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

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KENZIE WAS WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT. SHE'S TACKLING HIM INTO THE SNOW. SHE'LL LOSE POINTS FOR THE HONOR.

MACKENZIE YOU ARE A PREFECT

Iliya goes down like a sack of potatoes, because having scarves wrapped around his hideous face is really terrible for his peripheral vision. "Ow," he says, muffled.

She laughs hysterically. It's the hardest she's laughed in months. "Got you," she brags, and rolls off him.

"I do not think violence is permitted." Iliya's doing his best to sound annoyed, but he holds his mittened hands out to her as he gets to his feet. Wonderful. He's cold and covered in snow.

Kenzie accepts his help, and throws an arm around Iliya's shoulders. "Rules are made to be broken." In her elation, she's reverted to pre-prefect Mackenzie.

Iliya will never breathe a word of Kenzie's questionable morals. Unless he's in one of those complaining moods that happen ever other day. Honestly, he's glad to see pre-prefect Mackenzie. "Careful," he mutters. "You will pull my scarf." He makes no move to push her off, however.

Kenzie boldly reaches up and pulls Iliya's scarf down enough to peer at his face. "You still look good. Give it a week."

"Kakvo po dyavolite—" But he would never stop Kenzie, even as he feels his face flood with embarrassment as she inspects him. Iliya did manage to get his hands on a magical skin treatment, but it still looks rather raw.

Iliya pulls his scarf back into place. He never thought of himself as vain before this incident. "Will they believe I am sick for a whole week?"

"Ти си глупав. You know they won't." Mackenzie doesn't mean to be blunt, but Iliya knows he has to face the music eventually. "Maybe you can weasel out of class tomorrow, though. You want me to give you the spa treatment? Nice and private, no loud strangers, just you, me, and a lot of expensive products."

Edited 2018-01-08 01:35 (UTC)

Kenzie rolls -10 to attack Iliya, lowering Ebonhide's score to 9! Kenzie has 0 turns left.

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