potions sign-up

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

The following is posted outside the Great Hall and in the common room of each House.

Potions class will be held the evening of 9 October (Monday, a week from today).  Those interested in taking Potions should sign up here. List your full name -- with the personal name, in Western order, preceding the surname -- as well as your House affiliation.  If you have no surname, supply the name of your place of origin, and that will be used as your surname. 

Questions should be directed to Mr McGinnis, the new teaching assistant for this course. Dr Maturin may be consulted in his office in the event that Mr McGinnis cannot answer your questions.

S. Maturin, potions master
T. McGinnis, potions assistant

(( OOC: The fine print.

I'd like you to choose your own groups of three or four OOCly -- you can arrange that in the comments to this post, or elsewhere -- but please let me know what you've decided.  This way, I can claim that the pairs were ICly assigned, which gives you the option of choosing partners that your character ICly doesn't know or even hates. Those characters whose players haven't let me know about a group placement by the day class is to be held will be assigned a group by Terry-mun and myself. I'll maintain a roster here for easy consultation.

I'll start posting stuff for the class at 8 pm Eastern Daylight Time of the night specified, but of course the RP can continue well into the following day(s) -- Stephen isn't going to interpret realtime as identical with gametime, so don't worry that you're going to get docked points or kicked out if you're not at the keyboard when I am.

The only way your char will be interpreted as having skipped class is if you tell me OOC that you want that. Otherwise, you can retroactively send Stephen or Terry an illness excuse or something of the sort. Ditto for interpretations of "leaving class early"; unless you tell me otherwise OOC, once your char shows up, they're interpreted as being there for the duration, since obviously Stephen isn't the sort to let people flit in and out of the room whenever they like.

A final note: Stephen is not inclined to hold personal 'detentions'. Characters who have genuine difficulty making their potion -- which will be a relatively foolproof one -- will be asked to serve a 'detention' with him that is in reality another chance for them to try to make the potion. Characters who are acting up or causing mischief in a way Stephen sees IC as being on purpose will be notified to serve a detention with Teatime, who is the caretaker currently handling detentions. I don't want to send anyone's char to Teatime without OOC consent and ideally advance planning, so I wanted to make that clear. However, you are welcome to plan "accidental" mishaps insofar as the fairly foolproof potions assignment permits, or if your character is known to have some handicap that Stephen can't fault them for -- e.g., Real!Ron wasn't held accountable for the misdeeds of Puppet!Ron.

Also. If you're signing up because you think it would be out of character for your char to pass up the class, but in reality you don't have the time/inclination to RP it out, please do go ahead and state that when you sign up! That way you won't let down a potential partner.

Enough said? Any questions, feel free to bug me. ))

Comments

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

If the bloke above me is going, count me in.

Sirius Black
Slytherin

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

You know it, baby.

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

And now you're below me, too! Well done!

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Oh, good grief...

Hey, Doc, can you keep this mongrel out of my group this time?

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

One word: Flask.

Another word: Bollocks.

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, too bad! You almost had me there, Fido. Swing and a miss.

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

Lob me one more and I might just score a home run.

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Hang on, I'm shaking my Magic 8-Ball just for you. Let's see what it says!

Oh, ouch. "Forecast looks bleak." Better luck next lifetime.

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

Do you want me to help you shake your ball?

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Well now, from what you tell me, you've got your hands plenty full with your own, and I wouldn't want to come between the two of you. I think I'll pass.

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

They are big. But, uh, it's the three of us. I do have two of them, you know.

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

All the more reason for me not to interfere! I hope you're very happy together.

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Funny, I was going to say the same thing.

(And do stop talking about your 'flask' and 'balls' and the comparative wonders of each. Neither would satisfy someone through the length of a whole class, anyway. XD)

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

And you would know...how? I don't recall you having taken a test run. ~_^

Screened for the three conversants

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I have.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

You did not drive the stick shift.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Fair point. Not looking to, either.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Well, I was assuming that 'flask' was just another clever name for your, er, package, and girls do talk, Black. I'd say that it was 'word of mouth', but I'm afraid of how you'd twist those words, so I'm simply going to fall back on the old 'locker room chat' explanation.

(And no, no, a thousand times no to the next words out of your mouth. I'll just stick with hearsay. :p)

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

Liar.

(You sure? :-*)

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

I never lie, Black.

(So beyond sure. O.o)

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

And the lies continue.

(Truly your loss, my dear. ;-) )

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Oh, please, Black. Why would I lie? The truth, setting free, all that.

(I think I'll manage. XD)

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

Because it helps you feel better about the fact that you were the only one who missed out, that's why.

(Just 'managing' doesn't sound like much fun to me. >>; )

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

Duly noted, Mr Black. You have been added to the course roster (http://estebanmd.livejournal.com/57193.html). Might Professor Homsar have an interest in sitting in, at all?

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

I relayed your query on to him, and his response was as follows: "I'm the other white meat!"

Make of it what you will. I'm stumped.