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Gooseberry Mods (goosemods) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2017-01-06 08:09:00

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! bonding activity, ! ic/ooc, henrietta gray, ravinder dhaliwal

SENIOR MONTHLY BONDING: January

SENIOR BONDING

January’s senior monthly bonding is being hosted by a very (very, very) reluctant Mr. Chettri. He’s smiling, but there’s something behind his eyes that suggests that this is his nightmare.

He’s reserved the atrium, which has been filled with small tables and chairs. Students are assigned a partner, and are asked to sit at a table together. There are pastries, coffee and tea available if you want them. (Vegan options are offered.) You’re also provided with a piece of paper. The goal of the game is to sit and talk quietly ~~so he doesn’t have to~~, and try to find as many things as possible that you and the other person have in common.

THE RULES

Your characters have an hour and a half.
They must write down every item that the two of them have in common.
These things must be discovered by playing out the scene to qualify for a win.
- Clarification: This means that you must roleplay the discussion and discovery of items in order to have them be counted. Simply listing them without your characters talking out their similarities will not count. This event is meant to reward a pair who plays out a scene with a lot of dialogue.
If you come up with something that breaks the game, Mr. Chettri will be amused but he’ll discount your inflated numbers. (For instance, saying you have 206 bones in common.) This is about getting to know one another, not trying to outsmart your teacher.
- Clarification: Any time a category of very similar things (friends in common, classes in common, hookups in common) exceeds 4, Chettri is going to count them as one single item when we calculate the winners.
You have until 11:59 PM, Sunday Jan 8, after which we’ll count up how many things each pair came up with.
The winners will receive a pair of old little drawstring pouches, which are revealed to be bottomless. They can fit any number of (nonliving) items inside of them, assuming what you put inside can fit through the 5” opening.
Edit: There will be a hidden RNG element during final selection.

The senior pairings are as follows:

Magdalen & Jeremiah	Irene & Anuhea	Cressida & Ivy
Nathaniel & Wesley	Leonardo & Ty	Tabitha & Jesse
Zoey & Isaiah	Levi & Beatrix	Theresa & Dahlia
Rafael & Wilhelmina	Ravinder & Cecil	Asher & Robin
Quinn & Penelope	Henrietta & Christopher	Laurel & Ryan
	Diego & Marilyn*

* As the assignments are handed out, Mr. Chettri realizes the numbers have come up odd. Someone must be out sick. This doesn’t immediately worry him, as he figures he can sit with the spare student and do the activity with them. Mr. Chettri is imagining one of the shy, introverted students, or perhaps one of his Divination prodigies. That would be nice. But when he looks up from his papers to see who’s standing alone, he immediately recognizes Cecil’s extremely chatty best friend with the glasses, Diego Morales. Oh no. This is not happening. In desperation, Mr. Chettri grabs Marilyn, and before they know it they’ve joined Senior Bonding!

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Levi & Trixie

lfmkarapst
2017-01-06 09:30 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, Trixie just gives a little cheer when she finds out who her partner is. Levi and Trixie had been friends for ages and more than likely have more things in common than they really should. Grabbing the list from Levi, Trixie scrawls out a bunch more things in common.

-Stole bikes (with streamers attached) to ride around in Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness in Oregon
-Got matching tie-dye t-shirts stating ‘I made friends with Bigfoot’
-Suffered through multiple readings of horrible fiction written by Brendon Armstrong when younger
-Proceeded to make fun of the stories during slumber parties when they got tired of Ouiji boarding for dead people
-Travel in the same party across Generic Fantasyland
-Totally defeated that bear at least once together
-Best friends with King Elmasry at least in their minds
-Got matching lightning bolt sharpie tattoos on our foreheads when we were nine
-Have healthy regular bowel movements due to our diets
-Milk makes us poop really bad though
-Have both gotten gifts from Christopher Park
-Have had impure thoughts about Christopher Park (ex. unpaid labor, fighting pit fantasies, throwing him in mud, etc.)
-Cheated more than once at chess because they forgot what each piece did
-Cheated at checkers just because they could
-Got caught cheating at checkers

She then handed the page back to Levi. "We got this. Really no one can beat how similar we are. I wonder just how many we can actually come up with. Should we include our one slightly smaller toe nails from that time in Northern California when we decided that drift wood would make great shoes?"

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Levi & Trixie

idfk
2017-01-06 11:59 pm UTC (link)

There's not much getting-to-know-you discussion, there's just trading of the paper back and forth as they take turns filling it up. Occasionally, Levi snorts while reading over Trixie's items and then hastily scrawls down his own comparisons.

"We're basically the same person," he brags, for the sake of the bonding exercise. "None of these plebs can compare to how much we have in common. -- I fucking hate feet, we can include the toenail as a last resort."

-Love stars and space
-Love dank memes
-Cute as ~~fuck~~ HECKIE
-ATHLETIC!!!
-Speak ENGLISH
-AMERICAN!!!!
-Best hair in school
-Have at least one tattoo
-Over 4ft tall
-White people
-Amazing taste in socks
-Would join Robin's Compound Cult
-Had best zombie costumes 4 Halloweens in a row
-Experience in simulated undeath and dying
-No latex allergies
-Own adorable dogs
-Have over 100 magic cards
-Both own very many sets of scented markers
-Think Chettri's a cutie patootie ♥

(Their compiled list is numbered here)

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Re: Levi & Trixie

lfmkarapst
2017-01-07 12:16 am UTC (link)

"We are basically amazing and the best." Trixie wasn't too sure what else to add, there were so many things that made them close to the same. "Oh, we both like honey." Trixie winked a bit at that one. "And fruit." She wanted to add in Jewish things but Trixie wasn't exactly Jewish and figured that wouldn't work out at all. "Basically we have amazing brilliant families and we had a fucking fantastic childhood." Oh! "We also really love to use bad words. And coffee."

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	Levi & Trixie idfk 2017-01-07 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Levi returns Trixie's honey wink with a wink of his own and makes an ugly wonk sound effect. "Add it to the list!" Levi doesn't really like coffee that much but IT'S GOING ON THERE ANYWAY. "Do you like tea? I fucking hate tea." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Levi & Trixie lfmkarapst 2017-01-07 01:15 am UTC (link)
	"Tea isn't horrible but it's leafy water. Leaf water!" Trixie started to dig around in her bag. "How about bright colored pens? I like bright colored pens." They were going to keep doing this until the whole bonding thing went on. "Can we add that we have fucking amazing egos?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Levi & Trixie

idfk
2017-01-08 02:21 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, it's Leaf Water," he stresses as he turns around in his chair to stare directly at Cecil and Ravi.

He turns back around and grabs the sheet to add more to it. He scrawls quickly, as if it's a race. Because it is a race. They have to fit as many things on here before the timer expires. "I like bright colored pens. I have an amazing ego. Oh-- we have creative family members. And we've both cosplayed. And we have siblings. And we like computers. And our names have vowels in them."

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Levi & Trixie

lfmkarapst
2017-01-08 05:53 am UTC (link)

"How about that time Becca brought us both back candy from Japan and we got super sick at the same time! We are both totally allergic to eating too much candy from Japan. Also, would you like to own a cat cafe one day? I would. I know you would. Let's add that." Their list was just getting a bit more out of control as this went on but this was the idea, wasn't it? "We also own shirts with foxes on them. We pretended we could read Egyptian Hieroglyphics that one time when we were like, I don't know, like eight and we thought we could find something fantastic. We both grew up knowing we were magical.

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	Levi & Trixie idfk 2017-01-08 05:57 am UTC (link)
	Levi dances in his seat, waving his arms about. "Add it to the list, add it to the list~!" he sing-songs, then exclaims with the utmost passion, "I feel so bonded to you right now! -- WE WERE STRANGERS, SETTING OUT ON A JOURNEY ♪ -- Oh-- we like music, add 'We like music' to the list. We have hearing. We can speak. We're not paraplegics." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Levi & Trixie

lfmkarapst
2017-01-08 06:38 am UTC (link)

"I haven't broken my nose this year!" Trixie exclaims while scribbling everything down incredibly quickly. "I can sort of play the guitar because a Youngblood taught me. We both have shirts that have buttons! Oh, we have those matching scarves from three Christmases ago when my mom decided she needed to learn how to knit when she was on duty." Trixie looked at the paper. "So what happens if we fill this paper up because we are nearly out of room? Can we get more paper? Can the fact that we write too much be something to bond over too?"

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Levi & Trixie

idfk
2017-01-08 05:38 pm UTC (link)

Levi takes the paper and draws the ugliest, most uneven line to separate the page into two, swerving the line around the longer entries on his way down the page.

"I can sort of play the guitar. Playing ukulele is sort of like playing the guitar, so you can sort of play the ukulele too." He writes that down. "Number eighty: Entry level and above skill at playing the ukulele. Eighty-one: So bonded, we're running out of room-- We can probably get to a hundred if we write smaller. Or we can start writing on napkins."

Remembering there were napkins there for the snacks that were there, he takes a napkin and starts loading it up with pastries before shoving a cookie in his mouth. "Ahkay, sho--" he says around a mouthful of food. Crumbs fly onto the page. "Whe gho tuh Gooshburry. Sheniorsh." He swallows. "I still have my tonsils, do you?"

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Levi & Trixie

lfmkarapst
2017-01-08 05:44 pm UTC (link)

"I do! I don't have my wisdom teeth though. They got pulled last year and the drugs were fantastic. I tried to eat soy ice cream the same day and it went fucking everywhere." Trixie thought for a few minutes watching the lines go everywhere and wondering if there were snacks that she could eat. Possibly but she also had an orange in her pocket. Yes, oranges would be great too. Tearing into it, she nodded. "Okay how do you feel about oranges? Do you want an orange slice?"

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Levi & Trixie

idfk
2017-01-08 10:07 pm UTC (link)

"Have tonsils, qualify for the ability to play tonsil hockey, no wisdom teeth in our skulls-- mine never grew in." He looks up and at the orange, "Both like orange. Both want an orange slice." He holds out his right hand expectantly as he left continues scribbling. "Not fans of citrus juice squirting into our eyes-- We're at 89 now, we just need 11 more. Quick uhh--" His eyes dart about, searching for any bullshit to write down on the page, "Look good in orange, Coppertale spirits, fingernails kept at a reasonable length, have used sewing machines to varying degrees of success, know that bolts of fabric are measured out by yards to be cut-- uhhh-- PINKING SHEARS PREVENT FRAYING?? HOT GLUE IS GOD IN THE MUGGLE COSPLAY WORLD??"

Was this supposed to be a quiet activity? Oh... Oh.

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Levi & Trixie

lfmkarapst
2017-01-08 10:13 pm UTC (link)

"My mom cut my hair when I was little. I have broken more than one bone in my body. I have been on airplanes many times except I can't eat the food on it usually so I have to bring my own. Our parents have vowels in their name. Got pine sap on us a few times and got stuck to everything." Trixie was literally throwing out anything and everything at this point. They had to make it to 100, they just had to. It was now just a mission. "I have stuck my finger in candle flame. We both know how to attach a button to clothing! We know what a VHS player is and we've both seen a lot of movies." Holy shit how many is that, Trixie looks around with crazy eyes. "I wonder how many other people got? Can we add in curious about other people as something? Have we won yet!" This was clearly just a test to see how many things they could list, right?

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Levi & Trixie

idfk
2017-01-08 10:50 pm UTC (link)

Levi begins bouncing up and down in his seat, shouting out overlapping answers as if they're on a game show with 10 seconds left on the clock and not... a bonding activity with at least thirty minutes to spare. "I GOT MY HAIR CUT-- I'VE BROKEN-- I'VE NEVER BEEN ON AN A-- MY PARENTS HAVE VOW--" Instead of bouncing, he realizes he needs to start writing and he stands up, resting a foot in the seat of his chair as he FURIOUSLY SCRIBBLES THIS ALL DOWN. "I haven't seen that many movies but I'VE WATCHED A LOT OF DISNEY MOVIES-- I'M WRITING IT DOWN--"

He counts them quickly, smearing the ink on the first letter of each line as he trails his fingers along the list. "One hundred and four!!" he declares, waving the paper around wildly. He's Charlie and he's just unwrapped the Golden Ticket to enter Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. "-- But we can do more." Thank fuck he was placed in Azurcrest instead of Coppertale or he'd be this competitive all the time. He slams the paper back down and continues writing, "Remember that one time we got our hair braided into cornrows before it was considered Cultural Appropriation? And we've ripped tags off mattresses. And we've gotten samples at the grocery store and pretended to be different kids to get more samples."

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Levi & Trixie

lfmkarapst
2017-01-08 11:36 pm UTC (link)

"One hundred and four bitches!" Trixie yells along with Levi. "We like to be loud have we said that one yet?" Is this list getting way, way, way out of hand? Trixie looks around again at the rest of the room appearing to write quietly and normally when they could be having as much fun as Levi and her. Losers. "Our hair looked fantastic and whatever, we looked good it wasn't like we were trying to be all rude with the cornrows. We were trying to look good." They didn't look good, it looked horrible but whatever they didn't care. "I love Disney movies. I want to be one of the Disney villains. One that wins." Trixie didn't know of any that actually one but someone had to not have died a horrible way.

"We both wore false mustaches, we have those really big sombreros from some stupid tourist place near the border and we have our names on them. I have touched a donkey more than twice." Well, they sure felt bonded now.

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Levi & Trixie

idfk
2017-01-09 12:03 am UTC (link)

Levi nods along, writing it all down. "One-fifteen now. I'm hitting up the universal gross ones that everyone else is too cowardly to discuss so stop me when I get to an untruth-- We get satisfaction in picking our noses. We totally inspect our boogers. We've farted next to someone in a crowd and walked away-- cropdusting. We've taken satisfaction in smelling our own farts. We've found satisfaction in drinking so much water, our pee is clear. We've left our clear pee in the toilet for the next person. We've defecated in the woods. We've peed in the lake. We've picked leeches off our skin after swimming in the lake."

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Levi & Trixie

lfmkarapst
2017-01-09 03:08 am UTC (link)

"Well yeah obviously. Those are just a given." Trixie had no worries about this, she was pretty open about all of this shit. Nodding along she laughed about leeches. "Shit you should see some of the leech marks I've gotten before. Apparently if you eat enough citrus, things really like to eat your blood. One day we are totally going to go back to leeching people to fix medical problems." Did they do it on the compound, well maybe they did. That place was crazy but amazing. "I have lost the remote for the television a shit ton. I like Adult Swim mostly except for like whatever that like 12oz mouse or something. Oh that one really sucks and the weird one that looks like a fucked up computer game."

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