Biscuits, Cravings, Decorations Event

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To say Alyssea was a bit lost would be an understatement. The pink colours were starting to fade and her energy was seeping away. It left her somewhat sluggish as she tried to make sense of what was going on. She was shocked at the chaos going down. Alyssea gasped as she watched Raizel's spell miss then get punched by the trouble-making lads that entered.

Alyssea jumped in front of Raizel. "Ayo! What the hell was that for?" Her Australian accent came out a little bit. She had half a mind to slip out 'mate' but stopped herself before she could let it out. They were definitely going to get a detention for that.

Raizel's resilience was both Alyssea's greatest admiration and greatest fear. Instead of backing down from the fight, Raizel jumped forward and decided she was going to punch harder. Whether by Muggle means or magical means, Alyssea wasn't sure yet.

But she wasn't just going to stand around and watch as chaos kept raining down. Alyssea grabbed her wand from her robe pocket and pointed it towards troublemakers. One already escaped and if they let the rest escape despite their actions, then what was supposed to be a nice event got ruined for nothing.

action: casting epoximise at the floor towards not-meabh
interactions: @Raizel Voltrouz
sta: 6 | eva: 7 | str: 6 | wis: 8 | arc: 6 | acc: 8
abilities: prodigal transfiguration learner, evasive maneuvers

⋄ January 7th, 2024 | Great Hall ⋄
⋄ Interactions: @Raizel Voltrouz and My Good Friend, Sparky | Mentions: @Alyssea Brown ⋄

𝓦hen disaster is striking rather hilariously all around you, what's a girl to do? In Bex's case, have a few more biscuits while you try and get a handle on what exactly is going on and whether or not Accomplice is responsible for all of it. A few of the shortbread biscuits were shaped like little trees, so she quickly ate three of them as she observed the madness descending around her.

It's all fun and games until Raizel casts and Immobulus at one of the trouble making students and they, uh. Did not seem to like that much at all. Despite the spell missing the older student entirely, this didn't stop them from doubling back around and punching Raizel. The rage that Bex felt was immediate and deadly. This was no tussle between evenly matched classmates; rather, a far older student had just physically assaulted one of her favorite people, one who so happened to be a second year. She wanted to see them bleed for it, wanted to knock their teeth right out of their mouth and take them as a souvenir. Letting out what was probably the least frightening battle scream that this student had ever heard, Bex launched herself at them like a rabid raccoon.

Whatever spell Alyssea cast, Bex was unfamiliar with it, so she watched out for any unforeseen effects. She'd gone for the student's knees, and was attempting to bring them to the ground. Bite, kick, scratch, punch, whatever opportunity she saw she intended to take. Maybe she should start bringing her beater's bat with her to school events, save herself some time and energy. In the meantime, though, she was grabbing onto this dickwad's legs and not letting go. She'd use every bit of force she had in tiny little 11-year-old body to try and hold tight until she brought him down.

Free Action (Per Alan): Eating three tree-shaped biscuits (don't say I never did anything for you.)
Action: If Alyssea's spell succeeds, tackling Sparky at the knees at trying to bring them to the ground OR if Alyssea's spell fails, attaching on to Sparky's legs like a barnacle, so if they try to leave, they'll have to take Bex with them. If actions in the form of if/then aren't allowed, then trying to bring Sparky to the ground takes precedence.

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sta: 8 | eva: 3 | str: 7 | wis: 4 | arc: 6 | acc: 7
Abilities: Perfectionist

House Colours: Slytherin

Calming Presence in Effect: All Students & Beast Master Familiars Affected

The boy's eyes gleamed as he managed to pick a spot to stay quiet and unseen, crossing his arms again as his pointed ears piqued in intrigue and strained to hear everything that he could. Personally, he did want the group to leave... that way he could stalk them from afar and go wherever it was that they were going. Something here smelled of fish, and the boy's nose was full of that scent of rot and in need to figure out its source.

However, like a crowd was apt to do, others didn't seem so keen to let these people go without a fight. Among them was firebird Raizel, an up and incoming young duelist that had quite the tenacity even to Piérre's lofty standards. Using that skill it would seem she tried to slow or stop their exits--while speaking in a decidedly strange way in the process--by the use of a dueling spell... only to have it miss and the fist of her target instead strike her instead.

For a moment, Piérre felt his body attempt to lurch, to reflexively react to the slight against her and the need to step in for the sake of the uncalled for action on both sides, but another and more patiently conniving side of him resisted, encouraging him to only stay on the sidelines and simply tip his head at the deepening tea. A curling smile crossing his features as emerald eyes watched and a crossing of his arms made him only slightly less conspicuous. After all, if others were going to try to weed out information without him exposing himself, that was a good deal all around.

Still... tensions kept heightening; the boy was starting to get the particular feeling that these people would not be leaving with the rest of the childrens' consent... and that could be particularly bad for the sake of Piérre wanting to get to the bottom of the situation as it stood right now.

Well, he simply couldn't do nothing. He had to anticipate however this fray went... if it worked in his favor the way he had wanted it to originally go, all the more power. If not... well, far be it from the mischievous Marchonné from refusing a piece of the action. He did have a reputation to uphold, didn't he? First, though, he would have to make sure that the moment was right. He had to make sure he was able to react and act accordingly based on what he observed of the actions of others... which mostly meant reacting to the actions of the people of interest that he currently had his eyes on.

As for Figaro, he was so thankful to find the felidae girl. Unprompted he would leap up onto the bench and then to the table... and then if he was able would try to climb onto Xailah and curl himself soundly about her shoulders just like he would if he were around Piérre. The smell of another cat didn't bother the feline in the slightest. He knew that smell too, but he needed to stay with someone familiar. Someone bigger than himself that likely stood a better chance of keeping him safe in the area of interest that had been assigned to him by his own master... Xailah was as good a choice of any as of right now, it would seem...

If the Troublemakers OR Not-Meabh Leave, Piérre will Pursue Them
Beast Master: Attempts to Climb Xailah to Perch on Shoulders (if Allowed)

Statistics: Stamina 7 | Strength 5 | Evasion 18 | Wisdom 12 | Accuracy 16 | ArcPower 5

Abilities:
Keen Eye | Calming Presence | Beast Master [Cat] | Cat's Grace | Animagus [Hummingbird]

Items:
Wand | Firebreathing Potion | Garroting Gas Potion | Invisibility Cloak | Soda
[Sharpened] Locksmith's Knife | [Red] Deck of 52 Playing Cards

@Alyssea Brown, @Raizel Voltrouz, @Rebecca Lark

Astra Roderick Thoughts Other People = Their Hex

How dare. Astra jumped to her feet and took off at a sprint towards the student who had the gall to punch her cousin in the face, her cousin who she very much liked and would prefer undamaged. This student had also caught her at a bad time, given previous frustrations (i.e. Anti-Sabotager and the rhyming curse and Roderick eating all the cookies), and the girl needed a way to physically let all that out. What better way than to run into someone full speed and attempt to fight them?

The young Slytherin muttered, "I will end you, just wait. In this activity, you'll regret you chose to participate," as her sneakered feet slammed into the ground, propelling her forward in one of the fastest sprints of her life. And trust me, Astra's life was chock full of sprints. To danger, from danger, in order to attack, in order to escape, she ran headlong into everything, sometimes but not always including persons or objects.

Raizel was already defending herself with wand out. Astra trusted that her duellist cousin would have ample success, but that didn't stop her quick approach. Alyssea, too, was jumping to the aid of the Gryffindor.

And- oh God forbid. Anti. Astra's jaw clenched as she saw Anti also attempting to bring the miscreant down. Though the petty preteen was loathe to help the enemy, they had a bigger evil to deal with at the moment, and so Astra resigned to this extremely brief and grudging alliance.

Astra rounded the corner to come behind her target and with a flying leap jumped onto his back, all 75 pounds of her slamming into the older student. With grim determination, she locked into a rear-naked choke hold and held on for dear life.

actions : stupidly putting Sparky in a rear-naked choke hold, would also be great if she knocked him down

FOURTH MOD
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DISCLAIMER: the doors are locked, you cannot leave

The Challenged
Nellie has the fabulous idea to put her locket on the locked box. Nothing happens.

The Distraction aka The Trouble
Axyen further confronts the fake professor, pleading her to be reasonable. However his concerns fall on deaf ears. "Shut it, Pufferfish," the clearly not-[Meabh] tells the other student. Props to the badger for trying to stand up to someone he believed was a professor mistreating a student, but he surely was annoying the person behind the disguise.

Rai feeling inadequately angered by [Sparky]'s self-defense (rude of you Rai), decided on a more forceful matter to hold back the older student. Perhaps aggression was just her love language.

Rai casts Flipendo
Wisdom DC: 9 + 2 = 11
Check: [d20:10] + 8 = 18, success
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Auto Hit: [d20:18], fail
Acc: [d20:6] + 8 = 14, miss
Eva: [d20:19] + 15 = 34, dodged

Flipendo!" she would yell, perhaps encouraged by the familiarity of her surroundings. However she should really practice aiming. "Aren't you supposed to be a duellist?" he mocked the girl for the terrible miss. The girl had proven to be little threat to him and thus his course to leave the room remained unchanged.

astra attempts to chokehold sparky
she does not have martial artist --> attack at disadvantage
Auto Hit: [d20:2], fail
Acc: [2d20:10,3] + 7 = 10, missed
Eva: [d20:20] + 15 = 35, crit dodged, free counter attack --> trip
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Auto Hit: [d20:11], fail
Acc: [d20:9] + 15 = 24, impaired hit
Eva: [d20:19] + 5 = 24, impaired hit
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Effect: Stumbling

Coming to her cousin's aid, Astra ran towards [Sparky] to put the boy in a chokehold, forgetting along the way that seeing people pull off awesome stunts on TV, did not mean she would be proficient in reenacting them. Worst of all [Sparky] did not take kindly to being the target of yet another attack. With a quick sidestep, he planted his foot in the girl's path, causing her to stumble a few feet in a comical attempt to catch herself.

Alyssea unlike the others, would go for the fake professor instead.

Alyssea casts Epoximise
Wisdom DC: 12 + 2 = 14
Check: [d20:19] + 8 = 27, success
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Auto Hit: [d20:1], fail
Acc: [d20:12] + 8 = 20, hit
Eva: [d20:8] + 6 = 14, hit
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Effect: Shoes are glued to the ground

Evil to the core, Alyssea went for poor [Meabh], who was absolutely innocent in this encounter (as far as they could tell).... well aside from allegedly impersonating a professor. Not as elusive of a being as [Sparky] seemed to be, [Meabh] was hit by the spell and it stuck her soles to the ground of the Great Hall. Only her quick thinking [d20:9] would allow her to quickly slide out of her boots and take off without them. Knowing herself to be a target despite having done nothing harmful, she let go of her companion and ran for the door, uninterrupted.

[Meabh] has made it past the door.

Rebecca would do the next best thing that came to mind-

Rebecca goes for Sparky, he is too distracted to evade
Can Rebecca hold on?
Str DC: 10
Check: [d20:10] + 7 = 17, success

Rebecca with the determination of a chihuahua and the stubbornness of a mule, flopped to the ground like a child denied candy and latched [Sparky]'s legs as he dragged her along and out of the Great Hall. Pierre not wanting to be denied the drama that would surely unravel, followed suit.

Rebecca, [Sparky] and Pierre are outside the Great Hall! A secondary location will be provided if you want.

The Buffet
Bailey eats a cookie that was handed to her and promptly began to lift off the ground, floating. Which meant she would have joined Kim, if not for the fact that at that moment he fell to the ground... ouch. However the cookie he would eat, made things just seem slooooooooooow. Was this how a dragonfly felt? However the drink did not make it any better, causing some uncontrollable hiccups.

Rebecca for some crazy reason, had decided to eat not one, but three of the tree shaped cookies. Whyever would she do that? Only she would know... Her teeth grew sharp and pointy and there was this desire to look for something shiny! Almost as if she was a Niffler and her entire life purpose was to hoard things that glittered and shone and sparkled!


The Way the Cookie Crumbles...
As soon as the Distraction and the two additional students (Pierre and Rebecca) got through the doors of the Great Hall, the doors fell shut and CLICK, locked. It was about there and then, when the students should have realized that perhaps there had been a reason for their desperate attempts to flee the scene.

The sound of snapping could be heard and if the students were to direct their gaze away from the door, then they would quickly be able to realize what was unfolding behind them. A pair giant Gingerbread Man and Woman flanked by four Reindeers were forming and moving. Almost groaning as they grew in size and began to move towards the gathering of students. They would not be reasoned with and they did not look pleased.

Gingerbread Man attacks Rai with Slam
Acc: [d20:17] + ? = ?, success
Eva: [d20:5] + 7 = 12, hit --> -200 HP

Of course the universe had it out for Rai, so it came to no surprise that the Gingerbread Man, who with the Gingerbread Woman seemed to be leading this attack, would target her and more or less backhand her with its crumbly arms.

Gingerbread Woman attacks Kim and Bailey with Swipe
Evasion DC: 13
Kim Check: [d20:15] + 12 = 27, success
Bailey Check: [d20:10] + 6 = 16, success

Meanwhile the Gingerbread Woman would swipe and miss. The students would do well to get together and claim victory over these monstrous cookies!

Mod Note: all NPC are created for the purpose of this event only. Also (spoiler warning): permission from Meabh to use her likeness was given

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Alyssea pointed her wand towards the fake Potions professor's shoes. She kept her chin up, confident that she could pull this spell off. "Epoximise!"

The glue-like substance materialised on the floor and stuck right to the bottom of Not-Méabh's boots. Alyssea cheered but her glee was quickly wiped away with the fake professor's escape by slipping out of their shoes. Damn it, Alyssea cursed in her head. Now they were all headed for the door, including Rebecca as she slid across the floor by one of the troublemakers' legs. Piérre also followed behind.

Alyssea called out, "You guys!" but was cut off by the Great Hall's doors closing behind them. A bit lost, Alyssea looked around and found Astra stumbling. "Astra! You okay?"

They had no answers for why those troublemakers came and made a mess, although Rebecca and Piérre might have a chance at finding out if they stuck to them. But even with their departure, that wasn't the end of the chaos. When Alyssea turned around, she couldn't help but scream.

Raizel was slammed by a giant gingerbread cookie man, or something. Whatever it was, Raizel was now looking rough. There was another gingerbread cookie man roaming around, swiping at two more students, though it missed. Alyssea bit the inside of her mouth. What the heck was going on? Weren't these cookies the one they were eating and decorating just now?

action: casting reparifors on raizel
interactions: @Raizel Voltrouz, @Astra Norrick, @Rebecca Lark
sta: 6 | eva: 7 | str: 6 | wis: 8 | arc: 6 | acc: 8
abilities: prodigal transfiguration learner, evasive maneuvers

Interactions ❯❯ @Alyssea Brown | @Astra Norrick | @Rebecca Lark
Mentions ❯❯ @ | @ | @

❂《 ⌜ January 7, 2024 ▎ 7:00 PM ⌟

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This fight that she had somehow started was stupid and the more time passes, the more the Gryffindor realizes this. Whatever had possessed her to do all what she did was slowly fading, a question forming in her mind just as she released a Flipendo towards the older student:

Why was she pursuing them again?

There was a strong desire earlier, to seek answers from these people, prompting her to take action and stop them for interrogation which is what started all of these in the first place and now… that was gone. Confusion soon replaced by anger and frustration not just because of the missed spell but rather because of the older student’s remark. Yes, she’s a duellist. Was she a good one? No, not if you look at her awful performances and truth be told, it had tempted her to leave the team for good yet she stayed for maybe her own selfish reasons of not wanting to be seen as a quitter and to continue proving herself that she can be a good duellist.

It was infuriating and not only that but her life had just been full of misfortunes lately. She was doing a great job keeping it at bay with her constant search for distractions, always wearing a mask where she hides the seething anger that she had been keeping inside for so long just so her friends and family wouldn’t be worried about her. She was breaking but she doesn’t seek any help, believing that she’ll get through on her own. A mistake really.

Spells missed, her target escaping and leaving nothing but mockery and left her frozen for a few seconds just to process the emotions that had started building up, not even noticing that her friends had went for the attack and apparently, one of them (Bex) was taken along when they escaped, unintentionally of course as she had clung onto their legs like some sort of lizard. The sound of the door shutting snapped her out, followed by the snapping sound of the cookies coming into life… wait… what?

There was no time to let things sink in as what met her was a strong blow enough to knock her back, sending pain throughout her body and crumbs sprinkled all over her. The now alive Gingerbread Man had decided to target her as soon as it was up and moving about, piling up on the misfortunes that had befallen her. This was… getting tiring and frustrating, her luck that is. She finally had enough of it. She caught herself before she fell to the ground from that attack, hand gripping tightly onto her drawn wand, gritting her teeth as she just let her anger consume her this time. Of all the people it could attack in this room, it still went for her. Well, luck has never been on her side. Sure, she had her moments but the number of bad luck she had is way more than the good ones.

It was getting old. Does her misfortune ever end? Unfortunately, no, it's gonna keep going and that is already ticking her off. Perhaps it's about time to let out all those pent up anger caused by those. Anger that she couldn't express, anger that she had kept within the deepest part of her being.

Pain numbed by the adrenaline rushing, brown eyes seemingly filled not only with fury but perhaps a bit of desperation to break out of this cycle of misfortune. Her wavering focus was on this gingerbread man. Despite the number of hits she had taken and how she looked like she was only a couple more hits away from being knocked out… she stood her ground like always. Right, this is how she does things, she keeps on fighting till the very end, lacking the self-preservation that people in the hospital wing are probably complaining about whenever she ends up there.

There is no way Raizel is winning this fight. She was a fool for trying. She could've pretended to be down or run away while she still can yet here she is, struggling to stay up and to keep going. What does she have to lose for giving up? Her pride? Not like she had any left after all that loss. No, the only reason why she is doing this is that she doesn't want to appear weak, to show that she is competent enough to handle things, that she's just as skilled as their pureblood relatives and that her grandmother was wrong about her. She could achieve greatness, she's still a true Voltrouz despite being a Half-blood.

In the eyes of others, she's just reckless and perhaps a bit crazy for putting herself into situations like this, for continuing on in fighting a losing battle but they don't know what's going on in that head of hers, they don't know the real reason behind these actions and it's better that way. “This is unfortunate…” Indeed it was, so unfortunate it was laughable. A smirk formed on her lips followed by a dark chuckle. Misfortune after misfortune with little to no chance of escaping its tight grasp on her. But what could she do other than to keep struggling? After all, that’s what she’s good at, trying to fight her fate of constant failures.

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INVENTORY

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STATS AND ABILITIES STA: 6 | EVA: 7 | STR: 3 | WIS: 8 | ARC: 8 | ACC: 8 Prod. Charms | Perfectionist

Action Casting Incendio Duo at the Gingerbread Man

Axyen was shocked that the (not) professor just straight-up ignored him. Axyen gasped and his mouth sort of just dropped when the fake Regan just called the other student a pufferfish. "P-professor! I.. I don't think..." Axyen was struggling a little. "That was a little mean." Axyen said, he knew this wasn't a professor at this point. He knew that professor Regan(the real one) would never talk to a student like this. Suddenly, the dreaded spells were cast. Somebody(Axyen couldn't see who) hit the fake professor Regan with a spell that kept her boots stuck to the ground. Axyen quickly moved out of the way not wanting to be stuck in the middle of that, although he turned his head back to see the chaos unfold. The fake professor quickly just slipped out of the boots and left the Great Hall. Axyen was actually kind of stunned that the impostor came up with that idea in what seemed like almost an instant, either way, the fake professor managed to escape the Great Hall. Axyen was kind of at a loss for words, well, not that he would say them even if he knew what he wanted to say... but the point still stood.

Suddenly, the doors of the Great Hall just closed. Axyen didn't mind it too much until the door clicked, indicating that it got locked. Axyen felt fear almost instantly, what was about to happen now...? Axyen took deep breaths to calm himself down, or at least try to. Then there was the sound of snapping of some kind, Axyen turned away from the door to see. . . a giant gingerbread man and woman, plus four giant reindeer! Axyen smiled happily. 'Wow, this is a great surprise!' Axyen thought to himself, looking in amazement. 'This was an incredible sight, maybe the door was closed to reveal all of this?' Axyen thought to himself as he was watching the gingerbread man move to... wait, move to attack Raizel?! Axyen's eyes widened almost immediately. "Wh-what?!" Axyen said out loud, it was kind of like a quiet half-scream, his wand somehow appeared in his hand(he doesn't remember, but out of fear he went for his wand in his robe pockets immediately). This was the first time Axyen ever needed to draw his wand outside of official duels and classes, this was something else and it freaked him out completely. Axyen looked up at the gingerbread, he was terrified, amazed, and shocked by the magic and all of the chaos potential of this one gingerbread man. Axyen shakily held up his wand and then focused to keep his wand movement steady(or try to) and to also make sure he says the incantation for the fire-making spell clearly. "Incendio!"

Everything was not going so well for this party, it went from trying to enjoy a Christmas party and possibly socialize which Axyen didn't do, someone messed with the cookies and turned them sour which Axyen unfortunately ate, an impostor that pretended to be professor Regan pulling two students by the ear and even insulting them, and now this: giant living gingerbread that attack people, oh and of course who could forget about the massive reindeer which Axyen feared the most at the moment. Axyen wondered what went so wrong tonight that could cause all of this to occur during an Christmas party. Axyen didn't know, but he wanted to help people and that meant it's time to light this Christmas up, starting with that giant gingerbread man! (Terrible pun fully intended.)

Information!!!

Actions!!!

Being shocked, amazed, scared, and casting Incendio at Gingerbread man.

Items!

Wand.

Stats and Encyclopedia!

Stamina - 6 | Evasion - 6 | Strength - 2 | Wisdom - 9 | Arcane Power - 10 | Accuracy - 8
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