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A Harry Potter Quest: He who was not

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[X] Plan Case Work, Family History, and Learning New Things
 
[X] Plan Case Work, Family History, and Learning New Things

I want to point out what actually happened in every other quest on this site when we called out someone important on something at the beginning of a quest.
It never worked and we had to deal with a completely avoidable backfire.
 
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Just because there is almost definitely an afterlife does not mean said afterlife is desirable or in anyway preferable to living... if anything it just shows that, for Wizards at least, life really does find a way. Let us not be like Voldemort, who was so terrified of the unknown he would do anything to escape it, but also, let us not be like Dumbledore, who answered but the simplest of questions and was satisfied with that.
 
[X] Plan Learning and Exploring but no Meddling
-[X] Case 2: I am afraid of dying – Your first case has given you a new perspective onto things. When someone dies, how are they turned into ghosts? Are they fully here or is it only an afterimage, stuck in between both worlds. Professor Binns often calls students by the wrong names and gives the wrong houses points… but does he? There is system to the madness. (Costs 2 actions)
-[X] Stage II, A Shadow behind the Paintings(Multiple Actions on this count as multiple rolls stacking) – Most pupils go through their life at Hogwarts without ever looking beyond what they can see. You have already taken a first step in getting a better understanding of the structures surrounding you. Now you only need to dig deeper. (Find passages going out of Hogwarts.) Multiple DC thresholds to see how many you find, from low to very high. X2
-[X] Stage I, Dreams of old (Takes 2 Actions) – The book your father gave you is one without adornment as decoration, nor is there any title to find on the old leather binding. There is not one word written on the pages of the old tomb and your father gave you nothing but one clue: It has something to do with memory magic. What is this riddle about?
-[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Defence Against the Dark Arts X2
-[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Charms X2
-[X] Do your research – Reparo (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
-[X] Do your research – Diffindo
-[X] Do your research – Cheering Charm (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
Adhoc vote count started by Arthelys on Feb 8, 2019 at 2:42 AM, finished with 127 posts and 59 votes.
  • [X] Plan Case Work, Family History, and Learning New Things
    -[X] Case 2: I am afraid of dying – Your first case has given you a new perspective onto things. When someone dies, how are they turned into ghosts? Are they fully here or is it only an afterimage, stuck in between both worlds. Professor Binns often calls students by the wrong names and gives the wrong houses points… but does he? There is system to the madness. (Costs 2 actions)
    -[X] Stage I, Dreams of old (Takes 2 Actions) – The book your father gave you is one without adornment as decoration, nor is there any title to find on the old leather binding. There is not one word written on the pages of the old tomb and your father gave you nothing but one clue: It has something to do with memory magic. What is this riddle about?
    -[X]Business School of Hogsmeade (Multiple Actions on this count as multiple rolls stacking) – This is the first year, in which you can go to Hogsmeade. Good that you've been planning for this since first year: Buy Books, Ingredients, Joke Shop Articles, Instruments and other things. Go and look, if you can make some money by buying things for first and second years. Roll for how many are interested and then for how much they want to spend. Take 10% of their spending as a fee. X3
    -[X]Stage II, A Shadow behind the Paintings(Multiple Actions on this count as multiple rolls stacking) – Most pupils go through their life at Hogwarts without ever looking beyond what they can see. You have already taken a first step in getting a better understanding of the structures surrounding you. Now you only need to dig deeper. (Find passages going out of Hogwarts.) Multiple DC thresholds to see how many you find, from low to very high. X3
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Defence Against the Dark Arts
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Transfiguration
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Charms
    -[X] Do your research – Reparo (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
    -[X] Do your research – Avifors (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
    [X] Plan Doing the Mystery Justice
    -[X] Case 2: I am afraid of dying – Your first case has given you a new perspective onto things. When someone dies, how are they turned into ghosts? Are they fully here or is it only an afterimage, stuck in between both worlds. Professor Binns often calls students by the wrong names and gives the wrong houses points… but does he? There is system to the madness. (Costs 2 actions)
    -[X] Quidditch Round 1, Ravenclaw vs Gryffindor – It's time for the first game of the year and while you have a lot of things that you'd like to focus on, most of the school will be present here. Go and watch the Quidditch Game. It could be interesting and if it is not, well you will be high enough up to watch the clouds instead. Win-Win.
    -[X] Business School of Hogsmeade (Multiple Actions on this count as multiple rolls stacking) – This is the first year, in which you can go to Hogsmeade. Good that you've been planning for this since first year: Buy Books, Ingredients, Joke Shop Articles, Instruments and other things. Go and look, if you can make some money by buying things for first and second years. Roll for how many are interested and then for how much they want to spend. Take 10% of their spending as a fee. x2
    -[X] Stage I, Dreams of old (Takes 2 Actions) – The book your father gave you is one without adornment as decoration, nor is there any title to find on the old leather binding. There is not one word written on the pages of the old tomb and your father gave you nothing but one clue: It has something to do with memory magic. What is this riddle about?
    -[X] Stage II, A Shadow behind the Paintings(Multiple Actions on this count as multiple rolls stacking) – Most pupils go through their life at Hogwarts without ever looking beyond what they can see. You have already taken a first step in getting a better understanding of the structures surrounding you. Now you only need to dig deeper. (Find passages going out of Hogwarts.) Multiple DC thresholds to see how many you find, from low to very high. X2
    -[X] Write In: Clear the Air(Ravenclaw) - Megan let you realize something. Sally-Anne's disappearance would have affected many of your fellow students, and Skeeter's lies are doing them no favors if they researched the matter of their own, with deliberate deceit muddying the waters. Detail and present the mystery and the evidence you've found in the Ravenclaw common room, particularly for the students of the affected years(and of course, letting the teachers know beforehand). See if anyone can turn up additional facts relating to the case, to get more precise timelines, who were affected and how it happened.
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Defence Against the Dark Arts
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Transfiguration
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Charms
    -[X] Do your research – Reparo (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
    -[X] Do your research – Avifors (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
    -[X] Free action: Write a letter to your parents detailing the recent event.
    [X] Plan Learning and Exploring
    -[X] Case 2: I am afraid of dying – Your first case has given you a new perspective onto things. When someone dies, how are they turned into ghosts? Are they fully here or is it only an afterimage, stuck in between both worlds. Professor Binns often calls students by the wrong names and gives the wrong houses points… but does he? There is system to the madness. (Costs 2 actions)
    -[X] Stage II, A Shadow behind the Paintings(Multiple Actions on this count as multiple rolls stacking) – Most pupils go through their life at Hogwarts without ever looking beyond what they can see. You have already taken a first step in getting a better understanding of the structures surrounding you. Now you only need to dig deeper. (Find passages going out of Hogwarts.) Multiple DC thresholds to see how many you find, from low to very high. X2
    -[X] Stage I, Dreams of old (Takes 2 Actions) – The book your father gave you is one without adornment as decoration, nor is there any title to find on the old leather binding. There is not one word written on the pages of the old tomb and your father gave you nothing but one clue: It has something to do with memory magic. What is this riddle about?
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Defence Against the Dark Arts X2
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Charms X2
    -[X] Do your research – Reparo (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
    -[X] Do your research – Diffindo
    -[X] Do your research – Cheering Charm (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
    -[X] Write a Letter (free action) – Anonymously write to another reporter and inform them about Rita Skeeter's lies about knowing Sally Anne
    [X] Plan Learning and Exploring but no Meddling
    -[X] Case 2: I am afraid of dying – Your first case has given you a new perspective onto things. When someone dies, how are they turned into ghosts? Are they fully here or is it only an afterimage, stuck in between both worlds. Professor Binns often calls students by the wrong names and gives the wrong houses points… but does he? There is system to the madness. (Costs 2 actions)
    -[X] Stage II, A Shadow behind the Paintings(Multiple Actions on this count as multiple rolls stacking) – Most pupils go through their life at Hogwarts without ever looking beyond what they can see. You have already taken a first step in getting a better understanding of the structures surrounding you. Now you only need to dig deeper. (Find passages going out of Hogwarts.) Multiple DC thresholds to see how many you find, from low to very high. X2
    -[X] Stage I, Dreams of old (Takes 2 Actions) – The book your father gave you is one without adornment as decoration, nor is there any title to find on the old leather binding. There is not one word written on the pages of the old tomb and your father gave you nothing but one clue: It has something to do with memory magic. What is this riddle about?
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Defence Against the Dark Arts X2
    -[X] Train, Learn, Achieve – Charms X2
    -[X] Do your research – Reparo (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
    -[X] Do your research – Diffindo
    -[X] Do your research – Cheering Charm (Needed for exams at the end of the year)
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By the by, the DC of 100 does not mean we cannot go for it. It just means it might take 2 tries, we lower the DC by the amount we roll I believe.
 
JaceAoT said:
By the by, the DC of 100 does not mean we cannot go for it. It just means it might take 2 tries, we lower the DC by the amount we roll I believe.
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Correct.

You can also give a priority order for spells that you want to learn and specify how many actions you want to use. I'll roll through using the actions in that priority until a spell is learned and only then moving on to the next spell.
 
[X] Plan Case Work, Family History, and Learning New Things

I am picking for this because picking a fight with Rita is a very stupid decision.
 
Tabula Rasa said:
I am not afraid of dying – It is not that you don't fear; you are not a Gryffindor. You feel terror and experience fear just as anyone else. But you are not afraid of dying. There is no reason to be afraid of the unavoidable. You will live your life to the fullest and answer as many of the questions that linger on your mind as you can. But when it is time… you will smile and go.
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I'm fine with this. Yes, there are plenty of ways with which to subvert death as shown by Jacob's parents, ghosts, Sally-Anne, and even Voldemort, but that doesn't mean one should or has to try to flee from death. In spite of his out-of-the-box thinking and unique perspective, Jacob is at his core a simple person, a student enjoying the wonders of magic and the delight of discovering mysteries. He isn't-and doesn't need to be-a special person. He doesn't want to be a leader or an archmage, and he's not destined for some grand deeds. All he wants to do is discover magical mysteries-that is the answer he found with the closing of this first case. He will live fully for the joy and thrill of uncovering the mysteries lost in time and magic, and he will not regret it. He will live fully chasing what he loves and shall die content.

Hehe, in all honesty, it's far too of an enlightened answer for such a young child. How many of us can claim we have found our razon d'etre afterall?

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One week ago, you could have sat here, read your newspaper and would have been bothered by no one. Not a soul in the entire hall would have felt the need to talk to you or even bothered about looking your way. Sadly, that had changed dramatically. The first few days after The Incident had been quite stressful for someone like you who desperately needed his peace of mind.

Instead of your usually silent daily routines, you had been confronted with a number of reocurring inquiries; people had been pestering you with questions.

How had you known Sally-Anne's name? Why hadn't the spell worked on you? Was it true that you had dueled The Spirit side by side with Professor Flitwick? Had Sally-Anne been one of your ancestors? How had you known how to stop her?

When they realized that you wouldn't answer any of their questions, they started approaching your classmates. Only when they had realized that even those closest to you didn't know a thing, people started to whisper behind your back. Just loud enough that you could hear their every word… and just near enough that you could never escape their eyes for long.
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It's nice to see how Jacob isn't falling into the pitfall of fame and instead mourning how annoying everyone pestering him is. He sought out Sally-Anne because he was curious not because he wanted the fame. If anyone wants to know what happened, well, the pieces are already there. He solved it, so they can too. Also, his mute impression is getting better with how he refuses to even talk to anyone. Really need to learn how to do wordless spells to fully sell the act.

In contrast to Jacob however, we've got the attention-hungry Rita...

Yeah, Rita's trash. Distorting the truth for her own benefit, making herself look tragic and pitiful, is despicable. No reason not to oust the fraud. The letter is going to be anonymous, and I highly doubt the QM is going to bend that around to have it bite us in the butt later.

Besides, Jacob just accepted he's not going to fear death anymore. Why should he fear gossiping libel-if there is any-from a middle-age fraud?

Tabula Rasa said:
And there may lay the exact problem; he was making the Ministry look incompetent.
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Being able to see "underneath the underneath" is a great thing indeed.

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"I just wanted to thank you."

Her words made you stop in your tracks and look up again. Megan had abandoned the aggressive facade she had been showing you just a minute prior. Her eyes were focused on the wall behind you instead, as if she didn't know where to look at instead.

"I wanted to say thank you, because before this I've felt empty at times", she said. "Alone and as if I didn't belong… and I never knew why that was. It was as if something was missing… as if I had forgotten something."

You let your eyes focus on the stairs below. There was no reason for you to watch as tears were building up in her eyes.

"But now I remember why that is. I finally remember my first few months at the Castle. I…" she said, before raising her hands to her face to rub her eyes. "I had forgotten about my friend and you brought the memories back. That's why I wanted to thank you."

You didn't know how to answer that. You knew that there was more to her words than just what she had said. There was more to her hurt than just having forgotten something. But you didn't ask. Because in the end, you knew that this was the way she'd wanted to deal with.

"Jacob", you said, as you stood up to offer her to go down the stairs first.

"What?", she asked, looking at you with red puffy eyes.

"It's Jacob. Not Basques."
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This is a touching and important moment for Jacob. The entire chapter has been Jacob being the cold and detached detective bemoaning all the new attention; however, it is here, he sees the first sign of genuine appreciation. He's starting to realize that there's more to mysteries than just the joy of solving them; answering them can also help people. Megan was unknowingly bereaved of her friend and stuck in a melancholic limbo without really knowing why. Jacob saved her from that. By shining the light on the disappearance of Sally-Anne, he also showed her the light, letting her grieve and move on.

[X] Plan Learning and Exploring
 
Ok how is a annoynous letter going to get published? Or taken serious by a news paper? Or a reporter of any worth? Media sources get crackpots always sending them stuff. There is no reason anyone takes a annoymous letter serious.
 
Blonddude42 said:
Pretty sure this is the quidditch game that Dementors ruin, but I'm also pretty sure that nothing important for us happens during it.

Really, nothing important happens during them for normal people. And it's perfectly understandable for a Ravenclaw to not go to them
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Sirius shows up in Animagus form FYI.
Nurgle said:
Ok how is a annoynous letter going to get published? Or taken serious by a news paper? Or a reporter of any worth? Media sources get crackpots always sending them stuff. There is no reason anyone takes a annoymous letter serious.
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Quibbler and a list of dates might work.

Otherwise...yeah

E:plan in a bit. Holidays are hard
 
Nurgle said:
Ok how is a annoynous letter going to get published? Or taken serious by a news paper? Or a reporter of any worth? Media sources get crackpots always sending them stuff. There is no reason anyone takes a annoymous letter serious.
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Rita is bound to have made a lot of enemies, with her being...well...herself.
It wouldnt be a letter that just says she's lying but a letter that explains something about Sally-Ann that contradicts Rita's article. If her pattern could be discerned through investigation by a Hogwarts students then a profesional reporter could certainly manage as well.
So just spreading that she's wrong would definitely get someone calling her out on it, for the sake of reputation or revenge.
 
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