SPOILER!!: Mel
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Mel smiled over to the other girl and just grinned. This girl seemed smart. “Ah, yeah I don’t blame you – being mildly poisoned doesn’t sound that fun at all does it?” She shrugged and then tipped her head slightly. “Though it could be a good thing? That way we know what poison does…and well, we can learn how to counteract it or become slowly tolerant to it?” Was she crazy? Possibly. That was yet to be seen but really, she had heard of so many bond villains growing tolerances to poisons…now, she wasn’t a bond villain (yet) but that didn’t mean she couldn’t work on her ability to not be poisoned.
“I can help you, you know…with any of the steps if you need?” She offered with a grin. It was more a nervous grin because HELLO she was voluntarily being poisoned.
Madge shook her head and gave an equally as nervous grin as the one she saw on the face of her new Potions partner.
"Well lucky you I've been at least half-way decent at potions this year. I'll get started with this potion, and you can... uh... poison yourself?" Madge's face took on some colour as she laughed a little. Slowly but surely human interaction would be less uncomfortable.
She shuffled her way through the crowd of students in front of the professors stores and picked up the ingredients listed. When she returned to her table she looked at Mel, held up the Bezoar with her thumb and forefigner, and gave a twisted face with her tongue stuck out.
"So gross right?" SPOILER!!: Professor
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Jessiqua Art noticed Mr. Browne and Mr. Reed hadn’t found partners yet, but just as he was about to assign the two together, they found their own partners. Art turned his gaze around the class, watching the students plan their Poison adventure together, and find partners. He looked at his watch to make sure they were on time. As students came up to get their ingredients, and their little drink of elixir, he gave smiled and nods, but Mr. Meriwether had brought a chuckle to the man. Art gave him the taster. From the corner of his eye he saw Miss. Neverwinter slide down the seat a little. Perhaps if she saw just how fun her classmates were having brewing and drinking, perhaps she’d feel like joining in. Otherwise… well, otherwise he was out of ideas.
He walked to the blackboard and wrote the method of the potion on the board for the students to reference.
He turned back to face the class, ready to get started!
“Okay now, everyone has their ingredients and their little cup of the elixir?” he asked, looking around. “Err… those who are drinking the elixir may do so now, and those brewing the antidote can get started now.”
Art himself had set up his own space with the equipment necessary to brew the potion. He added one bezoar to the mortar, and used the pestle to crush that stone into a very fine powder. “Now, you want to make sure that you put your elbow into it. Crush it into a powder as fine as you can. Any chunky bits might affect your potion.” He carefully tilted his mortar so that they could see his own very fine powder of bezoar.
OOC: I’ve modified the method slightly, so it doesn’t exactly match up to the Pottermore method. Removed the wand-use, and waiting 40 minutes. IC this is just Art’s tried and true method.
Drinkers: Drink your elixir and start having fun with those MILD side effects - dizziness (please no fainting), drowsiness, slight headache, stomach ache, nausea/vomiting, coughing, sore joints, thirstiness, blurred vision, slight behavioural changes (crankiness, restlessness, irritability, or even euphoria and giggles… + any other mild behavioural changes you would like to RP), and any other MILD general side effects you would like to RP. You can have as few or as little side effects as you want to RP – I just hope you have fun with it! But nothing serious! No fainting, no dying etc.
Brewers: Start up!
If you still don’t have a partner, that’s okay! Just pretend you do, and you can still RP taking the ‘poison’ elixir, and then brewing (whichever order you want). If you DO have a partner, I think about 5 posts each, minimum. Feel free to do more if you feel sprinkled with creativity dust. I’ll resume in about 2 days, and then swap, so that those brewing can try the ‘poison’ elixir, and those having been poisoned can brew the antidote.
You don’t need to wait for your partner to post between your posts.
I’m still here, checking in as much as possible, so if you want Art’s attention, just flag it in the subject box and we will get to it as soon as we can. I’ll brew along with the class, but please don’t wait for me! Keep going at your own pace.
DRINKERS: DO NOT drink the Antidote to Common Poisons until Art tells you to!
Madge nodded at the professor and her face suddenly got serious. She knew that if she messed up her antidote the professor would help Mel, but she still took this VERY seriously.
From her wrist she untied a long scrap piece of beige fabric and she draped it around her neck under her long and insanely-curly bushy hair. She squashed her hair together with her hands and used the scrap of fabric to tie it up. She used to use fabric covered elastic bands when she was in the muggle world with her family, but for some reason she had yet to see a witch or wizard shop sell them. But her hair needed to be away from her face and back for her to concentrate, so scrap fabric it was. Much more sturdy too.
She pulled her mortar and pestle closer to herself on the table and she plonked the bezoar into it. Fine powder eh? She squared herself up over the mortar and pestle and then pounded the living wits out of it.
After a few minutes it still wasn't a fine powder. She never was the strongest, but she was determined.
After it hit a more granular TVP-looking stage she began to grind it using circular motions.