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Gooseberry Mods (goosemods) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2016-12-10 17:25:00

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! ic/ooc, coralee wong, henrietta gray, irene lovelace, philippa nightingale

TREE DECORATING PARTY

Bright and early in the morning, Outdoor Exploration and Equestrian Club have breakfast and pack up camp, so they can make it back in time for the annual Tree Decorating Party. Fir and pine trees are hitched to sleighs or the strongest horses, and the campers make good time through the forest, arriving back at school in the early afternoon.

At 6 PM, the whole school gathers in the huge, maze-like Gardens for the party. The winding paths have been swept free of snow, and the leafless trees and hedges have been dressed with magical lights. Dinner is set up on long tables in the courtyard at the center of the Gardens, and charmed lamps bathe the area with warmth, so students can enjoy an outdoor winter buffet featuring all kinds of holiday favourites. Vegan and kosher options are provided. Choir Club mounts the risers to sing carols for their classmates, and there's enthusiastic applause when Antonia Papadakis performs a stunning solo of Silent Night.

At 7 PM, tree decorating officially begins. The courtyard is the only safe area. At the north, east, south and west ends of the Gardens, four trees have been raised for the four houses. Scattered throughout the Gardens' maze-like paths are waterproof boxes containing various tree ornaments, and everyone is given the go-ahead to rush out and claim boxes for their house. Houses are allowed one hour to create the Best Christmas Tree in Gooseberry.

At 8 PM, the teachers will vote on a winning tree, and that house will be rewarded with bragging rights and a wizard cracker for every member of the house.

TREE DECORATING RULES

Anything goes for tree decorations, so long as no one gets hurt. Over the years, the "anything goes" rule has translated into students staging raids to steal ornaments from rival houses, but you are no longer allowed to destroy anything, after the calamitous Tree Decorating Party of 2008. (Mr. Elmasry could tell you stories, but he's afraid of giving you ideas.)

Prefects will be trusted to maintain order and judge what is or isn't an acceptable tree ornament. Staff is present in the courtyard, although ever since the disastrous Tree Decorating Party of 2010 when Ms. Rhee and Mr. Merrill got way too competitive, teachers are strictly forbidden from contributing or telling students what to do.

Anything that makes sense as a Christmas tree decoration can plausibly be found in the supply boxes, e.g. magical lights, tinsel of every colour, ornaments shaped like corgi dogs. With caveats: there won't be any electricity, and the boxes were filled by the teachers, so you're not going to find NSFW things either. However...

Students are permitted to bring or craft their own tree decorations. Please use your best judgment on what is actually practical for your character to bring to school with them.

Magical ladders are provided to help people reach the topmost branches of the trees. What does magical mean? It means ladders which are magically less likely to let you fall and break your neck. Please, children, don't die.

People who currently have detention will served it in the hours before dinner, so everyone can be present for Tree Decorating! The event isn't mandatory, but if you want an excuse for your character to take part, you can say their Head of House urged them to join.

How is the winner calculated? When a participating character posts to their house's tree, a mod will RNG a score between 1–50 for each character. A house’s score is the total score of all their participating members, and the highest house score wins. You have until Monday, December 12 at 11:59 PM MT to post to your house's tree and have your character be counted.

» Dinner: Everyone gathers in the garden courtyard for a delicious feast and a performance by Choir.

» South Tree: Ebonhide

» West Tree: Ribbonfin

» North Tree: Azurcrest

» East Tree: Coppertale

» Gardens: The winding paths of the Gardens create a maze, and boxes of Christmas ornaments have been hidden all over.

» Courtyard: In the center of the Gardens is the courtyard. During Tree Decorating, this is the only safe zone, i.e. no one can throw snowballs at you or steal your ornaments.

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

POINT TOTALS
EBONHIDE	RIBBONFIN	AZURCREST	COPPERTALE
516	547	468	521

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	SOUTH TREE: EBONHIDE goosemods 2016-12-10 07:27 pm UTC (link)
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Mina

resentfully
2016-12-10 07:38 pm UTC (link)

OH MY GOD, as if Mina is going to allow Ebonhide to be upstaged in a decorating competition. As if ANY of the senior Ebonhide ladies are going to be upstaged when it comes to decorating. Mina brings to the table years of bossing people around in Event Committee for holiday events.

Unfortunately, this also means Mina is going to be try to boss Ebonhides around when they decorate their tree instead of, you know, focusing on just putting shit on the tree. BUT COME ON. DO NONE OF YOU HAVE A SENSE OF VISUAL BALANCE OR COLOUR COORDINATION.

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	casperkim 2016-12-10 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	Casper doesn't like to be pushed around and any order that Mina attempts to give him will be met with a dismissive bitch, please look. If she pushes, he'll push back. She's probably better off just leaving him alone. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	SCORE goosemods 2016-12-10 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	Mina rolls a 42! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Nate flyover 2016-12-10 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	Brings to the table years of being bossed around by women who like things to look pretty. He'll take your direction super well, just point him in a direction and tell him to go. Don't leave him on his own though because NO MINA HE DOES NOT HAVE A SENSE OF VISUAL BALANCE OR COLOR COORDINATION. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	SCORE goosemods 2016-12-10 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	Nate rolls a 21! (Reply to this) (Parent)

Casper

casperkim
2016-12-10 08:04 pm UTC (link)

Casper Kim, shockingly, isn't big on decorating Christmas trees. He'll hang around, but devotes most of his energy to finding (and fighting for) ornaments and scoping out the area around the Ebonhide tree with his eyes open for saboteurs. He doesn't really care about winning this competition, but the idea of Coppertales or Azurcrests slipping in here just to be assholes and mess things up...irritates him. He'll try to take them down.

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goosemods, 2016-12-10 08:07 pm UTC

	Solomon keepmarchingon 2016-12-10 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	Solomon is so happy to help out you guys. He is ecstatic and so into decorating and chatting with people. And prolly spends way too much time talking at Casper. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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goosemods, 2016-12-10 08:10 pm UTC

	CLEM neattrick 2016-12-10 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	Clementine sticks around for the first 10 minutes to try to help decorate the tree but quickly finds that there is an OVERABUNDANCE of strong personalities already jockeying to be on point in the process. After severely over-decorating a square foot of the Ebonhide tree, she wanders off to try to mess with the other houses' trees. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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goosemods, 2016-12-10 08:12 pm UTC

	Ari deimons 2016-12-10 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	Ariadne does mostly whatever Mina tells her to do. She's a good worker bee. She somehow ends up with gold glitter all over her hands even though she doesn't remember touching anything glittery. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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goosemods, 2016-12-10 08:44 pm UTC

Vee

misssperfect
2016-12-10 08:14 pm UTC (link)

Vee is ALL ABOUT decorating. She does have a good eye, she can govern herself and get things done, giving out direction if people need help but also good at taking it too (if Mina asks for something)

She will be propositioning people to lift her, or let her sit on their shoulders, where needed. So feel free to take the fall on that one ;) (Stacking her squad is not out of the realm of possibility though)

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goosemods, 2016-12-10 08:44 pm UTC

Leo

challenge
2016-12-10 08:21 pm UTC (link)

Secret; of all the many competitions in the year, this is possibly the one Leo is most content sitting back and letting others lead them to victory. He will still trash talk everyone because that's how he was born, but he is not a creator of pretty things. And he's pretty sure no other tree site would let him within reach of any of their decorations because they know him. So INSTEAD, he probably spends the time helping Casper guard the decorations and helping decorate when the actual artistic minds here ask. He will also coach freshmen and less suspicious looking sophomores into finding the weak spots in the other trees' security.

He will also flirt with Rafael and catch him stealing tinsel. That's important.