A RIVERBANK PARTY!

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a riverbank party

what's up?

Try as they might, the cries of crickets and frogs can’t quite overpower the thrum of music blaring from Bluetooth speakers tonight. Down by the river, well south of campus, off the beaten path and through the brush, a Welcome Back party of magical teenage proportions has been cooked up for the students of Peckenpaugh. It’s hot and muggy tonight even with the sun down. The air is damp and heavy with the green smell of late summer, the Greentooth is still warm enough to splash around in. It’s perfect party weather!

A bonfire crackles near the shore, bathing the pebble beach clearing in a warm golden glow. Large magical orbs bob in the air above party-goers heads, flickering lazily like giant fireflies—they change color when you touch them, so have fun batting them around. The area has been cordoned off with old rope fishing nets woven through with plastic fish charmed to glow faintly in Peckenpaugh house colors. Every once in a while, a fish opens and closes its mouth, exhaling a bubble that becomes a new glowing firefly. Two wheelbarrows, both full of bottled drinks (one sodas, the other cheap alcohol), flank a table of carb heavy finger food and a tacklebox of s’more ingredients. A kiddie pool has been stocked with a variety of "goodies"—drinks, snacks and magipax branded "goodie bags" attached to toy fishing rods. Grab a favor and reel in a treat!

visuals!

volunteer slots!

[TREASURE HUNTER A] mistakenly believes that they’ve joined in yet another kissing game. Oh, that should make for an awkward little adventure.

[TREASURE HUNT PARTICIPANTS B & C] discover a small leak in their rowboat. Hm. This complicates things.

It looks like MERLIN & TONY have a stow away. MERLIN discovers a mouse in their rowboat once they've set off. Is this a new friend, or mayhem waiting to happen?

[CHARACTER F] shrieks when they feel something skitter across their feet. It's just one of the Moody Muscheron trying to make off with someone's portable phone power bank, though. What's the little fungus need this for?

Oh, no one fixed the leak in the rowboat and now it's worse. Shit. With water filling their little boat, [TREASURE HUNTER G] thankfully comes up with a creative, wandless way to stop the leak!

pairings list!

SPIN the BOTTLE

• Audrey Poke
• STB #1: Joshua
• STB #2: Laszlo

• Chanel Addams
• STB #1: Oliver
• STB #2: Presley

• Coriander Picquery
• STB #1: Pax
• STB #2: Winifred

• Elijah Rainwater
• STB #1: Lydia
• STB #2: Gertrude

• Felicity Deverill
• STB #1: Kermit
• STB #2: Ramona

• Gertrude McGilliguddy
• STB #1: Ian
• STB #2: Elijah

• Ian Fitzpatrick
• STB #1: Gertrude
• STB #2: Mary Grace

• Imogen Rainwater
• STB #1: Laszlo
• STB #2: Jupiter

• Joshua Strauss
• STB #1: Audrey
• STB #2: Lydia

• Jupiter Quigley
• STB #1: Valkyrie
• STB #2: Imogen

• Kermit Creekmore
• STB #1: Felicity
• STB #2: Oliver

• Laszlo Pataki
• STB #1: Imogen
• STB #2: Audrey

• Lydia Dwyer
• STB #1: Elijah
• STB #2: Joshua

• Mary Grace
• STB #1: Presley
• STB #2: Ian

• Oliver Goodliffe
• STB #1: Chanel
• STB #2: Kermit

• Pax Sweetapple
• STB #1: Coriander
• STB #2: Valkyrie

• Presley Mondragon
• STB #1: Mary Grace
• STB #2: Chanel

• Ramona Grimsditch
• STB #1: Wyatt
• STB #2: Felicity

• Valkyrie Horvat
• STB #1: Jupiter
• STB #2: Pax

• Winifred Adler
• STB #1: Xenia
• STB #2: Coriander

• Wyatt Webberley
• STB #1: Ramona
• STB #2: Xenia

• Xenia de Bourgh
• STB #1: Winifred
• STB #2: Wyatt

TREASURE HUNT MATCH UPS

• Armani
• &
• Chanel

• Audrey
• &
• Valkyrie

• Anthony
• &
• Merlin

• Coriander
• &
• Joshua

• Edgar
• &
• Wyatt

• Felicity
• &
• Mary Grace

• Freya
• &
• Winifred

• Gertrude
• &
• Oliver

• Hypatia
• &
• Lydia

• Ian
• &
• Ramona

• Jupiter
• &
• Kermit

• Laszlo
• &
• Xenia

• Pax
• &
• Presley

how this works!

• It’s Peckenpaugh’s first student run party of the year! Excepting Pocket Parties, teen ragers tend to spring up wherever they can avoid detection. Tonight’s festivities take place south of campus, on the river.


• The party runs from 6PM to 10PM. While Peckenpaugh does not have prefects to enforce curfew, the party organizers are responsible enough to ensure all students are off party premises with time to make it to their dorms for night check-in. (In House curfew is 11:30PM on Saturdays.)


• Students can assume they know when the party is happening and where. All students, unless otherwise noted by pcal, volunteer slots or prior discussion with the mods, made it past any adults they might’ve encountered on the way here.


• You don’t need to have signed up for StB or the Treasure Hunt game to participate in those activities! We just won’t be randomly pairing you off.
  • For Spin the Bottle, just hit other people’s comments (so long as they list themselves as being open to more) or post your own ‘Open’ comment.
  • For the Treasure Hunt game, you will need to find someone who will pair with you for the event!
• When it comes to spin the bottle and other kissing games, no one is obligated to do anything they don’t want to do. You don’t have to smooch just because you were matched up! Play what you enjoy! If your character is more likely to stare awkwardly or reject any potential suitors, go ahead and do that.

locations!

⬦ BEFORE THE PARTY: All day the air's been buzzing with excitement. Party-goers were advised that this would be a swimwear friendly party, so what'd you put on? Did you and your friends get together to coordinate outfits? Did you almost beef it on your way down here? This header is a great spot for quick pre-party group threads with house/year mates, dorms or friend groups.

⬦ ON THE BANKS: Logs and lawn chairs are pulled up to a crackling bonfire where students can gather to chat, snack and roast some s’mores. Nearby, bottled drinks have been arranged in two wheelbarrows flanking either side of a table of snacks and s’more supplies. Everything is clearly labeled for your convenience! Off and on throughout the night, Oliver Goodliffe serves as chipper bartender, serving up mixed drinks and mocktails to order. It’s the perfect place to enjoy Mary Grace’s perfectly curated nearly perfect playlist of country, rap, and pop, guaranteed to give nearby baby boomers a headache. Except for that Bob Dylan song that snuck in there somehow.

⬦ ON THE WATER: A variety of colorful rafts and inner tubes sit near the edge of the riverbank and a few old row boats float just offshore. One of them has been draped with blankets, making it into something of a tent for those seeking privacy. More of those great big magical fireflies drift lazily in the air above the water, ensuring everything glows at least a little. Feel free to grab a raft and splash on in—the water’s fine! There’s absolutely something out there with you, but whatever it is seems mostly interested in keeping students from wandering too far off shore in the dark and ensuring those participating in the Treasure Hunt game make it back safely. Back on land, the soggiest students can find a stack of festive beach towels waiting for them. More than one of them is emblazoned with the face of a some NASBROOM racer you’ve never heard of.

⬦ BOAT! HUNT!: Teams of two head out two at a time in row boats to search for 'treasure' marked by a glowing float in the water. Each team has seven minutes to get the job done, and if they fail to find and capture a float, their boat is capsized by The Thing In The River and they are carried safely to shore by their new river monster friend. Post your game threads here!

⬦ KISSING GAMES: A cluster of magical faux fireflies hangs low over a circle of large rocks, logs and lawn chairs, perfect for popping a squat. At the center of this arrangement is a flat sheet of cardboard and an old empty wine bottle. Welcome to the kissing circle! Here Spin the Bottle and Seven Minutes in Heaven are played (so post your smooch headers here). A few paces off, the remains of an old cement-walled utility closet stand. The metal door’s been replaced with a piece of plywood, but most of the spiderwebs were cleared out before the party! It only looks a little like a creepy set piece from a horror movie. But that just makes Seven Minutes in Heaven more romantic...right?

⬦ EDGE OF THE PARTY: You can still hear the bumping beats of Old Town Road over on the outskirts, but it's a little more secluded and a lot quieter. Grab a drink and a beach towel and set up shop on a big rock or in the shade of the scrubby brush lining the banks. It's the perfect place for private conversations, or just taking a break from the party people.

⬦ END OF THE NIGHT: It's 10PM. You can't stay here and also you have to go home! No one wants to get in trouble!! Organizers from Wildgulch stick around a little late to get everyone on their way back to their dorm on time. Use this space for any late night, post party threads.

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

BEFORE THE PARTY

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Tree Goths (Girls' Room)

[teratophilia]

One of the most important outfit decisions BESIDES the first day of school is deciding what to wear for the first party of the school year. It totally sets the tone for the REST of the year!!

"Should I go BIG and drop major hints that I want to be whisked away by an immortal being?" he asks his friends, holding up a hanger with a floral robe, tied neatly at the waist with a pink ribbon.
"OR!!" He holds up another hanger with a sheer lace skirt clamped to it. "Should I wear this over my swim bottoms with a crop top and go for Simple Yet Mysterious look that doesn't seem like I'm trying TOO hard and MAYBE I'm just trying to enjoy this party because I have better things to do than plan my nuptials?"

Senior Thorntrails, in the Computer Lab, with the Peer Pressure

[lionellovelace]

Lionel sits at his computer. He's leaning back in his chair, hands clasped behind his head and not on the keyboard. They haven't been there in a few minutes in fact. The party tonight meant it'd be quieter around here and better for getting work done, but Lionel is finding himself rather unproductive. Scatter brained, unsure where to focus his time and attention.

Homework? His own project? The journals?

With a sigh, he leans forward and pulls out a heavy tome on glyphs. Whatever he decides to do, the book should be applicable.

ON THE BANKS

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DRINK LIST!

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SPECIALTY DRINKS

River Water
'a little bit of everything' mixed with coke to give it that unmistakably brown WV River look

Jello Shots
they're cute and blue and have Swedish fish in them. there's a non-alcoholic option that was made with sprite and gummy sharks instead

Immaturity (Open)

[gasgiant]

Jupiter spends an utterly ludicrous amount of time batting around firefly lights until they spell out the word 'DICK' while also all being Thorntrail red. If only she were this meticulous about her school work.

Award Worthy Storytelling (Fred & Open+)

[ohwormhole]

Who planned this party? What were they thinking?? It's in direct conflict with Muggle Magic Club!! But it is the first party of ~Senior Year~ so Fred will just have to not-so-subtley slip a time traveling soda shoppe man into the next episode the The Peculiar Perils by way of apology (again).

Apparently skipping the (second) coolest club in school is enough naughtiness for the moment, because Fred's made a beeline past the alcohol and instead is bobbing a gummy shark up in down in her sprite with the tip of her finger. Creativity never takes a rest, so she quite earnestly asks her neighbor, "So if you were the Harlem Globetrotters and you'd been body swapped with a gang of garden gnomes, where would you bury your hidden treasure?"

More S'mores (Open++)

[merlinpletcher]

Seated by fire with the makings of a s'more, a soda, and a cup full of gummy sharks he had to barter for, Merlin seems less interested in getting shitfaced or fooling around with his classmates at this party than he does in giving himself cavities. But that's pretty par for the course with him. Still, he seems to be in a good mood after yesterday's Quidditch tryouts and he bobs his head subtly to the music, silently singing along with a familiar pop song as he spears his first marshmallow of the night. Time to get cooking!

Come get your party tats (Open++)

[andpoke]

Even though she hasn't talked to anybody in over five minutes, Audrey's having a lot of fun. The party hums with a soft energy, clearing her head, and leaving her in a contented, dreamy state that has absolutely nothing to do with the half-drink she's indulged in over the course of the evening. Some headaches are worth it, and this is the first party of the year. More than worth it.

Still, she's not in the mood to cross the boundaries too far, today. It's time for a quieter sort of fun. She has her quill and set of magical inks out next to her, the ones designed to go just beneath the skin, but wash off in a few days. She's doodling again, but it's not because of a dream this time. Just a river around her own ankle. Sometimes it's nice to commemorate good times, too. If anyone interrupts her, she'll likely just hold the quill up to their skin in offering. The memories are her contribution, here.

Gone Fishin' (Open++)

[suflex]

Armed with fish-themed Jello shots and a pilfered inner tube, Fitz plops down by the netting fence. It's not like him to wallow, alone, on the fringes of a party — but he's intent on... something.

Until the fish in front of him glows pink, he hollers "MOTHGARDEN!", and knocks back a Jello shot.

Oliver Tends the Bar (Open++)

[goodglyph]

I mean, of course Oliver wore a speedo and a festive tropical shirt to the party. What is he, if not game to look foolish in the name of a laugh? He certainly carries himself as though he dresses this way every day, with a confident, easy smile and an unfaltering gaze that says you laugh, you lose.

For the moment, his presence is less purely a menace as he's standing behind the snack table, sorting through bottles of liquor and non-alcoholic ingredients. When someone approaches, he smiles. "What'll it be?"

Dirty Boy & (Open)

[quodpotted]

When Wyatt appears, he looks a little disoriented and a lot muddy. He has a small piece of fabric in hand and he uses it to dab the mud off his face haphazardly. He still looks like he started pre-gaming and fell down the river bank. "I love Pocket," he announces, unprompted.

Booze Burden (Open)

[zadielovelace]

Zadie is never entirely certain what to do with herself at parties, usually opting just show up and let her friends tell her what she ought to be doing or find a more confident socializer to shadow. She hasn't managed that so far. But she has managed to acquire a large mason jar full of 'river water' and two bright blue jello shots and she lingers near the bonfire holding them awkwardly. Was she supposed to drink them? Or pass them out? Or hold onto them for the drunk sophomore that had first pushed them into her hands? She's not sure.

She glances longingly toward the river and chews at her bottom lip. A nice swim with friends had been the primary draw for her, but now she's...sort of stuck. What a conundrum.

ON THE WATER

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Academic Literature (Eddy & Open+)

[quidditched]

Though it's still early enough for reading light, pickings were apparently slim in the raft department because Eddy's floating near the bank on an inflatable rainbow that doesn't at all match his otherwise head-to-toe black ensemble for the evening. Or maybe head-to-knee would be more appropriate, because he did listen to the advisory about swim attire and his legs are nearly as blindingly white as the plastic cloud he's floating on.

So, maybe hunched up on a rainbow doesn't fit his aesthetic, but it does seem safer than by the fire circle, where any moment someone might decide that reliving embarrassing stories from the 4th grade or letting a bottle dictate who's swapping spit is a good idea. Apparently what isn't embarrassing is reading a copy of The Wanton Wraith inbetween sips from a bottle of cheap alcohol. This boy clearly knows how to party.

A Beautiful Corpse (Open++)

[teratophilia]

Armani has forgone the inflatable coffin in favor of a more authentic drowned corpse experience. He limply floats on his back down the river, beautiful and tragic and gone before his time. Almost as if by magic, his makeup remains pristine. (Okay, so he can't commit to FULL authenticity.)

Whenever he drifts too far down the river, he's carried back toward his classmates by the creature that lurks beneath so he can resume his melodrama safely. So thoughtful!!

BOAT! HUNT!

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Post your boat hunt game threads here!

Teams of two head out two at a time in row boats to search for 'treasure' marked by a glowing float in the water. Each team has seven minutes to get the job done, and if they fail to find and capture a float, their boat is capsized by The Thing In The River and they are carried safely to shore by their new river monster friend.

HOW IT'S PLAYED

• This is a rules lite threading game. Simply get your thread to six replies total (3 from each team member) and you can be eligible to win.
• Once you've hit 6 replies, you can either claim your prize (a set of emoji stamps for your journal) or request an RNG roll from the mods to see if you made it. Just head down to the OOC Chatter section to ask for a roll.
• You can also choose to fail. Failure is always an option!
• Claim a prompt from the volunteer slots if you'd like a little extra flavor for your run.
• If your boat did capsize, please assume the Greentooth River Monster(s??) got your kids safely back to shore.

Kermie & Jup

[maledictorian]

"I SEE IT!" Kermit shouts, pointing to a floating log that is definitely not the treasure they're supposed to be looking for. "Or is that it??" That's some trash that needs to get out of this river actually. "OH OR IS IT THAT?" That one's just his reflection.

BOAT! HUNT! : Merlin & Tony

[fratsquatch]

The rowboat creaks ominously under Tony's weight as he adjusts and spreads his legs in a wide V, feet pressed against the chipping wood on either side. He stills, yet the high-pitched squeaks continue. "Hope you're ready to get wet."

BOAT! HUNT!: Presley & Pax

[infamously]

Living in Wendella has forced Presley to become more nautical than he otherwise would've been growing up in the big city, but he still can't claim to be an expert at boating. If he was smart, he'd ignore this altogether. The cold and damp isn't worth trying to beat his classmates in a race. Falling into the river isn't worth a treasure that's probably some kind of nightmare garbage, knowing Mary Grace and Oliver. He should leave.

Instead, he spots Pax nearby and deliberately hits her in the shoulder with an oar. "Oh, sorry," Presley says, not sounding sorry at all. "Didn't see you there." If he's going down, might as well take her with him.

BOAT! HUNT!: Addams Family Divination

[teratophilia]

Armani takes a deep breath, closing his eyes and visualizing the glowing float. He's sitting on his knees at the front end of the row boat, dowsing rods held out to guide them toward victory. "Slight left," he calls back to his sister.

KISSING GAMES

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MARY GRACE: Presley, Fitz, OPEN

[crowhop]

Mary Grace never stays in the circle for very long, but she's always sure to make bad choices while she's there.

EDGE OF THE PARTY

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CORIANDER: OPEN

[picqueme]

So Cori was a little hesitant to come to the party to begin with, so after a bit, she wanders off and settles down on a beach towel with a soda. It isn't that she isn't having fun, but parties also drain her and she's aware enough to watch what she drinks (it doesn't take much to get her tipsy, plus she's wary of her addictive personality). Besides, sometimes it's fun just to people watch.

END OF THE NIGHT

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OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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Pleeeeasee let me know if we missed anyone for STB or Boat Hunt assignments. We tried to make sure we didn't pair any cousins or anything. WHEW!! FIRST PARTY!!

BOAT HUNT RNG CHECK IN

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If you want to roll to see if you won ask here please.