Open RP: Party in the Ravenclaw Common Room

[usethepoker]

Susan didn't do any advertising for the party she'd planned--nobody would understand why, and she didn't feel like explaining. So she just spread munchies, punch bowls, and weird fruit trays around, left out a few cases of butterbeer and firewhiskey, and tacked a sign up over the bar that read

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[chance_silvey]

Liquor's a common enough sight around here. It's the weird fruit trays that catch Chance's eye. There's a sign that says PARTY, and only one person partying, in a rather subdued fashion.

"Celebrating something?" Chance asks the seated woman.

[usethepoker]

Susan had been away too long...she'd never seen this woman before, and, she had a feeling, would meet many, many more strangers before the evening was through.

"Oh yes," she said. "Though I can't really say why. And honestly, this place doesn't seem to need a reason." She set her drink aside, smiling an increasingly less-rare smile. "I don't believe we've met--I'm Susan."

[chance_silvey]

"I wouldn't celebrate Hogwarts. It does seem the kind of place that'd drive people to drink," says Chance, with a half-smile, and bends a little to offer her hand. "I'm Chance."

[usethepoker]

Susan shook her hand. "Oh, it's enough to drive people to a lot of things," she said, with feeling. "But just now I'm almost inordinately pleased with life, and decided to share it." For Susan to face the world with anything other than chronic annoyance was little short of amazing, but in the last few weeks she had, to her own considerable surprise, found herself more content than irritated.

Huh.

"In any case, pleased to meet you, Chance. Are you in Ravenclaw? I was popcorned, for a while," she said, by way of explanation, "and since I came back I haven't exactly been social, so I'm afraid there will be a lot of people I don't know." Not that she'd have cared, before...it was weird, actually wanting to be around other people, but not at all unpleasant.

[chance_silvey]

"Ravenclaw," Chance confirms, understanding why Susan has to ask the question even though they're in the Ravenclaw common room. The common room door is generally open or at least ajar so that people from other houses can help themselves to the bar. "I'm fairly new, myself, so there'll likely be a lot of people I don't know either, once this party gets started. Incidentally, I've been wondering: how do popcorned people know they've been popcorn, once they return to human form?"

[usethepoker]

"Oh, it's impossible to mistake," Susan said dryly. "You wake up in the Popcorn Room, covered in grease and salt. How much memory you wake up with seems to vary, though. Some people come back almost exactly as they were, and others recall almost nothing."