<b><u>To All Students In The Great Hall </u></b>(i.e. students that come from the Magic Realm, such as Elves, Ectoplasts and humans who are already well acquainted with the Magic Realm)<br/><br/>As the head mistress leaves the stage, one of the professors, an Ectoplasts which looks like a gelatinous Man-O-War (OOC: think Hanar on Mass Effect) floats forward and with a strange but soothing voice, says:<br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(84, 172, 210)">"All right students, it's time to get sorted. Please, form an orderly line in front of the pedestal and, one by one, step up to the pedestal and place your hand on the opal orb. Once your house name is announced, please move forth through the appropriate portal which will lead you to the common room for your house. There, you will find existing house mates waiting for you. They will orient you through the selection of your rooms, house rules, and so on.</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(84, 172, 210)">HOWEVER!!!! Ectoplasts students MUST remain in the Great Hall until 11 AM. Access to the houses is strictly forbidden to Ectoplasts at this time since new students coming from the mundane realm will be arriving and none of them are appropriately protected in latex at this point. For the safety of the new students from the mundane world, no Ectoplasts, either new students, existing students or staff, are allowed anywhere near any of the student houses. Now don't worry, plenty of your house mates will come and join our new Ectoplasts here in the Great Hall to keep them company and to also begin their orientation until 11 AM.</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#54acd2">Also, to all our new and even our existing Ectoplasts students. As I mentioned before, we have new students from the mundane world arriving. I assume that all of them will be rather bewildered with their new reality. For them, things like magic, Dragons, Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblins and Ectoplasts, all of this will be very new to them. So please, go easy on them since they will possibly fear you at first. Be gentle, be kind and be understanding seeing that their world has just been turned upside down. I've also been told that, by some unexpected twist of fate, one of the mundane students has been sorted into <i>The Order</i>. Obviously, this is very unusual... To my Ectoplasts brethren, please be gentle with her in the first few days.</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(84, 172, 210)">Finally, as a reminder, once you gain access to your common rooms, make sure to consult the bulletin boards since they have plenty of invitations to extra-curricula activities. ALL STUDENTS must select at least one extra-curricula activity on top of their academic workload."</span><br/><br/>The Ectoplasts professor would gesture a slimy gelatinous tentacle towards the pedestal as he said<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(84, 172, 210)">"Let us start..."</span>