Shop name: Arcane Investigations
Shop Type: This is the main office and research center for Arcane Investigations, a magical detective agency.
Location: I was thinking Hogsmeade, but if you feel it would serve better at another location, I'm cool with that.
Subforum? If accepted I would get the Shopkeeper Subscription
Short Description (50 words max): Missing wizard? Missing wand? Charm gone awry? Stuck with nasty curses? Call Arcane Investigations for all your mysterious magical needs.
Long Description (200 words min): The building was tall and thin like the owner. It appeared to be two stories tall. The top floor had one window facing the street and looked to be a simple apartment. The bottom floor had two bay windows on either side of a glass door. All were dingy and hard to see into. The sign over the door looked faded, though it wasn't very old. In golden letters it read:
Arcane Investigations
Proprietor, Cyrillian Darkmoon
Inside, the room appears larger than it did from the outside. A large wooden desk sits in the center of the room, two high backed chairs in front of it, and a smaller, more mobile chair behind it. Globes of light hang from the ceiling, bathing the room in soft pools of light, leaving some areas in shadow. Shelves and bookcases line the walls.
Books, hundreds, maybe thousands line the walls. On shelves are many relics of past adventures and deeds. Broken wands, strange cloaks, amulets, weapons, all of them rest on stands and displays around the room.
Two doors lead out from behind the room, which serves as an office. One door leads to stairs which lead up to the private apartments above. The other door leads to the back room where the investigators practice their skills, store their discoveries, and sometimes, house those they have contained.
Often the owner and lead investigator can be found sitting behind the desk, studying new cases and preparing. He is Cyrillian Darkmoon and after years serving a professor at Hogwarts and fending of attacks from numerous dark wizards, he has decided to put his talents to use for the wizards around him.
It is common in the wizarding world for people to go missing, for spells to have unforeseen effects, for family heirlooms and powerful artifacts are stolen. Now, Cyrillian Darkmoon is the man to find them. Using detective skills, investigative magic, and his own formidable knowledge of the world around him, Cyrillian takes all cases big and small. From aiding Ministry officials in recovering lost Roman artifacts, to helping the old witch on the corner recover his missing kneazle, he and the teams he chooses to surround himself with strive their hardest to solve all cases. If magic has gone wrong, Cyrillian is your man.
What purpose will this shop serve other than selling things and being the home of your character? Why would people want to RP there just for fun? This shop/office would serve as a means for people to have a more adventurous role-play. Citizens of Elsewhere and students and staff from Hogwarts alike would be able to use the shop to enhance their own personal stories. It would be a place to flesh out family histories, to start story lines that would lead to high adventure and exploration elsewhere, and allow different groups to interact. With the upheaval of the war, families would be searching for relatives or heirlooms that had gone missing. Students from Hogwarts could serve as interns if allowed by the Administration and assist in investigations. It would also serve as a place to launch plots by me as a way of getting more RPing in Elsewhere.
