LIGHT UP THE NIGHT FESTIVAL

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light up the night festival

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When the sun sets tonight, the town lights do not go up to compensate. On the contrary, all but a few street lights, enough to show the way on roads, stay out and for a time everything is bathed in darkness. It may seem like something is amiss in Elflock Falls, but this is just the start of a celebration.

Students gather at the Peckenpaugh bridge, marching band members and cheerleaders in uniform, and as soon as it’s completely dark, the band starts to play. A procession of students led by the marching band and their bright, brassy sound heads south toward the main drag of Elflock Falls. As the music reaches the town, lights start flickering on in time with music. Buildings, street lights, trees and signs all flicker to life. Overhead, bright lights twinkle and glow, creating scenes like crescent moons and falling snowflakes. Townsfolk join Peckenpaugh’s students as they make their way to the city hall plaza where the night’s festivities really take off...

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how this works!

⬥ Welcome to Elflock Falls’s Light Up the Night festival! This one evening winter solstice festival is a send off for Peckenpaugh students with food, drinks, entertainment and a tree decorating competition.

⬥ The lights illuminated by tonight’s parade will remain up until New Year’s Day.

⬥ Christmas Tree Competition

• This no holds barred game of magical mayhem is an Elflock Falls tradition beloved and dreaded in equal measure.


• Four trees, representing Peckenpaugh’s four Houses, are set out in the City Hall plaza to be decorated by students and locals. It has become something of a tradition for folks to align themselves with a particular House and compete to have the most beautiful tree. It is also tradition to sabotage the other trees to ensure your own bragging rights later.


• To participate, respond to the appropriate header using the form below. You can decorate or sabotage any tree. This is chaos.


• Each character gets up to 10 total rolled interactions with the trees.


• The trees each have a base “Decoration Value” of 200 points. At the end of the festival, the tree with the highest decoration score “wins.” The reward is bragging rights. And possibly a bonfire, depending on how wrecked the other trees are.


• Here's the form:

<b>NAME:</b> <b>DECORATE or SABOTAGE?:</b> Do your efforts help or hinder the tree? <B>WHAT'RE YOU DOING?:</b> Tell us what specifically you are doing? Adding tinsel? Spraying fake snow? Hanging ornaments? Stealing them? Pilfering string lights? Get creative! <b>ANYTHING ELSE?:</b>

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⬦ THE PARADE: The marching band and cheerleaders lead a crowd of Peckenpaugh students in a procession from the campus bridge to the heart of downtown Elflock Falls. The parade path takes them down the town’s main drag, zig-zagging through the business district until finally they reach the city hall plaza, filling the air with sound and light the whole way: along the way, as the band plays, lights of all colors flicker to life around them in time with the music. It’s a breathtaking sight!

⬦ ELFLOCK FALLS: SPARKLING STREETS: Elflock Falls is bathed in warm glow tonight. Almost every inch of the main drag illuminated by delicate little points of light shining from storefronts or hanging in the air. It’s a lovely sight, and plenty of folks just walk up and down the main drag to look at the displays, many made to look like impressive scenes: starry moonlit nights, a shining aurora, Santa on a sleigh pulled by sparkling reindeer, dancing familiars, glimmering presents, and shining mistletoe ⁠— don’t forget to smooch when you pass under that one!

⬦ CITY PLAZA: GOOD FOOD & WARM DRINKS: You can get free cups of warm mulled cider or hot chocolate from one of the small booths interspersed throughout the city hall plaza. Around them are food stalls serving up street-friendly hot eats that are easy to scarf down while you wander. Most of the fare is dessert-y ⁠— elephant ears, bright shiny red candied apples and crepes loaded with all sorts of goodies ⁠— but you can stuff your face with all manner of fried food, as well.

⬦ CITY PLAZA: THE STAGE: Live performances begin with a set of poppy holiday hits sung by Peckenpaugh’s performing arts club choir. In the cold night air, their combined voices make for an enchanting, clarion ring. After the club has finished their performance, a number of other locals take the stage to perform music, including Bruno Ellerby, rocking the accordion proper, and the Local Dad Band. There's ample opportunity to grab someone for a dance, if you'd like!

⬦ CITY PLAZA: THE STAGE: One massive, twinkling tree is flanked by four smaller but no less impressive pines. Now that the parade is done and the choir’s sung, it’s time for a tree decorating contest! Each House gets their own tree to adorn with lights and ornaments as they see fit, selecting from boxes of garland, lights and ornaments set around the city hall square.

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THE PARADE

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ELFLOCK FALLS: SPARKLING STREETS

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CITY PLAZA: GOOD FOOD & WARM DRINKS

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Pax & Open++

[wildchild]

Even though Pax has plenty of opportunities to gorge herself at home, there's something special about eating way too much at a festival, so she's going to take advantage of it. There's an elephant ear hanging out of her mouth, and she's got a chocolate-dipped apple in one hand while the other tries to dig around in her pockets for money. She's not sure what she wants to get next, but she wants to be ready.

"Hold this for a hot second," she says around her food, holding out the apple without looking up. She assumes a classmate is near her, but, like, even if it's an Elflockian it's fine.

Pax & Felicity

[bratsquatch]

"Oooooonnnnneeeeee hoooootttttt seeeeccccooo---." Felicity draws out the words as long as possible to give Pax a chance to search her pockets. She has a mulled cider in her other hand and some stray tinsel in her hair. A souvenir from a night of sabotage.

"---ooooooonnnnnddddd," Felicity finishes. She extends the apple back to Pax. "Times up. Take the apple or buy more time. In the form of a bite of your apple." She's running a racket here, but dems the rules.

Pax & Ramona

[lockit]

"This is sticky," Ramona complains after holding the apple for, by her estimation, five hot seconds. She manages to sound simultaneously accusatory and deeply disturbed. Melty chocolate apple is a bad sensation for sure. She holds it out towards Pax a little more aggressively to prompt her to take it back.

CITY PLAZA: THE STAGE

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DANCIN': Kermie + OPEN++

[maledictorian]

Midterms are over. So is the choir performance. One by one, Kermie's last [X] as a Peckenpaugh High School student are being checked off, one more step toward adulthood and careerdom and yadda yadda yadda god this is too depressing to think about when there's music in the air.

Kermie shimmies over to the dance floor and extends one arm toward the nearest somewhat friendly face.

"Shall we?" he asks in his most debonair voice.

DANCIN': Kermie + Echo

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"Oh, Kermie, I thought you'd never ask." Echo takes his hand and rolls herself into his arms. She then leans back, dramatically kicking her leg up and swiping their dance neighbor with her heel in the process. (It's their fault for not getting out of her way.) Try not to fall, Kermie.

DANCIN': Kermie + Jup do the Gossip Tango

[gasgiant]

"Husband, I've been waiting!" Jupiter half-yells in response, scooping Kermit up into a cheek-to-cheek tango. Or, whatever Jupiter thinks a tango looks like. This close, it's easier to conspire, "We should watch and see if Altizer and Berzelius take the same portkey home."

CITY PLAZA: THE TREES

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DEEPLURK TREE

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Traditionally done up in a nautical theme with lights that look like bubbles.

MOTHGARDEN TREE

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Always a little bit innovative, but flowers frequently feature.

WILDGULCH TREE

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Voted most likely to catch fire every year, probably because they always insist on decorating with real candles.

THORNTRAIL TREE

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The Squatch Tree somehow always feels exactly like the kind you'd love to have in your own home, mixing old and new, as pretty as it is chaotic.

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cold medicine fuck yeah

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i took a dayquil, threw on two popes and tried to finish this and now i ship the popes

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[circuitree]

THANK YOU JENNY!!!!!

I need to make some actual progress on Quodpot but when I'm done WATCH YER BUTTS IMA FUCK UP SOME TREES



And maybe play a little

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[freyanorris]

oh cute cute

feel better soon!!

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[wrencredible]

oh i fucking love tree battle

ok ok i have actually read ALL of this now and like??? i love this??? ahh???? i'm so excited that fred and her dad live in elflock and his shop is definitely all fancy lit up too (with the help of someone actually wizardy!)

Dad Band is performing!!! Fred is, AS USUAL, highly embarrassed by this!!!

Now that Candygrams are over, I think things are quiet for me until Christmas, so I'm definitely down to scene here this weekend, or other fun holiday stuff. 👀 Will join the TREE BATTLE for sure.

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[wildchild]

I :( love :( Christmas :( lights :(

I hope you feel better!!! I'll be around if anyone wants my idiots and also I guess I'll throw up an open or two or something!!

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[infamously]

oh my god i love the battle of the christmas trees

i am going to be crazy busy today and this weekend trying to catch up on work :((( but i'll do my best to pop in and join the fight later

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[bigshoulders]

Also god I love competitive Christmas
All my kids are here!!! I get out of work at the Normal Hour!! I will be doing starts and Christmas War then!!!

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[filigreed]

i am home and awake and it is finally winter break. can do this with the one living braincell i possess!

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hey y'all I promise I'll keep rolling I'm just working on crocheting an xmas present for my mom rn and want to see if this is a feasible project lol

mon visage quand you did not buy enough skeins and the yarn shop is closed until monday 😬

ANYWAY I'm going to keep rolling tree mayhem through at least Monday night so feel free to keep using your turns.