After successfully getting through the arched entrance the next place that a visitor to the department of mysteries will come to is the reception area. This is where you will need to wait before an authorised member of the team comes to meet you. There is a reception desk which is manned by the lovely Marley who will make whoever you are visiting aware of your presence.

Whilst you are waiting please feel free to take a seat on one of the two couches which are in this area.



Ooc; Anyone can rp in this thread. Marley is not played by any character so you can play her as you wish.

Well then. Ashby had made a beeline for his department as soon as they had managed to get back in. He wanted to make sure that everything was okay. And he wanted to be the one to do that. Because enough fishy stuff had been going on. Now he'd thought something was up when he had been wandering through the entrance chamber. Something was odd. But he couldn't put his finger on it.

Ashby could tell that things were up when he got into the reception area though. "What on earth..." There were papers all over the place, and had someone eaten bits of the couch. The department head frowned, glancing around. What had happened whilst they couldn't get it?

Edward made his way down from the Minister's office area to his 'new' work level. He'd heard stories, but he wasn't quite ready to see everything in disarray. When he got down there, he saw Mr. Summers taking a look around. He had his hand near his wand, but looked around as well to see what might have made such a mess.

He looked to Mr. Summers. Sir. Anything you'd like me to do?

Ahh. An employee was here. Good Good. Because they kind of needed to tidy things up. Because it was just not good at all. Ashby frowned, pulling his wand up, as he looked around. They may as well start tidying in here. Then they could go and look at the rest of the department. Hopefully it wouldn't be too messed up. Because that would just be rather annoying. Nodding, Ashby turned around to face Edward.

"I think we should just start tidying in here...and then see what the rest of the department looked like." And with that her pointed his wand at some papers, ad collected them in a pile on the counter.

Nomming on a pear slice, Evelyn scoffed softly as she leaned against the entrance doorway to the reception area, taking in the damage of what happened. So so very unhappy. This wasn't what she wanted to deal with on the first day back to work off that awful ship they called their "department". Cleaning. She very much wanted to see if whatever caused this had gotten in her area of the department though.

"Careful, sir." she said, looking towards her boss. "There could be something lurking down here."

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It was the spirit of being efficient and productive, take his word for it when he said that that was the only thing that brought him down to the Department of Mysteries. After the last big fiasco back on the boat he was more than happy to wash his hands of this place and the concepts that came with it. There were some headache inducing people down here. Being the Professional he was Gavin wouldn't let this stop him from handing out the bottles and informing Ashby but a full on conversation was not on the agenda. In all honesty....he'd seen too many people in this one day and wanted nothing more than to withdraw himself back up in his office and pretend for just a fleeting moment that he was the only person in existence. How people went about being social was byond him but he'd hit his quota of people hours ago.

Gavin entered the reception area of level 9 hoping he wouldn't have to go far to find people and by the looks of it, he didn't. The Senior Undersecretary gave a polite nod to everyone present before gesturing to Ashby. "Mr. Summers, a word please?"

Edward began setting on the task at hand. He hadn't really considered much in the way of magic use, as it had appeared to have not been much use up on the Minister's level. He still wasn't quite sure what all had happened to have caused this much havoc, but he didn't really want to find out either. Of course, being a part of the Department of Mysteries, it might be something they'd be called upon to study.

He took a look at the nearest desk and began to straighten out and pick up papers and such that had been strewn about and tidy up. He looked up to see a new person and that arrogant man from the Minister's office that seemed to think himself rather important. This gentleman asked to speak to Mr. Summers and so Edward set back to his task.

Hmmm. Tidy Tidy. Ashby so didn't like tidying. He was a department head. This wasn't in his job description. He turned around as he heard someone. "Hmm?" He mused, glancing at Evelyn. "Oh yes... I'll be careful." He mused, moving the piece of papers up on top of the reception counter. Hopefully the rest of the department wouldn't be as messy as here. Because he would not be an happy department head right then.

Oh. Gavin. Why was here down here? Coming to check on the department again? Very interesting. "Mhm?" He asked, moving from the reception area and over to where Gavin was here. "What brings you down here?"

He caught the stare of the curious Mysteries worker, the one that had insisted on asking him questions that day but he wouldn't have looked away if the man didn't. Gavin was good at holding stares, they didn't bother him much. Just another quirk of humanity as he'd chalked it down to.

His attention was grabbed with Ashby's approach and predictable question. Yes, what was the Senior Undersecretary possibly doing down here during an operation to retake the Ministry. Surely he's up to some form of no good. Has to be. Merlin knows he couldn't possibly be Professional even at a time like this.

Gavin held up the box of spray bottles for the man to see. "Turns out we've got a chizpurfle infestation. Aron had his employees whipped up a potion that should take care of it. We've been handing them out since." He gestured toward the box. "Have some, let your employees start spraying about." Really he wasn't sure how these things worked but that was the basic idea.

Zach caught up with Gavin carrying a backpack with what seems to be canisters of the said potion for the chizpurfle. He looked around and notice the same facade as the ones from above, that is the other Departments.

He's only been here twice in his career in the Ministry, the fact the he finds this Department creepy sums it all up. But it feels a bit creepier this time around than usual, especially because of the infestation.

He approached Gavin and listened as he explained the nature of their trip to Level 9. He then took some sprayer bottle from the backpack and handed it to the Department Head.

An infestation? That was what had caused all of this mess? Ashby frowned a little, glancing around. Not being able to get into the ministry had been one thing. Finding the ministry a mess had been worse, but having an infestation was just not good at all. "Oh.." But there was a cure potion thingy. So it would get sorted? Because they really needed to get back to work here soon. They'd missed enough work time whilst being on that annoying ship. so it just needed to get better, and back to work.

"Well that's fantastic." Because the sooner they got this infestation sorted, the better. "Will do..." He nodded, turning to the other man and taking the bottle. "Thank you." And now to get his employees working.

"Turns out the ministry has an infestation of chizpurfles." He shook his head, approaching the two members of his team. "Level 3 sorted out a potion, to get rid of it... so we just need to spray it around." He mused, motioning the the spray bottle.