After your prefects teach you the term's password, ‘Omega Glory’, the Fat Lady swings her portrait open revealing the entrance to your home away from home. The hearth has a few low burning embers just enough to give it a homely warm feeling in the Scottish highlands, and its low light illuminates the comfy armchairs before it.

While the common room is always decked out in bold crimsons and golds, the glow and overall spirit of the room seems to really scream GRYFFINDOR - almost as if everything in the room has been charmed to accentuate the colors. And rightly so, having coming off a double win with the House Cup and Gobstone Cup last term!

On one of the walls is a large poster of a lion missing its tail. Not to worry though, there are several "spare" tails off to the side for you to try and "pin the tail on the lion" with. Those students wishing for a bit of a challenge should use their magic to locomotor it into place...but be warned, this lion does not like to sit still and may jump for portrait to portrait while you try.

The sweet aroma of chocolate frogs, cauldron cakes, pumpkin pasties, and buttered popcorn fill the common room, and there are large white mugs filled with hot cocoa or tea set out on a long table near the fireplace. A few roasting sticks, along with all the fixings (including an assortment of gourmet marshmallows in various flavors, all from your Head of House's personal collection) to make delicious hot schmoes smores can be found on the opposite side of the fireplace - along with a few other surprise treats.

Perhaps the most startling addition to the common room this evening is the addition of a platform running outside one of the windows into the darkness of the September night. Are you daring enough to take the plunge? Let's find out!

For those who are returning, this is an excellent opportunity to catch up with friends and for those that are newly sorted, this is an opportunity to make friends. Unless your bed is beckoning you, sit, relax, have some snacks and chat. Your Head of House and House Assistant wish you a pleasant start to the new school term.

OOC: This is the common room thread for after the start of term feast - our first night home! The general common room thread will open in 3-4 days for regular RP depending on how much fun and chaos you all cause in here. Welcome to, or welcome back to, Gryffindor!

And no dying. Magical bungee jumping is perfectly safe and will cause NO deaths or injuries