History AATAFOVS / ClubOfDarkness

* ''Volume 23: Unspeakable Vile Evil Incarnate'': Written by [[SdrawkcabName Arnold Erogal]] it focuses on [[{{AATAFOVS/RevengeOfXanatos}} Lord Blødmaw]] [[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy 735th Archduke of The Unblinking Eye]]. With its [[WriterOnBoard characterization]] of the archduke as a "person" who [[MoralEventHorizon eats a kindergarten class]] and it's several random tangents to talk about how [[AuthorFilibuster Cro-Magnons are the true Arian race]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun how the Father begot the Son.]] Some have claimed that it was written by some sort of [[AuthorTract political opponent.]] Focusing on how the archduke was born a poor black child ind Roman Carthage and various team ups through history with Sulla, Catiline, Atilla the Hun, Hitler, Stalin, Ultra-Hitler, Jean Kambanda and Saddam Hussein. And now he was in fact the same person Jack The Ripper, Dracula, and Neo-Ultra-Hitler. The Climax involves the archduke's vile and unspeakably horrible (though explicitly laid out) being thwarted by [[MartyStu heroic Green Peace activists.]]

* ''Volume 13: Asmodeus'': This book is set before the dawn of time, when the demon king Asmodeus was at war with an EldritchAbomination from after the end of time, with all Hell as the prize. After several chapters of lovingly described carnage, the {{Time Travel}}ling Trio (a teenage [[Myth/KingArthur Merlin]], a middle-aged Udite, and a very elderly Nerdly) crashland in the middle of the battlefield, immediately becoming the centre of convoluted plots. When all the double crosses are resolved, Asmodeus ends up holding the keys to the Citadel Of Evil, which was already incredibly old. This allows Asmodeus to win his war, [[ThePlan just as the Time Travelling Trio planned]].

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* ''Volume 13: Asmodeus'': This book is set before the dawn of time, when the demon king Asmodeus was at war with an EldritchAbomination from after the end of time, with all Hell as the prize. After several chapters of lovingly described carnage, the {{Time Travel}}ling Trio (a teenage [[KingArthur Merlin]], a middle-aged Udite, and a very elderly Nerdly) crashland in the middle of the battlefield, immediately becoming the centre of convoluted plots. When all the double crosses are resolved, Asmodeus ends up holding the keys to the Citadel Of Evil, which was already incredibly old. This allows Asmodeus to win his war, [[ThePlan just as the Time Travelling Trio planned]].

* ''Volume 23: Unspeakable Vile Evil Incarnate'': Written by [[SdrawkcabName Arnold Erogal]] it focuses on [[{{AATAFOVS/RevengeOfXanatos}} Lord Blødmaw]] [[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy 735th Archduke of The Unblinking Eye]]. With its [[AuthorOnBoard characterization]] of the archduke as a "person" who [[MoralEventHorizon eats a kindergarten class]] and it's several random tangents to talk about how [[AuthorFilibuster Cro-Magnons are the true Arian race]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun how the Father begot the Son.]] Some have claimed that it was written by some sort of [[AuthorTract political opponent.]] Focusing on how the archduke was born a poor black child ind Roman Carthage and various team ups through history with Sulla, Catiline, Atilla the Hun, Hitler, Stalin, Ultra-Hitler, Jean Kambanda and Saddam Hussein. And now he was in fact the same person Jack The Ripper, Dracula, and Neo-Ultra-Hitler. The Climax involves the archduke's vile and unspeakably horrible (though explicitly laid out) being thwarted by [[MartyStu heroic Green Peace activists.]]

* ''Volume 7: Clive'': Set five years before the show started, the book begins when Clive Bucket, a recently retired teacher, answers a [[SpySpeak cryptically phrased]] advert in the local newspaper, partly because he is bored, but mostly to get away from his wife. Clive thought the advert was for a slightly eccentric social club; it was actually the Dark Council, who had not intended to advertise. The whole thing had begun with a mix up in the post. When some minions are sent to visit Clive, they overhear him talking about garden pest control, and come to entirely the wrong conclusion. Clive is invited to join the council, and accepts, [[TheManWhoKnewTooLittle completely unaware of their true nature]]. He starts spending his days in the Citadel of Evil, commuting via a handy portal, where a serious of apparent coincidences reinforce his dark reputation. Eventually, he stumbles on the trut, just in time for the climactic dinner party, attended by three Evil Overlords, TheVicar, the local magistrate, two of Clive's ex-colleagues, and E. R. Udite. HilarityEnsues as Clive struggles to prevent the Evil Overlords realising it's just a normal dinner party, and everyone else from realising that some of the guests aren't quite human. In the epilogue, we find Asmodeus, Udite, and Clive playing darts in the local pub, where they agree Clive can serve as a deniable communication channel between the two sides.

* ''Volume 13: Asmodeus'': This book is set before the dawn of time, when the demon king Asmodeus was at war with an EldritchAbomination from after the end of time, with all Hell as the prize. After several chapters of lovingly described carnage, the {{Time Travel}}ling Trio (a teenage [[KingArthur Merlin]], a middle-aged Udite, and a very elderly Nerdly) crashland in the middle of the battlefield, immediately becoming the centre of convoluted plots. When all the double crosses are resolved, Asmodeus ends up holding the keys to the Citadel Of Evil, which was already incredibly old. This allows Asmodeus to win his war, [[XanatosGambit just as the Time Travelling Trio planned]].

* ''Volume 1: Count Sinister Von Doomsday''. E. R. Udite and the young Count Sinister were both students at an Oxbridge college, sometime [[ChristieTime between the wars]], and the best of friends. Then they met Eve, a stunningly beautiful greengrocer's daughter with a fondness for apples. The two friends began to fight for her love, a conflict which began with [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] but [[LensmanArmsRace rapidly escalated]] until their final battle reduced half a continent to molten slag. Along the way they discovered story gates, and had encounters with the ancestors of half the cast. At the end of the book, Eve leaves her child on a doorstep and joins a convent, Udite gets a cryptic message about his destiny, and Count Sinister enters the Citadel of Evil for the first time.