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A possible moment from the Ministry Battle...
04-14-2014, 02:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-04-2018, 05:00 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
I just thought of this little bit over the weekend, and it makes me giggle madly for minutes on end. Not sure I'll actually use it, more because of the facepalm factor than anything else -- believe it or not, it actually wouldn't be over the top for what's going to be happening in that fight, but it's the kind of thing that will make a reader groan and maybe throw away the fic.
A female voice momentarily rose over the din of the battle:
"...ghostly hauntings I turn loose! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Beetlejuice!"
The little corner of my mind not concerned with the fight blinked
at this. Forget where the hell she'd *heard* that, whichever of
the summoners among my students that was. Whyinhell did
she even think it would wor--
"It's *showtime*," a deep, gravelly voice said with immense
satisfaction.
Oh.
Fuck.
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Ack.
Yes, that's definitely a Crossover That Should Not Be. Not the worst CTSNB, but a pretty bad one.
What?
"What could be worse?"
Why wasn't Luna running? She was just standing there, her wand extended, and saying something. Something that seemed familiar.
"I summon the light of destruction down upon my opponents. Stars, gather, and become the light which pierces everything. Tear through everything in a blaze of light. Starlight -"
Oh, shit.
I took cover.
Quickly.
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Heh. I've already got a similar moment mapped out for someone other than Luna. Luna... Luna is going to be one of the summoners Doug mentions above. At least in the current plans. I have specifics down for Harry, Hermione, Luna, Ginny, Hannah Abbot, Seamus Finnegan, Lavender Brown and Pansy Parkinson; not sure I want to do too many more for fear of making the battle narrative too unwieldy -- Hannah's stuff is probably too big as it is and needs to be trimmed by about half.
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Ah, well, it can always be worse. After all, suppose someone managed to get results with a reference to "the Power of Castle Gr--" No, I can't bring myself to finish it.
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Ha!
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DHBirr Wrote:Ah, well, it can always be worse. After all, suppose someone managed to get results with a reference to "the Power of Castle Gr--" No, I can't bring myself to finish it. What's wrong with "Greyhawk"?
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LOL! (Literally!)
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Quote:A female voice momentarily rose over the din of the battle:"...kingly hauntings I confer! Hastur! Hastur! Hastur!"
Fixed that for you. Quote:"It's *showtime*," a deep, gravelly voice said with immensesatisfaction
The damage to the London Metropolitan area caused by Big O exceeded £230 million. Quote:Why wasn't Luna running? She was just standing there, her wand extended, and saying something. Something that seemed familiar.
"I summon the light of destruction down upon my opponents. Stars,
gather, and become the light which pierces everything. Tear through
everything in a blaze of light. Starlight -"
If I was Luna, I'd opt for a spell that's always appropriate:
Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows, buried in the flow of time. In thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness. Let all the fools who stand in our way be destroyed by the power you and I possess...
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Quote:vorticity wrote:
If I was Luna, I'd opt for a spell that's always appropriate:
Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows, buried in the flow of time. In thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness. Let all the fools who stand in our way be destroyed by the power you and I possess...
"Darkness beyond twilight"? Not nearly dark enough. If you're going to use Dark Arts (and if the Ministry ever saw those spells, you bet they'd be!), why not go all the way?
Darkness beyond blackest pitch, deeper than the deepest night...
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vorticity Wrote:Quote:"I summon the light of destruction down upon my opponents. Stars,
gather, and become the light which pierces everything. Tear through
everything in a blaze of light. Starlight -"
If I was Luna, I'd opt for a spell that's always appropriate:
Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows, buried in the flow of time. In thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness. Let all the fools who stand in our way be destroyed by the power you and I possess... I think Hermione should get that one. Dragon Slave is a researched spell, while Starlight Breaker is an invented spell.
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Quote:robkelk wrote:
Quote:vorticity wrote:
Quote:"I summon the light of destruction down upon my opponents. Stars,
gather, and become the light which pierces everything. Tear through
everything in a blaze of light. Starlight -"
If I was Luna, I'd opt for a spell that's always appropriate:
Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows, buried in the flow of time. In thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness. Let all the fools who stand in our way be destroyed by the power you and I possess...
I think Hermione should get that one. Dragon Slave is a researched spell, while Starlight Breaker is an invented spell.
...yes, but who do you think has the right mindset for MSLN-style magic- Luna, or Hermione?
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Um, guys? This isn't a spoiler, it was in another thread years ago:
"Brightness beyond dawn,
Golden beyond light which shines.
Servant of all that lives,
In Humanity's name
I pledge myself to Life.
All evil that threatens the earth
Will be destroyed
By the power of my will:
Divine Blaster!"
-- Hermione Granger
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Quote:vorticity wrote:
Quote:A female voice momentarily rose over the din of the battle:"...kingly hauntings I confer! Hastur! Hastur! Hastur!"
Fixed that for you.
Heh. I was actually thinking along those lines, though not that particular Name, yesterday morning.
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Bob Schroeck Wrote:Um, guys? This isn't a spoiler, it was in another thread years ago:
"Brightness beyond dawn,
Golden beyond light which shines.
Servant of all that lives,
In Humanity's name
I pledge myself to Life.
All evil that threatens the earth
Will be destroyed
By the power of my will:
Divine Blaster!"
-- Hermione Granger I knew there was a reason I thought Hermione should get that one...
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vorticity Wrote:Quote:A female voice momentarily rose over the din of the battle:
"...kingly hauntings I confer! Hastur! Hastur! Hastur!"
Fixed that for you. "... fuzzy mammal I do call! Hamster! Hamster! Hamster!"
"Why?"
"I panicked, okay?"
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And then the fifteen-foot hamster in the 25-foot hamster ball shows up and goes all tenpins on the Death Eaters...
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And the Ministry of Magic.
Because casting magic while panicked is a bad idea. Especially when you are near an odds mangler like Doug's improbability field.
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Damn! With the way you guys are planning this, we're going to have one major curb-stomp delivered to Mouldyshorts and his friends!
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Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:
Um, guys? This isn't a spoiler, it was in another thread years ago:
"Brightness beyond dawn,
Golden beyond light which shines.
Servant of all that lives,
In Humanity's name
I pledge myself to Life.
All evil that threatens the earth
Will be destroyed
By the power of my will:
Divine Blaster!"
-- Hermione Granger
Oh, bah. If you're gonna go, go big:
"In brightest day,In blackest night,No evil shall escape my sight.Let those who worship evil's mightBeware my power - Green Lantern's might."
(Not one that Doug would suggest of course, but the Green Lantern is powered by force of will and imagination, and Hermione is a very stubborn and creative girl. And she already knows comic books.)
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Quote:Damn! With the way you guys are planning this, we're going to have one major curb-stomp delivered to Mouldyshorts and his friends!
Well, it'll start out that way -- the entire DA, powered-up, against 12 Death Eaters is no contest. But, well... no plan ever survives contact with the enemy. And like, um, geeze, I forget who, someone on FF.net says, "If you give Frodo a lightsaber, you have to give Sauron the Death Star". The odds are going to change rather dramatically.
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Quote:And then the fifteen-foot hamster in the 25-foot hamster ball shows up and goes all tenpins on the Death Eaters...
Nah. It summons Boo!
Susan Bones: "Go for the eyes, Boo! Show them the power of tiny mammals! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
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I was thinking it summons Penfold -- accompanied, naturally, by Danger Mouse, who'll be the real problem for the villains.
And the fifteen-foot hamster can also be summoned (very briefly) by Doug playing Weird Al's "Harvey the Wonder Hamster."
Quote:He doesn't bite, and he doesn't squeal;
He just runs around on his hamster wheel!
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Now if you summoned Parson "Lord Hamster" Gotti from Erfworld... then they'd be in for a heap of trouble. Well, given enough time to plan. Since his forte is strategy and arithmancy, he'd probably of little use unless he knew the magic system beforehand, and that took quite a few Happy Meal toys.
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