HOLI PAINT BALLOON TOURNAMENT

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[The GFC, the Disciplinary Committee, and Fight Club have teamed up to bring Balamb Garden an unforgettable experience with the weekend-long paint balloon tournament! Prior to the tournament, various sponsorships are given tables to organize and plot for their dominance over the other teams.

During the tournament, most parts of the school is fair game! (Though Headmaster has politely requested that all students refrain from the usual restricted parts of the school). Feel free to hit your opponents, though don't be surprised if they strike back! There are a few stations that are designated paint-free zones: the GFC, DiscComm, and Fight Club areas (as the Fight Club's hosting seminars, the DiscComm is monitoring students for suspicious activity, and the GFC's selling balloons and food) as well as the gymnasium and pool, but the rest of Garden is fair-game.

All students, SeeD, and staff members are given ten paint-filled balloons to start. The GFC will be selling extra balloons for 2 gil a piece, while craftier people may find a way to circumvent their limits.

Happy Holi! Fight, win, and eat lots of yummy spring-themed goods!]

[ooc: We will not be monitoring balloon usage, so feel free to go over the limit! We just politely request that you refrain from using a godlike amount unless it would be IC for your character. Enjoy Holi, everyone!]

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GFC STAND

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[Come get your balloons, food, and other random goodies from the GFC!]

Re: GFC STAND

[bunnypassingby]

[Mikuru is hoping that if she stays here at the stand whenever she's not, say, sleeping, eating, or in the bathroom, she won't get paint all over her...

[But just in case, she's actually wearing her uniform outside of class. Because she doesn't want her own clothes or the Miracle costume to get stained.]

[eggplantallergy]

[Being the best advisor ever, Gakupo decides to stop by. He's done a good job of avoiding paint balloons so far, and he hopes it stays that way. He'll participate later, perhaps. Maybe. Paint is hard to get out of hair!]

Mikuru! So nice to see you again!

DISCCOMM STAND

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[eiusumbra]

[Of course Shadow would be over here. He's just a bunch of fun to be around.

But he's really over here because if there are trouble makers about, he'll toss a paint balloon at them.

Otherwise, he's just checking in on what may or may not be happening.]

[bratbeyond]

[Not much's actually happened yet--though that one NPC couple keeps making out in the strangest of places. Damian's writing them up again...

He glances up at Shadow once he's done.] I thought SeeD weren't on the Committee.

FIGHT CLUB SEMINARS

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[The following lecture will be offered over the course of this weekend with the general theme: "Try a New Style."

Several seminars will be conducted in the rudiments of different weapon/combat specialties so that people can learn the basics of a style different than their own, and to give people a sample of what they might learn if they decided to go back and take more classes in another weapon/combat specialty. A stamp is given for every completed seminar and puts each participant's name in a draw for a prize (one entry per seminar per participant). Successfully completing ALL seminars gives a participant a small prize automatically.

There's also a special seminar conducted by Bulla on fashionable fighting - stylish yet durable clothing that allows for plenty of freedom of movement.]

[elementofloyalty]

[Rainbow Dash is TOTALLY showing up for this clothing seminar, since clothing seems to be a much bigger thing with people than it is with ponies on a day-to-day basis.]

[hawkette]

[Yeah, Kate will be doing this. All of it.]

[alwaysanarcher]

[Cissie's not really interested in the other fighting styles, but she's definitely sticking around for the fashionable fighting seminar.

She sits down next to Kate, giving her a polite smile.]

So how's your Holi been so far?

[sylphoftealdeer]

[Needless to say, Kanaya is not missing these seminars. Not only because of the fighting styles (while she is a very good fighter, brushing up on your skills is always a good thing), but also because there's a special seminar on fashionable fighting: two words that describe Kanaya Maryam very well.

And so, she can be seen scribbling away on a notebook, taking notes about fabrics and other materials she is not familiar with, for future reference.]

QUAD

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[elementofloyalty]

[Maliciously, Rainbow Dash is hovering way, way, way up high to pitch paint balloons at people so they can't get her back. Sad to be you non-flying people!]

[...and she's totally indiscriminate about her targets, so, sorry if you didn't want to be involved....]

[rewritethis]

[Flying? Please. Try a friggin' cannon. Granted, at this distance its accuracy isn't great, and the bush Ed is using for cover hardly helps visibility in that sense... but even if the balloon doesn't hit whoever's up there, they'll probably have to take notice.]

[rewritethis]

[Somewhere outside, there's a short crouching figure behind a bench wearing a distinctive, possibly familiar red coat.

It's not Ed. Ed is lying in a bush some distance away - concealed pretty well from all directions, if he does say so himself. An advantage of being tiny! Don't point that out to him, though. Oh, and he's got a cannon. A small cannon, the ability to turn one standard-issue paint balloon into several smaller ones at will, and the belief that most of the people around here owe him some damn respect - it almost makes too much sense!

Watching and waiting like this isn't normally his style, but he figures he's antagonised enough people around here that at least one of them will take the bait. Or at least let their guard down juuust long enough while they're laughing at what an uninspired decoy it is. Or even ignore it completely, as long as they end up within sniping range somehow.]

[fierybluebird]

[It's such a nice shade of blue in the sky. All the better to troll you with m'dears. If you're smart you can catch the glimpse of sparkles as Marco flies around in lazy circles, letting his wife direct him to where she wants to throw paint on unsuspecting victims below. Remember her post? Look out below!!]

[thorny]

[Rose has picked a strategically sound tree and parked her ass safely in the shroud of its leafy branches. this is a competition, and Lalondes do not half-ass competitions. she is going to wait and snipe everything that looks like it might have a pulse. repeatedly. she is going to decimate this tournament and it will be beautiful carnage the likes of which Garden has never seen.

oh yes. this is going to be so great. bring it on, other competitors. bring. it. on.]

[eiusumbra]

[Shadow is perched at the highest point in the Quad, wherever that may be. Friendly competition or not, he's going all out on this, or at least those worthy of his time.]

[hawkette]

[Kate's pretty much wandering around, slingshot sticking out of the front of her jeans pocket, trying to find someone to hit. She really doesn't give a damn if she gets hit herself, though she will try to dodge anything she sees.]

QUAD

[y_so_standard]

[Screw natural defenses, he's more used to urban battlefields! So that means...chest high walls! Well, alright. Fine. He's hiding behind some of the planters. What, he's small, he can totally do it.

Anyways. Being used to basically being able to 'zergling rush' his foes, having to use stealth is something he needs to practice on. Which is how he's rationalizing this.

Prepare for bombardment if you are so unlucky as to venture near his hiding place.]

CAFETERIA

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[fierybluebird]

[Marco's sneaking in to get food. Get hit by him before? Perfect time to grab payback.]

CLASSROOMS

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LOBBY/FRONT GATE

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[There's one nervous NPC hanging out around the lobby. He's not particularly interested in hitting anyone---rather, he's hiding underneath a bench in hopes that no one'll attack him.

You off-worlders are all crazy folk! Or so it seems, considering he's consulting those flashcards under there too.]