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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Sarah Edwards
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|  catching up Gryffinclaw-Ravendor • The REAL Hermione Granger
SPOILER!!: catchup Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising  [COLOR="#6960EC"
"Alright, whilst we're driving to our destination, everyone please grab a jacket, gloves, and goggles and carefully put them on over your wizarding clothes!" Well the jacket at least.
She donned her own set of purple driving gear, as she spoke, to demonstrate. [/COLOR]
[/CENTER] Sarah grabbed a red jacket, the goggles and gloves and she put them on ovewr her clothes. This was going to be exciting. Where would they be going? THey probably won't be going into the muggle water works, as thayt did not fit in the theme of the lesson. nor did going through the earth Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising [COLOR="#6960EC"]
The Magic School Bus drove steadily fast through the air, but hopefully not at nauseating speeds. As it did so, Josephina continued speaking in regards for what to expect at their destination. "So we were going to go to a driving range and learn to drive race cars, but unfortunately due to safety and age regulations, we can't. Instead we're headed to something that might just be more fun!" Hopefully it would be anyway. "Similar to cars, but definitely safer...." Considering most of them were underage, she did have to fare to the side of caution. postcard[/URL] for them to see. "Bumper Cars. Anyone want to venture a guess about how they might work?" BUMPER CARS! A classmate of hers one had them at her party. Sarah did not go on them, incase her magic started acting up then and there would be a lot of explaining to do among muggles. But she had seen her muggle friends do it. It looked fun. Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising
More talking and explanations needed. "Bumper car rides, as Mitchell said so bluntly, are cars designed to collide into each other. Each car comes equipped with a large rubber bumper all around it, which prolongs the impact and diffuses the collision force."
Now here was the exciting point, considering what they discussed last term. As Bay mentioned. "Bumper cars do indeed run on .... you guessed it, electricity! There's pole on the back of the car which leads all the way up to a wire grid on the ride's ceiling and the grid carries electrical energy which runs the car." Exciting stuff, right? Fina thought so.
"So when you bump into another car or even the side of the ... arena, the cars themselves may stop or change direction, although you - the driver may continue moving in the direction before the collision, which is why it is extremely important you strap yourself in, using the seatbelt, when you take a seat in the car."
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Before they knew it they arrived at their destination, which was exactly as depicted in the postcard that Hadley had held up for them earlier.
"Alright, carefully step from the bus and into the arena. You'll see rows of cars lined up against the entrance. Go and select a car and strap yourselves in and then I will explain the rules."
COOL! Sarah did not know how they worked, but now she did. She got off the bus and gfave a stretch.. now which car should she chose? She chose herself a car and strapped herself in. She was eager to spin this thing, as she loved the dizzy feeling.
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As the students filed off the bus, if there was one thing Hadley hadn't expected it was for a student to go flailing backwards as they tripped over .... themselves? Reaching out her arm for the second year, she smiled consolingly at him. "Careful there! Don't want to hurt yourself before you get jostled around!" She winked.
Quote: "Yes. They're pretty much exactly like Bumper Brooms." Hadley nodded in affirmation. Just as she was about to give off the rules, she heard a request from one of her seventh years and stared in confusion. "Um... all the cars are the same size... and should be quite roomy, but as you wish." She nodded in approval. "BUT only enlarge the inside of the car, not the outer appearance, got that?" There would be no unfair advantages with regards to size of vehicles. *****
Once everyone was off the bus, Hadley followed into the tent-like area to address them all the rules of the game. She glanced around to make sure everything was set up the way planned.
"For today's activity, you will be collecting these." She held up a standard rubber latex balloon filled with helium with long strings attached to them.
She let it go and it floated to the top of the ceiling, but the string was long enough that they could still grab it even while seated in the car. The balloon floated and bobbed along the ceiling, the string wiggling beneath it.
"There are four different coloured balloons, each with corresponding coloured strings. Your task is to grasp hold of as many different balloons as you can, drive over to the appropriate coloured hurdle and tie it onto the hurdle. Tying a blue balloon onto a yellow hurdle will earn the yellow house points. Tying the correct balloon will onto the correctly coloured hurdle will earn that house points. Understand?"
"The balloons and their strings don't stay still. And even less so when we're all driving around, they'll definitely be difficult to grasp while driving. But fortunately if you bump each other, you can collide without too much danger due to the rubber bumper." Smiling at the class she gestured toward the cars.
"Any questions?" Hadley glanced around to see if they were all ready. "Alright, on my count to three ..." She held up fingers as she counted. "One.... Two .... Three!"
***** GAME RULES *****
Object is to collect as many balloons in your house colour as possible and tie them to the correctly coloured hurdle, one hurdle located in each of the four corners.
* Do NOT Double Post
* Only one balloon per post, please
* It's FINE if you character ties a balloon not in their house color
* It's fine if you mis-tie a balloon and comes undone off the hurdle
* Don't RP the results, such as if you bump another character's car
* Perfection is definitely NOT expected
* Having FUN is expected though 
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to VM, PM, or IM me!
You will have until approximately 9pm EST on Wednesday February 5th
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No spinning for fun? It was an official game than. Sarah started forward.. her eyes looking for a red string, which would be attatcbed to a red balloon. She caught sight of one, and made way for it, but the balloon kept moving away. She finally reached it on held on tight to it as she looked around for a red hurdle. Finding one, Sarah tied it on. One balloon done
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