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Diego Morales is a leaky indie folk faucet. 💧 (morale) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2017-01-19 07:31:00

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UNSANCTIONED CAMPING

This is almost certainly a bad idea, but when faced with the arrival of family members the next day, who doesn't need to relieve a little stress? After curfew, some students slip out to the wooded area between Azurcrest and the sorting cave. There's a scattering of tents, and in the middle a campfire blazes.

The mood isn't as wild as a Grotto party, and most of the entertainment is found in sitting, talking, and drinking. Alcohol is available in reasonable amounts, enough for everyone to have a drink or two (or three if you really need it).

» Around the fire: The forest doesn't have the same warming effect as the Grotto, but it feels very... normal? Just woods and trees and the hoot of an owl. Are you relieved, or do you feel lonely?

» BERTIE BOTT'S EVERY FLAVOUR BEANS: Someone got their hands on a family sized bag of these imported sweets. At first, it's just taken to be candy, but as the truth about these jelly beans is fully understood, it becomes a spectacle.

There's a group of students sitting in a circle, passing the bag around. The idea is that you take one, and then everyone waits in anticipation for your reaction. (Let's be real, they're all hoping you get earwax or cigarette ash.) You must then guess what it is before passing the bag to the left.

In game terms, this means reply to the root comment, and we will use RNG to pick out a flavor for you. You can then write your character's reaction and attempt to identify what they just put in their mouth.

Official results for your random flavor could come from Diego (morale), Sy (stokers), or the mod journal (goosemods).

» The Tents: The magically warmed tents make another appearance. They're filled with pillows and blankets and should be pleasant to sleep in.

» The Morning: In the early hours of the morning, students (hopefully) begin to sneak back to their campgrounds, and (maybe) avoid the eyes of vigilant prefects.

» Did you get in trouble?: If you did, reply here. The punishment will be two nights of detention starting Monday, and a loss of 10 house points per student. Visiting parents will also find out about the indiscretion.

» OOC: Questions, comments & concerns.

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Stokers

rosmarinus
2017-01-19 10:16 pm UTC (link)

"Guess we'll never fucking know if you just quit at the last goddamn minute." Rosy's not just mad. She's terrified. She's scared of being alone. Of Sy going back to LA without her, then running off like he always did and doing something dumb and getting killed, or arrested, or their parents shipping him off to another school and not letting her see him again.

And she feels like an idiot. Because she thought Sy was just as scared of being alone as she was. She thought he would rather go down fighting so they could stay together than give up before he gets beaten. But if he was willing to give up so easily, he couldn't be that scared. Maybe he even wanted to get away from his uptight, nagging twin, who was always hovering, always reminding him of what he wasn't.

Rosy takes a deep breath and lowers her voice. She's trying to sound less angry and unstable. Instead, it sounds like ice. "Did you ever even try, or were you just lying about that to get me off your back?"

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stokers
2017-01-20 12:07 pm UTC (link)

Sy's eyes narrow at the accusation. He hates when Rosy's voice does that, because he's never had her self-control. Because it sounds just like their mother and father, how they can lower their voice and still smile through gritted teeth, squeezing his arm where no one can see and telling him to cut it out. Behave yourself. Stop trying to shame us.

(Afterwards, he and Rosy would silently look at each other. And he'd wonder if she was tallying the score, recalculating her odds at becoming Favourite Twin this month; or if she was angry at him for always messing up when she was always good; or if she was jealous of him for still having the will to not listen.

But mostly, he'd see, from the look in her eyes, that she knew how much he hated all of this, because she hated it too.)

"Of course I fuckin' tried!" Sy isn't as good at being quiet, but he tries, his words coming out in a furious whisper as he takes a step towards her. "But who the fuck could live up to your standards? Who the fuck could live like you? You've been driving everyone around you crazy, trying to make things perfect, when it doesn't fuckin' matter!"

It's a low blow. He knows it's a low blow the second it leaves his mouth, but he's angry, and he always makes bad decisions when he's angry.

Like so: "The more I try, the more they want out of me," he says, and now his voice sounds like ice too. "Maybe I just wanted a goddamn break from fighting all the time." Sy turns, and walks away from her.

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rosmarinus
2017-01-20 01:37 pm UTC (link)

Ow.

That… ow. That hurt. Rosy had always had faith in Sy, she had always believed that he could do everything she could do (and do it better, even) if he only tried. It was the foundation of the first fourteen years of their relationship.

But maybe she actually was expecting too much. From him. From her roommates. From herself. Her parents had always expected her to be a perfect lady, a star athlete, a chess master, valedictorian, prefect, class president, team captain, teacher’s pet, literally anything that involved a trophy and bragging rights. They had always expected too much from her, because you couldn’t win if you shot for second place. And she’d tried not to project those same expectations on those around her. She thought that if she thanked people for their hard work and cheered them on regardless of the result and offered to help or did the grunt work for them, then maybe she could counteract that shitty energy. If she just did the exact opposite of what her parents did, if she supported people instead of tearing them down, if she believed in them instead of challenging them, then she could achieve the same end but without all of the bullshit baggage she and Sy carried with them on a daily basis.

Clearly, it wasn’t working.

Clearly, she was just as bad as her parents. She didn’t know what to do. When she tried to clean, she was invading someone’s privacy. When she tried to enforce the rules, she made people cry. When she tried to believe in them, she was basically throwing her baggage over their shoulders and asking them to take that off her back for a couple hours because she needed a break.

Clearly, no matter how many miles there were between them and the Stoker household, she and Sy were just going to turn into their parents, and for once Rosy didn’t know if she had the energy to fight that.

Watching Sy’s retreating back, Rosy wants to say something. She doesn’t know what—she wants to hurt him, get a parting blow, get the last goddamn word, but she also wants him to come back. What if this is foreshadowing? What if this is what pushes him to do something to get himself caught when everyone else manages to quietly sneak back into their cabins tomorrow morning? What if, in the end, she was his downfall, because she couldn’t let him handle his own damn life?

“Fine,” she mutters, mostly to herself, clenching her fists and digging her nails into the palm of her hand until they leave divots in the skin. If he’s tired of fighting, so is she. “Fucking fine.” She turns around and, almost completely forgetting she came there for someone other than her brother, walks away too.

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