SUNDAE PARTY @ THORNTRAIL!

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thorntrail sundae party!!

what's up?

Thorntrail won September’s pep rally, and Peckenpaugh has ponied up with the treats! After dinner this evening, Thorntrailers come home to find their common room decked out in celebratory colors. A magnificent spread of sundae making options is laid out for them just near the entrance, kept cool with chilling charms. With AV Club’s help, Ms. Altizer has set up a projector and screen to play spooky movies this evening. In keeping with the upcoming dance’s theme, Thorntrailers get to watch a double feature of Alien and John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Grab a bowl, load it up, and kick back either inside or out. You’ve earned this, Thorntrail!

visuals!

volunteer slots!

While talking to Armani, [CHARACTER B]'s ice cream mood spoon turns DARK PINK, aka lusty. Oh, UH—Jeez! This spoon is DEFINITELY buggy!!

* Ramona Grimsditch is eating their sundae by the bonfire outside when something lands in their dish with a splat. It's a stone...shaped like a cicada shell? * Ramona glances up into the rope bridges and spots a blanch-faced freshman looking down at them, horrified.

* NOTE: this volunteer slot is only available to those players who do not currently have a cicada shell stone.

how this works!

🍦 Festivities start after dinner at 7PM and end at 10:30, which is House curfew. Ms Altizer lets Thorntrailers watch the last bit of The Thing if they want, though.

🍦 Alien is started promptly at 7 and ends a bit before 9. The Thing starts up around 9 and plays until around 11.

🍦 Thorntrail students are able to invite one (1) non-Thorntrail friend to the party. Guests get a Big Foot footprint stamp on their hand. Party crashing isn't that hard, but Ms. Altizer is watching and will give you the boot if you annoy her. We won't actually be prohibiting anyone from participating in this IC/OOC. The "DID YOU CRASH?" section is just for a fun goof. :)

🍦 All the sundae spoons at this party are mood spoons! Utensils magically enchanted to change color to reflect your mood. Of course, it wouldn't be Peckenpaugh if there weren't a hiccup. A lot of the spoons work, but some of them... just don't—glitching in weird ways.

🍦 Thorntrail Cheer is responsible for today's decorations. Thank you, cheerleaders! Ice cream and toppings were provided by The Zippy Dip and the Dis 'n' Dat.

locations!

🍨 DID YOU TRY TO CRASH?: Are you not a Squatch, didn’t get an Official Thorntrail Invite, but still want ice cream, anyway? Check in here to tell us how you tried to blend in. We’ll see how Ms. Altizer felt about it.

🍨 THORNTRAIL: OUTSIDE: It’s a bit chilly, but not uncomfortably so. Up in the trees, Thorntrail is a complex network of patios, rope bridges and wooden ramps. While the ladders probably aren’t of much use to you with a bowl full of ice cream in hand, you may find the high up hammocks suspended between trees to be the perfect place to lounge and snack. Down below, a bonfire roars, and tonight everything is illuminated by magical bobbing firefly lights. On the ground you can gather with pals and keep warm by the fire. If you’re looking for a bit more privacy, it’s easy to find a secluded spot up high to enjoy your ice cream in peace alone or with a friend.

🍨 THORNTRAIL: INSIDE: A fire roars in the hearth of Thorntrail's common room, keeping the chill of the Sundae Bar at bay. The rustic common area is already well decorated, but tonight there are banners and streamers and fairy lights hung from rafters and the common room's great central tree to celebrate Thorntrail's pep rally spirit victory. With AV Club's assistance, Ms. Altizer has set up a projector and screen and tonight students can enjoy a double feature keeping in line with the Homecoming dance's spooky sci fi theme: Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing. To accommodate a dessert theater crowd, a number of small circular cafe tables have been set up on the edge of the viewing area, and closer to the screen the floor is lined with comfy pillows and bean bag chairs.

🍨 THE SUNDAE BAR: Two large buffet tables flank the Thorntrail common room entrance. On one table, traditional ice cream offerings are joined by frozen yogurt, sorbet and vegan options, with flavors running the gamut from classic vanilla to strange ones like sweet corn and lavender. The other station features a seemingly endless supply of topping options, candies, fruits, cakes, syrups both magical and mundane, and even some incredibly odd options like bacon and wasabi peas. There are an assortment of bowls (some of them edible!), cones and dishes. Soda is also available along with tall milkshake-style glasses if you'd like to make yourself a float.

🍨 ELSEWHERE: If you got up to anything anywhere else on campus, why don't you scene it here?

🍨 OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH?

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Fill this out and respond to this comment if you want to get a roll:

<b>NAME:</b> <b>TACTICS:</b> How'd they try to sneak in? <b>EFFORT:</b> Scale of 1 - 10. <b>ANYTHING ELSE?:</b>

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH, Trudy?

[themurderbird]

NAME: Trudy Judy Mcgilliguddy
TACTICS: She just ditched her glasses, wore Thorntrail colors, and expected to go unrecognized
EFFORT: 2
ANYTHING ELSE?: She's just here to bother Mr Altizer about her party past tbh

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH, Mr. Berzelius?

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NAME: Alva Berzelius
TACTICS: He put on glasses and wore a Thorntrail scarf.
EFFORT: 1. He's an adult man just here to ruin Clytemnestra's night while eating yonanas.
ANYTHING ELSE?: He's gonna fist bump Trudy when they pass each other.

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH, TYBALT?

[princeofcat]

NAME: Tybalt Zettler
TACTICS: Ideally, through a different entrance than anyone else is using. He’ll hide out in the bathroom for a little and then try to enter the room as naturally as possible. If anyone asks why he’s there, he looks them dead in the eyes and says he’s looking for his secret lover Adrian Gildersleeves
EFFORT: Oh solid 9, he’s a sneak boy
ANYTHING ELSE?: Sorry to an unborn child

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH, Mary Grace?

[crowhop]

NAME: Mary Grace O'Malley
TACTICS: Sunglasses, headscarf, speaking in a transatlantic accent for god knows what reason. If anyone asks her name, she gives it as Greta Gresch. You know, the Greta Gresch? Oh, and this is her valet, Snodgrass. Come along, Snodgrass.
EFFORT: Like... 7. She's not half-assing a thing, but she's also going about 40% too over the top.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Just a weird whintosser tryna LARP over here

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH, Val?

[sugarnspite]

NAME: Valkyrie Horvat
TACTICS: She wears a lot of maroon, then uses a school loaner broom to fly up to a window and sneak in through the back. Hopefully one of the Thorntrail kids left their window unlocked.
EFFORT: 7, she really wants to show off to Joop and Lionel how SNEAKY and UNSTOPPABLE and CUTE she is.
ANYTHING ELSE?: This is a Mothgarden party now.

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH, Uriah?

[negligently]

NAME: Uriah Hatfield
TACTICS: Yes, hello, this is Reginald Snodgrass, tending to Miss Gresch. Do NOT touch Miss Gresch with your filthy hands. He'll fetch the lady's iced creams for her, if you please. Now stand aside!
EFFORT: 8, he's feeding off Mary Grace's energy, but that doesn't actually mean he's convincing. His attempt at a British accent is atrocious. He definitely stole those glasses from another kid. Maybe Hawthorne, he's honestly not sure. Maybe don't leave your glasses lying around, kiddos!
ANYTHING ELSE?: The worst valet.

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH, Freya?

[freyanorris]

NAME: Freya Norris
TACTICS: She puts on her Zippy Dip waitress uniform and goes for the classic tactic of confidently walking in like she's staff and she's supposed to be there. She even has a dish of M&Ms as a prop, and plans to head straight for the toppings bar to "refill" what's there.
EFFORT: 7
ANYTHING ELSE?: This ALWAYS works in movies.

DID YOU TRY TO CRASH, Wyatt?

[quodpotted]

NAME: Wyatt
TACTICS: He seems to have charmed his hair black, put on eyeliner, and painted his nails black. He just keeps telling people he's Eddy.
EFFORT: Clearly like a 1
ANYTHING ELSE?: Earl has on mouse ears. She's Mickey. c:

THORNTRAIL: OUTSIDE

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Miss Gresch & Snodgrass

[crowhop]

It's like a bad sitcom. Mary Grace, her blonde hair hidden beneath a sparkly headscarf, oversized and glamorous sunglasses propped up on her head, lounges on a hammock outside, calling out instructions to her valet, Snodgrass.

"Oh, not too much syrup, darling," she calls out, really testing her luck here. "It wouldn't do to have chocolate soup." Mary Grace isn't a Thorntrail, wasn't invited, and hasn't earned a sundae, but she's sure as hell earning whatever's coming to her.

GOSS POSS with Kermie & Joop

[gasgiant]

While one might expect Jupiter to produce a volatile monstrous storm of a sundae, what she actually did was create something purely based around aesthetic. The resulting dish, piled high with scoops of rich red velvet and striking black coconut charcoal ice cream, and a variety of cherry red to inky black toppings, is visually pleasing but kind of a flavor disaster.

So, reclined on a rope hammock beside Kermit, she sticks her polkadotted mood spoon into his bowl and helps herself to a bite. "Babe, you see Mr. BeeZee sneak in?"

THORNTRAIL: INSIDE

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Ms. Altizer (Open to 1)

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"Up, up, you're making a mess." Ms. Altizer curtly shoos a couple freshmen away from the beanbags between films. They had explicitly ignored her very reasonable request to keep the sundaes to the tables, and she can only expect Mr. Berzelius is to blame.

"I'll send you to live in the woods if I see you leave that table," she warns as she casts a quick cleaning spell on the beanbag.

THE SUNDAE BAR

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Mickey & Also Eddy I Guess (Open+)

[quidditched]

Objectively speaking, Mickey is not the smartest familiar. (Does a field mouse that refuses to leave even count as a familiar?) But she certainly does know what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. Especially when the ice cream isn't being served up by an ex-politician feline. Mickey could stand to learn some manners though and in an effort to avoid her being discovered later this evening half-comatose in one of the serving bowls, Eddy's letting her pick out her own dessert bowl. Somewhere, maybe, under layers of garbage is actual ice cream.

Next up on the toppings bar is... shrimp chips. She nibbles his thumb. "You've got to be kidding." She nibbles harder. Eddy begrudgingly adds a couple shrimp chips to the mountain. Good thing this isn't a pay by the ounce deal.

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OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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OOC - MOODY SPOON GUIDE

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These Mood Spoons are SUPER moody and may not work as advertised. Hope it doesn't cause any social faux pas...

MOOD SPOON COLOR GUIDE
BLACK - stressed, tense
WHITE - confused
BROWN - fearful
RED - angry
ORANGE - sarcastic
YELLOW - nervous
TEAL - hungry
LIGHT BLUE - happy
GREEN - peaceful
LIME GREEN - hangry
PINK - in love
DARK PINK - "lusty"
OPALESCENT - not paying attention to conversation
BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH - invalid result
BROWN 2: THE SEQUEL TO BROWN - gotta poop
GRAY - ennui
POLKADOTTED - contagious

This menu is just meant to add a bit of mayhem to your threads. Feel free to decide for yourself what colors your spoons change. :)

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[teratophilia]

NO WAIT NO WAIT NO WAIT

can he have character A instead? it's Worse for him

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[gasgiant]

So JOOP is here and she invited KERMIE as her official +1, but will gladly assist in smuggling in other seniors.

Winter might try to crash, being nosy, if anyone would like to thread with her.

Aaaaand I have a feeling there's no way the Quackenbushes could successfully get into this party even if one of them were Thorntrail.

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[quidditched]

Oh, I am so...........beyond in love with this. I love cute ice cream stuff, sigh.

I'm gonna try to pop up an open, but also would very much love scenes in general? Eddy (and Mickey) is very much here to consume some ice cream and be tormented by magic spoons.

Eddy's official +1 is ???. He's being a bratty little brother and making Wyatt party crash if he wants ice cream (he wants him here, but wants to give him a LITTLE bit of a hard time, ok.)

---and on a final note, I'm hitting read on everything in my inbox because it was hitting Stress Levels for me, but let me know if you want me to go back and hit something and I will happily do so!!!!!

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[necrodanseuse]

These spoons are the only thing bringing me joy today so thank you

CHANEL is here only to lord her status over others; she doesn’t actually like ice cream. She’d invite Laszlo as her plus one but would help sneak others in for a series of favors promises or other bribes. Oh and there’s no way she didn’t put her own spin on decorations so please anticipate a few skellies and spidies and black cats and crosses hanging around???

TYBALT saw something he wasn’t invited to and immediately needed to be there so he’ll be sneaking in

AUDREY May not be here but she’d wander by for an ice cream and be legitimately shocked when turned away

All are free 4 threads but I’m not for a liiiitttllee while I gotta stick around my office for lunch today though so maybe then I can tag

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[teratophilia]

Armani is... obviously here. He's gonna invite Merlin as his +1 because the dude was mega sulky about losing and Armani is WEAK. (He's going to make up for it tomorrow by giving Laszlo an EXCLUSIVE dessert and causing food envy.)

He's available for threads (I'm mostly caught up! I owe JJ a reply and that's it I think???) anddd he will help people sneak in by pretending they're his +1 if you want.

And someone pls take character B, it'll be funny :(

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[maledictorian]

HELLO I AM HERE. I have no manager in the office until noon maybe I'll fuck around and rp.

KERMIE is here as Joop's official +1 and he's going to make some truly distressing desserts.

If I'm feelin' froggy Mary Grace might crash if anyone wants to play with her??? She likes ice cream enough but she's also neck deep in homecoming decorations and doesn't even know what day it is.

Cedar got lost on their way back to their dorm and is sleeping in a trash can tonight.