Update.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8177168/31/Wand-and-Shield

 

Is Roarian still on the forums? It's his prerogative whether he posts in WbA or not, but I don't think I've seen him post anything on the forums for awhile. 'Course, I could be talking out of my ass here.

 

Can't believe I'm helping you stalk; according to his profile, his last post was on 2-19 and he was last seen viewing the DLP-Fight Club thread yesterday.

https://forums.darklordpotter.net/member.php?u=15488

 

Roarian appears to have more or less moved to SB forums. At least considering how much time he's invested into Stark Transcendent Quest.

 

He's having fun running his Quest By Post over on SB, but he's still almost a regular in IRC.

Speaking of which, I should go pester him.

 

What is quest by post/stark transcendent quest?

If it's something he's writing, I want in.

 

Get on IRC, wait for him to pop on, ask him about it, he'll explain everything.

Basically, Roarian presents a story world with what he thinks should/will happen, then sets out several paths for the 'players' of the story to choose from.

The forum comes together and votes on which action to take, you can try submitting an option and convincing people to follow your path, or you can lend your support to someone else's, or follow the options the author (in this case, Roarian) gives you.

Then, once a consensus has been reached (or the author gets tired of watching people bicker and chooses the one with the most support at the moment), he writes out what happens in response to your choices and the whole process starts all over again as the story continues.

It's pretty fun stuff, but takes too long for me to remain engaged in, sadly.

Roarian has one going based around Tony Stark/Iron Man, and from what I've watched of it (I don't participate) it's pretty bawse.

 

Back on Wand and Shield - I feel like Roarian needs to get back to what made the earlier parts of this fic so great, that being the interactions between Harry and the other Avengers. Loki is cool I guess, but I honestly don't care very much about what happened to the wizards in the Marvel universe. Maybe that's a result of the reading the updates in such a staggered manner, but I mostly find myself bored reading the scenes in Hogwarts.

I'm somewhat reminded of ryuugi's Master of Death HP/DF fic, and the part where Harry went back in time and fought against the giants (fomor? I can't even remember what he was fighting) - the story feels like it's lost a lot of it's pace and I think a fair bit of that is because there is so much less character interaction in both examples.

Tony and Peter's scene was definitely the highlight of this chapter for me because of this, short as it was. I'm definitely looking forward to Harry getting back to New York (or wherever) and meeting back up with Tony, Bruce, Natasha and the rest.

 

I feel exactly the same way. I skimmed all that pretty heavily and only paid attention to Tony and Peter's scene.

 

One more chapter, actually, before it's back to our regular scheduled programming. Which involves Thor, so Loki's presence isn't random. The fate of the wizards is indeed more or less Harry's personal plot thread - his link to the tapestry. Don't count on another solo adventure after this one, though - at least, not soon. Cap and Thor are almost there, there's plenty of new material to get into.

In a roundabout way, this little sidetrip is where Harry goes from spectator to participant - finding that he has a personal stake in things, owning up to the fact that he's basically the only one who could possibly seek justice for what happened, and that he is capable of that. Nothing better to clear the sinuses than stabbing chaos in the brain.

Also, I'm sorry for not really posting around on the board much, I'm mostly a lurker atm, here. The quest on SB just fit better there, since DLP doesn't really have a roleplaying boner, nor an irrational fondness of transhumanist themes. SB is suitably insane for that sort of content.

 

New update.

 

Fuck, I did not see that one coming.

 

When the big reveal happened I instantly thought of Renegade Cause...there was an out-of-phase Hogwarts in that story too, if I remember correctly. Bad guy Peeves is always satisfying. Awesome chapter.

 

You obviously don't have to, but it might be polite to put that in spoiler tags, just in case someone hops in the thread and sees your post straightaway. I agree completely though, that was a great chapter.

Damn, the wait is going to be frustrating this time. Great job Roarian.

 

That was well done. I love smug Loki but HP has to troll him a bit next chapter. He told him not to mess with the Basilisk and what does he do..

 

I actually like the Harry scenes because they are his story the way each of the avengers has their own movie. I agree on your assessment of the Master of Death HP/DF fic - I barely read all the paragraphs in the giant chapter.

The new chapter is pretty awesome. Totally got that Renegade Cause feel.

 

EPIC chapter...kudos.

 

Spoiler

Loki got petrified.

That's fucking hilarious :awesome