SPOILER!!: Steffie
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Originally Posted by
Lissy Longbottom 
This was Steffie's FIRST official training session, and she was SUPER EXCITED to get underway. She had been sitting silently near the back, choosing to listen to the rest of her colleagues and get a feel for how her Department Head was going to run the show before getting started. Although, having actually been TAUGHT by Quigley in the past, she sort of had an idea of how he would handle things. She couldn't remember all that well, though - she was pretty sure she had always been more focused on his face than what had been coming out of it. She was going to work on that this time around though!
BUNNIES! How fun! Maybe when the training exercise was over, Quigley would let them snuggle with them and play with them, sort of like a stress release exercise or something. Why hadn't he picked PUPPIES? Or kittens? They could be skittish too, and probably easier to catch...but that was probably also why he went with the bunnies. They were hard to catch, and all you had to do was look at them funny and they could die of fright.
Well, someone had to get the ball rolling here, soooo...she walked over to the rabbit with the red tip on his tail and bent down, still quite a few feet away, and started making kissing noises at him. "Here, bunny bunny! Come here! I want to say hi to you!" she said softly, trying not to make her voice TOO high even though, naturally, when talking to animals it wanted to go REALLY high and shrill. Like when she had been talking to the kiddos while nannying.
Hop. Hop. Hop. The bunny made its way closer to the soothing voice. It's little nose wiggled a time or two before another hop and another and more nose wiggling. It wasn't entirely sure it wanted to go in that direction and just when the
red tailed rabbit was within reach, it turned on it's tail and darted, bumping riiiight into a
blue tailed rabbit in the process.
Well...it WAS blue, but now it was
red too.
SPOILER!!: Logan
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Originally Posted by
Nordic Witch Logan remained silent as first Oakey, then Becca and lastly Steffie entered in order to join in the training session set by Maddox. Today's focus was going to be on proper containment which suited him just fine. Maddox posed a question about good methods for how to contain a situation with exposed muggles.
Mickey spoke up first and then Logan followed "Aside from not pointing sticks in their faces unless we really have no other choice, then we need to work to calm the muggles down and try to get to them talk about what has happened to them before we take other measures. Building trust with the muggle exposed usually aids rather than hinders the situation." Without knowing all the details Logan had learned that you rarely made the right calls or took the right action.
Soon enough they moved to the practical part of the training session for proper containment. He had never in a million years thought it'd involve bunnies. Shaking his head Logan listened to the instructions closely before he with little enthusiasm approached one of the red tailed bunnies just like Steffie. With the use of his wand he conjured forth a carrot which he waved in front of the bunny while he spoke softly. "Come here bunny, bunny! I've got a nice and tasty carrot for you."
CARROT?????
A carrot! It was a carrot!
This was the perfectly lure for a rabbit, to be sure but perhaps that was the problem. Within seconds a
red tailed rabbit was hopping his way over, but so were
three blue ones who also fancied carrots. In the hobble and rush, all three piled onto the red tailed bunny, effectively turning their own tails
red as well.
SPOILER!!: Megan
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Originally Posted by
FearlessLeader19 She had definitely caught the boss man of guard. "Because I want to be the best at what I do,'' Megan told him, looking him straight in the eye. She didn't know why this new determination had surfaced so suddenly but it was good to bee feeling it again. It was a good start because her answer was acceptable.
Practically ignoring her workmates for now (except for their answers that they were giving), Megan focused on the task Maddox was assigning to them. Rabbits! Weren't they perfectly cute and cuddly? "Focus, Megan!'' she chided herself. Already some of the others had began trying to lure rabbits to them.
She knew exactly what to do. Calmly, Megan keeled on her knees. From her pants pocket, she retrieved an apple she had kept for herself. Using her wand, she softly muttered an incantation so that the apple was cut into slices. She removed the seeds then set the slices in a pile before her. The blond stayed as still as possible. If any bunny came, she would be able to separate the blue tail tipped ones from the red ones.
What was thhiiiiissss? Little nose wiggling, rabbit made very cautious steps closer. It sniffed at the ground, paying little attention to it's brother who was now also doing the same thing. Closer and closer the bunnies crawled, their caution not waning for even a second.
It was only the two for now, both
blue in colour but alas, here comes a
red tailed rabbit as well.
SPOILER!!: Oakey
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Originally Posted by
DJ Moose Proper Containment of Muggles who have witnessed Magic and could easily spread it to other Muggles huh? He noted Kang's mention of Wands and listened to the Boss' response. "Well wouldn't this also be a good chance to practice Wandless Magic then too? So that no muggle is the wiser for us sticking...um..sticks in their faces?" He tried to give an answer in the point of view of a Muggle. They wouldn't know what the wand was either way.
Then the Exercise began. Rabbit...um right Rabbits. Maybe he should just quickly. He yanked at a necklace around his neck and stuffed the item hanging from it's end into his jacket pocket. Though as he got a better look at the Wascally Wabbits he noted that some of them seemed rather stone-faced. These weren't really rabbits were they?
At least he wasn't using Owls...or Fake Owls anyways.
What should Oakey do here in this situation? He noted two options. Track down and contain the red tailed rabbits, or he could attempt to move the blue tailed rabbits away from the contaminated ones. He looked over to Maddox before choosing his best course of action. "What's the Ratio of Red Tails to Blue Tails? "
The one that did very little moving as soon seen as nothing more than a pole. It was almost as if he blended into the natural habitat of the rabbits. If they were suspicious of him, they certainly weren't showing it as one, then another
blue rabbit hopped his way.
SPOILER!!: Becca
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Originally Posted by
Becky They were... catching rabbits? Becca took a full minute to stare at Maddox in disbelief. Seriously? Shaking her head a tiny bit, she looked at the rabbits and then the staff. Were these SERIOUSLY the people she was working with? One of the women was trying to convince a rabbit to come closer like it cared what she was saying, the man who had told her to keep her thoughts to herself was working on one bunny with a carrot and one guy was even questioning Maddox. Didn't he know that he wasn't going to answer? He'd probably be napping whilst standing up. Her eyes took in the other woman who seemed to be taking a different approach and a small smile appeared.
Becca's eyes went back to the rabbits and she moved to kneel on the floor. Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath and let out all of the thoughts of anything else before standing up again and creating a small area in the corner of the room with her wand up her sleeve to keep the red tails together. Once that was done, she moved to start ushering the red tailed rabbits into that area and get the blue rabbits to go elsewhere.
The thing about wrangling rabbits was, they just never seemed to go where you wanted to. At her approach, the rabbits darted in different directions, much too skittish to stick around. It didn't matter what she wanted with them, they had NO interest in finding out.
Unfortunately, in the scramble, a
red rabbit tumbled right over a
blue, turning his little tail
red too.
OOC:
Red Tailed left: 7
Blue tailed left: 13