Line #89 RolePlay/WizardsVsMuggles


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9	[[quoteright:267:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/OotS_Wizards_VS_Muggles_2696.png]]
10	[[caption-width-right:267: A fraction of the cast. [[labelnote:Right-to-left, top-to-bottom:]] Geno Hardiman, Paxton Nott, James Damon, Hector Marez, [[LackOfEmpathy Jakob Elsritter]], Jack Green, Le Blanc, Amanda Hewlett, Nobby Flint, Hermione Weasley nee Granger, Jamie Thatcher, [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Capt. Price]], Dolores Umbridge, Inquisitor Gregory Goyle, Neville Longbottom, Sinclain Wolf, Ruadhrí O'Connel, [[IHaveManyNames Arkady Ivanovich Serov]], Jay Bell Hood, [[BaldOfAuthority Kingsley Shacklebolt]], Alex Fields, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Karla]], [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Erik]] [[ShoutOut Alzey]], [[OnlyOneName Charmdrummer]], [[CombatMedic Olivia Browning]], Bob Ritter, Lita [[TeenGenius Garza]], Chess, Warren Peace, and Arthur Clark.[[/labelnote]]]]
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12	''Wizards vs Muggles'', referred to in its discussion thread as ''Creator/TomClancy's Franchise/HarryPotter and the Muggle War'' (which should give you a rough idea of the style), is a forum RP hosted on the Website/TVTropes forum, started by @/HungryJoe and [=GMed=] by @/SabresEdge. Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' continuity, it features the breaking of the {{Masquerade}} and the global war that follows, as well as two paramilitary teams on either side that struggle to survive. As if that weren't enough, mysterious creatures start showing up as part of its crossover with ''RolePlay/KingdomHeartsTwilightOfTheStars'', adding a whole new dimension to the conflict.
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14	On the Muggle side, Team Unicorn is formed as a joint US/UK mini-special forces group, much like its older sister [[VideoGame/RainbowSix Rainbow]]; on the wizard side, a yet-unnamed paramilitary wizard team has been hastily [[GotVolunteered conscripted]] for special missions. Though they are different sides of the war, the two teams will discover that they might have more in common than they thought...
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16	Events so far:
17	* '''King's Cross''': the hastily-assembled wizard team must escort the students through wartime London to King's Cross, but when things go horribly wrong, the station becomes the backdrop for a hostage situation. Unicorn is called in to help.
18	* '''Schrodinger's Box''': two weeks after the King's Cross debacle, the wizarding team is sent on an "easy mission", helping the Malfoys move a mysterious artifact to safety. Marks the beginning of the crossover campaign.
19	* '''[=Drear Island=]''': concurrent to the above mission, the commandos find a routine transfer disrupted by an unexplained loss of navigation ove the North Sea and the sudden appearance of islands that weren't there before.
20	* '''Station Chiefs''': the Romanian missions. A cloak-and-dagger meeting between representatives of both factions in Bucharest is interrupted by a kidnapping orchestrated by an unknown third party. EnemyMine ensues. Also sees the first use of GM maps in combat.
21	** '''Storming the Castle''': the first all-out battle: with the Heartless threat in the open, the first big battle sequence takes place: about a platoon's worth of [=PCs=] and a Russian motor-rifle company versus Heartless.
22	* '''Diplomacy and Mediation''': Lita goes over to the commandos' place to talk peace with Mr. Clark, and does an old acquaintance a favor; kicking a hornet's nest in the process and starting the discovery of a conspiracy, as Charmdrummer becomes suspicious of his own memories' validity. Mr. Krum, former Quidditch star, makes a cameo. New team members appear in both groups.
23	** '''[=McMurdosford=]''': The commandos meet a mob of angry townspeople and things start to go down from there; meanwhile, the wizard group starts its own investigations into something that happened in 1980, nearly forty years back.
24	* '''US Mission''': The comandos go in a trip to Massachusetts because [Classified] when [Classified] causes [Classified] to [Classified].
25	* '''Spain Mission''': Karla and Lita go to Spain because [Classified], meanwhile Clark and Olivia go to Spain because [Classified] buildings [Classified] disappearing policemen thanks to [Classified].
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27	The signup is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14228428640A95510200&page=1#1 here]]; the RP is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12926194470A15322500 here]]; discussion, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12924428110A55412300 here]]. The interlude can be found [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13749845200A06445100&page=1#1 here]]. It started in 2010 and ran for four years before fizzling out at the very start of 2015.
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29	!!''Wizards vs. Muggles'' contains examples of:
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31	* AbortedArc: Iceland, due to player vanishment.
32	* ActionGirl: in addition to most of the female [=PCs=], there are at least two female gunship crew members: [[ShoutOut Trudy Chacon]] flies Chinooks, and [[ShoutOut Francie Montaigne]] copilots the Wombat gunship.
33	* AnachronicOrder: A necessity, and a major headache, when the two sets of missions don't synch up perfectly in time.
34	%%* AnimalsHateHim: An InformedFlaw of Lita's.
35	%%* BadassNormal: Everyone main character who isn't a wizard seems to be this.
36	* BigDamnGunship:
37	** A [[CoolPlane MC-130W Dragon Spear]] is instrumental in helping Unicorn HoldTheLine in mission two, although its effectiveness is limited by storm clouds.
38	** Subverted in the Romanian roadside ambush. The [=PCs=] had a Russian [[CoolPlane Mi-28]] to help them out, but poor radio communications and poor communications meant that it was never informed of the Romanian flak vehicle. It was consequently shot down.
39	* BlackHelicopter: Though helicopter rides for the commandos are common, they are mostly ordinary military or police helicopters. The one time Stealth Hawks appeared, it was in a training mission; they were taken away before they could be deployed in earnest.
40	%%* ChekhovsArmoury: Repeatedly lampshaded OOC.
41	%%* CloakAndDagger
42	* {{Crossover}}: The boys and girls of ''RolePlay/KingdomHeartsTwilightOfTheStars'' were in the midst of a visit to this world.
43	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: There's a rather different feel between Hungry Joe's tenure as GM and the current one.
44	* EnemyMine: The Romanian mission saw cooperation between wizards and muggles against a common enemy. [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare "The enemy of my enemy"]] became close to being ArcWords.
45	* GambitPileup: Romania. There are four factions there already before the crossover elements and the players arrival.
46	* GreyAndGrayMorality: Both the Muggle countries and the Wizarding Ministries of Magic resort to more and more cynical methods to achieve victory.
47	* GunPorn: The Unicorn players are usually quite specific about their weapon types and specifications. It helps that the [[@/SabresEdge GM]] is a military buff.
48	* HighAltitudeBattle: The first "exciting" event to occur is an ambush of the commandos' transport by a group of wizards on broomsticks and the escort force of UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets, resulting in losses to both sides.
49	%%* HoldTheLine: The commandos' second battle shaped up into this kind of mission.
50	%%* HollywoodTactics: [[AvertedTrope Will get you killed.]] The GM is quite insistent on that point.
51	* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: Tends to be Clark's MO. This is, of course, to offset the CIA's reputation as lying backstabbers.
52	* HulkSpeak: Polish party member Czesława Szymańska; [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue eloquent in Polish and understandable in Russian]], just not English.
53	* {{Infodump}}: The GM is fond of occasionally setting down extracts from in-universe documents, whether to provide general background or to lay the groundwork for future missions.
54	* InterserviceRivalry: The Aurors hate the Ministry of Magic War Department, and the feeling is mutual. Also between the various Muggle factions.
55	%%* IntrepidReporter: Luna Lovegood shows up in this role for the second mission.
56	* IronLady: Karla is a female spymaster; Claudia Barnes is an archetypal Scottish matriarch. Neither takes kindly to being trifled with.
57	%%* IronWoobie: Czesława.
58	* ItsRainingMen: Lita tries teleporting on the basis of a satellite picture with only a cushioning charm. It ended poorly.
59	%%* LadyOfWar: Karla, or so it seems.
60	* LiveActionEscortMission: The first Wizard mission involved getting a bunch of schoolkids to King's Cross, and it would've been just fine had Umbridge not shown up.
61	* MagicalComputer: Memecht is a magical version of the [[DieselPunk Memex]], and its name was chosen as sounding [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk close to the Turkish Memeht.]]
62	* MauveShirt: Sergeant Milu, among others. Any time an NPC gets a name and enough of a personality for the GM to get attached.
63	* MeaningfulRename: The Rainbow/Unicorn joint command has been reorganized and renamed into the [[Literature/TheLaundryFiles Occult Coordination Command Unit Liaison--Unconventional Situations]], or [[FunWithAcronyms OCCULUS]] for short. In-game this was to reflect Unicorn's success in proving the concept and in highlighting their changing role. Out-of-game, it was due to a general desire to avoid any more jokes about [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "miniature fornicating equines".]]
64	* MoreDakka: A favored tactic of the Muggle players. And of the wizards too, once they start volley-firing spells.
65	%%* MuggleBornOfMages: Warren Peace. Shhh.
66	* MugglesDoItBetter: One can get a feel for it when you realize all the muggles are older, trained specialists with big guns, while the wizards are [[YouAllMeetInAnInn random people at a bar.]]
67	* MultinationalTeam: Both Unicorn/Occulus and the wizard group include members from multiple countries, although both are British-commanded. The Sunshine NPC faction appears to be under more of an independent command, not quite to NGOSuperpower level, but enough to have chartered a merchant ship and to own several helicopters.
68	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[RunningGag The GM's repeated reaction]] after handing [[BoisterousBruiser Chessie]] the [[{{BFG}} KS-23 shotgun.]]
69	* {{Nerf}}: By common consent, transfiguration was toned down so that a wizard cannot, for example, transfigure a rock into [[EarthShatteringKaboom a chunk of antimatter.]]
70	* NoodleIncident: Arguably, most of Lita's school life is this. It's been revealed that:
71	** Lita's spent hours inside a hat, with a turkey.
72	** She did a fiendfyre when she was 13, setting the then-headmaster's robes on fire.
73	** She was pretty bad in practical potions while being good in the theory part, and one of those potions may have eaten the cauldron that was holding it. However, "pretty bad" shows as "Exceeds Expectations", and is TheBGrade for her.
74	** She got detentions very often despite having been a great student in-class because of things she did out of class. Most of the details are currently classified.
75	* PeaceConference: Both Clark and Lita are hoping/planning to get this going to avoid too much bloodshed.
76	* PoorCommunicationKills: As in war, failure to disseminate information can result in problems. For instance, not taking terrain into account when using radios in the mountains.
77	%%* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: The Wizard Team at least.
78	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Player Faramir's absence for April 2011 kicked-started the Romanian mini-campaign, where [[spoiler:Lita Garza on the wizard side]] is kidnapped.
79	%%* RecklessPacifist: Lita's turning more and more into this.
80	%%* ResignationsNotAccepted.
81	* RetCon: Several were needed to make the RP playable, from fanon adjustments via Rule Zero to the wizards' power (transfiguration in particular was toned down lest somebody summon up a chunk of antimatter); most importantly, the Death Eaters were implied to have gained an ideological foothold that the Order of the Phoenix was unable to eradicate.
82	* ShortTeensTallAdults: Played straight with Lita, who is shorter than all the commandos, Chess, Jay, Jamie, and Karla, and Charmdrummer, and Neville, and his wife...and Hermione... and the Malfoys...
83	* ShoutOut: ''Lots''. For one, Rainbow exists and occasionally interacts with Unicorn, and most if not all of the named [=NPCs=] are shout-outs to existing characters in other media (''VideoGame/RainbowSix'', ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'', ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', ''Literature/ClearAndPresentDanger'', ''Literature/RedStormRising'', ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' ...). In addition, characters, themes, and events from the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare''-verse are regularly mentioned, though CanonWelding the worlds together has been recognized as difficult if not impossible.
84	%%* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Everyone seems to think this of Lita, the youngest member of the [=PCs=].
85	%%* SpiesInAVan: Well, a whole fleet of vans, cars, and light trucks.
86	* TheSpymaster: Karla for Wizard intelligence, Ritter for the commandos. Sergey works for the Russians. Hermione fulfils this role for another department in the Ministry of Magic, while Word of GM has admitted extreme interest in Dumbledore's role as a spymaster--and [[OlderAndWiser Harry]]'s role as his protege.
87	* SuperRegistrationAct: One of the two major viewpoints on what to do with the wizards should the muggles win.
88	* ThinkHappyThoughts: When blindfolded and handcuffed in a chair. There's a reason for it: [[EmotionalPowers positive memories are required to summon a powerful Patronus]].
89	%%* ThouShaltNotKill: Lita's attitude.
90	%%* TimeSkip: Used often between the missions.
91	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: 2018 is the rough time period for the mission.
92	%%* TheUnmasquedWorld
93	%%* WeAREStrugglingTogether: When InterserviceRivalry gets particularly intense.
94	* WebcomicTime: The events in Romania, starting with an infiltration into a police station and ending with the final extraction, canonically took less than twelve hours total. But since it encompassed at least three separate action sequences (including the StormingTheCastle scene, which had to be coordinated with actual maps and a company-sized [[UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets Motor-Rifle group]]), lots of intrigue, and the crossover event to boot -- it spanned approximately five months' worth of roleplaying. Whew.
95	%%* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The Wizard Team.

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