ooc addendum for reality show participants!

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Sortings!

The Hat loves Sortings. It would never dream of making people miss them. Therefore, reality show participants will be brought to Sortings in the Hat's limousines whenever they wish. As soon as they're done talking to the person being Sorted, of course, the house elves will escort them back to Hat Shore. Addition in answer to a mun question: Unpopcornings don't involve Sorting or a Hat, so they don't fall under this category.

Hat Shore regeneration

Furniture, artwork, etc. are breakable. The actual walls, doors, etc. are not breakable and will regenerate immediately to resume the form the Hat had chosen. Same goes for the dome.

(Of course, if OOCly you want your character to leave Hat Shore for good, we can arrange for the Hat to ICly banish them or vote them off or something. The indestructability of Hat Shore and its dome allow characters who'd ICly want to leave, but whose muns want them on the show, to stay. ;) And if they didn't want the characters on the show, of course, they wouldn't have signed up.)

Answers to more Hat Shore questions as raised in chat and elsewhere~

Items from outside: House elves can bring your character things from the school if your character already owned the item, if the item is not alive, and if the item is smaller than a breadbox. They won't bring anything you didn't already own, i.e., no runs to Hogsmeade.

Staff: House elves are not staffing the house as maids/housekeepers the way they do in the school, because the Hat wants to see people have to cook and do chores. The kitchen is fully stocked with all manner of ingredients. The house elves will escort/chauffeur characters to and from Sortings, will prevent their escape from the dome in such situations, and will escort characters to and from reality-show events that take place outside the dome.

While we're at this ooc-commenting thing ... possibilities:

- Valentine can dose the dome with some kind of palliative and/or giggle-inducing happy drug. (Vlad's mun admits: "really, I just want to see a Very High Beowulf.") This could chill some characters out if they're unhappy but their players want to keep them in the dome. It could also make for some amusing times

- The Hat has put those musical instruments in the garage with vague ideas of some musical challenge. Hogwarts Idol, if you will. Anyway, song suggestions would be awesome. So far, the only one on the list is Map of Tasmania (nsfw) ...

Peace and Quiet ((open rp))

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John sat comfortably in a corner of Ravenclaw’s bar, nursing a scotch. The prank war was finally over and everyone was back to their appropriate age. Calm had descended on his family, at least for now. He spun the glass between his fingers, watching the amber liquid swirl in the half light. While he had been gone, his family had grown. Bobby had become a second father to Sam and Dean; he was glad for that. It was the angel that he hadn’t quite figured out yet. He was.. odd.

 

It was obvious that the boys thought pretty highly of him. They had been in a near panic when their spell had misfired and didn’t rest until Castiel had been found. And the angel had been wearing his watch for fuck’s sake. The watch he had left to Sammy after he died. John didn’t want to admit how much that stung. They had fought so much when he was a kid; he had hoped that Sammy would have wanted to hold on to just one small piece of him, some reminder that his Dad loved him.

 

He sat back, continuing to fiddle with the glass as he let his thoughts drift.