Application: Vesper Lynd, Casino Royale (2006)

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A wet, bedraggled body lay in a pool of salt water, a blood-red dress clinging to its curves. Presently the water seeped into the stone floor of the Sorting Room as if drawn in by suction, and a newly dry Vesper Lynd sat up with a series of convulsive, gasping coughs.

Once those subsided, she smoothed the skirt of her dress, once again its original cherry red. She had bought the dress early in their rambles, flush with the new romance, when she let herself believe she could forget. She'd put it on that morning hoping to recapture a bit of that feeling before walking out to betray England, and both her lovers.

She never wanted to wear it again.

She looked around at the venerable stone walls. "This can't be Venice. Too dry. And anyway, James killed the building."

A sudden draft blew a piece of parchment into her lap. She read it and laughed in surprise. "Well. Hell has an entrance exam. Should've known it would resemble Uni."
( 'I think I'll call it a Vesper.' 'Because of the bitter aftertaste?' 'No, because once you've tasted it, that's all you'll want to drink.' )

"I have read the hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. ___VL____
I have read the hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. _____VL______.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. _____VL______.
One day, marmalade will rule the world. __Oh_please._The_ego!__

((This app was done with the permission - and assistance! - of James Bond-mun.))

Meeting the peddler (sock, Yukimura, Kusuriyuri)

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((OOC: yes, they had to meet...demanding creatures. Kusuri uri is the dictionary spelling of Medicine seller. Kusuriyuri is a fansub spelling. Just to differentiate between the 'name' and the occupation. And hopefully no one will be confused...))

It had been some time since Yukimura had seen a real kusuri uri, a medicine peddler. The guise that Mibu Kyoshiro wore hardly counted as the man barely understood the wares he peddled, nor did he practice the other arts often associated with the wanderers. They were respected as not only physicians, but as wise men, bringers of news, even as priests and monks who did not wish to be bound to a temple. Kusuri uri like that were, while not exactly rare, were not exactly common, either, and to be respected and sought out, if they would be found.

To know that there was one here, within the walls of Hogwarts, and that he was a professor of divination, a subject that can be one of the most difficult to master, aroused Yukimura’s curiosity. While he’d been planning to seek this medicine peddler since he first heard of him, now seemed to be an opportune time to actually follow through with his plan. A casual conversation to see if indeed this professor was a true ‘oracle,’ to use Octavian’s word.

As he approached the office, Yukimura could feel the wards. He was familiar with them from his time on Kudoyama, from going to shrines. Fighting kenyou had made him more sensitive to them than he had been as a youth. These wards, though, were more powerful than the ones he’d felt before. More focused as well. Most interesting, he thought to himself as he tapped on the frame of the open door. “Pardon the intrusion,” he called into the office. The room was comfortably familiar. He could be at his own home, save for the stone walls behind the soji screens. Tatami mats on the floor, zabuton scattered about to sit upon, a low lacquered table with a casual tea set. Behind the table, a simple arrangement of flowers and branches for tranquility. Next to the table, the most unusual person he’d ever seen. Yukimura noticed the ears, pointed, standing out prominently around the head scarf. He also noticed he was being beckoned in.
( In the office )

Compy Post: Monsters comparing Notes

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On the Hogwartsnet, there is a new forum entitled, "Monsters, anyone?"
The first post is from someone with the Net handle carnie_barker and contains a picture of Beowulf, inexpertly manipulated to show him with his face in a bowl of porridge.

Below that, the message reads simply:

"Please tell me I'm not the only one that has been on a date with this guy."

((Compy post. Feel free to have your characters share any Beowulf-related wacky hijinks with the whole Hogwartsnet, sexually harass Oly, or whatever you feel like. Note, this is a forum, so it's the kind of thing that would require screennames. Just put the Net handle your character would use in the subject of your comment or put Anonymous if it's going to be an anonymous post.))