The Power(Harry Potter/The Gamer)
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A long delay in the update since I know absolutely nothing about that.
Nanao-kun
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Lots and lots of gratuitous posing.
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No. However you also aren't going to find a dummy's guide to using that style of sword. Fencing is still a sport in modern days. Medieval style sword fighting is the realm of Ren-faire employees, folk in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and really, really dedicated LARPers(which are kinda like Ren-faire employees, really.)
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In that case.
You have gained the ability [Fancy Posing lvl 1/100]
Cow your opponents with such postures as:
The wide-stanced finger point with one hand on hip
The dramatic falling to knees while raising hands in the air
Leaning forward, teeth clenched and eyes narrowed, one hand raised to chin level threateningly
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I don't suppose there are any books about Medieval style fighting in the Hogwarts library? It is a rather old school and there have to have been some magicians who combined sword fighting with wizardry. Godric Gryffindor for one.
I'll just say that the skills there don't translate well to Harry Potter magic, since nothing there qualifies as spells. The two powers that might be available at this time in the publication would be...
The Ripple - A breathing martial arts technique that lets you supercharge yourself with the power of the sun. It can be conducted through a number of substances. Highly effective against the undead, especially vampires. Again, more of a martial art that a spell.
Stands - Stand users basically get a spirit that "stands" next to them. There's a lot of variance. The main character has one that is very strong, very fast, and very precise (can catch bullets), and later on can freeze time for a brief period. More of an ability some people happen to get, or have inflicted on them in certain circumstances, than a spell.
So JoJo's supernatural stuff probably wouldn't count since it can't be cast.
Worst case we can just swing it around enough times to create a sword skill. It won't be as good as gaining it from a book, but it'd work and we'd just have to grind the hard way.
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This is a possibility. As for Hogwarts having one... No clue. I'll probably have a luck based roll(because I seem to like those in this quest) when you're searching to see if you find one. Or if someone comes up with some sort of omake(I've been debating one about if Bob had been chosen) you could get a special omake point* you could spend to get one there.
*omake points may not be as special as represented by this comment.
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question, does this create a danger zone to all people? or are only people who are gamers able to enter those?
They don't.
False.
Same probably goes for duplicated magical items.
Well... I don't disagree with this, but, honestly, we could just couch it in terms of accidental magic. "I didn't want to be noticed, so you didn't notice me."
I misread that, but it would be a pretty disastrous thing to happen that we sneak into an area through ID, exit, and find ourself face to face with someone.
Also, as mentioned there will be actual dungeons in the world, and I would bet that ID can't be used in a real world dungeon. We may need to actually sneak our way through those. For instance, I bet the third floor corridor will be a dungeon. The Chamber of Secrets? Definitely a dungeon. Other areas of Hogwarts may also be dungeons. Possibly the dungeons of Hogwarts count as dungeons. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair amount of Hogwarts is filled with dungeons, to be honest - they're officially called the dungeons, and Snape and Slytherin are there.
That's hardly accidental sounding.
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Can we work on this right now?
[JK] Walking to the next shop, you hear a voice from the sky call out to you: "Quick Harry Potter, strike the most dramatic pose your 11 year old mind can imagine!"
- Roll 1d100 to determine how successfully dramatic the pose is. Natural 100 causes all states to increase by 1, and summons spotlights and dramatic music with every future pose
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Can we work on this right now?
[JK] Walking to the next shop, you hear a voice from the sky call out to you: "Quick Harry Potter, strike the most dramatic pose your 11 year old mind can imagine!"
- Roll 1d100 to determine how successfully dramatic the pose is. Natural 100 causes all states to increase by 1, and summons spotlights and dramatic music with every future pose
Natural 1 ends up with you in a tangle of limbs on the ground and a permanent reduction of 1/4 on your relationship gains due to pratfall style music playing whenever you try to do something dramatic.
So we're a prodigy at magic? Tom Riddle harnessed his 'accidental' magic well before Hogwarts age. Either way, it's a simpler explanation of a situation where we use gamer abilities, especially considering they're an outside context problem to the world at large. It's not something anyone would consider because it is impossible from their frame of reference.
And then that gets turned into an epic quest involving us going on a journey to find our balance (literally!), and to create the greatest pose of all time! I can see it now. There, Voldemort does his silly little laugh, thinking we're dead. But no! We spring up, doing flips and spins before landing gracefully on our feet, finger pointed straight at Voldemort's noseless face, and we strike a pose so dramatic, that he falls to his knees as all the deatheaters collapse in shock, all while lights and music just pop up everywhere. And we will look upon our fallen foe, and he will know that the power he knew not, was the Perfect Pose Technique!
... Can we do a vote for this after the next update?
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And then you're hit by a killing curse and die.
But the effects of that pose would shake the Wizarding World to its foundations for centuries to come. The Death Eaters, having seen their master so utterly humiliated abandon him, and years later the emaciated form of Bellatrix Lestrange can be seen at your grave, sobbing that one so skilled as to defeat the Dark Lord was lost so young.
A new tradition rises up in the Wizarding World, a sport to rival competitive dueling. Pose-offs. Whichever poser(heh, double meanings) causes the most of the audience to collapse to their knees wins.
Hogwarts continues on the same as it always has, save for the occasional challenge to an unsanctioned pose-off, rather than duels in the trophy room at midnight. And on nights of the new moon, when it is darkest out, if one happens to be wandering by where you fell, faint music and dim lights can be heard and seen...
Edit: had to add and seen in there. Unless you have Synesthesia. Then I guess you can hear the lights as well.
Edit 2.0: Unrelated to the previous in any but a tangential sense. Voledemort never actually knew Harry would have a 'power [Voldemort] knew not'. The prophecy says
The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...
born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...
And that's all Voldemort knew of it. He probably just assumed that Harry was supposed to be as strong, magically, as him and Dumbledore.
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I have to say that if we do kill Voldemort early on-ish, the prospect of Gellert Grindelwand getting out of his prison and making use of his full abilities, likely acquiring a younger body in the process, is scary as hell.
IIRC he pretty much regarded Voldemort as a pathetic joke even when faced with death at Snakeface's hands. Considering their respective accomplishments that's more than understandable.
edit: Gellert in particular is interesting because he might actually acquire a number of Muggleborn followers. In fact, it wouldn't be shocking to see more muggleborns than purebloods following him.
IIRC he pretty much regarded Voldemort as a pathetic joke even when faced with death at Snakeface's hands. Considering their respective accomplishments that's more than understandable.
edit: Gellert in particular is interesting because he might actually acquire a number of Muggleborn followers. In fact, it wouldn't be shocking to see more muggleborns than purebloods following him.
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Well, there's also the issue of us actually bringing the people we want to sneak around with into the ID, which is probably not possible if we don't have them in our party. As such, that excuse isn't useful for them.
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[X] Changing things would be preferable, but slowly.(+relationship with Hermione, keeps things subtle)
[X] Yes
[X] Set of Dungeons and Dragons books(100 pounds)
[X] Dummy's Guide to Karate(20 pounds)
[X] Dummy's Guide to Computers(20 pounds)
[X] Tell her everything.(Will result in closer scrutiny on number 4 Privet Drive. Luck may change outcome.)
[X] Spend points on Luck.
[X] Yes
[X] Set of Dungeons and Dragons books(100 pounds)
[X] Dummy's Guide to Karate(20 pounds)
[X] Dummy's Guide to Computers(20 pounds)
[X] Tell her everything.(Will result in closer scrutiny on number 4 Privet Drive. Luck may change outcome.)
[X] Spend points on Luck.
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Another stunner dodged, and Voldemort was beginning to sweat. This opponent was beyond what he expected. He was expecting a battle! A glorious confrontation between foes! Something like he had with Dumbledore! Say what you like about the man, at least he had style. Well, not with robes, but still. But this... This wasn't a fight! It's a game of cat and mouse! With him as the mouse! His opponent didn't even care enough about fighting him to throw out a single bone-breaker, while he's slinging about crucios and AKs!
"Potter! Enough! If you're going to kill me, stop toying with me and kill me!"
"Toying with you?! I'm fighting for my life here!"
"... Oh. You mean this is you... Oh... Ah... Awkward."
And with that, Voldemort's confidence in his own magical power was shattered forever.
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One possible way to deal with such skills is to have one or a few "passive grind slot/s" which are basically stuff we are doing in the background automatically while doing other stuff. it would stay until we specifically say to change it. rate of learning based on write in of how to grind it.
So, we could basically have skills like observe going up over time with every update until we switch it out to the next thing. where only skills that are viable for passive grinding being allowed in those slots.
or not... i mean, we did use grinding on instant dungeon for example by creating and destroying them constantly until we got to level 10 and able to get dungeons with monsters
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The ID time was you specifically doing nothing for a set period of time but creating and breaking dungeons. You didn't clean, you didn't cook, you didn't even eat. You just sat there 'ID create, ID break, ID create, ID break'.
You could passively work on observe, or occulmency or the like, but the rate of gain would be MUCH slower, or it would be very obvious that you're doing something else. You'd be zoning out, staring at something that isn't there, whatever.