We shouldn't metagame.

Hmm.. That's a fair argument. Should we tell them then? Neither of them were really interested in the mystery though.

Perhaps we should tell them only if they want to know.

To not talk about Justin, who is a moodblood, so... it's not like he would risk anything more than he will even if he didn't know.

It'd be very different if Justin would be targeted as yet another muggleborn as opposed to this. The amount of effort they would dedicate to his death is incomparable.
 
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My preferred outcome would actually be something like an anonymous Daily Prophet article or something. Once the story is out there, there's nothing to be done about it (Fidelius shenanigans aside).
It's probably not something the Jacob would do, at least not at this time, but still...
 
I do enjoy the depiction of Jacob's detective work and how he even tracked down how Tom Riddle was actually Voldemort.
I think we should share our findings with Megan and Justin. They're starting to really become our friends. Plus I'd like to hear Jacob explain it while they quietly freak out.

The fight was good and bloody (figuratively and literally). Jacob has always been ruthless when it comes to duels and combat but it shows his change of mindset from the beginning when it comes to real enemies and not showing them mercy. As he said, mercy and hesitation will get him killed in his adventures underground.

I only wonder if something will come of the fight. Even if the glass is fixed there's still a lot of blood in the trophy room. Blood that can probably be tracked by a competent wizard. Jacob also needs to get healed unless he wants to hide his injuries until they heal naturally. Montague will probably keep quiet. He tried to jump Jacob to regain face and now he ended up not only beaten bloody in both magic and fists, but also had his wand broken. He'd be even more humiliated then before.

If anything, it looks like Jacob now has an enemy for life.

This is great, what do they do exactly? I don't remember.
It's in the character sheet. Time Echoes add +5 to any roll and may do some other hidden stuff. I don't think we've used one yet.
 
I think we should share our insights - I mean, this is just a bit of basic above board research and it's nice to develop bonds of camadrie and mutual support with people. Would have been better if they were more involved with it but... eh.

Some things should be kept secret for various reasons. Tom's history is not one of those imo.
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Eventually, a weak Alchemy shield-item that can give a boost to the first defence roll of combat might be worthwhile, and possibly also something that can summon one's wand back to themselves. I expect[1] that most adult wizard fighters just learn do it wandlessly, but that's far off for Jacob (though if we do make these items, I'm not inclined to use them during dueling practice).

[1] Well, this is my personal worldbuilding. The original author never explored this idea in the text.

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Edit: I think if there is a concern that this will put the other two at risk, we just have to make it clear that a very evil person has went to at least moderate effort to keep this quiet, so like, they should keep this under their hats.

Dropping the investigation and not saying why, when the other two are involved looks sus, so they are likely to figure it out on their own eventually, so that's just duplicated effort and a potential cause of aggravation/resentment imo
 
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We're starting to stockpile a lot of time echoes, how about we start using it for actions that have a semi decent chance of success in the future? Or towards learning spell, alchemy or potions as a flat +5 bonus?

Mechanically a +5 bonus is worthless, excepting in situations where succeeding is critical. You need to spend a lot of them to make a difference. So I'd be happy to spend them for instance when it comes to getting a critical spell learning effect to go over the hidden mechanic DC, but other wise they should be saved for life and death moments.
 
Even though, I must say, Jacob is making a lot of leaps in his logic about Riddle being Voldemort. What if Riddle went away to Tibet and is an enlightened monk, meditating all day? Or a shaman in a far away African country? Or one of Voldemort's victims? There are many ways a wizard this bright might dissapear from paperwork.
Not too much of a leap when you figure that those who can speak with snakes are extremely rare, Voldemort is a parseltongue, the Chamber was openend when Riddle was in school, Riddle framed a student and is connected to Slytherin who is also a parseltongue.

Anyways great chapter and Jacob was right to break the wand. Really vicious in the fight, but he had tried to first end it with Expelliarmus. Montague might tattle and it can become a thing, but there are pensive and veritaserums to verify the turn of events if necessary.

I think we should share the knowledge. It's more interesting than not sharing it.
 
Mechanically a +5 bonus is worthless, excepting in situations where succeeding is critical. You need to spend a lot of them to make a difference. So I'd be happy to spend them for instance when it comes to getting a critical spell learning effect to go over the hidden mechanic DC, but other wise they should be saved for life and death moments.
So like, learn spell A, if hidden mechanics unlock from crit roll, use time echo? As for life and death moments, I'm gonna assume its rather sudden like what just occurred now with Montague, or with the dementors last year, so there wouldn't be any time to vote in the time echoes, so how would that work?
 
but I am pretty sure we are getting a couple months of detention, if only because even if ge attacked us first he has ended up seriously hurt out of this.
That depends on Montague though, he might not want to advertise exactly what happened, since I imagine getting your wand snapped, beaten in a duel where he jumped on someobe and then stooping to fight like a muggle would not be a good look. I guess it depends on how he'd explain it to the teachers and our own explanation of what happened if it came to it.
 
So like, learn spell A, if hidden mechanics unlock from crit roll, use time echo? As for life and death moments, I'm gonna assume its rather sudden like what just occurred now with Montague, or with the dementors last year, so there wouldn't be any time to vote in the time echoes, so how would that work?

We had the chance to use time echoes with that because we were voting on a choice (dementor), but I'd be more than happy to just subordinate time echoes to the GM. We're never going to get a chance to vote on using them in a meaningful way or in any kind of informed capacity if they are used in a turn update as they only apply to one roll iirc.
 
We shouldn't metagame. Also, I really doubt that would happen.
I don't think it is metagaming to believe that the secret identity of the Dark Lord would be incredibly sensitive information. Even if we don't know that he is still 'alive', he still has his sympathizers. Voldemort officially died 20 years ago and had a very large base of supporters, not all of whom were convicted; most people are still afraid to say his name despite him being recognized as very dead.

Ideologies take a long time to die, if they ever do, and wizard years are much shorter than muggle years.
 
That was a great chapter. The thought process of Jacob when he concluded that Riddle is Voldemort was well explained.

I say we don't tell the puffs. This is dangerous information. No need to put them at unnecessary risk.
 
I don't think it is metagaming to believe that the secret identity of the Dark Lord would be incredibly sensitive information. Even if we don't know that he is still 'alive', he still has his sympathizers.
It is a stretch to think that, we are a thirteen year old telling our only friends of a mystery we unravelled. I don't think this would be a big concern on Jacob's mind. I can see Jacob not telling them, but not for this reason.
Voldemort officially died 20 years ago and had a very large base of supporters,
I doubt that actually, the Wizarding world is not as small as it seems, and the pool of people that actively support him is quite limited. Magic makes asymmetric warfare more dangerous than IRL.
most people are still afraid to say his name despite him being recognized as very dead.
We aren't though, because our family isn't British and we weren't alive during his age of terror. And we are quite limited in our social interactions, so Jacob probably wouldn't think of this very hard.
 
A great fight scene with a lot of callbacks to fight against the shit fae, which fits well with all the dark magic theme of today's update.
Love the creative use of utility spell with environmental control.

For a moment I was cheering for Montague, trying to win without his magic. But alas it was probably Montague's first punch and Jacob already had his in a life or death situation.
Even though the wand breaking is more divesting for Montague, the Reparo moment felt a lot more brutal. And this brutality makes sense considering the dark book, the Perenelle's vote, and especially the bucketful of war memories from Basques.

Considering the level of physical harm kids in the wizarding world simply bounce off, and since Montague wouldn't want to announce this fight (he didn't even bring friends as specters) if we get into troubles it will be because of the mess we made, which will be difficult to connect to us. Montague probably goes to Madam Pomfrey for discreet healing and asks one of his friends to cast Reparo on the wand as a temporary solution after giving a lame excuse (my wand got tangled with Whomping Willow).

Always assumed the reason people didn't admit the connection between Tom, the Gaunts, and Voldemort is a mix of denial and nerfing the information service (I think Rowling said that this is the reason the librarian is so unpleasant?). So it makes sense that someone without said bias and high-level library skills like Jacob will manage.
 
Is this even possible? Ron had to suffer through his second year with a broken, stitched-together wand, as far as I remember.
I don't think so, maybe you can repair it at the wand store though? Or you could just buy another one, though it'd probably be less suitable to you than your old one of course.
 
For the short term maybe but fear leads to hate and hate leads to the dark side.
Well, seeing how powerful are we becoming, and how much powerful we will become in the next years, I doubt that once he decides to go for it again he will be much of a threat.
Is this even possible? Ron had to suffer through his second year with a broken, stitched-together wand, as far as I remember.
You can do it, and it will make both halfs to join together.

But besides that, the wand would still be broken... When Harry tries to use his wand patched by Reparo it broke again almost instantly
 
Well, seeing how powerful are we becoming, and how much powerful we will become in the next years, I doubt that once he decides to go for it again he will be much of a threat.

You can do it, and it will make both halfs to join together.

But besides that, the wand would still be broken... When Harry tries to use his wand patched by Reparo it broke again almost instantly
You are approaching it rationally which humans are not. I believe these will keep happening till he is dead. Beating him is directly against Montage self image and personal belief if the world. I do not like to invoke real world examples b it there is a lot.
 
You are approaching it rationally which humans are not. I believe these will keep happening till he is dead. Beating him is directly against Montage self image and personal belief if the world. I do not like to invoke real world examples b it there is a lot.
I tend to believe that most people respond to Operant conditioning... I mean if every time that he tries to pick a fight with Jacob he ends up beaten to an inch of its life, he will eventually learn to avoid picking fights with Jacob.

Besides that, fear it is an extremely powerful emotion capable of overwhelm and nullify almost any other emotion... And if Montague has an IQ of 2 digits he is now rightfully terrified of Jacob.
 
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