BOWLING CLUB OPEN HOUSE!

[maledictorian]

bowling club open house

what's up?

Those thunderous crashes aren’t heralding an unseasonable storm. No! What that rumbling and crackling means is it’s Bowling Time, Peckers! The lights are low and the lanes are hot — some of them literally — and Peckenpaugh’s Bowling Club is having itself an open house. All students are invited tonight to snack on sorta stale pizza and bowl a few frames in the name of supporting a classic Peckenpaugh Club. If you think it’s as simple as rolling a ball down a lane, boy are you in for a surprise. Kermie Creekmore and Lir Liu have rolled out wizard bowling for tonight’s event, and like everything with the word wizard at the front of it, it’s wild, exciting and probably dangerous!

visuals!

volunteer slots!

After the events have concluded, Kermit, Jupiter, Fred and Audrey stay behind to help clean things up. Unfortunately, when they head down to the basement to get supplies, the door slams shut behind them and they’re trapped…

Hustler or bowling prodigy? [CHARACTER C] claims they’ve never played before, but they bowl a perfect game!

how this works!

⬥ The event runs tonight from 7PM to just before campus curfew, so there's plenty of time to get a game or two in.

⬥ The event is open to ALL Peckenpaugh students, not just club members. This is a chance to come check out what Bowling Club gets up to. And also other things. 👀

⬥ There are four different flavors of bowling available, suitable for bowlers of all skill levels, so pick your poison!

• WizBumper Bowling. Even easier than non-magic bumper bowling. It’s almost impossible to avoid hitting at least one pin.


• Vanilla Bowling. Roll the ball and hit the little guys at the end, no Wiz about it.


• Wiztraction Mode. Try not to get distracted! The pins flash, smoke, make loud bangs, and will generally try to throw the bowler off their game.


• Survival of the Sentients. Less bowling and more live-action hunting game. These pins will do whatever they can to avoid being hit, including shouting “helpful” hints (or insults) at the bowler, crying and begging for mercy, and running away. Sometimes they’ll knock themselves over in the process.

locations!

⬦ THE LANES: There’s SIX, count ‘em six full lanes of bowling action here at Elflock Lanes—though only five are available right now, as Elflock Falls’ local women’s bowling league, the Ladies of the Lanes, have reserved the first lane for their weekly practice. Lace up those shoes and roll a few frames while you’re here! Kermit is more than happy to help out anyone who wants tips on their form or follow-through, but he’s equally as happy to let everyone figure it out for themselves if that’s what they want. Pick a lane and get rolling!

⬦ THE GAMES: There’s a clunky old Ms. Pacman machine shoved in the corner, away from the bowling action, and a clunky, slightly less old Dance Dance Revolution machine shoved right next to her. It’s not a bad place to sit and eat, people-watch, or play video games, I guess. Just don’t spill that free root beer, Ms. Pacman’s controls are sticky enough as it is.

⬦ THE SNACK BAR: Kermie promised free pizza and soda to anyone who showed up tonight before clearing it with Lir, but that’s probably fine, right? Come up to the bar and claim what’s rightfully yours. Mr. Youngblood spends most of the evening at the bar drinking cheap beer and chatting with (or maybe just at) Lir, and not even Kermit knows whether or not he’s here in an official capacity.

⬦ COMEDIC STYLINGS: Those who fancy themselves comedians can try their hand at getting the stone-faced proprietor to crack a smile. They’ve been at this for three months and no one’s made him so much as breathe slightly hard through his nose. His mother thinks you’re all hilarious, though.

⬦ THE BASEMENT: It smells, appropriately, like old musty basement down here, and perhaps less appropriately like stale plasticky cheese. The door slams shut and just won’t budge ⁠— won’t even give for an Alohomora. Looks like they’ll be down here for a while. It’s about as creepy as you’d expect: big, dark and packed with old bowling alley equipment, pins and broken bowling balls, smelly old rental shoes and setter parts. There’s a broken Snoop Crupp-themed pinball machine amid shelves and shelves of old decorations and boxes of flyers and ads for past events. Poke around. Maybe there’s a buzzer you can use to contact the office upstairs. Or, maybe, there’s another way out...

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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THE LANES

[maledictorian]

THE LANES: the game

[maledictorian]

<b>Name:</b> <b>Skill Level:</b> From novice to kingpin, all are welcome tonight. <b>Bowling Mode:</b> Are you playing it safe with WizBumpers, or going hunting for Sentient Ten-Pins? <b>Anything Else?</b> Tell us how you dance when you get a strike. Or anything else you want to say.

THE LANES: the game: the kermie

[maledictorian]

Name: Kermie Creekmore
Skill Level: LET'S SAY 8. Every single mentoring and community and whatever else program he got thrust into as a kid just LOVED bowling, but they didn't teach him about hunting down terrified pins.
Bowling Mode: HUNT THE SENTIENT PINS
Anything Else? He does the worm every time he gets a strike, but it's real fucking hard to get a strike when the pins are on the move.

THE LANES: the game: the joop

[gasgiant]

Name: Jupiter Quigley
Skill Level: 5, despite being in bowling club since freshman year, she's just not great at it.
Bowling Mode: Give her the WIZTRACTION MODE
Anything Else? Minimum one granny bowl. The cabbage is her strike dance of choice.

THE LANES: the gamedry

[andpoke]

Name: Audrey Poke
Skill Level: God like 4, but it’s still fun
Bowling Mode: Wiztraction! She thinks it’s funny
Anything Else? In the rare event she strikes, she just sits down, at peace

THE LANES: the game: the Moon

[girl_in_the_moon]

Name: Fiona Moon
Skill Level: Like 4. She's clumsy with ball sports.
Bowling Mode: Wiztraction Mode
Anything Else? No

THE GAMES

[maledictorian]

Adrian Is Bad At DDR (Open++)

[numerologest]

Dance Dance Revolution isn't really with it anymore, which might explain why Adrian is doing an absolute dogshit job on the hard version of Love ♥ Shine! Unlike most humans, Adrian lacks the inhibitor that prevents him from doing something until he succeeds or dies, so when he loses again, he throws his arms over game station's the back guard rail.

Panting he reaches a hand out to get the attention of the first student who passes by, "Hey, 'scuse me, got any tokens I can borrow?"

THE SNACK BAR

[maledictorian]

COMEDIC STYLINGS

[maledictorian]

THE SNACK BAR: Claudia & Jup

[nublada]

Claudia hasn't touched the greasy slice of pizza on her paper plate. It's! Um? It's appetizing? It's just so appetizing, she can't stand to eat it, or the little puddles of grease pooled up in those tiny pepperonis. Mmm.

"Thank you!" she shouts up at Lir Liu as he walks past for the fourth time, and each time she feels worse about not even taking a bite. Maybe she should. Just to make it look like she's working on it. It's not an insult on your cooking abilities at all, Mr. Liu.

She picks up the piece and takes a tiny nibble from the end. It tastes like pizza, but lukewarm and kind of slimy, and the wooden smile on her face betrays her real feelings. Time to find a garbage disposal friend to pawn this off on.

THE SNACK BAR: A Philosophy Problem With Tybalt (OPEN++)

[princeofcat]

The young boy at the bar has the look of someone haunted by a battle, solemnly sipping his root beer like he's seen ghosts. And maybe he has. He was initially very happy with his 20 pin knock down, but the more he thinks about, the more the cries of the pins are sticking in his brain. He takes a long pull from his mug like there's something other than root beer inside. "They can't really feel pain, right?" He demands of the person next to him, whether they've been addressing him or not before this.

Surely not.

THE BASEMENT

[maledictorian]

THE BASEMENT KIDS

[maledictorian]

"Huh," is all Kermit says when the door slams shut, and he drops the boxful of jostling, flashing pins in his hands to the floor. "Think that's supposed to happen?"

It absolutely is not.

OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[maledictorian]

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[maledictorian]

my phone was fighting me so much setting this up

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[ohwormhole]

Fred for A or B??? 👀

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[gasgiant]

ready to bowl and get locked in a basement

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[andpoke]

THIS IS CUTE
I’m gonna be a shellfish and could Audrey have B
I just
I like
To lock her in creepy basements
Ok

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[gasgiant]

BTW YOUR BOWLING GAME IS SO CUTE.

And I think I want to try and get some opens up for this, but if anyone would like to do a specific scene, I can place Winter, Adrian and Hawthorne all here easily in addition to Joop.

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[girl_in_the_moon]

How many pins are there, and how many rolls per player?

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[ohwormhole]

HI!!! Fred is obviously here and needs to harass some Moms.

Eddy has almost certainly found his way here (unless he has expired from a combination of sugar and embarrassment) and Bijou could tooo!!!!!!

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[negligently]

AHHHH CUTE?!?!?

Uriah and Val are definitely here if anyone wants a thread, Laszlo might be if he's specifically wanted!

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[crowhop]

I am CHIPPING AWAY at my to-do list today. Obviously Kermie is here, and I could find a reason to bring Mary Grace, Cedar or Claudia if anyone wants! I even have an icon of Mary Grace bowling and none of Kermie.

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[dareyouto]

Eli and Maisy are here for sure, Ramona would have to be coerced into coming

i wanted to get a lot of tags done today but i swear to god someone is like playing an MMORPG on the coffee shop wifi or some shit. everything takes forever to load 😱