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Jessiqua · 03-16-2016, 09:17 AM

SPOILER!!: Esme and Rachel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squishy

Esme could hear Rachel approaching, but didn't look up. She didn't want to be seen right now because she was crying. She hated people seeing her cry if she could help it. The only exception was her sister; Juno was the exception when it came to a lot of things. Instead of answering the question, she merely nodded. It was definitely the owls.

Of course she would have attracted the attention of Professor Newton. Esme should have realized that but it didn't really matter. Wiping her eyes, she looked up once she felt that she looked decent again - even if she didn't FEEL that way. "I'm terrified of birds." She wanted to hide under the desk.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Rachel looked around as Professor Art joined them. "No, Professor. It's not that.'' She hesitated, not sure she wanted to reveal Esme's fear. That was her friend's decision. The Eagle looked down at her again as she raised her head. The first year contracted her arm around Esme in a comforting squeeze. "All the owls in here are overwhelming her. But I'm right here, Esme, and I won't be far when I go to continue my potion.'' She paused, thinking. "I don't know if you want to or if Professor Art will allow it but you are welcome to levitate your cauldron over to my workstation. Haddie and Sam are nearby and the best thing is none of us brought owls or any birds. We'll keep you company.'' There was no need for Esme to feel overwhelmed by birds when she was surrounded by baby Eagles. They were not real birds after all.
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Leaving the decision about whether Esme would join her or not, Rachel made her way back to her station. She also needed to keep an eye on Haddie. So far her best friend seemed to be doing everything right but that was as far as Rachel had witnessed while she had not been working on her potion or had been over by Esme.

The first year took one of the syringes and carefully measured out half a millimeter of wormwood essence into it. Then she added it to the cauldron. She decided she would keep the syringe for her kit since the Professor didn't mind if they did. She left it on her desk in one corner for now. She would clean it later because right now, she needed to move on to the next step.

"Aahhhhhhhh," Art said, nodding slowly in understanding. He looked around the class, noticing all of the owls. He hadn't taken into consideration his students fears. "W-well you can uhh... well... WE can help you move to Miss. Watson's area or... or you can come and join me up the front. There's only Madame Curie up there." No birds.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackboard

Method
1. Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature
2. Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up
3. Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron
4. Simmer for a further 3 minutes
5. Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise
6. Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron.
7. Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment
8. Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron.
9. Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise
10. Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron
11. Stir slowly for three minutes, clockwise, and then leave the potion to simmer for ten minutes.
12. Add one measure of your animal’s fur or, if a toad, a gentle scraping from head, down the body with your metal stirrer, then stir three times into the cauldron. Only two individual hairs needed for a rat or a cat, and for an owl, cut the tip of one feather, OR stroke your owl until a small feather separates from the owl (do NOT pluck the feather). Stir with wooden stirrer three times clockwise, and leave for six minutes to simmer.
13. Scoop out the liquid into your phials and discard the stewed ingredients.
14. Drink one 10ml phial of potion and let the potion set in until you start to sense your animal speaking to you.

"Right," Art said, up the front of the class, after having added the paste of lacewing flies, water and honey to his cauldron. "Next we need to be a bit patient and stir our potion slowly for three minutes, clockwise. There's no exact need to time each stir, but about... hmmm, oh it should take about 8 seconds per stir." He picked up his wooden stirrer, set his timer for three minutes and said "Go!" and commenced his own stirring, approximating the 8 seconds per stir, and making sure he went clockwise. All the while, he kept his eyes on the classroom, checking that everything was going okay. No explosions or tears.

When the timer went off, he took his stirrer out, placed it down, and put his timer back for ten minutes. "Now we wait ten minutes," he said with a chuckle. "A lot of waiting with this one I'm afraid. But... but this time we can uhh, we can start to-to clean up our things, the ingredients you've already used, if you have spare you can bring them back to the front, or clean your equipment or...or write some notes." He shrugged. Whatever they wanted to do. Art commenced a quick tidy up of his desk, making sure everything was organised so that his students knew where things went. "When you've done that, it's time to prepare some of your animal. Now, with our fury friends, the rats, cats, and ferrets, we only need two individual hairs. What I like to do is wet my hand a bit, and give Madame Curie a bit of a pet. Quite often, some stray hairs stick to it," he said, running his hand under the tap of water, shaking off the excess, and giving his dear a little pet. His hand came away with a few stray hairs, and he gathered two, and put them down on a dish, and washed his hands to get rid of the other hairs. "Now with the owls, you can either give them a stroke to see if any small feathers come away, or you can get some scissors or something and cut the tip of a feather off. Just the hairs, not the... the... stem," they didn't really need that bit. "And for our frogs and toads, we just get our metal stirrer, and with the flat section, we give them a VERY GENTLE stroke, from the top of their head to the bottom of their body, and we stir that into the cauldron. Once the ten minutes are done. Now... for our hedgehog... perhaps we can try to get a small sample of hairs from their belly?" he scratched his chin. They had hair on their belly, didn't they?

The timer went off after 10 minutes, and Art added the hair of Madame Curie to the cauldron. "Now we add our animal specimen, and stir three times, clockwise," which he did, then set the timer for another six minutes. "And we wait, six minutes. This is the last step before we bottle our potion. It's just going to simmer, concentrate a little. In, uhh, in the mean time, you can pack up everything else, besides a scooper and your phials." He started packing up what other things he had out, until everything was easily organised and ready to put away. Once the timer went off, he picked up his scooper and carefully spooned it into his phials. "Now we want to have approximately 10 millilitres of the potion each time we use it, so use your measuring tools to get a sample out. Don't scoop the stewed ingredients, we can throw those away. We just want the liquid. And then, once you're done, you can clean your cauldrons and we can... well, we can try our potions!" he said, excitedly.

OOC: That's the last bit of the potion! 2-3 posts. The remainder of the lesson will be your students trying out the potion, but that won't be for marks, just for fun and RPs. So stick around if you want to, otherwise thank you for coming! I'll be closing the class in about 48 hours (so feel free to do your catch up posts), but we're still around and will make some posts in the mean time <3

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Jessiqua Poltergeist Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Gallifrey Posts: 38,050 x9	Sassenach \| RAVENPUFF \| Sing me a song of a lass that is gone \| bookDRAGON \| #awkwardturtle<# SPOILER!!: Esme and Rachel Quote: Originally Posted by Squishy Esme could hear Rachel approaching, but didn't look up. She didn't want to be seen right now because she was crying. She hated people seeing her cry if she could help it. The only exception was her sister; Juno was the exception when it came to a lot of things. Instead of answering the question, she merely nodded. It was definitely the owls. Of course she would have attracted the attention of Professor Newton. Esme should have realized that but it didn't really matter. Wiping her eyes, she looked up once she felt that she looked decent again - even if she didn't FEEL that way. "I'm terrified of birds." She wanted to hide under the desk. Quote: Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Rachel looked around as Professor Art joined them. "No, Professor. It's not that.'' She hesitated, not sure she wanted to reveal Esme's fear. That was her friend's decision. The Eagle looked down at her again as she raised her head. The first year contracted her arm around Esme in a comforting squeeze. "All the owls in here are overwhelming her. But I'm right here, Esme, and I won't be far when I go to continue my potion.'' She paused, thinking. "I don't know if you want to or if Professor Art will allow it but you are welcome to levitate your cauldron over to my workstation. Haddie and Sam are nearby and the best thing is none of us brought owls or any birds. We'll keep you company.'' There was no need for Esme to feel overwhelmed by birds when she was surrounded by baby Eagles. They were not real birds after all. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Leaving the decision about whether Esme would join her or not, Rachel made her way back to her station. She also needed to keep an eye on Haddie. So far her best friend seemed to be doing everything right but that was as far as Rachel had witnessed while she had not been working on her potion or had been over by Esme. The first year took one of the syringes and carefully measured out half a millimeter of wormwood essence into it. Then she added it to the cauldron. She decided she would keep the syringe for her kit since the Professor didn't mind if they did. She left it on her desk in one corner for now. She would clean it later because right now, she needed to move on to the next step. "Aahhhhhhhh," Art said, nodding slowly in understanding. He looked around the class, noticing all of the owls. He hadn't taken into consideration his students fears. "W-well you can uhh... well... WE can help you move to Miss. Watson's area or... or you can come and join me up the front. There's only Madame Curie up there." No birds. ++++ Quote: Originally Posted by Blackboard Method 1. Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature 2. Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up 3. Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron 4. Simmer for a further 3 minutes 5. Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise 6. Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron. 7. Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment 8. Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron. 9. Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise 10. Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron 11. Stir slowly for three minutes, clockwise, and then leave the potion to simmer for ten minutes. 12. Add one measure of your animal’s fur or, if a toad, a gentle scraping from head, down the body with your metal stirrer, then stir three times into the cauldron. Only two individual hairs needed for a rat or a cat, and for an owl, cut the tip of one feather, OR stroke your owl until a small feather separates from the owl (do NOT pluck the feather). Stir with wooden stirrer three times clockwise, and leave for six minutes to simmer. 13. Scoop out the liquid into your phials and discard the stewed ingredients. 14. Drink one 10ml phial of potion and let the potion set in until you start to sense your animal speaking to you. "Right," Art said, up the front of the class, after having added the paste of lacewing flies, water and honey to his cauldron. "Next we need to be a bit patient and stir our potion slowly for three minutes, clockwise. There's no exact need to time each stir, but about... hmmm, oh it should take about 8 seconds per stir." He picked up his wooden stirrer, set his timer for three minutes and said "Go!" and commenced his own stirring, approximating the 8 seconds per stir, and making sure he went clockwise. All the while, he kept his eyes on the classroom, checking that everything was going okay. No explosions or tears. When the timer went off, he took his stirrer out, placed it down, and put his timer back for ten minutes. "Now we wait ten minutes," he said with a chuckle. "A lot of waiting with this one I'm afraid. But... but this time we can uhh, we can start to-to clean up our things, the ingredients you've already used, if you have spare you can bring them back to the front, or clean your equipment or...or write some notes." He shrugged. Whatever they wanted to do. Art commenced a quick tidy up of his desk, making sure everything was organised so that his students knew where things went. "When you've done that, it's time to prepare some of your animal. Now, with our fury friends, the rats, cats, and ferrets, we only need two individual hairs. What I like to do is wet my hand a bit, and give Madame Curie a bit of a pet. Quite often, some stray hairs stick to it," he said, running his hand under the tap of water, shaking off the excess, and giving his dear a little pet. His hand came away with a few stray hairs, and he gathered two, and put them down on a dish, and washed his hands to get rid of the other hairs. "Now with the owls, you can either give them a stroke to see if any small feathers come away, or you can get some scissors or something and cut the tip of a feather off. Just the hairs, not the... the... stem," they didn't really need that bit. "And for our frogs and toads, we just get our metal stirrer, and with the flat section, we give them a VERY GENTLE stroke, from the top of their head to the bottom of their body, and we stir that into the cauldron. Once the ten minutes are done. Now... for our hedgehog... perhaps we can try to get a small sample of hairs from their belly?" he scratched his chin. They had hair on their belly, didn't they? The timer went off after 10 minutes, and Art added the hair of Madame Curie to the cauldron. "Now we add our animal specimen, and stir three times, clockwise," which he did, then set the timer for another six minutes. "And we wait, six minutes. This is the last step before we bottle our potion. It's just going to simmer, concentrate a little. In, uhh, in the mean time, you can pack up everything else, besides a scooper and your phials." He started packing up what other things he had out, until everything was easily organised and ready to put away. Once the timer went off, he picked up his scooper and carefully spooned it into his phials. "Now we want to have approximately 10 millilitres of the potion each time we use it, so use your measuring tools to get a sample out. Don't scoop the stewed ingredients, we can throw those away. We just want the liquid. And then, once you're done, you can clean your cauldrons and we can... well, we can try our potions!" he said, excitedly. OOC: That's the last bit of the potion! 2-3 posts. The remainder of the lesson will be your students trying out the potion, but that won't be for marks, just for fun and RPs. So stick around if you want to, otherwise thank you for coming! I'll be closing the class in about 48 hours (so feel free to do your catch up posts), but we're still around and will make some posts in the mean time <3 __________________ EVASIVE \| RESTLESS \| MISUNDERSTOOD always on the move