>>40263239
>>Why do all of the clubs sound like they suck?

>>40263239
>Awesome! Lets go join Herbology
I wonder if we could use hydroponics and growth lamps for extra credit.

>>40263239
>Why do all of the clubs sound like they suck?

“Why do all the club choices suck so much?”

“All the cool ones are too dangerous for first years. Plus for stuff like dueling you need to, you know, actually know magic.”

“Well, I guess.” You suppose he's right. Plus you're not exactly the greatest at flying, and from what you've heard that's basically the only sport wizards care about.

>Well, never mind. We'll wait until the good clubs come up.
>Well, never mind, we can just study and hang out.
>Guess we should join [club]. Since there's nothing better

>>40264099
>Well, never mind. We'll wait until the good clubs come up.
>Well, never mind, we can just study and hang out.

>Guess we should join [Herbology]. Since there's nothing better
Eh, we can always bail if it stucks, or if something better comes along. And we might learn about some nifty magical plant stuff that could come in handy.

>>40264099
isn't there a fencing club?if not join the Orchestra

>>40264099
>>Guess we should join [herbology]. Since there's nothing better

>>40264099
>Guess we should join [Herbology]. Since there's nothing better
Might be interesting, and it gives us something to do for a year.

>>40264099
QM can you be a bro and get a twitter?

>>40264319
Had one, got flagged, can't get it back. Will consider it.

“Maybe we should just take up Herbology.” You say.

“I mean, unless you like swimming with god knows what in the Black Lake.”

“Okay then. Where do we sign up?”

“Professor Varus.”

You and Alex finish eating then head down to the greenhouses to find the Professor. You knock on a few of the glass panes and peer inside, but you can't seem to find him. You duck inside the first year green house and try to call out for him, but don't hear anything back. You and Alex split up and try to find him. After a few minutes you hear a cry from across the greenhouse.

Running over you find a very confused Alex, and a completely oblivious Professor Varus, who happens to be buried to his waist in dirt wearing earmuffs with his eyes closed.

“Professor Varus?” No response.

You tap him on the shoulder and he opens his eyes.

“Oh, hello boys!” He yells. “Trying to catch Malaysian Burrowing Tubers! They're attracted to tranquility!” He takes off his headphones. “What can I do for you?”

>We'd like to join the Herbology club.
>Need help?

>>40264520
>>We'd like to join the Herbology club.
Then
>Need help?

>>40264520
>>We'd like to join the Herbology club.
>>Need help?

>>40264520
>>We'd like to join the Herbology club.
>>Need help?
>>40264520

>>40264520
>>We'd like to join the Herbology club.

>>40264520
>We'd like to join the Herbology club.

“We wanted to join the Herbology club. Do you need any help?”

“Ah, would love to have you in the club. And yes I would love help. Grab a shovel and dig a hole.” He points over to a pile of shovels in the corner of the greenhouse. “So what made you boys want to join the club?”

“Honestly, the cooler clubs are only for upper years.” You say as you start to dig a hole.

“Well, I think a lot of people come into the club thinking like that. But a lot of them end up staying. Herbology is one of the most fascinating branches of magic I think you'll come to find.”

The shovels as it turns out seem to be enchanted, and you're able to dig a hole big enough to bury yourself in in no time.

More coming

You spend the rest of the morning helping Professor Varus, which mostly comes down to sitting quietly in a hole until you're attacked by a living potato and then jumping out and throwing it into a bucket.

“Well, thank you for the help boys, club meetings are every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.”

With that done you start to head back to the castle. As you do so Alex suddenly becomes agitated. “I think I left my notebook in one of the holes.” He says.

“Do you want help finding it?”

“No, I'll be fine.” Go on.

“Okay.” You continue on as Alex runs back to find his notebook. About halfway back to the castle, in a little garden with a wall of hedges, you run into Dorner and Yates.

“Hey, mud. What happened to the buddy system?” Dorner says with a sneer. “You've been giving us the run around for a week now, but now its payback time.” The both have their wands out.

>What do you do?

>>40264880
Lumos, super bright then kick them in the shins.
What spells do we know at this point?

>>40264880
PANIC

>>40264880
Run around screaming that the shleets have your best friend and he needs help! Their obviously more powerful than a couple of shleets right? You'll bow down in front of everyone if they defeat them.

>>40264910
Lumos is it. You also have a Forgetfulness Potion in your pocket.

>>40264880
Keep calm and draw our wand.
Lumos in their faces and then hard kicks to their groins.

>>40264952
then lets go lumos super bright, toss the potion, kick em in the shins, and evaluate from there

>>40264986
seconded. we can make more potion later.

I need 3 people to roll 2d10.

Rolled 5, 1 = 6 (2d10)

>>40265075
do you accept the take 5

>>40265075

Rolled 7, 9 = 16 (2d10)

>>40265075

>>40265094
Lets put it to a vote, do people want to use take 5 whenever it would give you a success. Or do you want to roll for everything?

I don't want to have to take a vote for individual rolls because it would really bog down the quest.

>>40265158
my vote is for allow obviously.

>>40265158
Voting for the take 5.

As you draw your wand Dorner shouts a spell but you follow through and cast Lumos. The spell brightly flashes from the tip of your wand blinding both of them. However, Dorner's spell connects, and your legs start to uncontrollably dance. You throw your Forgetfulness Potion and try to kick them, but instead fall flat on the ground.

Both of the boys are rubbing at their eyes, but you can tell its starting to ware off. You try to stand up unsuccessfully, then try rolling away. But your legs aren't cooperating and just continue to dance.

Yates aims a kick for your head.

>Roll 2d10

Okay, from now on when you auto succeed on a 5 you'll just take 5.

Rolled 3, 6 = 9 (2d10)

>>40265397

Rolled 2, 9 = 11 (2d10)

>>40265397

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d10)

>>40265397

>>40265437
god damn are we lucky the system has no crit fails

He connects and sends you sliding a few feet.

>1 light wound.

It looks like you may be in trouble. You cast Lumos again but this time Yates closes his eyes, then disarms you with a spell.

“That may have worked under the stairs, but not out here.” Yates says. “Porri Auri.”

You feel something grow suddenly out of your ears, and feeling for them you find some kind of plant. You can't hear anything anymore, even as you watch them continue to jibe you.

Then, you see someone standing behind them. A Gryffindor boy with brown hair and crooked teeth. You see him whistle, then say something and Dorner and Yates are off over the bushes in a flash.

He kneels down next to you and tries to say something but you cant hear him. He helps you up and carries you to the hospital wing.

When you arrive the hobbled old male nurse casts a few spells and gives you a hard candy before shooing you out the door. The Gryffindor boy is waiting.

“Are the teachers going to do anything about this?”

“No,” He says. “There's a few acceptable spells that are easy enough to get rid of it's just a slap on the wrist. Not even worth tracking down Dorner or Yates.”

>Who are you?
>Politely introduce yourself
>Other

Introduce self, praise him for stepping in.

>>40265659
>Politely introduce yourself

>>40265659
>>Politely introduce yourself
Thanks for saving my butt man
>Who are you?

>>40265659
>Who are you?
>Politely introduce yourself

>>40265659
>Politely introduce yourself

“I'm Shane. Thanks for the save.”

“Sam. And I have to say, it wasn't a coincidence. Linus asked a couple of people to watch your back. He's my cousin, and the only one from 'that' part of my family that'll talk to me. So I helped.”

>Questions?

>>40265797
What do you mean by that side?

>>40265797
could you teach me to handle myself in a fight?

>>40265797
"So you have one non-magical parent, then? And what'd you say to Corner and Yates to get them to run?"

“What do you mean by 'that' part?”

“Oh, the pureblood side. My mum married a muggle and they disowned her. Me and Linus met in Diagon Alley by coincidence when we were school shopping, and again when we got here.”

“What did you say to Dorner and Yates to get them to run off like that?”

“I fibbed told'em that the rest of the Maries were coming.”

“What do you mean the rest of the Maries?”

“Just like they have their little pureblood meetings, we have meetings too. Usually you gotta be older for the Maries to take notice of anything, but I don't think they know that yet, just got told they were dangerous.”

“Can you and the Maries teach me how to fight?”

“I mean, I can't, I'm just as green as you.”

“If you could get the Maries to let you in they would but, you know how people get with secret societies and all. Cloak and dagger, hazing, gotta prove yourself. I would say just hit the library, you're a 'Claw. You can handle it. Anyway, I'm past due for detention with Varus, hopefully he'll give me a break since I helped you. See ya.” And with that he runs off down the corridor.

You have a lot to think about, but you figure you better start by finding Alex. You don't want to get jumped twice in one day. You find Alex in the commonroom, where he's apparently been looking for you for a while.

“What happened?”

>Tell him
>Keep quiet
>Other

>>40266235
>Tell him
I seriously need to learn some new spells. I'm going to the library.

>>40266235
>Keep quiet

>>40266235
>>Tell him

“I got attacked by Dorner and Yates on the way back from the greenhouses.”

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I'm fine, a Gryffindor jumped in and saved me. Apparently Linus has people watching me.”

“Shane this is getting really intense, shouldn't you go to a teacher?”

“I just was, they patched me up in the hospital wing and sent me back out, unless it gets really bad they don't care.”

“What about the government? And, like, child safety laws?”

“I don't think wizards care all that much about safety for some reason. Maybe because they can just shake most stuff off with magic. Anyway, we're going to the library, I have to learn some more spells.”

“Okay.”

You and Alex head off to the library and start searching the stacks. Now what do you want to look for? You probably want to focus on just one thing to start with

>Wards, just looking to protect myself
>Jinxes, not really trying to do damage, just scare them off.
>Hexes and Curses, I need to make a statement not to mess with me
>Other

>>40266549
>>Jinxes, not really trying to do damage, just scare them off.
go on the offensive without getting dark

>>40266549
>Hexes and Curses, I need to make a statement not to mess with me

Hey just shitting up your quest with this off-topic post, but when I read the ttitle post I read your protagonists name as "Shane Moms" Those Rs and I blur together nicely.

>>40266549
What was our wand specialized for again? Do that one.

>>40266549
>Wards, just looking to protect myself

>>40266549
>>Jinxes, not really trying to do damage, just scare them off.

>>40266549
>Hexes and Curses, I need to make a statement not to mess with me

>>40266549
Fire-Making Charm is the easiest heavy duty spell. get that.

>>40266619
Jinxes and the Babbling Curse

>>40266549
>Wards, just looking to protect myself
can't hit them if we get hit first.

>>40266640
it takes only 24 hours to learn atm which is ideal since we need help yesterday.

>>40266647
Let's do this, i agree!

ooh if we want to go serious we need to learn the Full Body Bind Curse. not sure how restricted the dark arts are but it's tied with Fire-Making charm for easiest serious spell.

You decide to try your hand at some jinxes. Though a lot of other stuff grabs your eye. You'll definitely be back for more spells later.

You find a simple Jinx that makes people's teeth grow. You figure that no one wants to have horrible buck teeth, and it shouldn't take too long to learn.

You spend the next week practicing the Tooth-Growing Jinx. In the meantime you learn the Levitation Charm in Charms class, which you imagine you'd have to be creative to use in combat, but it definitely seems possible given how heavy some the stuff is that you can lift.

You keep your eyes open a little more over the course of the week looking for any signs of those weird secret societies Sam was talking about. You don't notice any of them, but you do notice a few Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs who are probably watching you for Linus. It seems like he has a lot of power, whether from his blood, or just cause he's so nice to people.

You figure you'll finish up the spell this week, and then you'll have some freetime left. What do you want to study?

>More spells [specify]
>Subject [specify]

>>40266981
>Subject [specify] Potions

>>40266981
>>Subject [specify]
Charms

>>40266981
Learn about wands themselves. The nuances and differences between them are sure to be interesting, and perhaps useful.

>>40266981
>More spells [specify]
Charms. we get a good spell at rank 1

>>40266981
transfiguration

im wondering whether this story will be about more than "muggleborn at hogwarts"

>>40266981
>Subject
Herbology

>>40266981
>>Subject [specify]
whatever we sucked at.

>>40266981
>Subject
Charms

You spend the rest of September in relative normality going to class, doing homework, and studying.

>You've learned the Tooth-Growing Jinx and the Fire-Making Charm

No one has bothered you. And you peg that mostly on Linus' help. You met him a few times in class and thanked him, but he always brushed it off like it was nothing. You've been doing well in class and all the teachers like you quite a bit.

You've come to really enjoy Hogwarts even with all the weird eccentricities of the students, faculty, and even the grounds themselves.

However one day, on your way to Potions in the dungeons, you take a wrong turn. You become utterly lost almost immediately, and find your attempts to reorient yourself foiled by strange curves in the walls.

>Stay where you are and hope help arrives
>Wildly run and hope you make it out.
>Other

>>40267391
Try to recall the secrets of the castle told to you on your first day.

>>40267391
>Other
hand to one of the walls and start walking in one direction. drop something on the place you start.

>>40267391
>Other
Use the left hand rule

>>40267433
>>40267440
yup

You try following the left wall with your hand. But the castle seems unwilling to cooperate. The wall twists, and turns under your hand, and if you take your eyes off of it for a second, you're suddenly grasping at thin air.

Luckily you remember some tips you got on your first night in the castle. You start taking alternate left and rights at every turn, like you were told. The dungeon gets deeper, darker, and more infested with mold. You hear noises like people are screaming miles away which give away dull roars like the castle is about to collapse. Eventually, despite all logic, everything suddenly brightens and you end up back where you started at the entrance to the dungeon.

You look back the way you came and see the hallway slowly melting away into a wall. You see down a long corridor, and at the very back there is a human form lying prone in a slowly growing pool of black liquid. You only see it for a second but it chills your blood because its unmistakable. The body is clearly dead, rotten and ancient, but as you watch it slowly raises its head from the floor and it looks at you.

End of part 3

>>40267671
next thread when?

>>40267740
Monday

>>40267671
inferi!!!

>>40267671
thanks for running

>>40267671
QUICK! GIVE IT BUCK TEETH!