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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Felicity circles up her classmates and then moves into the middle, head bobbing to the music. Feeling it. Letting the music possess her. Her whole body pulses once to the beat. Twice. Three times. Then on the fourth beat, she rolls a wave of electricity from the tip of one hand, up her arm, through one shoulder then over the other, down her other arm, and out her finger tips. She masterfully moonwalks three steps, spins, and thrusts her crotch at the unlucky person across from her.

Your move, biatch.

Kermit tips his head at Felicity, a certain stiffness in his movements. Kind of like a robot. Or the second-most sensual android after Commander Data. He lifts his right elbow, letting his forearm dangle loosely for a moment. Kermit really takes a second to make sure everyone knows we're about to do some robo-boogying before he unleashes thirty seconds of popping, locking, and then drops down to do the worm.

Kermit lives in 2002, and he's happy there.

Felicity fucking loves it. "Go Kermie! Go Kermie! Go Kermie!"

Once he starts doing the worm, Felicity decides she has to do an animal dance of her own. Even if it's entirely made up. The Bull. She gives herself a set of horns with her index fingers and rhythmically pulls one foot back behind her, then the other. Over and over again. She sways side to side as he does, slowly gearing up to charge. When the beat finally drops, Felicity launches herself up in the air, lands, and begins to mosh.

And that's how you Bull.

Kermie slam-dances right into Felicity, loses his balance, and lands flat on his back.

"OLE!" Kermie lets out a whoop then flops himself back over on his stomach. Well he can't do the worm again, but he can improvise.

"I need MORE ARMS!" he shouts up the Felicity. "You need two to do the SQUID."

Zadie knew that venturing onto the dance floor was a bad idea. She has no idea what's happening and when Felicity thrusts in her direction, her eyes go comically large as she points to herself. She glances back and forth quickly, then completely interrupts the flow of whatever this is by stammering, "You want me to...? Do you want to dance with me?"

Dear, good friend Felicity, please save her from this hell you've created.

"If you wanna leave the circle," Felicity gyrates, "then you gotta dance your way out of the circle."

Sorry, Zadie. Those are the rules. (The rules she's making up as she goes.)

While Zadie is typically one to follow the rules, she thoughtlessly takes a step back. If she runs, will Felicity chase her? Will anyone chase her? Or can she just slip back into the safety of the crowd? Her deer in the headlights expression makes this line of thought fairly clear, though.

"I... Well..."

Uh-oh, Zadie's in trouble. Felicity's mind goes into overdrive and tries to find a way out of this for her.

"Oh my god!" she exclaims. "I love that move." Felicity starts mimicking Zadie. "I... Well..." she stammers. She locks off her arm at the elbow and lets her forearm swing. "It's the malfunctioning robot!" she tells anyone who will listen. "You're genius!"

That pelvis packs a punch if Adrian's reaction is any indication. He leaps backward, arms thrown up in the air like he's caught in the shockwave of an explosion, then buckles, one knee bent, dipping hard to the floor. That is quite a fall there—but he's back on his feet pretty quick, and after a bit of gyrating, thrusts right back.

Is that an invitation?

Something short circuits in Felicity when Adrian dead drops onto the floor and her dance moves reflect it. Watery awe and delight have been poured directly onto her motherboard and she's a malfunctioning mess.

"FUCK YEAH, ADRIAN!" she yells -- finally coming to -- and seamlessly punctuates her twitching by hitting the woah.

HOMECOMING DANCE 2019!!

Dance-Off: Felicity and Open++

Dance-Off: Felicity and Kermie (and MORE??)

Dance-Off: Felicity and Kermie (and MORE??)

Dance-Off: Felicity and Kermie (and MORE??)

Dance-Off: Felicity and Zadie

Dance-Off: Felicity and Zadie

Dance-Off: Felicity and Zadie

Dance-Off: Felicity and Zadie

Dance-Off: Felicity and Adrian (before he was technically alive)

Dance-Off: Felicity and Adrian (before he was technically alive)