INTERHOUSE SNOWBALL FIGHT

[goosemods]

INTERHOUSE
SNOWBALL FIGHT

A challenge has been put out: Coppertale calls all houses to their home turf, for a brutal snowball fight to determine who's the best house in Gooseberry. In the field behind the Coppertale campground, walls have been raised. Fortifications have been built. Ammunition has been stacked. They're ready for this.

At 2 PM, a whistle's blown, and the battle begins. Every fighter is given a long piece of cloth in their house colour, to tie around their arm (or otherwise display in some obvious manner) to show their team allegiance. Snow forts for each house have been designated (in the north, east, west and south of the battleground), where fighters can regroup behind their defenses and build more snowballs. Each fort also prominently displays their flag (a Quidditch team pennant), which other houses will attempt to steal to claim victory. Last house standing is the winner.

SNOWBALL FIGHT RULES

• Every fighter must display their house colour at all times, for easy identification.


• Each house must leave their flag to be prominently displayed on top of their snow fort. Other houses must be able to tell at a glance where your flag is.


• Once a flag is stolen, it can be taken back so long as it's still on the battleground. Once a flag has been taken back to an enemy fort, the losing house is eliminated from the fight.


• Fighters can only fight with snow. This means: no punching, kicking or other forms of bodily contact; no rocks or ice in snowballs; no attacks of any kind that aren't snowballs. Bodily contact is allowed when taking back a flag, but prefects have the authority to eliminate any player who gets too violent.


• The use of traps is permitted to defend forts, but must only use snow. It's a friendly snowball fight, you're not actually supposed to make anyone bleed.

HOW THIS WORKS

• Every character has 5 turns, i.e. an RNG roll of 1–10. They may use a turn to either bolster their house's defenses or attack another player.


• To bolster your house, post to your house's Fort. The points rolled for your turn will be added to your house's score. If you do not specify the number of turns you want to use to help your house, the default is one (1) turn.


• To attack other players, post your character to the Battleground. Any comments you make to another character's first Battleground comment will be assumed to be an attack. The points rolled for your turn will be subtracted from their house's score.
  • Your attacks will not be counted unless your character has posted themselves as open to attack on the Battleground.
  
  
  • You may attack the same player multiple times. If you want to use multiple turns in one comment, leave an OOC note (i.e. [Three rolls against Sandford please!]) to let the mods know. Otherwise, the default is one (1) turn used.
  
  
  • You may attack members of your own house.


• All houses start with 15 points. Anyone who reduces a house to negative points has stolen their flag. Anyone who gets their house back to positive points has stolen the flag back.


• Turns will be rolled and used up in the order they're posted. For instance, if Zion uses 2 turns to help Coppertale, then attacks Basil, then attacks Nicholas, then uses a turn to help Coppertale, then attacks Peyton, the last attack against Peyton will not be counted because Zion already used up her five turns. (If a mod has mixed up your intended actions, just let us know and we'll correct it!)


• If you don't want to use up a turn, make an OOC note so the mods know not to roll for you.


• It is not necessary to post to both your Fort and the Battleground if you don't want to, i.e. you can use all of your turns on bolstering your house, or use all of your turns on attacking other players.


• Rolls will be counted until Mon, Jan 8 at 11:59 PM MT. The house with the highest score will be the last house standing.

» EBONHIDE: THE BEAR CAVE: To the south, bears devise multi-step strategies to victory.

» RIBBONFIN: THE TROUT DUGOUT: To the east, fishes rally together for the sake of teamwork.

» AZURCREST: THE BIRD'S NEST: To the north, birds just wanna have fun!!!!

» COPPERTALE: THE FOXHOLE: To the west, foxes are reminded that murder is against the rules.

» BATTLEGROUND: Between each snow fort is flat open ground. No trees, no cover—just snow. Gather up some snowballs and start running.

» SIDELINES: There's not really a safe place around here, but if you stay far enough on the sidelines, you can spectate and avoid getting pelted by snow.

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

CURRENT TOTALS
EBONHIDE	RIBBONFIN	AZURCREST	COPPERTALE
35	-24	-6	-4

Comments

BATTLEGROUND

[goosemods]

All houses: post here to attack other players! (Remember: You must post your character as open to attack in order to be counted, and only the first reply to someone else will be counted.)

Battleground: Isabelle

[cant_even]

Regretting life choices right about now. She’s not very athletic aside from being pretty fast, but she’s not nimble and running through snow sucks. Still, she tries.

Battleground: Samantha

[oh_girl]

What a beautiful day for battle. As usual, Sam isn’t taking this very seriously. She’s got spiked hot chocolate with her and busies herself by making a ton of snowballs.

BATTLEGROUND: Sylvester

[threatens]

Sy's been here since lunch ended, making snowballs and planning his attack. Maybe they should've come up with a strategy beyond just "let's storm Ribbonfin* all at once."

*Or Ebonhide or Azurcrest where appropriate. If we must.

Battleground: Concordia

[cheer_leader]

Storm Ribbonfin sounds like a fine idea. The normally peppy cheerleader is in full on battle mode, carrying an arsenal of snowballs and no one is safe!!!

BATTLEGROUND: Micah

[stclair]

He's here!!!!! He's riding in the memory of Quinn Cunningham!!!!!! Also trying very hard to seem normal and not stupid in the wake of yesterday's adventure. OK, no, normalcy for Micah involves a certain amount of stupidity. Maybe he'll just seem extra stupid today ;)

BATTLEGROUND: Avery

[un_kept]

Who doesn’t love a little inter house competition? Avery needs a little fun in her life right about now and gets there early enough to help her house set up.

BATTLEGROUND: Calvin

[evercreep]

Slowballs are softer than Bludgers, but he's still going to complain if he gets hit. Calvin doesn't look like he's having much fun, but I promise he is.

BATTLEGROUND: Oscar

[dumb_ass]

Fuck yeah, Oscar is always down for this. He’s great at making snowballs and terrible at running or maneuvering in the snow. His only plan if attack is to at some point pelt his girlfriend with a snowball.

BATTLEGROUND: Spencer

[bitterlysweet]

Spencer is EXCESSIVELY EXCITED and will need to be reminded that tackling his friends into the snow is off-limits.

BATTLEGROUND: Reid

[cygninae]

Reid's only here because Sy's running it, and he probably has to make sure Dinah and Nisha don't adorably kill someone.

BATTLEGROUND: Ruby

[patineuse]

Ruby is all-offensive, all the time. In more ways than one.

BATTLEGROUND: Heathcliff

[heathclifflacey]

Heathcliff is so ready for this! He may not have a plan but he's got enthusiasm and energy on his side and that's probably fine? Let's kick some ass, Coppertale!

BATTLEGROUND: Essie

[magitechnically]

Well if this ain't the strangest ranch Estella de Ville ever saw. But she's here now, along with her trusty snowball launcher (aka... her arm). Her wanted list is long so it's just a matter of figuring out who to target first.

BATTLEGROUND: marie

[prophesie]

she's ready

BATTLEGROUND: Lachlan

[lachlangalbraith]

Lachlan might not be the most athletic guy in the world but he's definitely got some frustration to work through right now. So throwing snowballs at people sounds like a pretty good way to unwind! He'll probably regret this choice the first time he gets hit, though.

BATTLEGROUND: Tobias

[norush]

Oops! He's helping!

BATTLEGROUND: Casper

[casperkim]

Casper isn't actually in the mood to deal with anyone today but he said he'd be here. So here he is. Maybe hitting people with snow will cheer him up.

BATTLEGROUND: Ira

[ashworthless]

He's here to risk concussion from balls of snow, and to far-too-enthusiastically dole it out too.

Battleground: Lucas

[bubblewrapped]

A wild nerd appears.

BATTLEGROUND: Jade

[odder]

She's pretending to be the most deadly little snowsniper her house has ever seen. Is she? Eh.

BATTLEGROUND: Nisha

[godzillabutworse]

Nisha Lewis, a malfunctioning dalek turned into a real girl by her drunken fairy godmother, is here to exterminate.

BATTLEGROUND: Ulysses

[ulixes]

It's been a weird few days, but as far as Ulysses is concerned, winning a shitass competition is exactly what everyone needs to perk back up. Ride or die, y'all.

BATTLEGROUND: Rosy

[browbeats]

General Stoker is not going to sit around and wait, she's going for it. She's probably wearing war paint and keeping an eye out for freshmen on roofs while she aims for fucking up Foxtown.

BATTLEGROUND: Kenzie

[princeprincess]

She thinks she spots some Ebonboys to lovingly bully. :)