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Suziella · #1 (**permalink**) 04-19-2017, 03:57 AM

As you walk past Professor Wayland's hut, you will notice that there is a huge barn not too far away, with the Nursery between them. The barn is a home to many magical beasts, including some hippogriffs, winged horses, and other large and small creatures. In the middle of the barn there is plenty of open space which is perfect for taking some of the smaller creatures out of their pens to play. There are also pastures outside around the barn with fences surrounding it. You can take the larger animals out there and play with them or ride them. There is also a magical barrier that will not allow the creatures to go outside of the fence, for your protection and theirs. Professor Wayland has provided buckets, gloves, boots, helmets, brushes, etc. for you to use. The students and other staff members are permitted to come in and interact with the creatures. Anyone that enters the Barn area signed a permission slip before entering.

SPOILER!!: Assigned Stables

Flobberworms:
- Lucy & Ricky
- Matilda
- Jack

Augureys:
- Susie
- Romeo
- Julia
- Atreyu

Fairies:
- Violet (Female; rainbow wings with a purple dot)
- Oren (Male; green wings with pearl dots)
- Silvermist (Female; Silver wings with whit dots)
- Brock (Male; Blue wings with a gold dot)

Puffskeins:
- Bubbles
- Pepper
- Dawn
- Lemongelo
- *Albus - Owner: Stasya Dalgaard-Volkova (SilverTiger)

Nifflers:
- Dash
- Hades
- Ducky
- George
- Ruby
- Pipsqueak

Crups:
- Daisy
- Spot
- *Marshmallow | (adopted by Professor Kaysha Stewart FearlessLeader19)
- Lily
- Ariel
- Schuyler
- *Coco - Owner: Shayla Morrison (Daydreamer11)

Hippogriffs:*
- Buddy & Charlene
- Ruffles & Springy
- Helios
- Hippie & Skippy
- Waterwings
- Monty & Molly
- Grey Feathers

Winged Horses:*
- Corena & Oslo (Aethonans)
- January & June (Granians)
- Bear & Rose (Aethonans)
- Apollo (Aethonan)
- Cygnus & Eridanus (Granians)
- Ise (Abraxan)
- Ambrosia (Abraxan)
- Francis & Estelle (Abraxans)
- Maxine (Abraxan)
- Aurora (Granian)
- Gemma (Granian)
- Perseus (Aethonan)
- Zeus (Abraxan)

Thestral*:
- Sinatra
- Louis
- Billie
- Etta

Fwoopers*:
- Martin
- Ella
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Bowtruckles:
- Nemo
- Dahlia
- Pickle
- *Picketta (F) - Owner: Derfael Ashburry-Hawthorne (sweetpinkpixie)

Kneazles:
- Aphrodite
- Blossom
- Jerry
- Freddie
- Orion

Jarvey:
- Albus (M)(Albino)
- Alice (F)

Others:*
- Dobby a Red Squirrel - Owner(s): Stasya Dalgaard-Volkova (SilverTiger)
- Two Rabbits - Owner(s): Isa Wright (griffin)
- Teacup Piglet (Caramelo) - Owner(s): Xiamena King (DJ Moose)
- A Raven (Mimir) - Owner(s): Elizabeth Dowitcher (Fitheach)

* denotes requiring permission from Professor in order to interact with them as the may be a students pet or a larger creature.
*** No student may handle this creature.

Things to do in the barn:

SPOILER!!: These are just suggestions; feel free to PM me with more!

Cheer up the augurey

Harvest the flobberworm mucus

Play with the crups

Visit the hippogriffs/horses

Play with the fairies

Tempt a niffler to come out of its burrow

Play with the puffskein colony

Feed pretty much any animal

Pet pretty much any animal

Try riding the winged horse or Hippogriff (with Professor Wayland's approval, obviously)

Scoop up poop!

OOC: Credit to Charley Potter for creating the above lists, with some slight changes by me! Also, if you noticed the permission slip is no longer necessary, but please post in here as if you HAVE signed a permission slip. Thanks! If you need Professor Wayland's assistance, just nudge me

**The Narrator** · 02-12-2019, 10:23 PM

The barn was normally fairly calm, with just normal animal sounds and perhaps Professor Wayland, or a student with permission wandering about talking softly to the animals.

But right now, the barn was not calm at all. The animals inside seemed to be growing restless. The horses were stomping their feet and moving in their stalls, the Fwoopers were rustling their feathers and a general unrest seemed to be coming over the barn.

What had all these creatures so spooked?

**MUTANT!** · 02-12-2019, 10:25 PM

Ohh, this place was new.

The little mutant was so very curious and decided to make its way outside, to see what yummy treats it could find there.

The adorable little thing wiggled around the barn, looking here and there until its eyes landed on something that looked tasty.

It took no notice of all the twitching and neighing that was going on around it and sniffed the air for a moment or two before

CHOMP!

One moment the Abraxan was there, the next it was not.

And with a happy satisfied little sound, the puff ball disappeared.

POOF!

sweetpinkpixie · 02-13-2019, 12:52 AM

Heading down for his routine unwinding time, Derf was a bit taken aback by the slightly unusual ruckus coming from inside and it made him scratch his head a lot more than he already had been - really needed his sheets to be bleached or something. Maybe the abraxans were just particularly restless today? It had to be hard living in a barn and having their wings confined a lot of the time, you know? Maybe...if Professor Wayland would trust him again, he could ask about himself and Chloe running point on some activities with them. Under the professor's supervision, of course.

However, upon entering the barn and making his way towards these very creatures...Derf found something amiss. "....wait....1...2...3...4..." He carefully counted the flanks, patting the nuzzle of one or two who came to greet them. "....wait...where is Ambrosia? Did she get out?"

And yes, his panicked voice WAS asking the winged horses. Unfortunately, he was not entirely fluent in equestrian dialects yet - just bowtruckle - so he could not entirely make out all the neighing and whining that was going on. Other than they were VERY distraught.

If only he knew how to produce a patronus...because he did not want to just LEAVE them in this state.

"D-Don't worry. I'll be right back. Will just go fetch Professor Wayland as fast as I can," he coaxed, nuzzling the nearest creature as it swung its great neck towards him. "I'll be back soon." Whipping our a piece of parchment, Derf scribbled a quick note to anyone else who may notice the state of the barn and charmed it to one of the poles.

Quote:

Gone to find Professor Wayland about Ambrosia.

-Derf

Hopefully one of the creatures didn't get hungry and eat it while he was away.

And then the Head Boy took OFF in search of the Creatures professor.

Cassirin · 02-13-2019, 02:47 AM

Chloe was SKIPPING. It wasn't the most mature seventh year activity, but she was in a reasonably good mood and she wanted to visit her friends in the barn. Her barn friends. Her winged horsey friends. She missed the ones at home terribly during term, and this was the next best thing.

Of course, she had to run into Derf here, although he wasn't looking happy at all. In fact, his face was long enough to brush the tops of his shoes and he looked like he was in a hurry.

"Hi, Derfy. Are you okay? I was just going to give Zeus a rubdown and braid his tail. He likes it. Don't tell the other Abraxans, ok? I think they'll tease him horribly." She'd also brought him apples from the kitchen, although... come to think of it, she'd eaten half of them on the way down from the castle.

sweetpinkpixie · 02-13-2019, 03:11 AM

....or not seeing as he nearly slammed into Chloe when she made her way, skipping, into the barn. Oh no...oh no oh no oh no. Though, if there was anyone who could help with the situation it would be her, you know? Probably had loads of experience with this sort of situation.

Scratching his head, rather roughly and even tugging some of his straw blonde hair out thanks to his efforts, he gave Chloe a bit of a desperate sort of look. Merlin, DID he have fleas? Maybe he should see about adding some flea bath to the prefects bath later and soak in there for a while. But right, back to the task at hand.

"I won't tell the others, I promise," he nodded sans any sort of smile at how endearing her relationship was with these creatures. "Say...Chloe? Did you happen to see an abraxan flying around...did you?" He KNEW there were enchantments and such up...but maybe there were some holes? She got out through the front door when someone may have accidentally left her stall unlocked as well as the front door? Derf began tugging on some of the nearby locks just to, you know check. "Ambrosia is missing...I reckon she got out..."

Cassirin · 02-15-2019, 02:47 AM

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....or not seeing as he nearly slammed into Chloe when she made her way, skipping, into the barn. Oh no...oh no oh no oh no. Though, if there was anyone who could help with the situation it would be her, you know? Probably had loads of experience with this sort of situation.

Scratching his head, rather roughly and even tugging some of his straw blonde hair out thanks to his efforts, he gave Chloe a bit of a desperate sort of look. Merlin, DID he have fleas? Maybe he should see about adding some flea bath to the prefects bath later and soak in there for a while. But right, back to the task at hand.

"I won't tell the others, I promise," he nodded sans any sort of smile at how endearing her relationship was with these creatures. "Say...Chloe? Did you happen to see an abraxan flying around...did you?" He KNEW there were enchantments and such up...but maybe there were some holes? She got out through the front door when someone may have accidentally left her stall unlocked as well as the front door? Derf began tugging on some of the nearby locks just to, you know check. "Ambrosia is missing...I reckon she got out..."

"Missing?" Chloe scrubbed gently at her arm, a frown crossing her face as she tried to recall whether or not she'd spotted a flying horse along the way here. No, she definitely would have noticed if one of the babies was out. It wasn't so typical a sighting around here that she could have missed it.

"She can't be missing. It's nearly time to tuck her in, and she likes an extra apple in her single-malt." Chloe patted her pockets in search of the apples she'd brought from the kitchen. No, wait... where did those go? She'd brought tons of them.

"We have to go find her, Derfy. She's probably scared. What if she flew away and got lost?" She glanced up at the sky, as if there might be a low flying Abraxan.

sweetpinkpixie · 02-17-2019, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

"Missing?" Chloe scrubbed gently at her arm, a frown crossing her face as she tried to recall whether or not she'd spotted a flying horse along the way here. No, she definitely would have noticed if one of the babies was out. It wasn't so typical a sighting around here that she could have missed it.

"She can't be missing. It's nearly time to tuck her in, and she likes an extra apple in her single-malt." Chloe patted her pockets in search of the apples she'd brought from the kitchen. No, wait... where did those go? She'd brought tons of them.

"We have to go find her, Derfy. She's probably scared. What if she flew away and got lost?" She glanced up at the sky, as if there might be a low flying Abraxan.

Accidentally tugging some of his hair out with his next scratch, the strands sticking out this way and that between his fingers, the seventh year frowned at what Chloe was saying. Chloe WOULD know the routines of these winged horses better than anyone - save for maybe Professor Wayland - and he admittedly knew this to be a fact. He spent some time around here, but you know. His heartstrings were still glued to the bowtruckles.

"She never misses those feedings," he recalled with a reluctant nod. It was one thing that you could almost guarantee with creatures, their schedules rotating around food. Not too much like humans really. And Gryffindors. "The rest of the barn is right distraught too...thought that maybe they were like that because she was missing..." Or maybe not? "When this happens on the reserve...what do you do to herd them back?"

He, with the addition of Chloe, had entirely forgotten that he was meant to be going to find Professor Wayland for assistance.

Cassirin · 02-18-2019, 03:10 AM

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Accidentally tugging some of his hair out with his next scratch, the strands sticking out this way and that between his fingers, the seventh year frowned at what Chloe was saying. Chloe WOULD know the routines of these winged horses better than anyone - save for maybe Professor Wayland - and he admittedly knew this to be a fact. He spent some time around here, but you know. His heartstrings were still glued to the bowtruckles.

"She never misses those feedings," he recalled with a reluctant nod. It was one thing that you could almost guarantee with creatures, their schedules rotating around food. Not too much like humans really. And Gryffindors. "The rest of the barn is right distraught too...thought that maybe they were like that because she was missing..." Or maybe not? "When this happens on the reserve...what do you do to herd them back?"

He, with the addition of Chloe, had entirely forgotten that he was meant to be going to find Professor Wayland for assistance.

Chloe hugged herself, a sort of self soothing that she needed while she considered how to find a lost Abraxan. It wasn't as simple as all that, since Abraxans didn't tend to wander off once domesticated. But Ambrosia was gone...

"Are you sure? Like she wasn't hiding? Or just in the wrong stall?" She took a few steps toward the barn, but Derf would know. Derf knew how to spot a missing horse. "She'd go where she felt safe and comfortable. Other horses, people she knows... she wouldn't just wander. She'd have purpose."

DaniDiNardo · 02-18-2019, 09:54 AM

It was the story of his life since he began here. Every time he left his office--and sometimes while he was locked away in there--someone always found him to tell him that something else was going wrong. He shouldn't have been surprised. He used to be a student here. He knew all too well that things DID happen...a lot.

This time, Malachi had only just been on his way to Wayland's hut when a frantic first year with an apparently rather demanding bladder ran into him and yelled at him about trouble in the stables before dashing toward the castle. The Headmaster might have waited for the kid to come back and explain but with all the things going MISSING around this place...something told him it was better to go ahead and investigate.

The man rounded the corner to the barn and nearly ran into the head pair.

This potentially answered the question. "Oh thank Merlin. Heard something about an upset in the barn. Tell me you both had everything to do with it."

sweetpinkpixie · 02-20-2019, 11:35 AM

Thank Scamander the PDA rules were gone, because seeing Chloe look so distraught and the fact that she was hugging herself made him want to hug her. Which was why he was stepping towards her, closing the distance between the, and resting both his hands on either of her shoulders. "We'll figure it out," he nodded, trying to sound encouraging but her words only had him MORE confused. Because this was where she felt safe and she would come back, especially if she was spooked.

Though the rest of the creatures here seemed on edge as well.

But before he could really do or say anything more, the Headmaster had arrived and was......seemingly accusing them of being the source of trouble?

"I don't know what you were told, sir, but Chloe and myself haven't done anything," he blinked with confusion. Oh, and...er...he remembered his hands were on her shoulders so he immediately retracted those to his sides. "When I came in I found that Ambrosia was missing...no faulty locks or nothing... Was on my way to find Professor Wayland when Chloe came in...and now yourself."

Cassirin · 02-23-2019, 02:17 AM

Oh! The Headmaster was here. Chloe stepped out from under Derf's lowering arms, moving immediately to grab hold of the Headman's arm and give him an urgent tug toward the barn. He should be moving faster and not dawdling over blaming things on people.

"Sir, she's not likely to wander off, and she can't have gone too far. If we get a search party and spread off toward the greenhouses and forest, we'll find her faster. She might be skittish and frightened, so only people used to handling large animals." And now now now.

DaniDiNardo · 02-26-2019, 06:41 AM

Hey--wai--wha--

Malachi looked down at the tugging Head Girl, still uncertain what was happening here but getting a better picture as he was forced into the barn properly. It set his shoulders slumping. "Really? Are...are you sure neither of you have anything to do with this? I won't be mad. I won't ask questions." But no, this was likely another one of several things missing around the castle and that meant it was more to add to the growing list of concerns the man had.

He exhaled, gently tugging his arm from Kettleburn and looking to the pair. "Nevermind, we don't have time to waste on wishful thinking." It would have been BRILLIANT if either had anything to do with it, put this all behind them and such but no, that wouldn't solve this.

"Are either of you completely familiar with the creatures in here? We may need a head count to ensure there aren't any others missing--unless you've already done that." Then they could move on to the next phase. "Grab some feed. The horses aren't much for wandering but we can check the forest. Maybe a quick stop off at Wayland's and Wishart's to have them search the grounds." There was just one thing. "We won't be searching the forest in its entirety, in fact we won't go too far in. I just...want to rule out a few things." Because nothing that had gone missing this term had come back. He didn't have much hope for the horse either.

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