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gooseberryhigh2018-07-17 10:29 am
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A Sorting Ceremony
Sorting Ceremony 2012
September 1st 2012. It seems like forever ago, now. A simpler time. Here, now, a moose is just a moose and aurors aren’t looked upon with suspicion. Mr. Pennywise still teaches Potions and the Anonymous Entry is relatively new.
It’s a hot and humid high in the Utah mountains and a heavy haze hangs in the air. Students have been fed and oriented and the day is getting long. The lights along the trails are flickering to life. It’s time for the sorting ceremony to begin. Students new and old make the trek from the lodge to the cave, not a one of them aware of what they will experience – what they will endure - in the years to come.
A fire crackles in the center of the amphitheater where Gooseberry's faculty and staff have gathered to greet the students. Headmistress Bloom delivers an enthusiastic speech, as she always does, promising an exciting year ahead. Gooseberry is your home for the next ten months. Here, you'll find new friends and family, learn about yourself and the world around you in exciting new ways. Here, you will grow. As she speaks, something moves beyond the treeline. Perhaps you caught a glimpse of it – or maybe it was nothing at all. Before you know it, Bloom’s speech is over.
With that, the first name is called. Step up to the cave and be sorted. It’s dark inside, drafty and full of strange sounds.
Take a deep breath before you head inside and remember to be brave.
» Before the Ceremony: Today was a busy day! Everyone arrived this morning by 11am. There was lunch and orientation, a bit of free time before dinner. What did you get up to?
» The Sorting Ceremony: Students gather in the amphitheater outside the sorting cave to see the newest members of the Gooseberry family learn their new houses.
» After the Ceremony: It's well past sunset, now. Time to head to your campsite and settle in!
» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!
It’s a hot and humid high in the Utah mountains and a heavy haze hangs in the air. Students have been fed and oriented and the day is getting long. The lights along the trails are flickering to life. It’s time for the sorting ceremony to begin. Students new and old make the trek from the lodge to the cave, not a one of them aware of what they will experience – what they will endure - in the years to come.
A fire crackles in the center of the amphitheater where Gooseberry's faculty and staff have gathered to greet the students. Headmistress Bloom delivers an enthusiastic speech, as she always does, promising an exciting year ahead. Gooseberry is your home for the next ten months. Here, you'll find new friends and family, learn about yourself and the world around you in exciting new ways. Here, you will grow. As she speaks, something moves beyond the treeline. Perhaps you caught a glimpse of it – or maybe it was nothing at all. Before you know it, Bloom’s speech is over.
With that, the first name is called. Step up to the cave and be sorted. It’s dark inside, drafty and full of strange sounds.
Take a deep breath before you head inside and remember to be brave.
HOW THIS WORKS
- This is taking place on Sept 1, 2012, the academic year preceding year 1. So, super seniors would be juniors, seniors would be sophomores, juniors would be the incoming freshmen and sophomores are nothing more than an ominous cloud on the horizon.
- This is SUPER LOW PRESSURE. Just have fun playing your kids as babies!!
- The sorting ceremony takes place not long after dinner this year.
- Freshmen and any students who were new to Gooseberry in the 2013 school year would be getting sorted.
- New kids spent the bulk of the day unsorted, it's possible older kids may've tried to recruit you to their house!
- SORTING CEREMONY: Students are called into the cave one by one in alphabetical order. Inside, the emblems of each house assess the student about why they should join their respective house. Their goal is to convince the student that they're a good fit with them, but ultimately the student is allowed to choose where they'd like to go. If the sorting takes more than five minutes, a teacher will go in to hurry things along. After your character is sorted, they go to sit in their house's section of the audience, often to excited cheers.
- After the ceremony, students head back to their campsites with their new classmates for the evening.
» Before the Ceremony: Today was a busy day! Everyone arrived this morning by 11am. There was lunch and orientation, a bit of free time before dinner. What did you get up to?
» The Sorting Ceremony: Students gather in the amphitheater outside the sorting cave to see the newest members of the Gooseberry family learn their new houses.
» After the Ceremony: It's well past sunset, now. Time to head to your campsite and settle in!
» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!
Baby Birds @ Azurcrest
Lucas Kowalski has never been more positive of anything in his life - this was a mistake. He shakes his inhaler before taking a click of medication into his tightening lungs. It's the only sound the tall ghost with a storm cloud of dark hair makes as he shuffles awkwardly toward the other new Azurcrest sortees, narrowly avoiding brushing against a cute older boy. God everyone here is so attractive. It's disgusting.
Standing just behind the other new Azurcrest freshmen, Lucas sighs heavily, audibly, and immediately regrets that decision, too.
Baby Birds @ Azurcrest
"MAN, I wonder what would happen if we threw something OFF the cliff," he shouts to both no one and everyone around him, gesturing wildly with his hands, "and it went CRASHING down into the trees and then it like hit a BIRD nest and the bird figured out who THREW the thing and came after us for REVENGE, and then—"
We'll never know how the scenario ends, because that's exactly when Jeffy smacks Lucas in the face with one of his flailing hands. "OH, hey, dude, whoa, you okay??? I didn't even SEE you."
Baby Birds @ Azurcrest
He kind of shrinks, shielding his face instinctively with his hands after the fact and splitting his fingers to peek between them only after he's sure no more is coming. He takes a shallow breath. An accident. The boy who'd stood ahead of him during the sorting certainly doesn't seem like he wants to pummel him. Lucas straightens his glasses, then opens his mouth and tries to say something normal, "It's, um, it's p-probably not safe to get too close to the edge of the cliff."
Why on Earth did he get sorted into the cliff house.
Baby Birds @ Azurcrest
She was going to have so. much. freedom.
Just as she was pulling up to the campsite, she saw some abnormally tall boys (for freshman, which she could see they were) up ahead - one had totally just beaned the other in the head. The one with the hair looked kinda like he was gonna have a fit or something. The other one was still kinda flailing.
"You gonna jump off the cliff and see what happens?" She asks, jumping up to the two boys - directly behind inhaler boy - but not touching either of them. Sam, though she didn't know it yet, had something in common with hair-kid - the aversion to being touched. "I mean, they probably put cushioning charms down there and you'll just like, bounce down the hill."