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Info

Location type:: Mystery
Located in:: In a disused section of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry close to Hufflepuff Tower & School Kitchens
Proprietor:: UNKNOWN
ThreeWordSummary:: one, two, three

Description

A mysterious room in an unused section of the school that lies near the School Kitchens and the Hufflepuff Tower (presumably somewhere beneath the entrance and reception halls)

There are windows, but they seem to be more like paintings; the view as if from inside a greenhouse. The slowly moving images of crops and nature beyond the 'windows' cast no light into this pitch dark, cold room.

Contains four large 'coldframes' on tabletops, containing plants in some kind of stasis. At least one of these is known to the PCs (Star Grass)

Beyond those, a large wall of tiny drawers (and no windows) stretches wall to wall, floor to (high) ceiling. When this wall was first approached by Cassie Weasley in Session 1 she was struck by an increasingly cold icy aura that inflicted damage.

Events

Session	Interactions
Session 01 - Welcome to Hogwarts	Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone take cover in a disused room in the Hufflepuff Tower/School Kitchens basement. The room is filled with inert plants and a freezing aura that harms Cassie Weasley. Hereafter known as the Cold Plant Room
Session 07 - Falling Down	During half term, Cassie seeks to research the ancient crystal she took from Cold Plant Room. FInding nothing in School Library (open section) she seeks to bust into School Library (restricted section)
Session 07 - Falling Down	Cassie asks Headmaster Dippet about the crystal she took from Cold Plant Room (pretending she found it in the Forbidden Forest Test Pit). Dippet says that they are inert unless imbued with some sort of power and he seems unrecognising and unaware of any special significance to this particular crystal. Cassie does not share where she truly found it or the effect it seemed o have on them (and on Vi expecially)
Session 07 - Falling Down	Vi studies the academic papers taken from Septimus Finch's old desk in Cold Plant Room. They seem to focus on themes of attraction, repulsion, magnetics and proximity. Not fully understanding them she undertakes to return them to Jackdaw Finch admitting their theft.
Session 07 - Falling Down	Cassie, Vi & Basil open a door partway down the 'endless' staircase in the 8.5.02 Room of Requirement to find just a plain brick wall beyond. A small blue mote of light, (similar in colour to the wraith-like figure that swept towards Basil from the depths beneath the Cold Plant Room) hovers through the wall and towards Basil. As Cassie casts Impervius on Basil the mote, becoming aggressive, fails to find any purchase on Basil's mind
Session 12 - Eleonora's Tomb	Cassie, Vi & Basil actively affect a vision by aiding Bartemius (Barty) Finch (dec.)’s escape, helping him and his large "latrine-like" treasure chest—the same chest the party discovered in the Cold Plant Room in Session 06—through a basement window and into the crowds.
Session 13 - Under More Controlled Conditions	Cassie, Vi & Basil fly with Jackdaw Finch along the tunnels beneath the Hogsmeade Sinkhole and surrounding valley, eventually finding the underside of Bartemius (Barty) Finch (dec.)'s Strange Latrine-like chest. Using Partis Temporus to break through the magical barrier you all returned to the Cold Plant Room
Session 13 - Under More Controlled Conditions	Cassie, Vi & Basil finally confess to Jackdaw Finch that they removed an Ancient Magic crystal from the Cold Plant Room. Realising now what the machinery in there was missing, Jackdaw Finch completes the restoration as best as he could and continued his excitable experiments into Septimus Finch's work. 'Perhaps by a man's work shall ye know him'
Session 08 - Aftermath	Vi touches the crystal Cassie stole from Septimus Finch's Strange Latrine-like chestchest in the Cold Plant Room. Her body is outwardly calm and peaceful but Cassie and Basil are unable to rouse her. Cassie nudges the inert Vi with a foot before casting a 'safe' spell on the crystal (Alohomora)
Session 06 - Arania Exumai!	Cassie, Vi & Basil successfully repel the Acromantula and Giant Spiders within the HVMC controlled Forbidden Forest Test Pit. Kiko behaves protectively towards them throughout, though allows the students to lead the assault. Whilst there they briefly observe some strange crystals, the effects of which later become apparent in the Cold Plant Room
Session 06 - Arania Exumai!	Cassie & Vi ponder Vi's ability to sense Ancient Magic, associating it with the strange windows in the Cold Plant Room. Vi questions how the ministry knew of her ability even before she did, and resolves to ask her mother about this at some stage
Session 06 - Arania Exumai!	Cassie, Vi & Basil return to the Cold Plant Room hoping to better understand some of its strangeness. They explore the freezer field, a Strange Latrine-like chest and the desk of Jackdaw Finch, and presumably his brother, Septimus Finch before him
Session 06 - Arania Exumai!	Opening the second Strange Latrine-like chest chest in the Cold Plant Room, Vi observes a long vertical drop. Basil fires a Periculum into the void and it recedes beyond sight. Cassie & Vi give Basil a cautious and consensual 'swirly' to see what lies down there
Session 06 - Arania Exumai!	As Basil dangles in the vertical void beneath the Cold Plant Room he sees a blue light streaking towards him. After retreating once he remains longer on his second swirly and sees a horrifying visage of a wailing ghost, mouth agape with jaw dropped to its waist in an unnatural and silent scream
Session 06 - Arania Exumai!	Cassie busts into the professors' desk in the Cold Plant Room and finds a paper Book - On The Properties of Star Grass, co-written by Septimus Finch and Morwenna (Moira) Thorne. She also finds a large stack of seemingly coded papers, taking a random sample of 12 for future use or investigation. Drawing this to Vi's attention, Vi gathers up 10 further papers from the collection of Septimus Finch on various herbological and alchemical subjects.
Session 04 - Voices from Elsewhere	Cassie, Vi & Basil join Jackdaw Finch for their first formal DIADEMs lesson, learning Arania Exumai in the Cold Plant Room. Upon arriving, they find the scenes in the 'greenhouse' windows to have changed (at Jackdaw's behest) since they were last here

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