the kids'll blow dandelion fuzz

[eviscerates]

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.

Comments

basically??

[unsullies]

Finally, a hit. Dany laughs a little herself, pleased with the result, though the 'result' was also hitting one of her only friends in this world in the face.

"I don't think I am," the girl teases, forming another snowball (albeit slowly). The other woman has ducked down, likely to gather ammunition of her own, so Dany does the same, pressing her back to her shelter and calling out: "There's still time for you to surrender!"

[eviscerates]

"Now you're hurting my feelings, if you think I'm giving up."

Ruby waits for a moment, trying to compact her Impractically Huge snowball into something a shade more throwable. It has to be held with two hands, and she is extremely pleased with herself as she stands, and tries to guesstimate where Dany might be hiding behind, roughly. It's an awkward, two-handed underarm throw where probably a third of the giant snowball just crashes into the shelter, and the rest proceeds to just explode messily.

"Oh, come on." On the one hand, maybe it was the perfect device for surprise snow down the back. On the other? Maybe it was just horribly ineffective.

[unsullies]

Ruby is right in some of her estimation; the snowball explodes with a crash and much of it showers the Targaryen in unpleasant cold. She gasps, chilled, and though she's dressed much more appropriately for the weather than she'd been upon arrival, Dany still shivers as she shakes off the offending snow.

"You've missed completely!" she informs Ruby (falsely). In fact, there's still snow in her hair as she peeks out at her opponent, though it blends well with her silver tones. "Are you ready to give up?"

Dany isn't exactly a warrior and has zero snowball fight experience, but at least the stakes are not very high in this instance.

[eviscerates]

The gift of Wolf-y hearing - she cants her head to the side, and grins with the sound of the gasp. Bingo.

At least she gives Daenerys the courtesy of humming, thoughtful, rather than dismissing her out of hand. "I don't know. If I give up with you be merciful?"

It occurs to her, belatedly, that she's used up a lot of her snow to hand, as she scrabbled as frosted over grass and ice stretches. Perhaps she doesn't have this so easily in hand as she suspected. "Like, maybe letting me go without taking any flags style merciful?"

[unsullies]

"Hmm." Her mouth twitches in amusement, and she finally emerges from her hiding place, hands outstretched and empty. "I think I can offer mercy just this once. Though, if you appear and hit me again, I'll never again show mercy to anyone."

Fierce khaleesi as she is. Dany admits a slightly larger smile as she waits expectantly, eyes trained on where the other woman is hiding (she thinks).

[eviscerates]

"Wow," Ruby starts, and she can't keep the grin out of her voice, even as she starts to slowly emerge, hands held up. "It's a good thing you aren't dramatic, or anything, or I'd be worried."

It's a fond, amused kind of teasing, for all that it's called across their miniature no man's land, before Ruby straights up from behind her protective wall. "So we're good, right?"

Why does she feel they are not good?

want to wrap this up? c:

[unsullies]

No one has ever accused Daenerys of being not-dramatic.

"If you say so," Dany replies crisply, expecting a snowball to the face. She isn't about to throw one at Ruby, but in this play-fight, she isn't sure she's anywhere near safe, yet. "So long as you don't change your mind and attack."

Please. No more. No more snow to the face.