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11-12-2018, 05:12 AM
| | Arrivals and Departures (Floo Network and Phone Booth) Stretching towards the golden gates is a wide corridor lined with multiple gilded black marble fireplaces. Here is the main floo network and phone booth used by Ministry workers and visitors alike for arrivals and departures. The luster of marble has over time acquired an illusionary, shifting emerald green from their numerous uses; the marble stretching out to touch the dark wood floors that run down the corridor's center.
To the left are the floos for the arrivals of employees, and those located to the right are for departures. Visitors arrive through the red phone booth centered at the opposite end of the hallway. While many of the employees are busy rushing in and out of the floos, you may catch a few standing around awaiting the arrival of another before heading on there way. You may do the same, and even hold a conversation before heading for the gates or exit. Though it won't be much of one with the close quarters and carrying voices. |
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Logan Paton Gryffindor Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Gillyweed Beery Slytherin Third Year Ministry RPG Name:
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| Bathes in Maple Syrup | Dancing Lobster | Mrs. Charlie Weasley | Seneca's Beard | That's So Fetch Frankie was on his way out of the Ministry. The day had been moderately uneventful. A few things to check up on in the morning, a bag of crisps had been sneakily devoured before Bain walked in, and there was paperwork galore. He was quite glad to be done with the latter and was ready to head home to his wife and kids.
As he walked through the atrium, a noise registered in his mind, one that he hadn't heard in the space in what seemed like forever. Then he saw the flash of lights from the fireplaces, which were hard to miss. "About bloody time. Took long enough!" the Auror said aloud to the dude who stopped in the middle of the traffic flow. He was quite pleased with this development. Waiting on that phone booth every day really tested what little patience the former Gryffindor had.
Then he noticed the Transportation head standing there. He, uhh, hoped she hadn't heard his comment. She was likely the one that fixed all of this, right?
"Congrats on getting the floo to work again," he said to the woman after making his way over to the floos. The Auror's attention didn't remain on her very long when he took in the sight of Professor Department Head Flamsteed. Frankie couldn't help but notice that the man looked a lot thinner than the last time he had seen him. Was he ill? "You doing alright, sir?"
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01-10-2021, 02:36 AM
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Ah yes, she should have known people would be around and noticing when things were in order. It was something that she did enjoy even if she'd rather have went unnoticed for a little longer. The mysteries man had come around first and he was always curious, because Simone just wasn't sure how he really got around the ministry at all. "They are working, I hope they won't go away again for a very long time." She knew they wouldn't really, but she kept the smile that was itching to come across her lips away with the sight of a very familiar face.
Simone couldn't help the grin that came when the department head came near, "Well I guess it is good to know that nothing came back or at least nothing that was sinister. Doesn't matter really we have them up and running and you shouldn't have any other issues with it." She turned to really face the two men and gave her pleasant smile, "The lifts should be coming in the next day or so. Now that we know what is going on it should be a quick fix." Of course she knew exactly what to do to fix them, she just liked to keep suspense and the dramatics going a bit longer.
Holding back a sigh as yet another person came, Simone really wanted to make an exit and go on a little visit, but she just nodded to the MLE employee "Thank you, just doing my job, but it is nice to hear people so excited about it." Her eyes moved between the two men as the department head was asked about being alright.
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| astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf His expression remained unanimated despite this jovial news. Years of malfunction and inconvenience of uses the stairs only to navigate the Ministry was an extremely inefficient and any other time the man would have leapt on to tables or done something more celebratory, but today was not that sort of day. Nor was it the week. Perhaps even the year depending on how the rest of the events unfurled.
Did he need to inquire as to what was going on? No. And the department head simply nodded curtly to Simone before they were joined by another that required him to dip into the file cabinet of memory to identify. Frankie Paton. A Gryffindor. A prefect under Airey Flamsteed's time as Gryffindor Head of House.
"Yes, Mr. Paton. Perfectly fine," he replied with a dismissive brush of the hand through the air. "Is there a particular reason you feel inclined to ask me such a thing?"
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| Bathes in Maple Syrup | Dancing Lobster | Mrs. Charlie Weasley | Seneca's Beard | That's So Fetch The lifts were going to be working again soon as well? He overheard that correctly, yes? Well, what a relief! It sure seemed like things in the Ministry were on the up-and-up again. Finally. The floos and lifts not working properly and having to settle with owls did not make things easy. Now if only there was a way to make all that paperwork he had to deal with easier to take care of.
"After so long without them working," Frankie replied to the woman, "it would be absurd to not be excited about it. It's a pity that it took so long to fix them up." And he left it at that. What exactly had been wrong with them, he wasn't curious enough to ask. They were functioning again which was all he needed to know to be satisfied. He didn't care to know all the details about why they hadn't been working properly all this time.
He did care for his former professor, however. After all, this was the man that did facilitate that discussion all those years ago that got him to where he was now.
"You just look a bit ... under the weather, sir," the Auror replied sincerely to Flamsteed. He casted a quick glance at the woman before looking back at Airey. When was the last time the man had a hearty meal? And he had looked in a mirror recently, yes? "But I can imagine being down in Mysteries all day does that sometimes," the blond added with a chuckle, avoiding asking the questions that were in his head. If the man said he was fine... then okay...
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Originally Posted by Zoe As he walked through the atrium, a noise registered in his mind, one that he hadn't heard in the space in what seemed like forever. Then he saw the flash of lights from the fireplaces, which were hard to miss. "About bloody time. Took long enough!" the Auror said aloud to the dude who stopped in the middle of the traffic flow. He was quite pleased with this development. Waiting on that phone booth every day really tested what little patience the former Gryffindor had.
[...]"You doing alright, sir?" Was someone talking to him? He looked around and through his very huge horrible ugly coke-bottle glasses didn't really see the vague shape of anyone else around besides the two Department Heads who were busy talking to each other. "Ja," he agreed in his heavy German accent. "Vonder if ve kan use zem now... he muttered. Perhaps he should shuffle along on to the phone booth...or could he now take the floo home? He was still trying to decide (and block traffic) when he heard... Quote:
Originally Posted by Simone Krafft Ah yes, she should have known people would be around and noticing when things were in order. It was something that she did enjoy even if she'd rather have went unnoticed for a little longer. The mysteries man had come around first and he was always curious, because Simone just wasn't sure how he really got around the ministry at all. "They are working, I hope they won't go away again for a very long time." Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie "Simone," he greeted cordially. "The results are back. Cross examined with all the previous ones. No irregularities have been found." His movements were a bit robotic, something which would go unnoticed by the Unspeakable who barely received any kind of acknowledgement, and at one point it even looked like one of his fingers had twitched in an unnatural direction. "He will be pleased with this news...and what of the lifts?" Right, well, that answered his question...guess he could floo home. And it seemed that Airey was bound and determined to ignore Adam. Well, that was better then him threatening to fire him for a rock golem and the damage it caused. It hadn't been like he and his department mates had created the thing or chased it down. Wait...nope that wasn't right. He and Laurel had attempted to chase it down. Not that they had been successful.
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Originally Posted by Zoe "You just look a bit ... under the weather, sir," the Auror replied sincerely to Flamsteed. He casted a quick glance at the woman before looking back at Airey. When was the last time the man had a hearty meal? And he had looked in a mirror recently, yes? "But I can imagine being down in Mysteries all day does that sometimes," the blond added with a chuckle, avoiding asking the questions that were in his head. If the man said he was fine... then okay... "No, it usually does not," he muttered, not realizing he had spoke aloud. It occurred to him then perhaps Laurel and he weren't the only ones thinking something odd had happened to Airey. What he should do with this information however? The German Unspeakable had NO IDEA.
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Simone listened and gave the MLE employee a bright smile, "I would think everyone would be excited for them to be up and running. It is a good thing we got them to be a priority, where I've heard they were not for some time." Tsk, tsk, though she knew differently and she had to mask the amused smile she was feeling.
Though she was in good humor at the moment it wasn't hard to observe some red flags going on around here. The mystery employee seemed to be not noticing any difference (thank you poor eyes), but the MLE employees was being very curious. Did he not realize curiosity killed the cat or so the saying went. She would need to speak to Baine about this soon. He needed to keep his employees on a tight schedule. "Well gentlemen, if there is nothing else, I shall go get those lifts finished."
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Kittredge Flannigan | For the Gabriel ^^ The Gay Agenda™< >Homiesexual uwu Kit was a bit frazzled this morning.
He had been on the job for several months now, but he was still having a hard time getting ready in time. This morning was no exception—he had already put on a lavender button down and bright yellow slacks that did not go together, but his lateness was made even worse by the fact that he needed to refill his hard candy drawer. Yes, Kitty had a drawer full of hard candies in his desk because it was necessary even though he wasn't at it all that much... but he still managed to eat a whole drawer's worth. See? Necessary. So he obviously filled up a bag with butterscotch, strawberry and other assorted flavors of individually wrapped candies to bring to the Ministry and refill his desk drawer this morning. Because he needed to.
Kitty may have been rushing out of the fireplace a bit too fast so he could clock in on time and tripped over his own feet, letting out a small yelp. Accidents happen, right? Except this accident included a large and heavy bag of individually wrapped hard candies going flying into the air. If it didn't hit someone and knock them clean out, it would certainly land on the floor and scatter candy everywhere. Sorry, maintenance.... this wouldn't be pretty. |
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Originally Posted by NiallNIP Kit was a bit frazzled this morning.
He had been on the job for several months now, but he was still having a hard time getting ready in time. This morning was no exception—he had already put on a lavender button down and bright yellow slacks that did not go together, but his lateness was made even worse by the fact that he needed to refill his hard candy drawer. Yes, Kitty had a drawer full of hard candies in his desk because it was necessary even though he wasn't at it all that much... but he still managed to eat a whole drawer's worth. See? Necessary. So he obviously filled up a bag with butterscotch, strawberry and other assorted flavors of individually wrapped candies to bring to the Ministry and refill his desk drawer this morning. Because he needed to.
Kitty may have been rushing out of the fireplace a bit too fast so he could clock in on time and tripped over his own feet, letting out a small yelp. Accidents happen, right? Except this accident included a large and heavy bag of individually wrapped hard candies going flying into the air. If it didn't hit someone and knock them clean out, it would certainly land on the floor and scatter candy everywhere. Sorry, maintenance.... this wouldn't be pretty. It is...possible that Gabriel was running late. Well, walking late, technically. He wasn't in a rush. So he emerged from the fireplace sooo casually. Just another day in the ministry. And he wasn't paying much attention to his surroundings, which wasn't a great look for a YATI.
He definitely didn't see the bag of candy flying his way, until it hit him in the stomach. He grunted as the impulse pushed him back toward the fireplace, and instinctively raised his hands to catch the bag before it fell to the ground. What in Merlin--?
He glanced around, spotting the fellow who he quickly assumed had dropped it. Kittridge, maybe? He seemed like a generally harmless sort, but...suspicious as always, Gabriel opened up the bag to look inside before giving it back. Had to make sure the fellow wasn't smuggling in dungbombs or something. But no, this was...hard candy??? Gabriel pulled one out to examine it. Was it at least prank candy from WWW's? |
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Originally Posted by Waddles It is...possible that Gabriel was running late. Well, walking late, technically. He wasn't in a rush. So he emerged from the fireplace sooo casually. Just another day in the ministry. And he wasn't paying much attention to his surroundings, which wasn't a great look for a YATI.
He definitely didn't see the bag of candy flying his way, until it hit him in the stomach. He grunted as the impulse pushed him back toward the fireplace, and instinctively raised his hands to catch the bag before it fell to the ground. What in Merlin--?
He glanced around, spotting the fellow who he quickly assumed had dropped it. Kittridge, maybe? He seemed like a generally harmless sort, but...suspicious as always, Gabriel opened up the bag to look inside before giving it back. Had to make sure the fellow wasn't smuggling in dungbombs or something. But no, this was...hard candy??? Gabriel pulled one out to examine it. Was it at least prank candy from WWW's? Kitty recollected himself from his stumble, straightening out his shirt and pants—they may not go together but he would at least look sharp—and looked around for where his bag landed. He expected there to be a bunch of candy scattered everywhere but there... wasn't? Had it been magicked away already?
But then he noticed... "Gabriel!" That was his name, right? Kitty was at least 75% sure on that one. Either way, he had caught the bag which Kit knew was pretty heavy. Kit rushed over to him. "You're alright, right? Nothing broken?"
Kit also noticed him taking out some of the candy. "You can have some if you want! There's obviously a lot, so I don't mind!" Kitty grinned, thinking he might've found another candy lover like himself. |
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Originally Posted by NiallNIP Kitty recollected himself from his stumble, straightening out his shirt and pants—they may not go together but he would at least look sharp—and looked around for where his bag landed. He expected there to be a bunch of candy scattered everywhere but there... wasn't? Had it been magicked away already?
But then he noticed... "Gabriel!" That was his name, right? Kitty was at least 75% sure on that one. Either way, he had caught the bag which Kit knew was pretty heavy. Kit rushed over to him. "You're alright, right? Nothing broken?"
Kit also noticed him taking out some of the candy. "You can have some if you want! There's obviously a lot, so I don't mind!" Kitty grinned, thinking he might've found another candy lover like himself. Yes, Gabriel was his name. And now that he'd determined that it really was just...normal, boring candy, he shifted the bag to his non-dominant arm, holding it a bit like a toddler against his hip. Not that he'd held many toddlers lately. But it really was not that heavy. Not compared to the weights he lifted when he worked out. He tried to stay in good shape, for chasing down the dark wizards and such. He grinned back at Kittredge and nodded. "Kittredge, right?" he asked. "I think I'm good, but...why do you have so much candy?"
He put the candy sample back in the bag and offered it to the other man, giving him a look up and down, definitely taking in his...fashion choice. Was this the trend now? Or maybe Kittredge wanted to look like candy himself?
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Originally Posted by Waddles Yes, Gabriel was his name. And now that he'd determined that it really was just...normal, boring candy, he shifted the bag to his non-dominant arm, holding it a bit like a toddler against his hip. Not that he'd held many toddlers lately. But it really was not that heavy. Not compared to the weights he lifted when he worked out. He tried to stay in good shape, for chasing down the dark wizards and such. He grinned back at Kittredge and nodded. "Kittredge, right?" he asked. "I think I'm good, but...why do you have so much candy?"
He put the candy sample back in the bag and offered it to the other man, giving him a look up and down, definitely taking in his...fashion choice. Was this the trend now? Or maybe Kittredge wanted to look like candy himself?
Because of the bright colors, obviously. Kit nodded as he took his bag back. "Mhm! But you can call me Kit. Or Kitty! I respond to both! Or I guess Kittredge works, too, but it's longer and sounds kinda boring, doesn't it?" he asked, scrunching his face up a bit. It's not that he didn't like his name, he just thought his nicknames suited him better. Kittredge was his like.... his business name! He would be called that for business purposes. His friends could call him Kit or Kitty because those were his fun names.
Kitty blinked. "It's for refilling my candy drawer," he stated as if it were the most normal thing in the world. He took notice of Gabriel giving him a once over and looked down. These were definitely colors that he wore normally, but he liked to wear colors that went together; to make this work he would have to have some sort of jacket or other accessories to bring the two pieces together, but he just didn't have the time to sort that out this morning. That's what he spent a lot of his time on in the mornings, actually.... but he wouldn't change his own style for anything because it was his! "Ah, yeah, sorry I was in a rush this morning—"
Kitty looked back up and gasped, grabbing Gabriel's hand as he started running. He almost forgot why he tripped in the first place! "We're gonna be late!!!" |
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Originally Posted by NiallNIP Kit nodded as he took his bag back. "Mhm! But you can call me Kit. Or Kitty! I respond to both! Or I guess Kittredge works, too, but it's longer and sounds kinda boring, doesn't it?" he asked, scrunching his face up a bit. It's not that he didn't like his name, he just thought his nicknames suited him better. Kittredge was his like.... his business name! He would be called that for business purposes. His friends could call him Kit or Kitty because those were his fun names.
Kitty blinked. "It's for refilling my candy drawer," he stated as if it were the most normal thing in the world. He took notice of Gabriel giving him a once over and looked down. These were definitely colors that he wore normally, but he liked to wear colors that went together; to make this work he would have to have some sort of jacket or other accessories to bring the two pieces together, but he just didn't have the time to sort that out this morning. That's what he spent a lot of his time on in the mornings, actually.... but he wouldn't change his own style for anything because it was his! "Ah, yeah, sorry I was in a rush this morning—"
Kitty looked back up and gasped, grabbing Gabriel's hand as he started running. He almost forgot why he tripped in the first place! "We're gonna be late!!!" "Okay...Kit, then," Gabriel said with a nod. He'd call him whatever he wanted, but Kitty felt a bit too familiar. They barely knew each other.
Candy drawer. Did everyone on Level 4 have a candy drawer? If so, Gabriel needed to visit there more often. He'd heard they had a cafe or something but...he tended to avoid that, because of the plants. He didn't need more plants in his life. And Gabriel was not sure why Kit was apologizing. Was it for throwing a several pound bag of candy at him? If so, he didn't mind. He needed to be kept on his toes, for the YATI training. "No need to apologize."
But then the other man was grabbing his hand and Gabriel started jogging to keep up. What? WHat was happening? "Whaa--?" So much confusion here. He supposed they could share a lift though? |
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Originally Posted by Waddles "Okay...Kit, then," Gabriel said with a nod. He'd call him whatever he wanted, but Kitty felt a bit too familiar. They barely knew each other.
Candy drawer. Did everyone on Level 4 have a candy drawer? If so, Gabriel needed to visit there more often. He'd heard they had a cafe or something but...he tended to avoid that, because of the plants. He didn't need more plants in his life. And Gabriel was not sure why Kit was apologizing. Was it for throwing a several pound bag of candy at him? If so, he didn't mind. He needed to be kept on his toes, for the YATI training. "No need to apologize."
But then the other man was grabbing his hand and Gabriel started jogging to keep up. What? WHat was happening? "Whaa--?" So much confusion here. He supposed they could share a lift though? Kitty continued tugging Gabriel along towards the lifts, trying his best to move as quickly as possible but pulling a strapping young man and carrying a big bag of candy were impeding his swiftness. "I can't be late! I'm still basically brand new, it would look so bad!! And you shouldn't be late either!" Kitty didn't understand why Gabriel didn't seem as worried as he was. He seemed like he was around Kitty's age, so there was no way Gabriel could've been here for much longer than him, right? That would leave such a bad impression! |
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