It's right there in the vote. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
The Power(Harry Potter/The Gamer)
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It's right there in the vote. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
Eleven-year-olds are not the most constant creatures. Showing off is not IMO beyond the realm of possibility.
As for the Twinkling One at worst we tell him the truth.
Displaying exceptionalism in wanded magics/inventing new spells doesn't even scratch the surface of what Harry's powers are. This isn't going around proclaiming "Hey, guys! I have this weird power that lets me live life like a video game character!" It's merely showing that Harry is stupid good at magic.
"Nice to see the power the Dark Lord knows not in action."
The part where we say "Don't worry, we don't need help telling who is the wrong sort because we can detect evil. Like so. [DETECT EVIL]"?
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So are we planning on casting Detect Evil every 30 seconds? Or just whenever meta knowledge tells us to?
Crazy7s1
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We could get into the habit of casting time to time after all, CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
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Why are we showing off our powers? You say "We don't need help telling who the evil people are" and leave it at that. Let me ask you this. If Halpo tells us that Scabbers isn't here, are you still voting to cast the spell?
And where pray could he be?
And to answer your question no thus proving we have both an IC and an OOC reason something that happens often in quests.
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Crazy7s1
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Yeah, why not?
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Does it matter? I'm just wondering if the vote still goes through if the meta knowledge behind it is moot.
Edited above: And to answer your question no thus proving we have both an IC and an OOC reason something that happens often in quests.
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If Pettigrew isn't there, the spell would really do nothing. Not a very impressive display of magic there
Crazy7s1
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It might detect Draco depending on it's definition of Evil. For that matter attempts by the PC can be uninspired too. i fail to see your point.
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"We have a way to detect evil creatures."
Spell does nothing.
"See? It totally works!"
Whatever. I personally don't see a good IC reason for us to start casting unknown spells the way we've built Harry up so far. If you guys can justify it, great, but this discussion is going nowhere.
So your idea is that the eleven-year-old PC can never make dumb or badly thought out decisions. Interesting view you have of children, and humanity in general, for that matter.
I, for one, welcome a Harry that's comfortable with his fame. He's going to stand out the moment he starts doing spells perfectly that he has no right knowing, years ahead of schedule.
As to if Halpo tells us Scabbers isn't there? Yes. Because we just spent a bunch of time with a paranoid auror and it's a good habit to get into. Cast detect evil upon entering a room.
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No, the way we've built Harry so far, (avoid fame and generally keep knowledge about your powers to yourself), Harry wouldn't make that particular decision here. He's allowed to make dumb decisions, but ones that fit IC.
How would the spell work anyway?
This seems to imply that it's only Harry that will see what is evil or not.
If the others don't see anything Harry can play it of as a joke.
This seems to imply that it's only Harry that will see what is evil or not.
If the others don't see anything Harry can play it of as a joke.
Could not? It was two decisions, hardly an unbreakable pattern.
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Ugh... For those who think casting "Detect Evil" is properly paranoid - Moody would be disappointed. Revealing your spell repertoire, especially an esoteric magic as what you intend to use here, without explicit need would be a grave mistake. If you want properly paranoid, keep casting that quietly as often as you want, but for the sake of all that's holy, you intend to spell out the effect to the one you are checking. It's like, you have this guided version of the killing curse and before casting it, you make sure to announce that it is guided for all to hear.
Is this inanity really going down? The metagaming alone is royally pissing me off, the excuses brought up to cover it are worse still, and if those excuses are the people's actual reasons, I'm losing what little faith in humanity I've regained today.
Is this inanity really going down? The metagaming alone is royally pissing me off, the excuses brought up to cover it are worse still, and if those excuses are the people's actual reasons, I'm losing what little faith in humanity I've regained today.
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I just took a look at the tread and I have to ask , what have you people been smoking ?
we have a good , no cost oportunity to at least avoid making Draco an active antagonist and maybe initiate a long-term redemption process that could seriously hamper Voldemorts future recruiting prospects , but aparently because of many acts he hasn't done yet and a biased perception of imcompetence (which is a bit hiprocrite whem so many people bandwogoned befriending Nevile ) most don't want to even try to talk to him in somewhat neutral terms , but that is okay , everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I could somewhat accept that.
Them you decided to blatantly use the detect evil spell
There is so much wrong with this idea that I barely know where to begin , let's see:
It's completely outside this universe magical common sense , while being a very well know dnd basic spell and also the kind of thing people would have tried to make in the past , so no matter how you look at it this will rase all kinds of flags
Alastor won't like us flaunting our secret abilities in the open for no reason whatsoever
Even if Scabbers glow evil we may not notice and will not know the true significance of the glow , which means he will probably bolt and we will never see him again
No matter how you cut it chances are Malfoy will go straigh to the "murder you in your sleep" relationship level (what with being ploclamed evil to his face and tangentialy compared to a rat in front of everyone while BWL title is active)
there a good chance people will thing we are just pranking Draco with our suppossed spell , with can have all kinds off effects on our relationships and may led people to be less inclined to believe outlandish things we tell then(which is among our best case scenarios)
Is completely OOC for Harry who decided to be secretive about his gamer power , if by any chance anyone believes we cast an actual functioning spell all possible outcomes will lead to at the very least most of our unique abilities becoming at beats an open secret
concluding I simple don't uderstand what poassed you people to suport this idea , can someone please point to me even one possible positive outcome of doing this ?
we have a good , no cost oportunity to at least avoid making Draco an active antagonist and maybe initiate a long-term redemption process that could seriously hamper Voldemorts future recruiting prospects , but aparently because of many acts he hasn't done yet and a biased perception of imcompetence (which is a bit hiprocrite whem so many people bandwogoned befriending Nevile ) most don't want to even try to talk to him in somewhat neutral terms , but that is okay , everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I could somewhat accept that.
Them you decided to blatantly use the detect evil spell
There is so much wrong with this idea that I barely know where to begin , let's see:
It's completely outside this universe magical common sense , while being a very well know dnd basic spell and also the kind of thing people would have tried to make in the past , so no matter how you look at it this will rase all kinds of flags
Alastor won't like us flaunting our secret abilities in the open for no reason whatsoever
Even if Scabbers glow evil we may not notice and will not know the true significance of the glow , which means he will probably bolt and we will never see him again
No matter how you cut it chances are Malfoy will go straigh to the "murder you in your sleep" relationship level (what with being ploclamed evil to his face and tangentialy compared to a rat in front of everyone while BWL title is active)
there a good chance people will thing we are just pranking Draco with our suppossed spell , with can have all kinds off effects on our relationships and may led people to be less inclined to believe outlandish things we tell then(which is among our best case scenarios)
Is completely OOC for Harry who decided to be secretive about his gamer power , if by any chance anyone believes we cast an actual functioning spell all possible outcomes will lead to at the very least most of our unique abilities becoming at beats an open secret
concluding I simple don't uderstand what poassed you people to suport this idea , can someone please point to me even one possible positive outcome of doing this ?
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Isn't a big point of quests is making a character's personality and trying to stick to it? Or are we just going to break character whenever it's convenient for us?
Yes Draco is truly a dangerous antagonist that needs to be avoided at all cost.
Is it a big thing to never deviate from the results of two whole decisions? I do not think so and have voted accordingly.
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It's not IC, i hope the GM don't accept that type of write-ins
You are entitled to your opinion. *shrug*