the story continues…
[spoiler]Flying over the forest of this alien world you leave the battle between the invading tank-controlling humans and the defiant blue-skinned natives far behind. You spot the ship that brought you here in a clearing and fly down to find several familiar looking people.
Obfusc8 is gently patting the giant ship.
“The hole is gone, look, it vanished when you transformed. No one can see it.”
The ship makes a whining mechanical noise.
“Fine, fine, I promise our next destination will not have any hostile natives. No bows or arrows. Promise.”
Obfusc8 turns and regards you all standing around in the clearing. “Well, how was that eh? Did you have fun on Pandora? Anyway, we’d better get out of here while we can, hop in and let’s go.”
You climb aboard the space ship, through the main hatch this time rather than the cargo hold. After a rush of acceleration and a view of stars, you emerge in someplace entirely different…
The sky is dark and stormy. Lightning tears through the sky revealing a large old castle ahead, partially surrounded by a thick forest. Train tracks glitter below you, a metal path guiding the way.
Out of the darkness thick heavy branches loom and smash against the ship’s windshield, shattering it.
The ship tumbles out of the sky with a mechanical scream as Obfusc8 curses and tries to get it under control.
“Abandon Ship! Everyone out!”
You dive for the exit and manage to get clear of the ship before it crash lands in front of the castle.
An enormous tree is waving it’s branches madly at the ship, apparently in anger.
“It’s alright, I got this.” One contestant says, “I fought one of these last week…” [/spoiler]
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Explore a castle 20pts
-admire the view from the top of a castle tower (don’t care if you climb, fly, or take the stairs, just describe the view from the top) +10pts
-search the castle dungeons/below ground level (will you find a troll there?) +10pts
-enter the great hall +10pts
Ride a train 20pts
-Steam train +10pts
-Modern train +10pts
-Drive the train! Choo choo! +20pts
Fly in/on something that shouldn’t (e.g. car, motorbike, phone box, piano, broomstick, train, penguin) 20pts
-play quiddich or any aerial-based game/race +30pts
-catch the golden snitch (or score the game winning point) +50pts
Encounter a mythical/magical creature (e.g. dragon, phoenix, unicorn, giant, elf) 20pts
-Meet a magical creature from the Harry Potter series (e.g. Fawkes, Aragog, Norbet, Buckbeak.) +30pts
Polyjuice time - transform your appearance into a different (human) person 20pts
-Use a potion as a transformation trigger. +20pts
-Turn into an anthro-animal / hybrid form/ tf’s gone wrong (remember when Hermione ended up as a cat-girl? Werewolves are in this bracket too, as this is a subtask you need to be still partly human, i.e. retaining arms/legs/hands) +30pts
Cast a spell (any ‘magical’ effect, activated like a spell or through a magical artifact, preferably with hand gestures and magic words!) 30pts
-use a wand +20pts
-cast a famous spell from the Harry Potter series. (any of the spell names mentioned in any of the books or films, including the ‘dark arts’ if you are that way inclined!) +30pts
See/find some “Weasley’s wizard wheezes” (magical sweets/candy) 20pts
-eat one and report the effect +10pts
-make a dc eat one and report the effect +10pts
Send or receive a letter using an animal (This is a tricky one I think, but you can combo it with last week’s talk to an animal task if you’re confident enough to attempt it.) 30pts
-send or receive a howler +30pts[/color]