ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY

[goosemods]

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.

<b>Name:</b> <b>High or low tolerance:</b> Low tolerance will at +5 to each of your rolls. <b>How many rolls:</b> 1, 2, or 3. Each is a roll of 1-50.

» 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

Comments

Ruby + Hero

[cupquake]

From elsewhere in the circle sounds an insulted little gasp, quickly drowned with vodka.

Ruby + Madison

[patineuse]

Ruby is only a little drunk, and would need to be drunker to miss a sound or offended nose-wrinkle coming Madison. She shoots the other girl a little raised-eyebrow "can you believe this?" look, then scoots closer so she's sitting beside Madison.

"Some people don't have taste," Ruby says lightly.

Ruby + Madison

[cupquake]

"Obviously doesn't know what he's missing," Madison quips breezily. She takes another little pull from her cup, smiling at Ruby over the rim with her eyes. "And now never will."

Ruby + Madison

[patineuse]

"He'll regret it once he matures. If he does." Honestly, Ruby's not hurt over it. She's already forgotten the sophomore boy, especially now that she has Madison's attention. She reaches up to playfully flick one of the shamrock bobbles on Madison's head. "Cute. Made anyone feel lucky yet?"

Ruby + Madison

[cupquake]

Madison colors slightly, then shrugs in a way that might be classified as coy. "Nobody memorable."

Thank alcohol for hiding the worst of her shyness, maybe, except for the silly little smile on her face. It's cute, hopefully, but it totally betrays the way this attention makes her feel, and that makes her feel even shyer. Time to hide it in the cup again.

Ruby + Madison

[patineuse]

Nobody memorable. It's terrible how much Ruby loves that answer, but she's been watching Madison tonight, kissing various pretty senior girls in the circle. Ruby has no right to be jealous, not when she's been kissing people too, not when she has zero intentions of ever asking Madison out.

She should've just left it there and enjoyed the smile Madison gave her, but Ruby's tipsy and happy and always too reckless, so she says, "Let's see if we can fix that." She reaches out to grab the now-free bottle, and calls out, "I'm spinning Seven Minutes in Heaven for Madison Ives! You better show my girl a good time!"

There's a wand shoved up Ruby's jacket sleeve, and the quietest spell whispered under her breath before she spins the bottle. Around and around and around it goes... before landing squarely on Ruby.

Ruby + Madison

[cupquake]

"Oh my god, Ruby!" Madison is laughing and moves to stop her altogether, but then the bottle's spinning and at least a few people are watching with interest, so she lets the game unfold. There's no reason this should be any different than like, the million other times she's willingly played.

At least until the bottle starts to slow.

She follows the movement with an increasingly serious squint, until at last it comes to a stop -- absurdly, predictably -- in front of Ruby. Madison blinks, makes a tiny sound halfway between a giggle and a nervous tic, and throws the rest of her drink down her throat.

"Wow." She grabs at the fabric of Ruby's jacket with her free hand, but doesn't quite have the bravery to stand up first.

Ruby + Madison

[patineuse]

Ruby isn't an actress; she can't feign surprise, but there is something genuinely apprehensive in her expression as she glances back at Madison. This is a terrible idea, and Ruby's had a ton of truly foolhardy, selfish ideas in her life. Months of carefully established boundaries, thrown into the fire because she's had a couple of shots. God, they just made up again.

But that passes, as everything does for Ruby, especially as she watches Madison throw her drink back. What happens in the Grotto stays in the Grotto, etc. Ruby tosses her head back, shaking her long hair out of her face, and throws a Madison a devil-may-care grin. "What do you say, Cap? A closet makeout between friends?"

She drops her wand hand to her side, and holds the other one out to Madison, ready to pull her to her feet.

Ruby + Madison

[cupquake]

Madison takes Ruby's hand, of course. There's no other option that won't make her look weird and tasteless, like the Sophomore they were just joking about in front of everyone, and frankly ... She wants to. No kiss at the grotto has ever ruined her life thus far. It's just a game. And ... She wants to.

The grin is easy to mirror, and once she's smiling, Madison even feels kind of braver than before. "Fuck it," she confirms in a low voice. "Lead the way."

Ruby + Madison

[patineuse]

Ruby is a complete and utter idiot, but it's hard to feel to bad about it when Madison smiles at her like that. With a laugh and a squeeze of the hand, Ruby drags them both over to the empty closet.

Once ensconced in the darkness, Ruby surreptitiously slides her wand back into her pocket, leaving both arms free and flexible. "It's weird we've never done this, huh?" Her voice sounds astoundingly nonchalant to her own ears.

Ruby + Madison

[cupquake]

With the door closed, this feels more and less scary. It's weird. Also, now that it's harder to see and she has to tilt her head upward to look at Ruby, she feels those drinks.

Madison takes a fluttery little breath, laughing under it. She wobbles, but hides it in a step closer, whispering: "Um, yeah? Like... what are the chances...?"

It's supposed to be lighthearted, and it sounds it, but her voice is very small in this space -- when she speaks she can feel how small the space is between them, like echolocation. It makes her nervous, but maybe in a good way. Emboldened by her own anxiety, Madison reaches out and slides the sharp point of her finger along the inside of Ruby's arm.

"So."

Ruby + Madison

[patineuse]

Ruby inhales when she feels Madison touch her. A soft sound, barely noise at all; except that everything's muted here in the darkness. The voices of the party are distant, the music nothing but the thump of bass against the door. Ruby's half-blinded senses key in on Madison's scent, shampoo and clean makeup and something familiar.

She's been in here dozens of times. It's never made her feel anything. Not once.

"So," Ruby echoes. Her voice comes out too quiet. To compensate, she reaches out, and slides an arm around Madison's waist. This isn't weird. Ruby's done it before, like linking arms in the hallway and casual hugs during practice. "Are you going to kiss me, Captain Ives?"

Ruby + Madison

[cupquake]

"Yes."

Madison closes her fingers suddenly, tightly around Ruby's wrist, then pulls her down until their lips meet somewhere slightly too rough, reminiscent of the last time this happened. She pushes herself forward and against Ruby in a physical, wordless question, then softens the press of her mouth to comprehend the answer. "Yes?"

Ruby + Madison

[patineuse]

Ruby sighs, her breath lost against Madison's lips. Instead of answering, she tightens her arm to pull her in, but Madison's already there, pressed warm and soft against her. Ruby's hand goes to her long hair, tugging slightly, wanting more than just a Yes. She doesn't want to talk. She's tired of talking. She only wants Madison to kiss her, and then kiss her again.