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The class is back to its usual design: There are proper chairs with soft cushions to sit and lean back on, they are also still charmed to take the most comfortable shape and height once a student is seated. The walls are a soft, calming blue. There are one big, grey rubbish bin by the door and a white, porcelain washbasin with a tap for those who wants to wash their hands before/after the class and who can't perform 'Aguamenti' charm (a short hose to direct the water to the cauldron is on the white, porcelain shelf hung on the wall, in case it doesn't fit the washbasin). In addition, there is a large tray of something on teacher's desk, but a white blanket is covering it so that it's a surprise. Professor Cosgrach is nowhere to be found.
Come in and take a seat!
OOC: If you are going to RP your characer use the washbasin or the bin, you don't have to take Cosgrach's permission. Just assume he has granted it.
The class has begun, so please do not announce your late arrival, but act as if you've been here all along!
urine trouble | Pat's Strong Confident Other Half | Pees Like a Champion Unicorn Racehorse
THIS FINAL WAS FREAKING BRILLIANT!
No joke, it really was. And you know why? Because not only did he have the chance to poison someone -- was Agatha in the room?-- but he also had the chance to show off his Potions skills. Brilliant. An all round good activity that he was very much enthusiastic for.
Getting up from his seat, the fifth year headed up to the front of the class. He needed a poison, after all. A good one too, not something that didn't do much to the person who drank it. And the choices? HMMMMM. His blue eyes immediately landed on the Love Potion and he raised an eyebrow, remembering all too well the effects of this particular poison. It wasn't wanted for the drinker of the poison and boy, did he know all about that. He'd had enough experience with this little bugger to last him a lifetime so he wasn't gonna pick that one, even if he wasn't the one picking out a potion for himself.
With one poison knocked off the list, Grayson eyes the other poisons on display. Too Much Happiness? No thank you. He wasn't gonna deal with someone jumping on him and demanding cuddles. That was only reserved for special people, just saying. Common Poison sounded boring and the other two were similar so...........
............ he was gonna take up the Fatiguing Fusion. Yeah. People talked all kinds of nonsense when they were tired and Merlin knows, this could be fun to see. Picking up the poison, the Slytherin headed back over to his seat to look for a--
PHOENIX! He was sitting right THERE!
"Yo, Phe!" he called, holding onto the poison and pulling his best cool boy pose, "Wanna partner up with me?"
No joke, it really was. And you know why? Because not only did he have the chance to poison someone -- was Agatha in the room?-- but he also had the chance to show off his Potions skills. Brilliant. An all round good activity that he was very much enthusiastic for.
Getting up from his seat, the fifth year headed up to the front of the class. He needed a poison, after all. A good one too, not something that didn't do much to the person who drank it. And the choices? HMMMMM. His blue eyes immediately landed on the Love Potion and he raised an eyebrow, remembering all too well the effects of this particular poison. It wasn't wanted for the drinker of the poison and boy, did he know all about that. He'd had enough experience with this little bugger to last him a lifetime so he wasn't gonna pick that one, even if he wasn't the one picking out a potion for himself.
With one poison knocked off the list, Grayson eyes the other poisons on display. Too Much Happiness? No thank you. He wasn't gonna deal with someone jumping on him and demanding cuddles. That was only reserved for special people, just saying. Common Poison sounded boring and the other two were similar so...........
............ he was gonna take up the Fatiguing Fusion. Yeah. People talked all kinds of nonsense when they were tired and Merlin knows, this could be fun to see. Picking up the poison, the Slytherin headed back over to his seat to look for a--
PHOENIX! He was sitting right THERE!
"Yo, Phe!" he called, holding onto the poison and pulling his best cool boy pose, "Wanna partner up with me?"
Wait... his comment about everything being essential had been right? Holy Guesswork Batman! Phe wondered if he should come to lessons exhausted more often, maybe he'd get better grades if he wasn't buzzing around like a fly. Though he'd already lost track of what was going on in the lesson after that thought, so maybe not.
Everyone was getting up and... um... okay? Phoenix followed the crowd to the table and grabbed a bottle at random before going back to his seat. What had he got? He didn't know. He hadn't checked. He wasn't sure if there had been a label or anything, cause he'd already deposited the bottle onto his desk and was looking over at the sound of his name..
Ah! Yes! Fantastic.. partnering with someone who was good at this lesson. He nodded, rubbed a bit of blurriness out of his eye and wiggled the bottle he'd retrieved. "Sure, but I can't promise the antidote I make will be any use..." he admitted with a shrug. "But let's do this."
Zombie Apocalypse Team Leader ★ ★ in a crown of pepperoni and artisan cheese
SPOILER!!: Zahra!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz
Whoosh. Gabe was talking over her head. But Zahra turned her head to up to watch his mouth move as he spoke. He had dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeamy lips. She reached up and POKED his bottom lip. Poke. Teehee. Gabey lips.
Oh .... some little Hufflepuff... wanting a high five? Normally that'd be okay, but WHY WAS SHE GETTING SO CLOSE TO HER GABE? Zahra gave that Puff a high five, but if she came near Gabe again, she was going to punch their nose in for real.
...
WHERE ELSE WOULD ZAHRA BE? IF NOT WITH HIM, SHE'D DIE. "You brew. I'll tell you all the ways I love you." Zahra settled next to him, like right next to him, like they were side-by-side, no space, she might as well be attached. "One, those lips, man. Gabe. I mean, I never noticed before? But ... whew," Zahra fanned herself with his notes. HOT LIPS BANNER AMIRIGHT?
"Two... what even ARE these notes, Banner? You're like a flipping book. You don't even need a book with you around. You're better than a book 'cause of #1 lips. And three, I like to hear you talk. You should talk all the time. I talk all the time. You don't like it. But I like... love you talking."
...
"....should I be doing something? I'm distracted. You're hot. I'd really like to leave and go eat pizza with you and show you my helmet and mess with portraits. I love you."
Gabe had completely missed the lone Hufflepuff girl; having been hunched over their workstation table, furiously writing. He felt like....he could do absolutely anything at the moment...even if a good chunk of that WAS him wanting to snog Z senseless. BUT HE ALSO WANTED TO IMPRESS HER. Like.......it was CRUCIAL that he whip up something amazing so she would do girly things like......hug, swoon, and....or? pounce on him.
So, Gabriel was attempting to pull out all the stops. All his potions' knowledge was getting put to use...So much so, that he'd created his own concoction. Nope, it didn't come from their textbook and that would count for something, right? Zahra would compliment his brain again AND THEN, they could snog some more.....or maybe.....they could STAR-GAZE. Spring constellations were among his favorite...but WHO didn't find Gemini especially interesting?!
......and what was his lady love rambling about? Grinning to himself as he gathered ingredients, Gabriel paused to kiss her on the mouth. She was being so adorable and he just felt that much more in love. Puuuuuuurring. "Breathe." BEAMY FACES!! ".........So, pizza and star-gazing later? Will you come with me?"
Translation? Nope. I've got this sorted.
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Ingredients
• 7 ounces of purified water
• 4 grams of fluxweed
• 3 bunches of knotgrass (lightly cut)
• 2 komodo dragon scales (slightly grounded)
• 1 spoonful of asphodel root (powdered)
• 1 Ginger root
• 5 Peppermint sprigs • Kisses (10000)
• Snogging (All day)
•
Procedure
• Freeze (pewter) cauldron before beginning (because heat will cause premature reactions from the individual ingredients).
• Add purified water.
• Add fluxweed.
• Stir seven times clockwise
• Add knotgrass.
• Stir seven times COUNTER-clockwise.
• Add the komodo dragon scales.
• Stir seven times clockwise.
• Add powdered asphodel root.
• Stir seven times COUNTER-clockwise.
• Combine ginger root and peppermint separately (light crushing via mortar and pestle; to infuse juices).
• Add mixture to the potion and stir three times clockwise.
• Heat cauldron (on HIGH); so all ingredients properly layer and meld together (10 minutes).
• Remove from heat and allow to completely cool.
Cleaning and then freezing his cauldron, Gabe slipped on his gloves. Lots to do!!!
__________________
We live in cities you'll never see onscreen..._______________________________________________
So very pretty, and we sure know how to run things..._______________________________ Livin' in ruins of a palace, within our dreams...____________
We're on each other's team._____
urine trouble | Pat's Strong Confident Other Half | Pees Like a Champion Unicorn Racehorse
Of course Phe wanted to partner up with him. OF COURSE. They were friends or whatever. And if it had been the other way around, Grayson would have found it hard to say no.
SNORT. "That's fine. It's bound to wear off sooner or later." Besides, Culloden wouldn't leave them poisoned unless he truly hated the person. Meaning that Kevin's partner had better make sure they brewed an antidote correctly otherwise the dude was in trouble. "Thanks for partnering up with me, man." Really. It would make this lesson even more enjoyable, if that was possible.
And here's hoping they didn't get distracted. Good looks and good hair did that. Just saying.
"Here's my poison for you," he said, sliding the poison over towards Phoenix. Was he gonna tell the boy what it was? Nah! It could be a lot more fun to see his surprise and to see just how well he fared under the influence of the substance."Who wants to go first?"
Of course Phe wanted to partner up with him. OF COURSE. They were friends or whatever. And if it had been the other way around, Grayson would have found it hard to say no.
SNORT. "That's fine. It's bound to wear off sooner or later." Besides, Culloden wouldn't leave them poisoned unless he truly hated the person. Meaning that Kevin's partner had better make sure they brewed an antidote correctly otherwise the dude was in trouble. "Thanks for partnering up with me, man." Really. It would make this lesson even more enjoyable, if that was possible.
And here's hoping they didn't get distracted. Good looks and good hair did that. Just saying.
"Here's my poison for you," he said, sliding the poison over towards Phoenix. Was he gonna tell the boy what it was? Nah! It could be a lot more fun to see his surprise and to see just how well he fared under the influence of the substance."Who wants to go first?"
Wear off, right, okay, that was alright then. "Promise not to like... die on me or anything, okay? Cause I'd be sad and stuff." That was putting it lightly. He'd blame himself forever and never be able to do anything ever again because of guilt. But that would be bringing the mood down, so he didn't mention it.
"No problem." The partnering thing. Who'd say no? "You can have this. I... am not sure what it is. But... I'll do my best." Not that that would be... y'know... any good. Since his best was usually just making sure nothing - and nobody - spontaneously combusted, and sometimes that didn't even work. "Let's do it together. Bottoms up." He grabbed the bottle and unstoppered it, clinked it against the one he'd just handed to Grayson, and downed it in one go...
"I am maaaaaaaaarvelous," Dot slid out from the inside of her cauldron and quickly plunked it on the table so she could brew something. SAVE the SOPHIE! SOPHIE FOR QUEEN! Marvelous Sophie.
"I want to dance. With him. He's the cutest boy I have ever seen, and I know Toussaints," Dot was talking to herself and her cauldron and probably Sophie while she eyed the inside of her cauldron critically. It was dirty because her hair was in there, so she'd clean it. And Culloden would be proud of her and they'd be best friends too. "Culloden is going to be my best friend."
FYI, SOPHIE. "CLEANITUPICUS!" Nope. That wasn't it. Dot tapped her wand on the rim of the cauldron and tried to remember the spell. "Stupefy!" The spell bounced off the rim and went spinning off into the room, but NO THAT WAS NOT IT. "Scourgify!" Clean cauldron, yay!
"Soooooophie. What makes you happy?" Dot pulled her Potion book and notes closer.
"You ARE marvelous." Uh huh, Soph wouldn't deny that as she weakly got all her stuff ready to brew her potion. Who was Dot talking about, though? What BOY was the cutest? "Who's the cutest boy you've ever seen, Dot?" She needed a NAME because she was nosy and Dot was adorable. Maybe Soph would get to play matchmaker for her.
Culloden would be her best friend. She snorted at that, her gaze darting to the professor and wondering if HE saw this. Merlin, Dot was a HOOT. "He's already my best friend, so since you and I are best friends, you two already get to be best friends by default." It didn't work that way in the real world, but maybe Dot would get a kick out of it in her hyperactive state. Hehe.
Though her body felt bizarrely heavy and weak at the same time and she didn't even want to move, her spirits continued to rise as Dot was... well, a bit of a mess, really, but it was an endearing kind of mess. EXCEPT for her shooting off spells - no, that first one wasn't a real spell, and MERLIN stupefying someone wasn't RIGHT EITHER! Third time was the charm, though, and Soph shot another helpless sort of look to Culloden before settling down and sloooowly measuring out a pint of water for her Calming Draught. "Tobes. Friends. Potions. Wands. Lots of stuff," she offered, noticing how all of those things were being incorporated at once right now. So... ideally, she SHOULD have been feeling pretty happy, if it wasn't for her arms feeling like lead as she tried to hold them up. SO HEAVY. AND SHE JUST WANTED TO LAY DOWN AND REST.
Grunting a little, she poured the water into her own clean cauldron - everything was clean, of course, because she had done so before she had drank the poison - and warmed up the water before she could add the fluxweed oil. When it seemed warm enough, she lifted a shaky arm and used a dropper to add her six drops of fluxweed oil to the cauldron, then had to reference her textbook to see what came next - oh, Merlin. Lots of preparation for the bloodroot stems. Something... she didn't have a lot of energy for. Could she do this without putting a lot of effort into it? Guh. Well, with her gloved hands, she gathered her three bloodroot stems and got to work, slowly but surely cutting out the inner flesh and fluids from each of them with a clean knife and scraping them into the clean mortar with her arms laying limp on the table in front of her. She wasn't going to lift them anymore than she had to, nope.
Text Cut: Textbook
Calming Draught
Use/Effect:
To calm and soothe the drinker
Ingredients:
1 pint water
6 drops fluxweed oil
Inner membrane and fluid from 3 bloodroot stems
1 Valerian root, minced
1 drachm calendula pollen
3 skullcap leaves
1/2 drachm powdered root of asphodel (scant)
1 Hyacinth flower, whole
1 ounce slime from the belly of a sprightly frog
1 sprig of peppermint
4 drop glumbumble fluid (take care not to overuse!)
Instructions:
**STAGE 1**
Add 6 drops fluxweed oil to warm water.
Split the bloodroot stems lengthwise with your knives and scrape out all fluid and fibrous material from inside the stems. Crush with mortar and pestle into a fine paste and add to the cauldron.
Stir slowly until a light steam rises from the cauldron, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirring.
**STAGE 2**
Mince the Valerian root and add it to the potion.
Add calendula pollen, stirring three times clockwise.
Shred the skullcap lengthwise, and slowly add it to the potion
Bring the temperature back up until the steam is rising again, stirring clockwise slowly. It should be a light blue-green at this stage.
Professor's note: Remember your intent-- concentrate on being calm and infusing your work with a calm, deliberate result.
Add asphodel -- you should see a bright blue flash of light in your cauldron
Add the Hyacinth flower; the potion should stop glowing
Allow the potion to steep while you collect the frog slime. For best results, do not harvest the frog slime until this time!
Add the slime and a sprig of peppermint and bring to boiling, stirring in alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirs once again.
When the potion thickens and turns deep indigo, add the glumbumble fluid.
Continue stirring in a clockwise motion until the solid ingredients have all disintegrated and the potion is a thick, syrupy indigo fluid that smells of lavender, warm sugar and sweet mint. There should be a light purple-pink sheen in the steam that rises from the potion.
Take a sample of your potion and bottle it into a phial.
Prrrrrrrppphhh. Thornton tried not to laugh but could not help himself. He hated being called Thorn but it.was.just.so.great. "We're going to be friiiiiends that long?!" HOORAY! Joint bestie halloween costume!
Oh. But she had a point. "I don't knoooowwwwww." Stricken. But then he heard the snogging boy say something about counteracting ingredients. "OH. We would pick things that counteract happiness. Sooo" maybe he didn't want to not be happy, but he was still grinning SO MUCH and his face ached. "So we make the base and add things that have sad properties?"
"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!" She hated firsties but she didnt know why but this one was suuuuuuuper fun! She beamed and giggled at the idea of having a jointed costumer with Thooooornton.
She gasped as he said he didnt know. "I dont knooooooooooooooooooow either." Melek giggled. She was having fun stretching her words out. She perked up even more as the young boy seemed to have an idea. "Oh! Oh! Like brusssssssssssssssel sproooooouts?" She giggled and twirled after making a face of disgust. A song popped into her head so she started to sing it, "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaindrops on rooooses, whiskers on kitteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeens, bright copper kettleeeeeeeeeeeeeeees and warm woolen mitteeeeeeeeeeeeeens." She twirled then paused, giggling. "Oh wait... those are a few of my favorite things...." She tapped her cheek, "What are sad things?"
Gabe had completely missed the lone Hufflepuff girl; having been hunched over their workstation table, furiously writing. He felt like....he could do absolutely anything at the moment...even if a good chunk of that WAS him wanting to snog Z senseless. BUT HE ALSO WANTED TO IMPRESS HER. Like.......it was CRUCIAL that he whip up something amazing so she would do girly things like......hug, swoon, and....or? pounce on him.
So, Gabriel was attempting to pull out all the stops. All his potions' knowledge was getting put to use...So much so, that he'd created his own concoction. Nope, it didn't come from their textbook and that would count for something, right? Zahra would compliment his brain again AND THEN, they could snog some more.....or maybe.....they could STAR-GAZE. Spring constellations were among his favorite...but WHO didn't find Gemini especially interesting?!
......and what was his lady love rambling about? Grinning to himself as he gathered ingredients, Gabriel paused to kiss her on the mouth. She was being so adorable and he just felt that much more in love. Puuuuuuurring. "Breathe." BEAMY FACES!! ".........So, pizza and star-gazing later? Will you come with me?"
Translation? Nope. I've got this sorted.
Cleaning and then freezing his cauldron, Gabe slipped on his gloves. Lots to do!!!
"I DO love pizza. Like not as much as you, but close. We could do that," Zahra agreed casually, mostly focused on all these THINGS her Snog Kitten was up to. Honestly, she was just waiting for the next time he decided to kiss her. Kissing GABRIEL BANNER was Zahra's MOST FAVORITE THING TO DO.
"I'll show you how to play airplane. Mostly me and Tobes play it," shrug, BUT WHEN IN LOVE.... you play airplane with Gabe. Mmm... Gabe.... Gabey Gabey Gabe..... "You have NEVER smiled at me like that." For real. Not ever. But anyway, "Can I add something? I wanna help YOU."
Man... who was that SINGING? That sounded fun. DID GABEY WANT HER TO SING FOR HIM? She would. SHe'd do ANYYYYTTTHHIIINNNGGGG for him.
urine trouble | Pat's Strong Confident Other Half | Pees Like a Champion Unicorn Racehorse
Quote:
Originally Posted by JustAlice
Wear off, right, okay, that was alright then. "Promise not to like... die on me or anything, okay? Cause I'd be sad and stuff." That was putting it lightly. He'd blame himself forever and never be able to do anything ever again because of guilt. But that would be bringing the mood down, so he didn't mention it.
"No problem." The partnering thing. Who'd say no? "You can have this. I... am not sure what it is. But... I'll do my best." Not that that would be... y'know... any good. Since his best was usually just making sure nothing - and nobody - spontaneously combusted, and sometimes that didn't even work. "Let's do it together. Bottoms up." He grabbed the bottle and unstoppered it, clinked it against the one he'd just handed to Grayson, and downed it in one go...
"Eurgh..."
That was...
ew.....
yawn....
YAWN
Promise not to die? Lulz. He really shouldn't find that idea so funny but for something like that to happen here sounded ridiculous to him. Not that he'd tell Phe or anything. Nah! Dude might be being serious here. "Only if you promise to come and get some pizza with me afterwards." Because he was kinda hungry and craving some junk food. "Besides, I trust you. You're not gonna kill me." This was said with as much air of confidence as he would if he was saying that he was hot.
Phe wasn't sure what he was giving to him? Oh MAN. He glanced down at the bottle in his hands, a half-amused and half-thoughtful expression spread across his face. Would it be cheating if he tried to figure out what this poison was? "You're handing me an unknown poison?" LULZ, why did that sound so amusing to him? "Good luck!" It sounded like they needed it. And he was kinda glad that they were going to be taking the potion together because it might make this process a bit less embarrassing. And they could whip up an antidote faster. Just saying.
So, nodding, Grayson followed Phe's lead and unstoppered the bottle and clinked it against Phe's glass, saying, "Cheers!" He Holding the bottle up, he took a long swig of the poison before he could stop himself.
.............
.......................
"Oh jeez! Blech!" What in the name of Merlin WAS that?! Jeez, it felt........ ugh, he could feel something warm spreading through his body. It was kinda tingling and he even wiggles his toes when he felt those warm up from the potion. His brain was effected the most and in his moment of confusion, Grayson managed to pull the most confused and disgusted face he could mus--
.................. Oh! This was new. And different. Very different. The confused and disgusted expression disappeared and, instead, his blue eyes were wide and kind of glazed over. He felt as if someone had just told him that he had won the lottery or was gonna win an award for being brilliant. Looking around, it seemed as if he was looking at things through a new light. A different light. Something like.........
............ Oh man, was Grayson Douglas Whitlock HAPPY?!
He felt like it. A slow grin spread across his face as he looked over at Phoenix, still wide eyed. "Oh Phoenix, my Phoenix, can you BELIEVE this? Isn't this simply wonderful? We're here, Phoenix!" he called in between heavy breaths. He even reached over and shook the Gryffindor's shoulders to wake him up from his yawn. Because CLEARLY, he was just tired. But WHY? There was SO much happiness in the world! "Phoeeeeeeenix! We're ALIVE and WELL! We must celebrate this and have a jolly good time!"
Promise not to die? Lulz. He really shouldn't find that idea so funny but for something like that to happen here sounded ridiculous to him. Not that he'd tell Phe or anything. Nah! Dude might be being serious here. "Only if you promise to come and get some pizza with me afterwards." Because he was kinda hungry and craving some junk food. "Besides, I trust you. You're not gonna kill me." This was said with as much air of confidence as he would if he was saying that he was hot.
Phe wasn't sure what he was giving to him? Oh MAN. He glanced down at the bottle in his hands, a half-amused and half-thoughtful expression spread across his face. Would it be cheating if he tried to figure out what this poison was? "You're handing me an unknown poison?" LULZ, why did that sound so amusing to him? "Good luck!" It sounded like they needed it. And he was kinda glad that they were going to be taking the potion together because it might make this process a bit less embarrassing. And they could whip up an antidote faster. Just saying.
So, nodding, Grayson followed Phe's lead and unstoppered the bottle and clinked it against Phe's glass, saying, "Cheers!" He Holding the bottle up, he took a long swig of the poison before he could stop himself.
.............
.......................
"Oh jeez! Blech!" What in the name of Merlin WAS that?! Jeez, it felt........ ugh, he could feel something warm spreading through his body. It was kinda tingling and he even wiggles his toes when he felt those warm up from the potion. His brain was effected the most and in his moment of confusion, Grayson managed to pull the most confused and disgusted face he could mus--
.................. Oh! This was new. And different. Very different. The confused and disgusted expression disappeared and, instead, his blue eyes were wide and kind of glazed over. He felt as if someone had just told him that he had won the lottery or was gonna win an award for being brilliant. Looking around, it seemed as if he was looking at things through a new light. A different light. Something like.........
............ Oh man, was Grayson Douglas Whitlock HAPPY?!
He felt like it. A slow grin spread across his face as he looked over at Phoenix, still wide eyed. "Oh Phoenix, my Phoenix, can you BELIEVE this? Isn't this simply wonderful? We're here, Phoenix!" he called in between heavy breaths. He even reached over and shook the Gryffindor's shoulders, an almost goofy expression on his face. "Phoeeeeeeenix! We're ALIVE and WELL! We must celebrate this!"
Oh joy be to the world!
"Pizza? Obviously." Phoenix never ever turned down food. Ever. He just could do it. It was just too good. And he really was going to try his very very best not to kill Grayson. Because it would really mess up like... his entire life. But Gray seemed to trust him, so he got a tidgy smidge of confidence about it, even though he did have absolutely no idea what potion he'd given to the guy... or how to brew an antidote.
...........
As for... the rest of... everything...
....
YAWN...
Phoenix nodded along for a second or two - he knew Grayson was talking, but he just was struggling to... listen... it was warm in here... he was so sleepy.
My Phoenix. "Your Phoenix....... is that... me..?" YAAAAAAAWN.........
...
Mmmmm.... WAIT. "Don't shake meeee..." he whined, pulling a sulky face. "It's too tired... late... sleepy..." What? "It's... I'm... Am I alive?" He wasn't entirely sure right now. He was just so tired.
...
CELEBRATE? Phe's eyes, though drooping right now, still managed to widen just a little. "But... no... let's-" YAWN "-sleep instead..." He plonked himself down onto his seat and pulled his legs up next to him. "We can do the potion later... s'not important..." Nobody was dying, probably. "Y'know.. you're really... pretty..." Yawn... Though he was still just about managing to keep his eyes open, because he wanted to make sure Grayson got to have a nap too... 'cause that would be the best thing in the world right now, yeah?
Zombie Apocalypse Team Leader ★ ★ in a crown of pepperoni and artisan cheese
SPOILER!!: Zahra!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz
"I DO love pizza. Like not as much as you, but close. We could do that," Zahra agreed casually, mostly focused on all these THINGS her Snog Kitten was up to. Honestly, she was just waiting for the next time he decided to kiss her. Kissing GABRIEL BANNER was Zahra's MOST FAVORITE THING TO DO.
"I'll show you how to play airplane. Mostly me and Tobes play it," shrug, BUT WHEN IN LOVE.... you play airplane with Gabe. Mmm... Gabe.... Gabey Gabey Gabe..... "You have NEVER smiled at me like that." For real. Not ever. But anyway, "Can I add something? I wanna help YOU."
Man... who was that SINGING? That sounded fun. DID GABEY WANT HER TO SING FOR HIM? She would. SHe'd do ANYYYYTTTHHIIINNNGGGG for him.
Blinded by love, Gabe ENCOURAGED Zahra to add whatever she wanted....and she even got a few kisses for offering, too. Sweet lovebug, SHE was. Adorable!!
.........and he was unfamiliar with this 'airplane' game. Gabe never really had too much time for games.....He was always doing stuff like....reading in languages that were nearly extinct....and writing papers so he didn't have to socialize with people......and even brewing liquid luck with Jeremiah....He was a boring individual.....Why, though?! This was amazing!!!!!
SWEET PUPPY DOG EYES. "I want to do whatever you want to do. Always."
Anywaaaaaay, task at hand here! He'd already gotten the purified water in...and was working the fluxweed with one of his knives. It was taking a moment due to cleanly measures being taken. Good ol' Professor Culloden liked them to keep it clean...and Gabe didn't mind because he liked 'clean'.
"So, what did you want to add?"
__________________
We live in cities you'll never see onscreen..._______________________________________________
So very pretty, and we sure know how to run things..._______________________________ Livin' in ruins of a palace, within our dreams...____________
We're on each other's team._____
Made of Awesome | Ern-la the Best-wa | TZ's Apogee
Quote:
Originally Posted by feeheeheeny
"You ARE marvelous." Uh huh, Soph wouldn't deny that as she weakly got all her stuff ready to brew her potion. Who was Dot talking about, though? What BOY was the cutest? "Who's the cutest boy you've ever seen, Dot?" She needed a NAME because she was nosy and Dot was adorable. Maybe Soph would get to play matchmaker for her.
Culloden would be her best friend. She snorted at that, her gaze darting to the professor and wondering if HE saw this. Merlin, Dot was a HOOT. "He's already my best friend, so since you and I are best friends, you two already get to be best friends by default." It didn't work that way in the real world, but maybe Dot would get a kick out of it in her hyperactive state. Hehe.
Though her body felt bizarrely heavy and weak at the same time and she didn't even want to move, her spirits continued to rise as Dot was... well, a bit of a mess, really, but it was an endearing kind of mess. EXCEPT for her shooting off spells - no, that first one wasn't a real spell, and MERLIN stupefying someone wasn't RIGHT EITHER! Third time was the charm, though, and Soph shot another helpless sort of look to Culloden before settling down and sloooowly measuring out a pint of water for her Calming Draught. "Tobes. Friends. Potions. Wands. Lots of stuff," she offered, noticing how all of those things were being incorporated at once right now. So... ideally, she SHOULD have been feeling pretty happy, if it wasn't for her arms feeling like lead as she tried to hold them up. SO HEAVY. AND SHE JUST WANTED TO LAY DOWN AND REST.
Grunting a little, she poured the water into her own clean cauldron - everything was clean, of course, because she had done so before she had drank the poison - and warmed up the water before she could add the fluxweed oil. When it seemed warm enough, she lifted a shaky arm and used a dropper to add her six drops of fluxweed oil to the cauldron, then had to reference her textbook to see what came next - oh, Merlin. Lots of preparation for the bloodroot stems. Something... she didn't have a lot of energy for. Could she do this without putting a lot of effort into it? Guh. Well, with her gloved hands, she gathered her three bloodroot stems and got to work, slowly but surely cutting out the inner flesh and fluids from each of them with a clean knife and scraping them into the clean mortar with her arms laying limp on the table in front of her. She wasn't going to lift them anymore than she had to, nope.
"That one," Dot pointed her wand at Toby the Dancing King. Cutest in the whole wide world, probably. Even cuter than Ky-roh and DimatheSuprema, who she loved more than her very own self. She watched Sophie fill her cauldron with water, and then Dot did the same. It made her GIGGLY HAPPY that they were doing the same spells. Wouldn't it be hilarious if she just copied everything Sophie did? Like a baby shadow?
Dot fell over giggling at the thought. "Culloden said I could be his favorite if I learned how to be cool. I'm asking for sunglasses this summer and I'm going to wear them inside and flip them down like this," she made a motion like she was sliding glasses down her nose. "And then we can be best friends, all three of us."
Oh, unicorn tail hairs! Dot had those in her kit! She danced around with her hands over her head in celebration before fishing them out. Dance first. Hairs second. Dancing was always first. "Wands make you happy? Does ice cream? Or chicken legs? I like chicken legs. I make them dance and it makes Dima laugh."
Two hairs in. One. Two.
SPOILER!!: Instructions
Strength Potion Ingredients
2 kilograms of dragon heart (a few grams more/less doesn’t matter)
1 pomegranate
A cup of re’em blood
One mature salamander’s blood
2 unicorn tail hairs
Powdered griffin claw
2 snake fangs
Instructions Add 2 litres of water and the unicorn tail hairs one by one
Turn the heat to high and add the dragon heart
Wait until it boils and add pomegranate
Turn the heater to medium and wait for five minutes. In the meantime, mix re’em and salamander blood in a bowl and stir them five times clockwise and five times counter clockwise and crush griffin claw (doesn't have to be a perfect powder - just crush as well as you can withOUT magic).
Add the blood mixture slowly and THEN, the powdered griffin claw IMMEDIATELY.
Wait for ten minutes and add one snake fang
Put the fire out and add the other snake fang
Stir counter clockwise once
Drink a cup of the potion in one go, while still hot
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This class reminded her of that one where the Professor completely messed up their potions then had them experiment until they found a fix. Only difference this time was they didn't know what they were drinking and the man was essentially taking a risk with their health. Did the Healer know about this? Was this safe? Good merlin what if one of them was a LOVE potion?? She'd had her fill of those and wasn't about to swallow another thank you very much. The risk of drinking some random potion didn't bother her so much as the risk the potion turned out to be amortentia.
The Professor would never hear the end of it if that was the case. No, no he wouldn't at all.
Looking around, it didn't take much to see that practically everyone was already partnered up. How did people move so fast???? Ugh. There must have been someone left. Glancing to the seat next to her she spotted Dima. Riiiight, he usually sat there, didn't he? Well that saved her half the trouble right there and the Gryffindor walked up to the front to grab two vials. Returning, she lightly shoved one toward him.
"Here. This. Drink it then we do the work." Just...don't ask her what it was, yeah? Bottoms up.
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Blinded by love, Gabe ENCOURAGED Zahra to add whatever she wanted....and she even got a few kisses for offering, too. Sweet lovebug, SHE was. Adorable!!
.........and he was unfamiliar with this 'airplane' game. Gabe never really had too much time for games.....He was always doing stuff like....reading in languages that were nearly extinct....and writing papers so he didn't have to socialize with people......and even brewing liquid luck with Jeremiah....He was a boring individual.....Why, though?! This was amazing!!!!!
SWEET PUPPY DOG EYES. "I want to do whatever you want to do. Always."
Anywaaaaaay, task at hand here! He'd already gotten the purified water in...and was working the fluxweed with one of his knives. It was taking a moment due to cleanly measures being taken. Good ol' Professor Culloden liked them to keep it clean...and Gabe didn't mind because he liked 'clean'.
"So, what did you want to add?"
"Two things," Zahra explained, "first... I'll add the dragon scales. Those are awesome. I bet even I couldn't mess those up." She sorted them out quickly and wrote
G A B E
in scales on their work table.
Then she used a whole bunch of the powdered roots to draw a big HEART around his name. One MIGHT view it as wasteful, but Zahra viewed it as a TRIBUTE to her Gabe. Her LOVE.
"...and the other thing...." Zahra gave him a BIG OLD KISS, right to his cheek. "Hehe. That. Hehe. I'll add that" HEHE. LOVE LOVE LOVE THOSE GABEY CHEEKIES. "Tell me when to add the scales, k?"
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SPOILER!!: Zahra!
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"Two things," Zahra explained, "first... I'll add the dragon scales. Those are awesome. I bet even I couldn't mess those up." She sorted them out quickly and wrote
G A B E
in scales on their work table.
Then she used a whole bunch of the powdered roots to draw a big HEART around his name. One MIGHT view it as wasteful, but Zahra viewed it as a TRIBUTE to her Gabe. Her LOVE.
"...and the other thing...." Zahra gave him a BIG OLD KISS, right to his cheek. "Hehe. That. Hehe. I'll add that" HEHE. LOVE LOVE LOVE THOSE GABEY CHEEKIES. "Tell me when to add the scales, k?"
IIKFFAFLSKCA. How cute, though?!
Putting his own prep on hold, Gabe handed his mortar and pestle over; taking the time to explain what he wanted. Besides her. Rawr. "Coarsely ground them....So, about a minute should do it, I think." He loved that she wanted to help him....What an amazing girl he had! THE BEST, even.
Finishing the fluxweed, he measured it out and added it in. There. Now, for stirring. A metal rod for this particular potion, Gabe surmised....and pulled his; quickly performing a cleaning charm. "The stirring is tricky in this." How this concoction was meant to work and how it was specifically layered made all the sense in the logical part of his mind.....AND HE STILL WANTED TO IMPRESS ZAHRA. His lady love. His looooovebug.
After the seven stirring strokes, he went back to preparing, quickly working through the knotgrass....one eye on his work...the other on Zahra's bum. It was a good motivator to finish quickly here. Yep.
Soon enough, that was added, too.....and more stirring. Though, this stirring was in the opposite direction, now. Seven strokes for magical reasons. Knotgrass cut to act as 'unbinding'.....Fluxweed to incite the 'change' back....It all made sense.
..........and more bum watching.......
"When you're ready, add the scales in....and stir seven times, clockwise." He offered an encouraging smile.
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Toby tried very very very hard to calm down, even sort of clamped his lips together with his teeth to stop giggling, but he was still very clearly smiling. He let out a few more giggles through his nose and noted how Eden was looking at her book. EXCELLENT IDEA. And a great distraction too. Tobias pulled his own towards him and started aimlessly flipping through it, having forgotten what he was doing already.
He'd been looking through at the illustrations of ingredients when Eden's voice drew his attention again. Toby looked around at her, GRINNING SO WIDELY that you could probably see all his pearly whites, and then SUDDENLY remembered the task he was supposed to be doing. Boy, almost forgot. WHOOPS.
"A Happiness Draught?" he repeated, looking thoughtfully around the room and still BEAMING SO WIDELY LIKE GOSH. "Like... like the Elixir to Induce Euphoria?" Toby looked back at Eden, still BEAMING and BOUNCING and probably using enough energy for the both of them. It was like he'd SAPPED Eden and made her so... so... 'running on E'. "I suppose you look at the ingredients and-" BUT WAIT. Fix... why did she want... oh. OH. HAD HE HAD THE HAPPINESS DRAUGHT? That was hilarious. A voice at the back of Toby's mind told him that it was actually not at all funny, and perhaps the worst potion he could have picked, but THIS HAPPY TOBY probably would have smiled even wider if he could. "There's no need to fix me, I'm... I'm so happy. So happy I could sing." But he wouldn't yet. Had a job to do and all.
"Hey. Hey. Hey, Eden. Eden, Hey. Hey. Eden. Hey. Good news!" Toby spoke as he flipped through the pages of his textbook before stopping and bookmarking one in particular. "I know what potion you've had! Fatiguing Fusion. I can try to fix that, a...nd IIIIIII wiiIIIiiill tryyyYYY, to fix youuuuuuuuu."Twirrrrrrrrl.
Aaaaaand there was the singing. And dancing. Merlin.
Eden was staring. Staring away her life. The ingredients to help the happiness--or whatever thing--was right in front of her, but she was just..her eyes were drooping--what was happening?
Oh--
His laughter...it was making her aware of her surroundings once more. Eden sat up and squinted at him. "Toby--Toby--" she sighed and held up a hand to his mouth. "please--stop...laughing...okay?" Her voice was hardly above a whisper because she was so exhausted. Apparently tired Eden was grumpy Eden, too.
SIGH.
Pulling her hand back, she slooooowly grabbed her wand from her robe and tapped her cauldron--well--what now? She blinked at the page. The words jumbled. She felt like she was going to slump over--and when her head SMACKED against the book on her desk--she just groaned into the page and kept her head down. Merlin. This poison was some serious BUSINESS.
Eden pointed her wand at her cauldron and said, very softly, "Aquamenti--" and began to fill her cauldron with water...eventually, though, she slumped over a bit...and the water from her wand began to pour out all over her desk............oops.
Only when she felt the wetness in her lap did she come back from her ...revery. "Oh--Merlin--" she pulled her wand back to stop the water..they now had a puddle at her feet..."oops..I...that---" Did they have towels? "What's the spell for...the cleany thing--" and she was losing focus again and was slumping against Toby...
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This class reminded her of that one where the Professor completely messed up their potions then had them experiment until they found a fix. Only difference this time was they didn't know what they were drinking and the man was essentially taking a risk with their health. Did the Healer know about this? Was this safe? Good merlin what if one of them was a LOVE potion?? She'd had her fill of those and wasn't about to swallow another thank you very much. The risk of drinking some random potion didn't bother her so much as the risk the potion turned out to be amortentia.
The Professor would never hear the end of it if that was the case. No, no he wouldn't at all.
Looking around, it didn't take much to see that practically everyone was already partnered up. How did people move so fast???? Ugh. There must have been someone left. Glancing to the seat next to her she spotted Dima. Riiiight, he usually sat there, didn't he? Well that saved her half the trouble right there and the Gryffindor walked up to the front to grab two vials. Returning, she lightly shoved one toward him.
"Here. This. Drink it then we do the work." Just...don't ask her what it was, yeah? Bottoms up.
"..... gfthuh?"
As usual, Dima had been half asleep (it was 100% the professor's fault for holding class at times when normal people rested). But he snapped to attention when the class became alive with the sounds of moving and brewing around him. And Lex's voice cut through like a knife, that was for sure. Why was she trying to make him drink it?
It took him a minute of blank stares at the board before he realized what was going on. OH.
"Wha'm I drinkin'?" he asked a bit groggily as he uncorked the vial, then poured the contents down his throat. And where was his textbook?
Ah, there. He'd been using it as a pillow.
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"That one," Dot pointed her wand at Toby the Dancing King. Cutest in the whole wide world, probably. Even cuter than Ky-roh and DimatheSuprema, who she loved more than her very own self. She watched Sophie fill her cauldron with water, and then Dot did the same. It made her GIGGLY HAPPY that they were doing the same spells. Wouldn't it be hilarious if she just copied everything Sophie did? Like a baby shadow?
Dot fell over giggling at the thought. "Culloden said I could be his favorite if I learned how to be cool. I'm asking for sunglasses this summer and I'm going to wear them inside and flip them down like this," she made a motion like she was sliding glasses down her nose. "And then we can be best friends, all three of us."
Oh, unicorn tail hairs! Dot had those in her kit! She danced around with her hands over her head in celebration before fishing them out. Dance first. Hairs second. Dancing was always first. "Wands make you happy? Does ice cream? Or chicken legs? I like chicken legs. I make them dance and it makes Dima laugh."
Two hairs in. One. Two.
SPOILER!!: Instructions
Strength Potion Ingredients
2 kilograms of dragon heart (a few grams more/less doesn’t matter)
1 pomegranate
A cup of re’em blood
One mature salamander’s blood
2 unicorn tail hairs
Powdered griffin claw
2 snake fangs
Instructions Add 2 litres of water and the unicorn tail hairs one by one
Turn the heat to high and add the dragon heart
Wait until it boils and add pomegranate
Turn the heater to medium and wait for five minutes. In the meantime, mix re’em and salamander blood in a bowl and stir them five times clockwise and five times counter clockwise and crush griffin claw (doesn't have to be a perfect powder - just crush as well as you can withOUT magic).
Add the blood mixture slowly and THEN, the powdered griffin claw IMMEDIATELY.
Wait for ten minutes and add one snake fang
Put the fire out and add the other snake fang
Stir counter clockwise once
Drink a cup of the potion in one go, while still hot
...Dot thought TOBES was the CUTEST BOY SHE HAD EVER SEEN? That was SO funny to Sophie Brown, and she laughed as she crushed up her bloodroot flesh and fluids in her mortar with her pestle, even though her body told her not to. Ohhhhh, MERLIN. "I've gotta agree with you there." The kid wasn't wrong. "You know he and I are a thing, yeah?" Which meant she had KISSED those cute lips of his. Hehe. "Bet he'd love for you to dance with him, though. He loves that stuff." He was a big nerd and would probably think the dancing with Dot was the most fun thing in the world, since he seemed to be under the influence of the same euphoric poison as Dot.
She continued crushing up the bloodroot as Dot went on about Culloden, and she couldn't help but continue to laugh. It was miserable laughter, though, as her arms were so sore and she wanted to stop and lay on the floor and rest her weak muscles, but the more SHE kept working, the faster she thought Dot would get her antidote done. So... no rest. She couldn't afford for Dot to stray entirely off task. "That's a good idea, but I already think you're cool, sunglasses or no sunglasses. You can tell Culloden that and I bet since he and I are already best friends, he'll make you his best friend right on the SPOT, since I think you're cool already. You could tell him right now."
Okay, so she was ENCOURAGING Dot to stray from the task this time, but... she REALLY wanted to see the kid go talk to Culloden in this state right now. Hahahah.
When the bloodroot was crushed to a fine paste, she added it to her cauldron, then went ahead and stirred slooooowly - which she would have done even if the directions hadn't said so, since it took so much effort to do it and it hurt - alternating clockwise and counterclockwise until a very light steam rose from the concoction in her cauldron.
Wellllll, so far so good.
"All of those things make me happy, yep. What else makes you happy?" Sophie asked, referencing her textbook before taking a clean utensil to mince her Valerian root, which she proceeded to do. It was weird, brewing a potion while also making conversation with someone while people were being weird and dying all over the classroom, but... so far, it wasn't incredibly difficult. When the Valerian root was sufficiently minced, she added it to her cauldron and sighed. Shaky, frail arms. She'd had enough of that when the aging epidemic hit.
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Calming Draught
Use/Effect:
To calm and soothe the drinker
Ingredients:
1 pint water
6 drops fluxweed oil
Inner membrane and fluid from 3 bloodroot stems
1 Valerian root, minced
1 drachm calendula pollen
3 skullcap leaves
1/2 drachm powdered root of asphodel (scant)
1 Hyacinth flower, whole
1 ounce slime from the belly of a sprightly frog
1 sprig of peppermint
4 drop glumbumble fluid (take care not to overuse!)
Instructions:
**STAGE 1**
Add 6 drops fluxweed oil to warm water.
Split the bloodroot stems lengthwise with your knives and scrape out all fluid and fibrous material from inside the stems. Crush with mortar and pestle into a fine paste and add to the cauldron.
Stir slowly until a light steam rises from the cauldron, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirring.
**STAGE 2**
Mince the Valerian root and add it to the potion.
Add calendula pollen, stirring three times clockwise.
Shred the skullcap lengthwise, and slowly add it to the potion
Bring the temperature back up until the steam is rising again, stirring clockwise slowly. It should be a light blue-green at this stage.
Professor's note: Remember your intent-- concentrate on being calm and infusing your work with a calm, deliberate result.
Add asphodel -- you should see a bright blue flash of light in your cauldron
Add the Hyacinth flower; the potion should stop glowing
Allow the potion to steep while you collect the frog slime. For best results, do not harvest the frog slime until this time!
Add the slime and a sprig of peppermint and bring to boiling, stirring in alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirs once again.
When the potion thickens and turns deep indigo, add the glumbumble fluid.
Continue stirring in a clockwise motion until the solid ingredients have all disintegrated and the potion is a thick, syrupy indigo fluid that smells of lavender, warm sugar and sweet mint. There should be a light purple-pink sheen in the steam that rises from the potion.
Take a sample of your potion and bottle it into a phial.
Post 2: Picking a potion and drinking it, starting effects
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Looking around at his options, the Gryffindor shrugged and picked up the fourth one. Honestly, he didn't really know what the differences were, but erm- if it did anything to him like Gabe and Zahra then he'd just have to kindly excuse himself out of the classroom. ACTUALLY, no. This is exactly what Cinna said he needed. Snogging. Maybe he could nick one of the vials on his way out of the classroom. But for now, he'd stick with whatever the heck this potion was?
As he turned he noticed the Hufflepuff prefect -Marigold- practically running towards him mouthing something... Uh, was that partners? YES. He'd do it. She had to be smart too being prefect and all, so yes he nodded rather vigorously and showed her a bit of the vial he had in his hand. "We each choose one, right?"
Marigold just randomly picked a poison: #3, and hoped it wasn't whatever Zahra and Gabe were infected with. She had a boyfriend, thank you very much, and would stick to whatever else she picked. She already had a headache from OWL stress, hopefully she would get a poison where the effects were apparent. Not stopping to think about what she was doing, she nodded at Zander and gulped her potion down. She opened her mouth to say something in response but suddenly...
She was having trouble opening her mouth. Or, rather, finding the energy to open her mouth. She slowly sat down on the classroom floor, then starfished on the floor. She mumbled something about feeling tired, because that's all she could muster up.
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SPOILER!!: Professor Culloden
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Not if Professor stepped in to PREVENT the cat fight.
Oh, he was certainly, very amused. But he wouldn't be amused if they really did fight.
So he went over to the couple (hehe) and did what he did to Zahra and Gabriel: he shoved two terrible odours up their noses without a warning to make sure they WOULD smell it. It was strong enough to make them less passionate, but weak enough for them to still feel the luuurve.
Jasmine was seething because this Cinna girl was tying to steal her man. How dare she! Before she could get an explanation from Kevin as to why he was on bended knee with flowers for this girl, Professor Culloden appeared. Then he unexpectedly stuck some foul smelling object up her nose. Arrrrgh....What in the world was going on here? Jasmine was snapped to her senses for a moment.
SPOILER!!: Cinna
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Mmmmm happy happy happy. Cinna was just so happy. Grinning, smiling, humming yes now she was humming to. Happy, happy, happy. But wait why was that Kevin staring at her? He must of been jealous of how HAPPY she was. That was what it had to be. But wait Gabe and Zarah? Gabe she didn't think the boy had THAT MUCH snogging in him. Too shy for that kind of stuff. Ahhhh Love potion A LOVE POTION. Funny, Culloden really funny. NOT. She giggled, she was too happy. "Lux." Turning to her bestie. "Fix this." She laughed happily and amused. She was his partner. She needed to fix this is fast.
Anyway, she had to get Maddie better. Poor girl seem so exhausted. Merlin, it was kind of hard to do her work and be stared at by someone who wasn't her boyfriend. She flipped though her book. She knew what she needed. She just had to find it first. "Don't worry, Maddie. I'm so happy that I'm going to fix you." She turned to Maddie. Gave her a big smile.
What why was Kevin over here yelling at her and giving her flowers. Someone stop him. She started laughing. Love her? She seriously did not know what to say. She was just so happy, and Kevin had nothing to do with why she was so happy. She was just happy to real rational reason. She just was. She had to say something to this poor love sick puppy though. "Umm... Kevin..." She got cut off by the Ravenclaw prefect.
Oh look Culloden was going to save her from this maddness.She watched as he made them sniff something. Good, "Thank you." She laughed or more of sang it out load, amused and like WAYYYY TOOOOO Happy to let it bug her.
Mmm well,,, was she on a love potion too? Or did she really have a thing for him? It didn't matter she wasn't about to have someone start fighting with her over a guy that she barely knew. So not.She can have him or think she can if she was on a love potion. Cinna continued to laugh and giggle over the whole thing.She was still too happy to let any of this bother her.
"Oh, yeah Maddie i'm here Yes, its going to back you and me both happy. I just need to get some stuff to together first." She turned back to Maddie again and smiled more. Okay Cinna think antidote for Maddie's posion. Ugh. This would be so much easier if she was better at potions.
Why was this girl laughing? There was nothing funny about this situation. Jasmine didn't want to fight her anymore, but she was still angry. And then.......what if Kevin didn't love her? What if he really loved this other girl instead. Dejected and fighting back tears, Jasmine turned and went back to her work area. Kevin didn't love her. How could that be? She loved him so much.
SPOILER!!: Zhenya
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She did? Zhenya was relived! "Oh good, good, thank you Jasmine. Wh-what one was it?" she asked.
She was just starting to feel better again when Jasmine started yapping on about Kevin again. She rolled her eyes, really wanting to feel a bit better if she had to listen to lovey-dovey-icky stuff. Something just didn't sound right though… They were't dating, but Jasmine was saying he was the one for her. Zhenya only dated Gary for a while and was still heartbroken over him, wondering where he was now, what he was up to, whether he was married but even then she wouldn't have spoken about that. Isn't that something you kept to yourself? Surely it was.
She was still trying to figure out what poison Jasmine had taken. Jasmine had been able to help her clean our her cauldron, which was fair enough. Zhenya probably wouldn't have appreciated essence of vomit in an antidote either. Much better out.
WHAT!? Zhenya's head whipped around and stared at her partner, incredulously. WAHT?! He loves me too? What did that mean? Oh, but she shouldn't have whipped her head around so quickly. Now she felt dizzy, her headache was worse, and her nausea was worse. Her lips trembled, she burped and hugged her cauldron again.
UH OHH!
Zhenya looked up thankfully at the Professor. It was a glass of something. Zhenya was sure it wasn't the antidote, he seemed to be enjoying himself. If she didn't feel so poorly, she might have enjoyed it too, all those people in love.
"Thank you," she said to the Professor, and downed the potion.
She thought she was going to vomit, for sure, but the potion seemed to magically stop that. She didn't even feel those pre-vomit warnings anymore. The nausea still bubbled around in her stomach, but nothing else was happening. She was so relieved. Vomiting was the worst, especially when it came out of her nose and mouth!
Zhenya turned around but Jasmine wasn't there. Maybe she was going to get her ingredients for the antidote. Maybe she would have to figure out what poison Jasmine had taken when she was cured. She really had no idea… then she heard some commotion.
She looked around and.. there she was. Oh no… Oh no, no, no…
THAT WAS IT!!!!
Jasmine was in LOVE! Oh, how could she have been so daft? OF course, a love potion! That would make Jasmine feel really good and happy, she was all gross and mushy speaking about Kevin WHO SHE WASN'T EVEN DATING, and now she was getting furiously jealous about him speaking with someone else. OH! She finally had it.
She pulled her text book from her books and furiously flipped through it. Surely she had to do this quick. The Professor, she had seen, had intervened, but just like her nausea and headache and diziness were still there, she was sure Jasmine's love was still there too.
Okay, those were her ingredients!
Trying not to sniffle, Jasmine got back to Zhenya and realized that she was supposed to be brewing a potion for her. Through her very dramatic tears, she managed to find the Antidote for Common Poisons in her book. Noticing that Zhenya had stopped vomiting, she told her, "I know what you need and I'm going to get started on it now.". *Sniff* Jasmine took out her wand and began to clean her equipment. "Scourgify", she said with none of her previous elation. It was amazing how being dumped by your imaginary love could clear your head.
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...Dot thought TOBES was the CUTEST BOY SHE HAD EVER SEEN? That was SO funny to Sophie Brown, and she laughed as she crushed up her bloodroot flesh and fluids in her mortar with her pestle, even though her body told her not to. Ohhhhh, MERLIN. "I've gotta agree with you there." The kid wasn't wrong. "You know he and I are a thing, yeah?" Which meant she had KISSED those cute lips of his. Hehe. "Bet he'd love for you to dance with him, though. He loves that stuff." He was a big nerd and would probably think the dancing with Dot was the most fun thing in the world, since he seemed to be under the influence of the same euphoric poison as Dot.
She continued crushing up the bloodroot as Dot went on about Culloden, and she couldn't help but continue to laugh. It was miserable laughter, though, as her arms were so sore and she wanted to stop and lay on the floor and rest her weak muscles, but the more SHE kept working, the faster she thought Dot would get her antidote done. So... no rest. She couldn't afford for Dot to stray entirely off task. "That's a good idea, but I already think you're cool, sunglasses or no sunglasses. You can tell Culloden that and I bet since he and I are already best friends, he'll make you his best friend right on the SPOT, since I think you're cool already. You could tell him right now."
Okay, so she was ENCOURAGING Dot to stray from the task this time, but... she REALLY wanted to see the kid go talk to Culloden in this state right now. Hahahah.
When the bloodroot was crushed to a fine paste, she added it to her cauldron, then went ahead and stirred slooooowly - which she would have done even if the directions hadn't said so, since it took so much effort to do it and it hurt - alternating clockwise and counterclockwise until a very light steam rose from the concoction in her cauldron.
Wellllll, so far so good.
"All of those things make me happy, yep. What else makes you happy?" Sophie asked, referencing her textbook before taking a clean utensil to mince her Valerian root, which she proceeded to do. It was weird, brewing a potion while also making conversation with someone while people were being weird and dying all over the classroom, but... so far, it wasn't incredibly difficult. When the Valerian root was sufficiently minced, she added it to her cauldron and sighed. Shaky, frail arms. She'd had enough of that when the aging epidemic hit.
Text Cut: Textbook
Calming Draught
Use/Effect:
To calm and soothe the drinker
Ingredients:
1 pint water
6 drops fluxweed oil
Inner membrane and fluid from 3 bloodroot stems
1 Valerian root, minced
1 drachm calendula pollen
3 skullcap leaves
1/2 drachm powdered root of asphodel (scant)
1 Hyacinth flower, whole
1 ounce slime from the belly of a sprightly frog
1 sprig of peppermint
4 drop glumbumble fluid (take care not to overuse!)
Instructions:
**STAGE 1**
Add 6 drops fluxweed oil to warm water.
Split the bloodroot stems lengthwise with your knives and scrape out all fluid and fibrous material from inside the stems. Crush with mortar and pestle into a fine paste and add to the cauldron.
Stir slowly until a light steam rises from the cauldron, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirring.
**STAGE 2**
Mince the Valerian root and add it to the potion.
Add calendula pollen, stirring three times clockwise.
Shred the skullcap lengthwise, and slowly add it to the potion
Bring the temperature back up until the steam is rising again, stirring clockwise slowly. It should be a light blue-green at this stage.
Professor's note: Remember your intent-- concentrate on being calm and infusing your work with a calm, deliberate result.
Add asphodel -- you should see a bright blue flash of light in your cauldron
Add the Hyacinth flower; the potion should stop glowing
Allow the potion to steep while you collect the frog slime. For best results, do not harvest the frog slime until this time!
Add the slime and a sprig of peppermint and bring to boiling, stirring in alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirs once again.
When the potion thickens and turns deep indigo, add the glumbumble fluid.
Continue stirring in a clockwise motion until the solid ingredients have all disintegrated and the potion is a thick, syrupy indigo fluid that smells of lavender, warm sugar and sweet mint. There should be a light purple-pink sheen in the steam that rises from the potion.
Take a sample of your potion and bottle it into a phial.
"I know that already, SOPHIE," Dot crowed, scooting around her desk to hug Sophie 'cause WHAT IF SHE HURT HER FEELINGS BY ALREADY KNOWING EVERYTHING? She squeeeeeeezed her middle until it hurt her arms and then went back to her station. "I know he's your boyfriend and you are so so so lucky, but I'm just saying I like to look at his face. Just like... sometimes I go and look at cake and I'm like 'hey, I think that cake looks like it is delicious and I hope someone enjoys it very much' and then I have chicken legs instead of cake. He's just cake, okay?"
OKAY? Dot held up a finger to make Sophie just wait ONE LITTLE MINUTE because she needed to turn up her heat and go get some dragon heart. From the professor's stores. When she returned with the heart, she had to show it to Sophie, and then it went PLOP into her cauldron. "I'll tell him right now. Okay? Okay, SOPHIE? PROFESSOR MISTER SIR I HAVE TO TELL YOU A THING!" And hand waving happened.
What made Dot happy? She stuck her face close to the water to wait for it to boil (directions said so!) and thought about it. "Dima. Dimadimadima. He's mad at me because I tried to help him get snogs. He doesn't need help. He's a big boy now." And mad at her. "Also I like unicorns and sequins and my dragon scale boots and Kyroh's freckles and my mum and dad being married now." All those things made her feel like there was happiness in her stomach.
There was ONE bubble and Dot EEPED with joy and dropped in her pomegranate. PLOP AGAIN.
SPOILER!!: Instructions
Strength Potion Ingredients
2 kilograms of dragon heart (a few grams more/less doesn’t matter)
1 pomegranate
A cup of re’em blood
One mature salamander’s blood
2 unicorn tail hairs
Powdered griffin claw
2 snake fangs
Instructions Add 2 litres of water and the unicorn tail hairs one by one
Turn the heat to high and add the dragon heart
Wait until it boils and add pomegranate
Turn the heater to medium and wait for five minutes. In the meantime, mix re’em and salamander blood in a bowl and stir them five times clockwise and five times counter clockwise and crush griffin claw (doesn't have to be a perfect powder - just crush as well as you can withOUT magic).
Add the blood mixture slowly and THEN, the powdered griffin claw IMMEDIATELY.
Wait for ten minutes and add one snake fang
Put the fire out and add the other snake fang
Stir counter clockwise once
Drink a cup of the potion in one go, while still hot
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11
Trying not to sniffle, Jasmine got back to Zhenya and realized that she was supposed to be brewing a potion for her. Through her very dramatic tears, she managed to find the Antidote for Common Poisons in her book. Noticing that Zhenya had stopped vomiting, she told her, "I know what you need and I'm going to get started on it now.". *Sniff* Jasmine took out her wand and began to clean her equipment. "Scourgify", she said with none of her previous elation. It was amazing how being dumped by your imaginary love could clear your head.
Zhenya noticed Jasmine return to the desk, but she looked sad. That made Zhenya feel worse. Poor Jasmine, she was a lovely girl. Hopefully after she drank her love potion cure she would feel better. First, she had to make it though. She still had to rest her head on the table every couple minutes so that the worst parts of the headache would pass, and had to breathe through the nausea, but still no vomiting. That was good. She just really needed to wash her face and brush her teeth.
"Jasmine, it's going to be okay, I," hiccup. "Promise. I know what poison you took now, and I know the antidote. We're going to fix each other." Then she did something she didn't usually do, she put her arm out and gave Jasmine a half hug, hoping it would offer her some kind of comfort, even if her problems were all bogus.
She took the text book to the supply cupboard, grabbed the ingredients she needed, then went back to her desk. There was no way she was going to tell Jasmine what poison she had taken, she didn't want her to get hysterical and defensive about her love to Kevin. Not that she realised it was bogus, of course. She did feel bad for Jasmine.
SPOILER!!: TEXTBOOK
Love Potion Antidote (INGREDIENTS)
Wiggentree twigs (11-12 lots)
Castor oil
Extract of Gurdyroot (3 lots)
(Method)
Add four Wiggentree twigs, or until the potion turns green.
Stir until the potion turns orange.
Add castor oil until the potion turns blue.
Stir until the potion turns purple.
Add extract of Gurdyroot until the potion turns red.
Add Wiggentree twigs.
Add Extract of Gurdyroot until the potion turns purple.
Leave the potion to simmer till it turns red.
Add more gurdyroot extract till it turns green.
Stir till it turns orange.
Add seven Wiggentree twigs.
Allow to simmer till it turns pink.
But there was NOTHING about how much water to put in it O.O She was in a hurry though.
"PROFESSOR?" She asked, raising her hand, "Sir, I'm sorry but do you know how much water to put in my potion? It doesn't say and I don't want to mess it up."
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SPOILER!!: HEHEHE ECOL
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Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104
Marigold just randomly picked a poison: #3, and hoped it wasn't whatever Zahra and Gabe were infected with. She had a boyfriend, thank you very much, and would stick to whatever else she picked. She already had a headache from OWL stress, hopefully she would get a poison where the effects were apparent. Not stopping to think about what she was doing, she nodded at Zander and gulped her potion down. She opened her mouth to say something in response but suddenly...
She was having trouble opening her mouth. Or, rather, finding the energy to open her mouth. She slowly sat down on the classroom floor, then starfished on the floor. She mumbled something about feeling tired, because that's all she could muster up.
The Gryffindor noticed Marigold take the potion in her hand and merlin!? Was she drinking it already!? WAAAAAAIT!! He had to drink his too!! Weren't they going to do a count off or something? Apparently not. Well, okay. Shrugging a little as he did so, he brought his own potion (potion 4) up to his mouth and took a big sip.
And suddenly Marigold was... On the ground?!
AND MERLIN, THIS WAS AWESOME!! This whole class was AWESOME!! Potions was AMAZING!! And he couldn't wait to get started!! And man, he felt like he could be king of the ENTIRE world!!! Maybe he could slip some of his stuff in his pumpkin juice every day!!
Grinning widely as he did so, he grabbed onto Marigold's hand and lifted her off the floor-- or tried to at least. One thing was for sure, this stuff wasn't a strength potion. Ahem.
"Hey! I feel great, how bout you!?!" GRIN "I think we should make the potions because potions are so much fun!!! You know what, I think this stuff is great!!" Turning towards Culloden, he smiled brightly. "Great lesson Professor! I think this is really good stuff you've got going here," SO MUCH SMILING his face would probably be so sore after this. And a good ol' thumbs up for you sir! This stuff was AWESOME!! It was like coffee, but BETTER!
"Let's do the potions stuff Marigold! I'm feeling invincible today!" And with that, the Gryffindor half dragged her across the room and to their respective stations. Taking out his cauldron he did a quick, "Scourgify," and smiled even wider! Oh boy, the cauldron was SO clean now!!
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SPOILER!!: OMG THE LOVE OF OUR LIFE ZHENYA! hehe hi
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Originally Posted by Jessiqua
Zhenya had recovered slightly and had peeled herself off the ground and back onto her chair. She dumped her cauldron onto the desk and looked at her notebook with dot points on it about Jasmine's symptoms. All she saw was that the Ravenclaw prefect was happy. Well, she was definitely HAPPIER than she was when lesson started. And she seemed to be concentrating on something other than Zhenya, which she really shouldn't have been too cross about. Zhenya was, after all, concentrating on her own sickness.
WAIT A MINUTE!!
It was the poison Jasmine had drank.
IT WAS HAPPINESS POISON!
Wait… No, something 'happy' wouldn't end in 'poison'. No, that would be like a happy potion. Like an elixir. Maybe it was something more than that. When would happiness be a bad thing?
When… Zhenya tried to think hard.
OH ENOUGH ABOUT KEVIN!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Wait… Zhenya looked around at her partner. "Are you, like… dating Kevin or… do you just like him?" Perfect one for her? Zhenya's eyes enlarged. She was gobsmacked, really, I mean what was she thinking? Zhenya couldn't believe how frustrated and surprised she was at her partner for being so… in love with someone! No, wait, it was just nausea. She didn't care that her partner was in love with Kevin, that was good. Everyone deserved a bit of love.
Oh but she really felt sick..
"BLEUGHHHHHH," she yelled, vomiting into her cauldron.
"EWWW!" she squealed. "Jasmine do you know the… oh I remember it," she pointed her wand at her cauldron and said "Scourgify," and the vomit disappeared. That was good, vomit was gross. Besides, she needed her cauldron to brew a potion, not as a vomit carrier.
"Thank you Jasmine," she said quietly, feeling the nauseous wave hit her again.
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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin
Kace saw Zeke take a potion and thought he was very brave. Kace wouldn't have the guts to go first. He smiled and saw him gulped it down. As he approached he saw all the bottles be the same. He didn't know which one was which. He could do eeeny menny minie mo because that was fair. He pointed to one and picked it up. He opened the bottle and gulped it down. Ergghh it tasted horrible! He squinted his face from the taste.
As soon as the liquid traveled down to his stomach he suddenly was starting to feel horrible. He felt really sick.
Zeke's jaw DROPPED. Literally DROPPED. "She's gorgeous," Zeke awed, gawking across the room at the Slytherin girl he'd never noticed before. How could he not have noticed HER. "Wh-what's her name? It must be... Beautiful, or or... Mrs Rogers." Could he make that a thing? Could he hold her hand? Sniff her hair? Hug her? KISS HER?!
What was heart breaking though, was that his LOVE was SICK. "I should help her," he said, puffing out his chest as he finaaaalllyyy managed to tear his eyes away from the prettiest girl EVER, only to see Kace not looking too good. What was his problem?
Oh... wait... POISON!
"How do you feel?" he asked. Though, his eyes weren't focused on his partner anymore, they were across the room, taking in the sight of the GODDESS SLYTHERIN GIRL.
[potion 4] post 2 (anyone can claim the hug at the end :P)
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Text Cut: Norah
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sararara
Norah had been busy trying to ignore all of the weird kissy stuff going on when she heard someone approaching her. WOOOT! She sprung out of her chair, fully prepared to give the little firstie a hug for being nicer than everybody else in the dungeon when the little girl began to speak. Oh. So she wasn't being nice at all. Actually, she was being rather rude herself and the second year felt her smile fade a little bit. She opened her mouth to retort, and then closed it again, because she didn't really have anything mean to say back. The firstie was right, after all, it looked like nobody had noticed her, and if she was mean to this little one then she'd have no partner at all. Plus hugging was much more fun than being mean any day.
Norah made an effort to smile at the girl and simply replied, "Okay. I'm Norah." She considered adding that she didn't know anything about antidotes but then maybe the firstie would leave her for someone who knew a lot. That seemed like something this firstie would do. But THAT was a mean thing to think so the second year shot an apologetic look at the girl just in case she could read her mind or something, and pushed a curl from her eyes so she could see the bottle in the girl's hand. "I'll get a number four too then, so we can figure out what antidote to make together." AND if she embarassed herself by kissing people, then the little girl would do. Norah was so busy imagining that she DID get that crazy kissy potion and she would get cooties and DIE that she didn't even relish the fact that for the first time ever she was working with someone that she was a little bit taller than. What a miracle.
Skipping over to the table, the Hufflepuff grabbed a bottle labeled number four and skipped back to the girl. "okay, drink on three? 1....2....3!" Norah closed her eyes and downed the contents of the bottle in one gulp. She started to make a face at the funny taste, when suddenly she didn't notice it anymore. It wasn't funny, it was beautiful! The dungeon, the dungeon was beautiful too! The WHOLE WORLD was SO beautiful that she felt the need to start bouncing on her toes and twirling in between the desks. "WHEEEE! Wheee wheee wheeee!
She cried at the top of her lungs as she continued to twirl. Getting dizzy, she stopped twirling and looked to see Zahra snuggling with a boy. Good for her! Love was BEAUTIFUL. She pranced over to slap the girl a high five and then did little leaps until she reached her chairs again. There was a girl there. Hi girl. She gave the girl a hug and smiled until her dimples began to cramp, but she didn't notice. So, she began to sing. I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel pretty and witty and....wait. Are we supposed to be DOING something on this fine day? I''m faaaar to happy to DOOOO things. SSEEEE?" She attempted a high kick and giggled madly when it didn't work. Hi people. Hiiiii. He hehehehhe.
She didn’t care if she was being rude. At the moment, Brooklyn was simply eyeing the girl she’d approached, practically daring her to do whatever it was she’d jumped out of her chair to do. At least the finger drumming had stopped, but it seemed like there were even more dangerous thoughts going on. As long as she didn’t do anything too ridiculous, though, and it looked like she’d stopped herself. Good. She didn’t do hugs from random people she didn’t know. Hugs were reserved for her mom and dad. Not even Lily could normally hug her, but then her sister rarely tried and now she was all the way in New York with her boyfriend anyway. She hoped that nobody else even thought about hugs.
Oh, the Hufflepuff was talking. Momentarily breaking the stare, Brooklyn shrugged. “’M Brooklyn,” she replied. At least now they knew each others’ names. She’d remember this one too, just in case that weird urge to do whatever came back. For now it seemed like she was safe. No random invasion or personal space going on here. The apologetic look received a bit of a dubious look from her, too. She didn’t know why Norah was apologizing now. The fact they were supposed to end up coming up with the antidotes for the potions hadn’t even really bothered her. Hopefully they were all in the textbook or something. She knew she didn’t have any antidotes in her notes. All she had in her notes were whatever potions she’d learned this year after all. She hadn’t failed yet though, so she wasn’t planning on failing now. “Okay.” She didn’t particularly care if they took the same potion or not, but then maybe Norah had antidotes in her notes. She’d tried to crane her neck to look while the second bottle was retrieved.
Search rather fruitless since she wasn’t about to touch the notebook, she’d returned to her previous position by the time the Hufflepuff had returned and the countdown had begun. Time to see what this potion was, apparently. She’d unstoppered her bottle on two, then downed it at the same time Norah did, minus the weird face. She’d swallowed the potion too quickly to really notice the taste anyway.
After a moment or two, she giggled at the sight of her partner twirling around the room. That looked like fun, so she started twirling in the opposite direction, still giggling almost uncontrollably. Everything just seemed so pretty and funny and all sorts of feelings she couldn’t place. It was nice, though. Maybe finding the antidote was a bad idea. She’d just keep twirling , and humming, and giggling. Even as suddenly she’d found herself being hugged by Norah, and she’d giggled again. “Why would we want to do anything to ruin the fun?,” she asked, spinning away after a moment and skipping over to one of the other stations.
“You’re be-e-e-e-autiful,” she sang out, beaming up at the person there, before giving them a giant hug. “I’m beautiful, everybody’s beautiful!,” she continued in a singsong voice, beaming up at them one more time before skipping away. Life was beautiful. Nobody should be sad, or sleepy or anything bad. Not today. It wasn’t allowed. Everyone just needed to be HAPPY. She’d go around spreading happiness. That sounded like a plan. Yep. That was what she was going to do, antidote completely forgotten.
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