Travelling hand (Open RP!)

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

Since stealing Jaime Lannister's golden hand, Arya had spent more time than usual in her room in Gryffindor. Mostly she stared at it as it sat on a dusty low table, thinking. Starks were not good schemers, as a whole. Ideas for what to do with it had been thought up and considered, and eventually put aside. Put it in a privy somewhere? Well, he had killed Jory, and Heward, and Wyl. And probably lots of other people besides, along with the old mad king. But he had also said that he wanted to kill Queen Cersei, too, so... maybe not that, then.

At least, not unless he did something really horrid here.

At last, she decided on an appropriate punishment for being a Lannister who killed her father's men and broke oaths and probably did all sorts of other things besides, and set out to do so. Around Hogwarts, the golden hand appeared for short lengths of time, variously adorned, and hexed to fixtures, unable to be removed. Until, of course, Arya decided that it was time for it to move on again.

The hand appeared:
-Taped to a stick in the Great Hall. The stick is tied to a table and unable to be removed; a scrap of parchment with "FREE BACKSCRATCHER" scrawled on it lies next to it.
-Glued to a keyboard in the compy lab.
-Seeming to hold a big pink flower, wedged in a low fork in a tree close to the greenhouses.
-Being used to stir a pot of soup in the kitchens by an irritated-looking house elf.
-Covered in silver glitter in front of DETHTOWER.

((Arya will mostly be hanging around in the background and watching people gawk at the hand. If you want to interact with her, leave a note in the subject line! Otherwise she's just flaunting that Jaime has no hand.))

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Arya might want to intervene. . . I couldn't resist. =D

[shoggies.livejournal.com]

"What is it?" "It's soooo cool!" A crowd of DETHTOWER Shoggies had gathered about the silver-glittered hand. None of them had approached it too closely yet, and the hand sat amidst a circle of the amorphous horrors. "It's a hand!" Shoggy 15 declared, finally identifying the vaugely familiar item. "It is!" agreed Shoggy 8. "It's definitely a sooo cool hand!" "Soooo cool!" "I've always wanted a hand!" piped Shoggy 6.6. "Me too!" another Shoggy declared, followed by the rest. "Soooo happy!" the Shoggies declared in near-unison.

"We have a hand!" "Or does DETHTOWER have a hand?" Now that the hand was identified, the Shoggies had to figure out what to do with it, and a little debate arose. "It's set here like an offering so maybe it's for Great Master Cthulhoo and we need to take care of it," suggested Shoggy 22. "Maybe it grew there, like a plant," was Shoggy 13 1/3's proposal. "Or it's actually a present for us, that would be sooo cool!" Shoggy 6.6 suggested hopefully.

After another hour or so of debate, the Shoggies decided that the hand was either a present for DETHTOWER/Great Master Cthulhoo/Themselves, or, that it was a hand-plant that had grown there, and in that case, it was a present for all three. The hand remained untouched, as all the Shoggies wanted it, and, had eventually come to the agreement of sharing it. Which meant they intended to leave it where it was, while keeping an eye on it. A small ring of four Shoggies was left guarding the hand, with frequent visitors to gawk at the hand, and occasional replacement shifts- this Shoggy-vigil would go on until Arya reclaimed the hand from its DETHTOWER location. . .

Re: Arya might want to intervene. . . I couldn't resist. =D

[a-jackson-mofo.livejournal.com]

Andrew Jackson was flying around, as was his wont. He had tried to attack the new dragon that took up residence around the Hogwarts grounds, but had been repelled by a Roar of Time, so he needed to bide his time.

The Shoggies would provide a distraction. As Andrew Jackson approached, he saw the hand they were guarding.

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[shoggies.livejournal.com]

A gigantic flying head? Shoggies had of course seen many weirder things, and, were unphased by this unusual personage. "Hi there!" Shoggy 6.6 piped. "You have a sooo cool head! Most heads shaped like that are little, and attached to other human-bits." "But the head is the best part, with the sooo cool and tasty brains!" Shoggy 22 added. "But we don't get to eat them here and We don't know who lost the hand!" "We think it's an offering, but we don't know who it is for," Shoggy 15 said. "It's not made of meat, we'd smell it if it was." "That's because it's made from sparkles," Shoggy 13 1/3 put in helpfully.

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[a-jackson-mofo.livejournal.com]

Andrew Jackson peered at the hand. ""

Re: Arya might want to intervene. . . I couldn't resist. =D

[shoggies.livejournal.com]

"Gold is made of sparkles, we can see them!" Shoggy 13 1/3 retorted. "And some of them are silver too, bitches!" added in Shoggy 22, of course entirely clueless as to what 'bitches' meant or its proper use in a statement. "What happened to the rest of you?" Shoggy 6.6 inquired. "Or can humans take their heads off and fly them around? Because if so, that's soooo cool."

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[a-jackson-mofo.livejournal.com]

not quite an intervention, but I'm too lazy to write up a freestanding unpopcorning post.

[fatherofwolves.livejournal.com]

Ned Stark remembered Hogwarts.

He'd found his own way to the baths and scrubbed himself clean of grease. He was finding it less easy to rid himself of postpopcorn haze, a sort of swimming feeling in his head. Also, he couldn't turn said head, so as he walked the corridors in a purposeful effort at reconnaissance and self-reorientation, he felt more vulnerable than he'd like. There was the feeling of being watched, of being unguarded from the back. It didn't help that a couple of times, when he did turn around fully to check behind him, there proved to be a house elf or a living portrait goggling at him, substantiating the uneasy sense of presence.

He found there were new places entirely, and he sought these out especially. Dethtower did not faze him in name or in appearance, not after the things he'd been through. What did give him pause, what stopped him in his tracks, was the spectacle of a golden hand surrounded by amorphous and animated gobbets of flesh.

"The Tower of the Hand," he mused.

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

((I fail at timely replies because I am so goddamned happy to have Arya finally be a kid and not a twenty-three year old playing a kid XD ))

The last time her father had come to Hogwarts, she had greeted him very dramatically (http://hogwarts-hocus.livejournal.com/1387157.html?thread=70663061#t70663061). This time, she had been watching for his return, and that of the rest of her family. It was not as terrible a surprise, and this time he was not carrying his head around under his arm, which was a relief.

Her voice caught in her throat, relieved and a little ashamed--she had let her usual daily visit to the popcorn room slip since stealing the Kingslayer's hand, preoccupied with thoughts of petty and satisfying revenge. "Father?"

She hoped he wouldn't be too angry with her for stealing someone's hand. After all, it was the Kingslayer's.

[shoggies.livejournal.com]

((Feel free for Ned and Arya to just ignore the murmuring Shoggies, they're just replying since Ned noticed them there. Ned can always scare them off somehow if desired. =D))

The little swarm of Shoggies had been on the verge of piping a greeting to Ned, and announcing that he had indeed come to the DETHTOWER OF THE HAND, when Arya appeared and approached him. They murmured amongst themselves quietly, mainly regarding the size differences in the two humans, which made it clear that Arya was indeed an extra-tiny one. And, apparently, she was the big one's offspring! "Sooo cool," the Shoggies murmured- as they reproduced asexually, families were a strange and different concept- and thus, so cool. "Do you think she's adoptionated like Shoggies?" Shoggy 13 1/3 wondered, referring to Toki and Skwisgaar's Shoggies, which the other Shoggies all seemed to pick up on, despite the unclear reference. They kept their murmurs quiet, somehow deciding that this wasn't a meeting to intrude on. "I don't know? How do humans make smaller humans, anyway? Do they cut part of their flaily-bits off and then they grow into little humans?" wondered Shoggy 8. By 'flaily-bits', it meant 'arms and legs'. "We could ask, maybe? When they aren't busy?" proposed Shoggy 6.6. Now, the Shoggies made no move to interrupt what seemed a potentially important reunion. . .

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

((No rush! God knows I took long enough on the response because... icons! And thanks for reminding me about Muggle Studies.))

Arya returned after some time, ready to move the Kingslayer's hand elsewhere on the grounds for more amusement. Only she couldn't, because it was being guarded by pink blobby things that she was fairly sure she'd seen before (http://hogwarts-hocus.livejournal.com/1882726.html). "What are you doing?" she said, approaching them warily. "That's not yours." It wasn't hers, either, but it was hers by the right of her taking it she was temporarily in charge of it, in a way. Until she decided that the hand should be returned.

[shoggies.livejournal.com]

A very small human! At least, the Shoggies were pretty sure that's what it was, and, that they'd seen her before. "Hello, very small human!" said Shoggy 22. "We are the Guards of the Hand!" "It's an offering for someone, we think. Do you know who it is for? We think that maybe it is for us, but it is probably for Great Master Cthulhoo, or maybe it is for DETHTOWER so we have to guard it for them," Shoggy 6.6 piped, to which Shoggy 8, who wasn't in the guard circle but was nearby added, "If it was it could be the DETHTOWER OF THE HAND!" "It's a soo cool hand," declared Shoggy 27, also nearby. "And it's made of sparkles." Shoggy 13 1/3 seemed to find this point rather important.

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

"Hello," she said warily. "Who are you?"

She chewed her lip in confusion for a moment, trying to puzzle out what they meant, and shook her head. She hadn't meant to leave the hand as an offering to anyone. "It's not really for anyone. I mean, I suppose it kind of is, but it's more a joke. Or a lesson. I don't know, really," she said, scratching at her head.

[shoggies.livejournal.com]

"We're Shoggies!" piped Shoggy 27. "I'm Shoggy, and that's Shoggy, and that's Shoggy, and that's Shoggy, and. . ." this went on for a moment, as Shoggy 27 pointed out every other Shoggy in sight with a pseudopod. "What's your name, very-small-human?" "We thought the hand was for Great Master Cthulhoo since people like to offer him things, and there's a temple for him in the DETHTOWER. But maybe it's for the tower, since the tower isn't anyone so then it wouldn't be for anyone?" A suprising bit of almost-logic from Shoggy 6.6. "Sooo cool, a lesson! We like those." said Shoggy 13 1/3- a couple of other Shoggies squelched closer, curious. "Do you know what it's supposed to be teaching us about?"