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Harry Potter and the Scabbard of Excalibur [AU]

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Nobody134 said:
Ah I see.

I'm unsure if we should try to learn the Patronus charm right now instead of trying to increase our Gnosis amount and then just dump all of it into the Patronus charm (or something else)
In any case, I think that you should specify that we approach Sirius with the Patronus charm, since he was with us at the store when we did it so he would know what we are talking about and might even agree to help us right away.
It seems like a bit of a waste of time to research the charm only to end up going to Sirius in the end regardless and having him explain the same to us.

I would also suggest altering your socialization action into something like "Spend time with the Hufflepuff inner circle - Consult Geist on the viability of sharing Baruffio's Brain Elixir with the Apothecary division, work with the Engineering and socialize with your fellow Hufflepuffs"

I think that this is better than your suggestion, and having someone brew brain potion for us each turn would be great.
Plus, we've been recruited to engineering, so I think that investing some effort into it is overdue by now.
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Adjusted with the suggestions. Any other improvements to the plan are appreciated, I kinda just threw it together cause I didn't wanna spend gnosis.
 
[X] Plan: Learning to thrift with Sirius (the star)
-[X] prepare for Astronomy OWLs
-[X] Homework
-[X] Develop the hogwarts rats into a spy network, bribing them with all the cheese you can muster. Have them inform you of any suspicious comings and goings, basically anything noteworthy.
-[X] Socialize more with the Hufflepuff inner circle. Consult Geist about sharing Baruffio's Brain Elixir with the Hufflepuff Apothecary division. Work with the Engineers and spend time socializing with the inner circle.
 
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I want to point out that right now we have a unique opportunity to declare ourselves as an unsurpassed genius, which happens once in a generation.
This will significantly increase our reputation, which is important, because without reinforcement, it will begin to be forgotten. But more importantly, it will open up a lot of roads in the future. For example, it will make us more desirable students for great wizards, such as Dumbledore or Flamel, if the fourth Trismegistus is alchemy.
 
I'd like to remind people that Mastery of Runes lets us create and activate runes without touching them in addition to all the other prospects it presumably unlocks.

From Discord:
It's difficult to get permanent enhancements from runes, but not impossible.
A human body is a complex thing, there's a lot of states where it 'fails' and only a few states where it's 'operational.' Most runes that operate on or form complex systems require an equal level of complex knowledge, and making mistakes can be catastrophic.
It'd be easier to scar yourself/give yourself runic tattoos than make a pendant that gives its wearer special abilities.
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Q from Discord: Can functional ancient runes be produced without touching them directly via Diffindo shenanigans?
A from Discord: Yes, if you have Mastery of Ancient Runes

We'd probably have to do this part with Gouging charms or another spell though due to lack of Trismegistus(Diffindo). We also have a wits enhancer in the form of self-legilimency(Enterprise). My point is we lay a lot of framework for using Runes in combat time if we take this.

However, the boring practice of staring into his own, green irises yielded incredible results within an extraordinarily very short time. As he practiced in front of the mirror every morning and evening, fifteen minutes per session, Harry noticed a slow but keen rise in his own clarity of thought and mental self-control, his cognitive function brightening with every session until the compounding effects were substantial enough that, with momentary focus, Harry was able to accelerate his own thinking to such a furious pace the rest of the world seemed to be subtly slowed down. He started to enter this state in class, as an experiment and found people's words almost droning on, and syllables dragging out as if drawled; his vision a little grayer and darker, but with incredible reaction times to compensate.
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Edit: Deleted old vote
 
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Kufufu said:
[X] Plan: Learning to thrift with Sirius (the star)
-[X] prepare for Astronomy OWLs
-[X] Homework
-[X] Develop the hogwarts rats into a spy network, bribing them with all the cheese you can muster. Have them inform you of any suspicious comings and goings, basically anything noteworthy.
-[X] Socialize more with the Hufflepuff inner circle. Consult Geist about sharing Baruffio's Brain Elixir with the Hufflepuff Apothecary division. Work with the Engineers and spend time socializing with the inner circle.
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Maybe you should add the use of a learning potion to this plan? Since the plan does not use gnosis, this will help increase the chances of successful training by the deadline.
 
I'm amending my plan slightly. There's probably interesting opportunities to be found from leveraging Ancient Runes Mastery in the service of the Hufflepuff Inner Circle.

[x]Plan Runes
-[X]Write-in(Prepare for Ancient Runes OWLS)
-[X]Eternal [Ancient Runes] Mastery [32 Gnosis]
-[X]Socialize(Sirius Black)
-[x]Experimentation(Focus Gouging Charm and Rune Creation)
-[x]Socialize more with the Hufflepuff inner circle. Consult Geist about sharing Baruffio's Brain Elixir with the Hufflepuff Apothecary division. Work with the Engineers and spend time socializing with the inner circle.
 
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Is the optional electives still a choice available, as it may be wise to have a look there given it may have broadly useful knowledge that aren't specifically relevant to the curriculum.
 
[X] Plan: Learning to thrift with Sirius (the star)

Let's please spend Gnosis on something that unlocks after a victory or unique interaction, and not something we can access every other turn. We're so close to 50 gnosis I can taste it.
 
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_brightwing said:
[X] Plan: Learning to thrift with Sirius (the star)

Let's please spend Gnosis on something that unlocks after a victory or unique interaction, and not something we can access every other turn. We're so close to 50 gnosis I can taste it.
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This is the vote for March and April. Convocation is presumably in June. We need all the power we can get.

Source: Ctrl+F June in this article. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
 
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Holy shit we are actually super close to finishing the school year and we've barely even atarted cracking through this year's plot.

Need to start working on it ASAP
 
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Here's the Not A Dementor's Appearance and lines from All in Plain Sight for the thread to review/discuss

In the center of the room, away from any furniture, floated a dark-cloaked figure with baleful nonexistent eyes. Its darkness permeated and filled the room like a choking miasma, the bottom of its robe scraping against the furniture like tendrils, and growing up the walls much like vines, made of tenebrous cord, with a glossiness to their surface that seemed to both reflect and absorb the moonlight. Harry froze in his bed, under covers, unable to move or tear his eyes away. On his forehead, the scar began to ache; at first, with a dull sensation like a pain in the knee, and then with stabs of brutalizing sharpness and brilliant, flaring energy. He grit his teeth but didn't dare hiss.


It spoke, in a voice that wasn't a voice. It was the most terrifying thing Harry ever perceived with any of his senses; a voice like eternal night, that fell and clasped the world, never to let go.


I... I REMEMBER THIS.


Its eyes didn't exist, but fell upon him.


RULER OF HOMELANDS; A LORD OF VESSELS. A LORD OF VESSELS? WHAT. NO...


Harry shivered in his bed, a cold tear running down his eye. His mouth opened, but he couldn't bring himself to ask a question.


HARRY... POTTER. I AM NOT THE DEATH'S VOICE, MAKE NO SPEAR OF TERROR IN YOUR HANDS, AND IN NEITHER SENSE. ALL THAT IS EASILY FOOLED AND CUDDLY DANCES IN ITS RIGHT PLACE AND REMAINS AS CRYSTALS, BUT THERE ARE CHILDREN STILL LIVING WHO KNOW OF THIS HOLE DUG INTO THE WELL OF THE ROOTS. UNFORTUNATE BUT NECESSARY. DECIPHER MY RUNES, FOR THEY ARE YOUR ENTIRE WORLD BETWEEN NOW AND FOREVER.


It wasn't the same ghost as the one that haunted the Dursleys. It was something different, something else.


...A PEERLESS ONE ROSE FROM ASHES OF BRONZE AND LIGHTNING, THE WORLD-CARRIER'S VILE PROGENY FROM HIS LAND, WHO CARRIED THE SKY ON BRANCHES OF ARBOUR. HIS WILL MAKES AND UNMAKES EVERYTHING IN YOUR WORLD, BETWEEN NOW AND FOREVER, BUT NOT FOREVER. AERMORA MEANS "TREE," DO YOU ACKNOWLEDGE? THE GODDESS EATS THE CITY UNDER THE SEA AND THE PROGENY BREEDS, AND THE UNFORGIVEN PROGENY BECOMES ONLY FOR CUDDLING AND SUCH THINGS. THE VISIONS ABIDE AND PASS AS THE CIRCLES MAKE. ALL IS COMING TO PASS AS THE ANCIENTS PREDICTED. THEY DANCED IN THE DARKNESS. YOU ARE GOING TO HATCH SOON.


As the figure spoke, Harry found that he couldn't breathe, and happy thoughts drained away from him rapidly, leaving his mind almost like the breath leaving behind his lungs. A thin layer of frost covered every single object in the room, and rime started to build up on Harry's glasses on the bedside; a visible lattice of white verglas that spread in fractal patterns. Somehow, Des was sleeping through all of this, lying in his cage and none the wiser to the entity now haunting their bedroom. It kept floating there, a shadow in reality; it didn't exist, and couldn't exist, not even in the same way as the usual ghost at Hogwarts. It was something completely different and unnatural.


A thing deep in Harry's chest - maybe his heart, or maybe some magical core - felt unutterably cold, as if completely frozen.


...YOU WILL DISAPPEAR AT CONVOCATION IF YOU DO NOT ACT. IF YOU DO NOT HATCH, YOU HAVE A CIRCLE AT MOST. TRUST THE GUARDIANS, DO NOT TRUST THE ANCIENTS.


It paused. As if to think.


YOU WILL FORGET THIS NIGHT, BUT YOUR SOUL REMEMBERS, AND PERSISTS IN ERROR. SEEK ME AGAIN. I HAVE MORE ANSWERS. BUT FOR TONIGHT, LIVE. I AM STANDING BEHIND YOU NOW.


After that, Harry went to sleep and never had a nightmare again.
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[x]Plan Runes
Due to the circumstances that have opened up, it is impossible to wait any longer.And runes will help us, which will allow us to unravel the runes of non-demetor.
 
_brightwing said:
You know what I mean, we had an anonymous patron that time. But it might not be repeated again I'd rather we save Gnosis to pull off 30 gnosis worth of brilliance.
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That assumes convocation will provide the tools for a 30 gnosis level power up and that we can use them with our current skills. We're like, 4/7 at best in Astrology/Ancient Runes at the moment. Level 2 at best in transfiguration. I'd rather cash out, we're getting close to the metaphorical 21 in this game of Blackjack.

Capable - Level 1
Practiced - Level 2
Proficient - Level 3
Adept- Level 4
Master - Level 5
Archmaster - Level 6
Grandmaster - Level 7
 
The idea here is to learn runes in line with the Ghost's warning without going overboard about it, do homework and group study to keep up on other subjects while improving relationships, and start building a relationship with Sirius. (Which we can parlay into asking him to teach us about the Patronus later. Also, having an adult that trusts us could be awfully useful.)

Devotion on top of Thrice Great Sovereign should make the group study ridiculously effective in particular.

[X] Plan Save and Investments
-[X] Focus Your Studies On Runes
-[X] Homework - A dedication to your studies and student duties; not only do your homework, but go an extra step and a half for every assignment, and then do some ahead-of-curriculum reading for the topics involved, simply to be prepared and ahead of the curve. You're now learning the second year curriculum.
-[X] Group Study - Organize regular group study sessions to do together with your friends from now on. Teach and learn from one another while building friendships.
-[X] Father Figure - Tell Sirius you want to do something with him regularly from now on, like at least once a week. Eat a private meal, go for a walk, practice spells, anything he'd like to do, whatever. Anything that's an excuse to talk and share what's going on in your lives. Maybe he could tell you stories about your parents? You don't know much about them. And maybe he might enjoy talk about the non-secret stuff you're working on and learning. It'd be something to get conversation going, anyway. He is an adult wizard, he'll surely have insight, too.
 
[X] Plan Save and Investments

Runes seems very expensive so that means that if we have 50% progress to mastery in astrology then we have 25% progress towards mastery in Runes or even 15%, therefore we should make progress in Runes before we make the mastery purchase
 
By the way, we only have 31.5 gnosis and Eternal Ancient Runes Mastery costs 32. Can we even select it?
 
Hypothetical Situation. The Inner Circle Engineering Department has something that needs Runic Mastery to fix or create we can leverage to get stronger.

Asmund nodded. "In-deed," he drawled heavily. "You see, I'm the project head of the HPIC-ED. The Hufflepuff Inner Circle Engineering Division. We specialize in solving the practical sort of problems. Anything from enchanted items, rune-scribed artifacts, to ancient Atlantean relics, Muggle inventions, and xenotech."
"Alien technology?" Harry's voice was skeptical to the utmost.
"You'd be surprised," Asmund said plainly.
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Edit: In short, we have access to warehouse 13/area 51/insert metaphor here, let's get good at our job so we can take full advantage of that fact.
 
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