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Gooseberry Mods ([personal profile] goosemods) wrote in [community profile] gooseberryhigh2017-12-12 09:38 am

SLEDDING



SLEDDING

As 4:30 creeps closer, students begin to bundle up and sneak out into the woods behind Azurcrest. It's a new path this time, less well-worn, which leads to a new hill. Perhaps it's not the same dramatic drop as last year, but sledding is sledding!

It takes two hours before Mr. Covington catches them, and many of the rule breakers scatter and escape punishment. Those who stay lose points and earn detention... but at least it's just a forced study hall. You all ought to be preparing for midterms anyway, and Mr. Covington's not so heartless that he'd impede your academic success.

HOW THIS WORKS:
  • Anyone who reasonably wouldn’t have stopped this in its infancy is invited, regardless of what house they’re in or whether or not they're a prefect!

  • This is against school rules. If your character participates, they are breaking an explicit command by staff.
    • However, getting in trouble is opt-in. Comment HERE if you want your character to get in trouble. They must attend a two-hour study hall in the lodge tomorrow after dinner, and they will lose house points, which will contribute to the end of the month House Cup calculations
  • There are single-person sleds and two/three-person sleds, most of which were kindly transfigured by other students.

  • No alcohol is available this year unless your character brought their own!

  • Characters lingering at the bottom of the hill may be randomly informed that a recently rolled sled is about to crash into them. They may dive out of the way or be knocked down like bowling pins.

  • Every time you go down the hill, write “SLEDDING, INJURY Y/N” in the subject line of your ic/ooc comment.
    • I’ll then roll on the chart below. If your character wipes out and you answered “Y” to injury, I’ll then roll a second time. There’s a 5% chance of sustaining an injury. If two characters are riding in the same sled, it’ll be a 50/50 chance which one is injured.

    • Last year was extremely dangerous, but this year the chosen hill isn't as steep, nor is it quite as perilous. Injuries will be limited to bruises, bloodied noses, and maybe a sprain or two.
  • You may choose to make it down the hill unscathed, in which case write “PERFECT RIDE” in the subject line.

  • There are also smaller hills nearby if your character doesn't want to take the big plunge!

  • However, you may not choose to get injured. That can only be obtained by facing the wipeout table.

  • Due to how huge this cast is, while characters can go down as many times as they like, if things get too busy we'll only roll two or three for each character. If we start skipping your character because they've gone a bunch of times already, that's why!

CLICK HERE FOR THE WIPEOUT TABLE
1-2 Mystery event. Ooooh~
3-5 Are you dead? You think you might be dead. Guaranteed injury. A second roll will be made to determine your wipeout.
6-15 Hit a tree, and then the branches above you dump copious amounts of snow on your sled.
16-25 Dumped into the stream. You’re now all wet. :(
26-35 Crashed into bushes, and sustained scratches and bruises.
36-42 Dumped off a small ledge and into deep snow. You need help escaping.
43-45 Nearly hit a deer. The deer looked more traumatized than you were.
46-50 Flipped the sled. Teenagers go flying everywhere.
51-53 Your sled hits a small incline over a log buried under the snow, and you go flying gracefully through the air! Once you hit the ground, though, you tumble head over heels into a snowbank. Bruises sustained, and you lost one of your boots.
54-55 Swerved to avoid hitting a bunny and flipped the sled.
56-69 Very rough ride, with several near-misses with low hanging branches and trees that you swear came out of nowhere. Your life flashed before your eyes. Somehow you made it to the bottom in one piece, though.
70-73 Duck! You quickly lie back as a low hanging branch flies over your head. That was a close one!
74-75 Duck! … Ouch, not quick enough! You get a faceful of branch and a bloody nose, and you’re knocked right off your sled.
76-80 Your sled careens out of control, and you (and anyone riding with you) tumble the remaining twenty feet to the bottom of the hill. Bruises sustained.
81-84 Where did that ditch come from??? No one knows, but you’re in it now. Bruises sustained.
85-89 When you reach the bottom of the hill, you realize something is missing… or someone. The person riding in the back of the sled fell off halfway down! (Reroll if solo rider.)
90-91 Perfect ride! Your exhilaratingly fast descent down the hill… went right through where everyone else is trying to climb back up. There was chaos and screaming as your classmates dived out of the way of your careening sled.
92-94 Perfect ride! No one can stop you! You keep going! Oh my god, where are you going?! Come back!!! Your sled has so much momentum, it zips past the finish line, under some bushes, and takes you about 300 ft. into the woods with nothing getting in your way. Walking back is going to be a paaaaaaain.
92-100 Perfect ride! Your exhilaratingly fast descent down the hill set a new record!

» top of the hill: This is where you’re least likely to get hit by an out of control sledder.

» Sledding: If your character is sledding, this is where it happens! Grab a sled and one or two friends, and hold on tight!

» Bottom of the hill: Pull yourself together and climb back up! If your character lingers here, there's a chance that the mod account may inform you that the most recently rolled sled is about to crash into them!

» Did your character get caught?: Comment here if you would like your character to get caught. There will be IC consequences.

» OOC - Questions, Comments and Concerns
racingstripe: (Default)

Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] racingstripe 2017-12-12 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Sy has to go to the library and make sure his sister doesn't fall down a study hole and throw Ribbonfin into disarray again
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
nice, nice. make petrichor part of your alibi. nisha really is the smartest person in her year
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
how susceptible is calvin to peer pressure :) :) :)
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Re: ESSIE & JEFFY SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] magitechnically 2017-12-12 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Essie's pretty sure this sled is still SUPER CRAMPED and it has nothing to do with her sliding up as close as possible.
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mommy went out for smokes. She'll be back any day now."

...although honestly if rosy is willing to tolerate studying with sy, that could be cute
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] evercreep 2017-12-12 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
WAY MORE THAN HE WANTS TO BE. >:(

Maybe he'll grumpily offering healing and Micah can try working his charms. He won't even refuse to heal poor sweet Todd.
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] racingstripe 2017-12-12 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
she'll reward him with her worst scratch & sniff stickers because she cares
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MICAH & CALVIN SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Micah is here with a whole tweeting lot of junior jays, although he made sure to detour through Ribbonfin first to kidnap at least one (1) cold fish to join them. "It's going to be completely safe," Micah assures Calvin, "and if it's not, you can totally fix up any broken bones, right??"
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
i googled it and this honestly sounds like something rosy would do passive-aggressively
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
micah hopes todd gets a sprain
racingstripe: (Default)

Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] racingstripe 2017-12-12 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
this is why she doesn't get to be a TA
evercreep: (46)

MICAH & CALVIN SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] evercreep 2017-12-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe if I'd been left to study a bit longer," Calvin complains. He's fairly certain Micah's well aware that anything more serious than scrapes and bruises are beyond Calvin's current expertise. Why can't he say no to Micah anymore???
racingstripe: ((+) heyyy i'm down)

Re: ESSIE & JEFFY SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] racingstripe 2017-12-12 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeffy grins, and it has nothing to do with Essie being close to him and smelling good and everything to do with just being Jeffy!! Who's always smiling!!!
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] ulixes 2017-12-12 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
sy is trying so hard to be good :(( he deserves nice things unlike some other captains i won't name
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DINAH SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] dinahdanger 2017-12-12 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
She'll find some other terrible children to take a trip down Cheating Death Lane later, but FIRST Dinah needs to test something out. She needs to see if she can do a SICK OLLIE while ZOOMING down the hill.

Dinah deserves death and it's your fault she won't get it.
soundscaped: ((=) whining)

Austin

[personal profile] soundscaped 2017-12-12 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Austin sits at the bottom of the hill, flipping through his Astronomy notes, with a travel mug of incredibly caffeinated coffee next to him. He's here because he's bored, curious, and susceptible to peer pressure. He's not sledding because he hates fun.

He'll write a song honoring all of your dead for the talent show. Austin takes another sip of coffee and pretends to study.
Edited (open if you like... really want to//i hate phones) 2017-12-12 18:06 (UTC)
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HAZEL & COLE - Injury Y

[personal profile] colemoss 2017-12-12 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Cole's happy to get to go sledding! He doesn't really know what to do when he arrives at the hill, though, and spends a few minutes wandering and watching other students go careening down the slope. Fortunately, Hazel's there and Hazel knows what to do! It doesn't take long for the two of them to end up on a sled, Hazel in front and Cole in back; she'd insisted for some reason?
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] ulixes 2017-12-12 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm here!!! almost!!! on the bus home lol

my sledders are marie, tobias, and gooseberry' worst captain, ulysses. since cash is keyed in, he might watch from the sidelines. zach is blissfully ignorant!!! don't ruin this for him by getting hurt!!!!!!! hmu if you wanna do a scene or whatever
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] quickbuck 2017-12-12 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Todd, Tally, and Clem are here and ready to sled!!!

Ari could be talked into it by friends but is probably off studying if left to her own devices.

Reece is gonna chew everyone out about this later today so prepare for histrionics :c
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Spencer (open to multiple)

[personal profile] bitterlysweet 2017-12-12 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Spencer is incredibly, undeservedly pleased with himself. He really didn't do much besides pick a hill and yell out a time, but he's sitting pretty at the top of the hill like he's overseeing the culmination of a great and magnificent project. His legs are crossed underneath him and his cheeks are flushed from the cold and happiness. When someone sits beside him, he fishes a small flask of rum (the one Heathcliff gave him) out of his coat and wiggles it at them in a "want some?" gesture. Despite this, Spencer himself seems pretty sober.
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Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] evercreep 2017-12-12 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Stop picking on Todd, Micah. JJ does that enough without your help.

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