Previously, on the Caretaker...

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You lower your voice and continue.

“But i haven't even used my library card”

“Then what is this?”
She pulls out a small card from the catalog, a white card with Hogwarts Logo and a stack of precariously balancing books and your picture next to it. It reads “Hogwarts Staff Library Permit: LeClair. Willow.”

“Wha-there must be a mistake, i've neve-”

“I've worked in this library for over 70 years, I take my job very seriously, so seriously that I implemented a special system that won't allow anyone to get anything out of here without a special permit, not even Headmaster Potter himself is exempt from this”
She says as she slowly rises from her chair behind her desk, her bones creaking in a strangely menacing way.
“It's a perfect system. I never make mistakes”

“But i-”

“Return the books or be banished forever!”

She snaps her fingers and you are magically lifted and carried away, only to be thrown out through the library’s front door and fall and slide across the corridor, ending up just a couple of steps away from some small stairways.

You can only hear the door slowly closing behind you as you stand up, some students standing around in silence or murmuring stuff you can't understand clearly.

You stand up and dust yourself up.

Clearly something is up here, you have never even been close to the library, how is it that your special Staff Permit is already there?

“Looks like i got my own mystery to solve here”

What will you do?
>Go back in and try to clear things up, maybe you can make her understand?.
>Investigate how it is that your card is already in there. (Roll 1D100, Best of 3)
>Screw her, sneak in later at night (move on with the rest of your day)
>Other (Write in)

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and now, we continue...

“Think, think, think…How do I figure this out?”

You never considered yourself to be a particularly bright witch, you were more of a…”Do now, let somebody else ask questions later” kinda witch, which is why you have let Brandon do the investigating.
But now it seems like you don't have any other options other than to clear this mystery for yourself.

“It can't be THAT hard, right? it's just figuring out who took your card, surely there must be-”

And just like that it hits you.

“Of course! there is a spell precisely for this kind of stuff!”

You head back into the library and walk towards the desk of the boney old librarian.
The moment she sees you, she frowns and raises her hand to snap her fingers once again but she seems to stop herself and instead waits for you to stand in front of her desk.

“Give me one good reason not to kick you out of here again”

“i know! i know! im sorry! i-”

“SHH!”

Merlin, you want to punch her head off, but right now you need to play nice.

“Right” You almost whisper.
“I know we started with the wrong foot and that is my fault, i completely forgot where i put those books and-”

“Did you LOSE the books?!” She…screams? you are not sure how she manages to be so quiet and loud at the same time.

“No! nono! nothing like tha-!”

“SHH!”

Your knuckles become white for a second but you manage to control yourself.

“Sorry…they are in my classroom, im sure of it, but i just can't find them since there is so much stuff in there, so i was wondering if i could do a quick spell on my library card to track them, after all, where my card was, surely my books would be there too” you lie.

She stares at you with a dubious expression on her face.

“Bit of a complicated way to do this, don't you think?”

“Yeah, i know, but i'd rather do this than to keep looking for hours in the same place and not knowing if i'm even getting close to where they are, this will be faster!”

She starts looking through her catalog and pulls out your library card.

“If you ever want to set foot in this library every again, you WILL get those books back”

She holds your library card out so you can do your thing.

“Don't worry! this will be fast!”

“SHH!”

You chose to ignore the heavy palpitation in your heart that she is giving you right now and focus on getting your wand out.

“Now…what was the spell…ah, right” You clear your throat and cast the spell.
“Appare Vestigium!”

You hold your wand in the palm of both hands and gently blow into it, a golden dust comes out of the tip of your wand and envelopes the library card.
A couple of students get their attention stolen by the magical golden dust that suddenly shoots out of the library, leaving a trail for you to follow.

“exzellent!” You say with an involuntary yet heavy German accent

You run out of the library, the cranky librarian shouting “NO RUNNING!” and getting shushed by some students as you exit the quiet place and into the corridors of the castle.

“Now all I have to do is follow the golden trail and i´ll find whoever took my stuff!”

You think as you run chasing the spell and notice that every student keeps staring at it as it moves through the castle.

“The very visible and telling golden spell that is getting everyone's attention…”

Wait…

“The spell that is heading towards whoever took my stuff and will be alerted of it as soon as it reaches them! FUCK!”

You can't stop the spell now or you will never find out the one responsible for this, only one option left.
You are going to have to outrun it

>Roll 1D100+20 (+20 from Willows Physical Muggle Skills/Fitness) DC 75

links to previous threads
Part 1:
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6038711/

Part 2:
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6080818/

Part 3:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Caretaker%20Quest

Thanks to IlvermoryQM for the links!
(if anyone can figure out a way to save the ".moe" thread into "thisisnotatrueending" that would be much appreciated)

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>>6159541
Glad to see the new thread up.

Rolled 75 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>6159678
And my roll. Which seems to have disappeared from my post for some reason.

Rolled 96 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>6159541
I was gonna suggest she just call a broom to herself, but it looks like it won't be needed.

Rolled 55 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>6159541

>>6159547
And you are welcome. In theory it is possible to pull all the posts and images from moe with a couple of tools and do a manual upload to suptg, but I have never tried it, and it sounds like a bitch. If I get board some day I might try but kinda unlikely.

Let me know if you need me to archive this one when it hits like page 8 or 9.

>>6159758
Didn't even note how high that was.

Going for the FIT girl is paying dividends. Bish can run. I wonder if she could bench Brandon if she tried lol.

“Im glad im wearing my loose outfit today”

You have seen students run when they are late for their classes, you always notice how they are restraining themselves because they know they aren't supposed to be running in the corridors of the castle. Their legs move fast but their steps are stiff and not as big as they could be.
Even the staff do that when there is an emergency, which always striked you as odd since that's the time when those rules should be disregarded for the sake of response time.

Luckily for you and your Muggle ancestry, you knew of a particular…”sport” that not many Muggles practice, let alone wizards. A sport that you were restricted from practicing in your time at Beauxbatons but still found the time and places to do so while in your weekends outside of the fancy school.

Parkour.

And you are itching to shake the rust off.

Unlike any student or other staff member, you give yourself a second to take a deep breath and shake your limbs, you let yourself get loose, then you run.

No, not run, that still feels too slow and stiff, no.

You sprint. Each step is as big as you can take and as fast as your body allows you. Slightly leaning forwards while your arms sway from side to side in big motions.

However, you are running against magic, it's impossible to catch up to it by simply running, so when you see the golden dust take a sharp turn and down a set of stairs hanging under another set of stairs, you jump from the railguard and land with an unstoppable and smooth stride, followed by sliding between the second set of railguard´s posts, skipping 2 stories and immediately catching up with the spell.

It then follows a winding path of corridors, taking sharp and wild turns with each intersection it finds which you follow smoothly by jumping and running on the walls each time, you even managed to jump OVER a student when they crouched after seeing the golden dust going their way, needless to say, a lot of students were left wondering what the fuck was wrong with you. But it doesn't matter, as long as the target of the spell doesn't notice it.

The spell goes across the main courtyard of the castle, going through the decorative windowless holes of the outer walls and down a small hill that ends with a jump into an almost hidden and low transited corridor without a roof.

You crouch-slide the entire hill down, your hand lagging behind to create balance and finally jump into the corridor and kick off the wall to land with a roll and a slight jog before continuing your sprint.

You see the spell go behind a statue and into a hidden hole.

You have never seen this corridor before.
It's a simple stone road with solid stone walls to its sides that stop the small hills on both sides from reaching the ground, creating an almost hidden and tight path that hides itself in the shadow of the hills anytime the sun is not directly on top of it. At its end, the statue of a snake coiling around a pillar, its head pointing down from the highest point of the pillar, a couple of stone benches on each side create a serene and private resting area that you suspect most couples use when they get the chance, given the carved hearts on a couple of big stones next to each bench, finally, the circular roofless room walls are covered in vines with some white and purple blooming flowers, creating an almost romantic atmosphere thanks to the singular torch at the base of the pillar from where the snake comes out.

You almost stop for a second to admire the place before noticing the hidden tunnel behind a patch of vines, it's a thin hole that goes diagonally underground and suddenly ends in an old door.

You stop for a second to inspect the door, looking for any indications of where it leads before saying “screw it” and going it.

As soon as you close the door behind you, you feel the chilly air of the tunnel hit you right in the face, giving you goosebumps thanks to the air cooling down the sweat sliding across your skin.

The dark rocky tunnel is illuminated by a few torches every few meters and the golden dust of the spell slowing down but still moving without stopping.

“What is this?”

As you walk along the tunnel, you notice how it goes from a rocky texture to a more smooth feeling when you slide your hand across the walls, they feel cold to the touch.

*splash splash splash*

You notice that your steps are feeling sloshy and wet.
Before long, you hear the sound of running water, a waterfall and…music?

“Wait a minute, i´ve heard this music before…”

You decide this is a good moment to finally end the spell, don't want to be caught now.

“Finite incantatem”

>DUE TO PASSING ALL THE ROLLS YOU EARN AN EXTRA +5 TO ALL PHYSICAL ROLLS WITH WILLOW

With the golden glow of the spell gone, you can see a blue-ish light coming from a final turn at the end of the tunnel.

You hug the wall and take a peek around the corner.

You first encounter a shifting blue-ish wall.

“Wait a minute, that's not a wall” you think.

You get closer to it and touch it with a finger, you get splashed by the falling water.

“A waterfall”

As you step closer to it, you notice the vague shape of a familiar room, the Slytherin common room.

“A hidden entrance?”

“One only a handful of people know”

You jump at the sound of the female voice right on the other side of the waterfall.

“Calm down, i´ll say nothing, after all, keeping the secret is my job” the voice giggles after that.

“Who are you?” you ask, trying to make out the gray-ish shape of the person behind the curtain of water.

“My author painted me without a name, although throughout the years some people have given me the name of “the stone mermaid” but I would hardly call that a name, more like a description if anything.”

“Painted?”

“Mhm”

“ooo…kay…so, what is this?”

“What do you mean “what is-” wait a second, how did you find this tunnel?”

“Well, there was this door behind some vines, i just followed the path all the way here”

The voice becomes quiet for a few moments before exhaling in a frustrated manner.

“What's the POINT of a secret entrance if they left the door WIDE OPEN?!”

“Oh sweet! so it really is a secret entrance! and that's the Slytherin common room, right?”

“*sigh* yes it is” she says in a defeated tone. “Just cross the waterfall and you´ll appear in front of my painting”

You take a step back and jump through the wall of water.

You feel the freezing water sliding down your neck and onto your back as you land with a gentle “thud” and notice that you are now standing in front of the painting of a statue of a mermaid sitting in front of a waterfall and a pond pooling in front of it.

“If you need it, simply jump through the painting again, try aiming at the waterfall though, otherwise it's gonna hurt” The mermaid says before jumping into the pond and disappearing for a second before getting closer to the painting, making herself look WAY bigger than she was.
“and KEEP the secret, if more people find about the hidden door then my job is pointless! also close the door when you get the chance, please”
And with that, she dips into the pond and disappears from view.

You turn around and see the empty common room, the music coming from an ignored gramophone next to a couch.

“They all must be in their classes”

You walk to it and lift the needle, stopping the music and bathing the room in silence.

“Well, the spell brought me to the Slytherin room and there is only one relevant person to this entire thing that i´ve heard Brandon talk about, now…which way was his room? i think its over here”

You walk to the boys dorms, thankfully the castle lets you walk in without problems. (Perhaps the castle is letting you in? you´ll have to let Brandon know about that later) and look for the room where Elliot sleeps.

“This isn't it…this isn't it…there we go, found you”

You step into the circular room after verifying that it is in fact empty.

“Now, where are those-oh! there they are!”

You find the books you were “looking for” and take them from their resting place on top of a bureau.

“Well, that was easy, now i just need to get out of here before the classes end”

You walk towards the door but stop halfway

“Oooooorrrrr…”

You slowly turn around on your heels, a sly smile on your face

>”Nah, better get out while i can”
>”Maybe i could have a look around, surely that kid Elliot must be hiding something, right?” (Roll 1D100 to “look for anything useful” Best of 3 rolls.)

i think besides rolling for dick size, these have been some of the best rolls in the entire quest so far! if only Brandon had these when he needed them the most...

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>>6161598
>DUE TO PASSING ALL THE ROLLS YOU EARN AN EXTRA +5 TO ALL PHYSICAL ROLLS WITH WILLOW

Fuck yeah. It was the French, I think, that did invent the art of urban movement., so nifty she knows how to Parkour.


>”Maybe i could have a look around, surely that kid Elliot must be hiding something, right?” (Roll 1D100 to “look for anything useful” Best of 3 rolls.)

Let's ride high on our streak of luck. Will wait for rolls to be called if this wins.

I am also imaging a wet, sweaty Willow now.... Yum.

>>6161679
>>6161601

Actual link to vote post since I got distracted by a call.

Saar, would jou... "No fuck off" was the conversation.

>>6161683
Maybe you got a bit too distracted mate, you forgot your roll…

>>6161697

If that choice wins, I will roll.

Otherwise, say I roll a 100? Then of course it will influence other people to chose that option, since it is certain success. Same if I rolled a 1; it would influence other people to not chose that option since it is a crit fail.

Votes and rolls need to be separate for that reason. IMO, I don't run the show, so if Kektus says go ahead and roll, I will.

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>6161697

Oh it is you QM. Dropped your trip.

So here is a roll if you want it at the same time.

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>6161601
>”Maybe i could have a look around, surely that kid Elliot must be hiding something, right?” (Roll 1D100 to “look for anything useful” Best of 3 rolls.)

>>6161768
yeah, my bad, i was phoneposting since i was still in bed
>>6161767
yeah, the reason i ask for rolls when choosing a vote is mostly due to save time, i already take long enough between updates, i dont want to wait for a vote to win AND THEN ask for rolls, better to just get the ball rolling ahead of time.
also i feel its better since if anybody gets any lower roll, other people might want to jump in for the save