NOVEMBER POCKET PARTY!

[peckishmods]

pocket's cloud party!!

what's up?

Pocket is throwing a party tonight, and you’re invited! There’s about an hour after dinner to get ready for the big event, and the sun’s well set by the time students start making their way to the shores of Lake Peckenpaugh. Like always, there is somehow, conveniently, not an adult in sight.⁠ Maybe it’s the rain, but whatever reason, that well-trodden damp dirt path up to Elflock Falls is unwatched and unblocked tonight. As with every party before, students in groups and pairs pass under the falls into a dark, wet cave.

A few paces in and that darkness gives way: damp turns dry, dark to light, and each student finds that they are soaring...

visuals!

volunteer slots!

It's hard to resist the call. You know what I'm talking about. Aristotle knows what I'm talking about! They drop their journal off the side of a cloud and, surprisedpikachu.jpg, their possession is lost! Thankfully, tomorrow morning, the lost item is found by Kermit on the shores of Lake Peckenpaugh.

pairings list!

• Aristotle Ahn
• STB #1: Magnolia
• STB #2: Armani
• 7MIH: Scarlett

• Armani Addams
• STB #1: Mary Grace
• STB #2: Aristotle
• 7MIH: Laszlo

• Chanel Addams
• STB #1: Fiona
• STB #2: Maisy
• 7MIH: Mary Grace

• Constanza Wolff
• STB #1: Zadie
• STB #2: Kermit
• 7MIH: Magnolia

• Elijah Rainwater
• STB #1: Holland
• STB #2: Uriah

• Felicity Deverill
• STB #1: Tybalt
• STB #2: Holland
• 7MIH: Wyatt

• Fiona Moon
• STB #1: Chanel
• STB #2: Jupiter
• 7MIH: Holland

• Holland Graves
• STB #1: Elijah
• STB #2: Felicity
• 7MIH: Fiona

• Jupiter Quigley
• STB #1: Scarlett
• STB #2: Fiona
• 7MIH: Willow

• Kermit Creekmore
• STB #1: Willow
• STB #2: Constanza
• 7MIH: Maisy

• Laszlo Pataki
• STB #1: Poppy
• STB #2: Zadie
• 7MIH: Armani

• Lydia Dwyer
• STB #1: Skip
• STB #2: Uriah
• 7MIH: Tybalt

• Magnolia d'Aguillon
• STB #1: Aristotle
• STB #2: Mary Grace
• 7MIH: Constanza

• Maisy Morgenstern
• STB #1: Wyatt
• STB #2: Chanel
• 7MIH: Kermit

• Mary Grace O'Malley
• STB #1: Armani
• STB #2: Magnolia
• 7MIH: Chanel

• Poppy Kreitzer
• STB #1: Laszlo
• STB #2: Willow
• 7MIH: Uriah

• Scarlett Hatfield
• STB #1: Jupiter
• STB #2: Skip
• 7MIH: Aristotle

• Skip Rider
• STB #1: Lydia
• STB #2: Scarlett

• Tybalt Zettler
• STB #1: Felicity
• STB #2: Wyatt
• 7MIH: Lydia

• Uriah Hatfield
• STB #1: Elijah
• STB #2: Lydia
• 7MIH: Poppy

• Willow Quackenbush
• STB #1: Kermit
• STB #2: Poppy
• 7MIH: Jupiter

• Wyatt Webberley
• STB #1: Maisy
• STB #2: Tybalt
• 7MIH: Felicity

• Zadie Lovelace
• STB #1: Constanza
• STB #2: Laszlo

how this works!

☁️ Welcome to the first Pocket Party of the year! Pocket always wants to hang out with the students of Peckenpaugh, and she uses her unusual magic to give them fantastic new places to play with her. This is Pocket’s domain, and she’ll block or (safely) eject anyone who is dangerously disruptive or threatens the safety or secrecy of the party.

☁️ Pocket Parties are pretty much old hat for Peckenpaugh's students, provided you've been here for a year. What's not old hat is the party, itself. Pocket's parties are always reliably wild and imaginative, bending the limits of magic and reality!

☁️ The party starts at 8PM, and stretches on indistinctly. No matter when you leave, though, it’s always 11PM ⁠— Pocket abides by the weekend campus curfew. :) ⁠— and when you exit the party, you arrive at the Falls.

☁️ Each student arrives with a pair of functional wings on their back, gifted also with the knowledge of (roughly) how to use them. The wings can be anything your heart desires, so get creative or ask us to RNG for you in the "What's Up?" section. Feel free to say your kid isn’t quite getting the hang of the wings, if you want.

☁️ The fluffy white ground is mostly solid, though you might sink in in some places. More likely, you’ll bounce, and there’s a lot of spring to the clouds.

locations!

☁️ WHAT'S UP?: You are! Literally! Welcome to Pocket’s Cloud Party. You’ve been gifted a set of functional wings so you can get around the fluffy surroundings. Use this space to tell us what those flappers look like? What’d your student decide to wear to the first Pocket Party of the year? How do they feel about this (seemingly) sky high adventure? Under this heading, you can request a randomized pair of wings by adding ‘WING ME, PLEASE’ to the body of your comment and the mods will provide you with a pair of random wings for your character.

☁️ BEFORE THE PARTY: You've got a full day of classes and dinner before it's even time to start getting ready! Here's a spot for threads about your day, or for prepping for the party.

☁️ THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Students arrive in a bright and sunny field of fluffy clouds against a pink lemonade sky. The first thing most will notice is just how bouncy it all is, putting a literal spring in your step and launching you high if you build up enough momentum. A large central cloud mass provides plenty of room to romp and play, or sprawl out in the fluff, but the area is surrounded by smatterings of smaller puffs. Most are solid, some not. They range in bounciness from turbo trampoline to squishier than your favorite bean bag chair, accommodating anywhere from one to ten students. Balloons of all shapes and sizes float about the area. Some have little baskets of finger food like pretzels, pop corn and potato chips. Others need to be popped to discover what tasty treat is inside ⁠— salty or sweet, the snacks inside are a little bit random, but generally the higher up the balloon the more rewarding the prize. If this flying thing isn’t doing you right, you can get around by rainbow, too. Most of the larger clouds are connected by bright rainbow bridges that leave your feet leaving trails of bright color wherever you step.

☁️ THE STARRY NIGHT: Slide down the right rainbow and you’ll be deposited in what feels like a whole new world. Gone is the bright daylight of before, this field of fluff is beneath a starry night sky. The air is so clear, unobscured by pollution, you can see the Milky Way overhead. A meteor shower is on full display, and sometimes the falling stars, chased by bright sparkling tails, land in the fluff around the area. Usually these bright little lights simply disappear on impact, but some of them remain intact, star-shaped lights that illuminate the area, can be carried around or just admired. It’s warm here, and cozy, a good place to sprawl out and watch the show in the sky. The balloons floating in this area glow softly, and drop glow sticks when popped.

☁️ PARTY GAMES: Along the edges of the starry night, a soft and squishy circle of clouds have been arranged to look like pillows and cushions, a wine bottle with a picture of a cicada on the label in the middle. Don’t worry about getting left out because it’s damn near impossible to miss the circle, as just above it floats a bright red lip-shaped hot air balloon. When the ladder drops, up to two people can climb aboard, and the balloon will disembark and float through the air for exactly seven minutes before unceremoniously dumping the pair back in the middle of the circle. Hope you had fun!!

☁️ THE SKYWAY: Just off the central cloud area is the Skyway, an open stretch of air perfect for a bit of flying. A soft, sweet breeze blows through, and a variety of colorful hot air balloons bob lazily throughout the field of blue. Baskets have room for between two and five teen-sized humans, allowing for a bit of privacy. Also dotting the open stretches of sky are flying contraptions of various design, brooms, umbrellas, planes and other air vehicles. If you’re looking to float lazily instead of flapping yourself, you won’t want for options out here.

☁️ THE...CAFE?: On the edge of the Skyway is an impressively large zeppelin floating lazily around the perimeter of the party. It’s easy enough to land and head inside, where guests are greeted with a comfortable, warm little cafe. A few tables and comfortable chairs fill the room, and on the far side there’s a coffee bar tended by a be-aproned cat barista. Her black fur is spotted gold, and a pair of delicate fairy wings are folded closed against her back, but the real giveaway of her identity is the pair of raybans she’s wearing. Pock-cat the Barista will mix up just about anything you ask her for, though she might not get it quite right, and no matter what you request, she prepares it as though fixing you a fancy coffee drink. Come order a drink, grab a seat and watch the lovely sky scenery roll by.

☁️ END OF THE NIGHT: While the party seems to stretch on for several hours, only a few have elapsed by the time students pass from Pocket's cave back to campus, arriving on the rocks by the falls. Head back home and climb into bed. It's been a long night!

☁️ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

Harrison & Viola... & Felicity

[bratsquatch]

"IS THIS WOMAN BOTHERING YOU??"

Felicity strides over, little clouds of... cloud plume up with each step. "Is she bothering you?" Felicity repeats when she arrives.

She turns to Viola. "He likes to be left alone," she explains with the smallest of eye-rolls. Crazy, right? she tries to convey. "Doesn't kiss either," she adds, "In case that was your plan. Just saving you some time."

She looks over at Harrison and mouths, 'You're welcome.'

Harrison & Viola... & Felicity

[illtemperedhart]

Harrison reaches for the cigarette, and is about to say something when he's startled by Felicity's yell. His expression shifts quickly from passive to seriously annoyed as he turns his head to look at the newly arrived Junior.

"Don't you have anyone else to harass?"

Harrison & Viola... & Felicity

[bratsquatch]

Felicity's face falls. It's clear Harrison is unhappy she's here. And worse, it's clear he was having a good time before she showed up. Felicity scrunches her face up into some weird distorted position. Outwardly it might appear as 'Felicity being Felicity' (read: weird and random), but it's not random at all. She's trying to mask her disappointment. It's like putting personal mail through a shredder -- you can hide important information by simply scrambling it up.

"Yeah, Viola," Felicity scoffs, "You got anyone else you can harass?"

Harrison & Viola... & Felicity

[tristfully]

At first, Viola attempts her typical tactic of hiding in plain sight. If you're silent and still for long enough, people tend to give up and leave. No such luck. Felicity speaks to her directly and asks a question that seems to require a response. "No, I don't think so," she answers lamely, pushing herself back up onto her elbows to glance around. Later, in the shower, when she replays this conversation in her head she will come up with a much better retort, but for now, that's all she's got.

Harrison & Viola... & Felicity

[illtemperedhart]

"You know I was talking to you, Felicity. Go find your friends."

Though Harrison glowers at the younger girl, it's only for a few moments; he turns his attention back to the sky to try to drive home to Felicity that this is not a conversation he wants to have. Not that that shouldn't already be abundantly clear. He holds the cigarette back out to Viola once he's settled back in.

Harrison & Viola... & Felicity

[bratsquatch]

"Ooookay," Felicity replies with a forced, wavering smile. "You're proooobably right. I should get back to Doug. He thinks I'm just sooo fun and great to talk to. And woooonderful company." In case anyone here needed to know.

She swallows hard, turns, and walks away. Her cheeks are pink, but it's hard to tell if that's from her glowing wings or something else.

Harrison & Viola... & Felicity

[tristfully]

Everything about this exchange triggers Viola's instinct to play possum. Part of her wants to stand and chase after Felicity but she's so stiff with tension that she might as well be in the early stages of rigor mortis and she can't seem to convince her legs to move. It takes her a moment to register that Harrison is offering her his cigarette again and she accepts it cautiously. She feels oddly like she's gloating as she inhales, passing it back quickly.

"I think I'll go get a drink."

Harrison & Viola... & Felicity

[illtemperedhart]

Harrison feels... kind of embarrassed? Kind of bad? It's hard to really sort out what negative feelings are going on right now, but it doesn't really matter and he's not really one to introspect, anyway. And he definitely isn't one to know what to say to Viola.

"Sure," he finally settles on, which isn't helpful at all.