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.

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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MOTHGARDEN TREE

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Always a little bit innovative, but flowers frequently feature.

MOTHGARDEN TREE: Cedar

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NAME: Cedar Quackenbush
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Accidental sabotage
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: No one knows why Cedar thought it was a good idea to decorate near the top, but now they're stuck up there, a decoration in their own right, while Mr. Potkin holds them up to keep them from taking the whole tree down.
ANYTHING ELSE?: You can leave them there it's fine

Re: MOTHGARDEN TREE: Cedar

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For their first act, Cedar's placement as the almost Christmas angel is certainly a sight, but bad luck means Mr. Potkin's magical attempts at getting them down have all unfortunately misfired into color changing charms and honestly the tree looks a little motley, losing it 6 Decoration Points.

Mothgarden's Tree currently stands at 194 DV.

MOTHGARDEN TREE: Audrey

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NAME: Audrey Poke
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Decorate!
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Got the prettiest little pieces of silverware and other tiny non-decoration knick-knacks from Spellunking and she's tying them with pieces of pink ribbon to the tree.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Junk tree

Re: MOTHGARDEN TREE: Audrey

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For her first act, Audrey adorns Mothgarden's tree with a number of dinglehoppers, netting an impressive 9 Decoration Points!

Mothgarden's Tree now stands at 203 DV.

MOTHGARDEN TREE: Felicity

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NAME: Felicity Deverill
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: SABATOGE
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Gently leaning against it and trying to topple it over. Or at least making it crooked.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Favorite day of her year.

Re: MOTHGARDEN TREE: Felicity

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For her second act, Felicity manages to tilt Mothgarden's tree an impressive few degrees to the left. It all looks wrong now! And loses 6 Decoration Points!

Mothgarden's Tree now stands at 197 DV.

MOTHGARDEN TREE: Tony

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NAME: Tony De Witt
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Decorate!
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Tony is decorating the tallest branches with garlands, obviously. Standing by to hoist Pax onto his shoulders to put the crowning ornaments at the very top.
ANYTHING ELSE?: A good boy

Re: MOTHGARDEN TREE: Tony

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For his first act, Tony does an amazing job ensuring the top of the tree looks great, netting 9 Decoration Points!

Mothgarden's Tree now stands at 206 DV.

MOTHGARDEN TREE: Trudy

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NAME: Trudy Mcgilliguddy
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Help
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: She's going to add some pretty floral skull ornaments :)
ANYTHING ELSE?: better late than never

Re: MOTHGARDEN TREE: Trudy

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For her first act, Trudy spooks up Mothgarden's tree by 6 Decoration Points!

Mothgarden's Tree now stands at 212 DV.