HAAAAI, PROFESSOR CULLODEN.

As he entered the room, Lux waved to him and look there was another man coming in as well. This had to be the cartographer, and sure enough he was. The man seemed pretty nice, Lux thought as she listened to everything he told them. Purple wasn't the same as blue, but it was still a nice colour. She thanked Benny as he handed a pencil and notebook over to her.

It seemed that most people were choosing to head over to the other areas of the castle, but that was okay because their small group was awesome! And someone else wandered over too; a young girl (Brooklyn) Lux had seen in classes but hadn't talked to yet. "Hello, I'm Lux." She gave the girl a friendly smile.

He hadn't even known she was here, or that she'd be interested in it.. but it pleased him that she was.

Zeke grinned, "If I wanted to see where the snakes hang out, then I'd just get you to smuggle me in," but of course, that was a genius idea, one that they'd have to try sometime - when he remembered, or she remembered, since he had the habit of forgetting things. Ahem.



Zeke did a nod!tip of his head as a fellow Lion joined their modest little pack. Exciting huh? He wasn't sure if Ægis was talking to Hady or himself, but he let the comment go without reply. It was an EXCELLENT choice. The Chamber of Secrets was BENEATH the school, imagine what else was!



The word DUNGEON caught his attention, and peering around to see who voiced it, Zeke spotted Kevin.

"Dungeons over here!" he said, waving him over.



Working together aaaaalllll term!!!! Zeke was excited, YES.

And there were goodies too?! Zeke was, impressed... and he liked that they would be using pencils, those were handy things. Clever muggles.

"Thank you, Sir," Zeke replied as he was given the GREEEEN things for the Dungeons.

Exciting!!!



Spotting Dante with the GREEN things, Zeke waved him over to the small group. HIHI!

Sophie beamed in response to Toby's nudge and opened her mouth to extend a proper greeting and an elaboration on her thoughts on today's antics to the Hufflepuff, but then the Headmistress was SPEAKING AND THINGS WERE HAPPENING. GROUPS. YES. OKAY.

All the things she said were pretty interesting and exciting, though she tried not to laugh at the mention of them possibly being confused about rooms or not knowing about passageways. No, Sophie Brown had made it her life MISSION to find all those kinds of things and explore the castle at great lengths with Tobes, and she felt GOOD about the mission at hand. Whatever group she and Tobes went to, they'd have the time of their lives, for sure. And it'd be a breeze.

...But choosing a group was a little problem that deserved careful deliberation. People were quick to join groups and move to the different corners of the room, but Sophie stayed where she was and watched, counting the number of people in each and taking into account WHO went where. That was very important, of course. The dungeons group had the most people thus far tied with the kitchens group, and the only person that maybe made either of those worth joining were Culloden and Zander, but they were in different groups, so it was easy to count those out. The first floor had the least amount of people, so she considered that her talents might be needed there, but...

Her people. Her people were in the ground floor group: BOTH of her dormmates, CB and Evie; CB's dorky prefect boyfriend, Gabe; a Hufflepuff she didn't know personally named Norah; and her TOBES. So... easy. Easy decision. Yes. "GROUND FLOOR. GO TEAM." She joined the group and offered up HIGH-FIVES TO ALL OF THEM. THE BEST GROUP. WOOP.

The color grey, though? Merlin. That was a little depressing.

Hello this was going to be fun and hey Aegis had been blinded by her beauty…sure, she’d believe that, he’d probably just been trying to mess with Zander cause well…look? He had ALL of the amazing Gryffindor girls sitting next to him. “Are you sure it wasn’t old age?” Puck asked a smirk her go-to-smirk on her face.

And when Aegis was OFF of her and well no longer over there she couldn’t help but laugh because Zander officially had an empty space next to him…hey look Kace was there! “Oh my gosh YES!” Puck answered Kace’s question and grinned. “The kitchens sound like a great place all the food and everything and we can get snacks while down there” she griiiiinnned widely. “Oh this is going to be great,” Puck grinned and then turned and looked around at the other people in the area.

Zander was coughing? Did he like swallow a fly or something? Puck wondered as she glanced over at her CoPrefect friend and raised an eyebrow at him. “Ooooooh that sounds great! YES! I’ll join you guys because hello food?” She grinned at everyone really in the kitchens group.

She did look up when Tia called over to Kace and smiled at her. “Hiiii! You joining us in the kitchens?” She asked happily, “I’m Puck…apparently I’m a seat cushion,” she grinned and hey look there was a guy over there talking about the group colors. “Ooooh so we’re the color of the hufflepuff house then?” She grinned over to the kitchen group and smiled. That was awesome.

There was a head on his shoulder. Kyroh lifted his hand and softly placed it on Dot's head.

"Maps!!"

Pat. Pat.

Cause clearly that was clearly what she wanted. Now she'd be okay. He wiggled over as Dima arrived too! Which was great. Because best friends and map making made sense.

The headmistress chose THEN to start talking though and Kyroh focused in on her. Map making of the school. Starting with the dungeons. So everyone knew where everything was? So......why didn't the headmistress know where places was? Wasn't that dangerous and unsafe? Huuuuuuuh. The question lingered in Kyrohs mind for about a second before he blurted out; "I wanna go to the ground floor!" Where Bay was!! "Or the first floor." Cause PURPLE.

Though....Bay was a bit better than purple so...ground floor it WAS. Jumping up Kyroh ran over to the group, all while looking back to make sure the Dot and Dima were following

Excellent, both Cossy AND the cartographer were here! "Thank you, Thorbert," she greeted her former colleague with a smile, and Cosgrach got a smile and nod as well. Thorbert had brought goodies, though, which was even better. She selected a yellow pad and pencil for herself, then looked around as everyone seemed to be assembling. Good, good. The redhead quickly jotted down who was going where in her notebook, then looked up and addressed the crowd with a sonorous charm.

"Professor Culloden will be leading students through the Dungeons, I'll take the Kitchens group, Mr. Kenting will lead the Ground Floor, and Professor Quigley will explore the First Floor. Go ahead and follow your group leader out to begin exploring. Obviously we expect this project to take more than one evening before curfew, so don't feel limited to exploring just tonight; you CAN work on this on your own time. We'll reassemble next week to discuss our findings, everyone, but for now, join a group and head to your location. Good luck!"

She posted her list of group names up on the wall and then signaled to her kitchen kids --- mostly 'Puffs by the look of 'em, but also a few Gryffs and Claws --- to head to the kitchens.

This seemed so exciting, and AJ was game on. It would be great having maps of the castle because even though this was her third year here she still didn't know half of the castle's secrets. Not to mention there were times when she still got lost in places.

Man, there were a lot of people here, and when they were told to break up in groups AJ was trying to keep count of who was going where. AJ could make friends anywhere she went, but her and Adi had just made up, and she wanted to be in his group.

"First floor for me." Lux was in this group, and Benny too. She was sure that she was missing people, but it was sure to be a good time no matter who was with them.

You know who'd enjoy this too? Jeremiah. But he wasn't here. Mostly likely with his pretty nose in a book up at the library. Hopefully he was studying for N.E.W.T.s. Biting on the inside of her lip, she kept the things the Headmistress said in mind, although all that processed was maps maps maps.

They were splitting up, great. She, of course, was heading toward the dungeons.

About to move on, she flopped back on her cushion as a stranger joined them. His shiny head -- what'd caught her attention first -- got her thinking Mister Valentino had snuck into Hogwarts. What an entertainment that would've been, but no. This...was a stranger. A Mister Thornbert Kenting-stranger and he was apparently going to work with them. And he was handing out utensils.

".....Thank you..." she said softly as she went over to retrieve a set of colors and a notebook. Adults, stranger adults she had no clue where they popped in from, triggered her timid button for some reason.

Dungeons, right. She sidled over close to Professor Culloden who'd be leading them. Yes, she liked this very very much. He got a small smile from the Prefect as she approached him.

"Hullo, professor." Hehe. Hi................. :3

The Gryffindor offered the two younger girls who walked up to his corner a warm smile. Uh. Why were all his friends walking in the opposite direction!? .... Merlin, maybe he actually should have chosen the other group. And now he looked like a fool standing here all by his-- KEVIN NOOOOO! Wait. Kevin? Huh. Did Kevin Hirase even know that there were school functions outside of the classroom? Blink. Blink. Blink. Had he ever shown up to a club meeting before? Blink. Blink. Blink.

BUT STILL.

How come his best mate went to the complete opposite corner leaving Zander Adair with two young girls that he didn't even know and hmph. And oh wait, Kace? Well, that was a bit better. Kace was cool. BUT STILL WHAT ABOUT THE REST? Little third year person. Little first year person. Kace. And Zander. Was it too late to switch-- TIA! The Gryffindor almost let out a breath of pure relief because two. Two familar faces. Though when he went to say something to her she.... She just ignored him and turned to Kace instead. Had he... Had he done something wrong?

And then finally, Puck came over which meant he at least had his Prefect in crime so that was good too. Okay, it was a decent group. Not the best because he only really knew three out of the bunch... But still it was okay. Maybe. And oh man, not the Headmistress again?!?! Not that he didn't like her or anything.... But... Last time he had been assigned to her group, she made him go first for everything.

And her joke wasn't even funny. The one about a Hufflepuff, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and two Gryffindors. He never heard the punch line by the way. Was there one? But right. "To the kitchens," he nodded before turning around and waving a quick goodbye to Kevin. Seriously, Kevin Hirase at a school activity WHAT?

It was pretty obvious to Dot that, although purple and the first floor were her preference, and although was OBVIOUSLY the best at the dungeons, they were going to the ground floor. No real choice, actually, because Kyroh was already moving, and where the Kyroh went, Dot and Dima followed.

Those were the rules, right? She wasn't used to following, and not more than one person. Usually she did the leading and Dima the agreeing.

"Ground floor." Oh. Oh, Sophie and Toby were there. Dot fluffed her hair and sidled instead of scurrying. "C'mon, Dima. Kyroh has spoken."

This club was WAY more awesome than Kate was originally giving it credit for. She originally thought it was a good opportunity to find out more about her new school, but now she thought it was AWESOME. It sounded like so much fun, and she couldn't wait to figure out things about the age-old, mysterious castle!



Kate had been paying so much attention to the introduction of the club that she'd forgotten to look back at the girl she'd introduced herself to before. Hearing the girl say her name, Kate turned back with a nod. "Maps," she said, repeating what Margo had said. "Don't worry about your brother. He won't have any reason to tease you when he finds out you help map the school!"

Kate grinned in excitement. "We're going on an adventure, Margo!" she said, doing a little bounce due to the excitement she just couldn't contain. Where did she want to start? Hmm...



Hmm, who was this guy? Kate wasn't too sure about him, but he'd brought GOODIES! Kate stood on her toes and peered at the gifts. Pencils and notebooks? What was so wrong about quills? Then again, she guessed if you were doing a lot of exploring, you couldn't carry on ink as easy as you could a pencil. "Let's go grab a random pencil!" she said to Margo. "Whatever color I get, that's where I'm going!"

Kate headed toward the pencil stash, closed her eyes, and plucked one at random. "Yellow! I'll be in the kitchens!" she told Margo. She would have been excited no matter which color she'd gotten. Now...who did she follow out the door?



The Headmistress it was! Notebook in one hand and pencil in the other, Kate hurried along behind the kitchen group.

So they were moving on and getting ready to head out. Well Benny was ready for whenever they moved off to whatever they found on their exploration of the first floor. Maybe there would be something new he hadn't found in the last four years here. And look...they got the new charms professor as the leader of their little group. Even better, though he would have taken Professor Culloden as well. The potions master had been starting to grow on him.

Their group also seemed like it was the smallest of the four. By far.

Alas, there was AJ. Had Benny not been told of the make-up, he might have been taken by surprise by her volunteering for the group including Adi. And in some part himself since he was connected to the Hufflepuff. But she was here and on the first floor squad and things looked like they were returning to normal. The fifth year sending a friendly smile her way.

Back to Normal.

The first floor group had only been chosen because she saw no reason to have official permission to explore her own domain (also known as the dungeons). If that meant she had to deal with the Hufflepuff prefect who still seemed like he felt he knew her because of that incident during the potions final last term, Brooklyn would deal with that. She’d sent him a look at the almost chirpy hi he’d given her, anyway. Just so he knew she wasn’t chirpy. She wasn’t. And he hadn’t gotten her name because she’d never offered it.

She hadn’t replied to him, but her blue eyes shifted over to look at the older redhead who had also been over in their corner as she’d spoken to her too. “Hi,” she replied. “Brooklyn Andrews.” She should remember that name. For that matter, the others should too. Besides, she almost wanted to ask if Lux was actually her real name or a silly nickname, except she didn’t particularly care. She wouldn’t have put it past Hufflepuff prefect boy to be the type to give silly nicknames to people. Instead, she’d toyed with the purple notebook and pencil in her hands as she waited for their next instructions. There had to be some, or at least an explanation as to what the other professors were doing there.

And she hadn’t had to wait long before the headmistress had spoken again. She wasn’t surprised Professor Culloden was assigned the dungeons group. He ought to know that area just as well as any of the Slytherins anyway, but she was definitely glad they weren’t stuck with the creepy cartographer guy. He was just too creepy for her to want to be stuck with him for any length of time. She could handle being stuck with Professor Quigley. He was okay. Maybe not as cool as Professor Bellaire was, but still on her list of professors she respected. He hadn’t told them to head out yet though. So back to waiting.

The astronomer was FUMING as he made his way down the stairs and through the corridors to the designated room LATE. UNCHARACTERISTICALLY LATE! And he knew JUST who to blame for all of it. ALL OF IT! LATE!

What bad form!

Sweet solstice that habit of falling back on that expression also needed to stop. It was really starting to freak the man out.

After Maddox had stopped by for another meeting and update on some of his Gryffindor students - proving to Airey that his methodology was failing several of them - the Charms professor had OH SO CASUALLY left FUR around his office. FUR. FUR. FUUUUUUUUUUUUR! So the man had had no other choice but to spend the rest of the time between the closure of their meeting and the time of this club one rolling his lint roller up and down his entire office and then himself....and then Hershel for good measure. Maddox you little....

Why were people leaving? SWEET SOLSTICE HAD HE MISSED EVERYTHING?!

Scurring inside and approaching the Headmistress, he threw the woman an awkward salute. "Reporting for duty, Headmistress."

Now where was Maddox so he could GLARE at his friend?

Oh? First Floor was it? Maddox gave no outward reaction to this--didn't even protest to being left with them and little other forms of authority--he just stood there with an even expression while he waited for the Headmistress to finish dishing out the orders. This expression crumpled, making way for one of utter amusement however when he saw Airey walk in looking like someone dumped a box of kitty little on his desk....or maybe fur.....HMMM.

"Glad you could join us, Flamsteed. Thought you'd be missing the party." If you could call it that. They had a fairly small group. Thankfully it didnt constitute any of the students that annoyed him beyond belief. He could definitely get into this.

As the Astronut approached them, Maddox gave him a firm smack on the back. "You'll be rolling with us." Why? Because he said so and Airey hadn't been here earlier to realize the Annie was he allowed to call her that? said nothing of the sort. With that settled and a toothy grin in place, Maddox turned to the students waiting. "Alright everyone, let's move out! Plenty to see and only so much time before your Prefects herd you lot off to bed."

It was almost exciting, almost. Were he a different man he'd have found it exciting. He nudged Airey lightly in the ribs before heading for the exit. They were coming, yes?

Wonder how long the excited feeling would last before he started missing his bed...

Awesomeeee, so-

Oh, they were starting already? That was fast. And no point in choosing a seat since they were grouping up and gonna leave already. Okay then.

"You wanna join the first floor group with me?" he asked Ruby. 'Cause that was the group that he randomly decided on. She could go to a different one though if she had a preference.

The Headmistress was announcing staff leaders for the different groups, and Lux wasn't sure how she felt going with Professor Quigley. She had nothing against the man, but she just hadn't formed a proper opinion of him. He seemed nice enough, though he clearly had a temper; not that she could blame him for being stressed during his first lesson.

AJ wandered over to join them and that made Lux happy because she really liked the younger Lion. "Hey!" she said feeling happy that her and Adi had clearly made up.

The Slytherin introduced herself, and Lux made note of her last name. "I know your sister." Yep, there was no doubt in her mind that she was correct because the girl's name was Brooklyn. Lux missed Lily and hoped she was doing well.

A flustered looking Flamsteed entered as late as ever, and there was Quigley who apparently had recruited Flamsteed. Haha. This would be awesome. "Hello, Professors." Time for them to have some fun!

Off they went.

Suddenly Professor Flamsteed was there, certainly flustered for one reason or another. Was it because he was late to the gathering? They were all ready to go at this point and he had nearly missed it all if they had departed before he had arrived. Benny supposed so for the man was usually so regulated with his timing and department...when he wasn't Captain Hook of course.

Alas, Professor Quigley was calling them to order so the first floor group could leave all together. Benny turned his attention to the charms professor so as not to miss anything. Flamsteed coming with them too...alrighty then. The fifth year moved to follow the animangus as the man left to exit the room.

Time to get this show on the road!.

He was EXCITED to be doing this, like REALLY truly EXCITED. He LOVED cartography, it was like awesome, and was totally what some of the best adventurers did - y'know, once they were done with killing deadly things and being awesome.

Zeke waved to Professor Culloden before giving him an energetic salute. This Gryffindor was ready to move out.



Zeke was still standing to attention, waiting for things to happen when their group grew some more. Wee! The more the merrier, they'd have the dungeons covered quicker.

"Hi," he greeted the Prefect. Cue GRINS.

Cosgrach smiled and nodded at all those who acknowledged him, but before he had a chance to say anything, a man entered - probably the Cartographer - and started ordering around... in a fashion. Cosgrach couldn't decide if he should be amused by him or hate him. In the end, he chose to be annoyed. The man was one of those who were LOUD but an EXPERT... or so he HOPED he was expert.

He got a green pencil and notebook. He examined them while Annie explained who would go where. Once she led her group out, and Cosgrach smirked at a very unhappy Airey, he looked at the students there too and cleared his throat.

"To the dungeons!" he roared, waited a few seconds for his group to assemble, and led them out as well.

TO THE DUNGEONS!

Zeke didn't have to be told or asked twice, there was NOTHING that could keep this Gryffindor away. Nothing. "On it, Professor," he replied quickly before squeezing his way out of the room, eager and EXCITED to get started... like.. YESTERDAY, or now, now was good too.

Weeeheee!

Ready or not, Dungeons, here he came!

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He hadn't even known she was here, or that she'd be interested in it.. but it pleased him that she was.

Zeke grinned, "If I wanted to see where the snakes hang out, then I'd just get you to smuggle me in," but of course, that was a genius idea, one that they'd have to try sometime - when he remembered, or she remembered, since he had the habit of forgetting things. Ahem.

"That wouldn't be to hard...could always shrink you." She muttered under her breath in reply to him a cute innocent smirk firmly in place. Hadn't they spoke about that before? Some time ago even if it had been a joke?

Glancing around she took notice to the simple fact of her team was guys. Even the Professor. Alrighty then that wasn't at all a big deal to her. Moving forward to the table Hady collected the green notebook and matching pencil. It was time to get going to the Dungeons.

Keeping her cool the young snake followed her group out.

AJ was there. Adi smiled fondly at her as he grasped her hand for a quick moment. They were together again and he was super pleased. And even more so when Professor Airey joined them. Professor Feline and Professor Astronaut. Awesomeee!

So time to get moving, yes? Yes! "Let's go, guys!'' Excited fifth year Hufflepuff here. LOL.

Still not knowing which group the dungeon group was, Kevin simply waited near Professor Culloden when the Headmistress told them the groups. He secretly hoped that Zander would be in his group because thanks to his Prefect work and his O.W.L studies they hadn’t been able to hang out much.

When a bubbly old man came in, giving them all colored notepads and pens, Kevin took the green one and then completely ignored him further. Bla bla map maker something bla bla, could they start now? The Gryffindor wanted to explore and find hidden rooms!

Seeing Zander waving at him before heading to the kitchens, Kevin did a ‘sup?’ head nod at the Prefect, a hint of a smile playing on his lips which he tried so hard to dissapear because he was cool and then turned around as well to follow the Potion Professors.

The floor of that beautiful, wonderful, dream-like Great Hall! The extraordinary Entrace Hall! The valuable stones of the House Cup race, the elegant staircases... Thorbert dreamily nodded at Anastasia. This was perfect. He grabbed a grey pencil and brought out a bigger notebook. His notebook was surprisingly simple... on the outside.

Tiiiiiiiime to mooooooove!

"To the Entrance Hall my lovelies," he called to the students. He walked to the door, but didn't leave. He would leave last to make sure he got eeeeeeveryone.