The clock in the Entrance Hall struck midnight, nobody out to hear it. The staircases shifted, and some suits of armor rattled, and a slight breeze passed through. Suddenly a door popped into existence behind a tapestry right near the study hall. Again one of the wandering rooms of Hogwarts castles shifted its location, and came into being where there was once just solid stone.

<<9 hours later>>

Erin yawned, and walked out of the Great Hall with her favorite XXL Tigger mug in hand, full of coffee. Erin took a large sip, and fumbled into the pocket of her dark purple jacket, and produced a odd looking object that looked somewhat like a sneakoscope crossed with a remote control. She held it out, and waved it around in front of her, and frowned. She turned around and repeated the procedure, and suddenly, while pointing towards the Study Hall, it shook in her hand.

"Stupid room... moving all over the bloody place..."

Erin muttered, took a sip of her coffee, and started to walk towards the study hall. After a bit more waving her device about, she found the door behind a tapestry of the Hogwarts coat of arms, and she started to move it aside, and was about to walk into the room.

<<Currently Listening to: "The Wizard Turns On" by The Flaming Lips>>

Having just woken up, Sil was practically sleepwalking to the Great Hall for breakfast when he spotted Erin waving one of her odd inventions around. He followed from a distance--wheighing the prospect of learning something and having some fun in the process against another visit to the Hospital Wing--while she pointed the device around eventually coming to a stop in front of a tapestry in the study hall.

Finaly, curiosity geting the better of him, he made his choice.

"Morning, Erin," he said. "What's that you've got there?"

OOC: Might I post?

Sardine

I had been on my way down to the kitchens for a snack when I came across none other than Sil and Erin. I stop by them. "Morning," I say blushing slightly. I pull my pj's closer around me. Then, remembering my wand up my sleeve, I pull it out and summon a robe. I pull it on hastily.

Erin turned around, and blinked, not sure what to say. She took a sip from her mug, and stared at Heather and Sil.

"What do you mean what am I doing? I was checking out this pretty tapestry... its quite welly made and all. Beautiful."

She said, and cast a quick charm to lock the door behind the tapestry before letting it fall back into place in front of it. She was hoping the stupid room would end up somewhere less conspicuous than right next to the study hall, but it seemed to never be so convenient as that.

<<Currently Listening to: "Dude Descending a Staircase" by Apollo 440>>

Sardine

I glance at the tapestry behind Erin. I then look from Erin to Sil to Erin to the tapestry. "Uhm... Riiiight," I say. "I'm going to, uh, be right back," I say and run off to Hufflepuff Tower in order to change.

Sil's eyes narrowed. "Interesting," he smirked. "I never took you for an art connoisseur. How many times have you walked by that tapestry? And it's only the Hogwarts crest, afterall."

He shrugged and started to turn back the other way. "If you don't want to tell us what you're up to, suit yourself. I'm sure we could find something interesting to do."

Sardine

I skid across the floor, narrowly missing Sil, and instead hitting the wall. I fall to the ground with a muffled "Ow." I push myself up and limp towards Sil and Erin. "I'm back," I say breathlessly, looking down at my clothes. I realise that my cloak is on backwards and my sweater inside out. I quickly put my clothes on properly. "I'm back," I repeat and grin.

"Perhaps theres more to me than you thought Sil."

Erin said, somewhat annoyed at Sil's comment. As he turned around, Erin swept aside the tapestry, and quickly unlocked the door with a flick of her wand. She opened the door, and a thick black cloud of smoke poured out into the hallway.

"Oh dammit... this doesn't look good..."

Erin muttered, and disappeared into the smoke, leaving the door open behind her to air out.

<<Currently Listening to: "Electronic Civil Disobedience" by Apollo 440>>

After Erin vanished into the smoke billowing out of the doorway that shouldn't be there, Sil looked a Sardine and shrugged. "I didn't mean to offend her," he said deffensively. "I was being facetious."

He sighed and took out his wand. "I guess I should appologize, though." He followed Erin, his wand held out in front of him although its light didn't cut through the smoke much.

Sardine

I stand there for a few seconds, staring blankly at the smoke-filled door. I snap back to reality when I see Sil going through. "Wait!" I yelp softly and follow, drawing my wand. I look back behind me as I go through the door; just to see if anyoneis following.

Erin was cursing as a large batch of potions had been broken, and had started to dribble into a jar of bluebell flames. The resulting chemical reaction had caused the smoke, which thankfully, was not poisonous. It was however, quite unpleasant.

"Agh... what the heck happened here?"

Erin wondered aloud as she mopped up the potions with a damp rag. Normally she would clean it with scourgify, but this particular potion had some bad reactions to the spell.

Suddenly out of the smoke leaped a lanky silver spotted cat. The cat landed almost on top of Sil, and started to pad it's way over to Erin.

<<Currently Listening to: "People of the Sun" by Rage Against the Machine>>

"Hey, watch it!" Sil said, jumping back as the odd looking cat nearly knocked him over. He looked around the room in amazement. It was like a cross between a chemistry lab and a cluttered toolshed--only full of magical implements and potions.

"What is this place?" he wondered aloud. "Don't tell me this castle has two rooms of requirement."

Nakutro was wandering along on his way to his own experiments involving a blob and sees smoke. "Please don't be Erin. Please don't be Erin." he says and even more times in his head and goes behind it to see more smoke Sardine, Sil, and his worse nightmare Erin.

"Crap. What happened in here?" he says looking around the lab and walks over to the group sighing.

OOC: Nakutro, Heather and Sardine are the same person; me.

Sardine

I walk into the room behind Sil and lift my sleeve to my face in order to try and get rid of some of the unpleasant-ness. Looking around, I see mess.. obviously. I see the silver creature. "Erin," I pause, "what is that?"

"Cursing, Erin finished mopping up the mess, and the smoke started to die down. The cat ran from Sil, and hopped lightly onto the table next to Erin, and meowed plaintively at her.

"Bast... you better not have had anything to do with this..."

Erin said, glaring at the cat, and she knew full well that the cat had almost assuredly caused it. Bastet, on the other hand. calmly began to wash herself, and looked disdainfully at a bit of potion that Erin had missed.

<<Currently Listening to: >>

Nakutro sighs and taps the closest shoulder to him which belonged to Sardine "What happened and what is this place?" he asks as some of the smoke cleared out and he was able to see abit better. "Oh and um why is it so smoky in here?" he adds looking around still

The scene was eerily familiar to Sil. It hadn't been long ago that Scarlett's cat Bella had knocked over some stuff in the apothecary, and the ingreedients had mixed on the floor to produce a potion that had turned seven horned toads into the giant fire-breathing lizards that had reavaged Diagon Alley.

"Erm.. so," he said to Erin. "Any idea what all got spilled?"

"Not sure what was spilled... but it wasn't THIS. If it was... then I would be having a brand new set of CATSKIN gloves."

Erin said, grabbing a flask of muddy brown looking potion from the top of a bunsen burner where it had been simmering. She grabbed a rubber stopped, and popped it on the top, and pocketed the flask. Walking over to a set of burners, she checked on a couple other potions, turning the heat down on one, adding a ingredient to another etc.

The smoke had mostly cleared up, and Erin then looked over at her unexpected visitors. Around the lab were various things, ranging from a rather complex potioners kit, a large stack of books on a table that looked suspiciously like one of the tables used at the school dances, several desks pilfered from empty classrooms, and a large old shelf, upon which more books were loaded, books resting on other books, and stacked on the space in front of the shelved books.

"What are you lot looking about at? Don't you have somewhere to be?"

On the desks were a variety of strange contraptions and other objects, a fishtank with several glowing orbs suspended within, a ridiculously complex astrolabe, a pile of what looked like wands, but with odd runes carved on them, another tank with a rather large Explode a toad hopping around within, trying furiously to hop on the visitors. Near the back of the room was a large glass window, which was odd, considering that the room was located in the middle of the first floor.

<<Currently Listening to: "O (Vision Creation Newsun)" by Fischerspooner>>

Sil looked around as the smoke cleared, amazed at some of what he saw and careful to touch nothing. Giving the explode-a-toad a wide berth was no hard task, but he so wanted to see what the astrolabe did. "I've never seen one of these quite so complex," he told Erin. "This whold place is rather brilliant.

"I got no place to be. You got somewhere to be, Nak?" Sil shrugged. "Of course, if you'd rather us leave..."

Nakutro looks at sil "Not for another 3 - 4 hours. But yeah this is a scientists dream here" he says looking around and looks to Erin "Need a test subject for some of your experiments? I need something to do" he adds and looks around him the frog hits his robes and explodes he doesn't seem to notice.

Looking at her somewhat unwanted company, Erin was about to shoo them all by releasing a flock of explode a toads, when she relented. Nakutro had just said what was possibly the stupidest, and most intriguing offer she had heard all week.

"You want to be a test subject? You seriously are just sh**ting with me, right?"

Erin asked, unsure if the boy had temporarily lost control of his mind. For the most part she had performed expiriments on Slytherin first years, and other hapless first years, who she had monitored as best she could, but to have someone volunteer? That was... insane, to say the least.

<<Currently Listening to: >>

Sil was admiring the astrolabe--if it even could still be called an astrolabe with four freely rotating tympans--and thinking he really shouldn't intrude on Erin much longer, when Nak said something about being a test subject. He stared at Nak in disbelief.

Maybe I'll hang around awhile yet, he though.

Nakutro smiles for about a second coming out of his look of wonder and then the pain sets in from the chocolate frog "Crap ow ow ow ow ow." he gets the chocolate off of his hand after a abit "Anyways i am serious i really have nothing better to do that and i like science" he says and smiles still in some pain

Sil could do little more than shake his head. "You're absolutely insane, but I think I'll hang around and watch."

He was anxious to see what Erin would do with this unexpected boon. "Erin, if you need a hand mixing a potion for him or anything, let me know. If he wants to donate his body to science, I'll respect his wishes."

Noting a quite curious air about Sil, Erin started walking towards Nakutro.

"Exactly how much do you like science? And how much do you know about Muggle chemistry? I have been looking for someone to help, but all anyone seems to know about is potion making with magic... if even THAT."

Erin said, tossing a look towards Sil so he would know that she was addressing both of them. She took another step forward, and her foot happened to hit a small white tube, causing a loud CRACK, and a burst of fresh smoke, and a sudden, blinding flash of light.

<<Currently Listening to: "Little Miss Lover" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience>>

Nak shrugs “Enough not to get blown up again like last time at a muggle college and make certain products for my self” he says and looks around “Why do you ask?” he says showing some intellegence now as it seemed necessary to, and he looks at sil and the book. He then focuses on her giving full attention where needed.