Open RP - Tyrion blows stuff up

[ugly-imp.livejournal.com]

After having received dynamite as a sorting bribe, Tyrion had gone to the Hogwarts library, looked up how this was supposed to work, then headed outside, sorting bribe in hand.

He'd done enough good deeds lately, and he decided now it was time to relieve a little stress. Watching things explode seemed like the quickest way toward that end, and so he sought a secluded part of the grounds where he could set the dynamite off without actually hurting anything.

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((I'm going to assume Tyrion is near the forest, if that's okay? Ancalagon isn't in the forest, he's just outside of it.))

Still under the influence of a shrinking charm that made him a fraction of his true size (useful when he sought to enter the castle, as he'd recently done (http://community.livejournal.com/hogwarts_hocus/1058391.html?thread=53328215#t53328215)), Ancalagon remained roughly three times as large as an average draft horse; his bulk wasn't easily concealed, though he might have been difficult to spot as he lay perfectly still in the shade beneath the trees, the blackness of his scales providing an efficient camouflage.

Upon hearing Tyrion's approach, the black dragon stirred and regarded the strange creature -- halfling? beardless dwarf? -- with slit red eyes as he raised his head from the ground, exhaling a plume of dark smoke. Lacking an understanding of dynamite, he perceived no threat, and so made no effort to rise into a defensive position.

"What business have you this far out?" It was unusual to be disturbed in this place, as students were barred from entering the woods. Either the mortal was lost, or else perhaps likewise desired solitude.

[ugly-imp.livejournal.com]

Tyrion had been expecting company. He just wasn't prepared for said company to be a dragon.

He froze for a moment in shock, then recovered himself. "I came out here to set this off," he indicated the dynamite. "I have a vague notion of how it's supposed to work, but I thought the school officials might not look well on making things explode *inside* the castle." Of course, it stood to reason they'd probably feel the same way about the forest, but he'd deal with that later.

[mightiest-black.livejournal.com]

An explosion within the castle would be unlikely to garner too much negative attention, he thought, given the chaos that normally occurred at Hogwarts on a daily basis, but he wasn't inclined to share his opinion and risk losing this potential entertainment.

"The device is small," he noted. "What is the purpose of making it explode?" He suspected it might be a kind of firework and wondered if it would produce unnatural multicoloured fire. That would be interesting to watch, at least.

[ugly-imp.livejournal.com]

((Is the worst RP partner ever. Sorry!))

Tyrion shrugged. "I'm not certain," he answered. "I suspect there isn't a purpose for the thing on the world from whence it came. But I could see how something like this might be useful in wartime, for example... If it even works. Shall we find out?"