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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Allie paused for a moment to take another long, hard look around the room. As she did this, the expression on her face deepened into one of even more concern. She glanced towards the department heads once again then began speaking.

"I had hoped that in getting your attention and asking all of you to take a seat, my words would also draw the attention of Miss Reagan Taylor, our Minister of Magic. However, it's clear that won't be the case," she said, her voice shaking a little. She was normally a great public speaker, but the news she needed to reveal was far to unsettling to leave room for any public-speaking skills.

"Minister Taylor has been away for quite some time. She has been on a tour of foreign ministries and has been communicating with me via her fireplace on a daily basis. The last time I heard from her, though, was two days ago, when she left---on schedule---for her next visit," she continued. She stopped to clear her throat and gather her thoughts before speaking again. "She was meant to make it back here for this Education Fair. She should have been here by now."

Allie took a deep breath and tried to compose herself a little. Being nervous and fearful was making it hard to say what she so desperately needed to say. "I contacted the foreign ministry Miss Taylor was meant to be arriving at, and they have reported that she never showed up. We---we believe something terrible has happened to the Minister. I'm afraid we might be in some sort of d---..."

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Originally Posted by The Announcer

The lights in the conference room suddenly begin blinking on and off, and a sound is heard as if a power outage has occurred. However, the noise is followed by the sound of a woman screaming in fear, and when the lights come back on, you find that Senior Undersecretary Carlton has vanished. It seems that whoever has your Minister is taking people out---and they're apparently starting at the very top and working their way down.

A small piece of parchment seems to be floating down in the exact same spot Senior Undersecretary Carlton once stood. It flutters about until it lands in the hands of the Junior Undersecretary, Mr. Claudian Slughorn.

OOC: SlytherinSistah, who plays Claudian, will read the parchment aloud. As of now, all your character can see is the parchment itself...not what it says.

Chad had been merrily leaning his chair onto it's back two legs are he waited for 'Carley' to say something. He had resorted to twiddling his thumbs as he gazed around the room, perhaps hoping to spot where ever Reagan might be.

But then 'Carley' started to speak and his thumb twiddling stopped. He stared at her. Didn't show up? Something terrible!? Reagan!?

Chad had become so focused on 'Carley' that he had forgotten about leaning his chair back, only to be brought back to earth as the chair hit the floor with a "crash!" and he tumbled out of it. He was starting to get up to go get some answers out of Carley when a light show started and then...

She was gone!?

Okay, this wasn't cool.

He could barely even focus as Claudian read the piece of paper. Who could do such a thing? He wanted his Reagan back, pleaseokaythankyou. Oh, and 'Carley', too, of course.

Not wanting to waste anymore time, he scooted out of the room.

Rinatta had been taking in the crowd, looking to see who she recognised and whom she didn't. How many were there , if she recognised tham where from, she was basically crowd watching. It was actually quite common for her, she tended to be an observer, that is part of why she was a researcher. She was lost in her mind until a familiar voice broke her from her thoughts. Looking up she recognised the woman they had went to the ice cream parlour with. At first Rin was quite suspicious , but she felt it ebb and decided whatever would be would be. If he was ,in fact, acting more than friendly with this woman , that was just the end of that road and she would move on. She didn't really think it was that way though after watching more anyways ,so it was fine. "Hello Dessie." she said with her polite smile, this one had been sincere though.

One moment the undersecretary was there, the next she was gone with a strange piece of parchment. It was incredibly odd indeed and now Rin was completely alert. What was going on? They were both gone....and ,why, how, and who immediately popped into her mind. She watched as everyone else was getting up and going outside and she too happened to think it a good idea. She took Dessie's hand and gestured for her to come with her. After all, Dessie was quite new and Rin didn't know if she even really knew anyone but herself and Jared, who seemed to not have come. How boring, what did he have better to do that was better than this?"I would say we should go that way." she said with a twinkle of curiousity in her eyes. Rin's adventurous and curious side was showing quite brightly under the circumstances, she loved out of the ordinary.

A French man! The name of course indicated as much but Ingrid hadn't registered that at all until he spoke. Beaming at him she said "Good, good! I wish you luck with the job fair tasks. If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask me or Theron Anastakis who is head of the floo network." Turning away from him Ingrid looked up front but nothing was happening there yet.



Ingrid heard footsteps coming towards her and turned to see Theron her fellow, very good looking floo head. Beaming at him she said "Hello, Theron!" Making a gesture around the room she said "This is a job fair where we are supposed to learn more about our fields of work and maybe even broaden our knowledge. Didn't you get Trumballs PM?" Ingrid hoped that everyone read all those important memos but it wasn't always certain.



Som minutes later Ingrid moved to take a seat among the other ministry employees ads Ms Carlton started speaking. But what cut off by a flash of light and when the mist dissapeared the woman was gone. Confused, shocked and not knowing what to do Ingrid remained seated. Glancing around the room she saw that Jayden, Laura and what she believed to be a new broom employee seemed to be as upset as she felt. It wasn't the time to either say hello or wave so Ingrid just sat quietly and waited to see what would come next.



Ingrid sat pinned to her chair during the whole of the junior secretarys speech. The fun event had just turned into something different and a lot more serious. Ingrid stood up to leave the conference room with the other employees of the ministry still a bit upset by the news of the minster of magic's dissapearance and now the senior secretary.

J.J. Starr always ran to a different drummer. He decided to go at this mystery by himself. If anyone wanted to help him. he would be ok with it. Joe Jon Montcenaggio goes a different way from the crowd.

Sam was quite relieved that it wasn't a ransom letter. He leaned himself back into the chair as he listened to the man read what had been written on the parchment. The guy that took Allie wanted them to educate themselves? He could do that! He liked learning new things. And if educating himself saved Allie, he was all for it!

Once Wes finished speaking, he stood up from his chair and headed out the exit on the right side of the room to start the fair...and to help find Allie and the Minister of Magic!

SuperSam to the rescue!

Malachi smiled briefly as she said she was okay and was privately relieved that he was not the only one who didn't know many people outside his own department.

He considered Frida for a moment. She was different to many of the other women he had met, she seemed to carefully weigh everything she said before speaking. It was refreshing.

He also realised that she too had drawn her wand. Feeling fairly sure they were in no immediate danger, he re-holstered his own wand. He hung back with Frida until the crowd thinned.

"Well, here we go then." He gestured for her to go in front, holding open the door.

As the onsets of paranoia set in, Claudian listened to the man for instruction. Folding the parchment up again, he tucked it away.


It was a coded code encrypted in a language long since dead. Why did he feel like he knew more about what the man was telling him than he should? The sentiment was clear, though the words were meant to convey some well-concealed event. 'He?' And who or what was the 'king' mentioned?

'I appreciate that, sir.' Before he could say anything, the wizard he knew as Armand Erickson was following everyone out of the room and Claudian before long was doing the same.

Sir. He would probably always call him Sir.

Frida nodded, and silently noticed that Malachi was no longer armed. Though she didn't feel entirely comfortable moving on without her own weapon in her hand, Frida tucked it inside her pocket. At least if she did need it, it wouldn't be far away.

Once the number of people had become more manageable, Frida headed through the door with a small smile and a "Thank you." to Malachi for being so polite.

Tom smiled, He had keep quiet since the beginning, he hadn't even spoke when the woman that was talking had just vanished, he had been in shock he couldn't believe that she could just be taken.

He looked around to see if he could see anyone else from his Department and he saw Rex the head of Department there.

Tom smiled as he thought to himself that this was going to be one interesting day and he was sure that his thoughts were right, he got up and followed the rest.

Jade sat back and watched everything around her. She knew something was going to happen just by how it felt in the room and it didn't surprise her when she hear the screams of Senior Undersecretary. Just as the lights flicked back on, she looked around quickly. Now that was rather unexpected, she thought.

Hearing the Junior Undersecretary read the parchment, Jade felt a chill run up her spine. This was more serious than she first expected, but they were all called forth for a reason and if they needed to move on as instructed, that was just what she was going to do.

Catching sight of Jayden, she gave a tiny wave to him as she stood up from her seat and began to follow the others out of the conference room.

Pierre looked around...this seemed interesting. He leaned against a wall checking to see if he spotted anyone from his department. I didn't know the ministry had soo many employees... His blue eyes scanned the room he watched the others leave the conference room so he decided to follow.

" I was looking for someone to help me with this mystery" J.J. Starr told the man. " My name is Joe Jon Montcenaggio, but my friends call me J.J. Starr. "Would you like to partner with me?" J.J. asked him.

Wes glanced around the room looking to see how everyone was reacting to the situation. He was really excited about the idea of challenge and especially the idea of competition. Still being new the ministry, he glanced around to see what everyone else's reactions were and to see what everyone looked like. As he glanced around he ran his hand through his hair.

With an expression of cold logic on her face, rather than the actual concern she was feeling, Madrigal glanced around the room and took in every face, whether she should place it with a name or not. She pursed her lips momentarily before uncrossing her legs and standing up to follow the stream of employees out of the conference room.

Violet stood up from her seat in the back of the room to stretch her legs after sitting for so long. She couldn't wait to start this challenge, now that it had finally started, though what exactly it entailed, she was unsure. However, she was a master of logic and magic alike, so she was confident in her abilities to get past at least the first level.

" Hi, my name is Joe Jon Montcenaggio and I work for the International
Co-operation Deparment" he introduced himself. "Actually ,everyone calls me J.J. Starr" he told her. " You look very confident and kbow what you are doing" he said to her. "Would you like to work together on this mystery?" J.J. Starr asked her.

A slight wind seems to blow into the room, carrying a small piece of parchment with it. The parchment flutters about for a few moments, then finally falls to the floor in the middle of the room.



OOC: The Ministry of Magic RPG Education Fair Mystery is scheduled to come to a close on Wednesday, May 5. We hope everyone is enjoying the roleplay! Also, if your character is still in the Conference Room, you should head to the Ground Level Challenge to begin the roleplay.