peckenpaugh | LIGHT UP THE NIGHT FESTIVAL

light up the night festival

what's up? 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.

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locations! ⬦ 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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

NAME: Scarlett Hatfield
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Sabotage
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: If this tree doesn't catch on fire, it won't be through lack of effort on Scarlett's part. She darts in, aiming to knock over some of those candles, but if she can't get close enough she's not above using a sneaky Incendio from a distance.
ANYTHING ELSE?: This child is a delinquent. I hope there are fireproofing spells on these trees??

For her second act, Scarlett manages to melt a few candles, deducting 5 Decoration Points!

Wildgulch's tree now stands at 195DV

Edited (a CONSISTENT menace also) 2019-12-20 20:27 (UTC)

NAME: Mary Grace O'Malley
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Technically decorate.
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: She has a box full of fake snow and she's just throwing it indiscriminately. It usually ends up getting on her friends before it gets on the tree. Is this stuff flammable?
ANYTHING ELSE?: This stuff is probably flammable.

For her first act, Mary Grace's fake snow is a BIG HIT with the crowds. They ooh and ahh when some of it sparkles and burns quick and white hot when it gets too close to a candle, adding 10 Decoration Points!

Wildgulch's Tree currently stands at 205 DV.

NAME: Bijou Pascal
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: ??? Decorate ???
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Charmed pairs of leftover truffles to stick together, and then hung on a ribbon. Apparently they're Squatch Butt ornaments, which is off-theme, but oh well.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Couldn't justify actually selling these, but boy did she want to.

For her first act, Bijou's ~~christmas tree truck nuts~~ squatch butts are, unsurprisingly, a huge hit that add 9 Decoration Points.

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 214 DV.

Edited (I'm .................................. sorry) 2019-12-21 00:57 (UTC)

It's exactly what I deserve.

NAME: Chanel Addams
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: OH A REVENGE SABOTAGE
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Make all that pretty fake snow JET BLACK so it looks POLLUTED
ANYTHING ELSE?: A child

For her second act, Chanel channels into that most powerful of Christmas spirits — revenge — and casts a good chunk of Wildgulch's tree in shadow, diminishing it by 10 Decoration Points.

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 204 DV.

NAME: Fiona Moon
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Sabotage
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Squishes the butt truffles so it looks more like a Sasquatch took a watery poop on the tree.
ANYTHING ELSE?: No

For her third act, Fiona manages to smoosh quite a few of those squatch butts into squatch poop, lowering Wildgulch's DV by 7 Decoration Points!

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 197 DV.

NAME: Adrian
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Sabotage
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Stealing some of those squatch butts for Thorntrail's tree.
ANYTHING ELSE?: And probably eating one on the way back.

For his first act, Adrian manages to thief a few squatch butts, lowering Wildgulch's tree by 1 Decoration Point!

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 196 DV.

NAME: Poppy Kreitzer
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Sabotage
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Stealing the rest of the truffles to eat. Also stealing the candles and tossing them away.
ANYTHING ELSE?: :)

For her second act, Poppy pilfers the remaining pristine squatch butts and squelches a few candles, diminishing Wildgulch's tree by 8 Decoration Points.

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 188 DV.

NAME: Felicity Deverill
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Decorate... kind of
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Playing defense. Attacking potential saboteurs.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Is this allowed?

For her fourth act, Felicity trips a suspicious looking freshman, their spittle lands on Wildgulch's tree, adding 1 Decoration Point worth of glimmer.

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 189 DV.

NAME: Tony De Witt
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: SABOTAGE
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Taking down all the ornaments from the top of the tree. An absolute immovable force if anyone attempts to stop him.
ANYTHING ELSE?: You know what you did, Felicity.

For his second act, Tony nabs a ton of top tier candles, dimming Wildgulch's incandescent pine by 6 Decoration Points!

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 183 DV.

NAME: Echo Ellerby
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: DECORATE
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: She's hanging ornament picture frames with magical moving photos of herself in them. This can only go well!

Edited 2019-12-21 23:15 (UTC)

For her first act, Echo is her own biggest fan and the crowd loves it. Wildgulch's tree gains 8 Decoration Points!

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 191 DV.

NAME: Trudy Mcgilliguddy
DECORATE or SABOTAGE?: Hinder
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?: Let's see if she can't encourage some of those candles to roar into an inferno...
ANYTHING ELSE?:

For her third act, Trudy singes a few Wildgulch branches with extra flame for 2 Decoration Points!

Wildgulch's Tree now stands at 191 DV.

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