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eli is from the darkest timeline (skittish) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-01-16 14:03:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 12 2003, character: adrian pucey, character: elijah chambers

Characters: Eli Chambers & Adrian Pucey
Setting: Ministry of Magic, by the lifts around 1100
Rating: Worksafe, because they are at work...
Summary: The Living Inferi invasion hits the Ministry and Eli wants to take it apart and figure out why...and all before his morning coffee break.

It wasn't uncommon for Eli to take a break from his labs late in the morning to go for a walk and stretch his legs. He had always claimed that time away helped him process whatever he had been working on and it wasn't an unfounded belief. There had been a number of times when standing in the queue for coffee he had figured out that one last piece and gone rushing back to the Department of Mysteries caffeine forgotten.

Today was not the day to forget the caffeine regardless of any great breakthrough. He had been putting in extra hours the past two days trying to make headway before Friday on his unsanctioned project regarding the nightmare-memories. Eli was getting close and having the nightmare again last night had given him some of the details he was missing, but he couldn't expect to create a replica as close to his own memories simply because this wasn't his. Still, he was sure that by Friday they would have something to work with and a decent selection of test subjects to choose from at the birthday supper. Hopefully they would have answers soon about how it worked and then he could figure out a way to make it stop.

The lift doors opened and Eli straightened himself out to exit. It took him the span of four steps to realize that the man in grey wasn't just annoying that woman with the stack of files, but actually hurting her. That wasn't right, not right at all. It wasn't his place, but now that he saw it he couldn't just let it happen. Not when there was something familiar about what the man was wearing that didn't sit right with him. "Hey!" He said, tapping the man on the shoulder with his wand. "What do you think you're doing?"

The man turned to him, allowing the woman the space to slip away. Of course that meant that the man came at him with no real fine motor skills just sort of looking to maim like an inferius or something. His mind paused at, which allowed the man to back him into a corner. Inferius? Why would there be an inferius roaming the halls of the Ministry? Suddenly any sense of surprise or fear was replaced with a sort of curiosity with his mind working in overdrive on how to leverage this situation.

"Why don't you do something useful and call for help?" He called out to the woman still staring at him in horror. Absolutely useless, he was sure, but he still had a wand and the knowledge that these things were afraid of light and fire, but otherwise rather magic resistant.

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skittish
2012-01-27 03:02 am UTC (link)

It wasn't outright patronizing. It was just Eli Chambers being Eli Chambers. He didn't just think he was smarter than most people he met, he actually knew it. So, in a way he was humoring him, but he was also sort of gauging how smart Adrian was.

Eli nodded along with the assessment. "So first we confirm it is in fact living, then rule out the imperius curse, perhaps even by testing what sort of pain threshold this thing has." Which would also determine if it could feel or not - and then if he knew if it could not feel, well that opened things up to a whole new realm of possibility.

He started in on the first test, muttered to himself and scribbling things down until he paused. "That's curious." With his wand he poked at the badge on the thing's top. "I don't believe that prisoners would be allowed any sort of decorative item." Eli carefully plucked the badge off the man's pajamas, being mindful not to let his teeth get him. It might not feel pain, but it certainly felt something struggling as it was against it's bindings.

"Do you recognize this?" Rather than interrupt his work, he levitated the badge toward Adrian for him to examine. In part because he didn't know what it was and also because he figured it would be best to give the auror something to do.

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everupward
2012-01-29 01:51 pm UTC (link)

Adrian watched the not-dead thing move struggling against its bonds, still seeming unaware of its condition. It had been wounded, and it bled, but it paid no attention to its injuries. Instead it simply continued to try to get free, presumably just to continue wreaking havoc.

Adrian carefully took the pin under control of his own levitation spell, not at all interested in touching it with his bare hands until he knew what it was. It could have been a cursed item for all he knew.

Whatever it was, it didn't seem to stop the creature. Whatever the pin was, assuming it was magical, which was easily detected, it wasn't causing the effect on the not dead creatures. Whatever was might have been cast directly on them instead. "You're correct. Prisoners weren't, and no, I don't recognise this," he said aloud. "I suspect there's something curious about this pin though. Did you happen see if any others were wearing them?"

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