This conference room is used for any meetings that the Department Head deems necessary to hold, or if one of the Division Heads need to use it, they may IF they get permission from the Department Head first.

In the conference room, there is a U-shaped conference table in the center with numerous black chairs circled around it. There are some ink bottles scattered across the table as well as some quills, muggle pens, and muggle pencils; these supplies are available to anyone that forgot their own supplies in the office. At the head of the table, there is a larger chair for the Department Head, and there is a reversible whiteboard behind the chair that has a couple colored markers in a tray that is magnetized on it.

The walls that had once been dark stained wood are now painted a nice shade of brown, and the portraits of famous judges lit by elaborate wall sconces are still located in the room, they might have just been moved a little bit from their original spot.

Sam headed into the conference room carrying his coffee cup in his hand. It wasn't the usual coffee cup that he carried around with him because the one he usually had he wasn't going to take the risk of it getting broken today. This coffee cup could get broken and he wouldn't mind since it was a really cheap coffee cup and he could just buy another, yupp!

He settled down in the large chair at the front of the conference table, and he began to drink some of his coffee as he waited for his employees to come in.

Another conference? Hopefully they wouldn't have to chase a magenta guinea!boss around the Ministry of Magic again this time. Or save the Minister and her Undersecretary...which in the end had turned out to have been a 'fun' game after all. Yes, very funny. Haha. So, it would seem as not so much of a surprise to see Michel DePaon entering the Conference Room with a rather annoyed frown plastered across his face and a steaming cup of tea in his hands. Hopefully this would be a normal conference.

"Good day, Mr. McDean." He greeted the already present Department Head with a curt nod before taking a seat on one of the vacant seats, placing the cup of tea on the desk in front of him. Hopefully they wouldn't have to make small-talk or something annoying like that.

Lucia promptly made her way to the Conference room feeling quite pleasantly optimistic about this day. And she was wearing quite a lovely dress too, which was reflecting her mood completely.

As she walked inside, she smiled at the Department Head who, to her happiness, was no longer a magenta guinea pig. Hehe. "Hello there Mr McDean, I don't believe we have had the pleasure of meeting yet." She said kindly then held out her hand. "I'm Lucia Taylor. Your new Division Head for Counterfeit Magic & Equipment Control." Hmm, maybe she should have introduced herself earlier. Oh well, she wouldn't dwell on that now. She looked around and gave the other man a warm smile.

Dacs walked into the conference room, ready for business, as usual with her cool and calm demeanor. She nodded to Sam and sat down. 'I wonder what fun we will have today.'
she thought. She looked up in slight surprise when she saw the familiar face of the division head of counterfeit magic and equipment control, one who apparently was very busy else where in the ministry. Dacs smirked a little as the thought crossed her mind.

She took out her little black book, and began scribbling, until Sam started the meeting.

Priya walked quickly into the conference room, fearing she was late. She only saw four others and realized she was not late at all. She let out a sigh of relief and walked over to a the wall on her left, and leaned against it casually, waiting for everyone else to show up and for Sam to begin. She saw Dacs across the room, who was writing in her notebook. Priya gave a nod and a smile, and turned her eyes towards Sam.

Another meeting. As Dorian headed into the Level Two conference room, he couldn't help but think about the last meeting he'd attended. Hopefully nothing like that would occur again, but he was hopeful. At least, Sam's brother shouldn't be in this one. Maybe they'd end up with something to do finally, as well.

Not too many people here yet, so after a brief nod at those in the room, he let conversations go on. If anyone wanted to involve him, he would be happy to join the conversation. But it seemed like it was still just introductions, vague greetings, and such. So he simply leaned against one wall, casually. Maybe when more people arrived, there'd be something exciting.

Prometheus walked into the conference room, adjusting his jacket collar as he did so.
He could not deny, even to himself, that he was nervous. This was the frist time he had seen Sam or Erik, face to face after the Dan Debacle. He hadn't had a chance to speak with his Departement and Division head, to see where he stood with them. Prometheus scanned the room and saw a few chairs were still empty, so he made his way to one, passing Sam on the way. His heart began to beat like a jungle drum, with all his zeal, he smiled and said "Morning Sir".

Seating himself he took a deep breathe, it wasn't that bad.

Edward walks into the coference room carrying his coffee cup full of coffee. Funny he's not a coffee drinker. Forrester is the one who can't go anywhere without his gourmet coffee. Yeah Edward misses he boss and protege, but life goes on. He finds himself a chair and sits down. Edward looks around for something to go with his coffee. Doughnuts or danish would have been nice. The new guy doesn't know how to throw a meeting. I'll have to give him some lessons along with a few bottle of firewhiskey. I hate plain coffee.

Anna walked in the room very cheerfully as always and was as usual very excited to know why the meeting was held, she guesses it would be a new assignment that would be given to them, but wasn't quite sure on in. She took a seat in one of the corner of the room and waited for the meeting to start.

Amaria walks into the conference room and sees a lot of new people. She sees a few people she already knew. There was Edward, the guy she meet on her first day, and Dacs. She waved at Dacs and said, "Good morning Dacs."

So this is what the conference room looks like.

In all of Ben's time working in the MLE not once had he been in the conference room. He looked around and thought it looked pretty good. He made his way down to the end of the conference table, giving Dacs a smile when he passed her, remembering the night they had. Ben said down in the chair to Sam's left. "G'day, Sam," he said to him. "This should be fun."

Desmond walked into the Conference Room. He sat down in an empty chair and wondered what the meeting was about.

Sam drummed his fingers against the conference room table as he waited for his employees to arrive and when the first one walked in, a grin formed upon his face. "Hey Michel," he greeted the man. Obviously, this man wasn't a morning person since he had a frown on his face. Surely that frown would turn into a smile when he announced what he had planned for today. Hehe.

Oh, there was the new Division Head! He had been meaning to find her and welcome her to the Department. "Hello Lucia. I'm glad to have you on board in this Department," he welcomed her. "I hope you're move from your old Department to this one is going okay. Have you met the other Division Heads?"



Sam turned towards the next two people that walked into the conference room. "Hello Antoni! Hello Priya!" He greeted both woman. It made him happy that all his employees were arriving on time; he would have hated to have to postpone this meeting until people decided to come.




When another employee entered the room, Sam nodded in his direction. "Hey," he greeted the man. "You're Dorian, right?" He was trying to remember the name that was on the file he had read previously. If it wasn't right, ah well. It was hard to remember names when you just read them once on a sheet of paper.

He turned towards Prometheus and said, "Good morning." He still hasn't been able to talk to the man about what happened with Dan. Gahh.



Sam looked towards the next few people that entered the room. "Hello Edward," he said. "Hey Anna... Hey Amaria." The room was just filling up quickly! He picked his coffee cup up before looking over at Ben and replying, "Good morning and yes, this should be lots of fun." He couldn't WAIT to announce what was going to happen!

After taking a drink of his coffee, he announced, "We're going to wait a few more minutes to see if we have any last minute arrivals, and then we'll begin." He turned towards the two Division Heads that were in the room, and the he raised an eyebrow. Where was Erik? He was a Division Head, which meant he shouldn't be running late!

"Hey Desmond," he said when he noticed the man walk into the room.

"Thank you very much." Lucia smiled at the warm welcome she received. "It's going well thanks, I'm very pleased to be in this department." She nodded then looked around at the room as it slowly filled up. Looking back at Mr McDean, she shook her head but smiled. "I haven't met them properly yet." She had only seen them around the Ministry. Well, she assumed they were the other Division Heads, she could have been mistaken.

As she heard that they would be starting soon, Lucia smiled and finally took a seat at the Conference Table. She was kind of excited in a weird way. Because she was starting to feel more.. at home with the new department.

Walking into the conference room Taylor looked around making sure she wasn't late. Looking around she noticed there were only a few people there and sighed in relief. Yes, Taylor was a workaholic so being late was a big No No!! She walked over to a chair and sat down waiting for this conference to begin.

Daisy, having received the summons to the conference room, left the work area as soon as she was able. She was still in her dress and heels and worried that they were improper for whatever task this was. The heels could come off, she reasoned, and a dress was sometimes easier to move around in than something like jeans. In her black purse, slung over one shoulder, was her wand within easy reach.

Unsure of what to expect, Daisy cautiously slipped into the conference room. She saw the table and quickly singled out the few she knew - Ben and Dacs and Anna. Taking a seat in close proximity to their locations, Daisy suddenly noticed a man sitting in the chair at the head of the table. That must be Mr. McDean, Daisy thought, hoping she would find time to introduce herself.

Sam was a little shocked that none of the other Division Heads had taken the time to introduce themselves to Lucia. He was now thinking that he should get all the Division Heads together in his office for a little meet and greet session so that they all don't feel uncomfortable working together. When he worked at New York, he remember how awkward it was working with people you didn't know until you knew them. Yes, he was going to have to plan a meet and greet session. "Oh, well," he replied. "There's Ben... and Erik, he's somewhere. I'll introduce you to everyone later." When all his Division Heads were present.

As two more people made their way into the conference room, he gave them both a nod and said, "Hello." He then finally stood up from his chair and stood in front of the large U-shaped table. It looked like everyone was here, except...

"Has anybody seen Erik?"

Ben watched as Sam and this person Ben had never seen before talk. He quickly studied her. All body language, position at Head of table, and new employee status would indicate that this person is,

"Lucia," Ben quickly put out a hand. "You will have to excuse my manners of not introducing myself. I am, as Sam said, Detective Benjamin Amsten. Or Ben." He smiled at the Woman. She was perfectly fit for the job that she was undertaking.

That was something ben noticed. He figured he would have popped in by then. "No. No I haven't." Ben said to Sam. "But I'm sure he'll be here. He would have sent his owl if he wasn't going to make it today, yes?"

Erik walked into the Conference room with boxes of donuts enough for everyone to have like 5 of them. "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODD morning," he said with a grin. He'd had a great night with Vanessa and it showed in how happy he was.

"Donuts. Donuts all around." He said with a grin and tossed the boxes onto the table except one which he brought to his seat next to Sam. "Morning!" He said with a smirk and sat down placing the box in front of Sam.

Sam looked over at Ben for a brief moment, and then he looked at the door. He couldn't just sit here and wait for his Division Head to arrive, so he was just going to have to start the meeting without him, and then Ben or Lucia could catch him when he arrives... for the love of merlin, who knew when that would be. "I'm sure he would have sent an owl," he replied. "It's just... he'll have to catch up."

He was about to write something on the board when someone entered the office with a very happy attitude. Turning around, he gave Erik the 'where the heck have you been?!' look before his eyes landed on the box of donuts that he was tossing onto the table.

ZOMG. Donutsss!

"Thanks for showing up late," he replied before he grabbed a donut out of the box Erik had placed in front of him. "And thanks for the donuts. Now I'm going to start this meeting..."

He took a bite of his donut, and then he went to stand in front of the conference room.

"Attention everyone!" He announced. "I'm so glad you all could make it to this meeting... well, I wouldn't even call it a meeting. It's more like a gathering so that I can announce the rules for the duel that I have planned from this evening." A little smirk formed on his face as he looked at everyone in the conference room. "I'm not sure how many of you attended Hogwarts, but there's a dueling arena where students may duel with each other... within reason of course. The duel I have planned is going to be like a student duel because I have rules that must be followed. If you don't follow the rules, you will not be able to duel." He took another bite of his donut before writing on the white board:

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Originally Posted by The rules

• No dark magic allowed (unforgivables, sectumsempra, fiendfyre, entrail expelling, or ANYTHING like that)
• Use spells YOU know how to do
• Keep the dueling IN this Department
• If someone surrenders, do not continue to duel with them

OOC: One important thing: DO NOT RP the outcome of the spell, the person you're dueling with will do that!

"I hope that nobody will get hurt since this is a fun duel, but things happen. If you happen to get hurt, find me IMMEDIATELY," he spoke. At least he'll know that their injuries won't be TOO bad since dark magic wasn't allowed. He looked over at Ben, Lucia, and Erik to let them know if they wanted to add anything or to say something he left off, they could, and then he looked back at his employees. "Any questions?"

Dacs leaned forward, with an impish smirk dancing on her lips, "I have a question. Will it be same gender duels? Like boy against boy, girl against girl or do the do the little girls get to play with the boys?"she asked, amusement, swinging in tone as she looked up at Sam."I promise to play nice, Sam."she remarked coolly, with an innocent smile.

"I have a question also, will it be teams, or every person for themselves....." Prometheus added onto the end of Dacs' question.
"Another quick one, when you say on this level only, does that mean that the duels will be predecided with a set arena, or will it be as if this office is our arena, like a duel simulator?"
Prometheus had visions of the Division heads, targetting him for the Level 3 fiasco, so he would be ready for them.

Erik smirked as he heard Sam's comment and leaned back in his chair, "Yer welcome buddy. Thought ye might need some support." He grinned and listened to the new thing that was going to take place. Opening the box of donuts he took one out and bit into it as Sam did his fantastic speech.

As questions started to arise he decided to answer for Sam. He wouldn't mind right? "No there will be no gender separation this isn't the 1920's." Oh yes he knew his muggle history. "And considerin' I know a few women that could kick mah butt there isn't any need," he said with a smirk toward Dacs. As another employee asked a question he...didn't quite understand what he was saying really. "He means that ye can't leave these offices. We'd prefer if ye stay in here but ye are more than welcome ta stray into work area." Or Sam's office, he thought with a smirk but he wasn't going to say that. "Meanin' ye can't get carried away and go into say...Eductaion's department or the atrium or anythin'." Surely that made sense right? He took another bite of his donut and smirked at Sam.

Dacs chuckled a bit and said,"If I didn't know any better, you sound like you've been beaten by a women before.", as she winked at him, before chuckling again. She liked joking with her co-workers and her superiors. It was her belief that it built good relationships in the work environment.