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Tweak says, "Oh noes!"

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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everupward
2012-01-31 02:20 am UTC (link)

Adrian hadn't had much of a chance to see if the others were wearing them either. The badges were small enough to not be seen unless you were close enough, or at least not in the middle of fighting what was wearing it. "That's a safe assumption and can be easily tested," Adrian responded. One could detect if an object was a portkey if one actually knew to look rather than accidentally touch it and find out the hard way. It was part of the reason he wasn't touching it with his hands. He'd no idea what it might do. It clearly wasn't what was causing these things to be.

Adrian gave it another look, taking in a few more details before setting it down. Then he bound the creature even further, restricting its movement to completely futile struggles. It could hardly move more than an inch in either direction. "Whenever you're ready then." He was intrigued to see what was going on inside its head, if anything.

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skittish
2012-02-01 03:34 am UTC (link)

Double checking to make sure the man was secure, Eli set to casting the spells required to pull up a picture of what he was looking at. He needed to know the landscape before he even tried to prod and pluck at what was inside. And really that wasn't the sort of thing he should be doing with an unauthorized audience.

He made a face at the first image, not liking and not believing what he saw. Eli shook his head, taking a deep breath and trying to reign in any wayward emotions. Right now he needed to be a man of science and that meant he didn't facts, which did not have the space for fear or something not unlike dread because this hit upon a very deep fear of his. So, he did the scanning spell again just to make sure, this time even doing the extra to pull up a visual for him to see.

"There's nothing there aside from basic activity in the brain stem and a little in the cerebellum, except for that area there with abnormal activity, although that could account for whatever is controlling these things. Clinically, it appears that this brain has been stripped of everything." For a moment it was beautiful in the way that violence could be. Eli had never seen such massage level damage.

But then the whole world lurched. His usually sure, steady hands started to tremor and he had to let image go. The level of skill needed to maintain it no longer something he could manage. Instead, he put a bit more space between himself in the thing because he certainly wasn't going to call it anyone else. "Adrian," he said trying to project a clear calm voice, when he was anything but, "Can you summarize what that indicates?" Eli knew, but he needed someone else to say it.

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everupward
2012-02-01 10:16 pm UTC (link)

Adrian stood close by, ready to do anything necessary in case the creature somehow broke free, which at this point was pretty much impossible. However, Adrian didn't like to take chances. He kept his eyes on Chambers too though, not entirely certain what he was doing.

When Eli gave his assessment, Adrian stared at him for a long uneasy moment. He swallowed and replied, "No brain activity. An empty shell being controlled. I don't like the sound of it, but It sounds to me as though that perfectly describes someone who's received a Dementor's Kiss."

He was uneasy because it hadn't really occurred to him to think about what happened to the bodies of those who were kissed. They weren't exactly dead. They were...empty. Like this one. Merlin, it would explain the prisoner's clothes, wouldn't it?

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skittish
2012-02-02 02:06 am UTC (link)

He had to say it, didn't it? Eli's whole body shuddered at the mere phrase because it was a scary one. To have everything taken away - or at least next to nothing. It scared him because he was a man who prized his mind, his ability to rationalize, to think, and yes, even feel - but for that to be gone...it was almost too much. And even before the bodies of the Kissed were reanimated they had to kept somewhere, not dead, but not alive either.

"And I would agree to your conclusion," he said staring at the thing in the chair. As much as he didn't want to look at it, he couldn't look away. Eli was staring right down at his greatest fear and any sort of greater mode of thought sort of went away. Right now his main concern was to keep himself together and let himself be fueled by some sort curiosity because people were afraid of things he didn't understand. Right now he had his worst fear in front of him and he could take it apart, figure out how it worked, start to understand it.

"Do you suppose anyone would be against a more thorough dissection?" He said finally, the words sort of slipping from him.

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everupward
2012-02-02 03:39 pm UTC (link)

Adrian didn't blame Eli for his reaction. The idea was horrid enough to him, and that was without knowing Eli's personal fears. "Then another questions is who did this and how as it managed." He didn't exactly move away from teh thing, but he didn't draw any closer either. He still studied it though as if looking for any more visual clues.

He stopped at Eli's question. "Well this is your department, Chambers. In mine, I'd have to go to my superiors now, if only because of my tenuous positions. Is it customary here in this department for you to proceed? If so, I'd suggest we go ahead. It's probably best to present as much information as possible."

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skittish
2012-02-05 01:11 am UTC (link)

Tenuous positions. That was an interesting turn to phase and he supposed he had those as well, with his father and his father-in-law, although he had done a noble job of re-establishing himself. Normally he would have gone ahead with no second thought because he needed to know, however, with Adrian here and that extra variable being presented, he hesitated.

Even if this was his lab and the case was relevant to his research given what he knew about what he did, perhaps it was best to at least bring in one of his assistant and no have the auror mucking about. "Well, if that is the case, then I am going to have to establish my own wards and kindly escort you back out of the department."

He set about to setting runes to make a sort of containment field for the thing. Eli could make it more specific later, but right now he didn't care if the thing could move a little. Although there was still the chance that Adrian's spells could hold. "If you will," he said motioning to the door once he was through.

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everupward
2012-02-05 11:08 pm UTC (link)

Adrian's eyebrows both went up at his sudden dismissal, then snapped down into an unpleasant expression. He understood part of the reasoning behind it. Were their positions reversed, he wouldn't want to take chances that could very well wind up getting his sacked, especially if he had a witness.

He relaxed his shoulders and nodded shortly. "Good luck with your experiment then and if you find anything useful, please let me know." He walked to the door without waiting for an answer and left, intended to go back right into the fray. He had his own work to do.

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