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Art was sitting at his desk with Madame Curie in one hand. The other hand was giving her a good scratch. There was quite a strong smell of menthol surrounding Art, whose knees were playing up. He'd rubbed some cream onto them every morning since the beginning of term, but he was quite used to the smell. If you have a cold or a blocked nose, you might find your nasal passage and sinuses suddenly clear. On Art's table up the front are solid coloured containers full of the ingredients, all of Art's equipment already out and organised, as well as a vial of fluorescent yellow potion.
The door is wide open, and the room is nice and warm. On one wall, hooked over the pegs, are your lab coats. Some are still white, some are unfortunately pink (owing to Miffy). Come in, take a seat, and get ready.
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Come on in!
The story behind some of the lab coats being PINK are thanks to the incident in the laundry. This happened IC about a month ago, and as the coats are used to protect your uniforms, they probably aren't washed too regularly. SOME of them were in the laundry and turned pink, others were ether washed before, after, or not yet after the incident. So feel free to grab a pink one if you want.
The ingredients are in solid containers, so you can't see what's inside them but you can come up and have a look at the potion and have a guess if you wish
Chat amongst yourselves! We will get started in approximately 22 hours. Opening a little early as I'm a bit unwell and might not be on when I originally planned on opening.
For those of you new to the RPG, WELCOME to Potions! IC we are in October, so this isn't our first lesson. We would have had about 2 each week since the beginning of term, so you'll already know Professor Newton and his rat Madame Curie.
Stew alihotsy leaves in simmering water for 20 minutes [prepare other ingredients whilst waiting]
Remove all traces of leaves, and return water to a boil
Add dried billywig stings and erumpent tongue, boil for 10 minutes, continuously stiring counter-clockwise
Allow to cool to room temperature (22 °C/72 °F)
Add armadillo bile, stir five (5) times counter-clockwise
Add leech juice, stir twenty (20) times counter-clockwise, and the potion should be light brown in colour
Bring back to a boil
Circle wand counter-clockwise over cauldron whilst saying the incantation ‘garrula lingua’ and bring down to a simmer
Add 1 levelled tablespoon of activated charcoal
Stir counter-clockwise three (3) times slowly
Add a pinch of ground bezoar
Stir once counter clockwise and remove from heat
As it cools, it will turn from a light brown colour to a fluorescent yellow
When the colour stops lightening, you may bottle your potion. It will be approximately ten serves, if stored in 20mL vials.
Label one vial for the Professor to analyse, and ingest another vial. Save the others for your own use, or dispose of.
Characteristics: Fluorescent, solid yellow Level: Beginner - Intermediate Information: Dose is 20ml. Smaller dose will limit effects, larger dose will have no extra effect due to the addition of activated charcoal and ground bezoar, which adds a protection to the drinker.
Class has officially started. Post late it you want, but you might get punished otherwise just pretend you've been here all along.
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Dora LIVED for Potions class. She was good at it. It made SENSE to her. Mhmmm. Not that others didn't, but still. Hehe. As the Gryffindor came into the room she smiled at her HoH and held out a cookie to him. She had even baked it herself! Along with several others, but they didn't turn out great. THIS ONE, THOUGH. It was perfection. Yep yep yep.
"Hello Professor Newton. Madam Curie. Hope you're both... MERLIN what is that smell? Did someone burn mint leaves? Sheesh. You should totally get some air circulating, Professor, " she said she let her eyes scan the room.
RULA! RULA RULA RULA! Dora made a beeline for her friend and sat in the empty seat next to her. She LOVER Rula so much! The brunette never tired of Dora!hugs EVER. Never ever. So it was with that thought in mind that the Gryffindor gave her a side hug and a giggle. "Hey. You okay?"
Rula returned the sidehug with a small smile. "Yeah, I'm okay," she replied with a slight shrug. Feeling a little better than she had at the start of term, at least. Though this probably wouldn't be the time to talk about it even if she wasn't okay, what with class about to start.
She noticed Junia enter the room as well, and she offered her sister a small smile as she watched her take a seat nearby.
So now class was starting. And the ingredient were visible now, but Rula was just going to look at them from her seat. That was one of the perks of not sitting too far in the back.
Seemed like the type of potion it was was covered, but why the added ingredients? Hmm... She thought about it for a moment before raising her hand. "Do the charcoal and bezoar make the potion better somehow? Or if not technically 'better', just...different? Adds an extra effect that a standard Babbling Beverage doesn't have?" What those specific effects might be, though, Rula didn't know. Those were just her general thoughts.
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Soooooo this was the point of class, huh? Lucky for him he was sitting right up front so he didnt need to move to see the contents of the car but he hadn't the slightest clue as to what it was, why it had charcoal and Bezoar in it. Instead he was taking rapid notes, the color, the few contents he had mentioned and he jotted down the smell. It was hard to put into words but he wanted to be sure he would rememeber. At the current moment this book loving ravenclaw was clueless.
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Looking at ingredients Natalia could do so she went to look at them. Up front she stood a minute giving each ingredient a good look over before going back to her seat. By the time she went back to her seat many of the other students had already started talking. So Natalia just started writing on her parchment and listening to all the answers that everyone was giving.
So they knew it was babbling potion, that was a given, but why the activating. Glancing at Cornelious she couldn't help but be impressed by his seeming to know what he was talking about ways. Kid annoyed her, but he had a good way with words in class. So good for them when it came to points.
"Sir since we want the potion drank, would the extra ingredients help the taste? I mean if it didn't taste good no one would drink it and seriously who wouldn't want to trick someone into taking it every once in awhile, so someone might use these to make it taste better or even to make it darker so the drinker isn't fully aware of what they are drinking?" She figured it was way off, but someone had to say it.
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He always felt at home whenever Professor Newton greets back in his mother tongue. The pronunciation might be a liiittle off, but it was understandable and much appreciated by the young Ravenclaw. Jace grinned back at the effort, and inclined his head towards the man. There’s just so much respect for that old man. As for Madame Curie, well, he’d have to work on his fear for rats.
Matt’s unmistakable voice was heard all over the classroom, and Jace had to turn in his seat to take a look at him. The thirteen year old gave an amused chuckle and waved at him, pointing to an unclaimed seat next to his workstation. Once everything was settled, Jace’s focus turned to the old man up front, sparing Madam Curie a glance with her cheese, and went on to look at the ingredients. Nodding his head in agreement, Jace got his parchment out and wrote down the name of the potion, and its ingredients.
Jace paused to look up at the two added elements and allowed the gear in his head to turn. Activated charcoal is activated carbon right? They have one of those in Japan...and his grandmother would often give it to his grandpa to reduce his flatulence. One can tell that his grandma isn’t a happy old lady when it comes to gassy business. Bezoar on the other hand is the common antidote to poisoning. So, what exactly is its use in the Babbling Beverage? The Ravenclaw sat back, and tapped his chin with his quill trying to connect the two.
Hmm.
“Is it to make the Babbling Beverage more potent, professor?” he said putting his hand up to answer. “Activated charcoal is used to purify water in the muggle community...and the Bezoar is used as a powerful antidote to most poisons as it clears the person from deadly toxins. So...is it in a way to help restore the original ingredients’ freshness, purity and effectiveness?” Jace could feel his ears turn pink after answering. He wasn’t sure of his theory and was more curious if he at least made sense?
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He held up the fluorescent yellow vial for everyone to see. "Now some of you might have brewed this before, but in your textbook it's.... err a-a light brown colour. I've added some activated charcoal and some ground bezoar. Two questions. Anyone guess what the potion is? And... why I would have tweaked the recipe to include activated charcoal and ground bezoar?"
Genny regretted sitting in the back of the class because the ingredients were too far away, but this spot allowed her to observe everyone so this was a plus. Although everyone was so boring so far. She stood up to take a better look at the professor's table, and when that didn't work because someone taller (Lance) stood up as well, she climbed up on her table and remained there.
Questions were being asked, people answered them like the speed of light so Genny slid back into her seat and waited for the professor to declare whether this was a babbling potion or not. To be honest, she was only interested in adding stuff up and making small explosions.
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Professor Newton’s return greeting to her was hardly ignored, although Brooklyn had merely nodded to show she’d heard it. On the whole, she was more distracted by, well, certain people who had sat by her and even said hi to her. Not because of any rumors that might have gone around, but more because she honestly didn’t really remember Nat ever really having interacted with her before. Obviously they had some of the same people connecting them, but that didn’t immediately mean they were friends. She was comfortable just looking at the younger girl as Hady’s bandmate. In relation to certain others as well, who were no longer at Hogwarts. She had still given the brunette a slight nod, though, not interrupting the lesson as it began.
Her attention went back to the professor’s desk as he’d revealed the ingredients and posed the questions of what the potion was and what the extra additional ingredients might have meant for the whole. There obviously wasn’t much of a need for answering what the potion was. Plenty of others had already said that.
“Both activated charcoal and bezoar are used to counteract poisonings, so I’d imagine the addition would make the potion less likely to have adverse reactions in the drinker,” she replied. For example, maybe they lessened the effects of the potion altogether.
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Art smiled at the first to arrive, one of his Lions. He chuckled at her comment, and felt Madame Curie's little head poke up proudly. "Good morning Miss Summers," he welcomed.
The next student to arrive was a young Slytherin, who hadn't greeted Art. Perhaps he hadn't seen him. "Good morning Mr Asakura," Art said, never one to not make a greeting.
"Good morning Miss Botros," Art greeted the next Slytherin into the class.
Art looked up as Miss Umbridge came in, and was about to return her greeting when she started reacting to something. He was suddenly alert, worried that there was a smell of smoke or gas or something, but no... it was just the menthol. He relaxed slightly. There was no emergency. "Er... s-sorry it's my menthol cream. You'll... get used to it," he said, hopeful. But perhaps he'd leave the door open for the duration of the lesson. But then she handed him a COOKIE! He took it from her with a grin and put it securely into his desk draw, away from Madame Curie, who was following it with her eyes. "Thank you! This looks delicious!"
"Good morning Mr Kovalainen," Art said to the first Hufflepuff entering the class.
He grinned at the next to enter, the young Ravenclaw who had changed her name! He was still in the process of setting her new surname to memory, and had made a few blunders. "Good morning there Miss Snow," he said happily to one of his brightest little potioneers.
"Ohayō gozaimasu Mr Reed," Art said, remembering the Japanese greeting for good morning. At least he thought it was for good morning.
A graduating Hufflepuff entered next, greeting him. "Good morning Miss Skeeter," he said.
"Good morning Mr Myers," Art greeted the second year Ravenclaw with a gleeful smile. The young lad seemed quite cheerful, which was wonderful to see.
Art noticed the confident walk of Miss Phillips as she came through the door. He smiled and said "Good morning there, Miss Phillips."
Another of his Lions walked in next, the young one who Art had been informed of costing 50 points. But he knew, without a doubt, she would win those points back and all would be okay. "Good morning Miss Tate," he said warmly to her.
And one of his VERY best students walked in next. Art would be very sorry to see her go, but of course this was the way of life. He gave a broad smile to the young Slytherin and said "Good morning Miss Andrews, and... and Madame Curie says hello too." She was wiffling her nose in the general direction of Miss Andrews, a gesture Art knew was a greeting.
"Hello Miss Paton," Art said with a smile to the second year Hufflepuff. He knew she tried hard to brew a Potion, and he loved to see her hard work.
"Good morning Mr Winslow," Art greeted the fifth year Ravenclaw, transfer. He was happy to see some curiosity, but shook his head at the guess. "Not Felix Felicis today, I'm afraid." Perhaps another day they would look at that one.
"Hello Mr Salander," Art greeted. "Madame Curie says hello too." Art hadn't even noticed the young Lion's use of the lab coat to block his nose.
Art loved watching the progression of students from first years through to seventh years. He smiled warmly at the first year Ravenclaw to enter the class. "Good morning there Mr Jarvis. Madame Curie says hello too." And she was, indeed, inclining her nose towards the young man, sniffing.
And another of his brightest students entered. Art smiled warmly, "Good morning Miss Lynch, err y-yes I'm afraid so. I think it's all the climbing up and down from the dungeons to the seventh floor." He listened to her suggestion to see the healer and nodded. "I've m-made an appointment to see her, I have confidence she will help me. Otherwise I'll have to come up with a... a way to get from my office to the Gryffindor tower," he said with a chuckle. Broom stick? He greatly appreciated her asking about his knees.
"Good morning Miss Traulton," Art greeted another graduating seventh year Slytherin.
"Hello Miss Franks-Mundie," Art greeted another Slytherin, though thankfully a sixth year. Too many graduating students. "I'm alright, just a bit sore in the knees. How are you?"
And one of his very keen Potioneers entered next. "Good morning Miss Denaker. Madame Curie says hello," he said with a smile. Madame Curie was twitching her little nose in Miss Denaker's direction. A sure sign of greeting.
"Good morning Miss Duchannes," Art greeted another sixth year Slytherin, and Madame Curie, always enjoying the greetings, gave a little raise of her paw, signalling a wave of hello.
"Good morning Miss Botros," Art greeted the young Slytherin. He smiled at her observation and gave her a little wink. "Ahh a nice observation there. Once I reveal what it is, let me know if you think it might be a happy brew." Cryptic, he hoped.
Art couldn't help but beam at Miss Griffel as she entered the classroom. "Good morning Miss Griffel," Art said. Madame Curie gave quite the greeting. She lifted off her front two feet to a standing potition, her little front paws bent, and gave a little twitch, almost like a wave. Her little nose seemed to be vibrating as it sniffed the young Slytherin. Art chuckled. "I think she likes you," he observed. "You do? What's your rats name?" He was most intrigued!
"Good morning Mr Park," Art greeted another Slytherin. Madame Curie, still in her little standing position, gave a sniff of her nose. Art smiled, "She says hello too."
The next to enter was Mr Prince, who Art knew wouldn't greet him. He had accepted the young man just as he was. "Good morning Mr Prince," he greeted, just to let him know that Art had noticed him, and was, actually, happy to see the young lad. Art was most intrigued by his methods of potion making, and enjoyed watching him tweak the potions, or add his notes. Curiosity was key for Potion making.
"Good morning Mr Bellaire," Art greeted the young man with the constant quil companion, and who used his wand as minimal as possible. "Did you bring your wand today?" he asked. Art had been informed of the meetings in the past, from both the Headmaster, and Professor Flamsteed. Art only wanted to teach the young man things, either with or without a wand, and tried to come up with ways so the young man could get his tasks complete without needing his wand. Unfortunately... a wand was required this lesson. Perhaps someone could help him though.
"Good morning Miss Potts," Art said to the Hufflepuff student. He DID notice her reaction to the smell. He gave an apologetic smile. "I'll keep the door open for ventilation," he said. He shouldn't have put so much on, but it was certainly taking the aches away.
Art saw Miss Reynolds enter and head to a desk. He was about to say hello, thinking she'd just forgotten to greet him, but there it was - a wave. Art smiled and returned the wave. "Good morning Miss Reynolds."
"Good morning Mr Chev," Art greeted the guitar playing Hufflepuff. He smiled at the young man, and went back to patting Madame Curie.
"Mr McWitty," Art greeted one of his Lions. "Good morning! Madame Curie says hello." She was giving her little sniff of greeting as he passed the desk.
Another one entering without a greeting. Perhaps they were too enthusiastic to get started! But, nope, Miss Newman's face didn't look enthusiastic. Perhaps it was the menthol... "Good morning Miss Newman," Art said.
A very energetic Mr Solo was next to enter, getting a smile from Art. "Good morning Mr Solo, Madame CURIE says hello," he said, a slight chuckle, always saying Curry instead of Curie. Madame Curie blinked at the young lion, but Art wouldn't let her get titchy with the Lions for a making a little slip. He chuckled again at the modelling of the pink robes.
"Good morning Miss McNally," Art said cheerfully. Madame Curie, in his hand, was twitching her little nose in her direction. "Madame Curie says hello, too." He smiled.
Another of his Lions entered, and Art smiled at her. A bit apologetically, realising the smell was, in fact, noticeable. "Good morning Miss Newman, Madame Curie says hello too." She twitched her nose at the young Lion in greeting.
"Good morning Miss Macmillan," Art greeted another Lion. Madame Curie did her standing up thing again, her nose wildly twitching in smell, and she JUMPED from his hands, and onto the desk. At that moment, a block of cheese was placed on the table. Art laughed, a loud laugh, and Madame Curie got to work on nibbling at the cheese. "Thank you Miss Macmillan, I think you've made her a very happy rat," he said wiping the tears of laughter from his eyes.
And next to enter was, Art was happy to see, another Lion. "Good morning Mr Bellaire-Moore," he said.
A first year Slytherin was next, and Art smiled as he walked in. "Good morning Mr Sychev," he said to the young lad.
And the Hufflepuff Prefect was next to join them. "Good morning Miss Darcy," Art said. Madame Curie, too occupied in the cheese, didn't acknowledge the young lady. Art shook his head. "She'll ignore anyone for a bit of cheese," he said apologetically. She was being quite rude, ignoring the greetings because of cheese!
Another Slytherin to enter, just as the clock ticked time, and Art smiled, saying "Good morning Thomas-Borzekowski," as he came in and got his lab coat.
Leaving Madame Curie on the table to eat the cheese, Art stood up and clapped his hands. "Right, let's get started shall we?" He didn't close the door, because he wanted to allow at least some ventilation from the classroom. The menthol seemed to be quite noticeable to some.
He paused and pulled the lids off all the containers, revealing Alihosty leaves, Billywig Stings, powdered Erumpant tongues, Armadillo bile, Leech Juice, and his own additions to the potion were Activated Charcoal and ground Bezoar. Luckily after brewing a potion a few terms back, he had a lot of leftover ground bezoar, which would save a lot of elbow grease. "You can come and have a look at the ingredients," he said, placing little samples in clear bowls so that, even if they didn't want to come up, they might still see the ingredients. Art knew what they all were, of course, but they weren't labelled.
He held up the fluorescent yellow vial for everyone to see. "Now some of you might have brewed this before, but in your textbook it's.... err a-a light brown colour. I've added some activated charcoal and some ground bezoar. Two questions. Anyone guess what the potion is? And... why I would have tweaked the recipe to include activated charcoal and ground bezoar?"
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Charlotte did not know the answer, but she DID hear other people say babbling something or other, so that gave her a question of her own to ask and she stuck her hand up, waving it around until she was called on and the question BURST out of her.
"Professor, what happens if you take babbling beverage and you ALREADY talk a lot?"
.... inquiring minds.
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Paige connected the dots just moments before her classmates began answering and while Babbling Beverage itself wasn't such a terrible brew, some of the thoughts being thrown out by her classmates were causing her insides to squirm and more than a few nervous glances made towards her reluctant table partner. A modified version that made the drinker spew out nothing but the truth completely unprovoked rather than nonsense? She wasn't sure she liked the sound of that, particularly in the hands of one Magdalena Traulton and wasn't even considering that perhaps, finally, were the potion to act in this way that she could understand why the Slytherin had so much resentment towards her.
Activated charcoal...could she just naive pretend that the addition of that would just leave the drinker with whiter teeth instead of spiraling?
Maybe she was back down to A level potions again. Sigh.
Needing a distraction, and a bit of space, Paige got out of her seat and made her way up to inspect the ingredients, most of which she probably would have recognized on sight without having been told what modified potion they would be brewing. The powdered erumpent tongue she may have been able to figure out by process of elimination after identifying the others.
Mmmm...fascinating dried billywig stings you have here, professor.
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"Eyyy Dazzling Denaker!" he greeted the Ravenclaw in turn. Wasnt it something that its been 2 years since he first gave her that nickname? And now she christened him his. And they fit too. They ought to take their show on the road.
Oh lookit Aunt cousin Sammy has joined them "Ey there Sammy-- did you give them cheese?" yeah he saw that "I want cheese..." he whined jokingly while pointing to his open mouth. Feed him.
And we see you too Matt, walking down the Potions Room catwalk. Tenacius laughed at his friend " '...and here we have in this season's most trending color...' " he mocked announced the modelling Matt while cackling at the boy's antics. Strut it Solo!
But right, CLASS TIME. He was by no means anywhere in front, so Tenacius had to stand somewhat and craned his neck to peek at the ingredients the Professor was demonstrating. Ok.... none of the ingredients there were labelled so Tenacius can only go by appearance, which wasnt even that great given his distance to all the other students crowding around to have a look too. But that first one looked like Alihotsy leaves to him, and that next one he was pretty sure were Billywig stings. One of those liquids looked like bile-- just what kind of bile he didnt know, and the other fluid he wasnt sure of at all just going by its color. Some kind of extract? The activated charcoal was easy to tell given its appearance and that the Professor mentioned it, which makes the other thing the crushed Bezoar. There was still that pile of powdery crushed thing that the Curly Top couldnt identify. Crushed things were nearly impossible to tell without labels. All hail the label maker!
But the original solution was light brown in color the Potions Master says... and that was the clue the Gryffindor Ace was running with in addition to the possible Alihotsy, definitely Billywig and that bile-looking thing. Flick flick flick flick he goes through his textbook-- oh is that it? "Babbling Beverage Professor?" it got 3 of the ingredients he's identified. Certainly it wasnt something he's made before, although he does remember some of his friends having tried it before....
Now what was the charcoal and bezoar for? He can see from the solution that the Professor held up that what was originally light brown has now turned golden. Hmmmmm up goes the hand "Professor, Bezoars are known to be anti-poisoning agents, and activated charcoal is reputed to absorb toxins when ingested." at least thats what his grandma would spout endlessly when she sprinkles that black powder on everything "So you included them because uh..... to lessen the toxicity or the intensity of some of the ingredients?"
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Harriet honestly didn't know the answer. But that was why she was here right? There would be no point coming to school and to lessons if she knew all of the answers. What would she learn then? So. She was kind of glad in a way that she didn't know the answer. Though she was going to have a good guess. Her mama was a healer, and had told her some things about charcoal and it kind of gave her an idea actually.
"Professor..." The second year murmured, raising her hand. "Would adding charcoal maybe make the potion less smelly, since charcoal can be used to withdraw scent out of things" It didn't seem too bad of a guess to her actually.
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Leesha’s smile had widened even more when Madame Curie had responded like that toward her. Rat’s were such amazing creatures! Everyone needed to have one! "My rat’s name is Flam, it’s a Dutch word for flame” told Leesha proud and she even pulled her own rat out of her pocket to show him to the professor.
A few minutes later she still sat still in the classroom, while stroking her own rat’s fur, now with her hand deep in her pocket where Flam was asleep. Flam was still just a baby rat and he was sleeping a lot and Leesha found it really cute! But when the professor started talking again she pulled her hand back and focused her attention.
The question! Oeh, that was a hard one! She stared hard a the vial but couldn’t decide what it was. Flipping open her textbook she tried to search for original brown potions but there were just too much of them! Looking disappointed she shook her head, she just didn’t knew enough about the lesson to know the answer and to actually answer it. It frustrated her because she wanted to know how to make potions and she wanted to be good at it! But, as a first year she found it harder than she had expected.
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As one of her fellow band mates entered the room Hady's eyes strayed towards her giving her a nod in greeting. Oh! The posters were finished already? "Great. I'll stop by after my lessons and check them out, we can get to hanging them up soon." Last terms holiday party had turned out great and now The Sirens had even more experience so this was going to be even better.
Nat moved on to take a seat and Hady returned to setting out her things only to stop once more when Art replied to her. Hearing that he was indeed having problems with his knees again saddened her but she gave him a small smile at hearing that he would be seeing the Healer. "I do hope there's something she can do for you professor." Cause really she didn't know of another way to get back and forth between all the floors unless it was the use of apparation which he couldn't do inside the school or an elevator which they didn't have here. Sigh.
Lifting her gaze up onto the potion on Art's desk as well as the ingredients there it was easy to see which potion was being made today. Nearly all her fellow peers had said it. Babbling Beverage. She choose not to raise her hand and contribute to all the guesses going around but instead to take down some notes that she thought she might need.
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Sean of course gave a small wave followed by a soft smile to Madame Curie when the professor said that she greeted him back. Rats are just the best.
Moving on, the professor started the class and Sean is all ears of course. He looked at the ingredients that the professor was talking about and he knew most of the ingredients. They were all very familiar to him. He just needs to remember what potion makes up with all these funny looking ingredients.
He looked at his textbook and suddenly remembered what it is "it's a Babbling Beverage potion" and as for the latter part of the professor's question Sean doesn't have a clue. He does know that bezoar is an antidote to most potions. If babbling beverage makes someone babble in nonsense...
"Does adding the activated charcoal and ground bezoar reverse the effect of a babbling beverage?" makes someone sound smarter rather than babbling like an idiot? Sean really has no clue but the whole class is going to find out soon.
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As Matt modeled his new pink coat, he could hear Ace's voice mock-announcing the season's most trending colour and he had to concentrate to not laugh out loud. No proper model would LAUGH while going down the catwalk, so Matt didn't eitherr. He acknowledged his friend by looking in his general direction and waving all royal-like. His fashion walk lasted all the way to the front of the classroom, where he had seen Jace pointing him to an empty seat.
Also, professor Newt got a beamy smile for calling him Mr SOLO, as always. Best professor EVER. Madam Curry got a royal-like wave too.
And SCHWEET! He could see everything on professor Newt's table from there! It was a whooole new experience for Matt, sitting at the front of the classroom and maybe it wasn't so bad. One: he had the chance to model his awesome pink coat all the way down there and two: he could see all the things on the teacher's table without having to walk allll the way there and that was COOL.
It didn't matter to the Gryffindor whether he could tell what the ingredients were - which he couldn't - but he was really enjoying the fact he was able to see it all perfectly, even if he had to lean towards Jace to see - his head may or may not have been right in front of his Ravenclaw friend's face in the process.
Most kids were saying it was a Babbling Potion, but Matt didn't know if they were right or wrong. And regarding the new extra ingredients, all he could offer was a wild guess. "Are they to lessen the side-effects?" If there was such a thing as a side-effect when drinking a BABBLING Beverage. Lol. Oh, and the other loud Gryffindor, Charlotte, had asked a good question. Matt was curious to know that TOO, so he turned to look at professor Newt again.
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They were starting! Yaaaas. Owen looked forward to every potions class because it was one the two subjects he was actually good at. The other one being muggle studies since he was personified it. Brewing potions was similar to cooking. You usually had to follow a certain recipe but you can always add your own touch if deemed appropriate and necessary. Owen particularly liked that part.
Professor Newton was now showing them the ingredients and Owen knew that they were used to brew the Babbling Beverage mixture. As its name, it made the drinker babble. But there was a catch this time. Two ingredients that were not usually used were added in. Activated charcoal and ground bezoar. What of both? Hmm... both were sort of 'cleansing' ingredients. So what, did it to do something to the composition of the potion? Made it 'cleaner' to ingest somehow? Or did it do something to the effect of the potion itself and made the drinker spout purely good things instead of just nonsense?
Miranda walked into the potions classroom and greeted the professor as she looked towards her usual set near the back.
" good to see you again Professor..." she smiled nervously... afterall last term she had been abismal at this particular class... Maybe she could find an older student to pair up with... she looked around for Natalia... she had mentioned being decent at potions... Or maybe Sam would be able to help her....
Hadley grinned. Professor Newton and Madame Curie looked so cute together. Their bond was crystal clear. It was adorable. She vaguely wondered if that was how she and Asher looked together.
She grinned again at her nickname by Ace and laughed as he narrated his friend's catwalk. But, right. Class. Class was starting and she was determined to prove herself better than the last two years. And that went out the window the moment he asked the question. Uhhhhhh....she had no idea. At all. Hadley pulled out her potions book and started to flip through it, searching for the answer. But before she could find the answer, everyone else was calling out babbling beverage.
Okay then. "Is it the Babbling Beverage, sir?" She was gonna pretend she knew that all along, yessireeBob. Closing her book, she decided to look as busy as possible and began setting up her station. Nothing to see here. Just a girl who knew the answer on her own. Do not look at the man behind the curtain or whatever.
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Olivia was still getting herself settled, because of course Tak didn't mind if she stole the space next to him. It had been a very silly question.
Of course, she was noting the strange smell permeating the potion's room now. It wasn't especially strong at their table, probably given that the professor wasn't stationed directly in front of them, as he was with others, but Liv definitely recognized it. Achy joint problems. Maybe she'd stick around after class, offer her Head of House some of her potion. Speaking from experience, the pain was downright annoying when you had to do so much walking within a day. Poor Professor Newton.
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Turning his eyes back to the front, another figure caught his attention. One that wasn't sitting close, but he was standing close enough, and staring right at him. Tak blinked once and stared back as a lump suddenly formed in his throat. It was a strange feeling. The feeling of complete calmness, and yet his back molars squeezes down on his inner cheek, the taste of blood slowly filling his mouth. As the boy moved to sit next to the door, Tak's eyes never left him. "Liv- what's his name?"
Hmm?
Leaning over to whisper in his ear, because the lesson had officially started, she mumbled, "Daxton Prince." Daxton... was a very unique boy and because of it, Olivia had considered collecting him for a short while, but he also scared the mess out of her. Her gut told her to stay away, and she had for the most part.
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He held up the fluorescent yellow vial for everyone to see. "Now some of you might have brewed this before, but in your textbook it's.... err a-a light brown colour. I've added some activated charcoal and some ground bezoar. Two questions. Anyone guess what the potion is? And... why I would have tweaked the recipe to include activated charcoal and ground bezoar?"
Okay, she knew some about the bezoar. Mainly because her mother had an affinity for potions and was prone to lecturing her INCESSANTLY about keeping one close by at all times. It cured something... or another. Her memory on it was sketch, as she usually drowned her mum out shortly after she began with that spiel.
Not having much to contribute at the moment, the blonde settled on taking notes. Her peers had this well in hand.
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Soon enough the lesson began and Cassie watched as the containers of ingredients were opened, the girl trying to catch a glimpse of them as samples were taken. Curiosity taken with Professor Newton’s words, the Ravenclaw got back up from her stool to get a closer look. A couple of liquids, leaves, powder and animal parts. She had guesses on what they could be, but the third year wasn’t going to claim she was certain what they each where. Cass was no potions expert after all and there were no labels or hints around to speak of.
As for identifying the potion, a fair few classmates were already supplying the answer as she made her way back to her work station. Babbling beverage…oh boy. This could get interesting if they actually had to sample the stuff. “To get a more desired effect than the original potion,” she remarked to the second question after raising her hand. “Maybe lessen or increase duration…or the strength?”
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If this potion WAS a Babbling Beverage, why would he need to add bezoar? Hmmm. Scarlett had really no idea, since it wasn't a poison that really made no sense to her. She tapped her quill against her chin for a few moments while she tried to think of an answer. Hmm. HMMMM.
She raised her hand, finally, with a guess, "Did you add the bezoar because...um...if you drink too much, it could poison you? So you did that to prevent that?" she guessed. She had no idea, and that was the best she could come up with.
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Daxton stayed sitting exactly where he was, opting not to get up to take a closer look at the ingredients, reasoning that sooner or later they were likely to be referred to by Newton, or to be listed on the board, perhaps if they were to brew today. He did, however, make a point to get out his notebook and pen, as Potions was one class where he tended to take notes, mostly to keep track of his ideas, questions, and theories. He could always remember everything just fine, but it made sense to keep a written record, too.
Completely oblivious to the simmering rage that was preoccupying one Slytherin third year in the back row, Daxton turned his attention to his notebook. He was not about to add anything to the answers being thrown out around the room - no big surprise there - preferring to keep his thoughts firmly to himself. He had a habit of adding things to potions, taking ingredients away, or otherwise tweaking them, so his knowledge of individual ingredients and components was by now reasonably extensive.
Could potentially be added to the potion to pre-emptively deter poisoning or overdose of potion - if this is the case, why would it not already be part of the recipe?
Theory: these ingredients make the potions safer for consuming large amounts, but weaken them, and lessen the effects
Theory: these ingredients are purposefully used to dilute the potion
Theory: an entirely new potion has been created (unlikely, in this case, but possible)
A Babbling Beverage, though. Daxton was slightly wary of this potion, and to steer clear from it. Should they be brewing it today in whatever variation, he made the decision in that moment that he would not be sampling it. But still, he did wonder, if maybe Newton might actually intend for them to tweak potions today, to see what might come about. If so, Daxton would be in his element... he was just not entirely sure that Newton would - or should - trust the majority of the idiots in the classroom with such a task.
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"could it make it more powerful?" this was full a blind guess, she had no clue why those were added but might as well give an alright guess right... ughh she needed to pay more attention and write more notes down because she felt this year so far going so fast and next year would be her last, these were important things to remember.
She took out her quill and made as many notes as she possibly could while everyone was talking.
"Good morning Miss Macmillan," Art greeted another Lion. Madame Curie did her standing up thing again, her nose wildly twitching in smell, and she JUMPED from his hands, and onto the desk. At that moment, a block of cheese was placed on the table. Art laughed, a loud laugh, and Madame Curie got to work on nibbling at the cheese. "Thank you Miss Macmillan, I think you've made her a very happy rat," he said wiping the tears of laughter from his eyes.
Leaving Madame Curie on the table to eat the cheese, Art stood up and clapped his hands. "Right, let's get started shall we?" He didn't close the door, because he wanted to allow at least some ventilation from the classroom. The menthol seemed to be quite noticeable to some.
He paused and pulled the lids off all the containers, revealing Alihosty leaves, Billywig Stings, powdered Erumpant tongues, Armadillo bile, Leech Juice, and his own additions to the potion were Activated Charcoal and ground Bezoar. Luckily after brewing a potion a few terms back, he had a lot of leftover ground bezoar, which would save a lot of elbow grease. "You can come and have a look at the ingredients," he said, placing little samples in clear bowls so that, even if they didn't want to come up, they might still see the ingredients. Art knew what they all were, of course, but they weren't labelled.
He held up the fluorescent yellow vial for everyone to see. "Now some of you might have brewed this before, but in your textbook it's.... err a-a light brown colour. I've added some activated charcoal and some ground bezoar. Two questions. Anyone guess what the potion is? And... why I would have tweaked the recipe to include activated charcoal and ground bezoar?"
Samantha beamed at the professor. She liked him, even if his class wasn't always the easiest, and she didn't even let the feeling from sudden use of her birth last name show up on her face. She gave the little rat a little wave with her index finger, almost as if she was scratching air. "I'm glad she likes it. I was a little worried you wouldn't let her have it." Looking from the rat, up to the professor she added almost timidly. "And uh, Professor Newton, it's Swynford, actually." She gave him a smIle before she had toddled off.
As she sat next to Ace she gave him a small distracted smIle at his comment. "There's more in the kitchens." She wasn't drawn into further conversatile with her table mates or entertain ed with their antics though, for she was thinking. What had even brought up her first last name, anyways? Had he seen it, and been curious about it? Had he recently been looking in her files for some reason? Maybe one of the professor's had said some thing about the way she had been lately. Any way though, it was kinda strange.
She was pulled from her thoughts when the professor got up and started class. Getting up to get a better look at the ingredients, she smirked to herself, letting the fantasy land in her head take her away from her sad thoughts earlier. "Professor," She said, looking down at them. "Are those Alihosty leaves? The one the King uses for healing?"
After returning to her seat, she listened to the answers the class had provided, but didn't answer herself, since it sounded like they had it covered. But thinking things through, she end up with an idea. Rasping her hand, she asked, "Sir, I know charcoal is supposed to purify, so is that why the potion looks cleaner than described in the book? And does the purification maybe make it taste better?" Because a spoon full of sugar didnt always make the potion go down.
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Olly smiled at his friend and took the seat after it was confirmed available. He smiled, too, at the other boys assembled. He didn't know Bentley very well, but there was Phillip. Hi. He didn't have time to greet anyone else before the professor rose and started class. He turned his attention to the front of the room and tried to pay attention. There was a potion, but he had no idea what it is. He was not good at identifying things. Olly didn't even bother going up to look at the ingredients because he knew there was no way he would ever be able to identify what the potion was. A few people offered some guesses and he thought they were probably right, they knew better than she was.
As for the charcoal and bezoar, he had no idea what purpose they might serve. The bezoar was used as an antidote, right? But he had no idea why it could be added to this potion. The charcoal was even more of a mystery.
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"YES! Indeed we are making Babbling Beverage," he said, with a big grin, to those who guessed correctly.
Mr Baltazar was on the correct path, and Art was nodding with a smile as he was speaking. "Very close!" he said.
Mr Chev had an interesting guess. "Very interesting Mr Chev, no that's not why... but that's very interesting." He jotted down what Mr Chev had said in his notebook, for something to look into. Very interesting indeed.
He grinned at Miss R. Botros' guess. "Indeed! Yes, indeed!" He was very happy. "I'll explain why in a minute," he said, giving everyone a chance to speak.
He gave a smile at Miss Franks-Mundie's answer. "Well... it might. I'll look into that and let you know, unless you'd like to take it on as an extra credit project?" he asked. He was curious too. He couldn't remember the last time he had tasted the original Babbling Beverage. At least 20 years ago.
Mr Reed was thinking along the right lines, "Not quite Mr Reed, the very opposite of what you're thinking, but you're on the right path." Analysis of the ingredients was an impressive skill, especially in a third year.
"YES Miss Andrews," Art said with a very large smile. He'd broaden on why this was correct in a moment.
Mr Salander hit the nail on the head! "Indeed Mr Salander! Indeed!" he said happily.
Miss Paton's suggestion had him thinking. "Hmm. I don't quite know Miss Paton. That's not why we're adding it today but... hmm... I'll have to look into that. A very impressive thought." Yes, indeed it was. He jotted this down into his notebook too. "I'll look into that and let you know! Unless you'd like to help?" He'd certainly facilitate students puting their hypotheses into a test.
Mr Park was not quite right but not too far off either. "You're on the right path Mr Park. It doens't reverse the effect, but it limits the duration." Very close!
Art smiled at Mr Solo's guess. "Well... if one is allergic to an ingredient, it does lessen the allergic side effects, yes."
But half way through, one of the dear Hufflepuffs entered late. "Thank you for joining us M-Miss Blaze, but... it-it would be nice if you could come on time. Five points from Hufflepuff," he said. He hated taking points, but he also didn't want people to start rocking up late.
"Yes Miss McNally!" He said, waiting, again, for other responses before he expanded on the answers.
And another one! "Yes Miss Reynolds, correct!"
Art saw Mr Prince jot some things down in his notebook. Of course the man respected his silence, but he was very curious to see what he was writing. No doubt some very good theories that Art, himself, might not have thought of, or perhaps even the spot on answer to his question.
"Ahh not quite Miss Duchannes," Art said to the next guess.
And Miss Swynford, whom Art had embarassingly called Miss Macmillan before, was putting forth some excellent guesses. "Yes! Alihotsy leaves indeed, the very ones," he smiled. "It might very well be the reason the colour has changed, yes," he put that theory into his notebook. Was that why it changed colours? Another guess of taste. "I'm not sure about your second guess, but I'm going to look into that. Unless you and Miss Paton want to test that out yourselves, another time?" He was very curious as to whether the addition of activated charcoal changed the taste.
Art had to pause and chuckle at what Miss Kettleburn asked. "Well... do you think you talk a lot? I suppose we will see shortly." The young lioness never failed to bring a chuckle to Art. Or mortification, but mostly a chuckle. It was a good question.
"As some of you have said, activated charcoal is used for detoxifying and bezoar is an antidote for poisons. This is quite a fun little potion, but the uhh.. the-the combination of some ingredients sometimes make overdosing a problem. Especially if the person ingesting it is... unknowingly allergic." As was the unfortunate incident with Wilhelmina Tuft, many years ago, who died after ingesting alihotsy flavoured fudge.
"Now a lot of you have correctly guessed why we have added the ingredients, that it makes it different. For a lot of potions, they are dose based. Too little and the effects aren't enough, too much and you may overdose and have serious consequences. I played around with this potion for my kids, actually, so they could have fun with it when they were young. The addition of these ingredients means the potion can be ingested in whatever dose, and there is no chance of overdose. It also means the potion only lasts for 20 minutes, rather than an unknown length of time." He had to make it safe for his kids, after all, and now he felt confident about his students ingesting it. "You'll be brewing about... uhh... 10 doses of it today. You can keep the potion if you like, and have fun with it." His kids were, of course, younger when they had fun with the Babbling Beverage, but perhaps it would make a good gift or something for those too old to have fun with it.
Art lowered the sheet covering the blackboard at the back, and the modified potion was revealed.
SPOILER!!: Babbling Beverage
Babbling Beverage
Ingredients
500ml Water
5g Fresh Alihotsy leaves
2 dried Billywig Stings
Pinch of powdered Erumpent tongue
5ml Armadillo bile
2 drops Leech Juice
1 tablespoon Activated Charcoal
Pinch of ground Bezoar
Method
Clean equipment
Add water to cauldron, and bring to a simmer
Stew alihotsy leaves in simmering water for 20 minutes [prepare other ingredients whilst waiting]
Remove all traces of leaves, and return water to a boil
Add dried billywig stings and erumpent tongue, boil for 10 minutes, continuously stiring counter-clockwise
Allow to cool to room temperature (22 °C/72 °F)
Add armadillo bile, stir five (5) times counter-clockwise
Add leech juice, stir twenty (20) times counter-clockwise, and the potion should be light brown in colour
Bring back to a boil
Circle wand counter-clockwise over cauldron whilst saying the incantation ‘garrula lingua’ and bring down to a simmer
Add 1 levelled tablespoon of activated charcoal
Stir counter-clockwise three (3) times slowly
Add a pinch of ground bezoar
Stir once counter clockwise and remove from heat
As it cools, it will turn from a light brown colour to a fluorescent yellow
When the colour stops lightening, you may bottle your potion. It will be approximately ten serves, if stored in 20mL vials.
Label one vial for the Professor to analyse, and ingest another vial. Save the others for your own use, or dispose of.
Characteristics: Fluorescent, solid yellow Level: Beginner - Intermediate Information: Dose is 20ml. Smaller dose will limit effects, larger dose will have no extra effect due to the addition of activated charcoal and ground bezoar, which adds a protection to the drinker.
He re-cleaned his own equipment, and measured out 500mL of water, pouting it into the cauldron. With his bunsen burner, the old muggle way, positioned under his cauldron, he sparked his flint and got the fire going. "Just to a light simmer, now," he said. Once a few little bubbles appeared, he measured 5 grams of fresh alihotsy leaves and put them into the water.
OOC: Go ahead and start making your potion! You can do this in as many or few posts as you like, as long as they have some effort and detail put in [refer to my marking guide in my Guideline section].
You need to complete the potion for full marks, but go ahead and create a disaster if your character is poor at Potions
If you need us, just put 'Professor' or something into the Title so we can easily see it, but we will be reading through all the posts anyway.
You have until September 20th, approximately 3:30pm ACST // 6am GMT to complete the Potion
Once you COMPLETE the potion, feel free to have a sample and RP the effects
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