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Erindipity · 06-17-2017, 11:31 PM

When Dora pushed the door she had not seen the scroll there, but jumped back when it clattered to the ground, wand trained on it, light illuminating it. Calm down, girl. It was just a SCROLL. Not a TROLL. Although sometimes she felt like the creators of the challenges were definitely trolling her. Har har.

Frowning slightly, the blonde girl bent to pick the scroll up before moving just inside the shack. Okay, so maybe there wasn't going to be some big magical showdown with this challenge, but that didn't mean that she was going to put her wand away. Eyes scanning the area she moved inside the first room, that was clearly the dining area? OH FOR THE LOVE OF MERLIN WHAT WAS THAT SMELL?! Dora gagged for a moment before flicking her wand, thus extinguishing the light, cast Finite on herself to lift the supersensory charm, and then cast a bubble head charm right after. For the love of all things Merlin her eyes were still watering from that funk. After a moment of getting her bearings about herself the blonde cast Lumos again and moved away from the dining area and toward the sofa and such. She needed a table to lay the scroll out on.

Once she had it out and was able to read the entirety of the riddle, she began to reread it immediately afterward. Clues. Key words. Anything that would be helpful. Some things had already jumped out at her, but she needed to be sure. And she was going to need to formulate a plan of attack, so to speak. Focus on one item at a time, for sure.

And one of the clues at the end jumped right out at her. She needed to go upstairs first. High then low. So she surmised that the first item was located upstairs. Rolling up the scroll she tucked it under her arm and made her way to the stairs... hoping they were safe and would hold her weight. NOT THAT SHE WAS HEAVY. Hmph. Moving along with less trepidation she let her eyes sweep the area as she approached said stairs, noticing not only the thick layer of dust on everything, but also the odds and ends laying about. Discarded parchment caught her attention, but she kept moving along. A broken mirror here, a broken sneakoscope there. She would have to come back here once the challenge was over and really give the place a once over. Or twice over for that matter.

But back to the matter at hand.

Putting one foot on the bottom step she moved to place her weight on it and bounced a bit. Safe enough. Safe as it was gonna be. Besides, it wasn't Hogwarts with the disappearing steps and such, right? Paranoia was NOT going to keep her from moving on. Besides, she had a wand and a BASIC knowledge of injuries and healing and such. So what could it hurt? Now picking up her pace, she began to take the steps two at a time, quickly getting to the top and entering the little foyer type area facing a set of doors. Okay. Nothing sinister here... unless you counted the random array of bugs moving about when her light illuminated the area. ACK! Even for a girl with a tarantula as a pet, she didn't dig that type of bug. The creepy crawly, dirty kind.

Keys, score, piano. That was what she kept repeating in her head. Over and over as she moved through the doors and sure enough... there was a decrepit old thing that was once a piano. A whole piano anyway. Now it was dirty and gross and looked a bit worse for wear. Eyes sweeping the area she moved over to the instrument and ran her finger over a key experimentally.

Now was anything going to happen?!

Not really waiting for it, Dora looked around for a light of some sort... Other than her wand, seeing as she was going to need both hands for this. Sighing to herself she flicked her wand, pulled her hand back, and flicked again as she spoke, "Lumos Maxima." The girl threw the light up above her and set the scroll on the pianos bench. LAMP! She loved lamps. Especially old ones like those littering the shack. Even if they were dirty and gross. Moving quickly she made her way to the two she saw and clicked them on before moving back to the piano and her scroll.

Reading over it again she frowned once more. The girl literally knew how to play ONE song on the piano... and she wasn't very good at that. But it didn't seem, by what she was reading, that she had to literally play a SONG, just hit some of the keys? She hoped so anyway...

Tucking her wand up her sleeve into its holster (WHICH SHE WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT DOING BTW) she cracked her knuckles nervously before moving in front of the broken down old piano bench and letting her fingers lay out on the keys... the ones that were there anyway. And then... she hit a few random ones and waited.

DID IT WORK?

DID SHE WIN?

06-17-2017, 11:31 PM	#12 (permalink)
Erindipity DMT Mountain Troll Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 23,573 x8	When Dora pushed the door she had not seen the scroll there, but jumped back when it clattered to the ground, wand trained on it, light illuminating it. Calm down, girl. It was just a SCROLL. Not a TROLL. Although sometimes she felt like the creators of the challenges were definitely trolling her. Har har. Frowning slightly, the blonde girl bent to pick the scroll up before moving just inside the shack. Okay, so maybe there wasn't going to be some big magical showdown with this challenge, but that didn't mean that she was going to put her wand away. Eyes scanning the area she moved inside the first room, that was clearly the dining area? OH FOR THE LOVE OF MERLIN WHAT WAS THAT SMELL?! Dora gagged for a moment before flicking her wand, thus extinguishing the light, cast Finite on herself to lift the *supersensory charm, and then cast a bubble head charm* right after. For the love of all things Merlin her eyes were still watering from that funk. After a moment of getting her bearings about herself the blonde cast Lumos again and moved away from the dining area and toward the sofa and such. She needed a table to lay the scroll out on. Once she had it out and was able to read the entirety of the riddle, she began to reread it immediately afterward. Clues. Key words. Anything that would be helpful. Some things had already jumped out at her, but she needed to be sure. And she was going to need to formulate a plan of attack, so to speak. Focus on one item at a time, for sure. And one of the clues at the end jumped right out at her. She needed to go upstairs first. High then low. So she surmised that the first item was located upstairs. Rolling up the scroll she tucked it under her arm and made her way to the stairs... hoping they were safe and would hold her weight. NOT THAT SHE WAS HEAVY. Hmph. Moving along with less trepidation she let her eyes sweep the area as she approached said stairs, noticing not only the thick layer of dust on everything, but also the odds and ends laying about. Discarded parchment caught her attention, but she kept moving along. A broken mirror here, a broken sneakoscope there. She would have to come back here once the challenge was over and really give the place a once over. Or twice over for that matter. But back to the matter at hand. Putting one foot on the bottom step she moved to place her weight on it and bounced a bit. Safe enough. Safe as it was gonna be. Besides, it wasn't Hogwarts with the disappearing steps and such, right? Paranoia was NOT going to keep her from moving on. Besides, she had a wand and a BASIC knowledge of injuries and healing and such. So what could it hurt? Now picking up her pace, she began to take the steps two at a time, quickly getting to the top and entering the little foyer type area facing a set of doors. Okay. Nothing sinister here... unless you counted the random array of bugs moving about when her light illuminated the area. ACK! Even for a girl with a tarantula as a pet, she didn't dig that type of bug. The creepy crawly, dirty kind. Keys, score, piano. That was what she kept repeating in her head. Over and over as she moved through the doors and sure enough... there was a decrepit old thing that was once a piano. A whole piano anyway. Now it was dirty and gross and looked a bit worse for wear. Eyes sweeping the area she moved over to the instrument and ran her finger over a key experimentally. Now was anything going to happen?! Not really waiting for it, Dora looked around for a light of some sort... Other than her wand, seeing as she was going to need both hands for this. Sighing to herself she flicked her wand, pulled her hand back, and flicked again as she spoke, "Lumos Maxima." The girl threw the light up above her and set the scroll on the pianos bench. LAMP! She loved lamps. Especially old ones like those littering the shack. Even if they were dirty and gross. Moving quickly she made her way to the two she saw and clicked them on before moving back to the piano and her scroll. Reading over it again she frowned once more. The girl literally knew how to play ONE song on the piano... and she wasn't very good at that. But it didn't seem, by what she was reading, that she had to literally play a SONG, just hit some of the keys? She hoped so anyway... Tucking her wand up her sleeve into its holster (WHICH SHE WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT DOING BTW) she cracked her knuckles nervously before moving in front of the broken down old piano bench and letting her fingers lay out on the keys... the ones that were there anyway. And then... she hit a few random ones and waited. DID IT WORK? DID SHE WIN?