Eavan Valentine
January 14, 2009 5:28 PM
Teppenpaw House Meeting by Eavan Valentine
It was still a little awkward being in this position of power. She was only a 5th year. There were people two grades above her that she could potentially be giving orders to. So far, this year, she had managed to avoid any situations where she had to tell off older people. Except Earl. That was fun. But now she had to run something, not just tell people off for running in the corridors. Eavan had to run a meeting for Teppenpaw about the concert. So far as she knew no one had signed up for it yet and that was a major problem. They needed to come up with an idea and actually get people involved. This was going to be hard and as Eavan used her wand to reposition chairs into a circle, she vaguely wondered why it was her and not Lexi or Pepper who was chosen to do this. Eavan didn't see herself as any more capable than the other two. Though she hadn't seen Pepper in a while and Lexi might be too busy with Quidditch and RATS to handle a meeting at this time. Eavan finished setting up the chairs and couches just in time for people to start entering and sit down.Some if them looked like they knew exactly why they were there, while others looked confused. Eavan had posted yellow fliers all around the common room, informing Teppenpaws of this meeting, but not everyone might have seen them. She only put them up the day before. Eavan thought this was only supposed to be for the prefects, but as she was the only one accounted for, she decided to make this a house affair. Everyone was invited to give their opinion. This had made Elliot especially excited and had been in his room coming up with crazy ideas for the previous half hour and then owling them to Ethan for second thoughts.
Eavan sat down on one of the yellow couches and pulled the coffee table closer to her where she had set down several sheets of paper and a quill and ink pot to take notes. Once enough people had gathered around, Eavan tried coughing to get their attention and when that didn't work called out “Excuse me? Can I have your attention please?” A couple of people looked her way, but the conversations continued. Suddenly, a loud bang emitted from right next to her making Eavan jump. Elliot grinned madly and set off another loud bang, getting the entire common room into a hush.
“Okay,” Eavan said after giving Elliot a smirk. “I'm glad you all could make it. If you don't know, this is supposed to be about the Concert coming up at the end of the year. We have to have a group act and a solo act, and so far no one has signed up for anything. You don't have to be on stage. If you want, you can do something backstage. Lights, props, whatever.” Eavan took a break to hand the empty sign-up sheet to Elliot who grinned and wrote his name down before passing it to the person next to him.
“Now that that's taken care of, we need ideas about what we're actually going to do. Like I said, we have a group act and a solo act. Me, Pepper and Lexi decide who does the solo act and we all have to figure out what the group act will be. Does anyone have any ideas? Or any talents that they think will help?”
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Pepper
January 18, 2009 1:24 PM
Getting the ball rolling by Pepper
OOC - hey, I'm currently only able to get on the Internet at weekends (at my boyfriend's house) owing to a tremendous screw-up by our provider. Anyway, all this week I've been planning what I was going to post to get the ball rolling on this. I've tried to edit it so it fits in with what you've done but there a couple of bits that may seem... not exactly contradictory, but clumsy in terms of continuity with what you've done. I just wanted to explain that this is why, not because I'm trying to tread on your toes or critise how you're doing this - I really appreciate you trying to get things moving.IC
The dozens of yellow fliers that had appeared the previous evening were a good start. However, Pepper suspected that - after the severe lack of a show of interest so far - people's eyes might just find themselves able to avoid them, so she was going to help. Making sparkling words appear from the end of one's wand was a neat trick, and a fairly simple one at that. Not having the luxury to stand spelling out her message all day though, Pepper had had to employ her sixth year skills to their full extent to advertise. She had tugged one of the rugs over so it was just in front of the exit to Teppenpaw and made this her trip-wire, as it were. When the weight of a person landed on the rug, the words sprung up, shining in front of their eyes in the sort of insistant purple that it was difficult to claim to have missed.
After dinner, in the commons!
She would have liked it to say more - imploring people about not forcing her and the other prefects to end up having to do something by themselves, House Pride and all that jazz - but she had to keep the message as short as possible to get it working. Even then it was a struggle and, by the time the rug had been trampled across for the hundredth or so time, letters were beginning to fade, the last few people before it fizzled entirely being summoned to the 'Tep an aw Ho eetin.' But hopefully most got the message.
About twenty minutes before the meeting began, Pepper arrived, helping Eavan shift the chairs into position.
"I reckon it would help if we got people to add to a list of group performance ideas as well as what they'd want to do as solos," she suggested, "Then vote on it. It's the best way I can think of to get something that most people want to be in on." As a final cheap and dirty trick, she placed two plates of cookies on the table (the lure of which was added to by the freshly baked smell eminating from them, enhanced only slightly by her wand).
"Reckon there's some kind of varient of a sticking charm we can put on the chairs that means people can't leave until we've got a decent batch of volunteers?" she smiled, wishing that that didn't really seem like their best hope.
As Eavan had called the meeting, she allowed her to introduce it before chiming up in response to her question on group performance.
"The things I've thought of that could involve a large number of people are play scenes or some kind of magic display," she offered, "But if anyone else has ideas, write them down," she said, passing a sheet entitled 'Group Performance' and with her two ideas bulletted underneath to the person next to her.
OOC - I know posting about adding an idea to a list is kind of awkward, so if people have anything they want to go into the mix, they can just add a post with their list entry on. I've got the Head's permission for normal posting length rules to be lifted. Please note, this is not for anything your character says or does in the meeting - you cannot post "I agree!" or stuff like that - it's just for entries that are being added to the list to try to get that together and choosable from as quickly as possible. Don't know if Eavan wants to do the same with her list...?
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Allie St. Martin
February 07, 2009 2:44 PM
It seems to be on carpet at the moment. by Allie St. Martin
Allie St. Martin, as everyone knew, was not a particularly talented person. She could play a few notes on a piano, do a few formal dances without treading on her partner's feet too much, and sketch a little, but even the sketching, her greatest talent, was not fabulous. Allie was well-aware of the limits of her skills, and was more or less comfortable with them. This was why, when the Concert sign-up had gone up earlier in the year, she had mentally wished Pepper and the other prefects the best of luck and proceeded along as planned for her sixth year.Her wishing had not produced any luck, though. Teppenpaw's act was not coming together. It wasn't her way to put much emphasis on the House divides and stereotypes, but when it looked like Aladren - small, individualistic Aladren - was having an easier time of it than Teppenpaw, it was enough, at the very least, to make her feel somewhat bad about her lack of useful talents.
When she'd stepped on a rug and almost been blinded by the summons to the House meeting, Allie had finally realized a desperate-times-desperate-measures state had been entered. She wasn't sure how much good it would do, but she had put away her textbooks before dinner and went down to join the meeting after it.
Startling bangs aside, Allie felt sorry for the fifth-year prefect - Eavan? - as she started the meeting. It couldn't be much fun, stepping into a House-wide leadership role in her first year of office. Lila had seemed to enjoy being a prefect from the start, but who only knew how much of that had been smoke and mirrors. Allie couldn't imagine anyone, much less students two years older, taking her sister very seriously.
With an internal apology to said sister, who would probably throw a fit when she heard about this, Allie signed the old sign-up sheet Eavan was passing around when it came to her. Neither sympathy nor House loyalty was going to get her out on stage as a soloist, but she could help.
Alexandra St. Martin - Year 6 - Sketching, formal dance, some piano - no solo, please
When the group sheet Pepper had prepared came around, Allie also put an idea down on it. She doubted it was a very good idea, or one many people would have any interest in, but it was something if all else failed.
A dance routine could incorporate as many or as few as the group act requires
All the thoughts she had now written down, she passed along the paper and waited for further direction or inquiries.
OOC: Not sure if I read what was wanted in this post correctly; if not, my apologies.
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