HOMECOMING DANCE 2019!!

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homecoming dance

what's up?

It’s raining tonight, which would make an outdoor dance inconvenient if this weren’t a school for wizards. The Central Green is the site of tonight’s Homecoming Dance, and Student Council and Homecoming Committee made extra sure everything above was watertight. Any loitering students are kicked out of the area by mid-morning today so dance setup can begin. While decorative malfunctions and diva meltdowns from freshmen slightly complicate things, it all comes together in the end and things are ready to go with plenty of time left before the dance is set to start.

Cardboard walls painted with magical sci fi murals ⁠— animated scenes of aliens, robots, giant radioactive ants and other cosmic horrors ⁠— have been stuck up at all park entrances, filtering students in through Central Classrooms. Overhead, rain drops splatter against magic shielding. The cloudy sky is supplemented by black cloth canopies painted with glittering galaxies. CDs and other swag bag goodies float in the air just beneath, made to look like planets and comets against a starry sky. Throughout the Green there are robots and aliens crafted from cardboard and covered in googly eyes. The existing flagstone patios have been expanded with temporary wooden platforms for attendees to dance and mingle without getting their shoes dirty.

visuals!

volunteer slots!

An extremely brave little Muscheron asks Armani for a dance. You'll probably have to hold them in the palm of your hand, Armani.

In honor of the newest interstellar visitor, Mr. Hobgood is dressed as a comet tonight. It's a great look but the tail is quite cumbersome, and [CHARACTER B] trips over it on the dance floor.

Willow Quackenbush discovers the pod people pods are big enough to climb into and crawls inside one intent on spooking any canoodling couples. Their plan goes awry though when they get stuck and need to be rescued by Lionel Lovelace.

how this works!

⬥ The dance starts at 7PM and goes until 10PM.

⬥ There's an RNG game — test your shooting skills and accuracy in a Men in Black style shooting gallery. We will roll up to three times.

⬥ Here is a playlist to dance and get abducted to for your listening pleasure.

locations!

⬦ BEFORE THE DANCE: The Central Green has been blocked off since this morning, and the first attendees aren’t allowed in until 7PM. What did you get up to before the dance? Were you helping to set up or perfecting your costume make up? Student Council and Homecoming Committee members definitely had a bit of a panic this afternoon trying to make sure everything was water tight. This is a great spot for dorm or house/year prep threads. Tell us what you were doing!


⬦ ENTRANCE: CRASHING STARSHIP: With the Central Green blocked off for the dance tonight, the only convenient way to get in is through Central Classrooms. The lobby of Peckenpaugh’s main academic building has been transformed. Students enter into a narrow starship hallway, gunmetal gray and lines with pipes and knobs, blinking buttons and flashing lights. Upon closer inspection, the whole thing is crafted from cardboard, CDs and office supplies painted or charmed to look like spaceship parts. Streams of foggy mist shoot from the pipes intermittently. Periodically, the walls shudder and a series of pre-recorded sound clips play: clanging sounds, explosions, faint screams, animalistic roaring, and every two minutes a freshman voice fills the narrow path to announce: “DECOMPRESSION IMMINENT. PLEASE PROCEED TO EVACUATION PODS.” There are three ways to go: left or right take you to the restrooms, straight leads you out into the Central Green and the dance proper. Right at the sliding door entrance, there are bins of bubble guns that look like ray guns.

⬦ RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Veer down the left hall once you enter central classrooms and the starship hall will lead you straight to one of the first floor club rooms, which has been made into a dark room shooting gallery made up to look like a harried city street in the midst of an alien invasion. Toy laser guns will track your score as you fight off Alien Overlord Doug Bobson and his minions (and try to avoid hitting civilians!).

⬦ DANCE FLOOR: ABDUCTION CENTRAL: Looking to dance? A large low wooden patio has been set up, painted green with crop circle-like patterns across the width of it. Fog spills out over the floor and an eclectic selection of danceable tunes thrum from all around. The dance floor is bathed in green lights, bordered by street signs warning of UFO ACTIVITY, E.T. CROSSING and ABDUCTION ZONEs. Overhead, little UFOs made from frisbees fly around. Some of them have tiny toy cows made from stress balls floating beneath them as though being abducted. All of them shine beams of light down on dancers.

⬦ SNACK BAR: ALIEN GARDEN: One side of the large flagstone patio near the Central Classrooms entrance has been made up to look like an elaborate alien garden complete with a bubbling stream of green punch that gathers into a basin on the table’s far side. Nab extraterrestrial themed sweets and finger foods from bowls and plates made to look like strange plants, flowers, rocks and hatched alien eggs. Opposite the snack bar there are a few sleek metal tables seating two to four easily.


⬦ THE SURLY STUMP: CLASSIFIED UFO CRASH SITE: The Surly Stump has been given a wide enclosure tonight to protect it from rambunctious teens, the space is made up to look like a cordoned off government investigation site. It gives the Muscheron a bit of a platform to observe the festivities, and they’ve gotten in on it, firing off occasional clouds of colorful pollen and spores. Not far off, most of a large UFO crash landing site has been built from paper mache and repurposed balloon letter frames. It’s great for a photo op, or just fooling around on.

⬦ THE PARK: ALIEN HATCHERY: If you're looking for a secluded spot, a short wander off the path will bring you through dense fog to a clearing filled with rows and rows of lightly glowing alien eggs and the occasional person-sized pod person pod. A few benches dot this eerily beautiful spot. A great place to give your date the creeps.

⬦ END OF THE NIGHT: The dance wraps up around 10PM and students can head back to their dorms for the night. After tear down of the dance, Ms. Gunzenhauser invites any interested Student Council or Homecoming Committee members to get a late night snack at Dez's, her treat.

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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BEFORE THE DANCE

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Tree Goths (Girls' Room)

[quidditched]

Despite all appearances, Eddy's pretty jazzed to spend a evening in (slapped together office supply) outerspace as evidenced by the occasional uptick of his lips looking less indigestion-related than usual. The dance part of the dance holds far less appeal and the committee maybe went overboard on the little green abductors, but space is cool, nerds. They're still about to embark on every childhood birthday party dream he'd ever had.

For now, he's still dressed in the black NASA shirt and matching jeans that he wore during dance setup and he's more than happy to attend the dance like this if Chanel doesn't intervene. The only thing technically done is his makeup, which is.. exactly the same as it is every other day of the year, despite the fact he spent twice as long making sure it was smudged just perfectly so. Even after roughly a dozen dances together, he still insists on doing his own makeup - his skills are no match for Chanel and Armani's, but he's uh, just not ready to rock a winged liner.

Careful to turn away whenever one of the girls needs to pull something on, Eddy gives his nearest companion another one of those maybe-gas-maybe-not smiles. His halting attempt at conversation manages to get out, "Uh. Cool. What are you?"

HOCO Pregame +++ ∞

[fratsquatch]

Tony wasted no time ducking out of his Student Council duties to rush back to his dorm and open his doors to Peckenpaugh's resident party animals. High school dances take all types to function and what would a Homecoming dance be without a pregame? Holland and Mary Grace seemed to have worrying about google eyes on lock, anyhow.

In his slacks and dress shirt, Tony mans the door and welcomes anyone he knows to be trustworthy into the festivities. The music is kept low and drinks are being served in soda cans. While Tony has always suspected that Mr. B is on his team, he knows better than to press his luck. Still, a game of miniature quidpong does elicit waves of cheers and the whizzing, marble-sized golden snitch does cause a few shrieks as it speeds around the room. Come through if you're looking for a little liquid courage, a pre-dance pep talk, or potentially to have your eye taken out by a drinking game component.

ENTRANCE: CRASHING STARSHIP

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Wyatt & Winter

[damnnearkilledem]

The purpose of the boxing gloves doesn't click immediately, but when they does it puts a suspicious grin on Winter's face. "Rocky" Balboa Horror is honestly so much cleverer than just doing the costumes as-is, so Winter has enthusiastically adjusted her own outfit to match. Still, it's hard to say if it's a fluke that Wyatt had put the two together or if he actually knows either movie, but maybe figuring out can be a bit of a game.

As they step out of the rain and into the DIY starship hall, Winter turns to Wyatt, thoughtfully chewing the inside of her cheek. "So when'd you see Rocky Horror the first time, Wy?" She asks as a bit of mist puffs out from a pipe in front of them.

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY

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<b>NAME:</b> <B>WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC:</b> How are you taking down Doug Bobson? <b>ANYTHING ELSE?:</b>

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Bijou!

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NAME: Bijou Pascal
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Shoot whoever's hot. Those must be the aliens.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Most likely dressed as someone from Firefly that she doesn't actually recognize.

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Aristotle!

[arisahn]

NAME: Aristotle Ahn
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Enthusiasm, rapid fire, and accompanying all shots with a 'pew pew!' or similar sound effect.
ANYTHING ELSE?: 🔫👽🔫

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Mary Grace!

[crowhop]

NAME: Mary Grace O'Malley
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: She's speaking into an invisible earpiece and aiming for heads. And she trusts no one. You could all be aliens.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Tries to do a somersault in a short dress and heels. Something rips.

Re: RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY

[teratophilia]

NAME: Armani
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Try not to hit the poor, innocent civilians. 〒▽〒 His reactions are delayed as he considers each target before shooting at it.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Grandma's got a laser gun!!

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Willow!

[pageantree]

NAME: Willow Quackenbush
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Well SHE'S an alien, so she's going to shoot all the civilians.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Might as well have fun with whatever disaster her presence causes.

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Winter

[damnnearkilledem]

NAME: Winter
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Eliminate everything that moves, Charlie's Angels pose every time she gets a hit.
ANYTHING ELSE?:

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Scarlett!

[scarletthatfield]

NAME: Scarlett Hatfield
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Cold, calm accuracy.
ANYTHING ELSE?: It feels good to hold a gun again.

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Freya!

[freyanorris]

NAME: Freya Norris
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Lots of evasive maneuvers to get into character, followed by rapid firing in the hope that she hits SOMETHING.
ANYTHING ELSE?: It IS possible to duck and roll in a dress, but you WILL snag it and end up losing some of the beads.

Re: RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY

[necrodanseuse]

NAME: Chanel Addams
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Every sharpshooter move she's ever seen on television/movies, close one eye and Point. Merciless rapid fire.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Also fakes stealth even if it's impossible and hums her own theme music; a nerd.

Re: RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY

[princeofcat]

NAME: Tybalt Zettler
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Throwing himself into the fire and doing exaggerated duck and rolls etc.
ANYTHING ELSE?: As long as someone is watching.

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY

[quidditched]

NAME: Eddy Waxweiler
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Pretty uptight and self-conscious at first, but Chanel is being a giant nerd about it, so he follows her lead, ridiculous movie poses and all. He's trying not to shoot civilians way more than necessary considering they're all cardboard.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Maybe possibly also hums his own theme. It's very quiet.

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Fred!

[ohwormhole]

NAME: Fred Adler
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Screams at every jump scare. Maybe shoots a thing.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Check out this 😎 Bad Girl 😎

RNG GAME: ALIEN SHOOTING GALLERY: Wyatt!

[quodpotted]

NAME: Wyatt
WHAT'S YOUR TACTIC: Just fast reflexes and a keen eye
ANYTHING ELSE?: Is there a prize? He wants a prize

DANCE FLOOR: ABDUCTION CENTRAL

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Trudy & OPEN

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It's entirely possible that Trudy already owned a Howie coat completely independent of Halloween, and threw it on as a costume when she had decided to go to the dance after all. Of course, she isn't here to dance — she's here for revenge. It shouldn't be hard to find Tony, considering he's impossibly tall, but it's catching him when he isn't completely surrounded by people that's proving to be the trouble. She wants there to be no witnesses to her mischief. 

SNACK BAR: ALIEN GARDEN

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SNACK BAR: Mary Grace + OPEN++

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Mary Grace is... tired. For the last few weeks she's been gluing googly eyes and frisbees, cutting up newspapers and begging Doug Bobson to just look like an alien for 15 minutes, and now she finally gets to enjoy the fruits of her labor.

But what she really wants to do is take a nap. Maybe she should ask Uriah where the best nap spots are, he's definitely already scoped them out. Or she can just fall asleep at this table.

She plops down at the cold metal table with a pile of finger food. She's not gonna eat it all, she's gonna pick at everything on the plate and then walk away from it, effectively wasting three times as much food as she needed. "This is disgusting," she says right before biting into an eyeball-shaped cake. It's also fucking delicious.

THE SURLY STUMP: CLASSIFIED UFO CRASH SITE

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THE SURLY STUMP: Quackenbushes In Their Natural Habitat

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Cedar's hair is sticking out in every direction and there's soot smeared on their face. The soot is not part of the costume. In fact, it doesn't seem like Cedar even completely made it into their costume.

"The laser gun shocked me," they say, holding their hand up toward their siblings to show off a black scorchmark on the palm. "What about you guys?"

Cedar's not asking about their laser gun scores.

THE PARK: ALIEN HATCHERY

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THE PARK: Eddy, Tybalt, and a Minion

[quidditched]

Eddy's not sure what a dark astronaut is. Apparently it involves wearing a sleeveless black jump suit that keeps pulling tight and a holster that conveniently fits a bubble ray gun. The black fishbowl helmet isn't so bad though. He's been able to stand in the middle of several crowds all night and pretend he couldn't hear someone when they tried talking to him. That's pretty great.

Now, though, the helmet is starting to feel muggy and this seems like a quiet enough place to remove it. Quiet, yes, but when he rests the helmet against his hip and takes a look around, he finds himself face to face with an alien who clearly spent its previous life as a Minion.

The longer Eddy stares at that one large unblinking eye, the more it seems to stare back at him, penetrating his soul. Maybe Chanel's onto something with this whole existential horror thing. Yellow has never felt so oppressive.

He plunks the fishbowl helmet on top of the minalien's head, keeping the visor firmly shut. A worthy sacrifice.

END OF THE NIGHT

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Merlin & Imogen

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While it might not be the end of the night just yet for the rest of the students, it's the end of the night for Merlin and Imogen, who've slipped out early to trade dancing in the crowded Central Green for flying in the cool October air. Glancing in the girl's direction briefly as they walk toward her dorm to fetch their brooms, Merlin smiles to himself and pushes his hands into the pockets of his slacks. It had been a good night. Not the sort of romantic night some of the other pairs may've been aiming for, but he'd never expected that. This was Imogen, after all.

Still, he finds himself wondering if she had a good time too.

Rather than asking, though, he quips with a grin, "Hope it won't be too humiliating that I'm a better dancer and a better flyer than you."

OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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Happy Homecoming! Wanted to get this up early while I had time.