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Just Harry Potter. There is a distinct lack of banished Alicorns.
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The conversation with Dumbledore was nice enough, and I'm really glad to see a good, pragmatic Dumbledore with realistic limits on his power, but what I really want to see is everyone's reactions, the muggle to having a giant walking around and talking to people, the wizarding world's reaction to the muggle talking about ahumanoid magical construct, and to the construct adopting harry, and EVERYONE's reaction to the new moon base.
That is a serious problem that needs to be fixed. ASAP.
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With the way mana works in Titan of Steel, it´ll probably just infect fiendfyre and make it spread mana.
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I mean it depends, it just eats magic. Can't infect something that that eats you.
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The issue there is that, as it´s been stated in the story itself, Titanverse Mana-based magic and HP's breeding-based magic are essentially two entirely different systems with some common terminology. Titanverse magic isn't magic as far as HP magic is concerned
That seems strange??? It could just be a quirk of gentics instead.
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I mean, again, as stated, the HP-verse world had no mana as far as Titanverse understands it. Their magic is working on different principles.
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The results of using Fiendfyre to try and eradicate Mana would kill all life on the planet if not stopped IMMEDIATELY. Here's why: Fiendfyre is at least semi-sentient, and Mana can replicate itself using cognitive activity. This means that Fiendfyre being told of Mana will rapidly start interacting with Mana and try burning it, thus thinking about it and generating more Mana. What would Fiendfyre do with that extra Mana? Try and burn it more, getting hotter and hotter and burning more and more of the planet's surface. Within a week the entire planet would be covered in supernatural fire that would burn literally forever.
Did say it was an extreme option.
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Well the rest of the world is going to lose its collective shit about Beryl, and then even more about Mana. But I think we all know Beryl is going to be busy fighting the Moon Nazis for control of Luna to deal with any political shenanigans.
Seriously though, it's going to be an interesting quagmire of repercussions. Im just waiting for any bits about Beryl's Magical Moon Orphanage and the odd things that happen there.
Seriously though, it's going to be an interesting quagmire of repercussions. Im just waiting for any bits about Beryl's Magical Moon Orphanage and the odd things that happen there.
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"Alright, Director Goldin, tell me why you and Director Duncan decided to call this meeting." The President leans back in his chair.
"To cut straight to the point, Mr. President, I assume you've heard about the 'Clockwork Knight' that's been making waves in the news?" The DARPA director is sitting relatively straight in their chair.
"It'd be pretty hard not to," the president snarks.
The NASA director speaks up. "In particular, this meeting is with regards to their method of transport, and its implications for manned spaceflight."
The president raises an eyebrow. "Apologies, gentlemen, but I fail to see how a magical flying minivan has implications for NASA's spaceflight programs."
DARPA's director speaks up. "More or less, sir? It has implications due to the fact that the 'Knight' has referred to residing on the Moon."
The president catches on quickly. "Ah. So if we can get them to tell us how their flying minivan works..."
The NASA director finishes the sentence. "We can skip the need for a complicated launch vehicle in favor of a single, multi-purpose ship. Depending on how scalable the technology is, it's entirely possible we could use the technology to launch not just a 'flags and footprints' scale mission akin to Apollo, but a full moonbase, able to sustain it's crew on the lunar surface for months if not years at a time."
"And that's not counting the implications for launch to Low Earth Orbit. Even if the drive system the Knight is using can only carry something the size of a minivan into space, and can't be scaled up, that's still more than a ton and a half up to low orbit, with little to no discernible fuel expenditure and with a fully reusable spacecraft. Even if only 500 pounds of that could be used for payload, that would still be enough to potentially make it cheaper to operate a space station in LEO assembling spacecraft to be shunted up to higher orbits via spacevan based tug instead of trying to launch satellites from the ground on rockets - even the Shuttle can't claim full reuse." DARPA's director is positively excited.
The president looks thoughtful. "Real trick will be trying to figure out where the Knight is fast enough to get someone to ask them about it." He thinks for a moment. "I'll bring it up at the next cabinet meeting, see if we can't work out some ideas for how to get the request to the Knight with as little risk of it getting lost in transmission as possible."
"That's all we can really ask for, Mr. President." The NASA director nods.
"Unless you two have anything else you need to discuss, I think we should all get back to work - the United States may be the greatest country on God's green Earth, but it still won't run itself."
The two directors nod, and politely leave, even as the President turns his attention back to the paperwork he was focusing on prior to the meeting.
"To cut straight to the point, Mr. President, I assume you've heard about the 'Clockwork Knight' that's been making waves in the news?" The DARPA director is sitting relatively straight in their chair.
"It'd be pretty hard not to," the president snarks.
The NASA director speaks up. "In particular, this meeting is with regards to their method of transport, and its implications for manned spaceflight."
The president raises an eyebrow. "Apologies, gentlemen, but I fail to see how a magical flying minivan has implications for NASA's spaceflight programs."
DARPA's director speaks up. "More or less, sir? It has implications due to the fact that the 'Knight' has referred to residing on the Moon."
The president catches on quickly. "Ah. So if we can get them to tell us how their flying minivan works..."
The NASA director finishes the sentence. "We can skip the need for a complicated launch vehicle in favor of a single, multi-purpose ship. Depending on how scalable the technology is, it's entirely possible we could use the technology to launch not just a 'flags and footprints' scale mission akin to Apollo, but a full moonbase, able to sustain it's crew on the lunar surface for months if not years at a time."
"And that's not counting the implications for launch to Low Earth Orbit. Even if the drive system the Knight is using can only carry something the size of a minivan into space, and can't be scaled up, that's still more than a ton and a half up to low orbit, with little to no discernible fuel expenditure and with a fully reusable spacecraft. Even if only 500 pounds of that could be used for payload, that would still be enough to potentially make it cheaper to operate a space station in LEO assembling spacecraft to be shunted up to higher orbits via spacevan based tug instead of trying to launch satellites from the ground on rockets - even the Shuttle can't claim full reuse." DARPA's director is positively excited.
The president looks thoughtful. "Real trick will be trying to figure out where the Knight is fast enough to get someone to ask them about it." He thinks for a moment. "I'll bring it up at the next cabinet meeting, see if we can't work out some ideas for how to get the request to the Knight with as little risk of it getting lost in transmission as possible."
"That's all we can really ask for, Mr. President." The NASA director nods.
"Unless you two have anything else you need to discuss, I think we should all get back to work - the United States may be the greatest country on God's green Earth, but it still won't run itself."
The two directors nod, and politely leave, even as the President turns his attention back to the paperwork he was focusing on prior to the meeting.
This popped into my head and wouldn't leave. Assuming that Harry Potter takes place around the early 1990s. See if you can guess who's actually showing up here.
Halkeginia 2 (Clockwork Knight VanChrome)
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There were several reasons for my decision to leave the area I had arrived in. First and foremost, the experience had me in a nearly murderous fury towards that particular group of magic users, but judging by the reactions I had observed, none of them actually deserved to die. I needed some time to come down off the emotional high and actually think clearly about my situation. There was also a debatably irrational fear of a repeat occurrence, which I might not come back from. Last time I had come dangerously close to the self-destruct threshold, which would have killed who knows how many people in a nuclear fireball.
So I walked due north, climbing straight over whatever obstructions presented themselves. Eventually I would hit either a town or a coastline, then I could decide what to do. I trudged along for several hours, before eventually coming across a small town. About thirty assorted buildings, some fields for growing food, rows of trees that still had blossoms all over them, a couple barns, just generally giving off the impression of a small-time farming community. I'd have to be careful to avoid scaring everyone off, but otherwise it could be nice to spend some time here while I got my bearings.
As such, I slowed down to a pace that a baseline human would consider fairly sedate as I walked the last eight hundred meters into town. I idly noted that it currently seemed to be spring planting, judging by the plows being towed by some beast of burden that I didn't recognize. Several people looked up from what they were doing with easily recognizable expressions of concern and even some fear. As soon as I noticed this, I stood still, fired up Words of Truth, and said "I mean you no harm. I would like to talk with you after today's chores are done; what you're doing is important, and it would be rude for me to get in the way."
That done, I returned to my sedate walking pace until I reached the town, conjured up a chair for myself, and sat down to wait. Sure enough, a couple hours later a few of the people living here walked up. I'd already put my modular weaponry in a small pile off to the side since I wouldn't be needing it right now, which seemed to reassure them at least somewhat. After a few moments of awkward silence, I noted "You've all clearly got a lot of questions that you're worried about asking. Go ahead and ask, I won't take offense."
The first to ask was a well-muscled woman wearing no-nonsense work clothing, asking "What are you and why are you here?"
Simulating a nod, I answered "I am a Clockwork Knight, a magical construct created in another world. I was caught in an unexpected anomaly at the Battle of the Hellrift and wound up in a summoning circle. I then proceeded to purge the mental domination effect that Mage was trying to inflict on me, punched her unconscious, and walked straight north until I arrived here."
Immediately, everyone reacted with fear, before the woman said "You need to leave, now. If the nobility find out we're harboring you after you assaulted one of their children they'll wipe our town off the map and we won't be able to stop them because we can't use magic!"
Zeroing in on her, I asked "So, to be clear, this country operates on the basis of Mage supremacy, and this magical nobility is perfectly willing to engage in collective punishment against those they consider lesser?"
Nodding frantically as she futilely tried to push me out of town, the woman answered "Yes, that's why you need to get out of here!"
Thinking for a moment, I said "Well, going by what you just said, I think what you really need is a change of government. No regime that relies on terrorizing their citizens like this is worth keeping, and luckily for you I happen to be a highly principled machine with plenty of power to make things happen."
With that I stood up, teleported to a clear vantage point before jogging to outside the town's fields, and got down to the business of self-replicating.
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Groggily, Louise woke up with a splitting headache. After a few moments, she managed to get together enough willpower to open her eyes, and found herself face-to-face with a machine much like the one she had summoned. This one was painted up in a garish blue-red plaid pattern though. Through the pounding headache, Louise was barely able to get up the motivation to turn and look before the machine said "Ah, good. You're awake. I'll be able to finalize treatment for that concussion of yours soon."
With that, the machine got out a device that looked an awful lot like someone wedged a crystal ball into a metallic box and brought it up to Louise's head. A few moments later, Louise noticed the agonizing pain in her head receded, and the pink-haired Zero found herself able to think clearly.
With that clarity of thought, she was able to ask "I thought you said you wouldn't be coming back?"
Much to Louise's surprise, the machine answered "That is what VanChrome said. However, I am not him. I am Clockwork Knight Cuprate, and I am currently responsible for your recovery."
Another few moments of thought, before Louise managed to say "I could have sworn I only summoned a single Clockwork. Why are you here?"
Sitting down in a nearby heavily reinforced chair, Cuprate responded "We Clockworks are capable of making more of ourselves very, very quickly. I was constructed two days ago."
This immediately puzzled Louise, and she found herself wondering just how long she was unconscious. Eventually, she asked "After I summoned VanChrome, how long was I unconscious, and why are you here at the academy?"
Cuprate's answer shook Louise to the bone, "You have been unconscious for nine days. During that time, the previous government of Tristain has been deposed and the previous social structure of nobility has been abolished. The academy is still in operation, though much of the non-teaching staff has left for other opportunities."
Immediately, nightmarish visions of mass executions whirled through Louise's head. However, before she could ask, Cuprate cut her off with "None of your family or acquaintances are deceased, nor are they being held as any sort of hostage. They simply no longer have authority to rule over the masses. That said, many did need to be non-lethally incapacitated."
This immediately clashed with Louise's sensibilities and she mumbled an incoherent sentence that might have had something to do with Tristain's tradition of Mage rule.
At this, Cuprate at least had the decency to look somewhat apologetic (somehow) before answering "The magic native to our home universe spreads uncontrollably through the environment and the people occupying it. It is already in low-level usage by a significant portion of the formerly non-magical population, and would have eventually lead to a bloody revolution if the pent up class tensions were not dealt with in some manner. We took action to prevent countless innocent people from being killed, and to end the abuses suffered daily by commoners."
There were several reasons for my decision to leave the area I had arrived in. First and foremost, the experience had me in a nearly murderous fury towards that particular group of magic users, but judging by the reactions I had observed, none of them actually deserved to die. I needed some time to come down off the emotional high and actually think clearly about my situation. There was also a debatably irrational fear of a repeat occurrence, which I might not come back from. Last time I had come dangerously close to the self-destruct threshold, which would have killed who knows how many people in a nuclear fireball.
So I walked due north, climbing straight over whatever obstructions presented themselves. Eventually I would hit either a town or a coastline, then I could decide what to do. I trudged along for several hours, before eventually coming across a small town. About thirty assorted buildings, some fields for growing food, rows of trees that still had blossoms all over them, a couple barns, just generally giving off the impression of a small-time farming community. I'd have to be careful to avoid scaring everyone off, but otherwise it could be nice to spend some time here while I got my bearings.
As such, I slowed down to a pace that a baseline human would consider fairly sedate as I walked the last eight hundred meters into town. I idly noted that it currently seemed to be spring planting, judging by the plows being towed by some beast of burden that I didn't recognize. Several people looked up from what they were doing with easily recognizable expressions of concern and even some fear. As soon as I noticed this, I stood still, fired up Words of Truth, and said "I mean you no harm. I would like to talk with you after today's chores are done; what you're doing is important, and it would be rude for me to get in the way."
That done, I returned to my sedate walking pace until I reached the town, conjured up a chair for myself, and sat down to wait. Sure enough, a couple hours later a few of the people living here walked up. I'd already put my modular weaponry in a small pile off to the side since I wouldn't be needing it right now, which seemed to reassure them at least somewhat. After a few moments of awkward silence, I noted "You've all clearly got a lot of questions that you're worried about asking. Go ahead and ask, I won't take offense."
The first to ask was a well-muscled woman wearing no-nonsense work clothing, asking "What are you and why are you here?"
Simulating a nod, I answered "I am a Clockwork Knight, a magical construct created in another world. I was caught in an unexpected anomaly at the Battle of the Hellrift and wound up in a summoning circle. I then proceeded to purge the mental domination effect that Mage was trying to inflict on me, punched her unconscious, and walked straight north until I arrived here."
Immediately, everyone reacted with fear, before the woman said "You need to leave, now. If the nobility find out we're harboring you after you assaulted one of their children they'll wipe our town off the map and we won't be able to stop them because we can't use magic!"
Zeroing in on her, I asked "So, to be clear, this country operates on the basis of Mage supremacy, and this magical nobility is perfectly willing to engage in collective punishment against those they consider lesser?"
Nodding frantically as she futilely tried to push me out of town, the woman answered "Yes, that's why you need to get out of here!"
Thinking for a moment, I said "Well, going by what you just said, I think what you really need is a change of government. No regime that relies on terrorizing their citizens like this is worth keeping, and luckily for you I happen to be a highly principled machine with plenty of power to make things happen."
With that I stood up, teleported to a clear vantage point before jogging to outside the town's fields, and got down to the business of self-replicating.
(POV: Third Person near Louise)
Groggily, Louise woke up with a splitting headache. After a few moments, she managed to get together enough willpower to open her eyes, and found herself face-to-face with a machine much like the one she had summoned. This one was painted up in a garish blue-red plaid pattern though. Through the pounding headache, Louise was barely able to get up the motivation to turn and look before the machine said "Ah, good. You're awake. I'll be able to finalize treatment for that concussion of yours soon."
With that, the machine got out a device that looked an awful lot like someone wedged a crystal ball into a metallic box and brought it up to Louise's head. A few moments later, Louise noticed the agonizing pain in her head receded, and the pink-haired Zero found herself able to think clearly.
With that clarity of thought, she was able to ask "I thought you said you wouldn't be coming back?"
Much to Louise's surprise, the machine answered "That is what VanChrome said. However, I am not him. I am Clockwork Knight Cuprate, and I am currently responsible for your recovery."
Another few moments of thought, before Louise managed to say "I could have sworn I only summoned a single Clockwork. Why are you here?"
Sitting down in a nearby heavily reinforced chair, Cuprate responded "We Clockworks are capable of making more of ourselves very, very quickly. I was constructed two days ago."
This immediately puzzled Louise, and she found herself wondering just how long she was unconscious. Eventually, she asked "After I summoned VanChrome, how long was I unconscious, and why are you here at the academy?"
Cuprate's answer shook Louise to the bone, "You have been unconscious for nine days. During that time, the previous government of Tristain has been deposed and the previous social structure of nobility has been abolished. The academy is still in operation, though much of the non-teaching staff has left for other opportunities."
Immediately, nightmarish visions of mass executions whirled through Louise's head. However, before she could ask, Cuprate cut her off with "None of your family or acquaintances are deceased, nor are they being held as any sort of hostage. They simply no longer have authority to rule over the masses. That said, many did need to be non-lethally incapacitated."
This immediately clashed with Louise's sensibilities and she mumbled an incoherent sentence that might have had something to do with Tristain's tradition of Mage rule.
At this, Cuprate at least had the decency to look somewhat apologetic (somehow) before answering "The magic native to our home universe spreads uncontrollably through the environment and the people occupying it. It is already in low-level usage by a significant portion of the formerly non-magical population, and would have eventually lead to a bloody revolution if the pent up class tensions were not dealt with in some manner. We took action to prevent countless innocent people from being killed, and to end the abuses suffered daily by commoners."
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Screw you Reconquista, you got ninja'd! Or, err, clockwork'd.
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Reconquista was never about helping the commoners anyway.
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You don't have to wonder! You can write that, post it in thread, and it'll get official sanction!
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Interesting chapter.
Awesome chapter.
Man talk about change in regime.
Did Clockwork heal Louise's sister? At the very least would make Louise give the benefit of the doubt to the robot for doing that.
Thanks for the compliment.
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Wait, I can make a Clockwork Night and post it? I might go to Halo if so.