Happy Birthday, Queen Guin!

[wrencredible]

happy birthday, queen guin!

what's up?

You'd be hard pressed to find a Peckenpaugh student who isn't familiar with Mr. Purcell's ancient pug Queen Guinevere, whether you've been blessed by her particular odor during DADA class or just seen her carried around campus on her favorite pillow. In honor of the Queen's 18th birthday - and not at all because a pile of notebooks and expectations were dumped on Bijou - a not-so-moderate birthday party is being held today along the shores of Lake Peckenpaugh. Ready those warming charms and prepare to step back into a simpler time when caravels ruled the seas, jazz ruled the airwaves, and stegosauruses roamed the Earth.

visuals!

how this works!

⬥ You are probably invited to this party. Invitations included a long decision tree of questions ("Are you a Carrie or a Miranda?") to determine whether an RSVP was encouraged. If you are a hardcore proponent of broccoli, aliens, or Missy's mom, you most likely are not invited.

⬥ The party began after classes had ended for the day and ran until a respectable 7:30pm. The Queen is an elderly lady after all and needs her beauty sleep.

⬥ Each round of Queenie G Says! involves attempting to interpret and hastily act out the desires of an ancient pug. Fail to guess that this particular ear twitch calls for scratching your butt and Mr. Purcell gets to Flipendo your boat into the lake.

⬥ Queenie G Says! is an unmoderated game with no rolled results, but it's very unlikely that anyone getting into a boat today isn't getting dumped into the lake.

locations!

⬦ COURT: Inside a small cornflower blue pergola tent overlooking the lake, the Queen herself presides over the party from her place of honor floating on a miniature replica caravel in a kiddle pool filled with Squeaky Clean Scrub-A-Dub Peanut Butter-Scented Bubble Bath. She's paired her favorite stegosaurus costume with a bicorne hat this afternoon. First Mate Duckworth, her favorite stuffed duck, is at her side. Tributes to the Queen may be placed around the pool. Maybe your offering will even get a fart of approval?

⬦ ON THE LAKE: In honor of The Age of Sail being among Queenie G's favorite things, the rowboats have all been converted to small sailboats for the afternoon. Daring partygoers and those desperately in need of some extra credit in DADA are invited to hop in a boat and participate in a game of Queenie G Says! Fail to do what Queenie G demands and get dumped in the lake by Mr. Purcell. Good luck, kids! At least it hasn't snowed since Wednesday.

⬦ AT THE SHORE: Magically warmed cornflower blue tents have been erected along the shore, with the small central one housing the birthday girl. A large supply of towels, dog and human-sized Dog Wuggies (Wizard Snuggies), and hot drinks are on hand to aid those partygoers who dared to get on the lake for the queen's amusement. A regular refreshments table has also been laid out and if you've just turned to keto, today's your lucky day because everything on offer seems to be a cauliflower-substitute recipe. Musical offerings for the afternoon's activities are heavily biased towards Ella Fitzgerald and her jazz and lounge contemporaries. Spaces to sit, eat, chat, and even do a little dancing have been made within the tents. Watch your head though, because a few of those fidget spinner UFOs from Homecoming are flying around. (But there's absolutely no aliens allowed!)

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

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[wrencredible]

"Hey, can I have a list of some favorite things to maybe inspire a direction for this party?"
proceeds to shove EVERYTHING into one event

Happy dog birthday, have some space to scene!

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[crowhop]

God we gave you such a weird hodgepodge of favorite things too. I love my Farty Pug Queen and her BIG PARTY for her BIG 18TH BIRTHDAY!!!

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[wrencredible]

Everything on the list was a treasure.

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[princeofcat]

Oh my god


I love Pug Party

I don’t know if any of mine have excuses to be here and yet I’d like them all to be

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[wrencredible]

thank yooooou

my children are always magically at everything. somehow.

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[andpoke]

ALSO
MINE
My real answer now that I am HOME is:

Audrey is here completely unironically she loves the queen

and my other ones heard stuff about like, tipping over in boats, and decided that would be fun

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[quidditched]

Everyone should love the Queen??? (I bet Fred hates how much attention the queen gets over her.)

I would love to do an Eddy and Chanel thing at some point this weekend, but not sure yet if it should be pugs or bugs. :|a

Also Fred and Chanel have to torture each other at some point, I keep forgetting about that!!!!!

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[andpoke]

Oh Fred one day you will be Queen :(

I WOULD ALSO LOVE THAT??? EITHER IS GOOD WITH MEEEE

And omg we do have to must do that
it will be Bad

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[quidditched]

OKAY. i uhhh whoops. spent my word limit for the day making this ridic thing. maybe some will show up but prooobably going to hit you up again for BEES. (if eddy has to get murdered by someone, let it be chanel.)

oh, it will be SUPER bad.

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[andpoke]

It’s fiiiiine I predictably started the Friday Night Fugue and idk why I could avoid it. But can’t wait for the buzzies :(

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[damnnearkilledem]

Oh my god.

human-sized Dog Wuggies

Manx thank you for this gift

Right place this time hell o my brain does work?

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[wrencredible]

I like to imagine they're like those kids cape towels with the animal heads :x

thank yoooou

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[crowhop]

I LOVE THIS PARTY and for the housekeeping part I know for sure Kermie is gonna be here, and possibly also Cedar. Both are going to count being dumped in the lake as a shower.

I don't want to work today and was intending to backtag things I owe other people but what if I just started NEW threads instead

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[wrencredible]

thank yooooou
i need a brain break because i just finished writing this whoops but NEW THREADS sound like a great idea

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[magsmillion]

Um, I clearly need threads as this new face and what better place to start than at a pug party? Amirite?

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[sugarnspite]

HEY CUTE

Val has been playing second fiddle to ancient farty pets for a long time, and by now she's resigned to the honor of sharing a birthday with Queen G. She'll be here, hiding her mild exasperation from the Queen's more ardent supporters.

Uriah sees a group of people and gravitates towards them so he's probably Around.

Laszlo was not invited.

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[crowhop]

I didn't intend to give Queen G the same birthday as Val but then once I noticed I knew I couldn't change it. They're twins.

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[sugarnspite]

She was cursed by a witch to never be loved as much as the local senior cat or dog.

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[teratophilia]

this is so dsfkjldsfklj cute. thank you manx


armani is here with princess cordelia celebrating the queen's day of birth! i just remembered the sims 4 university launches today so he's probably here to kill time while it slowly downloads on his laptop he's hidden in the computer lab 😬

he'll be here for a bit if anyone wants threads! he's definitely not playing the boat game though, he doesn't want extra credit that bad.

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[quidditched]

You get me, Armani. I'm currently trying to decide if I want to shell out to bundle University with the magic pack.

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[teratophilia]

the magic pack is cute but also makes your sims super OP after maybe an hour of gameplay and is the non-cheaty version of using cheats. i don't mind but i like to play without cheats and now my sim can fill their needs with a potion and replicate objects and i'm like "oh okay"

it released after PP opened so of course i had to buy it

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[quidditched]

HMMM. good to know. and yes exactly? i need to wizards. :|a i would have bought it immediately but jenny shamed me into waiting for reasons i can no longer recall and surely still apply but i think i need to stupidly spend some money tonight.

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[teratophilia]

island living is overhyped imo 😬 the mermaids are fun for a while but you don't get much use out of them outside of the island living map. the neighbors are also like..... super friendly and come over all the time with pork dishes they end up leaving in front of my house when i don't answer the door. they start to pile up and rot and my sim's constantly having to throw them out dksksksk

there's no significant interactions with the dolphins and the boats are cute but my sims end up leaving them lying around the map instead of putting them in their inventory and i keep losing them. it's an ok expansion but there's nothing about it i'm in love with. i got it bc russ was hawaiian and i wanted him to live on the island but even that got boring pretty quick

also last time i played, you can't swim in other bodies of water on other maps. it's just island living's map

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[quidditched]

oooooooooooooh thank you. i loved the island expansion in 3 (though omg the boat clutter), but island living seemed like an overall letdown. :|a

i imagine i'll eventually grab it on sale when i want to download something from the gallery that uses its items, ugh.

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[constanza]

Constanza wasn't invited. which is good because she doesn't like pugs and thinks this party is stupid. but she and her little brother still crashed anyway and brought their jarvey, Dickhead, along with them. all three were rude the whole time and probably had to be kicked out

and poppy was around eating and enjoying the music