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Originally Posted by Lizasaurus  His eyes widened when the professor asked if he had stirred it correctly or not. "I....I thought I had!" he said in a fearful voice. Please don't say he had to start over! He bit his lip hard. He'd been hoping that it was his imagination playing tricks that it wasn't clear. If the professor said it wasn't, then it definitely wasn't! "How can I fix it?" he asked peering down into his cauldron again. Where was mum? She'd tell him right? Pleeeease no starting over!! He was really scared, wasn't he? Cosgrach observed his potion some more, and said "No, all you have to do is stirring quickly counter clockwise for 30 seconds, and only 30 seconds." It didn't sound too hard, did it?
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Originally Posted by laurange With some difficulty, he finished the last stir and pulled out the stirring rod and sniffed the fumes. NOPE. NO ODOUR. Cosgrach walked over to Brian's cauldron once again (because the boy looked like he was rushing it a bit) and inspected his work briefly.
"Well done." He smiled at him. See, he could do it.
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Originally Posted by Harry174 "Professor, Adi how does it look?" Angel hoped that she had done all that right it looked right but she wanted to double check before she did the last steps. Cosgrach walked to Angel to check how her potion looked. She looked kind of off today, so he wanted to check this time.
"It's good," he said, and turned to the people who answered.
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Originally Posted by Felixir After that, Toby got to work on bottling up two more samples, like Culloden had said so, labelled those as well, and vanished the remainder in his cauldron: "Evanesco." He cleared up his workspace then, still listening to the professor and trying to think of a suitable answer. Antidote, hm. He... didn't know, but raised his hand anyway, and answered the question with another question. "Sir, would the antidote need to be specially brewed? Like... because the ingredients are different for each emotion, so maybe you even take the base, and work from that to make, like... an Emotional Change-BACK Potion, specific to the one that you're getting the antidote for?" It seemed less likely the more he spoke. "Or perhaps some sort of... regular mood stabilising potion?" Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin Sigh sigh sigh. "Evanesco," Dot banished the contents of her cauldron and cleaned out the bottom of her now-empty cauldron. Siiiiiiigh. "Maybe the opposite potion, Professor? Sadness on top of the happy potion." No, that was kind of dumb. Compounding the problem. Quote:
Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Just then, the Professor threw out another question. She thought about the possible antidotes for her potion. Raising her hand, she took a wild guess. "If I have to add Alihotsy leaves to make a happiness potion, would I add glumbumble treacle to make the antidote? Since that makes a sadness potion, maybe that could cure a person of their happiness." Well, it was a thought anyway. Quote:
Originally Posted by feeheeheeny Her hand went up after considering her classmates' replies, especially Tobes' response. "Personally... I dunno about needing SEPARATE antidotes to cater to each emotion. I mean... it makes SENSE that you'd wanna try to rid the affects according to the SPECIFIC effect this potion has, but like, at the same time... wouldn't the idea of an antidote in general be to just revert the drinker's emotions back to a neutral, normal state? Not necessarily the anti of it or an opposite - just more a stabilizer? I mean, the bulk of the potion is the same with that base, but with the one ingredient difference to differentiate the emotions..." she brushed a thoughtful hand through her hair, "I'd be interested in seeing if one general antidote intended just to stabilize the mind and body back to a neutral state... would be as effective for countering the affects of each potion as well as an antidote made specifically for a potion would, y'know?" DID THEY KNOW? Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessiqua Oh but there was an antidote. That was good. What if someone had slipped her the angry or fear potion? She didn't want to be angry or scared. How might it be? Zhenya raised her hand, "Sir would there have to be different antidotes to all of the potions?" She was sure that was an obvious answer, but perhaps it was just one antidote. "Could you try to give them the opposite potion of what they had used to counteract the effect? For example if someone is given a sadness potion, could you give them a happiness one to neutralise the effect of the sadness one?" She realised, too late, that she was answering his question with more questions, but somewhere in there was her suggestion. Quote:
Originally Posted by JustAlice As her laughter calmed down she began to take the samples she needed, and thought about Professor Culloden's question... "Is the antidote just the same potion with the opposite effect?" she asked, writing her name, house, year and "happiness!" on two little labels and sticking them to her samples. "But from the same base so that they'd be the same strength cause some people's bases might be stronger than others?" She didn't know if that was true, but she thought maybe her potion wouldn't work well with another person's antidote because they had slightly different ingredients in the base... right?
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Okay the vanishing the potion thing? She didn't know how to do that. She watched a few of the other students, then picked up her wand and... "Evanesco." She tried to mimic the wand movement that other people were doing, but she'd never tried this spell before, so she wasn't really sure about it, and nothing happened. "Um... can someone help me?" She didn't mind asking for help at all, she just didn't want to disturb anyone who was still taking samples. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiro MacMhuirich This post goes here Quote:
Originally Posted by RandomRaven "Maybe... you use the common antidote potion?" He spoke up as he raised his hand. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz As for an antidote? UHM.... "Probably tea... uh of some sort."
Cosgrach listened to all and nodded at them after they were done explaining their ideas. He decided to address the wrong ones first and explain why they were wrong. However, before all, he quickly vanished Rowan and Marsha's cauldrons.
"It's not tea, Zahra," he said, "because tea usually isn't magical. And if it is, it's usually not called tea." So, tea helped with some things, but not with a potion.
"A common antidote and Mandrakes wouldn't work, Jackson and MArsha," he said as he turned to the boy, then the girl, "because this isn't a poison. We only want to reverse it, because it's a nuisance - especially the negative emotions." Were they satisfied?
"All of the people who suggested some sort of opposition potions: the six emotions this one creates doesn't exactly match as opposites, except for happiness and sadness. Besides, like Rowan said, if you use two different bases, it might confuse a person and tire them before the stronger potion wins the fight. And the people who suggested different potions for every emotion - please note that the base for all is the same." Which brought them to what Sophie had suggested, and he smiled at her. Only she guessed it right, if he didn't miss any other answer.
"The base, if you analyse it closely, makes a person open to any emotion, then we add the determining ingredients. So, with that in mind, we'd need one antidote that lifts the effect of an emotion, which would be... the base itself, again." Plot twist! "The base is the antidote." That was the reason they got a vial of it. "The base lifts the effect of the potion, so the person goes back to feeling whatever they were feeling before consumption. However, if a normal person drinks it, it makes them feel completely neutral - or empty, as some might call it - and therefore confused." EXCITING, wasn't it? HEHEHE.
He checked his watch. "All of the potions must have matured by now..." he muttered, sat down on his chair and tapped the blackboard with his wand to reveal the final notes.
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Originally Posted by Blackboard - After completion, it needs to wait for a few minutes to mature.
- It's a base potion, which can be stored for a year. The emotion to be decided after the creation of the base
- The antidote is the base, which lifts the effect of the potion, so the person goes back to feeling whatever they were feeling before consumption. However, if a normal person drinks it, it makes them feel completely neutral and therefore confused. A full water glass of antidote is needed for full dose.
- Full dose is half a water glass in any liquid.
- Overdose is more than a full water glass in 24 hours. May cause severe emotional changes and/or only one emotion for an indeterminate time. SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP IMMEDIATELY IN CASE OF AN OVERDOSE.
- The duration of the potion depends on the brewer, but it's usually between 5 to 10 hours.
- Colours are:
Happiness: Bright pink
Sadness: Grey
Tenderness: Orange
Anger: Bright red
Excitement: Bright yellow
Fear: White
"Here, as you can see, are the overdose and such. I'll announce the homework later. Class diss -" Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz Decisions... decisions.... DOG SALIVA or FERRET FUR?
....why not both....?
Zahra mixed the excitement AND tenderness. She probably needed to TENDERIZE her EXCITEMENT anyway. La la la.[/B]
- in the blink of an eye, Zahra's potion PUFFED like a mushroom cloud. Apparently, it had to mature a little too. THAT was what she got for both. Cosgrach rose to his feet, with wand in hand. He couldn't see if she got it on her face because of the smoke yet, but if she did, it would be a funny sight: a completely black face with hair standing on end for a full day (however, maybe it might not be a good sight for the daughter of the FORMER minister. It wasn't exactly dangerous - except for making the skin black and the hairs stand on end - but he still wanted to vanish -
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Originally Posted by Meizzner Oh well definitely too late now. Too late, indeed, to do anything at all.
The potion EXPLODED! right after the girl's mushroom cloud. It melted down the materials it got on A LITTLE and it'd cause harmless, painless rash on the skin if anyone was hit... Cosgrach had already got up to Zahra's potion, but upon the second EXPLOSION, he forgot all about her and walked at light speed until a safe distance with his wand already in his hand. LUCKILY for him, his desk was too far from the cauldron to be hit. The next moment, the potion was vanished before it could cause more damage.
If looks could kill, Dante would have been dead now.
"People hit with it, don't worry. The rash will heal in a week without a damage. Just keep it clean," he said, loud enough for everyone to hear. His eyes were still on Dante, however.
He would explain, wouldn't he? OOC: Thank you for coming, I hope you enjoyed it! You have exactly 15 hours from this post to finish brewing. I won't lock the thread immediately after, but I won't grade the posts.
Last edited by StarShine; 05-20-2015 at 01:33 PM.
Reason: Forgot to add the duration >_<
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