Fowl Play PV Errand Closed

WC: 420
Interacting with: @Liana Kerr @Hui Ming @Hildegard Schneider

WC : 499
Green : talking
Purple : thinking

Why did Hildegard accompany them to solve that herbology quarrel, specially on a weekend day ?
She did consider Avery and Liana like friends, but the reason she was there was actually none other than Hui Mudcreep himself.
The pale girl was hopping that the teacher would prove him wrong, and she just wanted to witness that, that's all.
Avery seemed to be the kind to side for his friends, Hildegard in the other hand was the kind to side for her interest, to see this insufferable know it all being told to be wrong by a teacher.
As they were heading to the Herbology professor's quarters, Liana was supporting her point, and Schneider was half listening until one word stood out of others.

-GEESE?! She heard from Liana.

The pure blooded witch saw a bunch of geese running around, it looked like they came out from the transfiguration classroom.
She panicked along side with Liana who seemed to have have hurt Avery in the process.
While Hildegard was bumped by one of them which made her fall on the ground,

-Uggh ! The girl almost yelled at the same time as the musician boy.

Annoyed Hildegard fixed the geese that made her fall, she pointed took out her wand and casted :

-Tarantallegra

The geese started to dance and Schneider intention was to "torture" the animal for what he had done. She did not care yet about the other geese around, and did not even think of why they were there to begin with.

However her little torture session turned short as Liana asked for a way to stop the big birds, to which Avery responded by casting a Verdimillious.
The spell of Avery momentarily blinded and destabilized the girl, stopping her dancing feet spell.
Not only that, now the geese were even more excited, and worst her victim was now running toward her, probably to get it's revenge.
In a moment of panic Hildegard casted another spell on the grudgeful geese :

-Immobulus ! She almost scream.

When the spell worked and this one geese was stopped, she looked at Avery,

-Avery ! She said loudly, mixing blame teasing and amusement.

As Avery proposed to stop them, the girl nodded :

-Yea okay

She looked at Liana and finally replied to her :

- I guess I know a few.

Hildegard took a breath and started casting several spells in a row.

-Arresto Momentum, she casted to slow some of them.

-Immobulus, the Slytherin incantated on some others.

-Reducio, she used on the big ones making them a bit smaller.

The moment the girl used reducio she remembered that it was not something that was recommanded or maybe was it for engorgio ? That moment of thinking made her realize that those geese may not be real living things but just results of transfiguration spells.
And so Hildegard tried something new.

-Finite Incantatem. She casted on some of them.

The Slytherin girl continued to cast various spells on the geese to try to stop all this agitation.

Interacting with : @Avery Chen and @Liana Kerr
Mentioning : @Hui Ming

There were some dissatisfied noises coming from Avery that Liana barely registered, since she was more preoccupied with the imminent danger to herself than with the damage she may have inflicted on someone else. Self-preservation was priority at the moment.

''Sorry about that,'' the apology was not exactly heartfelt. Nonetheless, the redhead did step away from him just so the incident wouldn't repeat, her eyes never leaving the feathery horror in front of her. The agitated honks and flurries of motion that followed the boy's Green Sparks made her stomach feel frozen with fear. One of the geese actually ran towards its attacker in its confusion, and thus also towards the girl who was just discovering she had a healthy fear of big birds. She scrambled to get out of their path, distancing herself from the group in the process. It had not been the smartest of moves, however - a few of the geese waddled into the gap between Liana and her housemates, essentially isolating her. Her eyes grew wide as she took in her precarious position.

No help seemed to be coming her way, either. Hildegard was, apparently, focused on making the birds dance, which only added more chaos to the situation as the targeted avians made distressed noises, infecting their comrades with the panic. The redhead tried edging around a large goose blocking her path to get back to the other Slytherin students, but her movement caught the bird's eye and was interpreted as a menace - it spread its wings threateningly and hissed. Liana fell back a few steps, aiming her wand at the foe.

''Obscuro,'' she incantated the first spell that came to her mind, drawing the incomplete circle with a diagonal downward turn to the left with the tip of her wand. For a fraction of a second she dared hope that the goose would be blinded - she cast the spell splendidly, her pronunciation and wand movement as precise as it gets - but the obnoxious fowl hit her wand hand with a flap of its massive wings at the last moment, ruining her aim. ''Hey, ouch!'' she protested, recoiling in alarm, while a blindfold uselessly materialized a few feet away on the floor. The girl hugged her swatted hand to her chest. It didn't hurt exactly, but it was startling how close her wand got to being knocked out of her hand or even broken. It was, after all, only a thin stick. Meanwhile, the goose kept advancing towards her, making Liana retreat back towards a wall where there would be no escape from the violent pummeling that was about to be unleashed on her.

Luckily, something started connecting in her brain when Avery pointed out that these demons seemed to be pouring out of the Transfiguration classroom. Of course, real geese did not just appear in Hogwarts corridors, unless it would be some mishap by the house elves of losing control of the poultry they were supposed to cook in the kitchens. Like as not, these animals were a result of some transformation. Hopefully, their original shape was inanimate, or at least not aggressive.

The girl took a moment to collect herself, trying to remember what exactly Professor Wade had said about untransfiguring an object whose original form you didn't know. Focusing on the iotas and asking the object itself to remember what is used to be... that had been one complicatedm mostly-theoretical lecture. Nevertheless, Liana had succeeded at performing the spell in class, and she would succeed now, if only she could concentrate.

''Reparifarge!'' the first-year exclaimed, tracing the simple lopsided curve in the direction of her oppressor. Somehow, she missed. Which was quite a feat, since the bird was at a swatting distance from her. The spell ended up hitting another bird, and it transformed into a wooden chair, clattering lifelessly on the floor. The girl did not have time to revel in the achievement of effectively casting a complex spell in a stressful situation, because her initial target was still descending on her, wings poised to strike. Feeling desperate, the girl resorted to the most basic spell essential to every wizard, the first spell she had ever cast intentionally with her wand. ''Wingardium Leviosa!'' she pronounced, swishing and flicking the wand. To her relief, the spell lifted the goose off the ground and into the air, hissing defensively at the invisible magic touch which gave it an involuntary flight the confused bird could not control.

Finally, the closest source of danger was restrained. On the other hand, the spell trapped Liana as much as it trapped the bird - she couldn't cast another one and maintain the levitation at the same time. Keeping a live, actively struggling object floating in the air was not an easy task, either. She used the respite to collect her thoughts and take in the surrounding scene. There were indeed more birds pouring out of the Transfiguration classroom, while the ones their small group was facing here seemed to be getting increasingly vexed by the colourfully-lit spells being cast at them.

''We need to immobilize or untransfigure them,'' she informed the others, not quite sure if all of them had learned the General Untransfiguration Spell yet. ''Can, um- can someone untransfigure the goose I'm levitating?''

Interacting: @Hildegard Schneider | @Liana Kerr | @Avery Chen

Word Count: 588/400

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Reducio

──────────── [ Hui Ming ] STA: 5 | EVA: 6 | STR: 1 WIS: 8 | ARC: 7 | ACC: 8 Perfectionist ────────────

VS

──────────── [ Geese ] STA: N/A | EVA: 8 | STR: N/A WIS: N/A | ARC: N/A | ACC: N/A Terrible Presence ────────────

6 Geese Total

Ming casts Tarantallegra (WDC 9) on Goose 3
Wisdom Check: [d20: 13] + 8 = 21 > 9 → Success
Auto-Miss Check: [d10: 6] → No auto-miss Terrible Presence
Accuracy Check: [d20: 15] + 8 = 23
Evasion Check: [d20: 14] + 9 = 24
24 = 24 → Impaired Hit
Duration Check: [d3: 1] = 1 round 1 halved and rounded up

Ming casts Wingardium Leviosa (WDC 9) on Goose 4
Wisdom Check: [d20: 8] + 8 = 16 > 9 → Success
Auto-Miss Check: [d10: 1] → Auto-miss Terrible Presence

Ming casts Wingardium Leviosa (WDC 9) on Goose 2
Wisdom Check: [d20: 3] + 8 = 11 > 9 → Success
Auto-Miss Check: [d10: 9] → No auto-miss Terrible Presence
Accuracy Check: [d20: 13] + 8 = 21
Evasion Check: [d20: 19] + 8 = 27 - 2 - 1(5) = 20 Hit by Liana's levitation
21 > 20 → Hit

It annoyed him that Miss Kerr insisted on blowing away all common sense just because magic was involved. Even if he were to humor the studious girl, that Devil’s Snare was some botanical weapon created for the sole purpose of killing things – and didn’t that say something about the magical world in and of itself – it did not resolve the issue: staying still might be enough to make the Snare let go, but the moment the victim tried to move, or cast a spell, it would trigger the plant all over again! And why would the plant even let go? Surely the only reason it would entangle someone is because it thought the person was food, much like a Venus flytrap attempts to lure in unsuspecting prey.

It was elementary; common-sense that any person with two brain cells to rub together could have seen.

And yet, here they were. Four students bound to go make fools of themselves in front of yet another professor. Miss Kerr was saying something to that effect herself; causing Avery, ever the steadfast and loyal friend to speak out in support of him. That pleased the bespectacled boy, not that he would ever admit it. Or stoop to retort himself. He carried himself with some dignity, and refused to engage in this inane display of exasperation. He was confident that time and sense would prevail in this silly little dispute.

Their little adventure was interrupted in spectacular fashion by a gregarious gaggle of geese greeting their group in a grievous manner. Against aggressive avians such as these, all pretense of civility was laid aside, and chaos reigned.

Miss Kerr sought a spell to repel the geese, while Avery seemed to try to cast sparks at their assailants, managing only to infuriate the little monsters. Against all odds, it was Schneider who seemed to have the right idea, casting spells to disable the feathered furies before they could spread from the transfiguration classroom.

Buoyed by the disabled girl’s spellcasting, the two studious minds of the group seemed to pull themselves together. While Kerr attempted to blindfold the geese though, Ming shamelessly copied Schneider. Effectiveness over pride in desperate times!

“Tarantallegra” the boy cried at an approaching goose. It was a practiced spell, and one he personally held some disdain for. But his aim was passable, and managed to graze the goose and hamstringing its progress.

At about this point, the untransfiguration of Miss Kerr took hold on one of the rogue birds. These things were actual furniture ? Ming’s eyes widened in horror as he glanced over at the dancing geese, and imagining to be a large, dancing desk bowling toward them instead.

Clearly, that spell is out. Well, then-

“Wingardium Leviosa!” For all that he has cast the spell properly, the horrifying image of being attacked by an army of furniture lingered in his mind, and his spell flew wide. That would not do at all!

"an, um- can someone untransfigure the goose I'm levitating?”

No. No he couldn’t. Untransfiguration was not something he had managed to devote time to, struggling as he was with his Muggle and magical education and language lessons. “Here,” he offered as a compromise. “I’ll hold it, and you can untransfigure them.”

Ming cast the Levitation Charm once again, holding the goose she had lifted, even as the dancing feet wore off from his first target. Now was not the time for polite conversation, and he hoped that this way, with the choice out of her hands, they could co-operate on results instead of bickering over nothings

WC : 219
Green : talking
Purple : thinking

The spells were going here and there, it was chaos and in the middle of all of this a goose bitten Hildegard's right butt, the pain was so big that the girl screamed.

-AAAAAOUCH !

Not only that, she let go of her wand while a dancing feet spell was being casted which backfired on the suffering Slytherin.
People could now see Hildegard Schneider dancing funnily with a goose biting her butt, however if that was not enough fate seemed to hate the German girl.
She danced for at least 10 seconds before slipping on several geese, she was now lying on her back on the ground and was attacked by several of those birds.
One of them, the most aggressive of them all was standing on the girl's front shoulder and biting her nose.
The pathetic girl was doing her best to stop it, now without her wand she was fighting that one goose bare handedly.
While all the other geese were on her she was trying to strangle that one goose standing on her
front shoulder, angering it even more.
The goose stopped to bite her nose and started to hit her on the face with it's beak, the hit was so violent that Schneider ungrabbed it's neck, and lost to the goose.
She obviously needed some help.

In any other situation, being the only one among her peers to have learned a difficult spell would have been a source of pride for Liana. Presently, it was a source of dread. If nobody could help her out, she was, essentially, a sitting duck among these geese, her only weapon trained on a single foe she held immobilized, unusable in further defense or offense. The redhead's eyes darted around the corridor, seeking out anyone who could assist her, but nobody volunteered. Avery straight up admitted he couldn't perform the untransfiguration, Hildegard offered no response.

Her only hope of salvation, to the girl's mounting horror, seemed to be Ming, who, just as she watched, missed his first attempt at casting a spell at one of the feathery foes. There was a slight inclination to mock him about missing easy targets at point-blank range, but Liana had to repress it, the memory of her own misfortunes that occurred mere moments earlier still fresh in her mind. She had failed to hit a large bird positioned only a few meters away with the Blindfolding Spell, and her untransfiguration spell technically missed its target as well, although she could claim success because it had hit another bird. Hence the girl held her tongue, observing a failed attempt at a Levitation Charm that followed. Liana was beginning to consider just floating the goose she held trapped towards the Transfiguration classroom and somehow getting it inside without letting any others slip out; perhaps she could use the chair, their previous comrade returned to its original shape, to block the exit? The plan seemed risky and potentially dangerous, what with the amount of beaks that would be aiming at her in their attempts to flee. The girl somehow missed Ming's last incantation, and the strange sensation of partially losing control of the Levitating bird created a jolt of panic in her chest, making the girl believe her spell had failed and the vile creature would now descend on the floor, and on her.

“I’ll hold it, and you can untransfigure them.”

The words flooded her chest with relief. She flicked her wand away from the airborne goose, ceasing her influence over it, handing the reins over to her unlikely ally. He was not as senseless as she had thought, apparently.

''Good thinking,'' she nodded her approval formally, suppressing the overwhelming gratitude as best as she could. This was not, by any means, indebting her to him. No. They got into this situation together, and the Asian boy needed her skill as much as she needed his at the moment. Right now, his assistance was merely something to be taken for granted. He was not rescuing her from a certain defeat; no, they were collaborating to achieve a common goal. With that train of thought still in her mind, the girl aimed her wand at the immobilized goose.

''Reparifarge!'' she enunciated, and was blasted into a wall by her own wand. The impact pushed the air out of her lungs and, sliding down on the floor, she gasped to get some of it back in. There were a few horrifying moments where she couldn't seem to get any oxygen into her chest; then it passed and she took a few deep breaths. Soon enough, she was good enough to get back up on her feet. ''I'm okay!'' she reassured everyone in a slightly trembling voice, although Hildegard was probably too preoccupied with her own safety as the geese were swarming her, and Avery was chivalrously saving the damsel in distress. Which meant that her utter failure was attentively observed only by Hui Ming. The one person she would have wished to be fully unaware of it. The temperature in the corridors must have risen by a good 20 degrees Celsius in the moment of that realization, because a heat wave seemed to hit Liana, her neck and cheeks flushing red in shame.

''I'll... ah... yeah, I'll just try again,'' she managed to get out, struggling to pick up the shreds of her dignity and sew them back together. Ignoring the dull pain in her upper back and left elbow - the main points of the harsh contact with the wall - she pointed her wand at the floating enemy again, hurrying to push the memory of the embarrassment into oblivion by swiftly completing the task. ''Reparifarge!'' This time, she took care to pronounce the incantation correctly and to perform the hand movement flawlessly, wary of her earlier mishap. There was no backlash this time. Her spell just... flew right past the goose and down the corridor, missing every possible target. Another surge of heat came over her for a brief moment. ''Right. My apologies, I need to work on improving my aim,'' she addressed Hui stiffly. ''I require a moment to focus,'' the girl added, doing her best to calm the swirling emotions inside her the way she had been taught by her tutor. Once she felt like she had regained enough control of her mind, the first-year targeted the oversized avian yet again.

''Reparifarge,'' she enunciated clearly, aiming carefully and seeking out the iotas locked inside the atoms of the bird that was not really a bird. This time, finally, the spell worked, and the feathery fiend transformed into a fairly massive desk. The girl's heart skipped a beat - she was nearly under it, and unsure whether her classmate could maintain the Levitation Charm when the object's weight increased rapidly. She made a couple of hurried steps backward, forgetting the danger all around her in her flight from being potentially crushed. This was a mistake, as she backed into an irritated goose who did not appreciate the close proximity. It raised its powerful wings and, honking and hissing angrily, initiated its offensive maneuvers of swatting the girl painfully. ''Hey- ow- ouch- aah!'' Liana yelped, shielding her face and blindly retreating from the attacker.

Actions: Being blasted into a wall by a backfiring spell, getting up, missing another spell, successfully untransfiguring the Levitated goose, being pummeled by another goose.

Interacting: @Hildegard Schneider | @Liana Kerr | @Avery Chen

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Reducio

──────────── [ Hui Ming ] STA: 5 | EVA: 6 | STR: 1 WIS: 8 | ARC: 7 | ACC: 8 Perfectionist ────────────

VS

──────────── [ Geese ] STA: N/A | EVA: 8 | STR: N/A WIS: N/A | ARC: N/A | ACC: N/A Terrible Presence ────────────

6 Geese Total
Goose 1 & 2 untransfigured
Goose 3 & 4 being handled by Ming and Liana
Goose 5 & 6 being handled by Hildegard and Avery

Ming attempts to maintain levitation on the untransfigured furniture
Wisdom Check: [d20: 3] + 8 = 11 = 9 +2→ Success

Ming casts Wingardium Leviosa (WDC 9) on Goose 3
Wisdom Check: [d20: 6] + 8 = 14 > 9 → Success
Auto-Miss Check: [d10: q] → No auto-miss Terrible Presence
Accuracy Check: [d20: 15] + 8 = 23
Evasion Check: [d20: 1] + 9 = 10
23 > 10 → Hit

Ming casts Tarantallegra (WDC 11) on Goose 4 +2 WDC from holding another spell
Wisdom Check: [d20: 8=13] + 8 = 21 > 11 → Success
Auto-Miss Check: [d10: 4] → No auto-miss Terrible Presence
Accuracy Check: [d20: 20] + 8 = 28
Evasion Check: [d20: 18] + 9 = 27
28 > 27 → Hit
Duration Check: [d3: 3] = 2 rounds

Actions: Setting down the furniture and then levitating a second goose. Attempting to shoo the goose on Miss Kerr by casting dancing feet on it

Word Count: 819

Pandemonium, chaos, and drama.

Somehow, through some fiendish machinations beyond his comprehension, this world managed to turn dial everything up to eleven: conversations became fights and a stroll down a hallway became a struggle for survival against these unholy avians of anarchy. At the very least, Hui Ming supposed that he should be thanking his lucky stars that at least one of the unwilling participants in this impromptu fracas knew to deal with the situation.

It only made sense to help out the only one who could see them through this situation....right?

So the bespectacled Chinese boy stayed with Miss Kerr, even as the belligerent birds bore down upon Schneider. He would put his faith in Avery's good nature to try and prevent the birds from wreaking too much havoc upon Schneider.

He nodded at Miss Kerr's positive reaction to his actions - he had all but expected to have to fight her over it. His surprise did not end there however, as the ginger proceeded to backfire a spell upon herself.

Hui Ming could do naught but stare at the girl as she was all but blasted back into a wall. He had just assumed that she would be as careful with volatile substances such as magic as himself, but it appeared the the stress and adrenaline of the situation had gotten the best of her.

Before he could quite form a response to that, the girl was back on her feet, dusting off the backfire as if it had been naught but the smallest of social lapses. It was an impressive display of determination, and one that Ming knew he would not be able to replicate if the tables were turned. So he politely ignored her little lapse as she tried again; only to watch her spell go wide. Ming eyed the geese warily, there was but little he could actually do about them himself.

The Chinese boy sighed, his path set before him, like so many times before.

"Miss Kerr," he said quietly, all but ignoring the menace of feathers around them in favor of the studious Slytherin girl. She was the key to their success here, and helping her would be the top priority. Even if he did not quite know how to go about doing that just yet. "Think of is as just a class; and those as just targets."

It was...perhaps not the best advice, and more difficult to parse than it needed to be. But he did not have the luxury to think of how best to guide people, guiding had never been his duty, only to perform and succeed.


Perhaps she had understood what he said; perhaps she had come to her own conclusions. Perhaps this was all just a neverending bad dream and he'd wake up back with his parents.

What ever the case, the next shot by the girl was on the mark, and he suddenly felt a strain, as the goose he was levitating suddenly turned into a significantly larger - and heavier - wooden desk.

Ming flinched visibly, and barely managed to hold his concentration to keep the desk from coming crashing down onto the floor with an almighty thud. "Good job, Miss Kerr," he spoke through gritted teeth, as the struggled to place the desk safely back onto the ground.

A momentary abatement, but there was no time to rest. They needed to dispatch these geese quickly to go to Avery's aid. Ming set off another levitation charm at a goose, with immediate success. "Another one then, Miss Kerr?"

No response.

"Miss Ke- ohh." It appeared that the girl had had less faith in his ability to keep them from being crushed by furniture, and hand backed right into the irate wings of yet another of their assailants.

Ming hesitated for a moment, unsure what he was to do. "Get away from her you," he tried weakly; only to be ignored by all parties.

How utterly unsurprising. But then, what could he do?

A quick recap of the spells he was fairly certain he could do - he would not risk casting spells he was not confident of only to be blasted by his own wand. The sparks spells were out; neither could really help him here. levitation was out too ; as he could only hold so many spells up in the air at the same time.

Well, that only left-

"Tarantallegra!" It was a gamble, and a bad one at that. But perhaps a fowl too busy tripping on their own feet would not be able to harass them overmuch?

"Miss Kerr," He addressed their only hope somewhat formally, all the time making no move to intercede between her and the tap-dancing fowl. Courtesy and gallantry was all well and good, but sanity and survival would always prevail when it came to any fracas with these feathered fiends."I hope you are uninjured?"

Word Count : 270
Green : talking
Purple : thinking

When Avery saved her she was so desperate and so traumatized by the attack that she instinctively hugged the boy with tears holding on her eyes.

- Thank you so much Avery !


She looked back at the evil geese, spotting the one goose that had bitten her butt earlier... The pale girl still had tears almost forming under her eyes but she had made her decision : It was time for revenge !

The Slytherin took back her wand from the floor, and looked right to the ass biting goose.
Its eyes could express its thought, at that moment the bird knew that it had fucked up.

- Immobulus ! Hildegard casted on the beast.

He could not move anymore, it was over for him, Schneider smirked. She focussed and aimed specifically at the bird's ass.

-Incendio, She said, lighting the goose's ass on fire.

The psychopath Slytherin was not satisfied yet, she could not hear its scream, could not see it panicking and running everywhere as it was immobilized, and so for her own satisfaction the first year undid her Freezing Charm :

-Finite Incantatem She incantated.

The goose started to run around screaming in pain while the demonic child laughed. Unfortunately for the poor animal it was not over.

The girl aimed at her victim and casted another spell, with a smile of satisfaction on her face.

- Flipendo ! She said.

That spell created what she wanted : a goose assed fireball, the attack was thrown on another goose that had attacked her earlier.

Hildegard Schneider in the heat of the moment unintentionally struck a pose similar to those of the Avengers, some Muggle's superhero group.

Interacting with : @Avery Chen
Mention : @Liana Kerr| @Hui Ming