JUNIOR/SOPHOMORE BONDING: April

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JUNIOR/SOPHOMORE BONDING

It's a bright sunny day as the junior and sophomore classes are led out onto the docks with Mr. Thorn and Mr. Merrill. Everyone was warned beforehand to wear clothing they wouldn't mind getting dirty, so there's a lot of excitement for what's in store. Turns out that this month's bonding is a historical-themed boating exercise, as everyone must make four-person pirate crews, and set out on the lake to find the treasure with their magical maps. But watch out! Out on the water, pirate rivals may try to sink your boat!

Four-person inflatable boats have already been set out, each painted with a different colored stripe for identification. Mr. Thorn hands out magical life vests (they'll keep you warm and afloat if you get dumped into the water) while Mr. Merrill, full of enthusiastic "arrs" and "mateys" this afternoon, awards every student with an authentic pirate alias from his book. This is bonding, so banding with students from different houses and years is highly encouraged!

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• Each crew is granted: a magical inflatable boat (comfortably seats four, highly resistant to tearing), a treasure map, and four bandannas in a unique color. Each boat contains two oars (that will magically transform into shovels when brought in-land), four magical rags, and a stockpile of magical balls that explode into a spray of non-toxic paint when they hit a target, i.e. cannonballs.


• Each crew must row their boat to the destination on their treasure map, dig up the treasure, and return to the docks with the fastest time. Along the way, they can sink other ships by throwing cannonballs, and try to avoid getting sunk themselves. When a boat is more than 50% covered in paint, it will sink, i.e. the boat will flip over and dump everyone into the lake. Your boat can be "repaired" by wiping paint off with one of the provided rags, so work fast!


• Every character posts to "CHECK-IN" to receive four RNG values between 1-10: Leadership, Navigation, Repair, Combat. (You may make a case for having one stat of your choice roll high, i.e. 8-10, so long as you provide sufficient IC justification.)
  
  <b>Name:</b> <b>House/Year:</b> <b>Anything else?:</b> Make the case for a high roll for a particular stat here, if you wish.


• Every character can reroll one stat of their choice, for value between 5-10. They must keep the value of the reroll regardless of whether it's higher than their initial stat or not.


• "CHECK-IN" section can also be used to seek people to join a crew, e.g. you can reply to other characters you'd like to recruit onto your crew.


• Everyone must make a crew of 4 before they can set off on their voyage, and assign a crew job to each member. Once this is done, they can post to the "SET SAIL" heading with this form:
  
  
  Name of Ship: It's bad luck to sail a ship without a name!
  Captain: Who is directing the crew? Their Leadership stat determines the speed of the ship's voyage.
  Navigator: Who is in charge of the map? Their Navigation stat determines the crew's success in uncovering treasure.
  Boatswain: Who is keeping the ship in shape? Their Repair stat determines the crew's success at patching up "holes" in the ship.
  Master Gunner: Who is manning the cannons? Their Combat stat determines the crew's success at attacking other ships and discouraging attacks.
  
  <b>Name of Ship:</b> It's bad luck to sail a ship without a name! <b>Captain:</b> Who is directing the crew? Include their Leadership stat. <b>Navigator:</b> Who is in charge of the map? Include their Navigation stat. <b>Boatswain:</b> Who is keeping the ship in shape? Include their Repair stat. <b>Master Gunner:</b> Who is manning the cannons? Include their Combat stat. <b>Anything else?:</b>


• Your crew will also receive bonus points for:


• Coming with a fun/interesting name for your ship! Mr. Merrill is the judge here, so put some effort into it! +5


• Having at least one sophomore and one junior in your crew. +5


• Each unique house represented in your crew. +5 for each unique house, for a possible total of +20


• The success of your voyage will be calculated based on a combination of RNG, your crew's stats, and bonuses you've received. Although OOC you will be assigning jobs to particular characters, you can also assume that everyone is pitching in with every step of the voyage. The winning crew will be the one who makes it home the fastest with their treasure chest.

» SCENES: For any scenes related to this bonding activity.

» CHECK-IN: Post here to receive your pirate stats, and an authentic historical pirate alias from Mr. Merrill.

» SET SAIL: Post here once you've made a crew and are ready to go out in search of treasure!

» OOC - Questions/Discussions

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SCENES

[goosemods]

Calvin plans.

[evercreep]

"Right, so, any other Ribbonfins are out." He's consulting the rules and scoring sheet, which is covered in notes already. Calvin hums low in his throat as he assesses their chances. He could just grab his friends, but this is war. Pretend war. He's written down Cash, Ari, Micah so far, but one of them will have to go, because: "I need a sophomore."

Chadboat

[oh_girl]

"I'm not participating." Samantha isn't about the water. She dropped boating club for a reason. It's been almost a year, and maybe because it's so close to the anniversary of her nearly watery grave that she's feeling so strongly about it - but really, she just never got over it. She's dealt with a lot of stuff internally this year but absolutely hasn't dealt with her fear of water and drowning.

So she's standing back away from the docks, arms folded across her chest and looking extraordinarily grim. "You guys can set sail into the watery depths or whatever but I'm out as shit, you will not get me in that boat."

Flying Murderer Crew Gets Together

[salem_wagonblast]

Salem isn't sure how they ended up with this particular team, but it was usual for Eve and him to team up, at least. He was pretty sure Nisha and Tuesday were like, friends or something. He honestly didn't know much about them - which he felt a bit bad about now that he thought of it.

"So, my trusty and extremely capable crew. You all ready to set sail?" He tries for being serious with some kind of weird accent he thinks might be pirate-like and with the shitty swag of Captain Jack Sparrow because that's the closest pirate reference he can even think of. Whether he's trying to be serious or mess around is up for debate.

Dia (and open)

[cheer_leader]

Concordia is one of those weird people who actually enjoys bonding. When they are led out to the dock, she claps her hands excited, staring at her assignment as Charlotte Badger, possibly the first Australian lady pirate EVER!!! Her stats aren't great and are all similar, but she feels like that can only count in her favor, right? Means she's a handyman all around! Can decently lead, repair, or fight! Navigation, though, don't ask her that. True to real life, she's horribly directionally challenged in this bonding experience.

"Ahoy, mate!" She says to the nearest person, trying on her Australian accent - which clashes pretty badly with her Mexican accent. "Ready to go steal some TREASURE!??"

The Flaming Hot Dorito

[quickbuck]

They're all set up and sailing already by the time Todd turns around to address the rest of his crew. "I don't know how to swim," he says. "So we can't let this boat sink."

CHECK-IN

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Post here to receive your pirate stats, and an authentic historical pirate alias from Mr. Merrill.

<b>Name:</b> <b>House/Year:</b> <b>Anything else?:</b> Make the case for a high roll for a particular stat here, if you wish.

Micah

[stclair]

Name: Micah St. Clair
House/Year: Azurcrest Junior
Anything else?: I tried to think of any justification that Micah would be good at any of these things and I'm coming up blank. If my son gets all low stats, he will have come by them honestly.

Essie

[magitechnically]

Name: Essie Morales-Tran
House/Year: Azurcrest Junior
Anything else?: Essie is a treasure hunter!!! She deserves a high navigation skill!!! Or, well, she's technically located two treasures this year thanks to maps. :')

Ruby

[patineuse]

Name: Ruby Oberholtzer
House/Year: Ribbonfin Junior
Anything else?: I'm going to argue for... uhhhh god this is hard Navigation??? She's strong and in Boating Club so she knows her way around the oars but she's not a leader per se. She'll get you to where you want to go though!!!!

Hazel

[lilwitchhazel]

Name: Hazel Keating
House/Year: Coppertale Junior
Anything else?: Leadership because she's bossy??? And generally tries to make sound decisions with the information that's available to her. But mostly because she's bossy.

Lucas

[bubblewrapped]

Name: Lucas Kowalski
House/Year: Azurcrest Junior
Anything else?: I am going to be nice to my garbage son and say Leadership is his high stat, since he is a TA and seance organizer.

Cole

[colemoss]

Name: Cole Moss
House/Year: Ribbonfin Junior
Anything else?: Cole's not particularly adept at any of these, really. Let RNG decide!

Nisha

[godzillabutworse]

Name: Nisha Lewis
House/Year: Coppertale Sophomore
Anything else?: Combat, from all that time spent stuffing Chad's head into things.

Rupert

[somethingwick_ed]

Name: Rupert Wick
House/Year: Ribbonfin Sophomore
Anything else?: He's fussy about cleanliness and is very aware of things that aren't just so. He'll notice all those stupid stray paint splashes!!!

Griffin

[cosmonot]

Name: Griffy "Datsun" Flowers
House/Year: Azurcrest Sophomore
Anything else?: Griffin has no marketable skills when it comes to seafaring.

Ramon

[sochill]

Name: Ramon Delgado
House/Year: Ribbonfin Junior
Anything else?: Ramon's best bet is probably combat since he's strong and has sound aim from Quidditch, buuut he's not super into this so he'll be a little lazy.

Heathcliff

[heathclifflacey]

Name: Heathcliff Lacey
House/Year: Coppertale Junior
Anything else?: Combat! Heathcliff's got good aim and he's strong and he's super into this! YAR!

Pear

[tartinedeflageolets]

Name: Pear Holloway
House/Year: Ebonhide Sophomore
Anything else?: Pear's combat skills are primarily knocking people over so not super transferrable, but she is a horrifically bossy prefect which maybe counts for leadership!!

Dinah

[dinahdanger]

Name: Dinah Danger
House/Year: Coppertale Soph
Anything else?: Navigation?? My girl was born and raised on the high seas, she knows how to work a boat and how to get around on the water I guess.

Balthazar

[balthazard]

Name: Balthazar Doyle
House/Year: Ebonhide Sophomore
Anything else?: None of the above? If he does well, it will be through luck and moxy.

Austin

[soundscaped]

Name: Austin McNamara
House/Year: Ebonhide Junior
Anything else?: A useless boy with no skills except whining a lot.

Jeffy

[racingstripe]

Name: Jeffy Key
House/Year: Azurcrest Junior
Anything else?: i love my son but the only skill I could argue for is leadership and I think I'll just let him roll and see how he does.

SET SAIL

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Post here once you've made a crew and are ready to go out in search of treasure!

<b>Name of Ship:</b> It's bad luck to sail a ship without a name! <b>Captain:</b> Who is directing the crew? Include their Leadership stat. <b>Navigator:</b> Who is in charge of the map? Include their Navigation stat. <b>Boatswain:</b> Who is keeping the ship in shape? Include their Repair stat. <b>Master Gunner:</b> Who is manning the cannons? Include their Combat stat. <b>Anything else?:</b>

ChadBoat

[winterbottom]

Name of Ship: Chad the Boat
Captain: Capt. DogHead Griffin Flowers; 3 in Leadership
Navigator: Samantha Sweeny; 3 in Navigation
Boatswain: Austin McNamara; 1 in Repair
Master Gunner: Chad Winterbottom; 1 in Combat
Anything else?: Just drown them

OOC 🏴‍☠️ DISCUSSION

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Re: OOC 🏴‍☠️ DISCUSSION

[bubblewrapped]

All I can think of is sea of thieves and by extension Griffin McElroy eating a banana.

Also I already have a great ship name.