[identity profile] vizierprandine.livejournal.com
((OOC: I've been unable to find a specific name for his headdress, as it has aspects of a Chaperon, yet is also similar to the Sultan's headwear in Disney's 'Aladdin'. So, for the purpose of this application and any role-play involving Prandine, I'll be referring to his headdress as a 'bourrelet' as it is the culturallyl evolved form of the Chaperon, and is the closest description I could find. P. S. Thaegan mun approved, as I am her.))

Prandine sniffed the air and pined for the sulphuric atmosphere of the Shadowlands. The wind picked up in the sorting room, carrying with it the scents of honeysuckle and fresh dew. It ruffled his long, bulky black robes and long greying hair. The nerve under his eye twitched, he scrunched his features into a scowl. 'Putrid,' he muttered. He glanced around looking for the opened window, and was buffeted by another sweet scented gale. His bony hand clamped down on his bejewelled bourrelet, as the wind wrestled with it. He caught sight of the window and rushed it, the hem of his robes billowed behind him. As he reached for the window another gale got caught within his floor length sleeves, in affect, disorientating him long enough for his hand to leave the bourrelet. As it blew off, it tumbled across the flagstones. Prandine grumbled, clasping the iron hatch of the window he slammed it shut, the pane rattling. Prandine picked up his hat and dusted it, placing it back on his head as if it were a crown. When he felt comfortable that his headdress was on properly, he found himself staring at a cedar desk. It was tucked away in the corner of the stone room, with a solely piece of parchment on its surface, and beside it; an intricate quill with a brass tip and fluorescent green and blue feathered tail. Intrigued, if not slightly perturbed by the joy in the room and the avarice in his heart, he sat himself before the parchment and read its proposal.

Prandine read the parchment's header out loud after a moment, as to understand it. 'Hogwarts Enrolment Application.' It wasn't until his spoken word that the quill reacted in anyway. Its fluorescent feathered tail twitched and moved like a cat's, once it took a moment to wake up, Prandine had thought he'd hallucinated the twitch of the quill's feather. But then the quill stood to attention on its brass point, flicking its feathered tail and turning on its point. Prandine stared. The quill took to hovering above the application and with three hostile slashes it underlined a fine noted, located in the side-margined that he had over-looked. It detailed that the quill would reiterate spoken word. With such knowledge in his slimy mind, he smirked violently. Prandine continued in ascertaining the parchment, and equally, his reason for being here.

ExpandAllow me to elucidate... )

"I have read the [info]hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. Prandine, Chief Adviser.
I have read the
[info]hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. Prandine, Chief Adviser.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. Prandine, Chief Adviser.
One day, marmalade the Shadow Lord will rule the world Deltora. Prandine, Chief Adviser."
[identity profile] ringo-raver.livejournal.com
Ryuk was bored.

This is never a good thing. This usually leads to Ryuk causing trouble of epic proportions.

As he’s stuck here, he can’t do anything hilarious like being an accomplice in genocide or anything like that, but he loves a bit of discord and bickering among the Hogwarts students. So he puts up a computer post:

Attention students!
Now is the time to nominate yourselves and your fellow students to answer this all important question:


Who has the best ass at Hogwarts?
Polls will be up May 30th, so get your entries in now!

[[OOC: By allowing your character’s name on this poll, you are giving OOC permission for Ryuk to take a picture of your character’s bottom between now and May 30th After much consideration, we decided it'd be lulzier if the MS Paint pictures were literal artist renditions of their asses. In other words, Ryuk drawing what he thinks Kuro's butt looks like. A mun playing a character who is nominating a character the mun him/herself doesn’t play must note OOC permission by the other mun that they can do so.]]
[identity profile] 400-years-young.livejournal.com
There was a pop, a wet splooosh, and John Amsterdam flopped on the floor in a buttery tidal wave. Naked and slimy, he groaned as he rolled himself onto his back. "I could have gone another 400 years without that," he said. As he stared at the stones in the ceiling and tried to collect his thoughts, a pair of bare legs entered his field of vision. The legs were cut off by a terrycloth towel, and John knew what he'd see if he kept looking up.

"Hey," he said to the German as Dieter bent down and offered him a different towel. "Do I know where this thing's been?" he asked.

"No," Dieter said.

"Perfect." John started to towel himself off. He dabbed off as much butter as he could, and for the sake of modesty, wrapped the towel around himself.

"It's good to see you back," Dieter said. The naked Ravenclaw twins were back, in original and with extra butter.

((John Amsterdam and Dieter Prohl are in the popcorn room together. Meta is intentional, as they're played by the same actor. Please let me know which one you're tagging to, of if it's for either one.))
[identity profile] contra-account.livejournal.com
Vesper Lynd had made only one brief dry run to the Muggle world in her newly created disguise, and that was to Christmas shop. On Christmas Eve, she lugged a shopping bag of wrapped parcels to the Owlery and sent out birds bearing gifts.

ExpandTo Unity )
ExpandTo Strawberry Fields )
ExpandTo John Amsterdam )
And lastly,
ExpandTo James Bond )
[identity profile] contra-account.livejournal.com
((We join our angst already in progress, directly following the events of this thread. There may be Quantum of Solace spoilers coming up.))

Bond's departure - and the kiss on her hand - left Vesper unsettled. She paced her room anxiously, trying to process everything they had discussed over dinner. A warm shower also failed to calm her jangled nerves.

Vesper had believed that when trouble came into her life, she had done all the wrong things for all the right reasons. Now, as kindly as possible, Bond had told her something that, to Vesper, proved her 'right reasons' were nothing but hot air. The firewhisky's initial warmth had burned away and the alcohol left her mood low. The more her thoughts chased themselves in circles, the more she felt weak and foolish and used.

This is getting me nowhere, she thought. I need to do something.

She grabbed a quill and composed a quick owl
Expandto John Amsterdam )
Before she could talk herself out of it, Vesper summoned a house-elf and gave him the note to deliver. She breathed a sigh of relief once he was gone.

Mistake or not, it's got to be better than sitting here brooding, she thought.
[identity profile] m-otherhen.livejournal.com
((Note: I'm playing M from the Casino Royale/Quantum of Solace continuity. I may borrow a few personal details from her stint in the Brosnan-Bonds - she mentions children in an aside in Goldeneye, for instance - but the events of those movies are NOT part of this M's canon.))

Lightning flashed, and a woman of late middle age appeared in the Sorting Room. She was tastefully dressed in a sensible black skirt suit with loose-cut jacket and white blouse, and unflashy but high-quality jewelry. Her white-grey hair was cropped to short spiky locks.

"Bloody hell," she murmured, looking around. "Can't be..." She roamed the Sorting Room, posture relaxed and casual, but her blue eyes were sharp as a hawk's, taking in every detail for possible use.

The frown lines on either side of her mouth deepened when she noticed the application forms, Dictaquill standing at the ready.
ExpandWhen he said 'We have people everywhere,' I didn't think he meant it! )

"I have read the [livejournal.com profile] hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. __M__.
I have read the [livejournal.com profile] hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. ___M__.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. __M__.
One day, marmalade will rule the world. __Not_ if_MI6_has_anything_to_say_about_it!__"

((This application has been approved by James Bond-mun and Vesper Lynd-mun (c'est moi). So we're good to go.))
[identity profile] methleigh.livejournal.com
When sufficient time has passed, Severus collects the papers to mark them and compare handwriting further. This will certainly tell him more about each of these students and he puts them securely into his warded scroll case. He is glad to see that even in the new Hogwarts there are some students who care about study, learning and marks.

"The next portion of the class will be safety, hygiene and health, assuming there were no further questions of structure and function." He looks around the room. There had been almost no questions on these matters - on the actual content of the course. Either the booklet had been impenetrable or exceedingly clear.

ExpandCleanliness )
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[personal profile] callahans_genius
The Victorian-dressed gentleman who walks through the door blinks and frowns. This was not where he had intended to Translate. Still, even though it's a myth that the Chinese symbols for "crisis" and "opportunity" were the same, Nikola is still moved by curiosity to explore in case the latter could be created from the apparent former.

Finding the application and the quill pen waiting for him on a writing desk, with his name already filled in at the top, only fuels the curiosity more. He reaches for the quill, only to have it dance from his grip. "Curious," he murmurs, blinking again as the quill dutifully scribbles out the word.

Ah, he thinks, careful not to speak again. I see! Very clever! When the pen does not move to his thoughts, he nods and turns his attention to the questions.

ExpandAllow me to elucidate. )

ExpandThe rest )
[identity profile] sacred-javelin.livejournal.com
((I have the permission from the other VP Mun to post this app))

Upon entering the Sorting Room, Mystina was sure of two things.

The first was that this was not Midgard. Nor was it Valhalla (she thought.) The second was that it was somehow, undobtedly, due to something stupid Lezard had done.

Not that he was a stupid man, of course. He wasn't exactly a man anymore (she would not joke out loud about how literally or metaphorically that could be taken) for one thing, and for another, hadn't... well, he wasn't dumb enough to start trouble again, surely.

But really, he didn't need that much encouragement. She was quite sure that, in some bathroom stall in Valhalla, someone had written 'For a good time, tell Lezard Valeth you're Lenneth Valkyrie,' and then of course all Hel would break loose again.

Though, this didn't really look like a 'Lezard' sort of place. It was tidy, for one thing. And there were no realdolls around, for another.


ExpandAllow me to elucidate. )
[identity profile] cutthroatamber.livejournal.com
((OOC: I checked the roster of active characters, and it looked like all the House characters had gone inactive. If that's wrong, I apologize. ))

There is a puff of white smoke, and suddenly, a woman appears in the middle of the Sorting Room. She's clothed all in white, and very pale. She looks a bit confused.

"Apparently, the afterlife is not what I expected."

ExpandAllow me to elucidate. )


"I have read the [livejournal.com profile] hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. ____CTB____
I have read the [livejournal.com profile] hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. __CTB______.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. __CTB______.
One day, marmalade will rule the world. __CTB_______"
[identity profile] 400-years-young.livejournal.com
It was possible that when he finally turned mortal, John Amsterdam would drop dead from centuries of smoking.

Smoking had been a recreational activity well before the European settlers had arrived, and it had spread through the colonies like wildfire. John had picked up the habit at fourteen, right off the boat. He had tried to give it up like drinking, but had only succeeded in cutting back. Besides, a guy as great as him needed a few bad habits. So he indulged in his habit now, trying not to think of anything besides the smoke curling over his head.
[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] 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.
ExpandLord 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).
[identity profile] 400-years-young.livejournal.com
((This is to get John Amsterdam caught up with the end of season 1.))

John was pretty confident that while he had gone to bed naked, he hadn't been covered with butter at the time.

ExpandSeason Finale Spoilers, if you care. )
[identity profile] seeing-roses.livejournal.com
The board sat before him with the remaining pieces in line. Looking over his shoulders to make sure no one was watching (he knew this wasn't how you were supposed to play), he pushed the tall black rook forward and waited with a smile. As the two pieces fought and killed one another, Lester laughed and moved the next piece. He then, waited for more killing. Laughing each time the other side defeated a piece, Lester laughed and sat back in his chair.

He didn't quite know what this was, but he was positive he loved it.
[identity profile] lady-thujone.livejournal.com
Spring is here, spring, is here...

And to celebrate, there was a new special at the Little Green Apple.

Chalked on the blackboard:

Fruit Lambics are in!
Kriek
Framboise
Cassis
Aardbei
Druit
Pêche
and of course,
Pomme!

Try a cold one!
[identity profile] seeing-roses.livejournal.com
You'll never be properly prepared to take a bullet, but Lester Burnham was especially surprised. It came at the right moment, however. Lester lay in the kitchen, the blood flowing from his head like a cracked vat of water, spilling onto the tiles. But he was happy. He was smiling and he was happy.

Then his eyes closed. In the stretch of time before this, he saw so many beautiful things; his grandmother's gentle, paper hands moving along his cheeks as a child and the way the sky looked as he looked up from the camp fire at scout camp. The world was so beautiful now, as it never was before. Especially to Lester. But still, he closed his eyes and felt his time end.

Or so he thought. Lester opened his eyes and immediately knew there was a change in him. Moving his hand up to the back of his head, he felt no blood. No gaping hole playing nest to a bullet. Nothing. Lester laughed and looked out into the sorting room and noted the paper before him. With his smile infectiously filling up his face, he answered the questionnaire before him.

ExpandAllow me to elucidate. )

A bribe? I have a bag of pot in my back pocket, a kick-ass car from the 70's that I've wanted my entire life that I would prefer not to get rid of and a suburban wife who is fucking her colleague. I'll give you two of the three.

And for the record? writing with a quill is FAR more difficult than it looks. My suggestions? Get Ballpoint pen, you know, for next time.





"I have read the hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. ____LB________
I have read the hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. ____LB_______.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. ______LB_____.
One day, marmalade will rule the world. ______LB_______"
[identity profile] 400-years-young.livejournal.com
It had become painfully obvious to John that he hadn't been sorted into Ravenclaw for his brains.

After discovering that Dieter Prohl practically lived in the house's sauna, it was clear that he was really just there to be part of a matched set of cabana boys. What bothered him even more than that was discovering that after he got over the shock, he really didn't care.

He'd gotten settled in, found some food for the dog, and was now puzzling over his dilemma in the Ravenclaw bar. Stay, or go? It wasn't every day that he had a heart attack over a woman. She was in New York, and he was in Scotland. On the other hand, maybe he'd been sucked here to break his curse on his own terms.

The bar had a good selection of mixers, and he was drinking a glass of sparkling water that had multi-colored bubbles. He speared a lemon slice with a plastic wand drink-stirrer as he mulled over his choices.
[identity profile] 400-years-young.livejournal.com
Freshly Sorted and now half-naked thanks to the Hat, John Amsterdam stood outside the Sorting Room with his shirt, jacket, and a brand new towel in his arms. He was a Ravenclaw, which sounded like a good thing. They were supposed to be the smart ones.

"You have my towel," a voice said behind him. John turned around, and nearly dropped the whole mess.

Dieter Prohl was taking the "half" out of "half-naked." Bare as the metaphorical jaybird, he stood with his hands out, ready to take the towel back. John handed it over without a word.

"I'm not surprised it came to this," the tennis player said with a German accent. "All human struggle is because of the destruction of the self. It was always meant to be a personal struggle, but now I'm afraid that is not the case." He finished tucking in the towel, and laid a hand on John's shoulder. "I'm afraid this won't end well for us."

Dieter turned and walked away from the very confused cop. "We'll meet again," he said. "Kommen Sie oben und sehen Sie mich einmal."

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