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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Calvin Fletcher
Graduated |  Typed this all up then lost it T_T I’m right, you’re wrong. They don’t call me a Seer for nothing.
SPOILER!!: Replies SPOILER!!: Ms. Queen Quote:
Originally Posted by 2111jen  Skyler nodded. He did have a point but she had forgot to mention the other part of her answer. She figured she should at least try and defend her answer. You could enchant the cieling to have a full moon. But, he had already moved on to the next question. Perhaps she would tell him her explanation after class. For now....
After Skyler had went up to get a bow an quiver of arrows, she put the quiver around her shoulders and held the bow firmly with her left hand as she got back to her spot. She then raised her right hand.
"Professor," Skyler said. "Belomamcy was used a lot ij ancient wars. The Roman soldiers would shoot the arrows up in the air and see which way the arrow would lean as it flew." “Very good, Ms. Queen.” The man replied. Whether in direct reply to her response or to the fact she managed to pay attention in this midst of the rising disruption was unclear but whatever the case, it was a good response all the same. “Usually used as a means of discerning the direction that needed to be taken.” SPOILER!!: Ms. Swann Quote:
Originally Posted by Ginevra Daisy went over to the table laden with bows and quivers full of arrows and grabbed a quiver and bow before making her way back to where she had been standing prior. As she strapped the quiver about her shoulder and held her bow firmly, Daisy thought of her answer then slowly raised her left hand.
"In one form of belomancy, most of the arrows have an answer tied to them with I think some being blank and after being shuffled in a quiver, the first arrow drawn is the indicator." “Correct, Ms. Swann.” He nodded confirmation of as much. The fact it would be one of two forms done in just a little while didn’t need to be said just yet. SPOILER!!: Ms. McKinley Quote:
Originally Posted by sarahlooo
She wasn't sure why she expected him to NOT slam the door. She jumped just a tad when it shut and stopped mid-stride. She felt anger bubble up inside her as he spoke to her, her skin prickling. She turned to look at him while he lectured her about school. School? He called this a school? It felt like Azkaban. And he was a dementor, sucking her SOUL out.
But he gave her options.
Option 1 was to do the push ups and return her attention to the lesson. Option 2 was to run extra long tomorrow morning. Which meant she would miss breakfast, yes... But you know what? Natalie was feeling salty today.
"This is not a school anymore. It's a prison." she fired back, her hands shaking with fear because she had N E V E R spoken to a figure of authority in this way before. Maybe it was because she was on edge with her latest fallout with Derf, but she was finding it hard to keep herself together. "I kindly accept your second offer." She couldn't leave, but since he had offered... she was going to NOT participate in the lesson. And probably run for five hours tomorrow morning. Which she would regret as soon as she woke up tomorrow morning.
As for detention, well... There was a first time for everything.
Calvin took a very DEEP and deliberate breath before giving any further response to this one. It didn’t matter what the girl thought this place was, he had. He had a lesson to continue and wouldn’t waste the time arguing it with her. There would be plenty of time to decide what this school was or wasn’t in detention. This was not the time nor the place and the time was ticking. Rather than further indulge the disrespectful girl, the man gave her a severe look. “Come up and collect a bow and a quiver of arrows, Ms. McKinley. I won’t be telling you a third time.” He warned darkly.
Whatever reason the girl chose to rebel were her own but the lesson hadn’t ended and he’d given instructions. While she remained in the lesson, she would follow these instructions. It was that simple. SPOILER!!: Ms. Calrissian Quote:
Originally Posted by lazykitty See, this was why Archer was wearing her rebellion on her back, as it was (yes, the sequin phoenix was still there). Fletcher either hadn't noticed, as he was at the front of the room, or had realized that taking her blazer from her would not only cause her to be breaking the rule about uniforms (well, more than she was) but be causing a scene. And speaking of scenes, Mt. McKinley over there was surprising her right now. After all, the Ravenclaw had been seeming to follow all the rules like a good little girl.
Anyway, Archer got up and fetched a bow and quiver, not at all worried about the professor seeing the sequin phoenix on her back. See, in addition to the whole 'scene' thing, she had charmed her blazer with a spell that would give whoever tried to remove either the phoenix or her blazer by magic or any other means (other than herself, of course) a rather nasty shock (something she had learned at Illvermorny). Slinging the quiver over her shoulder and holding on to her bow as instructed, she returned to her seat.
As for the question...? "Honestly? I think its a rather foolish way to go about getting answers. I mean, how far the arrow travels is rather arbitrary." she answered with a hint of amusement.
The shiny pattern on the back of this one’s robes was proof enough she too was trying to test his patience. While he hadn’t seen it at first, it was now very hard to miss as the girl turned to head back to her spot. Once again, he would not turn this into a big show or any sort or cause it to become further distraction. It was a deliberate alteration of the uniform, defacing it and this wasn’t allowed. “We both know you’re aware that pattern is in violation of the rules, Ms. Calrissian. You, too will be serving detention. Remove it now.” This wasn’t a suggestion, he would give her a moment in which to do so. SPOILER!!: Ms. Carden Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterloo Woah.
Was Natalie going to just……. walk out of class?
Apparently, Fletcher wasn’t going to let her get away that easily, and Max watched the whole exchange with raised eyebrows, surprised at Nat’s blatant act of defiance. Was it bravery or stupidity? He wasn’t sure, but he was impressed for sure.
He was also impressed with the sudden appearance of the table of bow and arrows because HELLO bow and arrows were crazy cool.
“Are there targets, Sir? Are we gonna get to shoot the arrows?” Max asked enthusiastically as he moved toward the table and collected a bow and quiver. He was so excited he temporarily forgot how intimidating Fletcher was.
“Focus on the question at hand, Mr. Carden.” Said firmly but not unkindly. There had been enough distraction this lesson without the students becoming themselves distracted with other aspects of the lesson yet to be announced. “But no, there won’t be any targets for today’s activity.” SPOILER!!: Ms. Gladin Quote:
Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom
It was very comforting to see the older Slytherin girl standing up for herself as well. Nettie knew she wasn't the only one who had been irritated with these stupid rules, and they were getting worse by the day. It made her feel more sure in her own actions to see someone else standing up to him.
When it came to her necklace, she knew that he was going to take it - although she admittedly had not expected the man to literally accio it off of her neck. She hoped the clasp hadn't been broken, but that could be fixed - it was a small price to pay for her little act of defiance. Heart beating even faster, she stayed firmly where she was, watching him turn the necklace over in his hands a few times as she picked her next words carefully.
"With all due respect, Professor," she resisted the urge to practically spit that last word at him, "How is my necklace a distraction? How is ANY jewelry a distraction? Also, that's my personal property. It was a gift. Why do you and the Headmaster feel you can take my personal stuff from me?" she asked. She was completely ignoring the lesson now. This particular form of Divination seemed weird to begin with - if she got kicked out of class like the older girl, she wouldn't be particularly upset.
She was playing with fire and she knew it. Goodbye points. Goodbye freedom. She'd had enough of this though. Would anything come of this? Probably not. Could she be a bit of an annoyance to the professor and make his life a bit harder in the meantime? Yup. Definitely. Her brothers didn't call her a firecracker for nothing.
Again, he would not indulge in the defiance and draw it out any further than it had already gone. There would be ample time in detention to get things squared away that wouldn’t remove his time and attention from the work he was trying to do this afternoon. “You fortfeit your necklace the moment you wore it, Ms. Gladin. You have no one to blame for the consequence of your actions but yourself. You’re well aware it’s a violation and wore it all the same. Welcome to the real world where there are consequences. Come collect a bow and quiver of arrows. Like Ms. McKinley, I won’t be telling you again.”
It was mind blowing just how il-formed the brain of some teenagers could still be. Breaking rules with no anticipation for the results of that. It would be one thing if the child knew or expected something of this degree but an entirely different thing entirely when said student believed she was in the right for disobedience.
Actions = consequences. This was still a school last he checked. SPOILER!!: Mr. Hornfield Quote:
Originally Posted by Zekk Alastair walked up to the table and took a quiver and a bow. He wondered why some of the other students were acting up. Sure the teacher was strict, but it was school and in school you listened to the teacher. And unfortunately, one was a Ravenclaw, meaning their points lead might be in danger.
"I know there are several different ways to use arrows. Sometimes the arrows are tossed and how the incline is the omen, another is to mark the arrows then mix them in a quiver and pull one out." Alastair answered. Judging by the bow, they were going to be shooting arrows! “Correct, Mr. Hornfield. Like Ms. Swann started earlier, there is a branch that involves pulling arrows from the quiver to gain a response. The direction the arrow falls is another. Some positions are linked to noticeably good omens and similarly there are those with negative meanings attached.” SPOILER!!: Mr. Katharos Quote:
Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi By now, Dorian was completely unfazed by the detentions given out to his fellow students. Although, Nettie's necklace incident did caught his attention because one. She was in his House and two. He felt bad for her.
He also had a piece of jewelry that he had gotten from his father, his real father. It was a silver ring with a big black stone in the middle. But it was currently in his trunk in the dormitory because of the stupid rules.
He wanted to help her out but he knew that by doing so he would only get himself in to trouble and Ravenclaw as well. So he kept his mouth shut, his jaw clenching as he fought to not say a piece of his mind and quietly walked over to grab a bow and quiver.
Strapping the quiver around his shoulder and holding the bow in his hand, Dorian walked back to where he last stood and raised his free hand in the air. "apart from it commonly being known as Belomancy, it is also known as bolomancy and Sortes Saggita......ehm.." he blanked out...
Had the man been paying less attention he may not have noticed the boy’s sentence trailing off, but he had and it caught his attention. “Yes, Mr. Katharos?” Did he intend to conclude his sentence? SPOILER!!: Ms. Cambridge Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo Oh for the love of Merlin.
Jessa grimaced, her stomach twisting uncomfortably while she watched several of her classmates test the man’s already limited patience. When it wasn’t the professors breaking rules and trying to draw them into it to make her nerves bad, it was her classmates deciding they needed to do all....this. It wasn’t that hard to keep one’s head down and the results of those spoke for themselves. You got left alone.
Jessa had seen what happened to the nails that stood out more than once. These were small scale individual rebellions. Alone they would achieve nothing more than punishment they could’ve otherwise quite easily avoided.
The Ravenclaw never liked making waves. She did not like attention. She did not like standing out. How they could throw themselves out there like that on their own was beyond her.
“I think objectively speaking, it could be an accurate means of discerning answers. The answers written on the arrows aren’t arbitrary. They either are or aren’t, unlike reading symbols in flames or tea leaves or the like where the image might change depending on who’s looking at it. Makes misinterpretation much harder.”
Just gonna....try to ignore the chaos and remember to breathe. Not your problem, Cambridge. That note specifically said in lessons, the professors were in charge of discipline.
Not her problem. “A good point, Ms. Cambridge. Having precise answers does remove the margin of error where interpretations is concerned.” He was ready to move on.
Just a quick recap as I’d like to hope you’ve all done the necessary readings by now.” He didn’t give reading assignments for them to be disregarded. They weren’t “technically not homework” that didn’t need to be completed. They provided insight and information that would be useful during lessons and prevented him having to spend an incredible amount of time going into great detail about things they should already know. “Like many other branches of divination, belomancy was practiced by ancient societies, most notably the Babylonians, Greeks, Arabs, Assyrians and Scythians.” He assumed they already knew this. The arrows typically have sacred markings on them and feathers at the end opposite the tip as you can see here.” Calvin picked up a spare arrow, holding it out for them to see as theirs were currently hung at their backs and he didn’t need the unnecessary shuffling about. “You may more closely inspect them when the activity begins. One means of performing belomancy, as Ms. Swann and Mr. Hornfield mentioned, involves writing answers and tying them to the arrows then drawing them from the quiver. The first arrow drawn is the answer. Another involves again tying answers to the arrows but this time shooting them. The arrow that flies the furthest is the answer. The answers should be clear. In ancient times answers such as “God wills it”, “God forbids it” and a third being blank were among the most used. If the arrow that flew the furthest was the blank arrow, it meant the reader was required to wait for a response from the gods and would have to perform the reading again at a later time.”
He replaced the arrow with the others at the table. “We’ll begin with the first method we’ll be practising today. I’d like everyone to think of a question or concern. Write three responses but have a fourth left blank. Concentrate on the question. Let it flow freely through your mind. When you feel you’ve gotten the right focus and a clear enough mind, reach into the quiver of now four arrows and draw an arrow.” He gestured to the table. “There’s parchment up here you may rip into smaller pieces for use should you have left your own.” A concession as he didn’t want to hear any excuses of anyone not being prepared for the lesson. “Begin.” OOC: Sooooo this was meant to be up hours ago but I ended up losing the whole post and having to retype it all. This is the first part of the practical Fletcher has planned. The students will think of a question, write three answers but leave a fourth blank. Leaving only those four arrows in the quiver, they will draw to get the answer. I’d like this done in 2 posts. You have until Wednesday at 9 am EST. If you’ve got any questions feel free to send a PM!
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Last edited by Calvin Fletcher; 10-15-2018 at 11:28 PM.
Reason: Got my days mixed up >_<
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