NPCs · first: UC2 E4
Joe "JJ" Jacobs
Esther has inducted a new wizard into the Gramercy Occult Society, JJ, whom Brennan describes as the Columbia math whiz guy mentioned in episode one UC2 E4·02:38:05. He is a big guy in a 1up video-game t-shirt who says "This is all wild, this is crazy" UC2 E4·02:38:40. He says he discovered a theoretical particle of time, and Esther told him he had discovered magic through science UC2 E4·02:39:44.
JJ is a Columbia grad student with a full ride who learned magic was real right after Halloween, and Brennan describes him as a first-level wizard casting from a laptop wired to a battery pocket UC2 E5·00:03:56 UC2 E5·00:17:41 UC2 E5·00:32:52 UC2 E5·00:34:26. His research is on New York minutes, which he says are faster than light UC2 E6·01:25:09. He sent it to Gladiator with an internship application that was denied, and says he shouldn't have UC2 E6·01:23:12 UC2 E8·00:15:48 UC2 E8·01:10:42. He says Tony, who has been pushy over text, asked how the Umbral Engine works and about the Society's defenses UC2 E8·01:10:42 UC2 E8·01:14:11.
JJ plans to go into the Met at night, take Native art there and return it to the tribes, and by UC2_10 Brennan says he is probably a fourth-level wizard and a teleporter, back with a bag of holding bursting at the seams UC2 E8·01:16:34 UC2 E10·00:04:16 UC2 E10·00:14:10. He builds the Gotham Timepieces and hands them out UC2 E14·01:24:12 UC2 E14·01:24:21. In UC2_15 he shouts "Tony tampered with the engine!", and Brennan says JJ's research is being used in the fight with Tony UC2 E15·01:45:25 UC2 E16·00:11:02.
In the last fights he moves his Blur spell, casts Magic Missile, guards the nest, and Brennan says being around the party made him "double level up" UC2 E17·00:25:24 UC2 E17·00:54:15 UC2 E17·01:07:41 UC2 E17·02:14:35. He gives Perry the Help action in the birth of the dragon and films the barbecue: "It's mid July" UC2 E18·00:20:49 UC2 E18·02:06:53.
By episode
UC2 E4: We Need To Talk About Cody
- JJ (first appearance in person; card "JOE "JJ" JACOBS / APPRENTICE WIZARD OF / THE GRAMERCY OCCULT SOCIETY", 02:38:21) — Brennan: "JJ is this person that she was talking about back in episode one, who was like the Columbia math whiz guy" — 02:38:05; "I kinda discovered this theoretical particle of time." — 02:39:44.
UC2 E5: Trouble at the Tunnel
- JJ (Joe "JJ" Jacobs) (from UC2_04; apprentice wizard of the Gramercy Occult Society) — at the NYPL he says "I got the full ride to Columbia" and that his brothers are "back on the rez" — 00:03:56, 00:04:03. Brennan: he is a first-level wizard with spells on a laptop wired to a battery pocket — 00:32:52, 00:34:26. He found out "sort of right after Halloween that magic was real" — 00:17:41. Esther: "JJ, this is a crash course." — 00:08:04. Brennan: "JJ is going to post up like on this little railing." — 00:36:43. He rebuilds the wards by Intelligence (Arcana) checks at the end of each round (see Roll log). "This is what support feels like." — 01:27:49. Brennan on his icon: covered in spell markers (Ally: "Mardi Gras beads") — 01:32:41–01:32:48.
UC2 E6: Collaborators
- JJ (Joe "JJ" Jacobs) (from UC2_04) — rebuilds the wards; "Okay, I think that's done." — 00:35:37. Tells Cody "Dude, those combo moves were out of control, man!" — 00:42:25. "Do you have your Switch on you?" — 00:43:24. At the ferry explains his research: a particle "in fractal quantum entanglement" with minutes in New York; "There is nothing faster than <…> a New York minute." — 01:25:09. Applied for an internship at Gladiator and sent them the research: "Oh, well, I sent it in because I applied for an internship at Gladiator." — 01:23:12. Esther: "JJ didn't know the magical world was real three or four days ago." — 01:23:53. At the council had Detect Magic up on the chest and "is sweating bullets" — 02:03:27. To Tony: "There were two distinct effects on you." — 02:14:32.
UC2 E8: Feasts & Families
- JJ (from UC2_04; the grad student per Emily, 00:15:33) — Brennan: his application to the internship was denied; his stuff is on file — 00:15:48. In his room: "It's nice to have someone to like chill with on a day where like everyone is super busy." — 01:00:35. "city's really lonely, man" — 01:01:33. His family portrait shows his family "dressed in Seminole regalia" and a hunting knife with a gator-skin sheath made by his father — 00:59:51, 01:01:03. His account of Tony: JJ says he had Detect Magic on and saw "battle magic" on Tony from both Sofia and Pete, told Tony about those spells, and says "he's been kind of pushy recently over text messages" — 01:10:42; Tony asked him about the Gramercy Occult Society's defenses and "how does the Umbral Engine really kind of work", to be ready "in case anyone tries to make a go for the, for the Society or the Order" — 01:14:11; he "shouldn't have sent that research into them" to Gladiator — 01:10:42. Ricky answers "I'm down for whatever dude" and JJ "I'm super down to clown" — 01:18:22, 01:18:38. His plan: "going into the Met at night" to take Native art and return it to the tribes — 01:16:34.
UC2 E9: Fight at the Museum
- JJ (from UC2_04) — "an apprentice wizard of the Gramercy Occult Society" (Brennan, recap, 00:01:45): t-shirt, sneakers, laptop tapped to a battery pack — 00:27:33. "I know it was only a couple of weeks ago, this is not the Holland Tunnel. I'm ready to throw down." — 00:28:04. His own spell: "I'll be able to sneak through from another dimension and straight up snag all of that Native art while the museum's closed" — 00:28:38. In Nod: "Okay, well, whole other dimension, oh my god." — 00:31:31. Guides: the unicorn spirit "got moved into a wing I think near Arms and Armor" — 00:34:16. History +8: 17, shatters a case, tosses Ricky a musket — 01:03:37. Fire Bolt: 19 hits for 8 fire damage — 01:27:15–01:27:36; second Fire Bolt burns the Continental Army armor: "Fuck you, man!" — 01:52:58.
UC2 E10: Nulla Dies Umquam Memori Vos Eximet Aevo
- JJ (from UC2_04) — Brennan: "probably like a fourth level wizard now" — 00:04:16; school Conjuration, "as a teleporter" — 00:04:43, 00:04:49. Brings back a bag of holding "bursting at the seams" — 00:14:10. Shows an orbital map of Nod with raw Umbra — 00:14:58. Explains observation and Umbra: "This belief is a powerful, toxic substance in some cases." — 00:29:49. At JFK: "Oh my God. Alejandro Ortiz, you're legendary." — 01:24:47. "Yeah, that sounded badass." — 01:33:39.
UC2 E14: History Checks and Lost Dex
UC2 E15: For the Hoard
- JJ (from UC2_04) — "The engine, Tony tampered with the engine!" — 01:45:25.
UC2 E16: Treachery At Gramercy
- JJ (Joe "JJ" Jacobs, from UC2_04) — with Kingston and Sofia; his research is used: "JJ's research is being used here" (Brennan, 00:11:02); "Who needs protection?" — 00:57:49; Blur on Kingston; 4d4 plus 4, 11 damage to Tony — 01:27:19; gives Ricky the Help action: "Rick! Rick, man, come on." — 02:01:15.
UC2 E17: Two Sides of the Same Coin (Part 1)
UC2 E18: Two Sides of the Same Coin (Part 2)
- JJ (from UC2_04) — gives the Help action to Perry (to summon Kugrash) — 00:20:49; runs to the door — 00:56:11; films the end: "Do you want me to focus on the extra planar being being banished back to the depths of dreaming or you and the baby?" — 01:25:46; films the barbecue: "It's mid July." — 02:06:53.