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Astronomy Lesson :: Terraforming [ a brief introduction ]
The sun has long set and the light of the full moon is juxtaposed against the dotted canvas that is the night sky. Although the moon's glow is brilliant, one's eye cannot help but be drawn to a few other luminescent dots in the sky. Are they stars or planets? Only those that know how to distinguish between the two will be able to tell you that answer.
Stepping into the Astronomy classroom, you are hit with what feels like a brick wall of icy cold air that burns your face and causes your teeth to chatter. Rest assured that as cold as it may feel, there is no chance for you to get frostbite or catch a cold. As you make your way towards the semicircle of desks - the usual formation for Astronomy lessons to help create a more intimate setting - you may have to battle the occasional dust devil or terrestrial tornado along the way. These are relatively harmless and more of an annoyance than anything else as they carry NO risk of sweeping even the smallest of first years high into the air. Just be sure to hold on to your belongings. The air itself was tainted in unpleasant waves of stench reminiscent of someone setting off a series of dung bombs every few minutes. But perhaps the strangest of all is the manner in which you move about within the classroom. You feel much lighter on your feet and your usual steps cause you to lift higher up into the air than usual. Not too much that you will knock your head against the ceiling, but enough that you could potentially jump double your own height - perhaps even a little bit MORE than that if you really tried.
When you do finally arrive at your desk you find a little souvenir waiting for you. The blackboard, positioned across from the semicircle of desks, has the following instructions written upon it:
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The space blanket is yours to use should conditions prove to be too cold for you.
Take out a quill and write your FULL name and year on the piece of parchment provided.
Once you have done so, give it a tap with your wand.
The parchment, enchanted by the professor himself, will turn into a sturdy wood name plaque when you do so. Don’t worry, even the first years and those not skilled with magic will be able to manage this little trick.
Speaking of the professor, you can find him leaning against his desk with his trusty pet rock by his side, his own space blanket utilized in a peculiar but perhaps not unexpected manner and his own head protected by a Bubble Head Charm.
Did you remember to use the lint roller on the small table outside of the classroom? It was there next to the sign that reads, "Not to be used as a brush for your hair" and has the signature of a former student in the bottom right corner.
So come on in and find a seat, class will begin shortly.
⌦Lesson Progression
▸ question 1 :: why do we study astronomy?
▸ question 2 :: what can be done to make the classroom a more comfortable environment?
▸ question 3 :: should the human race terraform Mars? Why or why not?
▸ main activity :: "SPACE GLOBIALS"
Class will officially begin in approximately 14 hours from the time of this post.
This lesson has officially started! Please do not announce your character arriving late and just pretend like they have been in class all along. You are free to jump in any time and should use the lesson progression links to keep up.
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LANCE WAS BACK! Mel just grinned down to him. “Hey Lance!” She grinned down to him, “you’re a good catcher” she nodded she meant it…did that sound like she was flirting with him? She wasn’t. It was the truth. He’d caught almost all of her balls.
She liked him…well, for that at least.
Lifting the ball she chucked it down to him. “Keep up the good work Lance” she grinned and got ready to steal again.
With a bit of a hop, he grabbed the ball, making sure no one stole it. LIKE THE SLYTHERINS. They had that awful habit of being super fast, like snakes. Which... now made sense. Thoughts aside, he saluted his teammate before heading over to turn in the blue ball.
Leaping up to the Gryffindor platform, he placed the ball down.
post 9 i think ... stealing from slytherin and drop-kicking :P
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SPOILER!!: Zeke and Amur
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Originally Posted by Hera
He never would understand this whole thing of people tackling him. They were welcome to, he didn't mind, but as it was... it wasn't working in her favour. Legs failing in midair, he managed to somewhat right them, but they were still floating on a slight angle.
He was dreaming? Nooooooo. But she did have a point, a jealous Maggie would do neither of them any good. "Good thing my dreams are only of her then," he mused shrugging. And shrugging some more, because GET OFF NOW PLEASE?
If she thought she was going to get the ball back, she could think again. "Fat chance of that happening," he chuckled some more. It was amusing for so many reasons. 1) Because she sucked at tackling 2) because he was sure his arms were longer than hers 3) he was sure he was stronger and her 4) being on top didn't necessarily give you an advantage and 5) because he had a plan.
He made sure to keep a firm grip on her arm with one hand and loosed his hold on the ball with the other, enough to be able to get a foot to it, and BAM!
... "Incoming!" Dammit Lions! CATCH!
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There was a problem. A big problem when said partner was suddenly out for the take!!
Browne down! Browne down! ....More or less.
Which meant tactics had to change. Which mean the tackler had to become the tackled so the tackledee could be free. Or some such. Either way, too much thinking and not enough action was going on.
Hoping down from the Gryffindor platform, Amur made a mad break for the Raven-engaged-Gryffin duo, and there might have been a bit of a war cry in there. After all, someone had called war. She had heard it.
She was about five paces, or two and a half hops, from Zeke and Tia, when Zeke decided to change tactics again. All of a sudden the ball was a free-bee, rolling about on the ground. Amur squeaked, dug her heels in and lunged. The anti-gravity propelled her forward, and she almost swallowed the ball rather than catching it with her hands. Thankfully the impact with the ground drove said ball and air out of her mouth and into her hands, and as she bounced up off the ground and skittered a few feet away, she pulled the ball in close and tucked her arms and legs around it.
She HAD it.
Now.....she had to get back to the Gryffindor platform.
Dreams only of Maggie. And what was that, fat chance of what happening? Ugh, she definitely was not in her wisest mindset when it came to tackling the fifth year it seemed. No seriously. As he kept her firmly gripped her arms away from the ball, he did something she really should have expected. Considering this was the same kid who was using the ceiling as a medium...
After he had called incoming and drop-kicked the blue ball, he wriggled free of her and was on the move. Tia had nothing left but to just sit a moment and watch. Because she wasn't in the mood to tackle anyone else and most of the movement seemed to between Slytherins and Gryffindors anyway. She did noticed Daxton trying to slip away, to which Flamsteed stopped; in a way she was kind of proud of her Ravenclaws for not being so competitive and blood-thirsty. They were winners in her eyes for being respectable.
After a moment or two, and once it was announced that Ravenclaw had surpassed Hufflepuff in balls, the seventh year stood up again, making a decision to steal from the house they were next closest too in ball count.
Quietly slipping over and across to the Slytherin corner, she quickly plucked one of the green balls from their pile. But didn't make any sounds, instead she just took a tip from Zeke's book and drop-kicked the green ball quickly and accurately across the room towards the Ravenclaw corner, hoping one of her Eaglets was paying attention . . .
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She was back near the Gryffindor area somehow, all this jumping around had brought her back to the HIGHEST PYRAMID BALL PILE almost like she was a worshipper of it. The jumpy dancing around only adding to the effect.
Arms up and everything. Speaking of arms up, WHAT WAS PROFESSOR FLAMSTEED DOING?
"TRAAAAITOR!" Charlotte jumped UP and DOVE IN BETWEEN THE PROFESSOR AND THE GRYFFINDOR PLATFORM. NOOOOOOOOO!
The astronomer chuckled, doing a bit of a quick maneuver to avoid any collisions with the second year. Which meant that his first pass at the platform had proved fruitless, but his second one would not. Jumping up again, he grabbed a ball and threw a salute to Miss Kettlburn on his way back down.
"Come come now, surely ONE ball is hardly enough to be considered a traitor," he mused, his feet planted firmly on the ground once more. "Simply checking that you are all on top of your game is all." Which, he was pleased to say, they WERE.
But if she really wanted it back...
With a lazy underhanded throw, Airey released the red ball back HIGH into the air.
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
The astronomer chuckled, doing a bit of a quick maneuver to avoid any collisions with the second year. Which meant that his first pass at the platform had proved fruitless, but his second one would not. Jumping up again, he grabbed a ball and threw a salute to Miss Kettlburn on his way back down.
"Come come now, surely ONE ball is hardly enough to be considered a traitor," he mused, his feet planted firmly on the ground once more. "Simply checking that you are all on top of your game is all." Which, he was pleased to say, they WERE.
But if she really wanted it back...
With a lazy underhanded throw, Airey released the red ball back HIGH into the air.
Well BOO. Her attempt to get Flamsteed to help her with the Hufflepuff cause was not very successful. She wrinkled her nose in annoyance as she saw the Slytherins take it...she was going to try and take one from THEM now!
Getting ready to bounce, she was just about to jump off from her right foot at Ariadne when she noticed that Flamsteed was now in possession of another Gryffindor ball, and it was flying in the air....
THIS WAS HER CHANCE! FOR HUFFLEPUFF!
Changing her direction, she jumped with her momentum towards the Gryffindor ball and managed to GRAB it out of the air. YES!!! SUCCESS FINALLY! She landed and darted right towards the Hufflepuff platform, finally adding a ball to the very lonesome looking platform.
This was just SAD.
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What in the name of anything at all good was going on here? Why were people shouting and grabbing onto one another...and tackling? Really? This was a game of collecting a ball and bringing it to your houses platform. Not muggle football people!
Honestly Hady was done. Just so done with it all. Her own house members were acting like three years throwing a tantrum when they had started off so strong too. It it wasn't for the fact that she had a feeling her house would lose some serious points for this she wouldn't have done a darn thing...and well also the fact that the boy in question getting teamed up against was Zeke. Blinking and running a hand through her already messy from jumping all around hair the fifth year made her way over to the small struggling group (Zeke, Ilia and Jaemin).
"I really doubt this was what Professor Airey meant when he said we can defend our platform. Rather then attack Zeke.." she paused and glanced at her friend, "You okay?" she asked him before looking at her house mates. "You both let him go and get back into the activity fairly. Collecting balls from other teams not attack each other before we lose house points we can't afford to lose." Or make her any angrier then she was already getting. No either let go of her friend of she would really have to step in which she didn't want to do. Normally she was such a pleasant girl.
She was trying to snatch her green ball back when......Hady came over to butt in about the battle over the ball. Why was she interjecting? That wasn't her place. She wasn't a prefect, she wasn't a professor, and she was not anyone's mother. No one was actually hurting anyone else and this was a ball war. He didn't say they couldn't take their balls back out of stealers hands, so therefore she felt it was completely fair game. She wasn't the only person to have done it, but yet she was going to choose her to try and reprimand? Umm no. She didn't argue her case or defend herself though, really she just didn't answer. She was getting this ball back, go play how you want to with your own interpretation of the rules Miss Goodie Two Shoes.
SPOILER!!: Jaemin xD
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Originally Posted by Ameh
Jaemin could cling like the best of 'em. He was the Devil's Snare of small children, a champion of holding onto things and people that didn't want to be held onto. It probably came with being very small and having to keep a grip on his mom and dad in crowds. He couldn't intercept the ball if it were thrown, as he was far too close, but he could try to keep it from being thrown! Even if the guy got all hissy at him. He shook his head and wrinkled his nose at him. Nu'uh dude. He'd have to throw the small boy as well if he wanted to throw the ball.
...why was this girl getting mad at him?! Who was attacking anyone??? Not Jaemin!
"I'm allowed to try and stop him," the little boy said petulantly, squeezing a bit tighter. "I'm not hitting him or anything!"
Just squeezing his arm and hand and hoping he would let go of the ball! Deeeeefense!
The little snake defended his position and was still trying to get the ball. Ilia found him particularly endearing and firmly wanted the boy to have the ball. He was trying so hard. She remembered being that size, it was hard! Heck, it was still hard....
SPOILER!!: Zeke lol
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Originally Posted by Hera
If one warm body on his person wasn't enough to contend with, before he knew it, there was another...
COULD PEOPLE PLEASE CONTROL THEIR URGES?! He didn't need people that were not Maggie. Shooo Illyawhateveryournameis. Simply because something was green it didn't make it 'Slytherin' property, he was fairly certain the whole setup belonged to Flamsteed... so, yeah.
"You again," he sighed, a slow deep laugh escaping him. Merlin.
MERLIN.
On top of that, she could want the ball all she wanted, she wasn't going to get it... not without a fight. Did she know? He didn't mind hitting girls. Or well, he could dish it out as good as they gave. "Get your own ball back," he retorted, head-nodding to another platform. Go! Get! Fetch you crazy girl. Seriously... wasn't she dating Henric? What the heck did that dude see in this psycho?
But before he could say or do anything else.... Hady was there.
...
Hi Hady. Zeke grinned, welcoming his Slytherin friend. See she didn't mind that he'd tried to steal one of their balls. IT WAS A GAME, PEOPLE, and as competitive as he was, he wasn't going to lose his cool over it. He wasn't letting go though either, ahem
"I'm fine," he assured her when she asked directly if he was okay, "it'll take more than a squirt and a psycho to bring me down." Cue more grinning. His charm was showing, he only hoped little miss grabby hands wouldn't take a liking to that and hold on tighter. Like, could he please have his neck back now?
Hady could give them whatever talk he wanted, he was quite at his leisure here... distracting THREE Slytherin's while the rest of his team were hopefully capitalising. Fingers crossed.
Her again. "More like you again." She muttered a little. If he would just go away and attack the other platforms they would not be having an issue right now. His laugh though....kind of bugged her. He was not as funny as he thought he was..........not even remotely. Did he think because he was a guy and bigger that she wouldn't fight him for it? Nope. Wrong. Bring it! The little first year attached to him made her more intent and more fierce about it even than her little over competitive self would have been. Get her own ball back? "That is exactly what I am doing." She retorted as she tried to pry her fingers between the ball and his hand. It was green and it was theirs, just hand it over and leave. The struggle would be over.
He just.....called her a psycho. Something her cousin had taught her popped into her head and came out of her mouth as a retort."I'm not a psychopath, I am a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research." She hissed at him and used all the strength she had to try and pry the ball out of his hand. His smirky smirk grin......really irritated her. He seemed to think he was something.....and it made Ilia just want to shove his head into the dirt. Her home life was leading to anger management issues it would seem..... She was not giving in or dropping this issue until this ball was in that first years hands. Submitting is not something she was going to do. She had no intention of letting go until that orb was reclaimed.
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Okay the problem with DIVING all eagerly like that was that it was kind of tough to control your trajectory and she went hurtling off on an angle. Good thing she wasn't currently trying to catch anything. After some effort she straightened up and jumped towards the Slytherin platform, reaching out to grab a GREEN BALL.
THIS WAS IT. THIS WOULD BE HER GLORY.
Or something?
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Mel was still sitting on the Ravenclaw platform…it was nice over there the blue color, the quirky people and really it didn’t seem like people were paying much attention to the interloper. She grinned and gave Lance a little nod.
“LANCE” she called out as she held up another blue ball and readied herself to throw it to him. Come on Ravenclaws…she was sitting on the platform stealing candy from an unguarded candy store.
Too easy. Blue ball in hand, she was so ready.
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No one was noticing her which was good because it meant she could get away with the stealing from the green pile more easily. Except also none of her Eaglets were paying attention either, so Tia did the only logical thing she could thing of. Deliberating a moment, she quickly ran after her own kicked ball and swooped it back up again.
Success.
Grinning at her own stealth, Tia went and deposited the green ball into the pyramid of blue balls and watched as it turned blue. Since it seemed none of Eaglets were paying attention, that also meant she should probably take over as defense, in case any Gryffindors or Slytherins went for retaliation when they were done being competitive with each other. So for now, she stood by and guarded the blue balls. They'd have to go through her if they wanted to steal from Ravenclaw and she was not going to let her guard down so easily. Which started with a simply interception of the one ickle Mel just snatched ...
... "Uh, where do you think you're going?" She tapped the girl's shoulder and outstretched her arms to reach for the blue ball in her hands.
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Originally Posted by Tegz
Okay the problem with DIVING all eagerly like that was that it was kind of tough to control your trajectory and she went hurtling off on an angle. Good thing she wasn't currently trying to catch anything. After some effort she straightened up and jumped towards the Slytherin platform, reaching out to grab a GREEN BALL.
THIS WAS IT. THIS WOULD BE HER GLORY.
Or something?
OOO there goes the steal!
He waves his hands at the blonde one “Over here!!”
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Originally Posted by Optimist
Mel was still sitting on the Ravenclaw platform…it was nice over there the blue color, the quirky people and really it didn’t seem like people were paying much attention to the interloper. She grinned and gave Lance a little nod.
“LANCE” she called out as she held up another blue ball and readied herself to throw it to him. Come on Ravenclaws…she was sitting on the platform stealing candy from an unguarded candy store.
Too easy. Blue ball in hand, she was so ready.
Standing straight, he streeeetched his back as he turned to search for Mel again. She seemed pretty good at handing off balls. Though as he did so, his gaze passed over the Slytherin platform, noticing behind!girl there. NOTE, don't go to the Slytherin platform!
Well...
He was open... he supposed.
Though Merlin's shining light! Hearing his name, he flipped around towards the Ravenclaw side, sighing in relief. Even more so after seeing whatshisname helping out whatshername. "COMING!" he called, jogging over to the blue platform.
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Green ball in hand, Char descended to the ground and bent her knees, ready to push off the ground and chuck it at someone. BUT WHO? WHO WANTED IT.
"I GOT ONE! RAWWR!" That meant, hey Gryffindors, look HERE. Butt boy was ignoring her probably. WELL SHE WOULD DEAL WITH THAT LATER.
THERE. THE SOMERSAULT KID. Probably she should find out his name. Charlotte pushed off the ground and tossed the ball at the first year. GOOOOOOOOOOO!
You got that right somersault kid to the rescueeeeee
"Alright come to Papa!"
SWOOP goes the ball in his hands
RED goes the ball on their platform
SCORE!
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Standing straight, he streeeetched his back as he turned to search for Mel again. She seemed pretty good at handing off balls. Though as he did so, his gaze passed over the Slytherin platform, noticing behind!girl there. NOTE, don't go to the Slytherin platform!
Well...
He was open... he supposed.
Though Merlin's shining light! Hearing his name, he flipped around towards the Ravenclaw side, sighing in relief. Even more so after seeing whatshisname helping out whatshername. "COMING!" he called, jogging over to the blue platform.
GIMME THE BALL.
LANCE WAS AWESOME and fast! He had gotten ready to grab her ball and well…she had called out his name and that might have helped but oh looooooooook! Floaty girl also needed someone to catch her balls! Oh wait! ACE WAS DOING THAT! YES.
Still turning her attention to Lance she nodded and sent the blue ball soaring toward him as quickly as she could. The ravenclaws were going down. THIS was a joint effort wasn’t it? The gryffindors were like a well oiled machine of EPIC.
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Originally Posted by Optimist
LANCE WAS AWESOME and fast! He had gotten ready to grab her ball and well…she had called out his name and that might have helped but oh looooooooook! Floaty girl also needed someone to catch her balls! Oh wait! ACE WAS DOING THAT! YES.
Still turning her attention to Lance she nodded and sent the blue ball soaring toward him as quickly as she could. The ravenclaws were going down. THIS was a joint effort wasn’t it? The gryffindors were like a well oiled machine of EPIC.
With another SUPER QUICK look around, he grinned and flipped around, facing the opposite way. WHY!? So he could catch it from the back! Glancing over his shoulder, he reached around and... fumbled a little bit... but managed to catch the ball.
Sweeeeet.
"GRYFFINDOOOOOOOOOOOR!" he roared, doing his best to get to the red platform in as few leaps as possible. Use those leg muscles! With his feet on the surface, he smacked the ball down onto the platform, turning it red.
Hufflepuff was losing. Everyone kept stealing balls from each other now that there weren't any more balls in the middle platform to take from. What sort of game was this? Couldn't they just SHARE an equal amount!? His values felt it had been stabbed repeatedly. His stomach churned, watching at how the students were going at each other. He stopped bouncing and stared at the barbarity of the situation...Sigh
"Anyone of you puff lads want this ball," Henric called up to the hufflepuff platform so he could pass this ball up to them. Honestly, at this point...he wasn't feeling it. My fellow Hufflepuffs, good luck.
Henric heard shouting. Her voice sounded familiar. He glanced back towards the Slytherin platform and was shocked to find llia literally trying to get the ball out of Zeke's hand. Bloody merlin...what was going on there?!
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YAY SOMERSAULT KID! Now that that was out of the way, Charlotte was free to steal again! Except.... except she kind of felt bad. Look at poor Hufflepuff. Not that she was gonna HELP them.... except in her thoughts. She bounced up and down and THOUGHT GOOD LUCK REALLY HARD IN THE DIRECTION OF EVERYONE ELSE.
.... that would be enough contribution right? To the other teams? Good wishes? RIGHT!
Back to it the--heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy what was Daxton doing over there?!
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SPOILER!!: Jaemin and Iliya
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Originally Posted by Ameh
Jaemin could cling like the best of 'em. He was the Devil's Snare of small children, a champion of holding onto things and people that didn't want to be held onto. It probably came with being very small and having to keep a grip on his mom and dad in crowds. He couldn't intercept the ball if it were thrown, as he was far too close, but he could try to keep it from being thrown! Even if the guy got all hissy at him. He shook his head and wrinkled his nose at him. Nu'uh dude. He'd have to throw the small boy as well if he wanted to throw the ball.
...why was this girl getting mad at him?! Who was attacking anyone??? Not Jaemin!
"I'm allowed to try and stop him," the little boy said petulantly, squeezing a bit tighter. "I'm not hitting him or anything!"
Just squeezing his arm and hand and hoping he would let go of the ball! Deeeeefense!
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Originally Posted by VRSCIKA
She was trying to snatch her green ball back when......Hady came over to butt in about the battle over the ball. Why was she interjecting? That wasn't her place. She wasn't a prefect, she wasn't a professor, and she was not anyone's mother. No one was actually hurting anyone else and this was a ball war. He didn't say they couldn't take their balls back out of stealers hands, so therefore she felt it was completely fair game. She wasn't the only person to have done it, but yet she was going to choose her to try and reprimand? Umm no. She didn't argue her case or defend herself though, really she just didn't answer. She was getting this ball back, go play how you want to with your own interpretation of the rules Miss Goodie Two Shoes.
The little snake defended his position and was still trying to get the ball. Ilia found him particularly endearing and firmly wanted the boy to have the ball. He was trying so hard. She remembered being that size, it was hard! Heck, it was still hard....
Her again. "More like you again." She muttered a little. If he would just go away and attack the other platforms they would not be having an issue right now. His laugh though....kind of bugged her. He was not as funny as he thought he was..........not even remotely. Did he think because he was a guy and bigger that she wouldn't fight him for it? Nope. Wrong. Bring it! The little first year attached to him made her more intent and more fierce about it even than her little over competitive self would have been. Get her own ball back? "That is exactly what I am doing." She retorted as she tried to pry her fingers between the ball and his hand. It was green and it was theirs, just hand it over and leave. The struggle would be over.
He just.....called her a psycho. Something her cousin had taught her popped into her head and came out of her mouth as a retort."I'm not a psychopath, I am a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research." She hissed at him and used all the strength she had to try and pry the ball out of his hand. His smirky smirk grin......really irritated her. He seemed to think he was something.....and it made Ilia just want to shove his head into the dirt. Her home life was leading to anger management issues it would seem..... She was not giving in or dropping this issue until this ball was in that first years hands. Submitting is not something she was going to do. She had no intention of letting go until that orb was reclaimed.
.... Okkkaaaaayyyyy. Thanks Hady, but no thanks. Didn't help. But it did make things even MORE amusing for him. Seriously, SO amusing. It took TWO Slytherin's to hold him down - though it did pose problems. Like, how was he going to get out of this without surrendering? Because he didn't plan to, AND if that was the case, how long would it take for them to let go? How long left did they have in the lesson? Flamsteed???
He kind of approved of the Squirt though, cause he was holding on for dear life. Not trying anything, just holding. Keep at it kid, we might even be gentle with shaking you off once we ditch the crazy.
But blahdablahdablah... girly could talk, and whine and moan and SWEET MOTHER OF CIRCE! "Why are you trying to hold my hand?!" he asked LOUDLY, because hello, her fingers seemed to be working pretty hard trying to get between his palm and the ball. Again, with a a tight grip, ball pressed between his two hands, she would need more than a few fingers to get it out. "I don't how your boyfriend feels about this, but I doubt my girlfriend would appreciate you feeling me up like that. Stop please?" Yes, please, stop. You're really not his type.
And WHAT EVEN?!
"A what now?" he questioned, on the verge of laughing again. A sociopath? "So you are crazy then?"
Leaving the Ravenclaw platform for a while the little Gryffindor girl just sauntered over to the hufflepuff platform and jumped up to catch the edge of it. “Hi,” she called out to anyone there…”I’m not stealing, I’m just sititng here…you guys looked lonely….i’m Mel” She added with a nod.
“HEY should we give Hufflepuff another ball?” She asked because, well, their ball was going to be lonely wouldn’t it? And having only one ball made them well, the balls sad didn’t it?
Maybe it did. She didn’t know. “I’m just using your platform for a trick” she nodded stood up and moved to the back of the platform where she simply ran and JUMPED hurling herself up higher into the air – hey this was fun! AND a quick summer sault and she was floating and spinning and flopping in the air like a giant mess.
“THIS IS REALLY FUN TENACIUS” she yelled out grinning to her friend and gave him a thumbs up.
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Sweet merlin! Henric's red ball was still in possesion, he bounced as fast as he could towards the slytherin platform. Oh no...he could see his girlfriend up there struggling and flipping out over the ball! ZEKE! ARE YOU INSANE MATE! His mind was racing with all the disastrous possibilities llia could do to Zeke if he didn't let go of the ball. He knew how llia could get super competitive when it came to defending her territory but he didn't expect that it could turn out this bad. Henric wasn't sure if he should come up there, he probably would lose his eyes or an arm but he didn't want anyone to get hurt. "Guys! Its only a game! Please don't fight over that ball!" he shouted over to them.
He jumped up. He saw that they were still going at it! He heard the last part of what Zeke said about her. Crazy? Mate, you hadn't seen anything yet! He felt he should do something now before things got out of hand. PROFESSOR FLAMSTEED, help!
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Hufflepuff was losing. Everyone kept stealing balls from each other now that there weren't any more balls in the middle platform to take from. What sort of game was this? Couldn't they just SHARE an equal amount!? His values felt it had been stabbed repeatedly. His stomach churned, watching at how the students were going at each other. He stopped bouncing and stared at the barbarity of the situation...Sigh
"Anyone of you puff lads want this ball," Henric called up to the hufflepuff platform so he could pass this ball up to them. Honestly, at this point...he wasn't feeling it. My fellow Hufflepuffs, good luck.
Henric heard shouting. Her voice sounded familiar. He glanced back towards the Slytherin platform and was shocked to find llia literally trying to get the ball out of Zeke's hand. Bloody merlin...what was going on there?!
He was no puff lad...but he would surely take that ball!
Leaping up to catch it, Airey held on tight to the ball as he began to fall back down to the ground when SOMETHING caught his attention. Certain loud shouts from a certain fifth year Gryffindor, to be precise.
"NO PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION IN MY CLASSROOM!" he shouted like a toddler throwing a tantrum in the middle of Honeydukes because he could not have a chocolate frog. The professor's tantrum was even complete with him throwing the ball he had just caught TOWARDS the pair (er...small group?) in question.
Which also prompted him to check his sundial watch and...oh sweet solstice! Look at the time.
"DISENGAGE! DISENGAGE!" he roared from the ground. Especially those doing all that hand holding. "Time is up!"
Class unofficially dismissed and would be officially dismissed once he had announced the results. Which would happen once he had contained the vein.
OOC: THAT'S ALL FOLKS! (but that ball is up for grabs) Next post will be the official results of the activity :3 Thank you all for playing!
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.... Okkkaaaaayyyyy. Thanks Hady, but no thanks. Didn't help. But it did make things even MORE amusing for him. Seriously, SO amusing. It took TWO Slytherin's to hold him down - though it did pose problems. Like, how was he going to get out of this without surrendering? Because he didn't plan to, AND if that was the case, how long would it take for them to let go? How long left did they have in the lesson? Flamsteed???
He kind of approved of the Squirt though, cause he was holding on for dear life. Not trying anything, just holding. Keep at it kid, we might even be gentle with shaking you off once we ditch the crazy.
But blahdablahdablah... girly could talk, and whine and moan and SWEET MOTHER OF CIRCE! "Why are you trying to hold my hand?!" he asked LOUDLY, because hello, her fingers seemed to be working pretty hard trying to get between his palm and the ball. Again, with a a tight grip, ball pressed between his two hands, she would need more than a few fingers to get it out. "I don't how your boyfriend feels about this, but I doubt my girlfriend would appreciate you feeling me up like that. Stop please?" Yes, please, stop. You're really not his type.
And WHAT EVEN?!
"A what now?" he questioned, on the verge of laughing again. A sociopath? "So you are crazy then?"
Ilia really just wanted the ball. Drop it, give up, keep moving. What he said next though....or shouted rather.....entirely changed the situation. Why was she trying to WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!? Her eyes flashed daggers at him and she knew that she could seethe venom at that point. "You egotistical prat!" She hissed at him tenaciously. FEELING HIM UP!!!!!!???? If looks could kill, the lion would be very much deceased at this point. The snakettes ears were redder than his house sigil and it was not from anything like blushing or embarrassment. Oh no, she was just that mad.
"You disgust me and so does touching you even so much as to reclaim the ball. So let go of it please and I will happily stop being anywhere near you." She retorted sharply. It wasn't about the ball anymore....nope. It was about the principle now and she wouldn't let go even if blood were drawn. It just got personal. She did her best to sink her nails into the balls surface and try to rip it from his hands.
He sounded like he would laugh and it just.....reminded her of her mother and made her all the angrier. She started just trying to play, trying to win.....do something redeeming but this guy got under her skin and it was going a bit far.
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Sweet merlin! Henric's red ball was still in possesion, he bounced as fast as he could towards the slytherin platform. Oh no...he could see his girlfriend up there struggling and flipping out over the ball! ZEKE! ARE YOU INSANE MATE! His mind was racing with all the disastrous possibilities llia could do to Zeke if he didn't let go of the ball. He knew how llia could get super competitive when it came to defending her territory but he didn't expect that it could turn out this bad. Henric wasn't sure if he should come up there, he probably would lose his eyes or an arm but he didn't want anyone to get hurt. "Guys! Its only a game! Please don't fight over that ball!" he shouted over to them.
He jumped up. He saw that they were still going at it! He heard the last part of what Zeke said about her. Crazy? Mate, you hadn't seen anything yet! He felt he should do something now before things got out of hand. PROFESSOR FLAMSTEED, help!
Oh it wasn't about the ball now honey! He just insulted her fidelity and his ego was wayyyy too huge! "Its not about the game!" She shot back at Henric with a frustrated voice. "He called me a psycho and said I was trying to hold his hand." She said it with a tone of disgust. Way to defend honor there Henric. She was NOT submitting, give her that ball jerk!
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Originally Posted by Symphora
Sweet merlin! Henric's red ball was still in possesion, he bounced as fast as he could towards the slytherin platform. Oh no...he could see his girlfriend up there struggling and flipping out over the ball! ZEKE! ARE YOU INSANE MATE! His mind was racing with all the disastrous possibilities llia could do to Zeke if he didn't let go of the ball. He knew how llia could get super competitive when it came to defending her territory but he didn't expect that it could turn out this bad. Henric wasn't sure if he should come up there, he probably would lose his eyes or an arm but he didn't want anyone to get hurt. "Guys! Its only a game! Please don't fight over that ball!" he shouted over to them.
He jumped up. He saw that they were still going at it! He heard the last part of what Zeke said about her. Crazy? Mate, you hadn't seen anything yet! He felt he should do something now before things got out of hand. PROFESSOR FLAMSTEED, help!
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He was no puff lad...but he would surely take that ball!
Leaping up to catch it, Airey held on tight to the ball as he began to fall back down to the ground when SOMETHING caught his attention. Certain loud shouts from a certain fifth year Gryffindor, to be precise.
"NO PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION IN MY CLASSROOM!" he shouted like a toddler throwing a tantrum in the middle of Honeydukes because he could not have a chocolate frog. The professor's tantrum was even complete with him throwing the ball he had just caught TOWARDS the pair (er...small group?) in question.
Which also prompted him to check his sundial watch and...oh sweet solstice! Look at the time.
"DISENGAGE! DISENGAGE!" he roared from the ground. Especially those doing all that hand holding. "Time is up!"
Class unofficially dismissed and would be officially dismissed once he had announced the results. Which would happen once he had contained the vein.
OOC: THAT'S ALL FOLKS! (but that ball is up for grabs) Next post will be the official results of the activity :3 Thank you all for playing!
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Ilia really just wanted the ball. Drop it, give up, keep moving. What he said next though....or shouted rather.....entirely changed the situation. Why was she trying to WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!? Her eyes flashed daggers at him and she knew that she could seethe venom at that point. "You egotistical prat!" She hissed at him tenaciously. FEELING HIM UP!!!!!!???? If looks could kill, the lion would be very much deceased at this point. The snakettes ears were redder than his house sigil and it was not from anything like blushing or embarrassment. Oh no, she was just that mad.
"You disgust me and so does touching you even so much as to reclaim the ball. So let go of it please and I will happily stop being anywhere near you." She retorted sharply. It wasn't about the ball anymore....nope. It was about the principle now and she wouldn't let go even if blood were drawn. It just got personal. She did her best to sink her nails into the balls surface and try to rip it from his hands.
He sounded like he would laugh and it just.....reminded her of her mother and made her all the angrier. She started just trying to play, trying to win.....do something redeeming but this guy got under her skin and it was going a bit far.
Oh it wasn't about the ball now honey! He just insulted her fidelity and his ego was wayyyy too huge! "Its not about the game!" She shot back at Henric with a frustrated voice. "He called me a psycho and said I was trying to hold his hand." She said it with a tone of disgust. Way to defend honor there Henric. She was NOT submitting, give her that ball jerk!
This was definitely BEYOND ridiculous for an Astronomy lesson, though easily one of the most entertaining. Brilliant. What added to the CHARGED atmosphere was Henric's appearance. Was he here to wrangle his girlfriend in? Sort her out? Calm her farm? Yes? Please? Of course, she was right, it wasn't about the game, definitely not about the game... "Dude, get her off me, yeah?" like, it was WEIRD. He wasn't into the whole sharing love and affections thing. He was a one Snake man.
... and blahblahblah, yes crazy psycho, YOU ARE CRAZY PSYCHO. There was little else that could explain her behaviour right now, she was officially nuts.
The egotistical prat thing, well, yes, that was him. Zeke grinned, nodding his head as if it was music to his ears. He'd take it. But her whole tirade after that was just plain hurtful. Sheeesh, what got her undies in a knot? "If I disgust you so much then why are you still touching me?" Hhhhmmm? Really, it made no sense. Like, if she wanted the ball YES she would have to go through him, and that meant touching. Clearly she didn't mind it as much as she said she did.
Women.
But------ OOOOMMMPPHH... a ball bounced off the side of his head, Flamsteed's words echoing in his ears. Public displays of affection? Not him, no, HER, yes. Her fault.
IT WAS ALL HER FAULT.
"She came onto me, Sir!" he called out, so it was all clear. "'kay, thank you." For like totally saving him.
BUT, alas, the game was over.
"It was fun playing, have your dumb ball then," he quipped, loosening his grip and letting her rip it from him like the child that she was. The crazy child. Seriously Henric, you could do SO much better man, SO much better. Zeke gave him a sympathetic look which read something like 'good luck'. Still facing the mob, Zeke gave a small parting wave, and took a jump backwards off the platform.
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With the number of balls they currently have on their platform, Tenacius had to wonder how all of them are staying in their zone. Lets just say he's relieved that it isnt crashing down on them like an avalanche... At least not yet.
He saw Mel hanging around the Hufflepuff platform talking about lonely balls. Snicker snicker immature boy snickering. Yeah guy humor go figure.
But finally he heard the Professor yell out disengage. Finally game over-- but GOOD game over. "Did we win??!?" it was fun but yeah he'd like to know if all the balls in the face was worth it.
Also there he goes, climbing the mountain of red balls. King of the hill moment yup.
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He was no puff lad...but he would surely take that ball!
Leaping up to catch it, Airey held on tight to the ball as he began to fall back down to the ground when SOMETHING caught his attention. Certain loud shouts from a certain fifth year Gryffindor, to be precise.
"NO PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION IN MY CLASSROOM!" he shouted like a toddler throwing a tantrum in the middle of Honeydukes because he could not have a chocolate frog. The professor's tantrum was even complete with him throwing the ball he had just caught TOWARDS the pair (er...small group?) in question.
Which also prompted him to check his sundial watch and...oh sweet solstice! Look at the time.
"DISENGAGE! DISENGAGE!" he roared from the ground. Especially those doing all that hand holding. "Time is up!"
Class unofficially dismissed and would be officially dismissed once he had announced the results. Which would happen once he had contained the vein.
OOC: THAT'S ALL FOLKS! (but that ball is up for grabs) Next post will be the official results of the activity :3 Thank you all for playing!
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Originally Posted by Hera
SPOILER!!: Henric, PROF FLAMMERS and Iliyathecrazyone
This was definitely BEYOND ridiculous for an Astronomy lesson, though easily one of the most entertaining. Brilliant. What added to the CHARGED atmosphere was Henric's appearance. Was he here to wrangle his girlfriend in? Sort her out? Calm her farm? Yes? Please? Of course, she was right, it wasn't about the game, definitely not about the game... "Dude, get her off me, yeah?" like, it was WEIRD. He wasn't into the whole sharing love and affections thing. He was a one Snake man.
... and blahblahblah, yes crazy psycho, YOU ARE CRAZY PSYCHO. There was little else that could explain her behaviour right now, she was officially nuts.
The egotistical prat thing, well, yes, that was him. Zeke grinned, nodding his head as if it was music to his ears. He'd take it. But her whole tirade after that was just plain hurtful. Sheeesh, what got her undies in a knot? "If I disgust you so much then why are you still touching me?" Hhhhmmm? Really, it made no sense. Like, if she wanted the ball YES she would have to go through him, and that meant touching. Clearly she didn't mind it as much as she said she did.
Women.
But------ OOOOMMMPPHH... a ball bounced off the side of his head, Flamsteed's words echoing in his ears. Public displays of affection? Not him, no, HER, yes. Her fault.
IT WAS ALL HER FAULT.
"She came onto me, Sir!" he called out, so it was all clear. "'kay, thank you." For like totally saving him.
BUT, alas, the game was over.
"It was fun playing, have your dumb ball then," he quipped, loosening his grip and letting her rip it from him like the child that she was. The crazy child. Seriously Henric, you could do SO much better man, SO much better. Zeke gave him a sympathetic look which read something like 'good luck'. Still facing the mob, Zeke gave a small parting wave, and took a jump backwards off the platform.
He had better places to be.
Get her off of him? Eww! Just drop the ball and submit! Henric, seriously.....she tried to be good. Look at this prat!
Why was she still touching him!? "Because you can't have the ball and I don't give up." Seriously, just because something was gross....it wasn't going to stop her. She was too tenacious for that and despite the outfits she wore for Henric, she was NOT a girly girl.
Ugh. He had to go and roar. Lions with their big mouths. There went Professor Flamsuits....raging. Affection!? Oh no....this was the polar opposite. Hell would freeze over. Eeep! He threw the ball in his hand and she ducked though her hand would not leave that ball. The ball connected with Zeke's head , but where she would normally have felt bad....she just felt better watching him get some form of retribution.
CAME ON TO HIM!!!!!????? This....this was why she currently wanted to hex him. How dare that prat!? "Not even if you were the last male on Earth or Mars." Hisss. Disengage.....but she still wouldn't submit. She wanted nothing to do with him other than beat him in the test of wills. No sense backing down at the last moment and he was too smug. She couldn't let him win. She was 100% hell bent on that last moment of personal victory.
If it was so dumb, why wouldn't he let go either? No, it started as the ball....then it went beyond. She could have let it go and walked away without a grudge until he had to say she wanted to hold his hand. That was like signing a death warrant. Regardless.....it did feel better to rip it from him. Some small form of victory and control in her repressed world. Once she had the ball, she chucked it back onto the green pyramid with a blank expression.
She wanted to hug Henric with all of her might and apologize for her public display of aggression, but yet again....someone was in the way of that. An angry astronomy professor to be precise.......
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Oh sweet solstice.
What had he done to deserve this?
WHAT?!
Couldn't students just check the teenage angst at the lint roller and not...well...NOT BE LIKE THIS IN HIS CLASSROOM BECAUSE HIS HEAD WAS ABOUT TO SPIN OFF INTO ORBIT!
"And I care not if you both are the last two people on Pluto, which isn't even a planet," Airey retorted, arms flailing in the air as if smacking away any floating teenage hormones that may infect the classroom. And no, Mr. Zeke, he did not care nor want to even think about who was coming on to who. BECAUSE IT SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN HIS CLASSROOM TO BEGIN WITH! Or had the young man not learned his lesson after last year? "This behavior will not be tolerated in my classroom again, understood?"
If not, there was a perfectly good dungeon he knew that could help illustration this for the both of them. No problem.
Adjusting his tie, the professor addressed the rest of the class. "Our final standings are Gryffindor in first place, Slytherin in second, Ravenclaw in third, and Hufflepuff in fourth," he declared. "Well done everyone. Class dismissed!"
Now...about these two... were they through with...whatever this was?
OOC: Class dismissed! Thank you all for coming and participating <33
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