gooseberryhigh | INTERHOUSE SNOWBALL FIGHT

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

Sorry, Calvin! Being an honorary bluejay comes with a liiiiiittle snow.

Zach rolls -5 to attack Calvin, lowering Ribbonfin's score to 22! Zach has 3 turns left.

If she can snipe Calvin, she's gonna be PROUD.

Jade rolls -5 to attack Calvin, lowering Ribbonfin's score to 4! Jade has 2 turns left.

Todd has it OUT for Ribbonfin. Watch out, Calvin.

Todd rolls -7 to attack Calvin, lowering Ribbonfin's score to -10! Todd has 4 turns left.

Sylla knows the Ribbonfins are the ones to go after.

Sylla rolls -8 to attack Calvin, lowering Ribbonfin's score to 5! Sylla has 2 turns left.

Stealth is not Micah's forte, so he's just going to run straight at Calvin, yelling and throwing all of snowballs he has in his bag. Two turns on the cutest crankiest Ribbonfin ♥

Edited 2018-01-08 02:48 (UTC)

Micah rolls -13 (-7 + -6) to attack Calvin, lowering Ribbonfin's score to -5! Micah has 2 turns left.

Micah has stolen the Ribbonfin flag! Someone stop them!

"Don't you dare—" is all Calvin gets out before he's pelted.

Once his arsenal is empty, Micah throws his hands up into the air with a loud whoop and attempts to throw himself into Calvin's arms. Catch him, Calvin!

"No!"

But Calvin does catch him. Or rather, he tries. The impact sends them both falling backwards, Micah in Calvin's arms, into the snow.

Micah should probably feel guilt or something for forcing Calvin to break his fall, but the grin he directs down at his boyfriend is pure elation. "What's a hot boy like you doing in a cold place like this?" He makes no move to get off.

Edited (i'm sorry for him) 2018-01-08 03:00 (UTC)

"Puttin' up with you," Calvin drawls, but despite his sour expression, his hands find their way up into Micah's hair. They card through it, dislodging his hat and revealing the mess underneath. Micah's shockingly blue eyes go well with the snow.

Micah's grin softens into a pleased little smile. "Don't lie, you find me delightful. Just try telling me your life wasn't super boring before I came along." Bold words. Micah leans down, just a couple of inches short of being close enough to kiss.

"I wouldn't say borin'," Calvin argues, but not much. He could try to explain that boredom has never been Calvin's problem, but rather unhappiness. Right now, though, he feels happy. Either way, he doesn't want to talk about it here.

Calvin links his hands behind Micah's head, and does away with those last two inches, kissing him carefully.

Micah and his ego should be discouraged whenever possible. Calvin tries his best, but every second Calvin spends being obviously happy in Micah's company sets that progress back by decades. He still can't believe he's here, with Calvin's arms around him, Calvin kissing him like he's something special.

At least until Micah feels the freezing splat of a snowball hitting the side of his head, filling his ear with snow. "Ohhhhhh my godddd," Micah yelps, then buries his face into Calvin's chest, giggling.

Calvin's chest shakes with laughter under Micah. He's uncomfortably cold just lying here in the snow, but he's in no hurry to leave. He can tolerate it just a few moments longer. As he and Micah lie there, he brushes snow off Micah's head. "You deserved that," he tells Micah affectionately.

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