24 Feb 2022, 13:23
To be a prankster
Reducio
River liked pranks, she was not the best at pranks, but she was still in love with them, unlike some other students, River was still newish to the idea of pranking people, well people who are not your sibling.Writing as NPC River Fayre.
Flora and River had something for pranking each other, but when Flora and River was at Beauxbâxtons they rarely seen each other, so pranks were rare.
but today River had had enough of it, today she was going to pull a prank on someone!
the French girl had pulled together some muggle things that she had gotten from some muggle born friends, these things included; fishing wire (this would be used as the line to go around her pully) a small pully, a small stone (this would fall down and hit the air horn) and last but 100% nit least a air horn, the way the prank would work is that the fishing wire would act as a trip wire, someone would step on the wire the wire would pull and lift the small stone which would hit the air horn and hopefully make the air horn blast very loudly and end up pranking the poor targeted student.
That was what River had in visioned, but in truth the French girl had no idea of how muggle things worked.
(wc 224)
@Lucia Fox's NPC cassie heather mcgregor martin.
WHAT IF I FALL? OH, MY DARLING
WHAT IF YOU FLY?
WHAT IF YOU FLY?
6 Mar 2022, 10:32
To be a prankster
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[ @Clair Fernandez as River ]
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English #26687E • French #72267E
To quote some American singer Cassie didn't know much about, it was a typical Tuesday night. Well, not exactly night, Cassie reflected as she tracked mud all over the otherwise pretty much spotless palace which was Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. It was only just evening really, and Cassie was yearning for something to eat. She'd gone outside with the intension of doing some broomracing training for half an hour before dinner and had accidentally stayed out there for three times that, so blinded by the joy of riding her broom that she didn't even realise how hungry she was getting. This meant that, heading to the dining hall, empty water bottle in one hand and broomracing helmet under the other arm, Cassie was dreaming of pasta and cheesecake (not at the same time). Which was why she didn't notice the tripwire until she fell over it.
"WHAT THE-" Cassie exclaimed, startled into her native English when her foot caught under the wire and forced her to topple over, landing almost flat on her face on the tiled floor. As she fell, she thought she heard a tiny squeak, like the noise one of those squishy whistle things made when you picked it up but didn't squeeze it enough for it to make a proper whistle sound - or an air horn when it fell over. The water bottle and helmet both tumbled out of her grip just before Cassie's impact with the floor, sacrificed by her body's instinct to thrust her hands out to break her fall.
After a moment of stunned 'what the heck just happened', Cassie got to her feet and turned around, inspecting the trip wire with all the expertise of a thirteen-year-old with a high opinion of her pranking skills. Because that was what the trip wire must be - a prank. Cassie knew that now. Which meant that the prankster must still be around somewhere. Cassie raised her voice, not bothering to look around her. "I know you're there." Her gaze followed the length of the wire until it reached the wall. "You might as well come out." Was that an air horn? Cassie crouched down next to it, inspecting it. She was being to get a good idea of what the prank was supposed to have done now, and she was beginning to get a good idea of what had gone wrong too. "You've knocked over the air horn with the stone."
│= | #00308F ency • cassie heather | =│ | breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out Part-Veela • Alluring • Perfectionist • Scream • Sta 9 • Eva 9 • Stre 4 • Wis 10 • Arc 8 • Acc 9 | │ |
7 Mar 2022, 21:53
To be a prankster
River had just settled into her hiding spot and gotten ready to watch her prank hopefully play out right, when another student walked by, she watched as a girl tripped on the trip wire, ouch, River winced, the trip wire had tripped the girl, but the rock had knocked over the air horn, so there was no loud noise, she stepped out of her hiding spot, "Êtes-vous OK? Le fil-piège n'était pas censé vous faire vraiment trébucher!"Are you ok? The trip wire was not meant to really trip you! She paused unsure what to do, switching to English, she nodded "yeah, i was hoping it would hit it and then it would make it's noise, but I guess I'm not that great at using Muggle things." She looked at the stone and the air horn, "I'm River Fayre by the way, I'm really really sorry about tripping you." River smiled "Do you like to play pranks? That was what this was an attempt at, pretty lousy attempt though, I've only really played pranks on my sister." She wiped her hands on her paints, giving the other girl some space so that she could do whatever she needed to do, River did not Want to crowd her!writing as NPC River Fayre.
(wc 212)
@Lucia Fox's NPC
WHAT IF I FALL? OH, MY DARLING
WHAT IF YOU FLY?
WHAT IF YOU FLY?
10 Mar 2022, 16:34
To be a prankster
@Claire Fernandez
Almost immediately after Cassie's request, the creator of the prank did indeed show herself. Cassie waved her hand dismissively as a reply to the younger - she certainly looked younger, at least - girl's concern. "I'll be fine. All you need to apologise for is not testing this thing before you set it up."
For some reason, the girl then switched to English as she explained what she'd expected to happen. Cassie was confused for a moment - French was the most-used language at Beauxbatons, with Spanish perhaps being a not-so-close second - before she remembered her exclamation in English when she'd fallen over. Maybe the girl was more comfortable in English for some reason, or thought that Cassie was since it was obviously her native language. Either way, Cassie followed the girl without skipping a beat. "I can tell." The words weren't said in an unkind tone - they were just the first that Cassie thought of.
The girl's name, apparently, was River. That was an English name, right? Honestly, Cassie was losing track, what with the large amount of cultures she'd come across since entering Beauxbatons and attending inter-school events at Hogwarts. River certainly sounded like an English name, which might explain why she hadn't bothered using French since her first sentence.
An eyebrow was raised at River's question. "Mm-hmm." Of course Cassie liked to play pranks! Didn't everyone? (Berry didn't count, the spoilsport.) "You've got a good idea." With one hand, Cassie waved River closer, and with the other, she stood the air horn back up. "Look." Cassie took the stone again and dropped it onto the bit of the air horn that you squeezed to get a noise. The stone clattered off almost as soon as it had landed, and the impact made the air horn itself lose its balance and fall over again. "Air horns aren't exactly very stable." Leaving the air horn lying on its side, Cassie then dropped the stone on it again. There was a plaintive squeak from the horn before the stone fell off again. "And this stone's way too light to actually do anything."
Almost immediately after Cassie's request, the creator of the prank did indeed show herself. Cassie waved her hand dismissively as a reply to the younger - she certainly looked younger, at least - girl's concern. "I'll be fine. All you need to apologise for is not testing this thing before you set it up."
For some reason, the girl then switched to English as she explained what she'd expected to happen. Cassie was confused for a moment - French was the most-used language at Beauxbatons, with Spanish perhaps being a not-so-close second - before she remembered her exclamation in English when she'd fallen over. Maybe the girl was more comfortable in English for some reason, or thought that Cassie was since it was obviously her native language. Either way, Cassie followed the girl without skipping a beat. "I can tell." The words weren't said in an unkind tone - they were just the first that Cassie thought of.
The girl's name, apparently, was River. That was an English name, right? Honestly, Cassie was losing track, what with the large amount of cultures she'd come across since entering Beauxbatons and attending inter-school events at Hogwarts. River certainly sounded like an English name, which might explain why she hadn't bothered using French since her first sentence.
An eyebrow was raised at River's question. "Mm-hmm." Of course Cassie liked to play pranks! Didn't everyone? (Berry didn't count, the spoilsport.) "You've got a good idea." With one hand, Cassie waved River closer, and with the other, she stood the air horn back up. "Look." Cassie took the stone again and dropped it onto the bit of the air horn that you squeezed to get a noise. The stone clattered off almost as soon as it had landed, and the impact made the air horn itself lose its balance and fall over again. "Air horns aren't exactly very stable." Leaving the air horn lying on its side, Cassie then dropped the stone on it again. There was a plaintive squeak from the horn before the stone fell off again. "And this stone's way too light to actually do anything."
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10 Mar 2022, 21:49
To be a prankster
Writing as iNPC River Fayre
River had a habit of switching between French and English, she always had, growing up in a house that spoke both in everyday conversations, River commonly switched between French and English, so she never really noticed when people gave her weird looks or if they just stayed in one language,French=Bold English=Italics
"that is very true, I really should have tested it first..." she agreed, it had been stupid of her not to test it out, but she had not been sure whether it would run out of air or not.
River watched closely as Cassie dropped the rock on the airhorn, and when it fell over,
River simply nodded, "Do you think we could put some rocks around the bottom of the airhorn would keep it upright?" she thought for a moment "and if we added a heaver stone, or something to make the horn go off..." she let her voice die out as she ran out of the rest of her idea, running her hand through her dirty blonde hair River looked at the Air horn, did muggles use these often? She wondered what the point of it was, was it solely for pranks or if they used it for other things, such as moving cattle or chickens or something
(wc 205)
@Lucia Fox
WHAT IF I FALL? OH, MY DARLING
WHAT IF YOU FLY?
WHAT IF YOU FLY?
7 Jun 2022, 08:26
To be a prankster
@Clair FernandezCassie nodded slowly when River suggested putting rocks around the air horn to keep it upright. "That's a good idea," she agreed, picturing the scenario. As she did, though, she realised that they'd probably need quite a lot of rocks, and she didn't want to go and find them (or carry them back to this corridor, in fact). "Oh! Or I could just glue it to the ground." Cassie patted the holster which contained her not-so-trusty wand as she spoke in English. Despite knowing plenty of people who spoke both French and English, it wasn't very often that she talked to someone who switched between languages as rapidly as River did. Still, though, she'd been speaking both for long enough that she could keep up. She subconsciously followed the younger girl's lead and just used whichever language she had spoken in.
Adding something heavier might help the air horn actually go off. Still, though, something was nagging at Cassie: just a little niggling feeling in the back of her mind that something wasn't right. She squinted at the air horn for a few moments before she realised what it was. Sitting down cross-legged on the floor, she pulled the air horn in front of her and held it up with one hand. With the other, she let her hand fall onto it like a stone would when dropped. A small noise was made, but it was very quiet. Most of the airbag just flopped downwards. "See?" she asked, and repeated the action to the same result. "We need a squeezing action, not just dropping something on it." Then she had an idea and put the air horn down on the ground horizontally. When she dropped her hand on it this time, it made a loud noise that almost startled the Beauxbatons girl, but which wasn't entirely unexpected: the airbag was now being squeezed between her hand and the floor. "That worked!" After a moment of elation, Cassie turned to River. "I don't think I said hi. Hi, I'm Cassie. Third year."
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