to come back as soon as I can, and find some way of communicating with you. You two can… Please, for now, just try to stay out of trouble. I’ll talk to my friends, think about what we can do and…”

And gather all three Deathly Hallows so we can open the way to Avalon.

“And decide on a way forward. It was an honor to meet both of you. Truly an honor.”

They nod and bow slightly in your direction.

“Is there anything I can do to help you? Or ease your stay here?”

“We’re not at great comfort, but the healers treat us well,” Godric says. “And even if you brought us anything, the Healers would likely find it and take it. We are fine, young Elliot. Thank you for the offer.”

“Very well," you say. "Until next time.”

“Goodbye, Elliot.”

“See you then, Puffpuff.”

You turn to leave, but Helga stops you, forcing you to turn around.

“And Helga tells you two to ask the nurses for chocolate! She says it’s not like anything you ever had in your time!”

--

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 02 Mar 2024 08:07:17 No.5941054 Report

Quoted By: >>5941062 >>5941275 >>5941282 >>5941503 >>5941546

>>5941053

When you land back in the Forbidden Forest a couple of hours and a Finite Incantatem to the face later, your head is still swirling with thoughts.

“Arty?” you ask the small bundle huddled by a tree. “What are you doing here?”

She shifts, barely opening her eyes, looking half zombified.

“I… I decided to wait… for you.”

She falls back asleep, snoring gently.

You pat the thestral on the back, giggling.

“Thank you for the trip, girl.”

She whistles, then rides off into the darkness of the forest. You approach Arty, just to see that she’s covered with… one of the many garish, self-warming blankets you had brought Arahuios. You look around, shrug… then snuggle beside her, to catch at least a couple hours of sleep before class starts.

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And, to give me time to rest from writing this massive update and rewriting it several times to account for new questions, it seems you might have to use your thestral to get back there more often. It might be a good thing to name her (if only so the QM can stop using “the thestral” every time to refer to her)

> What would you like to name your thestral friend?

You may also ask any aditional questions from them (other than more info on Lailoken), and we'll just pretend you asked it while Elliot was there.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 02 Mar 2024 08:29:34 No.5941062 Report

Quoted By: >>5941098 >>5941519

>>5941054
>What would you like to name your thestral friend?
well, its a flying bat-horse, we are gonna be riding HER mostly at night and has been pretty loyal so far...
i want to be cheeky and give her an edgy name that fits her aesthetic, but given how we have a vast knowledge of the muggle world and we are a certified gamer back at home...
...Epona...
>You may also ask any aditional questions from them (other than more info on Lailoken), and we'll just pretend you asked it while Elliot was there.
fuck, im drawing blanks here, i know there is important info to ask, but i´ll leave that for other anons with a more awake mind, im falling asleep at the moment and im not in the mindspace to ask important questions since i have no idea what the whole "Lailoken" thing is supposed to be right now or why is Elliot so peeved about it

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Sat 02 Mar 2024 09:29:07 No.5941098 Report

Quoted By: >>5941209

>>5941062
Lailoken was just Merlin in disguise, I think. I guess Merlin was just a massive fucking asshole.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 02 Mar 2024 13:12:23 No.5941209 Report

Quoted By: >>5941518 >>5941546

>>5941098
It seems like he was. Merlin was quite likely the last of the Atlanteans, I think. That is why he had all his bullshit powers. That and, according to what Elliot, Taylor, and Linda found out researching the Last light in the 1st thread, was alive for so long "someone like him" was mentioned in ancient Hebrew scrolls. Fuck, was he Moses too? Lotta time to pick up some tricks. Was also speculated he only stopped by the Hogwarts to check up on the Founders. Could have used his access to Avalon to change his age. Or just his transfiguration prowess. Rowena's book called Merlin "our old student". Tricky fucker.

>There was also a late 15th-century story Lailoken and Kentigern which states: "...some say he was called Merlynum".[6]

>Lailoken may be a form of the name Llallogan, which occurs in the Welsh poem Cyfoesi Myrddin a Gwenddydd ei Chwaer (or "The Conversation of Merlin and his Sister Gwenddydd"), where Gwenddydd refers to Merlin as Llallawg and its diminutive, Llallwgan. The name is comparable to Modern Welsh *llallog “brother, friend, lord (as a form of address); honour, dignity”, also "a twin; twin(-like)".[7]

>also "a twin; twin(-like)".

Wonder if we know a pair of twins, one of which has a stupid amount of magic power, likes building shit, and is great at transfiguration? Is Apollo the second coming of Merlin? Has a tiny fragment of him inside? Maybe the decendent of The Grey Lady, who may have been Merlin's kid?

I wonder if dad knows anything useful, since he is a Welsh history professor?

If the theory I have about Merlin/Lailoken being Atlantean is true, fuck he might have been the one to cause them to be wiped out, lost to time itself, given we know he made Time Turners.

Lot to speculate on.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 02 Mar 2024 15:58:23 No.5941275 Report

Quoted By: >>5941503

>>5941054
> What would you like to name your thestral friend?

Horse.

JK.

Thanny, after Thanatos for obvious reason. Or we could go for something cute and dumb like Oreo.

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Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Sat 02 Mar 2024 16:12:31 No.5941282 Report

Quoted By: >>5941503

>>5941054
>Thanatos

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Sat 02 Mar 2024 21:13:20 No.5941503 Report

Quoted By: >>5941622 >>5941677

>>5941054
> What would you like to name your thestral friend?
How about Morrigan

>>5941275
>>5941282
The thestral is female.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Sat 02 Mar 2024 21:29:08 No.5941518 Report

Quoted By: >>5941622

>>5941209
>Is Apollo the second coming of Merlin?
oh shit

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Sat 02 Mar 2024 21:30:10 No.5941519 Report

Quoted By:

>>5941062
this

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 02 Mar 2024 21:51:31 No.5941546 Report

Quoted By: >>5941622

>>5941054
I'll back "Thanny".

>>5941209
>Merlin as Moses
Damn, maybe... And wasn't Merlin said to be half-demon? I wonder if that's a colourful fabrication or if he was a fiend, in some fashion. We know human wizards can interbreed with magical creatures like goblins (Flitwick), giants (Hagrid) and veela (the Delacouers), and even vampires (Lorcan d'Eath and Qui LeBalnc).

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 02 Mar 2024 23:19:46 No.5941622 Report

Quoted By: >>5941629 >>5941677

>>5941546
According to what Potter implied, the Unseelie Fey are real sooooo.

I am still putting money on him being Atlantean. Or half, perhaps? Might be why he could have escaped their destruction.

>>5941518
Rowena said according to Merlin's memories, he felt himself being ripped apart. Could be one or two of those fragments didn't go to a Founder but slipped out when the Beast cracked the gate and ended up in a living person. Not enough of him to have a consciousness but enough to bestow some power. I like Apollo so that might be cool.

On another note, did Merlin have the ability to speak to or befriend animals? Be cause Arty has Acromantulas bringing her fucking blankets while she is passed out in a forest filled with shit that will murder you and when we were at our house, a squirrel hoped up on her hand, Disney princess style. Looking back, seems that might go a tiny bit beyond just being good with creatures.

>>5941503
I was thinking Thanny would work as a feminine diminutive. Not sure about a name associated with one of the big villains in Arthurian myth.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 02 Mar 2024 23:25:59 No.5941629 Report

Quoted By: >>5941645

>>5941622
>filename
right, almost forgot she is getting abs now...gonna draw that eventually after im done with the big piece

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 02 Mar 2024 23:44:45 No.5941645 Report

Quoted By: >>5941656

>>5941629
Badass bro. Just maybe not to much? I know some will disagree but super ripped girls aren't that good looking.

I have been seeing alot of art with petite girls with slightly curly hair and blue-ish eyes recently, ones I think match Arty, aside from the fact like every fucking one is blonde vs. auburn. If I had any skill with it, I would try to photoshop the hair to the correct color.

I was going to try and sketch up Arty or at least SOMETHING from from the quest but I keep on writing a Valentines lewdfic instead, which is getting way more lewd than I intended. But the Merulafag will maybe enjoy it since it features the Snyde's, albeit in a not lewd way.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:00:04 No.5941656 Report

Quoted By: >>5941949

>>5941645
>spoiler
i havent really been paying attention, but i thought i was the only Merulafag in this thread, not sure if there is another, regardless, thats awesome!
>super ripped girls aren't that good looking.
i mean, speak for yourself, i love´em, but i know some people push it a bit too much, i´ll try not to push it too much and also make another super ripped version just because, hah!

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:08:11 No.5941671 Report

Quoted By: >>5941672

Once you all gather once again, even Apollo looks shocked by the news.

“Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw!?”

“The Beast is Merlin!?”

“The Fifth Founder is also Merlin? And he cheated on Ravenclaw for how long?”

Merlin had “taken” Lailoken to Avalon when he died, and Rowena’s daughter had been born not too long before that. Assuming that Merlin had somehow gained a reputation as a healer and enough fame to convince Ravenclaw to allow him to take Lailoken away by his seventh year, which was unlikely, that still left at least five or six years of them being together after she caught him cheating on her for the first time.

The wording Ravenclaw had used implied it hadn’t been the only one, and her tone had implied it had been several.

Which, in turn, implied that Lailoken, and by extension Merlin, was a cheating sack of shit.

There was also the implication that Merlin, whoever his true name really was, was far older than you previously thought. You had read mentions of another Merlin, from ages far past, and you knew that using “Merlin” in expressions was older than Lailoken’s Merlin, but you had always sort of assumed one had been given the name as a reference to the other.

Now, however… It could just be the same person, living throughout the ages, reassuming an old name. You didn’t have enough evidence to be certain, but it was now a plausible possibility.

“And look at these pictures!” Linda says, staring at the several pictures from your journey spread out throughout the table. The ones he’s pointing at are all of the diagrams on the tables close to the entrance to Avalon, which showed plans for a massive drill named “The Ranrok”. “Look at the size of this thing!”

“That’s what they hired Gortuk to build,” you say. “And according to the library’s records, he’s a direct descendant from Bragbor the Boastful, who was also an ancestor of the same Ranrok who led the goblin rebellion from the 1880s.”

“The one who drilled to the repository? Who led the ones we fought during Last Light?”

“The same.”

“Ah crap.”

“There’s something else…” Arty says, looking like she’s deep in thought. “I heard that phrase before. ‘The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death’.”

“It’s from the bible, a muggle religious book,” you say.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:09:13 No.5941672 Report

Quoted By: >>5941676

>>5941671

“No, not from that.” She stops, closes her eyes for a moment, then opens the nearest closet. “Ha! I knew someone would have lost a copy of it.” She plops a great tome on the table, the words “The Boy Who Lived: The Truth Exposed” written on the cover and opens it close to the end, reading. “The headstone was only two rooms behind Kendra and Ariana’s. It was made of white marble, just like Dumbledore’s tomb, and this made it easy to read, as it seemed to shine in the dark. Harry did not need to kneel or even approach very close to it to make out the words engraved upon it. James Potter. Lily Potter. And below the names and dates was the Peverell family motto, long ancestors of the Potters: The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

You raise your eyebrows. “That’s the Peverell family motto?”

“Yep. Well, obviously the phrase came first and somehow became their motto but-”

“But that’s Merlin’s doing, no doubt about that. What do you think, Linda?”

“I think that if it turns out that Merlin was also Jesus I’m going to slap someone. But besides that, I think we need to decide what we’re going to do about the Hallows, because we’re going to need to pull not one, but the two heists of the century. And, whichever one we steal first, it’s only going to make the other one harder.”

“We need to find a way to put the blame on someone else,” you say. “Scorpius, preferably. Potter knows he tried to get the Resurrection Stone from us, so going for one of the other Hallows would make sense.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:10:23 No.5941676 Report

Quoted By: >>5941692 >>5941699 >>5941702 >>5941705 >>5941715 >>5941729 >>5941733 >>5941766 >>5941949

>>5941672

“So we need to choose three things, the way I see it,” Linda says. “First, what we’re going to do about Potter. He doesn’t trust you, but maybe Avalon can change his mind. Or maybe it can make him figure out something we don’t want him to and cause him to lose his mind.”

> Tell him everything, including about Lily, and ask him for the Hallows. It might work, but it also might backfire horribly.
> We tell him Scorpius is after Avalon, and we need the two other Hallows to stop him.
> Go behind his back, take them by force
> Other (Write in)

“Second, if Potter doesn’t want to gracefully loan us the Cloak and the Wand, we need to decide how we’re going to steal them. Because I can see us getting the Wand without Potter knowing, but the Cloak, that’s a whole different story. And the wand should still be loyal to Potter, so we won’t be able to use it against him.”

> We go for the Wand first. It is the farthest away from Potter, and even if we can’t use it against him, we can use it against other enchantments.
> We go for the Cloak first. It will be difficult, but the most useful, and we can use it to hide away once we get it.
> We strike both at once. A team goes for the Cloak, the other for the Wand. This way we give him no time to set up more defenses after the first theft is complete.
> Other (Write in)

“Third, what we’re going to do about Godric and Rowena, because if we don’t do something about them, their bodies will die and we won't be ready for it.”

> Let them stay in the Longbottoms for now. Once this whole debacle is done we can take them away.
> Try to use them to manipulate the Longbottoms, get Brighton and Neville on our side
> Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.
> Other (Write in)

“Whatever it is we decide to do… we can’t hesitate. Four weeks is not a lot of time when you’re trying to save the world.”

--

QM's Note: This is a little section called "What the fuck are you doing now?"

The questions Linda is posing are guidelines on possible ways to tackle the three main problems, but Elliot is in no way restricted in answering each of them with different plans or strategies. He can also simply decide to do something else instead, and he is free to change his mind later if the situation changes. This is just so the character (and the QM) has a unified vision and clear way forward on what the main group will do and can start planning accordingly.

Of course, options not listed above and write ins, or even some brilliant plan that manages to magically bypass all three questions entirely, are welcome. Feel free to ask any questions.

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:11:07 No.5941677 Report

Quoted By: >>5941702

>>5941503
+1
>>5941622
>Not sure about a name associated with one of the big villains in Arthurian myth.
Well the big antagonist of the story is a bit of Merlin so i'd say it goes with the themes. Its a shame really, Merlin being a slytherin was the biggest compliment you could give to the house...

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:25:58 No.5941692 Report

Quoted By: >>5942367

>>5941676
>> Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.
definitely need their help for any chance of beating both Salazar and "Merlin"

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Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:33:33 No.5941699 Report

Quoted By: >>5942367

>>5941676
> Go behind his back, take them by force

> We go for the Cloak first. It will be difficult, but the most useful, and we can use it to hide away once we get it.

I don't know about what to do with the third option.

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Anonymous ID:eKgw0CPR Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:35:45 No.5941702 Report

Quoted By: >>5942367

>>5941676
> Go behind his back, take them by force
> We strike both at once. A team goes for the Cloak, the other for the Wand. This way we give him no time to set up more defenses after the first theft is
A team without Elliot goes for his cloak, because even if he MIGHT kill Elliot, he won't kill some other kid.
> Let them stay in the Longbottoms for now. Once this whole debacle is done we can take them away.

>>5941677
>best Slytherin ever
That's us now, I guess!

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Anonymous ID:hp0KCX9m Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:38:01 No.5941705 Report

Quoted By: >>5942367

>>5941676
> Go behind his back, steal them. He doesn't have the cloak when he's teaching.

> We go for the Wand first. It is the farthest away from Potter, and even if we can’t use it against him, we can use it against other enchantments.

Use it to break some enchantments if need be.

> Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.

Linda?Arty?Apollo?

They told us kids are better than adults for taking their powers.

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:47:05 No.5941715 Report

Quoted By: >>5941722 >>5942367

>>5941676
>> Go behind his back, take them by force
> We strike both at once. A team goes for the Cloak, the other for the Wand. This way we give him no time to set up more defenses after the first theft is complete.
> Try to use them to manipulate the Longbottoms, get Brighton and Neville on our side
Hear me out, Neville is a teacher here, if anyone could get past the tomb's charms or in worst case scenario, fight Potter, we are not gonna get anyone better than him in short notice. And Brighton is smart, smarter than us even.
Or if we don't want the Hallows we could always go for Godric's Sword. Its made for killing and not for drilling but its still goblin silver. We could try stabbing a possessed Dementor with it to give it retcon powers?

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:53:28 No.5941722 Report

Quoted By: >>5941782

>>5941715
were you not here the last time we encountered a Dementor?

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:57:37 No.5941729 Report

Quoted By: >>5942367

>>5941676
> Go behind his back, take them by force

> We strike both at once. A team goes for the Cloak, the other for the Wand. This way we give him no time to set up more defenses after the first theft is complete.

> Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:59:01 No.5941733 Report

Quoted By: >>5942367

>>5941676
>This is a little section called "What the fuck are you doing now?"
yeah, no shit, i noticed, this is probably the most loaded update in terms of decision making so far
ok, bear with me for a second, i´ll try to make sense of this
>1st question
>Other (Write in)
> We tell him Scorpius is after Avalon, and we need the two other Hallows to stop him, BUT the moment he start doubting (and he will) and tries to call us on our "bullshit", thats when we mention Lily and how she looked in detail, she was mentioned to us by him, but i dont think he ever fully described her, so this should give us some credibility, if we tell him we are involved in some time traveling shenanigans shit and give him this "evidence" it should make him AT LEAST doubt himself even more and MAYBE help us out

>2nd question (IF the first method doesnt work and after we escape his wrath)
>We strike both at once. A team goes for the Cloak, the other for the Wand. This way we give him no time to set up more defenses after the first theft is complete.
he will undoubtedly go after us first, as long as we stall him enough, the other team should be able to pull off their heist

>3rd question
this one is definitely the hardest, because IF we pull off the heist and get the Hallows, then we could use them to help us give them new hosts
but if we dont, then we lost a lot of time and run a VERY high risk of losing them
so, i´ll choose the biggest risk and say
>Go for the Hallows and once we get them, Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.
the power of the Hallows alone could help us speed up the process

thank you for coming to my TED talk

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 03 Mar 2024 01:19:27 No.5941766 Report

Quoted By: >>5942367

>>5941676
> Go behind his back, take them by force
> We strike both at once. A team goes for the Cloak, the other for the Wand. This way we give him no time to set up more defenses after the first theft is complete.
> Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Sun 03 Mar 2024 01:29:26 No.5941782 Report

Quoted By:

>>5941722
Read it again

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Sun 03 Mar 2024 04:25:47 No.5941928 Report

Quoted By:

So we definitely shouldn’t go this route until we figure out if Augusta knows anything, but maybe we can just tell Neville a barebones version of our little plot to get him on our side? Just for this heist?

Us actually telling him the truth instead of just straight up manipulating him relies on if Augusta knows, or at least suspects, Godric isn’t really Frank, since the man is her son. Since if we do try and manipulate him, Augusta would be a huge roadblock, and would probably end with failure.

Instead, if she DOES know/suspect, I think our best course of action would be to get Augusta on our side early, confirming her doubts on Frank and emphasizing that Godric and Rowena didn’t have any choice on who they possessed. Obviously don’t tell her everything, but focus on things relating to the what, the how, and the why relating to getting into Avalon.

Only after she’s on our side do we present our case to Neville. Emphasize a peaceful resolution first and foremost if Neville thinks he can attain it, but we may have to pull off a heist if it fails. We would have to tell him about the prophecy though, since Potter will definitely tell him it and if we hide it any trust we have with Neville fades instantly.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 03 Mar 2024 05:01:32 No.5941949 Report

Quoted By: >>5942058 >>5942367

>>5941676
> Go behind his back, take them by force

I think this is the only way he doesn't end up figuring out too much. He must not be allowed to raise his sword against this threat, what Faith said way back. Indirectly helping was one thing but there is no possible way he is letting the guy he thinks is an Apocalypse time bomb and possible secret Dark Lord anywhere near something like Avalon, if he even believed what we are telling him.

Near 2 items of massive magic power. Which, with the stone, are said to make one the Master of Death if brought together. Along with immortality, that phrase could imply us gaining the power to bring death unto the world.

> We go for the Cloak first. It will be difficult, but the most useful, and we can use it to hide away once we get it.

Potter was shown to not notice the cloak was gone for periods of time when Lily absconded with it. As long as we don't have to take too long for the other heist, as long as he isn't given a reason to need the Cloak, we have a window to get the Wand.

This is the one I am most iffy on. If we had a few more people with a more diverse set of skills, I think doing both would be ideal. Should something change, maybe we can bring in our lieutenants, maybe get Apollo to convince Riley to help. Not ideal but gotta work with what we have.

> Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.

This is betting. While having Rowena and Godric at the helm all the time, especially considering Rowena's intellegence, could have its uses, a single 16 was able to out fight the pair together. Granted we are well trained and they weren't shooting to kill, we also had a handicap they are still to weak in Frank and Alice's forms to help directly. Their best use would be at that point recon at St.Mungo's, provide a distraction perhaps.

Them staying there also runs the risk of Brighton, Neville, or Agusta noticing something is off. Agusta especially, since she knew them before they were tortured into insanity. Great-grandma might even suspect something already since she didn't respond to our owl. Not like we were pen-pals but still.

Making those to pretend to be family members also seems cruel; Rowena had tears in her eyes, recalling Neville embracing her.

If we do go this route, Arty and Apollo are my vote for who attempt to host them. Apollo is brave and fair. Arty is actually quite clever since she gave us the idea for where Snape's old book was and just used the Room to fulfill her requirement of needing a copy of Potter's biography. A super smart headmate who can leand magic power to her also sounds good. Have Linda as a backup, since she is a fucking nerd.

>>5941656
Didn't realize you were Merulafag. Cassandra Vole is still hotter, but the Snydes have grown on me.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 03 Mar 2024 07:16:09 No.5942058 Report

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>>5941949
Just thought of this, if getting them to transfer hosts, we need to know how Rowena was fucking with the security enchantments before hand so we can do it if we need to.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 03 Mar 2024 17:41:10 No.5942367 Report

Quoted By: >>5942458 >>5942548 >>5942937 >>5942998

Ok, so current voting stands as such:

> Go behind his back, take them by force
>>5941699
>>5941702
>>5941705
>>5941715
>>5941729
>>5941766
>>5941949

> We tell him Scorpius is after Avalon...
>>5941733

--

> We go for the Cloak first
>>5941699
>>5941949

> We go for the Wand first
>>5941705

> We strike both at once
>>5941702
>>5941715
>>5941729
>>5941733
>>5941766

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> Let them stay in the Longbottoms for now
>>5941702

> Try to use them to manipulate the Longbottoms
>>5941715

> Find them new hosts as soon as possible.>>5941692
>>5941705
>>5941729
>>5941766
>>5941949

> Find them new hosts after getting the Hallows
>>5941733

--

I'll give it another 12h before closing the vote, as it is a big one. Let me know if you want to change your vote or if I miscounted it. Even if there is a clear preference, I'd still love to hear your vote if you've just been lurking until now!

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Sun 03 Mar 2024 19:40:34 No.5942458 Report

Quoted By: >>5942473 >>5942540 >>5942602

>>5942367
You know... Potter already dragged us to the hall of prophecies

Why wouldn't we drag him to Avalon without explanation?

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 03 Mar 2024 20:03:13 No.5942473 Report

Quoted By:

>>5942458
Would he ALLOW us to?

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Sun 03 Mar 2024 21:26:13 No.5942540 Report

Quoted By: >>5942548 >>5942602

>>5942458
we'd still need to explain some of it to get him to actually come

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Anonymous ID:er7F4NDX Sun 03 Mar 2024 21:34:12 No.5942548 Report

Quoted By: >>5942602

>>5942367
>We tell him Scorpius is after Avalon.
>Get them new hosts as soon as possible.

>>5942540
Easy solution, he knows that arty waited all night in the forest. So he knows that we went somewhere. Tell him we went to the basement of St Mungus. Don't elaborate further. He will be compelled to know what we were up to, and investigate himself. We can explain why we need the hallows after he's seen the gate.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 03 Mar 2024 22:55:27 No.5942602 Report

Quoted By: >>5942612 >>5942626

>>5942458
>Why wouldn't we drag him to Avalon without explanation?

The possibility of the Ancient magic there reversing his memory loss regarding Lily. Giving him knowledge of an incredible powerful location, one of true power to use against us if we ever fully run the trust he has in us out. The fact Helga said if he knows too much we will probably have to kill him, something not happening with our current stats and load out. That he told us to stay away from apocalypse machines and Avalon could probably be classified as that. And, like
>>5942540
said.

>>5942548
Yeah, Arty doing that was kinda not smart of her. It was sweet and the fact giant man-eating spiders brought her blankets is amazing but, could be a liability.

If Potter asks about that, I suggest we said we went out to bang. She wanted to do it somewhere she was comfortable in, since it was her first time. Somewhere under the stars. And yes she is insane enough to feel like a dark forest filled with a million things that will kill you is more comfy than the school. Some girls want long walks on the beach. She likes dark strolls through the forest. Confirm the cover story with her first.

I re-watched a couple seasons of Symphogear recently and now can not imagine Arty looking different that an aged up Carol/Elfnein with the appropriate hair color and no braid. Picrel.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 03 Mar 2024 23:03:28 No.5942612 Report

Quoted By: >>5942678

>>5942602
>"we were fucking" as an alibi
thats nuts...but also the most believable thing we could say...

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Anonymous ID:IQG9Sn7S Sun 03 Mar 2024 23:29:16 No.5942626 Report

Quoted By: >>5942669 >>5942678

>>5942602
HeadQM here from my phone to say this isn't the first time Arty has spent a night in the forest by herself. It is not something she does every day, but it wouldn't be the first time she'd gotten in trouble for doing it.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 04 Mar 2024 00:23:41 No.5942669 Report

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>>5942626
so she has a background of getting in trouble for it, making it even more believable

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 04 Mar 2024 00:37:07 No.5942678 Report

Quoted By: >>5942685

>>5942612
Hahaha. The best lies are the ones with a grain of truth. We did sleep together under the stars. Would be fun and given the fack we have been together for a while. Teens start to put plug A into port B pretty quick.

>>5942626
Damn you QM for not letting us tell him to screw off, we were blowing a tiny Hufflepuff's back out while unicorns, thestrals, graphorns and acromantulas watched in awe from the shadows, bending the knee. That there is a new mating call in the ecosystem, one which sounds like a snakeboy and a badgegirlr calling out "Fuck yes, fuck yes" again and again in alternating voices.

>>5938658
“Hey, when you come back…” Arty says, blushing harder than when you were shirtless.

“When I come back…?” You ask, mounting the thestral.

“When you come back… We’ll see.”

Heh heh.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 04 Mar 2024 00:46:49 No.5942685 Report

Quoted By: >>5942803

>>5942678
>Teens start to put plug A into port B pretty quick.
Arty has evinced interest in a slow boil but, when we got shirtless before left for Saint Mungus, she was clearly fumbling to say she was considering sex, as you say. In other words, it doesn't NEED to be a lie for much longer.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 04 Mar 2024 03:35:27 No.5942803 Report

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>>5942685
She has several times basically forced herself to not go full speed. Turned around and given us longing looks. She want's the journey and the destination just as much. She said as much when she let us feel her up then left us to jerk off in our room at our parents. She may have some... issues, give she was molested and abused as a child.

That is fine. We can wait. But she might not be able to, if she wants to see her child graduate. Assuming her life span is 35 or so with out us fixing her, would need to get knocked up at like 18. If she would even want to bring a kid into the world if they are going to bury her that soon.

Arty is a good girl. Best girl. Girl who we will give the power to live forever to. And I think will be an absolute freak in bed when she decides she is okay going that far. Valentine's is coming up after all, IC.

Like even Raven with her sex dungeon suitcase will be put to shame at the stuff Artemis Pertinger is capable of when she gets going.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 04 Mar 2024 05:49:00 No.5942919 Report

Quoted By: >>5942922 >>5942972 >>5942995

>Finally catch up
>Anons are voting to tell Potter jack shit and attempt to steal the 2 other most powerful magic objects in existence
>The potter who has already threatened to kill us if he even gets so much of a hint of us going dark
ANONS. STOP. THINK. There's a difference between refusing to speak to cops because it might get you in trouble, and grabbing their gun and acting surprised when they unload into you.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 04 Mar 2024 05:53:01 No.5942922 Report

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>>5942919
We're not stealing his gun. We're robbing his home and stealing his valuables while he and his gun are away and, hopefully, returning them later.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 04 Mar 2024 05:58:45 No.5942929 Report

Quoted By: >>5942932

Also as a sidenote I suspect the condition for Potter dooming the world is obliterating Salazar (the man himself, not his host) out of existence over Lily, since it looks like all 4 founders are necessary for the reversal of whatever the fuck Merlin did. I can see him casually throwing the host through the the veil for revenge, consequences be damned. So if week keep a tight lid on that, theoretically getting Potter's help would be fine.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 04 Mar 2024 06:06:48 No.5942932 Report

Quoted By: >>5942937

>>5942929
But HOW do we prevent Harry Goddamn Potter from using his training and chosen one superpowers from avenging his daughter against the man who molested, manipulated, mindbroke, and erased her?

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 04 Mar 2024 06:24:49 No.5942937 Report

Quoted By: >>5942972

>>5942932
By making sure he doesn't find out. So long as we and Linda don't squeal, he'll never know, and the only other person who can tell him is Salazar. Which, granted is a risk if they ever clash, but I feel like that's better than getting instantly fucked by Potter for trying to steal all 3 of the Deathly Hallows. Or we can tell him outright to lessen the blow if/when Salazar reveals it (it's probably when no matter what we do), but there's no telling how he'll react to that.

>>5942367
Anyway, my vote.
> We tell him Scorpius is after Avalon...
> We go for the Cloak first. It will be difficult, but the most useful, and we can use it to hide away once we get it.
The option least likely to invoke instant Potter DEATH upon us, since we can't use it offensively.
> Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.
Unless we talk to the Longbottoms about using the bodies I feel this is the most moral option.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 04 Mar 2024 07:23:58 No.5942972 Report

Quoted By: >>5942995 >>5943018

>>5942919
One of the central cocietes of the quest, as stated by HeadQM himself, it that we can not just get the adults, Potter, to solve everything for us. We can use their assistance at risk, but this is Elliot and his friends adventure. Their fight. Kind of a "Why didn't the Eagles just fly the Fellowship to Mordor", thing. Is stealing the cloak from the most powerful living wizard nuts? Yes. Is stealing the wand from the grave of the greatest wizard of the prior century crazy? Yep.

But it creates stakes. Story.

>>5942937
>By making sure he doesn't find out. So long as we and Linda don't squeal, he'll never know, and the only other person who can tell him is Salazar.

If shit gets bad enough, he will mind read us and our friends. Use "other" tactics. He pulled a gun and fired it us already.

Harry is a good person, not a perfect one. If he knows the fate of the world IS at stake 100%, he will rip the knowledge from our, Linda, Apollo, or Arty's minds one way or another and learn about Lily. And he will tear the world to shreds, if not bring her back, then avenge her.

The only Hallows he needs to enter Avalon and do what Salazar probably plans for Scorpius, make him able to use Ancient magic by remodeling the body and soul, is the Stone which he knows we have. And Rowena said someone with powers like they had 1000 years ago would be unstoppable in the modern world.

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Mon 04 Mar 2024 08:17:00 No.5942995 Report

Quoted By: >>5943013

>>5942919
Which is partially why I want to tell Augusta and maybe Neville part of the truth, to get their assistance with this thing. Harry has already thought of the actual truth behind Lily, and giving him any more info of our plot risks him realizing his original theory is(or was) reality.
Meanwhile, as >>5942972 said, this is meant to be our adventure, but that doesn’t mean we CAN’T go to adults for help with some things. And while Helga said going to any adult pre-Last Light resulted in the world ending, we only had a certain reach for who we could tell, and I’d bet actual money that didn’t include Augusta at the very least.
Also as QM said, us picking our options now doesn’t mean we can’t go a different route later. This is just so he has a direction to start writing in.
>>5942972
He kinda already does know the world is at stake. He thinks the prophecy said we’d end the world(which seems to actually refer to the Beast now that we know his true identity, so maybe that’s something we can figure out in-character now?)

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Mon 04 Mar 2024 08:27:57 No.5942998 Report

Quoted By: >>5943018

>>5942367
Let me cast all this stuff as an official vote:
>Go behind his back, take them by force
>We go for the Cloak first
>Try to use them to explain the Avalon situation to Augusta and Neville if the former suspects anything. Then try to find them new hosts as soon as possible.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 04 Mar 2024 09:26:03 No.5943013 Report

Quoted By: >>5943021 >>5943277

>>5942995
Agusta maybe would be alright. It is her son and daughter-in-law Rowena are using. And I have a strong suspicion she already knows something isn't right, given she knew them before they ended up in St. Mungo's. I had a really bad thought about her calling them out as imposters in the middle of the ward and pulling a wand on them.

I also had a fun thought about meeting Gildroy again and it turning out he had pieced everything back together years ago and recovered from mind wiping himself, was perfectly sane, and knew the place was sitting on Avalon His hint was a big part of why I figured out where Avalon was and he was a Ravenclaw in the end.

He only stayed in the psyche ward all this time to protect the place from dark forces.

Then he rips his paintbrush's end off, possibly with paint still on it, to reveal one of his fans had sneaked a wand in for him years ago and his painting was just covert wand practice, so he actually was no longer incompetent. Then he joins us on our adventure to try and redeem himself for being a dick, pre-Obliviation.

I am on some painkillers right now and they kinda give me fever-dreams like that.

Regardless of my Gilderoy shit, I think Neville is a no go. To close to Potter.

As to him already knowing the world is at stake, yeah, but he is not so completely sure we ourselves will end it, personally. If he ever came to the point he thought it was a zero sum game of torturing us and our friends or mind raping us or even a Final Solution to the Hallaster problem vs. apocalypse, I know which option he is picking.

I will now go back to writing about Elliot tenderly and lovingly fucking Arty in the ass so I can get this fanfic of a fanfic done.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 04 Mar 2024 09:45:07 No.5943018 Report

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>>5942972
I don't know. I feel like there's a distinction between not going to adults because they're fucking retards, i.e the Rowling way, and not going to them because we totally don't need their help in fighting pure evil. I'm not arguing we get Potter to fight our battles for us, I'm arguing we avoid unnecessary conflict by not acting guilty as fuck and going behind the back of someone who's given us every ounce of trust that he can give while we've given him almost nothing back in return.

>>5942998
Supporting telling Neville and Augusta about the Avalon situation.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 04 Mar 2024 09:53:04 No.5943021 Report

Quoted By: >>5943069 >>5943175 >>5943277

Also, I think that with the information we now have it's pretty obvious that the He in the prophecy who's going to tear apart the stars and end the world is in fact Merlin, and we heard the Prophecy because we have a bit of Merlin in us through Helga. So it's all good! We're fine on the evil dark lord of the sith front, mostly!

>>5943013
I do want to hang with Gilderoy more. He seems pretty cool, the fact it's only due to his memory loss notwithstanding.

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Mon 04 Mar 2024 11:51:00 No.5943069 Report

Quoted By: >>5943175

>>5943021
The one who tears apart the stars and the one who ends the world are not necessarily inclusive, considering the prophecy uses “HE IS HERE” twice. Could definitely refer to two different people.
I think Elliot will be the one who tears apart the stars, as the Atlanteans believed the dead became stars. This would allude to how Elliot’s goal of reviving Taylor (and maybe Lily, her death was a lot more complicated) will ultimately succeed.
Meanwhile yeah Merlin is the end of the world in the prophecy

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 04 Mar 2024 14:49:05 No.5943175 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943021
A possible excuse for us going up to St. Mungo's might be we wanted to see Gildroy if it is in the day, like on the weekend, get him to sign some books and meet our friends.

>>5943069
>I think Elliot will be the one who tears apart the stars, as the Atlanteans believed the dead became stars.

Yeah, I speculated on that last thread. Could work, might be too convoluted however.

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Anonymous ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 04 Mar 2024 15:59:03 No.5943203 Report

Quoted By: >>5943205

Alright, closing the votes on:

> Go behind his back, take them by force
> We strike both at once. A team goes for the Cloak, the other for the Wand. This way we give him no time to set up more defenses after the first theft is
> Find them new hosts as soon as possible. We might lose their help for a while, but we’ll also get their powers back sooner.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 04 Mar 2024 16:02:33 No.5943205 Report

Quoted By: >>5943257

>>5943203
God dammit lost my trip.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 04 Mar 2024 18:21:41 No.5943257 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943205
Let the game begin.

I wish we had more people to help with the heist so we could call this Elliot's 11.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 04 Mar 2024 18:55:28 No.5943263 Report

Quoted By: >>5943264

“We can’t depend on Potter. I would love to have him as an ally, Merlin knows we could use him but… He already thinks I am doom, and if he knows we’re going to Avalon, that we’re searching for the Hallows, he’s going to lose it.” You say, looking at your friends. “But that means we’ll have to steal from him. The moment one of the Deathly Hallows disappears, he’ll clamp down on the other one. We can’t give him that chance. We’ll need to strike both of them at once, and once we get our hands on them… It’s straight to St. Mungo’s. Straight to Avalon. I have no doubt he’ll come straight for me once he finds out they were stolen.”

“And after that?” Apollo asks. “After Avalon?”

“After Avalon, assuming everything goes to plan and we take or destroy what’s in there or somehow solve the issue of not allowing Salazar to return, well,” you shrug. “Then we give them back, and maybe Potter won’t kill me. I don’t know. One step at a time. Once we solve one problem we can work on the next.”

“The next problem being you not getting brutally murdered by the boy-who-lived.”

“Yes, thank you, Apollo. Meanwhile, there is the issue of Godric and Rowena. We… We can’t leave them like that. It’s not right to the Longbottoms. But that means we need to find hosts for them. Helga, would anyone do?”

“No,” she says, shaking your head. “There needs to be some compatibility between us. And being physically close helps. So if you want them to go into someone specific, it would be safer to get them to St. Mungo’s.”

“Would you be willing?” You ask the three in front of you. “To take them into your heads?”

“I’m no Gryffindor, but Ravenclaw is a fine house,” Linda says. Then, slightly embarrassed, “Just might be a bit awkward to tell her that I called myself Raven.”

“And you two?”

“My head is my own,” Apollo says, final.

“If… if it was a lady I’d be ok with it,” Arty says, hesitating, sounding unsure. “I don’t think I’d like it… if it wasn’t a lady.”

You sigh. Fair. Your relationship with Faith, then Helga, was a weird one. If you had been a girl and she had been a man, the problems would have been more pronounced and you’d probably have been less ok with them having full access to your body.

And with Salazar having demonstrated precisely what could happen with a relationship like that, it’s no surprise she wouldn’t be comfortable with it.

“That means we need to find someone else. That… could be a problem.”

“You have Elend,” Arty says. “Didn’t he say once that he was an occlumens?”

“Or Riley,” Apollo says. “She has a floo fireplace we could use.”

“Or, and hear me out,” Linda says. “There is also Hugo.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 04 Mar 2024 18:56:30 No.5943264 Report

Quoted By: >>5943265 >>5943267 >>5943290 >>5943292 >>5943301 >>5943327 >>5943398 >>5943485 >>5943634

>>5943263

“What?”

“Look, you want someone with easy access to Potter? Second to Lily, you only have him! He’s his best friend’s kid!”

“He’s a prat! And he probably hates me because I crushed him in Battle Class!”

“A prat who hates you and whose mother is the Minister for Magic. How much do you want to bet he’s already an Occlumens too? I’m just saying, you want someone who can maybe get the cloak without triggering Potter's rage, or at least have a chance of surviving it afterwards? That’s Hugo. You don’t need to like him, but I’m sure he’ll be interested in saving the world, if only because the fame can maybe get him laid.”

You want to immediately dismiss the idea but… She’s right. Hugo is well connected to Potter. More than just that, he could give you an in into the ongoings at the Ministry. But at the same time, you have no idea if he can be trusted. He is clever, clever enough to be able to know you are telling the truth if you show him the evidence, you’re just not sure if he’s not going to go running to either Potter or his mom with the info.

But maybe you could put enough emphasis on how he’d save the world to get him to accept. And, who knows, maybe Godric would have a good effect on him.

Meanwhile, Elend is rich. You wouldn’t have access to his whole fortune, but more money never hurts, most of all if you want to make some exotic potions. Both him and Hugo were likely good enough Occlumens that you wouldn’t have to worry about them leaking info to a legilimens or with getting them a tutor. Riley, however, could get you access to the Floo Network, a way into St. Mungo’s, and maybe other places in the future, without triggering Hogwarts' wards on the weekends.

Will you call a Gryffindor to join your conspiracy and serve as host to Godric? If so, who?

> Elend
> Hugo
> Riley
> We don’t want more people involved. Keep trying to convince Arty
> Someone else (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Mon 04 Mar 2024 19:15:19 No.5943265 Report

Quoted By: >>5943327

>>5943264
>Hugo
he has his advantages, but we are already risking too much with the amount of people we have, he cant be trusted and we dont really have the time to MAKE him trust us, at least not that much
>Elend
decent option, but his fortune athough good, doesnt bring that many obvious advantages, at least in my eyes
>Riley
im leaning more towards her since not only we can controll her a bit more thanks to her crush with Apollo, but her being a Griffindor could also be a benefit for Godric
also, me being a Snydefag is making me biased for more and any Snyde content even if its not THE snyde, but thats besides the point
>convincing Arty
i would chose this one even more if she were more willing to do so, but doing so would also make her a critical target should Salazar decided to start taking shots at us
so i guess my option here is
>Riley

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Anonymous ID:ViEAdfMX Mon 04 Mar 2024 19:18:21 No.5943267 Report

Quoted By: >>5943272 >>5943456

>>5943264
>Hugo
alright Hugo, here's your chance to shine. I wanted Brighton but I guess you'll have to do.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 04 Mar 2024 19:39:54 No.5943272 Report

Quoted By: >>5943278

>>5943267
Hey, don't count Brighton off. He has Gryffindor blood from his father's side and did rush an army of inferi to get to his dad. I didn't include him because I was thinking of people in Gryffindor and didn't think of it, but his connection to Neville and Augusta, and to Alice and Frank at this moment, could be valuable.

I'd say he Elliot would think that he could be a host (whether that is true or not remains to be seen, of course)

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Mon 04 Mar 2024 19:51:06 No.5943277 Report

Quoted By: >>5943327

>>5943013
>>5943021
did you forget WHY he's in St. Mungo's? he was a huge fraud and conman

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Anonymous ID:ViEAdfMX Mon 04 Mar 2024 19:55:27 No.5943278 Report

Quoted By: >>5943456

>>5943272
I guess we could twist it instead of manipulating him by pretending Godric and Rowena are his grandparents, we could tell him straight that if they don't get new hosts they'll die... hmmmm, yeah it could work.
anyone else agrees?

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 04 Mar 2024 20:26:47 No.5943290 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943264
Brighton. He's the easiest to get to see them.

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Mon 04 Mar 2024 20:33:40 No.5943292 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943264
>Brighton

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 04 Mar 2024 20:43:35 No.5943297 Report

Quoted By: >>5943306 >>5943320 >>5943327

So I was thinking about the whole Merlin situation, the fact he's the Fifth Founder and got caught in the interdict etc. and I came across 2 questions that I'm unable to answer:
>1. If Merlin is the Fifth Founder and died with the rest of them, getting sucked into the void of nothingness thing, is there even a body to recover from Avalon? The only person that should be there is Arthur, if Merlin got obliterated with the other founders.
And then the most curious question:
2. If Merlin died with the rest of them, then how do people know he made the Interdict? How do people know about the interdict if there was nobody left to tell them?

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 04 Mar 2024 20:46:13 No.5943301 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943264
>Brighton

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Mon 04 Mar 2024 20:51:08 No.5943306 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943297
if Elliot's right, there would be no body

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Mon 04 Mar 2024 21:17:06 No.5943320 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943297
Maybe he left a magical note to explain the everyone that he'd nerfed realty itself. It's a pretty big deal. He might have wanted to mitigate the mass panic.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 04 Mar 2024 21:26:56 No.5943327 Report

Quoted By: >>5943331

>>5943297
I am guessing Merlin mentioned to his close associates that the Inderdict was coming so they could prepare. And Salazar probably dosen't know the 5th was just Merlin in a wig so he believes the body exists.

>>5943264
Dang, I was really hoping for the twins as hosts.
I guess, ask the others if they are okay with it then:

>Brighton

He is basically our rival, and the who reason Arty became part of the quest, so it fits kind of narratively that we end up having to become allies. He also has a really good reason to accept since they die if Rowena and Godric don't get new hosts. We know nothing of Hugo other than he is the one who put the ministry on our trail because he is a sore loser and that in the OG timeline, wanted to fuck his cousin. Elend is a safe option, he has resources and has shown to be loyal but, eh. Riley has the issue of girl with male ghost, plus I am not sure if Apollo wants her brought in to this.

>>5943265
Sorry Merulafag, Riley would have been my choice without Brighton on the table.

>>5943277
Before completely obliviating himself, sure. Now? He seems chill and helped, indirectly, with finding Avalon. Figuring it out sooner than QM expected may have very well given us the extra IC time we are going to need so no one dies this time around.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Mon 04 Mar 2024 21:30:45 No.5943331 Report

Quoted By: >>5943333

>>5943327
>Sorry Merulafag
thats ok, cant win them all, already won naming our Army and "Faith" so im good

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 04 Mar 2024 21:33:39 No.5943333 Report

Quoted By: >>5943335

>>5943331
Faith was okay, though I would have preferred Cassandra. Raiders of Lost Worlds is baller and helped inform a lot of Elliot's character and aesthetic.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Mon 04 Mar 2024 21:38:25 No.5943335 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943333
always trying to keep on ballin

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Mon 04 Mar 2024 23:19:03 No.5943398 Report

Quoted By: >>5943454 >>5943462

>>5943264
>Brighton
Hell no, we're not going with Hugo. I don't trust him not to go tell on us to mommy. Also, I haven't forgotten that he wanted to fuck his own mentally unstable cousin and groped her. I suppose to be fair he didn't know she had a creepy snake enthusiast in her head but Hugo's still a deviant little cretin.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 05 Mar 2024 00:30:33 No.5943454 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943398
If we are listing all the reasons Hugo is never getting anywhere close to our quest to stop the world from ending, he is grossly incompetent and thinks Hufflepuffs like our friend, girlfriend, and mind ghost are worthless.

It would be interesting if he showed up as an enemy because he is so bitter about becoming a laughingstock and Scorpius promised a way to regain his dignity. And then he infects them with his shit rolls and our next fight is a cakewalk. We should wary of him just because I don't think it is impossible that Hermione has him keeping tabs on Elliot at any rate.

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Anonymous ID:aCW3a8oZ Tue 05 Mar 2024 00:31:33 No.5943456 Report

Quoted By:

>>5943267
>>5943278
Ok well, seems that people agree with this so I'll confirm, this is me and I change my vote to Brighton. He's already way ahead but might as well.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 05 Mar 2024 00:41:52 No.5943462 Report

Quoted By: >>5943485 >>5943500 >>5943632

>>5943398
>he wanted to fuck his own mentally unstable cousin and groped her
im sorry, im must have been sleepy when this was mentioned, huh? when?

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Anonymous ID:hp0KCX9m Tue 05 Mar 2024 01:12:53 No.5943485 Report

Quoted By: >>5943500

>>5943462
Lily told us he tried to court her. I don't remember him groping her. He did try to kiss her at most.

>>5943264
>Riley

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 05 Mar 2024 01:27:37 No.5943500 Report

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>>5943485
>>5943462

She told us he grabbed her tits and then she broke his nose 1st thread.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Tue 05 Mar 2024 03:36:57 No.5943632 Report

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>>5943462
first thread, not long after we met her

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Anonymous ID:er7F4NDX Tue 05 Mar 2024 03:38:13 No.5943634 Report

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>>5943264
>Brighton
For the reasons others have given, but also it would be interesting narrative wise, rivals joining forces, and such.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 05 Mar 2024 06:56:38 No.5943729 Report

Quoted By: >>5943730

“There is someone else,” you say. “If we want someone who is personally invested in this, someone who could get an ear on Potter… Then there’s Brighton.”

“Him?” Linda asks. “He’s a prick!”

“I agree,” Arty says. “Don’t you remember how we met?”

“Yeah, I know,“ you nod. “But he’s also brave. His father is a Gryffindor, a teacher, and a friend of Potter. He could let us into the Three Broomsticks in the afterhours so we could go to St. Mungo’s. Hell, he could just say he wants to visit his grandparents and we’d have someone there. And if there’s anyone interested in proving to himself he’s worthy of Gryffindor, well, it’s the Ravenclaw son of the head of the Gryffindor House.”

“You think he’ll go along with you?”

“I have no idea. But Brighton is also clever. He almost beat us in Battle Class, got real close to beating us in that final fight, too. I know he wasn’t nice in the past but… You can’t lead an army just being a total dickhead. At least not for long, like Hugo kindly demonstrated. You need to have something inside you other people want to follow, be it good or evil. And while he’s a prat… I don’t think he’s evil. And I think we can use him. At least if everyone is willing to play nice with him, I mean.”

“If he doesn’t take my cauldron again,” Arty says, “I don’t see why not.”

--

There is a system in place in Slytherin. You write a letter, and the name of who should receive it. Then you put that letter inside another letter, addressed to a Slytherin, with a couple knuts. Then you take that letter, and put it inside another letter, with a few more knuts, and repeat that process a few times. Everyone in Slytherin is honor-bound to maintain it, because if someone breaks that trust, that means no Slytherin would ever be able to use it for fun things, like threats, blackmail, pranks and the occasional anonymous love letter.

This means Slytherins are the only group that can send discreet messages with some measure of anonymity in Hogwarts. So when a third year Slytherin approaches Brighton and delivers him a letter, it isn’t wholly unusual.

And you watch from afar, just to be sure it was properly delivered, and can’t help but notice he’s smiling more than you’ve ever seen him. A few hours later, when he enters the unused classroom, his mood immediately sours when he sees you.

“Hallaster, what are you doing here?”

“Waiting for you. Sorry for the love letter fake-out, but I needed you to come alone and not tell anyone.”

He seems immediately on edge, reaching for his wand.

“What is this? Some sort of trick? I came here to let some fourth year down gently, not get in a fight.”

“I just want to talk, Brighton. One ex-captain to the other.” You point to a chair a little ways for you. “Come on, sit.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 05 Mar 2024 06:57:40 No.5943730 Report

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>>5943729

He approaches, still looking around as if one of the tables is going to suddenly come to life and bite him. He sits on one of the many chairs you didn’t point to, not without casting a couple of detection spells beforehand.

“Spill it.”

“Brighton, I called you here because I need your help. I know we’ve never seen eye to eye, but this is something bigger than our petty fights. A whole lot bigger. And what I’m going to tell you is going to sound insane. It’s going to sound like I’m making it up. But I have proof, proof you’re not going to like hearing. In fact, I know you’re going to hate it. But I need to tell you, and I need you to keep it a secret.”

“I’m not keeping your secrets, Hallaster.”

“Then I’m going to tell you anyway, and you can decide for yourself if it’s worth keeping. I can’t force you to do anything. I can’t even force you to listen to it. All I ask is that you listen to me until the end. For the sake of whatever rivalry we have. Please.”

You don’t know what makes him stay, if it is your words or the tone you use, one carrying the exhaustion that sometimes overtakes you when you remember the past few months.

But he stays put and nods for you to continue. You take a deep breath and start talking.

“Harry James Potter had a daughter. Her name was Lily Luna Potter, and she was as Gryffindor as they come. She was our senior by a year, and Head Girl…”

And you pour your life in front of him. Several times you need to stop him from leaving. He doesn’t believe your story, of course he doesn’t, it’s clear on his face. Visions are better explained by mental problems than an actual spirit in your head, after all. When you tell him who the spirit is, he scoffs, saying, “I always said you should have been in Hufflepuff.”

But every now and then, you notice him making connections. When you tell him why Potter decided to create Battle Class, he seems intrigued. When you tell him of the battle against the Minister’s men with Potter, Flitwick and Minerva, he looks interested before remembering he doesn’t believe you.

You keep telling him, step by step, your flight on the thestral, you sneaking into St Mungo’s, making your way down the hole and finally…

“And I heard the voice of a couple, a man and a woman,” you say. “What they were saying didn’t sound like they were Scorpius’ men, but they could still be aurors, sent by the Ministry, or even Unspeakables. But I couldn’t just turn back. I needed to see what they were seeing, I needed to know who they were. So I sneaked around until I saw them and, after a brief fight, I discovered they were like me. They were the hosts of Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw, who were inhabiting two patients from the hospital. Ravenclaw told me that day that they couldn’t live on anyone. They needed empty space on the soul to be able to attach themselves to it, so they could only live within children or people who had their minds broken.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 05 Mar 2024 06:58:42 No.5943731 Report

Quoted By: >>5943732

>>5943730

“Which made sense,” you say, regretting your words, regretting how you’re going to hurt him. “Because they weren’t children, these two. This couple… they were the other kind of host. They were adults.”

You look at him and wait. You wait until he realizes. You wait until he understands.

Brighton’s eyes go wide, he stands and backs away so fast he almost trips over his chair.

“What is wrong with you?”

“I’m telling you the truth, Brighton. You’re clever enough to know the it when you see it. Your grandparents, they-”

“Shut up! Shut your mouth! Don’t you dare speak about my grandparents!”

“I’m sorry, Brighton. But it’s real. I know your family thinks they’re getting better, but-”

“I said SHUT UP!”

He pulls his wand faster than you’ve ever seen him move, and it’s only thanks to your training that you can get out of the way and jump behind a table before a langlock hits you.

“You foul- you- you worm! How dare you say that! How dare you mock me like this! My grandparents!? Do you have no respect!?”

“I’m not lying to you, Brighton. You really think that after so much time both of them would just get better!? Better enough to try to escape? That bit wasn’t in any newspaper, but I know it was them, because they told me!”

“Liar! I don’t know how you know but-”

“Then go to them! Tell them I sent you, ask them if they are Godric and Rowena! They’ll tell you-”

“Bombarda!”

The table behind you explodes and you are thrown forwards, slamming against the other chairs in the room, pushing the air out of you. You scramble to turn around and protect yourself, but Brighton has already fled the room. When you reach the door to call out to him, you see him already far away, running as fast as his legs can take him.

--

“Didn’t go well, I assume?” Linda says as you collapse on a sofa by her, in front of the Common Room’s fireplace.

“No. He… he freaked out when he figured out who the two people below the hospital were. Attacked me and ran away.”

“You think he’ll come around?”

“I don’t know. He seemed to think I was just messing with him. Or maybe he wants to believe I was just messing with him. It’s all going to depend on whether or not he goes talk to them. It’s in his hands now, all we can do is wait.”

“And what do we do until then? Do we go for the Hallows this week already?”

“I’m not sure that’s the best option. I’d like to know for sure what Brighton is going to do before moving forwards with anything. But if he doesn’t give me an answer by Sunday… We move forward without him and decide what we’re going to do about the Longbottoms.”

“Sounds as good a plan as any.”

You hesitate for a moment.

“Are you really ok with having Ravenclaw inside your head?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 05 Mar 2024 06:59:43 No.5943732 Report

Quoted By: >>5943734 >>5943738 >>5943740 >>5943742 >>5943760 >>5943768 >>5943935 >>5943943 >>5943954 >>5943956

>>5943731

“I’m not going to pretend I’m looking forward to it,” she says. “But it’s better than adding someone else to this, and better than leaving them like that. And, hey, I’m always open to the chance of freaking someone out with what’s in my second trunk as long as I can guarantee they’ll never mention it again.”

“It seems quite tragic that she survived an eternity of darkness only to have her mind broken by your fetishes.”

“Well, you said Helga could manipulate your dreamscape however she wanted,“ she says with a lecherous grin that is very much not Linda and very much Raven. “Do you think if I seduced Rowena I could convince her to change me and give me a huge co-”

“No! No. No, I’m not going to let you go there! And trust me, Helga would have slapped you for that if I wasn’t here to hold her back.”

She laughs in a very Raven-like way, before going back to her studies.

“By the way,” she says, pulling something from between a pile of parchment and handing it to you. “This arrived for you while you were talking to Brighton.”

You open the letter and read.

Dear Mr. Hallaster. 

I knew I had met a clever and polite young man when I saw you. Yes, indeed it was my son and his wife who had attempted an escape. The doctors say that they have been giving more and more signs of awareness these last few weeks, that they are recovering! The escape was just them being confused by their surroundings, but it is more activity than the last twenty years combined. To say that our family could not be happier would be an understatement, our house has been filled with joy again!

I have been out of the country attempting to contact renowned healers so they can come take a look at Frankie and Alice so they can help them recover once again. That is why I took so long to answer you. I can only hope that next time we meet, my son will be able to introduce himself to you.

Lady Augusta Longbottom

You stare at the letter for a few moments, holding back tears, then throw it into the fire.

--

What will you do with your free time this week?

> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Tue 05 Mar 2024 07:03:45 No.5943734 Report

Quoted By: >>5943738

>>5943732
> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)
We're going to need those duelling bonuses.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 05 Mar 2024 07:13:01 No.5943738 Report

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>>5943732
what >>5943734 said, now we go back to the grind, we have the time
>Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)

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Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Tue 05 Mar 2024 07:18:13 No.5943740 Report

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>>5943732
> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Tue 05 Mar 2024 07:31:56 No.5943742 Report

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>>5943732
> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)

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Anonymous ID:E/7UmVL8 Tue 05 Mar 2024 08:01:15 No.5943760 Report

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>>5943732
> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)
Nothing better to get your mind of stuff than fighting for your life.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 05 Mar 2024 08:30:18 No.5943768 Report

Quoted By: >>5943775

>>5943732
> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)

I feel terrible for Agusta. Maybe, maybe we should have the founders use that option they mentioned; to bring Frank and Alice back for a small time at the cost of their lives, when we have them migrate to new hosts?

Give the Longbottoms one last chance to say goodbye? I was thinking about suggesting it earlier but didn't. Let Alice and Frank say goodbye to Neville, Brighton, Agusta, and Hannah?

When Brighton comes around, we should ask him if his family would prefer that or have them continue to live as mindless husks for low ever long.

Brighton's response was pretty much what I suspected. Very similar to what I had imagined Agusta's would be if she found out those 2 were just pretending to be her son and daughter-in-law. I think we have till she sees them again to go there and get this done. Also maybe should have shown Brighton the eye trick when Helga guides our wand.

>Send a return letter, asking if you and your friend Linda can join her when she goes to see them on the weekend. We would love to meet them, see Miss Agusta again. And Linda just LOVES Mr. Lockhart's books and would like to get one signed.

That way we have a well respected witch vouching for why we want to go up there, give Potter a reason to let us go. Elliot can sneak there but Linda might trigger some ward if she leaves the grounds, even by floo.

Raven coming back has been amazing. Wanting to ask one of the greatest witches ever to give her a futa cock so Raven could fuck her had me grinning ear to ear.

I think this might be the last week we should do Battle Training, for a while at least. We are hitting diminishing returns hard. A +2 next week for a -25 isnt a great deal.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 05 Mar 2024 08:39:40 No.5943775 Report

Quoted By: >>5943785

>>5943768
>Wanting to ask one of the greatest witches ever to give her a futa cock so Raven could fuck her had me grinning ear to ear.
me too, that was great, small stupid interactions like those are what make this quest one of the best, feels so stupid but real, like all the students are different kinds of anons and the school is 4chan itself
maybe you could use that for the fic
>I think this might be the last week we should do Battle Training, for a while at least
i want to agree, but i think we need to max it out as much as we can, we should keep going until the week before we go to avalon so we can make the most out of it, our dice rolls havent been the kindest so far

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 05 Mar 2024 09:21:40 No.5943785 Report

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>>5943775
Probably not this fic butArty implied Raven showed her a few things to get ready for V-Day with Elliot and took her in the trunk in this one; maybe if I do another. Raven/Arty/Elliot with all sorts of horrible tags being applicable? Didn't need Rowena for her horse-sized futa-dick, just to brush up on her transfiguration skills. Or yeah Raven/Rowena, depending on how they interact. I think they will get along well. I really hope I can get the current one out in the next couple of days but I've been kinda depressed and had trouble working on it.

I think we might need to dedicate some slots to prep for stealing the Hallows. Maybe make a Draught of Living Death as a last resort for Potter. Help Raven and Brighton strengthen their bond with their ghosts. We will see.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 05 Mar 2024 10:16:07 No.5943795 Report

Quoted By: >>5943807

>>5936394
>When you wake up, body sore, magic sore… She’s still fighting.
i was rereading this part because its probably my favorite scene so far out of the entire quest, out of curiosity, for how long were we out? few minutes? an hour? how long was she fighting for the madman alone? what was the time needed for her to almost die due to magical exhaustion?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 05 Mar 2024 10:45:30 No.5943807 Report

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>>5943795
The 1st time we trained, Elliot lasted 15 minutes, Arty 10 with full magic reserves. We were better in that fight, so I am guessing we probably made it to like 25 or 30. I bet we were only out for 5 or 10 since BCJ's wand is shit and it took 3 stunners in a row to put us down, but that means Arty fought for 40 minutes total, which is fucking amazing, 10 or so on her own considering how quick she went down before. Could have been longer even. Hell even if we both just made it 15 and Elliot was out for 10, that is as long as she used to last with a partner. Just my head cannon.

But yeah, it is a damn shame she wasn't down with getting Godric in her head. Being able to channel extra juice, maybe wandless magic, and having a man known for bravery encouraging an already very brave girl would have made her a auburn haired human badger. Even more than she already is.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 05 Mar 2024 15:39:26 No.5943935 Report

Quoted By: >>5943954 >>5943958 >>5944192

>>5943732
Ah crap, I meant to put a "Pick two" for that set of options but forgot because I posted this at 3 in the morning and was half asleep.

Anyway, feel free to pick one extra option to be done, as this week (while you're worrying about a lot) you're not doing any other extra activities.

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Anonymous ID:2jhsrjUA Tue 05 Mar 2024 16:01:00 No.5943943 Report

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>>5943732
>> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)
> Study with Apollo
Doesn't seem like grandma is immediately suspicious like some of you thought, it is kind of a ridiculous situation.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 05 Mar 2024 16:23:19 No.5943954 Report

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>>5943935
>>5943732
>have a small date with Arty

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Anonymous ID:Xqpsn5Ob Tue 05 Mar 2024 16:25:55 No.5943956 Report

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>>5943732
> Attend Crouch’s "tutoring" (+3 to Battle Magic, -25 to all rolls during the week)
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 05 Mar 2024 16:28:33 No.5943958 Report

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>>5943935
Can I assume we have a good enough stock of basic potions so everyone gets at least one? Sounds like we will need 4-5 Slowfalls at the least to descend down to the Entrance easily like last time.

I was wonder about the pick 1 but thought it was just a busy week.

If we dont,
>Brew extra potions for everyone coming to Avalon

If we do,

> Study with Apollo

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Tue 05 Mar 2024 22:35:00 No.5944192 Report

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>>5943935
Oh, in that case:
>Brew extra potions for everyone coming to Avalon

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Anonymous ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 06 Mar 2024 04:59:25 No.5944496 Report

Quoted By: >>5944497

When Potter drops you off for your tutoring, there is a strange sensation. Not something in the air, but something inside you. Because this time, you remember that this is the man who tortured Brighton’s grandparents into insanity.

You hadn’t told Brighton who your tutor was, you had promised Potter you wouldn’t tell anyone, after all. But you know now, you’ve seen the consequences of his actions. This man, Bartemius Crouch Junior, had been one of the people who had pointed a wand at Frank and Alice and had wanted them to hurt. Not for punishment or revenge. He just wanted to see them suffer.

He, Bellatrix and the Lestrange brothers. What grand company he had been in. The sort of person for whom Azkaban had been built before it was used to house anyone who bothered the Ministry. The sort of person on whom the use of dementors could almost be justified, if you didn’t care about torturing people, if you thought that bad people deserve to suffer the most horrible of fates.

He does a different training today. There are two great blocks of stone that weren’t on the island before, and he forces you to levitate them for as long as possible.

“Magic is like a muscle. You can train it. You can improve it. You can exhaust it. The only thing you can’t change is how fast you get it back. You have a limit on how much magic you have inside you and how much magic you can put out at once. You gotta learn how to close it and turn it into a trickle, or open all the floodgates and destroy your opponents, little birdies. Sometimes, you need raw strength. Sometimes you need to tear your enemies apart.”

It’s been fifteen minutes and you’re sweating, fingers trembling. Arty has put hers down once and took some rest before picking it back up again. You’re still going on your first levitation, but it’s starting to falter. He paces around both of you like a hungry beast, eyes wild, his tongue licking his lips frantically as if there was something there it couldn’t get rid of.

[Cont.]

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Anonymous ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:00:27 No.5944497 Report

Quoted By: >>5944507 >>5944517 >>5944530 >>5944541 >>5944551 >>5944557 >>5944563 >>5945118 >>5945119

>>5944496

“Anger can be a powerful way to keep going. Fear too. Because our body forgets how much we can do. Little missy here fought me to a standstill last time because she was furious, but now she can barely keep this rock floating. It’s your duty to remind your body just how much it can actually take. It’s your duty to force it to give its all, no matter the situation. For example… Petrificus Totalus!”

“Arty!”

You almost drop your rock to fire at Crouch, but he’s already caught her by the neck and slammed her under your boulder. You immediately try to move it away, but while his left hand is around Arty’s neck, his right one is on his wand, pulling when you push it away, keeping the stone above her face.

“Ah, ah, ah, no moving it away.”

“Crouch, I can’t keep this up much longer!”

“Well, then both her face and my hand are going to get crushed! Healers can grow me a new hand. Do you think they can grow her a new head?”

“Crouch!”

But he doesn’t answer, insane eyes locked with yours. Your grip in your wand is so hard your fingers are starting to hurt, you are wielding it almost like a great lever to keep the rock in the air, but the lever is slowly cracking. You force yourself to keep it afloat, but as the seconds turns to minutes it seems clear Crouch has no intention of letting Arty go.

“That hand of yours is looking mighty shaky there, Elly-loo,” he says in a mocking tone. “You sure it ain’t slipping? You sure you ain’t gonna kill your precious little girlfriend?”

“I can’t hold out much longer! Get her out of there!” You say through gritted teeth.

“I don’t think so. You want her alive? Then hold that damn stone!”

> Try to resist on your own power to keep it afloat
> Tap into Helga’s power to blast it away
> Throw a Erumpent Potion at him
> Call Potter for help
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:08:58 No.5944507 Report

Quoted By: >>5944518

>>5944497
>> Tap into Helga’s power to blast it away
we are NOT risking Arty just to make a point, any other way and i would say to do it on our own, but not if Arty is at stake

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Anonymous ID:BiNpSXpw Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:13:47 No.5944508 Report

Quoted By: >>5944533

Y'know, this might just be a transfigured pebble. Imagine we just ruin barty's lesson with a Finite

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:23:56 No.5944517 Report

Quoted By: >>5944542

>>5944497
> Try to resist on your own power to keep it afloat
She'll be fiiiine.

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:26:31 No.5944518 Report

Quoted By: >>5944930

>>5944507
Potter's watching, remember?

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:33:11 No.5944530 Report

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>>5944497
Potter's trying to train us to find our urge to kill, isn't he?

"...And you need to get something I can’t give you, and that hopefully you will never have to use. You need to find your intent to kill. And I can’t teach you that without honestly trying to kill you."

That's what he said. Well...
>Throw a Erumpent Potion at him
>Avada Kedavra

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:41:34 No.5944533 Report

Quoted By: >>5944542

>>5944508
I think this is likely. Not exactly east to get giant stones on a remote island. I think if so, it was Potter who made them though since Crouch doesn't have his wand till we come and it probably doesn't have the juice to do transfiguration.

Problem there is takes more power to finite something than it did to transfiguer it; we aren't over powering Potter.

Its likely that Potter is there under his cloak this time, ready to detransfigure the rock or reducto it at any sign of us letting it fall.

That also makes using Helga a problem, given how our eyes go all dark lord and the extra strength is going to set off alarm bells in Potter's head we can't afford.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:53:14 No.5944541 Report

Quoted By: >>5944563

>>5944497
> Try to resist on your own power to keep it afloat
My dudes, Potter is already scared shitless we're going to end the world, I don't think he'll risk it by letting our girlfriend die.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:54:16 No.5944542 Report

Quoted By: >>5944563

>>5944517
>>5944533
One thing worth remembering is that right now, Arty may well be fearing for her life, no matter the actual danger. She'll remember this moment and how we react, and that will affect how safe she instinctively feels in our care in the future.

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Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Wed 06 Mar 2024 05:58:50 No.5944551 Report

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>>5944497
> Try to resist on your own power to keep it afloat

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Anonymous ID:hp0KCX9m Wed 06 Mar 2024 06:06:14 No.5944557 Report

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>>5944497
> Try to resist on your own power to keep it afloat

I can't wait until we beat him in a duel. Then we punch his teeth in. Funsies.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 06 Mar 2024 06:09:25 No.5944563 Report

Quoted By: >>5945118

>>5944542
That is true but she also wouldn't want us to have Potter on us with Helga and I am afraid an Erumpet at this distance will break our concentration on the boulder. An alchemist flashbang might distract BCJ long enough to move the stone perhaps?

>>5944541
He does have a time turner after all. I don't think Arty is in actual danger.

>>5944497
> Try to resist on your own power to keep it afloat

Might change it tomorrow since I am having trouble thinking right now.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 06 Mar 2024 06:41:41 No.5944583 Report

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Since we have the option to toss a potion, I wonder if we have the option to drink a girding or maxima to help us?

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 06 Mar 2024 18:52:59 No.5944930 Report

Quoted By: >>5945035

>>5944518
i remember, i also remember he shot a gun at our face, i think he is way pass the point of being subtle about it and will actually put the people we care about in actual danger
i know my choice is not winning, but im sticking to it, just close our eyes and chuck the stone at Crouch

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 06 Mar 2024 21:03:01 No.5945035 Report

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>>5944930
I think this is also a test put together with Crouch's help, to see if we do dark lord shit if Arty were threatened. So no trying to kill BCJ yet. Soon though, soon.

Dark Lord Hallaster doesn't do his deeds under others' gaze.

Or I could be wrong and Arty can say hi to Taylor while we find a new GF.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Wed 06 Mar 2024 21:30:36 No.5945058 Report

Quoted By: >>5945074

>This is all an elaborate plan by Potter to justify killing us when we start raging over Arty dying to Crouch

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 06 Mar 2024 21:52:57 No.5945074 Report

Quoted By: >>5945075 >>5945082

>>5945058
Not kill us, perhaps, but give him the conviction to do it when he has to. He said we make it very, very justifiable for him to end our threat when we don't do anything with a gun to our head but try and talk our way out of it.

Could also be to give us that killing edge he talked about. Make it seem like Crouch killed her and light up the fire inside us needed to end a life. Granted he talked about that to us before the prophesy were we destroy the world.

At any rate, if "Arty" die here, I would suggest going all out and trying our best to kill BCJ with everything but AK. Pretty sure Potter won't let us actually do it. Just like there is no way he is letting an innocent Hogwarts student die. But Elliot doesn't have to know that.

Crazy conspiracy time. Winky is Bartty's old elf. She used house elf magic to pop to him, give him a real wand, which is the one he is using, not the gimped one. He was able to set up anti-appiration wards, anti-floo place ones after we arrived. This is very real because this guy would rather kill a young girl and drive her BF to become Dark than try and escape.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 06 Mar 2024 21:54:29 No.5945075 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945074
*He said we make it very, very hard for him to justify ending our threat when we don't do anything with a gun to our head but try and talk our way out of it.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Wed 06 Mar 2024 22:04:09 No.5945082 Report

Quoted By: >>5945112

>>5945074
issue with that: doesn't everyone else think BCJ is dead/jailed?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 06 Mar 2024 23:09:35 No.5945112 Report

Quoted By: >>5945118

>>5945082
They do other than us, Potter, and maybe a few trusted comrades.

But us and Arty have been training with him. What if Winky overheard us bitching about "Crouch". After he killed his dad, BCJ was the last one left. Hell, from having served him all her life and being stupid loyal, she might have even recognized his smell on us, since we have gone hand to hand plenty. It is just a dumb conspiracy theory, mostly, but fun to imagine.

Would also be fucked that Elliot suggested Arty befriend the elves and the one she does becomes indirectly responsible for her death via BCJ. That we become indirectly responsible for telling her to do it. There is some Angst meat there.

One of Bartty's cool features was he was so skilled and manically powerful, he could pull off shit like human transfiguration or AK using Moody's wand; do magic well enough no one suspected him while Elliot could barely make his lost wand rattle using Talon's. He was able to throw off an imperio cast by a very powerful adult wizard, and survive in Azkaban for a while. Very fucking impressive. So in this idea, all he would need is a random wand, any wand, and Potter not staring over his shoulder to set some stuff up ahead of time.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 06 Mar 2024 23:25:14 No.5945118 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945112
Would also explain how he is able to fight back against Elliot moving the block one way by moving it the other if he had a real wand. His gimped one couldn't even make shields strong enough to stop Arty's stunners. I mean we are tired but with pure magic, we should still probably be able to overpower his leviosa. Hmmmmm.

>>5944563
>>5944497

Changing to:
> Tap into Helga’s power to blast it away

The intrusive thoughts won.

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Wed 06 Mar 2024 23:27:01 No.5945119 Report

Quoted By:

>>5944497
>> Try to resist on your own power to keep it afloat

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 03:55:20 No.5945296 Report

Quoted By: >>5945298 >>5945524

QM, you should know, the longer you tease us with if she dies, that the end scene of the Valentine's lewdfic will get just lewder. You have forced Arty to get her ass eaten by Elliot and love it. Is that what you want for her. Innocent little Arty? Don't make me do worse. Please. For every anon here's sanity.

I think it will be done tonight, depending on how tired I get.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 03:56:42 No.5945298 Report

Quoted By: >>5945309 >>5945336 >>5945381

>>5945296
JK of course, take your time.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 07 Mar 2024 04:10:34 No.5945309 Report

Quoted By: >>5945316 >>5945374

>>5945298
>spoiler
remember you can upload it here as a PDF file

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Anonymous ID:SlRLAQ7c Thu 07 Mar 2024 04:19:29 No.5945316 Report

Quoted By: >>5945374

>>5945309
if they upload it as a PDF, it won't get saved on suptg and then there's the ever-capricious jannies.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 07 Mar 2024 04:28:26 No.5945336 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945298
Hello D. Patrick of West Market Realtors, how do you do?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 04:58:59 No.5945374 Report

Quoted By: >>5945381 >>5945405

>>5945309
>>5945316

I will. Pastebin didn't like the other and google docs took the burner I used down in less than a day. Any ideas for places that will let you upload shit like that easily. It sucks I could have sworn suptg used to allow pdfs, maybe just for tg though.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:03:32 No.5945381 Report

Quoted By: >>5945387

>>5945298
>>5945374
Sister, I implore you, delete this file as it reveals thine identity.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:09:18 No.5945387 Report

Quoted By: >>5945389 >>5945390 >>5945397

>>5945381
Oh shit, can you do that 12 minutes later?

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:12:54 No.5945389 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945387
you should be able to, delete the entire post just to be sure

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:13:01 No.5945390 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945387
relax, nobody actually cares
funny that you did this on a business email though

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:19:45 No.5945397 Report

Quoted By: >>5945398

>>5945387
Yeah... noticed that. Oh well, shit happens. Might get LordLiccorice to nuke it in the archive.

This is why I should not do 2 things at once.

There are like 20 people who read this quest. Not concerned.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:20:42 No.5945398 Report

Quoted By: >>5945406

>>5945397
You should be able to delete file at any point. Posts are time restricted. Files aren't.

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Anonymous ID:SlRLAQ7c Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:31:05 No.5945405 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945374
Rentry.org seems to be a popular pastebin alternative that as far as I can tell doesn't have restrictions on nsfw content

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:31:21 No.5945406 Report

Quoted By: >>5945407

>>5945398
I think you need to wait a certain time on qst. If not, oh well.

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Anonymous ID:SlRLAQ7c Thu 07 Mar 2024 05:33:11 No.5945407 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945406
The minimum delete time is 60s, not sure what the upper limit is

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 06:01:40 No.5945422 Report

Quoted By: >>5945444

Thank you for the very sweet review "Taylor Cycad". But really, didn't add any stars to it, of all things?I will ask y'all to not make too much of this.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Thu 07 Mar 2024 06:31:20 No.5945444 Report

Quoted By: >>5945536

>>5945422
Oh no.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 07 Mar 2024 07:30:20 No.5945489 Report

Quoted By: >>5945491 >>5945512

Hey, sorry folks, I had one hell of a day and couldn't even get started on the update, sorry. I'll head to bed for now and work on it tomorrow!

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 07 Mar 2024 07:37:52 No.5945491 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945489
thats ok, take your time dude, we can wait a bit more
but you better pray nothing happens to Arty or i swear to god...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 08:13:25 No.5945512 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945489
Its okay QM. I hope everything is okay. It is always correct to take a break if you need. Good night. Mine was kinda iffy too.

You mentioned looking for a job in a prior thread. I hope things are going well.

You should have something fun to wake up to and porn.

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Thu 07 Mar 2024 08:40:25 No.5945524 Report

Quoted By: >>5945526

>>5945296
pls anon. either you're over age or underage; but you're still writing about teenagers eating ass

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 07 Mar 2024 08:41:31 No.5945526 Report

Quoted By: >>5945536 >>5945658

>>5945524
you are saying that like its the weirdest shit teenagers will ever do...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 09:09:03 No.5945536 Report

Quoted By: >>5945658

>>5945444
It was a relative's Word account I was using. She thought it was funny as fuck and texted me a pic of that review. She said go with it for a while.

>>5945526
I have stories. Terrible stories of the stuff my friends would find out. My GF at the time was kinky but some of they're own? It was just down what WTF. Would come and ask, hey, is this normal? No, fucker it's not. Now get out of the way soandso gets off on being fucked in Taco Bell bathrooms and the closest one just got cleaned.

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Anonymous ID:4RUU7p9k Thu 07 Mar 2024 16:02:53 No.5945658 Report

Quoted By: >>5945707

>>5945526
More like this is the sort of thing that could get someone from that state in a lot of trouble in Current Year.

>>5945536
So does your mom/aunt KNOW you're using her work account to write Harry Potter adjacent pornography? Or how did she know who Taylor Cycad is?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 17:44:01 No.5945707 Report

Quoted By: >>5945750

>>5945658
>Spoiler

Yes. Not like I save the stuff but locally. She is cool. Fun aunt. Though it was kinda funny when I told her I dun fucked up. She just used her most familiar email to set Word up, its not from the company.

She text me saying "Taylor Cycad" left a review on the thing she uses, middle of the night. I explained it was one of you fuckers.

>Thank you for the very sweet review "Taylor Cycad".

Was what she told me to say. I even told her how to get here and look at the stuff that was happening.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 07 Mar 2024 19:22:49 No.5945750 Report

Quoted By: >>5945829

>>5945707
>I even told her how to get here and look at the stuff that was happening.
hello anon's aunt

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:10:29 No.5945829 Report

Quoted By: >>5945830

>>5945750
No clue if she ever looked. Would be funny as fuck if this is how we got a new player. I know she has seen the movies, at least.

Might text her later and see. Make sure you degenerates didn't send her dick pics.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:13:13 No.5945830 Report

Quoted By: >>5945842

>>5945829
you're the degenerate here lmao

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:27:04 No.5945839 Report

Quoted By: >>5945841 >>5945868

You hold on to the stone, you hold on to your simple Wingardium Leviosa with every gram of your power, but it soon becomes clear that there simply isn’t any more left. It is as if a muscle inside you is giving in from exhaustion, like a gym-goer who picked up too much weight, but with deadly consequences. You’d have given up long ago, if there was no threat to Arty.

“Elliot, let me help you!” Helga says inside your head.

“No. You can’t do it without my eyes going dark! You do that, either Potter or Crouch is going to see it!”

Your magic flickers and the rock drops down half a meter before you catch it mid-air again, sweat dripping from your forehead.

“Ohh, that looked dangerous, little birdie!”

“Crouch, you…” You force out through gritted teeth,your whole focus being on holding up that piece of stone afloat.

“Come on, don’t you want her to live? You should be grateful I’m doing this now. If you can’t even hold on this rock, how are you going to protect her from whatever it is Potter is training you for? If she’s going to die anyway, might as well do it today!”

“You do that- Potter is never going- let you see- sunlight-”

“Oh, Potsy-poo already gave me everything I wanted. Getting to kill someone again is just the cherry on top! Just a small, temporary snack for the soul. Because one day, when my Lord returns, I shall feast like a hero!”

“You Lord is dead! Potter killed him!”

“My Lord is immortal! And when he returns, we shall cover the world in dark-uhg!” His face scrunches up in pain as his Petrificus Totalus ends and Arty kicks him in the balls, slipping away from his grasp and rolling out from under the rock. You let your magic go and the stone falls with a great boom, cracking in half, and you fall to your knees, panting.

“Stupefy!” Arty shouts, aiming at Crouch who even in pain tries to roll away, only to find himself stuck between two great rocks and get hit in the chest. She kicks him once for good measure. “Your lord is dead, you utter twat! Get over it!”

She goes to your side.

“Are you alright?”

“I think I blew a magic fuse or two, but otherwise, yeah. Thanks for kicking him in the balls, I don’t think I could hold out much longer.”

“You’re welcome,“ she says, sitting down. “The good part of being small and less powerful is that people underestimate you, I guess.”

“How did you do it?” You ask, still gasping for breath. “How did you fight him for so long that day?”

“You just… you just keep on fighting. I don’t know. I get exhausted so often with spells that it’s easy to just keep on going. It’s like having a lot of things to do and being stressed because you can’t let your grades down, or your friends down, or your brother down, or your job… You get used to pushing through it. Even when the lights want to go out, you force it to keep going.”

“That… That isn’t healthy.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:28:06 No.5945841 Report

Quoted By: >>5945843 >>5945868 >>5945922

>>5945839

“No. I’d know it. But sometimes it is what you have to do, Crouch was right about that. It’s been five years of learning how to be exhausted, for me. I can fight until I drop, and if I’m angry I can fight even longer, even if it hurts. How do you think I fought in the armies?”

“Exhausted every time?”

“Almost always. It gets easier. Adrenaline makes it easier. Action makes it easier. Knowing how to do a lot with a little makes it easier. But you can do without it.”

“Alright,” you say. “Next step, learn how to fight until Madam Pomfrey screams at me for causing a magical exhaustion so severe she threatens to quit her job.”

“Hey, that’s my point of pride! Don’t you dare take it away!”

-- INTERLUDE --

The flames of one of the many fireplaces in St Mungo’s lights up green and from it comes a teenager dressed in blue-trimmed robes. He passes the guards and the reception without anyone bothering him. They have no reason to, after all. He’s a known sight in these parts.

He glances at the sign that explains the lower corridors are being renovated. He climbs up the stairs, passing the first, the second and third floors. He nods at the nurse at the entrance, and she nods back but doesn’t accompany him. She knows he knows the way.

He walks through the corridors until he arrives at the Janus Thickey Ward. He only needs a glance to find the couple he’s looking for. They are close to the window. He’s just watching the view. She is chewing something, wrappers of chocolate spread on her lap.

She didn't eat chocolate before. Her favorites had always been Droobles Blowing Gum. She gave him or his father a wrapper every time they came. But not recently. Not since-

He shakes his head and approaches a nurse. He asks if he can talk to his grandparents in a private room. She nods and approaches the couple by the window, who get up and follow her with empty looks that don’t quite match the ones they had just a few months before.

They arrive at a room and the nurse leaves them to themselves, letting him know to call for her once he’s done.

He casts wards. He casts silencing spells. He turns to them, tears in his eyes, gently reaching for his grandmother’s face with a shaky hand.

“I… I spoke to Elliot,” he says with a cracking voice. “He- he said… He said you weren’t you. He said you weren’t getting better. He- he said… He said…”

His grandmother’s hand touches his, and the look in her eyes breaks his heart into a million pieces.

“I’m sorry,” she says, the first words that voice has ever said to him.

And Brighton Longbottom howls like a wounded beast, unheard by anyone except the couple who are not his grandparents.

-- INTERLUDE OVER --

[Cont.]

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:28:57 No.5945842 Report

Quoted By: >>5945922

>>5945830
Yes.

Thanksgiving is going to be fun. Oh hi smutanon's mom! Your son writes the most interesting things! Have you ever read any? I can show you. Such a strong vocabulary! I never knew that's what a cream pie meant to kids these days. What a "deep dicking" meant! Or what a loli was. And those people online are so funny, there is this joke about total something death!

Very happy I moved out like 6 years ago.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:29:07 No.5945843 Report

Quoted By: >>5945845

>>5945841

It’s early Tuesday when Winter Nott approaches you and tells you Brighton asked you to go meet him in "the same place you met him last time". It is utterly pouring with rain, the February sky covered with dark clouds and the grass long turned to mud. When you arrive at the empty classroom, Brighton lunges at you, completely soaked and dripping, boots caked in mud. He grabs you by the collar and slams you against the wall with both hands.

“What did you do to them!?” He shouts, shaking you. His voice sounds filled with grief and anger and fury. He slams you against the wall again. “What did you do!?”

“Brighton… I told you the truth.”

“Liar! They were getting better! What did you do to them? Why- why do they- why do they think-” He asks, red eyes filled with tears that mix with the water covering his face and hair. He looks at you and through the anger you can see that he’s utterly terrified.

“They think they are Rowena and Godric because they are, Brighton,” you say, softly. “Because they are their hosts, just like I’m Helga’s host. And by staying in your grandparents, they are hurting them. Your grandparents’ souls can’t deal with the weight of carrying someone else. They are crumbling, and if that doesn’t change, they’ll die. I need someone to take the Founders in. I have someone who will accept Ravenclaw… But I need someone worthy of Gryffindor.”

His face turns into something agonized as you crush the last shred of hope he had. He crumples to the floor.

“I’m sorry, Brighton. I really am.”

He doesn’t answer, so you sit down beside him. You ignore the time, the clock that tells you that you have transfiguration classes, and the one after that that tells you it’s time for lunch, simply staying there with him.

“Why?” He asks after a long time, voice hoarse.

“I don’t know. It might have been my fault. I told you, I got sent to St Mungo’s because of that dementor. If the passageway to the creature is inside me, they may have escaped there and the only available hosts were them. But why is this whole thing happening? I don’t know.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:30:09 No.5945845 Report

Quoted By: >>5945851 >>5945885 >>5945890 >>5945912 >>5945922 >>5945931 >>5945960 >>5945983 >>5945987 >>5946188

>>5945843

“What… what do you want from me?” He asks, defeated.

“I want to help you help your grandparents. And I want your help to save the world and stop Salazar Slytherin. The entrance to Avalon takes three keys to open, the three Deathly Hallows. I have one. I need help to get the other two.”

“You fought me. You led an army against me with Helga Hufflepuff’s help. And you still almost lost.”

“Yeah,” you say, half laughing. “You’re pretty good. That’s why I need your help. We’re stealing from Potter. Professional aurors couldn’t do that. I need someone clever enough to find a way.”

There is another long silence before he speaks again.

“When we stop Salazar… When we break into Avalon… I want that power. I want to use it to- to fix my grandparents.”

“I don’t know what we’ll find there. I don’t know what the true form of the Elixir of Life is or what powers it has or how to use it. I don’t know if there is any magic that can heal a broken soul. But if there is…”

> I’ll use it to fix Arty first, then you can use it to fix them
> You’re free to use it first (Truth)
> You’re free to use it first (Lie)
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:42:19 No.5945851 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945845
>> You’re free to use it first (Truth)
he may be annoying but he's not a complete ass like Hugo

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:57:54 No.5945864 Report

Quoted By: >>5948581

Oh, and before I forget

> +3 to Battle Magic! New total: +45

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 22:02:55 No.5945868 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945839
I wanted to say BCJ's Petrificus Totalus couldn't be that strong. Arty is a little fucking badass. Our warrior princess, shield maiden, Valkyrie.

That is twice she got the killing blow. Got to step up our game.

Wish Elliot had been a little more enraged, used that to continue, but I guess when we snap, it will be the cold controlled anger. Not the hot bestial kind.

I wonder if Potter has a less gimped wand he could give BCJ, so we can get back to those sweet +5 gains, after Avalon? Or would something more useful let him use Unforgivables?

>>5945841
Ouch. Ouch, QM. I hadn't realized Alice was the Drooble's woman from when we came after the dementor. Or that she was saving the wrappers to give to her son or grandson as presents, because she still knew she wanted them to have something. Even if it was just a shiny piece of foil and paper. Even if she didn't know why she wanted to give them something

Brighton is a prat but fuck, he is a good grandson. The first words your grandmother ever says to you, the only time you have every heard her voice? And all it is, the only thing that voice can say is that you will grow up never getting to know her.

I think Brighton is for taking on Godric, to say the least. I also think to get them out, if possible he would be okay with bringing Alice and Frank back for a few minutes, even if their bodies die right after, like Rowena said was possible. To get to see his grandma and grand-dad back long enough to at least know something about them. Get a moment when there should have been decades. If that does happen, I suggest he and the Longbottoms bring a magic voice recorder. My mom has an old ass cell she keeps and that I helped transfer the files from, because it has a voice mail from my late grand mother on it, one of the only places where her voice is recorded.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 07 Mar 2024 22:25:57 No.5945885 Report

Quoted By: >>5945910 >>5945994

>>5945845
>I’ll use it to fix Arty first, then you can use it to fix them
i kinda want to let him use it first, only for experimentation sake, we dont exactly know what will happen there and if it ends up being a bad thing, we dont want to test that with Arty, but who knows if we´ll ever have another chance or if you can even use it multiple times to begin with
so i say Arty takes priority

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 07 Mar 2024 22:36:54 No.5945890 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945845
> You’re free to use it first (Truth)
He deserves it. Though we should probably be highly cautious around the whole ancient magic thing considering what happened with the one underneath Hogwarts.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 07 Mar 2024 23:01:36 No.5945910 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945885
>who knows if we´ll ever have another chance or if you can even use it multiple times

That is why I am thinking right now. Rowena said, "Of the Ancient Atlantean healing Arts, none remain", and she had scoured the known world at that point, on a wild goose chase to cure Merlin with a wig, A.K.A the 5th founder. What is in Avalon might just be the last magic in the world which can fix issues like what Arty has or what was done to the Longbottoms.

From a pure numbers perspective, a normal Arty would get like another 130-ish years if she was healed. Alice and Frank? A couple of decades at best, the state they are in.

What is wrong with those two is horrible, that their grand kid won't ever get to know them.

But there is that. Neville and Brighton never knew Frank and Alice. We do know Arty. In a real sense, the Longbottoms died 40 years ago. Arty is alive now. You can't sacrifice the present and future to chase the past.

Brightons pain is horrible but if his grandparents die as they are now, Neville and him will have exactly what they started with.

If Arty dies in 20 years, never having a child or seeing them grow old, is the tragedy less? No. It is far greater.

I will see what others say in case I am dumb but I will likely support Arty 1st at all costs, even if this is the trap option that makes Brighton go to Scorpius' side.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Thu 07 Mar 2024 23:05:24 No.5945912 Report

Quoted By: >>5945987

>>5945845
>> I’ll use it to fix Arty first, then you can use it to fix them

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Thu 07 Mar 2024 23:23:30 No.5945922 Report

Quoted By: >>5945960 >>5946005

>>5945841
Whew, close call. Good thing Arty's adorable AND kind of badass.
Poor Brighton.

>>5945845
> You’re free to use it first (Truth)
It's what Arty would want, I think. But make it clear we DO want to heal Arty, also.

>>5945842
You moved out 6 years ago but are still borrowing a computer/word processing program? Anon, why?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 07 Mar 2024 23:34:56 No.5945931 Report

Quoted By: >>5945960 >>5945978 >>5945987 >>5945988 >>5945994 >>5946005 >>5946188 >>5948681

>>5945845
>"I understand. I want to use it to fix Arty as well, but something tells me that we can't trust it. Potter said that the Philosopher's Stone is a false cure, and that all it does is create another Nicolas Flamel to override whoever uses it. This 'true form' could just be yet another hoax, one that perpetuates Merlin instead. Even if it isn't, there could be something nefarious about it that we don't understand. So when the time comes, just remember - we can't entirely trust what we know about it. We need to be careful, and understand what it REALLY does. Then we fix all of them, if we can."

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:02:41 No.5945960 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945931
Oh shit, forgot that twist about the stone.

>>5945845
Changing my vote from >>5945922 to
>"I understand. I want to use it to fix Arty as well, but something tells me that we can't trust it. Potter said that the Philosopher's Stone is a false cure, and that all it does is create another Nicolas Flamel to override whoever uses it. This 'true form' could just be yet another hoax, one that perpetuates Merlin instead. Even if it isn't, there could be something nefarious about it that we don't understand. So when the time comes, just remember - we can't entirely trust what we know about it. We need to be careful, and understand what it REALLY does. Then we fix all of them, if we can."

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:27:28 No.5945978 Report

Quoted By:

changing to >>5945931

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:32:51 No.5945983 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945845
> You’re free to use it first (Truth)
Its only fair. And if this somehow goes wrong Arty still got twenty years left, plenty of time to find the Holy Grail.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:34:24 No.5945987 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945845
>>5945912
I'll also change my vote to support >>5945931

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:35:13 No.5945988 Report

Quoted By: >>5945992 >>5945995

>>5945931
C'mon, Merlin wouldn't do that shit, though I guess I can understand the paranoia a bit

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:40:00 No.5945992 Report

Quoted By: >>5946012

>>5945988
from what we know merlin was an asshole, he definitely would

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:42:15 No.5945994 Report

Quoted By:

uugh, i wanted to secure Arty to be the first to be cured, but anon makes a pretty irrefutable point
chaning my vote >>5945885
to >>5945931

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:42:51 No.5945995 Report

Quoted By: >>5946012

>>5945988
Merlin seems to have been a timeless immortal who cheated on his most recent wife a bit, then masqueraded as her student after she kicked his ass to the curb, then later tricked her and her friends into a fate worse than death... HOPEFULLY, MAYBE for a good reason.... And then became a world-ending abomination.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 08 Mar 2024 00:54:03 No.5946005 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945922
I am cheap and I do not use Office for anything. This is the 1st time since college I have ever typed something longer than a page or three, and OpenOffice is terrible for big documents. I have never bought a single anime, never bought a subscription to CrunchyRoll or what have you. I still use my family's Netflix. I share my Prime with family and if friends want something, they can use mine to save on shipping. Me and my best friend go to CostCo together so we don't both have to have memberships.

It is the little things. I am no longer poor but I grew up that way.

>>5945931
Sure, I will support this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Fri 08 Mar 2024 01:06:14 No.5946012 Report

Quoted By: >>5946015 >>5946029

>>5945992
>>5945995
An asshole yeah, not an EVIL asshole. Also we are supposed to convince him to help us, not to curb his hopes. Elliot is supposed to be really excited about Avalon and shit, don't u-turn into being a jaded fuck like Potter already

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 08 Mar 2024 01:14:59 No.5946015 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946012
Flamel wasn't evil either, he was just a guy

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OZOGnSej Fri 08 Mar 2024 01:30:24 No.5946029 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946012
We don't need to be jaded, just realistic. We can still find a way, but he shouldn't jump to using Avalon without testing and experimenting properly, just like you wouldn't swig an experimental potion before determining if it's posion.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:18:39 No.5946166 Report

Quoted By: >>5946174 >>5946239 >>5946599

Right. I was writing the next update and heard the news that Akira Toriyama fucking died, so I'm going to go find something to do at the bottom of the closest alcohol bottle to pay respects to the man who made about a third of my whole childhood with Chrono Trigger alone, not to mention fucking Dragon Ball.

See you when it stops raining, anons.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:25:06 No.5946174 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946166
Oh. Oh shit. RIP Toriyama...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:34:01 No.5946186 Report

Quoted By:

god fucking dammit, more of the stuff i actually care is affected by that fucking guy
fiiiiine, go have your rest HeadQM

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OJiMnYbR Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:35:06 No.5946188 Report

Quoted By:

>>5945931
>>5945845
>support

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 08 Mar 2024 05:50:52 No.5946239 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946166
Pour one out for him. But also, Damn you Toriyama!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Fri 08 Mar 2024 19:06:04 No.5946599 Report

Quoted By: >>5947024

>>5946166
didn't know he did more than just anime stuff

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 09 Mar 2024 03:46:50 No.5946906 Report

Quoted By: >>5946907

“If there is something there that can heal a soul, I want to use it to fix Arty too. But you know just as much as me the stories about cursed artifacts found in ancient caves. You know stories of things that aren't what they seem to be. I want to believe Avalon will hold a cure, and if it does, we’ll use it to heal everyone we can. But please. We can’t rush in hoping for a miracle. We need to understand what it does before we risk… before we risk the people we love.”

He stands up with a blank expression on his face.

“Yeah. I know,” he says, and his voice sounds hollow, drained of all energy and mirth. “I know. Whenever you want to go there… I can take you. Just let me know.”

And he stumbles out of the room, barely seeing where he’s going.

--

“Brighton has agreed to join us,” you say. “I’m thinking me, Linda and him can go to St. Mungo’s this Saturday and get it done.”

“Alright, I’m game,” Linda nods.

“Ok, but it needs to be on Sunday,” Arty says. “Saturday we have a double date with Elend and Amalia.”

You grimace. “I forgot I had agreed to that. Do we need to go?”

“Of course we do!”

“Fine, Sunday it is. Then we can plan how we tackle Potter and his cloak.”

“And then Avalon,” Apollo says.

“And then Avalon,” you agree.

“Then not getting killed by Potter.”

“Yes, thank you for the reminder, Apollo.”

“You’re welcome.”

You leave the Room of Requirement, which you still haven’t shown Brighton as you weren’t quite sure what his reaction would be, and head for the dungeons to brew some more potions. The difficult part about carrying too many highly-powerful potions is that having highly reactive magical liquids stored close together could cause them to spontaneously and violently react, sometimes even through the bottles. High-ranking aurors like Potter solved the issue by having utility-belts in which each pocket contains an expanded space which could fit a single potion.

A belt like that, of course, was extremely expensive and out of your budget.

Still, you make sure you have enough Slowfall for everyone, and a good stock of Wiggenweld. Should you start making Polyjuice, you wonder? You couldn’t brew it in time for Avalon, but maybe it could help you with hiding from Potter.

You shake your head. One thing at a time. One problem after the next. If you start thinking about the size of the problem ahead of you, you feel like your head is going to explode, so you just look at the next step you have to take. You look to see if there are any other possible measures you need to take, anything you can be missing.

“Hey, you good?” Arty asks, peeking through the door.

“Yeah, just… Head filled with stuff.”

“Worried about them?”

“And us. And Brighton. And his grandmother,” you say, stirring the cauldron without paying attention. “I need to remember to tell him to get his grandmother to stop looking for healers.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 09 Mar 2024 03:47:51 No.5946907 Report

Quoted By: >>5946909 >>5946940 >>5948575

>>5946906

“Hey,” she says, putting her hand against your face and pulling it so you’re looking at her. “We got this.”

“I know. It’s just… Sometimes the world reminds you that it can be particularly dark, or particularly cruel, and that reminds me of the dark spots that happened to me. And that can take a while to pass.”

She kisses you.

“Does that help?”

“It does. It really does.”

“Do you… do you have nightmares?”

“Sometimes,” you nod. “Helga helps. You help. Sometimes I look in the mirror and see my face covered in scars. Sometimes there are people dead. Sometimes I'm dying. Sometimes it’s just Last Light again. It depends.”

“You know you can talk to me about that, right?”

“I know.” You shake your head, as if you were trying to wake yourself up, then you smile. “Sorry, I’m in a mood today. What time is it?”

“Almost time.”

You groan.

“Potter usually reserves his bullshit for Mondays, but I have a feeling he’s got something special planned for today.”

“Why?”

“Because we won last time with time to spare.”

A few minutes later, as you two stand upon that rock in the middle of the ocean with a crazy death eater, Potter tosses him his wand once more. But this time, it looks different.

“Here’s a less terrible wand this time, Crouch. Any permanent damage will be considered intentional, and I shall take back what I gave you if you do so.”

Potter disappears, Crouch grins and you brace yourself for one hell of a week.

--

When Saturday comes, you welcome it with open arms. Not having to deal with classes and Crouch is a blessing, every muscle in your body is sore. And yet, here you stand, in front of Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, which is utterly bursting at the seams with teenagers.

“What- what even is happening here!? Why did everyone decide to come today?”

“Dear boyfriend, what day is today?” Arty asks sweetly, her gloved fingers intertwined with yours.

“The… fifteenth? If I didn’t miscount, I think.”

“Of what month?”

“... February?”

“Which would make yesterday what?”

“The fourte- ah crap.”

“Indeed.”

“I’m so sorry, Arty. I completely forgot about it!”

She giggles.

“Really? I hadn’t noticed. What could possibly have been occupying your head that was more important than remembering Valentine’s Day? I can’t think of a single thing!”

“Sorry. I promise I’ll make it up to you.”

She hugs your arm.

“Don’t be silly, you’re doing plenty. Besides, we’re here to have tea with Elend and Amalia! I think that’ll be enough Valentine for the day, don’t you?”

You kiss her.

“Yeah, but… I don’t see us getting in there. The line is going around the block.”

“No need to worry,” Elend says, as he and Amalia arrive, arm in arm. “I made reservations.”

“I didn’t know they made reservations,” you say.

“Everyone makes reservations if you pay the person at the entrance enough," he says as if it was obvious. "Shall we go in?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 09 Mar 2024 03:48:53 No.5946909 Report

Quoted By: >>5946916 >>5946921 >>5946940 >>5946963 >>5946969 >>5946971 >>5947123 >>5947166 >>5947629

>>5946907

Sure enough, the girl at the entrance lets you through once she looks at Elend, taking you to a conspicuously empty table at the bustling restaurant. You take a while perusing the menu and its three sections. The cold brews, the hot teas and the hot teas, with hearts sprinkled over the page and innuendo dripping from its descriptions.

“So,” Amalia says, snuggling closer to Elend. “Do you think we should try the… House specialties?”

“Uh, I, uh, think I’ll stick with the normal tea, thank you.” Elend says.

“Come on! Live a little! It will be a new experience. Don’t you think, Arty?”

Arty seems like she was not expecting to be involved in the conversation.

“I, well, the last time me and Elliot were here we ordered from the… second section of the menu. They’re quite good.”

“Well, then that makes it a perfect opportunity to try something different!" She turns, searching for another ally. "Don’t you agree, Elliot?”

“Hah, well, I think I’ll stick to the normal tea too…”

> “But I think you and Elend should go for it.”
> “And if Elend doesn’t want to, he should stick to normal teas. No one is stopping you from trying it.”
> “And I think it’s best if we all do so.”
> Other (Write in)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 09 Mar 2024 03:59:03 No.5946916 Report

Quoted By: >>5946971 >>5947123

>>5946909
> “But I think you and Elend should go for it.”
And smirk, make it clear we're being a shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zFO2bZIs Sat 09 Mar 2024 04:04:50 No.5946921 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946909
>> “And if Elend doesn’t want to, he should stick to normal teas. No one is stopping you from trying it.”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 09 Mar 2024 04:31:50 No.5946940 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946907
>we leveld up Crouch´s wand
nice, whats our score after the training?
>>5946909
>“And I think it’s best if we all do so.”
she is gonna get him i trouble, lets be bros and save his ass, we can be smugh about how he missed on some pussy later

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 09 Mar 2024 04:58:02 No.5946963 Report

Quoted By: >>5946969

>>5946909
> “And if Elend doesn’t want to, he should stick to normal teas. No one is stopping you from trying it.”

Cool. BCJ has a better wand. Wonder it it is good enough to pull off a crucio.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 09 Mar 2024 05:03:54 No.5946969 Report

Quoted By: >>5946971 >>5947629

>>5946963
>>5946909

You know what, I want to be fun.

>Offer to get one as well if he does.

"Tell you what, I am down for it if you are, Elend. If for no other reason than to prove they are just an expensive gimmick. Aphrodisiacs don't exist, unless she is doping her brews with Love Poison, in which case the Aurors should be Apparating in any second. Take it from the best Potions student in Hogwarts."

Toss Amalia a bone here so she can get Elend's bone.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 09 Mar 2024 05:06:23 No.5946971 Report

Quoted By: >>5946977

>>5946969
+1, will back this brinkmanship

>>5946909
>>5946916 was my old vote, but I'm changing to this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 09 Mar 2024 05:12:22 No.5946977 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946971
And, just in case they ARE real, well we missed V-Day with Arty, soooo. Hehehe.

We also need to pick up a gift for her after Occulemency and dropping her off for work, to make up for forgetting.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Sat 09 Mar 2024 06:43:34 No.5947024 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946599
Man is super relevant to not only anime but videogames as a whole.
Between Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger's art concepts alone, he shaped what JRPG aesthetics and settings would look like essentially.
Final Fantasy would effectively not exist without Dragon Quest and so forth.

His death hit me almost harder over the vidya aspects than DBZ alone. Not to say it didn't do it because of that also, but I'd also just replayed Chrono Trigger on my phone 2 months ago.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 09 Mar 2024 09:35:03 No.5947098 Report

Quoted By: >>5947104 >>5947173 >>5949315

https://rentry.org/s6nxfywz

Here is the Valentines lewdfic. Enjoy or don't.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 09 Mar 2024 09:43:09 No.5947104 Report

Quoted By:

>>5947098
oh hell yeah! gonna read this as soon as i can
thanks for this anon

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zfZ+xDTJ Sat 09 Mar 2024 10:37:20 No.5947123 Report

Quoted By: >>5947193 >>5947697

>>5946916
Support.

>>5946909
You know, I was thinking. If/when we steal the hallows and are making our getaway, we should totally stick around a little for future Potter to show up just so we can have a chat with him to hopefully dodge any murder sprees later on. The man is already abusing the time turner (which I also suspect is going to be relevant since it was created by Merlin), and he's guaranteed to use it to find out who stole the Hallows, and if need be we can always ambush him to get him out of the game, maybe even steal the marauders map to get his location.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Sat 09 Mar 2024 12:54:36 No.5947166 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946909
>“And I think it’s best if we all do so.”

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 09 Mar 2024 13:13:05 No.5947173 Report

Quoted By: >>5947697

>>5947098
i noticed an improvement since your last fanfic, nicely done
im still a bit mixed on the way you portrait Arty, like, i can see her being like that if she gets horny enough, but the way is writen feels a bit rushed or sudden
still tho, very nice job, it was a great read and cant wait for more if you ever do more

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Ge1aHJS7 Sat 09 Mar 2024 13:53:18 No.5947193 Report

Quoted By: >>5947697

>>5947123
We could maybe prevent him from time turning on us if we time our heist to be during Battle Class. Remember Brighton figured out he was using it to keep everyone safe? Although, he gets five uses a day and four Harry Potter's keeping track of everyone is already plenty safe

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OJiMnYbR Sun 10 Mar 2024 00:16:30 No.5947629 Report

Quoted By:

>>5946969
>support
>>5946909

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 01:32:06 No.5947697 Report

Quoted By: >>5961969

>>5947173
Thank you for checking it out, if only 2 people read my shit, it makes me feel good because it was fun to write again after all these years. I felt a bit better about this one. And if stuff seems a bit rushed, consider this to be a time line where in addition to the Interdict of Merlin, there is also the InterDick of Merlin, which makes everyone as horny as the characters in a mid 2000's CineMax porno, like 30% greater than they should be. I also did this over a while. Some days I wanted cute, some angsty, some to be clever, some just pure smut. So I am sure there were odd tonal shifts.

I did want to do one of Raven "helping" out Arty for her date with Elliot, maybe. I was also going to put a short aside with Riley and Apollo at the end of this one but it was already longer than I wanted. If I ever do that last one, it will be 95% smut free and short, since even I have some issues with portraying an autistic boy getting his soul sucked out by a Merula clone.

>>5947193
The way I see it, we can either swipe the turner. Not happening.

We could engineer enough crises at once during the heist that he can't use the time turner again to find out we took it. Also means a bunch of Potters running around who can't do anything which would let them meet each other. Delay him finding out longer than an hour so even turning won't help him. Create a situation where him catching us would create a paradox and have his past self meet his future one and therefore make him unable to turn back.

We can also grab them, have him catch one person but it ends up being someone else who actually gets the stuff. Confirmation bias his ass.

I hate time travel shit so much and Rowling's is shitty.

One thing in our favor, we do have the smartest guy in school on the team now and he comes with 2 goons, Summer and Winter. They can't learn too much but we may be able to use the other set of twins in Hogwarts somehow.

Apollo might be able to get Riley to run some interference, maybe Falere too if we paid her off and she has Head Girl privileges.

If we count the possible additional help, we aren't quite Ocean's 11, but Hallaster's 9 still sounds pretty cool.

>>5947123
>(which I also suspect is going to be relevant since it was created by Merlin)

Maybe that is why he can't recall Elliot, some how? I am sure Lily II stole and used it at least once too. All the other Turners are in the Nothing void, a part of the beast. Could be a link.

>we can always ambush him to get him out of the game

Potter was confident he could beat 4 skilled adult wizards alone when he offered to follow us, invisible, to protect us. Hell, even against the 6 who ended showing, I don't think they could have taken him down. We might have died before he drove them off but he would be okay. He did pull a reverse ambush, granted, but you saw how badly he kicked Elliot's shit in. Having a few other people isn't going to do much, I think.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 10 Mar 2024 01:40:29 No.5947710 Report

Quoted By: >>5947719 >>5947734

wait, i just thought of something
we have Helga inside us and we dont show up in the marauders map.
how about Godrics and Rowena´s current bodies? would they also not show up in the map? if they wont, maybe, if we play our cards right, they could give their bodies a final push and help us with the heists?
just some wild theory thinking...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 10 Mar 2024 01:43:36 No.5947719 Report

Quoted By: >>5947734

>>5947710
I think we, specifically, don't show up because Merlin/The Beast is attached to us. Scorpius and Lily presumably both showed up; Potter would have noticed if they didn't.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 01:53:44 No.5947734 Report

Quoted By:

>>5947719
We know for a fact Scorpius shows up, Potter confirmed he was eating in the great hall so we could hide the Stone better w/o being followed. And we don't show up for plot reasons, probably, whether it is the Merlin Beast or just something tangentially related.

>>5947710
None of the mind spirits show up, which implies the map can only track living beings. Oh fuck is Elliot actually dead? Ahhhhh. Like it cant find ghosts I bet.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 02:05:46 No.5947755 Report

Quoted By: >>5947823

I wonder if Winky could be used, in some way? House Elves are loyal to their masters, who for most of the ones here will be the headmaster, but if we told Winky her original master was still alive, being held captive by Potter, would that revert her loyalty to BCJ and let her do shit in direct defiance of the Hogwart's staff? I don't think house elves can be tracked by the map, probably. They can also apparate in the school and know it like the back of their hands.

Promise to get him out of there in exchange for her aid? I hate Crouch but... might be an option. We did ask Arty to talk to the elves for a reason.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 10 Mar 2024 03:29:32 No.5947823 Report

Quoted By: >>5947868

>>5947755
The Longbottoms are somewhat likely to have loyal house-elves to them, being one of the Sacred 28. Purebloods of excellent pedigree. Even married some Blacks at one point or another.
Probably treat them a lot better than the blacks treated theirs, I'd reckon.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 04:05:59 No.5947868 Report

Quoted By: >>5947966

>>5947823
I cant find anything about them having any during the time of the books, but maybe Neville and Hannah got one? I kinda feel it unlikely. I did find this when verifying:

>"Thing was they bit off a bit more than they can chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably thought they didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway, Dawlish is still in St Mungo's and Gran's on the run."

Don't fuck with magical grandmas. 20 years ago, Agusta sent a fully trained Auror to St. Mungo's, despite being like 100 years old. Was very good at transfiguration. Lived through Grindlewald, Voldemort 1 and Voldemort 2: Electric Bogaloo. Bad ass old lady. Its really going to hurt when she sees Frank and Alice go back to being like they were before Godric and Rowena possessed them. Maybe, Brighton can tell her what is going on, in the vaguest terms, and that he is going to try and fix them? I feel bad for her.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 10 Mar 2024 07:16:34 No.5947966 Report

Quoted By:

>>5947868
>"Thing was they bit off a bit more than they can chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably thought they didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway, Dawlish is still in St Mungo's and Gran's on the run."
How strange. Why would a pureblood family like that not have some house elves in their service? Unless they weren't including elves in the idea of 'living alone', but that seems a bit off for Longbottoms.
Alright, here's my theory. The house-elves that served the Longbottoms were killed around the same timeframe as when Alice and Frank were tortured. Perhaps they tried to protect their masters, and paid the price for it. Maybe it was when Frank was kidnapped, as he was first. Maybe when Alice was. But I just can't see one of THE 28 purest pureblood families, progressive though they might be, not having even one at some point.
Or maybe I'm retarded and Gran decided to send the elves away so they wouldn't get hurt when she opened up a can of whoopass.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 10 Mar 2024 07:32:25 No.5947974 Report

Quoted By: >>5947975

It is late and the update already has 9k+ words, so let's post what I wrote by now and finish up tomorrow.

--

“I think I’ll stick to the normal tea too… Unless you want to make a bet, Elend. You are from a rich family, probably know a lot about teas, don’t you?”

“A fair amount,” he says hesitantly.

“Well, none of the teas in here have their actual ingredients listed. We let the girls pick one, and try to guess what’s in them. Whoever gets the other one to agree with them first wins. If there are several ingredients, whoever guesses most wins.”

“Wins what, exactly?”

“Well, money won’t sway you, so… a potion, one that you can’t buy easily. Polyjuice. You win, I brew you some. I win, you get me the ingredients.” You already had ingredients for Polyjuice, but it never hurt to have more. Besides, you trusted your ability to distinguish ingredients based on taste after so many years of brewing. “I’m sure you can think of something to do with polyjuice.”

You can see the gears on his head turning.

“You don’t believe the teas are real?”

“Not for a moment. You’re muggleborn, you know what placebo is. If this is simply tea, not a potion, then it should not have any magical effects, and muggles don’t know of any actual aphrodisiacs,” you say. “Besides, if this was real, the ministry would have done something about it, I think. No, it is just an excuse for teenagers to claim things happened for a reason that doesn’t involve them being teenagers. I would like to test such an assumption and require someone to test with to compare results.”

“And if you are wrong?”

“Then things get awkward. But if I am right, you get to know something they don’t, and when you are older you can come in with your own business and use that to your advantage. Or make your own muggle business with the aphrodisiacs you met here. Come on, aren’t you willing to take a risk? I thought you were a Gryffindor.”

You just had to frame these things the right way.

“I would like you to know I know exactly what you’re doing.”

“Does it make it any less effective?”

He purses his lips.

“No. Polyjuice?”

“In a month, because that’s how long it takes to brew.”

He sighs. “I am sure I’m going to regret this, and I am going to blame it on you.” He pushed the menu in the girls’ direction. “Very well. Pick one.”

Arty and Amalia immediately break out in excited whispers, pointing at the many options in front of them. Elend simply stares at you, narrow-eyed.

“Did she put you up to this?” He asks silently with only a glance in Amalia’s direction.

You grin and shake your head in response, which you hope he’ll interpret as “No, I’m just having fun.”

The girls’ teas arrive first, while yours takes much longer, letting you four chat away while waiting. When it arrives, it is deeply floral, with small black bits floating on it. You both raise your teacups, him doing it with far more elegance than you, and take a gentle sip.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 10 Mar 2024 07:33:27 No.5947975 Report

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>>5947974

“Pepper, obviously,” he says.

“Yes, but what kind? And that’s just the black bits. There are a few other ingredients here, and at least a couple of countries.”

“China.”

“And India. Maybe a third. Ah, long pepper.” You say, pleased. You take another long sip.

“Damn you, I was about to say that.” He drinks some more too, savoring it for a while. “What’s the tang on it?”

“Tamarind? Plum?”

“Was that a question or a statement?”

“A statement if it was correct, a question if it was wrong.”

“Borojo!”

“The fuck’s a borojo?” you ask, taking another sip.

“South-american fruit, though I have never seen it as tea.”

“I’m afraid my south-american cuisine is lacking. But my chinese isn’t. Barrenwort.”

“Damn it. Is that it? Surely, there must be something else-”

He stops. You stop. You two glance at each other with a look that says the same exact two words.

“Oh no.”

It is an entirely silent conversation once again, made only through looks.

“Are you-”

“Yes, were your ingredients also known as-”

“Yes. You ever wonder why some people thought they worked?”

“Because maybe they did, but only on a certain part of the population-”

“Wizards, specifically. That would explain why some muggles believed they worked but scientists couldn’t prove it.”

“Crap.”

“Crap.”

It’s amazing how much can be spoken in instants without a single word being said.

“Hey, Elliot,” Helga says in your head. “There is this term I saw floating around in your head that I was wondering about. What exactly is this ‘highsight’ thing?”

“Shut it, Puffpuff. I have bigger things to worry about!”

“It is certainly getting bigger by the second!” She says, then enters a giggling fit so profound she can no longer answer.

And this is the leader of the Hufflepuff house. It is a wonder they haven’t collapsed already.

You gently put your cup down, two thirds of it gone, trying to ignore the fact your bodily temperature is rising steadily.

“I think that covers it all don’t you think?”

“Yes,” he says, dignifiedly. “Unfortunately so. But the aphrodisiac part is nonsense, of course.”

“I told you,” you answer with careful control over your facial muscles. “What did you two get?”

“Oh, just the normal tea,” Amalia says, disappointed. “Did it really not work?”

“Do you think the Ministry would allow it if it did?” Elend says, as if the idea was utterly absurd.

“Who knows? Wizards are crazy, sometimes. Most of the time, in fact. Is it good, at least?”

“Nothing exceptional to talk about.”

“Really?” she asks. “You two seemed really into it.”

“Well, finding the ingredients is a fun task if you’re a potioneer or tea enthusiast.”

“Let me try it!” She says, reaching for Elend’s cup. There is a moment of worry his eyes widen just a smidge before he casually reaches into his robes. “Ah, it’s all gone already?”

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 10 Mar 2024 07:34:28 No.5947978 Report

Quoted By: >>5947980

>>5947975

“Sorry,” he says. “It would be impolite to let it get cold.” Then he turns to you. “You should finish up yours, Elliot.”

“Ah, of course,” you say, smiling pleasantly, reaching for the cup with your left hand as the goes into your robes for your wand, so you can silently vanish the rest of the liquid as Elend had just done. You silently flick it and… nothing happens.

You try again, the cup reaching your closed mouth, but still nothing happens. You feel the magic leave you, but the cup just doesn’t drain, almost as if someone was countering it.

You see the twitch of a grin on Elend’s mouth.

Alright, two can play this game.

You drink a miniscule amount before putting it down again. “You can have mine, if you want.”

The grin disappears.

“Thank you, ex-commander!” She says, gleefully taking the cup from your hands.

--

You’re soon off the shop, once more trudging through the snow. Arty is a few paces ahead, chatting excitedly with Amalia, while you and Elend are behind, thanking the fact it is winter and you are wearing bulkier clothes.

You are sweating under yours, and you’re sure he is too.

Under silent agreement, the bet had been canceled due to perfectly foreseeable and yet unforeseen circumstances.

“I’m going to kill you, ex-commander.”

“Well, at least we discovered something new! And besides, I’m sure you don’t mind.”

“I do, actually. I plan to wait for a while.”

“You’re the type to wait until marriage?” You ask, surprised.

“No, I’m the type to wait until I’m sure the lady isn’t after my fortune.“

“Oh, come on. It’s Amalia, she’s cool.”

“You’d be surprised how long someone can fake a relationship. My brother had a girlfriend for a full year before he overheard her tell her friends how she was planning on getting pregnant then bailing on him with the pension.”

“Ooof. That must have hurt.”

“Yeah. And you have just made it severely more difficult for me to… control my desires.”

“But probably made it easier for you to control hers-ouch!” He elbows you in the ribs. “Sorry. But you know there are anti-pregnancy potions for men, right? I mean, you have to drink them before but-”

“It’s not about that. I intend to have…” he searches for the right word, “Relations with someone that has genuine feelings for me. Once I have no doubt I have found that person, I’ll do it. But I don’t want it to be with someone who intends to trick me. Besides, we've only been together for a month.”

“Some people move at different paces than others. The question is, what pace are you on? And when are you going to decide that she’s proven herself enough?”

“I… I don’t know.” He looks pensive, even through the effects of the tea. “I just don’t want to look back at… at my first time and discover that it was a lie. Or that I didn't love her.”

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 10 Mar 2024 07:35:30 No.5947980 Report

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>>5947978

“As my father once said, statistically she's not the one. You're probably going to eventually split up. And that's fine. You have to live a little. But if your only worry is whether or not she's after your money, either you trust her or you don't. If you do, you know what to do, if you don't, you also know what to do. I’m not going to lecture a Gryffindor on bravery but… You're going to have to take the plunge with someone. At least with potions you know there aren't any lasting consequences.”

“Is ‘taking the plunge’ an innuendo?” He asks with a smirk.

You laugh. “No, but I’m sure I know someone who can make it sound like one.”

“You and everyone in the Raiders. Raven is a menace. A good kind of menage, but still a menace.” From where you’re standing, you can see as Amalia suddenly shivers. “Ah bollocks, I think that’s the rest of your tea taking effect on her.”

“It’s not mind control,” you say. “It’s just hormones.”

“Doesn’t make it easy.”

“Well, if you need it, do you know where Madam Pomfrey keeps the potions?”

“Yeah, my brother told me to look for it before my third year. I’m aware.”

“Good, then you know what to do if you decide to-” “Don’t you say it-” “Take the plunge.”

He groans, and as you reach the Three Broomsticks and Amalia approaches and takes Elend’s arm looking flustered, you have no doubts the boy has his work cut out for him, no matter what he decides to do.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 08:12:19 No.5947993 Report

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Hahahahaha.

I am so fucking happy my thing won. Bonding moment with Elend. Getting Amalia some dick. Arty about to get the best kiss of her life. Us learning something about ingredients.

When we are both ready, Arty and Elliot need to make another trip up there. Could be fun.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 18:01:22 No.5948216 Report

Quoted By: >>5948219 >>5948221 >>5948254 >>5948376 >>5948407 >>5948681

Oh fuck. I figured it out, I think. Merlin wasn't able to live so long because of a True Stone of Philosophy, of Immortality. He was a mind parasite. When he was getting old, he used a controlled version of how the Founders ended up in their hosts to transfer into a new body, probably when they were just an infant or later just made a new husk for him to occupy.

Rowena had knowledge of how this shit worked, which means Merlin knew how it worked. It wasn't his prowess in Transfiguration that let him seem to be a Hogwarts student. He had copied his mind into another body. It was the fact he could body jack people that let him live so long.

Merlin had all three of the Hallows. He was "The Master of Death". And the only way to beat death is to not play his game.

Laioken, the 5th Founder said the Spirit of Atlantis lived in him. Not the blood of Atlantis.

Merlin was the last of the Atlanteans, one who avoided them being ripped by time by jumping into a new body when what ever happened happened to them. Fuck, he might have caused time to destroy them to spite his rivals.

He sacrificed the founders, tried to create the Interdict because he saw how modern Wizards were progressing and didn't want anyone becoming more powerful than him.

What we are going to find in "Avalon" is a place Merlin could create a new body for himself and transfer his mind to it. Not a place of healing but of horror.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 18:07:04 No.5948219 Report

Quoted By: >>5948221 >>5948681 >>5949952

>>5948216
To expound, Flammel's shit version of the Philosopher's Stone transferred a crappy copy of him to the people who held the magic rock. Merlin's method should have been perfect. A perfect copy of him, forever and ever.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 10 Mar 2024 18:16:48 No.5948221 Report

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>>5948216
>>5948219
Oh god, I think you're right. Waitta' spoil the moment! Brilliant deduction, though.

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Sun 10 Mar 2024 19:05:54 No.5948254 Report

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>>5948216
this fucking explains everything, especially salazar's motive for going there, holy shit

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sun 10 Mar 2024 21:07:05 No.5948376 Report

Quoted By: >>5948533 >>5948681

>>5948216
Fucking Dr Bright.

This does explain a lot, especially if Arthur's body is chilling in Avalon just waiting to get possessed. I'm still not 100% on the reason for the Interdict being jealousy over modern wizards, I feel like there's a better reason for nerfing reality than petty jealousy, but maybe not. Also I still don't get how people know it's his interdict when there was no-one left after the fact.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 10 Mar 2024 21:41:29 No.5948407 Report

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>>5948216
that....makes a lot of sense...
fuck, they question is, what do we do now? do we let brighton experiment with his grandparents to test this theory? because i know for a fact that if this is true, im not letting Arty anywhere close to that

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sun 10 Mar 2024 21:51:07 No.5948418 Report

Quoted By: >>5948421 >>5948533 >>5948681

OH FUCK that's why having Potter around is so dangerous if he touches that thing the most powerful living wizard in the world then gets possessed by the most powerful (evil?) wizard of all time.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 10 Mar 2024 21:52:50 No.5948421 Report

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>>5948418

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 23:38:41 No.5948533 Report

Quoted By: >>5948541 >>5948681

>>5948418
Didn't think about that, but after a nap, yeah the Stone, in addition to being used to transfer his consciousness, has a back up copy of him in it. If we could somehow exorcise that backup, reformat the drive, it could be used by other people.

Also, kinda weird that all the Founders Spirits, which have a shard of Merlin in them, are pushing thier hosts to find Avalon. How Salazar and Helga pushed us to find the Last Light. Are they all Manchurian ghosts because of the bits of Merlin in them? Pushing their hosts to secure Merlin's revival?

>>5948376
My other theory was the Interdict was to stop Wizards from becoming too arrogant and picking a fight with muggles in the far future. We have modern weaponry and near instant info transfer. There are a lot, a lot more muggles than Wizards. They lose that fight, and badly.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 10 Mar 2024 23:44:15 No.5948541 Report

Quoted By: >>5948547 >>5948681

>>5948533
>My other theory was the Interdict was to stop Wizards from becoming too arrogant and picking a fight with muggles in the far future.
Could be both, if Merlin was a defector from Atlantis. Maybe he saw the corruption of Atlantis, or even what caused it to fall, and was using his 'immortality' to steer the world away from similar catastrophe... But to do so, he thought his continued stewardship was necessary?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 10 Mar 2024 23:52:46 No.5948547 Report

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>>5948541
That is the most charitable option. Still sounds like an arrogant dick.

And Merlin was clairvoyant. He created the Hall of Prophesy. He had to know creating the Inderdict had the chance of fucking him too. Leaving behind the means for his return, even after being shattered into a million pieces, that would have been a near guarantee.

Is the beast a good guy? The final solution to the Merlin problem?

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 11 Mar 2024 00:26:38 No.5948575 Report

Quoted By: >>5948581 >>5948639

>>5946907
ok, so, before the next update arrives, just a reminder that we had practice with Crouch but no update on our battle rolls

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 11 Mar 2024 00:29:19 No.5948581 Report

Quoted By: >>5948588

>>5948575
The update to the battle rolls was here: >>5945864
I just forgot to put it on the main post. The "second part" of the training was included in that bonus

And the rest of the update is coming soon!

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 11 Mar 2024 00:32:34 No.5948588 Report

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>>5948581
oh man, im stupid...and blind apparently, sorry about that
keep on the good work

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 11 Mar 2024 01:29:34 No.5948639 Report

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>>5948588
We are now as good as Lily was, exactly. Salazar could get another +20 from her body but Helga gives a +25 now. Better than even odds now, if we could redo Last Light.

Recall how people were in awe of Lily's battle skill. We are now there. Badass. Add a girding and Maxima potion, maybe an Eredus? We would probably have a plus eighty fucking five minimum. For those keeping count, that is better than Potter's fucking around bonus. Though I bet his real bonus is in the low 100s. And he still has his BS special ability, which I want to steal.

And we got that bonus over like a half year. Salazar had to push Lily for over a decade to get that. She still probably had a much better catalogue of spells than us but still. 6 months to equal an older girl with god tier genetics, a very powerful wizard teaching her, and years of work?

Picrel.

Is Elliot a battle protege as well as a potions one?

>>5948575
I wonder if our final test with Crouch might be Potter just giving him a normal wand with ours and Arty's only objective is "Survive". He would have to be pretty fucking crazy at that point but I feel like he is making a downward slide.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:19:09 No.5948681 Report

Quoted By: >>5948693 >>5948700

>>5948216
>>5948219
>>5948221
>>5948254
>>5948376
>>5948407
>>5948418
>>5948421
>>5948533
>>5948541
>>5948547
I thought this was a pretty obvious theory to already have? I mean, I even alluded to it in my write-in at >>5945931

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:23:07 No.5948693 Report

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>>5948681
True, but I didn't piece it together that tales of Avalon as a magical healing realm could just be a way for Merlin to lure hosts for his consciousness in, so he can possess them.

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>>5948681
I thought you guys were the same person

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:30:11 No.5948701 Report

Quoted By: >>5948703 >>5948963

The visit to the teashop had been brief as you had to leave quickly to both get to Arty’s job in time and to avoid further embarrassment and unwanted reactions, and you thank Merlin that your Occlumency classes were in the morning, not in the afternoon. Fortunately for Arty, with great part of the students being at Madam Puddifoot's, her work is not as busy and she can spend plenty of time with you between orders.

Unfortunately for your tea-drinking self, that makes the next couple of hours torture. Every time she touches or kisses you, you feel your senses heightened, your skin sensitive. Even the rustling of your own clothes against your body arouses a reaction, but her lips against yours send sparks flying on your brain.

Why, yes, the ministry did allow the damn teashop to sell working aphrodisiacs. Did they think it simply fell under the category of “harmless entertainment”? Well, considering the time it took for them to ban Love Potions, it wasn’t all that surprising. You try focusing on your homework to take your mind away from your body, but it is quite difficult. Arty is particularly loving today, giving you kisses on the cheek as she skates by or bending over your shoulder to ask what you’re reading, or just being around and making your mind wander.

Without any release, it takes a while for the effects to pass, but eventually you return to your normal self. The afternoon passes and evening arrives, and you eventually trudge back to Hogwarts. Before you can get there, however, Arty pulls you into the Forbidden Forest. You two go for a while with her avoiding all your questions about where you’re going before she stops at a clearing and turns to you.

“Did you have a pleasant late Valentine’s day, boyfriend?”

“The tea shop was fun,” you say. “Elend and Amalia are always good company.”

“Uh-huh. And was it also fun pretending that the tea didn’t affect you?” She asks, innocently.

“Ah… Less fun. I didn’t think you had noticed.”

She giggles. “Amalia didn’t. But we’ve slept together. I…” She bites her lip. “I know what is hiding under there. I know what to look for. Or, well, have some idea.”

“So the whole day, when you were hugging and kissing me-”

“It was loads of fun to make you squirm, Lord Hallaster.” She pulls you close and kisses you, pressing you against a nearby tree. “But I can’t help but notice we skipped a part of the tradition. Usually, couples get each other gifts on Valentine’s day.”

“Trust me,” you say, wrapping an arm around her waist. “I was looking all over for a box of chocolates while we were walking around, but every single store in Hogsmeade has run out of them.”

“I know. I was looking for them, too. So, I was thinking that we could do… something else.”

You swallow dry. The look in her eyes brings you shivers of the very, very good variety.

“Really? Like what?”

She presses her hand against your chest, your faces almost touching, her blue eyes looking deeply into yours.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:31:13 No.5948703 Report

Quoted By: >>5948707 >>5948963

>>5948701

“I was thinking that instead of gifts… we could do each other… favors.”

“What kind of favors?”

She slowly starts to slide her hands downwards. When she reaches your bellybutton, her confidence cracks a bit.

“The type where Helga goes away for a bit,” she says, voice slightly shaky, and in the cold of the night you can see her ragged breath. “And my hands do something they shouldn’t.”

You gasp as her hands do something they shouldn’t.

“But that would mean… ah… that I’d have to…” It gets really difficult to think and even speak, even more difficult than when you had drunk that tea. “That my hands would have to… oh Merlin… Give you a favor… back.”

Never breaking eye contact, never stopping even though her cheeks are blushing, she nods. She reaches for your hand and presses it against her body.

“Yes, yes they should.”

--

You two stay intertwined for a while after you’re done defiling the forest grounds.

“You had been planning this,” you say, accusatoringly. “When I got on the thestral you said that when I got back, that ‘we’d see’.”

“Well, we didn’t see it,” she says, chuckling. And it was technically true. You had simply looked in each other's eyes until the inevitable had happened, the vision seared forever in your memory. “But I was wondering about it for a while. Your picture didn’t help.”

“Did you… use it?”

She blushes and doesn’t answer, which in your books is better than answering.

“Was Helga peeking?” She asks.

“Did you want her to be?”

“I’m not going to say that it didn’t cross my mind, in both a good and a bad way.”

You chuckle. “No, she was somewhere in her forest. Though now she is letting me know she does not approve of it, because she is a hypocrite.”

“I did not say that last part!” She shouts in your head, but you ignore her.

“I blame it on you,” she says, kissing your neck. “You have been corrupting me.”

“Yes, I have been corrupting you.” You allow your voice to be dripping with sarcasm. “As far as I recall, I wasn’t the first one to give the other a picture of themselves with their chest exposed.”

“All part of your master plan. How can a poor Hufflepuff hope to resist the charms of such a powerful and dashing Slytherin?”

“Of course. I am truly a mastermind.”

“Except for the time you drank aphrodisiac tea.”

“Yeah, there was that time.”

You two stay in each other’s warmth for a while before the night grows late.

“We should head back, or Apollo may send another Patronus,” you say, chuckling with only a hint of nervousness. Having to tell a glowing bear that you had just been delayed and that everything was fine while pretending that nothing else was happening, while knowing its sender would sever every limb from your body if he knew what his sister had her hands on, or if he knew what you had your hands on (namely, his sister) had certainly made the experience more memorable, but not quite something you intended to repeat.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:32:15 No.5948707 Report

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>>5948703

“Yeah,” she kisses you again. “And next saturday…”

“Next saturday? What happens next saturday?”

“Next saturday… We’ll see.”

She winks at you and dashes out in the direction of the castle, and you can’t help but follow.

--

The following day, you wait for Arty as usual, but once her shift ends, she goes back to Hogwarts with Apollo while you stay behind with Linda. Of course, by then you no longer look like you, thanks to Apollo. You wander the streets of Hogsmeade a bit, waiting until you see Brighton arrive.

“Is that you, Marco?” He asks when you two approach him.

“The fuck are you talking about, Brighton?”

“Just checking. You don’t ask someone you don’t know the identity of if they are the person who they might not be. Come on, the place should be almost deserted by now.”

You enter the Three Broomsticks again, and Brighton goes away to talk to his mom for a bit. He comes back and nods at you in the direction of the fireplace, tossing some floo powder in it and disappearing in the green flames. You follow, and moments later you’re walking the halls of the hospital. Brighton spares a glance at the section being renovated before climbing to the fourth floor.

His face tightens when he sees his grandparents.

The nurses take the five of you to a separate room and Brighton tries setting up privacy enchantments. When he fails for the third time because his hands are shaking too much, you take pity and do it for him.

“Well… Here we are.”

The two of them continue looking at nothing.

“Ah, yes,” you realize. “It’s me, Elliot. This is just a disguise. This is my friend, Linda.”

The two of them focus their eyes on you two and Brighton’s breathing hitches.

“We’re here so- so you can-” he tries speaking, but the words seem to refuse to come out.

“You two can’t stay in those bodies,” you say. “It’s too dangerous. And it wouldn’t be right for them. It wouldn’t be right to do that to Brighton and the Longbottoms. They really think you’re getting better. Augusta has been off the country, searching for healers to help you. It’s… cruel to keep them like that. So these are your new hosts. Linda for you, Brighton for Godric.”

“Are you sure-” Brighton tries again. Tears are running down his face even though he fights them. “Are you sure there’s- there’s nothing you can do-”

“I’m sorry, but there isn’t.” Ravenclaw shakes the head of Alice. “I would love to help them but… I’m just a spirit. Less than a ghost. I told Elliot before, if we tried we could join their minds together for a few minutes but… It would be a last gasp. Their minds would crumble entirely and their bodies would fail.”

Brighton nods and almost folds into himself, backing away to the furthest corner of the room, as if he could hide there.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:33:16 No.5948710 Report

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>>5948707

“Are you sure this is the best way forward?” Godric asks. “If we do this, there is no saying when we will be… whole again to surface in their minds, no saying when he’ll be able to use my powers to use magic without a wand. Might be a day, might be weeks.”

“If we stay, we can help you when the time comes to get into Avalon. If we leave these hosts… you might not have us.” Rowena says. “But I would be a fool to not go with whatever you choose. You are of this time, you know it better, and you know more of what Salazar is planning. I just ask if you are certain.”

> Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.
> No, you are right. Best if we wait until after getting into Avalon.

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Anonymous ID:9oirztGK Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:42:07 No.5948725 Report

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>>5948710
>> Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.
Didn't want to but we already collectively decided, and quests can get messy if we dillydally too much.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:57:12 No.5948738 Report

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>>5948710
>Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.
better to rip-off the band-aid already, the longere we wait, the longer it will take for them to come back

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 11 Mar 2024 03:01:11 No.5948742 Report

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>>5948710
> Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.
Though I do wonder if it would have been a good idea to put Godric in Potter's head. Oh well, too late now.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 11 Mar 2024 03:12:53 No.5948756 Report

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>>5948710
> Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Mon 11 Mar 2024 03:36:08 No.5948780 Report

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>>5948710
>> Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 11 Mar 2024 03:54:43 No.5948797 Report

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>>5948710
> Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.
Also important is that the sooner they leave, the longer Frank and Alice will live. Every minute they stay takes it toll on those hosts.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 11 Mar 2024 04:04:29 No.5948806 Report

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>>5948710
> Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.

To do this to them, it is to much. Far too much. Brighton, he is the last scion of the house. He agrees... with what we must do. They will cry, but... I don't want to let them have false hope. We may be able to help Alice and Frank, though I have my ideas of the true nature of Avalon.

Is giving them another 20 years, letting them stay how they are more or less cruel than letting their family live with a lie for a bit longer? A final few minutes? I don't know. I can't make that decision. All I know is that if we fail to stop Salazar and Merlin besides, everything ends. There will be no more tears to shed, because that future has nothing. No tears. No smiles. Nothing.

If you two can do anything to sooth their psyches, please do it as you leave. These were good people.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 11 Mar 2024 04:12:59 No.5948813 Report

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>>5948742
That sounds like the worst idea ever. How would sticking a mind ghost in the brain of a guy who is passively opposing us, who we cannot let know this shit exists do anything but fuck us?

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Mon 11 Mar 2024 08:35:53 No.5948933 Report

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>>5948710
>> Yes. Leave these bodies now. Let them rest. The sooner you get to your new hosts, the sooner you will resurface.
They both got pushed back and (arguably) almost lost against a 16 year old wizard. Granted, we have a LOT of Battle Magic training for our age, but it’s best to assume if we can go toe to toe with them, Scorpius can too at minimum.
Better to chance them being able to assist someone that can actually hold their own rather than them as they are now.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 11 Mar 2024 08:58:26 No.5948938 Report

Quoted By: >>5948965 >>5949317

here is a small update on the movie poster i was doing, been really short on time lately, so this is all i could do right now, Apollo got the biggest change so far since last time, hope its more in line with HeadQM´s idea of how he looks
let me know what you guys think so far

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 11 Mar 2024 09:54:55 No.5948963 Report

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>>5948701
>>5948703

Do want to say, very cute and not quite innocent sex thing QM. Quite tasteful.

If we die, I guess it is still as a virgin, but hey; at least we got a handy and to finger a girl on the floor of a forest filled with crazy dangerous magical beasts.

But did give us a reason to not die soon, since she implied she would maybe go further next time. Us corrupting her is great, given she has initiated every initial act of affection. Apollo sending a giant silver bear when we were in the middle of getting jerked off is... very Apollo like. I am very glad Patronuses can't see and tell their caster what was going on.

Brighton breaking down again and again was very well done. It is hard to hate him now. He really was the best choice for this, given the narrative clout it created.

There is a thing where very, very sick patients will get "better" for a day or so. Then they die. It is one of the most terrible things I have seen, the family seeing that happen and thinking they are getting well but all of us knowing what it means. It is similar to how people who are depressed will suddenly become happy and cheerful for a while before painting the walls red and pink. Your body had given up, so it no longer fights back, and so you get a day or two of feeling good before death comes.

The option to reconnect their minds for a bit is literally that.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 11 Mar 2024 10:08:37 No.5948965 Report

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>>5948938
The crest in the background is great. I personally always thought Potter kept his hair long enough that it still covered his scar and that Apollo while having curly hair, it wasn't... frizzed up like that more just slight curls, like a statue of a greek god. I think Elliot has his hair a bit shorter like picrel. Arty looks good, maybe just a thinner face. By a tad?

Regardless that is badass work.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 11 Mar 2024 10:17:49 No.5948967 Report

Quoted By: >>5948981 >>5949317

>>5948965
>Apollo while having curly hair, it wasn't... frizzed up like that more just slight curls
thats actually what im going for, right now this is more of a sketch phase before i start refining stuff more, sam thing with Elliot, there are still a few things i have to perfect before doing the lineart, im mostly posting these so HeadQM can give feedback before i set stuff in stone
i still have to fix:
Art´s proportions
Elliot´s face
Apollo´s hair
and depending on what HeadQM says, Linda and Taylor
have yet to add a couple of characters
but now that im here, i wanted to ask HeadQM something very important for this picture
do we have any visuals on The Beast so far? any actual physical description?, not looking for details, just an overall shape or idea of how it "looks"
i plan to just add its "shape" in the background, but i have no idea what to do with it, do i make it some sort of deformed person? some bestial animal? eldritch abomination that our feeble human minds cant comprehend?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 11 Mar 2024 10:42:19 No.5948981 Report

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>>5948967
Personally I have always thought of the Merlin-Beast as being wolf-ish. Almost like the thing in Berserk which takes over Guts on occasion. A giant wolf made of darkness and spite. Hatred given form.

Lovecraft went to lengths to not describe the exact form of the creatures in his stories. I would say what would terrify our boy the most might be a good place to start. I probably conceptualize it as a wolf because I don't like dogs and have seen a load of werewolf media.

Maybe give Linda/Raven braids since that was her thing for half the quest and the Raven personality has been coming back? Don't know where it will go when Rowena is kicking around in her head. Maybe Rowena will make her worse. Hue.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 11 Mar 2024 23:05:52 No.5949315 Report

Quoted By: >>5949424 >>5949495

>>5947098
> 54 pages
Holy fucking shit anon. Even with double spacing, that's a lot. (No, I don't want to think how much I've already written on this quest. It would probably be far, far too much)

> The writing
I tried to write smut once, but of course, before I got to the smut part, I had to write how the characters met, why their boning was important, and their relationship and before I noticed it I was 10 pages in and no one was even close to taking of their clothes. Needless to say, I never finished that story.

You seem to do the same thing. It doesn't mean it's bad, but it's mostly a matter of focus and targeting. Namely, if people are there for smut and find 20 pages of character development, they're probably not going to get through all of it to get to the smut. (I mean, I will because it is about my fic, but in most cases people wont.)

Also, in some places I noticed you were inconsistent with your tense. Some parts were in present tense, some parts were in past tense. I usually write in past tense, but for this fic I chose to go with present tense as it feels more action-ny, but I need to review my posts a couple of times to make sure I caught them all as I sometimes revert to it without noticing. But you don't need to go with that if you prefer, or if it feels more natural to write in past tense.

> The Plot
Loved the nundu plushie, I might steal that. Raven and Elliot would not get together now as A) I refuse to run a quest with harem and B) the characters just aren't like that, but in smut? As valid as anything else (and while Linda's secret wish is to have someone who loves her and only her as much as Elliot and Arty love each other, Raven would unhealthily be willing to participate in what she'd see as *her* harem).

I also don't know why valentine's day meant buttstuff, but who am I to question smut-logic?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 11 Mar 2024 23:06:58 No.5949317 Report

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>>5948938
Looking good! Though Arty face could be less round, I think. Depending on whether you want Linda or Raven, Linda uses her hair down and no make up, while Raven uses braids and dark eye-liner and lipstick. Taylor hair is probably a bit messier, and he is of indian descent, so he has darker skin (which obviously isn't done yet, just a reminder for the future), which also makes me realize I accidentally the horror trope of the dark-skinned guy dying first, unless you count Lily's soul being destroyed by Salazar as dying first.

>>5948967
>do we have any visuals on The Beast so far?
The only time the beast was sort of describes was in the second thread with

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.

So, uh, good luck with drawing that. Joking aside, my headcannon is a formless darkness which takes whatever organic-like shape it requires. It can be a wolf like the other anon said, or a snake if it wishes to plant a corrupting influence onto something, or even a mixture of creatures. Think of it as an evil version of every Patronus form. Ever shifting, changing, adapting, all while being impossibly clever. Also, it always has far, far too many teeth.

One mental image that I had, which I didn't even know where it was from until you made me think about it, was from Naruto (why, yes, I know it sucks, I didn't watch it for long), the first time he meets the spirit inside of him. At later times, you can see itjust looks like a domb fucking fox, but the first time it looks like pic related. Probably the reason why I always used words like "gnaws" and "claws" when Faith was referring to its attacks in the earlier threads.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Mon 11 Mar 2024 23:14:50 No.5949322 Report

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>>5949317
>Arty face could be less round
yeah, i´ll fix that later, thanks for clearing this one up, was having doubts about it
>Depending on whether you want Linda or Raven
im going more for Linda, since, at this point, this has been her look for most time of the quest so far
>no mention on Apollo
i´ll assume he is fine now
>That beat description
its gonna be hard, but that actually gives me an idea of how to draw it! this helps way more than you think, thanks for all the input!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 01:34:32 No.5949424 Report

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>>5949315
Thank you for the valid criticism. I end up doing a smut sandwich, it seems. Character stuff, seggs, maybe some more character stuff. I haven't done creative writing in a long time and I read very, very quickly so a few dozen pages of set up? Sure sounds fine. And character stuff is easier to write than the steamy parts. I got like 10 pages of set up in one night but struggled with the sex stuff for days before I said "Fuck it".

I have always had some issues with keeping the correct tense, and being on painkillers for half the time I was writing likely didn't help much, though they did give me a few fun ideas like the plushie. Please feel free to take that. And I operate on porn logic for these. InterDick of Merlin. Yeah that means everyone wants to fuck everyone else, even if in the story that wouldn't fly. I tried to base some of Raven/Linda on my own experiences. In both directions.

This one was actually about 10,000 words less than the Christmas one, I just did double spacing because sticking it in a pdf fucked it's formatting.

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Tue 12 Mar 2024 02:55:43 No.5949495 Report

Quoted By: >>5949512

>>5949315
I did this for money.
ex: Rainbow dash and the comissioner engaging in farting and watersports, but lovingly. I made $70-130 a pop for a little while.

That said, when you're giving wish service, they focus more on the ideas of how their stand in is being treated than necessarily doing that kinda setup. Since their head is filling things in already, it's a lot easier to skip the setup.

The times where I wasn't writing for an insert, the line count had to grow a bit for it to do the same magic

I'm also never writing that kinda shit again now I'm a programmer, wew.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 03:18:04 No.5949512 Report

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>>5949495
>I did this for money.
ex: Rainbow dash and the comissioner engaging in farting and watersports, but lovingly. I made $70-130 a pop for a little while.

Not a sentence I thought I would read today.

But yeah, I do it for free, 50,000 words for a fanfic of Harry Potter. No shame. Still have a job at the hospital, PRN now while getting my shit together.

But really? 100 smackaroos for... horse porn? I know MLP is full of degenerates, but rich degens? Is this why furry artists can get like a grand a picture?

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Tue 12 Mar 2024 03:26:09 No.5949520 Report

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>>5949512
furries are suspiciously wealthy

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 03:36:21 No.5949530 Report

Quoted By: >>5949553

>>5949520
How.

Like I follow a couple because they print cool guns.

But how. Is there a switch in your brain which flips when you decide you want to fuck foxes which also makes you accumulate wealth? Ahhhhhh.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 12 Mar 2024 04:02:21 No.5949553 Report

Quoted By: >>5949561 >>5949584

>>5949530
You're looking at it the other way around, anon.

Only the people who have the endurance and mental capacity to stay 18 hours it a sweltering hot fursuit while enduring relentless mocking from the entirety of the internet are tough enough to hold the entire structure of the internet in their brain and maintain it. Anyone who dons a fursuit knows no fear and cannot be stopped by mere mortals, and therefore makes bucketloads of money.

I shit you not, the number of high-performing programmers working on critical infrastructure no one else knows how to maintain in IT who are also furries is disturbingly high.

(also, you don't hear about poor furries because they are not wasting buttloads of money on this kind of stuff, so survivorship bias is in full effect. But that theory isn't as funny, so I prefer the other one)

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 04:11:30 No.5949561 Report

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>>5949553
That is both elucidating and terrifying, QM. Thank you. I am glad my patients data is being secured on the ancient ass infrastructure we use by guys like that. Real hero's.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 12 Mar 2024 04:17:22 No.5949569 Report

Quoted By: >>5949575

>>5949561
Then never ask anyone about how the banking systems of the world keep on running and you will sleep better at night.

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Anonymous ID:OJiMnYbR Tue 12 Mar 2024 04:22:18 No.5949575 Report

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>>5949569
Based. JQ

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 12 Mar 2024 04:34:16 No.5949584 Report

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>>5949553
>the number of high-performing programmers working on critical infrastructure no one else knows how to maintain in IT who are also furries is disturbingly high.
i knew it, no normal sane person would willingly do such jobs, theres gotta be something wrong with them

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 12 Mar 2024 08:07:34 No.5949675 Report

Quoted By: >>5949681 >>5949722

alright, had time so this time i focused on fixing what was mentioned before, thoughts?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 12 Mar 2024 08:29:47 No.5949681 Report

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>>5949584
You say that as if there wasn't something wrong with everyone on this website.

>>5949675
Nice! I love it! Arty's face looks much better, and Apollo's hair looks wavy rather than curly. Well done, anon!

--

“Leave these bodies,” you say. “It’s too much. It will hurt, I don’t doubt but it is… No, I’m not going to say that it’s better than false hope. But one of the reasons I search for ancient things is because them being thought of as never being there is simply a lie. And I don’t want a lie. If we can bring truth… The world can start to heal from losing them. And if we bring truth to them, their family can start to heal. But if you can do something, anything, to help them, then please do. They were good people. They never deserved this.”

“There is nothing-” Rowena starts to say, but Godric stops her.

“There is one thing,” he says. He walks past you and approaches Brighton, putting a hand on his shoulder. His voice is kind and warm. “Brighton Longbottom. What you will face in life, I do not know. I don’t know what hardships lay ahead. I don’t know what wounds your heart will suffer. But whatever you feel, I will feel also, because I will be inside you. And just like I will feel what you feel, I now feel what your grandfather is feeling. And I can tell you, even though his mind is broken… Frank couldn’t be prouder of you. He couldn’t be prouder of all of you. Every time you came here, it lit his day, even if he didn’t know the words to say it. Every time you spoke to him, it moved him, even if he couldn’t understand the words. And in the days he was utterly lost, it was you and your father who guided him home.”

“When we were still waking up, your kindness helped me remember who I was,” Rowena says, approaching too. “And it would last for days, because Alice would treasure it. She would hold the memory inside of herself, like a candle in the darkness. And even on those days where everything else was forgotten and even the walls of this place were strange, she’d still recognize you. She’d still know who you were. Her family. Even when the faces blurred together, she knew she was safe with you. Even when she knew nothing else… she knew she loved you.”

Brighton jumps into their arms, sobbing as he hugs them, as if the three of them were the only thing in the whole world.

--

“So, it is done?” Arty asks as the five of you sit around a table in the Room of Requirement on the following morning. Brighton hadn’t said a word since his grandparents’ eyes had once again become unfocused and lost. He had taken the revelation of the Room’s location with barely a nod.

“It’s done. We can’t feel anything yet,” Linda says. “But they said it would take a while for them to appear. Could be days, could be weeks. We shouldn’t count on them being with us on Avalon.”

“Then what do we do?” Apollo asks. “We need to steal the Cloak and the Wand.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 12 Mar 2024 08:31:20 No.5949683 Report

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>>5949681

“And steal them both at the same time,” you remind him. “So we have three different issues. Dumbledore’s Grave, Potter’s office and keeping everyone too busy to stop us. First, let’s think about Dumbledore’s grave. It is right in the middle of the school grounds. Everyone can see it, and the moment we touch it, I have no doubt both Potter and the Headmistress will be warned. We don’t know how tough that stone is. We don’t know if we can transfigure it. Most importantly… I don’t know how resistant to simple blunt trauma the Elder Wand is. It survived at least a thousand years, if not more, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it can take several liters of Erumpent potion going off by it without splintering into a million pieces.”

“Melin expected it to survive, so it must be resilient,” Linda says.

“Merlin also expected to not be transformed into a creature of horror, so I think we can say with some certainty that what he expected is not exactly rule of law. I remember some of what I saw when I was… connected with the castle, at Last Light. The castle didn’t enjoy having a tomb in it. For the lack of a better word, it offended its aesthetic sensibilities. As such, it isn’t quite as well integrated with Hogwarts’ Ancient Magic. If it was, we’d have no chance of breaking through it. As it is, we might be able to get it.”

“Couldn’t McGonagall simply apparate there immediately? I mean, she’s the Headmistress. She could even use an elf to get her there, if she can’t apparate.”

“No,” Arty says. “House elves… They can’t get involved in conflicts. It’s like an order of the highest magnitude, stronger than any their masters can give them. They don’t go towards danger. They can’t. In the case of danger, they hide. That’s what they do, that’s why they haven’t been used to kill people. The Headmistress could use them to get out of danger to somewhere safe, but not the other way around.”

House elves were made to be a slave race, that was what you believed. It wouldn’t make sense to create a race that could bypass most security for convenience purposes and then allow it to kill and steal.

Whoever had created them had been cunning indeed, and remarkably cruel. Some might even wonder why this Ancient person, powerful as they were, had chosen to make them humanoid. A creature with more arms or legs could do more things at the same time, and could be even more useful without having unsightly behaviors and parts that were offensive to human sensitivities. If someone simply wanted to create the perfect servant, they didn’t need to go to the effort of giving them a personality.

Unless…

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 12 Mar 2024 08:32:21 No.5949684 Report

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>>5949683

Unless their creator wanted them to suffer. And if they wanted them to suffer… maybe they had wanted to punish them. For a moment, you imagine a powerful ruler, filled with hate, with a group of rebels at their feet. What greater punishment than to make them less than human? What greater punishment than to make them and their children into creatures that would do nothing but serve, creatures that could do nothing but serve? Nothing but cower? Creatures that would punish themselves for every mistake and flaw, creatures that could only find a grain of happiness in thankless work?

You shiver, hoping you are not correct and leaving that train of thought for another day.

“So she’d have to come to us through normal ways,” you say. “We have time to grab it and fly away. My idea is to blast it with a cauldron of Erumpent, but I’m afraid it could damage the wand. Anyone have any other plans?”

“Could we transfigure an explosive?” Linda asks.

“No,” Apollo says, immediately. “Goes against Transfiguration rules. We’d breathe the smoke and kill ourselves. And this much magic will trigger any explosive I know. But I could transfigure a great stone pillar and bring it down on it.”

“To make it big enough to get through the defenses… That would be a lot of power, Apollo. Even for you. It would exhaust you, but… It would be safer than carrying a cauldron of explosive liquid around.”

“Maybe some acid to melt it?” Arty asks. “There are creatures that can spit acid strong enough to melt stone.”

“Maybe, but none that are sold easily or that I can brew with the school cauldrons. If we wanted that, we’d have to go get it somewhere… less than reputable. So Knockturn Alley, unless you happen to know where we could get some in less than a week.” You say, but she shakes her head. “That would mean getting to London and dealing with dark wizards. Not only that, but an acid that potent is bound to be extremely dangerous.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 12 Mar 2024 08:33:23 No.5949686 Report

Quoted By: >>5949691 >>5949700 >>5949720 >>5949859 >>5950173

>>5949684

“Are you even sure the wand is there, Hallaster?” Brighton asks, speaking for the first time since the previous day.

“I am. I saw it, just like I saw the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak. Unless there happens to be another incredibly powerful Ancient artifact in there, and the wand is somewhere else entirely. But that seems unlikely.”

“So, blow it up, crack it open with a giant hammer, or melt it. And it must be done at night, or otherwise some student will come and try to play the hero.” He shakes his head. “You know you’re going to need to get the teachers distracted, right? You don’t have to worry about just McGonagall and Potter. There are plenty of teachers who could stop you by themselves.”

“I know, Brighton. We’ll get there. But if we don’t decide what we’re doing about the Hallows, then we don’t know what sorts of distractions we can do. One thing at a time.”

> Brew cauldrons of Erumpent. If it explodes during transportation it could cause serious damage to you and everyone around you.
> Get Apollo to transfigure an enormous battering ram to break it open. It will drain Apollo of most of his magic for many hours.
> Buy some powerful creature's acid to melt the stone. Requires travelling to Diagon Alley and dealing with Dark Wizards.
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Tue 12 Mar 2024 08:39:31 No.5949691 Report

Quoted By: >>5949720 >>5949729

>>5949686
Say, don't we know where the corpse of a basilisk is? With venom that Potter warned us could still kill us so we should be careful around it?

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 12 Mar 2024 09:04:27 No.5949700 Report

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>>5949686
>Other (Write in)
>use Apollo to make a battering ram, but not big enough to crack it and neither completely drain himself, just enough to fully trigger all alarms
>escape as soon as possible with Brighton and create a huge distraction far away while WE do an underground mission and dig from bellow
>at the same time, Arty and Linda go for Potters office, with either of them acting as guard while the other gets the cloak

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 10:20:05 No.5949720 Report

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>>5949691
>Say, don't we know where the corpse of a basilisk is? With venom that Potter warned us could still kill us so we should be careful around it?

We know but we don't know the password to get down there. It might be possible to do some research and figure it out. I wish one of our friends was a Parseltongue, might make it easier. If we can figure out a good way down there, I would support that.

>>5949681
Thanks for making me tear up some QM. Real cool.

>>5949686
> Brew cauldrons of Erumpent. If it explodes during transportation it could cause serious damage to you and everyone around you.

> Ask Apollo to see if Riley and her sister can cause some havoc when the heists are happening. Ask Brighton if Summer and Winter can do the same. Maybe ask Elend, Talon, and Amalia if they don't mind losing a few house points too.

>Decide what week we are doing this exactly, so Arty and us can make up a good excuse to skip being tortured by Crouch so we have our full bonus.

>Tell Linda and Brighton what we know of to strengthen the connection with their mind ghosts.

The Elder Wand just getting snapped in half in the movies was one of the most WTF moments. Yeah this thing has been fought over for centuries, is like 1000 years old but fuck it, Harry can just break it like a twig. No one though of that before. In none of the fights over it, with god like powers being tossed around, the wand never got damaged but this 17 year old can just undo one of the most potent artifacts in the world like that. Makes perfect sense.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 10:37:31 No.5949722 Report

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>>5949675
Looking good man. Arty's face and the hair of Taylor and Elliot look much better, I think.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Tue 12 Mar 2024 11:07:47 No.5949729 Report

Quoted By: >>5949734 >>5950465

So uh, Merlin definitely cursed the last of the Atlanteans and turned them into House Elves, right? Which either means Merlin's even more evil than we thought or the Atlanteans did or tried to do something so horrible that they deserved being turned into a race of slaves. Fun!

>>5949691
I'd support the Basilisk idea, if it's possible. Probably easier than going to Diagon Alley. Otherwise I guess Erumpent it'll have to be.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 11:42:43 No.5949734 Report

Quoted By: >>5949761 >>5949862

>>5949729
>So uh, Merlin definitely cursed the last of the Atlanteans and turned them into House Elves, right? Which either means Merlin's even more evil than we thought or the Atlanteans did or tried to do something so horrible that they deserved being turned into a race of slaves. Fun!

That is fucking horrific. I mean, the Atlantean's created things like the Cup of Sorrow and the Mirror of Impossibility, but fuck. Were they all gone because Merlin created the 1st gen of House Elves from any survivors of the fall of Atlantis?

They can use wandless magic... do shit normal wizards can't. It makes sense. Is that what he used the Cup for before his Inderdict? His comrades were not good people, but cursing them all to be slaves till the end of time? We might be dealing with objective Evil, capital E, at this point.

I had kinda got probably Merlin created them, but holy hell. That is fucked up.

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Tue 12 Mar 2024 12:27:41 No.5949761 Report

Quoted By: >>5949767

>>5949734
I guess we're reading a grimdark Harry Potter fan fiction.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 13:04:48 No.5949767 Report

Quoted By: >>5949769

>>5949761
Maybe we can make it just nobledark? Good people trying to do the right thing? Elliot, so far, has been a pretty good guy. I may just go and rewrite the Apollo and Riley valentines fic to be even more pure, Like the only bit that was bad was her stealing a kiss, so maybe make it a hug. A blow against the existential horror of the Wizarding World.

The capcha is literally Marry

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Tue 12 Mar 2024 13:14:02 No.5949769 Report

Quoted By: >>5949952

>>5949767
Fuck "Dark Lord Hallaster" let's be "Bright Lord Hallaster".

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Tue 12 Mar 2024 16:58:49 No.5949859 Report

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>>5949686
> Get Apollo to transfigure an enormous battering ram to break it open. It will drain Apollo of most of his magic for many hours.

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Tue 12 Mar 2024 17:00:03 No.5949862 Report

Quoted By: >>5949952

>>5949734
...Oh god. Maybe Merlin didn't make them, but simply escaped that fate, and this was one of the reasons he thought the interdict was necessary: to prevent horrors like that?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 19:07:30 No.5949952 Report

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>>5949862
Ahhhhhhhh. That might explain a lot. If the drawfag ever wants to we need a version of >>5948219
with Elliot and all our crazy fucking theories on the wall.

>>5949769
Bright Lord Hallaster! Bright Lord Hallaster!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 12 Mar 2024 19:25:33 No.5949962 Report

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If Apollo doing the heavy lifting wins, I would like to give him a Maxima potion and a girding potion to knock back after. Try and limit how fucked he will be from making something that can crack the casket of the most powerful wizard of the 20th century.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 12 Mar 2024 22:28:27 No.5950133 Report

Quoted By: >>5950287 >>5950465

hmm not many votes this time, huh? and pretty split on the choices, but it looks like Apollo slamming it open is ahead so far

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Anonymous ID:9oirztGK Tue 12 Mar 2024 23:06:57 No.5950173 Report

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>>5949686
> Get Apollo to transfigure an enormous battering ram to break it open. It will drain Apollo of most of his magic for many hours.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Wed 13 Mar 2024 02:35:17 No.5950287 Report

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>>5950133
I still think we should find a way to access that juicy basilisk corpse.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:02:13 No.5950465 Report

Quoted By: >>5950467 >>5950513 >>5950757

>>5950133

I find it weird how some of the major decisions have minimal engagement. I'm not sure if it's just anons not wanting to feel "responsible" for a plan that doesn't work or if it's just that I haven't given enough information to make a choice or what.

>>5949729
Remember, this is just Elliot's wild guess. Doesn't mean he's right, just that he has a penchant for drama.

--

“Erumpent is too unstable,” you say. “And I’d rather not get evil wizards involved in this any more than they already are. I’ll try to brew some potions to help you, Apollo, but it will depend on you.”

“I got it,” he says, as if there was no doubt he would.

“So, the second issue is Potter’s office. I don’t know what protections are the standard for the teachers’ offices, but we can be sure that Potter has his own set of enchantments there. I’ve seen a cupboard that by itself probably has more security enchantments than a Noble House’s vault. Not to mention wherever he keeps his Cloak.”

“He could just carry it with him,” Brighton says. “It wouldn’t be difficult.”

“Potter can disillusion himself well enough that he might as well be invisible. He doesn’t need the cloak most of the time, and if Lily managed to get it once, that means he doesn’t carry it with him all the time.”

“Why not?”

“I don’t know, Brighton. Ask him,” you say, already sounding tired of Brighton questioning you. ”Maybe just like the Resurrection stone has a tendency to make the people who use it commit suicide and the Elder Wand was a tendency to get the people who use it stabbed while they sleep, the Cloak has a side effect. Or maybe he just doesn’t want to carry an Ancient Artifact with him all the time. Or maybe some other reason. All I know is that Lily got it, and she couldn’t have done it if he had it on his belt all the time.”

“Alright, alright, no need to throw a hissy fit on me. I can tell you about the standard protections, my father warned me against it. When the teacher is in there, all safeties are off. Anyone can access anything. When the teacher isn’t there, if you touch anything you shouldn’t, it sounds off a loud horn and slams the door shut.”

“Yeah, I’ve heard it happen before,” Linda says.

“Happens now and then,” he nods. “It’s usually because the teacher forgets to lock the door and a student goes there to speak to them. It’s usually just considered an accident. It also means that we have time to look around, at least until we touch something. And time to block his fireplace”

“Why?” You ask.

“Because if we don’t, he could apparate somewhere with a Floo fireplace, or, if he’s inside Hogwarts, he could get a house elf, get them to apparate him outside Hogwarts, apparate from there to anywhere with a Floo-connected fireplace and then Floo from there. And if he doesn’t, McGonagall might.”

That was… very much correct.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:03:14 No.5950467 Report

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>>5950465

“So once we know where the Cloak is, or once we decide that we’ll need to rummage through his stuff to find it, the first thing we need to do is block the fireplace,” he continues. “Anything solid and heavy will do the trick and bounce him back. Then we’ll need to improvise with whatever we find there and hope Potter doesn’t have some protection that kills us.”

“He won’t,” you say. “I’m betting we’re not the first students trying to steal the Cloak, though the other ones probably did it for fun, not to save the world. So Potter isn’t going to explode anyone trying to get it, because they might be a bunch of dumb thirteen year olds. That doesn’t mean he can’t incapacitate us. Remember, he doesn’t care about the Cloak.”

“What? What are you talking about, Hallaster?”

“Potter… doesn’t see the Cloak as a mystical artifact created before Hogwarts was even an idea. He’s had it for almost thirty years now, and he can do just fine without it. I’ve seen him walk through grass and mud with it. For him, it’s just… mildly convenient. He’s held all three Deathly Hallows before, and they did mostly nothing for him.”

“I… I see. We know it’s the key to Avalon, but for him it is just another Monday. So it might not be as protected as we expect it to be.”

“Precisely.”

“In any case, you need to get Potter out of his classroom. The moment he hears that both Dumbledore’s grave and his office are being attacked, he’ll go into serious mode.”

“And straight to protect the Elder Wand.”

“Over his Cloak?”

“Absolutely. You can’t use the Cloak to kill, and the Cloak can’t get you killed, unless you’re particularly stupid. But the wand… That’s something else entirely. But I have no doubts he’ll send someone to check on the Cloak, or several someones.”

“Right. Still, we need something to get him out of his office. We need to move at night, which means he won’t be giving a class. I could… I could maybe try to convince my father to get him out of the school? Say me and a few colleagues are planning a surprise for him and need him out of school to prepare it?”

“That could work, but… Arty, how do you think he’d react if our ‘tutor’ were to present a credible threat?”

“You mean-” She opens her eyes wide before glancing at Brighton. “How would that even happen?”

“You could say you were woken up by a patronus from him, threatening you. Potter would know that if he has power enough to send a patronus, he has power enough for much, much else. He’d definitely be worried sick.”

“Potter could send a patronus to ask his guards if he was there, or something like that.”

“Not if we ask our tutor to cooperate. Say, if the guard finds the tutor unconscious in his cell, why, Potter would have to go there himself to check what is happening.”

Arty looks at you, her mouth open.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:04:16 No.5950468 Report

Quoted By: >>5950480 >>5950488 >>5950490 >>5950492 >>5950513 >>5950515 >>5950531 >>5950761 >>5950767

>>5950467

“You think our tutor would do that for us?”

“To fuck with Potter? I think there’s a good chance. But it means we’ll have to go to tutoring at least once before it and convince him.”

“Who the hell are you two even talking about?” Brighton asks, irritated. “Who is this tutor? Why does he need guards?”

“Not important, he’s just… a resource. A possibility, for now. Any other ideas?”

“Well,” Linda says, and she sounds extremely guilty as she says this. “We know where Potter lives.”

There is silence at that.

“Linda… what exactly are you suggesting?”

“Uh, you fly there and throw Erumpent potions at his house from a thestral?”

“Linda!”

“I mean, it should make him go running there! You don’t need to tear the place to the ground, just scare his wife into freaking out and calling him!”

“Are you trying to get him to kill us?”

“Look, all I’m saying is that if there is a person Potter would go running to save, it’s his wife!”

You bury your face in your hands. The problem is, it is not a terrible plan. Potter lived in Devon, close to where the Granger-Weasley family lived. It was isolated, and in the middle of the night you could fly in and out undetected. It would certainly be effective, though it would stop you from being there to break into Potter’s office.

That he would strangle you with his own two hands afterwards was of minor importance, of course.

How will you distract Potter?

> Ask Neville to take Potter out of the school for a while
> Pretend Crouch is escaping
> Fling explosive potions at the Potter household
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:18:49 No.5950479 Report

Quoted By: >>5950496

https://rentry.org/rcsotxr7

Here is the Riley/Apollo bit of fic. I intended to tack it on to the end of the other but it was already too long. This one is 100% pure and only like 8 double spaced pages long. So enjoy or don't. Our boy Apollo needs some love too.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:20:08 No.5950480 Report

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>>5950468
>Fling explosive potions at the Potter household
oh, thats just asking for death, no way we doing that, and the Granger-Weasley family is pretty close too, even if he doesnt fall for it, his friends from all his time at Hogwarts, that help him kill magical hittler and are now the head of the magical community certainly will show up, they might not be as powerful, but they will not show up alone, fuck that
>Ask Neville to take Potter out of the school for a while
this would be too obvious for Potter, and even if he falls for it, he will realize its a distraction for something very quickly, he would be "trapped there" only by social conventions and i have a feeling he would stop caring about that really fast if he feels something is wrong with the Hallows, thats also a no go for me
>Pretend Crouch is escaping
this one feels like the one with best chance of actual success and distraction power, the main problem with this one is not making it work, is convincing Crouch to work with us
and besides telling him: "hey, wanna fuck with Potter and have some slight petty revenge on him" i dont know what we could possibly tell him to make him work with us
i vote for the Crouch option, but i have no idea how to convince him, anyone?

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:26:45 No.5950488 Report

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>>5950468
> Pretend Crouch is escaping
Give him the deets on Avalon, he works with us and he can go there to resurrect Voldemort or something, I dunno. I feel like he'd be insane enough to buy that.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:28:20 No.5950490 Report

Quoted By: >>5950767

>>5950468
> Pretend Crouch is escaping
We are NOT firebombing anyone's house, please.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:34:43 No.5950492 Report

Quoted By: >>5950531

>>5950468
> Ask Neville to take Potter out of the school for a while

Linda/Raven is also a best. Her 1st suggestion is tossing pipe bombs at Potter's house. 2nd best girl.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Wed 13 Mar 2024 06:51:11 No.5950496 Report

Quoted By: >>5950509

>>5950479
ayyy, that was a cute short story, liked it very much, the banter between them was nice, felt very in character, very nicely done m8!
saved for my collection

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 13 Mar 2024 07:27:23 No.5950509 Report

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>>5950496
Thank you man. It probably means something I have an easier time writing a character with autism than one who doesn't have it.

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Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Wed 13 Mar 2024 07:32:47 No.5950513 Report

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>>5950468
>> Pretend Crouch is escaping

>>5950465
>I find it weird how some of the major decisions have minimal engagement. I'm not sure if it's just anons not wanting to feel "responsible" for a plan that doesn't work or if it's just that I haven't given enough information to make a choice or what.
For me it's just bad time zones and being busy.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Wed 13 Mar 2024 07:34:34 No.5950515 Report

Quoted By: >>5950531 >>5950535 >>5950767 >>5950778

>>5950468
Alright, this is going to sound crazy, and perhaps even absolutely buttfucking retarded.
But what if we have someone go deep into the forbidden forest and cast the Dark Mark high in the sky?
If there's one thing, however unlikely and impossible it may be, that would terrify Potter...it would be the possibility of Voldemort's return. Of Death Eaters stalking the earth again, so bold as to announce their very presence. Why, he would even see fit to take BACKUP with him to such a declaration.
But, and this is VERY important...we can't do it with any of our wands. So we check the room of requirement for "A spare or forgotten wand", grab it, and PERSONALLY head into the forest to use it since we don't show up on the map. Under disillusionment and under the effects of a shrinking potion, we cast the dark mark with the spare wand, snap it, and get the fuck out of there.

I know, it's insane. But it's also the one that leaves our friends the safest. And potter is most likely to comb the area using his time turner, too. It's a bait the boy who lived couldn't possibly ignore.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 13 Mar 2024 08:16:40 No.5950531 Report

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>>5950515
We would need a way to get out of the Forest and fast. 7 foot wide Acromantula who just so happens to like our girlfriend enough to bring her a blanket when she is passed out vs.eating her? Toss a saddle on him. Maybe a Thestral we know well enough to have named?

Need someone to teach us Morsmordre. A Death Eater. One of whom we have teaching us. One who probably wants to fuck with Potter.

We would probably need to cause a shit ton of chaos at the same time so he can't just time turner his way out of the trick. Also recall all of us aside from Brighton have the Portkey toe rings. We can, if needed, GTFO, maybe bring someone like Falere who can Apparate so we can leave the safe house quickly. You can take other people on a Portkey trip. Falere is head girl, should be pretty damn good at appirating at this point, given she will graduate in like 3 months.

The one issue is we were barely ably to rattle our wand using Talon's when we had to try and Accio it in the green house challenge. Granted we have gotten a lot better since then.

I fucking love it.

>>5950492
>>5950468
I will change my vote to this.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Wed 13 Mar 2024 08:41:01 No.5950535 Report

Quoted By: >>5950555

>>5950515
>pic related
this could probably be the stupidest thing we could possibly do and 1000% will have repercussions in the future if we do it...
...but, fuck me, thats one is GUARANTEED to not only get HIS attention, but mobilize the entire ministry too, the chaos would be so massive not even if he uses the timeturner at his maximum efficiency and plans ahead would he even get close to us...if we manage to cover our tracks

we´d need to cover ourselves in EVERYTHING, might as well use actual camo too if possible
as long as we use an abandoned wand, snap it, BURN IT, bury the ashes, shit on´em and burn the shit on top of it
AND BEFORE THAT, we HAVE to pass the wand along several pairs of hands to avoid and confuse any kind of tracking spell possible, we MUST NOT fuck around in anyway, as long as these conditions are met, then i change my vote to this

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Wed 13 Mar 2024 09:48:54 No.5950555 Report

Quoted By: >>5950615

>>5950535
Ironically, so many boots on the ground would only serve to cover our tracks better by merit of unintentional disruption of the 'crime scene'. Not to mention all the dark creatures lurking the forest, ready to pick off the less-capable people entering it. People that would likely need saving by Potter, using up precious time turner uses.
And where does 90% of the suspicion go once all is said and done? Why, the death eaters that survived after the final battle with Voldemort, of course. And their friends and family.
Oh, sure. Potter will suspect us. We might even be his prime suspect, even. But he won't be able to act on the suspicion, not when he's keeping just about everyone else in the dark on the prophecy he heard. Not without proof of some kind. And certainly not with his hands full due to the fallout of the Dark Mark being cast AND two deathly hallows being stolen on the same night. He's going to need quite a few girding potions to get through the month, I suspect.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 13 Mar 2024 11:58:37 No.5950615 Report

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>>5950555
Nice get.

Yeah Potter will strangle us when he finds out if we go this route, a bit more gently than if we bombed his house. If we go with this we might want to convince Crouch to act like he is escaping as well. Maximum chaos. Fuck, get Winky to bounce for a bit too. If any one realizes who's elf she used to be, it is Potter. Give him so many fires to put out he can't focus on Elliot. I do not envy QM for having to write this heist.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Wed 13 Mar 2024 15:18:29 No.5950700 Report

Quoted By:

Wait, before i forget!
The whole “passing the wand around” thing must be done by everyone BUT our friends, Potter will connect the dots immediately the momento he sees the wand in hands of the people we hang around, or at the very least it cant be just them
Lets use the Slytherin messaging system to pass it around as much as possible, across all houses if possible, it will at the very least give us a bit more time

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 13 Mar 2024 16:25:56 No.5950737 Report

Quoted By: >>5950782 >>5951293

> Make post
> Go to sleep
> Come back
> Anons came up with a plan even more insane than Linda's.

Incredible.

Just as a heads up, if you choose to go with this, it will take a week to prepare, as you'll need to somehow convince Crouch to teach the spell to you and learn it without Potter realizing, which will take time. This is currently week two out of four.

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Anonymous ID:OJiMnYbR Wed 13 Mar 2024 17:14:01 No.5950757 Report

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>>5950465
I didn't vote cause I don't think any plan is particularly better than the other. And I'm not particularly attached to any of the choices.

If one seemed to be massively better choice than the other I would of voted.

Just my 2 cents.

Like if we had the goblin drill from the secret place I'd say use that. But it didn't exist sooo...

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Anonymous ID:OJiMnYbR Wed 13 Mar 2024 17:25:11 No.5950761 Report

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>>5950468
>ask Neville

I guess is the best choice? I'm not really attached to this vote either. They all kind of suck.

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Wed 13 Mar 2024 17:33:06 No.5950767 Report

Quoted By:

>>5950515
I'll back this, too.

>>5950468
>>5950490 was me; changing my vote.

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Wed 13 Mar 2024 17:49:31 No.5950778 Report

Quoted By: >>5950810

>>5950515
don't think there's anyone left who could cast it

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 13 Mar 2024 18:04:11 No.5950782 Report

Quoted By:

>>5950737
>it will take a week to prepare
>This is currently week two out of four
i say its worth it, a little time investment for our plan to be guaranteed to work is a nice trade-off
specially if we manage to get all the "keys" to open the door.
im sticking to it

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 13 Mar 2024 19:03:54 No.5950810 Report

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>>5950778
Crouch. Only Death Eater we have access to.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Wed 13 Mar 2024 19:17:08 No.5950816 Report

Quoted By: >>5950825

Thought of some additional elements we could try that might be helpful, room of requirement style. "I need something to help me hide in the forbidden forest." "I need something to help cover my tracks." "I need a place to secretly learn how to cast and practice the dark mark." "I need a place to view the past." (with the final one being to try to witness the spell being cast without actually having to interact with a death eater. Unlikely to work, but hey, you never know.)
I don't think trying necessarily would hurt.

As for how to tell Barty Crouch what we need to learn, if we do end up needing to rely on him, without Potter knowing...well, there's a few ways.
The most subtle is to taunt him into using it, calling him a half-rate dark wizard who's barely used any dark magic all this time. Say that he can check his mark for proof that his lord is dead, and that he's a mad dog without a purpose. That sort of thing. Probably going to get us Crucio'd and Imperio'd, but I'd bet he would cast Morsmordre just to prove a point too.
Alternatively? Cast an amplified Cheering charm on him. Barty's fucking nuts, he's at his happiest when he serves his lord. He might pop off a Morsmordre solely because he feels so damn happy when the cheering charm hits him, and his broken mind associates happiness with a job well done for his lord.
A false memory charm could implant the idea that he needs to teach it to us secretly, if used correctly.
A switching spell could be used to transfer a secret message into his pocket, possibly one with invisible ink and enchanted to disintegrate after being read.
We could also attempt Legilimency...probably want to practice as much as possible before attempting it on Crouch, though. We've seen it used on us plenty enough times to be able to at least form the basics of it though, I think.

All in all, we have a lot of potential approaches to the problem of not knowing the spell. We only really need to witness it once to get the gist of the movements and the exact pronunciation. From there we can practice in secret until we can cast it decently.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 13 Mar 2024 19:38:15 No.5950825 Report

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>>5950816
> "I need a place to view the past." (with the final one being to try to witness the spell being cast without actually having to interact with a death eater. Unlikely to work, but hey, you never know.)

Living Mind to living mind.

I honestly think the secret message is probably the best. Maybe tell him we want to restore the roots of our House? Convince him we are Dark, that we too yearn for Voldy to return? Let him torture us all he wants for a week in exchange for learning Morsmordre? Potter keeps an eye on us when we have our lessons, should probably get an ally to distract him for a while when BCJ does show us the spell. I think Potter is going to connect the dots quick as aside from pure-bloods with possible Death Eater parents, we are going to be the only person who could conceivably know the spell due to being a Death Eater's punching bag 4 nights a week. We will hopefully be in Avalon by that point and deal with the fall out afterwords. Potter really might think this is the last straw when he finds out. He might try and kill us. Hopefully something in Avalon is something he can know of and can convince him that all this was necessary.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 14 Mar 2024 06:01:31 No.5951248 Report

Quoted By: >>5951265 >>5951271

im both dreading and really excited for the new update, bring out your best digital dice gentlemen, i have a strong feeling we´ll need them

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:02:59 No.5951265 Report

Quoted By: >>5951268 >>5951269

Rolled 35 + 45 (1d100 + 45)

>>5951248
Rolling to get a shit die out of the way.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:05:16 No.5951268 Report

Quoted By: >>5951269

Rolled 2 + 45 (1d100 + 45)

>>5951265
you know what? same

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:06:14 No.5951269 Report

Quoted By: >>5951270

>>5951265
>>5951268

Good job anons. Now let's see how you do in a real fight.

--

“There is… another alternative that comes to mind,” you say, hesitating. This is a risky one, the riskiest of them all. “Our tutor, the one me and Arty promised never speak the name of… They’re an old Death Eater.”

“What?” Apollo, Linda and Brighton shout in unison.

“Yes, I know, Potter is insane, we already agreed on that. But the point is that… they can teach me how to cast the Dark Mark.”

“Hallaster, are you insane?”

“No, I’m effective, Brighton, there’s a difference. If the Dark Mark shows up above the Forbidden Forest, what do you think Potter’s going to do? He’s going to go there himself, and bring everyone he can to sweep the area.”

“He’s going to call the ministry!”

“Sure, and he’s going to stay with them, sweeping the area until they find something. The Dark Mark was used by Death Eaters as their calling card, they put it above homes after they were done killing everyone inside. What do you think he’s going to think if shows up at Hogwarts?”

“He’s going to go apeshit. I don’t know if we want that.”

“If he’s losing it, he isn’t thinking, which is more than we can ask.”

“This isn’t going to be easy,” Linda says. “Once you cast it, the school grounds will be flooded with aurors. You’ll need to do that after Apollo has gotten the wand, otherwise he’ll never be able to get out without being seen.”

You nod. “He cracks the tomb, gets the wand and flies off from school. He should have enough time to do that before Potter realizes what is going on and pulls the Map. I’m the only one who won’t show up on it, so I cast the Dark Mark once he’s out and fly off from the forest on a Thestral. That would leave you three,” you point to Linda, Brighton and Arty. “To break into Potter’s office and get the Cloak.”

“And how do we leave?” Arty asks. “Aurors will be everywhere. They’ll lock down the school.”

“Floo Network,” you say. “Unblock the fireplace, go straight to St. Mungo’s. Me and Apollo will meet you there.”

“That… That sounds dangerous, Ellot.” Linda says. “We’re going to be moving… a lot of people, both here and in the Ministry. You cast the Dark Mark over Hogwarts… People could think… People could think Voldemort is back. They could think the Third Wizarding War has begun.”

“And they might be right, if we fail.” You speak with an intensity and dread you’ve only felt once before, before Last Light. “And if we do, they’ll thank Potter for training his armies. The next point I wanted to discuss was how we’d distract the other teachers from coming to Potter’s office but… Well, I think this plan should more than cover it.”

--

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:07:16 No.5951270 Report

Quoted By: >>5951271 >>5951272 >>5951304

>>5951269

You have barely half a day to prepare, your tutoring coming soon. Crouch stands once more in front of you, wand in hand. This… this might be the riskiest thing you’ve ever done. Bartering with a Death Eater. Not only that, but doing it secretly, without Potter, who is watching invisibly from Merlin knows where, seeing it.

You need to slip a message to him. To get a message to him, you need to get close to him. Unfortunately for you, Barty Crouch Junior doesn’t let anyone get close to him, unless he has his hands around that person’s throat.

“I don’t suppose I could convince you to simply have a nice cup of tea today, could I?”

Crouch grins, rotten teeth showing in a way that reminds you more of a dog snarling than a person smiling.

You raise your wand and so does Arty, who looks at you as if asking once more the question you had asked yourself throughout the afternoon.

“Are you sure?”

You simply nod back.

If you intend to get close enough to him to get that secret slip of paper from your pocket into his, you’ll need to beat him in a fight to get close enough to do it. If you can’t do that… Well, you always have a way to make your eyes go fully black. That should, at least, give him enough pause that he’s curious, it should make him wonder and, maybe… It could make him try to get closer to you on purpose.

But if you can beat him in a fight, you might not need to do that. “If”, of course, being the important word.

You and Arty run in opposite directions and start firing spells.

> Roll a d100+55 (+45 from your Battle Magic, +10 from Arty helping you)

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:11:50 No.5951271 Report

Quoted By: >>5951272 >>5951273 >>5951516 >>5951564

Rolled 91 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5951270
Well,

>>5951248

called it. Nifty.

Bright Lord Hallaster! Bright Lord Hallaster!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:18:42 No.5951272 Report

Quoted By: >>5951283 >>5951516 >>5951564

Rolled 86 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5951270
ITS TIME! LETS FUCKING DO THIS!

>>5951271
OOOOOOOOOHOHOHO! YES! THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:19:03 No.5951273 Report

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>>5951271
I think a 146 will do it today, gentlemen. Please no one roll a 1.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:32:26 No.5951281 Report

Quoted By: >>5951285

>146 + 141
oooh!
are these the highest rolls we´ve had so far in the entire quest?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:38:31 No.5951283 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951272
Nice. Don't know it this is best of 3 or an opposed roll, but fuck, looking like we are doing okay unless Crouch rolls like a god. And we still have the black eyes trick if it comes down to it.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:43:34 No.5951285 Report

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>>5951281
Total? I think. We did blow out someone with 90 plus rolls in one battle. But I swear these are the best we have had in like a thread or so.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Thu 14 Mar 2024 07:57:15 No.5951293 Report

Quoted By: >>5951305 >>5951323 >>5951516 >>5951532

>>5950737
Man the aftereffects of this are gonna be wild.

We also have to deal with timeturners in play. We may need Brighton in potters office before we play this shit out. There's no way future potter doesn't piece some of this together and turn up waiting without something, like himself, blocking him from viewing.

We'll also have to have a really good fucking explanation for him once this all kicks off. This isn't like spraypainting a swastika on the school. This is more like burning a cross with hanging effigies around it.

What a prank.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 14 Mar 2024 08:33:26 No.5951304 Report

Quoted By: >>5951516 >>5951564

Rolled 14 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5951270
inb4 the CRITFAIL MWHAHAHA

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 14 Mar 2024 08:34:44 No.5951305 Report

Quoted By: >>5951323

>>5951293
I reckon we should leave a note for future Potter to read. Just so he doesn't fucking murder us all later on once he figures things out.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 09:58:52 No.5951323 Report

Quoted By: >>5951326 >>5951532

>>5951293
Wait until he figures out the Longbottems were getting "better" right up until we visited them with Brighton. Yeah this shit... I really hope Avalon has something, anything we can show him. Like anything at all to justify stealing 2 of the greatest magic artifacts around, lighting a cross on the Hogwarts lawn, and in his eyes, re-mind fucking the parents of his close friend. We are going to be looking very, very much like a Dark Lord in the making. If one of our other friends dies in our "adventure" to Avalon. Shit, being expelled will be getting off light.

If Arty dies and we lose our shit? All hail Dark Lord Fuhrer Hallaster.

>>5951305
The message is just a sticky-note of DickButt.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 10:20:28 No.5951326 Report

Quoted By: >>5951532

>>5951323
Oh also the grave robbing of his mentor, slipping out of the school, breaking into a fucking hospital, corrupting his friend's son, ect. Yeah we do not look good after this.

I really hope Arty gives us a crumb of pussy before this because otherwise we will die a virgin, unless you count Potter and half the staff of Hogwarts fucking us sideways.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 14 Mar 2024 17:59:29 No.5951505 Report

Quoted By: >>5951509 >>5951563

>Sending Apollo ALONE to do the grave robbing
wait, why? we have 4 people, wouldnt it be better if we split equally?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zbSPad14 Thu 14 Mar 2024 18:04:59 No.5951509 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951505
He's just that cool

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Thu 14 Mar 2024 18:32:58 No.5951516 Report

Quoted By: >>5951532 >>5951534

>>5951293
Yeah... I, too, just realized our troubled, maybe dangerous, vaguely edgy young protagonist is essentially calling in a KKK bomb threat to his school. Kek. "Bright Lord Hallaster? More like Grand Wizard hallaster, amirite?

>>5951271
>>5951272
>>5951304
Pretty pretty preeeeetty good.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 14 Mar 2024 19:13:12 No.5951532 Report

Quoted By: >>5951539

>>5951293
>>5951323
>>5951326
>>5951516
This is like broadcasting "THE FOURTH REICH BEGINS NOW" over the radio with fireworks forming a swastika in the air and burning crosses being erected right in front of a school for black jewish youths.
So anyways, it was for a good cause, the greater good as one might say...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 19:14:52 No.5951534 Report

Quoted By: >>5951537

>>5951516
Grand Wizard Hallaster! We are essentially asking BCJ to induct us into the Super Hitler KKK Snake Wizard SS by teaching us Morsmodre. Yeah Potter is going to fucking strangle us after this shit shakes out.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 14 Mar 2024 19:18:15 No.5951537 Report

Quoted By: >>5951544

>>5951534
Unexpected side benefit to this: BCJ is going to like us way, way more once his mark alerts him to the fact that Morsmodre was cast somewhere. He might start teaching us for REAL.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 19:19:40 No.5951539 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951532
>a swastika in the air and burning crosses being erected right in front of a school for black jewish youths

That is fucking hilarious.

Also the name for the spell we are getting Crouch to show us is apparently Norwegian for "Mother Killer". Just a fun fact.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 19:25:06 No.5951544 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951537
Oh shit, I forgot the tattoos start itching if this spell is cast. You know who else has one? Lucius fucking Malfoy. Surely nothing coming of that fact. Think BCJ is going to require us to get a sick skull snake prison tat to teach us this?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 14 Mar 2024 19:57:43 No.5951563 Report

Quoted By: >>5951564 >>5951565 >>5951567

Rolled 45, 45, 79 + 65 = 234 (3d100 + 65)

>>5951505
You can send someone with Apollo if you want, it was just Elliot's first draft at the plan. Any suggestions or changes you discuss can be added to the plan if it seems there is enough backing or if it sounds like a clever idea

Now, let us see how this battle goes...

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 14 Mar 2024 20:00:28 No.5951564 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951271
>>5951272
>>5951304

146 141 69

>>5951563

110 110 144

Well done, Bright/Dark Lord Hallaster

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 14 Mar 2024 20:04:15 No.5951565 Report

Quoted By: >>5951582

>>5951563
>+65
jesus fucking christ...
at least its not Potter´s broken system, so that means we are getting close to be on level with a murderous dark wizard, nice.

>You can send someone with Apollo if you want
i suggest pair Apollo with Linda and Arty with Brighton, that way they can all cover each other
Linda covers Apollo´s magical draining while Brighton covers a bit of Arty´s lack of power

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 20:07:40 No.5951567 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951563
>He has a plus fucking 65 with a shitty gimped wand.

Fuck me. 15 off from the most powerful wizard alive's fucking around bonus. And we might have 2 more rounds of fighting him.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 20:35:08 No.5951582 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951565
That seems like a decent pairing. I would normally go with Arty being with Apollo but she needs someone with her that has decent fighting skills and wont be drained from grave robbing. Having the guy who knows about standard office protections in teacher offices is probably smart, if they are stealing the cloak. We might also need to use Helga, if there is a second round. I don't want to see what a 3 of 3 loss against this guy looks like.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 14 Mar 2024 21:04:48 No.5951611 Report

Quoted By: >>5951645

You know, I was thinking. Potter has the time turner and all that, we have to plan around it so he doesn't turn up at Avalon with half the Ministry, yadda yadda yadda, but doesn't it seem awful convenient that he owns ANOTHER magical artifact of Merlin on top of the cloak? That can't be just a coincidence, that Merlin's artifacts are gathering themselves back together almost of their own accord. Remember that Rowena mentioned Merlin throwing the cloak, stone, wand and MORE away from him during the ritual. Which I'm guessing means the time turners. Which means that we probably have to steal Potter's personal get out of jail free card too. Fuck. I suppose it isn't too late to convince Potter to just let us have the 4 most dangerous magical artifacts in existence?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 21:40:52 No.5951645 Report

Quoted By: >>5951654 >>5951657 >>5951671

>>5951611
That is... a very salient point.

Like I speculated Merlin secured the means for his revival before he screwed up his ritual... to make everyone in the future weaker than him, that he foresaw how everything would need to come together to bring him back after he got shattered into a million pieces. Did he do that just so he could harness the power of Nothingness when he got his mindwyrm into a modern wizard? I have always though Potter would be the final boss but hadn't picked up on that idea. And due to his Hall of Prophesy being useless now... no one would see it coming. This is starting to make a lot of sense. Plus all the mind ghost, ones with shards of him going for the same place? Merlin probably being the cause of Atlantis deleting itself from time? His ability to create shit which fucked with time? Where does the Mirror of Erised fit in with this? He assured the Founders that the Mirror was perfectly safe. And given what we have figured out, that shit is a total lie.

The pieces of Merlin are all going to be at the same place at the same time. His grand artifacts there with them. We are probably ending up with the most powerful living Wizard crashing our party. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 14 Mar 2024 21:47:59 No.5951654 Report

Quoted By: >>5951666

>>5951645
>Where does the Mirror of Erised fit in with this?
You don't remember, do you? It can be used to hide things within it. Things that only can be retrieved when the right conditions are met. Things even as powerful as...well, a Philosopher's Stone.
The only reason why nothing happened when we looked into it before is because the conditions had not been met.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 21:51:53 No.5951657 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951645
Potter hosted a piece of Voldemort's soul for 17 fucking years. His soul probably has a bit more room than most. Room Merlin could occupy. Oh fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 21:56:53 No.5951666 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951654
Yeah this shit is going from bad to worse.

He is going to figure out about Lily II, look in the mirror because he desperately wants her back, trigger the condition for Merlin's back-up back-up to pop out and get possessed. Please let this be a schizo delusion.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 14 Mar 2024 22:02:47 No.5951671 Report

Quoted By: >>5951679 >>5951684

>>5951645
I honestly think at this point we should tell Potter. This doesn't look like a plan to stop the end of the world, this looks like Merlin playing the long game to bring himself back after fucking up big time. Maybe keep stuff like Avalon secret, just in case, but tell Potter we suspect THE MOST POWERFUL Wizard of all time is making a comeback and all his magic artifacts are gathering themselves together and from what we know the guy has no moral compass whatsoever at best and is straight up evil at worst. FUCK THAT'S WHY WE NEED ARMIES TO FIGHT FUCKING MERLIN.

And didn't he create the hall of prophecies in the first place? Which immediately makes everything related to that suspect? Fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Thu 14 Mar 2024 22:15:22 No.5951679 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951671
This is all a lot of paranoid theorycrafting which MIGHT be right, but again might not be. I still think there may be a very good reason for the interdict. Let's not jump the gun.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 14 Mar 2024 22:22:20 No.5951684 Report

Quoted By: >>5951707

>>5951671
This might be the way forward. If any of this shit is correct? Who is saying the stuff Helga told us is right? That it wasn't some shit the Merlin shard in her didn't just make up. Or maybe us telling him sets this off? I know from a narrative stand point we cant just get the adults to solve our shit for us... but maybe HeadQM's adults are less retarded than Rowling's? And this prophesy, the last to ever be made, it isn't about us alone. Not about the Beast. It is Merlin.

HE IS HERE.
THE ONE WHO WILL TEAR APART THE VERY STARS IN HEAVEN.
HE IS HERE.
HE IS THE END OF THE WORLD.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Thu 14 Mar 2024 22:52:32 No.5951707 Report

Quoted By: >>5951856

>>5951684
Admittedly, Merlin WAS intended to be the Antichrist in one of his origins...

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 14 Mar 2024 22:58:45 No.5951708 Report

Quoted By:

>small down time inbetween jobs
>check thread
>all this theory crafting since the dice roll

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 02:00:04 No.5951856 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951707
I... forgot about that. Yeah. Fuck Merlin. 4d chess playing asshole. If we are fighting the anti-Christ, is Elliot the Messiah? Actual Bright Lord Hallaster? We do intend to save people, to bring them back from the dead. We are saving the world.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 04:03:26 No.5951952 Report

Quoted By: >>5951962

Just going to point out this,

>The last name Hallester is derived from the Old German words “hald” and “stere,” meaning “wood” and “guardien”, respectively. Together, these two words form to mean “one who protects from the forest” or “forest guardian.”

>Alternatively, it may refer to a person who was located near a small stream or brook, which was called a river in the dialect of the region.

Our mental landscape is a fucking forest with a small river running through it. One which we and Helga are guarding from the Merlin-Beast. How deep is the fucking rabbit hole QM! How far did you think this out? I will now proceed to reread the entire quest, have a drink, and figure out the other shit hidden in it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 15 Mar 2024 04:18:01 No.5951962 Report

Quoted By: >>5951972

>>5951952
>HeadQM didnt chose the protagonist´s name at random
you have my respect HeadQM, its no wonder this is one was called "one of the best quest in recent times" a few threads ago

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:dtsUQoLT Fri 15 Mar 2024 04:30:37 No.5951972 Report

Quoted By: >>5951976 >>5951984

>>5951962
He didnt cuz we chose that name at the very start, remember

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 15 Mar 2024 04:36:00 No.5951976 Report

Quoted By:

>>5951972
i dont, but hey, lucky coincidence then

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 04:57:35 No.5951984 Report

Quoted By: >>5951990

>>5951972
All of the starting names started with an E... going to have to research the other last names, see if there is anything there. Might be writing convenience.

Might be a lucky coincidence we chose the name which makes us "Guardian from the forest". Might be he did the shit with "Faith" and a forest because we chose to be Elliot "Bright Lord" Fucking Hallaster. But I am in a very conspiratorial place. Lotta dots very close to one another.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:10:58 No.5951990 Report

Quoted By: >>5952005 >>5952014 >>5952018 >>5952053 >>5952056 >>5952063

"The key to strategy... is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory"

>>5951984
I wouldn't worry with the other names, anon. They weren't chosen, after all.

--

After four weeks of grueling training together, you and Arty are fighting as a proper team. You know what she’s going to do, and she knows what you’re planning, and you fight together as one. She sends a bolt slightly to his right and he jumps to the left, where you’re already casting a stunner. Wind blows off his wand, pushing him away from your spell, only for Arty to send a Rictusempra at him, which he blocks, countering with a Diffindo, which he can’t finish as you’re shouting “Expelliarmus!”

More than even, you two are in sync, playing off each other, dancing with each other with Crouch between you. Left and right, spell and curse, stunner and disarmer. While Crouch begins the battle with his insane look like always, his laughter only grows louder and louder.

“Ah, that’s it! That’s it! Fight, little birdies! Fight! Bombarda!”

The ground explodes by your side and you jump backwards. Arty summons ropes into the air, but Crouch jumps over them, spinning and firing two bolts mid-air as you stumble out of the way.

“More! Harder! Show me what Potter has taught you!”

You show him, but not only what this Potter has taught you. You put in the combos that Lily had shown you, copying her movements as you had fought her so long ago now, or perhaps never. High feint drawing a shield, which puts you 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 Crouch but behind him, sending him flying forwards.

But he doesn’t fall as you had, instead using his arms to fling himself upwards, back on his feet, spinning to block Arty’s blue blast and-

“Diffindo!”

“Argh!”

He clutches his arm where your spell had finally hit him, a deep red gash pouring blood.

“Finally!” You shout, fist-pumping the air. “Ah, do you need any help? I can-”

“Facrua!” He shouts and a sickly yellow burst comes at you. You dive again, not knowing what it did, and when you come to a stop, you see him press his bloodied hand against his face, leaving its imprint and a terrifying visage of his blood-covered, maniac face cackling at the sky.

Then he stops suddenly, and charges at you, not a hint of a smile on his face.

> Roll a d100+55, Bo3

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:22:50 No.5952005 Report

Quoted By: >>5952021

Rolled 33 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5951990
>he got mad
ahh fuck, please dice, be gentle...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:29:29 No.5952014 Report

Quoted By: >>5952021 >>5952063

Rolled 94 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5951990
RUN LITTLE ELIOT RUN

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:32:58 No.5952018 Report

Quoted By: >>5952021

Rolled 40 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5951990

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:35:19 No.5952021 Report

Quoted By: >>5952024 >>5952026 >>5952028

Rolled 81, 39, 60 + 65 = 245 (3d100 + 65)

>>5952005
>>5952014
>>5952018

88 149 95

And Crouch...

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:37:13 No.5952024 Report

Quoted By: >>5952029

>>5952021

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:37:57 No.5952026 Report

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>>5952021

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:39:28 No.5952028 Report

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>>5952021

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:39:57 No.5952029 Report

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>>5952024
Wait, it's Bo#, not 3 v 3, right? So... Maybe we won??

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:41:27 No.5952033 Report

Quoted By: >>5952035

>>5952029
It was 3v3, I just mistyped. Don't worry, you still have another round

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Fri 15 Mar 2024 05:42:06 No.5952035 Report

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>>5952033

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 15 Mar 2024 06:16:44 No.5952051 Report

Quoted By: >>5952063

>Hogwarts Legacy at 50%
i think im gonna get it, might find some clues and hints on whatever HeadQM is using as reference, cuz i know he has looked at Hogwarts Mystery and Legacy before, or at least their wikis

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Fri 15 Mar 2024 06:23:07 No.5952053 Report

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>>5951990
>We didn't slip the paper in when our rolls were the highest they're gonna get
just a simple switching spell, lad...it's beginner tier magic!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 06:31:06 No.5952056 Report

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Rolled 59 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5951990
Of course I was off talking with my nurse friend when we rolled.

I think using Helga next round is going to be necessary. If Arty gets knocked out this round, we are back down to a +45.

At least we didn't get completely blown out this one.

Rolling to get a shit roll out of the way.

Bright Lord Hallaster. Bright Messiah Hallaster!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 06:44:20 No.5952063 Report

Quoted By: >>5952131

>>5951990
>Merlin pulled a fucking Xanatos Gambit

Ah cool. Yeah, awesome.

>>5952051
Legacy is pretty fun. Don't fuck around with the Merlin challenges too much aside from using them to get decent inventory space and don't get too powerful to fast, kinda breaks the game. If playing on PC there are a few issues which I have no clue if they patched by now, depending on your hardware.

>>5952014
Good roll, thank you.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 08:25:49 No.5952085 Report

Quoted By: >>5952086

Here is very shit pic inspired by Elliot finding the entrance to Avalon. I am not a good artist and only did this because I was bored and needed to at least use the stocking stuffers I got. Also I can't find a good inspiration for another fic unless it is 100% crackfic, like Arty/Raven.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 08:26:53 No.5952086 Report

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>>5952085
Fuck me, might be time for bed.

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Fri 15 Mar 2024 11:21:06 No.5952113 Report

Quoted By: >>5952131 >>5952166

I'm gone for few days and you funny fuckers decide to do the wizard equivalent of burning a cross outside an inner city school while furiously screaming "KILL ALL NIGGERS" into a megaphone, I am in awe. Such is the brilliance and wisdom of Bright Lord Hallaster.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Fri 15 Mar 2024 11:49:51 No.5952131 Report

Quoted By: >>5952166

>>5952113
Nobody ever said we were smart.

>>5952063
>Merlin pulled a fucking Xanatos Gambit
Just means we need to find the nuclear option that mutually assures destruction.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 12:29:48 No.5952166 Report

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>>5952131
Nuclear option is the Beast? I mean if it gets out, everyone is fucked, unless Merlin planned for that too... The 4 founders being sacrificed might very well be just to give him more chances to pop back out, he didn't really need them, since they seem to all want to find his shit or Ancient places of power or what ever. Then he might have a super secret surprise stored in the Mirror as well.

>>5952113
Well other than Potter killing us because we did the equivalent of doing a Hitler speech, burning a cross, tossing a hakenkreuz in the air, which is also on fire, and raiding the grave of a wizard Saint, I think it is a solid plan. Also being inducted into the Wizard SS KKK by a dude smearing his own blood all over his face right now. And probably needing to use our dark lord completely black eyes for the next roll. And stealing Potter's shit. Also being in bed with a girl who looks like she is 13 and will look that way forever is kinda sus. And having a prophesy that implies we are not going to destroy the world but the universe hanging over our head. And maybe being implied to have re-mind wiped Alice and Frank recently. And a dead friend who people think we sacrificed in a Dark Magic Ritual. And our fully scarred arm that even Arty was odded out enough by, when we got it she asked after about a week. And our friend calling herself Raven Everdark. And the 2 stolen books from the Restricted Section.

This is an excellent plan.

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Anonymous ID:BeWMyya2 Fri 15 Mar 2024 20:57:07 No.5952393 Report

Quoted By: >>5952402 >>5952405 >>5952446

Hey what if we were to use the resurrection stone to talk to Merlin? What would happen if we used it on the Founders?

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Anonymous ID:Q500jMLM Fri 15 Mar 2024 21:03:37 No.5952402 Report

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>>5952393
We break our neck on the ladder at st mungos and the world ends. I don't know about you but I'd rather not test it

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Fri 15 Mar 2024 21:06:18 No.5952405 Report

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>>5952393
we lose one of the founders, shooting ourselfs in the foot and Merlin gets to do whatever he wants...most likely

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 23:02:02 No.5952446 Report

Quoted By: >>5952465

>>5952393
We probably kill our self after we have a chat. If we can even talk to him.

The Stone is supposed to bring back someone who you knew in life, someone you loved. THE story about it says it was used to bring back its owner's paramour as a shade Would it work if Potter tried to conjure Lily II? I hope we never find out.. And even if we can resist the call of the abyss... well it is 3 for 3 as far as killing the people who used it. The one guy who survived on a technicality, he told us he would have to get the Stone back from us if we used it. Because we would have hopped down from the highest tower of Hogwarts.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Fri 15 Mar 2024 23:27:53 No.5952465 Report

Quoted By: >>5952479

>>5952446
Wait a minute. What if we have Helga take control and use it?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 15 Mar 2024 23:42:34 No.5952479 Report

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>>5952465
She cant body jack us yet, I don't think. Did she love Merlin enough to be able to conjure his shade? She really didn't like Lailoken, apparently. Does he even have a shade at this point? What are the implications of a ghost conjuring another ghost? Would she just stop fighting the Beast if the second effect of the Stone hit her? Let it all end? She was already torturing herself by looking into the Mirror of Impossibility created in our head. Can a spirit self-delete?

I think the answer to that question is we do not want to know.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 16 Mar 2024 01:13:43 No.5952508 Report

Quoted By: >>5952514 >>5952522 >>5952526 >>5952557

Crouch comes at you, frantic eyes glued on your position. He doesn’t cast, instead bringing his wand down like a knife, tip burning bright like a small star, and you raise your Protego against it. It slides off and into the stone floor, leaving a deep, melted gash on the rock where it touches. You backpedal, stumbling as you block slash after slash, thrust after thrust, coming so fast the only time you can cast a spell is when he stops to block whatever Arty has sent his way.

“Depulso!”

You hear Arty shout, aimed not at him, but at you. The spell launches you sideways and away from him, buying you time to send a Tarantallegra. His wand moves in a blur, summoning a Prismatis the size of his fist in front of your spell, which shatters against it. He comes at you again, passing his hand over his left arm, and when you block his shining wand with your protego, his left hand comes at you, nails transfigured into sharp claws. It passes inches from your throat before you kick him in the chest.

“Flamare Perpetua!”

A line of fire appears between you and him, Arty several paces away with her wand drawn, gasping for breath from having to chase after the two of you across the whole island.

“Alright then,” he says. “We start with you.”

He lunges at her, and you chase him, except the moment you do he doubles back, slashing through the flames with his wand and leaping in your direction. His clawed fingers carve a red path through your robes and skin as you try to get your balance back. You punch his injured arm and he screams in pain, stumbling away.

Blood drips from four gashes in your chest and you clutch your wounds. You reach for your pouch but-

“Looking for something, Elli-loo?” Crouch says, lifting your pouch with one hand while licking your blood off the other. “I wonder what you keep in here.”

“Turn it upside down and find out,” you say. The potions would be a pain to replace but having an Erumpent explode at his feet would certainly be a win.

“With you stinking of caldron fumes? I’m no fool. But no cheating. If you bleed, you bleed, little birdie.”

> Roll a d100+55, beat 2 out of 3

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Sat 16 Mar 2024 01:25:33 No.5952514 Report

Quoted By: >>5952527 >>5952541

Rolled 50 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5952508
Fuck him up Lord Hallaster

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Anonymous ID:NW3hfXpi Sat 16 Mar 2024 01:41:58 No.5952522 Report

Quoted By: >>5952525 >>5952527 >>5952541

Rolled 9 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5952508
DOOM

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Anonymous ID:NW3hfXpi Sat 16 Mar 2024 01:44:35 No.5952525 Report

Quoted By: >>5952541

>>5952522
Uh oh. May have doomed us instead. Sorry anons.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 16 Mar 2024 01:46:31 No.5952526 Report

Quoted By: >>5952527 >>5952530

Rolled 26 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5952508

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 16 Mar 2024 01:47:34 No.5952527 Report

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>>5952526
>>5952522
>>5952514

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Anonymous ID:NW3hfXpi Sat 16 Mar 2024 01:50:42 No.5952530 Report

Quoted By: >>5952607

Rolled 20, 20, 43, 18, 91 + 55 = 247 (5d100 + 55)

>>5952526
Just how bad is our luck anyway?

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 16 Mar 2024 02:10:28 No.5952541 Report

Quoted By: >>5952547 >>5952569

Rolled 32, 3, 45 + 65 = 145 (3d100 + 65)

>>5952514
>>5952522
>>5952525

Oh my...

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Anonymous ID:NW3hfXpi Sat 16 Mar 2024 02:19:09 No.5952547 Report

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>>5952541
Damn, so close.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 16 Mar 2024 02:27:17 No.5952557 Report

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>>5952508
Crouch is such a badass, for a an awful racist psychopath.

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Sat 16 Mar 2024 02:42:56 No.5952569 Report

Quoted By: >>5952578 >>5952597 >>5952640

>>5952541
With our helga boost we clutch this right?

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 16 Mar 2024 02:52:24 No.5952578 Report

Quoted By: >>5952593 >>5952597 >>5952640 >>5952719

>>5952569
Might be a good time to activate it.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 03:15:29 No.5952593 Report

Quoted By: >>5952597

>>5952578
I agree with using Helga to try and squeak a win out of this. Crouch is probably one of my favorite characters at this point. Completely insane but fucking competent. He can do partial human transfig on himself, silently, with a gimped ass wand apparently.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 16 Mar 2024 03:17:42 No.5952597 Report

Quoted By: >>5952604 >>5952606 >>5952638

>>5952569
>>5952578
>>5952593
I'll wait a bit to see if there is any disagreement, if not, you'll use the boost to beat him (the alternative strategy was to use Helga to show him dark eyes, anyways)

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Anonymous ID:T1h1yyC0 Sat 16 Mar 2024 03:31:54 No.5952604 Report

Quoted By: >>5952640

>>5952597
I'm guessing Potter will notice if our eyes go black, right? Ah well, he was bound to figure something out sooner or later.

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Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Sat 16 Mar 2024 03:34:05 No.5952606 Report

Quoted By: >>5952611

>>5952597
If it's up to a vote I'd rather not use Helga for this. I'd rather have Potter keep on guessing, even if it's for a little while longer.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 03:34:22 No.5952607 Report

Quoted By: >>5952639

Rolled 86 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5952530
Fucking very, it seems. I have rarely seen someone with such mediocre rolls survive this long in a game. Like, I swear nipmoot has personally decided Elliot's rolls must be shit to mediocre and has someone manually fucking with all our dice. We get decent ones only when they run to take a piss.

Testing.

Bright Lord Fuhrer Hallaster!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 03:50:11 No.5952611 Report

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>>5952606
I mean, he knows we can get more power from somewhere already, we admitted as much to him. Maybe Helga helping will frizz out what ever viewing enchantment he is using like she did the 1st time she helped us? And we already look very fucking bad right now. What does our eyes going creepy black for a second really matter at this point?

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Anonymous ID:T1h1yyC0 Sat 16 Mar 2024 04:05:31 No.5952623 Report

Quoted By: >>5952634

Could we somehow be a Horcrux of Merlin?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 04:29:24 No.5952634 Report

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>>5952623
We ah... do have a gate which the monster he became is trapped behind. We are another Slytherin... QM implied the Xanatos Gambit... have an arm completely covered in scars from the Merlin-Beast trying to kill us and rip its way free...Have a founder in our head with a shard of Merlin stuck in her, one which gave Helga the power of Prophesy.

Honestly? Maybe? Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. We might be his preferred fucking vessel. The other options? Just secondary.

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Sat 16 Mar 2024 04:36:31 No.5952638 Report

Quoted By: >>5952640

>>5952597
Do it. Harry already saw it anyways. Barty might think we are doing dark magic and shit which might work in our favor.

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Sat 16 Mar 2024 04:41:39 No.5952639 Report

Quoted By: >>5952652

>>5952607
Nah, Elliot is still far from being the biggest jobber of qst. That title goes to Reno from DC Quest. Even after like seven years I still haven't seen an mc that mediocre that still somehow got to the end.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 04:44:11 No.5952640 Report

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>>5952638
>>5952604
>>5952578
>>5952569

Lets fucking go?

LETS FUCKING GO!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 05:13:03 No.5952652 Report

Quoted By: >>5952660 >>5952682

>>5952639
That is funny. I wasn't really here for a while due to working like a slave and having a social life, not sure I want to read a DC quest, considering comic ones? They ARE cursed. Crusty died of ass cancer and Hench got a gun and redecorated a forest. RIP to both.

Was it any good?

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Sat 16 Mar 2024 05:30:33 No.5952660 Report

Quoted By: >>5952671

>>5952652
It was good alright, we were a cadmus android with a red sun powerup, we got to fuck Blackfire, we styled on Jason Todd that one time... the qm got burntout in the second part and it ended kinda lamely, and the limited time left a few plot threads feeling undercooked. But it was cool.

Rest in Peace Axis. I'll never forget you as long as I live.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 05:55:15 No.5952671 Report

Quoted By: >>5952673 >>5952717

>>5952660
Well fuck, I guess I have to read it then since working 20 hours a week gives me some time.

What are you guys reading, aside from this? I like Cleaners, Sworn to Valor. I am sad the Pokemon quest where we cooked them never came back. Same for Pokemon Loser but that QM got engaged so I understand.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 16 Mar 2024 05:57:13 No.5952673 Report

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>>5952671
Seems like a better question for the general, but I follow abut 15-20 quests.

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Sat 16 Mar 2024 06:16:04 No.5952682 Report

Quoted By: >>5952693 >>5952717

>>5952652
>Henchman Quest
I miss that quest a lot. It's definitely one of my favourites, a lot of good moments in that quest like that time anons rolled two 1s and Sean started berating a french super spy into a frenzied rage before casually murdering her. Or that one chick making a big deal about how she's going to avenge her girlfriend only for Sean to kill her effortlessly. Or that time Sean went on a date and ended up in a three-way firefight with mercenaries and egyptian cultists. Or all those times Sean humiliated Batgirl and shooting her in the knee became their thing. Sean really did have the worst fucking luck when it came to women, that's probably why the greek goddess of virgins made him her champion.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 06:34:19 No.5952693 Report

Quoted By: >>5952702

>>5952682
Shooting Barb in the knee was great. As was setting Martian Girl on fire. Once we started getting a bunch of different IDs, I laughed out loud. Seriously, RIP Axis. Not my favorite quest of all time but it was a fun ride. I hope it is better up there.

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Sat 16 Mar 2024 07:00:10 No.5952702 Report

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>>5952693
It wasn't my goat, but it was among the goats.

How many quests had people shadowrunning within shadowruns with multiple aliases just so they didn't get caught by Batman.

I miss it a ton.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:kMDO2QD7 Sat 16 Mar 2024 07:36:36 No.5952717 Report

Quoted By: >>5952721

>>5952671
Simple Space Empire, Horus Heresy, and 40k AI. Need to catch up with Lady Knight and DC beat cop. I am a man of many tastes.

>>5952682
RIP Austin. I'll always miss you.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 16 Mar 2024 07:51:06 No.5952719 Report

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>>5952578
supporting, we need this to work so the rest of the plan can work,

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 07:58:31 No.5952721 Report

Quoted By: >>5952724

>>5952717
Did... you know him IRL. If so I am sorry for the loss.

One of my better friends when I was in college was named Austin. Him OD'ing is why I have Narcan in my medical bag and IFAK's.

Lady Knight is fun but I just read, not post. Beat Cop is good but after the other Capeshit quests, I don't want to get too invested.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:kMDO2QD7 Sat 16 Mar 2024 08:04:52 No.5952724 Report

Quoted By: >>5952731

>>5952721
Nah, just a reader who really appreciated his writing. Some anon who was was his irl friend popped into the qtg to answer a few questions, and said his name was Austin. Such a shame.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 08:22:23 No.5952731 Report

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>>5952724
Ah. I recall checking the thread out when he... did the deed, but didn't catch the guy's name. I'm sorry if I brought up bad memories. I will now go back to preparing St. Patrick's day food, having a beer, re-reading a couple parts of the quest because I am sure I missed something, and writing an Arty/Raven crackfic.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 16 Mar 2024 21:40:15 No.5953089 Report

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Merlin fucking planned for us to destroy the Repository. The store of Ancient magic which could allow a modern Wizard to oppose him, when he returned. He performed Wizard genetic engineering so in this time we would not have people able to harness the same power he could use. Why could Wizards a 1000 years ago harness it? The Interdict did not stop the Keepers who came 400 years later.

Why did he create the Interdict by getting rid of the 4 greatest living magicians? So they couldn't pass on their knowledge or genetics in a way he didn't want. He cheated on Rowena how many times? It was to create a bunch of people who could be possible hosts when he came back but lacked the innate power to use Ancient Magic unless they had a mind ghost.

Potter could have maybe found a way to use the Repository against him. And if Potter realized Lily II existed due to being exposed due to the magic there? Well nifty new host who also has control of half the schools enchantments. He helped build Hogwarts, pretended to be a student so he would know how to fuck up the greatest concentration of powerful magic existent in our time when he came back.

The Sacred 28... they are interbred to hell and back. And I would guess all of them have Merlin blood in them. Blood from the husk he was using at the time. Like everyone is everyone's cousin. Lotta hosts. Lotta chances to have your ancestor's ghost posses you due to the need for compatibility.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 17 Mar 2024 07:44:28 No.5953610 Report

Quoted By: >>5953611

You reach to your tattered vest and tear its remains, exposing your bare chest and the wounds on it.

Why, yes, you could have cast reparo on it, but you figure that if you’re going to do this, might as well look good doing it. After six months of intense training, it makes for a pretty decent view against the moonlight.

You slowly crack your neck, first one side, then the other.

“Helga?” You ask inside your head.

“Always with you,” she answers.

“Good.”

“Very well, then, Crouchey,” Dark Lord Hallaster says, voice cold as ice. You stare at him, eyes meeting, and when for just an instant yours go as dark as the void between the stars, his go wide. “If that’s how you want to play… Then let’s play.”

And you charge at him, robes fluttering in the wind.

--

The battle that follows is a flurry of spells and curses like none you’ve ever had. Even in your biggest fights against Lily, even in Last Light, you hadn’t fought quite like this. Every lesson comes into effect, every parry you’ve ever learned, every one-two-three combo. The muscle memory Potter’s battles have built in you for the last few months takes you, the survival instinct Crouch has hammered in your head guides you, Helga’s power crystallizes it into action.

It’s incredible how fast one can improve when they need to fight for their life.

With Arty giving you supporting fire and Helga sharpening your skills, you clash against him, and for the first time he’s the one who needs to take a step back, then a second one. There is no more laughter on his face, instead turning to confusion, worry, then… curiosity.

“Reducto!”

“Melafors!”

“Petrificus Totalus!”

“Impedimenta!”

“Sectumsempra!”

The spell of cursed wounds clips you in the shoulder and you spin, flinging your own “Sectumsempra!” back at him, hitting his good arm. He grits his teeth as you force him to take another step back, spinning, fighting as you once fought against Hugo’s forces with Linda and Taylor at your side, like Helga once fought with Godric, Rowena and Salazar by hers.

“Accio door!”

The door of the crumbling shack rips off its hinges and comes flying towards you, and just at the right moment you let go of the spell, sidestepping the hurling block, “Depulso!” and sending it flying at Crouch, who stumbles to cast “Reducto!”

The door explodes into dust, but you’re already leaping through the wooden splinters, left hand reaching for his right and pushing it away from you, right going towards his chest, wand pointing upwards at his chin.

“Stupefy!” You shout, his face flashes with the scarlet spell and his body collapses to the floor.

--

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 17 Mar 2024 07:45:30 No.5953611 Report

Quoted By: >>5953612

>>5953610

“Rennervate!”

Crouch’s body jerks and he opens his eyes, looking at you with murderous eyes. You offer your hand to help him up and he scowls, but accepts.

He gives no signal that would indicate he’s just taken the paper hidden in the palm of your hand.

“I want to learn. I want to know,” it said. “Teach me how to cast the Dark Mark, and I shall continue the work of the Death Eaters. But he can’t know I know it.”

He looks at you from head to toe.

“Little birdie fights well.”

“I have friends who help me,” you say, but you don’t nod at Arty.

“I see,” he says, licking his lips. “I can’t say I ever had the pleasure.”

“Shame,” you say, picking up your pouch from the floor. “Maybe if you did, you wouldn’t have ended up on this island.”

“You also ended up here, little birdie.”

“True. But I can leave whenever I want.”

“Bah.”

“I assume today’s lesson is finished?” you ask.

“Go,” he snarls, then grins. “I look forward to seeing what Potter will let me get away with next session.”

--

You return to Potter’s office and he sits on his chair. The door to his office does not open.

“Sit,” he says, and it does not sound like a suggestion.

“Is that an order, sir?”

“It is. An order from your deputy-headmaster. You too, Ms. Pertinger.”

You two sit, though Arty hasn’t stopped giving Potter the stink eye ever since she’d quit his battle class.

“What was that?”

“What was what?”

“Don’t play games with me, Elliot,” he says, looking at you intently. “I grow tired of them. One does not cast a dark spell from seeing it executed once, much less in instants.”

Ah, so he didn’t see my eyes. So he’s either lying or even with a time turner he needs to keep his focus on Crouch to be sure he isn’t going to do something he shouldn’t.

“You learned Sectumsempra from reading in a book,” you say, not mentioning you’ve seen it cast several times before, by a girl who no longer exists. Your tone matches his. “Unless that is also a lie from your books.”

“It is. I learned from a Dark Wizard. In fact, from that dark wizard, when he was disguised as Alastor Moody. But I certainly did not learn it that quickly.”

“I’m a fast learner. I knew from your books what it was meant to do, and I saw him do the proper wand motions. I just copied him, and it worked.”

“You were never that good in Defense.”

“Maybe he’s just a better teacher.”

“Or maybe you learned somewhere else, from someone else.”

“Is there anyone else who could have taught me that spell?” You ask, annoyed with Potter’s insistence. “As far as I am aware, Snape invented it and told only his death eater friends. Unless I recreated it from scratch, the Interdict stops me from learning it from your books.”

“Or you know a Death Eater that I don’t.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 17 Mar 2024 07:46:33 No.5953612 Report

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>>5953611

“The only Death Eaters I know are him and Draco Malfoy, both of which you introduced me to. Feel free to ask Draco if he’s taught me anything. In fact, he should also know that spell, right? You almost killed him with it.”

You two stare at each other, both refusing to budge.

“Elliot is not a dark wizard, professor!” Arty says. “No more than you!”

“Given that I had the soul of Lord Voldemort in my head, that does not fill me with confidence, Ms. Pertinger.”

“And you turned out fine, didn’t you? Even with a dark lord and a prophecy saying you’d have to kill him.”

“Vanquish. Not kill.”

“Out on a technicality,” she scoffs. “And it isn’t as if you haven’t killed people. Well, Elliot hasn’t, so you get off his back!”

“Elliot is foretold to end the world, Ms. Pertinger!”

“But not anyone in it!” She shouts, standing up and slamming her hands on the table. “If you can vanquish Lord Voldemort without chopping off his head, then my Elliot can damn well end the world without killing everyone! So stop bothering him!”

He stares at her, eyes of steel, then… he starts laughing. It is not a happy laugh.

“I’ve always wondered… I’ve always wondered how people fall in line with dark lords. Always wondered how people agree to work with Gellert Grindelwalds and Tom Riddles. When you speak to people, long after the fact, they always say how charming they were, how entrancing their words sounded. I hope you’re not making the same mistake, Ms. Pertinger.”

“Yeah? And if I ask Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley and Ginny Potter about Harry Potter when he was young, what will they say? Wanna bet I can find a dark lord people said the same thing about as they’re gonna say about you?”

He leans forwards.

“Do you know whose house Gellert Grindewald’s most loyal followers in europe were from?”

“Let me guess,” she says, rolling her eyes. “Slytherin?”

“No,” he says, lips in a thin line. “Hufflepuff. Once you’ve picked a side, you’re stubbornly difficult to sway, even when atrocities are committed by the one you follow. Tell me, Ms. Pertinger, if I told you of a student with a scarred arm, a friend who calls herself Raven Everdark, another one who disappeared under mysterious circumstances and was never found, who has a prophecy about him ending the world and who wasn’t your beloved Elliot, can you truly say you’d side with said student? If you didn’t date him, if you didn’t desperately need him, can you say with certainty you’d believe everything he’s told you, everything that justifies your allegiance to him?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 17 Mar 2024 07:47:34 No.5953613 Report

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>>5953612

“Can you be one hundred percent sure he isn’t lying to you?” He asks, his eyes on her only. “Are you sure whatever proof he’s presented to you aren’t forgeries or lies, that they can’t be recreated by other magics? Because if you can, I would love to see whatever evidence he’s presented to you of his allegiance to not killing everyone. After all, the easiest way of ending the world is to end everyone along with it, and as such must be considered the most likely.”

Arty hesitates. It isn’t much, it isn’t for long, but it is definitely there.

“You can’t see it,” she says, crossing her arms. “Elliot told you that already.”

“A convenient story for someone who doesn’t want me to see the evidence, because it doesn’t actually exist.”

“You talk so much about Hufflepuffs not changing their mind, but what about you? You don’t seem the least bit willing to believe him!”

“I simply follow the evidence, Ms. Pertinger. And the evidence points to Elliot either being on the path of the Dark wizard, or being the unluckiest man alive, and that is coming from someone who was repeatedly called ‘fate’s lightning rod of doom’ by his friends.”

“Then maybe it’s you who is cursed, not him!” She shouts. “We’re just innocent bystanders caught in your whirlpool of chaos!”

“Then so was Voldemort and all of his Death Eaters, and I dealt with them.”

“But not with Malfoy, apparently. Did you have any excuses for him or do you just hand out free get-out-of-jail cards for classmates? Is that what it takes to be on your good side? Be born forty years ago? Because if it is, I’m sorry, but we’re fresh out of time-turners!”

He stares at her, and there is a darkness in Potter’s eyes you’ve never seen before. But Arty does not back down.

“You’d have certainly done well in my house, perhaps to a fault.” He says, ice in his voice. “I can only hope you don’t turn that bravery into foolishness, Ms. Pertinger. Or your loyalty and love into blind faith.”

“And I hope you don’t turn the boy-who-lived into a child killer,” she replies with equal coldness.

You put a hand on her shoulder.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 17 Mar 2024 07:48:36 No.5953614 Report

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>>5953613

“That’s enough, Arty.” You look at him and put away the anger. You speak plainly and simply. “Professor, I have no intent of turning dark. I simply reacted on instinct, and it is not a particularly difficult spell. I won’t use it again, and have been keeping well away from anything dark. All I want is to go through the year without any more problems, but the world isn’t letting me. You more than anyone should be able to know what that’s like. When you were a little younger than me, the Daily Prophet was calling you a liar. That part of your story is true, even if everything else is false. And for the people who read it, for the people who didn’t have all the information, you were a liar. For the people who didn’t know the full picture, there was no Voldemort. Because if you didn’t know everything, it was more likely that the boy-who-lived simply wanted more fame than the Dark Lord having come back to life.”

You put as much warmth as you can on the next phrase. “Please don’t make the same mistake. You’re better than that.”

A little of that warmth seeps into Potter’s ice mask and it cracks. He takes a step back and looks away.

“Go,” he says, and the door opens. “There is nothing else for us to discuss.”

--

Arty is still fuming as you walk away. You’re still digesting the bare-faced lie you had told him, giving an impassioned speech about not going dark when planning to learn the Dark Mark.

Was that how it had started for other Dark wizards? Had Gormalaith Gaunt, Herpo the Foul, or Sebastian Sallow, dark witches and wizards of old, also started on a good path which had twisted them beyond all recognition? Or did they have something wrong with them from the start?

“You haven’t strayed from the path yet, Elliot,” Helga says. “I would know.”

“And what would you do if I had, Helga?” You ask. “What would you do if-”

“You won’t. Not while you’re still afraid of doing it. Not while you keep asking yourself that question. You’re a good soul, Elliot.”

Hoping she is right, you chase after your girlfriend, rumaging your pouch for some intact vests.

--

You have stocks of potions and a camera filled with film. It will take the week to hopefully learn the Dark Mark. In the meantime, is there anything else you wish to do? (Pick ONE)

> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
> Study with Linda, Arty or Apollo (pick one, +2 to chosen person’s expertise)
> Study another subject (+1 to another subject)
> Go on a date with Arty
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 17 Mar 2024 08:15:15 No.5953621 Report

Quoted By: >>5953670

oh man, this is probably your best interpretation of "angy lil miniwitchfu" so far HeadQM, i FELT that one, amazing job

>>5953614
usually, i would go for a date with Arty in order to help her take the edge off, but i think, this time having a time with her and magical creatures not only would give us a bit more of extra time with her, but also serve as a way to have a long and meaningful conversation together about our future
basically having a "date" while "learning some stuff" (we most likely wont get full bonus to it due to us being distracted by our talk, but helping her be less angry and ease any of her worries or doubts (that we know she had for a second there) would be a nice way to dispell any and all worries she has is worth it in the long run, we dont want our miniwitchfu to be the rest of her life angry or having doubts on us)
we could also use that talk to prepare eachother mentally for whats to come, we know we are gonna need to prepare for anything, but talking about it externally could be a very nice way to do so

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Sun 17 Mar 2024 08:21:40 No.5953623 Report

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>>5953614
> Study your Potion books (+2 to Potions)
Fuck you Harry. Snape was right. If it weren't for your stupid ass falling right into that trap at the deparment of mysteries none of this shit would have happened.

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Anonymous ID:T1h1yyC0 Sun 17 Mar 2024 08:43:34 No.5953631 Report

Quoted By: >>5953644 >>5953814

So anons. I've been thinking, and I think we might have to reevaluate the hallows heist and scare the living shit out of Potter plan. Why? Because if the supposition that Avalon and the philosophers stone are part of bringing back merlin is true, then we are bringing 3 of the most powerful magical objects in existence and dumping them in his lap. Which is BAD. And I think we need to tell Potter about Merlin.

We don't need to scare Potter into thinking Voldemort's coming back, we scare him by telling to his face that something WORSE than Voldemort is coming, the most powerful wizard in history, Merlin himself. We need to warn him to lock down the Mirror, the Goblet of Fire, and the Cup of Sorrows (which thing is that again?). This is what his armies are going to be needed for. And we need to focus on catching Salazar. We don't need 2 weeks to grab the hallows and get to Avalon, we just need to stop the Malfoys from opening it up, because we CANNOT let Merlin return without laying a proper trap for him.

And the Dark mark is still a useful emergency card for when we need to summon half the ministry on our ass, I don't want to waste it on a glorified prank. We need to be thinking far, far ahead, we need to be thinking like Merlin and finding a way to stop him, not stumbling from thing to thing without being certain of what we're doing.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 17 Mar 2024 09:31:24 No.5953643 Report

Quoted By: >>5954123 >>5954327

>>5953614
>Study with Apollo
I've been thinking. We're going to want an Alibi. For all of us, really. We're going to be committing all these acts in the dead of night. A convincing enough body-double in our beds could have people believe we're in a deep slumber, maybe just an inert transfiguration of some pillows or something. It doesn't have to hold up to massive scrutiny, just passive.
As for fooling the map, well...it picks up anything with a name on it. Including named animals. We should pick up something innocuous like a rat or a toad each, name them each after their respective owners (ie Artie has a rat named Artemis Pertinger), and keep that pet in bed when they slip out.
The kids will still show up on the map, of course. Just doubled up and in separate places. But it casts doubt on the reliability of the marauder's map, which is important. "How could there be two Artemis Pertingers on the map?"

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 17 Mar 2024 09:35:19 No.5953644 Report

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>>5953631
too late to back off now

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sun 17 Mar 2024 10:59:15 No.5953665 Report

Quoted By: >>5953681 >>5954123

>>5953614
> Other (Write in)
Warn Potter about Merlin coming back, and how the Deathly Hallows and the time turner are originally his.

>>5953644
I don't think so. We haven't actually stolen the hallows yet, and while we're learning the dark mark that doesn't mean we have to use it instantly. I just think it's an EXTREMELY bad idea to take the hallows to where Merlin is presumably going to come back, mostly because it's too big a risk to let him have them again. We need to be thinking smart here, smarter than Merlin. We're getting a massive boon with the dark mark here, basically an instant summon pissed off wizards button, and using it to get the hallows and place them in merlins lap I think an extremely foolish idea. And sure, we need to prevent Salazar and the Malfoys from opening up Avalon, but there's better ways to do that then potentially triggering the return of Merlin himself.

I think the play should be to warn Potter, tell him that Merlin himself is making a comeback and getting him to prepare accordingly. Remember, there are way too many coincidences flying around right now. The Hallows, the Time Turner, the Mirror, plus the two cups. Merlin's a conniving little shit and I want to beat him at his own game.

And for the really crackpot theory, I think it's possible that the House Elves are an emergency backup army for Merlin. Because who more important a master than their very creator?

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Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Sun 17 Mar 2024 11:16:46 No.5953670 Report

Quoted By: >>5953700

>>5953614
>>5953621
+1
I still trust the prophecy that Helga told us.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 17 Mar 2024 11:33:23 No.5953681 Report

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>>5953665
nah, the prophecy means Potter shouldnt know and so far everytime he learns even the smaller details it makes him even more antagonist towards us, the moment we tell him anything concerning Merlin, that fucker will petrify us in the spot and crucio the info all of us, he already FUCKING SHOT AT US with nothing but hunchs, i am not risking it telling him any more
him knowing too much has been probably THE most consistant part of the prophecy so far, he is our biggest thread in getting anything done, we tell him what we know and what we are planning and everything crumbles down

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sun 17 Mar 2024 11:52:03 No.5953700 Report

Quoted By: >>5953759 >>5954029

>>5953670
>>5953681
The Prophecy only applied to Last Light, and past that anything was up for grabs, Helga herself said this. And Potter has given us SO MUCH trust even with us stonewalling him at every possible opportunity, hell he's willingly letting a death eater teach us how to fight better despite us steadfastly refusing to give him anything more than the barest of feelings to trust us. Sure he almost shot us, but you know what? With the information he had, he SHOULD have killed us. We're suspect #1 in taylor's disappearance , on top of being named in a prophecy about the end of the world, and yet he's still willing to give us some leeway. I'm not suggesting we tell him every single thing we know, but I think he at least deserves to know what he's up against, I.e Merlin, the most powerful and potentially most evil wizard of all time, even more than Voldemort. THIS is what the armies are meant for, THIS is what we need to fight Merlin. Remember that Potter didn't defeat Voldemort by himself either, he had help from people who mattered. Don't be like Dumbledore anons and push someone away because you're too scared of what they might do.

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Sun 17 Mar 2024 14:42:23 No.5953759 Report

Quoted By: >>5953981

>>5953700
If merlin was that much of an omniscient mastermind i don't see how anyone could conceivably beat him, just what we know about ancient magic means no amount of armies would make a difference, so we might as well have already lost. I'd rather just take things at face value and hope for the best.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 17 Mar 2024 16:49:38 No.5953814 Report

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>>5953631
I will follow the path we've set out before us. All the theorycrafting aside, I'm not convinced Merlin is evil and his interdict was part of a scheme by him to take over the world or whatever.

>>5953614
>Study-date with Arty

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sun 17 Mar 2024 21:01:33 No.5953981 Report

Quoted By: >>5953988 >>5953992

>>5953759
On face value Potter's going to fucking murder us for casting the dark mark alone, not to mention stealing the deathly hallows. Potter has drawn a line and we're laughing in his face and stepping over it. Do you really think a vague feeling that telling him things is bad trumps Potter's direct word that he'll murder us for doing dark magic? Are you really willing to risk it all on the off chance that he doesn't murder us and unleash the beast hidden within us?

We don't even know what we'll find in Avalon, only that we'll be bringing 3 of his most powerful artifacts to a philosopher's stone that Merlin probably created. I just think it's a bad idea and that we're not doing enough thinking about what we're doing. What are we even supposed to do when we get there? Destroy it so Salazar can't get it or use it and hope Arty and Brighton's grandparents don't get turned into a host for Merlin?

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 17 Mar 2024 21:13:23 No.5953988 Report

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>>5953981
thats why we are going there, we´ll find out when we get there

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Sun 17 Mar 2024 21:24:04 No.5953992 Report

Quoted By: >>5954029

>>5953981
On faciest value by gods decree telling potter shit is basically throwing the game. If you have a better idea than suicide that we could reasonably pull off in the very limited time we have then we'll hear you out, till' then we are staying the course.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 17 Mar 2024 21:46:24 No.5954029 Report

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>>5953700
Merlin's predictive powers clearly weren't perfect, and Helga believes even he woudn't be able to see past Last Light. as the other anon said, he wasn't omniscient and fate is no longer being guided by any Seer.

>>5953992
> On faciest value by gods decree telling potter shit is basically throwing the game

I have never said this. I said that the point of the that plot point is to stop you from going to Potter immediately and having him solve everything, at least during the first part of the quest. That does not mean you can't, just that Elliot is deeply disincentivized to doing so, and that in itself is a plot point. Even Helga herself does not know if what she's seen before applies to now.

Clearly, telling Potter some things have shown to be advantageous, like with the people threatening Arty. Clearly, somethings are bad, as with him learning of the prophecy. Maybe the danger Helga saw in Last Light is past, maybe it isn't.

I'm not saying if you should or shouldn't, that is up to you, but know that it is always an option Elliot can make (and that whether you tell him or not, I will milk the doubt of whether you're doing the right thing until the very final thread)

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 17 Mar 2024 22:36:46 No.5954086 Report

Quoted By: >>5954095 >>5954097 >>5954132

>>5953614
> Go on a date with Arty

There is a decent chance of one of us dying very soon. Got to make the most out of the time we have.

Also this is the second time she has told off the boy who lived in our name. She is perfect. I also think there are probably rumors going around the Houses that we have done something to corrupt her, that we ARE the next Dark Lord and she is our first follower. That we are way cooler than we actually are.

She also called us HER Elliot. Which is great. Rolling her eyes at Potter was amazing.

Potter is also getting a black eye before graduate for continuing to insult our tiny badger wifelette.

Some thoughts.

Bringing out the Dark Lord Hallaster persona for the first real time was bad ass. The thing we said about "playing" also is a close mirror to what Lily had said to us when we spared for real and she pushed our shit in. Ripping our shirt and vest off so our wound was just shining under the night sky are we fought was pretty awesome.

I want that spell Crouch was using to make his wand like a knife.

Using the Accio + Depulso trick again was great. Really working the 99 we got for how well we dance. Crouch accepting a hand up from us is both scary and probably a good sign.

>like Helga once fought with Godric, Rowena and Salazar by hers.

That is pretty cool that Godric could apparently fight against the others so well it would take Puffpuff, Rae, and Sally to beat him.

>“You were never that good in Defense.”

Its funny because, even if not Potioned up, we are likely the best at fighting out of all the current students. Like even Lily now only matches our bonus and she was a protege. With Helga and some performance enhancers? We could equal Potter's bonus when we sparred.

I am also sad Sebastian apparently went full Dark in this timeline. He was cool when playing through Legacy, even if he did cast Crucio on my character.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 17 Mar 2024 22:45:52 No.5954095 Report

Quoted By: >>5954254

>>5954086
>I am also sad Sebastian apparently went full Dark in this timeline. He was cool when playing through Legacy, even if he did cast Crucio on my character.
ooh, dude, fucking...
i JUST got the game, i played like 7 hours yesterday and just made it pass the first day

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 17 Mar 2024 22:47:27 No.5954097 Report

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>>5954086
>That is pretty cool that Godric could apparently fight against the others so well it would take Puffpuff, Rae, and Sally to beat him.
I meant that she fought against someone else while all three of them were by her (but Godric was still the best fighter of the four)

>>5954086
Defence is different than Battle Class, anon. Defense is how you deal with things like Dementors, Boggarts and curses. You excel in one, not the other.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 17 Mar 2024 23:12:44 No.5954123 Report

Quoted By: >>5954254 >>5954275

>>5953643
The animal idea is... clever. The wiki said that it could ID Mrs. Norris...

Huh.

It could not however show Dobby. Does that mean who ever made it though of House elves as lower than small animals? That has terrible implications. From learning about the fact that animals can show up, I also know that Filch has a FunkoPop, for some reason. Why. Who the fuck would buy that?

>>5953665
>The House Elves.

Goddamn Merlin. Can you not be a monster for like 5 minutes?

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 17 Mar 2024 23:26:07 No.5954132 Report

Quoted By: >>5954254

>>5954086
Potter hasn't really insulted Arty except to call her brave and loyal, possibly to a fault... Which is 100% true, including the 'possibly to a fault' bit, since she has risked harming herself with overwork (or by helping us) repeatedly.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 03:39:38 No.5954254 Report

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>>5954095

Ah sorry if I spoiled something mentioning Sebastien. His quest line was one of my favorite parts. It is pretty fun and yeah, I fucked around discovering all those pages and what not till I was like level 19 before I finished the first big story quest.

>>5954123
Ah, I just figured that Goddy was so much of a beast it would take the 3 others to give him a good challenge. And that Battle had basically just replaced DADA for most purposes in the game. Lets hope we don't run into any Boggart's then.

>>5954132
I guess it would kinda be insulting her by implication? Indirectly. Just being rude maybe? He has thrown the fact she will never be magically powerful in her face, told her she will die if she stays with us, said he WILL kill Elliot when she bites it and we go a bit crazy, and in that last interaction implied she was only so fond of us because we basically charmed our way into her pants, that she was only that loyal because Hufflepuffs are kinda silly. That she would still stick by us even if we started killing infants Grindlewald/Voldemort style.

I mean all that shit is pretty true but also very rude to say to our witchfu and he is still getting a black eye or kicked in the nuts for making her mad and worried.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 18 Mar 2024 04:10:27 No.5954275 Report

Quoted By: >>5954300 >>5954314 >>5954327

>>5954123
Expanding on the animal idea.
If we wanted to cause MAXIMUM CHAOS, we could get a bunch of...let's say, spiders. Name each spider after a different student and even different staff members or even DEAD PEOPLE, at random. Release them all over the school, and keep a handful on our crew so that a positive id on "the people in [the area of the theft]" becomes impossible.
It would also eliminate the usefulness of the Marauder's Map against us until every single spider has died. That's several months worth of much harder to track movements around the school.

Bonus points for releasing a Taylor Cydad spider and making Potter think that maybe Taylor is alive and the real dark wizard.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 04:25:15 No.5954293 Report

Quoted By: >>5954336

Herpo the Foul was probably Merlin. Again. He created Horcruxes... a back up way to guarantee his survival after the fall of Atlantis, flawed as they are. Herpo was Ancient Greek; same time period as Atlantis was supposed to exist.

One of his pictures on the wiki has him holding something like a Caduceus, a staff with a snake around it. Same symbol as St. Mungo's, where Avalon is located at.

Created the basilisk, which Salazar had been able to use to pass on his knowledge to some nearly a 1000 years after his death. Another means for Merlin. He probably originated the means to store spell knowledge in a long lived, dangerous creature because he knew a future version of him would create the Interdict and he could get powerful again faster if he had a living spell encyclopedia.

I strongly suspect along with all the other BS powers he had, Merlin was a Parslemouth.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 04:37:14 No.5954300 Report

Quoted By: >>5954327

>>5954275
Hahahahaha that is fucking genius. We just so happen to know a giant spider who apparently likes our tiny girlfriend and has a fuck ton of small children with enough intelligence to be able to hide and what not. I think there has to probably be a basic level of mind for the Map to work on something... probably.

But a thousand small arachnids going fucking everywhere? Can we get a register of all current students? Name a spider after each one so Potter thinks everyone suddenly has a clone? See if "Taylor" can slip his way into the Chamber of Secrets to freak him out, make him think our buddy was the real mastermind?

Potter will go insane if we pull all this shit off. Defeating, the security enchantments of the Map. Stealing 2 of his fucking priceless artifacts, breaking into a relatively secure hospital?

Guess he gets to know how Dumbledore felt for 6 years dealing with him.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 18 Mar 2024 04:50:58 No.5954314 Report

Quoted By: >>5954322 >>5954336 >>5954429

>>5954275
This idea is brilliant and I hate it, thanks

I mean, you do get that weird thing of "who defines what a person's name is?" and "what happens if I change my name?" or "if my parents give me a name, then I'm adopted and my new parents give me another name, what name will show up?" but of course Rowling's stupid ass system never comes even remotely close to addressing it.

I could say that in this quest it doesn't work, but I have no doubts whichever one of the Founders created it (probably Rowena) would absolutely have added animals to it so she could track children's animals or find her pet raven or whatever, because that's just the sort of dumb shit what wizards do (probably at Helga's request because Timmy lost his toad for the 3rd time this week).

So Arty will be collecting some spider eggs next trip to the Forest, and Potter will be spending the next semester hunting spiders named Elliot Hallaster, and I'm blaming it on you >>5954275 .

Pic related on Arty

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 18 Mar 2024 04:56:22 No.5954322 Report

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>>5954314
taking a quick break from the big movie poster fanart thingy to redraw this comic panel with Arty and Potter

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 18 Mar 2024 05:09:01 No.5954327 Report

Quoted By: >>5954328

>>5954275
>>5954300
>>5953643

+1 to animal distraction plan, if we get the chance.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 18 Mar 2024 05:09:58 No.5954328 Report

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also supporting this

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 05:27:52 No.5954336 Report

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>>5954314
Hahahahahaha!

That comic combined with the fact this idea can apparently work? I have been doing a witch cackle loud enough I think I woke up the guy in the next house over.

Arty, should she ever max her Care of Magical Creatures out will be fucking SCARY. I don't care if I have a dozen Horcruxes, getting covered by a hoard of wolf spiders by a defenseless looking 4 and a half foot tall girl who summoned them from her purse? Not gonna be in a state to cast much.

When we get her Scamander's trunk in another heist and she can conjure up dragons and Nundu? Hahahaha.

She is going to be beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night. All shall love her and despair.

Dark Lady Artemis! Dark Lady Hallaster! Hail her!

Hail her collection of deadly magical creatures and her back up supply of thousands of Black Widows!

Excellent job spider-anon.

>>5954322
Amazing. I am looking forward to seeing it and laughing my ass off at this idea again. If you ever have the desire, something of Elliot committing war crimes would also be great. Gas 'em all Lord Hallaster.

>>5954293
For stealing Potter's cloak, think Arty can find a Niffler? One of those managed to steal something super important right off Grindlewald's chest, the McGuffin that would allow Dumble to fight against him. It was pretty dumb that he didn't notice the one thing keeping the only wizard as strong as him from coming to fuck him up being taken like right that second. Or even like 5 minutes later then freaking out and working to recover it. He was supposed to be pretty damn smart.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 18 Mar 2024 05:39:08 No.5954341 Report

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>>5954322
>>5954336
quick question tho, do you guys prefer her dressed as spiderman? or just her regular school clothes?

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 18 Mar 2024 05:45:20 No.5954345 Report

Quoted By: >>5954354

Thank you, thank you. I've been wracking my brain since thread 2 trying to think about how we could defeat the Marauder's Map, since I knew it would be a big fucking pain in our ass the moment we had allies that still showed up on it.
Turns out the solution was sitting right in front of me. It works on virtually everything...for good and for bad.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 06:03:23 No.5954354 Report

Quoted By: >>5954355

>>5954341
I think normal robes or just casual clothes? Maybe a dumb tee-shirt with something picrel could be funny, unless the spiderman get-up is easier for you. No mask probably since Arty is cute and more images of her with her face visible is always good.

>>5954345
Welcome. Thank you. This is going to be funny and useful.

I understand the feeling. I had kept kicking the idea "Faith" was Helga around in my head since like half-way through the second thread but kept dismissing it. I had laid down on the couch the night I called it and it was almost like a "it came to me in a dream" situation so I popped up and posited it. Same with Avalon.

I also had a "dream" that next year, the Armies would have to fight against most of the teachers in Hogwarts, once Potter found out about Lily II and went nuts, and turned them against him. It also involved Elliot being tied to a chair and crucio'd for information by a deranged, possibly possessed Harry while his friends fought. I really hope that idea was just a fever dream, give the state he is in and the Merlin host things.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 06:04:32 No.5954355 Report

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>>5954354
And didn't post the picture. Fuck me, I need a smoke.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 18 Mar 2024 07:41:22 No.5954385 Report

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When you meet Crouch again during your next tutoring, he seems deep in thought, leaning against one of his shack’s crumbling walls.

“Hey, you there?” You ask.

“Yes. little birdie. I am here.” He looks at you, baring his teeth, like someone who had been taught how to smile but hadn’t quite grasped the mechanics. “Yes… Yes. That will do.”

He takes a few steps away from you, then turns taking… a muggle fighting stance. Well, you don’t actually know if it is originally muggle or they copied it from some wizard, but it does remind you of those old martial arts movies your dad loves. Legs wide apart in a firm stance, arms ready to strike, his movements become firm and controlled.

“People hate violence,” he says. “People think that not knowing how to hurt others is peace.” He puts his weight on back leg, then gently lifts his front one until the tip of his naked and filthy foot is barely touching the stone, then moves into an outwards arc until it meets the other one. “It isn’t. It’s weakness.” His left leg continues the movement of his right, going backwards in an arc as if drawing the shape of an “s”. “To be strong is to be able to hurt others, and then choose whether or not to do it.” He turns as his left leg is on the opposite point his right one had started, moving his foot to complete the arc, the “s” his legs drew turning into three quarters of an “8”. “Even the muggles know this. Even Potter knows it. But the people I killed didn’t.”

He turns around once more and finishes the movement with his right leg, moving diagonally, then stopping back into his fighting stance.

“They thought that if they stayed away, that if they didn’t get involved, they wouldn’t get hurt. But you need to know that that is a lie. You need to know that you can hurt, and you need to remember the ones you’ve hurt before. The more you hurt, the easiest it is to hurt.”

The wand movement of the spell, the movement of his legs. The thought necessary to conjure it, the hurting of others.

“I understand,” you say. You take the form he’d taken, mimicking his movements, and Arty does the same. He corrects you a couple of times, adjusting the position of your legs as you move them.

“A wand is only as strong as the hand that holds it,” he says, sounding strangely lucid, as if he’d gathered whatever scrapings of sanity he still had and used them to teach you this lesson clearly. “If you want to be a good magical fighter, you need to learn how to be a good fighter, period. You won’t always have your wand with you. If you’ll die the moment you lose your wand, you’ll die with it, too.”

The simple movement goes on for a few minutes until he’s satisfied.

“Good, little birdies. You know how to stand. Now let’s teach you how to fall.”

He takes your outstretched hand and tosses you over his shoulder. Your back slams against the hard stone and the breath is pushed out of your lungs.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 18 Mar 2024 07:42:32 No.5954387 Report

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>>5954385

“That wasn’t a very good fall,” he says, the sanity you’d seen moments before gone. “Let’s try it again.”

--

Even with a double dose of Wiggenweld, your body is still aching on the following day from Crouch throwing you and Arty on the floor repeatedly for an hour and a half. Still, you are now falling much better than before.

And you also now have two out of three parts of what you need to cast the spell. The last part, the incantation itself, would be more difficult for Crouch to pass to you, but you have no doubt he’ll find a way.

Before that, however, you have some free time. To be honest with yourself, the prospect of doing all the things you are planning to do utterly terrifies you, and while you do have to keep a positive attitude because otherwise you might go insane, there is a non-Helga voice in the back of your mind that keeps telling you there’s a real chance you might die.

“If this was to be my last day on this planet,“ you ask yourself. “What would I like to do? If I can take only a single memory from this life, one moment in time… there are many. But maybe there’s time to create one more to ponder over.”

When lunch time arrives, you intercept Arty before she gets to the Great Hall.

“Want to skip afternoon classes?” You ask, with a basket under your arm, wrapping your other one around her waist.

“With you? Always. What are we doing?”

“A surprise. Or an impromptu study session, one of the two.”

You take her to the main entrance, and from there to the gates, where a two-seat broom is waiting for you.

“I don’t think that's standard Hogwarts issue.”

“Three sickles at Spintwitches to rent for half-a-day,” you say. “Come on, hop up.”

You hang the basket on a hook in front of the broom and set off, Arty wrapping her arms tightly around you. You fly south, enjoying the February sun which decided to grace you today, then over a set of mountains that lead to the sea, following the Poidsear Coast, over some ruins, a lake and the Bainburg hamlet, until the ancient Clagmar Castle appears in the distance. But you fly past it, and land a little further away at a cliff overlooking-

“The Graphorn den!” Arty says, excitedly.

“You mentioned there was one here,” you say, grinning. “Grubbly-Plank took some convincing, but gave up where it was when I said I wanted to come with you. I figured we could have lunch while you told me all about them, and later…”

“What comes later?”

“Well… You once said you had ridden a graphorn, Ms. Pertinger. I would like to verify the accuracy of that claim.”

“Is that a challenge, Lord Hallaster?”

“Why, yes, yes it is.” Then, breaking the character, “Uh, as long as you think it’s safe.”

“Too late. Now you’re going to see me both taunt and ride a graphorn!”

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 18 Mar 2024 07:47:21 No.5954389 Report

Quoted By: >>5954402

i just started and im already having chuckles just looking at this fucking thing

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 18 Mar 2024 07:52:57 No.5954390 Report

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>>5954385
>BCJ learned muggle martial arts
God damn it, you beautiful bastard.
If you weren't a totally insane death eater I'd induct you into the team somehow.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 18 Mar 2024 08:23:58 No.5954399 Report

Quoted By: >>5954461

I found myself thinking about the ideology of the Death Eaters just now.
>"Many of our oldest family trees become a little diseased over time. You must prune yours, must you not, to keep it healthy? Cut away those parts that threaten the health of the rest... And in your family, so in the world...we shall cut away the cancer that infects us until only those of the true blood remain..."
Voldemort himself said this. Blood supremacy is one thing, but in the context of this quest, I think it might have a deeper meaning to it. When he found the Basilisk, he was furious that he couldn't learn ancient magic from it, and killed it. When he learned of the true nature of the Philosopher's Stone, he was equally furious. We know that canonically, his biggest fear was Death itself. And that to avoid death, he willingly carved up his soul to create Horcruxes since he lacked any other option.
What if his goal had been to keep surviving via horcrux long enough that, after the muggle purge, a wizard of such potently magical blood was born that it could potentially use ancient magic and/or ignore the interdict? One that he could take the body of, or use the blood of to create an equally potent new body of his own.

Not that it really matters given how he's stuck in lim-

Oh fuck. That's right. He's not actually dead the way everyone else would be, even now. He's just in Limbo, in a permanently crippled state.
>With the destruction of all of his Horcruxes, when Voldemort's Killing Curse rebounded and finally ended his life once and for all, his broken and mangled soulwas forced to exist in the stunted form Harry saw in King's Cross. He was unable to move on or return as a ghost, nor having any chance of repairing himself any further or being helped by anyone in any way. This was a consequence of violating the nature of life and death through the nature of his curses and his creation of Horcruxes.
I wonder how Limbo relates to the veil. The great nothingness that a handful of long-since-dead souls have been coming out of to inhabit bodies. Probably just an unnecessarily paranoid thought, but you never know when the contents of the book were well fabricated lies for the most part.

Dialing it back a few steps, the Regeneration potion that was used to give Voldemort back his true body...I wonder about it. About if Salazar could learn of it and use it to create his old body. He'd need to risk going into a Rudimentary body first, I'm pretty sure - and the Rudimentary Body potion is a lot harder to learn how to make given how Voldemort himself created it. Uh, that being said, Barty Crouch Jr helped rediscover the Regeneration potion...hmm...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 08:28:18 No.5954402 Report

Quoted By: >>5954406

>>5954389
I like it. Seeing how Arty is going to look when threatening him with spiders a lot of them when has has a gun to our head will be a treat.

>>5954385
Crouch is once more proving to be very fucking cool. And while he is nuts, he is correct.

I train most weekends on how to use my "wand". I also trained in boxing, jujitsu, karate, and brawling when I was younger.

A gun fight is still a fight. You will not always be able to engage an attacker at a distance you prefer. They may be able to get far closer than you wish. They may be out of the normal range of you weapon. You may have your weapon taken from you.

I carry a gun and knife with me basically always, even on a 5 minute trip to the store. I get my ass still handed to me several times a month when I do a quick spar with a couple of dudes I know.

Being peaceful does not mean not knowing how to fight. Not having the means to do so. All that means is that you are weak, to lazy to learn.

This is a pro-tip for anyone who bothers to read this tirade; if you ever pull a knife or firearm on someone? Be ready to use it. If they get it from you? Someone who chose to initiate violence against you will use the weapon they took against you. And learning how to take a fall is very good. First thing I learned when my uncle showed me stuff and I was like 10. Very useful. Likely why I survived flipping a car at 75 mph and it looking like a crushed tin can after the fact.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 18 Mar 2024 08:42:46 No.5954406 Report

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>>5954402
>Arty
oh, trust me, she looks VERY cursed, im honestly just tracing over the image because im not planning on spending too much time in a shitpost, but im making enough changes to make it fit the scene, still tho, very VERY cursed

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 18 Mar 2024 10:21:40 No.5954429 Report

Quoted By: >>5954438 >>5955024

>>5954314
there is fanart of it, you are now obligated to recreate the scenario!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 10:47:58 No.5954438 Report

Quoted By: >>5954791

>>5954429
Holy fucking shit balls. Hahahaha. She has the fucking shirt. Potter with the rune encrusted gun. Hahaha. Elliot in the first panel! Thank you Mexican Kektus. The hero we don't deserve. Even cursed, Arty looks nice.

If you have a twitter or something I would be happy to follow you.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 12:04:30 No.5954461 Report

Quoted By: >>5954478

>>5954399
I think Merlin himself probably came up with the Regeneration potion.

>it is an old piece of dark magic, the potion that revived me tonight

Old dark magic. We know Voldemort in this quest learned a lot from Salazar's basilisk. That Salazar was around Merlin when he was in his 5th founder and Merlin form. That Lailoken was a great healer, as was the man himself.

Another means to ensure Merlin could come back. Granted it requires a bone from the father of the body to be regenerated.... and blood from their enemy.

We are going to a tomb. We are both Merlin and Scopius' enemy, Salazar's as well.

It may be a shit version of how Merlin could make new bodies, one intended to work in a world where the Interdict was around. Potions, artifacts, maybe rituals could persist even with the Interdict.

But that Potion, as flawed as it was, could still be used to give a body to people who were "non-corporeal". Was said to be created by wizards in the past who used Horcruxes; an invention I am going to bet Merlin in a different form created. We have 4 shards of big M coming together plus the parts of him turned into the Beast. And his shit coming with us.

A pretty big part of the original books is the is fight against Death. Accepting it. Struggling against it. Invoking it on others, trying to escape it. And Elliot, he wants to defeat it. Its part of his dream. It's how he and Arty can be together long enough to have a bunch of kids. What the Mirror had shown him. The Mirror which had belonged to Merlin. A man who cheated Death for how long?

Elliot might have to accept Death. Accept his love is going die. That HE will die. That because of that they must LIVE with what time they have. That seeking Immortality will only bring doom. That for every beginning there must be an end. Accepting his own death was how Harry beat Voldemort. Albus dying, asking Snape to kill him made it possible.

Yeah, its just paranoia. No connection to be made.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Mon 18 Mar 2024 12:54:01 No.5954478 Report

Quoted By: >>5954527

>>5954461
If the stories are to believed, Merlin's father was an incubus. How he plans to get the bone of an incubus for it is beyond me.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 14:51:13 No.5954527 Report

Quoted By: >>5954530 >>5954929

>>5954478
Could be that incubi are just a species of the Unseelie Fey, and Potter implied they are real. Can be summoned. We know wizards can breed with humanoid magical creature due to Filch and Fleur Delacour.

Might be "Arthur" was actually his dad, the dad of his old body at least. And his corpse is supposed to be in Avalon. Or that might be over complicated and "Arthur" is just a compatible husk Merlin made ahead of time with some Ancient Magic preservation charm on it. Maybe it is just his friend/protege/whatever and Merlin isn't as evil as I think. Maybe we should ask that painting more about what he knew of Merlin, before we go to Avalon? IDK, Merlin isn't omniscient as QM said but had a LOT of time if we are right, to plan ahead.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 14:52:52 No.5954530 Report

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>>5954527
Not Filch, Flitwick. Still have the idea the Hogwarts janitor has a Funkopop on my mind.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 15:00:58 No.5954534 Report

Quoted By: >>5954543 >>5954554 >>5954739

Wait a fucking second. We know Lailoken's body isn't in Avalon. And Merlin told Rowena it was resting along side Arthur. Arthur... the once and future king.

Was Merlin FUCKING King Arthur!?

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Anonymous ID:hBduqW/R Mon 18 Mar 2024 15:23:04 No.5954543 Report

Quoted By: >>5954554 >>5954557

>>5954534
He was fucking a lot from what I've heard, wouldn't put it past him.

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Mon 18 Mar 2024 15:48:32 No.5954554 Report

Quoted By: >>5955235

>>5954534
>>5954543
As they say in Gotham City Beat Cop:
>"Heavy accusations to be throwing around right now, not saying I disagree with you, but it's important to keep an open mind when investigating. If you tunnel vision a perp too hard then you could miss the real one even if you brush shoulders."
Let's not get ahead of ourselves and get blinders on.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 18 Mar 2024 15:50:16 No.5954557 Report

Quoted By: >>5954786

>>5954543
Not that kind of fucking but... if Merlin wasn't' actually Arthur, I would not put it past him to have gone at it with Arthur? Transfigure the dude into a girl so "she" could give birth to Moragan? You have to get bored after living so long.Can you get knocked up if you stay Polyjuiced as a girl long enough, or be transfigured for enough time you give birth?

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 18 Mar 2024 22:33:28 No.5954739 Report

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>>5954534
Nah, I think that's going a bit too far. From what we know both were 100% straight. Either Arthur is a backup body waiting for a soul to be put into it or there's something else there. Oh I know, Arthur might be a puppet with a bunch of pre-Interdict spells in him, like what Salazar did with the Basilisk.

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Mon 18 Mar 2024 23:59:44 No.5954786 Report

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>>5954557

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 19 Mar 2024 00:11:14 No.5954791 Report

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>>5954438
thanks but sadly, i dont have anything of that sort, i have an old DA account, but its literally empty, i´ll try to post some stuff there eventually, but its under another name, so im not doing that any time soon

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 00:46:08 No.5954805 Report

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>>5954786
Welcome to how my brain works. The reason I wake up in cold sweat at night. Why I drink probably too much.

>>5954791
Got you. Regardless that redraw made me laugh my ass off. I love the anons who are here. Y'all are great. Reason why, along side QM's writing, that I invest way too much time in this thing.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Tue 19 Mar 2024 03:27:33 No.5954929 Report

Quoted By: >>5955009

>>5954527
Frankly speaking, I would think that Merlin would have trouble even finding out who his father was given the nature of incubi. They don't exactly stick around, and shapeshifting makes them a difficult target to track on a good day.
Perhaps a bloodline tracking spell could do the job, but that seems like the kind of thing you'd need to put into an artifact to really work. And it might not even work too well on something that can change its genetic makeup. Assuming, of course, that HP Incubi work like normal ones and can freely switch between man and woman.
Hell, sometimes they're said not to even be fertile. They collect men's seed as a succubi and then distribute what they collected as incubi.
Man, cheating housewives made wild stories back in the day.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 06:11:41 No.5955009 Report

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>>5954929
>spoiler

Women in my experience are some of the biggest degens around. Very creative ones too. So yeah the incubus stuff? Why witches were believed to ride brooms? None of it is really surprising at this point.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 19 Mar 2024 06:43:56 No.5955024 Report

Quoted By: >>5955025 >>5955030

>>5954429

Anon, that’s fucking hilarious! I love it! Arty’s expression on the second to last panel makes me laugh every time I look at it. Thank you so much for making this!

--

You two eat as Arty tells you how Graphorns hunt, how Newt Scammander had been single-handedly responsible for bringing them back from the brink of extinction by sheltering the last known pair of breeding Graphorns in his suitcase, how hungarian mountain trolls tried to use them as mounts, how their hide could repel most spells, how aggressive they were, how they greatly grew in strength when angered and a host of other interesting facts that make you severely reconsider this entire idea.

“Is this the part where you tell me that, like the thestrals, they’re just misunderstood?” You ask, hopeful.

“Oh no, these guys will absolutely eat your face if you let them,” she says. “Well, thestrals also will eat your face, but only if you’re already dead. Graphorns will try doing it while you’re still alive. Oh, look, there they are!”

You peek over the cliff and see two of the creatures, a large one, maybe four meters tall, and two smaller ones about half your height. Greyish purple with a humped back, two very long, sharp horns and a mouth covered by small tentacles, they look very much capable of killing anyone bothering them. The pictures in books do them no justice, and even from this distance the beast feels utterly massive, with legs as thick as treetrunks.

“Oh, she finally had them!” Arty says, pleased. “She was pregnant when I came last year. Look, she’s taking them to show them how to hunt.”

The apparently female graphorn struts out of the cliff-covered area and into the beach in the distance, then starts wading into the sea, her cubs stumbling after her.

“Those things swim?”

“Poorly. But there isn’t too much for it to eat around these parts except for tourists that that ignore the ‘Dangerous Animal Reserve - Do Not Trespass' sign over there,” she says, pointing with one hand to a sign that you’ve definitely hadn’t seen and which you’re definitely past, while with the other she takes out the omnioculars you gifted her. “So they need to go for fish or the occasional dumb deer. And by fish I mean sharks.”

“Right… Well, shame it left to go wrestle sharks! That means we should probably go back, huh?”

“What? No! The mom left, but the dad stayed to guard the nest. Look!”

An even bigger Graphorn steps out from below the rocky overhang, blinking and squinting at the sun, as if he is mad with it for having the audacity to wake him up at the early hour of midday, and looking like he’s intending, and is fully capable of, taking revenge on it.

“Ooohh, he looks grumpy!” She says, getting up and skipping down the rocks to the entrance of the nest through which the three graphorns had passed moments before. “Let’s go say hello!”

And you go down with her, your pleas to maybe change her mind going unheard.

--

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 19 Mar 2024 06:44:58 No.5955025 Report

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>>5955024

You are not afraid to admit you let Arty go in front when facing the enormous killing beast.

“We stand here at the entrance and wait for him to see us,” she says. Then she makes a loud, gurgling noise from her throat, and the hulking beast appears from behind a rock on a faraway corner. “And now we kneel down and bow, respectfully. Don’t look at him while you bow, it’s rude.”

You’re hesitant to take your eyes from the creature, but do as you’re told. You hear the creature make a loud trumpeting sound, and see from the corner of your eye as it stands just on its hindlegs, then comes down on the floor with a thunderous boom that shakes the ground and almost makes you fall.

“Right. So now it’s going to charge at us. Just stay kneeled and don’t move.”

You hear the creature hoof the floor, angry.

“Wait, what?” You ask, exasperatedly. “Arty, that thing’s going to kill us if it hits us!”

“Well, yeah, that’s the point!”

You hear it stomp the floor once more, then come barrelling towards you.

“Arty!”

“Shhhh!”

You brace for impact as several tons of magical creature hurls towards you at a speed you’d have considered impossible for a beast that size, an earthquake in four legs coming in your direction as you focus your whole mind into “Destination, Determination, Deliberation!” ready to jump at Arty and spin to wherever you can slinch yourself to and-

The beast skids to a halt, inches away from you, its powerful, scolding hot breathing pouring over you in great huffs and puffs. You can feel its dark eyes looking over your body, judging you.

“Raise up your hand towards him, but let him press his face against it whenever he wants.”

You do so, and you wait. Seconds pass. Then several long minutes. You’re starting to doubt the beast will ever accept you when he brushes against your palm.

“And now you can look up.”

You do so.

“Hey! When did you get up there?”

“Uh, like, five minutes ago?” She answers from atop the Graphorn, petting his horns. “This is Joor. Joor, this is Elliot. He’s my boyfriend, so treat him well, you hear?”

Joor hoofs approvingly.

“Uh, can I also go up there?”

“Hum… That’s up to Joor. Joor, can he come up?”

The creature stomps his great foot once.

“I think that’s a no,” she says smugly. “A shame, really, the view is fantastic from up here. You can stop kneeling now.”

You stand up, brushing the wet sand from your robes.

“Now, step aside, peasant,” she says, with as much sneer as a Hufflepuff can muster, and not quite managing to keep the smile off her face. “The Lord of the Shore wishes to go for a run.”

You move and the beast sets off in a dash, his insides lighting up as if there was a fire burning inside his chest, Arty holding on to his horns while laughing loudly, riding him as the sun shines from above, the sandy beach bathed by the scottish seas framing her against the horizon.

And for that one magical moment, all is well.

--

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 19 Mar 2024 06:46:00 No.5955027 Report

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>>5955025

The next few days of training with Crouch are a mix of getting tossed around, getting punched, getting kicked, and trying to pick up his hints of what the incantation of the Dark Mark spell is. He does a good job of muddling the waters so Potter doesn’t realize the true meaning of his words, but that also makes it difficult for you to understand it.

The Interdict also makes it worse. It is strange to try to learn something through layers of obfuscation. You can actively feel the push and pull of the knowledge inside you, like pieces of a puzzle trying to fit together, fitting wrong places, being broken apart, fixed, glued, interlocking, trying to become a cohesive whole. You have learned spells before, you know what they are made of, and that by definition they don’t make sense. They’re just a wand movement and an incantation, sometimes a feeling. There is no intrinsic meaning or concepts that attach each of the components together, and that was how you had learned all other spells, by simple memorization of its components.

But in this case, when you don’t have the information laid bare in front of you, you can feel your magic trying to reach out and create those connections, not only like a muscle that you can flex, but like an extra set of neurons in your brain you’ve never exercised before. The spell moves and molds and twists, until that part of you understands it, comprehends it at a fundamental level, even if you yourself do not. Like the last piece of a puzzle fitting into place in a way that only then the whole picture makes sense, just noise if any other piece is to be removed.

It is the first time you feel the process of learning magic.

“I see. I understand.” You say, staring Crouch in the eyes. It is friday, the last day you have to learn, and your brain had been working on overdrive trying to understand his obscure hints. He had said something or other, nothing seemingly important, when it clicks. “Yes. Yes! I understand! That… That makes sense. I shall try to apply your teachings whenever possible.”

“Are you sure, little birdie? My lessons can be difficult to master.”

“I know. I’ll keep it in mind.”

When you and Arty return to Hogwarts and go to the Room of Requirement, you tell her what you’d understood.

“It’s not just thinking about how you’ve hurt others. It’s reveling in it. Like when Potter explained that the trick to get a Patronus to talk to someone else is wanting to ‘spread good news’, the Dark Mark is the opposite. Is to want to speak the atrocities that you’ve just committed. To let everyone know the pain you’ve caused.”

”You think you can cast it?” She asks and you nod.

“I think so. It doesn’t require a sacrifice, just the right kind of thought. I think I can do it.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 19 Mar 2024 06:47:01 No.5955028 Report

Quoted By: >>5955038 >>5955044 >>5955045 >>5955052 >>5955067 >>5955092 >>5955098 >>5955220 >>5955235 >>5955239

>>5955027

You understand why it is a Dark spell, but at the same time you know its roots don’t go as deep as things like the Unforgivables, or even the Patronus. Those spells have a nature much more profound than the Dark Mark. The Dark Mark didn’t require true joy at someone’s pain. Just pretending to feel it, a simulacra of the real emotion, would do fine.

Arty bites her lower lip.

“So tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow. Tomorrow… we go to Avalon.”

--

You verify everyone has potions, and that your own stock is filled. You check all your preparations. Dinner has just finished and you, Linda, Arty, Apollo and Brighton sit tensely at the Room of Requirement, looking at each other, waiting for the time to pass even though it seems to have slowed to a crawl. Waiting for everyone to go to sleep. In certain spots of the school, spiders named Linda Cobris, Artemis Pertinger, Apollo Pertinger and Brighton Longbottom have been placed in small glass jars.

It’s Saturday, February 22nd. It’s the day you steal the two remaining Deathly Hallows. The Resurrection Stone is already in your pouch, having been retrieved earlier in the day.

You will go deep into the Forest and wait.

Apollo, and perhaps someone else, will go to Dumbledore’s tomb.

The others will wait close to Potter’s office.

And all hell will break loose.

Who should go with Apollo?

> Linda
> Brighton
> Arty
> No one

If there are any great alterations to the plan you wish to make, you should say so now.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 19 Mar 2024 06:48:53 No.5955030 Report

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>>5955024
Goddamn it! I forgot to add the picture of the Graphorn nest that made me redownload Hogwarts Legacy just so I could take it. Well, here it is

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Tue 19 Mar 2024 07:01:04 No.5955038 Report

Quoted By: >>5955098 >>5955534

>>5955028
>No one
I don’t have an alteration to the plan per se, but I do want to ask if the group if they have any final things to say or do before the point of no return.
Even if it’s too late to back down now(unless someone brings up something big we missed) it’s important to let them speak, both for their sake and ours.
We aren’t their commander, like Grindelward would be. We aren’t their master, like Tom Riddle would be. We’re allies, and even friends(except Brighton kek). Just how Elliot Hallaster would prefer it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Tue 19 Mar 2024 07:12:54 No.5955044 Report

Quoted By: >>5955098 >>5955534 >>5955561

>>5955028
>Arty
I firmly believe that Arty can bring out the best in Apollo and vise-versa. Those two would go through hell to make sure the other one succeeds.

Brighton and Linda also make a good team, being exceptionally clever in different ways. Should be balanced enough.

>Make sure you have a single spider on your person that, when you get into the forbidden forest, you will name Taylor Cydad and release.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 07:18:42 No.5955045 Report

Quoted By: >>5955098 >>5955534

>>5955028
>Linda

>Ask if either her or Brighton has had any communication from their respective founder. The first time Helga could help us was at the end of a fight and she had to keep the Merlin-Beast from breaking out, dividing her attention, so the others should probably be able to help sooner. Especially since I'm sure this WILL end in a battle.

>Let Brighton know not to touch anything before we have vetted it, no matter how bad he wants to help Frank and Alice

>Deeply hope we asked Rowena how she could fuck up the security enchantments at St. Mungo's.

He is going to be exhausted from this and Linda is relatively powerful. Have her make sure to remind him to take the Maxima before hand and knock back a girding potion after. Hit him with an enervate while she is at it.

While I love Apollo, he has been said in quest to forget things. Granted those things were grabbing people by the neck and sticking wands in their face but still.

I will likely come up with some more stuff. But I need to make sure I didn't miss anything by reading back the last few posts.

Its heist time guys.

capcha is 0ky vhn. Yes capcha, there will be no lube when Potter fucks us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Tue 19 Mar 2024 07:43:42 No.5955052 Report

Quoted By: >>5955068 >>5955534

>>5955028
> Brighton
Apollo isn't the deepest thinker, best to send Brighton with him to do any and all thinking needed to complete the heist. Also I just realized we're desecrating Dumbledore's remains... Potter is so going to fucking kill us.

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Tue 19 Mar 2024 08:24:36 No.5955067 Report

Quoted By: >>5955086

>>5955028

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 08:24:57 No.5955068 Report

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>>5955052
Oh he is most definitely going to try.

If Salazar/Scopius doesn't before hand do it before hand. Or a reborn Merlin. Dumble was the guy who he met in Wizard Heaven after all. Not looking great for us considering we have, in his eyes when he finds out, recruited our rival to our cause right the fuck after visiting his grandparents and stopping their supposed recovery. That our cute girlfriend just managed to defeat an ancient Hogwarts security enchantment with Merlin-Damn spiders. Something no one had thought of in a 1000 years.

The fact a couple of books are going to be found missing from the restricted section, one of which can cause you to go insane. Whole Raven Everdark thing and the fact she is using it again some after abandoning it for a while when our best friend died. Being able as a 6th year to apparently destroy of a huge goblin metal contraption. Finding a lost place that none of the enchantments in the school knew of. Scarred arm. Him having no memory of us past 6 months ago. Being trained by an old very high ranking Death Eater. The Dark Mark showing up above the Forest which our girlfriend loves to visit, in a few hours. His suspicion she would be the next to die and then her being gone from the school replaced by a spider. That her weird but normally okay brother just collected a Deathly Hallow for us.

If we have to fight him for real, we are going to have to use Helga for even a chance, so he will see our eyes turn as black as the void between stars as the suck in light.

Elliot is completely screw and I love it.

But while Brighton is smart, I don't think putting him with Apollo is great. He might just get socked in the jaw for being a prat and bullying Arty in the past. Raven is pretty smart too and her and Apollo get on fine. The cloak heist will probably need him, since he know how the office security works.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 08:55:32 No.5955086 Report

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>>5955067
Hey, can't make an omelette with out cracking a few eggs Jack.

Granted one of those eggs is the tomb of the one of the greatest wizards of the 20th century and the other is burning a cross on the lawn of Hogwarts.

A burning cross which means you just killed someone and liked it. Whose tiny relatively weak GF just disappeared from the school.

Can we also spray paint a swastika on a wall?

Very cool art. Please do more.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Tue 19 Mar 2024 09:08:00 No.5955092 Report

Quoted By:

>>5955028
I will vote to leave a letter on Potter's desk explaining how what we're doing is because Merlin himself is coming back. It probably won't mean much especially if we're basically handing the hallows to him anyway, but I want to avoid Potter fucking murdering us on the spot.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 19 Mar 2024 09:12:11 No.5955098 Report

Quoted By: >>5955132 >>5955534

>>5955028
said it before, will say it again
pairing Linda with Apollo so she can help him escape and defend while he is drained
Making Brighton and Arty the pair to go for the cloak since they can be sneakier and Brighton can make up for Arty´s lack of magical power if necessary
also supporting these
>>5955038
>ask the group if they have any final things to say or do before the point of no return.
>>5955044
>Make sure you have a single spider on your person that, when you get into the forbidden forest, you will name Taylor Cydad and release.
and
>>5955045
>Ask if either her or Brighton has had any communication from their respective founder.
>Let Brighton know not to touch anything before we have vetted it, no matter how bad he wants to help Frank and Alice
god speed you magnificent bastards, we will need every bit of luck we can get...
is there any chance to brew a last minute batch of Felix Felicis?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Tue 19 Mar 2024 10:23:44 No.5955116 Report

Quoted By: >>5955132 >>5955534 >>5955561

I'll argue for Arty with Apollo since it's getting no support. The two have a ton of experience working together. They pretty much perfectly complement each other's weaknesses, and if anything causes Apollo to freeze up, Arty is the most likely one to be able to shake him out of it. I also trust her to be able to administer girding potions to him if he can't, and to reenervate him when necessary. She's not so helpless magically that she can't even manage that.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 10:55:54 No.5955132 Report

Quoted By:

>>5955098
Felix Felicis no longer works, according to Potter. Granted that was before Last Light so maybe it kinda works again, since a final prophesy got made? I bet he has a small vial in office.

If our allies can find it I guess take it. It normally takes 6 months to make with rare ingredients.

I will support the Taylor spider idea.

Here is a mostly non lewd fanfic of the things us and Arty did in the Lewd timeline based on our date. I wipped this up in like 3 days so I apologize for any inconsistencies or spelling errors.

https://rentry.org/44xgx2kd

>>5955116
I mean it, isn't the worst combo but I am just afraid the connection they have will end up being a liability. As long as Brighton is the one helping with the Cloak theft, I don't care.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 10:58:32 No.5955136 Report

Quoted By: >>5955326

Aslo here is a quick Lew-ishFic I made because I liked the last date so much. Only 4 pages long, thank god.

https://rentry.org/44xgx2kd

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Tue 19 Mar 2024 14:33:28 No.5955220 Report

Quoted By: >>5955534

>>5955028
> No one
He got this

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Anonymous ID:+ckrrey6 Tue 19 Mar 2024 15:09:21 No.5955235 Report

Quoted By: >>5955239 >>5955534

>>5955028
>Linda
Just in case

Also, +1 to giving everyone a last-minute pep-talk and get-out-of-adventure-free card.

I'm >>5954554 on mobile.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 15:31:56 No.5955239 Report

Quoted By:

>>5955235
>>5955028

I will go ahead and add a pep talk and/or speech. Its kind of one of our things. Will see if I can find something a SEAL or SAS gave for inspiration.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 19 Mar 2024 18:06:18 No.5955313 Report

Quoted By: >>5955367

just before we get our next update, whats our overall total for our rolls? i think we got another class with Arty and Crouch since the last update

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 19 Mar 2024 18:26:09 No.5955326 Report

Quoted By: >>5955359

>>5955136
uuh! short, cute and sexy, very nicely done anon, seeing your fanfics makes me want to give it a try someday, just gotta figure out the topic for itl...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 19:29:06 No.5955359 Report

Quoted By: >>5955431

>>5955326
Figuring out the topic is almost the hardest part it seems. QM gives good inspiration, but yeah, until we get past Avalon, the only thing I have left is a crack-fic involving Arty and Raven kinda, which has gotten a touch more sad than I intended. I realized both of them have some pretty bad trauma. Wanted them to talk about it. My friends, the female ones have talked to me a lot. About the things that have happen to them. Things which have were done to them. Things which have had me have to treat them or nearly kick the fuck out of someone. Things which made me very sad some days.

But anyway.

If you ever write one, I would love to read it.

I guess you could try a Taylor/Raven one since it is cannon he at least got a BJ before being killed? A fic expounding on who Taylor was would be cool. Why he loved the stars so dearly. He died too soon.

I did rewrite a couple of lines because the spiders; they made me laugh my ass off. I hope the movie poster is coming along well.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 19:44:48 No.5955367 Report

Quoted By: >>5955431

>>5955313
We might have not gotten a bonus to rolls this week since a part of his lessons this time were focused on us learning the Mark.? I think we probably did so it is likely a +48, Before Helga and potions. If we can use her and our Wizard steroids? Get a few plus 5s or 10s from fighting with our allies? Fucking scary. Badass. And if Arty dies. Well Taylor gave a double bonus when we where enraged at our loss of him. She might give a +20.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 19 Mar 2024 20:59:00 No.5955431 Report

Quoted By: >>5955636

>>5955367
>spoiler
if she dies, im rioting
>>5955359
i just got an amazing idea for a short one! i´ll try to get it done before the thread dies, lets just hope my interactions are at lest half as good as HeadQM´s

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 19 Mar 2024 22:36:17 No.5955534 Report

Quoted By: >>5955561 >>5955636 >>5956026

I give four options, the first four votes are each on a different one. Truly impressive.

> Brighton
>>5955052

>No one
>>5955038
>>5955220

> Arty
>>5955044
>>5955116

> Linda
>>5955045
>>5955098
>>5955235

Closing the votes so I can begin writing.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 19 Mar 2024 22:52:39 No.5955546 Report

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Tue 19 Mar 2024 23:07:16 No.5955561 Report

Quoted By: >>5955572

>>5955534
>>5955044 and >>5955116 are the same anon, not two votes, btw.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 19 Mar 2024 23:10:53 No.5955572 Report

Quoted By: >>5955629

>>5955561
Ah, fair, I missed that. In any case, Linda is still winning.

I should really try to make some automatized way of counting votes, or at least checking duplicates, just to make my life easier.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Tue 19 Mar 2024 23:43:52 No.5955629 Report

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>>5955572
I use a simple spreadsheet, personally.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 19 Mar 2024 23:49:22 No.5955636 Report

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>>5955431
I voted to use AK when Taylor died so... yeah Arty dying? We are going down a dark path, I think. Full rampage.

I am glad you got a cool idea. I will enjoy reading what you came up with.

>>5955534
Par for the course right? It's about as big of a part of this quest now as war crimes, conspiracies, Hugo being cursed, Elliot being largely mediocre... his dick rolls being far worse than mediocre.

And so it begins.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 00:45:27 No.5955732 Report

Quoted By: >>5955742

Here is a bit of possible QM inspiration if we give a speech. Also if we do so, the monocle and mustache must come out. The Indiana Jones jacket as well.

Also code names. Shifting Bear. Asshole Raven. Demon Snake. Honey Badger. And Monocled Cobra.

“Gentlemen. Ladies. My new friend and the old. My rival. The only girl I will ever love. We now march towards death. To confront someone who must be stopped. Maybe more than one. And we WILL march towards it. Because we are good. By every action, we prove this. And so, because of that I do not wish to kill if we don’t have to, but if we must… If it saves the world. I… can image how it feels. But to save the world? If we hate ourselves for what we have done? At least we will have a world left so we can. So I ask all of all of you to do what you must. So we can cry later for what we have done. We are about to pull off the greatest heist in centuries. Steal two of the most powerful artifacts which exist. Explore a place most of the Magical world believes is a lie but we found. Fight in it, the heros of the past on our side. Fight for our future. If you have any regrets, things you need said, write them down please. Because we are walking forward into a place which may be our doom. And you know something? Not a damn Gryffindor in the bloody room! They may be “House of the Brave” but they are not the House of the kind. House of the loyal. House of the intelligent and wise. House of the cunning. And yet, I see more bravery in the 4 people before me than in an entire house! Now tell me boys and girls. Do you want to live forever? Because I sure as fuck do and tonight we secure the world so we can! Linda, Apollo to the tomb! Arty, Brighton, Potter’s office. And I shall be out there to cast a spell we will now reclaim. To make it a sign of Hope, not Despair… “

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 00:53:27 No.5955742 Report

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>>5955732
Wait, Linda/Raven should be Horned Viper. Maybe Asshole Crow for Brighton, so we don't insult out old friend?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Wed 20 Mar 2024 04:47:50 No.5956018 Report

Quoted By: >>5956026

Boy oh boy I can't wait for Potter to murder us next post!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Wed 20 Mar 2024 04:52:56 No.5956026 Report

Quoted By: >>5956082

>>5956018
oh, dude, i´ve been panicking since >>5955534
got posted, my nerves are completely wrecked

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 20 Mar 2024 06:05:50 No.5956082 Report

Quoted By: >>5956083

>>5956026
I hope this post helps alleviate your nerves, anon.

--

You look at the four in front of you, and the tension in the room is palpable. You are about to leave them to break school rules at a level no one has done in at least twenty years, possibly since ever, while you yourself are going to terrify the entirety of the wizarding population.

So there are nerves.

Apollo is burning a hole in a table with his stare, Arty is strangling a pillow, Linda is chewing her nails then magically regrowing them so she can chew them again, and Brighton is pacing from one side to the other.

“Have Rowena or Godric given any sign of life?” You ask.

“No, not yet.”

“You know… All of you, if you have doubts, if you don’t think you can go through with it, this is the time to back away. I won’t judge you, if you do. I swear. I’m not sure I would be following me if I wasn’t the one with the evil portal in his head. I’m the only one who needs to be here, but if you-”

“Oh, shut up, Elliot!” Linda snaps. “If it had happened to me or Taylor you’d be right by our side!”

“Maybe. But I can’t say what we’re going to do isn’t terrifying. I’m not going to blame anyone who wants to get out here. But if you stay, we can’t afford half measures. We need to go all in. We need to accept that… That we might not all come back. I’m not saying that you need to be comfortable with it, but you need to be aware of it. Taylor didn’t come back last time. This time it could be any of us.”

“We’re not leaving, Hallaster.” Brighton says. “Stop trying to convince us.”

You nod. “Very well.” You turn away, and when you turn back, you have a mustache and a monocle, a top hat in your hands.

“Oh for fuck’s sake, Hallaster! Could you not be insufferable for five fucking minutes-”

“Colleagues! Friends! Enemies! Members of this most prestigious of congregations!” You say, voice loud and confident, the same one you had used to lead your soldiers into battle. “We embark now on a mission the likes of which the magical community hasn’t seen for the past thousand years, perhaps more!”

“I can’t believe I’m going to die helping this idiot-”

"Avalon beckons, tantalizingly close within our grasp!" You continue, ignoring Brighton. "Merely two Deathly Hallows stand between us and the annals of legend! Between us and the arcane wisdom cloaked in the mists of millennia! True, peril and darkness loom on our path, but there are forces far grander than mere darkness. Forces born of love, of cherished bonds, of the things we must protect. And when we emerge, triumphant, from the abyss of night, we shall have in our hands what only Merlin possessed before us!”

You climb atop a chair and put a foot on the table

“So let us embark! To partake in the most audacious heist ever witnessed by the wizarding world! To snatch the implements of Merlin from the boy-who-lived! To infiltrate the fabled Insula Pomorum! And to liberate the Elixir of Life from the clutches of antiquity's grasp!"

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 20 Mar 2024 06:06:52 No.5956083 Report

Quoted By: >>5956086

>>5956082

“Merlin, you are a dork.” Brighton says, rolling his eyes.

“He’s my dork!” Arty shouts, standing up. “And yes we will! Even if it takes kicking Salazar Slytherin’s butt!”

“And if we do meet our ends,” Linda says, smiling. “I can think of few better ends than fighting to save the world.”

“In a bed, of old age,” Brighton suggests.

“If we don’t fight, we die anyways.” Apollo says. “I’d rather die with a wand in my hand.”

“I… I couldn’t have asked for better friends,” you say, your chest swelling with pride. And, with the smallest of grins, “And Brighton.”

“Yeah, yeah. So, are we going to do this or are we going to wait for Hallaster to give another speech?”

“We go. And Brighton, whatever happens… I know we had our differences, but thank you for being here. Thank you for fighting.”

“I’m not fighting for you, Hallaster. I’m fighting for my family.”

“And we’re fighting for ours. As long as we hold on to that… Even if we can’t be friends, I’ll be proud to call you an ally.”

He looks embarrassed for a moment, then turns around and touches his wand to the top of his head, becoming semi-translucent.

“Come on, we have a deputy-headmaster to rob.”

--

Recommended Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvsQcQ1acoA

--

You sit deep in the Forbidden Forest and you wait. Thanny the thestral is sitting by your side, finishing up the chunk of meat you brought her. In your left hand, a small glass jar with a tarantula.

“Your name,” you say, looking at the spider. “Is Taylor Cycad. The same name as my friend. He was brave, smart and more clever than I could ever be. He would find the fact that I’m using a spider to trick a massively powerful artifact to be utterly hilarious, and he would probably spend his moments here looking at the stars.”

You open the lid of the jar and the creature scurries into the darkness and up a tree.

“I hope you can meet an end brighter than his.”

Somewhere in the distance, something massive crashes against stone.

You stand up, drink a potion to give you the necessary energy, and raise your wand to the skies.

You create the thought in your head. It is foreign, something you’d never think normally, because you’d never enjoy hurting someone. You’ll never do. But the spell isn’t strong enough to differentiate between a real feeling and a fake one.

Another loud bang coming from the distance. You assume that by now, half of the castle is already awake.

Like putting up an Occlumency barrier, you imagine a different version of you. One that is darker. One that didn’t go to Slytherin because of the cunning, but because of its old fame. Someone raised by different parents, by parents that hadn’t given you that capacity for warmth that your mom and dad had always shown and which you had always worn like a protective blanket.

A cruel Elliot. A colder Elliot. One that would hurt others and enjoy the feeling. And that Elliot swishes his wand.

“MORSMORDRE!”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 20 Mar 2024 06:08:23 No.5956086 Report

Quoted By: >>5956097 >>5956111 >>5956124 >>5956453

>>5956083

A singular point of Killing-Curse-green flies off from your wand, up towards the starry sky. Past the leaves and the trees, up into the clouds. And like a firework of despair, it bursts into green smoke, which takes shape. A skull with a snake coming out of its mouth.

The Dark Mark flies over Hogwarts for the first time in over two decades.

The cold Elliot disappears and you return, shivering slightly.

“Let’s go, girl.”

You jump on Thanny’s back and it sets off, keeping low and close to the trees, as if it wanted to avoid the mark on the sky. And you fly. Past the boundaries of Hogwarts. Past the lands of the wizards and into those of muggles.

Somewhere you can’t see, alarms are already being sounded. Somewhere you can’t see, aurors are being woken by emergency contacts. Somewhere you can’t see, Hermione Granger is worrying that the third coming of Voldemort might be upon her.

It is all happening, you’re sure, even if you can’t see it.

A bright light appears close to you, a stag, galloping on air.

“Elliot! Where are you!?” Potter’s voice comes, sounding angry and afraid and worried.

“At the astronomy tower with Linda and Arty, Professor,” You say, putting fear in your voice. “We- we were just goofing off but- Above the Forest. Is- is that what I think it is?”

The patronus disappears. You have no doubts Potter is checking his map, maybe even sending a patronus to Linda to confirm what you said. You don’t see it again.

You don’t see a lot of things, flying towards St. Mungo’s.

Because you chose to cast the Dark Mark, because you were the only one who could do it without being detected, you had made it impossible for you to be there to help steal the other Hallows.

So you don’t see as Apollo and Linda crack open Dumbledore’s tomb.

You don’t see as Brighton and Arty sneak into Potter’s office.

You don’t see as Apollo peers into the cracked stone and sees the Elder Wand held by skeletal fingers.

You don’t see as Arty finds the Cloak of Invisibility hanging from a simple coat-hanger.

You don’t see Apollo reach for the Wand

You don’t see Arty reach for the Cloak.

You don’t see the skeletal form rise from its tomb out of its own accord, eyes hollow and terrible.

You don’t see the noxious gas pouring from the coat-hanger.

You don’t see any of that as you fly to London.

You just pray and hope your friends are alright, because trusting them is all you can do.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Wed 20 Mar 2024 06:32:21 No.5956097 Report

Quoted By: >>5956283

>>5956086
>HE TRAPPED HIS FUCKING SKELLETON AND THE COAT HANGER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZdIklBfOXs

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Wed 20 Mar 2024 07:33:34 No.5956111 Report

Quoted By: >>5956143

>>5956086
SHADOWRUNS WITHIN SHADOWRUNS

IT BEGINS

YOU'RE A GRAND WIZARD HARRY

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Wed 20 Mar 2024 07:38:53 No.5956113 Report

Quoted By:

Here we go, hahaha...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 08:24:33 No.5956124 Report

Quoted By: >>5956256

>>5956086
>You don’t see the skeletal form rise from its tomb out of its own accord, eyes hollow and terrible.

What the actual fuck. What the hell. What in Merlins Beard.

The gas should be able to be defeated by a bubble-head charm, and Brighton should be good at those by now. But why the hell is Dumble an Inferni? Did Potter make a fake grave and just stick one in it.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 09:10:30 No.5956143 Report

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>>5956111
Hahahaha. A Black sun and a Roman salute in the back ground. I do not envy QM for having to write all the fall out from this. Maybe we get a soft reset like after Lily dies due to what we find in Avalon.

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Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Wed 20 Mar 2024 14:16:57 No.5956256 Report

Quoted By: >>5956282

>>5956124
>Brighton should be good at those by now
After the garroting gas incident? Yeah, I'm sure he's played a scenario like this in his mind hundreds of times
>But why the hell is Dumble an Inferni?
I bet you Potter is a fucking hypocrite and knows how to do necromancy

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 15:08:37 No.5956282 Report

Quoted By: >>5956283 >>5956365

>>5956256
Oh I know he is a hypocrite, he taught Lily II to use the Killing Curse. How to use Crucio. While telling all his other student he would kill them if they used Dark Arts. Then fished a 100 Inferi out of a lake. Some fucking how. Elliot might be a pretty good lair, but the boy-who-lived is a consummate one.

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Anonymous ID:3v3eSnke Wed 20 Mar 2024 15:18:02 No.5956283 Report

Quoted By: >>5956374 >>5956446

>>5956097
>when we found out about Potter's security measures
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AJXKVOxqkWM&pp=ygUXcGF0dG9uIGkgcmVhZCB5b3VyIGJvb2s%3D

>>5956282
In fairness, Salazar may have taught the Killing Curse to Lily.

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Wed 20 Mar 2024 18:41:06 No.5956365 Report

Quoted By: >>5956374 >>5956446

>>5956282
more likely it was Salazar who taught her those

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Anonymous ID:n3GIgBee Wed 20 Mar 2024 18:52:04 No.5956374 Report

Quoted By: >>5956380 >>5956383 >>5956446

>>5956283
>>5956365
With his memory loss? No dice. Potter did basically teach the whole class how to use it, i guess with the line of thinkng "better have it and not need it". And using AK on magical creatures is pretty legal i believe

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Anonymous ID:Zk306Hs8 Wed 20 Mar 2024 18:55:20 No.5956380 Report

Quoted By: >>5956403

>>5956374
How do you figure his memory loss figured in? He still has killing intent and an abundance of hatred, obviously, and I don't think it's an inherently difficult spell to cast apart from that; if we'd been able to muster the hatred, we could have cast it ourselves, and Raven/Linda DID manage to do so.

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Wed 20 Mar 2024 18:59:16 No.5956383 Report

Quoted By: >>5956403

>>5956374
he had YEARS to do it

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Anonymous ID:n3GIgBee Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:26:56 No.5956403 Report

Quoted By: >>5956424

>>5956380
>>5956383
Doesn't matter if he could do it, he showed no spells that Lily couldn't learn on her own so we can easily tell he has zero recollection of any of the motions required. So any spells he did, Lily learned from someone else, same way that Helga can't teach us how to apparate or anything else for that matter. Keep in mind even with all those years he couldn't remember his own identity so no, odds are he didn't suddenly remember how to do AK.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:43:17 No.5956414 Report

Quoted By: >>5956422 >>5956449 >>5956460

Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d2)

Please ignore the rolls behind the screen

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Anonymous ID:n3GIgBee Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:48:47 No.5956422 Report

Quoted By: >>5956429

>>5956414
2 people are dead already? We are at record pace here, this is the run

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:49:32 No.5956424 Report

Quoted By: >>5956428

>>5956403
Anon, you're not getting it... Avada Kedavra isn't difficult to learn or cast. Its movements aren't a secret which she could only learn in secret from her dad. WE know the movements. LINDA knows the movements. It's an easy spell to cast except for the psychological component.

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Anonymous ID:n3GIgBee Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:51:39 No.5956428 Report

Quoted By: >>5956431 >>5956433

>>5956424
YES. SO SALAZAR DIDNT TEACH IT TO HER.

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:52:42 No.5956429 Report

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>>5956422
that's a good roll for 2d2

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Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:53:45 No.5956431 Report

Quoted By: >>5956432

>>5956428
he didn't need to teach it with the level of control he had

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Anonymous ID:n3GIgBee Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:54:52 No.5956432 Report

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>>5956431
Alright fine, then thats final

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Wed 20 Mar 2024 19:55:16 No.5956433 Report

Quoted By: >>5956442

>>5956428
No, she learned it the same way everyone else did (so Potter isn't a hypocrite, necessarily, at least in this regard), and Salazar taught her the hatred necessary to cast it... The critical component. AK requires extreme hate and killing intent to cast, which is the only tricky part, and Salazar absolutely taught her THAT.

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Anonymous ID:n3GIgBee Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:03:29 No.5956442 Report

Quoted By: >>5956448

>>5956433
Stop explaining shit I already know. Potter spelled out the required emotion to the whole class, and Lily was already dead when she said she knew the spell and as far as we know she never used it before then. So Potter did teach dark magic though I don't see the issue in this case, and Salazar didn't. Yeah, I bet she hated the shit out of the guy but she got soulkilled and nothing came of it, so what.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:09:55 No.5956446 Report

Quoted By: >>5956448

>>5956283
>>5956365

Living mind to living mind. Helga hasn't been able to teach us anything.

I mean, unless you consider being a ghost to be living.

Reason Binns teaches a class where spells are not part of the curriculum.

>>5956374
It takes true, actual hatred to cast the AK. The desire to strangle the victim to death, again and again. Shove a knife into their throat every second of every day till the end of time. To use the other curse? To want to cause pain, for the sake of causing pain. Even if they are tied to a chair or some such; not a threat. Not something which can harm you, an obstacle to be over come. Casting crucio means you just want to see another soul in pain.

Salazar was in control at the end, so what he has become could probably use those emotions as one of the part of the spells but the wand movement, incantation had to be taught to Lily before he killed her soul. The mind ghosts seem to really only know as much as their host does, unless the the bits of Merlin lodged in them help them, like with Helga's power of Prophesy or Rowena knowing about the ritual he used and what the mind ghosts are now.

While I don't think the quest version of Harry is evil, he does seem to have most of the worst qualities of book and movie Harry amplified. So I am sure he taught all his kid how to use the Unforgivables, just like an insane Death Eter showed him.

Lily could also use Sectumsepra as well, the spell we used because she showed us very vividly how exactly how worked and he got on our back for knowing and insisted you cant learn it from just seeing it cast once. Spell also taught to him by an insane death eater. Which his daughter knew, that Salazar could not ever have known because Snape invented it in like the 70's.

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:14:45 No.5956448 Report

Quoted By: >>5956457 >>5956458

>>5956442
I'm not sure what point you're even arguing then or why you're so mad about it. As longa s you're having fun, I guess.

>>5956446
I think Potter was less upset that we KNEW a dark spell (again, they allow professors to teach them in classes, presumably so you can recognize and defend against them). I think he was suspicious of HOW we knew that one, and had it so down-pat as to be able to cast it rapidly and reliably while in a pitched battle, because HE never taught it to us and Crouch had never used it on us before that moment. It wasn't that we KNEW, it's that us knowing it so WELL implied we'd been picking up dark spells somewhere else without his knowing... And that implied we might be keeping other dark secrets that, and he might be justified in killing our at least expelling and imprisoning us.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:16:14 No.5956449 Report

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>>5956414
So lets see. Probably Arty and Linda?

Guess Avalon is a boy's club.

If Linda is the first man down, again, her luck is worse than even ours.

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:23:59 No.5956453 Report

Quoted By: >>5956469

>>5956086
I mean realistically speaking this is probably the best team for the raids.
Brighton probably has Hallaster-induced PTSD over our Garroting Gas so he’ll definitely get off the Bubbling Charm, and Apollo is Apollo, granted most of his magic is probably drained(though surely there’s a potion that helps with that which we certainly gave him, right?

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Anonymous ID:n3GIgBee Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:27:36 No.5956457 Report

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>>5956448
I'm on the "harry is a hypocrite but not for teaching how to use AK" camp. I was explaining why salazar had nothing to do with that. People kept bringing him up while having nothing to do with the original point. Thats it.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:29:44 No.5956458 Report

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>>5956448
I don't honestly have a horse in this race, just pointing out some stuff. We should probably shift our focus to worrying over our friends being gotten got by the BS enchantments Potter has set up to screw with people trying to steal the Hallows.

At the very least if Arty being one of the ones who got hit is true, she will be safe from what is going to go on in Avalon. Or maybe they just get fucked up a bit and can't give a bonus in team fights, like Linda after she almost bled our from a cursed goblin wound?

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Anonymous ID:mVkR6ppk Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:32:08 No.5956460 Report

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>>5956414
>3
please tell me thats the amount of survivors...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 20 Mar 2024 20:41:24 No.5956469 Report

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>>5956453
>granted most of his magic is probably drained(though surely there’s a potion that helps with that which we certainly gave him, right?

When us and the teaches confronted the rogue Aurors, a Girding Potion gave us back about a third of our bonus after when were exhausted from Crouch's training. A Maxima potion could maybe help for a bit as well. I wish we had a couple of Five Hour Energy or gas station dick pills to give our friends as well but fuck it.

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Anonymous ID:TQ95s4b8 Thu 21 Mar 2024 02:55:36 No.5956733 Report

Quoted By: >>5956757

>>5956460
I think it's choosing who is getting taken out during the heist. So we're probably down 2 party members.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 02:55:47 No.5956734 Report

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Oh hell, while we also worry about our friends and Brighton being fucked up by the enchantments and an Inferni Dumbledore... we don't know what happened to that 1 person who Potter cut the arm of off who was never found. The one who Scorpius/Salazar probably planted the idea we were a Dark Lord in using the super Legilimency Merlin was able to use. Yet another thing to look forward to.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 21 Mar 2024 03:12:48 No.5956752 Report

Quoted By: >>5956754

The flight is long, and it feels longer than you remember it to be. After several long minutes of silence you feel Potter’s patronus trying to reach you again, but you stop it with a thought. By now, everything that had to happen has already happened. By now, Linda and Apollo are in brooms, flying to London too, and Brighton and Arty have already Flooed to St. Mungo’s.

That’s what should have happened. That is what you hope happened.

But if that is true, then why haven’t you gotten a patronus from any of them?

The thoughts haunt you. The night feels cold and unwelcoming as you fly alone. The eventual car racing on the roads below feels distant, almost as if it was another world entirely. After what feels like an eternity, you see the lights of London appear on the horizon. Soon, the buildings are below you, the lights racing past, the city hurtling below.

You land atop a building that is near St. Mungo’s but taller, so no wizard can see you from the cafe atop it. You wait. Several long minutes of silence, just you and your thestral.

The minutes stretch.

They stretch even longer as your stomach sinks further inside of you, as you kick yourself again and again.

You should have gone with another plan. You should have been there with them to deal with whatever was in Potter’s office, with whatever protected Dumbledore’s tomb.

Fool.

Fool.

You almost leave. Almost. The Slytherin in you is telling you to run, to find a place where Potter will never find you and hide there. It would be the smart thing to do. But the Hufflepuff in you makes you stay. So you stay.

You stay until you see the broomstick diving down towards the roof of the building you’re in at breakneck speeds.

“Linda!” You say as the girl crashes on top of you with Apollo’s body. It takes a moment for you to gather yourselves. She has scrapes and cuts, but seems mostly unharmed. Apollo, however, is not awake. “What happened?”

“Dumbledore happened.” She spits, furious. “He attacked us.”

“What?”

“Yeah. A skeleton came up from the grave, started attacking us, throwing spells at us. I don’t know if it was one of Potter’s protections or something from the wand itself, but it was… a lot. Apollo saved us. Never seen him fight like that.”

“What happened to him?”

“Magical exhaustion,” she says. “Even with your potions, it wasn’t easy. But he should wake up with an rennervate, I just didn’t do it to give him time to rest.”

“And the wand?” You ask, holding your breath.

She reaches into her robes and pulls out a long piece of wood. It is made of no tree you recognize, gray and with several small nodules along its length. When you wrap your hand around it, you feel it scowl at you disapprovingly, as if wondering how it had ended up in the hands of a sixteen year old boy who had never killed anyone, and for the second time at that. At the same time you feel your own wand in your pocket disapprove of it.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 21 Mar 2024 03:13:49 No.5956754 Report

Quoted By: >>5956755

>>5956752

“It feels wrong in my hands,” she says.

“Yeah. If the stories are right, it should be faithful to whoever beat or killed its former master. In this case, Potter.”

“Good thing we don’t intend to use it in the traditional way, then.”

You give it back to her. “Keep it, for now. Best to not have everything on me.”

“Any signs of Arty or Brighton?”

“None. But if they haven’t been caught, they’re in there. Come on, let’s wake up Apollo and walk in.”

--

Ten minutes later, three people who look nothing like Hogwarts students enter St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Two of them stay in the reception area while the third goes to the wide Floo arrival and departure hall.

“Excuse me, sir,” you ask the man by the door in a voice lower-pitched than your natural one. “Has a couple arrived recently? Blond man, small girl? I’m waiting for them so we can visit my father together.”

“Not that I saw,” the young man says, shrugging.

“May I wait for them here?”

“Just don’t stand in the way of the fireplaces.”

You walk about the place, slowly, hoping one of the fireplaces will suddenly light up green and Arty and Brighton will pour out of it, but-

“Pst!”

You look around, searching, before realizing you’re an idiot.

“Arty?” You ask quietly.

“Here on the back,” comes her voice, whispering to your relief. “Brighton is… I don’t know what he is, but he doesn’t look well. He’s down. Can you try to rennervate him silently?”

“Give me a second.”

You go back to the reception, and after a few moments, Linda returns with you. It takes her a few moments to chat up the guard with some story or other, while you go to the back, focus, and cast the spell as discreetly as you can.

There are a few moments of silence, followed by sounds of someone struggling.

“Quiet!” Arty hisses. “We’re here! We’re safe!”

The struggling stops.

“You look bad. Can you walk?”

There is a grunt of denial.

“Crap. Elliot, can you help?”

With the Cloak of Invisibility and a good bit of physical effort, the five of you get to one of the many abandoned rooms of the section under renovations.

“Holy shit, Brighton!” You exclaim as quietly as you can, given the surprise. There is a big purple swelling on his throat, looking like it’s about to burst with pus. He seems to be unable to stand.

“Yeah,” he croaks, voice sounding deeper and more hoarse than you’ve ever heard it. He sounds like he’s struggling to force the words out. “Potter’s trap.”

“Looks like some sort of… Lemurian parasite, I think. Rare, difficult to treat, will incapacitate you but not kill you. The sort of thing Potter would use. Does it hurt to move?”

“Like hell.”

“Crap.” You reach into your pouch, shuffling through your potions. “Here, bezoar. It should fight most of the symptoms for the next few hours, at least until I can brew something proper. It’s a complicated potion to make, but I can do it if I have the time.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 21 Mar 2024 03:14:51 No.5956755 Report

Quoted By: >>5956756

>>5956754

“Shouldn’t he just go up and get treated?” Arty asks. “We are in a hospital.”

“No,” Apollo says. “There is a painting of an old headmistress in the reception. The books about Potter say it connects to the Headmistress office. I saw it show up, hurry to whisper something to the healers. They didn’t look happy.”

“Then Potter already sounded the alarm, they’re already looking for someone with the right symptoms. Most people wouldn't know how to treat it, they’d need to either come here or find another healer, and I figure most wouldn’t know about it.”

You force the bezoar down Brighton’s throat and after a few minutes the swelling has diminished considerably, and he can stand up on his own, though unsteady.

“Thanks. Where to now?”

Under the Cloak, you make the rest of the way to the entrance to the stairway down, stun the guard, try to undo whatever security enchantments you can find, then reach the great chamber below St Mungo’s.

“Oh. So you really weren't lying.” Brighton says as the great stone comes into view.

“You thought I was?”

“I didn’t fully doubt it.”

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death,” Arty reads. “According to the books, Granger thought it didn’t mean defeating death by becoming immortal. She said it meant living beyond death. Living after death.”

“Well, Merlin disagrees,” you say. “He’s lived far, far longer than anyone else and he either built or used this place to do so. I think we can say the Minister was wrong on this account. It’s a nice thought… but I prefer Merlin’s interpretation.”

You pull the Stone of Resurrection from your pouch. Even now, it is tempting to use it. But you don’t. Instead, you place it within its slot in the great doorway. It stays there.

“Linda. Arty.”

Each of them moves forward and places their Hallow in the correct slots. The three of you take a step back and there is a burst of energy that passes over and through the room. You blink and the doorway and the Hallows are gone. Where they stood, there is now an archway, the way forward black as night.

In front of the archway, a metal stick, perhaps a meter and a half long.

"And there they go," you say. "I know we'll probably get them back, but... I was hoping we could use them for whatever is ahead of us."

“The texts have changed,” Linda says.

“Vitriol,” you say. “Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem. In english, ‘Visit the interior of the earth and purifying you will find the hidden stone’. An old saying about the Stone, fifteenth century, if I recall correctly, but of course that with Merlin time means nothing.”

“And? What do we do?”

“It seems like it is inviting us.” You cast detection enchantments, but as far as they are concerned, the stone simply does not exist. That leaves you with the other obvious option. “Lumos!”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 21 Mar 2024 03:16:48 No.5956756 Report

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>>5956755

The tip of your wand shines and you touch it against the darkness. The light vanishes the moment it enters it, and reappears when you pull it back. Like what Potter had once done in one of his battle classes, but far, far more complete, intense and total. You put a finger, then a hand, and when it seems safe you put your head through.

“Utter darkness, even lumos can’t pierce it. I wonder if this is to help.” You pick up the metal rod and push it against the black. It does nothing, until you accidentally hit it against something inside the archway. A hundred multicolored sparks fly off from its tip, showing up in the dark. They don’t illuminate, but they can be seen, and they stop at the first thing they touch. You tap it against the wall a few more times, and the sparks stick to the walls, floor and ceiling of what appears to be a cave on the other side of the archway.

The sparks slowly dim to a dark blue, but never go fully away.

“Right, this is… interesting.”

“So what? Do we just go with this thing, using it to show us the way?”

“I would think so. In every ancient report of the path to a source of immortality like the Philosopher’s Stone, there are always challenges, be they physical or intellectual. I don’t think this will be any different.”

“Merlin trials,” Longbottom says. “I don’t like the sound of that.”

“Perhaps even Atlantean trials. We don’t know. This thing could be older than Merlin, whatever his true age was.”

“Yeah, that’s interesting and all,” Linda says, looking around. “But I don’t see a way of closing this door. What do we do? Do we all go, or do we leave someone here?”

“Me or Apollo, if we leave anyone.” Brighton says. “We’re the only ones who can send patronuses.”

A thought crosses your mind and you take two steps into the darkness.

“Try sending a Patronus to me,” you say from the dark.

Apollo summons his bear. “Go tell Elliot that, uh, we found Avalon.”

The bear stops… then shakes his head before disappearing.

“If there’s no light, there’s no patronus,” you say. “Either that or this place doesn’t like outside interference. Either way, I don’t think it will work here.”

"Still," Linda says. "If someone stays, they could rush in if someone comes and try to warn everyone, or try fighting them."

> We all go. The more people we have, the faster we can get through this.
> Apollo stays
> Arty stays
> Linda stays
> Brighton stays

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 03:17:45 No.5956757 Report

Quoted By: >>5956807

>>5956733
I am glad we chose to send someone with Apollo if one person from each heist is getting taken down, since otherwise he would have to face to corpse of Dumbledore alone and couldn't get the wand to us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Thu 21 Mar 2024 03:30:10 No.5956766 Report

Quoted By: >>5956788 >>5956811

>>5956756
> Linda stays
Tough choice, but we need someone fresh, who can negotiate or fight as needed. Arty could work, too... But her magic's more limited and I suspect Linda's the better liar.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:02:15 No.5956788 Report

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>>5956756
>> We all go. The more people we have, the faster we can get through this.

If a grown, strong wizard comes? I doubt a sick or Magically exhausted boy will be able to stop them. Also we are taking the staff which can pierce the dark with us. And apparently the little lights which can show the path will dim, making it harder for anyone to quickly follow. That same darkness should delay any followers, but I guarantee Scorpy-boy will be here soon.

>>5956756
>“Merlin trials,”

Don't give me flash backs bro. They pissed me off.

>>5956766
I don't think we are going to negotiate our way out of anything, and when Scorpius gets here with a goon or 2, I don't want Linda to get either Imperios'd or held hostage.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:09:19 No.5956798 Report

Quoted By: >>5956808

>>5956756
> We all go. The more people we have, the faster we can get through this.
Look at it this way. There's only two people who will be coming down here, Potter or Salazar. If it's Potter there's a small chance that he won't Reducto our comrade on the spot and they can try and convince him we're not about to use Avalon itself to do something incredibly evil and world ending (yeah, fat chance!), and if it's Salazar it's probably a bad idea to leave only one person behind to deal with him.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:11:18 No.5956800 Report

Quoted By: >>5956808 >>5956833

>>5956756
Actually, on the off chance Potter does get here could we perhaps leave a coded message for him explaining our actions? Not sure how though, and I'm not too knowledgeable of Potterverse spells.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:18:42 No.5956807 Report

Quoted By:

>have extra shift at work today
>thinking about the quest the entire time
>come back
>we are all alive, bruised but standing
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT!
HeadQM, you had me REALLY worried there with that roll, you cheeky shit
>>5956757
i told you guys sending him alone was a bad idea, glad they all got out relatively safe

>>5956756
>We all go. The more people we have, the faster we can get through this.
if somebody stays, whoever they are, they will have to either fight alone or run to catch us, either option leaves them incredibly exposed and is a greater risk of us not gettin any message at all
if we all go together, not only we have strength in numbers, but nothing else can really follow us as easily since they will only have the rapidly diming lights to follow, they wont disappear, but they will not know what to do with them or what they mean
besides, only 2 people are actively following us and willing to enter this unknown tunnel, by the time they reach us (if they do) we´ll have an entire group, probably in a better state than what we are if we use a few spells and potions to heal while we explore

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:19:38 No.5956808 Report

Quoted By: >>5956811 >>5956833 >>5956840 >>5956923

>>5956798
>>5956800
Yeah, alright.

>>5956756
> We all go. The more people we have, the faster we can get through this.
>Have the last one in leave a message by charring the words "sorry, really. can explain." onto the floor with a fire spell

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:21:35 No.5956811 Report

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>>5956766
>>5956808
This was my old vote, btw. Changing it, if that wasn't clear.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:45:52 No.5956833 Report

Quoted By: >>5956835 >>5956894 >>5956923

>>5956756
> We all go. The more people we have, the faster we can get through this.
Yeah, scorpius is probably making up excuses to his dad to beeline here right now
>>5956800
A magic painting or picture could work for that but i dont think its something we could do on the fly. Really, don't even bother. It wouldnt make the slightest bit of difference
>>5956808
>"sorry, really. can explain."
See, you might as well not say anything at all

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:47:42 No.5956835 Report

Quoted By:

>>5956833
Anything that gives Potter pause in shooting us in the face is a boon, I think.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 21 Mar 2024 04:51:04 No.5956840 Report

Quoted By:

>>5956808
I got one better:
>"Barty made me do it, promise!"

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Thu 21 Mar 2024 06:28:04 No.5956894 Report

Quoted By: >>5956971

>>5956833
Y'know what, new idea
>>5956756
>Linda stays
Just stand in the dark and if anyone comes you give'em the good ol voldie special, alright? Alright

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 21 Mar 2024 06:37:36 No.5956900 Report

Quoted By: >>5956910

Actually, I know. If Potter has the time turner that probably means future him has been able to track us all the way to St Mungos. Which means there's a high likelihood that he's watching us right now. So all we have to do is yell at the darkness that we stole all his stuff because we wanted to open this up, and we're doing that because Merlins coming back and we want to stop him. It should work, yeah? Worst case scenario we just look like a schizo yelling at nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 07:21:02 No.5956910 Report

Quoted By: >>5956919

>>5956900
Seems like you need to plan to set a sable loop, so I think we beat his time turner by causing so much havoc.

Also the fact Brighton was the one to get war crimed and not Arty, despite Arty being the one to grab the Cloak implies he probably cast the Bubble-head charm on her before he tried to cast it on himself, since Arty's hands would have been busy grabbing the cloak of the coat hanger.

If we leave a note, just draw DickButt on it holding a revolver.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Thu 21 Mar 2024 07:35:37 No.5956919 Report

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>>5956910
>If we leave a note, just draw DickButt on it holding a revolver.
supporting this

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Thu 21 Mar 2024 07:38:47 No.5956923 Report

Quoted By: >>5956971 >>5957003 >>5957063

>>5956833
Could he even get away? Even if he miraculously knows we’re behind the Dark Mark and why, I’d imagine Draco won’t let his son out of his sight right now with the return of the Death Eaters and all that, especially since he used to be one of them. If anyone’s going to be coming down here, I’d bet on either Potter or someone affiliated with him, since he might be tied up with the fallout of the Dark Mark being cast.
>>5956808
Support. We’re gonna have a LOT of damage control to do if we want to prevent Potter from shooting us in the face for stealing the Hallows alone.
For the Dark Mark, we’ll have to hope Potter blames Taylor for it, since we obviously can’t bring that up ourselves or else nothing will stop him from putting a bullet in our head.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 09:05:44 No.5956971 Report

Quoted By: >>5957063

>>5956923
I mean, even if he doesn't track us to St. Mungo's by magical means, he is probably going to deduce we are the most likely person to have been on the grounds who could maybe know the Mark, aside from the pureblood students who have parents that could have taught them. He already knows we can cast some Dark crap like Sectumsempre.

When he finds the spiders in jars named after our allies? Yeah he should be able to figure out that we probably came to St. Mungo's for SOME reason, give we have been there with our rival and best friend.

I do want to see the reaction when he realizes that the map can be defeated by fucking spiders and he never considered it.

I think Scorpius has probably gaslit Draco enough that both of them will head here quite quickly. You know, after the Aurors leave since Lucius and Draco are a couple of the only ones left who would know how to cast the Mark.

Draco was said to be pretty damn smart now but if it is his son telling him something? He loves little the fuck enough to believe it.

>>5956894
You have to hate a ton to use AK. Raven could use it on "Lily" because they just killed her lover, unless Scorpius is the one she sees? I doubt she can hate as much as Voledmort and toss it out at randos. Yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 21 Mar 2024 10:13:44 No.5957003 Report

Quoted By: >>5957005 >>5957070

>>5956923
The Malfoys are going to have it ROUGH from this. They're the only known living "ex" death eaters as far as the wizarding world is concerned. Every single project and expenditure will be audited. Aurors will breathe down their necks for months to come. Newspapers are probably already slandering them by tomorrow morning. Salazar is going to be FURIOUS at the massive wrench we threw at his host.
On that note, Lucius and Draco are definitely freaking out in the worst way right now since their dark marks would have itched. Barty is laughing like a madman.>>5956923
The Malfoys are going to have it ROUGH from this. They're the only known living "ex" death eaters as far as the wizarding world is concerned. Every single project and expenditure will be audited. Aurors will breathe down their necks for months to come. Newspapers are probably already slandering them by tomorrow morning. Salazar is going to be FURIOUS at the massive wrench we threw at his host.
On that note, Lucius and Draco are definitely freaking out in the worst way right now since their dark marks would have itched. Barty is laughing like a madman.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 21 Mar 2024 10:15:17 No.5957005 Report

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>>5957003
Jesus, captcha rate limiting fucked me up hard

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 21 Mar 2024 11:01:35 No.5957034 Report

Quoted By: >>5957079

QM, could we get a short interlude of Barty feeling the mark moving?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Thu 21 Mar 2024 11:21:13 No.5957063 Report

Quoted By: >>5957079

>>5956923
I dont see potter having any conceivable means of getting here. The Time Turner requires planning ahead and even if he did follow us the sneakoscope should have given him away. He'd have to do some BIG jumps in logic to find this place. Scorpius on the other hand, knows what's at stake, he'll try to come no matter what even if he has to sneak away or fight his way through. If Potter doesn't say to the aurors outloud what happened to the hallows then the wreck at albus' tomb will still give it away, and from then its just a matter of time for the news to spread.
>>5956971
>give we have been there with our rival and best friend.
Elliot has only been here once as far as anyone knows, we were transfigured remember?
>unless Scorpius is the one she sees?
Yes, somebody meant scorpius. Ideally she shouldn't kill anyone but in that one case we can make an exception. For anyone else i think a stupefy should do.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 11:26:22 No.5957070 Report

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>>5957003
Oh yes, aside from sending an army of Aurors to Hogwarts, I am sure quite a few are being sent to the houses of certain people.

Like the one Hermione was tortured in and, if we are going by the movies some, had the word "Mudblood" carved into her flesh by an insane lady.

Barty was most defiantly cackling like mad while his guards rush in. The few Death Eater's still around and were not caught were looking up, with wonder, hope and fear in their eyes. There might have been a riot going on in Wizard jail right due to like half of the people there having the tattoo. There are likely quite a few families grabbing children from their beds and Disapparating from the country right now.

This may shake out bad for Elliot but I fucking love it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 11:55:42 No.5957079 Report

Quoted By: >>5957124

>>5957034
I would support this if HeadQM has the inclination to write it. I like Barty quite well, despite him being an insane monster.

>>5957063
When we went alone, sure it was pretty discrete. But we used the Longbottem's Floo-place with Brighton and Linda when we went to pick up the founders. Neville is a close friend of Potter, and I am sure Hannah rushed to the school when we used Morsmordre, to help her husband and protect her only son. She must have known her son and two "friends" just went to St. Mungo's, a fact she will likely reveal to Potter when he catches the thread and asks some questions after "Brighton" is gone and a spider in a jar has replaced him.

I think we do have time to do this, before the pieces get put together and Harry shows up. And one or both of the Malfoys are going to beat him here, given what they know.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:xLJe/IN1 Thu 21 Mar 2024 14:19:54 No.5957124 Report

Quoted By: >>5957190

>>5957079
That's still a pretty big jump in logic, it doesn't really tell him why we would want to bring the Hallows to St. Mungos. On the other hand, he already knows Scorpius is after us so he could just put two and two together and follow HIM to get to us, now THAT is a real possibility.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 16:13:20 No.5957190 Report

Quoted By: >>5957192

>>5957124
Potter has been shown to be quite clever, so I hope I am incorrect. I also hope the half dozen wizard cops I am sure are knocking on the Malfoy's door by now can delay Scorpius for a while so we get a good head start.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:igOPTCtk Thu 21 Mar 2024 16:21:02 No.5957192 Report

Quoted By: >>5957197

>>5957190
The headstart is already diminished somewhat by the travel time so lets not count on it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 16:33:20 No.5957197 Report

Quoted By:

>>5957192
True enough. I also have no clue how long the magic FBI will hold you for questioning if a spell your family is one of the few left who can cast appears over the supposed most safe place in the world.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Thu 21 Mar 2024 18:30:40 No.5957264 Report

Quoted By: >>5957282 >>5957403

Actually, now that I think about it, we could also still leave the note and have it be for Scorpius as well.
I’m not saying he isn’t kinda shady himself, but it’s possible he knows little about just how truly fucked up Salazar is, since we kinda did never get the chance to explain everything to him.
Plus we DID just kinda get his family under massive scrutiny for many months at minimum. If we want to try and get Scorpius to rebel against Salazar, an apology would be good to start. Same with trying to explain things to Potter, if he somehow makes his way over.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Thu 21 Mar 2024 18:54:38 No.5957278 Report

Quoted By:

>>5956756
>> We all go. The more people we have, the faster we can get through this.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:igOPTCtk Thu 21 Mar 2024 19:01:03 No.5957282 Report

Quoted By: >>5957287 >>5957289

>>5957264
>For Scorpius: Suck it!
>For Harry: Sorry!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Thu 21 Mar 2024 19:11:13 No.5957287 Report

Quoted By:

>>5957282
Kek.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 21 Mar 2024 19:12:40 No.5957289 Report

Quoted By:

>>5957282
also supportig this, also, leave a dickbutt doodle like it was suggest before in the middle, its aimed towards both of them, but neither will knows who is for

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 21 Mar 2024 19:33:15 No.5957304 Report

Quoted By: >>5957342 >>5957403

“But I can’t. Because I can’t kill a child, no matter how many prophecies there are saying I should. Not when they have committed no sin I know of. So all hail Dark Lord Hallaster, or whatever it is you’ll become, while I do my damndest to stop fate from becoming reality. And you… will stay far, far away from any apocalypse machines. Otherwise me and my silver friend here will be visiting, and this time there won’t be any blanks.” He waves the gun and the door creaks open behind you. “You may go.”

You run.

i was rereading the thread, and i fogot about this, if Potter is coming for us (which he totally is), Its on SIGHT, he packing heat and we are in whats most likely for him, an Apocalypse Machine, so we better be ready for it, because i have a feeling magic isnt stopping his bullshit bullets

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 21 Mar 2024 20:44:59 No.5957342 Report

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>>5957304
Worst come to worst we can spill the deets on Lily which I'm sure will make him hesitate.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 21:56:24 No.5957403 Report

Quoted By: >>5957413 >>5957430

>>5957264
If it comes down to it, if our allies are down? Telling him exactly what Salazar made his last host do to herself? How he shattered a soul and used it to make a mask of her? That he lied to her for years to get what he wanted from her. Would have made her fuck a person she didn't love just to manipulate them.

Might give him quite a bit of pause. Make him fight back against the ideas Good Old Sally planted in his mind.

Telling Scorpy we are sorry, that we couldn't afford to tell him anything is a decent idea. The guy isn't evil. Just ambitious. And loyal to something. Like another Slytherin we are very familiar with.

>>5957304
I suppose we should be thinking of charms which will make the gun Potter has useless in general or useless in specific. A strong protego or prismatis could maybe stop a bullet but he is using a caliber used to take down hogs and deer. I have no clue how often he trains with it but... But if something fucks up in a revolver, it is just a big piece of steel. You can clear a jam, even quickly take the slide of most modern semi-autos at least, if something goes wrong like a misfeed.

A revolver? It something fucks up in it's internals, which there a quite a few of? Well I guess you can try and slam fire it using your hand and manually cycle it, but if this fucker was made in the last 50 years, good luck. Safety features.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Thu 21 Mar 2024 22:14:26 No.5957413 Report

Quoted By: >>5957460

>>5957403
in theory we could transfigure it, but it's likely he has shit preventing that

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 21 Mar 2024 22:31:07 No.5957430 Report

Quoted By: >>5957511

>>5957403
Our best bet to fight Potter with a gun is the tried and true flashbang or smokebomb. Or summoning something to block the bullet.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 21 Mar 2024 23:02:29 No.5957460 Report

Quoted By: >>5957632

>>5957413
Even the normal robes have protections vs.being transfig'd. His gun is one of a kind, apparently. A heating charm to the other rounds? Soaking it in water and turning that water to ice would also fuck up the stuff inside a revolver. If he hasn't cleaned it well in a while, the stuff in left from the last time he shot it, at us, could maybe be be transfigured, made to grow large enough to just break it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 22 Mar 2024 00:37:38 No.5957511 Report

Quoted By:

>>5957430
Flashbang and throat punch sounds pretty great, if we could pull it off. Tossing Potter over our hip and dislocating his wrist would be a top moment of the quest, if we ever can.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:FOMr5M8U Fri 22 Mar 2024 03:17:56 No.5957632 Report

Quoted By:

>>5957460
The easiest way to stop a gun from firing is to either obstruct the hammer, or push the slide / cylinder out of battery, which isn't that hard to do.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 22 Mar 2024 03:50:23 No.5957650 Report

Quoted By: >>5957651

You shake your head.

“If someone comes, it will be either Potter or Scorpius and crew. We don’t stand a chance against either. We go, everyone together.”

“Then lead the way.”

“Before that…” you approach the wall and flick your wand. Letters of fire appear and stick to the stone. “Do not enter if you do not wish to die a slow and painful death. And, if you are Harry Potter, sorry. Really. I can explain it when I come back.”

“Do you think that will stop him?” Arty asks.

“No. But it may not make him hesitate for at least half a second before blowing my brains out.” You turn towards the dark passage, now scattered with dim blue points. “Now, onwards into darkness.”

With your magic cane, you go first and tap the wall. The others follow and you tap it again, and they are covered by the sparks, revealing their outline. But you hear them stumble in the darkness and the sparks don’t move. You tap again and the sparks that were them disappear, and new sparks outline the place where they are now.

“So if something moves, the sparks that I cast before disappear if the new cast doesn’t find the thing where the old spark touched,” you say, slowly trying to understand what the hell is in your hands. “It’s like a really shitty magical sonar. It shows where things are, and then keeps showing where they were until I tap it again. But it doesn’t show me.”

“Can I try?” Linda asks. You tap and it shows her with her hand outstretched, and you hand the cane over. She taps and her form disappears while yours is covered with sparks. She gives it back. “Cool. So everyone but you is going to have to deal with being covered with sparks every two seconds. Fun.”

“Would you like to be the one to walk into a completely dark cavern created by ancient, all powerful wizards with questionable morals?”

“No, I’m good. You go ahead.”

“Thought so.”

You turn and head into the darkness.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 22 Mar 2024 03:51:53 No.5957651 Report

Quoted By: >>5957652 >>5957688

>>5957650

-- Interlude --

Everyone knows being stationed in that place means your career is dead. It had been so with Azkaban, and so it is here. Auror Nienna Robins has been here for the last two years after an investigation had revealed several pieces of evidence had gone missing from the Ministry’s files at about the same time a series of suspicious monetary movements had happened on her Gringotts account.

It hadn’t been enough to prove she was guilty, but it had been enough for her to be reassigned here and forgotten.

Bunch of selfish pricks. She wouldn’t have had to take Doinov’s money if they paid her better. He had never even been actually convicted of the murders anyway, so she couldn’t understand what the fuss was about.

But now, and until she decided to quit, get memory-wiped about this place’s location and go start a new job somewhere no one knew her, she was stuck.

At least it isn’t Azkaban before the war, swarming with dementors.

Nienna doesn’t like her post, but at least it is just monotonous. The guards have wands, the prisoners don't. From her post, she can see every single cell, every single prisoner, and react to any strange movement. There are no escape attempts, because the prisoners know they can’t do anything without being watched. The days just pass while she and the others play cards, tell stories and chat about the same thing for the tenth time.

She has a winning hand and is thinking about how she can get Kal to bet a couple more sickles when she hears it. It must have started as a murmur, slowly spreading through the prisoners, because by the time it reaches her central tower every single one of them is repeating it like a mantra, over and over.

“The night is dark,”

“What are they saying?” Kal asks, standing up to look.

The murmur grows louder, the words become clearer.

“The deed is done!”

“Nienna, you know what this is?”

She shakes her head. “No. Never heard about Death Eaters saying anything like that. Hey, Williamson, do you know what they’re about?”

The murmur rises to a chant.

“In shadows deep,”

The old man, the oldest among them, the one who never said anything, simply doing his duties, raises his head. He has always looked haunted, and Nienna couldn’t blame him. She’d be too if she had worked in Azkaban for as long as he had. There is a hint of fear in his eyes.

“Call the Minister,” Williamson says, voice hoarse and unsteady. “Call the Head Auror. Send a warning to Hogwarts. To Potter. Then lock down the prison. No one gets in or out until we hear word.”

“Hear word of what?” Nienna asks, voice shaky.

“Until we hear word that this is all a misunderstanding… And that you-know-who hasn’t returned.”

The chant becomes shouting, clamoring, screaming.

“Our lord’s foe’s gone!”

Somewhere, in the deepest, darkest cell, the prisoner whose name does not appear anywhere in that place’s records is cackling as loud as his lungs allow.

-- Interlude Over --

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 22 Mar 2024 03:52:57 No.5957652 Report

Quoted By: >>5957659 >>5957662 >>5957688 >>5957755 >>5957781 >>5957792

>>5957651

The cave turns and twists, and soon you notice a strange effect. Namely, the walls of this cave, and even your own bodies, don’t seem to block the view of the cane’s sparks. This means you can view your entire path backwards throughout the cave through the sparks, from the place you’re standing to the very entrance.

Tap, tap, tap.

The corridor soon expands into a slightly larger area, the sparks showing stalactites and stalagmites which you have to walk around. The floor feels slippery, like wet rock that has been smoothed out by years of being under a waterfall. Progress is slow, with each holding on to the robes of the person in front while trying not to slip. The utter darkness is difficult to manage, and the incredibly limited visibility the cane provides is only slightly better than groping your way around the darkness.

Tap, tap, tap.

The air itself feels oppressive as you move forward, getting heavier. There are a few larger chambers which stumble you, as you fumble to find the way forward amongst the multi-colored sparks, each tap revealing more while also cluttering your vision.

Tap, tap-

You freeze and Arty and the others almost knock you down as they walk into you. In the middle of the next room, the sparks come to rest upon a figure that is very much humanoid. You tap the cane again, the only way of seeing if the person had moved. It hadn’t.

It stands as it was, arms slightly raised, as if blocking the passage forward.

You tap again. Still no movement.

You can feel sweat drip from your forehead.

“Who- who are you?”

It does not respond.

You take a stone from the floor and float it towards the person,

Tap, tap, tap.

The stone disappears and reappears as the sparks cover it again and again.

Tap.

The sound of stone against stone comes over as your rock hits the humanoid statue in front of you.

“Right… A statue. Of course there would be statues.” You say, more to reassure yourself than anything else. “A stone guardian to watch the entrance of this place.”

You approach, reaching for the statue. It stands on a flat circular surface with four supporting pillars, and it is maybe two meters tall. Difficult to say what it is wearing from touch alone on the smooth rock, but it feels like some sort of armor. You try to see if there are any loose parts, but can find nothing. You keep on tapping as you walk around the room, searching for a way forward.

Tap, tap, tap.

“Elliot?” Arty says, voice slightly shaky,

“Yeah?”

“Look at the statue again.”

You look and tap, but you see nothing different from when you looked at it a few seconds before. Nothing different. That, of course, is strange, because when you first looked at it, it was staring at you at the entrance, and now that you have walked around it, it is still staring at you.

“Ah… Right. I… I see the problem.”

> Move on from the room, keeping an eye on the statue
> Attempt to destroy the statue
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Fri 22 Mar 2024 04:02:44 No.5957659 Report

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>>5957652
> Move on from the room, keeping an eye on the statue
Well... We'll probably have to deal with that EVENTUALLY, but for now it isn't messing with us, and maybe anyone following us WILL provoke it somehow?

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 22 Mar 2024 04:04:44 No.5957662 Report

Quoted By: >>5957670 >>5957755

>>5957652
I KNEW IT!
i knew the description of the entire sparks thing sounded familiar, thats Scanner Sombre, you cheeky bastard, i see you HeadQM
>Move on from the room, keeping an eye on the statue

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 22 Mar 2024 04:10:29 No.5957670 Report

Quoted By: >>5957672 >>5957755

>>5957662
Heh, what can I say? I played it a few weeks ago and immediately knew that experience was going to be one of the things behind the door.

I do intend on making the experience more interesting than a walking simulator, of course. Though I might keep the water things

And don't worry, this is not the only part of the journey.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 22 Mar 2024 04:13:15 No.5957672 Report

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>>5957670
>spoiler
i havent played the game, its in my wishlist tho
>And don't worry, this is not the only part of the journey.
already scared as it is

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Fri 22 Mar 2024 04:34:56 No.5957688 Report

Quoted By: >>5957755

>>5957651
>Somewhere, in the deepest, darkest cell, the prisoner whose name does not appear anywhere in that place’s records is cackling as loud as his lungs allow.
Hm. I wonder who this is. Crouch or someone else?

>>5957652
Oh goody. A weeping angel.
> Move on from the room, keeping an eye on the statue

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 22 Mar 2024 07:31:23 No.5957755 Report

Quoted By: >>5957853

>>5957688
Crouch should be on that island, I think not in a cell at Nurmengard... not really sure who it can be though, what other high ranking Death Eater's are left. Maybe Crouch just gets taken to the island to train us then take back when we leave?

>>5957662
Good call. I now nothing about this game so I don't know if there is something in it which would help Elliot now.

>>5957670
More "interesting" you say? Awesome. Excellent. Surely nothing bad will come from that.

>>5957652
> Move on from the room, keeping an eye on the statue

I don't have anything clever for this. Destroying the statue doesn't seem right, unless Merlin destroyed and remade what ever this is every time he came down here. I will try and think of something better if I can.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Fri 22 Mar 2024 08:17:41 No.5957781 Report

Quoted By: >>5957787 >>5957792

>>5957652
I got an idea, lads.
>Cast Cantis on it, the spell that makes people and objects break out into song.
This way, we can track it audially. And...well, given when it was made and the purpose it was made for, perhaps the song it sings could tell us something.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Fri 22 Mar 2024 08:33:08 No.5957787 Report

Quoted By: >>5957792

>>5957781
For that matter, I also have other ideas if that doesn't work. Including:
Sticking its shoes to the ground/using epoximise on it.
Using the rotating charm on it so it's always facing away from us instead.
Blindfolding it, physically or with obscuro.

As an aside, cast Nox. The opposite thing one would try to cast when going into a dark place. I think Merlin is cheeky enough to have Nox paradoxically light the way. If that doesn't work, then the Supersensory Charm should help us to navigate a LOT easier...and keep track of anything else moving around here.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 22 Mar 2024 08:43:19 No.5957792 Report

Quoted By:

>>5957781
>>5957652
>>5957787

I will support making the thing sing, as well as making sure at least one person is keeping an eye on it till we are out of the room and down the hall.

Maybe let the others know what a Weeping Angle is, if that idea is correct. That if if jump scares you because you fucked up and blinked, you cannot close your eyes for ever a second in fear.

I can also support the Supersensory charm. Hopefully we don't have to use the Flashbang till it wears off, since we will probably be deaf and blind for a few minutes if we use it when our senses are enhanced.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Fri 22 Mar 2024 09:13:42 No.5957807 Report

Quoted By: >>5957810

guys, its not a weeping angel, we would have died already if thats the were the case since we are in literal pitch darkness, im 75% sure its part of a puzzle, last time we had what was basically a trial of combat with the goblins
this one feels like a trial of wits
im willing to bet we have to find something to put in its hands, like a sword or staff, maybe even the stick we are carrying

of course it could be just decoration and we are all paranoid about it, understandably so...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 22 Mar 2024 09:20:27 No.5957810 Report

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>>5957807
The only artifact we have since the Hallows are... somewhere right now is our stick. We could try to split up around it and see who it tracks. If it only locks onto Elliot, the staff idea might work. Maybe putting it in its hands would turn the lights on in here? The statue was just Merlin's creepy light switch for this place?

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Fri 22 Mar 2024 11:18:00 No.5957853 Report

Quoted By: >>5957867

>>5957755
Yeah, I wonder about that. Though I can't think of any other death eater that would fit the bill that isn't a literal who. Lucius is out, and Pettigrew doesn't seem like the laughing madly type, on top of being dead. Then again, maybe it is Crouch, I doubt Potter is bothered enough to feed the guy. But then why doesn't his name appear on the records?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 22 Mar 2024 12:08:46 No.5957867 Report

Quoted By: >>5957889

>>5957853
I mean, no one is supposed to know Crouch is alive. Is the island we train with him actually just in a trunk like Newt had? I mean that would give an extra layer of security.

Also now that I am thinking of it, Linda/Raven is oddly wealthy. Like our parents have good jobs. We get nice things and spending money.

But she has not one but two large expandable trunks, one stuffed with Warhammer miniatures and the other full of bad dragon dildoes, bondage equipment, and fetish gear.

WTF Linda's mom? Also letting a 14 year old get her tongue split, probably get some piercings in not appropriate places.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 22 Mar 2024 12:35:39 No.5957889 Report

Quoted By: >>5957967

>>5957867
Also we apparently missed Linda's birthday, so real cool Lord Hallaster.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 22 Mar 2024 14:49:21 No.5957967 Report

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>>5957889
It was during the christmas break, Elliot sent her well wishes with her christmas gift. I forgot about it until it was too late, tell no one

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 22 Mar 2024 18:14:13 No.5958053 Report

Quoted By: >>5958137

https://rentry.org/gadkbd5w

So here is the last fanfic I will make for a while. I ended up not making it really lewd but kinda sad because that is where the writing of Arty and Linda took me and how was feeling. So if you like angst, have at it.

As well as enjoying your story very much, I am grateful to you for inspiring me to try some writing again, HeadQM. Maybe I will try and put together the Urban Fantasy quest I thought about a few years ago. I think I still have the notes I jotted down in a notebook somewhere in the house.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Fri 22 Mar 2024 21:34:33 No.5958137 Report

Quoted By: >>5958217

>>5958053
>The girl who lived
ooh, that one hit different, very nicely done m8, dare i say this one is probably your best of the short ones so far
>Arty concidering piercings not a big fan of that, but damn, i´d be lying if i said the idea isnt hot

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 23 Mar 2024 00:04:33 No.5958217 Report

Quoted By: >>5958541

>>5958137
Thank you very much for reading it. It makes me happy at least a couple of people check out my fanfics of a fanfic of a children's novel. It was already done, aside from the last little bit but I did try and polish it some this morning as I didn't have work today or much to do aside from picking some stuff up at the grocery store, checking on my seedlings and replanting a few things.

Also, due to a recent injury had just knocked back a pain killer. So was feeling good.

The girl who lived was new. I think Arty, despite knowing she will either die from being involved in our shit or just because of how she was born very much wants to live. Knows now that Potter believes Elliot might go Dark, destroy the world if she did die. Has probably considered what Apollo would do if someone killed her. Where it would take him. And because while she is a tiny vicious Fury, she is one full of happiness and love for others and can't stand those ideas becoming real.

And she will earn that name if I have a say. She will live.

I like nipple and clitoral hood piercings, the are fun to play with. Not a big fan of like face piercings.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 23 Mar 2024 10:29:13 No.5958497 Report

Quoted By: >>5958500

“Ok, everyone just keep looking at it. Just… just don’t let it out of your sight.”

Tap, tap, tap.

You keep tapping while looking at it, slowly moving around the room, searching for the path forwards. The statue never moves, keeping the direction it was.

“Ok. Can everyone close their eyes for a second?” There is silence. “If you’re nodding, I can’t see it.”

“Yes,” four voices reply.

Tap.

The statue stays still. You blink.

Tap.

The statue has turned a quarter of the way to you.

“Right, you can open your eyes now,” you say as you resume walking. “It only turns when there’s no one looking at it, but it hasn’t moved so far. I think maybe it- AHHHH!”

You take a step and the floor isn’t there, and you fall, slipping in the wet stone of a narrow descending tunnel. You slide down, stumbling and striking the wall until you hit flat ground with a painful thud.

“Elliot!”

“I’m fine! I’m fine.”

Tap, tap, tap.

“It looks like this is the way!” You shout up. “Come on down, just keep looking at the statue!”

One by one, Arty, then Apollo, then Linda, then finally Brighton comes down. You tap the cane a few more times, waiting, trying to see if the statue has moved.

Tap, tap, tap.

“Right… It looks like it is staying there.”

“Does anyone smell anything rotting?” Linda asks.

You stop and sniff the air. It’s faint, but it is there. What could possibly-

“Oh no.”

“What?”

“The oldest process for the fabrication of the stone had four great steps, each with a different color,” you say. “The first one was called nigredo, the blackness, when the prima materia used to create the Philosopher's Stone is decomposed. It is also known as putrefaction.”

“And? What does that mean, Hallaster?”

“I don’t know, Brighton, but probably nothing good. Now stay close.”

You keep on moving forward and the stench gets worse. Half rot, half burnt, it fills your lungs. Somewhere behind you, you hear Brighton cast the Bubblehead charm.

“I don’t think it’s toxic, just foul smelling.”

“Still would prefer not to smell it.”

“We’re already down one of our senses, don’t kill another one.”

“I’ll keep it, just in case you’re all poisoned through the air and I need to save everyone.”

You shrug, moving forward. The cave opens up into a wide room, the ceiling too high for your sparks to reach.

Tap, tap, tap, splosh.

Your foot sinks a few inches into what you thought was solid rock. Instead, it feels slimy, sticky and- crunch- slightly crunchy.

“Elliot?” Linda asks. “Did you just step into the thing that smells like rot?”

“I… I think so.”

“Is it what I think it is?”

“You mean decomposing flesh and bones?”

“Yeah.”

“If I had to guess. I’m going to take a couple of steps back before throwing up, so back up a bit.”

--

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 23 Mar 2024 10:30:17 No.5958500 Report

Quoted By: >>5958502

>>5958497

After a few minutes of further analysis, Linda is fairly sure that “the Goop“, as Arty had delightfully nicknamed it, wasn’t made out of humans. Or at least not entirely out of humans.

“I can’t find any bones that feel human,” Linda says. “Only small creatures and rodents. Birds, mice. Maybe a cat. So either there’s no human in here, or it’s deeper in the pool, or-” “Don’t say it.” “Or it’s made out of babies.”

She sploshes the chunk she had floated out of the Goop back into it.

“For what it's worth, I don’t think it’s made out of babies.”

“Thank you, that makes it much better.”

The path ends at what appears to be a great lake of the stuff, with no way around it. It’s impossible to know how deep or wide it is, but larger than what the sparks reach. You reach into your pouch and pull out the broom Linda had used to come to St Mungo’s.

“Right. You four stay here, I’m going to fly around the room and search for a way forward.”

“You’re going to leave us alone?” Arty asks, sounding very much not comfortable with it.

“We can’t carry everyone on this broom at once, and I don’t think wading through this stuff or disturbing it more is a good idea. I’ll just follow the wall, tapping as I go.” You reach out for the shortest of the forms covered by sparks and she gives a small jump when you touch her, before relaxing as she realizes it’s you. You gently caress her face. “Keep to the wall, don’t go anywhere. I’ll be right back.”

“Be careful.”

You hesitate for a moment… then tap your head and put on the bubblehead charm, just in case.

You hop on the broom, floating up and reaching for the wall. It is extremely unnerving to fly in utter darkness over a pool of putrefying goop, but with you being the only thing that can reveal the path and not knowing what the Goop actually is, it is the safest option. You’d have liked to have a strap to put around your wrist to make sure you don’t accidentally drop your magical cane into the disgust below, but it seems the ancient wizards who built the place hadn’t thought that far ahead.

So you fly, one hand on the broom, another on the cane.

Tap, tap, tap.

Excruciatingly slowly, you make your way around the room. It’s perfectly circular, massive, and also perfectly closed, at least at the lake level. You hover above your friends once you’re done with the first lap.

“Right, I’ll start going up. All this goop must have come from somewhere, I hope.”

As you rise, following the wall, you notice the room isn’t just circular. It’s a dome, the ceiling taking you closer to the center as you go up. Each tap drops sparks over the surface, revealing no disturbances except for the eventual piece of bone floating on it.

Tap, tap, tap.

You’re almost close to what you believe to be the top of the room when you hear a sound like rushing water.

“Elliot!”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 23 Mar 2024 10:31:22 No.5958502 Report

Quoted By: >>5958507 >>5958510 >>5958529 >>5958541 >>5958726 >>5958769

>>5958500

You look down to see what looks like the sparks rising up to meet you, and realize in horror what that means. You lean forward on the broom to try to get away, but something both liquid and solid wraps around your foot and pulls you down.

You fall, screaming, bracing yourself for impact. You slam down on the surface of the liquid and get pulled under as you scramble to get your wand, the thing around your foot pulling you deeper still.

The cane is wrenched from your hands and you feel yourself being pulled in all directions, like being in the middle of a great whirlpool. You try doing something, anything, but everything is happening too fast and you can’t see. You feel as your bubblehead charm is sundered, the filth smashing against your face. Something squeezes against your chest, pressing your lungs, forcing the air out.

The goop comes in, filling your mouth, your lungs and your head. You lose consciousness, as it is better than dealing with reality.

--

In his heart of hearts, in the place of his soul he can’t look because it hurts too much to even think about it, in the crevice of his spirit where there he is nothing but a naked child screaming in horror… What is in that place? What does Elliot fear, above all else? What terrifies him beyond words?

> Death. The neverending darkness after everything, the great monster at the end of every path, unstoppable and eternal, taking everything and everyone.
> Failure. To be nothing, to amount to nothing, to struggle to reach something and discover the path lay empty, the destination a lie.
> Rejection. To be left by his friends and loved ones, to have no one, to be utterly and completely alone.
> Other (Write in)

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 23 Mar 2024 10:48:43 No.5958507 Report

Quoted By: >>5958512 >>5958535

>>5958502
>What does Elliot fear, above all else? What terrifies him beyond words?
>Death
too simple, we´ve technically "died" when the timeline got reset, so even tho he is not comfortable with it, its not something he is unfamliar with

>Rejection
i dont see a reason for him to fear rejection, he could be a loner or have been rejeted by Arty or our friends before and i could see him being a bit hurt but being able to move ahead without much problem

> Failure
this one feels like the one that should do it
we know failure will result in the end of everything, its the combination of everything that could go wrong going wrong,
failing to protect our friends, failing to save Arty, failing to be remembered by reaching our goal of finding a lost civilization, failing to save the entirety of everything in existance, failing by letting everyone down
it just fits perfectly
Elliot's biggest fear is failing

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Anonymous ID:BiNpSXpw Sat 23 Mar 2024 10:53:12 No.5958510 Report

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>>5958502
> Death. The neverending darkness after everything, the great monster at the end of every path, unstoppable and eternal, taking everything and everyone.
One more MoR bit to borrow

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Anonymous ID:UXzWzAGj Sat 23 Mar 2024 10:56:47 No.5958512 Report

Quoted By: >>5958531

>>5958507
Those are all just "fear of death" though, isn't it? Not his death, but death all the same.

I see the failure option as "not having achieved enough", on a personal level, which yes, he's afraid of, but not as much as his friends dying. It's a Slytherin feeling. His happy view was him with Arty at a thousand. Not old, but immortal.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 23 Mar 2024 11:14:49 No.5958529 Report

Quoted By: >>5958544 >>5958653 >>5958726 >>5958769

>>5958502
>Forgetting. Forgetting all our triumphs and failures. Forgetting why we're here, why we fight. Forgetting our friends. Forgetting those we care about. Forgetting Taylor. Forgetting Lily. Forgetting Arty. Becoming something less than what we are. For we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and we are nothing if we lose it all.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sat 23 Mar 2024 11:20:32 No.5958531 Report

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>>5958512
Ehh, up for interpretation i guess, i was going more for a “fear of letting everyone that counts on him down” kind of feel, something that comes from failure itself, that yes, death is an eventual and pretty much inevitable outcome, but not necessarily something thats exclusive, that can come from many many reasons, people die from good things, bad things, losing or even winning sometimes, but wether he lives or dies, failure will be there, he will be remembered for failing for the short amount of time he’ll have left if he fails, the only other option he has to save the world is success, failing to do so will only lead to the end of everything, he cannot allow himself to fail or literally everything ends
That’s what I was going for, but if anyone else has a better idea for his biggest fear I’d like to hear it, that would be an interesting topic

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 23 Mar 2024 11:42:20 No.5958535 Report

Quoted By: >>5958726

>>5958507
> Failure. To be nothing, to amount to nothing, to struggle to reach something and discover the path lay empty, the destination a lie.

Our greatest dream is to discover the Ancient places of the world, use their power to help other people like Arty, Frank, and Alice. We want that power for ourself as well but we already told our rival he could use what we found first, even if it meant it would be lost and we couldn't use it to help the girl we love. Finding out that no, they are condemned to their fates?

To fail the people he loves. To not be able to help them. To not be able to save them. To be too stupid to figure out how. To not be cunning enough to plan how to stop it if from happening. To not be brave enough, to succumb to fear and hesitate at the last moment. To find out he does not have the loyalty to stand with them at the end.

Also ice skates. Elliot hates those.

So the 4 different transmutations a philosopher's stone is supposed to require are nigredo, albedo, citrine, rubedo.

Black,white/silver, yellow, red.

Kinda mirror at least one of the color's of 4 other things. Houses that are pretty important.

>In analytical psychology, the term became a metaphor for "the dark night of the soul, when an individual confronts the shadow within."

Also the guy who got his arm cut off might be Bill Weasley. He already had his brother and grandparents die to a dark lord. Good motivation to keep another from rising. Is well connected. Harry send him a piece of the cursed silver, so he would know about it and arm less guy mentioned that as one of the reasons he knew Elliot was a Dark Lord in the making. Has the head Auror, one of his other brother who is married to the Minister to tell him the other shit. May have had the Malfoy's talk to him due to having curse breaking skills and Scorpius planning to go down there where he didn't know what would be waiting, which could let Salazar plant the idea Elliot is evil in his head. Is part of a second family to Potter so he would likely not really suspect or check on him. Not an Auror so wouldn't not show up the next day to work due to missing arm and get caught like the last 2 goons. Was a very strong wizard. Also I think he was kind of an asshole, unless that was the other brother. Percy I think.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 23 Mar 2024 12:03:45 No.5958541 Report

Quoted By: >>5958613 >>5958769

>>5958502
> Failure. To be nothing, to amount to nothing, to struggle to reach something and discover the path lay empty, the destination a lie.

>>5958217
Oh god, yeah, Apollo would absolutely go Dark if she died, too. Either kill Elliot or become his terrifying general.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 23 Mar 2024 12:09:43 No.5958544 Report

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>>5958529
This might be decent. So if it wins, good deal. We have shown worry that we could become immortal but if we were tortured to insanity like the Longbottom's it would be worthless.

We will see.

And losing the memories of Taylor and Raven/Linda. Not being able to see them in our dreams? Losing the moments we shared with Arty, the time with Apollo? Even the ones of fucking up Brighton with war crimes? Things like dementia is horrible. I have seen it more than I ever would wish to. Dementia, brain damage, strokes, Alzheimer's. Terrible things I would likely use one of my 3 wishes to get rid of

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 23 Mar 2024 14:46:09 No.5958613 Report

Quoted By: >>5958769

>>5958541
>spoiler

If it ever came down to it, I would be alright with Apollo being our dragon. I don't know if Linda would follow us on that path as well; I think so. Use our cunning to make her hurt and hate enough to follow us on our path. Have her command the armies of Darkness we would form to rip apart the wretched world which had taken our loved ones away. They would need a general. Apollo could basically be our attack dog at that point. Helga... she can't let the Merlin beast get out. Can't let us die. So at that point she would basically be a hostage, forced to help us. Unless we just reverse Salazar'd her. Did what he wanted to do to the Beast. Used something we found or gained to wrestle her to the ground, put a collar on her. Gave one of the first professor's of Hogwart's lessons until the only thing she wished for was to serve Dark Lord Hallaster forever. This is the darkest time line after all. Also gave me some ideas for writing about Helga being into consensual non-consent in the bright time lines and convincing Elliot that no, it is not cheating if it is a mind ghost and they have no body, no more than having a wet dream is. [Insert insane Barty cackle]

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Anonymous ID:n3GIgBee Sat 23 Mar 2024 16:03:30 No.5958653 Report

Quoted By: >>5958726

>>5958529
Makes sense, what with lily's fate and all. Once we forget her it'll truly be as if she never was.
+1

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 23 Mar 2024 17:58:01 No.5958726 Report

Quoted By:

>>5958653
>>5958529
>>5958502

I will go ahead and change my vote:
>>5958535

To support these.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sat 23 Mar 2024 18:48:47 No.5958769 Report

Quoted By: >>5958782

>>5958529
You know what, I'll change my vote (>>5958541) to this as well.

>>5958502
>Forgetting

>>5958613
All good and well for a non-canon fic, but if we go dark in-canon, I imagine we'll be more Grindelwald than Voldemort. We're still our parents' kid, and while I could imagine us getting increasingly violent or reckless in our methods, I simply can't imagine Elliot raping and mindbreaking Helga or slaughtering innocents to punish the world or whatever.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 23 Mar 2024 19:26:50 No.5958782 Report

Quoted By: >>5959687

>>5958769
Thank you for the valid criticism. I was trying to imagine THE darkest place he could go. The worst Elliot I could imagine. I can see him maybe going Dark for a while, if this shit goes bad and the returning to the light when he uses the stone to talk to Taylor and Arty and they tell him this isn't him. I would, thinking about it, probably have trouble writing a fanfic of him doing horrible things to Helga. I might try anyway at some point just to try and stretch out my writing muscles. This was an idea where he completely lost it. Took after what he learned from Barty. And Grindlewald is more likely, though that dude did have his follower kill the toddler of the people they had already done in and emotionally manipulated an orphan to use them to kill their uncle. He was still pretty bad, if in a different way than Voldemort.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 24 Mar 2024 15:27:44 No.5959687 Report

Quoted By: >>5959731

>>5958782
Grindelwald was less sadistic. He did bad things 'for the greater good', often dispassionately. Voldemort's potion-induced psychosis caused him to seemingly hate pretty much all living things with a passion, and his followers reveled in wanton cruelty, even having a mark and chant to celebrate their murders, and calling the spell they rally around "mother killer".

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 24 Mar 2024 16:12:40 No.5959731 Report

Quoted By: >>5959749

>>5959687
I honestly can't say which is worse. Voldemort being clinically insane and born powerful enough that people couldn't stop him after he stopped being Tom Riddle and just said fuck it, hurting for the sake of hurting. Or if Grindlewald killing so many innocent people, being sane enough to manipulate so many others to join him, and knowing what he was doing with perfect clarity. I mean, I get in the movies, they had to show how bad Grindlewald was, but which is worse? Killing, or trying at least in Harry's case, infants out of hate or having manipulated someone to do the job for you? Because it was worth it for the cause.

The one scene that stuck with me from the second fantastic beasts movie was how before having a lackey kill the toddler, Grindlewald looked the kid straight in the eyes. Took in his face, like there is something noble in remembering how the people you murdered looked.

More evil has been committed in the name of "the greater good" or some such than ever for its own sake or individual motivations. As bad as most of the rest of the movie is, that scene gave me a chill up the spine.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 24 Mar 2024 16:30:43 No.5959749 Report

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>>5959731
To expound because if I had to think of this, y'all do too.

A truly Dark Elliot would be terrifying. We are fairly charismatic. Smart. Sane. Can lie through our teeth if needed. In addition to the wizards he would recruit, he is not a racist asshole. He is muggle born. Knows both sides of the spectrum. I have no doubt he would recruit muggles to his cause. Let them know that their children didn't have to die of childhood cancer, a cure was a few potions away. That their loved ones who died in agony could have been fixed with a few spells. That the poverty they experienced could have been made less torturous, that the inequity of the world made less severe if only the magical community wasn't so conceited.

And that he would break the world to make them pay. He would reshape it into something better. That if they followed him, they live in his kinder one, he wouldn't let other people suffer like they had before.

Not a foolish Dark Lord. A one Bright and glorious as the Dawn.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Sun 24 Mar 2024 21:54:58 No.5959950 Report

Quoted By: >>5959956 >>5959962

H-headQM? where are you?
also, is it just me or has 4chan been unusually slow these last couple of days?

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Sun 24 Mar 2024 22:06:15 No.5959956 Report

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>>5959950
Sundays and Mondays are always slow. QM posted less than 48 hours ago. I wouldn't panic yet.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 24 Mar 2024 22:19:36 No.5959962 Report

Quoted By: >>5959988

>>5959950
Worry not, anon, I live still. Just a particularly difficult part to write, coupled with a lot of things going on in life makes for a long time between updates. Hopefully I should be able to finish it today, though no guarantees, unfortunately.

I'm four interviews deep in two job selections with two more to go on each, so I'm working on that front and writing when I have the time and need to unwind. (why do interviewing process take so ridiculously long, I don't know, but it is making me want to slap someone)

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 24 Mar 2024 23:02:20 No.5959988 Report

Quoted By: >>5960603

>>5959962
I hope your interviews go well and the life situation is okay.

For one job in the past, it took almost 6 weeks for them to tell me I got it after the phone and IRL interview. In a different one, the department manager told me at the end of it he was just canceling the other applicants appointments and hired me on the spot; I was at that job the next Monday. So IDK, it is weird.

Don't try and push yourself to much so a bunch of Randos can read a quest. Or do, I am not your supervisor.

I am also a liar, said I wouldn't work on another fanfic for a while but I got a long weekend and after USPSA, cleaning, meal prep, garden stuff, some Helldivers 2, and visiting a couple of people, I ran out of shit to do so I pounded another out because I am so fond of the characters you created and write. Also day drinking may have been involved. Should be edited by tonight

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery they say.

But anyone thanks for the hard work HeadQM.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 25 Mar 2024 03:34:11 No.5960155 Report

Quoted By: >>5960162

https://rentry.org/9bkp95x7

Here yall go more angst mixed with a touch of sexual implications, stupid teen romance and Arty being best girl because I was bored and most of my friends are busy right now. Also was drinking during writing like, 60% of it. I recommend the pdf attached as it preserves the formatting and I like italics some times.

Not really a lewd fic because I have trouble writing those scenes and I wanted this done by today.

Once again QM, thank you for making characters engaging enough to motivate me to write about them in an alt-universe.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 25 Mar 2024 03:48:36 No.5960162 Report

Quoted By: >>5960195

>>5960155
finally, another PDF, your past small fics werent able to be saved as PDF´s for some reason
now i can add another properly formated fic to my collection

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 25 Mar 2024 04:30:51 No.5960195 Report

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>>5960162
I can re post them, I was just lazy and didn't want to convert them. Give me a second for the other. Cooldown on the thing I am using to convert them.

When the quest begins to wind down I was going to post them all somewhere as like a zip or something. And maybe give them real title vs just some file name that is easy to remember.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Mon 25 Mar 2024 07:24:13 No.5960273 Report

Quoted By: >>5960304 >>5960603

ok, i was going to work on the movie poster thingy, but i realized we dont have a detailed description of Helga, i know i can find images of her in google, but im aware that "our "Helga is a bit different from the "canon" or "last seen and known" version of Helga, but other than a few little basic descriptions, im not sure what to do with her, any ideas? or should i just go with "Helga but younger and hot"?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 25 Mar 2024 09:43:13 No.5960304 Report

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>>5960273
Helga younger and hot sounds decent to me personally. Apparently thicc in a good way, super pretty/kind blue eyes. Pretty big knockers. Taller than Elliot by some, had relatively long hair as Faith and I feel like that probably didn't change. For the outfit, Faith was described as being in an ancient version of auror gear which I have no clue what would look like. But she can conjure items so she could be wearing what ever as long as it is practical enough to fight the Merlin-Beast.

Of course this is just my interpretation which is probably way off.

Hell giving her a Mega Milk or Mommy Milkers shirt would be funny.

I was going to try and get some sleep but I had an odd dream and woke up so now I decided to work on a 100% wont ever happen in the quest fic where Crouch gets a real wand, blocks Apparation/floo/portkey, flexing his skill and makes Arty and Elliot fight him to the death. Haven't decided if it will end with Elliot forced to use AK when he gets a hold of Arty and uses the thing where the tip of his wand turns in to something that can cut and starts slowly slitting our little Hufflepuff's throat while she cries, begging him to stop, or have Elliot and her tag team him super hard and blast him off the rock into the ocean in case I ever want to do another fic with him; no body=not dead.

Thank you for your work on the poster. It is going to rock.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 25 Mar 2024 19:52:41 No.5960603 Report

Quoted By: >>5960604 >>5960728

>>5959988
> I hope your interviews go well and the life situation is okay.
Going well so far, and life is fine, thanks for asking! I have enough reserves to stay a decent time without a job, so that is not an issue. Just need to get myself back on the market before the skills get too rusty and the reserves get too low to make me worry.

And I'm behind on reading your fics, anon, but I'll get to them! Know that I treasure each one of them!

>>5960273
She looks fairly like her paintings, but younger, around 17 (the wizard’s “adult” age). She wears ancient battle gear, so basically a leather armor to defend against shrapnel, armguards with metal coverings so you could hold off a beast with one arm while casting a spell with the other, metal-soled boots for kicking the shit out of people who were too close for comfort.

While there were such things as full-plate, they were usually used by muggle or less skilled servants of high nobles, or to fight certain types of creatures. At the level the founders fought in, heavy armor only slowed them down and didn’t offer too much protection, as most powerful spells would go through most armors and other enchantments wer more effective. This led to basically light-armor on the body to allow high mobility, plus bits of heavy at key points to allow strategic defense/offense against anyone or anything that got too close.

--

You are in a vast dark space. You stand upon a surface of water which reflects you even though there is no discernable light source. You turn, looking around this unfamiliar place, searching for something, anything.

“Arty!?” You shout. “Linda! Apollo! Brighton!... Helga?”

Your voice goes on into the darkness unheard.

Then, something appears. It’s not an image, not really. It’s a place. It’s a house. It’s you, maybe two years old with an enormous tome in your hands, trying to use your little brain to understand what were the little black squiggles your parents found so interesting. Your mom sees you and you try pretending you weren’t doing anything, but she picks you up, puts you on her lap and starts teaching you the letters and the syllables.

The memory floats around you like a mote of light and happiness. Then more lights show up. Your first day of muggle school, holding on to your father’s legs because you don’t want to go. Making muggle friends. School days. Learning about chemistry and being entranced by it. Your dad telling you about the pyramids, and you being amazed by it. Playing a video game for the first time, struggling with the controls. Slowly learning how to use the internet. Accidentally downloading a virus when trying to pirate a movie. Growing up.

Learning you are a wizard. Going to the Diagon Alley for the first time, seeing magic for the first time. Getting your hands on your wand and seeing sparks fly from its tip, doing magic by yourself.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 25 Mar 2024 19:53:42 No.5960604 Report

Quoted By: >>5960605

>>5960603

Searching for Platform 9 3⁄4 and being utterly lost. Being helped by a nice Indian couple and their son. Having to enter the train to Hogwarts knowing that you wouldn’t see your parents for months. Entering Hogwarts, seeing it in its awe-inspiring glory and wanting more than anything else to know how that ceiling that looked like the sky worked. Hearing someone say the spell had been lost long ago and deciding that you’d be the one to rediscover it. Seeing the boy who helped you being sorted into Slytherin and looking a bit disappointed.

Deciding that Slytherin was as good a house as any, and that if the ceiling spell was lost then the Blue House of Books wouldn’t help you, but cunning people would. And that if you went to Slytherin, maybe you could try cheering the boy up, too.

Meeting the most interesting looking girl in your first class, pale like death, and immediately forgetting about her as the teacher spoke on and on about all the wonderful things potions could do.

Befriending the boy and the girl. Learning about the magical world. Learning about spells and enchantments. Meeting the fabled Boy-who-lived. Hearing about quidditch and thinking it was the most insane thing you had ever heard. Getting tripped over by that boy in Ravenclaw who thought he was something special just because his dad worked there.

Learning how to defend yourself. Learning about the Philosopher’s Stone, the Interdict of Merlin. Learning about the patronus and failing to cast it. Having friends who pulled you out of the dark place it put you in. The many, many classes, the long afternoons studying together and the nights watching the stars. The friendship and camaraderie.

Reaching your sixth year. Thinking Lily Potter wanted something with you. Discovering that Hogwarts had all but forgotten about you. Meeting Arty. All the days spent trying to figure out how to save the world. Chasing a star, delving into the depths of the school, fighting ancient creatures.

Discovering that Lily Potter had been long dead. Seeing Taylor die. The torture at the hands of the Beast.

Seeing the whole Castle, feeling it in your veins through the Ancient Magic.

Last Light, the Fifth Founder. The Mirror. Kissing Arty. Befriending Apollo. All your victories and losses in Battle Class. The highs and the lows. As if all your days were being listed in thousands of points of light.

You watch, almost afraid of touching it.

One of the lights winks out. Then another. And another, like stars disappearing from the night sky. And you feel them vanish, not only from this space, but from you. You feel yourself forgetting them, you feel them leave a hole in your mind, the space they held empty.

“What? No. No!”

You reach out towards them and they fly away, just out of your grasp. You try to remember, you try to hold them in your mind but they slip away, gone the moment they go dark.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 25 Mar 2024 19:54:48 No.5960605 Report

Quoted By: >>5960606

>>5960604

“No, I- I can remember them! It- it was…” You try to remember what you just saw in that mote of light, but your brain just has nothing. Slipping, slipping, each of them going dark, your mind going dark, more and more, a cancer, growing and festering, the darkness spreading. The horror inside you grows as you can’t do anything, your wand gone, and you- you try making new memories, your wand it- it was- it was-

More wink out as you fall into a spiral with no way of stopping. There were people, there were friends, their names, what were their names, you can’t remember their names, you remember their faces, you remember their faces, you remember Arty, you remember her face, you have to, you, you need to remember. You hold the sides of your head as you scream, not in pain but terror as you fight this force ravaging inside of you. It’s gone, it’s gone. There was a someone, someone you knew, someone you loved, and her name, what was her name, she was- she was somewhere, she worked somewhere, somewhere, in a village, what- where- near a school- what- school- where- there were houses, there were four, or was it three, and a castle, and there were teachers and classes but what were they about, what were they about, why were you there, you couldn’t remember, you couldn’t remember. You drop to the floor, clutching your hair, there was a train, a train to where, a train from where, there was no train, there had never been a train, what was even a train, the station without name, without number, without no one, but there were people waiting for you there, there to take you to a house, where was the house, a house needed a city but there was no city, no country, there was only a house, a house and a family, no, please don’t take them too, not them, but the house was empty and you can’t remember their names, you can’t remember their faces, there was no one in the house, the house was empty, there was no house, there was only a bedroom, there was only a bed, there was only…

Nothing.

There was nothing.

Nothing but loss.

Nothing but despair.

Nothing but horror.

Nothing but darkness around you.

Nothing but the certainty that you have lost something precious. Everything you ever held dear. You know, you know there was so much, there was so much there, and now it is empty. You cry, you cry, because you are alone, you have always been alone.

You cry because there is nothing else to do.

Because there are no words to say. If there had ever been words, you don’t remember them.

You hug yourself, because there is no one else to hug. You rock yourself because there is no one else to do so. There is nothing else.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 25 Mar 2024 19:55:50 No.5960606 Report

Quoted By: >>5960615 >>5960616 >>5960619 >>5960728 >>5961836

>>5960605

A long time of nothing and sorrow passes.

And then… a tiny mote of light. A final memory, the one that once shone the brightest, the one you treasured the most. It is nothing but a glimmer, almost fading. It gently falls towards you, and you simply hold your palm open, holding your breath as if to not scare it away.

Softly, ever so softly, it lands on the tip of your fingers.

What is that memory? What does Elliot hold most dear? What memory would he hold above all others, if only one memory is to survive?

> Your first successful potion, the time you realized how much you could achieve with them
> The first Christmas back from Hogwarts, seeing your parents had waited you to decorate the tree
> Your first kiss with Arty, having both proclaimed your love for each other
> Celebrating your first victory in Battle Class with your army, being surrounded by those who respected and admired you
> Other (Write in. Doesn’t need to be a moment that happened on screen, it can be something from before the quest even started)

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Mon 25 Mar 2024 20:16:08 No.5960615 Report

Quoted By: >>5960619 >>5960662 >>5960728 >>5961836 >>5962601

>>5960606
ooooh i see what you are doing here HeadQM, clever way of pulling it off, i see you
>Other:
>Being told a fantasy story by mom and dad when we were young, a story about hidden, impossible places, of adventures and secrets and how the world is way bigger that we tought it could possibly be. Sharing the excitment with your family of wanting to discover it all and explore the world, discovering our sense of adventure and curiosity with our family.
this should fit nicely with our current goals and personality as well as working as a nice foundation for our back story and motivation
Patronus incoming!

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Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Mon 25 Mar 2024 20:16:24 No.5960616 Report

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>>5960606
> Other
The moment we saw mysteries that even magic couldn't solve.
The nature of our drive to go to hidden places known by nobody and bring treasures beyond the interdict
The same reason we got so into potions
The ability to explore the unknown and share it with those we care about

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Mon 25 Mar 2024 20:18:23 No.5960619 Report

Quoted By: >>5960662 >>5960728

>>5960615
+1

>>5960606
Kino writing, QM. Really felt the creeping dread of losing one's mind.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Mon 25 Mar 2024 21:46:03 No.5960662 Report

Quoted By: >>5960728

>>5960615
Support.

>>5960619
QM knows how to pull those emotions, that's for sure. I love it.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 25 Mar 2024 22:46:24 No.5960728 Report

Quoted By:

>>5960606
>>5960615

Sure ill support that. A very old, core memory that set us on our path is probably better than the Arty one, just because she is new and while she is like 30% of why I love this quest, something that made us who we are is more appropriate for the one thing that saves us. What can banish the dark. After all, with out that one memory we wouldn't be the person she fell in love with would we? The weird boy who put his foot and the table and talked confidently of exploration, Atlantis, the fantastic things that could happen and were out there just waiting.

>>5960619
>>5960662
It was pretty chilling. As I said losing your memories, your self is one of the worst thing I have seen in the medical field.

>>5960603
I'm glad to hear that, I am just doing a PRN gig now which works because I am boring and saved a decent amount over the last few years; very liberating to do this for a while and just pick up shifts if I feel like it. And while you checking them out makes me happy, please don't feel obliged to. I write these for my own benefit as much as anything else; thinking about character interactions interDicktions, too, hue or what might have happened with events not directly relevant to the quest, like Riley possibly having a pure and wholesome V-day with her crush might be like is fun for me.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 00:10:57 No.5960775 Report

Quoted By: >>5960776 >>5960800 >>5960870

So if the Fantasy novel/story wins, any one have a good suggestion for which one it should be.I am having trouble thinking of much.

The Hobbit is about reclaiming lost thing, places lost to time and circumstances, fighting through adversity, how cleverness and skill can over come impossible foes to a good degree I suppose. Bilbo didn't get the One Ring by beating up Gollum after all.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 26 Mar 2024 00:13:45 No.5960776 Report

Quoted By: >>5960786

>>5960775
makes sense! Elliot quoting TLOTR is canon in the story

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 00:25:08 No.5960786 Report

Quoted By:

>>5960776
Amalia and Talon asking what an Anduriel or a Tolkien was gave me a fucking chuckle as well as the story about Lee which we used to tell Amalia to shoot him in the back was a fun little Easter egg for sure. The Hobbit is a children's novel so having his parents read it to him could fit. And the entire LoTR series has the idea that good WILL triumph over evil due to acts of good men. IDK, first time I could come up with.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Tue 26 Mar 2024 00:39:25 No.5960800 Report

Quoted By: >>5960902

>>5960775
Percy Jackson would make sense, too, but would such a series even exist in a world without Harry Potter?

Kek, imagine if it was somehow Charlie Bone we were into? If Jenny Nimmo's Harry Potter knockoff is actually super popular in the HP universe, with Nimmo achieving Rowling's acclaim in Rowling's place?

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Tue 26 Mar 2024 02:19:13 No.5960870 Report

Quoted By: >>5960902

>>5960775
The LOTR or Hobbit would be nice. I wonder which part would be best? Finding the way into The Mountain? Or maybe when Bilbo at last returns home?

Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 03:22:10 No.5960902 Report

Quoted By: >>5960952 >>5960987

>>5960800
>spoiler

Kek. That would be funny never read those and I only saw the Percy Jackson movie, so I know little about that one. I guess we are a quest...

>>5960870
Gonna have to defer to othere on that part. Ive read the hobbit quite over a few times over the years but not LotR since like highschool. Which I would have graduated before the main cast except maybe Lily were even born. Fuck that is depressing.

Maybe them sing Far over the misty mountain when at that part of the book?

Far over the Misty Mountains cold,
To dungeons deep and caverns old,
We must away, ere break of day,
To seek our pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells,
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught,
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, on twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Old places? Ancient lost legacies, might works of creation. Sound like our boy.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Tue 26 Mar 2024 04:24:00 No.5960952 Report

Quoted By: >>5960987

>>5960902
Oh I know, the Song of Durin might do it, quite topical with Avalon and all.

The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.

The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Durin's Day.

A king he was on carven throne
In many-pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
The light of sun and star and moon
In shining lamps of crystal hewn
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
There shone for ever fair and bright.

There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
The delver mined, the mason built.
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
And metal wrought like fishes' mail,
Buckler and corslet, axe and sword,
And shining spears were laid in hoard.

Unwearied then were Durin's folk;
Beneath the mountains music woke:
The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
And at the gates the trumpets rang.

The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere;
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:09:40 No.5960987 Report

Quoted By: >>5960993 >>5960998 >>5961001 >>5961005

>>5960952
That one is pretty good along with mine
>>5960902

It does seem pretty fucking appropriate, given what we think about Atlantis and Merlin. Or at least some of us have posited.

I do think he is the last Atlantean, or the last spirit of the last one not erased by time, possibly their king, and destroyed Atlantis himself. Made the Interedict when he found the appropriate materials so he could rule forever in the future, when wizard kind had no power, no one capable of using Ancient magic or the old spells he knew.

Or Lailoken, Merlin in a wig, said he had the spirit of Atlantis in him because he WAS Atlantis. He engineered a ritual to sacrifice every other one to gather all thier poer, knowlege, skills, souls into a single spirit wo become wizard god using the 2 cups and a grand ritual. We know QM like FMA, and thats how philosophers stones were created in that show. How Holenhiem became immortal, what the big bad was planning on to doing on and entire country. What happened to a entire people in the far past.

>Despite having had a remarkably advanced society for their era, the entire population of Xerxes mysteriously vanished, and was left behind only in the fragmented legends of neighboring countries.

>desperate king to construct an array that would encompass all of Xerxes and use all the people's souls to create a source of immortality.

Hmmmmm.

Sound familiar?

1ing on sacrificing an entire county... hmmmmm.

That last stanza does make me think of the world under the Interdict and Merlin possibly being resurrected, even if Durin is a "good guy" and Merlin seems like monstrous asshole at best and the true villain of the quest at worst.

Maybe Elliot's parents are both pretty good singers or at least his dad, and were theatrical and belted those kind of parts out to young Elliot's delight. Pretty happy memory there. If this is when we get our Patronus, what would yall choose, assuming QM doesn't choose an appropriate one. I thank a badger would be funny, considering you know, Arty and us.

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Anonymous ID:a2kqsEwJ Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:19:29 No.5960993 Report

Quoted By: >>5960999

>>5960987
Reeve's pheasant. Or a Thestral.

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:22:10 No.5960998 Report

Quoted By: >>5961014

>>5960987
I'm still fond of it being something like a Tasmanian tiger or, perhaps more appropriately to the region, a phantom cat.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:22:34 No.5960999 Report

Quoted By: >>5961003

>>5960993
>Reeve's pheasant.

Any reason why. I mean it looks cool but it is just a fat bird. Thestral would be alright.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:23:41 No.5961001 Report

Quoted By: >>5961002 >>5961014

>>5960987
>last spoiler
here is a CRAZY IDEA
given that we are what i would call a "one of a kind wizard in a one of a kind situation", what if we get a unique one of a kind patronus?

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:25:42 No.5961002 Report

Quoted By: >>5961014 >>5961029

>>5961001
or maybe its offspring

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Anonymous ID:a2kqsEwJ Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:26:34 No.5961003 Report

Quoted By: >>5961014

>>5960999
I like it. Its tail looks like snakes. Birds are the best patronus fodder I say.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:29:55 No.5961005 Report

Quoted By: >>5961021

>>5960987
Phoenix would be cool. Would also piss off Potter too, lmao.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:38:21 No.5961014 Report

Quoted By: >>5961051

>>5960998
I like cats so that would be pretty alright. Or fuck, go big or go home. A wampus cat. It would be funny say fuck to shoot it off to someone to make them pee themselves. Imagine, if you will a giant 6 legged mountain lion popping next to you suddenly and roaring out, "BE NOT AFRAID1". Hahaha.

>>5961001
>>5961002
>>5961003

Given the creatures exist, I could almost guarantee those fuckers are real in this world.

Pretty good. Id support it. Especially if it is derpy looking but can eat your face and inject you with lethal venom at the same time... Harmless looking like Elliot but don't piss it off. I had a similar though when I asked the question but badger with snake tail, chimera style. DESU, I just though people would think it was dumb. Apparently not.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:45:28 No.5961021 Report

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>>5961005
Well, pheonixes are close to immortal and that is one of our big things so that would be appropriate. And since I feel like patronus' are supposed th reflect part of you and the only appear before those with good hearts, it might also get us some breathing room with the who going to end the world thing.

And I can get behind anything that pisses Harry off.

Honestly all these ideas are great I think.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 06:13:43 No.5961029 Report

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>>5961002
I just had a hilarious idea for some art if you ever need a break from the poster o do another: Potter looking disheveled and crazy smoking a dart in front of a conspiracy theory board with Elliots shit on it, especially if we do get a phoenix patronus, which will make him go insane since Dumbledor had one, his tomb was raided, and we can suddenly cast it.

There is the Charlie meme image already so it could just be traced over like you did with the other.

Thousand or scars on arm-----Thousands of horcruxses----how many murders?

Cant remember him---obliviated?---Imperio'd to change security enchantments for him before?

No responce to gun---bullet proof?

Best friend "dead"--- spider in woods---ritual to make him not show up?---Taylor secret animagus?

Goblin metal corruped--- Fawkes helping him--- tranfered evil to metal to trick me?

Raven Everdark--- summoning--- unseelie fey?--- Elliot is a summoned fey, wont show up---Raven is the master mind?---

Raven is not Linda---secret twin?

Battle training--- trains Hufflepuffs--- dating hufflepuff--- secret Hufflepuff army?

Secretly Salazar Slytherin?

Dating Arty--- Brother strongest student--- corrupting him to serve Elliot?

Spiders--- so many spiders in my vents--- serve him?--- arachnid mouth?--- spider in human suit?

Insane shit like that.

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Anonymous ID:fVad9/e/ Tue 26 Mar 2024 06:53:05 No.5961051 Report

Quoted By: >>5961058 >>5961184

>>5961014
>chimera snake and badger combo
yes please, i SOOOOOO want that, given how Elliot is pretty much half snake and half badger having a patronus thats literally a snake wrapped around a badger would be not inly hilarious but stupidly fitting, Elliot is weird, makes sense even his patronus would be weird, who cares if its 2 animals in one, im calling for "the rule of cool" here

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 07:05:02 No.5961058 Report

Quoted By: >>5961091

>>5961051
I will probably support this idea, if that is what is really going to happen, him learning to cast a patronus and we get a choice. If it doesn't get enough support a phoenix is fine too, just to fuck with Potter and trigger paranoia due to us having the same as the guy who's grave we just robbed.

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Anonymous ID:EOUd5KTp Tue 26 Mar 2024 07:33:33 No.5961074 Report

Quoted By: >>5961075

test
i swear, if the range ban i just got affects this board too...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:EOUd5KTp Tue 26 Mar 2024 07:35:16 No.5961075 Report

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>>5961074
ooh thanks god, it didnt, just for clarity, im the drawfag, i dont know why this shit keeps happening but this one will seemed to be my new ip...and for some reason every ip i've gotten is pink, whats up with that? i thought it was randomized

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Tue 26 Mar 2024 07:50:58 No.5961082 Report

Quoted By:

second and last test, sorry.

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Tue 26 Mar 2024 08:18:47 No.5961091 Report

Quoted By:

>>5961058
oh yeah, we went a little overboard with this whole patronus thing yet it isnt even confirmed, i mean, we "know" its coming, but we dont even know if HeadQM will do it right now or if its even gonna be casted for voting
guess that shows how fun this quest is

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Tue 26 Mar 2024 12:13:39 No.5961184 Report

Quoted By: >>5961249

>>5961051
Eh, I dunno. Snake and badger combo patronus is a little too silly for me, personally. I think it'd be better off as the official mascot of The Raiders.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 15:24:02 No.5961249 Report

Quoted By:

>>5961184
I mean Elliot is pretty silly. Top hat, monocle, mustache...I think he had a cane one time or that might have been Ellend. We can be serious business mode too, obviously, but he is a dork. A very dangerous dork given our battle skills and potion making, but a dork.

He that also makes it kinda work. He can maul you in a fight or use a poison on you that will kill you in a minute. Heh. Snager boy.

If it doesn't win, if we get one even, not like I would be upset.

I also had a thought. This isn't where WE get a patronus but where Arty does. So while we are holding on to our last happy memory, she panics, immediately tries to cast it despite knowing she can't and a tiny silver bunny hope down to save us. Unlikely but I like to consider all possibilities. Also maybe a bit thematically appropriate; we you are drowning in darkness, losing your self, it is the people you love that save you.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 15:38:04 No.5961254 Report

Quoted By: >>5961263

Oh yeah and the 4 trials we are going to beat, as well from keeping interlopes away, are 100% a way for Merlin to create a new host to transfer his ghost into. This one kills the sacrifice's soul; it destroys it with their worst fears. Albedo, the next one we will face allows Merlin to purify the husk, changing its appearance and body how he wished. Citrine instills magical potential and the power to use ancient magic. The final step, rubedo, allows him to put his spirit in his new body. And when he ends up in Avalon? His place of healing is where he can safely recover till his integration has finished, since others would be kept out by the trials. The door is still open after all. Don't want some one to follow you in and gank you while you aren't at 100 percent.

Go check out the wiki articles on the steps.

That or it does literally use the same steps to create an actual magic rock or elixir out of the second part.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 26 Mar 2024 15:55:11 No.5961263 Report

Quoted By:

>>5961254
Because the thoughts keep coming, the next two steps MIGHT be able to help Arty of her body and magical issues, if we can harness them and I am right. I don't feel great sending her in for those trials, but maybe if we don't have to destroy this place? Maybe on the way out if she doesn't die when we throw down with Malfoy..

If likewise, if my idea is right, and we can't do it on the way out and the place gets sealed up when Potter gets here, we could maybe in the future when he finds out Elliot was right about fucking every thing and that he should have trusted him, we could borrow the Hallows and research the place till we could do it safely.

The process could also be used to make Helga her own body, as long as she is cool with sacrificing someone. Find someone who is about to die and would volunteer.

The 3rd step might make Elliot himself able to use Ancient Magic ourselves.

I will shut up for a while now.

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Anonymous ID:eQpjqcR4 Wed 27 Mar 2024 05:19:36 No.5961796 Report

Quoted By: >>5961821 >>5962345 >>5965888

If the QM or players are interested at all interested, I'd like to cordially invite you to to participate in that greatest of /qst/ community events, the official crossover husbando/waifu (or king & queen) contest! With so many passionate and artistic players, I'm sure you folks would have a grand old time!

Taking nominees now, and for the next five days.

>>5961634

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Wed 27 Mar 2024 05:35:00 No.5961808 Report

Quoted By: >>5961810 >>5962345

huh, now this is interesting, what do you say fellas? do we nominate Arty or Elliot?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Wed 27 Mar 2024 05:36:12 No.5961810 Report

Quoted By: >>5961813 >>5962345

>>5961808
Why not both?
>maximum of one character per tourney for any given quest; you can have one Queen entered and one King entered, but not two Queens or Kings

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Wed 27 Mar 2024 05:40:16 No.5961813 Report

Quoted By: >>5961816 >>5961821

>>5961810
>nominate the power couple to rule all of /qst/
i like how you think anon, guess i´ll have to get moving with the drawings

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Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Wed 27 Mar 2024 05:41:31 No.5961816 Report

Quoted By: >>5961821 >>5961969 >>5962345

>>5961813
Elliot has art, at least. Same artist even as the OP in this tourney.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 27 Mar 2024 05:53:32 No.5961821 Report

Quoted By:

>>5961796
I don't normally do stuff like this but... yeah if someone can get some art of Arty I would definitely vote for our favorite adorkable snake and badger as king and queen. Just given popularity, I feel like the couple from StV have a strong chance of winning but, he who knows? I wonder if posting one of the lewdish fics I wrote could score some votes?

>>5961816
So we could at least enter him even if Arty has to sit out. Awesome.

>>5961813
Work harder art-slave! Thank you for the hard work so far.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cHx7OxlI Wed 27 Mar 2024 06:24:10 No.5961836 Report

Quoted By:

>>5960615
Kino.
>support
>>5960606

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Wed 27 Mar 2024 10:59:07 No.5961932 Report

Quoted By: >>5961969 >>5962365

ok, other than a few fixes i´ll make to Arty in the future, the sketch phase is done, now is when the lineart gets defined, adding rudimentary shades for future reference.
Sadly, my idea of adding Salazar and Helga had to be scrapped for now, Salazar is just too abstract at the moment (i tried with some AI stuff and it did gave interesting results, but i refuse to include AI in this piece) and Helga is most likely to be added, but that will depend on the background i´ll add at the end
for now, this is what i´ve got, its not big progress but it should be clearer
also, oh my god, fuck hands

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 27 Mar 2024 13:20:27 No.5961969 Report

Quoted By: >>5962275

>>5961932

I'm loving it bro. Elliot looks awesome, very cute but handsome. Arty is still just tiny and adorable with her little arms and hands up. I dig her face a lot btw. Nice big wide eyes and a cute smile. Adorable but clearly pretty; how she does look young, younger than the other characters. I like what you ended up doing with TayTay's hair, and Linda's deadpan kinda stare.

When you add color, what tone are you going for with Arty's hair? Auburn has a lot of different tones that fall under it. I don't know if I have happened across one that matches my personal idea of it perfectly when I look for reference characters who are similar to her description. My pic here
>>5947697
Is pretty close to how I imagine it to be just more brown.

Very strong work and even though its a WIP, it is still going in the DH folder, right beside Elliot being a dork in
>>5961816
"the spiders" comic, and the tegaki of us burning a cross.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 27 Mar 2024 22:29:26 No.5962275 Report

Quoted By: >>5962283 >>5962327 >>5962365

>>5961969
glad you are liking it so much, i still want to do many other scenes after im done with this, like the one when Arty quits battle classes or when Arty and Elliot slept together in the room of requirement
>what tone are you going for with Arty's hair?
kinda hard to tell honestly, the few tines that the hair has been mentioned before it has always been described as "auburn", prior to that i had no idea that was even a word, so when i looked it up, i found a lot of range in the colors, but i believe HeadQM ONCE mentioned a red hue when talking about it, so unless im misremembering, i think i´ll make the hair a deep brown with red, kinda like the color of a redwood tree trunk, but i´ll get to that when i get to that

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Wed 27 Mar 2024 22:33:36 No.5962283 Report

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>>5962275
Character sheet says Auburn.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 27 Mar 2024 23:28:46 No.5962327 Report

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>>5962275
Yeah. I mean I have a shade of auburn IRL and it varies from dark red-brown it its been a day since I showered or have product in to having blond highlights in it if I just washed it.

Some tone of deeper brown red sounds about right to me though. Kinda funny Apollo and her have such different hair colors. Maybe like picrel?

Had a couple of funny thoughts at work. If we fix Arty, is she going to get a massive growth spurt and Elliot will need to stand on his tip toes to kiss her by the time she graduates?

Also an alternate timeline where she got most of the magic power in the womb and is like a mama bear/onee-san to a cute tiny Apollo. Hah.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 27 Mar 2024 23:48:47 No.5962345 Report

Quoted By: >>5962365

>>5961796
>>5961808
>>5961810
>>5961816

Also, yall want me to go ahead and nominate Elliot for King of Qst or wait to put Arty in at the same time when Art-anon gets a pic done, so one his "likes" can be her and it makes sense to people who don't read this quest? A cute couple might get more votes it is put in together.

I can type up the nomination sheet stuff unless HeadQM wants to or one of yall think you could put it more eloquently.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 28 Mar 2024 00:08:06 No.5962365 Report

Quoted By: >>5962400

>>5961932
This is looking awesome, anon!

>>5962275
>hair a deep brown with red
The idea is a dark brown with a touch of red. Not enough to be anywhere close to the Weasley's stop-sign red, but definitely significant.

>>5962345
Not sure if we'll be able to get Arty in there as there isn't much more time to nominate people and it requires at least one piece of art, which she doesn't have (unless the draw-anon rushes it, but I don't want to put pressure in him to spend his time drawing for a silly quest). If he manages to get it done by then, great! If not, then that's not a problem.

As for Elliot, I'll start writing his nomination once I'm done with the next update.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 00:47:58 No.5962400 Report

Quoted By:

>>5962365
>As for Elliot, I'll start writing his nomination once I'm done with the next update.

Nice. Yeah, maybe just some line work on the movie poster could do it if he has time. She IS cute in that pic, just the other stuff out. If not oh well, always next year for best girl to be proven democratically a best.

Looking forward to the update boss, been a long one today.

RQM !!UCDxn1yqtzR

RQM !!UCDxn1yqtzR ID:b+s8oWQO Thu 28 Mar 2024 00:52:38 No.5962403 Report

Quoted By: >>5962409

Lineart counts!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 01:06:18 No.5962409 Report

Quoted By:

>>5962403

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Thu 28 Mar 2024 02:00:45 No.5962442 Report

Quoted By: >>5962486

i´ll try to put out a different piece tonight, something good enough to show off both Arty and Elliot, should i do them together or seperately?
any recommendations? any specific pose or way in wich i should draw them?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 02:46:39 No.5962486 Report

Quoted By: >>5962601

>>5962442
When I was thinking about commissioning a pic, I was going to request like mid chest up, back to back, side profile view with the character looking slightly up. Might be quicker thank full body.

Otherwise them side by side holding hands with wands raised would be good I think.

Maybe chest up like # 1 but turned like 1/4 toward each other? Idk, even when I did art a long time ago, people and faces were not my thing.

I am sure what ever you put out will be good because of how nice the movie poster is looking.

The hero we don't deserve.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 28 Mar 2024 06:38:21 No.5962601 Report

Quoted By: >>5962602 >>5965540

>>5962486
A Mr. & Mrs Smith sort of movie poster, but with wands instead of guns? I dig that.

>>5960615
I will shit you not, the moment you began talking about a story being read I thought about The Hobbit and the Song of Durin specifically. Clamavi De Profundis has a cool version, but I’ve always been fonder of Colin Rudd’s version. In my mind, this is the version Elliot’s dad sings, though in a slower pace.

For everything else, you can consider him playing and singing home-made versions of Peter Jackson's tunes, with Concerning Hobbits at the start. “That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates” and “Misty Mountains” would probably be from The Hobbit Movies, since they came out in (here we go feeling old again) 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_3mlOPnGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7isbUQxgbdo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ymgFyzbDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pISzxdEgDCU

--

“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit,” the faceless woman says. You are in her lap, her arms around you and hands holding a book that seems worn and old. A faceless man is sitting on an armchair nearby fiddling with a hollow shape of wood with metal strings from where a jaunty tune comes, the fire roaring in a stone-like attachment on the wall. “Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, oh no, no, no! Nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat, Elliot. No, this was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

Her voice is soothing, and calm, but rises up when the moment of the story requires. She tells you about the tiny man living under the Hill, of the old wizard that came to visit, and then the dwarves who showed up in the next morning. And the dwarves ate and ate, and then it was time to clean up, and they took upon themselves to do so. And, as Bilbo ran around asking them to be careful, the man by the fireplace plucked the strings of the object and sang, music filling the room. And he sang the song the dwarves sang in the story, and as he did, the woman clapped and bumped you up and down on her leg with the cheerful and playful rhythm.

“That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates! So, carefully! carefully with the plates!”

You two clap excitedly at him as he nods in your direction, and she continues with the story. When the dwarves sing of their lost mountain, the man sings once again, this time slower and more sorrowful, and she simply gently rocks with you from one side to the other with the gentle rhythm. But the sadness of the dwarves ends, and they plan. For, you see, they wished to retake their mountain, which had been taken by a dragon! A dragon who slept on a pile of ancient treasures, of gems and jewels, of riches too great to be imagined.

And the dwarves talk and talk, and the night ends, and Bilbo, the small hobbit who lived in Hobbiton, goes to sleep.

[Cont.]

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 28 Mar 2024 06:39:22 No.5962602 Report

Quoted By: >>5962603

>>5962601

And you know enough of letters to see where there are songs in the pages, even if you take too long to read them, so you know there is no song at that point. But the man begins singing again.

“The world was young, the mountains green, no stain yet on the Moon was seen,” he sings with enthusiasm, and his words paint pictures in your mind. “No words were laid on stream or stone, when Durin woke and walked alone.”

He sings names that by themselves create great views, speaks of ancient times and lost kingdoms, of seas you had never and would never see, cities you could never visit. And then the music shifts. It becomes tired, longing, defeated.

“The world is grey, the mountains old, the forge's fire is ashen-cold. No harp is wrung, no hammer falls, the darkness dwells in Durin's halls.The shadow lies upon his tomb, in Moria, in Khazad-dûm.” And then, even when the voice seems to give up, it rises. Not above what it was before, but hopeful. Certain. As if its words were not possibility, but inevitable. “But still the sunken stars appear, in dark and windless Mirrormere. There lies his crown in water deep, till Durin wakes again from sleep.”

The woman claps, but you’re too lost in the images in your head to do so.

“Been a while since you sang like that,” she says as he puts the guitar away.

“Only do it when it’s important.”

“Really? Because the last time I remember you doing that was on a random beach by a fire.”

“It got me you, didn’t it?” He asks with a grin.

“That it did.”

“Then it was important.” Your dad goes around the chair she’s sitting on and wraps his arms around both of you, kissing her cheek. “Besides, Tinuviel is always important.”

“Only when you’re a nerd,” your mom replies, smiling.

“Which one of us started learning Klingon during college again?”

She laughs. “Guilty as charged.”

That moment, that precious moment, just the three of you, lost in imagination and surrounded by the things you love, unabashedly strange, unbearably happy.

You can feel it trying to slip away. You can feel it trying to disappear, but you hold on to it like a dying man holds on to life, like the man lost at sea holds on to the piece of debris keeping him afloat.

You live in that moment, for as long as you can. Is it minutes? Is it days? You don’t know. You don’t care. You just hold on.

When the woman appears, you can feel she doesn’t belong.

“You are not Him.”

Her feet are naked and her body is draped in soft silks of many colors. Her hair is dark, twined in two braids that come down in front of her body and mingle with the floor.

“I don’t know,” you say, holding on to your mom’s arm. “I don’t know who I am.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Thu 28 Mar 2024 06:40:24 No.5962603 Report

Quoted By: >>5962608 >>5962610 >>5962618 >>5962649 >>5962683 >>5962736 >>5962754 >>5962903 >>5962970 >>5962985 >>5963018 >>5963143 >>5963284 >>5963502

>>5962602

“I’m sorry, little one. You stumbled somewhere you shouldn’t. I was not meant for you. It was meant for someone who needed to be reminded of who they truly were. He saw so far, and he knew that if he was to stay true to himself, he would need to be washed of sin, he would need to go through his own darkness, face his darkest fear. Through the darkest night, the rot of his life would be washed away.”

“I… I don’t know what you mean.” Your voice is high pitched, like that of a child. “I don’t understand.”

“I know. I know you don’t. But perhaps…” She reaches out into nothing, and from it she pulls a string of shining beads. She puts it around your neck and you can feel some of your memories returning, and with them comes the true knowledge of what you have lost. And at the same time, you can feel that it is temporary, that once this collar is gone, so will the memories, and you will lose them again. She reaches out to wipe the tears from your childish face, but they are the last ones that remain in you. “I am sorry, little one. My purpose is to wash away the new, so that the old can resurface. But unfortunately there was no old in you. I’m sorry. I… I washed away everything.”

“Who- who are you?”

“I am Nimue, the Lady of the Lake of Rot, she who guards it and she who is it. I am the one who brings Doom so that Peace can be reborn. Who brings Madness so Sanity can reappear. I am the one who holds the sins so He can keep on moving forward. So He can save the world.”

It is not easy to speak. It is not easy to remember. You feel like every question, every moment that you spend here is burning, burning away your life, burning away your memories. You feel like you should fight this.

But at the same time… It is not always that you meet the Lady of the Lake, even with your feeble memories you remember that. There is information here. Information you might not be able to get anywhere else. But for every second you spend here, for every second you don’t fight, you can feel your memories, your self, wasting away.

How long will you talk to her…

> 1-2 questions
> 3-4 questions
> 4-6 questions
> More than 6 questions
> No questions. We attack. We fight. Even if we don’t know the way out.

And what will you ask?

> Write in

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Thu 28 Mar 2024 06:57:12 No.5962608 Report

Quoted By: >>5963027 >>5963570

>>5962603
>1-2 questions
best not to fuck around and find out, the longer we are in here, the more fucked we get
>And what will you ask?
"You are refering to Him, arent you? Merlin, this place, this place was meant for him, right?"
and
"how do i get out of here?"

just get confirmation and skiddadle out of here, i have a feeling whatever happens here will be permanent

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Thu 28 Mar 2024 07:02:33 No.5962610 Report

Quoted By: >>5963570

>>5962603
>> 1-2 questions

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 28 Mar 2024 07:22:45 No.5962618 Report

Quoted By: >>5963570

>>5962603
> 1-2 questions

>This place... Avalon. How did Merlin use it to return to the world?
We've guessed most of it, I think, but it would be useful to have some confirmation of the details.
>How did he intend to save the world?
Also very important.

Some extra questions we might ask if anons want to push it is about Arthur, Merlin's Atlantis backstory, if there's a way to stop other people from coming in, the locations of any other places of power like Camelot, probably a few others. I reckon we shouldn't go more than 3-4.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 28 Mar 2024 07:25:00 No.5962619 Report

Quoted By: >>5962658 >>5962736

We should also totally ask about grabbing Excalibur.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Thu 28 Mar 2024 09:32:59 No.5962648 Report

Quoted By: >>5962655 >>5962660

There, i have done my part, to whoever will be in charge of nominating them, you can use this

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 09:33:06 No.5962649 Report

Quoted By: >>5962736 >>5963018

>>5962603
>> 1-2 questions

"How was he going to save the world?"

"Can I have Excalibur please"

Dang. No snager patronus for us. Yet.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 09:39:53 No.5962655 Report

Quoted By: >>5962658

>>5962648
Nice. Pretty strong work for a rush job. Good work Art-fag.

I am also thinking of changing my vote to 3-4.

Yall think knowing where Camalot is located at is worth forgetting how we met Taylor and Linda of something?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Thu 28 Mar 2024 09:44:36 No.5962658 Report

Quoted By:

>>5962655
>>5962619
nah, do NOT get greedy, the more we stay there the worst things will get, we already lost a friend, we shouldnt risk losing more

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Thu 28 Mar 2024 09:50:12 No.5962660 Report

Quoted By: >>5962903 >>5963325 >>5963337

>>5962648
>forgot Arty's freckles
i knew something was off
here is a fixed version

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Thu 28 Mar 2024 10:54:24 No.5962683 Report

Quoted By: >>5962732 >>5963284

>>5962603
>3-4 questions

> This was meant to be for just Merlin, right? Or would this work on anyone who was ancient like him?
Kinda wonder if this would neutralize Salazar as a threat if he we could get just him in here somehow. Normally I’d think it would just wash away Scorpius and bring Salazar in full control but by that logic we’d be gone and Helga would have all the reins so I don’t think that’s it.

> How would Merlin have purified himself? Is it possible for him to do so now?
I genuinely don’t know how it would work given he is an eldritch beast who Rowena herself(who has Merlin’s knowledge on what went down) said is too far gone to be recovered, but I’m down to see if this 300iq wizard planned for this somehow.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 12:47:53 No.5962732 Report

Quoted By:

>>5962683
You know, trying to use this process to separate Merlin from the Darkness isn't as crazy s it might seem. Merlins shattered soul and the Founders were in there for a 1000 years and everything was peachy. It was only when the Time Turners got dumped that the Darkness gained intelligence. If those could somehow be removed, it goes back to just being Darkness filled with merlin bits. Or if the Merlin bits could be sifted out, possibly. It was said that even the Darkness needed something to build from to become the beast. Purify those out and its just Nothingness with a bunch of Turners in it, no longer intelligent. Dont even have to find a way to put them back to gather and recover Merlin himself, just get rid of them, send them up to Wizard heaven or whatever. No idea how to pull any of this off exactly but it might be an option, a final solution to the Beast problem.

I wonder if Helga had to confront her worst fear too when we got sucked into the lake?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 12:53:33 No.5962736 Report

Quoted By: >>5963018

>>5962619
>>5962649

Wait I'm dumb, Excalibur should be resting with Arthur right? We are going to where his body is anyway. We don't need to ask for it because doesn't have it. If we want it? Well, wouldn't be the first grave we robbed tonight.

>>5962649
>>5962603

I will change asking for the sword to;
> Who was Merlin, really

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Thu 28 Mar 2024 13:31:36 No.5962754 Report

Quoted By: >>5963570

>>5962603
>> No questions. We attack. We fight. Even if we don’t know the way out.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Thu 28 Mar 2024 17:22:09 No.5962903 Report

Quoted By: >>5962968 >>5963570

>>5962603
> 1-2 questions
>>"How did Merlin use this place to return to the world?"
>>"What was he saving the world from?"

>>5962660
Cute! And the husbando field is fairly clear. Dark Lord Hallaster, Dark Lord Hallaster!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 18:00:00 No.5962968 Report

Quoted By: >>5962974

>>5962903
Dark Lord Hallaster! Dark King Hallaster! A thousand years of his reign!

Hey if we find Excalibur with Arthur's body and jack it, does that mean Elliot is the King of Magical Britain now?

Winning the husbando field and getting art of him with a crown would be so kino, and I think it is possible. The Archives get like 20 votes a thread, so if we get lurkers and archivefags to come out could do it. Arty might have a chance, especially when the poster is done, but there is a lot of competition on that side, some from quests that have been going for a long while, unfortunately. When it is time I can post my pre-Valentines fic with her as the main character if people think it might help, its probably my best and 95% non-lewd.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 28 Mar 2024 18:03:21 No.5962970 Report

Quoted By: >>5963126 >>5963570

>>5962603
>No questions. We attack. We fight. Even if we don’t know the way out.
Asking questions is a trap.
FIGHT.
FIGHT.
FIGHT.
FIGHT.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Thu 28 Mar 2024 18:06:27 No.5962974 Report

Quoted By:

>>5962968
>Hey if we find Excalibur with Arthur's body and jack it, does that mean Elliot is the King of Magical Britain now?
Would be nice, but I'd settle for getting our memory back. :(

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yvBSs8xo Thu 28 Mar 2024 18:19:58 No.5962985 Report

Quoted By: >>5963143

>>5962603
> 3-4 questions
>Merlin?
> stop the end of time?
>what are the other trials?
> how do i get out of here?
I think that about covers it

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 18:54:25 No.5963018 Report

Quoted By: >>5963027 >>5963126 >>5963570

>>5962603
>>5962649
>>5962736

You know what; one final change.

> No questions. We attack. We fight. Even if we don’t know the way out.

I don't like how she capitalizes Merlin as He, it is creepy, or the fact this would be a good trap to take care of any interlopers by offering them hidden knowledge while the die and their memories are being destroyed.

Tricky Merlin. What person who managed to make it down here WOULDN'T be the sort curious enough to be tempted? Dark Lord Hallaster, that is who!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 28 Mar 2024 19:04:34 No.5963027 Report

Quoted By: >>5963035 >>5963126 >>5963570

>>5963018
you make a decent point, i will also change my answer >>5962608 to
>No questions. We attack. We fight. Even if we don’t know the way out.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 19:11:29 No.5963035 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963027
I thought about it some. When we lost our memories, it started with recent going backward. I don't want to lose our first kiss with Arty for info we can find other ways or deduce. And the way Elliot said his life is burning away? Staying here might fuck us up, hurt our rolls and we are going to need all we have to get through this.

We also lost enough memories being mind raped by Salazar before.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Thu 28 Mar 2024 20:49:25 No.5963126 Report

Quoted By: >>5963143 >>5963147 >>5963265

>>5962970
>>5963018
>>5963027
Really anons? We're getting access to answers we're not likely to get ANYWHERE else and you elect to ignore it and fight? We don't even know if there's a way out or if there's a way to get back all our memories yet (that'd be a good question to ask).

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yvBSs8xo Thu 28 Mar 2024 21:03:22 No.5963143 Report

Quoted By: >>5963181 >>5963284 >>5963570 >>5963925

>>5963126
The chatty anon's brainrot is infectious
>>5962603
Changing >>5962985 to
> 1-2 questions
>ask about Merlin and saving the world
Dont care if Elliot remembers xmas or whatever, if we get caught unawares and die it wont matter

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 28 Mar 2024 21:06:27 No.5963147 Report

Quoted By: >>5963284

>>5963126
answers dont mean shit if we end up a rotten corpse in the middle of a pitch black flesh lake, we can always find more answers later.
forgetting everything and being crippled is not gonna help us any better

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 28 Mar 2024 21:44:09 No.5963181 Report

Quoted By: >>5963194

>>5963143
>The chatty anon's brainrot is infectious

Awwww, you're sweet!

Merlin created the Rot Lake, created Nimue. Why would his creation give out information to some rando who stumbled into it which could be used to possibly stop her master if she was created to serve him and believes he is going to save the world when he returns? She also specifically refers to her self as the GUARDIAN of the Lake. Kind of a shit guard if she isn't trying to stop the person trying to get through it.

I am still banking on Merlin really not being a good guy.

If asking questions wins, Im not going to be that mad unless we lose an Arty memory or burning through our lifeforce fucks our rolls and someone aside from Brighton bites it.

We also have to considering that outside the Lake or friends and Brighton might be in trouble and need our help.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yvBSs8xo Thu 28 Mar 2024 22:00:00 No.5963194 Report

Quoted By: >>5963199 >>5963391

>>5963181
https://youtu.be/U6YX_lFRDo8?si=cKqpOk3oJWMPkYaC

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Thu 28 Mar 2024 22:09:04 No.5963199 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963194
lmao

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Thu 28 Mar 2024 23:34:28 No.5963265 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963126
Yes. Talking with her isn't going to do anything other than make it that much harder to survive this. Every moment we spend here is another memory lost.
Fight. Fight for who you are.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Thu 28 Mar 2024 23:53:04 No.5963284 Report

Quoted By: >>5963570

>>5963147
Not anything about Merlin having possibly made a contingency for if he was in the exact situation he’s in now. If he does have one I’d like to know, or at least tell Nimue about it if she doesn’t know so she can help us get the fuck out.
>>5962603
Changing >>5962683 to support >>5963143 so we can figure out what I said above.

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RQM !!UCDxn1yqtzR ID:fhOBMDtc Fri 29 Mar 2024 00:36:59 No.5963325 Report

Quoted By: >>5963329

>>5962660
You've got until Sunday evening to make the submissions, bit I'd say this art is just fine.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 29 Mar 2024 00:43:21 No.5963329 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963325
Working on the submissions right now, will probably post them in a bit

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 29 Mar 2024 00:57:51 No.5963337 Report

Quoted By: >>5963408

>>5963334
>>5963336

Done! Thanks >>5962660 for the art!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 29 Mar 2024 01:56:36 No.5963391 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963194
Kek.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Fri 29 Mar 2024 02:19:25 No.5963408 Report

Quoted By: >>5963427

>>5963337
it was my pleasure! i plan on doing more tonight
>using the wrong image
...

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 29 Mar 2024 02:53:26 No.5963427 Report

Quoted By: >>5963443

>>5963408
Yoooo. I found this when posting an image for a different quest. I didn't realize this was you too, right.

This is the 1st piece of art for the quest I think.

Hero we don't deserve.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Fri 29 Mar 2024 03:11:46 No.5963443 Report

Quoted By: >>5963496

>>5963427
oh yeah, that was me, it was a weird request for some anon in /OMG/
i still actively post and bump that place, there should be a few more doodles in the booru, not all of them are properly tagged tho, i gotta fix that soon

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 29 Mar 2024 04:13:51 No.5963496 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963443
Huh, never played that game but I might check it out, at some point. At least yalls booru for pics if nothing else.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Fri 29 Mar 2024 04:26:20 No.5963502 Report

Quoted By: >>5963570

>>5962603
> 1-2 questions
How do I get out

How do I defeat or pacify the darkness without destroying spacetime

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Fri 29 Mar 2024 05:28:11 No.5963570 Report

Quoted By: >>5963592 >>5963627 >>5963628 >>5963631 >>5963673 >>5963869 >>5963925

> No questions. We attack. We fight. Even if we don’t know the way out.
>>5963027 (changed from >>5962608, I'm assuming it's the same person with a different device)
>>5962970
>>5963018
>>5962754

> 1-2 questions
>>5962610
>>5962618
>>5963284
>>5962903
>>5963143
>>5963502

Locking in on 2 questions. There seem to be four main types of questions:

> How/from what did Merlin intend to save the world? (5 votes)

> Who was Merlin, really? (4 votes)
> How would Merlin have used this place/purified himself? (4 votes)
> How do I get out of here (3 votes)

Locking in the first one as it is the most voted and start writing. Feel free to vote on the other ones or suggest new questions.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Fri 29 Mar 2024 05:45:11 No.5963592 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963570
can confirm, the double IP is me, just posting from another device

>1st question is locked
>2nd up to vote
welp, we didnt go swinging, guess i´ll ask about:
>How would Merlin have used this place/purified himself?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 29 Mar 2024 06:15:32 No.5963627 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963570
> How do I get out of here (3 votes)

So we can GTFO ASAP. I hope. Otherwise when do try and leave, we are in the exact same position as if we tried to fight except now we are down a couple of memories.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Fri 29 Mar 2024 06:15:40 No.5963628 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963570
I wouldn't mind pushing it to 3 questions. I admit I'm kind of torn between asking about how Avalon is used and who Merlin really is.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b+oWU07F Fri 29 Mar 2024 06:17:02 No.5963631 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963570
> How would Merlin have used this place/purified himself?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Fri 29 Mar 2024 07:00:24 No.5963673 Report

Quoted By: >>5963681 >>5963925

>>5963570
> How do I get out of here (3 votes)
> How do I get out of here (3 votes)
> How do I get out of here (3 votes)
bruh. You fags voted for questions, you could at least make one of the questions the one that gets us out fastest.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 29 Mar 2024 07:10:27 No.5963681 Report

Quoted By: >>5963925

>>5963673
My one worry is she might intentionally mislead us but, fuck it. Maybe Nimue is less antagonistic than I think. Hopefully the brain damage isn't too bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:OE2/8knG Fri 29 Mar 2024 12:52:15 No.5963869 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963570
>How do I get out of here

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:a2kqsEwJ Fri 29 Mar 2024 14:51:17 No.5963925 Report

Quoted By: >>5963971

>>5963673
>>5963681
Its a stupid waste of a question for salty bitches, it probably just takes willpower if elliot can get out without any questions
>>5963570
Changing >>5963143 who was merlin to
> How would Merlin have used this place/purified himself?

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 29 Mar 2024 16:01:20 No.5963971 Report

Quoted By: >>5964002

>>5963925
If different question wins and it turns out I was wrong about how bad this is going to be, that would be awesome. Great. Happy to admit I was paranoid. I would prefer that to being right and staying/ not trying to speed up our egress ends poorly.

Guess we will see. Plenty of time for a few more votes.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:a2kqsEwJ Fri 29 Mar 2024 16:45:43 No.5964002 Report

Quoted By:

>>5963971
Oh, I'm sure it will be bad regardless of what we choose, at least this way we get something out of it as opposed to nothing

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:27:20 No.5964338 Report

Quoted By: >>5964339

Just a reminder, if you're interested in voting for the whole King/Queen of /qst/ thing, don't forget to reserve an id in the thread before Sunday
>>5961634

--

“I… I don’t understand. Merlin, he- he did so much but…” You know there is a lot at stake here, both to the world and to you, personally. But you can’t just let this chance slip away. You need to know. You need to understand. “Why did he do what he did? What is he trying to save us from?”

“Merlin… yes, that was what He called himself, long ago. One of his many names. He tried to save you from the single biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Its own foolishness.” She approaches you and touches your face, and you notice her hands are tainted with the black, foul-smelling goop. Yet you feel no need to push her away. “He looked into the future and saw death. The world should have ended four thousand years ago because of one foolish man. He stopped it. It should have ended three thousand, nine hundred and eighty seven years ago because of a great cabal. He stopped it. It should have ended thirty years after that. And fifty after that. The world should have ended so many times. Over and over, the same foolish mistakes, the same errors. People opening doors they should keep closed. People performing experiments without thinking of the consequences. At every step, He foresaw it and stopped the End before it could begin.”

“But it was clear that if things were to remain the same, He would fail eventually. Seers are not perfect, nor are they all powerful. He had failed to stop the End of Atlantis. He would not risk the world again. So He opened his Eyes to the future and sought a path. He could not see forever, but He could see further than anyone else.” Where her black hair touches the floor, the dark liquid spreads, covering the floor of your house. “He burned the books that needed to be burned, He killed those who needed killing. He did what He had to do to ensure humanity would survive. But Humanity’s ingenuity is too great for a single man to predict, and it soon became clear that the problem was the tool which allowed for Humans to do the impossible.”

“Magic,” you say. The foul slurry drips from your cheek where she touches you and slides down your mom’s arm. “He wanted to end magic?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:28:27 No.5964339 Report

Quoted By: >>5964343

>>5964338
“Not entirely. There could come a time, after all, in which His own power would not be enough to save everyone, where He would need help. No, magic was too useful a tool to discard entirely.” The slurry reaches a nearby sofa, and starts to climb up it, while you simply sit there, entranced by her voice. “So He walked a fine line. He diminished your numbers through superstition and myths of a pure lineage, diminished your knowledge and power by destroying that which was too dangerous, made you ignorant by putting you away from those who sought the truth about Creation’s inner workings. He ensured those who could control the Ancient powers the way He did would come to an end. He set in motion the events which would lead wizardkind to isolate itself from the rest of the world. Step by step, it was done.”

“I do not know why He has not returned to me,” she says, and for the first time you hear longing in her voice. It is entrancing, intoxicating. “He said He could not understand what He saw. He said He would go and perform his greatest work, but that it was still not the end. That there were still ways the world could be ended by even the weakest of wizards. He knew that He needed to work further, to place more safeguards upon the world, but His Sight… His Sight showed He would not interfere with the world for many centuries after that. He knew He would return once more, He could see as much on the edges of his vision, but He did not know why He would stop working.”

“Yet He would not question the Sight. It was the only way forward. He told me He would return, and that He would slumber for the time required of Him. But He did not return. I know not why. But I wait for him, and shall remain waiting, for as long as it takes.”

“And what is this place? What is Avalon?” You ask, and it feels like you’re almost within a dream. “How did he purify himself?”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:30:27 No.5964343 Report

Quoted By: >>5964351 >>5964354 >>5964373 >>5964386 >>5964536

>>5964339

“This is the structure necessary to create the Elixir of Life, extracting its essence from the suffering above. This was always a place of healing, and, as such, always a place of pain. And he harnessed that pain, diminished it, to create a pure Essence. Though it took decades to refill, through the Elixir of Life He would create a new body for Him to inhabit. And He would leave for the world, and live His life. But life has a tendency to change a man, make Him lose sight of what is necessary. Life adds baggage. Adds slop. When those things cloud the mind, it becomes easier to allow yourself to forget.” She places a finger upon your childish lips, forcing the liquid in your mouth. It tastes sweet, sickeningly sweet. “It becomes easy to leave the work for later. To see it as less important. And for all His strengths, He was still weak to the pleasures of the flesh. And that, He saw, would lead to the End. He needed the slop to be removed. He needed it to be stripped from his soul, leaving only his ancient Core. And that Core could then look through the memories, without feeling or attachment, and go back to his Work.”

“That is my function. That is my purpose. The first step in his trials for himself, to prove himself to himself. My duty is to open up your soul and remove from it the slop. Through your greatest fear, to weaken the barriers of your soul and from it scrape that which is not atlantean. But unfortunately for you…” she says, and there is almost pity in her voice. “You don’t have a core of steel like he does. Your core is malleable. Your core breaks.”

“Then, then how-” You say, shaking your head to take her fingers - when did she add another one? You hadn’t noticed - out of your mouth. “How do I get out of here?”

“Oh, sweetie,” she presses her lips against yours and the dark liquid flows in, being forced down your throat. Yet her voice echoes through your mind even as the liquid fills your stomach. “You don’t. All you need to do is stay here until I get rid of this one final, insistent memory. And then you die.”

> Roll a d100 to resist. Bo3, DC 75

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:37:18 No.5964351 Report

Quoted By: >>5964386

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>5964343
Ah.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:38:14 No.5964354 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>5964343
Dark Lord Hallaster!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:46:09 No.5964365 Report

Quoted By: >>5964409

So Merlin was going the God-Emperor (the Dune kind) route. I see. Well fuck that. Knew Merlin was an evil motherfucker. So this whole thing implies that Merlin or what's left of him is still somewhere out there. Maybe Salazar got merged with the guy? Something to think about when we get out of this. I wonder if the End of the World is merely the end of prophecy and being able to see the future.

I think the question is now anons, do we work to bring about Merlin's end of the world, granting humanity the full freedom to act how it wills without interference, or do we follow Merlin's footsteps and try to prevent this supposed end from happening? Lots of questions to be asked here. Also Potter's going to be some fucking mad lmao.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:a2kqsEwJ Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:50:17 No.5964373 Report

Quoted By: >>5964375 >>5964390 >>5964430 >>5964639

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>5964343
You know the drill, Lord Hallaster.

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Anonymous ID:a2kqsEwJ Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:51:20 No.5964375 Report

Quoted By: >>5964383

>>5964373
Yup. Still got it.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:57:29 No.5964383 Report

Quoted By: >>5964390 >>5964398

>>5964375
Very well, lucky anon. (You) may chose a single extra question to be answered at no extra cost to Elliot's psyche. No asking the rest of the class for suggestions.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 00:59:50 No.5964386 Report

Quoted By: >>5964573

>>5964343
So. I fucking told yall she was bad news.

Some of this tracks very close to what I suspected. That he used the founders in the ritual because they were the only ones around who could use Ancient magic and after the Interdict was done, the only ones who could pass on even normal but powerful spells they may have known should they live... Created hogwarts to limit the knowledge that could be passed along, set it in very narrow paths so if he, in the future needed an army, he had ones who would know only what he wished. The Interdict to make sure when he came back, no one could oppose him "saving" humanity. I assumed he would be god-king.

I was going to say that the purification of Negrido was to get rid of things like attachments so his purpose would not be able to be swayed, but I felt like I had talked too much.

I did not see the sucking up pain to fuel his resurrection. Is that how Isadora figured out her spell? He is fucking evil.

Gonna say "albedo" is to renew his body, to to wash away his impurities. Damage he may have taken physical or mental. Or to the soul.

So Salazar knew the Interdict was coming. That is why he put his knowledge into the Basalisk. I assume Merlin got all the founders there because over time, he convinced each that magic need to be limited with different arguments depending on personality. Didn't tell them thay were going for the ride too. Salazar might have suspected something. I think both cups were used. Sorrow to bind the world. Promise to bind the founders to the ritual. But cunning Salazar stuck Merlin's name in too, which is why he got sacrificed as well. And with his Basalisk, he would be the only Founder who could pass their knowledge on to the future, ensuring House Slytherin would reign supreme.

Will reread some.

>>5964351
Good job.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 01:06:31 No.5964390 Report

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>>5964373
Holy fucking shit. Merlin in shambles. Blown out for another 1000 years. Gets put in the cuck chair while we fuck the slime-girl.

Lord Hallaster! Fuher Hallaster! Dark Lord Hallaster! Bright Lord Hallaster!

>My core is far, far stronger than steel.

>>5964383
Awe I thought we would just like explode her or something. Still good, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:a2kqsEwJ Sat 30 Mar 2024 01:11:19 No.5964398 Report

Quoted By:

>>5964383
Oh boy, you've put me on the spot. Okay, here goes...
> Where did the Deathly Hallows come from?
Is it really all that relevant? I dunno but i'd like to know

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 01:17:15 No.5964409 Report

Quoted By: >>5964422

>>5964365
>bring about Merlin's end of the world

He saw the world ending again and again and only Him be able to save it be cause he was narsisitic. He was concieted and believed humans weren't able to save them selves. I wan't to prove him wrong. We have had nukes for 80 years and could have ended it yet still we stand.

I don't think he forsaw being sacrificed as well, assumed he would be around. Technically, Elliot has Merlin in him via the Beast, however.

I also had a crack idea that Gilderoy of all people getting a small shard of Merlin in him when he came here, right above Avalon after being mind wiped. Why he stayed here despite being healed. Why Gilderoy saw images in his dreams; not his memories but bits of Merlins. Why the picture he was painting had a dark cavern like the one we are in... and that the "blond man" was the hero. Why he gave us the clue needed to find Avalon because in Gildroy, there was no chance of the Merlin shard getting the Hallows.

Full Chaos route in SMT terms. Arty could have been fixed long ago if he didn't destroy the knowledge.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 01:33:52 No.5964422 Report

Quoted By: >>5964434

>>5964409
My other stuff about the Merlin shard/part is that all 4 founder will be here in spirit form soon, so there is that. And Potter is pretty likely to be here soon as well. Potter did have that Talent, Chosen of Fate...

Merlin manifesting in Harry would suck. Though I always guessed he would be the final boss. Maybe not in that way. And he was assembling armies... something Merlin had planned to do if needed. Potter already pulled 1 Merlin and saved the world from doom via Voldy... Has a hero complex. His ancestor's motto was "The Last Enemy to Be Defeated is Death", same shit on the entrance. Oh fuck it is going to be Potter that is why he couldn't know too much.

I will shut up unless I have an epiphany.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 01:39:55 No.5964430 Report

Quoted By: >>5964471 >>5964515

>>5964373
Man oh man. First crit success of the quest, I think?

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 01:46:39 No.5964434 Report

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>>5964422
Potter's definitely involved somehow, he's the only other one who couldn't remember us from memory. That's still something that's unanswered, actually, how this whole thing started. Obviously Salazar was in Lily for a while, but how did Helga get put into us, and how did we, specifically, ended up getting wiped from Hogwarts enchantments? Something Merlin put in as a backup? Something else?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Sat 30 Mar 2024 02:14:57 No.5964451 Report

Quoted By:

>had to be out the entire workshift without access to computer
>come back home to find not only Elliot about to die but to counter it with the first critical success of the campaing
holy shit! this is what i miss for being a responsible adult

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 02:34:26 No.5964471 Report

Quoted By: >>5964536

>>5964430
I think we might have had 1 before. I know there have crit fails but I swear we got a 100 in battles before b/c QM let it count for 2 successes.

I had theorized before that when Helga broke out, and the beast was able to thrash around it hit Potter and Lily while it could to erase their memories of us. If Potter is gonna Merlin it up or if Lily was another possible candidate, that is what it would target while it could since Merlin wants to "save humanity" and he is the end of everything. Give his host more of a chance to do things with out the Merlin Vessals knowing his history. Hit Hogwarts for the same reason. Keep Elliot from being found out kinda. The beast has bits of Merlin in it and is clever. It wants out so it was doing what it though would help that.

My other idea is way darker. Helga and all the other shards are being backseat driven by the Merlin shards in them or are just really him. Helga has just been manipulating us the whole time, brought the gate with her on purpose to have the other scattered bits of Merlin with one of his big shards, give us motivation to listen to her. Let the gate open enough for Rae and Goddy to escape in St. Mungo's intentionally to latch onto Frank and Alice b/c they have tragic back stories and are related to our Rival/frienemy. Knew we would have the other shards transfer into people we trust to come down here. The Merlin shard in Lily let her get AK'd at the end b/c us being with her with her was not going to happen. Went to an antagonistical force instead, pushed him here, pushed him to oppose us because it was more likely to get all the pieces here at once. So the shards all work towards the same goal wearing the faces the founders. So Helga is evil b/c she is really Merlin. Elliot is meant to be his new host and was manipulated to come here the whole time.

IDK the second is convoluted but if helga did a last minute face/heel turn...

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 03:02:11 No.5964493 Report

Quoted By: >>5964525 >>5964547 >>5964589

Are we 100% sure cocksucker is Salazar?

Going through the old threads and that's a supposition that we made, that we then began treating as fact. I do not believe we actually confirmed it. The argument for cocksucker being Salazar is that he referred to Merlin and the Fifth Founder in the third person, Helga as his sister, the general Slytherin dickishness about him, and the fat that Rowena and Godric think cocksucker is Salazar too, but I'm beginning to have my doubts.

For one, there is another slytherin character from the same period that fits to a T the general characterisation of cocksucker.
>And for all His strengths, He was still weak to the pleasures of the flesh.

There is also the last thing we said to cocksucker before he got temp-banned by Linda.
>“Even Salazar… would have… despised you,” you spit through gritted, bloodied teeth. “He respected… serpents, not worms… and you are below… even that.”

Rowena and Godric also think that Salazar had changed, which is interesting because they and Helga seem to be their normal selves.

And then there's this little bit that was said at last light which going off HeadQMs previous foreshadowings I feel is a little too on the nose upon reflection:
>Because if your little Faith had taken a single peek into me… She’d have known exactly the type of person I am.”
>“A monster…” Faith whispers in your head, afraid. No, horrified. “Oh Merlin… What have you done to her?”

"Oh Merlin... What have you done to her?" On the one hand "Oh Merlin" is obviously just the expression, but there's sufficient dramatic irony if it's also referring to Merlin himself.

I'm not 100% sure on this, I could be wrong, but I just think that there's some extremely curious coincidences between cocksucker and Merlin, who we have to assume is somehow coming back physically, and not just in the beast form inside of us. This then begs the question, if cocksucker is not Salazar, then who is? What kind of wizard would be host to a scheming, sneaky, slytherin whose ability to figure things out is a little too clever? Almost like a master legilimens? I think the answer's obvious.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 30 Mar 2024 03:23:40 No.5964515 Report

Quoted By: >>5964518

>>5964430
There was one in the first thread in a Battle Class. Fighting against Hugo, obviously. Possibly what started his string of utterly crap luck.

Still, this is just the second one.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Sat 30 Mar 2024 03:28:19 No.5964518 Report

Quoted By:

>>5964515
ooh right, how could i had possibly forget about the legendary "HOWEVER" roll

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 03:38:28 No.5964525 Report

Quoted By:

>>5964493
That... makes some sense. It would be a good twist to reveal, since I spoiled Faith=Helga. When I did that, I was a bit iffy on if Cocksuck was Salazar, but then the post "confirmed" it.

A pervert molesting Lily makes some sense, even if said pervert doesn't recal who exactly he is. If I was Merlin and din't know who I was, I would seek out ancient power, the repository. In fact, HTF did Salazar know something like that would be down there? Merlin did and it has been implied Salazar got some of Merlins knowledge from the shard but... huh. Also why he knew were Avalon was. I though Rae got Merlin's knowledge...

The fact he changed is also interesting, I asumed Salazar was just too weak to endure the darkness. But he was a skilled Legimens so probably a skilled Occulemens. Things that would probably make it easier to endure for him vs the others. One idea I had was his soul got savaged by the Beast during his escape and that is why he was different but?

Also his drive to get the power, find the 5th/Merlin.

So Potter got Salazar in him a long time ago? Or did Potter have extra soul room b/c of hosting Voldy's soul for so long.

Lot of coincidences.

I had a vision/dream a while back that he had someone in him, I think it was Salazar pretending to be Godric. I thought no, that is dumb I just reread the thread to hard. It had also featured the Mirror and finding out who Lily II was as the catalyst for turning against Elliot. I hope to fuck the rest of the dream is wrong because the Armies have to have a campus wide battle against the teachers Potter/Salazar convinced that we were evil. Also had Elliot be tortured with crucio while tied to a chair. At the end Helga tried to pull us in with her to the forest at the end forever because she didn't want to be alone anymore and the spirits of Taylor and Linda come to save our boy due to the Stone.

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Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Sat 30 Mar 2024 03:55:10 No.5964536 Report

Quoted By: >>5964554 >>5964651

>>5964343
Wait so are we going to tell her about the fact that her beloved god Merlin or whatever the fuck she thinks is now mostly a mindless beast who will destroy the world if we die? (or he’s Cocksucker like that one anon said but assuming that’s correct we likely wouldn’t think of the connection in the middle of fighting for our life).

Like if she’s obsessed with having him save the world or whatever then killing us does the opposite of that. Hell, did she not see all of our memories? She should be able to know we’re telling the truth herself if she can see them.
>>5964471
I feel like if that darker idea was true Merlin would have won already. If all the other shards are being backseat driven by him all Helga had to do was not help us against Lily II and he would have won.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 04:09:57 No.5964547 Report

Quoted By: >>5964558

>>5964493
One or two more things. If Potter got Salazar when her was young, it could be that is the reason he was a parslemouth, not being a Voldemort horcrux. He CLAIMs that the Basalisk was dead when he found it, as opposed to what the books said but... what if that wasn't true. A double bluff. That he took the spells put in it and did slay it. He is suspiciously powerful. Almost like he has old spells and a little helper... Most teens can't fight a dark lord like 3 time and survive, let alone win...

Lily had a mind ghost, possibly Merlin and couldn't remember us. Potter couldn't. Is that the link? That the Gate/Beast removed prior knowledge from anyone else with a spirit when Helga broke out and brought it with her? Like the Beast reached out to the ones who used to be part of it to try and claw them back in?

Hogwarts was made, its enchantments created by the same people. Is that why it cant track us? Granted Potter and Lily showed up on the map, so that might not be correct... unless Helga is the one who made it. Intentionally kept it so she herself couldn't be tracked. QM did say she was probably the one with the idea for it, to track down dumb Hufflepuffs and their pets. And she was good enough to create her legendary cup, an enchanted item on par with Gryffindor's sword and Rowena's Diadem.

AHHHHHHHHH I'm going crazy.

I love it anon. Speculation is fun.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 04:16:33 No.5964554 Report

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>>5964536
The idea of Lily ii dying was she was the only one who could get the Stone and that Elliot was a better candidate to bring everything together. Xanatos Gambit.

This was just a crazy idea, though. Because if true, yeah Merlin won already.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 04:24:56 No.5964558 Report

Quoted By: >>5964577

>>5964547
Cocksucker's modus operandi, possessing Lily and reducing her soul to nothing fits Merlin to a T as well. Lily also had the resurrection stone, something she wouldn't need unless she was already planning to go to Avalon. It fits. I wonder if the bad ending of last light was Lily getting her hands on all 3 hallows and heading to Avalon?

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 04:39:11 No.5964571 Report

Quoted By: >>5964577

And it would also explain why Potter's so afraid of us, because if there's anything Salazar Slytherin doesn't want it's Merlin coming back. It's why he freaked out so bad when he heard the last prophecy. Since from his perspective it might seem to indicate we're Merlin returned, planning to finish what he started with the Interdict. Oh Potter is going to be so pissed when he finds out we've gone to Avalon.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 04:41:33 No.5964573 Report

Quoted By: >>5964578

AND IT WOULD EXPLAIN HOW POTTER PUT HIS NAME INTO THE GOBLET OF FIRE, theorised anon, calmly. Since Salazar had already done it with Merlin if anon >>5964386
is correct.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 04:50:15 No.5964577 Report

Quoted By: >>5964591 >>5964651

>>5964558
>>5964571

>Oh Potter is going to be so pissed when he finds out we've gone to Avalon.

Oh yeah. I wonder if, if this is right, maybe we could placate him by saying something like "Hello, Professor... Slytherin. It is an honor." Let him know we know and we are opposing Merlin too?

Also I was trying to think what power Salazar-Potter could have got from Merlin if true.

Then I realized. Potter had said to Lily that the enchantments at Hogwarts were rather malleable of late. His Battle class creations, one Elliot commented that he had no clue how he convinced the castle to create it. The fact Potter finished his part in sealing the repository faster than the Headmistress who should have the most power over the school.

He got Lailoken/Merlins ability to mess with Hogwarts as its architect.

Unless I am overlooking something obvious like he is just more powerful or Chosen of Fate is the power.

>I wonder if the bad ending of last light was Lily getting her hands on all 3 hallows and heading to Avalon?

Quest end right there unless it would continue as Helga's new host fighting against the BS Merlin was pulling after that. Or maybe Elliot would get a freebie and not really die, some how? IDK, glad we didn't find out.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 04:52:40 No.5964578 Report

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>>5964573
Oh it is alllllll coming together now. And if her could fuck with the enchantments and shit, even as a teen, could explain some of the BS or inconsistencies in the book and how Harry pulled all his shit off.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sat 30 Mar 2024 05:04:00 No.5964589 Report

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>>5964493
>Almost like a master legilimens?
Motherfucker, he read Snape's mind first go too.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 05:09:18 No.5964591 Report

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>>5964577
That or recall Potter has opened doors and shit w/o a wand. One time by just waving his gun at it?

>He also has telekinesis, which allowed him to open a door with a hand gesture.

Maybe that is why Potter is such a good duelist. He doesn't even need to hit you with a normal spell to know the wand from your hand.

That or it is just wandless magic but that shit is pretty rare....

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sat 30 Mar 2024 07:35:17 No.5964639 Report

Quoted By: >>5965013

>>5964373
>By answering his questions, she inadvertently reinforced his memories since literally all of them revolve around his insatiable curiosity

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sat 30 Mar 2024 08:01:30 No.5964651 Report

Quoted By: >>5964735

>>5964536
>>5964577
You are in fact overlooking something.
He had a fragment of the most powerful post interdict dark wizard of all time inside him since he was a baby.
Not only would the voldemort fragment take up space and likely fuckin throw hands with any further souls intruding on his territory, but Voldemort's talents would seep through and augment Harry as he grew up. And we know thay Voldemort's soul remained in him up until the final battle. Unless that was also bullshit I guess, and voldemort never had seven horcruxes and harry never had pain from his scar in his presence etc etc...which all seems terribly unlikely with how many could attest to his surges of pain.
If anything is the factor for memory wipage, I would say it's either having a soul that was at one point occupied (And thus having an unnatural connection to Purgatory), or the Merlin fragment in Faith decided that its new host would need just a tiny bit of ancient magic working in its favor to keep it hidden and cast the spell over the school and the two biggest threats it coyld feel as it settled in somehow.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 11:56:24 No.5964735 Report

Quoted By: >>5965285

>>5964651
That does make sense. So if Harry has the real Salazar now, it was a relatively recent thing or at least after he was like 18. I figure fairly recent. If cock sucker got into Lily when she was 4 and if Potter already had Salazar, he would have been spotted really quick. And the previously/currently occupied thing also could make sens.

IDK, lotta what ifs, but some of the stuff in the theory we were discussing make a weird amount of sense.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 18:41:49 No.5965013 Report

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>>5964639
>Ha, foolish boy you are not Him, you lack His spirit of steel
>You've had all but your most cherished memory wiped away, weak and pathetic as it is
>Lets deal with that one too, since you managed to hold on to it so closely
>Sure, ask a few questions of me while it is torn from you
>Not like anything I tell you will matter soon for you are doomed
>Wait
>What
>Why are the lights around him reigniting, so many of them, how are all his memories returning?! They should have been completely purified!
>All I did was answer a few questions!
>And his very last one, why is it glowing like a star, no a sun!
>How can he resist like this! Impossible!
>(Why do I hear boss music that isn't my own?)
>Oh fuck
>I fucked up

Elliot's boss theme: https://youtu.be/ntXJJwEk1NA?si=dF40_zfkgk8zBW3f

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 30 Mar 2024 22:02:13 No.5965230 Report

Quoted By: >>5965231

A potion-maker’s life is usually filled with self-inflicted danger, since one has, of course, to try their own concoctions to fully test their effects. As such, one develops a sense of taste, no, an instinct which is known in the potion-making circles as “I should probably shove a bezoar down my throat.”

You suddenly feel like shoving a bezoar down your throat.

You push her away, coughing away the liquid. You tear yourself from your mother’s arms, heaving, trying to throw up, but the thing refuses to come out.

“Do not fight, little one. It will be over soon.”

You shake your head, trying to focus. The place around you is melting, the chairs, the fireplace, melting into black goo. You try to get up, but it is an effort, your limbs weak below you. But you need to find- you need to find something, something above the mantelpiece, which you had put there for your parents, to protect them, to make sure they’d be safe.

It had been much later, so it isn’t here today. But you need it to be. You need to bring it forward from your memories. But if you are going to do that, if you even can do that, you need to keep her distracted. You need to keep her talking.

“Why- what- what were- deathly hallows?”

“There were great tools made by those before Him. Tools He stole before He was banished for being a half-breed. Tools made by those greater than Him. Tools which he used to create this, the only remaining Great Work-” - Great Work, how the alchemists called the Philosopher's Stone, you hold on to any strand of thought, trying to keep yourself sane as you struggle - “and which became a part of it. Which need to be within it for it to work. What was their original purpose, I do not know. But it was their strength He borrowed to build this place, and to create me.”

You drag yourself to the center of the mantlepiece.

“Greater- Merlin-” Your voice comes out choked, your throat closing. You reach, thinking about that day, the first time you had returned from Hogwarts, the small package you had smuggled back home, stolen from the Potion’s classroom, forcing it into existence.

“Yes, even He had those greater than Him. Those who scowled at Him for being made half human and half mudeater-” Merlin was said to be half human, half demon. The atlanteans thought themselves as humans, muggles as scum, while muggles thought of themselves as human and the atlanteans as demons, keep thinking, you need to keep thinking- “Those who erased themselves from existence. And even then, He wept for them. Even then, He tried and failed to bring them back. We can only thank them for destroying themselves without taking the rest of the world with them.”

You fall to the floor, bringing down with you everything on top of the mantlepiece. There were pictures of you and your parents, there were flower-pots and vases.

“But He will return. He will return and save you from yourselves. But not you, little one. Your story ends here.”

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sat 30 Mar 2024 22:03:15 No.5965231 Report

Quoted By: >>5965238 >>5965285 >>5965286 >>5965334

>>5965230

And among the broken glass shards, the remains of a small porcelain goat, which your mom had bought hold your gift from back then, those six small, shriveled brown stones. You pull them into your mouth, along with the slop that covers the floor, along with the shards and whatever else is in the way. It cuts all the way down, slicing your throat, bringing you bright pain.

“Why? Why are you so persistent, little one? Why are you-” you grab a shard of glass from a broken portrait, the glass cutting into your hands, red blood against the black sludge spilling out, and slam it on her feet. “AAAHRG! YOU- YOU LITTLE-”

There is no wand you can reach for, no weapon but your bare hands, but your mind burns with blinding clarity. You take the remains of a vase and shatter it against her knee. She screams in pain and you grab her legs and pull. She falls, clearly not expecting the attack, and you use the moment to grab the guitar your father had used and slam on her, the wood breaking as it hits her.

“YOU-” She raises her hand, sludge dripping from her now broken nose, and the sludge below you rises like a wave swirling around you and squeezing. Squeezing your whole body, and you feel your ribs bending, threatening to break. “I tried to do it peacefully! I tried to be merciful, to let you have your final moments, to sate your last questions! But now, I will end you. And I will make you scream!”

There is thunder, as if the whole world is shaking, and the skies themselves crack open. And like a shining meteor, the form falls from the heavens, in full ancient battle-armor and wand in hand.

“No,” Helga Hufflepuff says, power burning in her eyes. “I don’t believe you will. And thanks for screaming so loud, I don't think I'd have found you if you hadn't. But now it is time for you to end.”

> Roll a d100+55 (+45 from Battle Rolls, +25 from Helga’s help, -15 from… everything else that is happening to you). Bo3, DC 120

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Sat 30 Mar 2024 22:09:19 No.5965238 Report

Quoted By: >>5965244 >>5965282 >>5965285 >>5965286 >>5965334 >>5965402

Rolled 94 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5965231
>DC 120
jesus...
cmon dice gods! lend us your strength

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Sat 30 Mar 2024 22:15:24 No.5965244 Report

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>>5965238
YES!!!

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Anonymous ID:tQ3lFFcr Sat 30 Mar 2024 22:54:55 No.5965282 Report

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>>5965238
Fuck this cunt. Ayyyy get clapped you bitch. No body gets to touch us but arty!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sB3y9DVZ Sat 30 Mar 2024 22:59:30 No.5965285 Report

Quoted By: >>5965334

Rolled 35 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5965238
>>5965231
Got out of this nice and cleanly, with some good info about Merlin to boot(which let us figure out Cocksucker = Merlin early if it’s true). Now we just need to hope no one gets a 1.
>>5964735
But hasn’t it been stated that only children can take in souls because of all the extra room in them? If Potter got Salazar when he was 18, and/or carried him until now, he should be dead due to soul cramming or whatever the term for this is, shouldn’t he?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Sat 30 Mar 2024 23:06:28 No.5965286 Report

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Rolled 71 + 55 (1d100 + 55)

>>5965231
Rolling just for the sake of it.

>>5965238
Nice.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sat 30 Mar 2024 23:57:02 No.5965334 Report

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>>5965285
The idea would be because Potter had part of Voldemort's soul for so long and it was removed, even as an adult he would have extra room. Frank and Alice had room but they were dying because it was just to much for their broken bodies to handle. Who knows if it can work like that but it could explain stuff. Especially how like twice Potter has opened doors with no wand, once with a gun, and one of Merlin's specific powers was to telekinetically open doors with the wave of a hand. Might just be wandless magic but that is really like a coincidence.

>>5965238
Nice. Glad I was eating when time for rolls.

>>5965231
Fuck yeah, Helga kool-aid manning herself through our memory's wall. Also Barty's training on how to beat people up. Nimue, you done fucked up.

I just hope this ends quick if our malus is going to increase. Also hope it heals out of the memory.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Sun 31 Mar 2024 01:10:14 No.5965402 Report

Quoted By: >>5965479 >>5965484

>>5965238
Today we obliterate the lady of the lake

Kinda wish we found what happened to Excalibur. Oh well.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sun 31 Mar 2024 02:38:07 No.5965479 Report

Quoted By: >>5965484

>>5965402
Probably with Arthur. I do wonder what Merlin did with him if Arthur is really buried here. Doesn't seem like a place the greatest king of England would want as a tomb. Backup emergency body maybe?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 02:46:31 No.5965484 Report

Quoted By: >>5965501

>>5965479
That is my guess. So not only do we have to rob the tomb but we have to desecrate a corpse.

Merlin coming back in Arthurs body with the sword that makes you king of magical britian would probably get a good number of people on his side.

Man, we are like Indy. Tomb raiding, grave robing, mutilation of important historical bodies, murdering slime-girls. Now we just need to find our Short-Round...

>>5965402
Yeah. One bad thing, we are basically clearing the way for Scorpius and Potter when they get here. If Cocksucker didn't have a decent chance of being Big M, I would say it would have been ideal to let Scorpius toss himself on the spears for us.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sun 31 Mar 2024 02:59:12 No.5965501 Report

Quoted By: >>5965533

>>5965484
Sucker punching the lady of the lake may be good, actually. If we wreck the method that Merlin uses to purify and become himself then he won't be able to focus on his mission of becoming God-Emperor Leto, which leaves him much weaker and vulnerable.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 03:47:00 No.5965533 Report

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>>5965501
>leaves him much weaker and vulnerable

True. We still aren't sure what exactly the other 3 trials will do, but I am guessing that in addition to the main purpose of reminding Merlin, healing, strengthening perhaps I think they could also do stuff to a host to make them an acceptable vessal if he became a mind ghost. Granted w/o this first step, he won't have a mind broken husk to use now but have to deal with the host having their will. Good.

In the inner chamber we know of at least 2 other ways for him to come back. The body of "Arthur" he probably prepped to take over, leaving a host that made it there with mind still intact. And the Elixir of Life, which could create a whole new body for him. I don't doubt he had other backup methods we don't know about yet as well, plans we haven't discovered.

Actually, I wonder if Arthur is meant to be a final guardian, in case someone managed to breach the other defenses?

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:03:22 No.5965540 Report

Quoted By: >>5965548 >>5965557

gonna do pic related but with Elliot and Arty just like HeadQM suggested here >>5962601 to have another piece for the K&Q thing
does anybody have the description of what they were both wearing when they go to that fancy party? i think Arty was wearing a green dress? cant remember, the more details the better, for Elliot too please

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:11:17 No.5965548 Report

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>>5965540
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5831320/#p5875342

> long yellow dress, with glimmering golden details mixed with black.
> Her hair is made up, make-up precisely put, lips red with lipstick. You see she has a pair of glimmering earrings you’ve never seen before

> You’re wearing a fancy set of black dress robes your mom insisted on purchasing in the previous year, when you’d told her about events like Yule Balls and other such things

Feel free to add whatever details or changes you think would make it cool, anon!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:29:34 No.5965557 Report

Quoted By: >>5965561

>>5965540
Badass man. Replace the wands with gun I suppose?

I found this on the wiki and Cedric's dress robe looks pretty baller.

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:32:43 No.5965561 Report

Quoted By: >>5965573

>>5965557
>Replace the wands with gun
correct
>Cedric´s robe
ahh thank you! i was looking for something like that to use for reference but forgot who was wearing it in the movies, this should do nicely

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:48:30 No.5965573 Report

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>>5965561
Welcome. The wiki has a couple more examples but they all seem pretty similar.

When I was looking for those, I found this pic, which is pretty different from how Arty probably looks in several ways but reminded me of her for some reason. Maybe that how her bed hair looks lol.

Anyway though I would share since the model is cute and the out fit looks nice.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 15:42:27 No.5965888 Report

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Happy Easter to all you wonderful faggots.

As a reminder, if you want to vote to make Elliot and Arty King and Queen of the board, this evening is the cut off to make an anchor post in the thread here:

>>5961796

If we can get some lurkers in on this, I think Elliot at least has a real chance to win!

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 20:24:43 No.5966109 Report

Quoted By: >>5966144

Because my leg of lamb has 3 hours to go and the other cooking is done, I might have found something that sinks the Cocksucker=Merlin theory.

>“Blond, arrogant. And Salazar was in him, Helga. And he had changed.”

Godric said that to us. We had just kind of made the connection after figuring out who Faith was that Cocksucker was Salazar, but that seems more solid, if another founder recognized him like that with no other knowledge of what was going on.

It is possible Merlin could be pretending, make Scorpius more likely to follow his commands. Goddy might have just been able to tell the spirit was male and he was the only other male founder and assumed, not knowing Merlin could have got out.

But if we still want to go with Potter having someone, something in him, another idea fits too.

A shard of Merlin, not even enough to be conscious like the others in his soul. A fraction of a soul. One which could fit just perfectly in the hole a horcrux, a portion of a soul, could have left in Potter. With that small of an amount, it wouldn't have affected him, even getting it as an adult perhaps. Wouldn't even know it was there just like with Voldy.

So Potter dosen't have a whole mind ghost, just enough of one to maybe get some of Merlin's power, telekinesis for example, but no where enough for it to be active. Which would make sense. Potter had access to all the Hallows. If he had a conscious Merlin, he would have been searching for Avalon this whole time, right?

But it would be an issue when he tracks us down here, bringing that piece with him. Merlin may just have planned a back up plan for his back up plan's back up involving getting enough pieces down here so they could come back together.

I think I hypothesized about that before but the Merlin=Cocksuck discussion made me think about it again.

Or I could just be overthinking it and Godric was incorrect since some of the Merlin=Cocksucker stuff is pretty solid.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 31 Mar 2024 20:48:13 No.5966144 Report

Quoted By: >>5966172

>>5966109
Honestly, it could be a matter of "Salazar and Merlin are both the same person now" since a shard of Merlin is in each of the founders. Could be Merlin's Ego, which merged with Salazar's Ego, explaining the change. The worst of both individuals, and the ambitions of both.

On an entirely different note, how hilarious would it be if there ended up being 7 merlin shards? An unintentional perfect horcrux distribution.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 21:09:02 No.5966172 Report

Quoted By: >>5966188

>>5966144
Oh I already have one for that Which would be horrible and screw us in many different and possibly tragic ways.

Helga- Prophesy
Godric- Wandless magic
Rowena- Knowledge of the past/Merlins knowledge
Salazar- Psycometry/Legimency/Putting his voice in peoples heads
Potter- Telekinesis or power over Hogwarts
Apollo- Transfiguration, human in particular
Arty- Ability to communicate and/or control animals

The last 3 only have a shard in their OWN soul, not in a mind ghost so they just use the powers themselves vs needing to rely on a spirit to do it. Helga couldn't detect anything in them b/c she can only scan for mind ghosts. The last 2 just so happened to not end up as a Founder's host...

Those are all powers Merlin is supposed to have IRL or in quest. One corresponding to a shard.

Which means to destroy all the Merlin Horcruxes, Arty has to die if we want to ensure he can't use them to return. Or hopefully, just "die" potter style.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 31 Mar 2024 21:37:42 No.5966188 Report

Quoted By: >>5966209

>>5966172
Nah, son.
Helga, Godric, Rowena, Salazar.
The Wand, The Stone, The Cloak.
Seven.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 22:05:01 No.5966209 Report

Quoted By: >>5966216

>>5966188
Could be. Potter did say they have a will of their own, to a degree. Why he didn't freak out too much when we ended up with the stone. The wand scowled at us, but all wands have personality. All wands do not resurrect skellingtons to start tossing spells, granted.

Got another. Cup of Promise, Cup of Sorrow Where ever the fuck it is., the Mirror of impossibility.

Elliot speculated that the universe itself would have to end for the Mirror to be destroyed. Ultimate Horcrux. Or maybe something is stored in there, something you could only retrieve if you knew about it.

And the fact Big M told Rowena it would be harder to destroy the world with a piece of cheese than the Mirror... yeah. Given he thinks he is saving the world, that would be accurate if he could use it to come back.

Or he was just lying and the Mirror is Secretly the most dangerous of those 3.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 31 Mar 2024 22:09:48 No.5966216 Report

Quoted By: >>5966234 >>5966252

>>5966209
Great guesses, too. But I think the deathly hallows are still the most likely, for three reasons:
One, he integrated them into the entrance of Avalon, which means they'd be right there and waiting for re-integration with his resurrected body.
Two, they're each FAR too valuable for anyone to want to destroy.
Three, which you already touched upon, is that they each house personality in their use or aftereffects. The Wand is about might and conquest. The Stone is about regrets and piercing the boundary between life and death (and conveniently it kills everyone that uses it, possibly as another measure to stop it from ever being destroyed by someone in too much regret), and the cloak is all about avoiding death and notice until the time is right.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 22:33:02 No.5966234 Report

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>>5966216
If Horcruxes were one of his back-ups, I hope you or I are right about the artifacts just so we don't have to deal with actual living people being used as ones but that also bring up the issue of doing something about the bits of him in those items. What the fuck do we do about them? The Hallows were made by people even greater than Merlin, Atlantis at the height of their power. Even as powerful as the founders were and with Ancient magic, they were struggling to even reduce the cup of Promise which was of the same make. Like I doubt a hammer will do shit to the stone, for example. If any of this is true, we would either need to let Merlin's soul vacate those items or deal with a possibility of him coming back forever.

Also while I am sure the Hallows are waiting down there, not sure if Merlin would put so many eggs in 1 basket since they are the key down here if you don't have a goblin digging machine. But as said they are probably all but indestructible, sooo. IDK.

Wait, how about that. A piece of soul in 5 all but indestructable items and one which might be 100% invincible? Then we are just missing one last place for a 7th...

Hogwarts. He helped build it so he could make it into a place to store a part of his soul. He didn't help the founders from the kindness of his heart.

In this theory, his 7th Horcrux is the fucking school he helped build. All but indestructible. Last great piece of magic left from 1000 years ago. Defended by powerful wizards 24/7 and legions of students.

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Anonymous ID:mPp9Qmtv Sun 31 Mar 2024 22:46:07 No.5966252 Report

Quoted By: >>5966265 >>5966269

>>5966216
The stone was already used by Voldemort as a Horcrux though, wasn't it? I don't know if it's possible to make two horcruxes with one artifact, and even if it were I feel like Voldemort would notice someone else was already using it.

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Anonymous ID:c4o8ieXQ Sun 31 Mar 2024 23:03:09 No.5966265 Report

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>>5966252
The ring the stone was in was a horcrux that ended up destroyed, but the stone itself was not.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 23:05:16 No.5966269 Report

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>>5966252
It was the ring itself, not the gem which no one knew was the Resurection Stone.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Sun 31 Mar 2024 23:53:34 No.5966319 Report

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One final thing before time to eat. If Merlin comes back and finds out about nukes, bioweapons, how much nerve gas is in world stock piles right now... he will try and set humans back to the stone age. Undo all that progress because he will see it as a threat which could end the world. It will be horrific.

So even more good motivation to prevent that. Because he will launch an all out extermination campaign vs modern muggles with the plan to only leave enough to not go extinct and keep them in the dark ages forever.

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Mon 01 Apr 2024 01:20:15 No.5966421 Report

Quoted By: >>5966572

yall, the voting has started, you better vote for our tiny witchfu

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 01 Apr 2024 02:42:54 No.5966572 Report

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>>5966421
Already done.

Wish we didn't HAVE to choose 6... I don't know hardly any of these characters for one thing.

Not reeling great about her winning but if she can make it to top 12 and get some free art, that would be great.

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Mon 01 Apr 2024 06:14:27 No.5966759 Report

Quoted By: >>5966782 >>5967208 >>5967229 >>5967268

working on that Mr and Mrs Smith poster but im HEAVILY struggling with the design of her dress.
this is just a WIP but i am NOT happy with the design of the dress, will 100% change it when i continue it, but posting in case anybody else has any other ideas/recommendations.
its mostly the "golden details mixed black" part of the description that im struggling with, the shape of the dress im actually happy with, its just the pattern of it that i have no idea what to do with.
also, hoping that skin color and hair get HeadQM´s approval

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 01 Apr 2024 07:45:37 No.5966782 Report

Quoted By: >>5966797 >>5967282

>>5966759
I really love it so far, probably the best Arty aside from the poster yet. But I agree the dress is just off some how. Like way too much yellow or something? Maybe too bright a yellow? I will see if I can find any examples that might help you get it where you want it when I am no so tired. Shape is good though, and I don't think anyone will struggle to see what this pic is going for.

Face might be a little to big is really the only criticize I could mount and I know it is a WIP.

Hope you had a good Easter Kektus.

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Mon 01 Apr 2024 08:32:59 No.5966797 Report

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>>5966782
oh right, it was easter...thanks.
and also thanks in advance for the examples if you find some

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 01 Apr 2024 18:48:18 No.5967181 Report

Quoted By: >>5967183

Helga Hufflepuff, the kindest of the four founders. All her portraits show her with a wide smile, and, as such, she gained the reputation of being a jolly woman. Clearly, none of her painters had ever seen her angry.

She doesn’t cast magic, not in the way you’re used to. She reshapes reality, bringing fury and lightning with her. Not carefully and gently as she did in the forest of your dreams, but with a violence you’ve never seen before. But Nimue is the queen of this place, and it is her foul liquid which creates it, so the two clash, your memory being warped and twisted as they fight and you collapse on the floor, the Lady’s powers too busy with the Founder in front of her to hold on to you.

The shining beads that are your memories are still wrapped around your neck, giving you strength to fight for them, and from them you pull out your wand. You point it at yourself, shouting “Anapneo!” in your mind, and the spell forces you to cough the shards of glass and porcelain stuck in your throat. From another memory, you pull forth a Wiggenweld Potion and drink it.

“Elliot! Some help would be appreciated!” Helga shouts from somewhere. The black slop has coalesced around Nimue, extending her reach, like a great monster of liquid darkness. Tentacles of liquid fly at you and Helga, and you use the moment to reach into your memories once more and pull out a bottle of Erumpent, flinging it at her now enormous form. It cracks and explodes, Nimue screaming, and Helga waves her wand at the blast of fire and swings it through the air, like a massive blazing wrecking ball, before bringing it down on top of Nimue again.

Nimue howls and the liquid covering her form fires out in all directions, not in thick tentacles, but in the shape of hundreds of extremely sharp and thin needles. One pierces your shoulder, another your leg and a third your foot. Helga was closer and took even more damage, several of the dark needles piercing her whole body.

“I’ve been through worse, you bitch!” Helga raises her hand and the ground begins to shake and crack. From the cracks, hundred, no, thousands of black and yellow badgers come out, tearing and gnawing at the dark liquid and at Nimue, swarming her from all directions. “Elliot! We need to wash this filth!”

“On it!” You close your eyes and force yourself to remember. The holidays of your childhood, the long walks by the stores on Cardiff Bay. “Hold on to something! It’s going to be a lot of water!”

You brace for impact as you reach into your memories and pull out the entirety of the Bristol Channel out of it. A colossal torrent of salt water shoots out from you as it becomes “real”, washing out the dirt and grime and everything in its path, Nimue screams once more, but this time not in pain, but horror as her essence is cleaned, her filth and taint removed by several tons of concentrated water.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 01 Apr 2024 18:49:19 No.5967183 Report

Quoted By: >>5967186

>>5967181

You point the flow at her, and it is like hitting her with a cannon. She’s pushed back and slammed against the walls of this mind-cell she created with enough force to crack it. When you stop the flow, she falls and does not get up.

“Is… is she-”

“She was never alive,” Helga shakes her head, clutching her injuries. “She’s not a person Elliot. No more than the Sorting Hat. They can sound like people but… they are just magical constructs. A loathsome and deadly magical construct, to be sure, but no more than that. And I don’t think she’s broken, nor permanently.”

“Thank you for coming.”

“I was searching everywhere for you, but she hid deep, deep in the corners of your mind. If you hadn’t made her scream… I don’t know what would have happened. I’m sorry I took so long.”

“It’s… it's fine," you say with a forced smile. "I learned a lot.”

“And you lost a lot, too.” She reaches out for the memories around your neck and touches them, learning them. “Ah, I see.”

“Can you… put them back together? Put me back together?”

“No. But I think you might. She said Merlin somehow picked which memories he wanted to remember. You should be able to do the same, if you just keep going. Meanwhile,” she pulls the necklace of shining beads from around your neck and wraps it around your hand, like a long shining rosary of shining beads. “Hold on tight to them and don’t let go. They should keep for a while. I can feel your mind, and it is… mostly whole. Just jostled around. Things that should be screwed tight were unscrewed. This process she was part of… it was meant to be mostly non-destructive, I believe.”

“How bad?” you ask, with no amount of fear in your voice.

“Some scrapes and bruises, but the real precious memories are untouched. Though you may have to make a couple extra reviews for some of your classes. And this particular memory,” she says, pointing to the utter destruction of your house. “Might have a very, very strange epilogue in your head once we get back to reality.”

You laugh, and there is some relief in it. “It’s fine. As long as the start, middle and end are whole, I don’t mind an explosive afterword. Now, how exactly do we get out of here?”

--

“Come on, Pertinger! We need to leave!”

“I’m not leaving him, Brighton!”

“Fine, take him with us, but we can’t stay here! He fell into the lake and it disappeared. There are no holes the liquid could have left through, so that only leaves him! All that crap went into him. Either we go back and get him a healer that knows how to deal with Merlin crap, or we go forward and see if there is something ahead to fix him!”

You come back to your senses, but it is pure darkness, except for the blue small fragments of light around you. You try to speak, but feel something surging from inside you.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 01 Apr 2024 18:50:21 No.5967186 Report

Quoted By: >>5967190

>>5967183

“What’s going on-huuugh!” You heave as an utterly foul taste fills your mouth, coming from your throat. You vomit, not a shy, “I’m queasy” sort of way. No. You projectile it like a torrent out of you. It comes, and comes, and comes, and you feel like there’s no end to it.

“Ah fuck! It splashed on me!”

“Elliot, are you ok!?”

“Huuuuuuugh!”

“Yeah, he’s clearly ok! Look at that, the image of health!”

“I don’t- hooooogh!”

“Oh fuck. It went into him… Now it needs to come out.”

“You’re saying he’s going to throw up a whole lake?”

“I’m saying there’s a puddle, it smells just like the slop, and the puddle is growing at an alarming rate. If he’s going to throw up a lake or not I don’t know, but I suggest these two big, strong men we brought with us help carry him out of here before we’re the ones drowning in it!”

--

“Taylor once held my hair out of the way as I threw up out of the astronomy tower,” Linda, as you’re now sane enough to recognise who’s who by voice, says as Arty gently holds your head over the edge of the now almost filled lake. “It was a bonding experience.”

“I think it’s almost done-hueeehg!”

You have no idea where an entire lake of foulness was stored inside of your body, but having now gone through the experience of regurgitating it, including the boney bits, you can say with certainty it is the single most awful thing that has ever happened to you that wasn’t literally torture, which given your track record is saying something.

“I’m only thanking Merlin for making it so we can’t see what is happening.”

“I think he went through this every time-hueegh!”

“There, there,” Arty says, gently tapping on your back. “It’ll be alright. The worst is over now.”

It still takes you a couple of minutes for you to finish throwing up a lake, then several more minutes of you casting every cleaning enchantment you know on your mouth, then swishing around in your mouth every single liquid you have in your pouch that isn’t deadly. After a long while, the taste is almost gone. Your dignity, however, might take a while to come back.

“Well, I’m never complaining that Ivis has bad breath ever again,” Brighton says. “Good luck kissing anyone any time in the next decade.”

“I’ll brew some hyper-strong mouthwash once we get out of here,” you say, waving dismissively at him before realizing he can’t see it. “Can I have the cane again?”

“You don’t have to ask twice.”

“So, what exactly happened here?” Linda asks.

[Cont.]

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 01 Apr 2024 18:51:30 No.5967190 Report

Quoted By: >>5967192 >>5967229

>>5967186

You give them a brief explanation of what you saw inside your head with Nimue.

“So Merlin was trying to stop the world from ending, again and again?”

“Yeah. And I understand it.” There is a thin line of sanity running through your mind. For the first time, you get it. You had suspected Merlin’s purpose but now you understand it, with blinding clarity. Once someone told you how easy the seemingly impossible task of destroying the world is, it is clear to see. “Nimue said that Merlin said there were ways even the ‘weakest of wizards’ could still end the world.”

“How?”

“Even if we discard some unknown thing… Apollo, what do you need to transfigure a material?”

“Having a general knowledge of what it is and knowing its name, basically.”

“How fast can you transfigure one kilogram of stuff?”

“Almost instant, why?”

“And now… Do you know what antimatter is?”

“No.”

“Good. You shouldn’t, and you should never, under any circumstances, try to transfigure it, ever, or you will die. Understood?”

“I understand.”

“Wait, you’re saying-” Linda starts, but you cut her off.

“And that’s just one thing, one thing which would just erase Britain from the map. Can we transfigure black holes? Can we transfigure, I don’t know, the black plague? Can we transfigure a kilogram of just photons? Or any other of those really tiny particles muggle physicists say that make up protons? What would that do? I’m sure if we stay here and think, me and you can think of at least a dozen other things we could transfigure that would kill everyone on earth. And all it takes is one muggleborn thinking it would be cool to try it and that’s it. Everyone gone.”

“But- but-”

“And that’s just one field of magic, the one we understand better because Merlin couldn’t banish it, or was rediscovered after he did. Can you imagine what we’d be able to do if we knew, if we really knew how spells work? If we could manipulate it as well as the Atlanteans did? That’s not to mention all the crap they could do with Ancient Magic.”

You can see it now, the world ending, again and again, and Merlin stopping it, again and again. It is a wonder it hadn’t ended already. It didn’t need a beast of darkness to do it. Plain old human stupidity was more than enough. If muggles already could wipe out all life on earth with atomic bombs, who was to say what a wizard with the power to violate the very laws of physics with the wave of a stick could do.

Reality suddenly seems far, far more terrifying than just a few moments before.

“So… what do we do now?”

“Well… First we assume that if the world hasn’t ended until now, it won’t immediately be destroyed by an idiot. Second, we worry about the immediate threat of Salazar and the Beast. And then…”

“And then?” Linda asks, and there is honest fear in her voice.

“I’m not sure,” you say. “But if we want the world to keep on surviving... the next step might be to finish what Merlin started.”

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 01 Apr 2024 18:52:40 No.5967192 Report

Quoted By: >>5967208 >>5967213 >>5967229 >>5967246 >>5967249 >>5967272 >>5968016

>>5967190

Final choice of the thread! You stayed inside the lake to ask questions and that has consequences. Choose a subject to lose 6 points from. These are the only ones you have over 5 points in, so they are the only ones that can be chosen.

> Battle Rolls (45 -> 39)
> Army Rolls (35 -> 29)
> Potions (24 -> 18)

--

I'll be taking a break for at least a week before starting the next thread. Life has been happening and I haven't been able to put enough effort as I'd like, so I'll wait until things have stabilized a bit and I can come back with more energy. As always, feedback is always appreciated!

I've archived the thread, so don't forget to vote!
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Disappearing%20Hogwarts

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Mon 01 Apr 2024 19:12:46 No.5967208 Report

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>>5967192
>Choose a subject to lose 6 points from
>Potions (24 -> 18)
we have a natural capability for that one, we can regain them easily in the future

another great thread, HeadQM, thank you for such an amazing quest so far
btw, could i get your input on this? >>5966759

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Anonymous ID:oENCmIrG Mon 01 Apr 2024 19:16:40 No.5967213 Report

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>>5967192
>> Potions (24 -> 18)
Thank you for running, QM!

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Mon 01 Apr 2024 19:29:37 No.5967229 Report

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>>5966759
This is great. I actually like the color scheme quite a bit!

>>5967190
>any wizard anywhere that knows much about exotic materials or subatomic particles can just destroy the earth whenever they want
I think I sort of sympathize with Merlin, anons.

>>5967192
> Battle Rolls (45 -> 39)
Good stuff, QM. Enjoy the break, and thanks for running!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:3VyIlwDA Mon 01 Apr 2024 19:52:37 No.5967246 Report

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>>5967192
> Army Rolls (35 -> 29)
5 threads to come to the conclusion that took MoR!Harry like 5 books. Just a matter of time before we get the True Patronus and the real Philosopher's Stone. Those were some pretty neat twists.

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Anonymous ID:7rJWYSSq Mon 01 Apr 2024 19:55:34 No.5967249 Report

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>>5967192
Epic quest
>potions

Holy fuck that was a wild ride.

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HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Mon 01 Apr 2024 20:19:54 No.5967268 Report

Quoted By: >>5967282

>>5966759
There is something that looks weird about her back leg, my brain can't recognize a knee in it, and the flow of the dress makes it look like its just a super thin leg. Don't know if that's the sort of thing that gets solved with shading or what, but that's all. Maybe a leg-strap for the wand? I'm sure that's how Ginny carries hers when she's using a dress like that. Everything else looks great!

Also, for when you're drawing Elliot, he's quite a fair bit taller than her (everyone is, really), so even with her on the tip or her toes or in some high heels there will be a size difference.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 01 Apr 2024 20:23:15 No.5967272 Report

Quoted By: >>5967381

>>5967192
Bad ass ending for the thread dude. Blowing out the Lady of the Fucking lake, Helga flexing her power for real and showing nice does not mean weak, the hoard of Fucking Badgers she could apparently conjure back in the day? Learning some of the stuff we suspected was right and other things were 100% off base?

The paranoid discussions at the end which may or may not end up spoiling shit has been great.

Some bad ass art being posted? And the possibility of Elliot and Arty being recognized as best boy and girl across the board?

I hope you have a good break but I hope you recharge quickly.

> Potions (24 -> 18)

It is the least obviously relevant right now. Army rolls are hard to get again, since we no longer command an Army in BC and we might need to command our current "Army" soon. We need Battle rolls for obvious reasons.

With potions, we have 2 good books to help us relearn, IC, and maybe when this shakes out we can do double potions again one week if QM approves.

The others are supposed to have a +20 to their specialized fields so we wouldn't be that far behind in game mechanics.

I now wish we had done just 1 more study session with Arty and could have just forgotten about magical Beasts but oh well.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Mon 01 Apr 2024 20:34:30 No.5967282 Report

Quoted By: >>5967307

>>5967268
>Don't know if that's the sort of thing that gets solved with shading
yeah, thats the plan along with some folds in the dress to show the position of her leg
>leg-strap for the wand
yeah, thats also in the plan
i was mostly asking for the colors and the pattern on the dress itself, im not really happy with it and even >>5966782 agrees with it, guess i´ll have to look for more ideas to fix that.
>Size
oh yeah, trust me, this is like, half the image, Elliot still has like a head of advantage at least

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 01 Apr 2024 21:05:50 No.5967307 Report

Quoted By: >>5967312 >>5967387

>>5967282
It is really hard to find yellow and black accented formal dresses. Looking around, maybe:

https://www.gemgrace.com/11861-black-and-yellow-striped-aline-long-formal-dress.html

or picrel but with black details vs showing skin for some ideas? I will keep my eye out. Might turn to anime designs if you are still looking for ideas by then.

If you really don't like what you can come up with, just a black dress possibly trimmed with yellow would be closer to the Mr & Mrs. Smith image and still look great. Even if it isn't accurate to what she wore.

I told people a little black dress way the way. Timeless, classic, and easier for our art-fag to find examples of lol.

I should have another shitty alt-fic out by next thread too.

Were you the guy who commed IndonesianGentleman for the Elliot pic? If it was you, how much was it. I know he is probably busy right now but I would like to buy one of Arty in the same style.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Mon 01 Apr 2024 21:14:44 No.5967312 Report

Quoted By: >>5967387

>>5967307
>last spoiler
nah, wasnt me

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Mon 01 Apr 2024 22:36:04 No.5967381 Report

Quoted By: >>5967397

>>5967272
If we forget about magical beast lessons, we probably also forget about any cute or sexy moments we had when we learned it...

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RQM ID:kkOINkSV Mon 01 Apr 2024 22:39:50 No.5967387 Report

Quoted By: >>5967397

>>5967307
>>5967312
That was me. $20 USD is his usual rate for lineart I think, though in big batches he sometimes cuts a deal. If she gets into the top 12 in the Kings & Queens contest she'll get some IG art free, though! (Well, on my dime and that of anyone else donating to the tourney).

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Mon 01 Apr 2024 22:58:45 No.5967397 Report

Quoted By: >>5967753

>>5967381
That is true enough. Are we going to need to be reminded that we have Snape's book?

>>5967387
Ah cool I see. I saw that so I was going to wait to see if that happened and I am sure he is very busy right now. But that is a very reasonable rate considering how well Elliot turned out. Does he have a twitter or anything.

RQM

RQM ID:ak+gsya5 Tue 02 Apr 2024 05:33:41 No.5967753 Report

Quoted By: >>5968127

>>5967397
I don't use Twitter anymore, really. I know he has a Fiverr and can also be rwcahed in the Kings & Queens thread, or on Discord.

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Anonymous ID:7IaQ0Yw6 Tue 02 Apr 2024 14:38:40 No.5968016 Report

Quoted By: >>5968113 >>5968127 >>5968190

Just finished reading the entirety of this quest (over the course of the past month or so) and I just want to say that it is probably the best quest I’ve ever read. I’ve been browsing the board for a few years now and I’ve never seen anything quite like this. Published authors haven’t been able to invest me in characters anywhere near as well as you have, OP.

>>5967192
> Army Rolls (35 -> 29)

I hope HeadQM enjoys his very well-earned break! I look forward to participating in the next thread and seeing how this all ends!!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 02 Apr 2024 18:13:50 No.5968113 Report

Quoted By:

>>5968016
ayy, welcome to the Elliot Hallaster´s Wild Ride, please enjy your stay

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 02 Apr 2024 18:15:30 No.5968114 Report

Quoted By: >>5968127 >>5968157

fellas, thread will die soon, before than happens, there is some sort of questionary in the K&Q thread specifically for Queen nominees, who and how do we reply to it?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 02 Apr 2024 18:59:06 No.5968127 Report

Quoted By: >>5968135 >>5968157

>>5968114
Are you talking about this?

>>5967833

It doesn't look like its just QMs answering so we could try and come up with answers. I might give it a shot and post it here so anyone left can take a look, after I eat lunch.

>>5968016
Awesome. Enjoy. Best quest I have read in years, evidenced by me writing like 70000 words of fan fiction based on a fucking fan fiction quest based on children's novels.

>>5967753
Sweet, thank you.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 02 Apr 2024 19:12:52 No.5968135 Report

Quoted By:

>>5968127
yeah, that one, maybe we could do a quick rundown here and post the answers once we all agree on them?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 02 Apr 2024 19:45:55 No.5968157 Report

Quoted By: >>5968166 >>5968190

>>5968114
>>5968127

>I always try to stand up straight and tall. It helps with being a bit short. And when I've been sad and walked around with my head down before because some thing happened, it made my brother, Apollo, and Elliot worry about me and I hate that!

>Why would I do that? What is wrong with you? I don't care if it was Tom Riddle as a kid, I'd never hurt him! I know what it is like. I would adopt them, give them the best home I could. Maybe if that happened to Voldemort he wouldn't have turned out like he did.

>WHAT IS WRONG YOU? I love animals, even if the magic badgers can take a finger tip off. I would never hurt a little doggy!

>Is "crack" like one of those banned potions? I am pretty sure I could stun someone like that pretty quickly so we could get him some help or shove one of the bezoars Elliot insists I carry and neutralize the potion.

>The magic police, Aurors are scary. We were being stalked by a bunch of rouge ones... but if I got the drop on them I think. My draw speed is getting much better since training with an insane murderer 4 nights a week.

>Same as above, I suppose. I would need to get close and can't apparate yet but I am pretty good at the disillusionment charm after all the mock battles last year.

>Those are the big metal golems from the future right? We watched that movie when me and my brother were staying with Elliot's parents at Christmas. Well, I'm not strong enough or good at Transfiguration like Apollo... but I was there when Potter showed every one how to use mulfulgar, the lightning summoning charm. And was there why we should never use it. But it my friends, my brother, my boy friend was there... I could use it, even if it cost me my life. So yeah, I could stop it if I had to.

>Is that the muggle who was alot like Grindlewald? But he is also a metal golem too? I guess same as above. I really hope these things aren't real, but if they were, I wouldn't back down if they tried to hurt the people I care about!

>Heh. I am tiny but strong. The insane bastard puts us through Elliot and I through hell every evening, including making me exercise so hard I puke. Easy.

>I'm 4'7. Running isn't my forte but I my stamina is getting better. I managed to catch up to Apollo even though he has a foot and a half on me. I would be pissed you made me do it but I could manage. Hardwork and not giving up are what it means to be a Hufflpuff!

>Im... more frail than most witches, but I'm tough! I could survive as long as its wheels didn't go over my head, I think. Doesn't mean I want to spend a week in St. Mungo's Hospital recovering though! So I am going to avoid testing it.

>One of those big towers muggles store their food in?! Yeah no way. If one of those falls, please put flowers on my grave.

>Elliot said specifically if some one ever pulls a gun on me and I can't expelliarmus them that instant, run. There something call "a Muggle with a shotgun theory" so no that's a bit much.

Part 1/2

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 02 Apr 2024 19:53:10 No.5968166 Report

Quoted By: >>5968173 >>5968190

>>5968157
PArt 2/2

>Elliot says there is no air up there, so a Bubble Head charm would work for a while but he said there are other problems. So lets not see?

>I don't know what that is but if it is any thing like Mortal Combat, yeah no.

> I don't know what that is but I had been tossed to the ground from that high and was okay, if very sore the next day.

>I'm a witch. I make physics my bitch every day, multiple times a day.

>I can cast a decent finite incantum and there are potions I know of to cure other maladies. Maybe that would work on the OP guy. If not, you should accept people for how they are.

>Magic makes impossible thing possible. I could probably manage, some how!

So obviously my answers were too long. I have a bad habit of being wordy. Feel free to help trim down answers, I wanted to answer them in a way that gave people an idea of who she was if they never read the quest.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 02 Apr 2024 20:00:39 No.5968173 Report

Quoted By: >>5968199 >>5968218

>>5968166
lemme get to lunch time and i´ll try to short it a bit, but great work, this should do nicely, once i post my shorten version and if we agree its fine, then we can post

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 02 Apr 2024 20:12:18 No.5968180 Report

Quoted By:

actually, i could make a quick couple of doodles of Arty being interviewed when i get home, but that would be around 7 hours from now, dont know if we are willing to wait that long, specially with the thread so close to dying

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Tue 02 Apr 2024 20:24:09 No.5968190 Report

Quoted By: >>5968220

>>5968016
Awww, thanks anon! And welcome to the quest! If only I could get an agent or publisher to agree with you on the quality of my writing, that would be marvelous

>>5968157
>>5968166
This looks fairly accurate in spirit. I might write something up in a couple of days to post on the thread, too, with Arty reacting to everything that is going on over there

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 02 Apr 2024 20:51:43 No.5968199 Report

Quoted By:

>>5968173
Thank you. I realized I combined the soldier/swat team question but I feel like the answer would be similar... also forgetting words. I swear I have mild dyslexia or something.

We have 3 threads ahead before we drop... that could mean days or a few hours if the troon spammer goes on a tear.

I can try to fix up a couple of things I missed or messed up, maybe shave a bit off too. And post it on reentry.

Truly you are a hero we don't deserve.

And I am 100% committed to getting IG to draw up a matching Arty to go with his Elliot, even if she gets free art from being in the top 12. 20 bucks is well worth it, but I will see if she gets free art first.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 02 Apr 2024 21:24:05 No.5968218 Report

Quoted By: >>5968220 >>5968279

>>5968173
Here is an edited version that might have shaved a few words off and fixed a couple of mistakes if you want to work with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Tue 02 Apr 2024 21:26:15 No.5968220 Report

Quoted By: >>5968279 >>5968310

>>5968218
https://rentry.org/cf5rh6gz

And I am a moron.

>>5968190
Hey you never know. There is at least 1 QM I know of that went on to write a couple of novels that were decent!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Tue 02 Apr 2024 23:04:10 No.5968279 Report

Quoted By: >>5968329

>>5968220
>>5968218
heh, i like it, very in character,i say this works nicely
do you want to wait for me to get home and do some quick doodles or do you want to post these already?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QA5xd/WU Tue 02 Apr 2024 23:46:12 No.5968310 Report

Quoted By: >>5968329

>>5968220
Shadow qm?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:14:15 No.5968329 Report

Quoted By: >>5968341 >>5970381

>>5968310
Yeah. I think Soma was going to try and make a book based on the quest setting but no clue if that if ever panned out. And PrincessGuardQM is still working on his VN based on the quest last I heard.

>>5968279
I think we can wait? Still a couple before dropping off the board, but it is up to you, I don't know how fast you sketch of if you will feel like it after work bro.

Also to if this is a decent enough set of answer's for Arty if anyone is left here. Worse come to worse, I will post it if the thread dies and if you still want, you can post the sketch linked to it.

If anyone still is here, I am open to suggestion to change answers.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:21:55 No.5968341 Report

Quoted By: >>5968359

>>5968329
>last row in the catalog
oh man, its gonna be close, as soon as i get home i´ll start doodling.
yeah, if the thread dies before i get home, post them, i´ll link the drawing later

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:36:02 No.5968359 Report

Quoted By: >>5968646

>>5968341
Sounds like a plan.

If anyone has critiques, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Also if any lurkers registered to vote, give our girl some love! I think she had 6 votes lat time I checked. I didn't bother to count how many the other candidates had. So get out there and rock the vote!

Or don't I am not you supervisor.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Wed 03 Apr 2024 07:15:24 No.5968646 Report

Quoted By: >>5968675

>>5968359
btw, did some quick research, apparently "Hell in a Cell" is a wrestling match, so she could probably survive a 16ft fall through an announcers table
currently doodling, will deliver in an around an hour

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Wed 03 Apr 2024 07:18:20 No.5968649 Report

Quoted By:

also, something to consider, she is one of the few, if not the only, "regular human" in the entire contest and she is still the humblest of them all, we could use that to our advantage, the cute and humble side instead of the cocky try hard

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Wed 03 Apr 2024 08:39:48 No.5968674 Report

Quoted By: >>5968675 >>5968680 >>5968861

done!
i wanted to do more, but im afraid i could only do one for now, post this image whenever you post the responses

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 03 Apr 2024 08:44:31 No.5968675 Report

Quoted By: >>5968676

>>5968646
I figured that out lol. Yeah, she would probably be alright. Sore but alright. Kinda funny that a witch, albeit a not strong one, is one of the weakest contestants lol

I tried to make the responses pretty innocent/ humble but also show she can be pretty fiery. Might have done okay I think

>>5968674
Fucking awesome, I will post this over in the contest thread after changing like 1 pixel so it isn't a repeat on the board in regards to images, with the answers I wrote up.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Wed 03 Apr 2024 08:45:55 No.5968676 Report

Quoted By: >>5968681

>>5968675
great! thanks for taking care of the posting m8!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 03 Apr 2024 08:54:09 No.5968680 Report

Quoted By:

>>5968674
And done. Wish I could have fit it all in 1 post but hey, that is just how I write. Long, baby. Long and with numerous spelling mistakes. Thank Merlin for spell check!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 03 Apr 2024 08:56:00 No.5968681 Report

Quoted By:

>>5968676
No, thank you. That sketch is now one of my favorites you have done so far. It just screams "I don't know what is going on, I'm just happy to be here!" or something similar. Extremely cute Arty.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 03 Apr 2024 16:04:02 No.5968861 Report

Quoted By: >>5968983

>>5968674
Thanks anon, this is great!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 03 Apr 2024 19:36:14 No.5968983 Report

Quoted By: >>5968994

>>5968861
my pleasure! i will do more whevener i can
looks like its already working, she is getting fanart from other contestants!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 03 Apr 2024 20:05:27 No.5968994 Report

Quoted By:

>>5968983
Lol, I saw that! Very cute stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QIE8Iit/ Wed 03 Apr 2024 20:36:15 No.5969008 Report

Quoted By: >>5969019 >>5969028 >>5969038 >>5969058 >>5969092

Hi I'm new to this quest. Reading thread 1. Am constantly baffled because it has been years since I read HP and this is a very surreal oc fanfic style quest.

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2

HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2 ID:Z04gV2kL Wed 03 Apr 2024 20:41:55 No.5969019 Report

Quoted By: >>5969153 >>5970378

>>5969008
Welcome! It is a bit different, but it was my way of dealing with making the HP cannon saner. I do love them, but they the plot has more holes than swiss cheese.

Making the original books now in-universe books with historical inaccuracies gave me enough wiggle room to make the characters much more competent, and pull plenty of twists based on original. Hope you enjoy reading it, anon!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 03 Apr 2024 20:46:56 No.5969028 Report

Quoted By: >>5969153

>>5969008
welcome! enjoy your stay!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Wed 03 Apr 2024 20:55:32 No.5969038 Report

Quoted By: >>5969092 >>5969153

>>5969008
Realistically, as long as you remember the main characters and plot points (or don't mind doing the occasional Google search), you're golden. I haven't read HP or watched one of the films since probably a decade or so, except the first Fantastic Beasts.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 03 Apr 2024 21:45:58 No.5969058 Report

Quoted By: >>5969092 >>5969153

>>5969008
do tell which parts are your favorites, always curious to find out who likes what the most

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 03 Apr 2024 22:32:03 No.5969092 Report

Quoted By: >>5969095 >>5969153

>>5969058
>>5969008

I will second that. I know which parts I love, but always interesting to see what people enjoy. Happy to have you here!

Especially since I have written far, far too many word making alt or lewd fics of this thing. It is fun for me. And for the like two people who read them, I am almost done with the worst thing I have ever written. One speculating on what would make Elliot use the Killing Curse when even his best friend dying didn't. It made me kind of sick to write some parts, which I think is a good sign it is getting the idea across.

I personally like the small character interactions, the big fights, Elliot being a weirdo but a competent one, and trying to figure shit out before QM reveals it. Currently 2 for 2 on spoiling reveals.

>>5969038
There was a marathon of the movies on Bravo or something recently so I am kinda refreshed on the movie versions at least. Might skim the books since I have time right now working PRN. The second fantasic beasts is... not amazing desu. Had a couple of cool scenes but... yeah. Might check the final one out at some point if very bored, I guess.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Wed 03 Apr 2024 22:36:58 No.5969095 Report

Quoted By: >>5969134

>>5969092
>new gut wrenching fanfic incoming
oh hell yeah, this is gonna be fun

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Wed 03 Apr 2024 23:44:41 No.5969134 Report

Quoted By:

>>5969095
>this is gonna be fun

I hope not. I am going to try and finish the last like 1/6 today and post before we fall off the board. If I cant get it out, it will give me time to edit and make it more horrible.

As a chaser there is a short one nearly done of Elliot and Arty going to try and find a snager nest, her showing she is a Disney princess minus the singing, and some actual lewds. Some of the better lewd I think I have put out I believe.

So something to look forward to next thread if I take too long.

Also edited some of the others as V2's and am putting everything in one spot so anyone who wants can find them easily and read in chronographic order.

Thank you for reading my shitty writing, as always.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:R350BBkO Thu 04 Apr 2024 00:17:53 No.5969153 Report

Quoted By: >>5969155 >>5969249

>>5969019
>>5969028
>>5969038
>>5969058
>>5969092
Thanks for the warm reception. This is going to take me a while though because you guys have real meaty 1000 post threads.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:hvSJoubi Thu 04 Apr 2024 00:24:55 No.5969155 Report

Quoted By:

>>5969153
A solid half of that is just banter, and about 1/4 of any thread is Chatty Anon. They aren't nearly as long as they seem, if you just read HeadQM's updates.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 04 Apr 2024 02:38:41 No.5969249 Report

Quoted By:

>>5969153
If you have 4chanX or another extension, feel free to filter me. I DO like to talk and address points, ect.

For the actual updates, it is like a one night read. I was working on sticking all the updates into a PDF but other stuff caught mt interest so I only managed like the 1st thread. Might pick that project back up at some point.

I do think the banter is a good part of the fun, however. Regardless, always good to have another player.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Thu 04 Apr 2024 06:11:53 No.5969365 Report

Quoted By: >>5969572 >>5969658

>Arty in 21th place
would she be mad? disappointed? or would she not care?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:kaOjeUy3 Thu 04 Apr 2024 15:14:14 No.5969572 Report

Quoted By:

>>5969365
I think she would pretend she didn't care, but would in fact care a little, and beat herself up for letting down her supporters. Probably would have been surprised and flattered to br nominated, though!

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Thu 04 Apr 2024 17:56:43 No.5969658 Report

Quoted By:

>>5969365
Awwwww. [sad hufflepuff noises]

If it makes anyone feel better I am going to commission IndonasianGentelman for a piece of Arty Art to match the one he did of Elliot. I just wanted to see if she would make top 12 before doing anything concrete.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Fri 05 Apr 2024 02:22:44 No.5970016 Report

Quoted By: >>5970118

well, with Arty pretty much out of the competition, how do we focus on Elliot? should we have Arty in the background cheering for him?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 05 Apr 2024 05:50:42 No.5970118 Report

Quoted By: >>5970160

>>5970016
That would be pretty good. If Kektus feels like it, Arty in a cheerleader outfit jumping up screaming "Go Elliot!" or something would be amazing. Yes her skirt going up enough to see a bare glimpse of her underwear is required for said pic.

Since my answers to the interview thing didn't win us any votes, I am happy to hand that off to someone else if Elliot does something similar, unless no one wants to do it.

I think emphasizing he is an absolute dork but stupidly brave and loyal, as well as kinda clever, might work to our favor.

If a new thread isn't up by the time King voting starts and this one dies, I guess we could do some planning in the CutyG thread.

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Anonymous ID:9L7jhD30 Fri 05 Apr 2024 07:59:33 No.5970160 Report

Quoted By: >>5970222

>>5970118
>If Kektus feels like it
pic related
> Arty in a cheerleader outfit jumping up screaming "Go Elliot!"
>skirt going up enough to see a bare glimpse of her underwear
sure thing, i´ll get to it this weekend

>I think emphasizing he is an absolute dork but stupidly brave and loyal, as well as kinda clever, might work to our favor.
agreed, charisma and personality seems to be an important factor in getting votes, or at least it looks like it is

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 05 Apr 2024 10:39:20 No.5970222 Report

Quoted By: >>5970393 >>5970472

>>5970160
My bad dude, I am tired, and your ID changes a lot.

I swear you were pink like 2 days ago.

And please don't feel obliged to work on something if it doesn't pique you interest. But Arty in a cheer costume does things for me, personally.

If you ever have any requests or ideas for a fic, please let me know, btw. I know they aren't great but I can try, lol.

>agreed, charisma and personality seems to be an important factor in getting votes, or at least it looks like it is

Yeah, and just quest popularity and getting the coom vote. Like I think this is the best written quest on the board right now but another one, which is good but not amazing from what I have read, got more votes for the FemMC because in part it is a bit more lewd-ish and has a stupid-sexy protag with a lot of art or art references for the character.

For the King, I think that will matter less. So yeah charisma and being relatable will help a lot to get Elliot into the top 12 at least. Also getting lurkers or archive readers to register for that vote. If there is a Q&A again I am happy to write the responses again unless some one else can do it better or if no one else wants to do it.

Maybe "Fuck 'em up Lord Hallaster" for her cheer? it works well for rolls. IDK.

I finished up the "chaser" to the fucked up fic tonight at least. It ended up with a good amount of lewd front loaded then some very sweet stuff at the end. Might end up just putting the non lewd second part in its own thing. So now I just need to finish the one that made an online friend I had proof read it say "What the fuck is wrong with you."

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Anonymous ID:lPCoDAk7 Fri 05 Apr 2024 17:34:33 No.5970378 Report

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>>5969019
I just got done binging this quest over the past few days and I wanted to say thank you OP for such a fun and entertaining read.

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Anonymous ID:lPCoDAk7 Fri 05 Apr 2024 17:35:34 No.5970381 Report

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>>5968329
>Princess Guard Quest
That quest was so fucking good until shipping faggotry completely derailed and ruined it IMO

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Anonymous ID:cZyChCND Fri 05 Apr 2024 18:05:06 No.5970393 Report

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>>5970222
You should probably consider writing a quest of your own sometime, with this level of dedication.

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 05 Apr 2024 19:02:53 No.5970422 Report

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>>5970393
Writing these fics has made me really consider finding my old notes for an urban fantasy quest I started planning years ago but never had the balls to run. Maybe when this one ends I will put something together. I am a bit of a flake though and if people ended up liking it, I wouldn't want to disappoint them by suddenly dropping it. We will see, doing these has flexed my old writing muscles and reminded me I used to like creative writing.

>>5970381
One of the 1st ones I read. I loved it till the sword fight with rival guy and Reinhard losing despite good rolls because the rival got one of the super magic swords we were explicitly told the MC would never get in the quest. It was BS.

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Anonymous ID:6ANqtXIg Fri 05 Apr 2024 20:58:12 No.5970472 Report

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>>5970222
>I swear you were pink like 2 days ago
yeah, well, you are not wrong, thats just when i post from work and i spend a lot of time here, so its natural pink would be the one used the most

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Anonymous ID:QEBR2fRz Fri 05 Apr 2024 22:17:11 No.5970510 Report

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>>5970472
Got you. All of the hospitals and ERs I have worked at, including the one I PRN at now have 4Chan blocked on the wifi, which makes sense, and my cell has like an IP range block so I am stuck just posting from home. Grated I don't work much now, so no a huge issue.

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