>>6058730

Mr. Blue is several meters away, fighting Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver with the help of Mr. Gray. Salazar is behind him, trying to find a way to safely reach the Elixir of Life by Arthur, and getting repeatedly cut off by Mr. Purple’s blasts.

You close your eyes, focus on the form in Mr. Blue’s pocket and shout, trying to force your will through the unfamiliar wand in your hand.

“Accio!”

Your wand flies off Mr. Blue’s robes, falling on the grass, and a second accio lands it on your hands. You can’t fetch your friends’s wands because of anti-summoning enchantments, but it is better than nothing. You toss Brighton the wand and he does the same.

“Destroy their damn wands!” Scorpius shouts.

“What!?” Mr. Blue shouts, surprised. That sort of thing just wasn’t done. To break someone’s wand was almost unthinkable, almost akin to attacking their very magic.

“Now, Alistair!” Salazar rages. “Or do you wish for more enemies to fight?”

Alistair, or whoever Mr. Blue is, dives behind one of the transparent stones and you hear a sickening sound of wood cracking and snapping. By your side, Brighton is gripping Mr. Red’s wand, along with his own, fury in his eyes. Arty just looks shocked, mouth gaping open.

You take Mr. Red´s wand from Brighton’s hands and shove it on Arty’s. You can’t afford the luxury of shock.

“Arty, take this. Arty. Arty!” You snap your fingers in front of of her until she reacts.

“He- He broke my wand!” She says in a pitch so high it almost hurts your ears.

“And we’ll make him pay for that, then use the Elder Wand to fix it once we’re out of here, ok? But now we need to fight.”

She looks at you for a moment, scared, then a determined look falls on her face and she nods.

“You lead, I’ll follow.”

> “Go free Linda and your brother! Give him the wand, tell him to join us, then hide!”
> “Stand behind the door, give us supporting fire!”
> “The three of us, together. We can do it.”
> Other (Write in)

You peek again at the battle raging on on the fields of Avalon, only to see Scorpius leap through a barrage of spells and fall on a roll by the basin filled with glowing white liquid.

“Buy me time, you two!” Salazar shouts as the Elixir of Life begins to levitate from its bowl.

What do you do?

> Rush Salazar, you can’t risk him creating a body for himself
> The process takes some time. Join Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver in eliminating the other two men
> Other (Write in)

>>6058732
> “The three of us, together. We can do it.”

> The process takes some time. Join Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver in eliminating the other two men

You're back! Good to see this again!

>>6058732
Nice, we're back
> “Go free Linda and your brother! Give him the wand, tell him to join us, then hide!”
We need all our allies freed or we're doomed
> The process takes some time. Join Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver in eliminating the other two men
I'd rather have Purple and Silver win over Salazar any day. We need to tell them Salazar needs to be ALIVE or he'll body jump. Scorpius is still in there, and if he dies then Malfoy kills us all. Salazar could Diffindo his neck or something to kill himself to dodge us if we don't disable him as much as possible. Blue will need all the Skele-Gro in the world by the time we are done with his bones for breaking Arty's wand.

>>6058732
>“Stand behind the door, give us supporting fire!”
> The process takes some time. Join Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver in eliminating the other two men

holy shit, so hype to have you back HeadQM!
hope everything is going well for you

>>6058732
And we're back!

> “Go free Linda and your brother! Give him the wand, tell him to join us, then hide!”
> The process takes some time. Join Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver in eliminating the other two men
Not like he knows how the process works exactly anyway.

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>>6058732
> “Go free Linda and your brother! Give him the wand, tell him to join us, then hide!”

>Brighton, cover her and don't die!

Arty is pretty skilled, but she just doesn't have the magic output to do much with a wand which isn't hers. We were barely able to accio ours back, and we are more powerful than her. She should have to juice to cut some ropes, however.

Apollo just has the raw power to push through using a different wand.

We are beating the fuck out of Mr. Blue for doing something so terrible to our future wife, taking away something so important to her.

>Accio our pouch

We are out of wiggenweld, but we should still have erudus, girding in there. An alchemist flashbang and an erumpent. A maxima too, probably.

Time to guzzle wizard drugs and start tossing hand grenades.

Lets fucking gooooo.

>>6058732
> “Go free Linda and your brother! Give him the wand, tell him to join us, then hide!”
> Rush Salazar, you can’t risk him creating a body for himself

Binged this quest after checking the archive, incredibly good work. Glad it's back.
> “Go free Linda and your brother! Give him the wand, tell him to join us, then hide!”
> The process takes some time. Join Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver in eliminating the other two men

>>6058732
> “Stand behind the door, give us supporting fire!”
> The process takes some time. Join Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver in eliminating the other two men

remember how unstable the elixir is, we just need to get it away from him which we have plenty of time to do

>>6059331
99.9% percent that Potter is on his way as well. If we can keep Salazar away long enough, we will likely end up with him rushing in. Downside, is of course he will end up recalling his daughter due to the Ancient Magic stuff down here. While he would likely be disabled at least as long as Mr. Red, which could give us a chance to fight back I imagine he would bring Hermione and Ron, since they are his close friends.They would likely be disabled too, but the spooks and cops that would escort them would not be.

We are in a precarious situation, since it is us and our teenage friends vs. Scorpy vs. the hired guns and soon vs. Potter and his friends.

We ourselves have a couple of reasons to not want to have the elixir destroyed. Bringing Taylor back, giving Arty back a normal lifespan and magic power, trying to create a body for Helga and maybe Rowena and Godrick. Our central motivation of seeking Ancient power.

A clusterfuck and I love it.

>>6059426
don't forget the elixir can fucking explode iirc

>>6059427

As far as you know, only if hit by the Killing Curse

--

“Go!” You shout at Arty. “Free those two! Give Apollo the wand and hide!”

“I can fight!” She says, giving you an angry look.

You don’t have time to argue. You wish you could make a different call. You wish she had more power, because Merlin knows she can fight harder than anyone else among your friends. But right now, her raw power would just make her an easy target at best and a liability. You wish you had the time to find the words to explain that to her in a way that wouldn’t hurt her feelings.

But spells are flying and time is short, so you just kiss her instead.

“Please, Arty,” you say, breaking the kiss.

She frowns at you, not happy, but nods.

“Now!” You and Brighton jump out of cover, dashing towards where Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver are fighting. But something inside you shakes and your legs, already injured from the previous chamber, lose their footing. Brighton turns to help you, but you just wave him away. “Go, I’m fine!”

He goes, and you stand up, only to be struck again, as if your heart was trying to hammer its way out of your chest. You can feel it, the Beast throwing its entire body against the gates inside your soul, trying to break through.

“Helga!”

“I’m- I’m trying to stop it, but I don’t know what I can do! I- I can’t see what I’m doing!”

You force yourself to stand up and bear the blows. If only you could get the Elixir, you could make yourself a body able to endure it, or better yet, create Helga a body, and pass the Gate on to her. But there are at least three dark wizards between you and it, and one of those is the creator of your House.

You wave your wand trying to summon your pouch, but it is firmly attached to Mr. Blue’s hips. So you do the only thing you can do: You join the fight.

Mr. Blue and Mr. Gray are fighting with everything they have, and they have an advantage. They don’t need to win. They don’t need to to defeat their enemies. They just need to hold on long enough for their master to build himself a body and destroy everyone in his path.

So they summon shield after shield, barrier after barrier, they slow and deflect, conjuring glimmering walls of force and impenetrable blockades. And Mr. Purple and Mr. Silver tear them down one by one, with unrelenting fury, making it clear you are sorely outmatched in a fight of adults with auror-level skills.

You join them and Brighton, clutching at your aching chest.

> Roll 3d100+30 (+45 from Battle Rolls, -25 from the Beast and injuries, +10 from Brighton’s help). Bo3, DC 100

Rolled 76, 12, 61 + 30 = 179 (3d100 + 30)

>>6059493

>>6059497
Alright, I phrased that poorly. Should have been roll A d100+x. I'll consider just the first roll of yours, let us let other people roll (who knows what a potential 100 can bring)

Rolled 45 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>6059493
>DC 100
That's BULLSHIT
>+30
OK maybe not that much with that included. This guy >>6059497 already won it with 76+30=106, right? I'll still roll anyway

>>6059502
OP's holding out for a crit.

>>6059493
>DC 100
jesus christ, HeadQM, you came with a vengance, didnt you?
aight...WITNESS ME BROTHERS! plz no bully

>>6059508
I see. Well I hope Elliot can drop a line to Mr. Purple telling him we'd rather anybody but Salazar get the elixir, for obvious reasons. Or maybe to Mr. Silver, I dunno. Either way we're their backup, so they need to put up with our shit

>>6059511
I'm witnessing you failing, faggot. You capitalized the D of dice or something?

Rolled 95 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>6059511
>forgot to roll
embarrassing...

>>6059513
no, i forgot to add the "dice" part
>>6059514
>95
like i was saying: WITNESS ME!

>>6059514
It's no nat 100, but it's close enough ain't it? That better count for how this next scene plays out

>>6059497
>>6059516

>>6059514
I have witnessed. Forever shiny and chrome.

>>6059512
Purple is the one who tossed Linda up against the wall by the neck. Guy who wants a new body as well, given he is now 50 shades of fucked up, due to the prophecy blood splash and Anput taking his leg. I doubt he is stable. But I suppose the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I wonder if we get to roll an army roll next turn, assuming Arty doesn't die, and we get our friends back. Apollo should probably be able to get his own wand back with an accio then toss Red's wand to Linda so she can do something...

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>>6059514
Forgot pic

>>6059515
witnessed dear lord

late to the party, but super happy to see this quest brought back. Reading about Elliot and Arty again makes my heart happy.

Fighting side by side with the man who had just moments ago tried to kill Linda hadn’t been in your plans, but the enemy of your enemy… is still your enemy, nothing more, nothing less than that. Your goals align for now so your wands point the same direction, but you have no doubts that he wouldn’t even spare a glance if you were to be struck down.

Mr. Purple fights like a madman, almost reminding you of how Crouch fights, though Crouch had a precision this man doesn’t. But at the same time, Mr. Purple doesn’t have a gimped wand.

“Etrura Minka!” He shouts and a three bolts of not-killing-curse green fly out of his wand and shatter a barrier, but another one is raised in an instant. “Dritta! Get out of my way, you traitorous whores!”

But the promise of ridiculous gold seems to be quite enough to keep Mr. Blue and Mr.Gray fighting just as hard as Mr. Purple is, as they stand their ground. You and Brighton help, firing spell after spell, trying to overload the barriers without success. The constant jolts coming from your chest don’t help. Behind them, the glimmering liquid slowly starts to take the form of a glowing human as Salazar slowly builds his new body.

But you need to make progress.

“Brighton! Diffindo!”

“What, Hallaster? Bombarda!”

“You saw my fights, right? You remember the name of the Sword in the Stone?”

Confusion momentarily replaces the battlerage in his face, before going back to anger. “Yeah! And it’s still bloody stupid!”

You wait for the Beast to slam against you before shouting, “Now!”

“Wingardium Leviosa!”

You fly up in the air, peeking up and over their barriers before shouting “Flamare Perpetua!” and a line of fire appears by Blue and Gray, climbing up their robes. They struggle to put it out, and as you fall back down Purple and Silver keep on breaking shields that are no longer being remade.

“Elliot!” Apollo arrives, unbound and sending sending off blasts as powerful as yours using Mr. Red’s wand. “I… It is difficult to transfigure using this wand, I can’t do it properly. But I can still cast spells. I can… I can try casting Laggan, or even Mufulgur, if you want. It should take a lot of their barriers down. I have the power for it.”

The two wizards finally manage to put out their fire and once more begin building their shields, though there is less between you and them than before.

> Have Apollo cast Laggan (Chance to have no effect)
> Have Apollo cast Mulfulgur (Certainty of effect, but can get out of control)
> Keep fighting as you were, trying to break down their barriers with lesser spells
> Other (Write in)

>>6060416
> Have Apollo cast Mulfulgur (Certainty of effect, but can get out of control)

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>6060416
> Have Apollo cast Mulfulgur (Certainty of effect, but can get out of control)
CHAOS

Rolling for future good luck as well.

>>6060416
>Have Apollo cast Mulfulgur (Certainty of effect, but can get out of control)
more chaos could also work in our favor if it affects them

>>6060416
> Have Apollo cast Mulfulgur (Certainty of effect, but can get out of control)
We need Brighton or somebody to Stupefy him to save his ass

>>6060416
>he wouldn’t even spare a glance if you were to be struck down
He needs Elliot up for the elixir. Also funny he's calling his former allies traitorous whores when he's the one that did a monologue at Salazar to start with

>>6060416
> Have Apollo cast Laggan (Chance to have no effect)

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>>6060550
>We need Brighton or somebody to Stupefy him to save his ass

Indeed. Another thing, Rennervate does not work down here so Apollo is going to be out of the fight after this no matter which kind of spell he uses. He is already exhausted from fighting Dumbledor's skelly and while he is a powerhouse, he is trying to destroy the shields of a pair of pretty skilled adult wizards who are giving another pair trouble. A Laggan would presumably make him pass out even if he cracked Blue and Gray's shields.

One thing I am curious about is why our "allies" aren't tossing out AKs, given they are more than happy to kill their former comrades. These guys are hired killers. Presumably, they should be able to cast it.

>>6060416

If we can't grab the pouch... we do likely have some of our signature sauce in there. Thing that helped us win our first battle.

>Accio the cork from our Garroting Gas potion. Hard to focus on defense when you have a live CS canister in your pocket going off.

If that won't work,

> Have Apollo cast Mulfulgur (Certainty of effect, but can get out of control)

We can also toss Apollo's wand over to Linda or Arty after Apollo needs to get stunned/passes out.

>>6060416
> Have Apollo cast Mulfulgur (Certainty of effect, but can get out of control)

>>6060631
Great thinking using the pouch remotely. Who had it again? Blue?

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>>6060676
He has the others wands and the pouch, I think. I don't know if you can mess with stuff in an expanded space like our pouch, but we know our potions do not have anti accio charms on them, since we got a wiggenweld jerked from our hand by Salazar when we were trying to heal our friends.

Also, and I know I am on an accio binge... but Mr. Purple has a prosthetic leg right now which was just whipped up. What are the chances the dude who made it bothered to make it summoning proof? Might be a decent way to fuck him up since we are going to need to take him down if we can stop Salazar.

>>6060416
>Have Apollo cast Mulfulgur (Certainty of effect, but can get out of control)

>>6060733
Oh thats an idea. Would be funny if we can just get round the shield by yanking his leg out from under him. Maybe if we do it strong enough we could tear it right off, lol.

>>6060733
>>6060866
if it was transfigurated you can Finite it

>>6060867
issue with that is whether you can finite it through the shield

>>6060867
Presumably we will need to fight Purple at a point soon, so either Finite or just ripping his peg leg off would be funny as hell. I would suggest accio'ing it then depulso it into his face since he hurt Linda, and she would likely appreciate ripping a dude's leg off and hitting him with it.

You look at the glimmering wall for a moment, before knowing what you have to do. You can’t afford the chance of having Apollo spend his energy without any effect. Even if it is riskier, you need his impact, you need his force.

“Lightning,” you say. “Bring it down, Apollo.”

“Hallaster, are you out of your mind!?” Brighton shouts. “The moment that barrier falls they’re going to target him!”

“They’ll have more to worry about than that! Just focus on knocking him out once he’s through! Now, Apollo!”

“Mulfulgur!” The blond boy bellows, and there is thunder. Lighting and ozone fills the air, pouring out of Mr. Red’s wand, the bolt striking the barrier with a deafening shriek, smaller strands of energy leaping from the main body of the electrical beam, scorching the grass and the rocks around Apollo.

The barriers glow, absorbing the entirety of the energy Apollo pours out. The glow becomes a blinding light, lightning burning Apollo’s sleeves, his wand vibrating wildly as he pours, no, as the spell takes all the power it can from him. Mr. Blue and Gray look wide-eyed as their barrier explodes, sending all of you to the ground and the great and deadly lighting aiming wildly in any direction, leaving a scorch mark on the illusion around you.

Mr. Gray stands on one knee and takes aim at you through the now clear battlefield, you jump out of the way of Apollo’s spell at the same time as Brighton desperately shouts “Fuck! Stupefy!”, and you shout “Accio bottle!” and pull!

Somewhere in a folded space you can’t see, a bottle suddenly lurches forward, crashing through other glass bottles and smashing against the insides of your pouch. This wouldn’t ordinarily be a problem, if the bottle you had chosen with your mind’s eye hadn’t purposefully been one filled with Erumpent potion.

The pouch attached to Mr. Blue’s hip suddenly explodes and he is launched halfway across Avalon as Salazar watches from the small bubble of shields he’s crafted around himself, from where he still shapes the Elixir of Life.

Mr. Purple laughs madly, before falling upon Mr. Gray with fury, Mr. Silver right behind him.

[Cont.]

>>6061764

“Linda!” you shout, quickly scrambling to get Apollo out of the way of the battle, tossing the girl the wand. Arty runs towards you, pulling her brother’s unconscious body to safety. “Rowena hasn’t happened to say hello yet, has she?”

“Nope!”

“Then we need to-”

There is a roar, halfway breast, halfway… fire. Blood drains from your face as you look at where Mr. Blue had fallen and see him, side and hip busted open from the blast, wand raised towards a great beast made of blood-red fire.

“Heh,” he laughs, spitting blood and flipping the middle-finger to Mr. Purple who now stands over the body of a very much dead Mr. Gray. “Fuck you, Oleg. See you in hell.”

And the fiendfyre jumps to attack, leaving destruction in its wake.

> Try to help Mr. Purple and Mr. Gray overpower the fiendfyre
> Attempt to break through Salazar’s defenses while Purple and Gray deal with the fiendfyre by themselves
> Other (Write in)

>>6061765
>Attempt to break through Salazar’s defenses while Purple and Gray deal with the fiendfyre by themselves
the potion may take time, but we dont know HOW much, they can kill each other for all we care, the potion has to be a priority now

>>6061765
man, its getting intense!
>Attempt to break through Salazar’s defenses while Purple and Gray deal with the fiendfyre by themselves

y'know, this might be our first kill of the quest. we've really come so far!

>>6061773
if it does, then it took longer than what i honestly expected

>>6061765
>Attempt to break through Salazar’s defenses while Purple and Gray deal with the fiendfyre by themselves
We need him away from the elixir

>>6061764
>from where he still shapes the Elixir of Life
Will the new body we get just end up being Salazar's then? Or is there still time to fix it?

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>>6061764
Hahahaha I love wizard hand grenades. I have no idea if fucking with a potion in the pouch was always going to be the plan or if it happened because I suggested it, but that was funny as fuck. I thought about wizard war crimes but that WAS more amusing. Given I cackled like mad, I suppose I am Mr. Purple brained.

>>6061765
Fuck you Blue. Asshole. I am hoping he was keeping our friend's wands on the other hip.

So going to need to wake up more, see if I can come up with something clever. But since Mr. Gray is very dead now, that is a spare wand now, so we could get it and toss it toward Arty because I don't like her not having one even if she wont be able to use it well. Linda should be able to accio her own wand back as well given being half exploded and focusing on his Fiendfyre is likely taking up his focus.

>>6061773
He isn't dead quite yet since he is still feeding power into his spell. The most sure way to stop the Fiendfyre is to get close enough we can finish the job. It took 3 of the Professors last time we needed to deal with this magic, and while I am sure Purple and Silver are skilled, not sure if they are that skilled.

And as far as kill counts go, yeah our boy does need to catch up some. Linda is at 3 so far.

>>6061817
We are the one who got the Merlin knowledge stuck in our brain so I hope this is how I hope Salazar's body turns out if we can't make it quite in time. Picrel.

>>6061859
fiendfyre can very famously kill its user and still keep going. our pals will have to figure something out, we are on the clock

>>6061765
> Attempt to break through Salazar’s defenses while Purple and Gray deal with the fiendfyre by themselves

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>>6061765
> Attempt to break through Salazar’s defenses while Purple and Gray deal with the fiendfyre by themselves

>Linda! Accio your own wand! Toss Weasley's toward Arty and Apollo. This fucker will bleed out in a few seconds!

Guess I will go ahead and vote.

I wish Blue had gotten a worse end since he broke our love's wand, but oh well. Being half exploded is good enough. We can take our anger out on Purple, since he did hurt our best living friend. Not sure who roughed up Apollo, though I bet it was once more Purple, since he tried to hurt one of the others in Citrine and got his leg removed by Anput.

>>6062330
those wands are splinters dude. Arty can get Blue's though

>>6061765
> Attempt to break through Salazar’s defenses while Purple and Gray deal with the fiendfyre by themselves

>>6061765
> Attempt to break through Salazar’s defenses while Purple and Gray deal with the fiendfyre by themselves

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>>6062334
Don't know if they got blown up with our potions; I doubt Elliot would have blown up his pouch if he knew they were there. Unclear if Blue started snapping the other's wands too or just made it to Arty's.

In other news... what are we going to do about Weasley. He remembers Lily now and will tell Potter. Him learning too much is a lose condition. Him learning about his super dead, tortured daughter has been suggested as a lose condition, since even without the Repository or an ability to give himself a body like Merlin, he would still likely try and bring her back, hurt the world in doing so.

Assuming don't all just die... should we just kill Mr. Red? Lotta spells flying around down here, including one now that managed to damage a portion of Hogwarts. Lot of dead wizards already and going to be a couple more soon.

Easy to make it seem like he just got unlucky when the other minions Salazar had turned on one another.

>>6062773
>>6062334
if their wands got destroyed they'd have had a reaction like Arty

>>6062773
>>6062778
they said destroy their wands, plural. they are probably on the ground though because why carry split wands around

>>6062781
...and the only wand that actually got snapped was Arty's, if the others were destroyed it wouldn'tr have only mentioned hers

>>6062784
if the others didn't get snapped then why didn't apollo get his then. why are you guys this obtuse

>>6062788
did you forget us being weakened by not using our own wands and all the other shit going on? it's only now that we have the chance to get them, if they weren't blown up

>>6062773
>Him learning too much is a lose condition
That was only to Last Light. Anything after that has explicitly been said to be fair game, though of course there's consequences for telling or not telling him.

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>>6062826
We do not know if it was only till then, Helga is of the opinion that that is still the case. Apollo commented on the train at Christmas that Potter would tear apart the world if he knew what happened to Lily, possibly because that is what he would do if Arty got killed and forced to sexually abuse herself for a decade.

Granted Apollo is the guy who wanted to dismember Scorpius and cut his tongue out to deal with him... but we have played the game assuming that Harry knowing too much, especially about Lily is Bad with a capital B. Like game ending Bad.

But we don't really know. Will find out, I suppose after all the stuff with us lighting a cross on the school grounds for gay, black, jewish kids shakes out.

>>6063004
Mitigating factor: we are also a a gay-black-jew in this analogy. We're... Like that guy who founded 8-chan out of self-loathing only we did it for a legitimately noble cause.

Oh no, did we inspire a bunch of wizard hate crimes by magic neo-nazis who thought Snake Hitler was back?

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>>6063014
>spoiler

We probably did. It seemed we inspired at least a fuck ton of prisoners to start chanting out shit that Voldemort had defeated death to the point we got the most famous man in the world and the magic president there in person to check on stuff.

May have helped Crouch escape as well, if one of my crazy ideas is correct...

I don't think we managed to start the wizard third world war, but we most defiantly started some shit.

Perhaps we can spin this as all part of our master plan, to make any remaining death eaters out themselves.

There is regardless a large part of the wizard population of North Western Europe that Disapperated to foreign lands with their children and loved ones.

Have a cute pic of how Arty is going to end up when all of this is done.

>>6063030
Artemis Pertinger would never. Our waifu is an untermeschen, after all.

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>>6063034
Nein! She is both cute and funny! Arty is best girl and therefor the Übermenschen of our snake boy heart. Her and Apollo also both have extremely north-western Euro features.

It is also a touch funny that we kind of have the trope of "the brown guy" dies first, what with Taylor getting killed. We only have one none white friend left, and we barely interact with Talon.

It is a bit off-topic but at one point I also had a weird idea. Arty and Apollo both share a few features sure, their nose and some freckles, and she said they are twins, but there are "Irish twins" which are just siblings born in the same year because mom got knocked up right after the birth of the 1st kid. Arty and Apollo were born about 8 months apart, so that is a legit timeframe if the waifu was born premature, explaining her early childhood developmental issues. Along with being deprived of O2 by Apollo accidentally and likely having poor nutrition growing up.

They also had a single mom in a very poor living situation, so maybe she was a prostitute who just happened to have a pair of magical kids from different dads.

99% sure I am just over thinking that but it would be kind of funny.

>>6062330
Blue broke all of them, I'm afraid

--

The blood-red fire drips from the spell made creature as it attacks Mr. Purple and Mr Gray, the two wizards doing everything in their power to control the crimson blaze. And while they struggle, you have a chance to face the man inside Scorpius’s head.

“Salazar! Leave it! It’s over, you lost!” You shout, pointing your wand at him, Brighton and Linda at your side. With one hand he shapes the Elixir of Life, with the other he holds his wand pointed at you, maintaining his barriers.

Yet doing both seems to be taking his toll on him. Both his eyes are bloodshot and as he grins, you can see his teeth are bloodied, almost as if he’d been gritting them so hard his gums bled. As his eyes meet yours, you can still feel Scorpius fighting behind them, screaming and clawing from inside his own head to try and stop the creature puppeteering him.

Yet that doesn't make Salazar any less dangerous.

“Ah, little Elliot! You really think you can stop me? I can assure you, I have no intention of keeping this body for much longer. He might not be as naturally gifted as Lily, but I can push it as hard as I want,” he says from behind his shields. “I can push it until it [i]breaks[/i]. If we fight, I do not see myself losing.”

“You didn’t see yourself losing at Last Light either, did you?” You ask, spitting out the words. “Now put the Elixir back in the basin.”

“Or what, little Elliot? What will you do if I don’t? Better yet, what will you do if I [i]do[/i]? Will you just let me walk out of here? I’m curious to hear your offer.”

[Cont.]

>>6063297

“He’s stalling, Hallaster!” Brighton warns. But you can’t just kill him with a barrage of bombardas. Not only it would just make him flee to another host, but it would also kill Scorpius, who was probably just as innocent as Lily had been. So you hesitate.

“Just give the word, Elliot,” Linda says, venom in her voice. “And I have a spell no barrier in the world can stop.”

“[i]No![/i]” You shout. “If the Killing Curse hits the Elixir it will-”

“It will level out your dear London, yes. I made it very clear to my men they shouldn’t use it here, and you should probably do the same, little Elliot. You wouldn’t want that to happen, would you? And besides, whatever would you kill poor Scorpius for?” He grins wider. “He never did anything wrong. How foul of you to threaten him like that.”

“Hallaster! Are we doing this or what?” Brighton shouts, wand ready. “He uses that Elixir and my grandparents-”

“Your grandparents are [i]dead[/i], kid,” he says, mocking, cruel. “They died forty years ago, and all that they left were empty husks. There is not enough magic in the world to save them, and not you nor whatever nonsense little Elliot put in your head will ever change that. Not all the magic in the world. They died in a shitty dungeon, being tortured, begging for it to stop and screaming like [i]fucking dogs[/i].”

“Hallaster… Kill him for me, would you?”

“Brighton, no!”

“[i]Laggan![/i]”

Salazar’s shield shatters, Brighton falls unconscious from the effort, and you fight as if the fate of the world depends on it, because it very well does.

> Roll a d100+50 (+45 from battle rolls, -5 from injuries, +10 from Linda’s help). Beat 2 out of 3

Rolled 69 + 50 (1d100 + 50)

>>6063298

Rolled 93 + 50 (1d100 + 50)

>>6063298
Damn you for getting me so invested QM

Rolled 53 + 50 (1d100 + 50)

>>6063298

Rolled 22, 57, 82 + 65 = 226 (3d100 + 65)

>>6063302
>>6063310
>>6063311

119 143 103
And Salazar...

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>>6063312
Double fucking dammit.

I guess hopefully we get another round.

>>6063312
>22 + 65 = 87
Beat by our 119
>57 + 65 = 122
Beat by our 143
>82 + 65 = 147
Beats our 103

>>6063317
Check your math, we got 2 of 3 beat of his, we won

>>6063312
If you order the two sets in increasing order instead, all our dice beat all of his

>>6063320
I used this in the beginning but dropped this system a while ago, now it's just comparisons in order they're rolled.

Anon is right, you won this round

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>>6063319
I suppose I need to not do math in my head after being up all night and still having groggy eyes from waking up.

Fuck them up Lord Hallaster!

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>>6063312
>>6063322

>>6063333
>>6063325
Reread that >>6063322, niggers
>this round
We're still not done

>>6063335
it's still a huge advantage over him

>wake up to an update and rolls for a fight
>small jumpscare over those rolls
>turns out we won
i dont remember when you dropped the old system but holy shit!
FUCK ´EM UP LORD HALLASTER!

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>>6063335
Oh I know. We managed to win the 1st round when we fought Salazar at Last Light and Taylor still ended up dying.

Got to take the small victories though.

But it being us and Linda doing the fighting once more is pretty kino. Revenge for Taylor, rematch of the century.

I do hope Arty ends up getting to do something. Though hopefully it won't be having to rush in to grab Linda's stolen wand because she is fucking dead.

>>6063349
>>wake up to an update and rolls for a fight

I swear, this quest is like an alarm clock. I end up waking right before or after an update way too often, despite the odd schedule I have.

Anyway, picrel.

>>6063449
his death likely wouldn't have been preventable unless we got perfect rolls, even with all 3 of us we were outmatched against "Lily"

>>6063452
We actually got kinda close to winning, its just Lily who was doomed. But Taylor dying did save us from the Beast attack which could have been worse.

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>>6063452
Salazar would have needed to roll pretty bad, even with Helga helping us for us to completely clear that without someone getting hurt, at least. She also could have ended up being the one injured in the beginning, since that was completely random, which would have possible given her a malus.

It might have been Linda who took the AK, since that was a coin flip as well. I am honestly happy she was the one to live. She is more fun and her abandoning her old persona then getting some of it back gave us good moments in the quest.

>>6063458
QM did imply there was a chance of us getting out of there with her just being a mind broken husk, but he wasn't sure what he would do with that. I am not sure either, really.

>>6063473
I for one think Taylor living would be equally as compelling. Where Linda has to deal with her persona issues, Taylor might have lost himself further in the book lores and esoteric wizard arcana and had to work with Elliot to balance himself or pull out of being lost in the sauce

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>>6063475
Taylor going nuts from the forbidden wisdom would have been interesting. Maybe I like Linda/Raven more is because most of my friends are girls, and I also have a minor fetish for goth/emo/alternative girls, and she is kinky. Considered her waifu material before Arty was introduced.

There is no Helga to help you, there is no Beast to stop you. For a moment, it is just you and Linda, fighting side by side. Wands in sync, like you practiced a thousand times in Battle Class, combos of one and two and three, tactics and movement. It doesn’t flow as naturally as you fight with Arty, with whom you fought a madman many times, but six years of friendship makes for some damn good partnership.

You throw a spell, she parries another. You block, she fires. And she casts spells through her fury and through her tears. Bit by bit, you tear Salazar’s shields, who fights with a speed Scorpius never had. You can see as his arms and fingers bend in unnatural ways to complete the spells fast enough, wasting away his current body as he battles to create a new one. With wand in one hand and even using the Elixir itself as a shield with the other, he throws spells. With Avalon burning around him, he still fights. As the heat becomes unbearable, as smoke fills the room, he sweats.

And as, slowly but surely, it becomes clear that there is not enough time in the world for Salazar Slytherin to finish his Great Work before the crimson flames engulf the room, his smile turns into a snarl.

“Confringo!” You shout, and a blast cracks his barriers.

“Reducto!” Raven screams. Another explosion, the cracks spread into an intricate web covering his magic.

And, like one single entity, you both cast together in perfect unison.

“BOMBARDA!”

His protection breaks into a million pieces as he’s slammed backwards against the basin, his wand falling off his hand and into the grass. With his left hand, he flings the Elixir of Life in front of himself, in a moment unmaking his entire work to create a criss-crossing barrier separating the both of you.

“Gah, you persistent little snake!” He shouts, gasping for breath. “You really don’t know when to quit, don’t you?”

“Sorry,” you say, grinning, your wand never dropping. “Hufflepuff is also the house of persistence, and the Sorting Hat came this close to putting me there.”

“Bah! Foolish boy. Foolish Hufflepuff,” he spits, blood dripping from his mouth. “Very well, then little Elliot. You won. But then let the Founder of your House teach you a lesson in how to be Slytherin. No matter how, no matter where, no matter how certain the conquest or easy the task, little Elliot,” He raises his hands, and there is a fierce look in his eyes. “Always, always, have a plan b.”

He pulls, and the barrier of Life contracts and shoots straight through his chest, his mouth opening in a silent scream. And the liquid glow that comes out the other side hangs in the air for just a moment, just enough for you to see within its light the image of a monkey-ish wizard with a long beard, before it dives directly into-

“No!”

- the body of Arthur Pendragon.

I'll post the second part of the update in an hour or so.

>>6064487
If he permanently sticks to Arthur's body which has been vacant for this entire time, then that means if we kill him he might die permanently without being released to bodyjack somebody else? I'm assuming that the bodyjacking is related to them being already with other bodies to begin with, so an empty one being taken like this means he's locked in like everybody else.

>>6064502
I think we know too little about brain-ghosts to determine if this is true or not.

>>6064506
I assume if we had gone balls deep in stopping Salazar from using the Elixir, to the detriment of everybody else around us in the scene including our allies, then we would have succeeded in maybe doing something with the Elixir to make a new body or whatever. As it stands, I think that possibility was so out there to be zero. Salazar was always going to pull this shit with the way things were going throughout the chaos

>we win the rolls
>he still gets a body
i cant with this fucking guy! cant we trap his soul in a rock somehow and then throw that rock deep in a volcano or something?

>>6064511
>>6064513
He didn't get to use the elixir to make a perfect new body; he had to settle for the consolation prize of Arthur's. Now we just need to beat The Once and Future King in combat and we can use the elixir instead.

Cakewalk, right? Hahaha. Haaaaa.

>>6064513
we just gotta win one more round, that's how it works
anyways, we should be able to do just that with Ancient Magic since Isidora was able to rip the pain out of souls and put it in goblin silver

There is an explosion of power that pushes you backwards and you fall, almost rolling into the crimson flames. Glowing like a sun, the body of Arthur rises from its resting place. Slowly, it dims until you can look at it, and with a wave of his hand the fiendfyre is put out, leaving only the grass.

“Ah… How I missed being ALIVE!” The face you had seen, kind and brave and tired, now grins at you with a cruelty that does not fit it. “How I missed being a god!”

He raises his hand and Scorpius’s wand flies towards it. Then he flicks it, and one of the great stones of not-glass is thrown against the wall, shattering on impact.

“No… You-”

“Avada Ke-”

The Once and Future king flicks his wand once more and Raven’s spell gets silenced, her mouth firmly locked in place, along with yours. With another, all your wands get thrown from your hands and you scramble for cover, searching desperately for Arty but not finding her.

“Ah, little Elliot,” Salazar says, landing back on the floor. “Finally, everything is as it should be. Me, with all the power in the world, and you, scrambling for your wand. We could have gotten here months ago, but you just had to make this difficult, didn’t you?”

You run, desperately trying to reach for your wand, but your feet leave the floor. You struggle in the air as you are levitated in front of him. By your side, Raven, Mr. Purple, an unconscious Brighton and the brutalized body of Scorpius Malfoy. For a moment you hope, you hope that Arty has managed to run out through the door but-

“Let me go, you brute!”

Her form comes through, kicking and screaming, along with a still unconscious Apollo and Mr. Red. Another flick, and her lips snap shut, though you can still hear her cursing with her mouth closed.

“You know, little Elliot? For the past few months, I’ve been thinking about how I could punish you for being such an insufferable brat. I thought about just killing you. I thought about doing like they did to this idiot’s grandparents and torturing you until you’ve gone crazy. I thought about taking both of your friends in front of you, then torturing them into insanity while you watch.” He paces from one side to the other as he speaks, a cruel smile never leaving his face. “Those are all classics. But you know what, little Elliot? I think I just came up with a new idea!”

He stops in front of you and holds you by the chin, forcing you to look into eyes that should never have been his. When he speaks, he doesn’t just speak to you, but to Helga as well, and his voice is low and threatening.

[Cont.]

>>6064547

“I’m going to take all of you, and I’m going to toss you in there. I’m going to toss you into that dark place from where nothing can escape. Into that place made of horror. And then, I’m going to scour this earth and destroy every single time-turner on it, to make sure you never, ever, escape from there. And even though I spent eternity in there… It will pale in comparison to what it will feel like to you.”

“You are a monster, Salazar,” Helga says, but through her defiant words you can hear her fear. “And someone will kill you. If not us, then someone. And this time, you won’t come back!”

“That would be very scary if, say, coming from someone like one of the Founders,” he laughs. “But coming from a poor little spirit trapped inside the head of a foolish little boy who thinks he’ll find Atlantis when he can’t even find a way to save his best friend from death… Well, I’m afraid it doesn’t really pack the same punch.”

He turns around and picks the sword Arthur held in his hands when he rested. Excalibur shines in beautiful silver.

“But I do have to thank you, I suppose. It was you three killing me that made me remember my name. Made me remember what I could do. Suddenly, convincing young Malfoy here to do my bidding was easy, all I had to do was make him talk to a couple of snakes and he bowed to me.” The smile disappears for a moment. “Things got more difficult as he started doubting, but I managed to find a way to make it work, in the end.”

He stops, then smiles again.

“Would you look at that, I’m monologuing once more. A flaw of our House, little Elliot. I died last time because of it. I don’t intend to allow it to happen a second time. So, let us get to business, shall we? Let me take a look at that pretty little Gate inside your soul.”

He stretches out his hand towards you, and… you move. No, your soul moves. You can feel it, you are it, and you feel as you stretch and bend away from your body. Arty screams, wide-eyed, and you look down to see yourself coming out of your body’s chest.

And, in the middle of your semi-translucent form, there is a dark cut, stitched together, bleeding out darkness through its seams.

“There it is.”

He reaches into you with his wand, into your very being, and from there he pulls out the Gate, your soul rebounding back inside your body.

And, during that moment of weakness where the Gate is neither here or there, is when the Beast launches its entire body against it and smashes through. Out of the Darkness, through Reality, and directly into Salazar.

[Cont.]

>>6064549

“AAAAH!” He roars in pain, dropping Excalibur to the floor as he clutches his head. “No! What are you- YouAHHHRGH!”

You and your friends are launched backwards as Salazar twists and bends in pain, his eyes flickering between human and utter darkness. The earth shakes. Reality trembles as a second voice speaks.

H e l l o S a l a z a r

H o w N i c e T o M e e t Y o u

O l d F r i e n d

H e r e

A t T h e E n d O f A l l T h i n g s

You can feel reality break around you, your soul, the souls of your friends, shaking so intensely you can see them vibrating out of their bodies. Light drains into him, space curves towards him as the very fabric of existence is sucked into that Darkness beyond Darkness, as Salazar screams in pain and despair.

“No! You can’t! The world is mine! MINE!”

His fingers, all of them, bend backwards with a horrifying crack, and he howls.

T h i s W o r l d W i l l E n d

A n d Y o u

W i l l E n d W i t h I t

You search for your wand, but it is gone, lost somewhere. You search for something, anything that will help you, but there is nothing, the same force that pulls reality in pushing you against the wall. You reach out for Arty and she holds your hand.

“No! NO! I won’t let you!”

Y o u C a n n o t S t o p M e

Salazar looks at you, and his eyes widen.

“No… I can’t.” He says as his eyes bleed and his skin starts to tear, as if being clawed at from the inside. “But Atlantis can.”

He spins in place and, with a clap and a thunder, Salazar Slytherin and the Beast from the Darkness Behind the Veil disappear.

--

You collapse on the floor as the air returns to your lungs. You feel… empty, dread sinking deep into your stomach.

“Did… did we lose?” Linda asks.

You open your mouth but you don’t know what to tell her. So Helga does it for you.

“I… I do not know. But I think Salazar may have saved us. Not on purpose but… He apparated somewhere, and he took the Beast with him. Yet I do not feel him in this world.”

“Do you think… Do you think he went to Atlantis?”

“A place erased from time,” you say, sighing, you mind still trying to recover from what just happened. “Maybe. You can only apparate to places you know but… Merlin knew Atlantis, and he was inside Salazar.”

“So it’s over, right?” Arty asks, hopeful. “That’s it, they’re gone, just like Atlantis… Right?”

You want to say that she’s right. You want to say they’re gone forever, that Salazar just rid the world of the beast. That you can go home and rest.

And perhaps you can, for now. But you know that it is not for long. You know it in your bones that the Beast will return, and that it won’t take long. The Merlin inside it won’t allow it to take long.

“Elliot, I… I can still feel it! By Excalibur!” Helga says, voice filled with surprise and… perhaps happiness.

[Cont.]

>>6064550

Your eyes widen when you see it, and you run to the basin, ignoring the ancient magical sword fallen by its side, because it doesn’t matter right now. At the bottom of the basin… is a little remnant of Elixir.

“He… He didn’t use everything,” you realize. “Since he used Arthur, he didn’t have to use it to create a body so-”

“We can use it! We can use it to create one!”

“Will- Will it be normal? Will it have magic?”

“Yes, yes! It won’t be able to use Ancient Magic like he could but we could use it to create one and put a soul into it!”

And you realize that you have a choice. You can feel her words are true, through your connection you can feel the possibility contained within the liquid. You could use it to create a new body for Helga. One where she can see, one where she can exist outside of your head. Or…

“Could… Could we…”

Helga’s happiness dims. She hesitates. And then she relents, because she is a Hufflepuff, true and true.

“We could. We could use it to build a body for Arty. A body that would have as much magic as anyone her age. A body that would live for as long as any other wizard. We…” And there is pain in her voice, a pain that tells you that she will accept whatever choice you make, even if it hurts her. “We could do that. But whatever we do, we must do it now. It has been disturbed, and it will vanish if we do not use it.”

> Use the Elixir of Life to give Helga a new body
> Use the Elixir of Life to give Arty a new body

>>6064551
>It won’t be able to use Ancient Magic like he could
BUT IT STILL CAN
MEANING THE USER CAN CONTINUE THE AVALON CYCLE
MEANING SOME HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
> Use the Elixir of Life to give Helga a new body
EITHER BOTH ELLIOT AND ARTY GET IMMORTAL TOGETHER, OR ARTY FINDS PROLONGED LIFE SOME OTHER WAY
NO WAY WE'RE INFLICTING THIS AVALON SHIT ON HER

>>6064551
>Use the Elixir of Life to give Arty a new body
Helga had her own life. Long ago. She had chances thay Arty never had. She understands.
And...we still need Helga. With us. She can heal without the beast constantly attacking. And frankly, we can't explain a Helga to potter.

>>6064551
Wait
But first
>Keep eyes and wands on Mr. Purple and any other of the mystery mercs still alive
Do NOT let them interfere!

>>6064551
> Use the Elixir of Life to give Arty a new body
Helga grew old, older than most muggles get even today. She had kids. She established a school, and a house, and a lineage that lasted over a thousand years. I love her, and I'm so sorry we blinded here, but this has to go to Arty, if it can't be used on the Longbottoms.

>>6064558
>>6064554
Ugh fine you preachers

>>6064551
Changing my vote from >>6064553 to
>Use the Elixir of Life to give Arty a new body
Also retain >>6064555, as Mr. Purple is still conscious. He is the sole external witness to these events, whule the remaining alive mercs like Mr. Red and any others alive still saw some of these. We have EVIDENCE and WITNESSES

>we have to chose
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!
i want to help Helga because she has been a true one for the entire time...
but we just cannont say not to our witchfu...im sorry Helga, it REALLY pains me to do this to you after all you have gone through but...
>Use the Elixir of Life to give Arty a new body

besides, perhaps we could get another chance at it? surely she wont be stuck with us forever, she will get her chance soon, after all she has gone thorugh, waiting a bit more couldnt possibly be that much longer

>>6064551
>> Use the Elixir of Life to give Helga a new body
Arty's got time, we'll save her eventually. Helga's done a lot for us, she deserves it.

>>6064551
> Use the Elixir of Life to give Helga a new body
No hope for the Brightons? Oh well.

I almost want to use it on Arty, but I think Helga is the better choice. We're going to need her help (if only so Potter doesn't instagib us when we next see him), and there's always Atlantis.

>>6064566
no she doesnt, thats the whole point of this, at her current state she has a decade and a half at best.

>>6064570
Plenty of time.

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>>6064550
>“No… I can’t.” He says as his eyes bleed and his skin starts to tear, as if being clawed at from the inside. “But Atlantis can.”

You fucker. Time to find Atlantis, I suppose. Since at least one of the Hufflepuff women in our life need it.

Have to think about this. Arty is the waifu, our love. But if she got asked, she would tell us to give it to Helga 100% of the time. She is too self-sacrificing. Helga is literally the first Hufflepuff. She would give the body to Arty every time

Helga has protected us from the Beast who knows how many times and with the Dementor got fucked up enough we had to help with her wounds. She is now blind, assuming the stuff with the prophecy blood was a permeant thing.

Arty... even if there is another great work there, in Atlantis, we don't know if we can use it to make her a body which will last, one we could make a life with. Have kids with who won't have to bury their mom when they are still children.

But Helga... she had a full life. Maybe not as long as she should have had because Merlin is a dick, but... Arty's is just starting. So...

>>6064551
> Use the Elixir of Life to give Arty a new body

>>6064551
>Use the Elixir of Life to give Helga a new body

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I can feel my dreams of Vampire Arty fade out of reality like Lily. Speaking of, I'm praying Salazar finds a way to diavolos ex machina out of his doom, else we might have to call our quest Disappearing Hogwarts: Three Houses

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>>6064617
Vampire's in this setting are gay and stupid, from what I know.

I do have a fic where Arty likes to have her blood tasted or have Elliot taste a bit of her own because she got a couple of romance novels from Linda and our mom. We end up taking her to a Hot Topic to get us a few things after letting her lick up a bit of our blood the night before. Let her embrace her teen vampire romance phase.

>>6064630
I dont give a shit. Head gave Harry a fucking gun, canon is for losers.

>>6064630
>spoiler
well why havent you posted that one already? cmon!
also still waiting for the rowena x raven one

>>6064551
>> Use the Elixir of Life to give Helga a new body
Helga getting a body will probably get us out of some bad situations in the foreseeable future

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>>6064636
Still not 100% happy with it and I keep getting distracted with other ideas that I start. Will try and finish up at least one today. Raven/Rowena might need to wait until we see how her personality is, but I have enough done I refuse to just leave it unfinished.


Regardless of which choice wins, need to remember Excalibur is right freaking there. King Hallaster is a go. Also, a spare wand for when we have to fight Purple and Silver in a second. Hopefully they should be pretty tired from all the fighting and containing the Feindfyre.

I also feel so bad for Helga. That last choice was one of the hardest in the quest for me, to the point I might change my vote, even though I obviously love Arty.

If Arty wins, despite her already being the cutest, I vote to make her hair fluffy like picrel and of course still keep her tiny at any rate.

Wonder what would have happened if we got a crit on that last roll? Enough Merlin juice to make 2 bodies? I assume Salazar would still get away, since it gives us the motivation for the next chapter and to go and fulfill our dream of discovering somewhere truly Lost, truly Ancient.

>>6064551
> Use the Elixir of Life to give Helga a new body
We did blind her.

>>6064551
>> Use the Elixir of Life to give Arty a new body
we have over a century to find another way of giving Helga her own body

>>6064807
You should feel worse. Was killing Lily not bad enough for you? How many good women have to suffer for your lowkey lolifaggotry?

Also, here's some food for thought. Brain demons fill the gap in teenagers souls where they are yet to grow. But what happens when the hosts get older?

>>6064903
We didn't choose to kill/sacrifice Lily, though. We only declined to date her.

>>6064807
alright, awesome, take your time m8, as long as i know its there, i can wait.
excited to see the other one too

>>6064846
honestly this. Alive Helga will have a lot more use with dealing with Hogwarts/Potter than Arty does.

There's way too much at stake. Especially with Lily back in the picture again. Potter is about to confirm his daughter is wiped from time. Choosing Arty is not gonna be a good look in the larger context. Brighton is also gonna be double pissed.

Also ideally she gets her eyes back.

>>6065054
i think brighton would understand it being unfair to only save one of grandparents while leaving the other still a husk

>>6065065
its not like there's time to go grab them all the way from st mungo's anyways

>>6065054
we have Salazar's mercs to verify our story through the intense interrogation they'll receive

>>6065084
ok but does that clear us not ending the world, i feel like everyone's forgetting that little detail

>>6065054
If Potter regains his memories of Lily, he'll also understand why we had to do what we did.

If we choose Helga for perceived usefulness, especially after having Arty run rather than fight, she'll resent us.

>>6065086
yeah, we are not doing that. she'd sooner think that having helga trapped in cuckchair purgatory is not worth getting less tired in a fight

>>6065096
we have at least a century to find another way of getting Helga a new body, Arty only has a decade or two left and we're unlikely to have another chance like this

>>6065098
*in that time

>>6065098
says who, we found avalon at 16 years old. there are already canon options to give her longevity too. it seems pretty cruel to me, if arty doesn't win nothing changes and she still keeps her agency and gets her pussy ate at least but if helga loses now she doesn't even get to read a book while elliot gets laid

>>6065104
we don't even know if the blindness is permanent unless QM said it somewhere before and i forgot, and the longevity options don't fix her body or her magic

>>6065108
if it hasn't come back yet that's pretty clearly permanent. yeah, maybe that's something wizards can fix but how would that work for a ghost. and that doesn't even address the lack of agency. don't "idk" this because all the likelihood points towards "no"

>>6064555
Linda is already dealing with it.

>>6064807
Both Silver and Blue appear to have been consumed by the Flames, only Mr. Red and Purple remain.

> spoiler
His original plan was potentially to take the Fifth Founder's body if he couldn't get his own. With there being no Lailoken, however, Arthur was as good a replacement as any.

If you had lost the fight, he would have used it all up, and there wouldn't have been Elixir left for not even a single body (and if you had lost particularly horribly, someone could have died, of course)

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There have been a lot of votes, but it is an important decision both for the story and for Elliot. I'll give it another day before I close the votes (also, I have stuff to do.)

Here's how the votes stand for now, and let me know if I missed something.

Arty
>>6064554
>>6064558
>>6064563
>>6064564
>>6064595
>>6064857

Helga
>>6064566
>>6064567
>>6064614
>>6064663
>>6064846

>>6065172
Neck in neck, as all choices in this quest must be.

I do wonder, if Arty wins and Helga is permanently blind... we know the mind spirits can body jack. Can we just give her one of our eyes? We know she can share our sense of taste, she just used our voice some. Could we give her part of our sight? It would just be a consolation prize, but it would be better than nothing and show we do care.

>>6065004
Might be a bit longer. Just got back from having to put the cat I have had for 17 years down. Might just go to bed for the night.

>>6065180
>spoiler
fukcing hell, yeah i know how that feels, take all the time you need m8
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>>6065180
>Might be a bit longer. Just got back from having to put the cat I have had for 17 years down. Might just go to bed for the night.

>>6065172
What I want to know is how he even knows enough about using the elixir to do this backup plan. Didn't Elliot only know how to use the elixir for its intended purpose solely because of the knowledge infusion from the trials?
I get the feeling that Salazar either thinks he knows more than he actually does, or he's winging it and pretending like it was all part of his master plan. For all we know Arthur might have majority control and will end up using Salazar's knowledge and magic to take his vengeance upon Merlin for leaving him in an unwanted half-life for so long.

>>6065289
he has Merli's memories, and Arthur's gone dude, dead and past the pearly gates.

>>6065296
Not gone enough, if you ask him.

>>6065180
Wouldn't mind giving Helga an eye, no matter what ends up happening.

>>6065325
I can back this, too.

>>6065325
>>6065326
what a shitty apology gift

i'm hoping she'll just take Arty's old body. a violation of privacy yeah, but her current existence is already one anyways

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>>6065343

Having two "Artys" running around would be pretty amusing. Has the possibility for hijinks and giving Potter a migraine. Need to make sure we don't accidentally kiss the wrong one in the halls. Does give me more material for smut though.

>>6065183
>>6065181
He was a good little dude. Used to climb onto my shoulder and sit there when he was a kitten. Surprised he lasted so long, since he got FIV in a fight like a decade ago; oldest cat the vet had ever seen with it. Rest in Power Iscariot Jones.

>>6065394
>more material for smut though
Threesome with Helga as Arty and Arty as Arty

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>>6065448
Yeah. Also just Arty on "Arty". If it is just your own body, it is really just masturbation after all. Arty and "Arty" coming to an agreement, and "Arty" substituting, swapping out and us fucking her by accident. Us having to put different colored collars on them so we don't get bamboozled.

Double Arty is kind of a goldmine.

>>6065606
What is this, Seekers of the Esoteric?

i think the plan of giving Arty's original body to Helga could work, we just need to transfer her before moving Arty into her new body

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>>6065650
Nah, I am not that good of a writer.

>>6065655
As long as the waifu is alright with her having a copy running around, we could try. Arty did say she would have been okay with hosting one of the founders if it was a lady, and she is probably kind enough to do it for Helga, even if it would be kind of awkward.

Helga would have the fucked up magic output and the frail body, but we are heading to Atlantis next, so we can probably get her a new body there, hopefully. Even if not, getting her like 20 more years of life is decent. We can just say Arty always had her "twin" sister and that people just never noticed, I suppose.

Granted we do have like 12 more hours of voting so might not even be an issue.

>>6065679
>Nah, I am not that good of a writer.
I just meant because of the cloned waifus and threesomes. Seekers' writing isn't that good anyway.

>>6065679
Honestly I'm fine with giving Helga Arty's old body as well. Just anything but leaving her in our head mutilated.

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>>6065679
>tfw Arty's body accidentally is Helga's initial form in our head due to intrusive thoughts during shaping
>tfw Helga is in Arty's body
>tfw confused boners and complicated feelings

>>6066172
us not going that route made things much less awkward

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>>6066172
That would be funny as fuck.

Also... yall recall we could have initially manifested "Faith" looking like Arty. I am sure she would have changed closer to what the real Helga looked like after figuring out who she was but... well there is a timeline where we had and Arty looking brain ghost, had her morph to something more like an aged up, big titty version of her, became allies but not dating the real Arty, then picked Helga for the body.

So we end up with our head mate in a body that looks suspiciously like her, but is taller and better endowed. So we would have had the founder of her house mogging Arty. Kek.

Always happy we picked Arty but that would be amusing.

>>6065180
I'm sorry for your loss, anon. May he find peace and battle in Valhalla, where all cats go to gorge on fat rats and milk

>>6065343
That... is not impossible. And a very good idea which I hadn't thought about

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>>6065172
Very well then, closing the votes with Arty winning by one vote

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>>6066299
He will. He was a fierce mouser in his youth and managed to bring in a bird less than a week before his health failed. I appreciate it. Dogs may go to Heaven, but cats most definitely go to Valhalla.

I will double down my support for seeing if Arty would allow Helga to use her old body. I know it is like giving her a 1999 Ford Focus vs a new G Wagon but it is better than nothing. Will mean I have to rewrite a couple of fics, but oh well. Double Arty has given me ideas for fun stuff.

You close your eyes for a moment. You lost when you met Salazar in Last Light. You had survived the encounter, but you had lost, and only survived because of the anger inside Linda, and it had left deep scars in both your bodies and your minds. You had lost here too, because Salazar had escaped, the Beast had escaped, and who knew what sort of chaos your little heist for the Deathly Hallows had caused.

You had lost twice. You refuse to lose again.

“What is that?” Arty asks, peering over the basin.

You don’t have the words to explain. So you just kiss her instead.

“If you could change anything about the way you look,” you ask. “Is there anything you’d change?”

She looks confused by the question, but smiles. “Well… Maybe an extra inch, just so I can kiss you without you having to bend down.”

You nod. “Yeah, I can do that.”

You lift your wand and touch its tip against the liquid people would kill millions to put their hands on. You close your eyes, and begin to transfigure.

Free transfiguration with liquids is nearly impossible, you know. There is not enough cohesion in them for the magic to stick, it just flows away before you can do anything with it. Not in this case, however. The moment the connection is created between you and it, you understand its form, shape and purpose. You put your wand away, no longer necessary for you to mold it, the simple arcane connection being enough.

You stretch your hand towards Arty and she holds on, watching what you’re doing with curiosity. Through that touch, you know what to create.

The Elixir expands, stretches into a glowing torso. Slowly, you transform it further, the torso gains glowing arms, legs, a head and hair, and you finish in a face with a small button nose. It stands in front of you and Arty, just slightly taller than her, just tall enough that you don’t have to physically bend down to kiss her.

The pressure of Ancient Magic in the room around you fades, it’s Great Work done.

“Wha-what is that?”

“That, Ms. Artemis Pertinger,” you say, smiling at your creation, tears welling up in your eyes. “Is a body. A body created with the same Elixir of Life Merlin used to recreate himself for thousands of years. A body that is healthy, just like anyone else’s. A body that will live for just as long as any of us would. A body that is powerful, or as powerful as any wizard or witch would normally be. All it needs… Is a soul to live inside it.”

And for a moment, she still looks confused. For a moment, she doesn’t get it. Then her eyes slowly open wide, her lips quiver gently.

“You- you mean- you mean I-”

You hold her face in your hands. “I told you, Arty. I told you I’d find a place of power. It… It isn’t quite the immortality I promised you but… It gives us another century and a half to search for it.”

And she cries. She cries and hugs you so tight it hurts.

[Cont.]

>>6066974

“You keep giving me gifts I can’t pay back,” she says, voice muffled by your chest. “You dummy.”

“You already promised me whatever years you had left,” you say, kissing the top of her head. “I intend to collect for as long as you’ll let me.”

“Are you sure? I mean, you could… you could use it to heal your scars…”

“Arty, the moment I stepped foot in here, the moment I realized what it could do, I knew this was what it was meant for. It was always meant for you.”

She looks up at you and stands at the tip of her toes. For the last time, you bend down to kiss her.

“Any other changes you want me to make? There’s still time.”

She shakes her head.

“No. It’s perfect. It’s me.”

With your arm around her shoulders, she reaches out towards her own form, and it reaches out towards her. Their hands touch and Arty closes her eyes. Her breathing slows down and you can feel, not with your senses but with your soul, as something leaves the form you’re holding on to and the other one becomes Fixed In Place, no longer a transfigured thing but a Thing in and of itself. Arty falls limp in your arms and you hold her, gently putting her down on the grass. The glowing form rises up and shines brightly, a burst of magic rushing over you, then it gently floats back down. The glow dims, and you have the foresight to pull the cloak off your robes and wrap it around her before the glow diminishes enough for her naked shape to be visible.

Her feet touch the grass once more and she stops shining, revealing… Arty. She stands on the tip of her toes and kisses you.

“I love you, Elliot Hallaster,” she says, the same bright blue eyes you’ve grown to love staring at you, her face identical to the last freckle. “And you’re going to have to put up with me for the rest of our lives.”

“I wouldn’t want it any other way.”

She looks down at the body on the floor.

“It’s still alive. That’s… disturbing. What do we do with it? Uh, with me?”

“That’s what I was going to ask you. I… I know someone who needs a body,” you say, grinning. “Would you mind terribly if there was another hufflepuff running around that had auburn hair and freckles?”

Arty’s mouth opens wide in shock.

“Elliot!”

“I know, I know. I… I shouldn’t have asked.”

“No, I mean, uh, I guess? It’s going to be strange, and Apollo is going to have a stroke but… Is it going to be something permanent or-”

“I don’t know. As far as I know this is the last place that can create a body like this. So, maybe.” You grin. “Or maybe not. I’ve found one place of power. I’m sure I can find another.”

“I would never doubt you.”

You turn serious again.

“But are you sure, Arty? It’s still your body, even if you don’t live in it anymore.”

[Cont.]

>>6066976

She nods. “It’s not how I saw the rest of my life going but… She saved your life plenty of times. She deserves a body of her own.”

“Elliot, you don’t need to do this,” Helga says in your mind. “Neither of you. I’m-”

“Not fine, Helga. And it’s my fault. I can’t give you a body in perfect conditions, you know Arty’s old problems as well as I do. But it is a body. A body where you can live. A body where you can see. Please, Helga. There is no Gate for you to watch over anymore. The Beast is Salazar’s problem now, and it may very well be that we’ll all die tomorrow because of what happened here today. I love your company in my head but… You deserve better. Today, just today… We can all get what we want.”

Inside your head, you feel her hug you.

“Thank you, Elliot Hallaster. I am honored to have been with you. I don’t know how long it will take for me to settle inside her enough to control it but… See you then.”

And then, for the first time in many months... There is silence inside your head.

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In the next few minutes, you deal with the fallout of what has happened. Linda had been smart enough to remember Mr. Purple was still a threat and had stunned him while you had been too busy with the Elixir. Excalibur was now in your belt, in a transfigured sheath. Arty had been running around dragging Mr. Red and Apollo’s bodies away from harm during the fight, so they were fine, and she was now wearing some transfigured clothes.

Your pouch was fucking gone, destroyed in the blast.

“I can’t believe it!” Arty shouts, mad. “I finally got proper magic and… Look at this!”

In her hands, she holds the remains of three broken wands. You grin.

“You know, I don’t think you have to worry too much about that. The Elixir is gone, the cycle is complete, which means… Ah, there it is.”

You look at the door you came in through, and it is different. It no longer leads to the red room with blood. Instead, it is white as marble, with a symbol of a line within a circle within a triangle. Below the symbol are a stone, a wand and a cloak.

You take the cloak and put it on, just because you can.

You take the stone, and put it into your pocket, because you are not going to mess with it.

You take the wand and strike a pose.

“How do I look?”

“Stunning,” she says.

You toss her the Elder Wand.

“Here you go, miss. It should fix your broken wand without an issue.”

[Cont.]

>>6066978


She holds the knotted gray wand of unknown wood with curiosity and a tinge of worry, then…

“Reparo!” She shouts, and the three wands join back together, as if they had never been broken. She picks her own wand and cuts the air with it, leaving a trail of sparks.

“I… I don’t feel tired anymore,” and you can see tears welling up in her eyes again, but you know they are happy tears. “I don’t feel tired, Elliot!”

“Welcome to the world of wizards, Arty. Not every spell needs to be exhausting.” You look at her, admiring her own wand, and can’t help but wonder what the tiny Hufflepuff fury will do now that she’s on even ground with everyone else.

You have no doubts the other fifth years would be really happy she quit battle class, because she’d wipe the floor with them.

“Linda, you ok?” You ask, approaching her by the several unconscious bodies lined up on the floor.

“Miffed that Salazar got away, but… We’re still alive. And you’ve got two girlfriends now. I’m pretty sure that’s a fantasy every man has.”

“You know, not everyone has your fetishes, Rae.”

“So you’re telling me that if they offered, you’d say no?”

“Uh…”

“Yeah, that’s what I thought. Don’t worry, I’ll keep your secret. So what’s next? Atlantis?”

“Maybe. Or maybe not. Who knows? I… I don’t have the brain to think about it, right now. It’s a problem for future Elliot. For today, I just want to rest.”

Mr. Red, Mr. Purple, Apollo, Brighton, Helga and Scorpius all get levitated and you ready yourself to leave.

“You know that a shitstorm is waiting for us outside, right?” Linda asks. “There is no rest outside this door.”

“Yeah, I know.”

“Any plans?”

“Not really. Whatever happens, happens. We’ll deal with it, together.”

“Together,” Arty says beside you a fierce smile on her face and an energy you’ve never seen her have.

You nod, take a deep breath, then push the door open.

It leads you back to the St. Mungo’s basement. There is some sort of dark artifact creating a shield around the entrance, clearly put there by Salazar. The shield is currently stopping a small army of aurors from entering Avalon, all of which have their wands pointing in your direction.

Leading them is Harry James Potter, looking very much furious. He has his wand in one hand and his gun in the other.

“Elliot Hallaster, Linda Cobris, Brighton Longbottom, Artemis Pertinger, Apollo Pertinger, you are all under arrest for theft, conspiracy, grave robbing, dark arts, the kidnapping of Taylor Cycad and the summoning of the Dark Mark. Scorpius Malfoy, you are under arrest for the murder of Draco Malfoy. Drop your wands and come quietly,” he says, steel in his voice. “Or we will use lethal force, Elliot.”

- End of Act 3 -

Aaaand scene!

I wish I had managed to finish this act on the previous thread, but life got in the way. I'll probably continue act 4 in this same thread in not too long (I'll ping in qtg and twitter when I do).

A few points I wanted to say is that a) the idea of accioing the potion inside the potion got you a free win without a roll because I thought it was clever and b) I honestly hadn't thought about giving Arty's old body to Helga, that was a pretty cool idea. I'll have to adjust my plans for the future accordingly, but it should give rise to some cool interactions between the characters (and an aneurysm to Apollo, most likely).

Anyway, hope you enjoyed it so far! Let me know if you have any questions, ideas or feedback!

>>6066988
This thread was, as always, a blast. Thanks for running! I am so hyped for the confrontation with Potter, with all cards on the table, and the hunt for... Atlantis? or maybe Hyperboria, Lemuria, Eden, Shambala, or some other such place?

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>>6066988
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WE FINALLY GOT A SOMEWHAT HAPPY ENDING!...somewhat...
after all the bullshit we have gone through, dealing with the magic popo should be a piece of cake
>*actually knocks on wood while typing this*

just one thing...should Potter say:
“Elliot Hallaster, Linda Cobris, Brighton Longbottom, Apollo Pertinger, Artemis Pertinger and....Artemis Pertinger?"

>>6066979
>Draco got jumped
GOD! DAMN! My condolences, Scorpy. DING DONG, THE BITCH IS DEAD!
>>6066988
>I honestly hadn't thought about giving Arty's old body to Helga, that was a pretty cool idea
Holy shit, this is my second greatest contribution after "Fuck it up, Lord Hallaster."
When the idea came to me I thought "Wow, this is such an obvious solution to our dillema! Head you clever snake, I've seen right through your riddles."

>>6066988
I want to tell Harry EVERYTHING Elliot knows and has found out, from the very first post of this quest up until now. I want to spill absolutely everything and let him judge this shitshow. He'll fail.

>>6066994
>>6066995
>>6067003
When Mr. Purple wakes up he WILL try to apparate and run the moment he sees he's out alive. We need him in an anti-apparate setting before we can wake him. Cannot risk him waking before then; he is a VITAL witness to back us up about the Avalon clusterfuck. I don't know why the aurors cannot simply apparate past the shield and into the laboratory
How and where did Salazar- nevermind he got the epic black shield artifact from Malfoy family treasure trove, of course. And here we anons were thinking Potter would be behind us, or disguised as one of the masked mercs. Why wouldn't king shit snakeman plan for lightning scar boy offscreen? We were played for fools yet again.

>>6067098
Surely we were smart enough to take Purple's wand after he got stunned; normal wizards need their wands to Disapperate. We also have Weasley who is concussed but knows about Lily... which does mean we have to do a lot of explaining. Like a lot. Like why we have that technically makes us the king of Britain. Why there are two Arty's

We didn't get a free time reset this adventure...but we did get Double Mint Arty, which is pretty good. And we do know Helga has wanted to fuck us... jerked off in our head... that OG Arty is far too kind... might have the fucking twins situation, possibly.

>>6067003
>Holy shit, this is my second greatest contribution after "Fuck it up, Lord Hallaster."
>When the idea came to me I thought "Wow, this is such an obvious solution to our dillema! Head you clever snake, I've seen right through your riddles."

I do love fuck 'em up Lord Hallaster, so thank you very much. Technically it might be King Hallaster now, given we have Excalibur.

>>6066976
>“And you’re going to have to put up with me for the rest of our lives.”

So we are 100% getting her an engagement ring when this shit calms down, when we get out of wizard lock up.

>>6066979
>“I… I don’t feel tired anymore,” and you can see tears welling up in her eyes again, but you know they are happy tears. “I don’t feel tired, Elliot!”

Arty was already terrifying but... I do not think Hogwarts is ready for someone who has worked as hard as her for so long, worked with so little, and now has all the resources she needs to be a powerful with. Scary, considering she could push herself to magical exhaustion willingly before. We are going to need to work twice as hard to keep up with our slightly less tiny Fury. It is also adorable that her justification for wanting an extra inch was just to be able to kiss us more easily.

It is also cute we used "Rae" for Raven/Linda since that is Rowena's nickname too. Having a diminutive for her is cute!

I also assume we took the three goons that our friends stunned back in the pool out with us as well.

>>6066994
Gotta track down Atlantis first. Aside from being stupid powerful now, Salazar does have our nuke button. We can go after Lemuria next. I also think Atlantis may very well be in orbit or possibly the moon. Would fit our ripping the stars from the sky prophesy.

>>6067094
Maybe not everything but a whole lot. Explaining why we have a copy of our girlfriend and the most famous sword in British history now, among other things, heh. Going to very fun.

>>6067365
>not everything
I want a full sequence of him reacting to everything. I love shit like that in media
>normal wizards need their wands to Disapperate
Good call
>the king of Britain
I never want to get rid of Excalibur. That stays with Elliot until the end of the quest
>fucking twins situation
They haven't gone all the way in the quest yet, smut fics aside. This might be what pushes both over the edge, including Helga
>100% getting her an engagement ring
And propose loudly and publicly in the Great Hall so the entirety of the people of Hogwarts know and record it for posterity?
>the three goons that our friends stunned back in the pool
Oh right I forgot about those. More evidence especially with whatever visions they saw from the blood pool

>>6066979
>Scorpius Malfoy, you are under arrest for the murder of Draco Malfoy.
what the fuck?

>>6067367
>Oh right I forgot about those. More evidence especially with whatever visions they saw from the blood pool

Those never made it there, they just got knocked out and like piled against the wall while we took a dip in the big pensive pool. I am sure they can corroborate that Scorpyzar led them there with the promise of money, if nothing else.

Pretty impressed by our friends, and yeah Brighton is one now given he risked his life to help, managed to take down that many dudes while we were in the pool given how many there were and how out classed they were.

>>6067368
Salazar made him murder Draco to get to their store of dark artifacts. Likely because Draco locked down Malfoy manor too as soon as the Dark Mark on his arm started moving and Salazar needed to get out.

>>6066995
>“Elliot Hallaster, Linda Cobris, Brighton Longbottom, Apollo Pertinger, Artemis Pertinger and....Artemis Pertinger?"
I mean, there are a lot of bodies back there, it will take a couple of minutes for him to notice a repeat.

>>6067098
You can be sure Potter has every single anti-fuckoff enchantment set on this place, most of all given that he knows you all have his toe-ring of teleportation

>>6067365
> I also assume we took the three goons that our friends stunned back in the pool out with us as well.
Those fuckers are gone, you didn't exactly have a way of going back there. Those in the mind-pool however... Good fucking question on how the fuck they're getting out of there.

>>6067383
> Pretty impressed by our friends, and yeah Brighton is one now given he risked his life to help, managed to take down that many dudes while we were in the pool given how many there were and how out classed they were.
They got the jump on them, given that Salazar didn't know how far you had gotten and was rushing.

> Salazar made him murder Draco to get to their store of dark artifacts. Likely because Draco locked down Malfoy manor too as soon as the Dark Mark on his arm started moving and Salazar needed to get out.
Bingo. For all his issues, Draco was a not awful person who was doing his best to honor his house and the fact that his son had received Salazar Slytherin in his head, but he had moral limits. Salazar didn't like that, and Scorpius not wanting to do what needed to be done was what made him assume direct control. Similar to what happened to Lily, but more bodily violent since Scorpius was a much more mentally healthy person.

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>>6067435

>Those in the mind-pool however... Good fucking question on how the fuck they're getting out of there.

Hahaha. Serves 'em right for fucking with King Hallaster and the crew.

>They got the jump on them, given that Salazar didn't know how far you had gotten and was rushing.

Still pretty impressive since these guys were fully grown wizards who were pretty skilled. Linda is a badass given she took down two more with her hands literally tied and her legs all fucked up by prophesy blood. On that note I hope the healers can fix all us up.

>Bingo.

Yeah, RIP Draco. I mean, fuck you for trying to mind read us, but you were keeping Scorpyzar in check. I suppose, we are indirectly responsible for another death now.

On the other hand, we are indirectly responsible for saving the new Lord Malfoy's life... so that might be useful in the future.

>>6067455
>literally tied and her legs all fucked up by prophesy blood.

Tied behind her back. Fuck me.

>>6067455
Draco's death was unavoidable, if not now he'd have been killed by Salazar eventually for hindering his goals

>>6067455
I mean it's was a great side effect of our gambit.

We got all the aurors busy, locked down the malfoys, etc etc.
The stakes were high enough to make it worth it.

The fact Draco was unable to suppress scorpius was a bad side effect. Plus is scorpius can also vouch for the situation.

Given the other wizards involved, we can probably talk with potter more earnestly with others being able to serve as checks against him.

>>6067473
we can also talk much more freely now that The Beast is currently no longer an issue

>>6067477
Is it finally time to occupy the Room of Requirement with Arty and Helga?

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>>6067473
>scorpius can also vouch for the situation.

>>6067477
>we can also talk much more freely

Yeah, the fact the world no longer ends if we die is a pretty good thing. The fact everyone doesn't just die if we get shot in the head gives us more wiggle room. Having Malfoy alive and a Weasley alive gives us some credibility. Having two Arty's will take some explaining... but screw it. Mr. Purple will likely reveal the IDs of the other guys, for a lesser sentence, and I imagine they are all wanted for one thing or another, aside from Weasley.

>>6067484
Yes. The time is now.

>>6067484
I will vote against sexing Helga.

>>6067484
you know it. except not really because the qm pretty much vetoed it

>>6067654
Tbf, the fact we've done so much for them has a lot of ethical and power dynamic issues that probably need to be communicated for everyone's sake.

Like if we did cheat on Arty, what is the balance between that and ending an effective death sentence.
Conversely, if we asked Helga to do unethical things, she has a body for the first time in millenia.

Like we won't do things, but ffs it's a bit fucked innit? Helga actually is possibly liable to pressure Arty into something and it wouldn't be completely out of character.

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>>6067732
>has a lot of ethical and power dynamic issues

It really does. Like when Helga wakes up, her and Arty probably need to have a discussion. I mean naturally Helga will need to do certain things like using the restroom, showering, getting dressed that involve seeing or getting to Arty's private area's but they will need to talk about masturbation, having sex. Is it okay for Helga to date someone, possibly enter a sexual relation using Arty's body? Might be a couple of months or a couple of years till we can get Helga one completely her own after all. Might be a lifetime.

I have no doubt Arty will give her full permission, given how kind she is, but might be an... interesting talk.

Elliot is also going to probably still have lingering sexual attraction to the old body, just because that is the exact form he fell in love with, even if the personality was just as big of a part. Helga is going to have differing fashion sense and what not and will be a hair shorter, but a bit of attraction would still be there.

I think in the quest, not my shitty fics, the worst that would happen is accidentally kissing the wrong Arty in the hall or something. But who knows?

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Thought of a couple of things since I really like to re-read that final scene.

Arty, she might not have been ever able to learn Apparition if we hadn't given her a body that can use magic normally. That is great considering the kind of life her and Elliot are going to lead.

She might be able to cast a Patronus now, given she is more powerful and just had probably the single happiest moment of her life. That would be cool, since the time when we officially chose her when she was at her lowest, when she learned that even cheating with our potion she couldn't manage it; that she wasn't happy enough to use that emotion like a sword against the Dark. Hell, we might manage to as well, since we just gave a life to the wife, and it is probably one of the happiest times of Elliot's life too. When we give Arty an engagement ring soon, it will also be good fuel for that spell as well.

Apollo will be eternally loyal to us after this. Especially after he and his sister talk, and she confesses that he had stolen her magic and life in the womb. Going to be a lot of crying on both ends when he also reveals he smothered her in the crib and possibly made her issues worse, and she tells him she still loves him.

Brighton is going to be sad that we couldn't use the Elixir to fix Frank and Alice and will still be a prat, but he is now full in on our adventures since Atlantis very well might have another means.

We are indeed going to have to tell Potter an awful lot about our adventures, though I am not sure about exactly how much. Red is going to tell him about Lily, so can't keep that a secret anymore I believe, but maybe we can keep a few secrets. Fitzgerald's library should be one, since it gives us a way out of the castle when we are good at Apparition and is our only source of info that might lead us to where Salazar is at.

As far HelgArty is concerned, we are going to need to secure a wand for her when she wakes up. I suppose go to Ollivander's and see what works. It might just need to be a copy of Arty's or might need to be like Helga's original. Her previous wand might be still around as well. Salazar's was if you go by and if you accept the lore concerning Ilvermorny.

Just some thoughts I had while we wait to see exactly how bad the fall out from this will be. Might come up with some other shit soon.

The curse is fucking real, even if you are just thinking of running a quest. I have had to put down a cat and had to pull a gun on a dude to stop a carjacking/robbery just last night after writing up an opening prompt and doing some planning for an Ilvermorny quest. God apparently hates this hobby.

>>6068208
>Fitzgerald's library
That stays in our pocket until an ultra-crisis, good call
>Her previous wand might be still around as well. Salazar's was
Interesting to explore that avenue
>The curse is fucking real
Some people do in fact learn the hard way
Capcha R2222

>>6068208
Brighton will probably understand

>>6068208
>The curse is fucking real, even if you are just thinking of running a quest. I have had to put down a cat and had to pull a gun on a dude to stop a carjacking/robbery just last night after writing up an opening prompt and doing some planning for an Ilvermorny quest. God apparently hates this hobby.
holy shit

>>6068208
>the curse is real
that explains why i got my job time and payment cut in half not long after i started running my own quest...holy shit

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>>6068216
It is fine. I didn't end up in lock up for killing a guy or anything. I was just running to the store literally for some smokes and maybe a tallboy of beer and wasn't even going to carry a gun or a knife until I got this weird feeling, so I tossed them on. Sketchy guy came in right after me then came out while I was getting my seatbelt situated in my beater, didn't buy anything since there was still a small line after I checked out, and he had nothing from the store in his hands. Walked around the side of the beater SUV I keep to carry shit. Thought he was just heading around to one of the other cars, since the lot was pretty full with people doing beer runs, but just felt like something was off, so just had my gun partially drawn, then the back passenger side gets opened, and he started getting in. Told him this is the very much wrong car. He got out quick after trying to sit down and ran over to a very different vehicle parked like 30 feet off to my side and got in the side.

Moral of the story kids is trust your instincts, have situational awareness, and always stay strapped.

>>6068218
Bro that fucking sucks. I hope you are doing alright and you can possibly find a less shit employer soon.

I will now stop bringing IRL shit into a quest about wizard highschool.

>>6068208
> Brighton
He'll be mad, but when we tell him there was barely any left, and he realized we got arrested literally as soon as we left and the elixir never would have made it to them, he'll get it. He;s a shit, but he's not STUPID.

>Potter
Tell him about Lily. Don't tell him about the library until we know how he reacts to that.

>the curse
Shit just happens, man. I've had a lot of things go down since I started QMing, but in retrospect also before I started QMing. You just notice it more and attribute it to the curse when you know about it.

>>6068285
>until I got this weird feeling
That's somebody planting the idea in your head, trying to help save your life.

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>>6068315
Did the job. At least saved my wallet. So thank you, who ever made me a hair more paranoid than I already am.

>>6067484
>>6067521
>>6067654
>>6067662
>>6067795
>you know it. except not really because the qm pretty much vetoed it
No double dipping, anons. Elliot is a one girl kinda guy.

>>6068208
Fucking hell anon. Glad to know you're still alive and haven't fucking shot someone.

>>6068208
>>6068213
>>6068304
Yeah, I'm trying to structure how to create the vote on what to tell him and what not to tell him. Can't quite see how to do it without it becoming incredibly messy and difficult to count, so suggestions are welcome.

Besides the library, is there anything else you'd like to keep from Potter in the undoubtedly ensuing interrogation? This isn't a vote, just to get some ideas and see where people's minds are at

>>6068390
He better know that the Ministry are responsible for this incident by dumping the Time Turners into the darkness behind the veil. If they had not done that, the 4 founders + Merlin would not have returned and Merlin as the Beast would have stayed banished with them. Elliot also only learned to cast the Dark Mark as a massive distraction to get to Avalon in time. All that Elliot has done behind Potter's back has been to thwart Salazar and the Beast and to protect his friends. He did all he could within his means and pushed as far as he was able.

Oh wait he's going to be told literally everything alongside these, except about the Library? Then yeah I see no problems with this. I don't think there's anything else we really need to hide from him? I don't have any ideas coming to me. I hope he'll understand the importance of Avalon and Ancient Magic for that Merlin cycle.

>>6068395
supporting this
we gotta make Potter understand that we arent just fucking around, everything we have done has been to stop shit he wasnt even remotely aware

>>6068395
We may wish to hide some of what we know about Ancient magic still, perhaps. Also the Merlin knowledge in our brain regarding how to use a Great Work. Could also hide the fact we have two of the books from the restricted section, even though we have notes from Moste Potent and Stars in the Dark is pretty useless to us now.

Kind of struggling with what else, since we can't hide Lily being dead AF due to Mr. Red being aroudtold yall we should have just killed him down there, needing to explain what happened to Taylor. That you CAN make a new body and stick a soul in it. What with there being a second Arty now and all. Can't hide the founders, really.

So aside from the library, I am not sure what else is important enough to hide.

>>6068390
>Fucking hell anon. Glad to know you're still alive and haven't fucking shot someone.

It is all good. Thank you though.

>>6068390
>No double dipping, anons. Elliot is a one girl kinda guy.

In my brain, there is a small amount of double-dipping. There are a lot of ideas, really, and before the quest ends I hope to get them all out.

>>6068426
>told yall we should have just killed him down there,

Fuck, I am slipping up.

>>6068403
>>6068426
Right, good one. We do NOT tell him
>ancient Library under Hogwarts
We can simply return Stars in the Dark and Moste Potent Poisons to the Restricted Section since they also have no further use. Alternatively we just give them both to Potter and tell him the former was what Taylor used to help us locate Last Light before he died, for maximum sad impact.

Should we tell him the Merlin knowledge we have in Elliot's brain about Avalon and the Great Work? I doubt it'll matter because the only Ancient Magic body right now is Arty's new one I believe. We might need that in the next hundred years or so to repeat the Avalon cycle, but that's post-quest epilogue shit.

>>6068432
>the only Ancient Magic body right now is Arty's new one I believe.
there isn't, you need the full dose of elixir for that, lailoken said as much

>>6068450
Then Avalon is cold and offline forevermore unless another way to get full Ancient Magic is possible. It's over...

>>6068452
it takes two hundred years for avalon to become operational again which is above the average lifespan of a wizard. we were never getting double dips in it normally and it doesn't matter, we weren't gonna stop at just avalon anyways

>>6068432
I doubt Arty's new body can deal with Ancient Magic yet. HelgArty can probably still see it like we could, when she was in us. Maybe fuck with some stuff like she did when we released all the power in Isadora's repository, but likely not more. The other two founders will likely be able to do about the same when they manifest in our friends. Will likely be useful when we make it to Atlantis, since no idea if Elliot can still do shit like see the runes we did on Merlins' windowsill in the Tower.

>>6068452
Yes. Except the over part...

>>6068456
>it doesn't matter, we weren't gonna stop at just avalon anyways

That is the Lord Hallaster attitude I like to see! Or King Hallaster now, I suppose.

Do we get Royal privileges now that we have the sword?

>>6068390
> Can't quite see how to do it without it becoming incredibly messy and difficult to count, so suggestions are welcome.
When I do similar votes in my quest, I just make a list of things we could tell him, tell anons to vote for however many they want to share (or to add more), and have the final explanation include anything with 50 (or more than 50) percent of the anons supporting it.

>>6068390
the details of Salazar torturing Lily

>>6068390
Honestly, I'm inclined to tell him to use Legilimency on us finally.

>>6068650
There's really no reason to torment Potter with the particular details of his daughter's abuse, agreed.

>>6068650
Yeah, just imply it was some serious horrific shit and let his mind fill in the rest himself. Any guess he comes up with is more than likely something Salazar did make her do

>>6068665
But knowing Occulmency means Legilimency can't work, right? Couldn't we copy ALL those memories and put them in a Pensieve? He has the same one Dumbledore used, we can just borrow that with him in the room with us can't we?

>>6068679
we aren't exactly master occlumens

>>6068680
Won't he easily discover the Library that way too?

>>6068739
yes

>>6068743
So I'd rather not do that. I want to hold onto the Library as an ace for later when Elliot finally learns how to Apparate properly

>>6068739
Yeah.

>>6068650
Agreed. Potter is a dick but he really doesn't need to know about his kid sexually and possibly physically abusing her self in exact details.

>>6068665
Can only really detect surface thoughts, I think it was stated. Might reveal the library.

He is going to want to know where the fuck we got the info to find Avalon. We could possibly say, Scorpius revealed what we needed to put it all together at one point to bait us into stealing the Hallows for him. He kind of did, what with being so desperate for the Stone.

One thing we do NOT reveal or hint at is that Raven used the green death to take out LilyZar, since doing that to another human is basically a one way ticket to Nurmengard. We also cannot reveal Arty and Apollo used the Torture curse while their caretaker was dying. He doesn't need to know the gang is one Unforgivable away from completing the set. As we said, he doesn't need more reasons to think we are all evil.

Might think of some other stuff before QM calls for a real list.

>>6068804
i think he'd understand a child unknowingly using the torture curse on an abusive caretaker, he likely already knows anyway so i doubt we'd even need to tell him

>>6068810
>“And you’ll be the one who has to talk about it. I’m not sure if mine is worse.”

>“Talking is pretty difficult…” She says, biting her lower lip. “But maybe not in front of Potter.”

>“Merlin, no. He doesn’t need any more reason to think we’re all evil. But with me, with us… You don’t need to hide it.”

I don't think he knows or at least she doesn't think he knows. Apollo used instinctive magic so it isn't like they could check and Cruciatus doesn't leave marks, so best as I can guess she didn't mention it. House also "burned down" she did it and I know it, our little pyro so no evidence. It took a while for the ministry to track the twins down, so I don't even know if there was much to tell how that fucker died. They obviously know magic was involved, and I am sure they said it was when Arty was being beat bloody, but no reason to risk it.

>>6068810
If anyone would sympathize with an abusive childhood making you align with aspects of dark wizardry, it's the kid raised in a cupboard by the Dursleys who almost got sorted into Slytherin and used to be able to talk to snakes, and who named one of his kids after Snape.

>>6068857
don't forget him unintentionally locking his cousin in a snake cage

>>6068857
True enough but it is also not something for us to reveal. It is her story, something for her to talk about. It happened on the worst day of her life. It is her darkest memory.

Harry understands childhood abuse and Arty's is arguably worse than his but finding out that the girlfriend of a guy who he thinks is the next Dark Lord figured out the name and intent needed for it when she was 8, told it to her severely emotionally abused and slightly autistic brother and liked seeing the dude suffer? Still did when she saw it again? That should be off the table, especially considering Apollo was the one who fucked up Dumbledore's corpse and cracked his grave.

Honestly, everything we saw when we lived through our friend's worst memories should be a no-go. They are personal, and it is a betrayal of the trust they have in us to talk about them, and all of them paint the gang in a bad light.

WE know all the gang are good people, even if Brighton is a prat, but we are in some deep shit. Need to show we are good; revealing what we know for the most part, the circumstances behind our actions, the motive for them is good but not giving out info that makes us look like nascent Dark wizards is also crucial.

>>6068885
This is good along with not telling him the Library or Lily's exact abuse

>>6068885
>>6068887
think the only one that's actually part of the storyline is Arty's, the others were experienced completely seperately

>>6068887
I suppose we should also not mention that us friendzoning Potter's kid being, you know, the thing that finally let Salazar break her should be a no-go as well.

So how is this for a list:

The shit we learned in our friend's heads

Raven using AK on Lily

The Library and where we exactly learned about where Avalon is, and or saying ScorpyZar baited us here and to steal the Hallows

How Linda killed two dudes down here

Exact nature of what Salazar did to Lily, just say that her broke her down over a decade and a half till he could take over

Shit we should tell him:

Basically every thing else

That Helga fucking Hufflepuff told us that Potter should not raise his sword against this threat while she had Merlin's prophetic powers and that is why we had to deceive him

Why there is now Double Mint Arty


There are some more specifics, but I think it should be covered by everything.

>>6068909
I agree with pretty much everything except we can't really hide what Linda did since Purple is here to testify, and idk how do we explain how we survived salazar the first time besides "then I got back up and pwnd him"

and it goes without saying but we don't have retell the parts of the story where he was there watching

>>6068909
>or saying ScorpyZar baited us here and to steal the Hallows
he's going to find out about that one from Scorpius, might as well tell him ourselves

>>6068918
we don't need to say Linda killed Lily, just say she disappeared the same way Taylor did which forced Salazar out
only way he'd be able to find out that bit's not completely true is if he goes into our minds since all evidence of the fight now exists only in our memories

>>6068920
still makes the part about lily being deleted from history but nobody else kinda iffy. i wonder if Raven even gives a fuck. we are already getting arrested so...

>>6068925
I say just tell him about the unforgivables too. Harry Imperio'd people before back when he was a fugitive

>>6068927
that part was retconned here, get on with the program

>>6068925
you want us to get shot for telling him we technically killed his daughter?

>>6068930
i just don't think lying about it will help our case. also, i was told that wasn't our fault

>>6068679
>>6068804
Here's the thing. You can either ask him to use legilemency and direct him to what you want him to know at a reasonable challenge, or you can have him spring it on you randomly when he gets fed up and try to direct it with much greater difficulty and possibly with truth serum in our bloodstream.
Potter knows we aren't a skilled occlumens. So best to let him have at it rather than have him stack the deck on us.

>>6068925
I think if we make it clear she was already gone, we can get away with saying we had to fight Salazar to the death otherwise he would get the ball of ancient magic or kill us which would have killed every one because of the Beast. Make it clear that we tried to not do it, which is 100% true anyway, but she was too much. That we lost our best friend and Raven lost her lover, that Elliot was on the ground, and she made the hard choice to take her shot when she had the chance and used literally any other spell than AK to kill "Lily".

If nothing else, we 100% leave out how Raven mutilated the body post mortem when we still thought Lily could get a proper funeral.

If we have to saw shit about Arty and Apollo, just leave it at they killed the dude and burned down the house.

You have to be a psychopath to ever use one of the Unforgivables on a person, which is why they are unforgivable in the 1st place.

We do not want him thinking that way about our team. More than he already does, anyway. I think we can leave out a good number of little things and still convince him we aren't full of shit, especially with so many corroborating stories. We convinced Brighton, though we did have Frank and Alice to back us up.

In other news, I feel terrible for Agusta. Brighton never even knew his grandparent when they were sane and was destroyed by learning their recovery wasn't a recovery at all. Agusta did so... yeah.

>>6069018
>If nothing else, we 100% leave out how Raven mutilated the body post mortem when we still thought Lily could get a proper funeral.
that didn't actually happen, it was only in the memory place

>>6069024
that very much did happen

>>6069024
She diffindo'd her after death till she was too tired to do it anymore, then tore into Lily's face and neck with her nails to the point Lily's throat was destroyed. Go look back at the end of thread 2.

>>6069024
>that didn't actually happen
that was explicitly explained in detail dude, that VERY MUCH happened

>>6069039
I thought as >>6069024 said, that didn't happen in the initial event, but only in Raven/Linda's traumatic reliving of the event as a waking nightmare within Avalon?

>>6069030
Oooh, right. Well, at least it wasn't as bad as smashing her skull apart with a rock in the imaginary redo.