Event Blossom Ball - Trial of Persephone

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As Irina walked up to this trial she started regretting her decision to wear such a long dress. It seemed like this trial was in the grass and she would probably have to walk by holding up her gown. When she was handed a sheet of paper with a list of flowers and told that she would have to collect a bouquet her mind had already disregarded messing up her dress and focused on the task at hand.

All she had to do was collect some flowers, and the list didn’t even look that hard. There was detailed pictures of each that would be very helpful and Irina was great at spotting things. As the boy spoke of danger, Irina couldn’t help but let out a little laugh. Everything had been dangerous up to this point but that didn’t stop her from trying. These trials were not something she had ever had the chance to do at Koldovstoretz and it was the type of adventure she had come here to do.

Turning away from the boy to start collecting the flowers, Irina heard a slight whisper from the boy. Luck wasn’t what she needed right now, what she needed was collect these flowers faster than everyone else and become the queen of this ball.

WC: 214

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Action: Doing the Trial
Stats: STA: 8 | EVA: 8 | STR: 7 | WIS: 9 | ARCP: 6 | ACC: 7
Heath points: 800/800
Abilities: Sixth Sense, Fearless, and Calming Presence
Effect: +2 to their awareness rolls. If a player attempts to enter a thread that you are already in, there is a 25% chance that you automatically detect them on entry.
Effect: Fear effects such as a dhmpir's aura, the ability terrible presence, a lycanothrope's intimidation or certain charms, potions and jinxes that would normally cause a fear effect do not work on you as you are immune to them.
Effect: An aura of calm. Allies (defined at the START of an instance regardless of later betrayal) gain a 10% chance to auto-hit their chosen target. This does not stack.

Trials tracker: [Orpheus] [Hades] [Hecate] [Persephone] [Hermes] [Apollo]

Health
600/600
Stats
◇Sta: 6 ◇ Eva: 7 ◇ Str: 10
◇ Wis: 3 ◇ AP: 4 ◇ Acc: 10
Abilities
Martial Artist
Terrible Presence

Why indeed did their organizer sound so dark when mentioning the woodline? When Elena thought of the woodline, she thought of the Forbidden Forest. The Forbidden Forest held all things nasty and dangerous that your mind could only imagine but they were on school grounds. Centaurs, spiders and all those abonomiations lurked deep within the trees and nowhere close where they could harm some innocent young souls out to pick some flowers which had names that even Elena had trouble pronouncing. The apellation for the red spider lily did not sound very comforting. The brunette was sure they had probably stumbled upon some of these flowers in their studies, probably used one or two of them most likely in Herbology or Potions but she gave thanks that the trial regardless of the everlasting suspense was in essence not too much of a painstaking task.

If Persephone wanted a bouqet, she would get one. Why these flowers and why not just any pretty ones Elena could pick off the ground, she knew not. There were several perfectly good-looking and healthy sunflowers the Gryffindor could see from here but if she had learned anything about this school in the past three years she had been here, it was that everything was done for a purpose and the moment you decided to take shortcuts or try to come up with your own solution to something that was laid out, it ended up backfiring on you. That was proven to her back on the train when she had disregarded the boy's shouting voice and they had wound up being exploded off the tracks. Now, here they were tromping about in the woods collecting flowers of all things. It couldn't be too bad given that this was the last trial. It seemed fitting to end on a gentle note.

The girl walked around, her eyes scanning for the flowers putting their name to memory. The names might have been a bit of a mouthful but she was sure she would spot anything that stood out of the blue. Elena had a feeling these were plants that were not native to the Hogwarts area and as such, they should be easy to spot. The question was, where by Merlin were they hiding and to add on top of it, they were working against the clock with a grand total of six minutes repeated over three rounds. That meant she should probably do her best to gather as much early on so she didn't have to feel as rushed in the final round. That meant actually finding these things as the seconds clicked on. "Come out, come out, wherever you are. "Elena muttered to herself, pupils shifting this way and that. It was like a makeshift version of hide and seek except Elena had always been terrible at that game even if it was with a bunch of flowers.

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𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 [font=Times New Roman]hades • hecate • orpheus • hermes • persephone • apollo[/font]

o𝑢𝑡𝑓𝑖𝑡: [font=Times New Roman]gown • shoes • hair

[font=Times New Roman]Ah. Flowers. Anja disliked every inch of the floral decorations installed at her estates during events — specifically, the ones associated with her birth month, chrysanthemum. However, her upbringing defaulted that she should know the meaning of every flower used in conventional displays. The list of flowers was by no means a particularly eclectic combination, and they made perfect sense together. Not only did the material flowers compliment each other, but many of the meanings behind the flowers also complemented each other.

The aster symbolised wisdom and faith — it was in fact the only flower that actually stood out to Anja on the list. It was quite a plains flower, and its meaning wasn't quite as dark as most of the other ones. The anemone symbolised fragility and anticipation, but should it be red, it would show a sign of death or forsaken love. The narcissus was another flower with a more conventionally known 'happy' connotation, but an older, more ancient association was that because the head of the flower drooped when looked at, it was an omen of death. The red spider lily was aid to have guided the dead through a cycle of rebirth, in old Buddhist writings. The dianthus symbolised gratitude and admiration, and the hyacinth, peace, commitment and beauty — but also power and pride.

After her scan of the flowers' meanings Anja proceeded to begin the errand. She smiled at how well the choice of flowers went with Persephone's personality and experiences. She remembered to be careful when picking the flowers, not to bend their stems and to make a clean, horizontal cut when picking them. It was a shame she hadn't brought a pocket knife. With a confidence she had every right to feel, Anja started on the errand.

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Action
Completing Trial of Persephone quite well if I may say so myself : ).
Stats and Abilities
's Grace
Stam 4 | Evas 4 | Stren 3 | Wisd 8 | Arc power 8 | Acc 8

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Outfit

Pericles commonly credited his familiarity for herbology to his mother. Although her greatest strength lie in divination, Lady Dralt's green thumb was nothing to turn one's nose at. While her son was not yet well-versed with botany, he was ever eager to help her with her work, be it simple matters of pruning or repotting or drying herbs. His fascination for flower language in particular could be credited to a story his father had shared with him. The two had met while the patriarch was still an auror, cold on the trail of some elusive case. He had sought guidance and shelter from the mysterious swamp witch, and although he was a man of few words (and even less shows of affection) back then, had thanked her with a bouquet some time later. The combination wove an intricate expression: yellow agrimony and purple canterbury bells for gratitude, yellow fennel for one worthy of praise, purple iris in resemblance of Heaven's guidance, wisdom, and respect. He sprinkled in purple heather for one worthy of admiration, white heather for protection, and white chrysanthemum for loyalty, honesty, and friendship.

Peri was not a romantic, but he was smitten with that story, namely the way in which his father learned an alternate method of communicating his feelings through symbolism and vibrancy. What message, he wondered, was this particular combination trying to tell? He remembered aster's namesake was tied to the Greek word for "star", given the way its petals resembled one, and that they signified love or faith. Yet the sweetness ended with anemone, the red variation being symbolic of death or forsaken love. Narcissus had an infamous backstory, and while it was commonly considered to represent renewal and rebirth, its ancient interpretation, when drooping, was another omen of death. Lovely as it was, red spider lily was said to grow in the afterlife, guiding the deceased to their next reincarnation. Dianthus was a mystery, save that in ancient Greece, they were woven into ceremonial crowns. Hyacinth represented sorrow and jealousy, though its relevance to the theme shone above the rest for Pericles, who recalled its story clearly. The sun god Apollo and west wind god Zephyr, competing for the love of a young man named Hyakinthos, accidentally murdered the mortal through their foolish squabbling. The flower was said to have bloomed from the boy's blood.

Pericles hummed to himself in wonder while setting out to gather the flowers listed. What a grim, magnificently macabre bouquet this would make.

Enthusiastically attempting to track down flowers (and their symbolism)

Underworld | Hades | Hecate | Orpheus | Hermes | Persephone | Apollo | Aftermath

Flowers...flowers were nice though just by the names Adlai could personally only recognize two. One being the red spider lily, this was due to the fact that her grandmother, on her mothers side, had warned her and her sisters to stay away from them and specifically people who grew them as they were flowers of death, grief, and misfortune and allegedly grew on the graves of those punished by death themself. Adlai's parents thought nothing of it though, seeing it as just an elders superstition.

However, there was one superstition related to flowers that her parents do believe in and that is if one grows Hyacinths on their land they are bitter, lonely people even if the flower does represent love and purity. Adlai supposed they only believed it since her great aunt, Margret-Viktoria, grew Hyacinths in her front yard and has for some time. Even though, those who do not know her well could describe her as bitter, they could not specifically describe her as lonely since now Adlai likes to think that her great aunt has begun to open up to her and has slowly began to reassimilate herself with the wonderful wizarding world.

Nonetheless, the other flowers listed were void from her mind and thus she would just have to watch and learn from other students and hope to find her way though trial and error.

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| Apollo | Persephone | Hermes | Hecate | Orpheus | Hades |

Mikael pulled up his mask briefly to get a better look at his piece of parchment. He himself had never been good at telling flowers apart. His tutors had never thought of him being able to tell apart flowers as important knowledge for him to carry. Though, that did not render him completely hapless. The rough sketches of the needed flowers would provide all of the knowledge he would need. His eyes moved across the paper slowly taking in the small details of each individual flower. The sketch under Anemone looked identical to the ones his grandmother used to put near the front door. Though, that had been when he was still a child. The vase had been empty of life for a long time. Only dust remaining where the smell of flowers used to remain. Mikael huffed pulling his mask roughly back over his face before charging forward. He had little time for memories of the past. All he needed to do was find these flowers as quickly as possible. The boy decided he would look for one flower at a time. That way he could focus on the details of each flower more clearly. Rather than try to remember each drawing by memory.

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Lovely Creature ⋅ Terrible Presence

| Sta 8 | Eva 8 | Str 8 | Wis 3 | Arc 4 | Acc 9 |

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Actions: Arriving, and beginning his search for the Flowers of Persephone.