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ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and everyone’s Irish tonight!

The Grotto has been decorated with crude but brilliantly colored green sparkling charms, making the still-bare trees around the clearing light up with emerald lights. The crowning achievement is a beautiful glowing rainbow that passes right over the fire. The “pot of gold" at the end of this particular rainbow is where an exceptionally generous accumulation of alcohol is being kept.

[Herbology Student Volunteer] somehow managed to get the Grotto to basically explode with mounds of bright green clovers. Regrettably, they’ll all die in a couple days, but for now it’s soft and comfortable to lie on them and enjoy a drink.

Atop a stump rests the crown for the new King/Queen of St. Patrick’s Day: an impressive green crown of silk leaves and gold. It was created by Isabelle Sargent just for the occasion. At the end of the night, Levi Kramer*, the previous king, is supposed to crown the new king. As he’s decided to skip out on the party, Levi gives that responsibility to Gavin & Garrett Ogletree.

(* In the case that Levi will be attending after all, Ali, just let us know in the OOC section and we’ll let him crown the winner personally!)

There are bright green shamrock pins you can take from a basket by the fire. These indicate that your character agrees to the annual kissing competition. The pins track how many different people gave your character a smooch (hands and cheeks count), and at the end of the night, the person who got the most kisses can demand a kiss from any party guest! (Assuming OOC consent is given.)

RULES

You must use your new character journals to participate in this IC/OOC.

The party starts at 7:00, and runs until 12:00. The prefects are still strictly enforcing curfew.

Prefects: assume the system of on- and off-duty prefects is still in place. You may choose if your prefect is on or off duty, or if they’re going to show up at 12:30 AM to write up curfew breakers.

It’s warm out now! These terrible children can put fashion over function once again.(It’s actually supposed to rain in Utah today but I’m going to give you all yesterday’s weather instead: slightly cloudy and 68 F in the day, dipping down to 55 F in the late evening.)

Speaking of: you should consider wearing green, or you might get pinched.

The King/Queen of St. Patrick’s Day will be announced Saturday at noon, Mountain Time. This will hopefully give everyone a chance to play, but will allow your characters to react to the winner in a timely fashion.

Tomorrow there will be a mini follow-up IC/OOC, popularly called the St. Patrick’s Day Pity Party. It’s tradition that the next day, everyone who drank too much gathers around the fields of Coppertale to recover and whine about their hangovers.

Regarding the Hunger Games: you may not kill anyone in the Grotto or along the secret trail leading to it.

If you signed your character up for either Spin The Bottle or Seven Minutes In Heaven, find their partners below:

Roxanne Barringer STB #1: Iliya STB #2: Damon	Sybilla Borgin STB #1: Xavier STB #2: Gabi 7MIH: Wilde	Cameron Carney STB #1: Casper STB #2: Joanna 7MIH: Antonia	Jaime Castillo STB #1: Damon STB #2: Kazim 7MIH: Joanna
Avery Davenport STB #1: Milo STB #2: Reid 7MIH: Casper	Reece Downing STB #1: Addy STB #2: Bianca	Bianca Dubois STB #1: Ari STB #2: Reece	Mercedes Estrada STB #1: Marilyn STB #2: Ennis
Damon Evercreech STB #1: Reid STB #2: Vee STB #3: Jaime STB #4: Roxie 7MIH: Ivy	Marilyn Fairchild STB #1: Mercedes STB #2: Etta 7MIH: Fern	Ariadne Flint STB #1: Bianca STB #2: Garrett 7MIH: Kenzie	Gabriela Flores STB #1: Riley STB #2: Sylla 7MIH: Isabelle
Adeline Foster-Hayes STB #1: Reece STB #2: Laurel 7MIH: Iliya	Henrietta Gray STB #1: Ivy STB #2: Marilyn 7MIH: Tess	Milo Greer STB #1: Avery STB #2: Bash	Ennis Harper STB #1: Casey STB #2: Mercedes
Regan Hobbs STB #1: Hazel STB #2: Casey 7MIH: Ana	Hazel Keating STB #1: Ree STB #2: Isabelle	Casper Kim STB #1: Cameron STB #2: Ulysses 7MIH: Avery	Iliya Krum STB #1: Roxie STB #2: Fern 7MIH: Addy
Sebastien Lacroix STB #1: Garrett STB #2: Milo	Xavier Lewis STB #1: Sylla STB #2: Riley 7MIH: Reid	Ursula de Luca STB #1: Antonia STB #2: Tess 7MIH: Penny	Joanna May STB #1: Wilde STB #2: Cameron 7MIH: Jaime
Jesse McBride STB #1: Kenzie STB #2: Penny 7MIH: Vee	Fern Mufferaw STB #1: Isabelle STB #2: Iliya 7MIH: Marilyn	Theresa Noble STB #1: Penny STB #2: Ursula 7MIH: Etta	Garrett Ogletree STB #1: Bash STB #2: Ari
Gavin Ogletree STB #1: Ana STB #2: Antonia	Antonia Papadakis STB #1: Ursula STB #2: Gavin 7MIH: Cameron	Casey Patterson STB #1: Ennis STB #2: Ree 7MIH: Ulysses	Veronica Powers STB #1: Kazim STB #2: Damon 7MIH: Jesse
Mackenzie Prince STB #1: Jesse STB #2: Ivy 7MIH: Ari	Ulysses Quayle STB #1: Laurel STB #2: Casper 7MIH: Casey	Kazim Raza STB #1: Vee STB #2: Jaime	Isabelle Sargent STB #1: Fern STB #2: Hazel 7MIH: Gabi
Riley Stamper STB #1: Gabi STB #2: Xavier 7MIH: Laurel	Laurel Templeton STB #1: Ulysses STB #2: Addy 7MIH: Riley	Ivy Templeton STB #1: Etta STB #2: Kenzie 7MIH: Damon	Penelope Vargas STB #1: Tess STB #2: Jesse 7MIH: Ursula
Susana Velasquez STB #1: Gavin STB #2: Wilde 7MIH: Ree	Reid Wainwright STB #1: Damon STB #2: Avery 7MIH: Xavier	Jonathan Wilde STB #1: Joanna STB #2: Ana 7MIH: Sylla

RULES

Teen peer pressure (and player sadism) aside, no one is obligated to do anything they don't want to. Characters doing Seven Minutes In Heaven can spend the time just talking or staring awkwardly at each other, and characters playing Spin The Bottle can opt out of a kiss (although people will probably boo).

If characters get up to anything more racy than PG-13, please fade to black on that! This includes sexually explicit conversations. Many people track IC/OOC posts, so please have consideration for your fellow players. Talking about sex is fine (and part of the flavour of a teen game), but there's no need to get into detailed descriptions of anatomy or sex acts.

If you'd like to say two characters were partners in STB or 7MIH in addition to what's been rolled, go ahead! Obviously, get the permission of all involved characters first.

» Before the Party: The St. Patrick’s Day celebration is always a big one, even compared to other Grotto parties! Prep your outfits, grab your friends, and maybe hold off on pregaming if you want to show the school how much alcohol you can consume in one sitting.

» Around the Fire: The large bonfire is warm and romantic. Pull up a log and grab a blanket, make some s'mores, or dance to the party music. There's a karaoke setup for anyone who feels bold enough to sing along. If you don't care for music, there's beer and soda in the ice chests, along with bins for empty bottles and cans. Don't litter. This isn't your home. Some bold students are even doing body shots as the temperature is continuing to rise, and lifting your shirt is no longer going to result in freezing to death.

» Drinking Competition: At the end of the night, the heartiest drinker will be named King or Queen of St. Patrick’s Day. There’s a crown on the line, and the winner will be carried back to their cabin by the remaining drunken survivors at the end of the night. (Yes, they’ll probably be dropped at least once.) People who participated in the drinking games (and anyone else who wants to play along) are expected to refer to them as “Your Highness" for the next week and bow when they enter the room.

There are drinking games taking place all over the party, in addition to just regular old drinking without a game involved at all. Gooseberry’s on the lookout for the heartiest drinker this year!

Start a thread for your character under this comment and fill out the form below to be part of the competition.

Each time you comment to your thread with the form, you will get a roll to add to your character’s drinking score. You may request up to three rolls in one comment.

The goal is to get as close to 200 as you can without going over. After you go over 200, your character either passes out, vomits, or is simply too unwell to continue. They’re effectively disqualified.

In the case of a tie at the end of the night, we’ll roll a tiebreaker.

As your score increases, we’ll inform you how drunk your character is becoming.

There’s an option to indicate your character has low alcohol tolerance. This means that every roll gets a +5 modifier. Your character will get drunker faster, but they’re more likely to go over 200.

» Other Games:

Pinching: Did your character forget to wear green? If so, comment here, and other character may come along and give your character a pinch.

Kiss me, I’m (pretending to be) Irish: Those shamrock pins being offered around the fire? They’re a cue that you’re open to receiving random pecks from strangers. These are assumed to be cute platonic kisses, not mouth kisses. If your character is participating, comment here for drive by smooches. Your character’s pin will then magically keep track of how many times they’re kissed. The character that receives the most kisses by midnight can request a kiss from any party attendant! (You must receive OOC permission, and the type of kiss is chosen by the person your character selected. The winner will be announced at the same time as the king/queen, both IC and OOC, and the kiss will take place in front of the crowd of revellers.)

» Inside the Building:

» Kissing Games:

Spin The Bottle: Everyone sits in a circle and takes turns spinning the bottle to find their partner. Anyone who squeezes in (or happens to be accidentally standing behind a gap in the circle) gets a shot at a kiss. People can leave and enter the game at any time. Participants will be encouraged by their drunken classmates to kiss on the mouth.

Seven Minutes in Heaven: "Heaven" is a narrow, closet-sized room adjacent to the main party, and is dark except for some cracks of light from the door. (The "door" being a heavy wooden board that's propped against the doorway and magically "locked" for seven minutes.) You can use your wand to get more light, but really, you two should be making out.

» The Woods: The prefects probably won’t let you wander too far in, but why would you want to anyway?

» After the Party: At midnight, prefects will be clearing the party and guiding everyone home. Don't walk back alone! Anyone left at 12:30 AM when the second wave of prefects hits the Grotto will be written up for punishment. As it’s St. Patrick’s day, the prefects might be anticipating more passed out classmates than normal.

» OOC: QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

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Reid can't even remember if he owns anything green.

Quinn isn't in the business of pinching people who aren't wearing green, but it's a good opportunity to lean in real close and say in dramatically hushed tones, "I've seen you smile three times so far. I bet you'll go to four, at least." before walking away. She thinks she's clever, but she's just very drunk.

Robin is wearing a utilikilt. It is not green. But it can carry up to 18 beer bottles, so it really adheres to the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, doesn't it? He owns one in camo too, but he specifically wore a black one because he's a punk.

Pinch him if you dare.

Chris is currently wearing this shirt.

He definitely pinches Robin. And it's definitely unnecessarily hard.

Edited (I mean he probably also punches lbr) 2017-03-17 20:12 (UTC)

Robin punches him and calls him fucko. 💚 This is some serious Coppertool bonding tonight.

Drunk Tess doesn't remember the pinching rule, but Chris pinched Robin, so she damn well is going to too.

Robin pinched her hard as fuck back and she is definitely going to have a bruise in the morning. They both are. They're pale and bruisable as fuck.

I'm putting this here because I DARE YOU

Rafael dares at least once.

He only gets the most fond of exasperated sighs. And (light) retaliatory pinches, even if Rafael's wearing green. Leo explains he does not have to follow these Irish rules.

Rafael is... not wearing green either, and he's definitely not Irish. He just wanted to tease Leo a little about not following the rules, even if Rafael's ignoring them as well.

Leo deserves it. But appreciates Rafael's not folding to green pressure

Rafael's not wearing green, but may eventually cave and grab something green off a friend if this becomes an issue.

Sometime later in the evening, a drunk Tess wanders by, stopping to stare at Rafael. The, she puts a clover behind his ear and pats his head gently. She still doesn't even have any green on herself, so it's possible she's not even trying to green him up and just thinks it looks nice.

Reece knew it was a St. Patrick's Day party. He just... forgot about the wearing green thing.

Roxie makes her way in Reece's direction in a very determined sort of fashion, her steps teetering slightly and all risen up on her toes, a habit that she usually makes some effort to temper. She stops a few inches in front of him (the slightest bit too close, maybe, but she can't be entirely certain at the current moment) before reaching up to drop her scarf over his head and pulling back, rocking onto her heels.

Her head tips to the side, regarding him for a moment and giving a satisfied nod.

"Much better," she informs him solemnly. "There are rules, you know."

He catches her by the shoulders reflexively as she totters backwards. Apparently being slightly tipsy has actually made him more coordinated. Who knew.

After he's pretty sure she's not going to fall over, he takes a second to look at the scarf she put on him. It's, obviously, not something he'd wear on a normal day, but it is soft. And he did forget to wear something green.

... and it smells nice, so.

"Thanks," he says, arranging it more artfully around his neck. "... I didn't forget any other rules, did I?"

It looks better on him, honestly. And she's still perfectly safe. Her boots are still done up in appropriately-colored laces.

"I don't know," she admits. "I'm not very Irish." A beat, her eyebrows beetling together before she corrects herself: "I'm actually not at all Irish."

Her teeth pull at her lower lip, worrying the skin as she attempts to remember what other Very Irish Criteria go into celebrating this particular holiday. It's not a particularly successful endeavor until -

"Oh!" she brightens, but keeps within her own personal space. "Do you have a pin?"

Those have rules. Very nice, clear-cut rules.

"I might be a little Irish?" he says. His family's pretty Anglo-Saxon, but he doesn't really know where his ancestors were from. He gets distracted from the topic of how Irish he is as Roxie chews her lip, though. Sorry. He's a teenage boy and she's cute.

"Uhm," he says in response, trying to remember what she's talking about. "Oh, the shamrock pins? No."

"A little definitely counts." Is Roxie at all qualified to be making this sort of blanket proclamation on Irish heritage? Probably not. But that doesn't seem like too much of a deterrent, really.

And it doesn't matter all that much anyway, since she's already busy rummaging through her coat pocket for the aforementioned pin. The mission takes a brief detour when she skewers herself on it instead, hissing and pulling her hand back before shaking her fingers out and (with a touch more care) retrieving the object in question.

She frowns sternly at it, but her lips twitch back up when she glances up at him. "These have holiday rules. They might be made up."

Reece & Roxie

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Ty also forgot to wear green. If he realizes any would-be pinchers are nearby, he'll lead them on a chase! If he's pinched...he'll be sad guys. :(

Tess didn't remember to wear green, and she won't remember why you're supposed to until it's too late.

Rosy pinches Tess harder than was intended and/or necessary. Your parents are going to wonder what the fuck is up with weirdo camping school when you go back home and you're literally purple.

"Ow fuck!" Tess says, and punches her in the arm before she even registers who the culprit is.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY

PINCHING

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Robin

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Leo

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Rafael

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