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FRIENDSHIP TOURNAMENT dun dun dun

WHO: Everyone who signed up over here but also anyone who really wants to crash can!
WHERE: All around town, honestly, which is why it's easy to crash.
WHEN: All day the 18th, although it ends in a thunderstorm.
WHAT: The FRIENDSHIP TOURNAMENT slash game day!
WARNINGS: honestly probably stupidity

0. some ooc notes

Everyone who signed up should be shortly getting a comment with any relevant information (or should by now have the comment because jazz hands time travel bullshit which is maybe looking at this after I send them and not before). Keep in mind that event placements don't actually matter and were chosen just for some sort of consistent talking point, and just do whatever sounds most fun, basically! Anyone who didn't sign up is free to gate-crash, but I won't be assigning any further match-ups for contests/prizes/teams. Love me. It is incredibly easy to gate crash since the tournament is mostly outside and in public, but there aren't any extras of the team armbands handed out to the sign-ups - there IS enough food and such for everyone, however, and no one haphazardly "in charge" is going to care if non participants participate since they're all pretty easy-going. You do you, guys. Let me know if y'all need anything else!

i. setting the scene/warm-ups

For the duration of the 18th there are haphazard decorations all around the town for each of the teams: the WILDCATS, the STRAWBERRIES, the SUNFLOWERS, the CHOCOBOS, the WILDDOGS, and the STARS. Dave chose these names 100% whimsically and does not give a single fuck if teams choose to rename themselves, but all the decorations are themed in those shapes. Particularly strawberries, because they have strawberries. There's a central meet-up area near the well, with some tables dragged out. One of them, with a makeshift umbrella over it just in case, houses the prizes which will be awarded at CLOSING CEREMONIES. Another is where you can go to get your armband and team assignments from one of the "student council members" who are all wearing a second armband with CSC written on it. So you can find them and bother them if you really want, although they're sort of lackadaisical about things like rules and procedure for the most part.

Name badges are encouraged but not remotely enforced and there's breakfast snack options for people to have as they loiter and introduce themselves. There will be Student Council led warm-ups for the day's activities so no one like, strains a muscle, but for the most part that also doesn't seem to be a requirement. Basically say hi to your team and maybe other people and have some grilled fish or whatever for breakfast, you're welcome.

They've also hauled out several barrels of water with cups for all so you probably can stay hydrated without wandering off for the day.

ii. blind man's bluff

Directly after breakfast and warm ups, they go into their first game of the day! The weather is Hot and Humid at this point but still dry. Rules can be found here, and additionally participants are asked to not fly more than five feet off the ground and to try to be "like, not assholes about superpowers" although this is haphazardly enforced. Most of the Student Council (why did they decide they were a Student Council for this? who knows) has superpower and can probably stop anyone egregiously cheating, but also some of them will let it go if it's rule of funny or cool. They're clearly a very structured organization.

Points will be accrued for Blind Man's Bluff on an individual basis and added to the team total! Anyone who chooses not to participate is welcomed to put on temporary CSC handkerchief armbands that look kind of haphazard and to police other people following the rules. This clearly won't end badly, especially since they don't care if people not even in the tournament do this.

iii. relay race

After Blind Man's Bluff is the relay race! Still in the hot/humid weather so you're welcome for that. This is simply a race where all participating members of a team run a lap and then have to tag in the next team member to run the next lap. The team to finish first wins - but everyone has to pull a slip of paper from a very ugly hat with a random "requirement" on it, and they can't "finish" their lap until they meet that requirement. Some of the requirements are more stupid than others, and if you don't care for the one you were assigned feel free to make one up as a free repull sort of option.

1st place goes to the CHOCOBOS, 2nd to the SUNFLOWERS, and 3rd to the WILDDOGS, but keep in mind that the rules are fake and the points don't matter, and I just RNG'd things and made sure each of the 6 teams got a placement of some sort in the two events I RNG'd.

The track will be a circular course around town and through the districts that equals roughly a half mile and there is a very non-professional FINISH LINE sign above the finish line, clearly written by people who never quite learned a lesson about spacing words. For the record, this is true of every single goddamned sign in this post. They Tried. Non-participants are once again welcomed to be some of the rule-enforcers but also just to laugh at people or encourage them as they please. Badly made little team flags are provided to onlookers so they can choose who to support, or just collect badly made little team flags.

iv. lunch

After the race is a break for lunch! Lunch is provided for participants around the well, as are blankets to picnic on if you want. Lunch is also provided for non-participating gate-crashers. Lunch is like, various meats in blood orange sauce and also grilled veggies and potatoes. There are FRENCH FRIES!!!!!!!! which are maybe not meant to be the highlight of the whole thing but hey, french fries? Some fruits are provided, though not the foretold strawberries as of yet or any desserts.

The weather continues to be really hot and humid so drink that water, maybe.

v. trivia questionnaire (holy shit i spelled questionnaire right on my first try praise me)

After lunch people who signed up for the trivia contest are handed out questionnaires to fill out with their correct answers so they can't cheat the system later, which will be collected/kept for judging purposes by whichever Student Council members are overseeing the details. That said if you cheat creatively feel free, there is no law enforcement here beyond mild shame.

The questionnaires have the following questions on them but also feel free to make up random-ass getting to know you questions not listed if you prefer, because as always the rules are made up and the points don't matter:
• the basics: name, age, color
• the less basics but still pretty mundane: biggest pet peeve, what superpower would you pick if you had to pick one (if you have superpowers already pick a different one), cats vs. dogs opinion, favorite food, least favorite food, favorite musical genre and/or song, favorite color, who is your best friend, favorite movie (if you don't know what a movie is or don't have one, favorite book or story)
• the why did you even include this dave, what the fuck: is it called coke or pop or soda (fill-in answers are accepted), most recent dream you remember, dumbest way you've ever been injured (be honest), is a hot dog a sandwich and why or why not, if you could breed two animals together to defy science and nature what would you make and why, if you were a ghost what is the first thing you would do haunting wise, how much would someone have to pay you to eat a live spider in whatever currency you use, if you had to choose to speak only in haiku or only in puns for the rest of your life which would it be

After everyone fills out their "control" form the first pair-ups are given out (which you should have received in your comment). Basically the pairs have to fill out a new blank questionnaire - but they have to put down what the other person's answers would be. The person who gets the most questions correct "wins" (with points tallied to the team total accordingly). There are later rounds and such of this so you can have as many match-ups as you would like, and anyone who didn't sign up who wants to play absolutely can do so. There are no rules here it's all for fun. How well do you know your friends? LET'S FIND OUT.

vi. capture the flag

Spoiler alert: the hot and humid weather continues, but as ~victory is claimed~ or a little before that a thunderstorm will start up. Oops! Have fun with that. Capture the Flag takes place...kind of all over town, sorry everyone who is uninvolved! Ignore the participants running around. There are six "bases" in town, two in each district - the WILDCATS and STRAWBERRIES are in red, the SUNFLOWERS and CHOCOBOS are in yellow, and the WILDDOGS and STARS are in blue. Here is how Capture the Flag works, but this will be a mess because it's just a six-teams versus game and haha it's probably ridiculous. Once again participants are asked not to fly higher than five feet and to try not to abuse superpowers all that much "like a giant bag of dicks would do" but once again the Student Council may or may not enforce this. Random bystanders or non-participants are welcomed once again to be judges and rule enforcers, or just to cheer or heckle to their heart's content. The flags, for the record, are sort of poorly embroidered and mostly colorless and may someday be horrifyingly ugly because like the armbands and everything else who knows what color the fabric actually is.

1st place goes to the WILDCATS, 2nd place to the STARS, and 3rd place to the STRAWBERRIES. Good job, team, but everyone probably did excellently. Or hilariously.

Unfortunately we are now THUNDERSTORMED OUT.

vii. closing ceremonies

After a rapid clean up and shouted directions to reconvene at Town Hall, the closing ceremonies will take place inside! Towels will be provided after they get them, so dry off. The Student Council saved all the prizes and will award them now in makeshift closing ceremonies with a hummed and beatboxed soundtrack provided by like, Dave, and probably Okuyasu if he could be convinced or anyone else who wants to help. Speeches are totally encouraged, especially if they're dramatic and/or funny. Everyone should have their specific prizes, but for the record the overall team rankings ended up being:

STRAWBERRIES > WILDCATS > STARS > SUNFLOWERS > WILDDOGS > CHOCOBOS via RNG.

Now all the PLAIN STRAWBERRIES and STRAWBERRY-THEMED DESSERTS and OTHER DESSERTS, SANS STRAWBERRIES are revealed! The teams get to go up to the table of DESSERTS in order of overall team placement but honestly there's enough for everyone to get whatever, probably. Non-participants are still welcomed to come have food, no one cares.

And then the day is done, but maybe you want to just chill with your desserts and your team (or random strangers) and wait out the thunderstorm. No one's the boss of you, probably.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Sure. Give it over.

[Greed says this very blandly. It's not sarcastic, but it is vaguely threatening, if only because Ling knows him too well to think he's doing this out of charity.]

[You know, Ling knows better, but he definitely doesn't want to do this and he kind of wants to see what nonsense Greed puts down. So here, take it, and take Ling's face stuck to his arm while he watches. Write something good.]

It needs to be thorough!

Yeah, yeah . . .

[Emperor Ling Yao of Xing, formerly of the Yao Clan, 12th son of the former emperor; 15 18, yellow, aren't so hard to do.

The rest are . . . creative?

biggest pet peeve: not being allowed to mooch off others
what superpower would you pick if you had to pick one: immortality or flying ("You'd definitely want a dumbass power like that," he offers by way of explanation).
cats vs. dogs: dogs
favorite food: ALL
least favorite food: hahaha
favorite musical genre and/or song: probably some eastern shit i don't know, something on a shamisen??
favorite color: yellow obviously have you seen this asshole and his fashion, because i have and it's enough to blind you
who is your best friend: lan fan i guess???
favorite movie: ???
is it called coke or pop or soda pop
most recent dream you remember that one time i thought i was eating a marshmallow but then I woke up and all my bedding was gone, alongside a shoe and three of my friends
dumbest way you've ever been injured that one time i fell out of a window because i was trying to pose when i was 12

that one time i got swallowed by my friend's brother

that one time i ran into a brick wall because i misjudged a corner and thought it was a sharper turn

that one time i fell into the lake trying to dodge my sister's knife

that one time i fainted right off a building's edge because i hadn't eaten in an hour

. . . and then he gets bored. Except for one last one, which is easy.

How much would someone have to pay you to eat a live spider in whatever currency you use: 1 cens

[He lasted a lot longer than Ling expected, to be fair. Look at this... incredibly accurate call out post!! How much of it is true? Most. Greed cheats, frankly.]

I never ate three of my friends. [bUT THE REST...] You only had to put one injury...

It said dumbest.

[Don't ask him to rank your injuries, Ling, they're all so painfully humiliating.]

[Greed, let him live. Superlative injury! Superlative!]

Being eaten wasn't my fault!

Yeah, but it's still a stupid one to recount. Oh, hey, wanna hear about that time I got eaten, it's not exactly a story that'll net you a bunch of fawning girls.

I wasn't telling anyone, to be fair. You're the one bringing it up.

[Hmm, hmm. Suddenly, he's motivated.] Give me yours!

[HE SQUINTS but . . . fine . . . here . . . don't do him dirty.]

You're gonna tell people when they guess at it and think it'll be something cool.

[He would never. He gives Greed a look, then sets about his very important work. Greed, super old, red is straightforward enough...

It's time. He makes the executive decision to tilt the paper so Greed can't see him write it, at least not entirely... he doesn't want to be scolded in the middle of this hot mess.

biggest pet peeve: sharing
what superpower would you pick if you had to pick one: "blah blah ultimate shield"
cats vs. dogs: dogs?
favorite food: expensive
least favorite food: someone else's
favorite musical genre and/or song: loud????
favorite color: red
who is your best friend: ling!!! (He draws, also, a little happy face. Adore him.)
favorite movie: ?
is it called coke or pop or soda soda
most recent dream you remember crushing an innocent bystander to death with my stupid heavy arms because I don't pay attention
dumbest way you've ever been injured got my own head knocked off to prove a point

more than once
how much would someone have to pay you to eat a live spider in whatever currency you use: all money ever minted

Tada.]

[This is both a hell of a shady read and incredibly accurate, so. WELL DONE, LING . . . he guesses, he's scowling as he reads it over but he can't actually argue any of it, except--]

You weren't crushed, don't be such a baby. If you weren't so clingy in your sleep it wouldn't have happened. And the head trick is cool.

No it isn't, it's disgusting. [Do not do that in front of him or he will scream, nonstop, until his lungs come out of his ears. Gross.]

And you rolled over on me three times.

[So, cohabiting like normal people is going great.]

[Someday he'll do the head trick in front of Ling.]

I'm not used to sharing a bed, little emperor. Most girls don't usually stick around once the deed is done. You're gonna have to get used to it.

[But hmm, that reminds him . . . he supposes sex and where they bang and all that is going to be a problem later on, because while he's honestly fine with Ling walking in on him fucking whomever, the girl usually isn't. So. That's something to think about? But not now, mostly because every girl he's come across has been way too young.

So it's just Ling in his bed right now. How depressing.]

[Don't think about the mechanics of where to fuck girls during this pure and innocent friendship day, Greed. Ling hands his paper back to him.]

Just try to remember I'm there... [Anyway, these papers.] It's too bad we're on the same team.

Huh?

[um excuse it's great they're on the same team, how-- oh.]

Oh, yeah. Eh, whatever, the trivia thing's stupid anyway. The athletic stuff's the only bit that's worth it.

[huh?? count: 1]

Well, no one is going to guess any of these, anyway. [In that respect, they automatically win... right. Is that how the game is played.

But down to the serious business,] How many flags did you see placed when they were setting up earlier?

Six, including ours. I think it's a one-per-team kinda deal.

[Obviously they are going to win, there's no question.]

Seems like we'll have it in the bag.

[Boring, it should be one-per-participant... these teams are huge. He nods, anyway, gearing up for this serious strategy meeting.]

Don't take them all as soon as you can, or we'll have to waste time defending. Let's let the other teams try, first.

Sounds good. Be easiest just to bury the damn thing.

[That's cheating, Greed, don't . . . don't do that.]

Or stick it in your pocket and have you go sit up on the roof.

[CHEATING.]

[No, no, these are good plans.]

I can climb faster than I can dig! You capture our own flag, and I'll take care of it!

Sounds like a plan, kid.

[He stretches back, lying flat on the bench, staring up at the grey, grey sky.]

So. Who've you met so far? Any of your roommates?

[Does he mean the yellow ones or the red ones . . . eh, either way.]

One of yours stared at me for a second before I left, earlier. [That's a prime Ling interaction, really.]

Mine are a middle-aged man and a girl. I don't think either of them like me.

Shit, there's more than just teenagers in this town? That is news. Why don't they like you?

I came in through the window.

[Some people are so sensitive.] Ah, but most people I've met have been young!

[He snorts, amused but . . . yeah, that pretty much would do it. Oh, well.]

Yeah, no kidding. The oldest was some . . . I don't know, twenty year old? I was hoping for a couple of actual women.

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