Oh, don't worry, it seems to be a trend in this quest to throw away the shiniest shinies ever.
What you should worry about now is who picks them up.
Ending the votes btw.
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.
Turn 2.3: May 27th, 1983
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 purse, 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
[] He had a feeling that things were going to go his way now... Gain Basic Luck
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
Well, at least now you'll get that Order conservatory plan for free?
Damn, the death faction have Lily fort, I hope they are not so hostile to us until we prepared and can do something to them.
The OotP is downed hard, and are they blame us for that or I misread it ?
And poor Lily, her life is constantly alternate between up and down, she got a good friends at school then her friends killed by a jealous bully prank gone too far, she got a personal fort of power only for it to get forcibly taken over by death faction.
Once she's calm down lets bake her a cake of happiness so that she can have a bit of fun before she do anything else again, and hopefully without something screw her over again.
By the way, how many percentage the attack is to gain a fort of power, and how many is from metaknowledge that Lily could have spawned a hero that killed the Voldemort/necromancer ?
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.
By the way, how many percentage the attack is to gain a fort of power, and how many is from metaknowledge that Lily could have spawned a hero that killed the Voldemort/necromancer ?
Hm...
To give you some perspective, the Tavern isn't a thing. You can't straight up recruit a random hero guy. Next is, the Dark Figure, has been killing stuff nilly willy because necromancy amirite, and he's the highest level Hero on the map, barring two exceptions who you Do Not Want to notice the state of Britain right now.
As for the fort, it's a nice bonus, but the Dark Figure was here to kill Dumbledore and Take Aife.
The reason why life faction is hostile is because of something death faction did.
Edit: I misunderstood the question, but the reason remains, Lily wasn't even taken into account. Besides, Harry isn't born and she didn't defy Voldie 3 times.
Hm...
To give you some perspective, the Tavern isn't a thing. You can't straight up recruit a random hero guy. Next is, the Dark Figure, has been killing stuff nilly willy because necromancy amirite, and he's the highest level Hero on the map, barring two exceptions who you Do Not Want to notice the state of Britain right now.
As for the fort, it's a nice bonus, but the Dark Figure was here to kill Dumbledore and Take Aife.
So Lily is basically a collateral damage in Dark Figure effort to kill Dumbledore and enslave Aife, that is worse from a certain point of view, and no wonder Lily now have a vendetta against them.
Wrath of the North. One of her legendary traits that give her a flat +10 to martial, 40 to all combat rolls, and a few other things. Martial equivalent of A face of a thousand ships that you managed to steal for your (grand) daughteru.
Wrath of the North. One of her legendary traits that give her a flat +10 to martial, 40 to all combat rolls, and a few other things. Martial equivalent of A face of a thousand ships that you managed to steal for your (grand) daughteru.
[X]Aife's isekai adventure isn't going as expected: The saltening
[x] He had a feeling that things were going to go his way now... Gain Basic Luck
Salt collector is a good and stable job.