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Dark Tidings (SI)

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    • I left the cheapish hotel room and sighed, shrugging on my backpack. Other than having people in it this place was no different than the world I took a vacation on.

    No alien invasion or super science. The patrols I did during the night didn't even reveal supernatural beings moving around.

    Basically it was a bog standard earth. Couple of leaders were different, a couple of names had different spellings. I had been unable to find any indication if it was a 'fictional' universe either.
    For all I knew, it could be a comedy from a different alternate universe focused on a guy in Norway or something.

    But in all honestly it didn't matter. There was nothing here for me.

    I stopped by the front desk and handed over the key to my room, paying my bill before I turned and left, stepping out onto the street before looking around, frowning slightly.

    Time to leave and find somewhere more interesting. Nothing against normal earths, but quite frankly, when you have seen one, you have seen them all.

    Now to find somewhere good to leave. No need to just disappear in the middle of the street and disrupt these peoples day.

    Snorting at that thought I continued towards the closest alley. This was LA, they would likely not even notice if I Walked out in the middle of the street.


    I turned right, leaving the constant stream of people and traffic behind as I walked into the alley, taking another right to get out of view.

    Sighing I started to focus to breach the boundaries of reality once more when I heard a loud crack behind me and I spun around, red mana flowing through my right arm ready to turn whoever it was that shot at me into crisp.


    Behind me was a man dressed like a 1950's gangster, pinstripe suit and everything. Considering that he wasn't carrying a gun, I lowered my hand to just look at him in surprise.

    What the hell? Where the balls did he come from?

    He blinked in surprise seeing me as well and then he sighed, digging into his pocked "Damn muggles wandering around everywhere." he grumbled, pulling out a wand to aim it at me.

    What?

    What.

    In slight panic I raised my hands "Not a muggle! Squib! Squib!" I quickly said, thinking fast. I did NOT want to try my mental shields against outright memory erasing magic.

    "Well, why didn't you say so!?" he said in annoyance "Prove it. Name a school."

    My head was still spinning at the revelation of what kind of world I was in, but even I saw the idiocy in that question "If I wasn't one, how would I know the word!? Fine. Hogwarts is a magical school." I answered, ready to blast him if for some reason the answer was wrong.

    The Wizard simply nodded and put his wand back into his pocked "Fine. Now if you don't mind, I am in a hurry." he said before hurrying past me, out of the alley, leaving me to stare after him.

    I was at...

    Wow...and I almost walked out without noticing.

    Shaking my head I dropped my backpack and leaned my back against the wall I couldn't help but wonder what the hell else I missed at the other Planes I dismissed as nothing important going on.

    I took a slow, deep breath before letting it out once more. The question was exactly what I would do about this?

    The Wizarding Worlds magic system is...really powerful. But also really, really weird.

    Frowning I looked in the direction the wizard left. Yeah, this was not something I could just simple let go. While their combat magic, at least if the books are to beloved is pretty pants, They utility magic is second to none. Hell, even if I was completely unable to use their native magic system and had to translate the spells one by one to be usable with mana it could be worth years of study if I picked the right spells.

    I frowned slightly. The repair spell alone would be worth it, never mind things like that spell that hid things, whatever it now was called.

    Yeah, this place could be dangerous...but the gain...

    Oh yeah. It was worth it.


    I frowned slightly and leaned back against the wall, crossing my arms as I tried to figure out what to do now.
    I could walk around the city with my magical vision in hope that their magic would stand out to me...damn. I should have thought to check when I had a wizard right in front of me!

    Well, to late now I guess.

    So...I could start looking here...or I could go to London and not need to start over from scratch. I didn't even know if this city even had a Wizarding district. In theory, with their entire location able to teleport they wouldn't need more than a couple of them per country.

    Unless there was a range limit. Another thing to try to figure out how to do.

    Slowly nodding I bent down and picked my backpack back up and shrugging it on. Yes, I believe London was the best option.

    Question was exactly how to get there.

    I didn't have a ID in this world...and I doubt that even if they didn't have a 9/11 yet if ever, their security wont be quite that lacking.

    I could cross the ocean on a mount. Well, not one, but I could fly one until It couldn't fly any longer and then summon a new one. Would take a couple of days of flying close to the ocean to avoid birdstrikes with us as the bird, but it could be done.

    Or I could go back to Sunnydale, use my old Council issued ID and buy a ticket to London before Walking across from there.

    Grinning I shook my head before focusing, punching through the fabric of reality to step into the Blind Eternities.

    Seriously, something is so very wrong when going to a different universe to cross a ocean is the easiest and least annoying option.




    AN// Many thanks to CKirk for betaing this part.
     
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    • ...Harry Potter?

    ...Is this a cross with your other SI? Wsnd?
     
    Wait a sec...

    ...This isn't Partially Kissed Hero, is it?
     
    Hm. I can't help but feel your character's underestimating HP combat magics. Sure, there aren't really any large scale, city-busting spells in HP ... but think of the combat spells they do have.

    Instant kill. Extreme torture (and yeah, while lots of fanfiction like to pretend that the Crucio is somehow inferior to mundane torture, they don't really understand how bugfuck nuts it is that Crucio basically lights up your nervous system like a light bulb). Fucking transfiguration, where you can bypass all bullshit physical defenses (turn Superman into a ferret. Did you just lolnope a guy who can blow out solar systems by sneezing? Why yes, you did). Instant paralysis. Mass stasis. Stunning spells. Stuff like OP mental magic you can use to shut down your opponents with a single wand flick. Fiendfyre (living fire that's so hot it vaporizes a jet of water the moment it leaves the wand, even though the water is nearly a dozen meters from the fire? Yes, please). Teleportation - which can and has been used in combat to good use. Numerous powerful shields.

    And that's not even getting into the numerous spells that would be insane when supercharged by Hiver's immense magical power. Incendio? Burn a town to ashes. Glacius? Flash-freeze armies in their tracks. Verdimillious? Call down the lightning to blast fortresses apart.

    So. Yeah. Besides the utility spells, Hiver can learn a lot of OP combat magic in this verse. Much more than he could in Warcraft really, considering the sheer variety of effects available.
     
    Ryune said:
    One thing you really have to consider here though is that it has been more than a decade since he last read anything to do with HP. Also, what gives HP magic a bad rap isn't that what it does is weak but how it does it. Every single spell is single shot unguided. Compare that to Negima where Negi started out with a guided striking/binding spell from the get go or some other systems where all you need is a target and the spell can't be intercepted by anything in the way. Now, we do see an example of line of sight instant cast when quirelmort cursed Harry's broom but there are never any other examples. But yeah, it gets a bad rap because it has no guided or multi-shot spells and that really hurts it's image because you have to either use uncontrollable shit like fiendfire or be the god damned Dumbledore who can do whatever the hell he wants.
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    Eh. While they're not guided, a LOT of the spells I've mentioned are basically hit-scan - they don't traverse any distance, they literally just happen at the target the wand is pointing at. The only real limitation is the reaction speed of the wizard in question. Plus, while there aren't multi-shot spells, there are AoE spells, which are pretty much as good.
    SkySkimmer said:
    Is that canon? I'm pretty sure the mechanism wasn't mentioned in the books, but I guess it might have been in an interview.
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    In the books, nothing is directly stated. However, it is heavily implied, due to what happened to Frank and Alice Longbottom after suffering from the Crucio for a few minutes or so. And from how Harry describes it (a thousand hot knives cutting into bone, shaving off skin, boiling blood and all this happening simultaneously) it's made abundant that it's basically overloading his sense of pain. Shirou Emiya and his 'hot rod in his spine' torture doesn't compare.
     
    While their magic is very versatile, it has the greatest possible weakness. The users. And let's face it, the users in question are magic red-necks. It's amazing they didn't become extinct immediately after they went into hiding
     
    Rechte said:
    While their magic is very versatile, it has the greatest possible weakness. The users. And let's face it, the users in question are magic red-necks. It's amazing they didn't become extinct immediately after they went into hiding
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    Of course, what you said implies that there is an actual reason they didn't become extinct immediately after they went into hiding. Until Hiver/Winter knows precisely whether this reason exists and what it is, he should be very cautious.
     
    I'd say they didn't go extinct imediately after going into hiding largely because it's the generations of issolationism and resulting ignorance which has allowed the stupid to go from 'a few crazies' to 'seemingly almost everyone'...
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    Then i look at the dumbarses people keep electing IRL and consider that maybe broadening the question to humanity in general would give more correct answers...
     
    Tazered said:
    Question, since I think this was mentioned by the author, but doesn't he always re-enter the universe at the same place he first did? I think that was why the SI was always falling from a few feet up in the air around the corner from Willy's bar. Going to England in Buffyverse then walking would only bring you back to America in this HPverse.
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    Wrong. He only pop back to Sunnydale when he go to that Plane due to dimensional mumbo jumbo interference from the hellmouth. Basically he pop out in the place Glory was going to use to leave. Otherwise, he arrive in the same spot that he left.

    If that hellmouth closed and that in Cleveland opened, he would pop out somewhere around there.
     
    Hiver said:
    While reading A brief history of time by S. Hawking.
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    And unfortunately only movie canon.

    I'm sure if rowling put that scene in the books it would get the same treatment as the Inquisition and what the wizards/witches did during that time.

    Spoilers: Wizards don't give a shit.
     
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