faderift | the kids'll blow dandelion fuzz

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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Okay, so that got her attention. She shook her locks out, brushing snow out with the other hand, and smearing a bit of yellow slush still on her glove into the mess. It was a good thing her hair was black, "Who do you have in mind?" The question was cautious, but there was a glint of mischief in her eyes as well.

Oh, Sadira. Ruby's grin is definitely on the mischievous side.

"Ser Bellamy of Team Violet," spoken with a false kind of formal dignity. "Great guy, I'm pretty sure," despite his apparent reticence regarding anything rifter related and general grumpiness, you know, "but that Team Violet is going to lose so hard."

It's the loving kind of desire to crush her friend's team into nothingness, nbd, nbd. Holding out a hand to shake, Ruby cants her head. "What do you say?"

Still wary of a trick, Sadira edges closer, not quite dropping her shield. "I could go along with that." She didn't know Ser Bellamy at all, nor did she know Ruby really, but in the spirit of fun-- and getting to know more people of Skyhold, well wasn't teamwork the name of the game? She dropped her shield and then shook Ruby's hand, grinning just as mischievously. "I lets go hunting!"

"Awesome." And it is, because Ruby is, at her core, the Big Bad Wolf. Not that it has anything to do with the plan, but sometimes it's nice to pretend the Wolf is more fun than it is.

"Okay," she starts, grabbing a stick and drawing a rough map of the Violet fort in the snow, and marking Bellamy's location with an x. "He's here. If you go this way and I go that way, we can get him in a pincer movement. Or, I can be a distraction, and you can tackle him. Or, I mean, vice verse if you prefer."

PLANS, SUCH PLAN, MANY SCHEME.

Eagerly, Sadira leaned over watching Ruby etch into the snow their plan of attack. She nodded along in agreement and hefted her shield, rolling her shoulder, "I'm good with tackling. Of the two of us, I think you're faster anyway. You should run with the flag."

"Perfect. I'll see if I can get two flags, one each. Fair deal?"

Ruby rolls her shoulders, energised at the prospect, and tilts her head. "Come on. We've got us some Templar to wrangle."

Dramatic cut to: a snow drift, Ruby behind it, watching Bellamy being Bellamy and doing Bellamy things. "Okay. I distract, you tackle, I grab flags, we both run away very fast."

There's probably something they haven't thought of. "Ready?"

At the present moment, Bellamy things, during a high-stakes snowfight, is to guard the fort. He's been on the front lines with the best of Team Violet, but he's planted now in front of their fort, scanning the horizon line. He's peeled off his gloves and tucked them into his belt, but if he's cold, he doesn't show it.

There's a small pile of snowballs at his feet. The wall of the fort is behind him, with only one flag visible. Unaware of the impending ambush, he turns his head to follow the arc of a bird's flight across the sky.

You wouldn't hurt a guy just innocently watching birds, would you?

She was ready and nodded so to Ruby. as she hefted her shield and peered down at Bellamy. They were totally going to destroy a guy bird watching. It was going to be fun. Really.

"Ready when you are."

the kids'll blow dandelion fuzz

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AHA sorry about my slow, I was grabbing a Poor Soul for them to attack 8D

No worries, bring forth the sacrifice!

okay this time I had no excuse except disorganisation

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