godric gryffindor. (byswordandspell) wrote in fourteenshades, @ 2013-03-02 12:13:00 |
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It's a Gathering of Gryffindors!
Held today around noon in the Community Center is Godric's Great Gryffindor Get-Together. Or that's what we're going to call it, anyway. Invited to attend are all current and former Gryffindors, whether or not they responded to, or even accepted, his invitations over the journals. Earlier this morning, Godric and Parvati opened up the Center to set-up all the tables. Well, it was more like Parvati was in charge of decorations, and Godric was simply the manual labor to do it. Nevertheless, the end result is a fantastic display of red and gold to emulate the common room as most would know it.
There is a food and drink table set up, and anyone who volunteered to bring something in one of the journal conversations would have enough room to set up their plates.
There will be Saxon/Viking activities from Godric's time such as tafl games, including hnefatafl (a sort of pre-cursor to chess), duodecim scripta (like backgammon), Nine Men's Morris, knucklebones, and (Godric's personal favorite), a series of riddles, as a Saxon warrior wasn't considered up to much unless his skill with words was as strong as his skill with swords. Riddles were meant to have two answers: One innocent, and one a bit more adult. Whoever answers the most riddles correctly will get a prize at the end of the night.
There isn't much of a set schedule for what will happen. Depending on what everyone wants, the group could go outside for Quidditch, or simply stay inside and mingle. Of course, there will be alcohol, though because there are a couple who might attend who are under the age of 17, the goblets are charmed with a spell which will shriek loudly and obnoxiously if someone who is not of age attempts to pour alcohol into it. This is done not because Godric himself worries about age limits, as he is not from a time where it is even considered, but because he fears the wrath of Molly Weasley...
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