The giant squid has been injured, something has taken a considerable chomp out of it - no one has seen what it is properly but based on the injury-  the prediction of size is ginormous! It makes the lake too dangerous and a potential threat to anyone getting too close to the waters edge! The Ministry sets up a mission to hunt and kill the monster!

Ship-people with experience:
J. Alfred Darrow
Pablo Medina

Magizoologists
Conall MacKay
Bella Scrimgeour

A Few Aurors/ministry people
Maybe Eugene Scamander - beasts division or similar
A news paper type - because what 19th century adventure like this didn't have a newspaper man

Are all officially heading to deal with the problem. 

However members of the public can be involved too -

There is a send off event at the docks with the public, a last toast, some champagne and a round of applause for the glorious heroes - when the creature, whatever it is, attacks the ship in dock- like a shark, it finds tracking movement on the surface easier than in the water, so to escape a bubble charm and a heaviness charm are cast on the ship to allow it to go under the water with it's passengers still aboard!  


END: TBD - what they find down there is not yet clear!
Can go in a 20k leagues direction - or be an actual creature!

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   Basil Foxwood, J. Alfred Darrow

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I am my mother's savage daughter, The one who runs barefoot cursing sharp stones

I am my mother's savage daughter, I will not cut my hair, I will not lower my voice
MJ made glory

I think I mentioned my interest already but yesss just to say, whether it ends up being a creature or not, Conall would definitely be interested in investigating!

  

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Ooh I thought I'd replied too!

I can supply Morwenna for Ministry stuff. She's obviously quite high up but once things get serious she could deffo want to see for herself and/or Enoch for auror duties though I could do without him being maimed so close to his wedding :P

  

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MJ: still raising the graphics bar as of 2022

Pablo is in but he's a magizoologist more than a ship-person - he leaves that up to Alfred. xD

  

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set by Lady!

Sorry for the delay, it's been a hot minute since I was on this account I guess >>

Transporting the Voyager to the Black Lake would be a logistical nightmare, particularly while avoiding Muggles, and his ship is too big to be useful on the lake anyway. That said, if someone is willing to furnish a skiff Alfred is very much down to captain it

  

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MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER

Volunteering Tilda (who would want to go along with Eugene anyways) and Faustus/Ben for my aurors!

  

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He's inactive right now but you could have Beau Miller as a magizoologist! If an auror was needed you could also have @"Fallon Hatchitt" <3

  

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beautiful set by mj

Ohhh excited to see some interest in this! :D

I'll arrange the kick off and then ye can throw whomeever ye want into the actual thing. I'll arrange a kick off for just after the 15th

  

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^  Look what Lady did  ^

If it could be later in the month I would appreciate it! Fallon has stuff happening around that time <3

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   Ginevra Blackwood

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beautiful set by mj

That works perfectly! It'll give me time to muster up the DP articles for preamble!

  

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^  Look what Lady did  ^

Any member of the Department for the regulation and control of magical creatures fancy giving me a quote for the Daily Prophet?

  

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Lady is amazing!

WANTED: Someone to go missing on the Black Lake -not permenant - Gender not relevant, ideally an adult

  

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MJ Did Beautiful things!