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MOTHGARDEN'S BUTTERFLY CHASE

the butterfly chase!!

what's up? Spring is in full swing! April’s almost over and the flowers at Mothgarden are reaching full bloom. There’s not a strange purple blossom in sight today on the Eastern Quarter, but that doesn’t mean Mothgarden isn’t bursting with color. Every shrub and magical hedge and living topiary is flowering today! Or...wait! Upon closer inspection, some of the flowers look like something else…butterflies! Fake ones, of course, little works of magic conjured up specifically for today. Grab your net because it’s time for Mothgarden’s annual butterfly chase!

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how this works! ⬥ Students from all Houses gather outside Mothgarden after breakfast today for the butterfly chase, which begins at 10am and goes until noon. Afterward, a garden lunch is served on Mothgarden grounds.

⬥ Butterflies of all shapes and sizes, some local, some exotic, have been made from magic and set all over Mothgarden’s grounds. These butterflies can be caught with special nets provided by staff.

The official game nets must be used to count points! Any butterflies caught by other means (magic spells or bare hands, for instance) will disappear in puffs of colorful smoke.

The nets provided comes in all colors, shapes and sizes. Some look like they’re made of twigs, others are shaped like stars, some look like wind socks or koi flags.

These butterflies are magical in nature ⁠— no harm has come to any living butterflies for the game. Once caught in the net, the magical butterflies become solid and you can keep any you find.

There are three tiers of difficulty for this event. House Mothgarden is the easiest, the Left Maze is a little harder and the Right Maze is the hardest. However, if you choose one of the more difficult areas to hunt in, you will receive a bonus to your score as there are more rare butterflies in those areas.

The winningest student will receive a collection of fun and tasty potions from Mr. Berzelius. The winningest House will receive a point bonus toward the House Cup.

⬥ Post the form below to either the House Mothgarden, Left Hedge Maze or Right Hedge Maze headings, depending on where you’d like to hunt! You may thread or simply RNG check in under any of these headings.

NAME: Who’s hunting?
NET: What silly net did they wind up with?
DRIVE: 1 - 10. How intent are you on winning?
PATIENCE: 1 - 10. Are you scaring off butterflies before they’re even in reach?
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 1 - 10. You would be surprised how important this is to catching bugs.
ANYTHING ELSE?:

locations! ⬦ HOUSE MOTHGARDEN: House Mothgarden is three tiers of gardens overlooking a large and well manicured lawn. With even the living topiaries trying to help, you’ll have plenty of luck finding butterflies here, but they’ll mostly be the common ones and as such earn you fewer points. If you’ve finished your hunt, you can relax here on Mothgarden’s upper levels. There are plenty of ivy-draped cubby holes to squirrel away in with a few friends.

⬦ THE LEFT MAZE: The friendlier of the two hedge mazes will do its best to lead you to butterflies while you hunt inside, but you may want to pop into the center to have a break on the gazebo at its heart. This is the second most difficult location to hunt butterflies in, but you’re more likely to find rare ones.

⬦ THE RIGHT MAZE: The Right Hedge Maze knows that all the flowers blooming over it are absolutely gorgeous and you simply must have a look. Butterflies? What? Oh, yes, there are butterflies in here somewhere. Rare and beautiful ones, but aren’t the flowers more interesting? Today, the Right Maze is more obstinate than usual, guiding students to particularly scenic parts of its interior, rather than to spots with butterflies. However, there are a ton of high value butterflies hiding within if you’re willing to put up with the maze’s shenanigans.

⬦ LUNCH ON THE LAWN: A few false butterflies are still fluttering in the air as the official festivities draw to a close and carts of little sandwiches, cakes and other snacks are rolled out for a garden picnic amongst the flowers.

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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NAME: Cedar Quax
NET: Small, plastic toy net that looks like it's about to break every time they swing it.
DRIVE: 8. It's not WINNING so much as trying to DEFEAT THE BUTTERFLIES before they devour them.
PATIENCE: 2. Not a strong suit.
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 6????? Not as good as they thought :c
ANYTHING ELSE?: Just here for lunch tbh

Cedar's hunt nets them 17 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a few pages from a freshman's history of magic homework! And is that an eastern tailed-blue butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 86 points. Way to go!

NAME: Wyguy Webberley
NET: Oh it's blue and so obviously plastic and meant for a child.
DRIVE: 4
PATIENCE: 7
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 10
ANYTHING ELSE?: He's real glad no real butterflies were hurt

Wyguy's hunt nets them 22 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, an orange sulphur butterfly! And is that a common buckeye butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 106 points. Way to go!

NAME: Audrey Pokes
NET: A really dumb tie dye one that she was drawn to and loved
DRIVE:Ehhhh 6
PATIENCE:Very 10
DEPTH PERCEPTION: Like 8?
ANYTHING ELSE?: Will might want to keep a butterfly pet please that's why she's here

Audrey's hunt nets them 17 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a pipevine swallowtail! And is that a common buckeye butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 102 points. Way to go!

If it's not too late!

NAME: Scarlett Hatfield
NET: Glittery plastic and star-shaped.
DRIVE: 8-ish.
PATIENCE: 6. She's knows how to hunt, but she's easily distracted by her friends and the general chaos.
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 10.
ANYTHING ELSE?: SHHH. SHE'S TRYING TO FOCUS.

Scarlett's hunt nets them 18 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, an Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly! And is that a crow feather? A haul like that is worth a total of 104 points. Way to go!

Edited (It's right on time somewhere!! ) 2020-04-28 23:27 (UTC)

NAME: Jupiter
NET: One made of sticks and duct tape
DRIVE: A cool 4
PATIENCE: A less cool in this context 4
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 10, she's a seeker.
ANYTHING ELSE?: will bap passersby

Jupiter's hunt nets them 2 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a monogrammed handkerchief! And is that a common buckeye butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 41 points. Way to go!

Edited (cries over jupiter's amazing haul) 2020-04-25 17:47 (UTC)

NAME: Tony De Witt
NET: A net so large it’s better suited to catching halibut. Definitely cheating.
DRIVE: 7? He’s intent on Mothgarden winning, at least.
PATIENCE: 6. Fairly patient but boisterous and distractible.
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 10. Can hit the end of your broom with a bludger from 100 yards. A mile? From space? What is math? Who cares? He’s a sport boy.
ANYTHING ELSE?: He keeps trying to catch two people in his net at the same time and make them kiss.

Tony's hunt nets them 10 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, an eastern tailed-blue! And is that a for real live ass wasp? A haul like that is worth a total of 126 points. Way to go!

Edited (a for real live ass wasp is my favorite) 2020-04-25 22:39 (UTC)

NAME: Trudy
NET: It's chrome and telescopic, which helps because she's short
DRIVE: 10. She's not losing on her home turf, okay??
PATIENCE: Eeehhhhhhh 5. She needs it NOW.
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 8 like she wears glasses but spends too much time reading
ANYTHING ELSE?:

Trude Jude's hunt nets them 8 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a West Virginia white butterfly! And is that a few pages from a freshman's history of magic homework? A haul like that is worth a total of 118 points. Way to go!

NAME: Winter
NET: Ladybug colored net
DRIVE: low key 8, junior class overachiever.
PATIENCE: 9, she wait
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 7, probably should have glasses right now
ANYTHING ELSE?:

Winter's hunt nets them 6 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, an Appalachian azure butterfly! And is that an orange oakleaf butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 142 points. Way to go!

NAME: Kirby
NET: A pink one shaped vaguely like a bird
DRIVE: 8
PATIENCE: 7, he's a bit hyper in his excitement.
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 8
ANYTHING ELSE?:

Kirby's hunt nets them 6 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a West Virginia white butterfly! And is that a peacock butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 142 points. Way to go!

NAME: Adrian
NET: Blue star shaped!
DRIVE: 7, overachieving, but not much
PATIENCE: 7ish
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 9
ANYTHING ELSE?:

Adrian's hunt nets them 8 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a West Virginia white butterfly! And is that a perfect swan feather? A haul like that is worth a total of 150 points. Way to go!

NAME: Hawthorne
NET: The handle is broken and is only like 4 inches long.
DRIVE: 10!!!
PATIENCE: 4!!!
DEPTH PERCEPTION: One of the lenses popped out of his glasses today so we're going with a 1!!!
ANYTHING ELSE?: I almost put him on the easiest path but there's too much hubris for him to not take the hardest one.

Cheese Tree's hunt nets them 1 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a luna moth! And is that a mourning cloak butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 94 points. Way to go!

Edited (lol somehow he only caught one but gee golly look at that second one over there) 2020-04-25 23:17 (UTC)

He caught one, tripped and got stuck in a hedge and watched the other one fly away.

NAME: Felicity
NET: It looks like the net you use to clean a pool.
DRIVE: 8!
PATIENCE: 4. Ehhhh, not her strongest.
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 10. Sport girl!
ANYTHING ELSE?: Wants to net joust when she sees others in the maze.

Felicity's hunt nets them 6 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a gray hairstreak butterfly! And is that an emerald swallowtail butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 140 points. Way to go!

NAME: Viola Warbeck
NET: A very official, no-nonsense lepidopterist's net that somehow looks antique.
DRIVE: 7. She doesn't really care about winning house points but she does want to catch these rare butterflies for her own personal glory.
PATIENCE: 10. Infinitely patient.
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 8? Unpracticed but has perfectly fine eyesight.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Viola is doing full lepidopterist cosplay right now.

Viola's hunt nets them 5 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a red admiral butterfly! And is that a paper kite butterfly? A haul like that is worth a total of 140 points. Way to go!

NAME: Who’s hunting?
NET: What silly net did they wind up with?
DRIVE: 6. Mostly, she wants to catch and keep pretty faux butterflies, but competitiveness strikes her in spurts
PATIENCE: 9
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 5 Nothing is technically wrong with her eyes except they're cursed.
ANYTHING ELSE?:

Billow's hunt nets them 2 butterflies! Well, mostly butterflies. Look, a West Virginia white butterfly! And is that a pipevine swallowtail? A haul like that is worth a total of 112 points. Way to go!

Saw a luna moth just chilling on the side of an Old Navy in wv once and it was big and it scared me.

Edited (this is not hard i am terrified of all bugs I am blathers) 2020-04-25 16:11 (UTC)

oh i just googled that it looks like a giant leaf that breathes

lmao why did I not get the notif for this comment wtf dreamwidth

I KNOW they're like giant pastel leaf boys

Winter: "9, she wait"

For some reason that's really cracking me up

"she wait" is what I say to my cat when she sits in the corner of my vision staring at me wanting wet food and it felt appropriate for winter

bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs cedar's going to get eaten

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