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WHO: The Righteous Snow Teams & anyone who wants to watch (and laugh, and judge.)
WHAT: A GIANT SNOW FIGHT.
WHEN: 13th July or whatever the IC equivalent is.
WHERE: In the valley near Skyhold.
NOTES: ooc post 1 and also ooc post 2. The snow fight itself is closed to those that signed up, but the observation/chilling afterwards stuff is open. No warnings to add here, please put any that come up in the subject lines!

Also we have room for one more last minute sign up!

Wrap up warm! It probably goes without saying that certain medical personnel will be less than sympathetic to those who come to them with colds after this.

The valley near Skyhold has never really completely defrosted, given how high up they are in the Frostbacks, and Adelaide's students have found themselves working with an environment very receptive to the reintroduction of cold, even in the summer months.

The battle field is impressive. Each of the six teams has their own fortress, forming a rough circle on a thick blanket of snow. Each fort has one flag flapping over all others, the only one each has that cannot be stolen (or, at least, would be very challenging.) Their other seven flags are considerably smaller, and where they are depends entirely on how the team opts to defend them. The vast majority of the snow is white, but there are generous patches within and around each fort that matches that Team Fort's colour. Each fort is a little different, but comes with a catapult build inside it, and scattered around the field are large snow drifts, some battering rams, and a trebuchet. (No trebearchet, sadly. We can always dream.)

Every team member is given a sash of their team colour, and a round wooden shield that is so padded that hurting someone with it would actually be quite an accomplishment.

Far enough away to be spared the fighting, but not to entirely escape the chill that has been renewed in the valley, are some benches. There is warm cider and some food being served, and people are welcome to come and watch (and laugh, and judge) and/or hang out with the noble warriors once the fight has wound down.

Recap of OOC & IC Info;

ADELAIDE	BLACKWALL	CASSANDRA	MERRILL	NORRINGTON	OBI-WAN
violet	apricot	seafoam	raspberry	goldenrod	periwinkle

Andra	Zevran	Eirlys	Sabine	Sadira	Vasran
Alistair	Samouel	Church	Ruby	Clarke	Anders
Cosima	Rydia	Korrin	Martel	Mal	Aleron
Daenerys	Cullen	Sherlock	Ciri	Hermione	Ingrid
Bellamy	Kas	Aveline	Bruce	Taashath	Katniss
Pel	Ellana	Velanna	Lexa	Cyril	Merrick
Anakin	Jeannot	Emma	-	Val	Kirk

Plus Teren as a wildcard and liferiner. No other wildcards on the field!

IC-ish RULES AND STUFF.
1. NO WEAPONS, NO MAGIC.
Assume there is unlimited snow - some dyed to match team colours - so there are snowballs galore! Every person also gets an extremely well padded round shield as a chance to defend themselves. Don't use the shield as a weapon, pls and ty.

2. FLAAAAGS.
Each team gets seven flags that match their team colour. The IC goal is to capture as many flags as you can, but OOCly this is flexible and timey wimey and you don't need to worry about keeping track of flags bc who has time for that?

3. NO VIOLENCE.
Or, more accurately, no going out there to hurt people - it is a snow fight and there is siege equipment, let's not kid ourselves. That said; no tackling anyone smoller than you. If you hurt someone, apologise and don't be an ass. Don't make an NPC referee come after you.

4. BASICALLY JUST HAVE FUN.
Characters can't be eliminated unless they're being a big jerk, but no one wants that to happen because friendship is magic, or something. If it's fun and its awesome then odds are it's totally fine, unless it'd put a character in danger.

There will be an IC prize for winning, which will be ICly due to happen after Orlais since that opens up so soon after the snow fight.

A quick recap on how the winners will be determined OOCly - in three weeks time I will do a tally of points based on comment count and tagging around done per team. Three weeks will hopefully allow everyone a chance to dive in even if unexpected RL things happen, as they are wont to do, and not put on too much pressure with the Orlais plots opening up.

How to get points:
1. Open starters! Every team will get 2 points per team member that posts an open starter.

2. Tag around! Every team will get 2 points every time a team member tags a new person. (If character A tags characters B, C & D they will get 6 points total for tagging around - three different threads with character A and character B would still only result in 2 points.)

3. Keep threads going, hop around and have fun! Every comment by a team member will be worth 1 point. (Multi-comment responses ie. one tag split over two or more comments will still only count for 1 point.)

4. Be hilarious, do something awesome, idk persuade me that something is worth an extra point. NO SERIOUSLY, TELL ME I love excuses to reward people for puns and/or being absurd.

5. IC rule breaking may result in points being taken away because how rude.

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Ellana knew this would happen! Really, she said she shouldn't be the one to guard any flags but she ended up being assigned one anyway and now it's gone! But the culprit isn't too far ahead and Ellana is desperate not to let her team down. So she hurries up a nearby set of stairs that lead to the upper walls of the fort, puts a foot up on the half wall that separates it from the area below, and pushes off it to full body tackle Church as he passes by.

The noise she makes is the sound of all air leaving her body on impact. This... this was a mistake.

That's okay, Church makes a pretty similar sound, because even if elves are slinky stick people, someone being launched at him is still a person launching themselves at him and blindsiding him. He actually manages to stay on his feet--or one foot--for a comical few seconds, actually spinning in the snow, arms flailing...until they both finally go down in the multicolored snow.

He holds the apricot flag out, though, away from the tackler. "Oh no you don't!" he wheezes. "It's mine now!"

"Uh uh!" she protests, though it's weak and pained. Church is like running into a brick wall, and she knows she'll have bruises tomorrow. She makes a poor attempt at grabbing the flag from him, but her hand can't reach, and stretching out her arm has her hissing in pain as her muscles strain.

"You're not getting out of here with it. If I don't stop you, someone else will."

"I will roll over. I'll do it! And then you'll be a squashed bug." She brought this on herself. Thankfully for her, he isn't rolling over, just trying to get himself up, even if she clings to him. "A really wet and cold bug."

"Then I'll tickle you!" is her very serious response. "I'll tickle you until you roll off me."

"Well maybe I'm not ticklish! What then!" Oh god, that sounds like a challenge, because he has no idea if this body is ticklish. "I take your flags and get all the points for my team, that's what then."

Now she scrambles up to straddle him, grabbing for the flag again.

"Then you'll find out why the humans fear the Dalish!" Which she is only saying because he's a rifter; not a native. It's meant to put doubt in his mind, not be a threat of the horrible things she's heard some clans do to humans.

He actually manages to get up on his hands and knees with her monkeying around on him, and then just up on his knees, still holding the flag juuuust out of reach. "And maybe you'll find out why everyone fears, uh...I guess 'rainbow colored space marines' doesn't mean much, nor strike fear into the hearts of--oh my god, you're like cling wrap, what, do you live in trees or something??"

Okay, if he's readjusting like that, she's just going to latch onto his back with one arm and leg wrapped around his waist. No big deal. Her other (far too short) arm is still fruitlessly reaching for the flag, while her other leg is pushing against the snowy ground to try and get leverage.

"Argh, we can climb trees quite well, thank you very much." Her fingers wriggle in the air at the flag, as if she can will it to come back to her. Stay with Apricot, little flag. Don't go with the rainbow colored space marine, or whatever he is. "Living in them? No." Another stretch, another grab at air. "You're not getting out of here with that flag, so hand it over!"

She's unbalancing him, but damn it, if these little twiggy shortstuffs are going to keep tackling him, he's going to fight back. (All right, she's a respectable height, but elves are so slight!) So he waivers when he tries to lift himself to his feet, and if she would stop squirming and hopping around, maybe he'd be able to do it.

"I dunno, Red, seems like the little flag wants to go with me. Maybe it's decided it knows what the superior team is. We can go dye it seafoam when I bring it back home."

"That flag had a good home here and you kidnapped it! It doesn't want to go with you!" What is even happening right now? Apparently the flag is now a living being in danger and she has to save it!

Only she really can't reach it at all. So she's stuck, and if he's able to move, there's not much she can do but either hang on or fall off.

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