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10-17-2017, 12:32 AM
| | Office of the Department Head, Airey Flamsteed
Oval in shape, the office of the Department Head is, in one word, quite sterile. The walls are glistening white and the carpet resembles marble more so than fabric, giving off a ridiculously clean vibe. While he is not exactly obsessive compulsive about cleanliness, Department Head Airey Flamsteed highly values organization and keeps everything in a specific location. Needless to say, if one of his quills is at an odd angle ... he will notice. The cabinets above his desk are nearly invisible against the wall and are filled with all sorts of reference books and historical tomes collected himself. The surface of his desk is mostly empty except for some black screens whose use is unknown and a comfortable looking pillow where the man's pet rocks, Pebbles and Boulder, tend to rest. Beside this is a plant in a unique looking planter.
On the backside of the likewise pearly white door (the main door that is as there are many hidden along the walls here leading to the various Chambers and Rooms within the Department) are a few framed pieces of abstract line and paint splatter artwork that Professor Flamsteed has collected over the years along with a drawing given to him by a former student in a black frame just to the left of another drawing, this one signed, in another black frame. Above these two is yet another large gifted piece of artwork also in a black frame. There is a white sofa up against one of the walls with a pet bed on the floor beside it where Pebbles and Boulder sleep when not sharing the pillow on the desk. To the right of the white sofa and is a white closet where Professor Flamsteed keeps a few freshly pressed suits from his extensive collection, just in case, and to the left of this is a rather impressive looking tie display case. Located opposite of Flamsteed's desk is yet another clear display case, but this one is filled with all sorts of muggle science fiction models. Perhaps the most interesting feature this room boasts are the menagerie of floating magical holographic images - celestial bodies, numbers, equations, figures - whose gentle glow provide the room's lighting.
Access to this office is granted by speaking its name in the main circular rotating room serving as the Entry Chamber to the entire Department. While drop ins are always welcome, the Department Head is a very busy man and prefers that appointments be made prior. Please read the thread description before posting here! This isn't strictly a public thread, but anyone is welcome to have their character knock on the door and assume they have passed through the Entry Chamber.
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The former Gryffindor Head of House was not sure what sort of response he expected from the young man, but it certainly was not that. From Head Boy to...gift shop owner and manager? If someone had told the man years ago that all that ambition and potential would accumulate to this moment...he would have told them - in far more eloquent terms - to go suck an egg.
".........the gift shop," he repeated, disbelief clear in his knotted brow. Though what came next, well, THAT had far more promise and seemed far more fitting from what he had observed over the years. "If you can handle three Flamsteeds at once, you can handle quite a bit when it comes to early childhood development and child care," he mused, recalling just how much his children had put him and his............................................... ....companion through. "You know, Mr. Adair. I always saw in you the spark of education. I do not necessarily mean professorship." As in returning to Hogwarts as one or even working as one else where. "What I mean is that you are a nurturer." Which was something that he could only now properly acknowledge now that he had become a father himself. "I think you would find working with children in the daycare much more fulfilling." ..........Uh, again.... Was it something he said? Look, even Zander Adair was aware that hoping to work in the gift shop would be a complete demotion. In fact, he was quite aware that it wasn't a real aspiration at all. Unfortunately though, he was having a hard time seeing his potential lately. Especially when everyone else around him seemed to be succeeding. Weren't your 20s supposed to be a time full of discovery and excitement? So far, they just sucked. Did nothing more than show him how inadequate he was. All of his friends were off doing cool things. Ethan was living out his dream job as a modern day Sherlock Holmes, Soph graduated university with two incredibly prestigious degrees, Dora Umbridge was gonna have a kid, even Bart had sealed the deal with Cinna.
And here was Zander Adair. Both his professional and romantic life at a constant standstill.
He gave his former Professor a sheepish sort of look. It wasn't until what he said next when the blonde's entire face saw a change. It began in his eyes, which seemed to light up a bit, and then reached his posture and overall demeanor. "Really, you think so?" How was he supposed to go for it?? Is that just something.... He was supposed to figure out?? Did departments even do transfers like that?? "You really think I should go for it?
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| *randomly tagged* | Norbert(a) | The Wandmaker (tm) There were noises! And sensations! All new! All Loud! ALL COLORFUL!
Adam walked past the door to Airey's office without his support cane and without his big-oversized purple sunglasses hiding his blue-glowing eyes. Then, just as quickly as he walked past, he walked backwards past Airey's office. Then he walked past again, touching the door and the door frame and the door handle and the wall and the door glass.
Touch was interesting. Everything felt different and everything felt intersting! His fingers traced words on the door plaque and the door swung open a bit.
Adam poked his head in and then slowly his body followed. He stood for a moment mouth open as he just looked.
Oooo...what was this place? It was bright. Bright but without color...
Or was it?
Where to start? What to try? What to Touch!? Hands out, Adam started stumbling around the room like a toddler on a mission.
Touch.
Shuffle.
Poke.
Prod.
Wiggle.
Jiggle.
A picture (or two) went crooked.
He stopped in front of an odd boxy things with compartments full of things that looked interesting (tie display). A hand reached out and fingers started fondling things. He pulled one out and started rubbing it on his face.
Oooo it felt nice on this tip of his nose.
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| astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf Airey had been increasingly unsettled since the events in the Thought Chamber had transpired. Namely in that several of the Encephalons, six to be precise, were beyond docile. They were practically lifeless and he was not sure entirely who to call to consult on the subject. Ministry and Mungo's healers? Someone from Creatures?
Mulling things over in his head, the astronomer returned to his office with every intent of blowing off a bit of steam by playing Captain of the USS Enterprise for a bit...when he saw that his door was already ajar.
Um....pardon? But he had most certainly NOT left things like that.
Quickening his pace, Airey LEAPED into the doorway of his office with his wand drawn and ready. Only instead of some impostor...there was Adam of all people.
"Adam, you know you are not authorized to enter my office without my consent...but since you're here...what brings you b---" the department head greeted as he began to pocket his wand, only to see that the Unspeakable was touching, fondling, his TIES. Ties that were pressed and in a very VERY distinct order and NOT TO BE TOUCHED. "Gerulf. Stop what you are doing at once!" he barked, his tone and demeanor changing in an instant.
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01-08-2019, 02:23 AM
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| *randomly tagged* | Norbert(a) | The Wandmaker (tm) Loud Noises!!!!
Adam registered yelling as he paused, soft-silky thing touching the tip of his nose. Holding the silky-soft thing to his nose, his head turned, slowly towards the direction of the sound. Ah, their was a person making that nose. He wondered if he could make those noises too! "Stoppen Sie, was Sie sofort tun!!" he yelled back. Only, that didn't sound right. Or did it?
He was done with the silky-soft thing anyways. After all there were more things to touch and feel and experience anyway. He jammed the soft-silky thing back (in a big ol' ball by the way) into it's holder thingie and walked away as one end slipped out and dangled out of its cubbie spot.
What to do next? he wondered as he shuffled around. He ran his fingers along a painting, feeling the brush textures. Ooooo
And then he noticed the floating things around the room! Something zoomed overhead and he jumped (well, kinda) trying to catch it. Only he ended up falling over with a thump. "Owieeeee!!" he wailed, then rolled onto his knees and found himself face-to-face with something that was staring back at him in - well, he didn't know what they were in.
Whatever it was sure looked tasty. He reached for it, then sat back on his bum and promptly stuck the hard, cold, and flavorless pet rock into his mouth.
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| astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf No.
No no no no no.
NO.
NOPE.
Airey's skin actually felt like it was going to crawl right off his bones when he saw the state that his employee SHOVED one of his more sophisticated looking Brooks Brothers designed ties into its case. SHOVED. DANGLING OUT. WHAT IN THE NAME OF ORION'S BELT WAS ADAM DOING?! Purposefully trying to agitate the department head? And here he had been telling Maddox all along how he needed to give the bloke a promotion or at least a pay raise for everything he had done for the department!
Nope. That was out the window the moment the tie happened. No one disrespected fine silk like that.
And then he had absolutely no idea what Adam was saying, but it did not matter as his employee was now scampering around the room much like he had seen the family felines do when Medea had them chasing after the light cast on the ground by laser pens and the like.
Airey was not irrational, only he entirely was, and it was apparent that Adam was not in his right mind. Though this patience and assessment was already teetering out the metaphorical window with the tie incident...and then feel to the ground and smashed into a billion pieces when, of all things, Pebbles was being put into the man's mouth. "SWEET SOLSTICE."
Nope. NOPE. Adam was fired. Done. FIRED.
"Put Pebbles down this instant!" Honestly, he was tempted to summon the pet rock to his person. If it happened to knock a few of Adam's teeth out in the process then, well, natural selection and such. Plus though could be grown back with the proper potions. Wand at the ready, he hesitated with what to do first. Part of him wanted to conjure a cage so Adam would cease being a harm to the department head's things...and then of course to himself.
Actually. Yes. That DID seem to be the best course of action.
Flourishing his wand, the astronomer first sent a Summoning Charm at his beloved pet. Upon WOOSHING her back to him, and tucking her safely beneath his arm while whispering about giving her a bath later, his wand was then pointed towards his Unspeaking with one FINAL warning before he went to drastic measures.
"Adam. Sit."
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| *randomly tagged* | Norbert(a) | The Wandmaker (tm) Something about the loud man’s tone did not sit well with the host that was occupying Adam’s headspace. And for the first time, Reil’s personality completely overtook the German’s happy-go-lucky optimistic pluckiness. He plucked the hard flavorless, slightly less cold and now goopy pet rock out his mouth and clutched it to his bosom. ” Nein!“ he stated flatly with a very serious and pouty look on his face.
Then, sensing danger, he pushed the rock back into his mouth, grabbed the other rock and scrambled to his feet. If he could get to the other side of the room, the thing in his mouth would be his! Clearly it had some sort of importance and by golly Reil was bound and determined to find out what it was!
Adam leapt over the sofa and the ducked back around behind the desk, goobery pet rock ear dripping slobber down the German’s chin (and other places) as it flopped around from his movements.
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| astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf Oh for Fornax's sake! "Was it the S, the I, or the T part of SIT that you did not understand?!" Airey found himself shouting as his own legs limbers up to begin hopping about near the door to try to get himself in position to cast a spell. This was WORSE than trying to get Aries to simmer down...or Atlas to stop shoving peas up his twin's nose.
No one could blame him for what was about to be done. No one. The Unspeakable TRULY had left him with no other options. Ropes and chains are not good enough, likely to wiggle free or the department head might (purely unintentional due to frustrations and desperation) strangle the bloke.
Flourishing his wand, Airey timed his next casting to perfection...and conjured a steel cage around Adam. THAT would do it.
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| *randomly tagged* | Norbert(a) | The Wandmaker (tm) It was apparent that, in his distress and upsettedness, Adam’s boss had forgotten that the German’s first language wasn’t English. So it was probably all of the above that Adam didn’t understand. That – and well, Reil didn’t really know English either. In fact, the host consciousness in Adam’s headspace didn’t really know any language(s).
Adam ran back and forth behind the desk, looking an awful lot like a toy duck in a shooting range at a carnival, as he tried to figure out how to get past the odd loud, hopping man.
End of the desk – Bing!
End of the desk – Bong!
End of the desk – Ding!
And so on…
All the while the pet rock was still clutched between his lips. The fabric ear flopping like the tongue of a large wet, slobbery Saint Bernard.
Adam had turned for probably the fifth time when – Smack!
He ran face first into something hard. Under the smacking noise, was a crunch as Adam’s nose broke.
A sensation he had not yet experienced - exploded from his face, and the pet rock in his mouth went flying.
For a moment there was silence and then a piercing wail filled the room. ” Waah!!!!!”
Somethings were running down his face – only he didn’t know what it was.
Yes, bleeding and crying were a new experience – an experience he didn’t like.
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| astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf Sweet solstice for the love of MERLIN!
His cage had been effective, as predicted, but apparently it was a bit too effected, not as predicted. And he STILL could not get Pebbles back from Adam's mouth and now on top of saliva there were OTHER BODILY FLUIDS coating her beautiful rocky surface. Hadn't he left this sort of situation behind when he had bid Hogwarts goodbye? On second thought, given the nature of the department he was now heading up, perhaps not.
"You left me no choice," he reminded the Unspeakable. Wasted words considering reason meant nothing to the usually rather diligent man. Maybe there WAS something awry with the food in the food court? He had not received any updates regarding that investigation yet so he could not be sure...but SOMETHING was clearly out of sorts with Adam. "And if you would SIT and remain STILL I could easily mend your nose."
But as it were, Airey Flamsteed was rather DONE with this situation and prepared to hand Adam over to Law Enforcement for er, breaking and entering his office as well as petty theft. Yes. Yes. All entirely and completely valid.
Thus it was, with a flourish of his wand, Airey sent a roadrunner patronus off to level two - and he would ensure that the Entry Chamber cooperated and granted them access to his office.
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| Toothless - Napoleon of Crime - Gryffinclaw - Owl Emissary - Pirate Auror - DoctorDonna Taking the quickest way down to Level 9, Simon was grateful for certain precautions to make it easier for law enforcement to move to assist should trouble arise. Precious seconds could be the matter between life and death and anything in between after all. No need to get caught up in obstacles along the way. He and the rest were granted access from the temperamental entrance way of the Department of Mysteries allowing him to head straight towards the department heads office where the drama appeared to take place. One could only wonder just what had transpired beside what had been briefly stated in the patronus message. "You rang..." he stated as he entered the office wand in hand, ready to take control of the matter. His blue eyed gaze taking in the apparent situation. The cage certainly was an interesting addition to the scene, though the man inside was an employee at last he remembered.
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| PHILOMATH ❅ not one atom, but two ♪ ♪ made of starstuff ❅ def main(): Highly unlikely that he'll get his guy today then, with trouble down at Mysteries. Although, he'll definitely take this over small talk. Perhaps this was the universe's way of letting him know to not ever do that again.
Wand out and alert, Benzi was perfectly content to let Simon walk into the department head's office first, as he opted to check around them for anyone disillusioned or otherwise hidden. A series of well practiced incantations later, and he was confident nothing would jump out at them just yet.
Always a good thing, all in all.
Benzi then popped his head into the office, and-uhm. Was that a cage? ... Best let the heads handle this one.
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Lex was right there with Simon and Benzi, knowing all the routes and how to avoid the unnecessary hold up in the face of whatever threat this was.
Alexa came to a skidding stop instead the office, her own wand at the ready and her senses on high alert. The blood, she spotted immediately. Merlin, didn’t know Airey had it in him. “That the guy?” Her wand was already in his direction and she was ready to take him down but an understanding of the situation before taking action was probably the smarter course of action. “What’s the situation?”
And how soon could they haul him in?
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| Dem Carters | even 🕊🕊 have pride | | Expecto PAWtronum 🐈 | U-NA-GI A cage. Also, it seemed like there had been some kind of altercation, as the man in said cage was bleeding and it seemed like his nose had been broken. "Was this," meaning the cage and the nose "really necessary?" Yes, he was questioning the head's methods.
Upon second glance, Ronan realized something. "This man's possessed, like the people down at the food court the other day." Which meant that there were probably more affected people around the Ministry. Actually, it reminded him of this one story his mum had told him about the time the food court had been dosed with something that turned everyone that ingested it into wood eating zombies...
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| *randomly tagged* | Norbert(a) | The Wandmaker (tm) Adam wasn't about to be still.
No no no!
He was experiencing an overbearing unacceptable debilitating sensation and he had lost control of his faculties. Not to mention he had lost the hard, cold, and flavorless treasure he had found!
Furthermore, he didn't know how to stop the leaking that was coming out him - even if he had wanted to. Moving at least distracted him from the leaking and the overbearing unacceptable debilitating sensation emanating from his face.
As it was, he continued to wail, even if it wasn't at the same ear-piercing shrieking level.
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| astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf Ah. Punctual. Just how Airey preferred his authority to be.
He would have welcomed them all into his office with tea, but now was no time for pleasantries. And the manner in which his tie was haphazardly hanging out of its case was making his eye twitch. And it needed to be cleaned and pressed again. His entire office would need disinfecting, honestly.
"Bennett, Cambridge, Rider, Carter," he instead greeted gruffly while shooting a look at Adam - IF THAT WAS REALLY HIM - in the cage. Who was wailing and causing all sorts of insufferable sounds that were making it difficult to speak in a civil tone...so the department head shot off a well placed Silenco in the man's direction to rectify that. His patience had been tested, you see. "Adam Gerulf. An Unspeakable here in the Department of Mysteries. Or at least he has the physical appearance of said Unspeakable as this behavior is completely outlandish and not standard." He smoothed his own tie down against his chest and fixed the buttons on his suit as his tone began to calm somewhat. "Found him in my office completely ransacking it. Perhaps searching for something specific and then he attempted to consume Pebbles, refused to return her, and began gallivanting around the office clearly a danger to himself and those around him." Was the cage necessary. Yes. "I believe he broke his nose ramming into his confinements, so he will need treated for that."
He paused to look at his employee, brow knitted with confusion and frustration. Though all would be fine. He would give Pebbles her favorite bubble bath once they got home.
His forget-me-not-blues quickly shifted towards the young YATI. "The incident that caused the food court to shut down, correct?" Yes, they had all been debriefed on that.
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| Toothless - Napoleon of Crime - Gryffinclaw - Owl Emissary - Pirate Auror - DoctorDonna Rider remained quiet, assumedly allowing him and Lex to take charge as the senior MLErs on the case which was fine by him. Simon did note with approval that he had switched to checking the surroundings which may or may not be helpful. Lex spoke up, questioning that the changed man was the concern before nudging Flamsteed to lay out the facts. All in all a nice follow of procedure. Followed by Carter seemingly questioning the department head’s actions. Granted there was blood and injury which one would like to prevent but maybe it HAD been necessary. But they were still waiting on the st---
Possession?
That got Simon’s attention.
Food courts and possession did not sit well with the security man. They’d already dealt with the antics of the deranged former Minister AND the case of the plants many moons ago that he remembered. Never fun dealing with a sick friend and potential girlfriend. Simon winced as the wailing resumed, grateful for the spell placed by Flamsteed to silence. Much easier to listening to the witness report and think on the matter at hand when you could actually hear yourself think.
Usin his wand already out, Simon moved closer to the man in the cage and ran a scan or two over the captive, Adam, checking for disillusionment spells and anything altering his appearance. Nothing came from his results. “No spells appearing,” he informed the group. “Need to be checked out for toxins.” Or possessions. And healing all injuries of course.
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| Dem Carters | even 🕊🕊 have pride | | Expecto PAWtronum 🐈 | U-NA-GI "Yes, that's the one," Ronan replied to the department head's question. As for any ransacking, the only thing he could see was a few ties sticking out of a drawer (which, really? Who keeps ties in their office? Especially nice ones. Unless he was living out of it...?) and the aforementioned Pebbles laying on the floor. All that, plus to fact that the man had just admitted that the caged man was, in fact, an Unspeakable had Ronan raising a brow. Something about the whole situation wasn't sitting right with him.
Ah, so not possessed then. Then it truly did have to be something that people had been in contact with. This gave the young Auror-in-training an idea. "You said Mr. Gerulf here is one of your Unspeakables, correct? Has he been in contact with anything.....unusual recently? Something he wasn't used to working with? Strange brains, a rogue heavenly body..." Basically, anything that could've caused such an effect on someone. As for how he knew about some of the stuff housed here? He had simply paid attention in history class.
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| *randomly tagged* | Norbert(a) | The Wandmaker (tm) Funny enough, Adam had been subject to both a strange heavenly body and rouge brains in the past 3 years. The former had wrecked his eyesight and almost eaten him. The latter? Well, only time would tell what would happen.
But thanks to the Silenco charm, Adam couldn't tell them that. Well, He probably wouldn't have been able to tell them that anyways. He was still wailing, even if the sound didn't make sound.
He also didn't understand why he wasn't able to move and why he was still leaking from the face.
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Lex silently listened to the explanation, allowing Simon to go run the checks on the man in question. It did sound like it could've been a real infiltration...for the most part but with no concealment charms or forms of magic in use, it was starting to look more like a rogue worker who had his own views on what he could and couldn't do in the department.
For as insufferable as Carter was, at least he knew how to ask questions. She didn't know how his YATI training was going, didn't care either but at least it was getting somewhere. "Found a woman frolicking through the flowers in the greenhouses a few days ago. In light of what Carter said, this is seeming less and less like a fluke or some overzealous crook in the making." She'd thought the woman strange but....everything in the Ministry was strange..... "Haven't been secretly running some experiment you just haven't told us about, have you Airey?" She got the whole secrecy and and unspeakable thing but if there was something he needed to say, now would've been a brilliant time.
The entire Department may have needed to be alerted and that useless sweep McCullough wanted may very well need to be a thing.
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| astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf While the Head of Security did his thing, the department head's attention when to the Aurors in the room and the Auror-to-be.
Honestly, the YATI's question made Airey want to laugh and perhaps if circumstances were a bit different he would have. "Gerulf is always managing to land himself in sticky situations here in the department. Black hole that nearly swallowed up the Space Chamber really gave him a good beating as well." Along with a plethora of other incidents, so it was entirely possible that he had gotten himself into some sort of mess. "But recently?" Which to the astronomer was within the passing week. "Not that I can recall. Unless the findings of his research on the solution that houses the Encephalons resulted in something. They have been researching and experimenting with that for the past month. Though I hardly believe that he nor Baines from Accidents and Catastrophes would be daft enough to consume that."
Though...then again...looking at the state of the Unspeaking perhaps they had? That solution was not meant for human consumption, only Encephalon preservation.
Honestly. Miss Cambridge. What sort of bloke did you take him for?
Unwilling to even entertain her question regarding experimentation, his focus instead shifted on her comment about a woman....frolicking? Well, that brought up some suppressed memories from his days of being a professor at Hogwarts. Ones that involved ice cream and dementors. "Do you recall who that was?" he inquired. Her prefacing her question about experimentation with mention of this woman made him wonder if it had been another Unspeakable.
Which, well. They were all bound to crack at some point given the sensitive nature and exclusive research performed here. It was stressful on the mind.
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| Dem Carters | even 🕊🕊 have pride | | Expecto PAWtronum 🐈 | U-NA-GI Flamsteed's response had Ronan's brow raising further and the other threatening to join it. Not only had said response come off as slightly flippant, but there were several concerning things it revealed, not the least being that apparently trouble was seemingly a constant with Mr. Gerulf. But, something else was hit on that was more important in the moment. "Encephalons...those are the brains with tentacles, correct? The ones that attacked Ronald Weasley way back in 1995-96? Made him act sort of goofy?" See where he was going with this? "Why were Mr. Gerulf and Baines doing research on the Encephalon solution? Did anything unusual happen during the fetching of said solution? Did the encephalons attack anyone?" Had they found the cause of all this mess?
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| Toothless - Napoleon of Crime - Gryffinclaw - Owl Emissary - Pirate Auror - DoctorDonna So maybe Carter was actually proving himself helpful in this situation. “Correct,” Simon said, answering Ronan’s first question about the Encephalons. "That's them." So sue him if he made a point to know about what all he was looking after, even within the secret depths of Level 9. It helped garnering the trust of various department heads who understood him knowing things could only help in times of trouble, not harm. The rest was up to Airey to answer as the security man had no clue what they were doing with the….brain solution.
He instead was using his wand still out to stem the bleeding from the captive man. No need to have him bleed out in the process of them trying to find out what was wrong and working out a way to help. He currently didn’t have anything else to add to the line of questioning, but you could bet he was listening to attempt to gather everything into something workable.
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| astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf The YATI's questions were easy ones to answer and the department head had no problem offering up the information. It was not particularly sensitive material. "Because I asked them too," he nodded. That was the short answer in any case. "It had been observed that the condition of the Encephalons was not optimum and that there was a certain deficiency in the solution housing them. They were tasked to isolate these deficiencies and modify the solution's recipe accordingly to rectify the situation." Airey merely nodded his head as Simon confirmed that they were, in fact, the same Encephalons Ronan referred to. Which begged to question the longevity of them, but that was another inquiry for another day. "They did behave particularly aggressive the day we went in to perform maintenance...."
And then the astronut's eyes widened and snapped back towards Adam as he flourished his wand to remove the Silencing Charm he had previously cast upon the Unspeakable.
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| *randomly tagged* | Norbert(a) | The Wandmaker (tm) Slowly, ever so slowly, Adam had stopped his wailing…
Well, Kinda. “Wah….ha..ha…..” he bleated weakly. He rubbed his nose and face with a sleeve spreading blood and boogies around as he tried to catch his breath.
And then realizing that noises were back, Adam’s wailing took off again. ”WAHHAAHAHAHA!!”.
It only took a moment though for him to realize he was no longer leaking. So with a loud SNIFFF the man took a deep breath. Only the sniff set off the overbearing unacceptable debilitating sensation emanating from his face.
But there was something else...something else that was making the Brain inside of the German man uncomfortable. It felt like his fellow brain companions were calling him home. ”Ree...reeeillll ich mag das nicht!” Adam sobbed in German. ”Ich möchte nach Hause gehen. Dieser Gastgeber ist kaputt. Ich vermisse meine Ranken.“ OOC Translation: I don‘t like this. I want to go home. This host is broken. I miss my tendrils.
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Lex shrugged at the question. She didn’t know who the strange woman was and didn’t know what level she belonged to. All she knew was, there was something definitely off about her.
Whatever it was, it was now making more sense with these explanations pouring in. ”So then.....not a national threat or some dark wizard evil plot that requires a whole take down..” Forgive her for sounding as disappointed as she did but she’d run all the way down here on the promise of an intruder and some sort of plot to steal and make use of sensitive information. This was starting to sound more like Airey had lost control of his pets (which was starting to make sense that he was only ever good with Pebbles). Man needed to stick to the inanimate.
Lex looked from the department head to the caged bleeder. This was an in house matter. “No idea what he said but if that’s the case, how many do you have missing and who was in charge of watching them then alerting you if any went missing?” Because....this was a big deal, sorta. Whoever was in charge of them SHOULD have known and given a report. “Unless they watch themselves.” Which was another issue she wouldn’t bother getting into. “Reckon we just need to figure how many have gone awol and you get them back to their tanks.”
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