Jack of Olives
Rolled a '3' on their Con score
- Location
- The land of fruits and nuts (California)
It's certainly a plan.
Let's Jump to It! [Jumpchain Quest]
- Thread starter Jack of Olives
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- Lexington
All right then I guess I'll call it
[X] Plan Discord(Use invisibility spell to sneak into the Syltherin common room at night to steal homework from other Slytherins and place them in Draco's things, find the students who are hired by Draco and transfigure the money into needles/matchsticks, and sabotage Malfoy's wand, and make sure to use extreme caution when going forward to avoid unpleasant confrontations.)
...I admit I'm not sure how the Discord plan is supposed to stop Draco from bothering Hermione. Do you threaten him afterward with more punishment? Or is just to punish him without stopping him?
[X] Try to reach an understanding between them. (Diplomancy, ho!)
-[X] Plan Better Living Through Mindrape (Talk to Draco and use Legilimency to try to get an idea as to how scared of you he is and whether he can be threatened or preferably bribed into dropping his vendetta against Hermione. Anything that hurts or humiliates Hermione is off the table, but maybe he can be placated with a new potion recipe or mundane toy of some kind).
[X] Try to reach an understanding between them. (Diplomancy, ho!)
-[X] Plan Better Living Through Mindrape (Talk to Draco and use Legilimency to try to get an idea as to how scared of you he is and whether he can be threatened or preferably bribed into dropping his vendetta against Hermione. Anything that hurts or humiliates Hermione is off the table, but maybe he can be placated with a new potion recipe or mundane toy of some kind).
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- Location
- Somewhere
Is there any reason we can't do both the stick and the carrot?
[X] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
- Location
- Somewhere
[X] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
codeRR
dual hero
- Location
- Where am I?
[X] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
Ultramandalore
Errant Quester
- Location
- just south of Parts Unknown
[X] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
[X] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[X] Devise a tracking charm keyed to Malfoy, make use of it to notice and humiliate him whenever he goes for either of you. If he's acting like an animal you'd train him like one, to dread the thought of trying to mess with you.
Pavlovian training!
-[X] Devise a tracking charm keyed to Malfoy, make use of it to notice and humiliate him whenever he goes for either of you. If he's acting like an animal you'd train him like one, to dread the thought of trying to mess with you.
Pavlovian training!
- Location
- Lexington
Well what I was thinking is that if Draco was caught (badly) trying to "steal" his classmates notes, his reputation would significantly plummet in the eyes of his fellow slytherins, sot they'd be less likely to help him with future requests, and potentially alert their families so they could keep Draco's pathetic attempt of "treachery" in mind, possibly word it in a way to slight his father. Meanwhile I thought that if we messed with his hired thugs they'd think Draco was cheating them, especially if they "found" evidence of all their earnings being fake they'd refuse to work with Draco, which would cost him his hired help. And if he attempted to hex Hermione but had it backfire on him so badly to the point where the whole school knows how much of a screw-up he is, he'd spend most of his time trying to regain his reputation, and maybe mentally scar him as well for extra measure, Add in a couple of threatening anonymous notes, maybe even mess with him a bit more.
[X] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
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- Location
- Somewhere
Remember: our invisibility is *more easily disrupted* than HP. What discord is planning might just lead to us shooting ourselves in the foot by becoming visible at the worst possible moment.
Jack of Olives
Rolled a '3' on their Con score
- Location
- The land of fruits and nuts (California)
VOTING IS NOW CLOSED.
The results are:
The results are:
- [X] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[X] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[X] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
Number of voters: 5
Reinholdt, Michael Lewis, codeRR, Ultramandalore, Jrin - [X] Plan Discord(Use invisibility spell to sneak into the Syltherin common room at night to steal homework from other Slytherins and place them in Draco's things, find the students who are hired by Draco and transfigure the money into needles/matchsticks, and sabotage Malfoy's wand, and make sure to use extreme caution when going forward to avoid unpleasant confrontations.)
Number of voters: 1
RedAlert - [X] Try to reach an understanding between them. (Diplomancy, ho!)
-[X] Plan Better Living Through Mindrape (Talk to Draco and use Legilimency to try to get an idea as to how scared of you he is and whether he can be threatened or preferably bribed into dropping his vendetta against Hermione. Anything that hurts or humiliates Hermione is off the table, but maybe he can be placated with a new potion recipe or mundane toy of some kind).
Number of voters: 1
drake_azathoth - [X] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[X] Devise a tracking charm keyed to Malfoy, make use of it to notice and humiliate him whenever he goes for either of you. If he's acting like an animal you'd train him like one, to dread the thought of trying to mess with you.
Number of voters: 1
veekie
Harry Potter 7
Jack of Olives
Rolled a '3' on their Con score
- Location
- The land of fruits and nuts (California)
[] Counter-harass Malfoy. (This means war!)
-[] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
Honestly, it wasn't even remotely fair. Not only do you have the knowledge of another world's magic system, but you have the ability to cast those spells both nonverbaly and without your wand.
At first you keep your retribution relatively mild. A mild electrical shock when Draco was making a move to sabatoge her potions (coming from the direction of his housemates, of course), his belt mysteriously coming loose when he draws his wand to hex her, attempts from him and his minions to spread rumors being overheard by teachers due to talking much louder than they realized. Unfortunately, it seems that a few (dozen) weren't enough to dissuade the young Malfoy.
Whether through a lack of pattern recognition or sheer bull-headed stubbornness, you end up having to step up your game. Accidentally destroying his own homework and turning in Hermione's in Transfiguration (a fairly simple illusion), A new ghost haunting his little group when they're attempting to plan mischief (you may or may not have pulled a bit from slenderman), things like that.
Until today, that is.
---^^^---
It's only a week before Winter Break, and you're sitting in History of Magic with the Slytherins. You turn your head after catching movement to find a certain blond has pulled a snake out of his bag. You watch as he taps it's head with his wand, causing it to start wriggling around, before banishing it in Hermione's direction.
Acting on instinct, you point your hand under your desk and silently summon the snake right back into his face.
His reaction is pretty much what you'd expect; Malfoy shrieks and leaps out of his chair in a panic, before throwing the snake into the air.
This unfortunately causes the panic to spread as several students try to dive out of the way, causing a few desks to tip over as the snake bangs into the side of a chair before landing on the ground.
"What's all the commotion over there? Mr. Malfoy, just what is going on?" Binns finally responds, having missed the whole ordeal.
The snake, which is currently panicking do to everything that's happened (and looks to be bleeding from it's crash) is looking around wildly. You react before anyone else has a chance to and move over to the snake and scoop it up carefully.
/Calm down little one./ You say in a soothing tone as you gently stroke the scared animal while keeping a firm grip with your other hand on it's neck. While you doubt he got his hands on anything poisonous, there's no sense in taking chances. /You're safe now./
"Bloody hell!"
"She's a parseltongue!"
"The prophecy is true!"
You inwardly flinch as you realize what you've just done, but manage to show no outward signs through occlumency and force of will. "Honestly Malfoy, what were you thinking? You hurt this poor girl." It sounds like a girl, anyway; it's not all that coherent right now. /It's okay, it's okay./ You try to assure the poor thing, before a plan for damage-control strikes you.
"Professor?" You call, turning the 'concerned little girl' act up a notch. "May I be excused? I don't know what Malfoy's been doing to this poor snake, but she's injured and looks like she hasn't been fed in weeks."
"Yes, yes. Probably best if you took it to Professor Kettleburn. I'll have one of your classmates collect your homework assignment." The ghostly professor responds
"Thank you Professor." You respond before quickly grabbing your bag and walking out the door.
You can still hear the whispers as you walk out the door.
---^^^--
The bell rings on your way down to the main floor of the castle. Thankfully, you keep your coat and a set of cold-weather clothes in your bag, due to not wanting to have to go all the way back to the Ravenclaw Tower to get them. As you're putting on your winter gear (not an easy trick while keeping an injured snake from escaping, even with the calming spell you'd put on it), you hear a familiar voice speak up from behind you.
"Bloody hell!"
"Language, Mr. Weasley." You respond almost on instinct. As you turn to see the redhead and Mr. Potter dressed in their own wintertime-gear.
"Is that a snake?!"
"Five points to Griffindor for your excellent deduction." You say dryly. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get this poor thing to Professor Kettleburn."
"What happened?" Potter asks as he moves to open the door for you.
"Mr. Malfoy and his tomfoolery happened." You answer with a sigh. Carefully keeping the snake under your coat (and subtly casting a small warming spell on it), you step out into the cold December air. The two of them follow.
"What's he done now?" Weasley asks with a disgusted noise.
"In his continuing attempts to harass my friend, he somehow procured this poor thing and tried to banish it into her. He failed, and not only made a fool of himself, but injured the poor snake in the process."
"Sounds like Malfoy, alright."
"I hold out hope that one day he'll either grow up or rid us of himself due to his own childish incompetence." You decide to change the subject. "What brings the two of you out here?"
"We were about to pay a visit to Hagrid." Potter speaks up again. "He's a friend." You nod. You haven't had much interaction with the half-giant (you assume, anyway) but he seems to be a good enough person.
The three of you finally reach the the CoMC classroom (which appears to have been expanded from the castle stables), where Professor Kettleburn is currently feeding what appears to be an aquarium full of snails.
"Professor?"
The man turns around his prosthetic hand still in the aquarium. "Hm? First years? What can I do for you?"
"I'm afraid we have a patient for you." You say as you carefully pull said patient out of your coat. /There's no need to worry./ You studiously ignore the gasp that Weasley makes. /This man is just going to take a look at you, and hopefully heal your injury./
/I'll try, but he better be gentle./ She answers back.
"I say, that's a most extraordinary talent there, Miss Majere." The professor says, shooting you a look before moving his wand to check up on the snake. "Perhaps you'd be willing to assist me in some of my classes?"
"Talent, Professor?" Potter asks, his head cocked to one side, as if confused.
"She's a Parseltongue, mate; she can speak to snakes." The redhead seems a bit mollified by the professor's acceptance, but is still looking at you like you're the snake in the room.
"Is that what it's called? I thought that it was normal." This earns him sharp looks from all three of you. "Did I say something wrong?"
Explain to him about the stigma around parseltongues?
[] Sure. It'd probably be best to hear it from another parseltongue.
[] Ask Professor Kettleburn to explain it. He sounds like he has a unique take on the subect.
[] Let Weasley do it. Might as well rip the proverbial bandage off now.
Voting will begin . Feel free to discuss your options until then.
GM's note: I'd planned skipping ahead again, but then that botch happened and things snowballed.
-[] Plan Unknowable Retribution.
--[] For every act Draco instigates against Hermione, exploit our knowledge of another Universes magics to bring a similar level of discomfort or inconvenience to him shortly after. While he may not conciously have any pattern recognition, Pavlov will prevail eventually!
Rolls: 21(1d100)+30(Wits/Intelligence)+60(home-magic)=111(Crit!)+1(1d100; Botch!)=112(Success);
Malfoy's Rolls: 19(1d100)+10(Wits)+15(Social)+15(cohorts)=59(Failure)
Botch Type: Social (3 rolled)
Botch Mitigation: 48(1d100)+15(manipulation)=63(Minor Success); Req: 50/100/150
GM Evilness: 84
Luck Roll: 91(1d100)
Malfoy's Rolls: 19(1d100)+10(Wits)+15(Social)+15(cohorts)=59(Failure)
Botch Type: Social (3 rolled)
Botch Mitigation: 48(1d100)+15(manipulation)=63(Minor Success); Req: 50/100/150
GM Evilness: 84
Luck Roll: 91(1d100)
At first you keep your retribution relatively mild. A mild electrical shock when Draco was making a move to sabatoge her potions (coming from the direction of his housemates, of course), his belt mysteriously coming loose when he draws his wand to hex her, attempts from him and his minions to spread rumors being overheard by teachers due to talking much louder than they realized. Unfortunately, it seems that a few (dozen) weren't enough to dissuade the young Malfoy.
Whether through a lack of pattern recognition or sheer bull-headed stubbornness, you end up having to step up your game. Accidentally destroying his own homework and turning in Hermione's in Transfiguration (a fairly simple illusion), A new ghost haunting his little group when they're attempting to plan mischief (you may or may not have pulled a bit from slenderman), things like that.
Until today, that is.
---^^^---
It's only a week before Winter Break, and you're sitting in History of Magic with the Slytherins. You turn your head after catching movement to find a certain blond has pulled a snake out of his bag. You watch as he taps it's head with his wand, causing it to start wriggling around, before banishing it in Hermione's direction.
Acting on instinct, you point your hand under your desk and silently summon the snake right back into his face.
His reaction is pretty much what you'd expect; Malfoy shrieks and leaps out of his chair in a panic, before throwing the snake into the air.
This unfortunately causes the panic to spread as several students try to dive out of the way, causing a few desks to tip over as the snake bangs into the side of a chair before landing on the ground.
"What's all the commotion over there? Mr. Malfoy, just what is going on?" Binns finally responds, having missed the whole ordeal.
The snake, which is currently panicking do to everything that's happened (and looks to be bleeding from it's crash) is looking around wildly. You react before anyone else has a chance to and move over to the snake and scoop it up carefully.
/Calm down little one./ You say in a soothing tone as you gently stroke the scared animal while keeping a firm grip with your other hand on it's neck. While you doubt he got his hands on anything poisonous, there's no sense in taking chances. /You're safe now./
"Bloody hell!"
"She's a parseltongue!"
"The prophecy is true!"
You inwardly flinch as you realize what you've just done, but manage to show no outward signs through occlumency and force of will. "Honestly Malfoy, what were you thinking? You hurt this poor girl." It sounds like a girl, anyway; it's not all that coherent right now. /It's okay, it's okay./ You try to assure the poor thing, before a plan for damage-control strikes you.
"Professor?" You call, turning the 'concerned little girl' act up a notch. "May I be excused? I don't know what Malfoy's been doing to this poor snake, but she's injured and looks like she hasn't been fed in weeks."
"Yes, yes. Probably best if you took it to Professor Kettleburn. I'll have one of your classmates collect your homework assignment." The ghostly professor responds
"Thank you Professor." You respond before quickly grabbing your bag and walking out the door.
You can still hear the whispers as you walk out the door.
---^^^--
The bell rings on your way down to the main floor of the castle. Thankfully, you keep your coat and a set of cold-weather clothes in your bag, due to not wanting to have to go all the way back to the Ravenclaw Tower to get them. As you're putting on your winter gear (not an easy trick while keeping an injured snake from escaping, even with the calming spell you'd put on it), you hear a familiar voice speak up from behind you.
"Bloody hell!"
"Language, Mr. Weasley." You respond almost on instinct. As you turn to see the redhead and Mr. Potter dressed in their own wintertime-gear.
"Is that a snake?!"
"Five points to Griffindor for your excellent deduction." You say dryly. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get this poor thing to Professor Kettleburn."
"What happened?" Potter asks as he moves to open the door for you.
"Mr. Malfoy and his tomfoolery happened." You answer with a sigh. Carefully keeping the snake under your coat (and subtly casting a small warming spell on it), you step out into the cold December air. The two of them follow.
"What's he done now?" Weasley asks with a disgusted noise.
"In his continuing attempts to harass my friend, he somehow procured this poor thing and tried to banish it into her. He failed, and not only made a fool of himself, but injured the poor snake in the process."
"Sounds like Malfoy, alright."
"I hold out hope that one day he'll either grow up or rid us of himself due to his own childish incompetence." You decide to change the subject. "What brings the two of you out here?"
"We were about to pay a visit to Hagrid." Potter speaks up again. "He's a friend." You nod. You haven't had much interaction with the half-giant (you assume, anyway) but he seems to be a good enough person.
The three of you finally reach the the CoMC classroom (which appears to have been expanded from the castle stables), where Professor Kettleburn is currently feeding what appears to be an aquarium full of snails.
"Professor?"
The man turns around his prosthetic hand still in the aquarium. "Hm? First years? What can I do for you?"
"I'm afraid we have a patient for you." You say as you carefully pull said patient out of your coat. /There's no need to worry./ You studiously ignore the gasp that Weasley makes. /This man is just going to take a look at you, and hopefully heal your injury./
/I'll try, but he better be gentle./ She answers back.
"I say, that's a most extraordinary talent there, Miss Majere." The professor says, shooting you a look before moving his wand to check up on the snake. "Perhaps you'd be willing to assist me in some of my classes?"
"Talent, Professor?" Potter asks, his head cocked to one side, as if confused.
"She's a Parseltongue, mate; she can speak to snakes." The redhead seems a bit mollified by the professor's acceptance, but is still looking at you like you're the snake in the room.
"Is that what it's called? I thought that it was normal." This earns him sharp looks from all three of you. "Did I say something wrong?"
Explain to him about the stigma around parseltongues?
[] Sure. It'd probably be best to hear it from another parseltongue.
[] Ask Professor Kettleburn to explain it. He sounds like he has a unique take on the subect.
[] Let Weasley do it. Might as well rip the proverbial bandage off now.
Voting will begin . Feel free to discuss your options until then.
GM's note: I'd planned skipping ahead again, but then that botch happened and things snowballed.
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- Location
- India
Can we add some fictional info of good parseltongue users like Asclepius or Indian wizards, how it is deeply linked with healing, fertility and rebirth etc
Jack of Olives
Rolled a '3' on their Con score
- Location
- The land of fruits and nuts (California)
You could lie, but you haven't done any research on parseltongues, yet.
- Location
- India
Is professor biased or not?
- Location
- Somewhere
I'm leaning towards letting Kettleburn explain, because we don't actually know enough about it to say anything. Yes, he's biased, but he's the only one that actually knows about it well enough to give an explanation.
Jack of Olives
Rolled a '3' on their Con score
- Location
- The land of fruits and nuts (California)
That would be telling.
- Location
- va
[] Sure. It'd probably be best to hear it from another parseltongue.
- Location
- US
Put an X in the brackets for your vote to count, @hcvquizibo
- Location
- Somewhere
@ReaderOfFate we can't vote at the moment.
reading the comments is the best half of the time its been people voting before they can vote and it seems like the other half its people telling people they made a mistake
[X] Ask Professor Kettleburn to explain it. He sounds like he has a unique take on the subect.
[X] Ask Professor Kettleburn to explain it. He sounds like he has a unique take on the subect.
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