To be fair, I was in the tourist section, which doesn't let you at the actual collection. Still very cool.
Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse
- Thread starter Fencer
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- Crossover Fantasy Superhero
Jaesten
The Eye in the Abyss
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- Canada
On the love potion thing, which is probably a bit off topic really, they're generally only good for 24 hours and are pretty blatantly obvious. The twins sell them at their shop too and they're fairly popular.
Look at it less from a non-magical side and more from a magical side where the only compulsion that's illegal is the Imperio and even the strongest potion Amortentia is only constantly studied in the Room of Love at the ministry by the Unspeakables.
It's not permanent so they as a whole people don't care.
Kind of like House Elves really.
Look at it less from a non-magical side and more from a magical side where the only compulsion that's illegal is the Imperio and even the strongest potion Amortentia is only constantly studied in the Room of Love at the ministry by the Unspeakables.
It's not permanent so they as a whole people don't care.
Kind of like House Elves really.
Which simply reinforces the fact that the wizard world is even more freaked up than WH40K.
Not entirely off topic...I imagine that Taylor is going to be more than a little horrified by Master effects being openly offered for sale. As Fencer said, her cultural background and personal experiences make her more than a little hostile to emotion manipulation powers.
Eh, they use tons of brainwashing, mind control and invasive brain alteration in WH40K. Heck, in WH40K they probably wouldn't use love potions, they'd hammer The Spikes of Devotion into somebody's brain, where they'd gradually turn the victim into an insane serial killing stalker and/or follower of Slaanesh.
Fine, they're both screwed up places that shouldn't be tourist destinations, much like Worm.
(Why are all the really screwy worlds named stuff that starts with W? Worm, Wizard World, WH40K...)
It's not just Ws. Every fictional verse has horrifying shit in it, it's just not usually quite so obvious. It often gets worse the more child friendly it is supposed to be. The problem with planning out a fictional verse is that nobody can cover all the bases. There will always be plot holes, and some of those plot holes will imply terrible things. And there are those of us who like to point them out and watch people cringe when they realize that their cute, wholesome adventure story is really a miserable deathworld with a spiffy paint job.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
Yeah it was a real shocker learning how much of a death world Pokémon was in certain continuities. The Adventures version is really freaking dark in Gen II, what with the various city destroying disasters that occur, from legendary beasts to a Gyrados deciding to casually wipe out a town with Hyper Beam.
But to get back on topic I'm looking forward to seeing Taylor impress the hell out of Kreacher with her sheer ruthlessness and cunning, and probably pull in Dobby and maybe even Winky for the ride. She won't be happy they're part of a species that is essentially a servant race that has either been indoctrinated into accepting it or actually requires it to survive (which is what I think), but she'll sure as hell recruit the hell out of any that want to join her. Invisible, Magic using, teleporting assistants? Hell yes she's going to munchkin the fuck out of that.
Differing Customs
*Taylor is on the Express.*
Taylor was sitting with Harry and some of his friends, quietly stewing over the illogical nature of Wizards. They have at least three forms of instant transportation, but force their kids to spend all day on a freaking train to get to school. Her neck itched everytime she considered how exposed they were, traveling a known route at a known time.
The three students coming down the coach stopped in front of the door and the skinny blonde one in the middle reached for the door. Taylor's bugs caught a glimpse of an ugly tattoo on his forearm before the door slid open.
"Oh look, mudbloods, scarheads and other trash."
Draco had barely finished his opening comment when Taylor was in his face and the end of her baton struck him in the side of his skull. His minions fared no better; their surprise held them still an instant too long.
Taylor stood over the bodies and then looked at Harry with a grin that sent chills down the spines of everyone in their coach.
"Hermione, didn't you say that British wizards don't know much about customs from other parts of the world?"
The three staff members stared at the scene. Three stands in the shape of Xs had been erected on the Express platform, and the three missing Slytherins were tied to them, naked as the day they were born.
Draco's Dark Mark was clearly displayed, and Dumbledore was very aware that at least thirty people had already seen this scene.
This was going to complicate matters.
Beneath the three boys, who were only remaining silent because of the leather straps attached to red balls wrapped around their faces, was a sign.
"By custom and law, I should have killed these cretins, who assaulted my family. Since I am informed that your society does things differently I have merely posted this warning. Should any one of these three be involved in a second attack on me or my family, I will not be so merciful."
"There is a curse on them: any attempt to remove them from the crosses before they have been up there twelve hours will castrate all three of them."
Dumbledore looked at Professor Snape, who was quite ready to do murder, and then to Professor McGonagall, who was staring grimly at Draco's Dark Mark and sighed.
This was going to be a very long year.
Taylor was sitting with Harry and some of his friends, quietly stewing over the illogical nature of Wizards. They have at least three forms of instant transportation, but force their kids to spend all day on a freaking train to get to school. Her neck itched everytime she considered how exposed they were, traveling a known route at a known time.
The three students coming down the coach stopped in front of the door and the skinny blonde one in the middle reached for the door. Taylor's bugs caught a glimpse of an ugly tattoo on his forearm before the door slid open.
"Oh look, mudbloods, scarheads and other trash."
Draco had barely finished his opening comment when Taylor was in his face and the end of her baton struck him in the side of his skull. His minions fared no better; their surprise held them still an instant too long.
Taylor stood over the bodies and then looked at Harry with a grin that sent chills down the spines of everyone in their coach.
"Hermione, didn't you say that British wizards don't know much about customs from other parts of the world?"
The three staff members stared at the scene. Three stands in the shape of Xs had been erected on the Express platform, and the three missing Slytherins were tied to them, naked as the day they were born.
Draco's Dark Mark was clearly displayed, and Dumbledore was very aware that at least thirty people had already seen this scene.
This was going to complicate matters.
Beneath the three boys, who were only remaining silent because of the leather straps attached to red balls wrapped around their faces, was a sign.
"By custom and law, I should have killed these cretins, who assaulted my family. Since I am informed that your society does things differently I have merely posted this warning. Should any one of these three be involved in a second attack on me or my family, I will not be so merciful."
"There is a curse on them: any attempt to remove them from the crosses before they have been up there twelve hours will castrate all three of them."
Dumbledore looked at Professor Snape, who was quite ready to do murder, and then to Professor McGonagall, who was staring grimly at Draco's Dark Mark and sighed.
This was going to be a very long year.
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Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
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There should also be a clause about moving the crosses, and one about covering them up or hiding them.
Roth963
If I become inactive with this massage, I died
I was under the impression it was to give kids time to socialize on the first day, catch up and for first years to find other first years, Harry almost got to make out with another passenger in his third year, so it is clearly working, it is only because a teacher interrupted it that he didn't.
And it has worked; until you introduce somebody with a villain mindset, that hasn't been corrupted by Wizard water or whatever.
Here are hostages; all the children of the entire Wizard World, light side, dark side, neutral, every freaking child between eleven and seventeen.
Tell me Taylor couldn't do something with that, if she was in Voldemort's place.
HP being a children's book is the only real answer, as to why the train has never been blown up, Fiend Fired, or otherwise stopped and boarded by a dark lord.
Roth963
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It is probably a tradition by that point, and didn't start with the assumption of dark lords attacking school buses.
Taylor wouldn't, she wouldn't involve the kids, Jack would, he would probably have Bonesaw fuse them into a long train and compel some of them to walk to the castle, making those not being controlled be forced to do it or be in horrible pain, they would walk for hours before anyone noticed they don't come and try to check why, and than the bombs hidden in some of the students will activate at random times when people try to give them help.
Or something like it.
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Oh, you misunderstood; Taylor wouldn't hurt them, but she used everyone she knew, of any age, as a Warlord, A Ward, as a villain and a hero.
She'd board the damn train, and by the time they got to Hogwarts, She'd have her own army.
Charisma, intelligence, passion: the absolute worst combination of talents and traits to have in an enemy Commander.
Roth963
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I don't think so, I think they would seek her out of the train like the death eater kids did Voldemort, going there by herself is just asking for an ambush.
This is Warlord era Skitter with all the bugs; and you think some untrained, ignorant wizard child child is going to ambush her?
I mean, holy crap, Draco, arguably the best of the death eater children tried some of the stupidest plots to kill people its ever been my displeasure to read. His sneak ability sucks, his mouth is a fount of intel for his enemies, and to be honest, Voldemort probably would have been better off tactically if he'd just purged Draco and his two minions.
Skitter on the train and children facing her, who expect a stand up fight, throwing spells at each other; Skitter won't even bother laughing.
Roth963
If I become inactive with this massage, I died
Not the children, the adults, does she knew if the train has some means to contact anyone outside, or if no one on board to teleport outside and come back with backup, assuming she disables it or can beat the backup, what now, she got a bunch of kids who will fight for her and a bunch of cowering kids.
Is she going to lead them on crusade? Even before going to the fact the kids fighting adult and trained dark wizards was probably only possible because it was children books.
Skitter? Crusade?
Oh hell no. She'll build a quiet army, like the DA; until outside events force her hand, or until she has the upper hand. Skitter will throw herself into hell for flimsy reasons, but she's far more protective of her people.
She'll be just like Voldemort in the 60ies: a rumour, a whisper in the night, of a new power, a new player.
She doesn't care about your parents, about your blood, your smarts, none of the Dark Lord crap. She's building a new world, based on effort and hard work.
Properly done, she could suck most of Hogwarts out from the wizard world.
Fencer
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@Ravenwood240 nice omake you've been threadmarked.
Everyone else? My boss handed me a tiny amount of work in a shit tier compartment and my knees don't love me enough for all this kneeling. Also I've got book six on my phone and an open google doc. Gunna race the clock and see what I can get done.
Everyone else? My boss handed me a tiny amount of work in a shit tier compartment and my knees don't love me enough for all this kneeling. Also I've got book six on my phone and an open google doc. Gunna race the clock and see what I can get done.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
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- Oregon
Kaernetron
Feuergeist
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- Weit, Weit dort Oben
I know your pain and invested five bucks into insertable knee padding for my work pants (they're manufactured with slots for those). Most days I don't need them and they just stiffen the cloth a bit but when I do, they really do help.
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Fencer
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I have the best knee pads, one strap above and one bellow the knee. They don't move, don't twist… when they were brand new I just let my legs go limp and hit the steel kneepads first. Just as a test. Barely felt a jolt. There a bit more worn down now so I don't do that anymore but they are the best. They are also currently up three ladders and down five flights of stairs
luckily, like I said, there was almost no work in here. And even less that required crouching/kneeling. Just last week was spent like half on my knees and they're still grumpy about it.
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Happens to all of us, I started on joint supplements a while ago and it helped. Also helps that I dont often have to get on my knees these days.I have the best knee pads, one strap above and one bellow the knee. They don't move, don't twist… when they were brand new I just let my legs go limp and hit the steel kneepads first. Just as a test. Barely felt a jolt. There a bit more worn down now so I don't do that anymore but they are the best. They are also currently up three ladders and down five flights of stairs
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
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Glucosamine and chondroitin for rebuilding joints and pain relief, and heavy omega 3 supplementation for inflammation reduction (among many other things).