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| | Term 55: May - August 2020 Term fifty-five: Hello from the other siiiiiiide (Sept 2101 - June 2102) | 
12-04-2018, 12:51 PM
| | |  Spare Office
 If you happen to try one of the doors near the end of the sixth-floor corridor, you might just find yourself in a handsome (if not dusty and aged) office of a surprisingly large size. The faint smell of crystallized pineapple seems to linger in the air of the room, which contains numerous side doors and nooks and crannies. Unfortunately for you, all of them remain firmly locked so there is no telling what lies behind them.
Although the room is devoid of any office-like furniture, or any furniture at all, there is still an impressive, but faded, rug before the large fireplace and long mirror hanging over that to boot. The spare office is still a cool place to hang out, practice some wandwork, or do some light reading. Just don't linger here too long because the allegedly esteemed former person that resided here was only fond of certain guests, of whom were one of his favourites and were only welcome to visit him in this office only as long as they didn't ask prying questions about specific moments in his past.
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05-05-2020, 12:00 AM
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Despite the whole 'Slytherins living in the dungeons' thing, Nem probably knew these upper floors just as well - if not better - than the lower levels. He was fairly well acquainted with the spare office on the sixth floor, and was therefore able to make his way there easily during his search.
Once inside, Nem positioned the door so that it stood fairly ajar, then crossed to one of the side doors that lined the room, drawing his wand. These doors were apparently invariably locked. Nem, of course, had only been at the castle the previous year and so had only that year in terms of personal experience, but it had been an innocent enough question to ask of some of the other students. He had never had any interest in what was behind them, and that was still the case, but now Nem had other reasons for looking inside. Might be they were charmed shut, or warded, even cursed, but Nem had always refused to believe that there was any kind of magic that couldn't be broken through. Just seemed naive to believe it. Lazy. Compliant.
Making no real attempt to hide what he was doing, Nem start attempting to crack whatever spell was keeping these doors locked. He had no reason to believe he had the means - at just-about-third-year level - to manage it, other than a lifelong knack of getting into places he shouldn't be, and a natural proficiency in locking and unlocking spells. Still. No point in not trying.
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05-05-2020, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Felixir  Despite the whole 'Slytherins living in the dungeons' thing, Nem probably knew these upper floors just as well - if not better - than the lower levels. He was fairly well acquainted with the spare office on the sixth floor, and was therefore able to make his way there easily during his search.
Once inside, Nem positioned the door so that it stood fairly ajar, then crossed to one of the side doors that lined the room, drawing his wand. These doors were apparently invariably locked. Nem, of course, had only been at the castle the previous year and so had only that year in terms of personal experience, but it had been an innocent enough question to ask of some of the other students. He had never had any interest in what was behind them, and that was still the case, but now Nem had other reasons for looking inside. Might be they were charmed shut, or warded, even cursed, but Nem had always refused to believe that there was any kind of magic that couldn't be broken through. Just seemed naive to believe it. Lazy. Compliant.
Making no real attempt to hide what he was doing, Nem start attempting to crack whatever spell was keeping these doors locked. He had no reason to believe he had the means - at just-about-third-year level - to manage it, other than a lifelong knack of getting into places he shouldn't be, and a natural proficiency in locking and unlocking spells. Still. No point in not trying. Tavie loved the music room just as much as some of the kids in this school. Too many of the other kids, in fact. It was why she was roaming the corridors today in search of a particular abandoned office. The music room was great, but it was sooooo beyond crowded sometimes. And she wanted to try the acoustics of her guitar somewhere that didn't have other instruments to blend with. She also wanted to practice singing, and that sometimes was easier done somewhere that didn't have a room full of kids who expected the most out of you because of who your family was.
Guitar case slung over her shoulder, she heard Nem before she saw him. His voice coming from the room didn't stop her from entering, but it did give her pause. Maybe she should go somewhere else? But what was he doing?
The third year slipped inside of the room quietly, tilted her head to the side, and watched him for a moment in silence.
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As well as leaving the door ajar, Nem was also not exactly troubling to whisper or murmur these spells. In fact, not a single overt attempt at being particularly sneaky was made.
Nem had tried a whole lot of spells, but the door still wasn't budging. There was definitely a way to do it, he had no doubt, and a way that wasn't simply blasting the door apart (he'd not tried that, wasn't planning to either, but it seemed likely that if it was locked so securely, it was probably blast-proof as well). He knew he could manage to get inside, but it wasn't that dire. Other places were not only less effort to access or create, but also unlikely to be suspected.
He stepped back again twirling his wand in his fingers and considering the doorframe. That was when, attention no longer quite as focused, he sensed rather than saw or heard the presence of someone else in the room. Looking casually over his shoulder to see if he was correct, Nem's eyes landed on Stark. He smiled. "Hello."
For a split second, Nem glanced at the case she was carrying. Guitar, most likely. Merlin alive, she wasn't going to play that thing here was she? Not that any irritation showed on his face; still just so pleasant and Happy To Be Here™.
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05-06-2020, 05:50 AM
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The longer Octavia watched, the more plainly obvious it was to her what Nem was attempting to do. She had been to this room before last term, so she knew you couldn't get those doors to open, and she had been curious as to why they were locked. That curiosity wasn't strong enough to have her attempting what he was. It was interesting.
Also, his hair was nice from the back. That was interesting too.
When he turned and finally acknowledged her, Tavie smiled warmly. "Hi, Nem." Her presence no longer a secret, she stepped further into the room and closer to him. Momentarily, she was distracted from her own reasons for coming into the room. "Why are you trying to open that door?"
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05-07-2020, 12:24 AM
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"Just curious, wondered what was inside, y'know." Nem shrugged, and twirled his wand in his fingers still more. "Technically there's no rule in this place that locked doors need to stay locked." Sure, it was implied, but the whole point of using a loophole was that you had to deliberately avoid inferring anything. Besides, if there was anything in there that a student wasn't supposed to see or get hold of, what was it doing being kept in a school anyway. Unless these doors hid secret passageways of some kind.
Not that any of that mattered, it not even being the real reason Nemesis Upstead had come prying.
It was a fairly substandard location in any case. "S'pose I won't have much luck with the others either." Nem replaced his wand in its holster - a duplicitous acquisition by Pax, a couple of years ago - looked up at Stark, and smiled again. "So. What are you up to?"
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05-11-2020, 02:24 AM
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"It is curious, whenever they keep something from us here." It wasn't that she didn't trust her professors or this school she called home, it was just that she knew whatever was usually hidden turned out to either be dangerous or quite fun. Or both! It sometimes had her wondering and trying to discover all the secrets of this castle, but lately she had been too busy with other things to bother with trying to break into locked doors. Maybe when she was older and her spell work had been perfected.
Oh, her? Tavie returned his dazzling smile. "I have an audition. I was just looking for a quiet place to practice that... wasn't filled with other musicians." She said sheepishly. "But I don't have to practice now, if it will disturb you." Tavie knew from her mother that you didn't play music where someone was focused on magic.
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05-26-2020, 03:46 AM
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Nem nodded, but opted not to delve any further into the topic. Faking curiosity took similar levels of energy as faking an interest. You really had to be invested in the act and Nem... was not. Not right now, anyway.
For just a second, maybe two, a whole train of thought steamed through his mind while Nem considered his options. Ultimately, though, he shrugged and leaned back against the still-locked door. "Not disturbing me at all." A half beat. "Unless you'd prefer I leave? I won't mind if you say yes. If it helps though, I'm not a musician." He grinned again, and flashed just the shadow of a wink. Subtle, almost conspiratorial. Anyways. "Can I ask what your audition is for?"
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