SNOWBALL FIGHT

[finchmods]

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

BATTLEFIELD

[finchmods]

BATTLEFIELD: Venus

[knockyouout]

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

BATTLEFIELD: Atticus

[harmreduction]

He's probably going to spend most of his time bolstering his fort, because the best offense is a good defense, but does wander out occasionally.

BATTLEFIELD: Meredith

[expansivemind]

Much like a cat, Merry really does not like being wet or cold, but she can't resist the urge to try to impress Irene by hitting someone in the head with a snowball.

BATTLEFIELD: Dallas

[dallaslevy]

Dallas has exactly zero interest in hiding out or building up his team's fort, so here he is! His agility makes him a somewhat harder target to hit, but he definitely deserves a snowball to the face.

BATTLEFIELD: Selby

[selbydenman]

Selby will be spending most of his time in the fort, but he'll likely venture out to tag a frozen teammate back in or throw a snowball or two and that means he's fair game!

BATTLEFIELD: Sabrina

[droppedyoursmile]

You don't grow up in the Rockies without learning how to huck a snowball. Sabrina's out here to draw some blood.

BATTLEFIELD: Emma

[ballhoot]

Emma Lane knows no fear.

BATTLEFIELD: Adam

[adamho]

Adam doesn't like the cold or the snow but a challenge was made and all of his friends are here, so...he's here too. He may have more fun than he's expecting once the snow starts flying.

BATTLEFIELD: Liam

[unironickylorenfan]

Liam venturing into a Finchwood snowball fight is like sending in the giants at the battle of Hogwarts.

BATTLEFIELD: Hamsi

[monsterseekingmonster]

Doin' a snow murder.

BATTLEFIELD: Conway

[bambae]

Conway really only showed up to hit people in the face with snow. He has to actively try not to hit his own housemates.

BATTLEFIELD: Sully

[youredoinggreatsweetie]

He does a little dance every time someone misses him.

BATTLEFIELD: Rose

[whiteknuckles]

You can tell Finchwood is starting to grow on Rose because she didn't pack ANY of her snowballs with rocks.

BATTLEFIELD: Marzio

[marno]

Don't hit him in the face!!! He's wearing glasses!!

BATTLEFIELD: Dustin

[highercalling]

You may be surprised to hear that Dustin gets a little too into snowball fights. Unless you've seen him play dodgeball in Athletics. Then, you're probably not surprised at all .

BATTLEFIELD: Neal

[heliocentrist]

Small and fast, but also loud and excited, Neal is easily noticed if a little tougher to hit. On the other hand, a good tackle into a snow drift would knock him right off his feet.

BATTLEFIELD: Eli

[pleaseloveme]

He yelps every time a snowball gets anywhere near him.

BATTLEFIELD: Zinnia

[deathpositive]

It's only a matter of time before she starts roughhousing with someone.

BATTLEFIELD: Marina

[sarno]

Ugh, fort building sounds an awful lot like manual labor. Marina bypasses that completely and only regrets that her competitive nature won't let her smash all these snowballs in Marzio's face.

BATTLEFIELD: Richie

[mudskipper]

Sup. Richie's gonna softball all these throws but the real fun here is getting hit with snowballs anyway.

BATTLEFIELD: PEARL

[opalescents]

She's running around here most of the time so like catch her if you can I guess

BATTLEFIELD: SLADE

[vanghost]

He's not the best sport in the entire world and if you knock his glasses off his face he'll pout.

BATTLEFIELD:KYRA

[weewilywilkie]

She's honestly pretty sneaky. Catch her hanging near the fort but then beaning people in their heads from the back.

BATTLEFIELD: Scout

[star_boy]

Scout's making an effort to NOT hit anyone in the head, and is easily distracted by his friends, oops.