RIBBONFIN FLOODED

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RIBBONFIN FLOODED

The heavy rain from the past few days results in the Ribbonfin campground flooding as the Rainbow River spills over. Students escaping the flood for breakfast or early classes only have to wade through six inches of water, but by noon, that's become a foot tall, and the rain shows no signs of stopping.

Soon, it's announced that all Ribbonfin students must spend the night in the lodge. The water is expected to recede sometime tonight, but until then, all the fishes will be snuggling together in the Atrium (and fighting for space in the lodge's handful of washrooms). You'll be allowed to run back to your cabins for supplies, but by 8 PM, the Ribbonfin campground will be closed for tonight.

During the Day: Ribbonfins wake up to discover that their cabins are surrounded by water. Hope you brought a pair of rubber boots in your luggage!

Cabins: For people needing to pack things for tonight's impromptu house sleepover.

Spectators and Passersby: For nosy nancies who ignore safety warnings and need to get shooed away from Ribbonfin. IT'S JUST WATER. IT'S NOT THAT EXCITING.

In The Lodge: By 8 PM, the lodge's Atrium has been cleared for exclusive use by Ribbonfins. Cots and sleeping bags are set up throughout the space, and the fireplace is going to keep everyone toasty.

Night: It's lights out by 10 PM, but you can keep having quiet conversations so long as you don't disturb anyone else.

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DURING THE DAY

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[knightly]

As promised, as soon as Ravi gets out of class, he's headed to the Ribbonfin campground to help. Artificing (or whatever area of charm-work this would fall under) isn't one of his strengths, but Ravi is skilled enough in Transfiguration that he can help find a way around having to wade knee-deep through the flooding every single time. He and a few other Ribbonfin students (volunteers?) soon create a walkway over the water. It keeps bowing under the weight of people walking over it, sloshing water over their shoes, but as a makeshift solution, it'll do.

Re: DURING THE DAY

[cmdrchloe]

Chloe is never prepared, and she doesn't own galoshes. She tries to waterproof her shoes, with some success, but she doesn't think about the water sloshing over her shoes. Her socks end up soaked, and her tights end up wet all the way up past her knees. It's a pretty miserable day.

[orangepip]

Despite coming from a country where it rains a lot, Pippa never remembers to cast waterproofing charms before going outside. But that's okay! She can take her shoes and socks off during lessons, and a hot air charm will work pretty well to dry them out!

Re: DURING THE DAY

[caritasmitis.insanejournal.com]

Tabs was her own usual self at cello practice through most of the day, so she was big time pissed off when the news came through about having to stay in the main lodge. As soon as practice finished, she hauled ass back to camp super quick before it became shut off.

CABINS

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[colemoss]

After the announcement is made that Ribbonfin will be spending the night in the lodge and Cole has finished the last of his afternoon classes, he heads back to camp. Where, fortunately, he didn't leave any windows open.

He doesn't have much packing to do but, despite Rosy's reassurances, he does spend some time casting waterproof charms on his sketchbooks and other delicate artistic tools and setting these things in higher places just in case. The scare this morning has him wanting to be more prepared than usual. After all this, he shoves a pair of clothes and some pajamas into a bag along with his current sketchbook and his pens and his wand. He's about to leave when he realizes he hasn't seen Calvin. Did the boy not hear? Did he already come and get his things and go to the lodge so quickly? He decides to stay a little longer and see if the other boy shows and to sketch while he waits. He then loses track of time...

Hopefully, he won't get left behind.

[cecaelian]

Ugh, Ursula is back at the cabins when she gets Rosy's warning about a possible relocation that night. And as she looks around her cabin, everything seems like an essential item.

Thankfully, Rosy is also amazing and mentions she has a green backpack with an Extension Charm on it and Ursula manages to find it without too much trouble. In go books, papers, pens, hair potions, face potions, multiple changes of clothes, etc. (Rosy wouldn't have mentioned it if she needed it herself, right?!)

As she scans the room, she realizes that she has Wormsula's cup to worry about and also... she apparently has flowers that need to be protected. Both receive an irritated look and are reluctantly swept into her arms.

[browbeats]

Rosy went back to the campsite after her classes, and even though she had already made sure all the windows were closed before leaving in the morning, she double checks everything. Then any roommates who didn't already have their shit together had their essentials gathered up and plopped on their bed. And if you already had your shit together but she spots something you're going to complain about not having later, she grabs it. Because Rosy is not going to wait around for you to figure out what you need for a sleepover, she's cold and wet and wants to curl up under a quilt and do her homework.

Once all her ladies are present and accounted for, she checks on the junior boys because Ferdinand is just never around you guys. Then she checks in with Ravi to see if anyone's been swept down river or if she can get to the Atrium and dry the fuck off.

[puphart]

Kurt was back at the cabin between Equestrian and dinner for a shower — if he didn't shower then Ursula definitely would do the wrinkling-nose-thing and he would feel that she was Disappointed in him, and that would make him sad.

Nobody else seemed to be around (did he live in a cabin full of ghosts???), so he grabbed a backpack and packed it haphazardly with essentials, including homework, an ecology book, a change of clothing, warmer clothes, dry shoes, extra socks, extra extra socks, and a third pair of socks (he was cautious after the OE trip), and Sarah's latest letter. He know Owliver would spend the night in the owlery, and besides, he's a bird. He taps the backpack with a water-repelling charm but doesn't bother to do the same for himself since he was already soaked, and there was no point in fixing that until he was in the Atrium.

[cmdrchloe]

Though Rosy promised that the cabins wouldn't flood, Chloe was still sweating it. She went back to her cabin to pack, but was mostly overwhelmed by what to take and what to leave. She has so many electronics, y'all, and water will be death to them all. That's to say nothing of her art supplies, sketchbooks, loose papers. And her notes and homework! She can't decide whether to haul her belongings with her (what if they get wet on the trek!?) or to leave them here (what if the cabins flood or leak!?).

Finally, she piles almost all her belongings up on her bunk and casts a waterproofing charm over the whole thing. Tomorrow, she's going to need to excavate her bed.

That ends up taking up most of her time, and she has to hastily shove things she needs for tonight into her bag, and she's almost certainly forgetting things. Rosy ends up having to tell her to move her ass hurry up and go.

[orangepip]

Pippa is pretty zen about material possessions, and anyway she trusts the prefects when they say the cabins won't get flooded, so she just throws her pyjamas and a few other things in her overnight bag. But what about Mabel??? Pippa dashes off a quick message to Ravi, and is reassured that she won't have to smuggle her guinea pig into the lodge.

[rararasmussen.insanejournal.com]

Ras has everything ready to go quickly because it doesn't require anything for him to evacuate. In fact he packs literally nothing. If stuff gets wet he can always get new things, nothing in the cabin is anything he can't live without.

Re: CABINS

[caritasmitis.insanejournal.com]

Tabs ran back down in her uniform, skidding over the damp grounds, and heads straight to her cabin without speaking anyone. She throws a few things in a wash bag along with a book, her pyjamas, a towel and shrinks a blanket and pillow down small so she can haul ass back up to school. She struggles, though.

SPECTATORS AND PASSERSBY

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[indiefolk]

GUESS WHO WANTED TO COME SEE THE RIBBONFIN FLOOD EVEN THOUGH HE DEFINITELY HEARD THAT HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO. ♥

He's standing in about ten inches of water in his galoshes, all bundled up and soaking wet anyway. The colder the weather gets the more lumberjack grandpa his clothing becomes. He still feels like Ribbonfin is kind off limits to him so he's somewhere around the edges, just close enough to see how bad it is.

IN THE LODGE

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Re: IN THE LODGE

[evercreep.insanejournal.com]

This plan has been taking shape in Calvin's head since he heard the news they'd be staying in the lodge. He hung back, chatting with whoever was nearby, all the while keeping an eye on Ravi as he came in and put down his things. And then, when Ravi went off to tend to his prefect duties, Calvin made his move.

His move being (politely) shooing off a freshman Ribbonfin whose sleeping bag was right next to Ravi's spot.

Calvin proceeds to sit and read patiently, until Ravi returns to his sleeping bag. Calvin looks up and fakes mild, innocent surprise. "Oh, Ravi, are you sleeping there? Do you need me to move for one of your friends?" He knows Ravi will never in a million years ask him to move.

[quinning]

Quinn's been in the library the entire day and feels good about how much work she's finished. She feels accomplished! She also hasn't had time to check on her journal, so the Atrium is a confusing mess until she asks a passerby what is happening. A Ribbonfin sleepover? Oh, fun!

She cheerfully calls out "Hello, little fishes!" and begins her trek across the Atrium. Her steps between cots and belongings are carefully placed so nothing (and nobody) is squished.

[browbeats]

Rosy is in dry clothes. Her hair is dry. She has a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. She is in a slightly better mood.

But she's still grumpy mom. And Ribbonfishies are too soft and squishy for her to take her grump out on them. So she just wants to sit here and do her homework and go the fuck to sleep.

[cmdrchloe]

As they had discussed, Chloe grabbed a cot near the fireplace, and saved one for Kurt too. She started to unpack her bag: she'd brought her laptop, a power pack, a few dvds, a small sketchpad and a box of colored pencils. However, she didn't bring her homework, her toothpaste, her hairbrush, a shirt to change into, or socks. Whoops,

[colemoss]

Cole does show up...eventually.

After being prodded by Calvin on the journals, he hurries out of the cabin and in the direction of the lodge. He arrives absolutely soaked and with enough mud on his clothes to suggest that he may've slipped or fallen into something, but this doesn't bother him too much since his bag has been charmed to keep out the water and everything inside should be fine. He is cold, though. And shivering. He sets down his bag as soon as he's inside the Atrium, then proceeds to strip off his wet shirt and jacket, wring out his dark hair, and squelch across the room to put all his things on the floor by an unclaimed cot. He's just relieved to be here and glad to Leonora decided to stay in the owlery tonight.

If he spots Calvin among the other Ribbonfins, he gives his roommate a smile and a little wave before wiping his wet hands futilely on his wet jeans and then opening up his bag. He's ready to get changed.

[rararasmussen.insanejournal.com]

Ras appeared with a giant pink umbrella with anchors on it, shoeless and in rolled up jeans thankfully not even touched by the rain. He is just at home with the rain or getting wet so none of this seems to phase him at all, he just collapses down onto one of the cots and pulls out a book before settling in for the night. This is great, it's like camping but not camping.

"Did anyone bring snacks?" He asks sort of loudly but not too loudly. He just tends to always want to know if there is food anywhere.

NIGHT

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[orangepip]

At about 1am, Pippa wakes with a start from a bad dream, overheated inside her sleeping bag. She wriggles up into a sitting position, to cool off and just to check that there's no one else in the room but sleeping Ribbonfins, since the dream's left her with that crawly skin feeling that isn't easily shaken off. She tries to be quiet, but accidentally nudges the person sleeping next to her. Whoops. Hopefully they're not a light sleeper.

OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

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