(Last Day of Lessons) : Let's get stuck in! on Pecari Commons

Elly Eriksson

November 17, 2006 1:45 PM

(Last Day of Lessons) : Let's get stuck in! by Elly Eriksson

OOC: If you want to post something before the last day of lessons, don't let this post stop you - Hurray for fuzzy time!

BIC:

Elly had been looking forward to today for quite some time. It was the last day of lessons before Sonora broke up for the summer – the day she had planned for her common room prank. Elly had mastered the spell – Lepilio – fairly recently, and had been able to stick various articles of her clothing to assorted surfaces for several hours at a time. All that was left to do now was the finale.

Elly had set an alarm for 6.30am. Nobody in their right mind would be up at that time so close to the end of term. She quickly stifled the alarm as rubbed the sleep from her eyes. Pushing back her quilt, Elly tumbled out of bed and tiptoed to the door. She crept down the corridor to the top of the stairs, and waited. She had told Meredith, Echo and Saul that she would be waiting there, so if they wanted to help they could join her then, but if they would rather not get involved they didn’t have to.

The common room was quite light, the summer sun having risen already. Elly felt a shiver of excitement run up her spine and she stood in her grey cotton pyjamas waiting for her friends to arrive. She was only going to wait five minutes, and then she would start charming everything, whether or not they had decided to come.

Elly heard footsteps approaching and whipped her head round to see to whom they belonged.
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Saul Pierce

November 17, 2006 2:56 PM

Up and at 'em by Saul Pierce

"GET UP YOU LAZY BUMPKIN!" Saul's alarm blared out at 6:27am, Aunt Regina's voice way louder than it ever was in real life but just as sharp and demanding. Saul startled clear out of his bed stammering excuses and apologies before he realized it was just his alarm. He turned it off quickly before she could call him a dim-witted mule and whispered apologies to Michael and Eduard, as if whispering now would fix the damage done by the alarm.

Heart still racing after rude awakening, Saul was wide awake now. He just hoped the same wasn't true for the other second year boys. But then, the didn't know Aunt Regina so maybe she wasn't as terrifying first thing in morning to them. There was a reason he didn't normally have his alarm set to the Regina setting.

Today, though, he'd needed to be up bright and early and he hadn't though any of the less forceful alarm voices would be as effective. This one certainly had been.

He grabbed his school robe to throw over the shorts and t-shirt he'd worn to bed then hurried down the stairs to the commonroom. Elly was already there.

"Hey," he whispered, because, well, it 6:30 in the morning. Not to mention, they weren't exactly up to something good. It just felt wrong to talk out loud. "My alarm was pretty loud, hopefully anyone it woke up will go back to sleep."\n\n

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Meredith Lail

November 17, 2006 3:59 PM

Right behind ya by Meredith Lail

Meredith was having a most awesome dream, but whatever it had been was quickly tossed from her brain as an alarm went off. Meredith’s blue eyes shot open and bolted around the ceiling, but the sound of the alarm was quickly covered and then disappeared. Meredith’s eyes would’ve simply drifted back closed and she would’ve fallen asleep again to continue her dream that had something to do with flying ice cream or something of the sort if she hadn’t seen Elly getting out of bed making Meredith remember. She had something planned for that day, the last day of school. Meredith quickly jumped out of her bed, not even willing to change out of her pajamas, which were just a sky blue tank top and gray sweat pants. They could pass for lounging clothes.

Elly was already out and gone by the time Meredith leaped from bed. She yawned and did a quick stretch to wake herself up some more. After a few walkovers towards the door, she felt fully awake and ready to meet Elly. She grabbed a hair tie and threw her hair up quickly, flicking the small stub of a ponytail with her hand. She slipped on a pair of sandals, grabbed the wand pouch Elly had made for her for Christmas, and followed her friend out the door.

When she reached the stairs, Elly was already with someone, Saul in fact. Meredith knew he was a cool kid even if she hadn’t followed him to class like some of the others, enjoying exploring around the school herself too much to be showed where to go. She felt it was like cheating on a puzzle game. Still, if he could hold his own as the only chaser left against the entirety of an opposing team, he was definitely okay by her.

“Mornin’ all.” Meredith greeted the two with a large grin. Her voice was at a regular talking range, but she decided to hush down a little more. It just seemed more appropriate somehow even if they weren't doing anything that could count as trouble, yet. No law against sitting with your friends by the stairs. “I hope you didn’t think I’d miss this. So are we waiting much longer?”\n\n

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Echo Elms

November 17, 2006 4:19 PM

Me too! by Echo Elms

Echo blinked up at the ceiling. Was it 6:30 yet? Last time he checked it was only 2:15, and that was probably two minutes ago. He was going to be so tired in class tomorrow. good thing it was only the last day. He fished around his nightstand for his wand.

"Lumos." The magic wall clock -- who's only advantage seemed to be that it didn't take batteries and automatically adjusted for daylight savings -- declared it to be 5:35ish.

One more hour. He could make it. His eyelids drooped.

"Ged uh you rumpkin!" came from a muffled shout from the next room over. A second later, footsteps passed his door. Probably just Saul going to meet Elly in the common room for the prank.

Oh!

Echo blinked. He was sitting up, wand in hand, lumos on his lips, and the clock said 6:32.

Pajamas would have to do. His were green shorts and an old formally black t-shirt with a Mario mushroom on it and 1-up written below. He vaulted across the room on the balls of his feet and, using his amazing sneaking skills, eased open the door. It creeeeaked loudly. He'd have to remember to revise that "amazing" to something more like "nonexistant" next chance he got.

After the creaking at the door, he was more careful coming down the stairs and found Elly, Meredith, and Saul already waiting in the common room. Hopefully they hadn't been waiting too long.

"Hey," Echo said when he got close enough to whisper. Adrenaline was definitely taking over now, making him hyper alert. "That's everyone, right?"\n\n

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Elly

November 17, 2006 5:09 PM

Here we go then! by Elly

Elly let out a breath as she saw the footsteps belonged to Saul. “Hey,” he whispered.

“Hey,” Elly whispered back. Before she could reply to Saul’s comment about his loud alarm, Meredith had joined them.

“So are we waiting much longer?” Meredith asked.

“Just waiting for Echo,” Elly said quietly. She turned at the sound of a door creaking, and Echo soon appeared.

“That’s everyone, right?” Echo said.

"That’s everyone," Elly replied, grinning from ear to ear. This was so much fun! Never mind the prank, just meeting up and feeling like they were doing something they shouldn’t made Elly’s stomach fizzle in a most pleasing fashion.

“Okay,” she addressed her friends, and withdrew her wand from where it had been stowed in her waistband. “Remember the flick at the beginning of the circle,” she demonstrated the wand movement, “and the spell is Lepilio.” Elly grinned. “This is so much fun!” she whispered excitedly.

Elly turned and scoped the room. Someone had unwittingly left their book bag on the floor near the bottom of the staircase. “Lepilio!” Elly cast. To see if the spell was successful, she tried lifting the bag, but no matter how hard she tugged, it remained resolutely on the floor. “Wicked!” Elly said, grinning yet more widely if that was possible. She turned back to the others. “Anything that can be stuck, stick it. Let’s go!"
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Saul Pierce

November 18, 2006 12:42 PM

The Gang's all here by Saul Pierce

Saul grinned in welcome as first Meredith (who he didn't really know that well since she hadn't come along on his tours) and then Echo arrived. "That was quick," he commented, a little impressed they'd all managed to wake up and drag themselves downstairs at roughly the same time. He supposed the fact that none of them had bothered to get dressed probably accounted for it.

Then Elly was reminding them all of the spell, giving a demonstration, then proving that it had worked on a bookbag some unfortunate soul had left lying around.

Spotting a paperback novel on one of the end tables, Saul moved toward and wished he could do the costume transfiguration thing that Simon was so good at. He'd just have to pretend the school robes were priest robes. "Book, do you take this table to be your lawfully wedded spouse?" He paused a moment, then asked, "Table, do you take this book to be your lawfully wedded spouse?"

Neither had objected, so he pulled out his wand from the robe pocket that he kept it in so he remembered to bring it to class and peformed the spell. "I pronounce you legally bound as husband and wife." He tried to pick up the book and grinned in pleased satisfaction. "Very good, Book, you keep sticking to Table like that and you'll have a long and fruitful marriage."\n\n

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Echo Elms

November 18, 2006 10:02 PM

I got the furniture. by Echo Elms

Echo looked around for a good candidate to start with. The chair no one ever moved anyway looked like a good impersonal target. Furniture first, that would be his plan.

He carefully performed the spell on each leg and tested his handiwork. Solid. Their dastardly scheme was working. They should get some kind of meniacal laughter in right about now in anticipation of their great success. Echo felt like a skilled bank robber from the old west, setting up explosives to get in the newly developed safe with the silent tumblers.

He crept over and added the stickiness to the end tables in the room, the desk, the desk chair, the couch, the loveseat, the cushions. Anything that had to do with furniture that no one else had gotten to yet.

If he ever went back in time and became a train robber, he definitely wanted these three there with him.\n\n

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Meredith

November 20, 2006 3:29 PM

I got...whatever I see. by Meredith

Meredith nodded as she forced Elly’s wand motion to memory. It was funny watching her friend’s excitement. It was contagious too. When the four students went into the common room to begin, Meredith half skipped, half ran to the first misplaced object she saw. It was a pair of slippers left by one of the couches. She pulled out her wand from the pouch and gave it a test spin before saying the actual spell.

When the spell was complete, Meredith slipped out of her sandals and slid her feet into the slippers. They had to be at least two sizes bigger than her feet. She tried lifting her feet, but to no avail. The slippers were stuck nearly perfectly. The edges rocked a bit, but the slipper wouldn’t budge from that spot. Meredith nodded at her work and moved on just as Echo came by. He seemed to have a plan, but Meredith’s only plan was to stick the first thing that came into sight.

Meredith spotted an abandoned quill next to an inkwell on a side table and went there next.

“I have half a mind to just keep this.” She said mostly to herself, picking up the quill, but shrugged and stuck it inside the inkwell and stuck that to the tabletop. She gave them a satisfied grin before moving on again. A textbook this time. This really was fun.\n\n

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Elly

November 21, 2006 1:52 PM

Is that everything? by Elly

Elly, Echo, Meredith and Saul made their way around everything in the common room – all items that previously could be removed were now quite firmly stuck in place. Finishing with a sweet wrapper that had been left on the arm of chair, Elly stood with her hands on her hips and surveyed the room.

“Is that everything?” she called out as quietly as she could, though ensuring her friends would hear her. She motioned them to join her back over by the entrance to the common rooms. “As fun as it would be to wait around and watch,” she said, “people would know it was us.” That was the only problem with her pranks, Elly mused. She almost always arranged things so that she couldn’t be around to watch the whole act without implicating herself as the culprit. It sometimes meant that she couldn’t take credit for her work, either. That was a shame, but Elly had so much fun setting up the pranks that it didn’t matter if nobody knew it was her, particularly if that saved her from getting in trouble. “I think we should go back to bed and get up normally, pretend like we’ve only just woken up. We could always come down to read a book before breakfast, or something, so we can watch. Unless you guys have other ideas?”
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Echo Elms

November 24, 2006 10:16 AM

Sounds good to me by Echo Elms

Elly's idea was just what he'd expected them to do. He nodded his agreement and tiptoed back up to bed, stopping at the bathroom on his way up.

Now he could sleep without being afraid he'd miss something. Well, not entirely true. But he could sleep and then get up whenever Matt did like usual. If they ever did this again, Echo promised himself, he'd definitely get a alarm clock that didn't run on batteries or electricity.

Or ask Saul to wake him up. That would work too.

He eased the dormroom door open carefully, it squeaked anyway, and got back in bed. Sleep was going to be excellent if his heart would ever calm down.

[ooc: We should probably make a morning post explaining the situation to our Pecari housemates so we can get some reaction.]\n\n

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Elly

November 24, 2006 2:01 PM

TAG: EVERYONE IN PECARI! by Elly

After the preparations, Elly crept back into the dormitory and, trying not to disturb the roommates who still might be sleeping, got back into bed. She knew she wouldn’t go back to sleep, but as she often had to miss breakfast because she got up so late, it was unrealistic for her to be up at this time – it would look as suspicious as it was.

She lay there, silently, fighting the urge to just creep down and wait hidden in the common room. She knew she would be found, and the joke just wouldn’t be funny anymore. Instead, she listened intently for the sounds of doors opening and shuffling footsteps, imagining what might happen when the unsuspecting Pecari made it to the common room. Elly bit her lip to stop from laughing as she imagined the owner of the bag trying to lift it, or the owner of the slippers attempting to put them back on, or how Tallow would react if he found one of his models stubbornly fixed where he left it.

Elly decided she would wait a while longer before getting up normally and heading down herself.

OOC: Okay, Pecari people. Work with me :-) Basically, we’ve stuck everything down in the common room (read above posts if you want more info). Make Elly’s day – take part in the prank! Thanks!
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Caedence

November 24, 2006 3:36 PM

Okay, I'll play along! by Caedence

Caedence awoke to the sound of weight shifting in a bed near her. "Elly? You up?" She asked. "I'm going on down, if you're up, come on with me okay?" she added still unsure if her friend was asleep or not. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and redid her braid. Then she pulled off her pj's. Her day clothes were, as usual, on underneath.

She scanned around the room. Her bookbag wasn't there. With a sigh, she realised that she had left it in the common room. Well, she would just have to get it. Taking a last look at her belongings to make sure they were mostly packed, she ventured downstairs.

Spotting her green bag, she walked over to it and picked it up. Or tried to. With a frown, Caedence realised it was stuck to the ground. She tugged again, harder this time. It would not budge. Harder yet she pulled, but stopped when the starp began to rip. What in the world? She went over to a nearby chair and tried to move it, with similar effect. She tried to move the other objects in the room, but nothing would. What was wrong?

"ELLY! MEREDETH! SAUL! STEPHEN! CRAVENS! SAUL! LIZZIE! COME DOWN HERE! SOMEONE SABATOGED OUR COMMON ROOM! EVERYTHING IS STUCK TO THE GROUND!!!" she bellowed the names of everyone she could think of up the stairs to the dorm rooms. Someone would know what to do! \n\n

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Saul

November 24, 2006 7:25 PM

I've been summoned! by Saul

Saul had gone back up to his room and tried to get back to sleep. He'd realized a little too late that he'd forgotten to take off the school robes, so he just dumped it on the floor beside his bed. It was a possible tip-off to Michael or Eduardo, but it wasn't like the alarm earlier hadn't been worse. He figured if his roommates were going to turn him in, they already had sufficient cause.

He'd just begun to drop off to sleep when he heard shouting from downstairs. His name, not once, but twice, amidst a bunch of other names. Someone had discovered the prank.

Saul jumped out of bed, tripped over his robes, grabbed them, and put them on as he ran down the stairs to find Caedence, one of his firsties. "What's going on?" he asked, sounding perplexed. He'd heard she'd gotten into a fight with Michael and Morgaine, he wasn't sure he really wanted her to know he'd been involved with the sticking so he was putting all his acting experience into the question.\n\n

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Caedence

November 24, 2006 7:37 PM

I forgot to summon echo... by Caedence

OOC: not to be mean, the double name was a typo, I meant Echo...

IC: Caedence looked around at the room once more. What in the world happened? Better yet, who did it? Hurried footsteps alerted her to someone approaching. Caedence inwardly groaned. She did call Saul, didn't she?

"Saul! Everything is stuck! I can't even get my backpack off the ground!" she tugged on it to demonstrate, "Do you know what the heck, or who, could have done it? I hope that it isn't someone in my good graces..." she added the last under her breath. Of course she wouldn't blow up on anyone who Elly was friends with. Secretly she hoped it wasn't Elly. After all, who would even suspect she would have done it? She turned to Saul looking hopeful, "Do you know what the countercurse is?" she knew the older student didn't, or rather she guessed, but a girl could hope!\n\n

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Saul

November 24, 2006 10:41 PM

Sure, you 'forgot' by Saul

ooc: kind of figured she didn't intentionally call him twice, but hey! He can hope it was a genuine Freudian slip because she just looks up to him that much. bic:

Saul looked surprised and tried to pick up the backpack Elly had stuck down first. It moved no further now than it had when she had newly cast the sticking spell. "That's really freaky," he said, sounding baffled. "Dunno any counterspells for something like this," he added, which was the complete truth. Undoing the prank wasn't really his problem.

He stepped back from the backpack and looked around the room. "Everything got stuck down?" he asked. He kicked at the slippers Meredith had charmed, and they didn't budge either. "That's so weird. Think we should tell Professor Connell? She should be able to unstick it, anyway."

He hated to make that suggestion, since it would bring official notice to the prank, but if he hadn't been involved, it would be his first thought.\n\n

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