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This did not bode well as Wolfe had a full seventh of a ton to maneuver up those stairs. He detested even taking the stairs leading from his front door to the street. Granted, he detested leaving his home in general, but the stairs made the journey that much worse.
To add insult to the injury, the staircases did not behave properly. They moved on a whim, connecting and reconnecting with the floors above at random.
"Confound it," he muttered, looking for someplace to sit and think. How was anyone supposed to find their way around this ruddy school if it also refused to cooperate. He had a strong desire to return home and for a beer.
Even one of those would be acceptable. But neither seemed within his reach at present.
Even a cane would be an improvement.
[Open RP] Oh boy Secret Santa!
Dec. 27th, 2009 01:37 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
And where was the dog that arranged all this?
Er...he's sleeping on the table. Lots of yummy treats will do that to you.
[[OOC: Secret Santa gifts are here.
I know, four of you are missing gifts (well, two technically, since two of the characters are mine). Rest assured, you will be taken care of.
People who still haven't posted their gifts, you have until tomorrow to post them. Otherwise, one of the pinch hitters will do so instead.]]
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I think I was upstairs, in the attic, looking at those two twin beds I'd shoved so close together when it happened. I don't remember too clearly what I was doing, only that one moment I was at home, and the next I was here, dressed in my favorite leotard and pointes, in this drafty room. The chill in the air caused my nipples to harden, and I stared for a moment at my body, still supple and graceful even though I was nearly 30. Good golly dayy, but all the practicing I was still doing even though I no longer had a chance of being a prima balerina had kept my figure svelte and lithe! I had never had to worry about things like keeping post-pregnancy weight, nor did I have any stretch marks! I was beautiful, and I reveled in my beauty!
I glanced around the room, rubbing my arms to warm myself up. I was in a drafty stone hall. I wondered if I was back at Foxworth Hall somehow, then reminded myself that was foolish! The Grandmother and Grandfather hadn't gone for castles. Oh, their houses had been grand, but there was no glitter, nor were there any priceless objets d'art in the room. There was only a table, upon which rested a stack of papers, with a quill pen hovering over them.
Suddenly frightened, I ran to the door, pounding my fists against the wood, but nothing happened. I flung myself against it, trying to break it down, screaming for Chris, for Doctor Paul, for Julian, even for Bart, even though the latter three were now dead!
Nothing availed me, and eventually I felt a bit foolish. I walked over to the table and sagged heavily in a chair, staring at the papers. Surely someone had to come collect them! I couldn't just be locked in here forever, alone, without even my Christopher Doll for company... could I? And I might as well fill this paper out. It would give me something to do before I was rescued!
I have read the
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I have read the
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I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. Catherine Doll
One day, marmelade will rule the world. Catherine Doll
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It sounded like the worst pickup line in history, and really, James Bond had probably been waiting his whole life to say something like that. But the scorched suit, singed hair, and faint smell of smoke backed up his outlandish claim.
He was leaning against Vesper's door in Slytherin, with what he had salvaged in a bag next to him. By the way he had come prepared, he clearly wasn't expecting to be turned away.
Muggle Studies
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The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen wanted his first class to be practical and entertaining, so he had chosen "An Introduction to Muggle Weaponry" as the topic. In order to make the class interesting, he'd decided it would be a hands-on experience, and had negotiated with Basher Tarr to obtain an assortment of Muggle weapons, mainly a quantity of AK-47 assault rifles, along with plenty of ammunition. These had been marked with stenciled letters declaring them "Property of the Muggle Studies Department", and were now stacked up neatly on a table at the front of the room, near some crates bearing the same lettering, and a rocket launcher. A section of the room had been magically expanded, and turned into an indoor firing range, complete with human-shaped targets, and the usual classroom area was equipped with rows of neatly-lined desks.
The Baron remained in a large, comfortable chair at the front of the classroom, his assistant Jasper beside him, and chatted quietly with him about a few details of the lesson plan as he waited for the last students to arrive and seat themselves at the desks. When it seemed that no more were going to appear, he floated up and shut the door with a flick of his wand. The deep, melodic basso of his voice carried easily over the chatter.
"Welcome to Muggle Studies. The subject we'll be covering today is potentially dangerous, so pay attention!"
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It rose in the sky, bloody and shrieking, three weeks short of All Hallows' Eve. Having risen, it radiated visible rays of unclean light, a light which carried no warmth and lent a cast of jaundice-yellow to the objects thus illumined. Going outdoors was like trying on a new outfit in a fluorescent-lit fitting room. Everything looked subtly wrong.
Mostly its shrieks heralded nothing. They were disconcerting, and raised the hackles on the backs of animals; they caused a mild dyspepsia in some who heard the shrieks, though by no means all. Indeed, some sentient creatures remained unaffected altogether.
But then there were the rarer moments when the shriek of the Baby Sun signified the beginning of something strange. Phenomena that could best be described as Fortean.
The first of these, beginning with the sun's shriek at noon of the day it first rose over Hogwarts, was a rash of spontaneous fires afflicting inanimate and nonsentient objects. This took place not only on the grounds, but also within the castle. Students might reach for their books only to find the book beginning to smolder, then abruptly flaring into a tower of flame. A plate of food in the Great Hall might go to greasy ashes before the first forkful could be taken. The house elves seemed to be spared, at least for now. Pets were safe. But no inanimate object, no matter how cherished or sacred or essential, was immune.
The Baby Sun giggled its loathsome amusement and lolled in the sickly sky. The whole of the grounds lay bathed in its bilious light. Once a student stepped off the grounds, the normal and benevolent sun of Earth was the only sun visible. Yet all of Hogwarts remained under the Baby Sun's mysterious sway, and none could say why or wherefore.
Perhaps some intrepid students might seek to find an answer.
(( OOC: As usual with these kinds of events, you can opt out. Your stuff doesn't need to get burnt; you don't need to get caught outdoors in a rain of fish or blood, or whatever subsequent phenomena take place between now and Halloween. If you want, your character can be unable to detect the Baby Sun or the weird quality of light at all. The mods will banish the Baby Sun through certain mysterious IC means once Halloween has come to pass. ))
open Hospital Wing RP
Sep. 3rd, 2009 06:25 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
He also knew that if he spelled out his entire surname, few of the school's inhabitants would have the first clue how to pronounce it. Better to be called Hook than Krawgshawge, or however the native English speakers would mangle it.
So when he put up a sign outside the Great Hall, he signed it accordingly:
The Hospital Wing exists and is open.
Don't be afraid. We won't bite.
We're fully stocked with potions, prophylactics, and other items of interest.
Muggle medicines are also supplied.
We understand the Swine Flu has been squibbed from Hogwarts, but I've ordered a vaccine anyway, to be on the safe side.
- Dr. Hook
Assistant Physician
Underneath the words, he'd drawn a crude map with the hospital wing's location labeled in neat blocky letters, and an arrow with "You are Here" pointing to the Great Hall's location.
This done, he kicked back in the Hospital Wing with a cup of coffee and some Danish-language magazines. Maybe some people would come by or something. He did worry that Snape's demeanor scared students off. That, or the legacy of that crazy-ass sex ed class. Also, Hook himself could use some work to concentrate on. He'd been spending too much time wandering the corridors in search of Antubis ...
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Sometimes, a woman dreams, longs for things she knows she ought not to want. She longs for something else, a purpose to her life. Liga is one of those women, and even though she knows she shouldn't, she wishes anyway. She's one daughter grown and married, and another learning the workings of magics, but what of herself? What is there to do? At these times, she feels selfish for wondering these things, for feeling the vague stirrings of restlessness, a restlessness she did not feel when she was allowed to live in the place that was her heart's desire. But this is not that place, and sometimes she longs for something to happen, and wonders if her life will simply continue to pass her by.
And sometimes, even if such dreams be merely idle fancy, the universe grants them anyway, for the universe is fickle, like to heap blessings on a body as well as curses. Which is why, on this particular day, Liga enters the sorting room. She is older than most of the people that come here, though for all that, she is still what the shallow would call a MILF. There's a stateliness about her bearing, and, yes, a bit of sadness, too, as if she's plunged through the darkness that life has to offer and come out the other side.
She glances around the room, the high ceiling, the stone walls, the table on which a paper and quill sit, as if waiting for her to write upon them. She's learned her letters from Lady Annie, and so she goes to the table, picking up the quill and carefully answering the questions she finds.
I have read the
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I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. ___________. Liga Longfield
One day, marmalade will rule the world. _____________ Liga Longfield
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"--don't care if you wanted to, I'm not about to get us killed because you're a soft-hearted idiot!
"Just because I'm not willing to shoot innocents in the face doesn't mean I'm stupid, Harv, I'm just . . . what on Earth is this, now?"
They look around themselves, frown, and spot the paper.
"Oh, this is stupid.
"No kidding. Alright, what are the questions?"
Compy Post: Anonymous love meme!
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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.
[Open RP] Sex Bomb!
Jul. 16th, 2009 11:47 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
Having done that, Basher went back to bed.
Fast forward to lunchtime. Basher went there to get some lunch, and see if there were enough people in the room. Luckily, there were.
Opting to go straight into the kitchen, he ducked into a closet in there which had a wall adjacent to the Great Hall. Pulling out and putting on a gas mask, he pushed the trigger on the bombs.
There was no explosion, hell, there wasn't even a visible difference, unless you saw through magic goggles or something. But if you could, you'd be able to see aphrodisiac seep out from the bombs and over the Great Hall.
All right, hat. You wanted a sex bomb, you got one, Basher thought from his closet.
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Magic helps gazebo, me, to move. Proudly bedecked in flowers. Handsome and angry. That is me. Hear the voice magic gave me to speak without wind. I demand audience.
"I have read the [info]hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG.
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I have read the [info]hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them.
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I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch.
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One day, marmalade will rule the world.
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Application : Ambassador Londo Mollari
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((Londo has spoken to Delenn's mun and gotten the OK))
He stepped through the doorway and tugged at his coat, straightening the heavily embroidered sleeves. Ambassador Londo Mollari of the Great Centauri Republic surveyed his new surroundings. The walls and floor were wrought stone, but it did not have the same light and airy feel one would find in Centauri architecture. Was he back on Narn?
“Great Maker, I hope not,” he muttered to himself. “I could use a drink. Vir!” he bellowed.
Londo took a step forward and was startled to see a quill appear in front of him, just hovering over a piece of parchment.
(("I have read the hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. Londo))
((I have read the hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. Londo))
((I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. Londo))
((One day, marmalade will rule the world. Londo"))
OOC Post: Vent to the Muns
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Characters may comment and talk with each other.
open RP: gazebo mania
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The Sorting Hat thought of itself as a trendsetter.
And the Sorting Hat hated to be outdone.
A gazebo? O RLY? A motherflippin' gazebo getting built on the Hat's own school grounds, and someone else thought of the idea first? This could not be!
To demolish the gazebo would have gratified the Hat, but it was too late for that now. Too many people had already seen the gazebo. The groundskeeper had given permission for the gazebo. The Hat's pride would not permit it to take action such that people would know the Hat had been outraced to an up-and-coming hot trend.
The gazebo could not be demolished. But it could be ... outclassed.
Overnight, a crack battalion of house-elves went to work, goaded on by their millinery master. Gazebos sprang up all over the Hogwarts grounds. Gazebos large and small. Tiny gazebos, dollhouse-sized, made of popsicle sticks. Midrange gazebos suitable for a midsummer's eve, to ward off that not-so-fresh feeling at dusk. Gazebos of white wood, gazebos of plaster columns, gazebos of weathered old lumber repurposed from other Hat projects of yore.
And, in the center of the Quidditch field, an outsized gazebo that would've been big enough for giants, all its planks made of fragrant gingerbread. Huge glutinous gumdrops studded its exterior, and loops of frosting adorned its roof in a faux-shingled pattern.
Satisfied that its supremacy as a trend-setter had been ensured, the Hat then retired to its chambers for a long lie-in with the Jackson Hole Hat Company catalog.
Compy Post: FMK Meme
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For the purposes of curiosity...
If you want to play, let me know in a reply to this thread, and I will pick three people currently in attendance at Hogwarts.
Which would you have sex with?
Which would you marry?
Which would you kill, provided that there weren't a no-kill spell?
If anyone else wants to assign choices as well, that would be grand!
((Edited to fix the rules. The mun has never actually played this game herself.))
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Sage woke up on the stone floor, mouth tasting of cotton balls, unaware that she was now a candidate for the prestigious Hogwarts Albino's Club.
"Where am I" she asked and then more urgently "Where's Rat!?" Then again, no one who knew anything about them would keep them in the same room. She calmed down a bit. "Is this SHIMMER? If so, I like the redecoration! Finally, someone around the place with a gothic sensibility. And where are you keeping my brother?"
She noticed the scribbling pen and paperwork.
"I have read the hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. ____Sage________
I have read the hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. ___Sage________.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. __Sage_________.
One day, marmalade will rule the world. ___Sage__________"
((Note of warning: Sage is an empath who can read people's memories if they have strong emotions attatched. At times she deliberately reads people's embarassing and/or sexual memories...yeah.
I'll try not to godmod. Any inability to read people can be explained by their talents, will, or just because of a privacy spell around Hogwarts.
This is an experiment. The character has the potential to become really annoying. Oh, and there may be Language.
Extra note:Despite the icons, IC Sage is described as "hideous", although the main character may be a bit prejudiced.))
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Such was the case for Elizabeth Bennet. The first thing she did upon her sudden wakefulness was to reach for her katana. To her dismay, however, she carried neither katana nor musket nor even ankle dagger.
"What mischief is this!" cried she in indignant tones. "Where can I be, weaponless and with no idea whether there are unmentionables about!"
Being a resourceful young woman, she endeavoured to clean the salt and butter from her person as much as possible. She had vague recollections of this place. Hogwarts, she thought it was called. She should go somewhere called Ravenclaw. Oh, yes, and Mr. Darcy was here. Of the scourge of unmentionables that had been plaguing England, she was less clear. It seemed to her she ought to remember if any of them were here, but she couldn't.
Well, there was nothing for it. She would sally forth from this room of popcorn kernels and see if she could locate someone she knew, even if that someone should be Mr. Darcy, and make them explain what the meaning of all this was. Then she resolved she would find a weapon and work off some of her excess energy by hunting Unmentionables. If there were no unmentionables--although why that should be the case given that there were *always* unmentionables--she supposed she might meditate and hope for a clear mind. And if there were no place in which she could meditate, she could always go write a letter to her dear friend, Charlotte Lucas, who she hoped had not been too stricken by the strange plague.
Thus satisfied with her plan, Elizabeth took herself away from the popcorn room, in as gay of spirits as she ever boasted. She did glance back over her shoulder in time to spot her name on the plaque of names outside the door. It was slowly fading, as was the name of Mr. Darcy. What this could mean, she was sure she didn't know, though she intended to find out. At swordpoint, should it come to that.
((For those of you who have not been alerted to my evil plans, I am taking Elizabeth from this version of Pride and Prejudice. I highly recommend this new ultraviolent version of Austen's comedy of manners to all lovers of crackfic, which, hopefully, you all are. Also, this is Brienne-mun, the one who is, OOCly, totally blind. Should anyone have time to hunt up appropriately kick-ass icons for this journal, I would be grateful...))
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She'd been meaning to pop into the dressing room and do a quick change. Instead she came out into the Sorting room wearing a green dress and elaborate makeup.
"Hello, hello, oh, hell!"
Life had taken a turn of the soap-opera kind lately, with the death of her alleged mother and all. Now she was walking into strange rooms.
A lone paper lay on the desk in front of her.
"I have read the hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. __Miranda Barker__________
I have read the hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. __Miranda Barker_________.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. _Miranda Barker__________.
One day, marmalade will rule the world. _Miranda Barker____________"