October 15
Me and Daphne say goodbye to Tracey as we go our separate ways to our classes, me and Daphne heading to Potions with Professor Snape.
"Rin," Daphne starts as we begin going down the stairway to class. "I wanted to apologize for yesterday. I should've been more careful with my words and not insinuated things concerning who your family might be." She says finally, her voice slightly off like she's worried about something.
I look at her for a moment before looping my arm through hers and telling her, "No worries Daph, I wasn't upset or anything. Was more so a surprise though. And besides, Professor Sinistra said that she'd talk to the Headmaster about us looking into it, hopefully there'll be news today." I tell her, watching the surprise form on her face and then her smile.
"Thank you Rin," she says quietly, holding onto my arm tightly, causing me to blush in embarrassment and pull her along quicker to class.
[6 Affection with Daphne Greengrass]
[Stats awarded for reaching 50 Affection with Daphne Greengrass]
[10 Intelligence, 5 Wisdom]
Huh?
Wait. Aren't I supposed to get a Perk for hitting goals in Affection? The hell, am I gonna be getting stats as well from them?
I... I don't know how I necessarily feel about that. Like, Perks would generally be better right?
'Status,' I think quickly.
[Rin Fraener the Gamer]
[Gender: Female]
[HP: 1064]
[SP: 568]
[MP: 1560]
[Str: 15(30)]
[End: 17(32)]
[Dex: 17(27)]
[Int: 30(45)]
[Wis: 22(47)]
[Luc: 18]
[Stat Points: 50]
[Perks: 4]
[Flaws: 3]
Yup. Definitely gained 10 Int and 5 Wis. I guess I'm just gonna get different things for each Affection milestone with every person. Weird.
We finally get to class and take our seats, sitting directly in front of the Gryffindor seats, with Neville and Hermione behind us. A list of ingredients already on the board as Professor Snape looms around the front of class, and then begins speaking.
"Today," he begins to drawl out towards us. "You shall all be switching partners according to my discretion. I will call two students names and you will switch places with one another." He then begins rattling out the names for half the class.
"Weasley, Malfoy."
"Nott, Abbot."
"Boot, Turpin."
"Granger, Fraener." He says, finally reaching my name, me and Hermione then getting up and swapping places. So now I get to work with Neville. Great... gonna have to work hard to keep an eye on him.
Professor Snape finally finishes moving people around and directs our attention to the board. "Now, these are your instructions on the Cure for Boils Potion. If you need assistance raise your hand and I'll be by to see what the issue is." He looks around and eyes each of the Gryffindors. "Though I expect many will be needing an... extravagant amount of instruction to accomplish anything."
I hear Neville swallow nervously and look over at him, his face already slightly pale at failing another Potions lesson.
"Hey Neville," I say from his side. "Don't worry too much. I'll help you out if you'd like." I volunteer, Neville's eyes widening slightly at the suggestion before answering. "Y-yes please. Thank y-you for that."
[5 Affection with Neville Longbottom]
We begin handling our supplies for the Cure for Boils Potion. Each of us crushing 6 snake fangs using our mortar and pestles, and then adding 4 measures of them to our cauldrons.
"Ok Neville, heat the cauldrons up to 250 for the next 10 seconds." I tell him, to which he does as I instruct, his hand trembling slightly. I then wave my wand over both of our cauldrons and we begin waiting for the next 33-45 minutes. As we do so I have a little idea.
"So Neville," I begin to ask. "If you want, you can join me, Daphne, Tracey and Hermione for studying in the Library. I know me and Tracey could use help in Herbology, so if you help us with that we can help you out with Potions." I tell him, offering assistance with his worst subject in exchange for help on another.
Neville looks at me in surprise before shyly answering, "A-are you sure? I-I'm not very good at studying o-or anything really..." he trails off at the end with his self deprecating behavior.
I hum in thought for a moment before responding, "Not a problem at all Neville. We're here to learn and become better at each of our individual skills. And besides, I hear that you're incredible at Herbology, which to be honest doesn't interest me a whole lot." I end my explanation and tell him one final thing. "So if you ever change your mind, feel free to join us in the Library sometime, we're there every Sunday to review everything we've learned through the week along with going there most other days at varying times."
As the wait time for the Cure for Boils Potion ends and we begin to prepare the next step, theres a sudden knock at the door to the classroom, Professor Snape waves his wand, causing it to open, revealing an older Ravenclaw student with a Prefect Badge on their robes, who steps into the classroom briefly.
"Pardon the intrusion Professor Snape, but I was instructed to bring a Rin Fraener to Headmaster Dumbledore's office." The Prefect says quickly, clearly uncomfortable being in Professor Snape's presence.
Professor Snape eyes the Prefect for a moment before nodding, "Very well. Miss Fraener, pack up your things and bring me a vial of your potion as is. I'll grade you based on how it looks for where you're leaving off." He says, returning to his prowling around the room to watch each students potions.
I collect a vial of the potion and begin gathering my things, as well as telling Neville one last piece of advice. "Just stay calm Neville. Don't look at Professor Snape and just follow the instructions on the board. Imagine he just doesn't exist in the room." I say, hoping that'll work to keep his nerves under control as I begin to leave with the prefect, dropping off my potion vial along the way.
[5 Affection with Neville Longbottom]
Good. A nice head start to Neville's Affection scores. If his future is anything to go by I'll either be getting something to do with Bravery or Herbology for achieving his Affection scores.
The Ravenclaw Prefect begins leading me through the castle, along the winding and constantly moving staircases, until we eventually wind up at gargoyle statue guarding another staircase.
"Sherbet Lemon." He speaks aloud to the gargoyle, causing it to move out of the way. The Prefect then gestures to me and says, "There you go Miss Fraener. Just climb to the top and knock on the door and you'll be in Headmaster Dumbledore's office."
"Thank you," I say in return, beginning to climb the stairs, after a minute of going up I finally reach a foreboding looking wooden door. Knocking as hard as I can, causing a loud resounding noise to echo back down the stairs.
"Come in Miss Fraener." I hear an older mans voice that can only be Dumbledore's from the other side and open the door, entering inside the office and seeing both Headmaster Dumbledore and Professor Sinistra sitting there.
"Umm hello Headmaster, Professor." I manage to say, making my way over to Dumbledore's desk and taking a seat beside Professor Sinistra.
"Welcome Miss Fraener," Dumbledore says in return, "Now then, Professor Sinistra here tells me that you were wanting to know about where your birth family is from?" He asks in his grandfatherly voice.
"Y-ya. I asked Professor Sinistra about it and she said that while we could try, it would be a very slow process," I begin to answer him with. "Especially with how slow the Ministry apparently is with these kind of requests."
Both Dumbledore and Professor Sinistra chuckle lightly at that, before he answers back, "That is certainly true. Well I certainly don't have an issue with you learning of where your family may be from." He says as he pulls a small stack of parchment from his desk along with a quill and inkwell.
"These are the papers you'll need to fill out in order to get things going with figuring out your birth family," Dumbledore says, "You'll need to fill this out as much as possible and then sign it with your blood as well as leave a drop of blood beside it." He tells me as I grab ahold of the parchments and begin looking through it.
"So my name, where I think my family is from, preferred types of magic, and any unique magical traits I have?" I question, seeing those as the main things the documents is asking for.
"Yes," Professor Sinistra says, "The Ministry and Gringotts use those details along with the blood as a way to compare you to other registered magical families in the area. Though, if you're family is from outside the country they may need to get ahold of the related Ministry to get any records they also have." She continues with.
I nod along with her words and grab ahold of the quill, beginning to write in all of the details that I can fill out. Name, Rin Fraener. Family location, I decide to put British Isles and Nordic countries, since Fraener sounds vaguely Nordic. Preferred magics would be Charms and Astrology. And I put down my Mana Sensing for unique magical traits as its the only thing I have so far that I can think of fitting that.
"And now just my bloody signature," I say to myself, pricking my finger with the quill and signing the parchment. Then letting a drop of blood fall onto the parchment next to it. Watching as the blood quickly soaks into the parchment.
"Here you go Headmaster." I say as I hand the parchments back to him.
"Thank you Miss Fraener," Dumbledore begins saying, a small twinkle in his eye. "Professor Sinistra and I have some other things to discuss, so run along and you might be able to catch your Herbology class with some time to spare."
"I'll see you tomorrow as well Miss Fraener." Professor Sinistra says with smile adorning her face.
"Umm, ya. Thank you again Professor, Headmaster." I say quickly, somewhat embarrassed at their generosity in this before hurriedly leaving, the wooden door closing with a loud thud.
"Sorry Headmaster." I say to myself as I come to the bottom of the stairs. "But Herbology is the last thing I'm gonna be going to with this free moment." I say as I begin making my way towards the seventh floor corridor. Eager to get one of my Quests done and grab that reward.
[Quest: Find the Room of Requirement]
[Rewards: 1000 EXP, 1 Gacha Coin]
With the last Gacha coin giving me the ability to become a dragon, I can only wonder what this one will give me as well.
Now from what I remember, the Room of Requirement was on the seventh floor opposite a portrait of some guy teaching trolls to dance. "Come on Rin. Find this and things will go swimmingly." I mumble to myself as I begin wandering the seventh floor corridor, finally finding the portrait. "Wow. Really unflattering portrait there." I comment after looking at the name of it. "Barnabas the Barmy eh? Definitely Barmy I'll say." Chuckling to myself as I begin pacing back and forth three times and watching in fascination as the door appears.
"Score!" I say, running inside and hearing the wonderful ding.
[Quest cleared]
[Rewards Received: 1000 EXP, 1 Gacha Coin]
[Level Up!]
[5 Stat Points]
[1 Gacha Coin]
"Use Gacha Coin." I say immediately, watching as the wheel appears again, spinning wildly as I then look around the room. Finally noticing thats its probably the barest, most boring room in existence.
"Wow. I know I wasn't wanting anything particularly special but this is certainly boring looking." I comment to myself before going back to the wheel as it begins slowing down.
[1 Gacha Coin used]
[Reward: Skill Book: Koei Style Martial Arts]
Ugh a martial arts style? Not very useful in the world of Harry Potter. Oh well, lets see what this is exactly.
[Skill Book: Koei Style Martial Arts]
[Koei Style Martial Arts: Rank Troll(T): Active Skill: A branch of classical jiujitsu. Consists of two techniques: Blink and Rakshasa's Palm]
[Techniques]
[Blink: A technique where the user moves at the moment that the user's opponent blinks, giving them the illusion that they have vanished. Player's Dex is tripled during the duration of the opponents blinking]
[Rakshasa's Palm: A palm strike with a twisting impact. Player's Str is increased 10% for every 30 degrees the Players arm is twisted during impact]
[Would Player like to learn this skill?]
[Yes/No]
"Uh... yes. Yes I will." I answer, clicking the Yes button, causing the Skill Book to fade away and the knowledge of the Skills begins filling my head, causing a sudden sharp pain to erupt in my head.
[Skill Book Used]
[Player has learned Koei Style Martial Arts]
Ouch. Coulda warned me about that Game.
"Well, theres that I guess. The Level Up was worth more then the Gacha was this time. Just goes to show that I can't rely on it all the time." I say to myself. "Actually, I wonder what the Room of Requirement's Lost and Found Room has for me. Especially with my Inventory, I could probably put basically everything in there." Wondering aloud as I leave the Room and begin pacing back and forth in front of it again, thinking intently of a Lost and Found Room instead, causing the door to appear once more.
"Bingo bango~" Making my way inside I am greeted by the sight of an impossibly large room filled with towers of what I can only call junk. "Looks just like it did in the movies. Now lets see what I can find."
I spend what seems like a couple hours in there, scrounging through the junk, finding 76 Galleons, 52 Sickles, and 90 Knuts. Those will definitely be helpful for me to survive outside of the school year. I also find some neat little trinkets like some enchanted frisbees, a bunch of different brand broomsticks, hats, robes, and cloaks. Theres even some tightly packed containers of potions that I'll have to try and figure the identities of for later. A few weapons like swords, axes and spears that might be neat to have decorating around an eventual home I'll need to have.
"Well done Rin," I comment to myself, looking at the different panels in my Inventory depicting all of these items I've tossed in. I then spy a row of bookcases lined with books and immediately start tossing them all in to go through later once I have some better free time, when suddenly I feel a dark and malevolent force washing over me.
[Quest Acquired]
[Quest: Escape the Room of Requirement from Voldemort's Horcrux]
[Quest Reward: 10,000 EXP, 1 Gacha Coin, Player can choose 1 Perk from the Perk Shop that costs 20 Level Points]
[Quest Failure: Player will be overcome by the Horcrux and Voldemort will be reborn]
[Quest Accepted]
Fuck shit fuck! The Horcrux shouldn't be able to actively attack someone! The hells going on!?
My mind racing as I use my Mana Sensing to feel where the force is coming from. Mana Sensing picking up a large pile of moving junk off in the distance rapidly coming closer. I turn my body as well and see where the doorway is, noticing that I've wandered off quite a distance away. "Shit! Got too carried away with collecting everything!" I lay into myself as I reach back into my Inventory and pull out a broom.
"Ok Rin, time to get outta here!" I kick off the ground and rise into the air, seeing the doorway maybe a mile off, unfortunately the Horcrux and its junk pile are already much closer then that.
I push the broom forward and race off towards the door, the broom disastrously slow from age and disuse for who knows how long. "Shitty broom! I'm gonna find the best one money can buy after this!" I yell loudly, pointing my wand back towards the rapidly approaching pile of junk. "Diffindo! Diffindo! Diffindo!" I rapidly cast my only real offensive spell at it. Not slowing it down at all as I quickly try to think of anything I can do.
"Game! Put half my Stat Points into Intelligence and the other half into Wisdom!" I yell, only other thing I can think of at the moment is to try and buff my Stats as much as possible.
[Acknowledged]
[Rin Fraener the Gamer]
[Gender: Female]
[HP: 1064]
[SP: 568]
[MP: 1614]
[Str: 15(30)]
[End: 17(32)]
[Dex: 17(27)]
[Int: 57(72)]
[Wis: 50(75)]
[Luc: 18]
[Stat Points: 0]
[Perks: 4]
[Flaws: 3]
[Perk gained for reaching 50 Intelligence: Magic Apprentice: All magic will gain 10% more EXP]
[Perk gained for reaching 50 Wisdom: Stalwart Mind: Helps prevent Players mind from being overcome with fear]
Fuck, neither of those really helped! "Come on broom! You can do it!" I yell out as I feel the piles of junk finally reach me, parts of cabinetry hitting the back of the broom and causing it to snap apart.
I let out a scream as I tumble downwards onto the ground, tumbling across the floor briefly before quickly forcing myself to my feet and running towards the doorway. My hand reaching back into the Inventory and grabbing another broom, swinging it back behind me as a weapon to try and hold of the junk.
"Diffindo!" I yell once more, brandishing my wand at the junk as well as the broom. I quickly try and think of what else I can do, straddling the broom once again I manage to push off the ground backwards away from the junk in a nick of time.
[Skill Rank Up]
[Beginner Broomstick Flying Mastery: Rank Dreadful(D): Passive Skill: Grants 5 Str & 5 End and 15% effectiveness to Broomstick Flying]
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[Beginner Broomstick Flying Mastery: Rank Poor(P): Passive Skill: Grants 5 Str & 5 End and 20% effectiveness to Broomstick Flying]
'More helpful then the Perks!' I think to myself as I continue pushing off the ground backwards, effectively bunnyhopping away, unable to get enough room to fly fully upwards, until finally, just as the junk piles are reaching up to me, I notice it, the diadem at the top of the pile and the plan hits me.
"Diffindo!" My final spell managing to hit the diadem just on the edge, causing it to be catapulted off the junk pile and back a good amount of distance.
[1 Luck gained]
The junk pile, without the aid of the Horcrux, then quickly crashes back down on itself without the Horcrux controlling it. I collapse to the floor breathing heavily for a moment until Mana Sensing picks up the Horcrux trying to approach again. I quickly force myself back up and use the broom to finally make my way out of the Room of Requirement, bursting through the doorway and slamming it shut behind me.
"Oh god!" I slump down out in the seventh floor corridor, watching intently as the doorway disappears once again.
[Quest Cleared]
[Rewards: 10,000 EXP, 1 Gacha Coin, Player can choose 1 Perk from Perk Shop that costs 20 Level Points]
[Level Up x 7]
[35 Stat Points gained]
[1 Gacha Coin]
[Please choose Perk costing 20 Level Points]
"Hehe, jeez Game. Can't even give me a moment to breathe." I comment to myself, my breathing labored from exertion, as I open the Perk Shop and looking at the different 20 Point Perks.
[Druid]
[Arcanist]
[Witch]
[Senju's Heir]
[Uchiha's Heir]
[Shaman]
[Rogue]
And a whole lot more, most of which aren't gonna give me anything particularly worthwhile.
"Hmm, looks like a lot of these are different classes in games. I suppose they focus on giving different skills for how that class operates usually." I finally make my decision based on what I would have liked during that whole Quest.
"Give me the Witch Perk Game." I finally decide on, figuring that its Skills will give me the best chance if anything like that happens again.
[Witch Perk Acquired]
[Skills Acquired]
[Teleport: Rank Troll(T): Active Skill: Player can teleport themselves 1 meter for every 100 MP. Player can only teleport within line of sight]
[Magic Arrow: Rank Troll(T): Active Skill: Player can create and fire off arrows made of Mana. Each arrow deals 20 damage and costs 10 MP. Can be overcharged]
[Mana Absorption: Rank Troll(T): Active Skill: Player can absorb Mana through their hands. Does not affect spells or skills used against you by higher level entities. Mana can only be absorbed at a rate of Wisdom/10 per second]
All pretty good to be honest. Mana Absorption is kind of a letdown at the moment, with the whole not affecting spells or skills from higher level entities, but I'm sure it'll improve a lot in the future once I rank it up a bunch. Also lets see what Level I am and how many Level Points I do have.
[Player Level: 18]
[Level Points: 25]
[Perk Shop]
Pretty good. Still not enough points to get any of the big Perks. Though I'm also not sure if I should hold onto my points for too long. Especially since a lot of the cheaper ones could give me more useful skills as well. Especially since I need to get that Dragon's Soul Perk for the Noble Phantasm Skill Book.
"Alright Rin. So you almost died and have your body taken over by Voldemort. Not what I was expecting for my first year but you know what? I. Fucking. Survived!" I say, trying to amp myself up after my almost death. Forcing myself to be calm so I can now go and do the other Quest I wanted to do today.
"Lets go find those kitchens Rin. Then, time to rest." I mutter to myself, hobbling off with a slight stutter in my step.
Finally leaving the seventh floor corridor and making my way instead towards the Great Hall, taking a separate staircase to the floor beneath it.
"Now lets see. There should be a painting of a pear around here." I say to myself as I look for the entrance of the Kitchens. Looking at each of the different portraits of fruits in different bowls. More fruits then I honestly woulda thought for one hallway.
After what feels like way to long for such a simple task, I finally find the painting. "Goddamn stupid hallway. Way too long to try and find something like this." I say as I reach up and lightly tickle the underside of the pear on it. The pear then suddenly lets out a giggle and moves around, eventually turning into a green handle.
"Wonderful." Grabbing ahold of the handle I yank it open and am rewarded with the sight of a room the size of the Great Hall, filled to the brim with food being prepped for tonights dinner. I watch as house elves go about their business back and forth until finally one of them notices me, hobbling over quickly and asking. "Oh! Does mistress witch needs us for something?"
"O-oh no! I was just uh..." I stammer for a moment at the question, thinking of how to explain my being here or finding it. "I was just wandering around and found this place. I'll.. just be leaving now." Muttering as I back out of the Kitchens and begin closing the portrait, until I have one last thought. "Oh, thank you all for your hard work!" I say before fully shutting the portrait and making my way back out and about the Hogwarts corridors.
[Quest Cleared]
[Rewards: 100 EXP, more delicious food at Feasts]
[10 Affection with Hogwarts House Elves]
Didn't expect the Affection. Also weird that its all Hogwarts Elves. Bah whatever. Way too tired for trying to figure this stuff out.
I slowly make my way back towards the Slytherin Common Room and into my dorm. Climbing into bed to enjoy its soothing embrace when I realize something.
"Oh crap. I forgot about my Gacha Coin." I quickly bring up the Gacha wheel and use the Coin.
[1 Gacha Coin used]
[Nighttime Sunglasses acquired]
Fucking sunglasses. This Gacha is both incredibly awesome and incredibly stupid. "Whatever. Lets see what these things can do." I say, grabbing the sunglasses out of my Inventory.
[Nighttime Sunglasses: A pair of sunglasses that lets its wearer see perfectly in the dark]
Certainly useful I guess. Especially in a couple years when I may need to get ahold of something and have to sneak out into the halls.
I put the sunglasses back into my Inventory and plop my head against my pillow.
"Man. What an overly exciting day. I'm gonna have to let Dumbledore know about that Horcrux tomorrow. Can't exactly let it continue roaming around in there if I wanna obtain more stuff and I certainly can't take it down myself." I decide, figuring that the Headmaster would be incredibly grateful to me for bringing this to his attention that he'd probably be willing to let me have some of the stuff left in there.
"Well, thats something to worry about tomorrow." Just as I squeeze those words out I immediately fall asleep.
Well now~! Certainly a slightly longer chapter then normal. Also first action scene as well. How was it? Any tips or tricks that you all have for me? Kinda worried it didn't come through from how I was imagining it going, and action scenes will kinda have to work well for some of the stuff I have planned in the future.
We also got to see some more Gacha rewards and a couple of Perks for Rin to use going forward. They're kinda weak right now but as more and more stat perks show up they'll grow to be much stronger. Hopefully they'll be useful enough for what I have planned~ mwahaha~
Anyways~ death and decay to all Angels~ Caenis out!