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@ 2019-04-20 20:09:00

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!: ic/ooc, c: florinda mcgonagall, npc: arlo mulciber

20 April: the Dark Mark at Mungos
Saturday 20th April, 2pm, St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries--

The usual early-afternoon bustle of St Mungo's came to a screaming (literally) halt when a roiling knot of shadow and deep green smoke appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the reception area. From the middle of it bloomed the chillingly recognisable skull and snake of the Dark Mark, no sooner formed than it surged across reception, scattering shrieking people and leaving thick shadow in its wake. The Mark boiled up the main staircase, trailing shadow and panic, to the very top floor of the hospital, where it swelled and loomed up into the dome over the visitors cafe, before finally dissipating into shadow and mist.

The entire incident took perhaps five minutes. The Mark left no physical traces of itself, and caused no direct damage. The panic of patients, visitors and staff, on the other hand, left rather a substantial amount of chaos, minor injuries, overturned furniture, trampled food and scattered belongings.

[ Reactions very welcome! Hit me up if you have questions. (Rabbit is not on the premises. Rabbit's shift at the Floo started at 2pm. We don't even understand why you're asking. Honestly, officer.) ]

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lionsheart
2019-04-20 03:44 pm UTC (link)

Florrie had finished dropping off a patient at A&E and was in the reception area chatting with one of her friends on the Welcome staff when the Dark Mark appeared. While she herself wasn't injured, she was shaken and frightened, and had to help the staff corral and deal with injured patients and waiting folk.

Everything seemed to be settled with injured people (all minor) after about an hour. Fortunately for Florrie, injuries were her biggest problem and since she was on premises, she was seconded to deal with them. This meant that by the time the injuries were settled, she had a decent idea of where the Mark had been seen and roughly the path it had taken to get to the visitors' cafe (up the main stairwell). Which was when she moved to report about it.

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