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Ameh · 02-18-2016, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline

The walk to the first floor had indeed been long. Thankfully the moving staircases hadn’t provided any troublesome detours. That would have been the last thing they needed, especially in this stage of the game, or rather any stage of the game. So they made it to the main corridor, Olivia looking for any stand out tapestries or paintings since the previous two had been in similar locations. But the only landmarks they found was one that was hard to miss by the smell: the Weasley Swamp. The Ravenclaw walked closer, planning on simply passing the roped off area, only to spot what they were looking for.

“Guess its all over…” Olivia mused to her partner, turning around to go back the way they had come. Just one more trek in this adventure, one floor back up to the Arithmancy classroom like their instructions said. "Onward!"

All of the scrolls had thusfar been on or near landmarks on their respective floors. Tapestries for the first two, but... as far as Jaemin knew, there weren't any relatively important tapestries on the first floor. A long row of portraits and stuff, but no tapestries. What was most commonly used as a gathering or meeting place on the first floor was-

He smelled it before he saw it, and caught sight of the floating parchment as he put a hand over his nose. It was so groooooooss. The small boy squinted up at the scroll of paper, almost glad for the words on it; he was normally very energetic, yeah, but all of this up and down the stairs business was starting to get a little tiresome.

"Over already?" He had been expecting at least six more scrolls, professor! "Ahhh..."

For a long moment, he considered that maybe this scroll was a trick. Maybe they weren't supposed to listen to the words on it, but instead add the words up like they had with the professors' names. But that was an awful lot of letters, and Jaemin was pretty sure that Professor Tanner wasn't that tricksy. She was straightforward, even if her subject sometimes seemed like it wasn't...

Still, he added the numbers up in his head as he turned to catch up with Olivia, humming softly to himself and looking around as they went back to the steps.

"It reduces to three," he said absently, before taking to the stairs. To the classroom!

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Ameh DIMC Boggart Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 29,830 x4	♥Dunkin \| Pixie's Precious Pea \| kpop goddess \| sneaky sounder \| forever slytherin♥ Quote: Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline The walk to the first floor had indeed been long. Thankfully the moving staircases hadn’t provided any troublesome detours. That would have been the last thing they needed, especially in this stage of the game, or rather any stage of the game. So they made it to the main corridor, Olivia looking for any stand out tapestries or paintings since the previous two had been in similar locations. But the only landmarks they found was one that was hard to miss by the smell: the Weasley Swamp. The Ravenclaw walked closer, planning on simply passing the roped off area, only to spot what they were looking for. “Guess its all over…” Olivia mused to her partner, turning around to go back the way they had come. Just one more trek in this adventure, one floor back up to the Arithmancy classroom like their instructions said. "Onward!" All of the scrolls had thusfar been on or near landmarks on their respective floors. Tapestries for the first two, but... as far as Jaemin knew, there weren't any relatively important tapestries on the first floor. A long row of portraits and stuff, but no tapestries. What was most commonly used as a gathering or meeting place on the first floor was- He smelled it before he saw it, and caught sight of the floating parchment as he put a hand over his nose. It was so groooooooss. The small boy squinted up at the scroll of paper, almost glad for the words on it; he was normally very energetic, yeah, but all of this up and down the stairs business was starting to get a little tiresome. "Over already?" He had been expecting at least six more scrolls, professor! "Ahhh..." For a long moment, he considered that maybe this scroll was a trick. Maybe they weren't supposed to listen to the words on it, but instead add the words up like they had with the professors' names. But that was an awful lot of letters, and Jaemin was pretty sure that Professor Tanner wasn't that tricksy. She was straightforward, even if her subject sometimes seemed like it wasn't... Still, he added the numbers up in his head as he turned to catch up with Olivia, humming softly to himself and looking around as they went back to the steps. "It reduces to three," he said absently, before taking to the stairs. To the classroom!