Gramps' quest for a stable family (HP / Overlord/Homm crossover quest)

[Blonddude42]

Cross posting for anyone who wants a plan.


[] Plan We're an rich pureblood and we just want to have fun

Spoiler: What else would we do?

Negotiations
-[X] Oh hoooo~.. (Dace tries to get them together. Variable results.)
-[X] Negotiate with Lily
--[X] [Spell] : Blur - 2 mana 3 Gems to buy
--[X] [Spell] : Dispel - 2 mana 3 Gems to buy
--[X] [Spell] : Magic Fist - 2 mana 3 Gems to buy
-- [X] Charity : 7 Gems
-[X] Negotiate with Dumbledore
--[X] 20 000 G/t : Fawkes : gain 1d6 Phoenix tears / turn.


What does Dace focus on?
-[X]Air control : The dementors are a pain, but he can deal with them.

We have a fucking dragon -> Dragons fly -> We're air support. Fighting flying enemies is a bitch when you can't fly.

We don't really have a use for gems yet, and we're gonna be building in the area where we can generate more. So the spells are useful, and the charity gets us within spitting distance of the SL 6 bonus with Lily whose the leader of a faction that's just starting. Which is also why I try to get them together. The closer we get them to us, the better chance we have of being able to puppet it (or more likely gently guide it's path).

Dumbledore gets the 20,000 G/t since Phoenix tears are OP and these must be priced at what you'd pay on the open market at the absolute worst. Worst comes to worst, we can turn around and sell some of them to at least greatly cut the expense of this action -- I'm assuming on a 3 or better we can actually make money off it.

 

[Soulwave]

I volunteer for laughing anarchist for negaverse

 

[Blonddude42]

Shippers are a fun staple of negaverses.

 

[Nicaea]

well, there's gonna be about 7 possibilities, and only 4 of them would host active shippers.

 

[shanagan]

[X] Plan We're an rich pureblood and we just want to have fun

 

[Vanbers]

[X] Plan We're an rich pureblood and we just want to have fun

 

[Nicaea]

And the winning plan is ...

Spoiler: Plan We're an rich pureblood and we just want to have fun

Negotiations
-[X] Oh hoooo~.. (Dace tries to get them together. Variable results.)
-[X] Negotiate with Lily
--[X] [Spell] : Blur - 2 mana 3 Gems to buy
--[X] [Spell] : Dispel - 2 mana 3 Gems to buy
--[X] [Spell] : Magic Fist - 2 mana 3 Gems to buy
-- [X] Charity : 7 Gems
-[X] Negotiate with Dumbledore
--[X] 20 000 G/t : Fawkes : gain 1d6 Phoenix tears / turn.

Well then *cracks finger*s let's get to it.
*After rolling*. Yep, just about as broken as expected.

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Turn 2.3: May 27th, 1983
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Having finally caught on what was happening, Dumbledore began barking orders to the two other members of his little club and they immediately began beelining for the cloaked figure, while Lily called upon her mechanical men. Which left Dace only one venue of action, which was the air.

To be fair, he was the one with a dragon.

"What do we do boss?" Oliver asked him, jaw set in grim determination.

Dace took a moment to think.
Wight Air strike roll : 88 + 10 ( Tactics) = 98 Versus Dace plan : 87 + 5 (genius) + 10 (Blood of ???) = 102. Success ! Number penalty waived.
The pattern of their movement seemed rather obscure at first, but then he noticed the rotation between units. It seemed that they were trying to encircle and herd them towards the center, where the darkest, and likely most powerful were waiting to suck out their life and/or soul. Dace wasn't really clear bout whether those were evolved wights or en entirely different species altogether.

"You drive, I eliminate them." He answered, sheathing his wand back inside his sleeve and gripping the book in his purst, feeling its windy thrum fill his mind with the knowledge of the same spell that saved him back then at the sea. He'd really need to check what was up with it.
Dace fight: 73 + 5 (genius) + 10 (Blood of ???) + 20 (Book of ???) ( Disadvantage negated by having Oliver drive the dragoness for him) = 108.
Following his instructions, the man led the dragoness though the air, Dace concentrating a good chunk of his energy into the spell he was about to unleash. The undead, having felt that something was afoot, rushed towards him with an inhuman screech, as the human released his control over the spell.
Dace spell : Loses 15 Mana, 1(Power) x 10 + 10 = 20 damage to all undead. Damage ignores defense due to rolls. Dementors hp : 18 = Dementors dead
A massive gale of wind escaped from his hands, spreading to trap the flying undead inside a vacuum, before it retracted suddenly back inside Dace's hand, taking something with it with an deafening shriek and a flash of pale light. When the two men opened their eyes again, all they saw was falling bones and black scraps of cloth, they were alone in the air, wind howling in the grey sky.

Result : Aerial Victory. Dementors eliminated to the last, may run away.

Oliver turned towards his employer, a finger pointed towards where the dementors were supposed to be.

"Erm, boss? You're not supposed to kill them."

"And Whyever not?" He gave him an affronted look.

"You can't kill dementors." The younger man tried again, making the other huff."

"Of course you can, they're old magic, you just need to used the same kind that created to destroy them."

Dace starting exp : 856/1000
Oliver starting exp : 25/1000
Fight results: Victory!
Exp gained: 405 each
Dace Current exp: 1261 / 2000 : Level up!
Oliver current exp: 430 / 1000



Still, after his fight, Dace felt something was off, as if there was well of power within him that was about to burst and only needed his say so to take shape...

Choose one:

[] Spells that seemed more complicated before now were more accessible to him... Gain Advanced Wisdom.
[] The air around him sang with a song he was beginning to understand... Gain Advanced Air Magic
[] Magic wove itself around him like a protective shield... Gain Basic Resistance
[] You had a feeling that things were going to go his way now... Gain Basic Luck

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In any case, a look down below showed him that things.... Didn't go well at all.
Necromancer strike roll : 93 (this was the lowest of 3) +10 (Prodigy) + 10 (Nat 100 against OotP) = 113 Versus Dumbledore plan : 51 + 5(genius) = 56. Result : Freaking Ow...
Dumbledore tried to implement some sort of strategy that had them attack the dark figure from three different directions, however, with a wave of the hand, they were swarmed from all sides and effectively separated, if the trails of corpse he could see from up there were correct. The logical thing would have been to retreat and regroup, however, something happened that kept them from doing so...
James fight: 96 – 20 (outnumbered and outwitted) = 76. Nope.
James was holding his wand arm, whithing on the ground in pain, while Dumbledore was looking from behind a circle of fire, trying, and failing, to blast the dark figure away.
Aife fight : 76 + 40 (WotN) + 10 (The Gamer) – 20 (outnumbered and outwitted) -30 (Divine intervention) = 70. Nope.
Aife didn't fare any better. There was a moment, where it looked like she was about to pull out some sort of trump card, however, at that crucial moment, she fell to her knees, screaming and holding her head. The figure reached slowly for her neck, hand wreathed in poisonous green light, when Dumbledore bellowed, calling for Fawkes. In a flash of fire, the phoenix appeared, taller than the man and made of fire.
Fawkes to the rescue! 98 + 20 (he's a freaking phoenix) + 10 (Aerial victory) -10 (outnumbered) = 118 (against 113). Fawkes manages to evac them.
Dumbledore threw a mournful look at Lily's direction, before glaring at you and the members of the Order disappeared from the battlefield, teleported away by the magical creature.
Land strike roll. 86 + 10 (Tactics) = 96 Versus Lily's plan: 6 (oh god...) - 10 (alone) = -4 Critical failure. Huge penalties
What had Dace worried, though, was that he didn't see Lily anywhere, and undead were crawling through the only building in this place, the Town Hall.
Lily Fight: 75 + 20 (army) + 10 (Lay of the land) – 40 ( Critfail) - 20 first battle = 25 versus 96: Massive defeat.
Having a bad feeling about it, he pressed Oliver to approach and located her near one of the windows, covered with blood and injuries, pieces of her guardian automatons strewn on the ground. The only small mercy about that was that the window she was located at was on the other side of the building and the figure couldn't see themm here.
Dace's foresight : 97 + 5 (genius) = 102 against 53 (detection roll). Pass.
Taking the chance, he had Oliver suddenly fly lower and got his wand out, casting an attraction spell that had Lily fly screaming outside of the window into his arms. Then, Oliver got the idea, and they decided it was time to make themselves scarce, despide the redhead's protests of her having it well in hand. She was also crying and screaming at the top of her lungs, so she might not be all that reasonable right now.

Result of the battle:

Minor Life faction loss.
Minor Nature faction victory.
Major Order faction loss, Order faction destroyed?
Major Death faction victory, Fort acquired!

Due to enemy critical, relation with Life faction set to hostile!
Relation between Lily and Life faction set to Vendetta!

Hero unit acquired : Lily Evans. You may assign her as Head librarian (learning adviser) after spending a personal action on her next turn.

Blue player defeated.​

(Oh, and Negotiations with Dumbledore are off, by the way.)
Negaverse: Pick your poison:
[]OrderQuest: The end?
[]DeathQuest: complete victory?
[]LifeQuest: What happened here?
[]ChaosQuest: Meanwhile...Wat?
[]Aife's isekai adventure isn't going as expected: The saltening

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Well, at least now you'll get that Order conservatory plan for free?

Spoiler

 

[Kerfirou]

[X] Spells that seemed more complicated before now were more accessible to him... Gain Advanced Wisdom.
[X]Aife's isekai adventure isn't going as expected: The saltening

 

[Soulwave]

Ah salt I want them all

 

[Nicaea]

Too bad, you only get one, SV seems to prefer Deathquest so far.

 

[Minion #Q]

What?

Why does the life faction hate us here. The fact that we won in the air was the reason why Fawkes was able to pull them to safety. Are all of you just as salty as Aife for being outshown here. We rescued Lily but if the order faction was destroyed and not moved can Lily even give us the things that she could have in the update or is she now a normal hero unit now. I did not expect Death Quest to be as successful as they have been but the real winner is chaos quest as order their counter was taken out by someone else.

[X]OrderQuest: The end?

 

[shanagan]

[X] You had a feeling that things were going to go his way now... Gain Basic Luck

[X]Aife's isekai adventure isn't going as expected: The saltening

 

[Nicaea]

Why does the life faction hate us here.

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Explained in its totality in Deathquest, Partially in Lifequest and Aifequest

 

[Soulwave]

Do they beleive were at fault maybe? We did one up then a few times

 

[Nicaea]

Something like that.

 

[Blonddude42]

...Riddle followed us here didn't he?

 

[Soulwave]

We showed up on a dragon.... I kinda figure since his target was Dumbledore he was following him

 

[Selias]

[X] You had a feeling that things were going to go his way now... Gain Basic Luck
[X]Aife's isekai adventure isn't going as expected: The saltening

 

[Nicaea]

And the winner is....

[X]Aife's isekai adventure isn't going as expected: The saltening​

Here cometh the Negaverse!

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Well, After doing some rolling, I have some good and bad news!

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Here we go... The last time Zebra sounded so happy was when someone's plan to murder our own father somehow got voted.

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Seriously, why did we vote for that guy?

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Because he was the only one with a plan and you were lazy.

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He said he wanted to burn everything to the ground! Anyways, good news please.

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You're going to get a reason to go after Gramps directly.

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And how is that good?

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Well, if that was the good news, I wonder how bad will be the bad one.

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[x] Accompany Dumbledore. Even pregnant, you are the Order's best fighter.

"If you're sure" Remus frowned, letting his arms fall to his sides, eliciting a loving smile from Aife.
"I am, don't worry, I'm the strongest, right?" She turned around, looking at her precious baby boy. Romulus Lupin seemed to be his father's son, at least he inherited his colors with brown hair and eyes.
"And you, don't bully your daddy too much, understood little guy?" She cooed as he rubbed his eyes and nodded sleepily.

It took them a while, but they arrived to the isolated island where Lily built her base. It was strange, made of creamy and white stone, and men made of metal were milling about. The woman in question was looking at them from the top of the stairs unmoving.

James' face lit up into a loving smile.

"Lily! It's been so long! How have you been? You should write more!"

The redhead looked at them and Aife thought she saw a glare, but she must have imagined it , after all , Lily was James' wife and Harry's mother. Then, a terrible roar rang trhough the air, and she saw a gigantic dragon flying down towards them. They prepared themselves to combat, but Lily raised her hand.

"It's okay, I invited them."

Aife frowned, then muttered "Observe"

Name: Charlotte
Species: Green Dragon (Tamed)
Level 7 Dragon
HP :180/180

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What kind of idiot would call a dragon 'Charlotte' ?! Wait, Hagrid would, but she'd hear about it if the Order had access to dragons. Some movement caught her attention and she instinctively looked at the two men coming down from the Dragoness.

The first one was a very handsome young man, tall and muscled with wavy blond hair falling over his eyes and a cowboy hat.

Name: Oliver Lapierre
Species: Human-Veela hybrid
Level 1 Beastmaster
HP: 20/20

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The results had her blink, both because the man didn't look like a veela at all, and because of his irregular class. She was about to scan the other, when she realized that it was her own father. He looked in surprisingly good health. Lily smiled at him and walked down the white stairs of the Town hall, followed by giant bronze automatons, she suddenly looked at them with a frown

"It's good to see you again, Professor Gwallawg, but we have other guests."

Aife was surprised by tho hostility in her voice, and sneaked a glance at James, who looked as surprised as she was. A sinking feeling in her stomach appeared at the same moment a quest window did.

Something is wrong in Orderville.
Lily is behaving strangely compared to your knowledge. Find out why.

Reward: 10 exp,[The phoenix rises] Quest available.
Failure: Lily becomes the Order's bitter enemy.
Do you accept the quest [Y/N]

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The closest word describing what she felt at that moment was 'horror'. She didn't think her father would sink so low!
Albus was the first to react to Dace's presence, and he coughed, drawing her attention away from her biological father.

"Young Dace, and... I'm sorry, I do not think I got your name?"

" Oliver Lapierre, G.U. Graduate. Would say it's nice to meet you but my mum raised no liar." That was curt and to the point, and mildly insulting, yet again, if he came with Dace, he was probably poisoned against them by his lies.

"Yet you run around with one of the worst." She couldn't help but say, cramming her voice with disapproval.

"Ah, but here is the beauty of being me, I do not lie if I can help it. It must run in the family, really, truth is so much more devastating." ... That was low. "However, as much as this heartwarming reunion touches me, I still have a meeting to attend." He swanned towards Lily, taking her offered hand and bowing down to it, kissing it, before letting go. Was he trying to seduce her?! She was a married woman for Merlin's sake! "And it would be quite the insult to ignore the Lady of the castle when she comes to greet us in person, right?"

She had to keep her foot on James' to keep him from murdering the man on the spot. Later, they'd get their chance. The true surprise, however, came from the younger man, who imitated awkwardly his employer (?), and from Lily, who almost like she enjoyed the attention. At least, it look that way to James too, who was almost hissing in rage. Finally, they got to enter. The building was old and dilapidated, but she could feel it held some kind of magic she couldn't understand yet. Then, after a row of negotiations, Dace suddenly got up, back ramrod straight, and stormed out of the building. Dumbledore blinked, before doing the same, far faster that one would think him being able to.

When they got out, they were met with a vision of horror. THere were undead everywhere, and a notification that appeared

Betrayal! Somebody sold you off to the army of darkness!

Objective: Survive until rescue

Failure: Death

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Surviving was much more easily said than done. And in the end, she found herself on her own.
There was no choice but to use that. Gathering her thoughts, she focused them on her beloved Remus and their child. She couldn't die here, she had a family to come back to!

"I love you. Please marry me." Her soon-to-be husband asked her with a loving smile, his warm amber eyes only seeing her in the entire world, being even more awesome that the one described in the book.​

"Ragna-" She began to call out the name of her ultimate attack.
Now now, what do we have here? A divine level attack? Oh no, that won't do at all...
"-Urk!" Her hand flew to her throat as the shout died.
You do know intervening directly at a time like this will cause a penalty to be applied, right?
Her hands then reached her head as she screamed at the top of her lungs, the pain unbearable.
How dare you...
Her vision swam while at the corner of her eyes, she saw messages that were most concerning.

Critical enemy damage!
Special attack sealed!
[Ancient Curse] Debuff applied!

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[Ancient Curse]

The Old Gods still roam across this Earth.
Repent, ye fool who would defy them!

All statistics halved!
All regeneration halved.

You have the attention of SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-

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The pain almost doubled in intensity, despite all of her pain resistance and [Gamer's Mind].
Oh please, as if you never did that. Remember who's the one who gave Tommy the idea to attack the potioneer's meeting in hopes of killing that guy? How's that working for you?
Ever so slowly, the figure approached her, swatting away James' attemps to protect her as one would a fly.
Ladies, ladies, calm down, you're all pretty~
Pale, cold fingers traced the black scar on her jaw, before settling on her throat, and squeezed.
You shut up you sex-crazed manwhore!
She couldn't breathe, she couldn't move, and this wasn't supposed to happen!
Gee, how aggressive, you know, you should embrace your other side more~
The figure's other hand approached her face, poisonous green coldness filled her vision, before a flash of bright fire took her away.
Get a room you two. In any case, Divine intervention penalty will be taken into account and punished for all of you that used it. Yes, I'm looking at you three.
Aife, James and Dumbledore reappeared in their temporary headquarters, in front of Molly Weasley's pale face. She looked tired, as if she hadn't spend a good night and almost screamed as they appeared, before realizing who they were.
You can't do that! You're not even a player!
"Molly." Dumbledore sighed, feeling and looking as old as he was. " I need you to call the Order, I have terrible news."
Yeah, goddess of the land or not, you're only there because He thought it'd be a good idea to have an arbiter.
It took a few hours, but soon, everyone was up to date and arguing on why this could happen. It was then the Arthur weasley spoke, apparently uncomfortable.
... I see. I suppose you're all in agreement with what she said?
"It would make sense, if it was Gwallawg senior who betrayed the hour and location of the meeting. I mean, he's friends with Lucius Malfoy, of all people."
Uhm, guys? That's not a good idea...
This almost caused another row, but Dumbledore intervened.
Yes we are. You're en eyesore!
"No, no it isn't him." He shook his head. " He hates me too much to let anyone else but himself cause my own ruin. Another error from my youth, I'm afraid."
Very well. Then, it won't be a problem if I'm a player, right?
Aife didn't understand. Why did he insist so much on Dace not being behind it when it was obviously him who did it? She almost scoffed. There were about 50 dementors out here, indestructible, unkillable monsters, and he somehow managed to kill them all? She wasn't that much of an idiot. She waited until Dumbledore retired to take a well deserved rest that she got up from her chair, attracting everyone's attention.
You can do that?
"Everyone, I think we need to talk."
I was invited as a player after all, I just stayed neutral as a favor. However, with Freyja and Ahriman's misbehavior, we are now in a rather problematic situation
She took in the tired faces in front of her. If Dumbledore wasn't going to help her stop her father, she was going to do it herself.
Therefore, wouldn't it be my job, as the Arbiter, to solve it?

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Okay, I think I can speak for everyone here in asking what the everloving hell was that ?!

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Yeah, like, the freaking gods? I thought there wa only Freyja left!

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Hm? I don't remember saying anything bout Freyja being the only goddess around~ Oh, and Enemy Nat100 by the way.

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Oh no.

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Wait, does that mean Voldemort has divine backing in top of his Heroes 3 Necropolis?!

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Ah~I don't know about Voldemort, but Tom Riddle certainly has~

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... Have we checked the horcruxes' whereabouts?

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No, you did not.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA! FINALLY!

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Oh shut up. Why are you still here anyways?

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To watch Aife crash down and burn!

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Amen to that, brother.

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Anyways, aren't you concerned with what was said? I mean, our father seems to be working with the Nature faction leader as Riddle's spy, even if we have Madeye keeping an eye (heh) on him, he's , like, the magical equivalent of a ninja. We really should make sure he doesn't get swayed that way. He sounds like he'd be nice, and he can break through the Lupinsexual barrier.

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No. Not poisoning our One True Love to get with Link Cowboy Edition.

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And what was up with Lily anyways, she didn't even try to talk to James while they're married! Wait, where is she anyways, Fawkes evac'ed us, but she wasn't at the reunion. Zebra?

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Glad you asked. After that defeat, Lily's spirits are very low, but your grandfather is an excellent host. And he has a way with women. Don't worry too much, she'll be just fine. Though, if you see her, you may need to check if she's wearing silver.

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Why would she... Wait. Wait wait wait... Fuck it. Zebra, I'm using my OOC question! What is up with Snape?

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He ded.

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What ?!

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A bit more details please.

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Well, you remember the prank James pulled in his fifth year? Well, this time, he didn't go save him.

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Dear lord...

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Oh, and, Severus, Lily and Peter were close friends, Lily and Peter tried to save him, only to end up with him dying to save Lily instead and making Peter promise to protect her. Well he tried anyways, speaking is hard with half your throat torn off. And Peter got bitten. And As a freebie : Peter is also dead, he died to save Lily too. Rolls some dice. So yeah. If you see Lily run away, as you are right now, she'll kill you without remorse.

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Holy.. Can we use an action to save her before Dace brainwashes her?

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Huh. I don't see how Lily got together with James after that...

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Oh, it's simple, she didn't. Congratulations, you butterflied Harry Potter away.

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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

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Why?! We made sure canon would be followed!

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Do you want the list in alphabetical order or chronological?

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GUYS! Don't panic, we just have to save Lily and help her through her issues to get her together with James, we just have to do it now!

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You mean, when we're crippled and he has a dragon?

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James is as good of a fighter as we are and there's Madeye who knows the place, we can probably do it if we double down and use one of Kiyo's Miracle points.

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It's my last one, I'd rather use it for something else, like ensuring Dumbledore's purge of the ministry is successful.

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Come on, it's important!

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Yes Kiyo, it's important

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Don't be stingy~

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Somehow, you guys agreeing with them makes me scared. And Corvid is pinging me on Discord. Fine, I'll bite. However, I'll note that I was coerced. This is going to end horribly.

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One of us! one of us!

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(A row of voting later....)

Oh, and, since I'm in a good mood, here's a sneak peek at the Deathquest Negaverse :

I think at this point the cat's pretty much out of the bag anyways.

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Interlude : Fleur de Lis.

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You're telling me we've been hunting down somebody who didn't even exist for over three turns and wasted about 10 actions on it?

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Well, Yes. But hey, at least other You got Longbottom. Probably.

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REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Ah, he broke again. Now what do we do?

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Same thing as we ever do, we plan to take over the world with our army of super waifus.

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Why?!

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Because I can.

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That thing is Canon btw, take from that what you will.

Aife tried to use [The power of love]! It wasn't very effective.

Note that the colored text was originally invisitext. And that Wisdom stat doesn't exist.

There was going to be more romance, but then, while forcing myself to read Dramione on ff.net for inspiration, I remembered I was allergic to everything related to love that was not either courtly love or Gomez and Morticia and gave up. So yeah, it ended up being more shounen than the originally intended shoujo. A bit disappointed we didn't have DeathQuest, just because they call him Fumbledore.

Personalities: Note than any resemblance with people from SV or QQ is entirely coincidential and in no way corresponds to anyone whose internet handle may seem familiar.

SoulReave: Laughing anarchist.
Corvid: Tho one who wants the MC to die painfully.
Kiyotan: The sane guy/girl, save for their unfortunate attraction towards anything yandere.
Orky: The guy with a plan.
SuperMinion: 'oh fuck' detector. Also happens to be what remains of the thread's morals and self-respect.
Brunette24: The number cruncher.

Formatting is too long, so I won't be doing a negaverse for a while again.

 

[Soulwave]

Cool negaverse is always fun now I want the to write a negaverse reaction to pulling an arthas failing

 

[Nicaea]

Want me to send you the outlines of Aife's reactions in the timeline?

 

[Bla]

Want me to send you the outlines of Aife's reactions in the timeline?

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Yessssssss

 

[Nicaea]

In order to facilitate writing omakes/Negaverse stuff. Some of it is a bit spoilery.

 

[Soulwave]

I'll be free this coming weekend to write one so sure i'll give it a shot.

 

[Nicaea]

Summer 1983 : Three words: Puppies, Revelations, Hell.

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"I see, you worked really hard, didn't you?" Dace declared to the young woman in front of him. They were on the bed of a guest bedroom, talking, fully clothed no funny business here thank you very much and Dace wasn't a valid target for your affections sorry Lily, the redhead having had a good cry over everything that happened to her. There were empty pots of vanilla ice cream laying on the ground, casualties of the war, and Lily was currently in her spring roll form, covers forming a protective cocoon around her. The Lily-roll was also sitting, her arms going through strategically placed holes in the covers, and she was hesitantly petting a wolf puppy, who was obviously enjoying the attention, its tiny, fuzzy tail whipping through the air like a windmill, yipping, and trying to alternatively catch her fingers, his tail, and failing at both which often made it fall on its butt.

Dace selected the nicest, goofiest, least threatening puppy of the bunch to make sure she understood wolves and werewolves were nothing alike. Besides, if it worked with Dace's phobia of cats, it had to have some impact here, right? So far it seemed to work better than his chances with McGonagall. Though, it may have been the aromantic aspect that weird-ed her out, him running away almost screaming in terror when she turned into a cat probably didn't help.

"Thanks, it means a lot to me." Lily gave him a watery smile, before rubbing her eyes. "I'm sorry I made a fool of myself back there, you had to jump in to save me again huh."

"It's fine, I was in the area anyways." He waved her apologies aside, swatting away the excited baby animal's sneak attack on him, making it fall back onto the bed, bouncing away back to Lily. It then proceeded to play dead, four paws in the air and whining, causing Lily to tentatively scratch his belly, laughing a bit.

"You're not scary at all, are you? You silly dog."

She may, however, have acquired the same difficulty to separate dog and wolf that Dace developed along the way. Though, to be fair, their behavior towards the humans of the mansion was the same as a dog's so it could be excused. In any case, Lily seemed stable enough for Dace to do his job as an educator without risking her exploding at him. Still, obtaining the lady's consent was the gentlemanly thing to do.

"Lily, do you feel ready to look over what you did wrong?" He asked her gently, passing her yet another pot of ice cream. He was mildly surprised she could eat that much, it was the fifth in two hours, yet again, potioneers were cheaters, her stomach was likely a lot more acidic than normal.

Lily looked up at him, biting her lip, before nodding wordlessly, hugging the puppy who busied itself with licking her chin.

"Good. The first problem was that you were too impatient. You should have waited that the noise around the plae died after people investigated it. As it were, you pretty much broadcasted your location and intentions to all of the other factions, which allowed them to find you and nip the threat you represent in the bud."

Lily flinched at him pointing out her biggest character flaw but hummed her understanding.

"Next is an affinity problem. I gather you had difficulties using Order spells?"

Another nod.

"Order spells need to be cast with a tranquil state of mind, and if there's one thing I know about you, it's that you're easily riled up. You're a very passionate woman, if we were to be objective, the models that corresponded the most to you would be Chaos and Life. However, those two are out for obvious reasons. Your third mistake was trusting Dumbledore."

That earned him a raised eyebrow despite her red rimmed eyes, and Dace raised his hands in surrender.

"I despise the man, everybody knows about that, however, I acknowledge both his intentions and ability. "Even if it stung." The problem is the people he surrounds himself with. As far as my network knows, he spends most of his time putting out fires in the ministry, keeping the Underworld in check, and bailing his followers out of trouble. That leaves too distracted to bother checking where their loyalties lie, and I wouldn't be surprised if they've got several spies among them. That's probably why they knew Dumbledore was on the move, and made their own to sabotage the chances of an alliance. Then there is Aife and her clique, but one thing I count on is that any plot she comes with fails in a rather spectacular way. It would be entertaining if it wasn't so embarrassing."

She gave out a strangled laugh and squeezed more, causing the puppy to wriggle and free himself, before going back to frolicking under the bed. She looked at it mournfully, putting a spoonful of Ice cream in her mouth while Dace snorted and patted her back. And that's when things basically went to hell.

The wall exploded, revealing Aife and some unknown persons, and a stag with blood covered antlers. It took him a second to realize it was an animagus, time that was used to morph and reveal James Potter, while wands were raised against Dace. Well. That was annoying. Aife threw a glance at Lily and spoke at her, smiling reassuringly, part of the wall fell, revealing the full moon outside.

"I'm sure things are confusing right now, but you need to come with us, that man is bad news, don't worry, we'll protect you."

"Pro...tect." Lily's face was white and her eyes glazed over, turning towards James. "A stag." She continued dazedly.

Dace put his arm in front of her, wandless, and spoke out almost conversationally.

"Somehow, I do not think Dumbledore knows of it." Some of them looked guilty, but Aife just scowled even deeper, glaring at his arm.

"Albus isn't the only member of the order. We're here to save Lily from you!" She sniped, making the older man laugh drily.

"Like you were here for her all of there years? When her friends were killed? When her apprenticeship fell through due to her status? When you left her alone to fend for herself against Riddle and his army of darkness?"

"Voldemort is dead, he was vanquished on Halloween by the prophecy child. You're just one of the Necromancer's followers trying to capitalize on the fear he invoked to further your agenda!"

Upon hearing that, Dace sneered, looking down at her in a definitely unpleasant expression.

"So that's your current theory to try to keep things as close as you canonical point of view. How cute. However, you forgot a small, unimportant detail... Harry Potter was never born."

That apparently got to her as surprise was plain to see. But Dace continued, deciding that as a father, it was his duty to deal with his (ex) daughter's delusions.

"Lily and James never married, and why would they? You beloved mutt killed her best friend Severus in front of her after all, even if she didn't know about that back then. Did you think she'd ever date successfully that man, Severus' biggest bully, after seeing her best friend die confessing his feelings of love to her?" Dace tilted his head like a bird, a cruel light in his eyes. "Did you think this is the only thing your interference ruined? Oh no, no no no, you don't get out of it that easily my dear."

"Shut up!" James shouted at him, brown light going out ho his wand and catching Dace in the chest, sending him into the wall. There was a meaty thud and he fell, wheezing. The smile on the elder Gwallawg's face, however, was only one step short of demonic.

"It's fine... live your life as you want it... After all... Your daughter is here to... Pick up the slack."

"I don't have a daughter." Aife affirmed, uncertainly, doubt visible on her face, which made Dace cackle and hack, secretly glad today was a day where his granddaughter was sleeping at Narcissa's.

"Ever wondered what s it that you forgot after you poisoned me?" The dawning horror on her face was hilarious.

Moonlight was streaming on the room by now, but before Dace could finish breaking the impertinent chit, an odd strangling noise on his left had him looking at Lily. She looked even worse, eyes fixated on the moon. The full moon.

Oh dear. Was all the man thought, before falling, stomach flat on the ground, activating a secret passage and crawling to safety, terrified puppy under an arm.

"The stag... Under the full moon... You were here but why.. Sev' said... But then... The wolf... Mooney... The marauders? But then... Prongs." Her right hand began scratching at her temple, the other holding an indigo cube that seemed to be the Order anchor. "Prongs was here... Moony was here...Sev' said-Catspaw-yourfault-youwerehere!" Her speech became more and more erratic as she began shouting, her hand falling back to her side. Dace couldn't see her face, but he hade a nice view of James' tentative of denial and Aife's panic of having the situation fly out of her control. When Lily spoke out again, it was with death in her voice. This is all your fault. Your fault. Your fault, your fault yourfaultyourfaultyourfaultyourfaultyourfaultyOurfAUltyourfFAUltyourFAUltYOURFAULT!"

She screamed so loudly and shrilly that Dace had to cover his ears, the scream a lot more stronger than it should be, with an odd echo to it.

Then, the cube in her hand broke, and everything became red.

When Dace came back to consciousness, the first thing he felt was heat, but he smelled no smoke. He opened one eye, then two, and saw something really unexpected. Lily apparently underwent some sort of growth spurt, her hair bright red and surrounded by an aura of fire, and was currently straddling Aife, holding her head and bashing it to the floor, while a pillar of not-fire rose to the sky, keeping any spell from going through. The manor was totaled, it seemed. On the side, back against a half destroyed wall, James was holding the cauterized stump that was his left arm. Too bad it was also his dominant arm huh. Meanwhile, Aife managed to kick Lily in the sternum, sending her flying. However, Lily fell on her fours and pounced again, nails turned into bright red claws digging into her abdomen, causing a rain of scarlet to gush out.
Now that he really concentrated on it, the howl suspiciously looked like 'die die die'...

It really looked like Lily was going to kill Aife, as her teeth were digging into his daughter's shoulder, hands raking through her torso in the non-fun-likely-extremely-painful way, when a voice resounded through the chaos, booming like thunder.

In a flash of light, Dumbledore had arrived.

However, This Dumbledore didn't look happy at all. In fact, he looked positively furious in the first time since ever. Taller than usual, blue eyes showing none of their usual mirth, his face black and beard almost clapping with electricity.

"ENOUGH." He said simply, the aura of power around him deforming it until it sounded like a giant's war cry. Lily looked at him and hissed, before launching herself in his direction. He looked at her with pity in his eyes, before raising his hand, covered with what seemed to be a golden armor and caught her face. The, a bright flash of light came from his palm, making her screech as if her very soul was attacked. Then, after a while, she stopped struggling, her body turning limp. Dumbledore let her fall gently onto what remained of the bed and stared at Dace, who scowled, raised his arms in an 'I'm the victim here!' way expressing his indignation at being suspected and then shamelessly pointed his fingers at the wayward vigilante club members.

Following the pointed digits, Dumbledore's expression turned thunderous again as he walked towards his followers. With one last apologetic glance at Dace that also promised that they wouldn't be getting out of it scott free, he drew his wand and everyone dissipated in smoke, leaving Dace alone in his house's ruins with Lily sobbing, prostrated on the ground.

The small animal, having realized danger was over, padded towards her and began licking at her face.

"P-Pu-ppy...Pu-uppy..." The young woman was babbling incoherently, clearly out of her mind.

Well, Dace thought, this was just great.

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Dumbledore just ran out of patience, And Dace makes for a(n un) surprisingly good villain. You'll get the numbers and all tomorrow. Lots of votes to make, since it's the planning phase, therefore enjoy your chapter without any responsibilities

I hope Lily's speech showed how much her mental state degraded in an emotional way? I'm not that good with emotional writing, which is why Dace looks like a sociopath.


( Dace's true feelings regarding his daughter, finally revealed!)

The Aife-Negaverse is currently on fire due to the revelation of Dace having known about canon all along and the fact he revealed just how much she messed up. Pissed Grandpa isn't a nice grandpa.

Orderquest Status : sobbing in a corner and begging for mercy.

Lifequest: Ready to show who exactly kicked Grindelwand's butt so hard he's still sobbing about it in his tower.

Deathquest/Chaosquest : Wondering what's happening right now

Guess who rolled a Nat 1 (result after modifiers : -21) on her composure roll, immediately followed by a 94 (result after modifiers : 114) Amplitude roll... and a 84 on an attention roll. Lily goes boom indeed. So, don't hold your breath on her becoming the learning adviser right now, now you need to bring her back to the sane side of Nature. You may PM to ask the rolls for this chapter if you're curious, but it's a bit spoilery.

Part of Aife's attitude with her father maaaay have been unconscious jealousy over his paternal treatment of Lily. Hey, you guys are the one who took the 'sword that slayed the king' perk, you should have expected some amounts of 'chichiueeeee!'.

Now though, since everyone and their mother messed up in some way, I need to release information about Dace's failures, otherwise, I'd risk people calling me out on him being too competent .

In any case, Lily's gonna need massive amounts of puppy therapy. I hope you guys don't dislike the doge, because you'll see lots of 'em.

 

[Selias]

I imaging that the werewolf-assisted miscarriage didn't help the Aife-Negaverse much, either. At least, I assume she lost the child, since she had her torso mauled by a pissed off werewolf.

 

[Nicaea]

I imaging that the werewolf-assisted miscarriage didn't help the Aife-Negaverse much, either. At least, I assume she lost the child, since she had her torso mauled by a pissed off werewolf.

Click to shrink...

Not so much by a werewolf and more an Ares enhanced berserker, but yeah, chances are not good (Like, 5 % Survival chances not good) , but I haven't rolled for her yet, had enough numbers for today. Still, her mental state is Not Good, even without that.

 

[Soulwave]

That just happened

 

[Nicaea]

And it's not slowing down any time soon !

 

[Minion #Q]

Wow Lily shattered the order anchor when she snapped and then broke them in two. She's basically broken now and with our bullshit intrege and a position of trust we can rebuild her with our actions. Into someone who only trusts us; the main problem is that she doesn't want to work with Dumbledore.

Speaking of we need to talk to moody about this now as he is in charge of our security.

I wonder if these recent revelations have shook Alf enough to make her start to question things and maybe make her realize what she is missing.

Alfs interlude should have been after this scene instead.