gooseberryhigh | 💍 LET'S STEAL PROM! 💍 Round 1!

ROUND ONE: Obtain a Disguise!

Apparently, you need a password to get into the Magical Rudiments classroom today. The freshman stationed outside doesn’t seem terribly picky about what that code word is though, because he’s letting everyone in.

Inside, the lights have been dimmed and the walls have been decorated with maps and blueprints and blurry black and white photos. A crudely drawn diagram of the interior mechanism for a safe has been drawn on the blackboard. A number of large chests stuffed with costume pieces and parts from drama and LARP sit in the middle of the room. Makeshift changing rooms have been set up along the sides.

If you’re going to pull this heist off, you’ll need to obtain some disguises.

Welcome to Round One of Let’s Steal Prom!

HOW THIS WORKS

Competitors are limited to those teams which previously signed up. Each team is presented with a set of cards listing their 'role' for the event. These roles are for flavor purposes only and have no effect on the final outcome. The freshmen helped.

Post your pair under the THE COMPETITORS heading, and play out a scene based on the current round's scenario. For every tag, Manx will RNG a number between 1–25 to add to your pair's score.

Current Scenario: Each team is given an hour to put together an outfit to wear during the prom heist. There’s ten years worth of drama productions, so assume you can find whatever you’re looking for in the chests. Competitors are encouraged to use their assigned roles as inspiration and to select names for their new identities. A panel of freshmen will be judging the final results. They dislike you all equally, so this is fair.

Up to 6 tags per pair will count for your score each round, i.e. you only get a maximum of six RNG numbers to add to your score. But feel free to tag more or less!

Scores for round 1 will be rolled until Thursday, April 26th 11:59 PM EST. Since this is the first round and several players are in various states of hiatus, extra time is being provided. First round results will be posted on Friday. Scores will carry over into subsequent rounds.

CLICK HERE FOR TEAM ASSIGNMENTS

149% Naughty
Lilika (German Fake Charity Worker) + Webster (Transylvanian Hacker)

Adverse Drug Reaction
Rosy (Welsh Arsonist) + Danny (Irish Phony Psychic)

Catwomen🐾
Ari (Brazilian Jewel Thief) + Jade (Macedonian Fake Charity Worker)

Danger Butt
Dinah (West Virginian Demolitionist) + Chad (English Safe Cracker)

Flotsam & Jetsam
Ursula (Transylvanian Muscle) + Ferdie (Limburger Cat Burglar)

Hero & Marie
Nisha (French Pickpocket) + Archie (Hungarian Mafioso)

Innocent Nun
Heathcliff (Tasmanian Train Robber) + Fern (Greek Mock Millionaire)

Lake Gooseberry Killers
Sy (Luxembourgian Cat Burglar) + Clem (Texan Acrobat)

Loot the Booty
Riley (Dutch Card Shark) + January (Russian Bookie)

Munificent Mermaid
JD (Icelandic Swindler) + Ophelia (German Pro Wrestler)

Nap Mom and Squonk
Griffin (Austrian Getaway Driver) + Georgie (Disco Poisoner)

Nerf Herders
Lucas (West Virginian Gadgeteer) + Bash (Argentinian Petty Thief)

Pirate Ninja
Todd (Spanish Decoy) + Grace (Belgian Fence)

Princess Sparkle
London (Canadian Con Artist) + Quentin (French Phony Psychic)

Salubrious Sword
Yancey (Scottish Jewel Thief) + Lachlan (Minnesotan Card Shark)

Spira
Spencer (Swedish Highwayman) + Ira (Russian Mock Millionaire)

The Varmints! (ง •̀෴•́)ง
Jeffy (Luxembourgian Forgery Artist) + Essie (Australian Black Widow)

Titanic Panic
Iliya (Swedish Mafioso) + Cameron (Bulgarian Black Widow)

Wagonman
Eve (Texan Pro Wrestler) + Salem (Italian Counterfeiter)

Zestful Spider
Max (Minnesotan Smuggler) + Teddy (Limburger Gadgeteer)

Shoeless Swan
Reid (Icelandic Fence) + Austin (Austrian Acrobat)

» THE COMPETITORS: Between drama and LARP, any costume piece you could hope for is nestled inside one of these bigger-on-the-inside chests. Build the outfit of your dreams, but please don’t fight over that beret.

» SIDELINES: Chairs have been arranged to form a small spectator section. Non-participants are encouraged to root for their favorite teams!

» OOC - SCORES: Manx will be rolling/tallying everyone's scores here.

» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Chad takes off his glasses first of all, because he's pretty sure English people did better with monocles. "'EY. GUVNOR." Very strictly, Chad doesn't need to shout at Dinah, she's right there.He's also imitating poorly every single British accent he's heard on television or in movies, to get into character. It's going poorly. He drops it. "SO as a demolitionist you should PROBABLY just explode all this and we win. Right??"

He looks quite proud, like he's found a loophole. He's wrong.

Oooooh, Dinah is a demolitionist from West Virginia, which means all of her PARENT TRAP training is about to be put to good use. She's been prepared to secretly take Nisha's place at a moment's notice for literally months now, she can whip out some West Virginia-isms probably. What's the correct way to "yinz" again??

"Uh, Chadley Chewright, my job is a lot more nuanced than that," she says, holding up a bright orange scarf that she would absolutely just wear on her head in her day-to-day life. She sets it next to a pair of goggles that she also intends to just wear while riding her skateboard because fuck it, life is short. "Demolitionists have to be sneaky and masters of disguise and also look really good in orange, which is a subtle art." She finds a pink barrette and holds it out to him without saying a word. Here. Fix your hair.

Chad makes a point to throw the barrette back into the trunk in anger. It lands next to its target, because he has no aim, but he doesn't say anything about that. "If you wore that SCARF, you'll probably catch on FIRE." He protests. "You gotta find like, a HARD HAT." He's definitely thinking of demolitionists on constructions sites, which is about half right.

While sorting through headgear, he finds a newsboy cap and crams it over his ears because he's pretty sure that's Oliver Twist-esque, and that's kind of the look he's aiming for here. And then he sits back on his heels, honestly stumped. "Do I need something to like. WRITE COMBINATIONS on???"

"Uh, but what about when I need a makeshift Molotov Cocktail, Chinese Chicken Salchad," says Dinah, who a) barely even tried with that nickname, and b) might be severely overestimating how many explosive battles they're about to end up in. "And it's either that or rip the bottom half off your shirt so then it looks like you're wearing a croptop and start some fashion revolution that just COMPLETELY distracts us from our mission."

Dinah removes the headband she is currently, unironically wearing, to replace it with this sweet orange one that will serve her well in her life as a demolitionist. Keep her hair out of her eyes and junk. "But, like, what do you even need to write down? Can't I, like, just blow up any safes in our way?" She grabs an enormous pair of earrings, three pairs of sunglasses, and these super sweet platform sneakers that are clearly several sizes too small for her.

That's...actually a fair point and he concedes it. "I'm not wearing a CROP TOP for YOU." seems like the only necessary point, here. He does find an interesting looking trenchcoat that he pulls on before Dinah can say anything about it. There's no true motivation for it other than spy!, probably.

"Uh, you can't just BLOW UP SAFES." He jams on a pair of sunglasses before Dinah can hog all of them. They're pink, but he didn't quite see that. "We need to write down the COMBINATIONS so we can get at the STATE SECRETS and JEWELS inside and THEN you can blow up the buildings. Duh."

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"Um, Chim Chard Charoo, you're not a safe unlocker. You're supposed to put your ear to the safe and like listen to what it's telling you."

Dinah snags a pair of thick glasses sitting on the table and holds them up to her face. She's pretty sure a pair of glasses that make her eyes look all BIG and BUGGY like Chad's is what this character is truly missing. Because she's ruined her eyes obsessing over, like, explosive... recipes(???) and diagrams and now she looks like massive NERD that people underestimate. Yeah. Something like that.

"And usually they're telling you this is pointless and you should just explode them. Also," she plops the glasses on her face, "I have x-ray vision."

"And that's how it UNLOCKS, DUH, but if you find the PASSWORD with their MOST VALUABLE NUMBERS, that helps too. "

Chad's confident in this. He knows how to unlock safes. He actually had to unlock one of his dad's, before. He pauses before he reaches that explanation, though, because he can't decide whether Dinah's making fun of him or not. "Very FUNNY." He pouts, just in case.

"Then you're just a NUMBER LOOKER, CHECKERS." When it comes time to announce the names they've chosen, there is exactly 0% chance Chad will have any say in his. "Who's gonna leave the password for their SUPER SECRET safe full of extremely secret secrets just, like, LYING AROUND??" Dinah has a lot of opinions on this, because DINAH DANGER has been in precisely 73 safe-cracking capers, and she's never just used some CONVENIENT password.

She turns her massive coke bottle eyes toward Chad and stares at him. Wow, these are real glasses, and they make her feel kind of sick. Sick. Squinting at his, like, midsection or somewhere, Dinah grimaces. "Cheesebreath, what did you EAT??"

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