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Gooseberry Mods ([personal profile] goosemods) wrote in [community profile] gooseberryhigh2018-03-17 09:32 am

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
  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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
graysanatomyforkids: (☠️ he's probably talking about vonnegut)

Danny + Riley

[personal profile] graysanatomyforkids 2018-03-17 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sure as shit am." Danny takes his sunglasses off his face and hands them to Riley.

And then, before leaning over to try and kiss her, pulls out a second pair of identical sunglasses from the pocket of his Hawaiian shirt and puts them on. Because he's a douche.
riledup: ((t) pfffftttttt)

Danny + Riley

[personal profile] riledup 2018-03-17 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Riley puts the sunglasses on. They're way too big and she digs it. "I can't see you now, smack 'em if you want 'em."

Despite the fact that she invited this, she's absolutely going to bite him.
graysanatomyforkids: (☠️ doofus)

Danny + Riley

[personal profile] graysanatomyforkids 2018-03-18 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Danny is absolutely here for a smooch (and also, he does not yet realize, a bite) and he eagerly - an drunkenly - leans in to steal one.
riledup: ((l)  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Danny + Riley

[personal profile] riledup 2018-03-18 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Boys are so simple. Thinks Riley, the simplest person in this kissing game circle, obeying the whims of an empty bottle.

She does actually kiss him. She just also grabs his stupid dumb shirt and holds him there as she nips his bottom lip. Or, well, she meant to just playfully nip his lip. Riley's a little too drunk and ends up biting, like, way too hard. Uh. You're not bleeding, you're fine!!!