MAY GROTTO PARTY

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MAY GROTTO PARTY

It's clear, upon stepping into the Grotto, that someone has particular hopes for this Sunday's game. Orange dominates the decorations: the budding tree branches are strung with orange streamers (magicked to vanish after a few hours, making cleanup easy) and the Solo cups have been charmed orange and black. Also, the glitter-painted banner saying "COPPERTALE PRE-VICTORY PARTY" is kind of a giveaway. Sylvester Stoker is one of the first faces you'll see entering the Grotto, and he looks very smug about it.

In the name of fairness, other people get into the impromptu decorations within the first hour of the party. Veronica Powers transfigures half of those tree streamers with Ebonhide colours, with the addition of magical sparkles, so the plum and gold catches the light even after the sun lowers below the horizon. [Azurcrest Volunteer B] uses magic to tint all the cans and bottles with bright Azurcrest colours, and Diego Morales creates a hundred floating blue and white lights that pulse in time with the music. Meanwhile, Ivy Templeton conjures green and coppery balloons to attach to the Grotto's stone house, and Rosemary Stoker vandalizes the banner to say "COPPERTALE CRASH & BURN BASH" instead.

It's spring at Gooseberry, and the Grotto is full of colour. Let's all remember what we're here for: drinking, relaxing, and shit-talking the other team.

RULES

• The party starts at 7:00, and runs until 12:00 midnight. 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.

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

Anuhea Alapai STB #1: Dahlia STB #2: Casey 7MiH: Beatrix	Beatrix Armstrong STB #1: Casey STB #2: Riley 7MiH: Anuhea	Jaime Castillo STB #1: Laurel STB #2: Veronica 7MiH: Avery	Avery Davenport STB #1: Todd STB #2: Wyatt 7MiH: Jaime
Sofia Delgado STB #1: Lucas STB #2: Ana 7MiH: Penny	Marilyn Fairchild STB #1: Faye STB #2: Charlotte 7MiH: Dahlia	Ariadne Flint STB #1: Jeffy STB #2: Isabelle 7MiH: Riley	Milo Greer STB #1: Isabelle STB #2: Hazel 7MiH: Joanna
Dahlia Hale STB #1: Anuhea STB #2: Antonia 7MiH: Marilyn	Regan Hobbs STB #1: Charlotte STB #2: Lucas 7MiH: Zachary	Hazel Keating STB #1: Samantha STB #2: Milo 7MiH: Casey	Jefferson Key STB #1: Ari STB #2: Joanna 7MiH: Essie
Lucas Kowalski STB #1: Sofia STB #2: Regan 7MiH: Bash	Sebastien Lacroix STB #1: Zachary STB #2: Samantha 7MiH: Lucas	Takeru Maeda STB #1: Veronica STB #2: Laurel	Joanna May STB #1: Micah STB #2: Jeffy 7MiH: Milo
Charlotte Meer STB #1: Regan STB #2: Marilyn 7MiH: Isabelle	Estella Morales-Tran STB #1: Oscar STB #2: Jade 7MiH: Jeffy	Jade Otterwell STB #1: Riley STB #2: Essie 7MiH: Antonia	Antonia Papadakis STB #1: Penny STB #2: Dahlia 7MiH: Jade
Casey Patterson STB #1: Beatrix STB #2: Anuhea 7MiH: Hazel	Veronica Powers STB #1: Takeru STB #2: Jaime 7MiH: Todd	Isabelle Sargent STB #1: Milo STB #2: Ari 7MiH: Charlotte	Todd Skynner STB #1: Avery STB #2: Zachary 7MiH: Veronica
Micah St. Clair STB #1: Joanna STB #2: Oscar	Riley Stamper STB #1: Jade STB #2: Beatrix 7MiH: Ari	Samantha Sweeney STB #1: Hazel STB #2: Bash 7MiH: Ana	Laurel Templeton STB #1: Jaime STB #2: Takeru 7MiH: Faye
Faye Turner STB #1: Marilyn STB #2: Penny 7MiH: Laurel	Penelope Vargas STB #1: Antonia STB #2: Faye 7MiH: Sofia	Susana Velasquez STB #1: Wyatt STB #2: Sofia 7MiH: Samantha	Wyatt Winslow STB #1: Ana STB #2: Avery
Oscar Zabinsky STB #1: Essie STB #2: Micah	Zachary Zheng STB #1: Bash STB #2: Todd 7MiH: Regan

RULES

1. 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).


2. 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.


3. 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: It's one of the last Grotto parties before the end of the year! If you've never gone before, now's your last chance. Come on come on come onnnnn.

» 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.

» Body Shots: It's well and truly spring now, and you know what that means: body shots! Shamelessly getting shirtless in the forest! Licking salt off your attractive classmate's abs!

» Quidpong Championship: Not far from the bonfire, a table's set up with Quidpong. Today, the table will be dominated by a Quidpong tournament organized by Casey Patterson, so sign up before all the spots are gone!

» truth or shot: The rules are simple: tell the truth, or take a shot. Post your characters to this comment with their name in the header, and other characters will ask you uncomfortable questions.

» 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.

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

» After the Party: At midnight, on-duty 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.

» OOC: QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

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QUIDPONG CHAMPIONSHIP

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QUIDPONG: Instructions

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• Please do not reply to this comment as I will need to edit it throughout the championship.
• The deadline to sign up for the championship has passed! New teams will no longer be accepted.
• Questions? There's an OOC thread for that!

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Quidpong Championship Instructions

• The championship began at 1pm MST today (Friday) and ends at 1pm tomorrow (Saturday). If a champion has not manifested by that time organizers will roll the remaining matches until a team emerges victorious from the ashes.


• How do championship matches work?
  Here is an example. In short, players are responsible for signing up for matches in the appropriate round and organizers will roll.


• Only organizers can roll match results for plot reasons. Organizers are:
  Alex @ riledup
  Cameron @ readingrainbows
  Kas @ sunsoutgunsout
  Lyss @ addytives
  Manx @ magitechnically.


• My team won their match! What's next?
  Head to the next round by posting in an open Round 2 match. If you win that one, post in an open Round 3 match, and so on. This uses the honour system so please be don't move your team on if they lost a match!


• Only one game per match/round and no re-matches are allowed. If your team loses, they're out of the running!


• The championship will be the only Quidpong in this IC/OOC (The Mod Spaketh.)


• The official referee is Zachary Zheng. He has a striped shirt, a whistle, and a douchetastic visor.

P.S. A massive thank you to all organizers, as well as Alex and Cheryl for carrying me through the aforementioned "plot reasons" in the final hour

QUIDPONG: Teams

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• Please do not reply to this comment as I will need to edit it throughout the championship.
• The deadline to sign up for the championship has passed! New teams will no longer be accepted!
• Questions? There's an OOC thread for that!

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Quidpong Championship Teams

HOT TAMALES Clementine Veronica	JACK AND THE GIANT Riley Cameron	Bambae and Humper Christopher Levi	Crisis Bean Diego Ravi
Ain't No Bitches Robin Drusilla	Unusual Creation Faye Samantha	Queen Midnight Beatrix Penelope	Perfume Trauma Ivy Laurel
High Tea Hellions Ursula Xavier	Suspicious Sir Jacob Isaiah	Famous Zombie Ennis Jefferson	Savage Drugstore Jaime Mercedes
Pint-Sized Soul Crushers Susana Hazel	Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Ebonhyde Antonia Illiya	The Dramatic Cadavers Quinn Jesse	Barbed Wire Empowerment Theresa Casey
Careful Dragon Charlotte Fern	Chunky Lion Avery Adeline

ROUND 1

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ROUND 1, MATCH 1: [Open]

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ROUND 1, MATCH 2: [Open]

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ROUND 1, MATCH 3: [Open]

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ROUND 1, MATCH 4: [Open]

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ROUND 1, MATCH 5: [Open]

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ROUND 1, MATCH 6: [Open]

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ROUND 1, MATCH 7: [Open]

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ROUND 1, MATCH 8: [Open]

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ROUND 1, MATCH 9: [Open]

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ROUND 2

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ROUND 2, MATCH 1: [Open]

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ROUND 2, MATCH 2: [Open]

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ROUND 2, MATCH 3: [Open]

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ROUND 2, MATCH 4: [Open]

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ROUND 2, MATCH 5: Relief Team vs. [Open]

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There will be an odd number of teams in Round 2. The final team to make it here will battle SUBSTANTIAL ATONEMENT, a "relief team" made up of Reece and Quinn.

If the team loses against the relief team they are out of the tournament.

If they win against the relief team they continue into the next round.

If the relief team loses this round, they may reappear in a later round if there is an odd number of teams again. The relief team cannot win the championship.

ROUND 3

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ROUND 3, MATCH 1: [Open]

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ROUND 3, MATCH 2: [Open]

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ROUND 4

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ROUND 4, MATCH 1: [Open]

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If a relief team is not needed, this is the championship match!

QUIDPONG CHAMPIONSHIP - PRIZES! (for real this time.)

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For winning the 2014 Inaugural Gooseberry Quidpong Championship, Riley Stamper and Cameron Carney are each awarded a gold-sequinned visor.

The visors' bands flash "CHAMPION!" every few minutes in case anyone forgets the prestige of their station, and visor has a small (imitation) snitch and ping pong Quaffle that are charmed to hover above the visor and flit around it in circles.


The Quidpong Championship Organizational Committee advises champions to NOT wear their new headgear around cats or nifflers. The QCOC is not responsible for any damage to person or property as a result of animal interaction with the object described above.