! The exploration (the game) !

Sophia had heard all about an Exploration Game a Ravenclaw prefect had created. She also heard about it from many Ravenclaws too. Apparently Anaïs Jones had created it and had gotten Hogwarts staff permission. Many surprises (hopefully not pranks) were hidden about many places around the castle grounds. Those many places included the Small Hall, the Grounds, the Potions Dungeons and around the different house dinner tables in the actual Great Hall, and around the staff dinner table and doors. 
Sophia wanted to find out if these rumours were actually true, so off she went to find the surprises. She set off to the Potions Dungeons first, as she had read about them being partially quiet and lonely.  

((I will finish but having dinner))

Today was an exciting evening. Whilst she wasn't normally one for social activities that required her to probably talk to some strangers, this one sounded like it was fun.  Maybe because it involved little to no talking?  Serena grinned as the looked at all of the students around her, the excitement flooding in.  Everyone had gathered here today for a special game, one that was set up by the female Prefect of Ravenclaw.  Apparently they had to find some items that the Prefect had hidden around the castle.  She had no idea what sort of objects they were but she imagined it would be obvious once the game started.  For now, her plan was to look for anything out of place and unusual.  It was all quite exciting, actually.   

Once the Ravenclaw announced that the game had started, Serena looked around to see people doing different things.  She noticed one girl who chose to leave and look elsewhere, whilst some others stayed.  She decided to search around the Great Hall that they were already in, figuring she should start a little locally before moving to another area if she couldn't find anything here.  Looking around, her gaze fell onto the various tables.  All four house tables, a professor table and the large doors.  All of them were suitable areas to search.  However, as her eyes fell onto the Hufflepuff table, Serena smiled to herself and decided to head over there.  The girl scanned the top of the table but didn't see anything unusual.  Quickly, she pulled one of the chairs and dropped to the floor so that she was on her hands and knees.  Without hesitation, Serena climbed underneath the table, where she started to look for anything unusual. She was biased - she figured that anything Hufflepuff was a good place to start.  She was loyal to her house and allegiance, after all.  It was sort of one of the traits to even be in the house, in the first place! 

Action: In the Great Hall, Under the Hufflepuff Table. 

Bloom had heard that there was a scavenger hunt-like game for house points happening out of the blue. She would give anything to try and get out of studying twenty-four seven like the rest of her house. Looking at a flyer on the wall of the corridor, she saw that it was to start in the Great Hall. But when? She kept reading and saw that it was starting any moment.

Running to the Great Hall, she made her way to where she saw a Gryffindor, a Hufflepuff, and a couple other students already on the lookout for items. Bloom was ready. She got what it takes and she wanted to win the house cup this year. She was given explicit rules on where she was able to look first. This was hard. Too difficult for Bloom to just choose. She had too many options to choose from and it was messing with her mind.

She saw the Gryffindor leave the Great Hall and a Hufflepuff stay. She had no idea where she was going. Should she follow the Gryffindor? No. Bloom decided to trust her own instincts and stay in the Great Hall. She had multiple areas to search: the four house tables, the staff table and in front of the big door. Was it worth it to find something underneath the tables? She decided to give it a shot, assuming that people would be the first to leave the room as quickly as possible thinking the Great Hall had no importance.

Bloom made her way to the Ravenclaw table. I guess it is worth it to check your house's table first, she thought. The table was elongated and she had no idea where to start. She decided it was going to be embarrassing, but well worth it for the point. She went to the end of the table and crawled down underneath, making sure no one was behind her as she was wearing a skirt. She crawled underneath the table, searching for an item.

ACTION: In the Great Hall searching underneath the Ravenclaw Table

I had heard from a Ravenclaw Prefect about the Exploration game. That prefect was Anaïs Jones, who just so happens to be the one in charge of running the game. So, if we want to play, we start in the Great Hall and we can go to one of three places: the small hall, the grounds, or the potions classroom. Or, instead of leaving the Great Hall, we could search on the table of Sepentard, under the Hufflepuff table, to the right of the Gryffindor table, left of the Ravenclaw table, behind the teachers' table or in front of the big door.

'Which one should I do? Should I go somewhere? Or should I just search? I might just search, but then where? Left of the Ravenclaw table because I'm a Ravenclaw? Or maybe behind the teachers' table?'

Action: In the Great Hall, search behind the teachers' table

James saw a group of people look under and around their own tables. He assumed that they were all doing the exploration game he had heard about. In this game, people would look for objects to earn points for their houses. Wanting to win some house points, he got in on the activity along with three others he spotted participating. One Hufflepuff, and two fellow ravenclaws remained in the room, looking near the respective tables. Since the ravenclaw table was already being searched, James went for the next best thing: the Gryffindor table.

James quickly dashed to the table where the brave sat during meals, the Gryffindor table. He ran to the rightmost section of the Gryffindor table, and quickly started to search for any hint of an object in the location.
ACTION: In the Great Hall, right of the Gryffindor table.

Seeing that everyone had spread out in search of the item, Dymphna hurried towards the big door where no one had begun. Perhaps it was here! She looked towards the ceiling first, trailing her eyes down the door, catching sight of the shiny door knob before continuing down to the floor. Hm, maybe it was on the floor somewhere? Getting on her knees, she kept one hand behind her to shield others from seeing something they shouldn't and slowly crawled around, taking in every nook and cranny of the floor around the door. 

ACTION: In the Great Hall, in front of the big door.

Siege went over behind the Professor's table, an opportunity to maybe find something, as well as to scout out the certain professors he would be dealing with. 

Hmn...well the most noticeable one is the grizzly one... He looks like a warrior all right... Though he seems like trouble for me, I don't really give a crap...So...Those are the heads of the House huh? They look pretty professional...Hmn...I believe that's the professor for the History of Magic...Why do I have the urge to fight him?? He looks like someone who'd give me a bit of entertainment...Wait, hmn...Well I'm here....Time to look for TREASURE!!

ACTION: Searching Behind The Professor's Table In The Great Hall

@ Sophia: You will have to finish your post in the next round...

@ Serena: Congratulations! You found a Dungbomb and 1 point for Hufflepuff

@ Bloom: Congratulations! You found Pliers and 1 point for Ravenclaw

@ Alecksander: This hideout was empty... Sorry.

@ James: This hideout was empty... Sorry.

@ Dymphna: This hideout was empty... Sorry.


Remember: There is no point in visiting the hideout already visited by your comrades.

@ Everybody:
As everyone stayed in the great hall, the places to go and the hiding places to visit are the same:

For the moment, you're in the Great Hall... You can decide to go to the Small Hall,  the Grounds, or in the Potions.
Now you can also go to History of Magic, Defense Against the Dark Arts or Study Room.

You can also search on the table of Slytherin, under the Hufflepuff table, to the right of the Gryffindor table, left of the Ravenclaw table, behind the teachers' table or in front of the big door...

OOC: You accidentally put me down as Hufflepuff! Although I am a Huffie at heart, I'm in Ravenclaw!

Bloom kept crawling down the elongated table when she thought she saw something. She kept going further and further and long and behold, she found PLIERS. Confused at the fact that this was an item to find, she grabbed the pliers and made her way out from under the table by sliding between the table and benches.

She paused and rubbed her knees as they were hurting from crawling on the cemented ground. She now had to find more items around the castle. She noticed that there were some others that were unsuccessful in finding their item during their search. She kept tabs on where some people were and decided to go in a completely new direction.

What better than the study room..., Bloom thought. She decided to follow in the steps of a Ravenclaw and see where that took her. Granted, she was one step ahead of most of the other students, so taking a chance to check the study room wasn't going to hurt her score too much.

Exiting the Great Hall, Bloom made her way to the staircase to get to the first floor. She climbed up the stairs as quickly as possible before the stairs had decided to move. The instant she made it to the next floor, the staircase moved and she sighed with relief while catching her breath.

Bloom walked into the Study room and began to search around. She thought that checking under the desk would be too much of a repetition. Bloom decided to check in between books that were found on the desks.

ACTION: In the Study Room searching between books found in the room.