Ready for Anything (S1E7)

Ready for Anything is the seventh episode of the first season of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It aired on December 10, 2019.

## Synopsis

Masie gets placed into a hospital bed by Madam Pomfrey. Masie points out that Olive is missing and that Raye and Sebastian have woken up and are no longer under the effects of the strange spell they seemed to be under before. Madam Pomfrey tucks Masie into bed and then searches for Olive. Raye and Sebastian are begging to be unstrapped. Madam Pomfrey fails to find Olive and unstraps Raye and Sebastian. Masie tells Clem and Rosie to go look for Olive. Rosie and Clem asks Madam Pomfrey if they can go look for Olive in the library. Madam Pomfrey tells them that they should go back to their rooms. Mrs. Nanny Buckland interrupts and Rosie and Clem try to convince her to take them to search for Olive. Mrs. Nanny Buckland agrees to take them to the library. Rosie compliments Mrs. Nanny Buckland, who is flattered. Clem gives Rosie a low five and Masie makes a happy face. Rosie gives Madam Pomfrey a hug before they leave.

Meanwhile, Alex wakes up in the middle of the night at the sound of Benny pecking at his window. Alex grabs a bag of sausage bits, opens the window, and feeds Benny. He throws a bit of sausage out the window and closes the window as Benny flies away. Now wide awake, Alex walks down to the common room to use up some energy reading. He grabs a book on magical creatures (*Magical Creatures Throughout Europe*) and sits by the fire to read it. He reads a chapter on werewolves. Alex gets a bit nervous and looks out the window to see the moon waning slightly. Alex snaps the book closed and puts it back on the shelf. Out the window, Alex catches a glimpse of something going on down below just outside the castle on the grass. He sees a weird glowing shape on the ground, a student, and something big running across the grass toward the student. Alex grabs his wand and casts Lumos to get people’s attention, but his wand flies out of his hand out the window.

Meanwhile, Olive hears something big running toward her and freezes out of fear. She cowers down and tells herself it’ll be okay. Warm breath hits her in the face. Olive slowly opens her eyes and sees a large beige English mastiff, who licks her face. Olive sees really big person running toward her. She turns around to look for the ghost, but he’s gone. Olive moves quietly toward the greenhouses. The dog follows her. Olive searches her pockets for food. She finds a flattened and squished pancake with half a button print on it - something that Rosie had given her and that she didn’t have the heart to say no to (because she wants Rosalina to be her friend). Olive throws the pancake to distract the dog. The dog goes for the pancake. Hagrid calls out for Dudley. Olive keeps moving quietly, but suddenly, a wand falls out of the sky, the tip illuminated with a Lumos spell. Olive instinctually kicks it and screams. Olive then sees that it’s an illuminated wand. She doesn’t recognizes whose wand it is, but picks it up and casts Nox. The wand deluminates, but it kicks back because it recognizes that she’s not the rightful owner. Olive feels something pop into her wrist and fizzle up her arm to her head, causing her to feel dazed, and she’s so startled, she drops the wand. Olive decides to pick the wand up to bring it to a lost and found if Hogwarts has one. Olive starts to search for the wand.

Meanwhile, Alex watches someone pick up his wand and deluminate it. Alex looks around the common room for a light source. He finds a candle and leans out the window as far as he can, but still can’t see anything. He calls out, “Hello?”

Meanwhile, Olive fails to hear Alex’s voice, as he is very far away. Olive continues toward the greenhouses, still trying to calm herself down. Dudley catches up to her and continues to follow her. Olive tries to demonstrate to Dudley how he can stealth with her. Dudley just follows her. Olive tries to quiet Dudley down, but fails. Olive decides to drop to the ground and sprawl out with her head and arm at an odd angle so that she can pretend to be passed out. Dudley trots off. Olive keeps her eyes shut and her head on the ground and listens to hear if the footsteps are still coming toward her, but she hears nothing.

Meanwhile, Alex is looking at a candle and thinking if it’s a good idea to throw it out the window or not. He decides not. He takes the candle and a fireplace poker and leaves to get his wand and help the person from what he thinks is a werewolf. He bumps into many things along the way, making a lot of noise. He hears the familiar voices of Clem, Rosie, and Mrs. Nanny Buckland down the hall across the courtyard. Rosie tries to give Mrs. Nanny Buckland pocket mash, a cookie, a crystal, her wand, Sweet Pea, a breakfast taco, and a scrunchie. Alex rushes over to them, surprising them. He tells them that there’s something glowing and a werewolf chasing a student outside. Mrs. Nanny Buckland asks him to point where it was. Alex points out where he saw it, and hands her the fireplace poker. Mrs. Nanny Buckland tells them to wait there and she rushes out. Rosie, Clem, and Alex catch each other up. Rosie suggests going out on the other side to cut off whoever is outside. Alex hesitates because he doesn’t have a wand to cast spells. Rosie hands him her wand, but he doesn’t feel comfortable about this. Rosie asks what’s wrong with her wand. Clem asks to hold it and tells her that it does feel strange. Rosie drags Alex with them. They tiptoe after Mrs. Nanny Buckland. Rosie peeks her head out the door and sees Mrs. Nanny Buckland outside, looking around. A shape moves toward Mrs. Nanny Buckland, and is revealed to be Dudley. Rosie, Clem, and Alex walk over to them. Rosie pets Dudley. Alex tries to ask Dudley questions. Rosie starts to feed Dudley pocket mash. Clem tries to look for the student that Alex mentioned but gets accidentally knocked over by Dudley. Rosie suggests having Dudley smell something of Olive’s to help find her. She tries to do so with a breakfast taco. Dudley wanders off and Rosie follows closely behind.

Meanwhile, Olive continues to pretend to be passed out. She hears some people in the distance talking. Olive decides to get up to continue walking toward the greenhouses, but as she gets up, she accidentally puts pressure on her injured wrist and involuntarily screams from the pain. Everyone hears Olive’s scream. Clem recognizes Olive’s voice. Clem and Rosie run toward the sound, Dudley leading the way. Rosie calls out to Olive. Olive turns and faces the North Tower and starts walking into it, imitating Raye and pretending to be cursed like her, because she doesn’t know if there’s a professor coming with them or not and she’s really scared. Dudley sniffs Olive. Rosie throws a breakfast taco to get Dudley away from Olive. Clem gently pulls Olive away from the wall and asks if she’s okay. Olive continues to pretend to be cursed by continuing to walk so that Clem still has to restrain her, but she whispers to Clem (without looking) to go along with it so no one gets in trouble. Olive squeezes Clem’s hand and then lets go. Clem gives Rosie and Alex a wink before calling Mrs. Nanny Buckland. Alex crawls around with the candle, looking for his wand. Mrs. Nanny Buckland runs over, out of breath. Clem tries to give Mrs. Nanny Buckland her inhaler, but she doesn’t take it because she doesn’t know what it is. Mrs. Nanny Buckland is tricked into thinking that Olive is indeed cursed like the other students. Alex finds his wand nearby, covered in some dirt. A very dark and tall shuffling shape approaches. Alex thinks it’s a werewolf and casts Lumos accidentally into Rosie’s face. The shape is revealed to be Hagrid. Hagrid reveals that Dudley was a gift from Harry Potter.

They say goodnight to Hagrid and Mrs. Nanny Buckland brings them all back to the hospital wing. Olive is placed back into the bed she was in and the straps that were on Raye’s bed are magically moved to her bed and placed around Olive. Clem, Rosie, and Alex are sent back to their dormitories. Masie is still tucked into her bed across from Olive. Olive keeps her charade up until Madam Pomfrey is gone. She drops the act and whispers over to Masie. Olive catches Masie up on everything that happened to her. Masie tells Olive that they got caught in the halls of the school and lost a lot of house points.

The next day is Saturday. Alex is the first to wake up. He gets up early and heads down to breakfast right away. Barney joins him. Olive wakes up in the morning, still strapped in. Madam Pomfrey wakes her up, and Olive pretends to “wake up” from being “cursed.” Madam Pomfrey casts Lumos and checks Olive’s eyes. Olive asks for some chocolate, which Madam Pomfrey gets for her. Madam Pomfrey casts Alohomora to release the straps on Olive. Olive asks if she can go to breakfast, and Madam Pomfrey says she can. Masie is still snoring. Olive asks Madam Pomfrey to let Masie know when she wakes up that she is alright and it was okay for her to leave, so Masie doesn’t worry about her. Olive notices that Raye and Sebastian have also left the hospital wing since their beds are empty. Olive goes to the Gryffindor dormitory and finds Clem snoring, her butt up in the air under the blanket. Olive pokes her shoulder and wakes Clem up. Olive notices a Hufflepuff badger imprinted on Clem’s cheek. She asks Clem why there’s a badger on her cheek. Clem says it must’ve been from when she got rolled up in a carpet in the Hufflepuff dormitory. Clem looks for her socks and then suddenly realizes that Olive is out of the hospital wing. Clem asks if she’s okay, and Olive just holds up her bandaged wrist. Clem thinks her soft cast is cool, but Olive starts to cry because her wrist hurts. Clem has Olive sit down with her and puts Moss in her lap to make her feel better. Olive scritches Moss’s chin and feels better. Olive tells Clem that it was really frightening, and she catches Clem up on what happened to her the night before. Olive tells Clem that maybe if they helped the ghost figure out what happened, he would stop cursing students. Clem says she’s heard that ghost need a release from unfinished business. Clem wonders if they could find photos or drawings from 1705. Olive suggests going to the library to look for books or newspapers from 1705. Clem suggests looking for student records too. Olive suggests splitting up to grab Alex and Rosie so they can all do research in the library. Clem says she’ll get Alex because she’s probably not welcome near Hufflepuff. Olive asks for directions to the Hufflepuff dormitory. Clem gives her the directions and the password. Clem leaves and Olive turns to her bedside table where there’s a little diorama and a little mouse house. Olive calls Thimble, her pet mouse that she snuck into Hogwarts illegally, out and puts Thimble in her pocket because she’s feeling emotional, distraught, and homesick, and Thimble, who feels like family, makes her feel better and a little braver.

Meanwhile, Rosalina is asleep with her frog, Sweet Pea, in her hands. She wakes up somewhat early to go do yoga out by the lake. Jacinth and Rain are also starting their day. Rain is making her bed and tidying up her area. Jacinth is getting ready for breakfast. Rosie gives both of them crystals for protection because she doesn’t want anything bad to happen to them. Rosie grabs her yoga mat and Sweet Pea and heads out. On her way out, she gets a lot of looks from the Hufflepuffs, who are a little miffed about last night. Rosie asks if anyone wants to do yoga with her, but nobody takes her up on her offer.

Meanwhile, Alex and Barney are eating breakfast. Alex has a plate of sausage, eggs, bacon, baked beans, scones, and black pudding. While eating, Alex tells Barney about everything that happened to him last night. Alex thinks about going to the library to study so he can earn house points to make up for the ones he lost. Alex suddenly remembers that he needs to get the Ravenclaw fireplace poker back from Mrs. Nanny Buckland. Alex looks around to see if any of his friends have come down for breakfast, but he doesn’t see anyone. Alex tells Barney that if anyone comes looking, tell them that he’s in the library studying Herbology. Alex grabs a couple of sausages and leaves for the library.

Meanwhile, Olive is outside of the Hufflepuff common room staring at the barrels when Rosalina crawls out of one of the barrels. Olive tells Rosie that they have a mystery to solve, that Clem went to get Alex, and that they’re all going to meet up in the library. Rosie gives Olive a crystal for protection and tells Olive that she’s brave. On the way out, Rosie and Olive run into Alex. Rosie gives Alex a crystal for protection and he gives her a sausage. He also offers a sausage to Olive, but she declines. Olive links an arm with Alex and directs Alex and Rosie toward the library, catching them up on what happened to her the night before. Alex tells them that he read some books about ghosts because he had started wondering if they slept or ate. He remembers reading that most ghosts cannot influence the physical world, but there are some that can, like Peeves, who is a spirit of chaos, and shades. Shades can slightly influence the physical world and cause intense bouts of fear in people around them. Regular ghosts are focused on specific things, sticking around for a reason and focused on that reason, which is their purpose for existing and not passing on. Alex suggests asking the other ghosts about this ghost Olive met. Rosie suggests asking the Fat Friar. Alex agrees because he thinks the Grey Lady is a bit scary. Olive tells them about her idea to look for newspapers. Rosie suggests sending an owl to get a newspaper in case the school library doesn’t have them. Alex suggests sending an owl to his gran, who was in Ravenclaw and knows a lot about the house. Rosie asks how old Madam Pomfrey is and that she heard a rumor that she was around when Dumbledore was alive. Alex asks where Clem is. Olive asks Alex to go get Clem from outside of the Ravenclaw Tower. [Meanwhile, Clem is staring at the statue of Ravenclaw Tower.] Rosie offers to grab breakfast for her and Olive but warns her that she got into trouble with the librarian for bringing food into the library. Olive says maybe they shouldn’t. Rosie offers her a stale cookie instead. Olive munches on the cookie while they walk. She breaks a tiny piece off and discreetly puts it in her pocket for Thimble. Rosie notices and asks if she’s keeping crumbs of the food she gives her to remember her by. Olive lies and says that’s exactly what she’s doing. She reaches into a different pocket and grabs an assortment of cookie crumbs of different types of cookies, bits of toast and bread, and lots of pancake and egg crumbles. She shows this to Rosie, and Rosie gets really emotional and starts crying out of happiness. Olive hugs Rosie. Rosie says she’s thinking about collecting a hair from every person she cares about and asks Olive if she can have a piece of her hair. Olive gets emotional because Rosie cares about her and she starts crying as well. Olive offers all of her hair, but Rosie just takes one and puts it in a vial in a pocket in her robe. Olive thanks Rosie for being her friend. Rosie thanks her back and says that she thinks her dads would really like Olive. Olive throws her wrapped cast arm around Rosie and pats her back with her other hand. Rosie takes both sides of her cloak and wraps them around Olive like a blanket. They hug each other. Meanwhile, Clem is still at Ravenclaw Tower. She feels a hand on her shoulder. It’s Alex, who offers her a sausage.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Wacksteven - Headmaster of Doom
* LuxieGames - Rosalina Earthcloud
* Mirggles - Clementine Goosanders
* Negaoryx - Olive Everglade
* Zcotticus - Alexander Pippin

## Characters

* Rosalina Earthcloud
* Clementine Goosanders
* Olive Everglade
* Alexander Pippin

## Relationships

* Rosalina: +1 Olive, -1 Masie
* Clementine: +1 Rosalina, -1 Masie
* Olive: +1 Rosalina, -1 Alexander
* Alexander: +1 Rosalina, -1 Olive

## House Points

### Players

* Rosalina: -5 points, rolled -2
* Clementine: +5 points, rolled 9
* Olive: +10 points, rolled 12
* Alexander: -5 points, rolled 4

### Total

* Gryffindor: 27
* Hufflepuff: 20
* Ravenclaw: 35
* Slytherin: 0

## Downtime Moves

* Rosalina: Clubs (Soul), 12 (success), started a Yoga club with a Convince (Heart) roll, 7 (partial success)
* Clementine: Studying (Mind), 7 (partial success)
* Olive: Job (2d6), 11 (Galleons)
* Alexander: Studying (Mind), 7 (partial success)

## Quotes

* Negs (about Olive): She’s just so happy that Rosalina talks to her at all that she doesn’t know how to say, No, I’m not hungry. You’ve overfed me today.
* Negs: Let’s investigate that and see if I recognize the wand maybe. Wack: Alright. [*rolls a 5, failure*] Negs: That sure is a pointy stick!
* Mrs. Nanny Buckland: Dudley, is that you? Alex: [*gasps*] The werewolf’s named Dudley!
* Rosie: She might have had one of the breakfast tacos that I made this morning for Olive and Masie. Clem: Yeah, but any smart person would have eaten that already. It’s too delicious. It doesn’t keep!
* Mirggles: Did he say Harry or Mary? Wack: ‘Arry. Mirggles: Oh my god. I have follow up questions when we get back. Just wanna put a pin in that.
* Masie (portrayed by Wack): You’re not going to laugh when you hear how many points we lost. Olive: Oh no. Masie: I’m sorry! Olive: Wait, 5? ...10? ...15? [*Masie slinks under the blanket*.] ...20?!? Masie!!! Masie: Well, we have 27 points left. Olive: I can’t believe you did that for me. Masie: Well, we weren’t going to leave you, were we? Olive: You’re a really good friend. Masie: Might’ve been 17 points left. Olive: Masie!
* Rosie: I heard a rumor that she was around when Dumbledore was alive. Olive: Yeah, but this was like 300 years ago, so - Rosie: She looks really good for her age then, huh? Olive: You should tell her that. Rosie: I hugged her. She didn’t like it. I think I cracked her hip.
* Negs (about Olive): She’s gonna break a tiny piece of it off and just discreetly pop it in the pocket for Thimble. Rosie: Where’d you put that crumb? Are you keeping crumbs of my food? [*gasp*] You could keep crumbs of all my food and put them in a little puddle to remember me by! Olive: ...that’s exactly what I was doing. Wack: AHAHAHAHA! Give me a convince roll. AHAHAHAHA! I think you get a +1 for that acting job. AHAHAHAHA! Negs: Thank you!
* Olive: I carry a tiny little piece of you wherever I go, Rosie.
* Rosie: Olive, this is kind of weird, but I was thinking I might start collecting a hair from every person that I care about, so can I have a piece of your hair? Wack: Ahahahaha! Olive: You care about me?
* Olive (while crying): You can have all the hair you want, Rosie! You can take all of the hair off of my head if you want to! Rosie (while crying): I’m just going to take one, okay? Olive: Okay, just take the hair! Rosie: I put vials in my pockets just for this. Olive: Okay. Rosie: Thank you.
* Wack: Alex, you rolled a four. That’s unFOURtunate for you.
* Luxie: What’s up, Slytherin? Nice to see you at the bottom. Mirggles: Heh heh. Looks like you couldn’t slither you way to the top.

## Fun Facts

* Helloitskolo was absent this episode.
* Masie was portrayed by Wacksteven.
* Luxie and Wack received handmade wands with personalized letters from RamRaye.
* Cutaway shot: Masie traumatized by the Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans.
* Zcotticus gave Negs puppy dog eyes for giving a -1 to Alex.
* Luxie rolled a -2 for her House Points roll, rolling the lowest possible, plus her negative Mind attribute and Dazed condition.
* Olive polishes trophies and old school plaques with Mrs. Nanny Buckland for her job (Downtime Move).
* Mirggles wanted to turn their group into an official club, like “The Misfits Club,” but she fails her convince roll (4) for being a first year trying to start a club at Hogwarts (Downtime Move switched to Studying).
* Luxie rolled a 7 on her convince roll to start a Yoga Club, but she has to find at least 10 people to join the club to make it an official Hogwarts club (the kind that gets some money from the school).

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