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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"Look, I've seen more than one action movie," she shouts back.

Unfortunately, looking over her shoulder to deliver the retort establishes that she's lost track of Ruby's position. She finds herself suddenly...

...soaked by the equivalent of a bucket of snow. She shrieks, more in surprise than actual distress. On the other hand, that's an attack Ruby had to get close for, so an attempt to knock her over seems in order.

She probably shouldn't look smug. Alas.

"Were they Steven Segal movies?" she asks, or tries too, before there's a effort to shove her into a snow drift. It largely works because she's laughing too hard to actually defend herself.

Cosima, in fairness, is also laughing, but now at least they're both covered in snow.

"Look, my plot of being slow and inept worked perfectly!" It was not so much a plot as "factors she couldn't control," but still. She adds, "Should've stuck with the catapult."

Ruby leans forward out of her snow drift, brushing snow off her shoulders. "I mean I could put you in a catapult if you really want, but it seems like overkill."

"I'd like to see you calibrate it first. Damn thing took half an hour to fine-tune." It's cheerfully said, at least. "And my payload wasn't even squirming."

"Actually," she starts, suddenly looking slightly haunted, "Lexa is very very efficient at calibrating. And Ciri didn't squirm either, she was pretending to nap."

Ruby just shakes her head. "Schnapps."

"Jesus. Nothing to take the wind out of your sails like a snow fight with people who actually know how battle engines work." She glances over at Ruby. "You going to fire me back into my fort, then?"

Ruby can't help a quiet burst of laughter. "Hell no. I mean, I could maybe toss you over the wall or something, but I think that'd just be painful. And a really fast way to get hit by a purple avalanche."

"Good, I have no desire to see how much of that kind of impact velocity this snow can absorb." She should be getting up, but now that's she's already soaked, it's weirdly kind of nice laughing in the snowbank with Ruby. That said...

"I guess you need to get back to dominating the battlefield. I acknowledge myself bested, et cetera."

Ruby'd talked Cosima into this, but she didn't expect Ruby to babysit her. The point, after all, was meeting more people.

She leans in, conspiratorial. "Do you think Thedas has velocity, yet? Or gravity?"

Ruby, don't be mean about the high fantasy babies. But maybe she's allowed to because she's one, too? Who knows.

Easing herself up, Ruby dusts off, shaking the snow out of her hair, which... reveals a red flag braided into it, though the plait has come loose, and with just a little face of oh ow wow she is able to free it from her hair. "I don't know. I think you earned this."

"Oh my god," Cosima says, laughing. "You brave soul, I'd have been petrified someone would try to yank it out." She sits up. "I'd trade you and call it a draw, but my team wasn't going to put a flag on its least athletic member."

"Yeah, well. When you're part Wolf you come with a bonus to speed and defence." Said lightly, thoughtlessly almost, as she leans up to peer over the snowdrift and make sure Sabine isn't waiting to bean her with a snowball again. A deep inhale, head canted on the side to listen, and satisfied that she isn't about it die, she hands it over to Cosima.

"Tell them their athleticism bias can suck it."

She tucks the flag into her clothing, securely. "Thanks, dude. I owe you some hot chocolate later. Now get out of here before you're seen fraternizing."

She's never eager to be rid of Ruby's company, but someone will spot them eventually.

"Please. If either of us were storing the flags in our cleavage it'd be fraternising, but I think we'll get away okay."

Maybe. Probably. She hopes? Ruby laughs, and leans just close enough to lightly kiss Cosima on the cheek, before making a ridiculous clicking sound and whipping out the finger guns. "Now we're both screwed," she says very brightly, before starting to bound off through the snow.

Cosima's laughter is bright and warm as Ruby runs off. A moment later she takes off the other way, not as fast but newly determined.

the kids'll blow dandelion fuzz

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