InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "my Flame burns bright!"

Gooseberry Mods (goosemods) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2016-11-11 09:12:00

Entry tags:

! ic/ooc, henrietta gray, philippa nightingale

NOVEMBER GROTTO PARTY

There's still a light snowfall as the sun sets, but adrenaline must be keeping some of the students warm as one by one they sneak out into the woods to the Grotto.

The Grotto is always warmer than you expect it to be, although the chill and snowflakes encourage everyone to cuddle close to their friends and dates. The bonfire is large and ambitious, and it reflects off the white snow, making for a warm and seasonal party. Alcohol is widely available to anyone who wants it, and some thoughtful students also made sure there was plenty of water and soda. By the fire is a conjured table hosting Quidditch Beer Pong.

Inside the stone building, things get downright cozy. There's one odd discovery, though: Laurel Templeton's flag! It appears to be stuck hard with magic, so taking it back will be a problem. Regardless of this, many students sit down on blankets and pillows to keep themselves off the cold dirt floor. A circle gathers around a single glass bottle, and kissing games take place on and off throughout the night.

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

Cameron Carney STB #1: Regan STB #2: Ursula 7MIH: Tabitha	Wesley Carpenter STB #1: Tabitha STB #2: Etta 7MIH: Laurel	William Chase STB #1: Veronica STB #2: Regan 7MIH: Chloe	Sun-mi Choi STB #1: Zoey STB #2: Veronica 7MIH: Mina
Quinn Cunningham STB #1: Etta STB #2: Rafael 7MIH: Ty	Sofia Delgado STB #1: Olivia STB #2: Essie 7MIH: Etta	Calvin Evercreech STB #1: Solomon STB #2: Chloe	Leonardo Fiori STB #1: Cricket STB #2: Sy
Henrietta Gray STB #1: Quinn STB #2: Wes 7MIH: Sofia	Ty Hawkeswood STB #1: Casey STB #2: Laurel 7MIH: Quinn	Ryan Hertz STB #1: Chloe STB #2: Tabitha 7MIH: Cricket	Regan Hobbs STB #1: Cameron STB #2: Will STB #3: Susana 7MIH: Reid
Ursula de Luca STB #1: Micah STB #2: Cameron	Joanna May STB #1: Jacob STB #2: Solomon	Diego Morales STB #1: Riley STB #2: Cricket 7MIH: Casey	Estella Morales-Tran STB #1: Cole STB #2: Sofia
Cole Moss STB #1: Essie STB #2: Micah	Frances Noble STB #1: Reid STB #2: Olivia	Tabitha Ogletree STB #1: Wes STB #2: Ryan 7MIH: Cameron	Christopher Park STB #1: Rafael STB #2: Dom 7MIH: Zoey
Casey Patterson STB #1: Ty STB #2: Faye 7MIH: Diego	Veronica Powers STB #1: Will STB #2: Sun-mi 7MIH: Dom	Cressida Quayle STB #1: Leo STB #2: Diego 7MIH: Ryan	Rafael Ramirez STB #1: Chris STB #2: Quinn
Olivia Sanchez STB #1: Sofia STB #2: Frankie 7MIH: Riley	Chloe Shepherd STB #1: Ryan STB #2: Calvin 7MIH: Will	Micah St. Clair STB #1: Ursula STB #2: Cole 7MIH: Susana	Riley Stamper STB #1: Diego STB #2: Mina 7MIH: Olivia
Rosemary Stoker STB #1: Faye STB #2: Reid	Sylvester Stoker STB #1: Laurel STB #2: Leo 7MIH: Faye	Laurel Templeton STB #1: Sy STB #2: Ty 7MIH: Wes	Wilhelmina Tran STB #1: Dom STB #2: Riley 7MIH: Sun-mi
Dominic Tremblay STB #1: Mina STB #2: Susana STB #3: Chris 7MIH: Veronica	Faye Turner STB #1: Rosy STB #2: Casey 7MIH: Sy	Zoey Valentine STB #1: Sun-mi STB #2: Jacob 7MIH: Chris	Susana Velasquez STB #1: Dom STB #2: Regan 7MIH: Micah
Reid Wainwright STB #1: Frankie STB #2: Rosy 7MIH: Regan	Solomon Webb STB #1: Calvin STB #2: Joanna 7MIH: Jacob	Jacob Wood STB #1: Joanna STB #2: Zoey 7MIH: Solomon

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, feel free! Obviously, get the permission of all involved characters first.

» Before the Party: Classes drag on and on, and then after dinner students have a scant two hours of prep. Primping, pre-gaming, or just impatiently waiting for 7:00.

» Around the Fire: The large bonfire is warm and romantic. Pull up a log and grab a blanket, or dance to the party music. You can contest for control of the music, but don't make it weird, guys. (That means you two, Diego and Katya. We know what you listen to.) 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, guys, seriously.

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

» Kissing Games: This is where to post your character's reaction to their Spin the Bottle and Seven Minutes in Heaven Assignments!

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 door. (The "door" being a heavy wooden board that's propped against the doorway and magically "locked" for seven minutes.) You can use your wand to get more light, but really, you two should be making out.

» Quidditch Beer Pong: Not far from the bonfire, Sy Stoker has set up a table with three yellow hoops sitting on a rectangular box, which will randomly release a miniature Golden Snitch. (Sort of like this, but slightly less janky-looking.) Nearby is a supply of red ping pong balls, Solo cups, and a waterproof signup sheet. Rules have been posted in Sy's journal. Winners will be determined through RNG (Marin will roll 1–50 for each player, best team total wins).

» The Woods: Don't wander too far. Is it just me, or do you keep getting the sensation of being watched from beyond the trees?

» After the Party: The further you get from the Grotto, the colder it gets. Brr! Did you make it back to your cabin? Did someone else put you up for the night?

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

	Re: He played more beer pong than expected, is more drunk than I wrote. cmdrchloe 2016-11-11 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	Chloe snuggles into his side, burying her face into the crook of his neck, cold nose pressed to his throat. "Noooope. That sounds... sportsy. Was it fun?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

while you were sleeping~ i got home and could write more so i did.

lovekurts
2016-11-12 02:15 am UTC (link)

"I dunno about sportsy," he admits, and smiles. Chloe's accent isn't as strong as it used to be, and he likes hearing Georgian Chloe come back once in a while; she was childhood Choe, and summer break Chloe. He pulls his arm out from against her and wraps it around her shoulders, telling himself that she looks chilly. Her face in his neck tells a different story, although he's almost entirely oblivious to it right now. "Fun though, yeah. Urs and I are real good." Perhaps a little too good; if he's this openly affectionate, then he might actually be drunk. He looks over toward the Grotto itself and rests his chin on top of her head. "Where've you been?"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

cmdrchloe
2016-11-12 01:42 pm UTC (link)

"There's a snitch and aiming. And goal... circles," she says, forgetting the proper word for it.

He wraps his arm around her shoulders and she snuggles in closer, humming contentedly against his throat. He smells pleasantly of wood smoke, citrus, beer, and hay.

"That's gooooood! I'd be sooooo bad. I kin only aim with a controller or a mouse or somethin'," she replies.

A shiver runs through her, because aside from her coat, she isn't dressed for the weather. She tosses her legs, clad in thin cotton tights with a triforce design, across his lap. Any closer and she'll be in his lap, but she doesn't seem to notice.

"Inside. Playin' games," she answers, not specifying what games , but gesturing vaguely toward the building.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

lovekurts
2016-11-12 02:48 pm UTC (link)

"Hoops." he clarifies, making a circle in front of her face with two of his fingers. He is, after all, now an expert on all things Quidditch — as long as the Quidditch is beer pong, and as long as the beer pong is only the rules he actually understands (which is roughly half of them).

Kurt rubs her arm to help her warm up, and warps his free arm around her waist. "Don't fall over, okay?" He's no stranger to friendly cuddling with Chloe, and this evening is no different. You know, aside from both of them being drunk together for the first time. But he's choosing to ignore that fact for now. Because it's irrelevant.

When his gaze follows her gesture toward the building, he realizes what kinds of games she means; his hand freezes on her arm but he soon resumes Operation Don't Freeze. "Oh, that's cool." He pulls her in a little closer and continues, although his intoxicated train of thought forgets to make a couple of scheduled connections. "We can get a blanket if you want. Was it fun?"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

cmdrchloe
2016-11-12 11:02 pm UTC (link)

"Hoops. Hoops. Yeah, hoops! Yeah!" she agrees, increasingly enthusiastic the more she thinks about it.

"'Kay," she agrees, wrapping her arms around his midsection, holding onto him to keep from falling over, even though everything feels wobbly like a slow motion tilt-a-whirl.

"Blanket?" she repeats, then, "Nooo, don't wanna get up... Wait. Magic!" Then she bursts into a fit of giggles over having forgotten that magic was an option, though to be fair, she didn't even bring her wand with her to the party.

"Mmmm," she says noncommittally, because she's not sure. She only decided to throw herself into multiple rounds to spite Riley, who'd stopped paying any attention to her once the games started. Only, playing hadn't changed that, and she'd kept playing. And it was fun, at least some of the time. It made her feel... special? Liked? She wasn't sure, exactly. But there was something missing too. "You coulda played."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

lovekurts
2016-11-12 11:25 pm UTC (link)

Kurt snickers into her hair, thinking about how it's still kind of bewildering to have friends that haven't spent their entire lives around magic.

When Spin the Bottle comes up, though, he shakes his head and responds with a simple "Nah." He shrugs. "I did last time, but I didn't really like..." The hand on her arm slows down as he thinks, ending with only a couple of fingers brushing back and forth thoughtfully. He hasn't actually thought about it much. He's been saying since the last party that he didn't like getting sick, but he knows that isn't the whole reason; the experience had been grossly uncomfortable for him even before catching the patented Kramer Plague. "I guess I didn't like kissing random people." He shrugs again.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

cmdrchloe
2016-11-13 12:33 am UTC (link)

Chloe can feel the steady back and forth of his fingertips brushing her arm even through her coat, over and over until the skin there tingles. She can feel his pulse against her cheek and his breath on the top of her head. Only the cold biting her cheeks and hands and legs and the noise of the party keeps her from falling asleep.

"Random. Yeah," she says, nodding like her response made any sense. Kissing people she'd barely ever spoken to had made her uncomfortable, though not nearly as much drunk as it would have sober. And yet. "But it's good to feel... pretty?" But no, that wasn't it, because of course, while no one had looked disgusted, they hadn't said she was pretty either. "Orrrr," she says, trying to find the word. "Liked?" Still not quite right, and she sighs, furrowing her brows. Wanted was closer to the sentiment she was trying to describe, but her drunk brain couldn't quite get there.

"S'pose you'd rather just be kissing Pippa, huh?" she says with a short giggle that ends with a snort.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

lovekurts
2016-11-13 12:43 am UTC (link)

There's a very real chance that Chloe can feel the heat from Kurt's sudden blushing when she uses "kissing" and "Pippa" in the same sentence. He shuffles a little and makes the Very Wise Decision to redirect the conversation.

Tightening his arms in a hug, he shakes his head and insists, "You're both." Which is true, he's sure. "Like, aren't you... with... R-riley?"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

cmdrchloe
2016-11-13 01:08 am UTC (link)

Chloe grumbles and readjusts herself, tightening her arms around him so she doesn't tumble off.

"Uh-uh," she says, shaking her head the tiny amount she's able without feeling like she's riding a roller coaster. She doesn't immediately clarify which thing she's disagreeing with. "Not either," she vocalizes, but she can tell she's not making sense, and sighs heavily at her brain's inability to put it together. "Riley's... kissing everyone." And thoroughly ignoring her. And why wouldn't she?

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

lovekurts
2016-11-13 01:18 am UTC (link)

Kurt frowns at both parts, and shakes his head emphatically — although it's him shaking his head into Chloe's hair, so he's not sure if she actually knows that's what he's doing. "No, Chlo, you definitely are." If there's something Kurt won't stand for (aside from ketchup on french fries and somebody mistreating Lacey), it's a friend expressing their self-worth, or rather, the lack thereof. He shakes his head again. "That's kind of her thing, though." He explains, almost as though it's obvious. But something dawns on him, and the hand on her arm moves up to stroke her hair — not so much as a romantic gesture as one meant to sooth her. "I thought you knew."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

cmdrchloe
2016-11-13 01:30 am UTC (link)

"Who?" she says. Who likes her? Who thinks she's pretty? No one. But then she shakes her head, too hard because it makes her dizzy. She doesn't want to have the yes/no back and forth argument this leads to, can't put in to words what she's trying to say and is finding it increasingly frustrated.

"I'm dumb," is her response. Dumb about Riley, about thinking she was any more special than any of the other people Riley kissed, dumb about trying to play kissing games, dumb about drinking, dumb about everything.

"I'm just gonna," she says, and tries to disentangle their limbs, but at this point that's complicated, and she ends up falling to the ground on her butt. She manages to get herself standing again, though. "I'm gonna go over," she says, gesturing in a vague direction that clearly has no destination attached to it.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Chlort

lovekurts
2016-11-13 01:38 am UTC (link)

"Chlo–" Kurt begins before the very complex extrication of limbs from other limbs, unable to finish in the confusion. He tries to help her when she falls down, but he's still too clumsy and too slow, and in the end gets the very strong impression that Chloe would really rather he not be anywhere near her. Which makes no sense, and is actually kind of dumb. He insists that "Chlo, you're not dumb," but it doesn't work. His eyes follow her unhelpful point, and he furrows his brow. "Over... into the woods?"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Chlort

cmdrchloe
2016-11-13 02:17 pm UTC (link)

This is what she does; she gets scared, she runs, she hides. Of course, Kurt is usually who she runs to. But now she's dizzy and nauseous, and Riley is ignoring her, and apparently everyone expected it but her. Stupid And he can't convince her that she's pretty, liked, wanted, because of course he likes her, but not like that because he's Kurt. Stupid.

"No... yes? I don't know," she says, not meeting his gaze and wrapping her coat tighter around herself. Stupid. "I'm just gonna go fire a walk, get some air."

(Reply to this) (Parent)

(Read comments) -