[Day Three, Mid-Term] Hold My Gigglewater and Watch This

[Rahvin]

Hold My Gigglewater...
and Watch This!

Not all classes are equal for all students. Some people just naturally drift towards certain topics and take better to new concepts easier than others. For you, this is that class. You've got this!

OOC Mechanics:
What Class is This, Anyways?
Select your highest skill from the following (in case of a tie, you may select):

• any Classroom skill
• Broomsmanship
• Curses
• Countercurse
• Jinx & Hexes
• Healing
• Muggle Studies

How Do You Want to Do This?
Pick a Characteristic; make an explanation for how this characteristic is working with the selected skill. For example, perhaps you use Agility for your Countercurse because you've become extremely fast at casting them or perhaps you use Cunning because you're smart enough to know when you use them.

Gonna Build a Dice Pool!
Your dice pool for this event will be constructed using your selected Characteristic and Skill; it will be rolled against an Average difficulty.

Peanut Butter Study Time!
So, you've been studying, right? It's time for that to pay off. Across all your Mid-Terms, you have access to 6 Study Points. You may spend a Study Point to add a Boost dice to this dice pool.

Yeah, This is Big Brain Time!
Not everyone relies on studying though. Sometimes, you just sort of... know. Across all your Mid-Terms, you have access to Knowledge Points equal to your Intellect. You may spend an Intellect Point to upgrade a die in this dice pool.

... and Watch This!
Roll your dice pool. If you receive even a single Success, you pass - congratulations! Additional symbols may be spent as such:

• Advantage: You may spend 1 Advantage to gain 10 House Points for your House.
• Triumph: You may refund one Study Point OR one Knowledge Point spent on this roll. Alternatively, you may spend the Triumph as an Advantage.

[Layla Smith]

Layla wasn't nervous about her midterms.Nope. Not at all!

..Ok, she was a little. It was her first midterms at her new school, and they did things slightly different to Hogwarts. Everything felt more public, and the expectations felt higher. Maybe because she was a Hogwarts student. However, Layla was strong of mind. She'd dealt with more at her young age than most had (except perhaps one Harry Potter, but nobody could compare to the Boy who Lived). Her strength of Will was what she lived and died on. Hopefully lived.

While some might expect Layla to be more proficient on defensive or supportive spells, her strongest magic was actually Curses. She stepped forward, and with an elegant swish of her wand;

"Petrificus Totalus."

...The target was paralyzed. A large horned animal brought in from the woods. Her form was perfect, and the spell even more so.

Points earned for her house, and the spell completed. One easy pass down!

D3 Mid-term Highest skill test. Choosing Curses and Willpower. Average Difficulty. 1 Intellect point to upgrade once: 1eP+3eA+2eD 3 successes, 1 advantage

[Grace Wilkinson]

Grace was fired up for Transfiguration class. She only had to transform a tea cup into a parrot. Easy-peasy. This was in the bag.

She pointed her wand at the teacup, smiled smugly, and let loose the incantation.

The parrot wasn't perfect. The wings were made of porcelain. Which made for bad flying.

It was not pretty when the parrot went splat.

OOC:
D3 Easy Midterm, Transfiguration/Willpower, 2 study points for boost: 1eP+2eA+2eB+2eD 1 success, 1 threat

[Fitz Crowinshield]

Fitz puts practically zero prep into his Potions mid-term. In four years, Higglebottom had almost never gotten tricksy on a midterm, focusing on making sure that his students could make a potion, one they had practiced before, on their own. Exam blocks were typically extended longer than standard classes, and that meant that Fitz always carried an ace up his sleeve: Keeping it Simple Stupid.

Almost all potions they had covered could all get a passable result if you really broke the preparation steps down to ridiculous extremes and you knew the ingredients you needed. No self respecting Potions master would go through such painstaking work for something so simple, but hey, the students were all stuck in the classroom anyway, and with the extra time Fitz could idiot-proof things as much as possible. With the Invigorating potion coming up again, Fitz feels extra confident.

Of course, as the saying goes: "If anyone claims something is foolproof, they are underestimating the power of fools."

Hold my Gigglejuice-Potions (Intelligence/standard skill) Average, Potionmaster talent: 2eP+2eA+1eB+2eA 2 successes, 6 advantage

Gigglejuice Difficulty dice: 2eD 0 successes, 3 threat

2 successes, 3 advantage final

The result is a highly potent Invigorating Potion. If anything, Higglebottom seems impressed by the extra precautions that Fitz has taken.

"That's a fair idea Fitzy-boy. If you have the time to nail the small details, do it!"

(Pass, +30 points to Thunderbird)

[Raul Villabrujos]

All of the ingredients laid out for his potions exam. It was a breeze for the aspiring potionmaster. The brew fizzed and steamed and was technically correct.

The best kind of correct.

Outcome: Pass

D3 - MidTerm - Hold my gigglewater and watch this! (Intellect 3, Potions 2, Potionmaster 1 +1eB, Average Difficulty): 2eP+1eA+1eB+2eD 4 successes

[Arlington Wayne]

History was a breeze. Grandpa was the sort who was always telling stories from the past, whether it was his own, someone else's or society in general. Arlie had grown up listening to and loving all of them. Once he was in school Grandpa's stories were replaced with books, which corrected some of those old stories.

The test went quickly and he passed it easily.

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[Day Three, Mid-Term] Hold My Gigglewater and Watch This, History (Intellect), 1 Study Point: 2eA+2eP+1eB+2eD 1 success, 2 advantage


Test Passed
2 Advantage for 20 House Points for Thunderbird

[Xanthe Vanderwyck]

Xanthe had never shown much skill with jinxes and hexes in previous years; but this year had been different. Not only had she used them to great effect in that duel at the start of the year, but she was also displaying ample ability with them in her midterms. It was only natural; with how much she'd been practicing them over the summer. Not practicing for midterms, no. They had been practiced because they were her ticket to popularity, after all! Weren't they? Maybe?

Whatever the case may be, she passed without issue.


D3 Highest: Jinxes & Hexes / Cunning; average difficulty: 3eP+2eD 1 success, 2 advantage


2 advantages for +20 house points

[Cian]

Walking into his Midterm on Charms, well, his usual cocky charm was turned up a few notches and he winked at, at least, two different people during the whole experience. Cian'd studied a bit, and there was no one as quick witted as he, as far as he was concerned. This fast thinking, always, paid off with charms when he needed to come up with some clever kinda way of going about something.

So he passed, flying colors. No surprises today.

Day 3, Midterms | Watch this! Charm + Cunning, 1 Study Point: 2eP+2eA+1eB+2eD 2 successes

[Ondine Corbeau]

Ondine was trying to lure a fire salamander out of the fireplace, but that one proved to be particularly malicious and recalcitrant. A bleak failure, but with silver lining - the salamander in its foulness added a burst to Xanthe's hexing, making the display more spectacular.

Mid-Term. Hold my Ginger Ale. Creature Care Cunning. 1 Intellect, 1 Study.: 2eP+1eA+2eD+1eB 0 successes, 2 advantage


Lame delivery, but +20 to Thunderbird.

[Sylvain Leloup]

Creatures are relatively easy to handle if you keep your wits about you. The key is to remain aware of their souls and use your own to either assert either dominance or kinship.

Kinship was always the most pleasant one for both human and beast since the bond made is by far the most wholesome but could not always be used against agressive alpha predators.

Thankfully, Maine's Spectral Moose was not of that category. It took some time but in the end Sylvain and beast could be found resting together.

Hold by tea 1rst mid-term: creature care+cunning (standard) +1 study point: 2eA+2eP+2eD+1eB 3 successes, 2 advantage


+20 Thunderbird

[Jerric Mason]

Jerric got set up for his potions midterm and went to work using his dexterity to move around the room and work station to get all the ingredients on time to brew the potion. He knew the information he had studied this recipe over and over.

He grabbed vials and powders and cauldrons putting everything in in exact order and sequence he was nailing it as he moved through the motions.

Then it happened, a freak accident a little moisture on the floor but he slipped and an entire mandrake root went into the boiling concoction a huge puff of electric blue smoke and sparks erupted from the cauldron and then it settled into a dull grey bubbling liquid. Jerric hung his head but the professor awarded Wampus 30 house points for his great effort though he still failed.

Midterm potions agility average difficulty: 2eP+2eA+2eD 1 failure, 3 advantage

[Mischa Primakov]

After their failure in the last potions test, Mischa was determined to get it right this time, AND get it right FIRST!

He dashed to the ingredients before most of the other students had even gotten off their benches. A whirlwind of grabby hands got everything he needed and he literally juggled the stuff back to his desk . . . managing to drop one jumping bean. Which took him a minute or two of chase to finally corral, catch and return to his other ingredients.

Then came the skill . . . throwing everything in at double time after chopping, slicing, squishing and peeling as fast as he could. Sadly he peeled he should have squished and chopped when he should have sliced. Minor errors for sure . . . but together . . . a recipe for disaster.

He tossed the last ingredient in, stirred it quickly and waited for the effect. A bright pink mushroom cloud was not what he was expecting. especially as it settled on him and left his hair sparkling cerise for the next two days . . .

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Hold my Gigglewater. Agility/Int spending 1 Study and 1 Knowledge: 1eA+2eP+1eB+2eD 2 failures, 4 advantage


Utter failure but 40 points for Wampus for the apparent entertainment.