[Field Trip] Trapping a Dragon! (Trap Away! pg. 3/ pg. 4)

[Grey Dragon]

As students passed through the hallways during the 2nd October of the year, they may have noticed many signs tacked up on bulletin boards around the school.

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Help Wanted:

Professor Walker is looking for students with an interest in biological sciences to assist in practical research. Volunteers will spend a weekend in the scarefari zone during the pygmy dragon migration, to observe and trap samples of new colouration patterns.

Prerequisites: Some trapping skills required. Live catches only, traps will be provided to those who do not own their own kit.

Information Meeting: October 7th, 6pm, the Old Theatre

Now it was approaching 6pm, and the old theatre was quiet. The area Professor Walker had chosen for his meeting had once been a building of some sort, likely burned down ages ago and slowly grown over. The round, terraced pit had rocky ledges, the remains of ancient theatre seating, now worn to soft edges and coated here and there in a thick layer of grass or moss. A giant willow had grown over the area, a testament to it's age.

The evening was falling, but the recessed area was lit by a dozen or more bright lights up in the tree above. Some sort of glowing insect. Or animal. It would have been a romantic setting... Except for the professor waiting at the base of the tall willow.

OOC

Welcome to the Pygmy Dragon Scarefari Game! =D

Get your traps ready, the goal of this 'class' is to go to the scarefari zone and catch yourself one of the new pygmy dragon alts that will be making their way to the pygmy dragon mating grounds just in time for Scarentines! Be the first one to catch one and post the link to your new pet will earn you a prize!

No, the dragons are not out yet. You may use this time to add your character to the group, mingle with the other volunteers, or ask the professor any questions they may have.

Professor Walker's Fine Print:

The 'first' will be defined as the first link to a pygmy dragon with an alt not previously available on the site. This is not necessarily the first 'hatched' pygmy dragon, if someone posts a duplicate pygmy dragon within the duration of the contest, the lower adoptable number will be considered the winner.

There are two new alts for each dragon colour, for 14 wins in total, the contest will end when each alt is found, or one week has elapsed, whichever arrives sooner. Dragon alts will be added to the scarefari zone beginning at noon on the 9th.

Each person is allowed submit one dragon, and win only one prize. Since this is an IC game, only Amityville students, horsemen, and hunters in golems are eligible to participate. However, you do need a minipets account to play!

 

[demon_pachabel]

Walker wasn't the only one there, however. The school's newest edition, one Professor Elekereth Orvos who was prone to making bad maps and being too excited about everything, was also there waiting, arms folded and one of his glowing fingertips tapping against the crook of his neatly pressed suit.

Which probably meant adventure. Or for people to get a chance to meet the pricolici. Whichever.  

[Alicia Firestar]

Biological sciences wasn't her first choice of studies, but Millie had noticed her dorm room being rather... empty of minipets. Maybe by catching a new one, she'd find a new resident of her dorm room.

Millie found a spare seat in the theater and sat down, waiting for any other friends that might arrive. After all, they had a better chance of catching one in groups rather than alone. The scenery was quite lovely.  

[Meegane]

It was kinda lucky for the head not yelling hungry, so AJ took the chance to explore the campus more, he stopped at the bulletin boards to see if what coming events or classes would kill his time.

A notice caught his eyes. Biological sciences? Scarefari zone? Pygmy dragon?

The amphisbaena boil didn't really know what "biological sciences" was about, however, he was totally interested in catching some P. dragons. Who doesn't like dragons? As a serpent-dragon species, AJ had an unmentionable liking towards dragon-like creatures, Zircon, his Frostbite Daeva is a good example. Also, Scarefari zone is an exciting place to visit. He didn't know who's Professor Walker was, but he was sure that he would enjoy this research trip.

Having the previous experience, he left his room an hour earlier, trying to find the Old Threatre. Luckily, because of its appearance, it was not too hard to get the route from others. Although it was a bit far away from where the campus sit, AJ had to say the Professor had chosen a good place. There were no really "seats" but stairs that you could sit on. The smell from the vegetation was refreshing and he could hear the willow whispering when winds flitted by. He didn't know there was such a nice place in Amityville, totally a wonderful place for taking nap.

In the meanwhile, the head was busy chasing the glowing little things that floated around students. Insect? AJ believed. He closed his eyes just to enjoy all the comfortable feels this places brought him.

One point for Professor Walker.  

[demon_pachabel]

Elekereth's curiosity-senses were activated by new students he'd yet to have seen before! Oh good, good, good. This also meant that he was about to snoop every single one of them - starting with the first young lady to arrive and her unusual body markings.

"Excuse me, miss for my rather out-of-the-blue question, but...do these.." he gestured to the henna, but kept his hand a fair distance from the Djinn respectfully, "have any significant meaning? I can't help but be rather curious about them..."

Beejoux

Oops. Yaya was noticed by Professor Elekereth >__>

 

[iloveyouDIE]

Muka always jumped into any school activity that didn't involve writing an essay. Thankfully there were a lot of them but this was even better since it was out of doors. The rotund strix was, as usual, very well dressed in an embroidered waistcoat, pinstriped suit, and extremely dangerously pointy looking shoes.

He had a fondness for minipets and even better were the ones who were tiny, cute, and slightly delicious looking. The strix's head turned round at the students gathering, though his body remained still, and he grinned his usual unnerving smile. He didn't recognize anyone but that didn't stop him from.. staaaaaaaaaaaring.  

[Nio Love]

Muka's stare, as his head turned, was met with a pair of bright blue eyes that were far too close for him to see the rest of her. But, there weren't many ghouls in Amity with the same sense of no personal space as Freya, and as soon as he saw her, her voice would clue him in.

"HAI MY BIRDIE MUKA MAN." She chirped, prodding his nose with one finger before climbing over.. anything in her way in order to settle next to him. "We are goings on a trip, ja?" She hadn't been to classes in a while, she was.. abnormally hyper about it. "Teh catch some dragons. Do yeh thinks we'll eats them? Poor Jericho."

Yes she was imagining the class eating you, Jericho. Right then and there.

Iloveyoudie

o helo

Blade Kuroda

I felt it was important you knew

 

[iloveyouDIE]

As surprised as a normal student may have been to be invaded upon, Muka was not. He merely blinked, one eye first and then the other, and continued to grin. "Hello Freya!" As she scrambled, he did his best to assist her with a taloned hand.

"I like any trip that involves going out!" He snickered, his amusement further fueled by the valkyrie's enthusiasm. "OH!" He perked. "Is eating them an option?!" Not that he'd eat Jericho.. nor knew anything that had happened to the dragon-boil recently.

That made this more like a buffet trip than a scarefari one. He leaned into her and whispered (his version of a whisper wasn't exactly quiet), "Usually I get in trouble for trying to eat minis.." His dangerous teeth clacked as if to accentuate his point.

Nio Love

 

[demon_pachabel]

The masked professor listened to Yaya's explanation with great interest, stroking the chin of his mask while she explained what the different symbols represented.

"Mmmhm... do they have meaning though?" He seemed to weigh his wording momentarily with a small tilt of his head before trying again, "I mean, is there a reason for them?"

Beejoux

 

[phantompanther13]

A new school meant a lot of things, new people, new experiences. It meant learning new things, and field trips. Though Andrew wasn’t fond of most minis, one word caught his eye, dragons. He had experience with traps... if video games counted. He would figure it out, even if it meant watching someone else, it couldn’t be too terribly hard, right?

Besides if he caught a dragon, and they were allowed to keep them, perhaps he could sale it… minis were very popular around the school, if Danny’s dorm was any indication.

Some of the other students had already arrived, good, he wasn’t the first. The teacher was talking to some of the students already. He walked over to the stadium and found one of the seats in better condition and ran a hand full of fire on them before plunking himself down in the cleaned and now completely dry seat. He watched the teacher and the floating lights, curious as to what they were. He liked the light, it kept things bright and reminded him of home.

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Feel free to bother the grumpy flame demon. o3o He needs friends.

 

[Theidren]

While Fiona had been toting her belongings to her room earlier she had noticed the fliers plastered all over the school hallways. She felt she should be unpacking everything...but her room was usually in some sort of ordered chaos anyways. Fi wanted to get out and meet her fellow classmates and maybe make some friends. PLUS Fiona was unfortunately devoid of any minipets and Pygmy dragons sounded fascinating.

Fiona skittered into the meeting place late and a little too loudly. She looked around before siddiling up to another student.
"Hi...uhh sorry to bother you.. Did I miss anything?"

phantompanther13

 

[phantompanther13]

Andrew debated the newest addition the group with a small frown, deciding whether or not to impart his lack of information to her. Finally deciding that in this case he didn’t need to be particularly stingy, he shook his head. “No, I don’t think so.” Never mind that he has just gotten there himself only a few minutes ago.

His gaze turned to her wings, big, and golden, much bigger than his own. They would grow he reminded himself. “Are you a bird or something?” he asked rather bluntly.

Theidren

 

[Theidren]

She was glad when the other student decided to respond to her questions. Fiona relaxed just a little bit as she listened.
"Oh good I'm glad! she flashed a smile and gazed around them quickly until he asked her if she was a bird or some sort. Fiona couldn't help give a chuckle.
"Yea something like that, I'm a roc....and you are...a flame demon? I'm Fiona by the way." she took notice of his flaming tail and gave a guess. Normally she would attempt a handshake but she had never met a flame demon so she wasn't sure what the protocol on that was.
"Are you new here?" she tossed in while she was attempting conversation.

phantompanther13