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Post by arianna on Oct 7, 2007 12:01:16 GMT -5
Arianna would take one of the rolls or bit of bread if it was offered her. She needed something to calm her stomach and, though any sort of food made her want to move to the trash bin once more, thought some bread would help. Hopefully, anyway. It wouldn't be good to for the others to get held back by her because she felt ill.
"Okay," she nodded her head, but didn't move from her position on the floor. "If they can fly, I've got my broom there," she motioned to a nearby corner, where items too big to sit on the table had been shoved. Arianna probably could have used her broom herself, to go get help or food, but she'd been so focused on getting everything Drew had asked her to, it hadn't even crossed her mind.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 7, 2007 13:16:53 GMT -5
Drew turned to Charlie. "You still got that map on your arm, Jones?" he asked the Slytherin girl. She had traced a rough outline of the first floor, complete with all of the Deva's positions. "If we can get down to the courtyard, take those two gurads from behind, I'm thinking it should be fairly easy to evacuate through there. We'd need to do it soon after a shift change to get the most time out of it. Quite a few kids go down that hallway, but the other Deva can't see it."
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Charlie Jones
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Post by Charlie Jones on Oct 8, 2007 16:10:28 GMT -5
"Great-- I want to take some of them down," Charlie commented gruffly and simultaneously cracked her knuckles. "I've one a mean Expelliarmus, plus I've been getting good at some dueling spells and stuff." She had practiced what she could under the tight situations before the take-over. Offering up what she could now made her feel more worth it to be in the operation.
"Got it," Charlie withdrew her arm for all to see. The days had made it slightly faded but still quite visible on her somewhat tanned arms. It marked the common points of the the Deva's stations, not to mention a few places where it was marked "SP".
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 8, 2007 20:15:58 GMT -5
"We aren't going to waste time with Expelliarmus," Drew corrected, looking over Charlie's map. "They sure as heck won't bother with disarming. Once that door gets open and we have a shot, we take them out, quickly and quietly." Drew had been practicing his non-verbal spells and was getting pretty good. At very least he could throw a decent stunner with just a whisper.
"Once we get the younger kids out, we can think about getting the Deva out of the castle," Drew stated. He wasn't sure how much the six of them could do, but hopefully a few other kids kept thier wands and would be able to join in. If nothing else, they could put up a pretty decent fight.
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Post by arianna on Oct 8, 2007 23:11:17 GMT -5
"We should send some of this stuff to Hiro and Krissy," Arianna motioned to the table above her. With such a small number, the group would have a difficult time on the offensive unless they worked up that element of surprise. What could be more surprising than to find that some supplies from the outside and made it inside right under the Deva's nose? Arianna even had the perfect plan for that...she just had to remember that danged spell.
"As far as I've been able to tell," the girl now forced herself into a sitting position, closing her eyes as her head spun a bit, settling just enough for her to talk again, "there's no Deva from here clear to the third floor. I've only seen two watching the second level and maybe just as many on the first. I don't know if they've added any more than that since yesterday morning, though."
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 9, 2007 0:09:09 GMT -5
"You have any idea how?" Drew asked, agreeing that getting supplies into the Great Hall would improve their chances of any sort of plan succeeding. And while he was pretty confident that he could have gotten the things from Ari when he had been down there, now that he was on the other side, it made things a little more difficult.
The fact that Ari knew the Deva positions on the other floors was a good thing... useful information. Of course his musing about getting into Raynor's office was now going to be harder to realize. "I don't think they would have added more security. What would be the point, right?" Still, if they went down through the castle, they would be careful.
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Post by arianna on Oct 9, 2007 19:56:01 GMT -5
At Drew's first question, Arianna reached into her robes, the same ones she had changed into right before the feast three days ago and where now spattered with bits of paint and such (she had been successful at disarming the boy's system according to Drew's instructions, but that didn't mean there hadn't been accidents). After some digging, she pulled out a small coin purse that appeared barely large enough to hold a few galleons and, without some sort of magic upon it, would clearly be unable to hold any of the supplies on the table.
"I thought I'd put an undetectable extension charm on it, like the one mum put on my book bag," she explained, motioning to a bag in the corner which many of her friends knew carried an impossible amount of books, art supplies, and even clothes without so much as weighing but a few pounds. "Then we could stuff a bunch of stuff in it and let Juni carry it downstairs. Only thing is...I can't remember the charm and I can't get into the library without taking care of those two faceless on the second floor."
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Post by Gail Lawrence on Oct 10, 2007 12:50:51 GMT -5
Drew’s plan would probably work pretty well. Getting students out was something that needed to be done quickly and soon, rather than waiting around for things to get worse. Something about the plan was bothering her, but she could not place what it was. She kept silent, listening and trying to figure out what the problem was. Maybe something they say will knock it loose.
Ari’s mention of the other floors came close, but then Drew talked about extra security. Gail stood a little more at attention. She had heard something among the students' gossip, heard it herself when she hid to move her wand. “Drew,” she said, touching his shoulder. “There are a couple of Faceless, two or three I think, who are wandering around. If they walk by the Courtyard exit, you’ll be found.” She gave a significant look to the stash on the table, listening to Ari talk about using Juni to make another delivery and the charm she could not remember.
“Maybe we should keep a little bit of this and get some distractions in ourselves, keep them off you two in the Courtyard. I bet we could get you in the Library too, Ari, with some of this.”
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 13, 2007 19:27:39 GMT -5
"We don't need the library," Drew answered, thinking that if anything, he'd like to get into Raynor's office. She had the things that would be most helpful, in his opinion. The spell to extend the little bag for Juni was easy enough for Drew. He had been using it on his pockets, back pack, and trunk for years.
"Conlaxolevo," he pronounced, pointing Jeremy's wand into the small coin purse. It should hold just about anything in it now and Juni wouldn't even notice the extra weight. "Just make sure you wrap those jars carefully," he warned. "We put charms on them, but they aren't totally unbreakable." They had wanted to be able to get into them again after all.
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