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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
novelling: (🕷 224)

Ariadne (open to multiple)

[personal profile] novelling 2017-12-12 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ari gets dragged along to enough illicit events and parties that she can't even act dismayed that she ended up here. She'd avoided sledding last year, but that had been before she'd made friends with — well, anyone. But especially Jade, who she might've guessed would be interested in attending a potentially lethal leisure activity. So despite thinking this is a bad idea, and despite hating Spencer, and despite the fact that she has a notoriously difficult exam to take tomorrow morning, she's here.

While everyone else makes their runs down the hill, Ari transfigures sleds for freshmen and other unwilling or unable students. Her spellwork is solid, but more than anything else she has a knack for making fashionable arrangements of colors and patterns, probably thanks to her years of transfiguring dresses and blouses. Several of her sleds are festively candy-cane striped.

"It shouldn't flip over," she says as she hands another one off. "But don't test your luck." It sounds more like she's passing judgement on you than interested in your well-being.
ulixes: (♔ 57)

Re: THE RIDE & INJURY

[personal profile] ulixes 2017-12-12 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Wall, way to go, Decourt. How are you gonna explain that away, huh?
neattrick: (Default)

Re: CLEM & ULYSSES SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] neattrick 2017-12-12 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
You can spot her at 1000 paces
neattrick: (Default)

Re: THE RIDE & INJURY

[personal profile] neattrick 2017-12-12 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Obviously she's gonna tell people Ulysses clocked her.
threatens: (🏆 43)

Re: THE RIDE & INJURY

[personal profile] threatens 2017-12-12 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Sy's going to fight him.
cygninae: (☆ 043)

Re: THE RIDE & INJURY

[personal profile] cygninae 2017-12-12 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sy no.
ulixes: (♔ 43)

Re: THE RIDE & INJURY

[personal profile] ulixes 2017-12-12 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
C'mon now, this is just unfair! Obviously, he'd love to sock her in the eye, but unfortunately, he's been a perfect gentleman all year.
novelling: (🕷 206)

Jade and Ari vs Snowbank

[personal profile] novelling 2017-12-12 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, Ari probably deserves landing face-first in snow as a punishment for doing something this dumb. But even if she deserves it, she hates it. She's wiping snow off her face as gingerly as she can when she realizes that Jade is... not by her, which is concerning. But after she stands up, it's not difficult to spot a Jade-shaped hole in a nearby snow bank, and she wades over to her before dropping to her knees in the deep, fluffy snow.

"Are you alright?" she asks, reaching out to help her up.
Edited 2017-12-12 19:30 (UTC)
threatens: (🏆 07)

Re: THE RIDE & INJURY

[personal profile] threatens 2017-12-12 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and also, Sy won't believe that Ulysses got off scot-free in a fistfight. Clem is going to have to punch him too to make this story work.
readingrainbows: (Default)

Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] readingrainbows 2017-12-12 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
micah is so good??? his boys are so good :( this is exactly what he's been asking that they do :(((

keep him INFORMED so he doesn't WORRY and so he can be there to help mitigate any DAMAGE :( he's so proud
readingrainbows: (✐ 11)

Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] readingrainbows 2017-12-12 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
what could possibly go wrong
stclair: * (Default)

Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
im making a header for junior jays sledding
bubblewrapped: (Default)

Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] bubblewrapped 2017-12-12 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck yes
odder: (Default)

Re: OOC ❄️ Questions, comments, concerns!

[personal profile] odder 2017-12-12 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
💙💙!!
stclair: * (🎥 69)

JUNIOR JAYS SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Eventually, because all Azurcrests believe they're immortal, the juniors start strapping together a bunch of big sleds so they can go down together like the train on Splash Mountain. Except without any kind of safety measures whatsoever. Lucas, are there charms they can use to chain these sleds, or should we just trust in Jeffy's long and strong arms to hold them all together?

Micah's playing Paper Rock Scissors to see who gets to sit at the front of the train.
bubblewrapped: (😱 ouch)

Re: THE RIDE & INJURY

[personal profile] bubblewrapped 2017-12-12 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
BATTLE SCAR!! Lucas is not as pleased about this as I am, but he's mostly shocked that he didn't die. He stands sort of wobbily, wipes a bit of blood off on his sleeve and focuses first on helping Essie up out of the snow. "That... wasn't... awful?"
bubblewrapped: (😱 cute introvert)

Re: JUNIOR JAYS SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] bubblewrapped 2017-12-12 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"We could sticking charm all our hands together," Lucas deadpans while attempting to purposefully lose everything throw of ro-sham-bo. He can do this. Ride number two. His lip stopped bleeding, by now. A tiny part of him hopes he looks badass. Most of him knows he looks like a dork.
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Re: JUNIOR JAYS SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] racingstripe 2017-12-12 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeffy has very long and very strong arms, he'll protect all of you if you just believe enough!!!
novelling: (🕷 203)

Re: JUNIOR JAYS SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] novelling 2017-12-12 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"This is a bad idea," Ariadne says to nobody in particular from where she's standing about ten yards away from her very stupidest friends. She doesn't know those people.
readingrainbows: (✐ 14)

Re: JUNIOR JAYS SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] readingrainbows 2017-12-12 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"There to be a way to make this safer," Zach adds, slightly nervously, from his place on the edge of the group. Which is really just a nicer way of saying that this is a bad idea.
racingstripe: ((+) dressed up and fancy!!)

Re: JUNIOR JAYS SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] racingstripe 2017-12-12 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"We could all wear PILLOWS for EXTRA PADDING," Jeffy says, while absolutely not waiting for anyone to grab pillows for extra padding.
stclair: * (🎥 04)

Re: JUNIOR JAYS SLEDDING - INJURY Y

[personal profile] stclair 2017-12-12 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Is there like a charm that'll make us just bounce off of obstacles?" Micah wonders, before sticking out his hand. "Zach! Paper, rock, scissors. One, two, three!"

Choose your poison, Zachary.

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