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this board looks amazing! <3 I can tell you put a lot of work into it.

Thanks! <3 I am going to add some more features most likely, but I'm not sure yet. I've been contemplating a logo of some sort or a motto, but I don't know.

I just thought everyone would want to check out the Bulletin Board thread and perhaps subscribe? I'll keep it updated and ping people with important reminders/deadlines as often as I can remember.

-nods- sounds perfect :*

This board looks awesome! Thanks for all that you have done!

<3 Reminder! <3

Wednesday 19th of July at 7pm is the deadline for the first lightning challenge.

Thursday 20th of July at midnight is the deadline for the HA challenge.

Remember to complete both in time. Challenges will not be reopened at the end of the touŕnament.

Good luck! <3

thank you for the reminder! I did the lightning challenge already, still need to do the HA challenge c:

Hello everyone! We've scored a lot of points so far as have the other school teams. Keep up the good work and I'm sure we'll pull ahead. :D

Today I have another set of reminders for you.

♡ Thursday July 27th at midnight is the deadline for the Poem writing challenge. A short 3 line poem or cheer for the Alexandrian Academy is the minimum requirement. You can be as creative as you like. I really liked the different entries posted so far! ^_^

♡ Saturday July 29th at midnight another HA challenge ends. Make sure to post yours!

Also 3 lessons are up. Their deadlines are still a little time away, but don't forget them. They'll take a lot more to complete.

Lastly the word scramble is due upcoming Monday. Good luck with them all. <3

Go 4A!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Hey guys, we've got some assignments ending soon. Lets get these going. We are really close to picking up first place but we need everyone's help.

ILVERMORNY - Magizoology - House Mascots Due August 5 at midnight Word Shuffle - Narragansett Ends - Aug 6 at midnight HA Challenge - Triwizard Champions Ends - Aug 7 at midnight Potions - Lesson - Doxycide Due August 9 at midnight

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First lemme say Happy birthday !

Okay I'm currently working on my assignment. So my guy has orange ooze coming from his nose and he is speaking gibberish. Anyone want to come up with what aliments he could be suffering from. I was thinking maybe for the gibberish one he has a magical concussion--just trying to brainstorm

thanks!! <3 could be an interesting concussion that one.. mine involuntarily bleats like a goat and has bluegreen scales on his skin.. a particular bad rash and a persistent cough is what I'm thinking.. so I'd need to make a good moisterizing cream which allows the user to shed their skin (and have clear baby soft skin underneath) and brew some cough drops

Perhaps something like aphasia from a candy OD-related magical stroke (orange stuff can be white matter lol)?

Another option is a complex migraine. There was an LA reporter (in 2011) who spoke gibberish on air and it turns out she was having a complex migraine. My dad has had one of those. I have aphasia with many of my migraines (though for me i forget words, misuse words, and forget how to spell words as well as not being able to compute higher order thinking). I also get runny noses with migraines every so often, strangely enough.

Another option is an old physical cranial trauma causing problems in the now. Delayed onset of the gibberish could be because of stress from having this unusual nose bleed, which could have been caused by a prank or some other means.

Another common cause of gibberish is early signs of dementia or alzheimer's. Perhaps the nose thing could be attributed to a magical case of the disease?

sounds like yours will be an interesting read :) Having a good day?

they are two different aliments :) Those ideas have made me think of an allergy which I think could be good.

Oh, I didn't realize it was two different ailments. I am glad I was able to help with brainstorming so that you came up with your own awesome idea. Talking things through generally helps jumble ideas out of the idea box in our brains. C:

no worries. -nods- I am a brainstorming type person lol.

[edit] okay first task rough draft. I've worked really hard on this and have done a lot of research. I'd appreciate any feedback.

River was excited and extremely nervous to receive the first task. She followed along with the staff members into the Great Hall. When she discovered that it was not an action packed task, she was a little disappointed. Instead of climbing the peak and looking for Jabberknolls, fighting a troll or the many other possibilities that had been running through her head during classes, she had to brew a potion. Yes, it was safe to say she was disappointed and her mind briefly wondered how interesting it would be for all the spectators to watch six students make potions. Still, it did use intellect and problem solving. River was exceptionally pleased that she had good marks in her potions classes and was confident that she wasn’t going to make anyone turn into something horrible or cause the volunteers pain. This was important—surely they deducted points for causing pain, right?

She needed to calm herself and focus. They were about to assign the volunteer numbers. She thought of her guardian, Gabriel, who was so thoroughly supportive of her that could practically hear his words of encouragement. “You’ll be wonderful sweetie,” he would say, “You’ve got this.” Then he would give her a hug. She smiled imagining Gabriel pacing up and down his cabin and waiting for her to get far enough away after the challenge to get a decent cellular signal so she could fill him in on the task and he’d know she was safe. Thoughts of her boyfriend, Merlin Pendragon from Hogwarts, entered her mind. River’s smile deepened. She thought of the bright smile and positive attitude he had. He was so confident in her. She scanned for his long white hair in the crowd, which was by far the quickest way to identify him. When she spotted him she gave a small wave. His smile and wave made her much calmer. She could do this.

The volunteers took their places and then one by one the champions drew their numbers from the bag. When it was her turn, she placed her hand in the bag and pulled out the parchment which was blank save for a neatly written number two. Magically, River’s name appeared above her volunteer. Once everyone had their numbers, and they were told the task officially had started, the she went up to inspect her volunteer. The first thing she noticed about the boy was he had orange ooze coming from his nose. He started trying to speak but it was complete gibberish. River took a moment to think of what could be plaguing the boy.

There were two cauldrons at her table one for each potion. To keep track of which potion was which, she waved her wand over the first cauldron, which now had lettering on it saying “ooze.” Then she waved her hand at the other cauldron and it now had lettering saying “gibberish.” Now, she wasn’t sure exactly sure of what was causing the gibberish, but she was pretty sure she knew what was causing the orange ooze. She had a friend who was allergic to pineapple. The poor guy had a recent scare with that. Of course this wasn’t a normal allergy, it was an allergic reaction to dirigible plums. Not only was the ooze the exact colour of the fruit but little flecks of the ooze was starting to float. River picked up a shrivelfig and began finely chopping it up. The shrivelfig was a very useful ingredient in many potions as the plant had magical properties. Then she took a bezoar and put it in her mortar and began crushing it with her pestle. Bezoars cured almost every kind of poison and an allergic reaction was essentially just that—poison. She picked up some standard ingredient, two fire seeds, graphorn horn, billywig stings, chizpurfle carapaces and stewed mandrake from the ingredient table. Now she was ready to begin making the potion. Time management was important so she would get the potion started and then work on breaking down the other pieces whilst her potions were brewing.

First she added four measures of the crushed bezoar into her potion, along with two measures of standard ingredient—the same as an antidote. Now she now added the finely chopped shrivelfig to the potion and stirred it counter-clockwise for three turns. Then she waved her wand to increase the heat. Counting out ten seconds, she returned it to the lower temperature and put a magical alarm on her cauldron so it could brew for thirty minutes.

Whilst her first potion was brewing, she turned her attention to the second potion. Before curing him, she had to think about what was wrong. What could be causing the speaking gibberish problem? Then she almost face palmed herself. Of course! If a wizard was in a depression and he used too much magic, it was possible to give himself a magical concussion. That would explain the speaking gibberish. Nodding to herself, she hurried over to the ingredients and grabbed St. John’s Wart, mandrake roots, moonstone, hellebore, and unicorn horn.

She carefully sliced a ½ measure of St. John’s Wart. St. John’s Wart has been used with muggles for simply ages to help battle depression. Of course, Muggles didn’t know how to tapper some of the effects it had on their other medicines, but in a potion it would go a long way to helping the magical concussion. She added the St. John’s Wart to her cauldron along with 5 measures of standard ingredient. Then she carefully shaved a small amount off the unicorn horn and added it to her potion. Unicorns were so magical that only a pinch was needed. She stirred the concoction two turns to the left and three turns to the right before waving her wand to increase the heat. After five seconds she waved her wand again and counted an additional ten seconds at this even higher temperature before she returned it to the lower heat. She added a magical timer to this potion for forty minutes.

Returning to the first potion, River began to prepare the ingredients for the next step. She put the graphorn horn into her mortar and began to crush it into a powder. This was one of those expensive ingredients they mentioned. After obtaining two measures of it and adding that to her potion, she put the rest of the horn back with the rest of the supplies. She added her two fire seeds to the potion and then waved her wand and counted out 13 seconds. Stirring the potion clockwise twice, she then lowered the heat and reset her alarm for thirty more minutes.

Working on the second potion ingredients she chopped up the mandrake roots. Mandrake roots were so versatile. Then she crushed the moonstone into powder. The hellebore had to be finely chopped. Hellebore, along with the moonstone, were components of the draught of peace and excellent candidates to help in relieving the magical concussion.

When the timer was up for her second potion, she added the hellebore and increased the heat to her cauldron for 6 seconds. Afterwards she lowered her flames and added the mandrake roots. Stirring clockwise for two minutes and counter clockwise for two turns, she set her alarm again and went to check on the first potion. It was now time to add the billywig stings, chizpurfle carapaces to her potion. Both, along with the graphorn horn and fire seeds, were used in the uncommon poison antidote potion. Once she put in the measure of stings and the ¼ measure of carapaces into her potion it turned snot green, meaning it was nearing completion. The only thing remaining it need was the stewed mandrakes. But first it had to simmer.

Time was moving so fast to River as she checked on her second potion, the one for the concussion. She added the 2 measures of powered moonstone and with a satisfying pop from the potion as it turned a pretty shade of lilac, River knew her concussion potion was ready, save for the quick wave of her wand to finish it, before she removed the heat. She transferred it to a flask. Carefully she took her potion to her volunteer and saw that it was ingested. Within moments he glowed yellow for a brief moment and smiled. With a “Thank you,” from him she knew the cure worked.

Now she went back to check on the dirigible plum allergy potion. Finally it was time to add in the stewed mandrakes. She raised the heat for three seconds and watched it change colour to yellow. Then it changed to purple when she stirred it counter clockwise for 5 turns. The pretty pink colour was obtained after lowering the heat for three second and turning the potion twice clockwise. The last stage was another simmer then the final colour change of light blue. Finally she waved her wand saying “sana” and paused before ending the potion with “Finite.” Sana was Latin for heal or healthy and the words added to the magic of the potion.

She took the potion over to the boy and was so pleased to see him drink. The ooze suddenly stopped and shrivelled up into a nasty large orange bugger. The boy ridded himself of it with his handkerchief just as time was called. The task was over. River was very relieved as she could still feel her heart pounding. Only knowing the scores would help with the remaining jitters though.

This is so good!! Your hard work is amazing.

Over all I think you manage the brewing perfectly. The opening and closing are very descriptive of how she is feeling. Maybe in the middle add in a few more personal notes, like a reaction to how it smells, or feeling nervous about the time? If it were me, those boogers would make me wana barf XD

I think this is gold medal materiel so far ❤️

thanks :) and thank you very much for reading. I'll totally add in some smells, sweat and other reactions to match the rest. :* I appreciate the feedback. -blushes-

Oh, I do love this!! I love (a lot) how you brought in so much of River, especially in the beginning. I love your solutions and how you detailed the potion creation and ingredient use. :D <3

thanks :)

that sounds fantastic! :D I spotted one tiny typo - St. John’s Wart should be St. John’s Wort - but other than that, I reckon it was perfect :D

haha yeah I'll change that. Thanks for catching.