SNOWBALL FIGHT

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SNOWBALL FIGHT

While the snow has finally stopped falling by Sunday morning, the campus is still all but buried in white powder and the cold ensures that it won't be going anywhere for a while. Welcome to winter, Finchwood Academy! Apparently inspired, Sabrina Lane organizes an interhouse snowball fight and spreads the word around campus, challenging inviting all of her fellow-students (and a few staff members) to come out and test their mettle have some fun!

Everyone meets at noon in the undeveloped field behind the classroom building and the teams are given one hour to build their forts, prepare their artillery (snowballs only!), and plant their flags. Sabrina then outlines the rules. Every player must wear a bright strip of cloth somewhere on their person to identify their house affiliation. Each fort must prominently display their house's flag, which the other players will attempt to steal and get back to their fort to claim victory. When hit by a snowball, players must freeze and wait to be unfrozen by a teammate. No cheating! Headshots count for double, Irene adds, before hitting [Character A] right in the face. She doesn't look like she feels bad at all and nobody seems interested in arguing with her.

Ready to play, the teams hurry back to their forts and wait for the signal.

HOW THIS WORKS

• Each character has five turns for an RNG roll between 1 - 5. They may use a turn to bolster their house's defenses or attack another character.


• To bolster defenses, post to your house's fort. The points rolled will be added to the house's score. Unless otherwise specified, the mods will roll one turn at a time.


• To attack, post your character to the Battleground (making them available for retaliation!) and comment on the character you want to attack. The points rolled will be subtracted from the other house's score.
  
  While characters will undoubtedly be throwing more snowballs at more people in-game, these posts will contribute to the overall scores and guarantee your character a hit! Unless otherwise specified, the mods will roll one turn at a time. Getting hit means that your character has to stay where they are until a teammate comes to their rescue and tags them back into the game. While the mods will not control this aspect of the game at all, feel free to play this out as desired.
  
  With Irene's encouragement, some students will attempt a headshot. This will be controlled by RNG, but if your character gets one, we'll double their roll!


• All houses start with 15 points. Anyone who reduces a house to negative points has stolen their flag. Anyone who gets their house back to positive points has stolen the flag back.


• Turns will be rolled and used up in the order they're posted. If it appears that the mods have messed up the order, just let us know! Dreamwidth emails can be finicky but we'll do our best to keep things straight!


• If you don't want to use up a turn, make an OOC note so the mods know not to roll for you.


• Sabrina managed to convince Ms. Voss, Ms. Kowalcyzk, Irene, and Iason to take part too! In an effort to be fair(ish), she assigned one to each team. But some contribute more than others...
  
  Having Ms. Voss on their team gives the Swords a bonus of 10 points!
  Having Irene on their team gives the Cups a bonus of 20 points!
  Having Iason on their team gives the Wands a bonus of 5 points!
  Having Ms. Kowalcyzk on their team gives the Coins a bonus of 15 points!

You must respond by Tuesday, December 4, 11:59pm CST for your rolls to be included in the totals.

CURRENT TOTALS
SWORDS	CUPS	WANDS	COINS
2	2	-35	-4

» SWORD FORT

» CUP FORT

» WAND FORT

» COIN FORT

» BATTLEFIELD: Between the snow forts is open ground with no cover. Good luck out there!

» SIDELINES: While there's no specific cutoff to the field, those that want to observe can take their chances. Hopefully they won't catch a stray snowball! Anyone that needs a break can also find hot chocolate, tea, and coffee waiting in cafeteria!

» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

SWORD FORT

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SWORDS: Marzio

[marno]

Marzio thinks digging himself a little burrow and taking a nap for a turn is fortifying defenses.

SWORDS: Atticus

[harmreduction]

He's gonna build up those snow walls before heading out.

(First turn!)

SWORDS: Scout

[star_boy]

Scout will (gently) throw some snowballs later, but figures he should try to be helpful building up the fort first!

SWORDS: Adam

[adamho]

Adam doesn't like being stuck with busy work like building up the fort, but he likes losing even less. Bring him more snow!

SWORDS: Suzy

[mentalmap]

Su keeps meaning to get out on the battlefield, but the fort keeps needing straightening up??? And that will just not do. It's a conundrum that means she spends all five turns fortifying. :o

CUP FORT

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CUPS: Dustin

[highercalling]

Fort build-up isn't the glamorous job in a snowball fight, but hey, it must be done.

CUPS: Nora

[goodnightbunny]

Oh!! Gosh!! Nora doesn't mind helping out back at the fort!! She'll make plenty of snowballs to breathlessly hand off to the combatants!!

CUPS: PEARL

[opalescents]

Okay okay okay she'll hang back for a tiiiiny bit and help build.

(fourth!)

CUPS: Eli

[pleaseloveme]

Eli was assailed by a number of snowballs, some of which were arguably flirtations. He's done. That's it. He spends the rest of the fight defending the fort, aka hiding.

(Spending my last three turns!)

CUPS: Gregory

[de_leon]

Gregory LOVES making a home, so you better believe he's going to be around the fort.

He spends three rolls patching things up and fortifying defenses.

CUPS: Mason

[coalblooded]

This seems like a good place to be. Just gonna hang out here with Gregory for a while.

WAND FORT

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WAND: Russ

[dogspotting]

Ugh it's...... so cold...... aaaaaaahhhhh. Russ thinks he'll stay back here and out of the warzone for a little bit to fortify.


(Turn 1)

WANDS: Neal

[heliocentrist]

So it turns out all offense is a bad strategy! Neal scurries back to the fort to defend it.

(Second roll!)

WAND: SLADE

[vanghost]

Slade was made to hang back and build up the fortress, probably complaining that no one thinks ahead.

(first turn!)

WANDS: Sully

[youredoinggreatsweetie]

Aaaaand Sully saunters his way back to Wands home base after being pelted with snowballs and spends his final turn building up fortifications.

WAND: Lee

[woeislee]

Lee rushes to bolster their fort, which is looking pretty sad at this point.

COIN FORT

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COINS: Selby

[selbydenman]

While Selby has exceptional aim and really should be out there throwing things at his friends, he's not really a competitive sort. He's going to start in the fort, making snowballs and reinforcing the walls, and may stay there unless someone convinces him otherwise.

COINS: Petra

[unremittent]

Petra knows she's most useful slingin' snow, but she's not about to put herself out there without making sure their base is secure.

BATTLEFIELD

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BATTLEFIELD: Venus

[knockyouout]

Venus's absolutely ridiculous winter coat makes her an easy target.

SIDELINES

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Cuddle Puddle (open ++)

[dogspotting]

"I'm dying," Russ whines pathetically, wrapping his arms around a nearby friend and draping himself over them. "We need to hold each other for warmth. It's the only way we can survive."

OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[droppedyoursmile]

somebody tell iason he's doing a good job