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ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY

ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY

It's St. Patrick's Day, and everyone's Irish tonight!

Just like last year, the Grotto has been decorated with crude but brilliantly colored green sparkling charms, making the still-bare trees around the clearing light up with emerald and gold lights. The crowning achievement is a beautiful glowing rainbow that passes right over the fire. The "pot of gold" at the end of this particular rainbow is where an exceptionally generous accumulation of alcohol is being kept.

Heathcliff Lacey managed to get the Grotto to basically explode with mounds of bright green clovers. The clovers are soft and comfortable to lie on and enjoy a drink. [Character B] finds a four leafed one amongst the bunch!

Atop a stump rests the crown for the new King/Queen of St. Patrick's Day: a crown of silver laurels in the Roman style. Hopefully this won't be bad luck in the Hunger Games. It was created by Ennis Harper just for the occasion. At the end of the night, Casey Patterson, the previous king, is supposed to crown the new king.

There are bright green shamrock pins you can take from a basket by the fire. These indicate that your character agrees to the annual kissing competition. The pins track how many different people gave your character a smooch (hands and cheeks count), and at the end of the night, the person who got the most kisses can demand a kiss from any party guest! (Assuming OOC consent is given.)

As always, there's a movie being screened, and this time it's the questionable "horror"/"comedy", Leprechaun. It is, unfortunately, neither horrifying or funny, except in its abject failure to be either.

RULES

The party starts at 7:30, and runs until 10:00. The prefects are still strictly enforcing curfew.

It's warm out now! These terrible children can put fashion over function once again. (Anon was kind enough to intervene, and while there's snow on campus, it looks like May in the Grotto.)

Speaking of: you should consider wearing green, or you might get pinched.

The King/Queen of St. Patrick's Day will be announced Sunday at noon, Mountain Time. This will hopefully give everyone a chance to play, but will allow your characters to react to the winner in a timely fashion.

Tomorrow there will be a mini follow-up IC/OOC, popularly called the St. Patrick's Day Pity Party. It's tradition that the next day, everyone who drank too much gathers around the fields of Coppertale to recover and whine about their hangovers.

Regarding the Hunger Games: you may not kill anyone in the Grotto or along the secret trails leading to it.

If you signed your character up for either Spin The Bottle or Seven Minutes In Heaven, find their partners below:

Evangeline Bagman STB #1: Marie STB #2: Danny 7MIH: Georgie	Phineas Bones STB #1: Georgie STB #2: Avery	Jaime Castillo 7MIH: Kenzie/Ulysses	Liberty Chan STB #1: Carolina STB #2: Riley 7MIH: Ruby
Eileen Coffin STB #1: Riley STB #2: Madison	Juniper Crane STB #1: Salem STB #2: Chad 7MIH: Carolina	Avery Davenport STB #1: January STB #2: Phin 7MIH: Danny	Sofia Delgado STB #1: Madison STB #2: January
Dinah Dixon STB #1: Hazel STB #2: Pandora 7MIH: Chad	Carolina Foster-Hayes STB #1: Liberty STB #2: Archie 7MIH: Juniper	London Holloway STB #1: Tuesday STB #2: Salem 7MIH: Ana	Paris Holloway STB #1: Chad STB #2: Marie
Madison Ives STB #1: Sofia STB #2: Eileen 7MIH: January	January James STB #1: Avery STB #2: Sofia 7MIH: Madison	Hazel Keating STB #1: Dinah STB #2: Nisha 7MIH: Jonah	Pandora Lacey STB #1: Nisha STB #2: Dinah 7MIH: Grace
Nisha Lewis STB #1: Pandora STB #2: Hazel 7MIH: Archie	Georgiana Mills STB #1: Phin STB #2: Ruby 7MIH: Eve	Ophelia Noggins STB #1: Ruby STB #2: Grace 7MIH: Riley	Tuesday North STB #1: London STB #2: Ana 7MIH: Marie
Daniel Notoriano STB #1: Ana STB #2: Eve 7MIH: Avery	Ruby Oberholtzer STB #1: Ophelia STB #2: Georgie 7MIH: Liberty	Marie Patterson STB #1: Eve STB #2: Paris 7MIH: Tuesday	Jonah Pitchford STB #1: Grace STB #2: Karen 7MIH: Hazel
Mackenzie Prince 7MIH: Jaime/Ulysses Ulysses Quayle 7MIH: Jaime/Kenzie	Archimedes Rose STB #1: Karen STB #2: Carolina 7MIH: Nisha	Grace Sowerberry STB #1: Jonah STB #2: Ophelia 7MIH: Pandora	Riley Stamper STB #1: Eileen STB #2: Liberty 7MIH: Ophelia
Susana Velasquez STB #1: Danny STB #2: Tuesday 7MIH: London	Salem Wagonblast STB #1: Juniper STB #2: London 7MIH: Karen	Chad Winterbottom STB #1: Paris STB #2: Juniper 7MIH: Dinah	Karen Zabinsky STB #1: Archie STB #2: Jonah 7MIH: Salem

RULES

Teen peer pressure (and player sadism) aside, no one is obligated to do anything they don't want to. Characters doing Seven Minutes In Heaven can spend the time just talking or staring awkwardly at each other, and characters playing Spin The Bottle can opt out of a kiss (although people will probably boo).

If characters get up to anything more racy than PG-13, please fade to black on that! This includes sexually explicit conversations. Many people track IC/OOC posts, so please have consideration for your fellow players. Talking about sex is fine (and part of the flavour of a teen game), but there's no need to get into detailed descriptions of anatomy or sex acts.

If you'd like to say two characters were partners in STB or 7MIH in addition to what's been rolled, go ahead! Obviously, get the permission of all involved characters first.

» Before the Party: The St. Patrick's Day celebration is always a big one, even compared to other Grotto parties! Prep your outfits, grab your friends, and maybe hold off on pregaming if you want to show the school how much alcohol you can consume in one sitting.

» Around the Fire: The large bonfire is warm and romantic. Pull up a log and grab a blanket, make some s'mores, or dance to the party music. There's a karaoke setup for anyone who feels bold enough to sing along. If you don't care for music, there's beer and soda in the ice chests, along with bins for empty bottles and cans. Don't litter. This isn't your home. Some bold students are even doing body shots as the temperature is continuing to rise, and lifting your shirt is no longer going to result in freezing to death.

» MOVIE SCREENING: LEPRECHAUN: Students sit around to watch the classically bad horror-comedy, Leprechaun. Micah will readily defend the quality of his choice.

» Drinking Competition: At the end of the night, the heartiest drinker will be named King or Queen of St. Patrick's Day. There's a crown on the line, and the winner will be carried back to their cabin by the remaining drunken survivors at the end of the night. (Yes, they'll probably be dropped at least once.) People who participated in the drinking games (and anyone else who wants to play along) are expected to refer to them as "Your Highness" for the next week and bow when they enter the room.

There are drinking games taking place all over the party, in addition to just regular old drinking without a game involved at all. Gooseberry's on the lookout for the heartiest drinker this year!

Start a thread for your character under this comment and fill out the form below to be part of the competition.

Each time you comment to your thread with the form, you will get a roll to add to your character's drinking score. You may request up to three rolls in one comment.

The goal is to get as close to 200 as you can without going over. After you go over 200, your character either passes out, vomits, or is simply too unwell to continue. They're effectively disqualified.

In the case of a tie at the end of the night, we'll roll a tiebreaker.

As your score increases, we'll inform you how drunk your character is becoming.

Special Austin Rule: Because Austin McNamara opted to take his Felix Felicis today, he'll get two saving graces. This means that if he's about to go over 200, the mods will reroll until he doesn't. We'll do this twice, and after that he's on his own.

There's an option to indicate your character has low alcohol tolerance. This means that every roll gets a +5 modifier. Your character will get drunker faster, but they're more likely to go over 200.

» Other Games:

Pinching: Did your character forget to wear green? If so, comment here, and other character may come along and give your character a pinch.

Kiss me, I'm (pretending to be) Irish: Those shamrock pins being offered around the fire? They're a cue that you're open to receiving random pecks from strangers. These are assumed to be cute platonic kisses, not mouth kisses. If your character is participating, comment here for drive by smooches. Your character's pin will then magically keep track of how many times they're kissed. The character that receives the most kisses by midnight can request a kiss from any party attendant! (You must receive OOC permission, and the type of kiss is chosen by the person your character selected. The winner will be announced at the same time as the king/queen, both IC and OOC, and the kiss will take place in front of the crowd of revellers.)

» Inside the Building: This may be where the kissing games are taking place, but there's still some room to just snuggle and chat. It's warmer than outside, at least!

» Kissing Games:

Spin The Bottle: Everyone sits in a circle and takes turns spinning the bottle to find their partner. Anyone who squeezes in (or happens to be accidentally standing behind a gap in the circle) gets a shot at a kiss. People can leave and enter the game at any time. Participants will be encouraged by their drunken classmates to kiss on the mouth.

Seven Minutes in Heaven: "Heaven" is a narrow, closet-sized room adjacent to the main party, and is dark except for some cracks of light from the doorway. There's now a proper wooden door on the closet, and people will magically lock it behind you for 7 minutes. You can use your wand to get more light, but really, you two should be making out.

» The Woods: The prefects probably won't let you wander too far in, but why would you want to anyway?

» After the Party: At midnight, prefects will be clearing the party and guiding everyone home. Don't walk back alone! Anyone left at 12:30 AM when the second wave of prefects hits the Grotto will be written up for punishment. As it's St. Patrick's day, the prefects might be anticipating more passed out classmates than normal.

» OOC - QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

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At the end of the evening, a small chipmunk-like rodent is passed out in a pile of leaves. Several discarded slushie pouches are strewn about nearby. Closer inspection determines the creature's not actually a chipmunk, but more of a... bat-mouse-chipmunk thing.

It's... probably a student, but when did this happen?

Cash, walking past, flicks a leaf so that it's not laying across the little creature's nose and mouth. If the animal responds in any way, he doesn't see it.

Okay, so maybe he's running on fumes and anxiety and manic hyper-vigilance (no one is dead yet - like, Austin has fleeced half of the senior class Ari and Jade haven't actually wandered off into the forest and Bertie is remaining on target, scientifically speaking - but no one is dead) which is maybe why he is very intently tipping his head at the little ball of fluff at his feet.

Because, like - This is not a normal chipmunk. Not that Bash is making any claims about his general chipmunk expertise. Just - that normally they aren't known for nesting in slushie pouches. (Though, solid choice. Respect.) And they don't actually look like Disney princess familiars, as occasional backyard raids will attest.

So. Decent chance that small, fuzzy bean is actually a person and not just a small, fuzzy bean. So, sure. Taking it with him. There's totally room in his hoodie. And, hey, if it is a normal chipmunk? There are definitely worse choices being made here tonight.

"Hey," he murmurs as he folds himself over, voice pitched low and one finger ticking up to illustrate his (somewhat dubious) point. "If you aren't cool with this, you feel free to take off a chunk of my hand. But otherwise, you're coming home with me. The weather ain't great and this is not the best choice in beds."

Hero goes to Grotto parties for one and only one reason: to make sure none of the Ebonhide sophomores get left in the woods and die. He's... attached, and not just in that "I'm smiling and lying about how much I like you" way. It would be inconvenient to have to replace any of them, now that he's gotten a sense of they all work.

"Very well," Hero says, as he leads the collected Ebonhide sophomores out onto the trail. "If Nick is in fact here and not in the cabin, then alas, he'll just have to perish in the woods."

This earns a bright, easy laugh from Balthazar. While the boy didn't participate in the drinking competition (there's nothing fun about drinking until you vomit on someone's shoes, he's decided) and he's fairly good at holding his liquor, he's obviously drunk. His cheeks are flushed and he's wavering on his feet and he seems to have lost any sense of volume control. He tries to slip his arm through Hero's. "If he perishes in the woods, Reynard gets his bunk!" he says cheerfully. Who cares about Nick anyway?

"Good time?" he asks knowingly, using a finger to playfully tug at the collar of Jaime's shirt. For his part, Ennis is covered in lipstick marks and looks pleasantly tousled. And awfully drunk. He holds on to Jaime's shoulder to steady himself as he continues teasing, "Are the rumors true, then?"

"What?" Jaime's drunk enough now that he's having a hard time figuring out what Ennis is implying, and he definitely won't be able to parse what had happened in Seven Minutes in Heaven. Tomorrow he'll have a clearer view, but for now he just knows he should be somewhat embarrassed, so he glances off momentarily as the other boy tugs at his shirt. He only looks back when he tries to help steady his friend, and that's when he takes full stock of the situation.

"Rumors? And... what happened to you?"

Edited (he didn't read the anonymous post at all :,) ) 2018-03-18 14:32 (UTC)

"Pretty girls and pretty boys are what happened to me." There's a sing-songy tone to every word he speaks; not quite slurred but it's clear he's pretty far gone. Even after he's steadied, he doesn't let go. Instead, he leans into Jaime and throws himself more off balance.

"You didn't read the Anon post?" he asks in mock surprise, drawing out the reveal. Of course he doesn't actually believe the rumor, but he's been wanting to hassle Jaime about it for a week now. He lowers Jaime's collar again, holding it down this time as if he's inspecting his neck for marks. "They said you're dating Kenzie and Ulysses. That they're unicorn blessed."

"That is... good." Though he seems more confused than anything else, there is an attempt by Jaime to sound congratulatory. He doesn't particularly want to ask who the boys and girls are, and he doesn't really have much of a chance anyways as he's trying to not fall over with Ennis's added weight.

"Umm, no, I did not read it." He gives an embarrassed laugh as he tries to push away the hand at his collar, the movement a little sloppy. "But... what? Why? We did not... I mean, this was the first time there was a... thing?" At least, he thinks so.

"Oh, wait, I guess there was spin the bottle that one time, yeah? But it is.... what?" The more Jaime thinks about it, the more color rises in his cheeks. "It is not a thing."

It only takes Jaime's first attempt for Ennis to move his hand away from his collar. He raises it to touch the boy's flushed cheek, which is arguably worse.

"Oh, really? That's too bad." His dimples are prominent in his shitty, shitty grin. "Did you have fun, at least?"

"Stoooop," Jaime half-whines, trying to turn his face away from Ennis as he laughs again. He's not sure why everyone is, in his mind, picking on him tonight, but at least it's more embarrassing than annoying.

"Also, shut up. It is... not a thing." He avoids actually answering the question, and thinks he's rather clever for it.

Ennis lets out a gleeful laugh when Jaime tells him to shut up. Again, he removes his hand from the offending spot but moves it elsewhere. This time, he links arms. Friendly, affectionate.

Fish schooling instinct kicks in as he begins to guide them toward the trickle of people leaving the Grotto. "Are you going to the party in Miami?"

Though Jaime looks a little indignant at the laugh, he does lean into Ennis some as their arms are linked. That's fine, right? And normal? Everything feels bordering on normal now than whatever happened with Ulysses.

He doesn't fight being directed where to go at all, though he does jostle some a little against the other boy, partially from drunkenness and partially as payback for picking on him. "Uhh yeah, I guess, probably? You are, yeah?"

This is nice... for a moment, until Jaime's light jostle sends him teeter-tottering in a clumsy attempt to regain balance. His grip around his arm tightens, determined to drag Jaime down with him if he tries it again.

"I mistook you for a gentleman, Mister Cat," he chides in a practiced voice that's just as soft but several octaves higher than his own. Ennis bumps his shoulder against him in playful retaliation.

"But yeah," he finally responds to the question, dropping the character voice. "It was heaps of fun last year. We'll probably try to crash a college party again. I want you to hold my legs when I do a keg stand again."

Ennis's initial words have Jaime tilting his head curiously - he doesn't quite make the connection at first (he's not a cat?), so he lets it settle in the back of his head as he focuses on not falling over from the bump back he receives.

"Ah, is that what happened? Yeah, sure, I will hold you up for a keg stand," he responds with a laugh, still trying to puzzle out the cat thing. It finally does seem to click. At least, partially. "Oh! Like at the masquerade." Jaime doesn't think about the fact that this means Ennis knew who he was, and probably interacted with him.

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ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY

AFTER THE PARTY

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