HP January2025 Poll

And here is the HP Poll! This will be my last priority this month, and may be pushed back into February to let me finish FILFy and get it off to an editor in time.  Thus it won’t have a final date. I will just move on to it once FILFy and the winners of the Ranma and Patron polls are finished.

Magic of the Force – HP/SW crossover:  A desperate Dominus responds with alacrity to the warning given to him by Sidious, but arrives too late.  A pylon of the Veil is destroyed, causing reverberations felt across the galaxy as the future, long clouded to most of the Jedi, becomes a little clearer, and Sidious’s certainties are rocked.  As Sidious deals with the first crisis of faith he’s ever had, Dominus grabs what he can prior to taking command of the Grand Fleet pushing towards Corellia, and Harry, Aalya and many other Jedi act to take advantage of events. The reverberations of this hide another blow coming at Sidious’s long term plans directed by Komari and Quinlan, fresh off passing on information to the Jedi agents Harry and Aayla sent to meet with them.  Meanwhile, Harry and his ladies arrive on Tenaab, where Padme verbally slaps a bitch, the group run into the first of several assassination attempts, one from a surprising source.  Sidious is forced to ponder the unthinkable, as C’baoth changes plans large and small. At the same time, more information falls into the hands of the GDL, allowing them to, while still desperately defending themselves, start planning a true offensive.

Fate Touched In Middle Earth – HP/Tolkien Crossover: A scout goes sneaking while an Elf goes hunting and a wizard plots, all towards the goal of removing the Easterling Army between them and the dwarven city that is the convoy’s target. Fili and Gimli prepare their troops, as Harry communes with Manwë, conjuring up a fog. The Easterling Army is convinced to seek battle with the convoy thinking it a soft target. Harry’s magic and Fili’s plans work together to slaughter the enemy, pinning them in place for the dwarven defenders of Varni’s Folly to sally forth.  Afterward, Tauriel and Harry marvel at dwarven engineering, and news of the war alike, before Fili, Gimli and Harry talk, while Tauriel communes with first some very ancient, strange trees, and then her inner self, divining her path forward. Arguments abound, before a heavy decision is reached, splitting the two lovers for the first time since Harry returned from taking Bilbo home. Aragorn leaves Rivendell for his first ranging as Harry sets his feet east and Tauriel her own north, two to hunt the dark things hiding in Middle Earth, the other to war to aide his friend.

Bhaalson Remodel – HP/Baldur’s Gate/Gamer crossover: With Harry and his smaller band out of position, the first to see any signs of the danger closing in on Beregost is a group of the locals, Edwin and Alora. Surviving the experience, they retreat to the town, where Imoen and Viconia are having a confrontation with Vai. Without their front line fighters, Jaheira or Dynaheir severely limits the kind of tactics available to the group as the true size of the danger finally dawns on them.  Imoen takes charge as she and the other members of Harry’s party see the information gleaned by Harry and his group, after which Alora and Imoen prove that snow and tracks therein are not enough to stop traps from being devastating.  Faced with a hard choice, Harry leaves behind his fellows, racing on through the night and day to reach Beregost in time, a journey interrupted by a divine visitation. The attackers press forward despite whatever Viconia’s duplicitous mind and Imoen’s skills can devise, before Harry arrives as the true mind behind the assault reveals itself, forcing a confrontation of epic proportions.

I will say I’d have a much easier time getting Fate Touched done quickly than Magic, and it will be getting the carry over effect of 625...