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Felixir · 07-05-2013, 05:39 PM

SPOILER!!: dooooooooop

Tobias couldn't help but giggle, though he quickly clapped his hand over his mouth. He was well aware that his giggle as well as his chuckle, chortle, guffaw AND his belly laugh were some of the main things that people could identify him with. Didn't want anyone to hear him and come to see who he was paired with, now did he? Because then they might have to make a break for it, and as fun as that sounded...

Anyway, back to sextanting.

Wait, was she talking to th-

FOCUS, TOBIAS.

He'd done this part so many times that it was actually getting a lot easier and therefore faster to do this part. Horizon, press clamp, find Polaris again, release clamp. Adjusting it was boring and Tobias was being lazy but shhhhhhhhh, nobody needed to know that. "This part's getting easier. My dad always says if something seems easy you're probably doing it wrong..." Hmmm. "What a weird thing to say!" Tobias' dad was obviously not well-versed in the art of LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT SIDE.

Swing swing swing the sextant aaaaaaaaaaand read the angle. It was a little more difficult here because they weren't way up close to the water and therefore there were no light reflections to double up visibility, but Tobias eventually worked out it was a 12. This time, he crouched and used his leg as a desk.

SPOILER!!: notes notes notes

Okay that was definitely a big change to the last calculation, and Tobias blinked in confusion, but then he shrugged it off and straightened up again.

"Yep, ready!" Oops... that was kind of loud. "Let'sgo." Quickly.

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Felixir Forum Manager Book Club Mod Alley Proprietor Banshee Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posts: 50,165 Hogwarts RPG Name: Charlie Upstead Gryffindor Fifth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Aurelio Kaiser Slytherin Third Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Alexei Petrov Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Yves Flamel Slytherin Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Achilles Zacharias Ravenclaw Third Year Diagon Alley Proprietor: Ezekiel Ransom-Kruus Ollivanders x12 x12	Astronomy Lesson 3 yepyepyep Lovely™ \| Captain Hurted \| Ariana's Bane \| Resident Antagonist \| Unparalleled Delight SPOILER!!: dooooooooop Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo "Excellent choice!" Most people called her Lex. She could probably only count on one hand the amount of people who bothered with her whole name...half the time she forgot it was her real name. Could you blame her? "And Kitty!Tobias works quite fine, I'll call you Toby sometimes but if there's something like completely, totally and utterly exciting happening then I'm going for the one that has a nice ring to it when you scream it from across the Great Hall." It was important...for dramatic effect and all. You understand. She stood, swaying from side to side, waiting for him to find the star on his own. It was the only way he'd learn and though they were on a tight time schedule she wasn't in much of a rush. Doo dee doo dee doo. The willow gave off a creak every now and then but she was used to that. It probably knew she was there and was trying to say hi. "I can't play with you right now, I'm technically in the middle of a class." She whispered RATHER LOUDLY, you know...just in case it had some hearing problems after certain hours. Oh! He'd found it!! "Great! Sextant time then we can hurry off before some," idiot, "older kid finds us!" GRIN. This was going much better than she thought it would! The reading she'd gotten said ...hold on...squinting eyes was happening now...it said....50. OKAY! Boy she hoped it was a 5 because it kinda looked like a 6...but well she'd go with 50. SPOILER!!: Parchment Latitude = 90 degrees - sextant angle Latitude = 90 -50 Latitude = 40 Was he all good too? Could they move on? "Ready?" Tobias couldn't help but giggle, though he quickly clapped his hand over his mouth. He was well aware that his giggle as well as his chuckle, chortle, guffaw AND his belly laugh were some of the main things that people could identify him with. Didn't want anyone to hear him and come to see who he was paired with, now did he? Because then they might have to make a break for it, and as fun as that sounded... Anyway, back to sextanting. Wait, was she talking to th- FOCUS, TOBIAS. He'd done this part so many times that it was actually getting a lot easier and therefore faster to do this part. Horizon, press clamp, find Polaris again, release clamp. Adjusting it was boring and Tobias was being lazy but shhhhhhhhh, nobody needed to know that. "This part's getting easier. My dad always says if something seems easy you're probably doing it wrong..." Hmmm. "What a weird thing to say!" Tobias' dad was obviously not well-versed in the art of LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT SIDE. Swing swing swing the sextant aaaaaaaaaaand read the angle. It was a little more difficult here because they weren't way up close to the water and therefore there were no light reflections to double up visibility, but Tobias eventually worked out it was a 12. This time, he crouched and used his leg as a desk. SPOILER!!: notes notes notes sextant angle = 12 90 - 12 = 78 latitude = 78 Okay that was definitely a big change to the last calculation, and Tobias blinked in confusion, but then he shrugged it off and straightened up again. "Yep, ready!" Oops... that was kind of loud. "Let'sgo." Quickly. __________________ Days of Potter 2023:___________________________ Which Bertie Botts Flavour Are You? You are Chocolate!