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Finnigan's Mod (finnigansmod) wrote in finnigans_ooc,
@ 2015-03-24 13:53:00

April Fool's & Various
Me again, with several things to say:

1. April Fool's Day is coming up, so I thought we'd have another little event. This time WWW has a new product - Tongue Twisters! In the days running up to April 1st characters will see boxes of these beautiful chocolates lying around at Finnigan's, the Leaky and being sent as gifts to the Ministry, Daily Prophet, St Mungo's, etc with little 'FREE SAMPLE' stickers. On April 1st any character who has eaten one will suffer one of the following conditions:

a. Must refer to themselves in the third person.
b. Unable to use anyone's first name.
c. Must only use words of one syllable.
d. Unable to use the words 'yes' or 'no'.
e. Unable to use words which begin with the same letter as their first name.

These conditions affect speech only, not the written word, and will last until midnight. Unless your character is able to track down and shake hands with someone who is suffering the same condition, in which case both characters will be cured immediately. (Each character can only cure one other character.)

If you want to play, please comment with your character(s) before Tuesday 31st March. Conditions will be allocated randomly unless you have a special request.

2. Schedule - I've decided I'm going to start posting a weekly schedule which will look something like this:

Monday 30th March - Gobstones
Tuesday 31st March - Pub Quiz - General Knowledge + Potions Bonus Round
Tuesday 31st March - Duelling Club - Shielding spells + One-on-one practice
Wednesday 1st April - April Fool's Day
Wednesday 1st April - Choir
Thursday 2nd April - Wizarding Chess Championship - Mrs Wiseacre (NPC) v Tristan Travers
Friday 3rd April - Good Friday - Bank Holiday
Friday 3rd April - Open Mike Night - Instrumental
Saturday 4th April -
Sunday 5th April - Easter Sunday - Bank Holiday
Sunday 5th April - Millicent's Birthday
Sunday 5th April - Battlescars - Nightmares & Sleeping

If you have any ideas for themes for the quiz / duelling club / open mike night / battlescars, or any other special events or activities you want to have added you can e-mail / IM / contact me or comment to any of the other schedules. Ideas will be welcomed and appreciated by yours truly.

3. Activity Check is happening next Wednesday (April 1st) so make sure your characters have three journal posts / logs by then if possible.

Th-th-th-th-th-th-that's all folks!

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dark_blaise
2015-03-24 09:23 pm UTC (link)

Blaise, Hermione, and Marietta will all be effected.

Also, are we up for the thing on Saturday that Mari is planning?

I'd love for her to advertise by Wednesday. Teams of 2 with an entry fee that would cover the cost of 3 drinks per person. One team member is the Drink Maker and the other the Task Master. It would look like this...

Step 1: Drink Maker mixes a preselected random drink recipe and both drink
Step 2: Task Master must then using a toothpick only and their mouth move five lifesaver candies from the table top into a cup.
Step 3: Drink Maker mixes a second preselected random drink recipe and both drink
Step 4: Task Master has to climb through an obstacle course of chairs and tables by going over chairs and under tables. If a chair is knocked over they have to reset and restart.
Step 5: Drink Maker mixes a third preselected random drink recipe and both drink.
Step 6: Task Master has to put on an ensemble of muggle clothing from underwear all the way up over their clothes and then sucessfully undress.

First team to complete all 6 are the winners. Thoughts? I'd do a sub thread for each duo of tasks.

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	artistdean 2015-03-24 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	I think the sweets you're thinking of for Step 2 aren't available in the UK, but Polos have the same shape and would work just as well. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	weasley_now 2015-03-25 01:23 am UTC (link)
	And that is why I need people who are UK knowledable. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	finnigansmod 2015-03-24 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	Absolutely still up for Saturday fun. Is Mari going to judge? Is there anything she needs Seamus or Dominic to do? Also, you can take your pick of garden / roost. Caroline is right in that we don't have lifesavers here, but polo mints are the same shape. Other than that, it all looks great! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	marrededge 2015-03-26 03:31 am UTC (link)
	She'll need Seamus to set the entry fee so he doesn't lose money on the venture. Also, Dominic could design the obstacle course. Let's go for the Roost around 7 pm. Yay for people who know the ins and outs of making my American ideas British. (Reply to this) (Parent)

artistdean
2015-03-24 10:44 pm UTC (link)

Do we get to choose which effect we have? If so Dean will be joining in. Gwenog will join in regardless. Charlie is too smart to eat random food sadly, but will kill himself laughing at everyone else.

Question: can we maybe have a go at having a thread for the Easter Battlescars? I don't think Dean's idea is going to work its way out in the Bryony thread and a whole nightmares related meeting might be the jump he needs.

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finnigansmod
2015-03-24 10:58 pm UTC (link)

I was going to draw the effects randomly, but I could allow for special requests.

And yes, absolutely. I've been meaning to do one, I'm just not quite sure how to structure it. My immediate thought is to just let everyone's characters jump in and out at random, rather than trying to follow a strict A-B-C-A order as we would in other threads. I am open to suggestions, though.

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	artistdean 2015-03-24 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	My special request is basically to lumber Dean with b and resorting to calling Seamus 'Gorgeous' for reasons. cough Also because of the vague residual thing from when they were messing with Susan. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	reinventingmils 2015-03-25 02:42 am UTC (link)
	Mils will be affected, and will be so very unhappy, oh yes. (Reply to this)

	loonacy 2015-03-25 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	Luna can be affected. No special request. This sounds like fun. (Reply to this)

	pawnography 2015-03-25 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	Ron knows what the chocolate does, so he won't be partaking. But I will sign up Lavender and Bryn. (Reply to this)

_rose_
2015-03-26 08:52 pm UTC (link)

I'm going to sign up all four of mine: Alicia (who will accept one, and in a distracted moment go against her experience of never sampling anything from WWW), Finbar (because, eh, it's chocolate and one couldn't hurt, right?), Melinda (because it's only polite to sample things like that, if for no other reason than to estimate any potential competition), and Rose (because it's chocolate and it's in Finnigan's. What could possibly go wrong?)

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	adaurorble 2015-03-31 10:25 am UTC (link)
	Oh man can I sign all my kids up for April fools? (Reply to this)