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[Under the radar just a tiny bit this time had been the announcement of who the SeeDs to assist in the exam were to be. After the announcement SeeDs Lina Inverse and Espio had been given their mission briefing. The candidates for the exam, on the other hand, would only be briefed on the day, and had two days to prepare.

[Finally, the day to prove that they too could be the pride of Balamb Garden was here.]

((OOC: A bit late and I apologize. This post will have several subthreads; the first three are open right now. If your character is involved, please make sure to track this post so that you will be alerted to responses and any new threads.))

wrfiends

[Today, the quad has a new resident.]

[This is not necessarily a good thing.]

[You can ask all sorts of questions: like how did it get here!? Or what does it want?! Or even why is it here in the first place?! And these are all perfectly good questions (with perfectly good answers, mind), but not ones you're going to get an answer just by asking.]

[Because whatever the answers might be, the fact remains that there is a very, very large red chocobo sitting contentedly in front of the quad's stage -- right in the middle of everything, in other words. At the moment, it has its head tucked back and its eyes shut -- it's napping.]

[Then again, who knows how sensitive its hearing is? (There's another good question, and this one might be answered quickly and directly if you care to ask...)]

wrnpcs

[Balamb Garden has taken off around the Balamb coastline! The seaside and clear night sky can be seen through the windows and from the balconies. The halls are mostly deserted besides the stray student walking about, and even the usual faculty members are missing from their posts around the school. There's a certain festive energy through the air, the source coming from the happily decorated ballroom located on the second floor.

[At exactly 2100, as soon as the dinner rush ends, the Garden chime sounds and the intercom clicks on. The Headmaster speaks to the Garden.]

The Homecoming Dance is now beginning. Your attendance is requested at [2F] Ballroom.

I repeat, the Homecoming Dance is now beginning. Your attendance is requested at [2F] Ballroom. The ball will run until 2400. Students leaving the ball after curfew are to return to their dorms immediately.

The ball and its festivities tonight are being sponsored very generously by the Garden Festival Committee.

[After the announcement, the intercom falls silent. The faint sound of music can be heard from the second floor of the building.

[Within the ballroom, there is a stationary stand for punch and food, as well as roaming caterers offering drinks (grape juice) and canapes.]

Voting is now closed. There is a thread here for announcing and crowning the winners; on-lookers are free to react in the thread.

Attendance is entirely optional, so with most of the faculty at the dance, characters are free to roam the rest of the school! However, as Balamb Garden is flying around the Balamb coastline, they will not be able to leave (unless you can fly or really like heights and don't mind injuries...), and any characters left behind will be stranded for a few hours.

wrnpcs

[There seems to be a festive atmosphere all throughout Garden. Why? Because it's the Homecoming Carnival! The Garden Festival Committee and their unaffiliated helpers have been hard at work all morning and when 1300 hours strikes, it's finally open for everyone to enjoy.

The directory has been reprogrammed slightly:

It also has a piece of paper stuck underneath:
Kissing booth: Turn around Food booths: Around 1F main circle Triple Triad: 2F bridge Carnival games: Front gate area Ferris wheel, bumper cars, carousel: Road to Balamb

Each stall/booth has free, more elaborate maps:
( Big image! )

Have fun, Garden!]

Each attraction will have its own thread. We've listed the people running shifts in the top comments as a reminder to those who signed up; feel free to make your character a thread for their shift even if you missed OOC signups.

Characters have different shifts which allow for everyone to enjoy other parts of the carnival as well instead of being stuck manning a booth the whole night. For the dunk tank, kissing booth, food booths, and talent quest it's best to leave your character's name in the subject of their comment to start off their thread indicating their shift/time onstage.

Proceeds will be going towards building and furnishing a student lounge for fun stuff, so most attractions cost money:
Kissing booth: 2 gil per kiss
Ferris wheel, bumper cars, carousel: 5 gil per person
Carnival games (throwing/shooting X at Y, water gun race, whack a mole, skee ball, Ring the Bell, etc): 1 gil per game
Face painting: 2 gil per person
Food stalls: Snow cones 3 gil, cotton candy 3 gil, and funnel cake 5 gil; "food from your home world" up to individual characters
Dunk tank: 5 gil for 3 balls, 10 gil for 10 balls
Fortune telling: 3 gil per reading
Marriage booth: 5 gil a couple
Balloon animals: 3 gil an animal
Wandering entertainers: Donations welcome
Judgmental Claire stare: 5 gil

wrnpcs

[The quad's all set up for the date auction! A handsome-looking blonde guy - one of the native cadets on the GFC - is center stage with the list and a mic, auctionees (and Headmaster Cid, ~~sipping on a drink~~ supervising) ready behind him. (Alas, Pinkie is out campaigning or something, and Mikuru is doing some last minute work elsewhere and doesn't like the stage anyway.)

[He flashes a smile.] Gooooood afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and everyone else! I'm Russell Drake from the Garden Festival Committee, and I'd like to welcome you all to the GFC's second charity date auction! Once again all proceeds will be going towards the Centra orphanage, so please be generous with your bids! Bids start at 1 gil and we do not take rain checks or IOUs!

We have a fantastic bunch of volunteers for your dating pleasure today, so without further ado, let's get started!

Each person has their own thread. Please put your bids in the subject lines so people can see them! Threads collapse after fifty comments, so using the subject lines will make the bids easier to see.
Bids close and winners will be posted on Friday before the carnival post goes up. IC-ly, the winners will be announced Wednesday afternoon.
If you missed signups, PM wrmods and we'll squeeze them in as an IC "saw the auction on the day, hopped onstage and harassed the GFC to auction them off" auction. Just characters who would willingly sign up at this point, please!

bunnypassingby

Hello, Garden! [Have a slightly frazzled-looking Mikuru.] Thank you so much for signing up for the date auction and the carnival events! As a reminder, signups for the carnival booths and talent quest will be open in the cafeteria until Thursday afternoon. [We're particularly light on signups for the kissing booth, dunk tank, and food booths.]

Date auction signups, however, are now closed. Tomorrow [actually in about twelve hours with some forward-dating] we will be auctioning off the following people for dates:
( List! )

[Mikuru's smile is a little more nervous now. She wasn't always at the signup tables herself (other things to organize, you know?), but she feels like some of these people didn't sign up of their own will...] Thank you for volunteering your time! Everyone else, please come along and bid on our wonderful volunteers in support of the Centra Orphanage!

[Funny story: Mikuru was going to make Zainah do this post to avoid any fallout from people who were signed up against their will... Until Zainah threw a fit about the number of off-worlders in the auction. Probably the natives just think they can get their own dates...]

senseofjustice

HMM
TH1S HOM3COM1NG TH1NG 1S PR3TTY N3W TO M3!
BUT FROM WH4T 1V3 H34RD 1TS L1K3 SOM3 K1ND OF B1G D4NC3 W1TH SOM3TH1NG L1K3 4 CONT3ST ON TH3 S1D3
TH4T B31NG S41D 1M GO1NG TO 4SSUM3 TH4T TH3R3S NOT ONLY TH3 OPT1ON OF GO1NG 1N W1TH FR13NDS BUT 4LSO 4
ROM4NT1C 1NT3R3ST 4S W3LL
1M JUST CUR1OUS 4ND WOND3R HOW M4NY PL4N ON DO1NG 4NY SORT OF TH3 L4TT3R >;]
1F YOUR3 4 B1T TOO SHY TO 4NSW3R TH4TS OK4Y TOO

4NYW4Y 1 UND3RST4ND TH3R3 4R3 THOS3 C4ND1D4T3S WHO 4R3 4CTU4LLY 4CT1V3LY C4MP41GN1NG TO W1N TH3 CONT3ST
WHY SHOULD 1 VOT3 FOR 31TH3R OF YOU 4G41N?

TH3N TH3R3 W4S SOM3 UPRO4R 4BOUT 4 N3W COMM4ND3R OR SOM3 SUCH R1GHT?
4NYON3 W4NT TO 3XPL41N 1T TO M3?

[ooc: quirkless translation]

( Translation. )

moirailcompass

[Guess who is jumping the bandwagon to try out that potion? Nepeta certainly is. She had been certain that her skills in Covert Ops were all for naught because of her appearance, but then this was presented to them.

A potion, in of itself a perfectly fine and even useful thing, but for Nepeta it was perhaps now the best time to bestow her with such a thing. not when she was questioning so much of her species, and not when she had been harboring so many unspoken desires--desires to be human. Or at the very least anything but a troll.

It really did work. Amazingly so. Her usually gray skin was instead a dark brown. Her yellow sclera had become white, gone were her fangs, horns and tail. Looking into a mirror gave her the most surreal feeling in the world...and another she couldn't quite discern. One that made her both happy and sad. She didn't allow herself to think too much on it, and decided to give it a whirl--see how many people would recognize her.

So she sat in the cafeteria with a large glass of milk and her laptop propped open as she browsed the network. Whenever someone passed by that she knew she would smile and wave at them]

( Picture under cut )

jointheclub

[No BBS messages for this wizard, no, no. Instead, every student in Garden finds an envelope stuck to their door one morning, as if by magic. A simple tug is enough to free it, after which it immediately unfolds to become a message, written in golden ink.]

You Are Cordially Invited

to the office of Professor Slughorn

This Evening at 5:30

( For those who choose to go... )

moirailcompass

:33 < heeey
:33 < hi hi grell!
:33 < long time no chat! :33
:33 < i was wondering if purrhaps you have a mewment?

moirailcompass

[The longer she put this off, the worse it was going to be. Nepeta had been unusually quiet since a certain blue troll had returned to Balamb, and it was no wonder why. At some point she was going to have to break it to him that while she still cared deeply for him, her feelings were no longer red. She couldn't help but be a little frustrated with her life. She had put off telling Vriska for so long because she knew that Equius could return at any moment. Yet for some many perigrees he remained gone, keeping her from fulfilling her wish to break things off with him first. Then lo and behold, when she finally caves in and tells Vriska, Time Compression decides to bring him here.

Whining about it would do little, and she knew it was sort of stupid to think of Time Compression as a sentient entity. Even more so than regarding your past and future selves as separate entities.

She knew she should tell him, but each time she thought about it she could just imagine the hurt and anger it would cause him and guilt and cowardice kept her from uttering a word. Equius had been the only partner she had ever had before Vriska, so she had no clue how to go about breaking up with him. How do you do it without hurting their feelings? Was it even possible to do that? A small part of her hoped that maybe since he hadn't seen her in so long, that his feelings might have ebbed away as well. She really, really hoped that was the case. If not, it would make this whole ordeal worse if anything.

Right now she was curled up on the couch in her and Vriska's dorm, flipping through channels without really seeing anything. She had been like this for the past couple of days.]

needatowel

D --> Oh
D --> It seems the Time Compression has chosen to once again draw me here
D --> In a sense I suppose it is just as well, given that I had not yet completed my education
D --> But I would have still preferred to be returned to my own universe
D --> In any event I suppose I may as well make the most of it
D --> By any chance are there other Trolls sharing in my misery at this point on the timeline
D --> Or am I still doomed to a life surrounded by nothing but f001ish red-b100ded mammalian climbbeasts

( Quirkless translation )

senseofjustice

W3LL TH1S SUR3 1S 4 LOT TO SW4LLOW
4LTHOUGH 1T SOUNDS 4S 1F TH3 CL4SS3S H3R3 4R3NT TOO B4D
4ND 1T DO3SNT SOUND L1K3 TH3R3S SOM3 SUSP1C1OUS M4ST3RM1ND PLOT B3H1ND 4LL OF TH1S T1M3 COMPR3SS1ON BUS1N3SS

Y3T

4NYW4Y 1M T3R3Z1 PYROP3!
4S YOU M4Y OR M4Y NOT H4V3 GU3SS3D 1M ON3 OF YOUR N3W C4D3TS >:]
1T S33MS 1LL B3 STUCK H3R3 4WH1L3 THOUGH
WH1CH 1S K1ND OF R34LLY 1NCONV3N13NT
CONS1D3R1NG 1 W4S 1N TH3 M1DDL3 OF SOM3TH1NG 1MPORT4NT B3FOR3 1 W4S BROUGHT H3R3 >:\

TH4T M4K3S M3 WOND3R 1F TH4TS WH3N P3OPL3 4R3 SUPPOS3DLY BROUGHT H3R3 FROM OTH3R WORLDS
31TH3R W4Y 1LL H4V3 TO D34L W1TH 1T FOR NOW >:P

[ooc: quirkless translation]

( Translation. )

unconchonable

for all ivve the right to be dowwnright bloody PISSED at bein throwwn about to some other univverse i suppose i could havve ended up at wworse
a military academy i can deal wwith this
wwhile im not needin any more military expertise beneath my belt since i UNDENIABLY knoww a thing or twwo about military tactics battle formation and all a that from my SWWEEPS a study on the topic i suppose learnin from a inferior species wwill be at least insightful
if not a touch fuckin embarrassin honestly howw do you pink squishy space monkeys hope to survvivve wwith such primitivve military means
wwhatevver
all i can say is this
dont wworry about those feelins a inadequacy youll be facin noww that im here its pretty fuckin natural among you landdwwellers its better that you simply accept them noww itll make your self doubt and hatred less extreme and easier to cope wwith
this is the only handicap ill alloww you to havve because once i get started wwith this school youll nevver find a better soldier
ha soldier fuck that by the time im done ill rule this fuckin academy like its my hatchright wwhich honestly it really is
stand back plebeians and make wway for your prince

(ooc quirkless translation:)
( Translation )

onthelii2p

2o thii2 "tiime compre22iion" thiing yank2 me out of the miiddle of 2omethiing iimportant, plop2 me down on a planet full of human2 iin another uniiver2e, and giive2 me no way two go back.
and then ii'm con2criipted iintwo thii2 miiliitary 2chool becau2e the local2 can't handle freak2 and ii don't have any better optiion2.
thank2 a lot for that liife, why don't you 2uck my bulge whiile you're at iit.
2o whatever, ii gue22 thii2 ii2 my iintroductiion??
2ollux captor, troll, 6 2weep2.
who care2.
who el2e ii2 even here who know2 me anywfalkjehgw;;

ok there'2 one accounted for, feferii ju2t cra2hed iintwo me ehehe.
iif you want two talk two her ii gue22 2he can reply two 2tuff here two?
yeah.
otherwii2e ii ju2t want two know what troll2 are here and the re2t of you can do whatever, ii don't care.

[OOC quirkless translation:]

( translation )

(OOC: If you don't want to see Sollux's text quirk, please tell me here. Also, since Feferi (

terribubblykoi) will be tagging here and there too, you can see her quirk explained and opt out of it over here.)

wittybanter

[ ACTION ]
[ Danny is flying around looking down at the letter that he had received just a few moments ago. Okay so... by some work of some powerful sorceress he's been brought here to be in this military school as a cadet? It sounds sort of like one of those dreams that are really actually nightmares. Except you can't wake up from it. And the things about powers. Okay, maybe he should be flying around--

CRASH.

Okay where did this tree come from.

He collides right into the tree, falls down a few branches, and eventually hits the ground. On his face. Okay. If he wasn't half-ghost that could have reaaally hurt. Moreso than it did. ]

[ BBS ]

Can anyone here explain this place? At all?

moirailcompass

:33 < wow
:33 < its b33n a while since ive used the board to make my own post
:33 < eheh
:33 < how has everyone b33n doing?
:33 < i just got on to s33 if anyone would be interested in studying together
:33 < in prepurration fur finals
:33 < and also so wish any who are graduating this quarter
:33 < good luck!
:33 < if all goes well ill be joining the ranks of SeeDs next quarter
:33 < kinda hard to believe
:33 < now that i think about it...
:33 < ive b33n here fur over half a sw33p
:33 < or over a human year
:33 < hard to believe time has flown by so quickly
:33 < i arrived in this world...somewhere early april
:33 < and in the gardens may 13th only four days ago
:33 < its strange to think about

seethelanterns

I'm curious, Garden. There are a lot of us here, and I've been wondering. What are your dreams? What is the one thing you really want to do?

- Rapunzel

wr_gossip

Greetings Balamb Garden,

It seems that our lovely school has made a severe splash! And what better way to dish out the goods with a prized column from yours truly! Let the games truly begin!

( All this paint being splashed is surely a metaphor for something else... )

fierybluebird

[First on the BBS this message will appear:]

Hey everyone! My Pops is here! You might have seen him, they managed to shrink him from twenty-five feet to like 9 or 10, but he still has his trademark mustache!

We're going into town for drinks. Don't worry, I know how skittish that would make the locals, so we'll have it outside a little away from civilization, Grell and I will just buy the drinks and bring them over to him.

Everyone's invited though, eh! Bring your friends from back home too!

[And then true to his word, Marco will be throwing the biggest block party ever with as many drinks as they can buy/steal/acquire. Feel free to come, bring food, share some drinks, gawk at the freaks, whatever you're in the mood for. Marco himself will be basically walking on air perpetually. Omg his Daddy's alive! (Insert fanboy screaming here.) Threadjumping is encouraged all over this, go wild!]

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Witches Reign

SeeD Field Exam

Uh-oh.

homecoming dance!

Homecoming Carnival!

date auction! forward dated to Wednesday lunch

(fifteenth miracle) BBS video (Tuesday morning)

[BBS] o2 :: with the party in the horizon

o18. ♌ action

You Are Cordially Invited

o17. ♌ private pm to grell

o16. ♌ action / closed

[BBS]

[BBS] o1 :: and so it begins

BBS: 1st ♒ Text

BBS: 01 ♊ text

[BBS / Action]

o15. ♌ text

{12 Frying pans; BBS}

The Gossip Around Garden VI

[BBS & ACTION! The Action is open for 4th wall, BBS isn't] Let's keep the party going

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