[identity profile] tick-justice.livejournal.com

“SPOOON!”

The cry was followed by a deafening crash as a gigantic man in blue plowed headfirst into the solid flagstones of the Sorting Room, hard enough to leave sizeable cracks.

Yes, the Tick, Guardian of The City, the Mighty Blue Avenger, has come to Hogwarts. And landed on his head.

Woozily he sat up, clapping a hand to his forehead. “Ugh, gravity is a harsh mistress.”

He looked up, hearing a weird scratchy sound. The Tick stood and walked over to the podium that held the application as well as the impatiently hovering dictaquill.

“A test, eh?” he muttered. He started when the dictaquill wrote his answer. “Oh keen!”


Like you were expecting something deep )

[identity profile] yggdrasilgnawer.livejournal.com
((Apped with approval from relevant characters. Apologies to the mods for taking ages to post this up, RL's been getting in the way.

ETA: Sorry for the massive slow down on replying! Am currently in another country for boring work stuff. I also get to see Dethklok... twice. \m/ RL's very hectic right now, I'll get back to tagging regularly when I'm less frazzled.))


His purpose thus fulfilled, not even Nidhögg could resist the pull of the Sorting Room any longer. He made use of his forelimbs to gain purchase as he climbed the castle's steep walls, his great leathery wings fanning out, large enough to block out the returned sun and cast the castle into shadow. Perhaps due to some enchantment or other his claws and the sheer bulk of his weight did no harm to the stone.

He investigated several openings in the walls before eventually finding one large enough to permit him partial entry. Bowing his head through it, he continued to writhe until he was able to squeeze his forelimbs through as well, and paused there, peering at his surroundings. The rest of his body remained coiled about the castle outside.

The room, though large and spacious by human standards, felt cramped to the dragon, and an impatiently tapping quill was for the moment his only company there. Then a disembodied voice was addressing him...

For aeons I have gnawed at the roots... )

"I have read the hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. N.
I have read the hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. N.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. N.
One day, marmalade will rule the world. N."
[identity profile] kingbandit.livejournal.com
Jing is a thief. He lives to steal secrets and the representations of grief or pain from their owners. Hogwarts is rife with such secrets, but there is the matter of deciding just what to steal and when and whether he'd truly get away with it.

Then, there is the open challenge he has out to another thief, but the time isn't right yet. So many things happen that keep that particular prize from achieving the value it should have before it's reclaimed.

He's seen the compy lab and wondered about it. Does it hold secrets to steal? The best way to find out is to try. And Jing is one to be rather direct, issuing warnings of his intent. The lab is perfect for this as well.

A brief introductory session, interrupted by a tapestry behind him and the house elf showing him the system bursting into flames, and Jing understands much more than he was shown. In the manner of mischief common to boys and thieves, he makes a post under the name "ODorobou," since he is not one to hide just who and what he is.

Everyone has secrets, things they hide--or think they do--that they don't want anyone else to know. The problem with those secrets is the harder you try to hide them, the more valuable and more vulnerable they become. Unburden yourself. Reveal your secrets and be free of them.


Another fire behind him makes him decide to wait elsewhere, but he'll check back periodically to see just what secrets he collects.

This may be one of the easier heists he's pulled, if it works.
[identity profile] my-soul-itches.livejournal.com
Dear Ms. Granger,

Hi! I know you don't know me, but I ran into some friends of yours who told me to write to you. Harry Potter and Sirius Black? Anyway, they said that I should probably talk to you.

The point is, I need to know about Defense Against the Dark Arts. Like, a lot. And since you're the teacher and all, you do seem like the best person to ask. I know you don't have any classes scheduled, but hopefully you can at least point out some useful books or something. Do witches and wizards have instructional videos?

Sincerely,
Megan Gwynn, Gryffindor and X-man
[identity profile] charlesofdensen.livejournal.com
[[Backdated to the early morning after this.]]

After so many years working for Dethklok, it takes a lot to stress Ofdensen out enough that he just needs a smoke.

Ironically enough, the last time he did so was during Skwisgaar's attempted firing of Toki. What is it with the Scandinavians that stressed him out?

Anyway.

When he had an opportunity to sneak away for an hour or so, Ofdensen left the hospital wing, first to stop at Ravenclaw to bum a cigarette from Matt, then to the Astronomy Tower.

There he sat against the wall, smoking the bummed cigarette to calm down a bit.
[identity profile] toujours-sirius.livejournal.com
It may or may not have been coincidental, but at almost the exact same time, eight figures walked through the front door of Hogwarts and into the Entrance Hall. Well, seven walked. The eighth blibbled.

The godfather, the reluctant hero, and the marshmallow )

The rhinoceros )

The jokester )

The swan )

The boss and the receptionist )

((Time to officially end my unofficial hiatus! Please feel free to throw your characters at any or all of these guys, gals, and marshamallowy-type creatures! Emmie Silvey is still on hiatus, but I will bring her back in a separate post sometime in the nearish future. :) ))
[identity profile] mindwiper-et.livejournal.com
Evan blinked, looking down at his hands and realizing that, somehow, he was back in his own adult body. His hair wasn't the wild mop that he'd had in Sunnyvale Institution and he had his real clothes back.

As used as he was by now to regaining consciousness in absolutely strange situations, he honestly expected something different to happen after having sacrificed himself in his mother's womb.

He didn't have any answers as to what result it had gotten him -- whether his mother, Lenny, Tommy -- Kayleigh or even Thumper were at all okay. God, he hoped so.

Evan let out a breath and then another, collecting himself. He was more than used to this crap by now. He would deal. He had to. Looking around and getting his bearings, Evan's eyes tracked across a desk with parchment and a quill sitting ready.

Noting the sconces on the walls, Evan put two and two together and figured he had possibly gone back quite a few centuries more than he'd meant to, thus possibly erasing himself from the timeline altogether.

Well, hell, it was still the intended result. Evan walked over to the table, noting a series of questions written on the parchment. A survey? What the hell year is it, anyway?"

Picking up the quill and playing with it, one-handed, Evan read over the series of questions, figuring he obviously had some time to kill. He might as well write something in the meantime. Maybe that paper he had been meant to turn in before Kayleigh's funeral. After the questions, of course.
This can't be any weirder than anything else I've done... )
[identity profile] callmewednesday.livejournal.com
The Ancient Runes classroom: no frills, no fancy equipment. It contained rows of desks, a lectern, a chalkboard upon which angular letters had been drawn.

For the present occasion, it also contained a properly berobed Mr. Wednesday. He had stuck a sign on the door reading "Ancient Runes class in session", the date, and the time. This room had long stood in disuse, and Wednesday well knew what uses the students found for Hogwarts' surfeit of empty classrooms — not that he cared as a general rule, but his class session should not be interrupted by trysting youths, karate kids, or Michael Scott.

'Where, when, and why runes were invented are matters for dispute, and are often disputed. Luckily these questions are not our concern.' -- R.I. Page, An Introduction to English Runes )
[identity profile] pixie-jenks.livejournal.com

There was a shifting among the giant kernels of popcorn. A single large kernel appeared in the corridor and popped with a rather loud bang. Instead of a normal-sized human, a pixie about the size of a large dragonfly appeared out of the resulting mess. A very handsome, but grumbling and butter-sodden pixie.

 “Tink’s undies, where in the Turn am I now?” he muttered, wiping the butter out of his blonde hair and the grains of salt off his tunic. Jenks stood up and regarded his wings. “Oh gross, it’s gonna take forever to clean those off!” he moaned."Rachel if this is your idea of a joke, I will pix you for a week!"

 Satisfied that he had shaken off enough of the oily residue to take off, Jenks zipped about the corridor, his wings clattering loudly and leaving a trail of brightly colored dust in his wake, a sure sign of his annoyance. When he had cleared his nose of the overpowering smell of butter, Jenks sniffed the air. He knew this place!

 Right, right. The magical school in.. whereverhewas. He pulled  a tiny bandana with the crest “Gryffindor” embroidered on it out of his belt and mopped his face off. He didn’t smell fairies, which was good, but he did smell all manner of strange creature. The magic felt off somehow, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

 Wait.. did he smell elves?

Three owls

Aug. 3rd, 2009 03:18 pm
[identity profile] my-soul-itches.livejournal.com
One owl carries a homemade card to the staff of the Hospital Wing )




One owl carries a note and a fruit basket to Igor )




The last owl carries a letter and a clean blue handkerchief to Laura de Winter )
[identity profile] shoggies.livejournal.com

A very concise history of the Shoggies.

The Shoggies are a cracky version of Lovecraft's Shoggoths, and when they speak of other Mythos creatures, they will be speaking of the cracky UVoD versions, hence "Cthulhoo" instead of the proper "Cthulhu", "Nyarly" instead of "Nyarlathotep", etc. There's about 20-some shoggies currently swarming the Sorting Room, but with Shoggies, this is a very mutable number.

Shoggy: "Sooo cool!"

SPLAT! The sound of a Shoggy, falling, through a non-euclidean hole in space, and hitting the floor to break into multiple Shoggies.

Shoggies: "Oooh, hi there Shoggy!" "Oh hi Shoggy, are you new or am I new?" "Oooh, what's this?" "Sooo cool!" "Tekeli-li!" "Did someone summon us? Can we eat them?" "I need an eye! I don't have any eyes!"

The sound of multiple Shoggies, now scattered around the Sorting Room, most on the floor, but a few are draped over the furniture. The strange beings are amorphous masses of quivering pink flesh, spotted with seemingly random and shifting eyes and and teeth- although a few of the Shoggies haven't been lucky enough to end up with an eye after the splattering impact. Even the tiniest bit of Shoggy quivers with a unearthly sentience.

The shoggies mill around the Sorting Room, apparently fascinated by their new environment, which is apparently 'sooo cool' by most of their estimates. Amidst a idiotic babbling of 'new' Shoggies introducing themselves to the others can be heard the occasional pertinent statement.

Shoggy 1: "What's this, Shoggy?"

Shoggy 5: "It's a paper! It's sooo cool! I bet it invoked us!"

Shoggy 7 3/4 : "What's it say? I don't have an eye!"

Somehow, despite the general cacaphony of stupid babbling, a few of the Shoggies manage to focus their attention, if not their non-existent intellect, upon the application.

Read more... if you dare! (Seriously. There's not much dumber than a Shoggy.) )

"I have read the [info]hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. _Shoggies_
I have read the [info]hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. _Shoggies_
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. _Shoggies_
One day, marmalade Great Master Cthulhoo will rule the world. _Shoggies_
[identity profile] guy-from-mars.livejournal.com
Valentine Michael Smith was still grokking the great goodness that was Hogwarts, and humanity in general. His perceptions of all of these things were still a bit skewed, but his heart was in the right place.

He'd stumbled onto the computer lab, and, after watching a few discussions, he eventually decided he ought to start his own.

Consequently, a post appeared on the Hogwartsnet under the username "water_ brother":

Attention Hogwarts students!

These are truths I have discovered during my time among the peoples of Earth, most especially during my long sojourn with the giant squid, whose wisdom is beyond measure and who has taught me much of life. Would that I could introduce all of you to him, that you might grok him, in your own turn, with greater fullness:

God is love.
All sentient beings are capable of love.
You are a sentient being who is capable of expressing love.
Therefore, thou art God.

Why not express your own love to your fellow Hogwarts students? Use this space to say something nice to someone you have met. You need not sign your name, as I grok that makes some people uncomfortable.
[identity profile] g-wormtongue.livejournal.com
He could delay no longer. As the Hat grew impatient, its threats grew more outlandish. Gríma sat down before the "rune-box" to compose a Proclaimation. He typed slowly, hunting for every letter as he did, a translation charm filled in capital letters, punctuation, and removed archaic language.

>>Hear my words, all Men of Castle Hogwarts:

The Hat himself has bid me serve as councilor. By means of the "computer" anyone who seeks advice may put their question into the box, or have their scribe do it for them. Once they have provided the necessary information, they may speed their question to me by pressing ENTER. The questions, I will keep close to my heart and ponder. I will attempt to answer, drawing on my experience. Though I may not reveal my true name here, (so sayeth the Hat), be assured that for many years I have served faithfully as a most trusted advisor. I welcome all questions.

May you remain well,
Swordkeeper


It was short and not written in blank verse at all, but he got a certain satisfaction as he pushed ENTER. What better way to learn the troubles of Hogwarts? And all without leaving a little room.
[identity profile] angelicbadboy.livejournal.com
Brice took Twoey on a walk around the lake most every day, because though she was a pretty small dog, she never quite seemed to run out of energy. Now lately she had taken to teaching herself how to swim. It definitely interrupted the walk, but since Brice was usually putty in Twoey's paws, he allowed her to play and splash as much as she wanted while he sat making sure she didn't drown herself.

"Not so far out!" he called out and whistled. "Twoey, get back here!"

The little brown dog came up on land and shook water out of her fur before trotting up to her master, where she got a treat and a pat for her trouble. Brice was always very generous with treats.
[identity profile] my-soul-itches.livejournal.com
San Francisco was rioting.

Herein bad things happen, with spoilers for about half of 'Dark Avengers/X-men: Utopia #1.' )

"Sihal novarum chinoth!"

With a rush of magic, she 'ported herself back to Hogwarts and just barely held back from puking all over the stone hallway.

"I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay," she muttered to herself, trying to convince herself that it was true. She wiped at her nose, smearing more blood on her face, and wiggled her wings experimentally. They hadn't been broken again. That was something. As for the rest of her... her bright yellow shirt was a ruin, spattered with dirt and blood from her nose, mouth, and a gash on her forehead. One side of her face hurt from where a really big guy had punched her with his really big fist. And her head really, really hurt from where she had knocked it falling down onto the pavement.

She briefly wondered if leaving Hogwarts to go rejoin the X-men in San Francisco had been such a great idea after all. Getting beat up several times (twice by anti-mutant jerks), having another part of her soul stolen, and helping to fend off an invasion of religious zealot aliens as well as crazy, scantily clad women all pointed to "maybe not."

"Okay. I can do this." She swiped at her nose again, leaving yet another streak of blood across her hand and started forward shakily. Not that she really knew where she was going. It had been a long time since she had been here, after all, and she hadn't known her way around very well then, either. "A little help?" she called, hoping someone would hear her.
[identity profile] shaychlendel.livejournal.com
((Tylendel Frelennye from Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books. This is set after his very dramatic suicide, following the death of his twin brother and Companion (magical talking horse). He is now revived, confused, and blocking out all the Very Bad Things that led up to his death.
I have permission to apply from the other Valdemar mun.))

It was very dark for a moment or two, and Tylendel's head had gone from splitting headache to sudden, deathly calm. He couldn't really put his finger on why - the fragmented memories of the past few hours were indistinct - but he felt... very lonely. Like a good friend had just left him behind. Like the first time he had been too far away from Staven to feel their mutual link.

And Gala... where was Gala? Why did it hurt to think about that?

Nevermind, his head was too foggy, and he was in an unfamiliar room. He noticed the desk, and the upright quill, and immediately went to it, being the most prominent figure in the room.

This is new and interesting... )
[identity profile] damien-thorn.livejournal.com
It was finished. )

Damien stepped out of his room and locked the door out of habit. It didn't really matter now. A celebration was in order. Private would be fine, but a quick check of the calendar had told him that he'd be justified in a public celebration, too. He'd hit small milestone: thirty-five years old today, and he'd barely noticed. Either way, a drink was in order. The bar in Slytherin was just minutes away, but the walk to Ravenclaw would clear his head after the intense concentration.
[identity profile] callmewednesday.livejournal.com
It was his day. Why not?

The professor of Ancient Runes stuck a ragged half-sheet of parchment on his office door. It read:

Come on in, the water's fine.

He left the door ajar, to underscore the point. Inside the office, he sat with his Kiss Me, I'm Half-Veela! mug half-full of whiskey, and desultorily leafed through Ted Andersson's thoughts on Kormáks saga in The Icelandic Family Saga.


It is curious how awkwardly the saga authors respond to the notion of love even when their narrative is primarily concerned with it. They recognize the phenomenon but are unable to regulate its expression,


Andersson wrote. Wednesday arched a brow, reading on.

The only outlet the men are able to find for their emotions is the composition of stanzas in the frosty court meter, stanzas which are more often calculated to injure a rival than to enhance a lady. While we sense a little more warmth in some of the women, they too are curiously inexpressive.


"Ha."

The saga author is less well able to cope with partial or suspended or divided feelings.


"Bullshit. The saga author had some fucking perspective on feelings, compared to the whiny callow youths of today -- or of his continental contemporaries for that matter."

If some callow Hogwarts youth didn't come to take up some of Wednesday's time, he might end up working himself into a sufficient lather to attend some academic conference or other, or at least write a cryptic letter to the editor of Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. Please, someone distract him from his curmudgeonliness.
[identity profile] hobbitwithaplan.livejournal.com
The door of the Sorting Room opens, and what looks like a small, curly-headed child walks in, holding a pipe. Only, rather than a small child, the figure is instead rather a tall hobbit; and in taking in the proportions of the room he finds himself in, he looks perhaps understandably confused.

Still, he is well-versed in travel, and more used to Mannish structures than most hobbits would be. It only takes a few moments for him to find the application parchment, which he fills out with growing curiosity - occasionally looking up, still alert for his errant cousin or some other inhabitant of his sprawling, underground mansion.

Pippin...? )

((OOC: I'm taking Merry from book-canon, just after the Scouring of the Shire. So he does have a silly, irresponsible side, it's just... not as blatant as movieverse!Merry's.))
[identity profile] x-dawnstar-x.livejournal.com
Dawnstar stepped into the time portal the Legion had opened in Superman's Fortress of Solitude, leaving the 21st century behind. Light enveloped her, and she stepped out...

...into a cold stone room, facing a wooden table with a quill pen and a stack of parchment sheets.

She turned her head to the right, then to the left, and back to face front. To a casual observer it would look as though she were perfectly still, but in fact she was quite busy. She extended her mutant tracking sense out around her in all directions, plotting a grid and placing references upon it. She marked two individuals known to her within the building, Star Boy and Brainiac 5, and recognized two more - Superman and Batman - present but muffled in a way she had never encountered. She also sensed dozens of energy signatures unknown to her, and dozens more muffled signals in the building. The number was difficult to pin down, as if occupancy were somehow in flux.

Earth. Scotland. But when? On impulse she focused her enhanced senses upward to the planet Thanagar, her temporary home until a few days before; searched for one energy signature dear to her, and found it. Still in the 21st century, then. Is this what happened to Thom?

Then and only then did she turn her attention to the table before her.
Lord I'm wasted/And I can't find my way home )

"I have read the [livejournal.com profile] hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. _Dawnstar_
I have read the [livejournal.com profile] hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. _Dawnstar_.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. _'knickers'?_.
One day, marmalade will rule the world. _Dawnstar_"

This app has been approved by Brainiac 5-mun and by Starman-mun (who happens to be me).

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