Slowly crack open the door on the right and check the room out.

>>40374152
Crack open the door on the right, with the others arranged behind us to give us whatever support they can if something comes through the door.
Do this for the left door if there's nothing behind the right one.

You decide to test the right door, you slowly crack it open with everyone behind you ready to start casting spells if they see anything.

The room proves to be empty, of people at least. It's a library of sorts with maybe fifty books on a set of poorly constructed shelves. The books are old, and a cursory glance at the covers tells you that most of them aren't in english. A small table takes up most of the room, where it looks like someone was in the process of translating one of the books. Bound stacks of parchment fill bins all over the room, you assume they are translations.

>Take a book
>Take a translation
>Move on
>Other

>>40374394
>other
Have Alex gather up what translations and books he can grab, while the rest of us check the other door.

>>40374533
This seems smart.

>>40374394
>Take a book

“Alex, gather what you can, we'll be back.” You say quietly.

Linus, Sam and You cross back over to the lefthand door and open that. This seems to be a more conventional kind of storage room, and a more terrifying one as well. Scattered about the room on a few series of shelves are an incredible variety of artifacts that you assume to be magical in nature. Little glowing orbs filled with smoke, gyrating globes, even a few wands. But beyond these were the body parts. Scores of mummified, embalmed, and taxidermied human limbs are scattered about. Some are so well preserved you wonder if they might be fresh. You need to find Jenny.

>What do you do?

>>40374918
Check the bodies to see if she is dead and if she isn't try to find some clues to see if she has been stored here or not.

>>40374918
Grab the wands (with Linus and Sam also picking up whatever artifacts they can), then meet up with Alex and advance down the hall.

>ywn derail a Harry Potter universe quest to turn the MC into a Imperius Curse hypnosis fetish sex maniac.

You swipe a few wands and say; “Same as before, grab everything you can.”

“Why are we robbing the place? I thought we were here for Jenny?” Sam says.

>We need supplies
>Fuck these guys
>Fine burn it instead
>Other

>>40374394
Take a book.

Fully hope that it's full of DAAARRRRKKK magic.

>>40375258
>>We need supplies
>Other
"Also we might find a clue or something."

>>40375258
Fuck these guys.

You're gonna fuck the dead bodies, right?

>>40375258
Looking for clues and anything not evil we can use up ahead.

>>40375258
>Other
Evidence. Assuming we find Jenny and make a daring escape, we still need to be able to prove to the teachers this wasn't all a lie made up by crazy kids.

Reminder that Well-Connected and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff are good options for our two unspent perks.
Warning that with five Charms, casting an unpracticed Full Body Bind curse will require a minimum roll of nine and is not a viable offensive option due to its 80% failure rate.
Reminder that we have an unspecified number of galleons unspent.

How do we have five in Charms and four in Transfiguration if we have zero credits in both? Does the Charms score include our wand bonus to jinxes or something?

>>40375459
If you guys want to select perks you can, I forgot to mention that

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Tabletop_RPG

>>40375495
Power plus Int plus Mastery = 5 for charms, 4 for everything else

“Clues, evidence, supplies. I wanna know what's going on down here, and we need to be able to prove something's up if we want anyone to do anything about this.”

“Okay, sounds good.” Linus says. “Should we grab an, uh, arm or something then?”

“Yeah, do that.”

After ransacking the storage room you return to the hall where Alex is levitating a bin full of various papers.

“Stack it all here and lets keep moving.” You say.

After everything is stacked by the stairwell you continue. The hall is fairly long, and bends slightly toward its end opening out into a largish room, bigger than any classroom you've seen in the castle. There are benches and chairs all set facing toward the front of the room where there stands a podium. In the back, behind the podium is another door. The room is otherwise empty excepting a bit of litter here and there.

Approaching the door you find it locked, you can hear a crackling sound from beyond the door. Sam steps forward and tries a spell, but the door doesn't unlock.

>What now?

>>40375539
Right, totally forgot about the mastery. Thanks, tb.

What material is the door made of?

>>40375652
Muninn.

>>40375737
Solid wood.

Either pull the bolt from the hinges if they're on your side of the door, or ask someone with an appropriate spell to do it if the hinges are on the side you can't access. Then, apply the proper leverage and it should come off easily enough. Should.
If this fails, suggest lighting the door on fire or otherwise weakening it.

>>40375912
this

You try something obvious to start. “Muninn.” Nope, nothing.

Then you try looking for hinges. No dice. “Can anyone pull out the hinges on the other side of the door?”

“If first years could do that, no one in the wizarding world would use hinges on their doors anymore.” Alex points out.

“Right then, wands out. Burn the door down.”

The four of you turn your wands on the door and start burning it.

Unfortunately Incendio produces a small burst of flame rather than anything resembling a flamethrower, and you don't seem to be making much progress, in fact you're starting to remember that applying heat can sometimes make wood stronger. You stop.

>What now?

>>40376155
Look for a secret passage.

>>40376155
look around, there has to a clue or something that can help.

>>40376155
Ask what other spells people know.
Also, consider what's available to you that could be fashioned into a lockpick.

>>40376155
Check the papers for info - perhaps the door is codeworded.
Look for a key,or a secret switch.

>>40376243
Unlocking Charm
Engorging Charm
Shrinking Charm
Mending Charm
Dancing Jinx

>>40376299
>Unlocking Charm
this one.

>>40376335
Sam already tried it.

>>40376299
Suggest using the shrinking charm on the door. And, if that fails, slide an object under the door, in the lock of the door, or in the side of the door and then use engorging charm on the object

>>40376354
Screw with its size with the shrinking and engorging charms till it breaks open.

>>40376354
Dancing Jinx
maybe it might do something.

You spread out and start searching the room. After finding nothing you try looking through the papers. While what you find there is dark and disturbing, it doesn't help you open the door.

Finally you have an idea. You run back to the storage room and find what looks to be some kind of probe. You go back to the door and jam it in the crevice between the door and the wall.

“Linus, expand it.”

Linus casts the spell and the probe slowly swells. The crackling sound is overcome by the sound of creaking wood and finally the edge of the door, lock and all, burst off. The door swings open.

Inside is Jenny.

She is stretched out on a table in some kind of stasis or trace laying completely still. Her arm from just above her fingers to a little above her elbow is wreathed in wildly crackling, dancing, red flame. Not red in the sense of normal fire, an angry red. And even from your distance it is warming your face.

The room is decorated in candles, all of which are extinguished, and black drapery giving it the impression of a sinister funeral parlour.

>What now?

>>40376559
Sense for magical traps or whatnot if there aren't any then carefully get her out of there.

>>40376559
See if she's alive, first.

>>40376559
Examine the setup at a distance to see if it rings any bells from what you've learned.
Ask everyone else to do the same before we proceed.

You all stand and try to get a hold on what to do, the heat from the fire makes it very hard to approach, but it looks like you might have trouble putting it out too. You look around for traps, and try going through the papers again, no traps, and no information you can readily find about the flame or how to put it out.

You get the feeling that you don't have much longer before morning, and you don't want to be around to be found by any early risers, you're going to have to do something quick.

>>40376815
Pour water on it?

>>40376815
Use the shrinking charm on the fire and get the girl and the crew out of there and back to safety.

>>40376815
Try the unlocking charm, it's weird but it COULD work, who knows.
If that fails, then >>40376934

>>40376934
>>40376961
You try casting every spell you have that wouldn't make the situation obliquely worse, to no avail.

Fuck it, do it live.
Let's brave the fire to try to grab her, as quickly as we can.

>>40376987
Have someone levitate the fire or whatever is holding it up and see if we can't move it out of the way and get the girl. If that fails then do>>40377040

You make a final attempt at the levitating charm before turning back to the others.

“I'm gonna go grab her. Then we leave even if you guys have to carry both of us out of here.”

Alex tries to argue but you're already gone, braving the heat. It's nothing like a hot day, or even spilling tea on yourself. It's like stepping into an oven, its dry, harsh, and the wind swirls about you wildly. The table, made of stone, burns your skin as you brush against it, and the burns immediately blister.

As you grab her the fire abates slightly, but also brushes against you. At once the heat is gone, or at least feels gone, and you're overcome with a sense of exhaustion.

>Roll 2d10

Rolled 8, 3 = 11 (2d10)

>>40377229

Rolled 7, 7 = 14 (2d10)

>>40377229

Rolled 5, 8 = 13 (2d10)

>>40377229
Alright here's a go

Rolled 10, 6 = 16 (2d10)

>>40377229

You muscle through it, even though your legs feel like lead, and your muscles feel like particularly limp noodles. You make it outside the perimeter of the heat and collapse. You see your friends looking down in concern before passing out.

You wake up in the hospital wing. A number of cards adorn your nightstand, and looking down you are pleasantly surprised to find that you have no noticeable scars, wounds, or other disfigurements of any kind, aside from some mundane scarring on the back of your hand from the table.

Looking around you see no one, though the bed next to you has its curtains drawn. You start to peruse your cards. They're from Ravenclaws mostly. The first year girls sent one. Alex too, oddly enough undersigned by Robbie, Henry, and L.B. Who you realize must be Lom. One from Linus, Sam and the rest of the mirror room crew.

The last one catches your eye.

'Dear Mr. Morris' It reads.

'I and my husband wish to thank you dearly for recovering our daughter, and hope that any damage sustained doing so is quickly healed. We understand that you put yourself in great personal danger in doing so, both physically and academically, and you have our word that should it come to it you shall have our full support in lobbying to remain at Hogwarts.'

'With most sincere and wholehearted thanks,

'Jemafeir and Corralis Black'

'Most Noble and Ancient House of Black'

More Coming

You set down the card and lay back. You did it. Wherever she is now and whatever it cost you, you did it.

A thousand questions flood your mind. How is she doing? What happened to the others? Did whoever was responsible end up being caught? What about all the stuff you took? Where's your wand? Did that card say you might be expelled?

All in all it proves too much, and you drift off back to sleep.

When you awaken again it is to a room full of people. The Nurse, Professors Ricimer and Morse, The Headmaster, a few men in dark robes and flatcaps, a regal looking man who looks vaguely like Winston Churchill, and a man with a quill in his cap being followed by a man with a camera.

>[to Morse] Told you so!
>What's going on?
>Don't expel me!
>Other

>>40377666
>>What's going on?
>Don't expel me!

>>40377666
>[to Morse] Told you so!
also what what is going to happen now?

>>40377666
>>Other

"What homework did I miss?"

>>40377666
Greet them politely and ask what happened when you checked out.

>>40377666
>What'd I miss and how much trouble am I in?

>>40377666
>Other
"How long was I out, and how much homework did I miss?"

“How long was I out? Also please don't expel me.”

“Oh relax son.” Says Winston Churchill. “You're not going to be expelled if I have anything to say about it. And I most certainly do.” He hooks his fingers into his coat and gives you a knowing look like you should know who he is.

“You've been asleep for five days. You came in contact with a very powerful sleep magic. It's taking young Ms. Black even longer to recuperate.” Says the Nurse.

“She's going to be alright then?”

“Some major scarring on her arm but no permanent damage.”

You breathe a sigh of relief.

“Now Shane. These men here,” He indicates the two men in matching coats. “Are here to talk to you. And the Daily Prophet would also like to ask you some questions. I also have some things to say to you.”

>Talk to the Headmaster
>Talk to the Paper
>Talk to the Officers

>>40378030
>Talk to the Headmaster

>>40378030
>Talk to the Headmaster
then
>Talk to the Officers
then
>Talk to the Paper


This set in ww2 time?

>>40378030
>Talk to the Officers
so what do you want to know? we should have brought enough evidence for you to not really need any insight I might offer.

>>40378030
>>Talk to the Headmaster
>Talk to the Officers

>>40378069
mid 2000s. You're pretty sure he isn't actually Winston Churchill. Probably. Most likely.

“I think I need to talk to the Headmaster first.” You say. The reporters dejectedly stalk away, and everyone else disperses to different parts of the hospital wing.

“So, to start do you have any questions?”

“What happened after I passed out?”

“Your friends collected you and brought you back to the stairway which Professor Morse was in the process of forcing open. With help from below she was able to open the grate and get you all to safety.”

“So Morse was tracking me.”

“Indeed, and I think at some point you should thank her for that, or you might have simply been trapped down there until someone came along and undid all the good you did.”

More Coming

“Then what?”

“Ms. Black was committed to the hospital, a proper one, and you were brought here. Your friends have been visiting you daily, along with a large number of other first years.”

“So what now?”

“Now we deal with the fallout. What you've done has opened the floodgates, or rather what you stopped. The fight between the old families and changing times has now gone from an underground affair to something brought into open light, at least for anyone paying enough attention. It would have been better for everyone perhaps if this could have been quietly swept under the rug, another mysterious disappearance at Hogwarts. No such luck.”

“You're saying she should have died.”

“Not should have. You must understand I am happy that she is safe, but perhaps everyone else would have been safer in the long run if she had simply... disappeared.”

>You're a monster
>Muggleborns wouldn't have been safer.
>I'm ready to talk to the officers

>>40378376
The system that would allow such a thing is monstrous and should be changed even at the cost of stability.
We're a kid and pretty smart too so we're probably pretty opinionated and naive.

>>40378376

>>You're a monster
>Muggleborns wouldn't have been safer.
>I'm ready to talk to the officers

Tell him that sometimes the system needs to be changed and it will be painful but stronger after its evolution or some such things.

>>40378376
>You're a monster
Every life matters
>I'm ready to talk to the officers

>>40378376
>>Muggleborns wouldn't have been safer.
>>I'm ready to talk to the officers
The war was coming anyway, I just set off the powder keg before it was at critical mass.

>>40378376
>Muggleborns wouldn't have been safer.
>I'm ready to talk to the officers

“You're wrong, if this is the way things are they need to change. No one is safe if this can happen, muggleborns would be in constant danger, even purebloods like Jenny. There's no way they would be safer. I'm ready to talk to the officers.”

“Mr. Morris, I fear that you are wrong. I very deeply do.” With that he stood and waved over the officers.

“Hello Mr. Morris.” One said as he approached. “Please describe for us, in your own words, the events of the evening of October 10th.”

You tell them the story, starting with recruiting Alex, and ending when you blacked out.

“Okay, thank you very much.” Said the other officer. “Anything else you'd like to say?”

>>40378665
what punishment will the perpetrator get?

>>40378665
Mention the words of the headmaster. Bitch is shifty, and I ain't fully trustin that sucka yet.
Then, ask if they have anything they need to tell you before moving on to the press.

>>40378665
Ask what our punishment will be.

>>40378665
"Have there been any arrests yet?"

>>40378776
what? why would we be punished?

“What's gonna happen to me?”

“Nothing, maybe an award from the school, but as far as the law is concerned, you're just a good Samaritan.”

“Have you found them yet?”

“No, and probably never will. We've confiscated everything, but we have no way of tieing it to anyone.”

>Point them to Lom
>make a metal note to talk to Lom later

>>40378865
>make a metal note to talk to Lom later

>>40378865
>>make a metal note to talk to Lom later

>>40378865
>make a metal note to talk to Lom later

>>40378865
>>make a metal note to talk to Lom later

>>40378865
>make a metal note to talk to Lom later

>>40378865
>Who do I talk to if I hear anything?
>Make a mental note to talk to Lom.

>>40378865
>"If I find anything, or they come after me for messing things up for them, who do I talk to?"
>make a metal note to talk to Lom later

You make a mental note to talk to Lom later. “Who do I talk to if something happens again?”

“Your teachers same as always.” They walk away before you can tell them exactly how dumb that comment is.

The reporter and the camera man come over looking very excited. It takes you a bit by surprise how large the camera is. It looks about four decades out of date.

“Timothy Withers, Daily Profit.” The reporter says brightly. “I want to hear all about your experience, bottom to top, inside and out. Everything in between.”

“Uh, okay.” You say a bit put off by his attitude. You tell him your story, with him stopping you occasionally to ask how something made you feel, or whether you were scared, or what you were thinking.

“That's a great story kid. Anything else?”

>Tell them about the headmaster.
>Nothing
>Other

>>40379043
>Nothing

>>40379043
>>Nothing


this is going to bite us in the ass.

>>40379043
>Other
daily profit? isn't that a little blatant?

>>40379043
>I'd like to put in special thanks to all of my friends who helped me
>Even those who weren't directly involved
Indirectly getting Lom in there without being too specific.

>>40379102
Maybe its mainly a business magazin?

>>40379102
Kek.

>>40379043
Prophet, mate. It's the Dauly Prophet.

>>40379119
oh yeah let's get our insider informant some exposure. I see no way that's going to end poorly.

>>40379147
Which is why I didn't say anything about informants, or who he was.
Could literally be anything from emotional support to a pat on the back.

Read between the lines, M80

>>40379145
Gosh I feel like a fucking idiot

I like this name better

>>40379176
To be fair, I have no idea what a Dauly is.
New canon: the Dauly Profit

>>40379176
It does fit better. Just make it a joke.

>>40379171
people other than us and Lorn can read between the lines too. "even those who weren't directly involved" sounds clumsy and screams hidden meaning.

>>40379198
The daily prophet really is a wizarding Buzzfeed, isn't it?

>>40379176
Just make a similar type name,like "Witch Weekly" or something.

>>40379212
Homophones are really common in the wizarding world, aren't they.

>>40379233
I didn't know wizards were homophobic.

>>40379233
Huh?I missed your point, please elaborate

“No, that's all.”

“Well, thank you very much for your time. I think I can do something great with this material.”

That makes you a bit nervous.

With all of your interviews done, the Nurse ushers everyone out so you can get some sleep. As it happens a five day nap doesn't make you particularly sleepy. You instead decide to read the rest of your cards.

All of them are really nice, and everyone of them further assures you that you did the right thing.

The last one you read happens to be Linus' card, which is one of those expensive double folded cards, and this one in particular seems to be magic. As you open it it sings you a song about getting better and little paper fireworks move around on the inside.

As you go to set it down one of the paper fireworks shoots right off the card and lands in your lap.

As you go to pick it up you see that there is actually a small folded parchment with a wax seal taped to the back. The seal is in white wax and has some kind of flower on it. Opening it reveals a single line.

'Get well soon. From the Order of the White Marigold.'

End of Part 5

Next Quest is on Monday, I have a busy next few days.

@Tiddlybum_HE will announce 10 minutes before the quest goes up.

>>40379354
cool thanks for running. Any thoughts on how the quest went?

>>40379317
Thanks for running.

>>40379317
oh great. another secret society... I wonder how old they are. Might find some passing mention in legends and such. We're in england so the western definition of white seems probable so it could mean pure, healing, good or other positive trait considering the context. Marigold is linked in mysticism to healing and protection so it's probably a populistic revolutionary society.
>>40379354
Thanks for running.

>>40379394
I thought it went well. You guys made a couple big decisions today that are gonna heavily the quest down the line.

You missed half of one big hook that you'll probably get a chance to try at again. And you have time so no big deal.

>>40379265
Which weakly.