GOOSEBERRY MARATHON

[useyournoggin]

GOOSEBERRY MARATHON

After a great deal of aggressive campaigning on the part of Ophelia Noggins, Outdoor Exploration and Outdoor Education have set up a special event after classes today: the (soon to be) Annual Gooseberry Marathon! The sun is shining, and there's a light breeze. Perfect weather, Mr. Thorn insists.



Micah St. Clair, Madison Ives and Natalie Prince are manning booths around campus where they can give water and rest to the marathon participants, which earns them each 10 points for their houses. Gosh, all that running in the sun sure looks like hard work. Good thing they're relaxing under this umbrella.

For the first 15 minutes, a group of freshmen have sat themselves along the trail, like many students are doing. These students, however, are prepared with score cards, and rate the runners on a scale of 1 to 10. Jeffy Key gets perfect 10's across the board (and wolf whistles), while poor Ursula de Luca gets all 1's as the freshmen boo them. Antonia Papadakis eventually chases off the judgemental children.

Lilika Ignacz definitely spots two antlered figures watching from the wooded portion of the route near Azurcrest.

Fern Mufferaw and Hazel Keating are apparently the favorites of Agent Monet and Agent Yaeger respectively (both of whom are still a little bruised up). The two agents seem to be covertly betting against one another, and cheer loudly for their chosen student.

HOW THIS WORKS

• Anyone can participate! Just sign up and line up.


• However, Outdoor Education students are required to participate. Mr. Thorn has given this as an assignment. "All that matters is that you try," he reassures them, but it's clear this is not optional.


• Ophelia Noggins is trying to force Outdoor Exploration students to do it, too, but... she doesn't have the authority to actually force anyone who wants to skip.


• There are stations set up around campus that offer water, shade and healthy snacks if you need to take a break.


• The student with the best time will get a vial of Felix Felicis!


• The student with the worst time passed out on the trail and was found by Brother, who carried them back to the lodge, much to everyone's shock.
  • There will be a rumor tonight (5/18) that a student passed out during the marathon and Brother saved them, although it's not clear who it was. If you're jockeying for Gooseberry's worst athlete, don't have your character participate in those discussions. ;)
• You have until Saturday, May 19, 11:59 PM to participate! Making the window a little shorter than usual for reactions.


• If your runner participates in a scene and contributes at least 3 comments, we'll add or subtract 1-10 (RNG) from their time. You can choose whether you want them to be faster or slower, depending on which prize you have your eye on.

» RUNNERS: Post your forms here to get your time!

<b>Name:</b> <b>Their strategy:</b> How prepared are they? Did they wear proper foorwear? Do they even want to be here at all??? <b>Athleticism:</b> Rate them on a scale of 1-10. This will influence their time. <b>Anything else?:</b>
» THE TRAILS: If you have any scenes you'd like to play out between runners or spectators, do so here!

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

Comments

Lucas???

[bubblewrapped]

Name: Lucas Kowalski
Their strategy: Lucas decided he wanted to at least try when he'd heard about it. So, good shoes, plenty of water, he's even got his hair headbanded back out of his face.
Athleticism: 4, he's been running and/or working out with Bash and Essie since March.
Anything else?: Auror wannabe putting his money where his mouth is. He should probably take it out he's going to need that inhaler.

RESULTS

[useyournoggin]

Lucas finishes the marathon with a time of 32m 58s!

Re: RESULTS

[bubblewrapped]

............................speedy boy?

Re: RESULTS

[useyournoggin]

..... that was a c/p accident but you know what? He can keep it.

Re: RESULTS

[bubblewrapped]

I FIGURED IT WAS LMFAO if you want to give him a more accurate roll by all means

Re: RESULTS

[useyournoggin]

Lucas finishes the marathon with a time of 53m 5s!

... would be his real time but you can choose which to keep!

Re: RESULTS

[racingstripe]

One of them is a mimic Lucas and we're proud of them both.

Re: RESULTS

[bubblewrapped]

Mimic Lucas just here to show up regular Lucas.

Re: RESULTS

[useyournoggin]

As an apology for my mistake.... yeah we can say it's 100% true and canon, there was a mimic Lucas who did really well, but then said he had to leave early to deal with some TA things.

20 minutes later the real Lucas crosses the finish line.

Re: RESULTS

[bubblewrapped]

I LOVE IT.