peckenpaugh | Happy Birthday, Queen Guin!

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.

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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!)

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Happy Birthday, Queen Guin!

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