Drinking game for Child of the Storm. Say goodbye to your liver!
- Take a shot every time the narration just goes on and on and getting the plot stuck.
- Take two every time this is lampshaded, either in text or an Author Note.
- Take a shot every time Harry or Carol insist that they’re Just Friends.
- Take two if it’s one of the Avengers teasing them.
- Take a shot every time Harry snuggles with someone.
- Take two if it's with Carol.
- Take a shot every time Uhtred doesn't get a metaphor or reference to Earth culture.
- Take a shot every time someone blames Tony for something.
- Two if they're blaming Howard instead of and/or as well as Tony.
- Take a shot every time Jean-Paul pulls a Sherlock Scan on someone.
- Take a shot every time Loki conjures popcorn.
- Take two if it's someone else getting/calling for popcorn.
- Take a shot every time someone complains about how ridiculous their life has become.
- Take a shot every time Alison mentions that retirement is boring.
- Take a shot every time Strange makes a cryptic remark.
- Take two every time he does something which should be impossible.
- Take three something occurs that he actually didn't plan for.
- Finish the glass when he says something completely honestly, with no obfuscation or misdirection.
- Take a shot every time someone mentions the Eyeball Incident.
- Take a shot every time the author starts getting Metaphorgotten.
- Take a shot every time Harry Potter or Dresden blows something up.
- Take a shot every time Dresden goes flying thanks to Wanda's magic, and panics.
- Take a shot every time Jack O'Neill gets upstaged by his mother.
- Take a shot every time Steve's status as The Paragon gets lampshaded.
- Take a shot every time Harry's eyes glow golden.
- Take two when his eyes glow white.
- Take a shot every time there's an action scene with the Avengers and Bruce/the Hulk isn't involved.
- In Book 1, take a shot every time someone mentions that A Storm Is Coming, or something along those lines.
- Take a shot every time someone recommends Xavier as a therapist, or he acts as a therapist to someone else.
- Take a shot every time Harry does something noble and very, very stupid.
- Take two every time that's lampshaded.
- Take a shot every time Dumbledore's eyes twinkle after having been The Gadfly.
- Take a shot every time some character is revealed to be part of a Tangled Family Tree.
- Take two every time that's lampshaded.
- Take a shot every time someone is compared to/compares themselves to an In-Universe fictional character.
- Take two if they're being compared to Buffy.
- Take a shot every time some badass shows off a Hidden Heart of Gold.
- Take a shot every time someone references/lampshades the truly ridiculous number of Harry's potential enemies.
- Take a shot every time someone points out how crazy a plan is.
- Take two if the person coming up with the plan is someone other than Harry.
- Choose just one character, and take a shot every time they act protective of a single other character.
If you have Wolverine’s Healing Factor:
- Take a shot every time a character with an Alliterative Name is introduced.
- Take a shot every time someone makes a Shout-Out or Mythology Gag (not both, unless you actually are Wolverine).
- Or if you only have Asgardian-level Healing Factor, choose just one of the following and take a shot every time they're referenced: Tolkien's Legendarium, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, William Shakespeare, or Discworld.
- Take a shot every time someone mentions the Phoenix (even with the Healing Factor, you'll probably want to skip the second half of the "Forever Red" arc, for your own safety).
- Take a shot every time someone messes with somebody else.
- Take a shot every time someone foreshadows something. That said, Healing Factor or no Healing Factor, this will most probably kill you by chapter 20.
- Take a shot every time someone turns out to have a previously unrevealed or unknown connection to another member of the cast.
- Take a shot every time the author announces that he had to cut the promised chapter in two because he wrote too much. Again.
- Choose one major character, any character, and take a shot every time they snark. Unless it's Steve or Uhtred, in which case you'll probably only get slightly buzzed, at most.
- Take a shot every time there's a Break the Cutie moment.
- Take a shot every time a (supposed) Contrived Coincidence occurs, courtesy of Doctor Strange. And then call an ambulance.
- Take a shot every time somebody monologues.
- Take two if it's about something the audience already knows about. You won't have to worry about this much by the sequel, though.
- Take a shot every time a character is protective of another character.
- Two if the one being protected is their child/descendant, either biologically or adopted.
