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

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

For the love of everything, could we please have a conversation that doesn't involve Black's bollocks (or comparable equipment) and the rocking thereof?

I believe we were talking about MY world. Merlin, what does a bird have to do around here?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

...Come over to my place?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume this was directed at me.

Ten minutes?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

You'd better run if you hope to beat me.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Fido, I will beat you.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

With your stick?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

I was gonna go for my fists, but I do have that baseball bat...

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Play nice, boys.

Black, do not make me pull out one of my many blackmail subjects on you. I'll do it!

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Oh, do it, do it!

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

I like to play naughty.

And...do it. I double dog dare you.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Well, let's see... So many to choose from.

Oh, I know! Remember that dive Muggle bar we had to go to, the one in London? And our contact didn't show up, and you got pissed off of some really wretched whiskey and loudly proclaimed, to the whole sodding bar, that you were madly in love with Minerva McGonagall? That's not the best part, though. You then stumbled up to the stage, picked up the mic, and started singing 'Wind Beneath My Wings'. Which wouldn't have been SO bad, except it wasn't Karaoke Night. And the 'mic' was actually the hand of some bloke you pulled up on stage. And then, if I recall, used him as an air guitar. Though you did make nice with that bartender...Tiny, was it? Or Butch. I get those two confused.

I have more, Black. You know I do. ~_^

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

Tiny...was not so tiny after all. ~_^

And come on. Minerva McTartan is HOT. You know she's got to be a beast in bed. Don't tell me you don't have even the smallest girlcrush on her. I mean, think of how ravishing she must look when she lets her hair down. She is the wind beneath my wings.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Hey, Fido.

DID YOU EVER KNOW THAT YOU'RE MY HERO?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

Am I everything you wish you could be?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[coxinsox.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on, be a little more ashamed of yourself. I mean, Bette Midler?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

We don't have to talk about it. ~_^

And I already offered to rectify the situation with your world.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

You're right - let's just drop the matter all together. Hands off, zipped lips - with all double meanings attached. :)

How many times must I tell you? My world? Rocked. Muchly. On a regular basis. No world rocking needed beyond what I've already had. :p

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

Homsar does it with no hands, you know. But unfortunately, even I am not that talented.

How 'bout I rock your moon?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

...Really, I could stand to not hear details about that. Ever.

No, Black. You may not rock anything of mine. Cheeky bugger. ;)

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

How about your socks?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

My socks are mine, and therefore fall under the aforementioned 'no rocking' statement. Nice try. XD

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

And if you're wearing Cox's socks?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

You'll just have to ask him, then, won't you?

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[toujours-sirius.livejournal.com]

I've already hit that.

Re: Screened for the three conversants

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

His socks? I don't think I want to know details. :p