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kayquilz · 10-03-2017, 08:51 PM

SPOILER!!: CALM DOWN ISA

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Originally Posted by griffin

Yeah, a lot of bad things happened to Odysseus and his crew. It took Odysseus a whole ten years to get home to his faithful wife Penelope. He had already been gone for a long time before the journey home, so the total amount of time away from home was more like twenty years. That was a crazy long time, even longer than Isa had been alive. Shocking, really, that it could take anyone ten years to travel a distance that wasn’t actually very far. A lot of crazy stuff happened to Odysseus on his journey home, and he was the lucky one who survived.

Huh, so the lotus was just a persimmon. Isa had eaten persimmons before and had definitely not experienced any effects like forgetting everything so she obviously hadn’t been eating the magical kind. That was a good thing. Wouldn’t want to forget everything that was important to her like her family, friends, and plants.

”Is the effect of the lotus sort of like a daydream charm or something that makes you think that everything else isn’t real?” Earlier when she walked in she had thought it was something that made people have hallucinations but that didn’t quite explain why the men in the Odyssey lost all desire for everything except eating more lotus fruit. It sounded like a terrible life, just eating lotus fruit all day and forgetting all about everything else. They had even lost their desire to go home to their families, and that sounded like the scariest thing ever. Isa never wanted to forget how important her family, friends, and plants were to her.

The magical lotus fruit made you lose focus of your other desires. Sounded sort of dangerous. At least there was an antidote for it as Professor Myers had told them about. Seemed like the sort of thing that was addicting, making you want more of the fruit and nothing else. Even so, Isa was curious about testing the effects in a controlled environment for science. There was an antidote, so she wouldn’t have to be stuck eating the fruit forever. She wouldn’t want to try it if it would leave her that way forever. ”Do the effects of the fruit wear off after time if you don’t eat more or don’t take the antidote?” Could she do more research about this with Professor Myers? "I'm interested in trying it for science with you! With all proper safety precautions and stuff of course." Was she allowed to participate in that? She would invite Jessa Cambridge too.

Oooh, some of the lotus were magical and some were non-magical. How did you tell the difference between the two? What had Professor Myers said about only some of the fruit being magical? Was he saying that one tree could produce both magical and nonmagical fruit? ”Can some of the fruit on one tree be magical and some non-magical, or are the trees fully magical or nonmagical? Why?” If Professor Myers had indeed said what she thought he said and only some of the fruit on one tree was magical, that was so weird. Why did that happen? Isa needed to do more research about this. She took notes on everything that Professor Myers was saying, wrote her questions in her notes, and marked which areas she wanted to research more about. This sounded like a very interesting topic.

There was still the question of how exactly you were supposed to tell the difference between a perfectly safe mundane persimmon fruit that could be eaten and a potentially dangerous magical one that could make her forget everything unless someone gave her the antidote. Isa listened intently as Professor Myers explained how magic always left a trace and the special spell that could be used to tell when plants had magical properties. She took notes on everything the herbology professor was saying and noted the long and shortened versions of the incantation. This was amazing! How had she been living her life before without this spell? ”Does the spell indicate what sort of magical properties the plant has? If not, do you know if such a spell exists?” Or was it purely for distinguishing magical and nonmagical? A spell that could indicate what the magical properties might be sounded like something that could really benefit herbology research. Isa made a note to research more about a spell that indicated what the magical properties of a plant were, and that somebody should invent one if it did not already exist.

Time to practice this amazing, life-changing spell that was probably the coolest thing ever. Isa started off by practicing saying the incantation just right. ”Naturaba Revelio! Naturaba Revelio! Naturaba Revelio!” She tried the long form of the incantion for fun too. ”Natura herba revelio! Natura herba revelio! Natura herba revelio!” It would work with both versions of the incantation, right? The short version was much easier to say though. That was why the simplified form existed in the first place. Isa practiced the wand movement separate from the incantation, flicking her wand towards the plant. Flick, flick, flick. ”Does the spell work for both the whole plant and specific parts of the plant?” How would they distinguish if they wanted it to be for the whole plant or just a part? Did it do the whole plant anyway and just indicate the magical parts? How did the plants work if they were only part magical?

So far they hadn’t actually tried the spell on the fruits, but Isa was eager to find out what would indicate a magical plant. ”What are the applications for this spell? Can it be used to find magical properties in plants that were previously thought to be a mundane variety?” Like the weeping willow they had learned about last term where the magical properties had recently been discovered? That was the sort of stuff that mum was interested in, finding magical properties in mundane plants and crossbreeding them with magical plants to get certain properties. Isa would have to write to mum to ask her more questions.

Paul shot Isa a quizzical look at her first question about the fruit being like a daydream charm. "No...no, I would say not. Think of it like this...it...it reroutes your brain to literally only think about eating more fruit. The other stuff, like memories and other desires, are there....just pushed aside, in the back." He smiled though. But then...

SHE HAD A WHOLE SLEW OF QUESTIONS that Paul had no time to answer them all!

"Oh, absolutely not....you will NOT be trying them with me. Too dangerous, kiddo," he patted her head, though. "And I can answer all of those questions but you asked so MANY that I request to answer them later. At a later date, you know." Like, tomorrow, please, when his brain was not as crazy.

Because...whew.

SPOILER!!: Derf #1

"MR. DERFAEL, THEY WILL NOT MASSACRE YOU. These trees only eat sunlight, thank you," he said in an exasperated tone.

And the boy eating the fruit, so far, was going unnoticed by the fox-haired man.

SPOILER!!: Julie

Paul turned to look at Julie rapidly. "Yes, m'dear?" he asked gently as he approached the young snake. "You okay? You look as if you've seen a banshee." Which would make anyone look like that, okay? Paul could live his entire life without seeing one and be okay. He would die happily.

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kayquilz Granian Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Bikini Bottom Posts: 21,185 Hogwarts RPG Name: Roman Gellar Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Arden Toros Gryffindor Sixth Year x4 x1	A Poop * k8 * SPOILER!!: CALM DOWN ISA Quote: Originally Posted by griffin Yeah, a lot of bad things happened to Odysseus and his crew. It took Odysseus a whole ten years to get home to his faithful wife Penelope. He had already been gone for a long time before the journey home, so the total amount of time away from home was more like twenty years. That was a crazy long time, even longer than Isa had been alive. Shocking, really, that it could take anyone ten years to travel a distance that wasn’t actually very far. A lot of crazy stuff happened to Odysseus on his journey home, and he was the lucky one who survived. Huh, so the lotus was just a persimmon. Isa had eaten persimmons before and had definitely not experienced any effects like forgetting everything so she obviously hadn’t been eating the magical kind. That was a good thing. Wouldn’t want to forget everything that was important to her like her family, friends, and plants. ”Is the effect of the lotus sort of like a daydream charm or something that makes you think that everything else isn’t real?” Earlier when she walked in she had thought it was something that made people have hallucinations but that didn’t quite explain why the men in the Odyssey lost all desire for everything except eating more lotus fruit. It sounded like a terrible life, just eating lotus fruit all day and forgetting all about everything else. They had even lost their desire to go home to their families, and that sounded like the scariest thing ever. Isa never wanted to forget how important her family, friends, and plants were to her. The magical lotus fruit made you lose focus of your other desires. Sounded sort of dangerous. At least there was an antidote for it as Professor Myers had told them about. Seemed like the sort of thing that was addicting, making you want more of the fruit and nothing else. Even so, Isa was curious about testing the effects in a controlled environment for science. There was an antidote, so she wouldn’t have to be stuck eating the fruit forever. She wouldn’t want to try it if it would leave her that way forever. ”Do the effects of the fruit wear off after time if you don’t eat more or don’t take the antidote?” Could she do more research about this with Professor Myers? "I'm interested in trying it for science with you! With all proper safety precautions and stuff of course." Was she allowed to participate in that? She would invite Jessa Cambridge too. Oooh, some of the lotus were magical and some were non-magical. How did you tell the difference between the two? What had Professor Myers said about only some of the fruit being magical? Was he saying that one tree could produce both magical and nonmagical fruit? ”Can some of the fruit on one tree be magical and some non-magical, or are the trees fully magical or nonmagical? Why?” If Professor Myers had indeed said what she thought he said and only some of the fruit on one tree was magical, that was so weird. Why did that happen? Isa needed to do more research about this. She took notes on everything that Professor Myers was saying, wrote her questions in her notes, and marked which areas she wanted to research more about. This sounded like a very interesting topic. There was still the question of how exactly you were supposed to tell the difference between a perfectly safe mundane persimmon fruit that could be eaten and a potentially dangerous magical one that could make her forget everything unless someone gave her the antidote. Isa listened intently as Professor Myers explained how magic always left a trace and the special spell that could be used to tell when plants had magical properties. She took notes on everything the herbology professor was saying and noted the long and shortened versions of the incantation. This was amazing! How had she been living her life before without this spell? ”Does the spell indicate what sort of magical properties the plant has? If not, do you know if such a spell exists?” Or was it purely for distinguishing magical and nonmagical? A spell that could indicate what the magical properties might be sounded like something that could really benefit herbology research. Isa made a note to research more about a spell that indicated what the magical properties of a plant were, and that somebody should invent one if it did not already exist. Time to practice this amazing, life-changing spell that was probably the coolest thing ever. Isa started off by practicing saying the incantation just right. ”Naturaba Revelio! Naturaba Revelio! Naturaba Revelio!” She tried the long form of the incantion for fun too. ”Natura herba revelio! Natura herba revelio! Natura herba revelio!” It would work with both versions of the incantation, right? The short version was much easier to say though. That was why the simplified form existed in the first place. Isa practiced the wand movement separate from the incantation, flicking her wand towards the plant. Flick, flick, flick. ”Does the spell work for both the whole plant and specific parts of the plant?” How would they distinguish if they wanted it to be for the whole plant or just a part? Did it do the whole plant anyway and just indicate the magical parts? How did the plants work if they were only part magical? So far they hadn’t actually tried the spell on the fruits, but Isa was eager to find out what would indicate a magical plant. ”What are the applications for this spell? Can it be used to find magical properties in plants that were previously thought to be a mundane variety?” Like the weeping willow they had learned about last term where the magical properties had recently been discovered? That was the sort of stuff that mum was interested in, finding magical properties in mundane plants and crossbreeding them with magical plants to get certain properties. Isa would have to write to mum to ask her more questions. Paul shot Isa a quizzical look at her first question about the fruit being like a daydream charm. "No...no, I would say not. Think of it like this...it...it reroutes your brain to literally only think about eating more fruit. The other stuff, like memories and other desires, are there....just pushed aside, in the back." He smiled though. But then... SHE HAD A WHOLE SLEW OF QUESTIONS that Paul had no time to answer them all! "Oh, absolutely not....you will NOT be trying them with me. Too dangerous, kiddo," he patted her head, though. "And I can answer all of those questions but you asked so MANY that I request to answer them later. At a later date, you know." Like, tomorrow, please, when his brain was not as crazy. Because...whew. SPOILER!!: Derf #1 Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Nope. He SAW through this, totally. Luring the Hufflepuff into a false sense of security by providing him with the tools to make him THINK he was in control and safe WHEN REALLY... He was going to save him thoughts for now. "If you say so, professor," he nodded in disbelief. Speaking of the professor...there was loads of talking again and the third year simply glanced back and forth between his to Gryffindor friends and his own wand rather than paying full attention. Which, you know, given the way today's lesson was structured probably wasn't the best of ideas. But collecting fruit? He could definitely do that! He was scrambling towards one of the lotus trees before the professor had finished speaking and juuuuuuuuuuuust as he had plucked a fruit from its branches...it was moving. Roots up and out of the ground. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" HE HAD ANGERED THE TREE! He had a fruit in his hand - one that he was waving about haphazardly at the moment as he went running around the greenhouse in a mild panic - BUT THE TREE WAS COMING AFTER HIM TO KILL HIM! "DON'T LET IT MASSACRE MEEEEEEEE!" "MR. DERFAEL, THEY WILL NOT MASSACRE YOU. These trees only eat sunlight, thank you," he said in an exasperated tone. And the boy eating the fruit, so far, was going unnoticed by the fox-haired man. SPOILER!!: Julie Quote: Originally Posted by nicole black Julie wasn't about it. Point blank, she just wasn't. Herbo was... fine, and could be beautiful and interesting and cool, just as long as she wasn't the one doing it. She'd been born with brown thumbs, not green and usually she blustered through as hard as she could but today... She couldn't manage it. Lotus flower. Homer. She ought to have been thrilled, but instead she was.... Dreading in a way that gave no meaning to the word dread. The spell work wasn't the hard part, it was going to be everything after. The thoughts turned and twisted and tumbled down to her gut until she felt nearly ill at the prospect of failing. "Professor!" Julie called out, unable to stop herself. Hand in the air, she had already risen from her seat. Paul turned to look at Julie rapidly. "Yes, m'dear?" he asked gently as he approached the young snake. "You okay? You look as if you've seen a banshee." Which would make anyone look like that, okay? Paul could live his entire life without seeing one and be okay. He would die happily. __________________ "You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough." Roman Gellar ● 1st Year ● Slytherin