Oh, hi, Mum! Guess I was already off to bed last night when you wrote this.
Um, well. We had this cave exploring activity yesterday, y'know, and our group was with Clearwater and Avery, so we went off into the cave like we were supposed to and it was pretty much all right until we found some stuff that a bunch of smugglers had left behind. And then we found a dirty great hole where we figured they'd probably stashed the rest of the goods! So we decided to go down and have a look. You know, we were supposed to be learning to climb and absay, er, scale down the sides of rocks and use ropes and a few special charms and practice teamwork and trust and stuff, so we figured that climbing down that hole was exactly the sort of thing we were meant to be doing (though maybe not, because Professor Sinistra and that Auror bloke weren't too happy about it in the end). But anyway, it seemed like the most interesting thing we could do, so we got the ropes ready, and it was Macmillan's turn to go first, so he started down, and Morag MacDougal was next cause she's pretty small and we figured they could be on the ropes at the same time, but then Macmillan fell. Or, rather, he hit a security hex and it jolted him pretty badly and made him fall, but he grabbed for MacDougal's rope and so she fell, too. Pretty much right on top of him. And I think they might've hit some of the stuff at the bottom, too. Cause, Mum, it was a smuggler's stash!!! And there were sacks and crates and things down there. Amulets, and some kind of funny, whirly instruments, and a case of wands, and some kind of prickly dried up plants. Anywiz, they both lost their wands on the way down, so they couldn't see anything down there and nobody knew quite how far down they were. MacDougal tried, but she couldn't find a way to climb back up, and, anyway, she got hit by one of the wards when she tried, so we didn't know what to do. And Macmillan thought his arm was broken. (And he was right! You should have seen it when we got him up and Professor Sinistra looked it over properly!)
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Date: 2009-08-10 02:00 pm (UTC)Um, well. We had this cave exploring activity yesterday, y'know, and our group was with Clearwater and Avery, so we went off into the cave like we were supposed to and it was pretty much all right until we found some stuff that a bunch of smugglers had left behind. And then we found a dirty great hole where we figured they'd probably stashed the rest of the goods! So we decided to go down and have a look. You know, we were supposed to be learning to climb and absay, er, scale down the sides of rocks and use ropes and a few special charms and practice teamwork and trust and stuff, so we figured that climbing down that hole was exactly the sort of thing we were meant to be doing (though maybe not, because Professor Sinistra and that Auror bloke weren't too happy about it in the end). But anyway, it seemed like the most interesting thing we could do, so we got the ropes ready, and it was Macmillan's turn to go first, so he started down, and Morag MacDougal was next cause she's pretty small and we figured they could be on the ropes at the same time, but then Macmillan fell. Or, rather, he hit a security hex and it jolted him pretty badly and made him fall, but he grabbed for MacDougal's rope and so she fell, too. Pretty much right on top of him. And I think they might've hit some of the stuff at the bottom, too. Cause, Mum, it was a smuggler's stash!!! And there were sacks and crates and things down there. Amulets, and some kind of funny, whirly instruments, and a case of wands, and some kind of prickly dried up plants. Anywiz, they both lost their wands on the way down, so they couldn't see anything down there and nobody knew quite how far down they were. MacDougal tried, but she couldn't find a way to climb back up, and, anyway, she got hit by one of the wards when she tried, so we didn't know what to do. And Macmillan thought his arm was broken. (And he was right! You should have seen it when we got him up and Professor Sinistra looked it over properly!)