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

Another Bad (Open)

[unironickylorenfan]

Liam watches a group of freshmen making a snowman with quiet, unsure interest. He quirks his head to the side, squinting at their creation. That's...not a snowman.

"Is that a snow penis?" He mumbles as he nods his head in the direction of the unidentified snow sculpture. "Or, like, a shark?" Maybe they're paying homage to Richie.

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[survivalof]

Marty comes to stand beside Liam, crossing his arms as he also admires this work of art. "It don't look like any dick I ever seen. Unless it's got some kind of bad STD," he comments mildly.

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[unironickylorenfan]

Liam strokes his chin, gestures at the snow creation and then, baffled, covers his mouth with his hand again before shrugging. He looks at Marty. "Have you seen the movie Teeth? Maybe it's like that."

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[survivalof]

"No, what's that?" Marty says, eyes wide with interest. If what they're looking at lead him to thinking of this mystery movie, maybe it's time for another movie night.

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[unironickylorenfan]

"You haven't?" The face Liam makes is a little pained and he inhales through clenched teeth. "It's, like," he waves his hands in the air, fingers grasping for a good way to describe it, and talks himself out of it before settling on anything. "Hm. You'd have to see it." Good effort, son.

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[survivalof]

"C'mon. What is it?" he prods, literally and figuratively, nudging Liam in the ribs with his elbow. "You gonna watch it with me?"

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[unironickylorenfan]

"Super hero movie," Liam responds, the sound hiccuping in the middle a little and his expression screwing up when he's elbowed, though he makes no effort to stop the assault. On the contrary, Liam elbows Marty back softly, scowl fading to a crooked grin. "Yeah. I mean, we conquered Dagon. It'll be no problem."