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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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So Cosima isn't fast and Cosima isn't big, but Cosima can think through a plan. Unfortunately, plans take time to construct properly and possibly too much concentration. She is right in the middle of building an obstacle to trip someone, crouched down in the snow, when someone runs through and trips over her instead.

Which... ow. But the next thought is - do they have a flag, though? Maybe they're sprawled on the ground, which means her plan actually worked! Sort of.

See, Church likes plans. But people usually don't listen to Church's plans. He's used to it. He's also used to any plans he makes ending up getting tossed out the window as soon as unanticipated fucked up shit happens. Thankfully this is just a giant snowy capture the snow flat game, not a potential end of the world scenario, so whatever.

His plan right now consists of scrambling for an opening in the violet defenses, sneak out with a flat, and get home free.

He's not got a flag because he's still on the first part of the plan, the going through the opening to get it first, and he thinks he's stupid enough to have stumbled on a snowbank first until he hears another person moan. "...Ow." He has got to stop being bodily bowled over by/because of women. Or anyone. Unless it's for something sexy. Sex in the snow is not something he thinks he'd enjoy though. Shrinkage!

Focus. "Sorry? Sorry. Hey look over there I think that asshole's about to get your flag!" Over in the opposite direction of where he's going because he definitely isn't going to try and get himself up so he can get your other flag!

"What the - goddamnit," she says, as she immediately realizes she shouldn't have fallen for that. Like at all. "It's you, you're the asshole!" she shouts, half laughing as she takes off after him.

He'll be able to outpace her in a minute, which just means she needs to hit him with a s much snow as she can before he does.

That, and make a lot of noise to alert her teammates. "Hey, seafoam alert over here! Oh god, who picked the names?" This last is softer and probably semi-rhetorical.

"I didn't do it! The name pick--ow" Maybe git gud and learn 2 dodge snowballs while running, scrublord. "I'd have just said blue, like a normal person!"

"Pfft," Cosima says, half laughing as she lobs another snowball at him. "I don't know, maybe in the future regular colors are out of fashion. All vermillions and puces."

Still shouting, partly for strategy and partly because they're running around in the snow like overgrown children.

To be fair, running around in the snow like overgrown children is waaaay better than running and hiding from giant lightning demons. So. No complaints about that. THERE IS A FLAG. He's gonna grab that flag. Yoink, his flag now. "No way, everything was red versus blue when I'm from. Ha ha, and look at that! Death to the purple scum! Green-blue foreverrrr!"

"You really need a better battle cry," she says, shaking her head. "Maybe go back to seafoam, man."

Stealing back a flag seems like a reasonable goal, since it's right there in his hand. Might as well give it a shot.

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