RP Location - The Hogwarts Express…

[hl_npc]

The track narrows from Hogsmeade onwards, becoming a single line as it travels further north into more remote areas of Scotland

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BF calling D'Artagnan Please respond.

[dragonesk]

I'm in position overhead the tra...errm target, and awaiting instructions

Violet (Tonks) calling BF...

[hl_npc]

I see you big boy. Woooooooooohahahaa!

BF calling Violet

[dragonesk]

Wotcha Vi! We're on time, just like the train eh?

Violet calling BF

[hl_npc]

Yeah... Let's hope we can pull this one off. That train's moving really fast.

Calling All Lights

[a_lycoctonum]

According to our spotter, target will be in position in five minutes. Form up over the target and take the signal from me to land as a group.

Violet, you know your assignment, get it done as quickly as possible. ((Assume unknown codename for Arthur is here)) take the last carriage. Everyone else, divide evenly. We should be facing four guards in each of the center two carriages. Let's take them out before they have a chance to harm any of the prisoners. A reminder...try to remember which carriages you take both guards and prisoners from. We want to put the dopplegangers back in the correct spots if possible. Good luck, everyone.

Violet responding to All lights.

[hl_npc]

Right you are, D'artagnion.
I'm moving into position above the carri ~cough splutter~

Arrgh ~cough~ Smoke ~cough~ smuts in my eyes. ~unintelligeable babble and several swearwords loud and clear~
Yeah, people, don't fly right behind the
~cough cough cough~

Bognor responding to All lights.

[shacklebolt_k]

~calm and ever so slightly smug~
I'm up alongside the engine with Violet here.

Violet responding to All lights.

[hl_npc]

There's a muffled coughing and something that sounds suspiciously like 'Yeah alright, cleverclogs..'

Calling All Lights

[a_lycoctonum]

The small group on broomsticks moves into position over the carriages, matching their speed to that of the train...one figure, three, two and one more. Once everyone is in position, they get a brief message...

"Everyone ready? Land and go!"

Carriage One - rooftop.

[hl_npc]

The carriage sways and rocks, a plume of sooty vapour billowing inconveniently at what would be head height, if the train wasn't moving far too fast for anyone to stand upright. Still, the wind is whistling past abrasively, and the smuts from the engine are enough to make anyone's eyes water.

Re: Carriage One - rooftop.

[shacklebolt_k]

Kingsley swerves to dodge a particularly healthy stream of smoke as he darts south along the body of the train, waving to the cloaked figures he passes as he goes.

Carriage One - rooftop.

[hl_npc]

After some skilled manoevering, Tonks landed on her hands and knees on the roof of carrage one, and paused for a moment.
Bugger.
Nothing like a heavy landing to alert whoever was inside that there was something up.
Tonks paused to shield her eyes from the streaming wind, her face already streaked with soot. She had chosen her position carefully, and hoped to land just inside the connecting door of the carriage. Concentrate, now. Right.. Right, yes..
Down, about eight foot should do it.

~crack~

Immediately the howling wind died away, and it took her a moment or two to become used to the quiet. Wand drawn and at the ready, she opened her streaming eyes and looked about cautiously.
Ah.
Oopsie.She shrugged. Well there were worse places to land she supposed. With a quiet sigh, she extracted one sodden foot from the toilet bowl and listened carefully. Apart from the relentless sound of wheels on track, there were no sounds, nothing to indicate that anyone was aware of her presence

Re: Carriage One - rooftop.

[hl_npc]

The corridor is lit by lamps both within the compartments and spaced along the corridors. Between the lamps there are pools of shadow, and the windows are smeary and ghosted with reflections. The last compartment and the last lamp are in darkness, and a faint sparkle of lamplight from further up the corridor shows a scattering of smashed glass on the floor.

A Death Eater is here.

"What do you think I am, deaf? Drop your wand and move into the light."

Carriage Two - rooftop.

[hl_npc]

The carriage sways and rocks, a plume of sooty vapour billowing inconveniently at what would be head height, if the train wasn't moving far too fast for anyone to stand upright. Still, the wind is whistling past abrasively, and the smuts from the engine are enough to make anyone's eyes water.

Re: Carriage Two - rooftop.

[shacklebolt_k]

At this carriage, Kingsley slows, dipping and weaving as he turns and matches his speed to the carriage roof.

Bognor to all Lights: ready when you are.

Re: Carriage Two - rooftop.

[a_lycoctonum]

Slowly Remus drops closer and closer to the carriage roof, matching speed with the train and laying virtually flat on his broom. As gently as possible, he touches down and lays prone against the roof of the carriage for a moment, thankful to have landed in one piece

Carriage Two

[hl_npc]

The glass in the door shatters, exploding outwards towards Remus, followed by a sweeping crackle of green energy.
Screams can be heard from within the compartment.