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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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Ty & Quinn - Who needs camping?

tyhawkeswood
2017-01-19 10:34 pm UTC (link)

Ty is exhausted when it's time to leave Quinn's cabin the next morning, running on little sleep and emotionally drained after a night full of high highs and low lows.

Much of the night had been spent just hanging out, sitting shoulder to shoulder in Quinn's bunk while they talked and joked about anything and everything. There had also been a gratuitous amount of touching and kissing and fooling around, a familiar pleasure that had been intensified and made new by the luxury of being truly alone. Able to explore and experiment and take their time. In a bed and everything. All of this had been amazing. Beyond amazing.

As the night had gone on, though, and this had given way to gentler contact (cuddling? had they been cuddling?) and quieter conversations...Quinn had asked him about this week. Whether his transparent lies about being sick had been true or if something else had been wrong. If it had anything to do with the Parent-Teacher Conferences now just a few hours away. While he'd hesitated...he'd come clean. A little. He'd told her that he didn't get along with his parents. He'd told her that Jovian and Camilla Hawkeswood are the worst kind of pure-bloods: old money, notorious elitists, hateful purists, and impossible to please. At least, impossible for him to please, though he could never stop himself from trying. He'd told her that having them here would feel wrong and that he was afraid of what they'd say and who they'd say it too. That conversation hadn't been wonderful. It hadn't even been cathartic. But...Quinn had vowed to come to his rescue from time to time throughout the weekend. He didn't want her to have to cross paths with his parents, but he couldn't stop himself from being grateful just the same.

The two of them had finally gone to sleep at about 3AM. But now it's 5AM and, here he is, disheveled and yawing and standing in front of the Azurcrest dorm with his t-shirt on backward and a smile that mostly seems to remember the wonderful parts of the night. "Sorry that got weird," he tells her a little sheepishly, "But I....you...it was great." His eyebrows rise and he suggests playfully (and a bit hopefully), "Maybe the stars will align and we can do it again?"

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	aw yeah get it you two <3 firstposition 2017-01-19 10:39 pm UTC (link)
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	*YEAAAAAAAAAAAH i bet* it was amazing paladins** 2017-01-19 10:43 pm UTC (link)
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	firstposition 2017-01-19 10:45 pm UTC (link)
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	PRETTY MUCH? tyhawkeswood 2017-01-19 10:46 pm UTC (link)
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	this gif is killing me A++ qnnc 2017-01-19 10:48 pm UTC (link)
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	DYING cmdrchloe 2017-01-20 01:24 am UTC (link)
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Ty & Quinn - camping is for chumps! 👊

qnnc
2017-01-19 11:27 pm UTC (link)

Quinn doesn't look any more presentable in her sweatpants, t-shirt, or long-abandoned French braid — it's a good thing the hour's so early that most campers aren't yet making their way back to their cabins. She rolls her eyes and reaches out to grasp the edges of Ty's open jacket, drawing him back in to her. "Ty, it wasn't weird and it was great." And she means it. She hadn't concocted some master plan when she'd invited Ty over ~~except the sex part~~, but everything had turned out... better than expected. Much better than expected. Even now, after the night was over, her stomach was still twisting over in excited knots.

Fully aware that he has to leave now if he wants to play by Rafael's rules, she still slides her hands up and laces her fingers behind his neck. (C'mon, man, these opportunities are hard to come by!) "I don't know how many times I can sexile my roommates before they revolt, but yeah." She reaches up to kiss him, surprisingly energetically for how tired they both are, and smiles once she pulls away. "I hope so."

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Ty & Quinn

tyhawkeswood
2017-01-20 12:09 am UTC (link)

As much as Ty wants to follow Rafael's rules, he's hopelessly drawn to Quinn and he smiles broadly as she pulls him back to her, slipping his arms around her and returning the kiss with enthusiasm. When their lips part, he promises playfully, "My turn to clear the den of foxes, anyway? I'll see what I can do." He moves to tuck some of the girl's long, dark hair behind her ear and kisses her again. Quinn might have to push him off her stoop to get him moving.

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Ty & Quinn

qnnc
2017-01-20 12:43 am UTC (link)

Quinn takes advantage of the moment to press herself into Ty, although its gravity is broken by her dropping her forehead to his chest and snickering. Ty, clearing out the most notoriously stubborn cabin in the entire school? "I'd like to see you try." Which is true, in both the sense that it would be nigh impossible and that she'd like to reap the benefits. "In the meantime," she looks back up as her smile gains a mischievous bent, "We could... try the sauna? I've seen Downton Abbey like five times so far. It's the only thing I watch when I'm home. I bet I can razzle-dazzle those portraits with Lady Mary's exploits."

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Ty & Quinn

tyhawkeswood
2017-01-21 01:21 pm UTC (link)

Admittedly...getting Robin and Chris and Wes out of the cabin all night would be difficult. And getting Rafael out of the cabin all night would require an act of divine intervention (or, at least, some help from Leo). Ty can't help laughing along with Quinn, even if they're laughing at him. "I'll see what I can do," he reiterates defiantly, then adds, "But, until I've got the master plan ironed out, definitely the sauna." Only familiar with No-Maj music, he doesn't actually know what Downton Abbey is and his eyebrows quirk upward, but he teases without missing a beat, "And I'd like to see that."

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Ty & Quinn

qnnc
2017-01-21 02:49 pm UTC (link)

"You will." Quinn promises, coy, running a hand through the back of his hair. She peers down the hill toward the trails and other camps and huffs a quiet sigh that's dangerously close to sounding sulky; if she delays Ty much longer he'll definitely have to face Rafael and nobody needs that right now. Especially not today, and especially not either boy. She reaches up to plant a kiss up his cheek and declares, "Your window's almost gone, Hawkeswood. I'm kicking you out after... this."

Quinn knows that the privacy they're about to lose is rare, and she... hell, just kind of goes for broke. She kisses Ty, eager and deep enough that might it have been more appropriate at the beginning of the night (read: behind the closed doors of an empty cabin) as opposed to now (read: on the camp balcony, basically in public). Before she resolves to break away, the kiss softens, gentle, and her hand slides down from grasping at his jacket's collar to lay on his chest, her fingers stroking the skin above his shirt.

This should have been an 'oh no' moment for her. Instead, she's still too caught up in everything night to recognize what's happening — and by the time she realizes it, much later, there isn't much to be done.

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Ty & Quinn

tyhawkeswood
2017-01-25 12:49 am UTC (link)

It doesn't occur to Ty what the intensity of that kiss means either, but he's drawn into it immediately and returns it without reservation until Quinn's lips draw back from his. He looks dazed and blissful and he touches the hand she's placed on his chest, first pressing it there and then turning it gently so he can hold it in his own. "Quinn..." he begins, voice soft and breathy, not even knowing what he means to say. Then there's a long pause. Then he laughs softly instead and jokes, "You're sending me away after that? You're cruel."

Slowly, he lowers their hands and then lets hers go. Then he exhales a breath and smiles and steals another quick kiss. "Okay. Okay. Remind me that your roommates will be back soon? And that Raf'll be pissed if I'm late? And that I care because he's my friend?"

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qnnc
2017-01-25 02:55 am UTC (link)

Quinn lets her hand linger on his for a moment, curling one finger around another with a smile, before she distances herself from Ty (for once) with a step because that's the only damn way he's going to make it in time. "That's why they made me a Prefect." Realizing that that could be misinterpreted, she backs it up with, "The cruel streak, not the kissing."

She leans back against the door frame — look at all that responsible space between them! "And more; hell, I think even Honeychurch starts running around this time. Risking the wraths of your bestie and Papa Bird, in the same morning? You really should've left by now." She chews on a fingernail for something to do that doesn't involve pulling Ty back into the cabin, as her smile shifts into a goofy grin. "They'll know exactly what you were up to, too, when they see your shirt's on the wrong way. I'm not letting you back in here to fix it, either — it's motivation to get that ass back to Coppertale." Aaand cue the exaggerated wink at the mention of his, ah, physique.

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