peckenpaugh | HOMECOMING DANCE 2019!!

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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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?"

Armani's gown looks very little like a moth so he can't blame Eddy for not guessing it. He spins around to show off the back, holding out his cloak so Eddy can see the moth wing pattern. "Moth!" Yep. Just moth. And if this doesn't appeal to Mothman, he doesn't know what will.

He glances over his shoulder at Eddy, giving him an appraising look. "Is that what you're wearing to the dance?" he asks gently, then briefly glances to Chanel for answers before looking back to him. Poor, sweet Eddy doesn't deserve to have his feelings hurt but... that outfit sucks. If Chanel doesn't stop him, Armani will.

Chanel, for her part, answers like this was a question directed at her in the first place.She's already dressed in a very very short skirted dark astronaut jump suit and boots. She's also acquired space helmets from somewhere. Just as black as the dress. Hers doesn't have a visor, but Eddy's does,because she figured he'd like it.She thinks of her dates, sometimes.

"Yours is hanging in my closet, darling," She motions at it with her free hand, as she's currently sitting cross-legged at her desk, applying appropriately dark purple eye makeup. She doesn't look to see his reaction. It's not like Eddy gets an opinion here.

Edited 2019-10-28 17:59 (UTC)

"Moths are cool," Eddy replies automatically to Armani's explanation, and then immediately regrets speaking, evidenced by the grimace that follows. He's not sure what moths have to do with space being spooky, but he figures Armani has his reasons.

Eddy knows that tone and glances down at himself briefly, opening his mouth to reply but he's saved by Chanel, and just ends up gesturing vaguely in her direction. He's never once picked out his own dance outfit, and that's certainly not going to change tonight. He's also really not sure what to expect here given Chanel's outfit, but he figures he'll know his intended outfit when he sees it.

Dress. Dress. Uh.

"There supposed to be a shirt with this..?"

HOMECOMING DANCE 2019!!

Tree Goths (Girls' Room)

Tree Goths (Girls' Room)

Tree Goths (Girls' Room)

Tree Goths (Girls' Room)